cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
microscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mī'krəskŏʹpĭk
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹəˈskɑpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more microscopic
form: most microscopic
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin mīcroscopiumlbor.
Italian microscopiobor.
English microscope
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English microscopic
From microscope + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We supply all microscopic stains and other materials.
glosses: Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal
examples: text: The water was full of microscopic organisms.
glosses: So small that it can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.
examples: text: Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.
text: By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
text: ... the notion of the microscopic was often used in the foundations of quantum theory right from the start, to indicate the realm in which quantum theory is required in order to explain phenomena when classical theory cannot do so; quantum theory was generally considered in those years to apply only to situations involving atoms and smaller “microscopic” entities...
ref: 2014 September, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, number 9, pages 896–905:
glosses: Very small; minute
examples: text: The police carried out a microscopic search of the crime scene.
glosses: Carried out with great attention to detail.
examples: text: Why has not man a microscopic eye?
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Able to see extremely minute objects.
Derived terms: amicroscopic
biomicroscopic
copromicroscopic
cryomicroscopic
electromicroscopic
endomicroscopic
fluoromicroscopic
immunomicroscopic
intravital microscopic
micromorph
micromorphic
microscopical
microscopically
nonmicroscopic
otomicroscopic
photomicroscopic
quasimicroscopic
spectromicroscopic
stereomicroscopic
submicroscopic
supermicroscopic
ultramicroscopic
unmicroscopic
videomicroscopic
Related terms: microscope
macroscopic
telescopic
naked-eye
microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mī-krŏsʹkə-pē
ipa: /maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹɑ.skə.pi/
ipa: /mɑɪˈkɹɔs.kə.pi/
Forms: form: microscopies
Etymology: From micro- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
examples: text: Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
ref: 1966 February 24, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page 199:
text: Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.
ref: 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88:
text: A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
ref: 2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News:
glosses: The use of microscopes.
Derived terms: biomicroscopy
colpomicroscopy
copromicroscopy
cryomicroscopy
endomicroscopy
fluoromicroscopy
heliomicroscopy
immunomicroscopy
intravital microscopy
nanomicroscopy
otomicroscopy
photomicroscopy
spectromicroscopy
submicroscopy
supermicroscopy
telemicroscopy
ultramicroscopy
videomicroscopy
natality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natalities
Etymology: From natal + -ity, perhaps after mortality. Compare French natalité (“birthrate”) and Middle English natalyte (“birth”). Philosophical usage introduced by Hannah Arendt.
Senses: topics: demographics
demography
glosses: The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The human ability to create new ideas, institutions and frameworks out of nothing.
Synonyms: sense: ratio of births to population
word: birthrate
Coordinate terms: fertility rate
replacement rate
Derived terms: natimortality
bellytimber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of belly-timber.
jubbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jubbes
Etymology: From Middle English jubbe, of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: A large vessel holding liquor.
paggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paggles
form: paggling
form: paggled
form: paggled
Senses: glosses: To hang loosely.
glosses: To bulge.
lennow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lennow
form: most lennow
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of linnow.
fairheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fairheaded
form: most fairheaded
form: fair-headed
Etymology: From fair + headed.
Senses: glosses: Blond or blonde.
keak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keaks
form: keaking
form: keaked
form: keaked
Senses: glosses: To cackle or laugh.
glosses: To jerk a limb or tilt the head.
fellowfeel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fellowfeels
form: fellowfeeling
form: fellowfelt
form: fellowfelt
Etymology: From fellow + feel.
Senses: examples: text: We should count her a very tender mother which should bear the pain twice, and fellowfeel the infant's strivings and wrestlings the second time, rather than want her child.
ref: 1650, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian, His Disease and Cure:
glosses: To empathize or sympathize with.
lubra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈluːbɹə/
Forms: form: lubras
Etymology: Derived from the word for wife or woman in the Nuenonne language, an Indigenous language of southern Tasmania.
