cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
AfD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: AFD
Etymology: Borrowed from German AfD (“Alternative für Deutschland”).
Senses: examples: text: The country’s mainstream conservatives, as polls predicted, won the largest share of votes in Sunday’s election according to official preliminary results and will be looking to form the next government, while the AfD came in second.
ref: 2025 February 24, Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, “Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland), a right-wing German political party.
Coordinate terms: sense: Alternative für Deutschland
word: CDU
sense: Alternative für Deutschland
word: CSU
sense: Alternative für Deutschland
word: FDP
sense: Alternative für Deutschland
word: SPD
AfD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AfDs
form: AFD
Senses: examples: text: When you nominate an article for deletion using the AfD process, you get to a point in the process where you have to give a reason.
ref: 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 374:
text: Anyone can discuss AfD nominations by simply going to the main AfD page and adding a signed comment with his or her opinion about whether to keep or delete the article being discussed
ref: 2008, P. Ayers, C. Matthews, B. Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 223:
text: After 7 days, AfD discussions are reviewed by an uninvolved user or administrator who attempts to determine the consensus.
ref: 2012, J. Schneider, A. Passant, S. Decker, “Deletion discussions in Wikipedia”, in Cliff Lampe, editor, WikiSym '12 (conference proceedings), New York: ACM, →ISBN:
text: Intra-organizational social capital was measured with the variable Experienced Participant Early Intervention. This variable was created through the identification of the most active participants in the AfDs and whether they contributed within the first 48 hours of the deliberation.
ref: 2022 November 16, Elisabeth Joyce, Pinar Oztoruk, Jacqueline C. Pike, “Effective Organizing on the Fly: Social Capital in Temporary Organizations”, in Journal of Computer Information Systems, volume 63, number 5, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1213-1227:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Initialism of articles for deletion, a process on the English Wikipedia for deleting articles through discussion.
hearkening back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hearken back
hearkened back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hearken back
make the best of a bad job
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the best of a bad job
form: making the best of a bad job
form: made the best of a bad job
form: made the best of a bad job
Senses: glosses: To accept an unfortunate or unpleasant situation and do the best one can.
Related terms: give something up as a bad job
make the best of a bad bargain
make the best of
make a virtue of necessity
deenergization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deenergizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-energization.
de-energization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-energizations
Etymology: From de- + energization.
Senses: glosses: The process, or the result of de-energizing
make the dust fly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the dust fly
form: making the dust fly
form: made the dust fly
form: made the dust fly
Senses: glosses: To act very quickly or energetically.
go easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes easy
form: going easy
form: went easy
form: gone easy
Senses: examples: text: Go easy! I'm sensitive!
text: Hey! Go easy on him!
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
expansion: [with on or with ‘someone’]
synonyms: take it easy
glosses: To treat gently and with understanding.
examples: text: Go easy on him. He's still just a kid.
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
expansion: [with on or with ‘someone’]
glosses: To let off the hook, to baby.
examples: text: Go easy on the sunscreen.
text: Go easy with that chainsaw!
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
expansion: [with on or with ‘something’]
glosses: To use sparingly or carefully.
battle pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle passes
form: battlepass
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A form of in-game monetization that provides additional content for a game through a tiered system, rewarding the player with in-game items as they complete specific challenges.
battle passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle pass
Corojo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the farm or vega, Santa Ines del Corojo, where it was originally grown.
Senses: glosses: A type of tobacco originally grown in the Vuelta Abajo region of Cuba, and used primarily in the making of cigars.
compulsion loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compulsion loops
Senses: examples: text: The classic compulsion loop is designed to either relieve some stress or trigger some reward, or both. Almost all video games are based on compulsion loops.
ref: 2022, Carl D. Marci, Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 191:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: core loop
glosses: A habitual chain of activities, for example in a video game, that yields a neurochemical reward such as the release of dopamine.
compulsion loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compulsion loop
core loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core loops
Senses: examples: text: A core loop often looks like this: Action → Reward. In checkers this is jump a piece (action) → capture a piece (reward). In other words, do a thing and then get a thing. Some games have simple core loops like checkers, whereas others have more interactions that fill out the core loop with many steps, sub loops, and complexities.
ref: 2013, Will Luton, Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away, New Riders, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Synonym of compulsion loop.
synonyms: word: compulsion loop
core loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of core loop
tax point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax points
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The date on which a transaction takes place for the purpose of calculating value added tax.
tax points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax point
EMV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally an initialism for "Europay, Mastercard, Visa", the three companies that created the standard.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A payment method based upon a technical standard for smart payment cards and the terminals and ATMs that can accept them.
outscam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outscams
form: outscamming
form: outscammed
form: outscammed
Etymology: From out- + scam.
Senses: synonyms: outcheat
glosses: To surpass in scamming.
outscammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outscam
outscams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outscam
outscamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outscam
KJB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: KJB
form: the KJB
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of King James Bible.
metastatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastatins
Etymology: metastatic + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Lethal giant larvae protein.
FOV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FOVs
Senses: coordinate_terms: AoV
glosses: Initialism of field of view.
glosses: Initialism of field of vision.
evolutionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of academics with a long term vision.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A group of more evolved sentient beings.
alloglottography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloglottographies
Etymology: Coined by Ilya Gershevitch as allo- + glotto- + -graphy
Senses: examples: text: For Iranian-speaking scribes, alloglottography would be rather preposterous.
ref: 2006, Seth L. Sanders, Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, page 40:
text: With a narrow definition of alloglottography, one that sees language learning via speech as inherent to scribal education and scribal life, I could definitely agree.
ref: 2012, Rebecca Hasselbach, Na'ama Pat-El, Language and Nature, →ISBN:
text: Some texts extend alloglottography over entire clauses or even a whole text.
ref: 2015, Aaron Butts, Semitic Languages in Contact, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Such narratives almost inevitably lead to the postulation of neat trees of dialect divergence out of the homogenous standard of an assumed prestige koiné, and to widespread neglect of colloquial, technical, or ritual speech, of loanwords, alloglottographies and similar phenomena.
ref: 2017, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behr, Academic Seminar: “Variation, deviation, migration: How unified was Old Chinese?”:
glosses: A direct translation of an utterance from one language to another such that the original utterance can be unambiguously and correctly recovered.
wikipedia: Ilya Gershevitch
alloglottographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloglottography
ggwp
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: GGWP
Etymology: Compound of gg + wp.
Senses: examples: text: We had an amazing game with @AnonymoEsports thank you so much guys ggwp! 👑
ref: 2023 November 17, @Z10esports, Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023:
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of good game, well played.
Related terms: ggez
ggez
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: GGEZ
Etymology: Compound of gg + ez.
Senses: examples: text: GGEZ is toxic and should be bannable but saying that on this subreddit will get you downvoted and called a pussy.
ref: [2022 April 29, “Is saying GGEZ considered toxic?”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023:
topics: video-games
glosses: Abbreviation of good game, easy (used to taunt the loser).
Related terms: ez
ezpz
ggwp
baroquer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of baroque: more baroque
bonenkai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonenkai
Etymology: From Japanese 忘年会, literally "forget-the-year gathering".
Senses: glosses: A Japanese drinking party held at the end of the year, generally among groups of co-workers or friends, to forget the woes and troubles of the past year and look to the future.
autographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Gillian Whitlock from auto- + graphics
Senses: examples: text: This special issue of Biography devoted to exploring the potential of autographics as a concept and a practice is thick with illustrations, for graphic life narrative resists reduction to summary or translation into a single medium, and requires that we pause and explore the sight, the sounds, the sensational feel of autobiographical representations.
ref: 2008 Winter, Gillian Whitlock, Anna Poletti, “Self-Regarding Art”, in Biography, volume 31, number 1:
text: There are two entirely new chapters: one on new genres and new subjects, surveying the innovative forms of life writing that have emerged since 2001, and the other on life narrative in exemplary visual and virtual modes, such as autographics and online blogs, that are reshaping the discursive terms and audience expectations that traditionally defined the field.
ref: 2010, Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, →ISBN, page ix:
text: In what follows, I look at autographics, interfaces, and avatar autobiography as three forms of virtualized life narrative existing today.
ref: 2012, Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, →ISBN, page 515:
text: Graphic memoirs or “autographics” are a growing focus of current scholarship.
ref: 2014, Lan Dong, Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives, →ISBN:
glosses: The creation of autobiographical works using a variety of technologies and materials, such as signs, symbols, and visual arts, as well as words.