Senses: examples: text: At about 100 yards distant I saw a large fire and it immediaterly occurred to me that his wife was dead and that the fire was the funeral pile of his deceased wife. I asked him where his lubra was and he said lubra logerna unee (dead in the fire).
ref: 1829, George Augustus Robinson, Friendly Mission, page 61:
text: Mr. Foelsche's reports show how, at Port Essington, the men will barter their lubras, and everything they possess, for square gin; and, in the south, restrictions have had to be placed upon the publicans to prevent them selling drink to the few natives that remain.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 301:
text: We went into the house and Roy called out, “Alice, boil ’im billy, make some tea,” and a few minutes later a comely young lubra appeared, a huge teapot in one hand and a plate with a big brownie on it.
ref: 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked:
text: The lubras were standing up now, in a tight little circle, with their fighting sticks raised. There was another burst of argument and then first one lubra, then another struck her opponent a blow on the head.
ref: 2001, Robert Denis Whittle, One Skin For An Overlander, page 166:
text: As I have mentioned before, Lubra Creek derived its name from a wanton slaughter of several lubras by an enraged band of squatters whose sheep had been stolen, slaughtered and eaten by the blacks. It was usual when anything of that kind happened to band together for the squatter, and hunt for the delinquents and shoot down the first blacks they caught innocent or guilty. In the case of the Lubra Creek tragedy, it appears they could not drop across any black fellows and finding the lubras hidden in the shrub, ruthlessly shot them down.
ref: 2003, Les Hughes, Henry Mundy: A Young Australian Pioneer, page 94:
qualifier: now racially offensive
glosses: A female Aboriginal Australian.
remaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, remain + -ing.
Senses: examples: They will be remaining behind. (progressive)
My remaining at the beach house kept it from being vandalized. (gerund)
The remaining paint shall be properly disposed of. (participle used as adjective)
glosses: present participle and gerund of remain
remaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: remainings
Etymology: By surface analysis, remain + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: For where Gelasius saith, that "there remaineth the substance or nature of bread and wine," to declare thereby the remaining of two natures in Christ, you say, that "Gelasius' saying may be verified in the last, and not in the first," that is to say, that the nature of bread and wine remaineth.
ref: 1580, Thomas Cranmer, An Answer Unto A Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation Devised by Stephen Gardiner, Parker Society, published 1844, page 298:
text: It is important for us to know to what extent the remaining of that naval force is advantageous, and I hope therefore, that you will seek an opportunity informally to confer upon this question, […]
ref: 1864 August 8, William H. Seward, “Mr Seward to Mr Pike, No. 171”, in Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Part 3, published 1865, page 322:
text: In this steadfast remaining with the Church that he so often criticizes, Küng shows himself to be a true son of Roman Catholicism.
ref: 1975, Michael D. Ryan, Langdon Brown Gilkey, editors, The Contemporary Explosion of Theology, page 39:
glosses: An act or occurrence by which someone or something remains
raw_tags: in theology
glosses: remnant.
Synonyms: rest
balance
remaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, remain + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: May I have the only remaining cake?
text: Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.
ref: 2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, in Time:
glosses: Which remains, especially after something else has been removed.
Synonyms: left
surviving
Derived terms: shortest remaining time
negative-sum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: of a situation in which there is a net loss
Related terms: zero-sum
newsstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsstands
form: news stand
Etymology: From news + stand.
Senses: glosses: An open stall, often on a street, where newspapers and magazines are on sale to the public.
novelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: novelisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of novelization.
novelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novelizations
Etymology: From novel + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization
glosses: A text novel that is an adaptation of a story from a visual medium such as film
yellowhammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛl.əʊˌhæm.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɛl.oʊˌhæm.ɚ/
Forms: form: yellowhammers
form: yellow-ammer
form: yellow-hammer
Etymology: Alteration (influenced by hammer) of earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).
Senses: synonyms: yellow bunting
ammer
yelamber
yeorling
yowley
yeldrin
yite
glosses: A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
glosses: The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus, a woodpecker with yellow underwings and undertail and often other yellowish underparts; one of its ways of feeding is to hammer on trees to find insects (adults and larvae) to eat.
glosses: A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.
Related terms: a little bit of bread and no cheese
injun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.dʒən/
rhymes: -ɪndʒən
Forms: form: injuns
form: Injun
Etymology: Variant of Indian. Compare Cajun. First attested in the 1805–15.
Senses: examples: text: We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!
ref: 1995, Pocahontas, spoken by John Smith:
text: You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill
ref: 1999, “What Do You Want Me to Say?”, in Emergency & I, performed by the Dismemberment Plan:
text: Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.
ref: 2024 February 2, Ellen E. Jones, “Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A Native American.
Derived terms: honest injun
euthanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: euthanises
form: euthanising
form: euthanised
form: euthanised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of euthanize.
Derived terms: euthaniser
euthanatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: euthanatises
form: euthanatising
form: euthanatised
form: euthanatised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of euthanatize.
Synonyms: euthanize
incurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/
ipa: /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/
Etymology: From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
Senses: examples: text: They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
ref: 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading:
glosses: Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
examples: text: an incurable romantic
glosses: Irremediable, incorrigible.
Synonyms: uncurable
Derived terms: incurableness
incurably
radioincurable
Related terms: incurability
terminal
incurable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/
ipa: /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/
Forms: form: incurables
Etymology: From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
Senses: examples: text: Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to his regular practice, a hospital on his private account — an arrangement of loose-boxes for Incurables, his friends called it — but it was really a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been damaged by stress of weather.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7:
glosses: One who cannot be cured.
philopatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: ethology
glosses: The tendency of an animal to return to, or stay in, its home area or birthplace.
Related terms: philopator
philopatric
manufacturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌmænjʊˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: manufacturings
Senses: glosses: The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.
glosses: The industry in which such products are made.
Derived terms: additive manufacturing
antimanufacturing
biomanufacturing
discrete manufacturing
micromanufacturing
nanomanufacturing
nonmanufacturing
process manufacturing
manufacturing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌmænjʊˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: Used in manufacturing.
manufacturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌmænjʊˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of manufacture
serin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɹɪn/
Forms: form: serins
Etymology: Borrowed from French serin.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small finches in the genus Serinus, with largely yellow plumage.
Derived terms: European serin
Related terms: siskin
sandpiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænd.paɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˈsænd.paɪpə/
Forms: form: sandpipers
Etymology: From sand + piper.
Senses: examples: text: Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs (setting up the sandpipers[.]
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: Any of various small waders of the family Scolopacidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Calidris bairdii
word: Baird's sandpiper
word: Bartram's sandpiper
word: bartramian sandpiper
taxonomic: Bartramia longicauda
word: Bartramian sandpiper
taxonomic: Prosobonia spp.
word: Bonaparte's sandpiper
alt: Limicola falcinellus
word: broad-billed sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris subruficollis
word: buff-breasted sandpiper
taxonomic: Prosobonia spp.
word: Christmas sandpiper
taxonomic: Actitis hypoleucos
word: common sandpiper
taxonomic: Actitis paramelanotos
word: Cox's sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris ferruginea
word: curlew sandpiper
taxonomic: Tringa ochropus
word: green sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris minutilla
word: least sandpiper
taxonomic: Tringa stagnatilis
word: marsh sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris melanotos
word: pectoral sandpiper
taxonomic: Prosobonia spp.
word: Polynesian sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris maritima
word: purple sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris ptilocnemis
word: rock sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris pusilla
word: semipalmated sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris acuminata
word: sharp-tailed sandpiper
taxonomic: Tringa solitaria
word: solitary sandpiper
alt: Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
word: spoon-billed sandpiper
taxonomic: Actitis macularius
word: spotted sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris himantopus
word: stilt sandpiper
taxonomic: Prosobonia leucoptera
word: Tahiti sandpiper
taxonomic: Xenus cinereus
word: Terek sandpiper
alt: Aechmorhynchus parvirostris
word: Tuamotu sandpiper
taxonomic: Bartramia longicauda
word: upland sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris mauri
word: western sandpiper
taxonomic: Calidris fuscicollis
word: white-rumped sandpiper
taxonomic: Tringa glareola
word: wood sandpiper
redwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redwings
Etymology: From red + wing.