Related terms: autographic
superboss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbosses
Etymology: From super- + boss.
Senses: glosses: A very successful or talented boss in a work environment.
examples: text: Dragons stand head and shoulders above every other regular enemy type, dwarfed only by our game's final boss (whom we'll discuss at length later in the chapter) and its superboss.
ref: 2016, Darrin Perez, Beginning RPG Maker MV, page 285:
topics: video-games
glosses: A very powerful boss character.
superbosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superboss
treelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treelists
Etymology: From tree + list.
Senses: examples: text: The ILDASM main window displays a treelist of the assembly, like this: […]
ref: 2005, Andrew Whitechapel, Microsoft .NET Development for Microsoft Office, page 60:
text: If you recall, back in Chapter 2, we created a Hero Slider template that had a single field called Hero Images. It was a treelist with a data source pointing directly at the Media Library.
ref: 2016, Phil Wicklund, Jason Wilkerson, Professional Sitecore 8 Development:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user interface control that displays a list of items in an expandable hierarchy.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A list of trees (the data structure).
treelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treelist
treelogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treelogy
multiselectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + selectable.
Senses: glosses: Permitting the selection of multiple choices.
Related terms: multiselect
multiselection
multisegmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + segmentation.
Senses: synonyms: segmentation
glosses: Division into multiple segments.
masocore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From masochist + -core.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A genre of games, with various playstyles, where survival and winning are intentionally made extremely difficult.
PVE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: medical imaging
glosses: Initialism of partial volume effect.
topics: video-games
coordinate_terms: PVP
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of PvE.
survival game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survival games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An action-oriented game set in a hostile open-world environment, where players generally begin with minimal equipment and must locate or craft further resources in order to survive, sometimes in competition with other players.
Related terms: survival horror
survival games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of survival game
survival horrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of survival horror
unitary psychosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unitary psychoses
Etymology: Calque of German Einheitspsychose
Senses: glosses: According to 19th-century German psychiatry, a single underlying disease process of which all psychoses were surface variations.
unitary psychoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unitary psychosis
buffster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffsters
Etymology: From buff + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: The Kiwi buffster paid homage to her dyke fans at New York's Meow Mix bar by visiting during one of their "Xena Nights," lesbians are welcome at the many "Xenacons" that are now popping up around the country, […]
ref: 1998, Girlfriends: The Magazine of Lesbian Enjoyment, volume 5, page 96:
text: Murray's not fat, but he has a serious paunch; as opposed to some middle-aged buffster like Harrison Ford, Murray's fifty and looks all of it.
ref: 2002, David Shields, Enough about You, page 150:
text: Mike Barr was a dick out of Minneapolis, a big broadside of a buffster who liked to bluster he-man.
ref: 2014, Shawna Kenney, Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers:
glosses: One who is buff (very muscular)
buffsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffster
Tridemism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 三民主義／三民主义, tri- + demo- + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Three Principles of the People.
polypetaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being polypetalous.
skipperly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skipperly
form: most skipperly
Etymology: From skipper + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a skipper, the master of a ship.
PSWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSW
bet on the jockey, not the horse
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bet the jockey, not the horse.
performance arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of performance art
cut-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from cut in.
Senses: examples: text: Inasmuch as leaders and cut-ins use up film a foot to a word, they should be resorted to only when absolutely necessary. For the producer has sufficient expense in his company and plant, without adding to it in film for cut-ins and leaders.
ref: 1916, Carl Charlton, How to Write Photoplays, page 23:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A section of film or audio inserted into another sequence.
topics: video-games
glosses: A visual sequence focusing on a character's face or body while they perform a special move.
examples: text: "My collaborators are having their convention in Cleveland this week," was the rueful joke among real songwriters who were seeing their royalties diluted by cut-ins.
ref: 2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, page 138:
text: One group was understandably upset by all the royalty cut-ins — the songwriters.
ref: 1994, Kerry Segrave, Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991, page 21:
glosses: The situation where the performer of a musical work receives royalties for each performance, despite not having composed it.
glosses: An instance of pulling in front of another vehicle in traffic.
cut-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cut-in
control stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control sticks
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A joystick.
Related terms: center stick
centre stick
fighter stick
flight stick
joystick
sidestick
stick
control
control column
control yoke
flight control column
flight control stick
flight control yoke
column
flight yoke
yoke
control sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of control stick
pervasive game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pervasive games
Senses: topics: games
gaming
video-games
glosses: Any game that blends the gameplay experience with the real world.
pervasive games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pervasive game
PBAOE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: video-games
qualifier: board games
glosses: Initialism of point blank area of effect (“the effect resulting when the affected region is centred on the same character who is casting the spell etc.”).
Related terms: AOE
trash pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trash pulls
Senses: examples: text: The independent evidence of Garmon's knowledge and ability to control it included the suspicious activity noted by Detective Baker in his surveillance and trash pull, the presence of the scale and plastic baggies in plain view in a bedroom, […]
ref: 2001, West's Southern Reporter, page 47:
text: His track record as a snitch was good enough to get a search warrant from a judge, after some time was spent convincing him that I, as a government agent, didn't solicit the trash-pull.
ref: 2011, Bob Hartman, Inside DEA: Operation Snowcap, page 34:
text: However, a single trash pull is rarely sufficient to justify a legally valid search warrant.
ref: 2012, Christine Hess Orthmann, Kären M. Hess, Criminal Investigation, page 113:
glosses: A covert investigation by the police of a person's refuse when it has been placed outside the curtilage of their home.
trash pulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trash pull
plasmogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The generation of an organism from plasma.
plasmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Minute or microscopic anatomy; histology.
examples: text: Like Princeton, the MIT program provided a mechanism for cutting across the boundaries of more traditional disciplines and creating an education in a new specialty of 'plasmology.' Increasing numbers of plasma specialists began to emerge […]
ref: 1982, Joan Lisa Bromberg, Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source, page 99:
glosses: The science of the creation, manipulation, and utilization of plasma.
deglutathionylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deglutathionylases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyses a deglutathionylation reaction
deglutathionylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deglutathionylase
halorespiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: anerobic respiration by means of organohalogen compounds
Related terms: halorespirer
dehalorespiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: halorespiration (in which energy is obtained by removal of the halogen atom)
deoxytriribonucleoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxytriribonucleosides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nucleoside containing a trideoxyribose
trideoxyribose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trideoxyriboses
Etymology: From tri- + deoxyribose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trideoxynucleotide derived from deoxyribose
detritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of detritus
shoots the messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot the messenger
diacetylenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + acetylenic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to diacetylene or its derivatives; having two carbon-to-carbon triple bonds
shooting the messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoot the messenger
shot the messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot the messenger
diesterases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diesterase
kills the messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kill the messenger
dihaloelimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihaloeliminations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction in which two halogen atoms are removed from adjacent carbon atoms of a compound
dihaloeliminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihaloelimination
dihalomethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihalomethyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dihalo derivative of a methyl group
dorsovagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dorso- + vagal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dorsal and vagal
ducate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ducates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ducat.
Ducate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
diaplectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Senses: examples: text: diaplectic glass — A natural glass formed by shock transformation from any of several minerals without melting. It is found only in association with meteorite impact craters and crater ejecta.
ref: 1992, “Terrestrial Impact Craters Glossary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Formed into a glassy state by shock transformation without melting.
deassertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deassertions
Etymology: From de- + assertion.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The act of deasserting.
dimetallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + metallic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing two metal atoms.
raw_tags: of molecules
chemography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: autoradiography caused by chemicals in the specimen altering the photographic emulsion
Related terms: chemograph
mTorr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mTorrs
Etymology: From m- + Torr.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: Symbol for millitorr
Torr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Torrs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Torr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Torrs
form: Torr
form: torr
Etymology: Clipping of Torricelli. Named after Italian physicist wplink.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: Alternative form of torr (“measure of pressure”).