Senses: glosses: A small thrush, Turdus iliacus, native to Eurasia, with a white eye stripe and red under-wing feathers.
Synonyms: sense: Turdus iliacus
word: windle
sense: Turdus iliacus
word: winnard
sense: Turdus iliacus
word: swinepipe
redpoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redpolls
Etymology: From red + poll.
Senses: glosses: Any of various finches in the genus Acanthis (syn. Carduelis), which have characteristic red markings on their heads.
glosses: A redhead.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Acanthis hornemanni
word: Arctic redpoll
taxonomic: Acanthis flammea
word: common redpoll
taxonomic: Acanthis flammea rostrata
word: Greenland redpoll
taxonomic: Acanthis hornemanni
word: hoary redpoll
taxonomic: Acanthis flammea islandica
word: Icelandic redpoll
alt: Acanthis flammea caberet or Acanthis cabaret
word: lesser redpoll
redstart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdstɑɹt/
Forms: form: redstarts
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *redstert; equivalent to red + start (“tail”). Compare Dutch roodstaart, Danish rødstjert.
Senses: glosses: Any of various insectivorous ground-feeding birds, mainly of the genus Phoenicurus. Many of the species have a red tail.
glosses: A species of warbler native to the Americas, Setophaga ruticilla, only distantly related to Phoenicurus.
Derived terms: word: American redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus ochruros
word: black redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus coeruleocephala
word: blue-capped redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus frontalis
word: blue-fronted redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus phoenicurus
word: common redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus auroreus
word: Daurian redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus erythronotus
word: Eversmann's redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus erythrogastrus
word: Güldenstädt's redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus hodgsoni
word: Hodgson's redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus bicolor
alt: syn. Rhyacornis bicolor
word: Luzon water redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus moussieri
word: Moussier's redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus fuliginosus
alt: syn. Rhyacornis fuliginosa
word: plumbeous water redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus alaschanicus
word: Przevalski's redstart
word: water redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus leucocephalus
word: white-capped redstart
taxonomic: Phoenicurus schisticeps
word: white-throated redstart
redshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redshanks
form: red shank
Etymology: From red + shank.
Senses: examples: text: Saltings ringing with the redshank's cry.
ref: 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:
glosses: Any of two species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that have long red legs.
synonyms: fire moss
purple horn toothed moss
glosses: Any of species Ceratodon purpureus of moss
glosses: Lady's thumb or redleg (Persicaria maculosa), an herb in the buckwheat family.
examples: text: Much worse then the former; for who that is experienced in those partes and knoweth not that the Oneales are neerely alied unto the Mac Oneales of Scotland, and to the Earle of Argill, from whom they use to have all ther succors of those Scottes and Redshanks?
ref: 1997 [1596], Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Ireland, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2019:
glosses: A bare-legged person; one of the Scottish Highlanders, who wore kilts.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tringa totanus
word: common redshank
taxonomic: Tringa erythropus
word: dusky redshank
taxonomic: Amaranthus cruentus
word: panicled redshank
taxonomic: Adenostoma sparsifolium
word: redshanks
taxonomic: Ceratodon conicus
word: scarce redshank
taxonomic: Tringa erythropus
word: spotted redshank
Related terms: redshanks
greenshank
greenshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenshanks
Etymology: From green + shank.
Senses: glosses: A wading bird, Tringa nebularia, that has long greenish legs and is native to Eurasia.