Torr
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Forms: form: torr
Etymology: Clipping of Torricelli. Named after Italian physicist wplink.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: The unit symbol for a torr (“unit of pressure”)
Related terms: tor
Tor
TOR
eclector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclectors
Etymology: Perhaps from ecological collector
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various devices used to collect samples of insects resident in a particular location
Derived terms: photoeclector
photoeclector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoeclectors
Etymology: From photo- + eclector.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An eclector fitted with a light that is used to attract insects
eclectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eclector
photoeclectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoeclector
emphysematously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an emphysematous manner
encephalocoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephalocoeles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of encephalocele.
Derived terms: meningoencephalocoele
encephalocoeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalocoele
encephalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalon
endomigratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + migratory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to endomigration
endomigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endomigrations
Etymology: From endo- + migration.
Senses: glosses: migration inwards
Related terms: endomigratory
endonucleotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of endonucleotidic.
glosses: Misspelling of endonucleolytic.
endorsability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being endorsable
equiosmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: equi-osmotic
Etymology: From equi- + osmotic.
Senses: glosses: Equally osmotic
glosses: isosmotic
eudicotyledonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eudicotyledoneous.
eukaryocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to eukaryocytes
extradomiciliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + domiciliary.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Outside of a domicile
extramyocardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + myocardial.
Senses: glosses: Outside of a myocardium
feedforwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: By means of a feedforward
cryotip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryotips
Etymology: From cryo- + tip.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tip made of heat-conducting metal, used to freeze tissue in cryotherapy.
ideoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ideo- + plastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a physiological process that is modified by mental activity.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Being a form of symbolic art created by mental modification of natural artistic subjects.
Related terms: ideoplasm
ideoplastics
xasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xaser
xaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xasers
Etymology: Blend of X-ray + laser
Senses: examples: text: If we could produce a 'Xaser', could we also produce an image of a crystal structure?
ref: 1970, Henry Lipson, Crystals and X-rays, page 190:
text: Perhaps some day there will be an x-ray system — a xaser — although it will probably self-destruct on each operation.
ref: 1978, Laser Focus, volume 14, numbers 7-12, page 57:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An X-ray laser.
uvaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uvasers
Etymology: Blend of UV + laser
Senses: glosses: An ultraviolet laser.
Coordinate terms: iraser
xaser
uvasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uvaser
asperulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the Latin asperulus meaning rough.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Slightly rough, due to minute small hard protrusions on the surface.
mershet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mershets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of merchet.
VAIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VAINs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia.
Tlacoachistlahuaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tlacoachistlahuaca, from a Nahuan language.
Senses: glosses: A city in Guerrero, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality in Guerrero, Mexico, whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
plugg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plug
Etymology: From "Plug!", earlier "Plugs!", the producer tag used by the members of BeatPluggz collective, who recorded the vocals for the tag.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A laid-back subgenre of trap music.
Derived terms: pluggnB
fermentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ferment + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fermental.
gastrosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrosurgeries
Etymology: From gastro- + surgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: gastric surgery
gastrosurgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrosurgery
geobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geobionts
Etymology: From geo- + -biont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that lives in the soil
Related terms: geobiotic
geobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geobiont
gliomasphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gliomaspheres
Etymology: From glioma + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: All the gliomas in an individual
gliomaspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gliomasphere
pyrgeometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrgeometers
form: pyrogeometer
Etymology: From pyr- + geo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures near-surface infrared radiation spectrum, based on the resistance/voltage changes in a material that is sensitive to the net energy transfer by radiation that occurs between itself and its surroundings.
pyrogeometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrogeometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pyrgeometer.
pyrgeometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrgeometer
pyrogeometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrogeometer
radiometeorograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiometeorographs
Etymology: From radio- + meteorograph.