Derived terms: common greenshank
Related terms: redshank
spoilsport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔɪl.spɔːt/
ipa: /ˈspɔɪl.spɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: spoilsports
form: spoil-sport
Etymology: From the verbal expression spoil sport (“ruin the amusement”).
Senses: examples: text: I know I am a sad spoilsport, but it would make me wretched.
ref: 1908, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter XIV, in A Room with a View, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC:
text: He looks a spoilsport. There are men in whose presence it is impossible to have any fun: men who are a sort of walking conscience.
ref: 1912 February 6 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 31:
synonyms: killjoy
party pooper
glosses: Someone who puts an end to others' fun, especially harmless fun.
Synonyms: word: buzzkill
word: cold fish
word: dampener
word: downer
word: fun sponge
word: grinch
word: joy killer
word: killjoy
word: miserabilist
word: party pooper
word: spoilsport
word: stick in the mud
word: wet blanket
word: wet rag
Hypernyms: word: bore
word: complainer
Related terms: word: busybody
word: damper
word: passion killer
word: pedant
word: prude
word: rain on one's parade
word: fly in the ointment
word: turd in the punchbowl
word: put a damper on
word: nonconform
word: spoil
spoilsport
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔɪl.spɔːt/
ipa: /ˈspɔɪl.spɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: more spoilsport
form: most spoilsport
form: spoil-sport
Etymology: From the verbal expression spoil sport (“ruin the amusement”).
Senses: examples: text: It may seem somewhat spoilsport to focus in on this negative after another important victory but to ignore it would be delusion. Southgate will not be letting it escape his attention.
ref: 2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Like a spoilsport.
mayday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.deɪ/
rhymes: -eɪdeɪ
Forms: form: maydays
form: Mayday
Etymology: From the distress signal mayday, from French m'aider, short for Venez m'aider! (“Come to help me!”).
Senses: examples: text: "Odd that she hasn't sent out a Mayday."
"That is curious. Her radio must be disabled."
ref: 2002, Clive Cussler, Valhalla Rising, page 47:
glosses: An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft.
Related terms: distress signal
pan-pan
SOS
aider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪdə/
ipa: /ˈeɪdɚ/
rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
homophone: (non-rhotic) Ada
homophone: Adur
Forms: form: aiders
Etymology: From aid + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,
ref: 1548, Edward Hall, “The trobleous season of Kyng Henry the sixt, The .xv. yere”, in Hall’s Chronicle, London: Richard Grafton:
text: […] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]
ref: 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, London: Richard Field, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 254:
text: […] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Of the Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 73:
text: The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.
ref: 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter III, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: A person who aids or assists.
examples: text: As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.
Related terms: aide
first-aider
ceramics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceramic
ceramics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ceramic + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: “The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design.
ref: 2010 February 12, Roberta Smith, “Visual Culture Out of Africa”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The art or science of making ceramic objects.
glosses: Ceramic objects as a group.
Derived terms: photoceramics
limitedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From limited + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being limited.
Synonyms: finiteness
finitude
finity
long-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longer-term
form: longest-term
form: long term
form: longterm
Senses: examples: text: Time will tell what the long-term impact of the Beijing Olympics will be. But history shows that once people get a taste of freedom, they eventually want more.
ref: 2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 429:
text: Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Becoming evident after a relatively long time period.
examples: text: Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus:
text: Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
glosses: Extending over a relatively long time period.
Derived terms: long COVID
long-termism
longtermism
longtermist
long-termly
long-termness
on long-term sick
Related terms: take the long view
long-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: longer-term
form: longest-term
form: long term
form: longterm
Senses: examples: text: These alternatives to sugar, when consumed long term, do not serve to reduce body fat in either adults or children, the W.H.O. said in a recommendation, adding that continued consumption could increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mortality in adults.
ref: 2023 May 15, April Rubin, “World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: short-term
glosses: Over a relatively long period of time.
Lysenkoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lysenko + -ism.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The doctrine that maintained that environmentally acquired characteristics could be inherited; Lamarckism.
glosses: The use of pseudoscience in furtherance of an ideology.