Senses: glosses: A remote meteorograph that transmits its readings by radio
radiometeorographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiometeorograph
radiometeorography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of the radiometeorograph.
radiometeorographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radiometeorograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the radiometeorograph.
globozoospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to globozoospermia
gonadotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gonado- + -tropism.
Senses: glosses: Stimulation or growth of the gonads
Derived terms: hypergonadotropism
Related terms: gonadotropic
pyrgeometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyr- + geo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the pyrgeometer.
goniodisgenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of goniodysgenesis.
goniodysgenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gonio- + dysgenesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease of the eye associated with high internal pressure caused by developmental aberration of the anterior ocular segment
Related terms: goniodysgenetic
goniodomatacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goniodomataceans
Senses: glosses: Any dinoflagellate of the family Goniodomataceae
goniodomataceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goniodomatacean
halohydrocarbons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halohydrocarbon
haptotaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haptotactic.
helipyrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dimeric lactone 6-ethyl-3-[(6-ethyl-4-hydroxy-5-methyl-2-oxopyran-3-yl)methyl]-4-hydroxy-5-methylpyran-2-one present in several herbs and spices
hematuresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemat- + -uresis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hematuria.
synonyms: word: hematuria
hepatoleticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hepatolenticular.
trocheameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trocheameters
Senses: glosses: A device attached to the wheel of a cart, carriage, etc. to measure distance travelled
Synonyms: odometer
trocheameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trocheameter
hepatopathologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatopathology
siccimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siccimeters
Etymology: From Latin siccus (“dry”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring evaporation.
siccimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siccimeter
heterofucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterofucans
Etymology: From hetero- + fucan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heteropolysaccharide form of a fucan
Related terms: homofucan
homofucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homofucans
Etymology: From homo- + fucan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A homopolysaccharide form of a fucan
Related terms: heterofucan
homofucans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homofucan
heterofucans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterofucan
holodimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holodimer
hyalosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyalosomes
Etymology: From hyalo- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A glassy intranuclear structure that resembles a nucleolus
hyalosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyalosome
prisoptometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prisoptometers
Senses: glosses: A device containing a double prism, used to measure refraction and thus diagnose anomalies in a patient's vision.
prisoptometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisoptometer
hydrodilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hydrodilatation.
hydrodilatation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrodilatations
Etymology: From hydro- + dilatation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The injection of a solution into a joint in order to stretch its capsule
hygrosensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From hygro- + sensory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hygrosensation
hygrotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hygro- + -tactic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hygrotaxis
Related terms: hydrotactic
hygrotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hygro- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: movement to or from moisture
Related terms: hydrotaxis
hygrotactic
hyperenhance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperenhances
form: hyperenhancing
form: hyperenhanced
form: hyperenhanced
Etymology: From hyper- + enhance.
Senses: glosses: To produce hyperenhancement
hyperenhancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperenhance
hypervigilantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypervigilantly
form: most hypervigilantly
Etymology: From hyper- + vigilantly.
Senses: glosses: In a hypervigilant manner.
hypothermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypothermia.
plegometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plegometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, “stroke = blow”) + -o- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: In 1839, a meeting of the Miners' Society was held at Redruth, and a wish was expressed that the duty might be calculated on a stroke measured by a plegometer instead of the method of ascertaining the number of strokes by a counter.
ref: 1897, The Mining Engineer, volume 12, page 550:
glosses: A device for measuring the force of a blow or stroke.
plegometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plegometer
phorometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phorometers
Senses: glosses: A device for examining the equilibrium of the ocular muscles.
phorometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phorometer
visometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visometers
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring the degree of visibility in the atmosphere, based on the principle of the extinction photometer.
visometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visometer
brobdingnagian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brobdingnagian
form: most brobdingnagian
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Brobdingnagian.
phacometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phacometers
form: phakometer
Etymology: From phaco- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device for testing the refractive power of lenses.
phakometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phakometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phacometer.
phacometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phacometer
phakometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phakometer
quantometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantometers
Senses: glosses: A device for performing spectrographic analysis.
Synonyms: spectrograph
quantometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantometer
tremograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremographs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tremorgraph.
tremographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tremograph
tremorgraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremorgraphs
form: tremograph
Etymology: From tremor + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A medical instrument for measuring tremors or trembling in a patient.
tremorgraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tremorgraph
cratometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cratometers
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring magnifying power.
cratometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cratometer
typhlograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typhlographs
Etymology: From typhl- + o + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A device for producing writing for the blind, consisting of a set of lettered keys that stamp those letters into a special gridded paper
Related terms: typhlography
typhlographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typhlograph
spoke-shave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoke-shaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spokeshave.
spoke-shaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoke-shave
stenometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stenometers
Etymology: From steno- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring distances by adjusting a telescope until two distant objects appear to be superimposed.
stenometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stenometer
bathmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Every discourse is caught up in the interplay of degrees. We might call this interplay bathmology. A neologism is not superfluous if it gives us the notion of a new science: that of the degrees of language.
ref: 1975, Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes:
text: The qualitative distances separating love, hate, and indifference are what we could learn from a science of degrees, a “bathmology” like the one Barthes dreamed of for the gradations of language.
ref: 2006, Philippe Roger, The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism, →ISBN:
text: When it addresses itself distinctly to the Young-Girl, the Spectacle is not above a bit of bathmology.
ref: 2012, Tiqqun (Collective), Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, →ISBN, page 27:
text: While bathmology is not the master key for unlocking the enigma of return, we can think the different positions stake out by the writers in this book as following a trajectory that leads from anti-modernist resumption or rehabilitation (a willful regression that positions itself as a post-critical progression) through 'bathmological' meta-discursive gestures (a critical repetition that changes the meaning of conventions and forms) and finally to spectral poetics which blur the very possibility of defining a clear discursive position or literary self-identity.
ref: 2019, Lucas Hollister, Beyond Return:
glosses: The science/study of the interplay of "degrees" - or, levels of linguistic self-referentiality - in discourse
pneometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneometers
Senses: glosses: A pneumatometer.
pneometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneometer
pneumatometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pneumato- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: spirometric
rotorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rotor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a rotor.
bookright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookrights
form: book-right
Etymology: Calque of Old English bōcriht; equivalent to book + right.
Senses: examples: text: The control over land which bookright gave was vested in a preeminent building.
ref: 1962, John Francis McGovern, A reconsideration of two Anglo-Saxon land tenure terms:
text: However, they had one thing in common: in one way or another they all held rights in land that were derived from bookright.
ref: 2015, David Roffe, Decoding Domesday, page 179:
glosses: The right of a will or charter
bookright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookrights
form: book-right
Etymology: From book + right.
Senses: examples: text: In 1892 appeared my first serial in the Boys' Own Paper, of London, for which I received $190, and $125 more at a later date for the bookrights.
ref: 1903, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers:
glosses: Alternative form of book-right (“the right to a book or publication”).
rotored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rotor + -ed.
Senses: examples: a twin-rotored autogiro
glosses: Having a rotor or rotors.
planigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planigraphs
Senses: glosses: A medical device for precision layer radiography.
glosses: A device for tracing and reproducing drawings.
Derived terms: stereoplanigraph
planigraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planigraph
iminoazanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A quaternary ammonium cation of the form R-N=N⁺R'₂
immunocompetition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + competition.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: competition between antigens
zoo breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoo break
immunoprofiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immunoprofile
immunoprofiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The analysis of immunoprofiles
immunospecialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + specialized.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: immunologically specialized
infography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From info- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The production of infographics
infradentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infradentary
innoculative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of inoculative.
insulinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From insulin + -ergic.
Senses: glosses: Produced or activated by insulin
interneuromast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + neuromast.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interneuromastic.
Derived terms: interneuromast cell
interperson
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + person.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interpersonal.