Related terms: Lysenkoan
Lysenkoite
epigenetics
Lysenkoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lysenkoites
Etymology: From Lysenko + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of Lysenkoism.
jefe político
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jefe políticos
form: jefes políticos
form: jefe politico
Etymology: From Spanish jefe político, from jefe (“chief, leader”) + político (“political”).
Senses: glosses: governor of a province.
glosses: police official (in Central America).
glosses: right-hand man of a state governor (in Mexico).
jejunostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jejunostomies
Etymology: From jejuno- + -stomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical creation of an opening into the jejunum to allow artificial feeding.
Derived terms: cholangiojejunostomy
cholecystojejunostomy
choledochojejunostomy
cystojejunostomy
duodenojejunostomy
esophagojejunostomy
gastrojejunostomy
hepaticojejunostomy
hepatocholangiojejunostomy
nasojejunostomy
pancreaticojejunostomy
pancreatojejunostomy
pseudocystojejunostomy
joie de vivre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʒwɑ də ˈviv(ɹə)/
ipa: /ˌʒwɑː də ˈviːvɹə/
rhymes: -iːvɹə
Etymology: Borrowed from French joie de vivre (literally “joy of living”).
Senses: examples: text: 2 LF (young 38 & 47 friends only) without lovers seeking similar for fun weekend in P'Town. Enjoy good food, dancing and joie de vivre.
ref: 1984 April 21, “P'Town for Memorial Day (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
text: By this point, I am losing enthusiasm. It’s really lonely going around and eating at places without a friend, and cold brown rice is hardly inspiring my joie de vivre.
ref: 2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE:
glosses: Enjoyment of living; happiness, ebullience, zest for life.
Related terms: bon vivant
alembication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: alembications
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin alembicatio, from Latin alembīcum.
Senses: glosses: The act of making something more refined or pure; distillation.
glosses: Excessively refined or pretentious language.
Related terms: alembic
alembicated
alembicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alembicate
alembicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alembicated
form: most alembicated
Senses: examples: text: I wanted him to give her up and luminously informed him why; on which he never protested nor contradicted, never was even so alembicated as to declare just for the sake of the drama that he wouldn't. He simply and undramatically didn't....
ref: 1896, Henry James, Glasses:
text: Blanford could hear his creation tearing open a bag of potato chips and starting to champ them as he reflected furiously upon these all too alembicated ideas.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 321:
glosses: Over-refined; (of ideas, expressions etc.) excessively stylised.
alcayde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcaydes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcaide.
flipper baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flipper babies
Senses: glosses: A person born with defective limbs as a result of the mother taking thalidomide during pregnancy.
Synonyms: phocomelus
thalidomide child
flotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /floʊˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /fləʊˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: flotations
form: floatation
Etymology: From float + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A state of floating, or being afloat.
glosses: The ability (as of a tire or snowshoes) to stay on the surface of soft ground or snow.
topics: business
mining
qualifier: chemical engineering
glosses: A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The launching onto the market of a tranche of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.
Derived terms: bioflotation
electroflotation
flotate
flotational
flotation cost
flotation tank
flotation therapy
froth flotation
personal flotation device
reflotation
vibroflotation
floatation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floatations
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of flotation.
biophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪəʊˈfɪlɪ.ə/
rhymes: -ɪliə
Etymology: From bio- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: HYPOCHONDRIASIS, SOLICITUDE ABOUT THE HEALTH, HYPOCHONDRIA. Melancholia. Hypochondriaca. Biophilia. §63. 1. Descriptions of the disease.
ref: 1857, John M. Galloway, General and Special Therapeutics of Mental Diseases and Psychical Disorders Compiled and Edited According to Homeopathic Principals, 3rd edition, volume 3, Manchester: Henry Turner, translation of original by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, page 287:
glosses: Hypochondria.
examples: text: Biophilia (βίος, life; φιλία, love). The instinct of self-preservation common to man and the lower animals.
ref: 1892, Daniel Hack Tuke, editor, A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and Synonyms of the Terms Used in Medical Psychology with the Symptoms, Treatment, and Pathology of Insanity and the Law of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland, volume 1, London: J. & A. Churchill, page 135:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The biological drive to preserve oneself; love of life.
examples: text: Our deepest needs stem from ancient and still poorly understood biological adaptations. Among them is biophilia: the rich, natural pleasure that comes from being surrounded by living organisms, not just other human beings but a diversity of ...
ref: 1979, E. O. Wilson, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art, volume 84, page xxxii:
glosses: The love of or empathy with nature and all living things.
feeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, feed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feed
feeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: feedings
Etymology: By surface analysis, feed + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: premium blend for feeding of dairy herds
glosses: The act or process of giving food.
examples: text: the morning feeding might differ from the evening feeding in protein content
text: optimal intervals between feedings for neonates with weak esophagogastric sphincter
text: […] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]
ref: 1750, The Universal Magazine, volume 7, page 52:
coordinate_terms: serving#Noun
glosses: An instance or session of giving food.
examples: text: feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed
glosses: The act or process of eating.
raw_tags: said of animals
examples: text: picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture
coordinate_terms: meal
glosses: An instance or session of eating.
raw_tags: said of animals
glosses: That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
glosses: That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
examples: text: caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill
glosses: The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
Hyponyms: bottlefeeding
bottom feeding
breastfeeding
cluster feeding
deposit feeding
filter feeding
fluid feeding
food-mass feeding
force feeding
mix feeding
tube feeding
types of feeding
Derived terms: acquisition feeding time
allofeeding
antifeeding
care and feeding
feeding bottle
feeding chair
feeding frenzy
feeding stuff
feedingstuff
feeding tube
like feeding time at the zoo
nonfeeding
postfeeding
tube feeding syndrome
unfeeding
unc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: uncs
form: unk
Etymology: Clipping of uncle.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of uncle.
examples: text: Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here. He would ask if Ace had a job. He didn't, and he couldn't even claim he had come back to visit his unc, because Pop had been in his junkshop when the place burned down.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: An older male relative.
examples: text: Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc.
ref: 2024 March 11, Kyle Swenson, Amber Ferguson, “A TikToker raised $400K for an unhoused man. Then things got messy.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2024:
text: Now he’s thirty-three—so old, in streamer years, that his fans call him “unc.”
ref: 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2025:
glosses: An older male relative.
Any older man, especially middle-aged.
Synonyms: unkie
unky
unc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: uncs
form: unk
Etymology: Clipping of uncoordinated.
Senses: examples: text: The Bristol chromosome I was marked with mutations in two widely spaced genes, dpy-5 (e61 ) and unc-54 (el 90). A strain homozygous for these markers is dumpy and uncoordinated.
ref: 1979, David Hirsh et al., Eucaryotic gene regulation:
text: The most intriging mutated gene is called an "unc" gene for uncoordinated. In this mutant, the modified gene is expressed as an alteration of the muscle tissue. The worm does not move in the typical nematode fashion. Insights concerning the modified mechanism in these "unc" worms may provide insight into such diseases as muscular dystrophy.
ref: 1999, Aloi, Jane Elizabeth, Student study guide to accompany general zoology:
text: Unc animals do not move in the normal sinusoidal pattern of wildtype animals.
ref: 2006, Caldwell, Guy A, Integrated genomics : a discovery-based laboratory course, page 207:
text: Mutations in the lon-2 gene result in worms that are unusually long (Lon), while mutations in the unc-78 gene result in worms that are uncoordinated (Unc).
ref: 2017, Meneely, Philip Mark, author, Genetics : genes, genomes, and evolution:
glosses: A phenotype of Caenorhabditis elegans that moves in an uncoordinated manner.
agrarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɛ(ə)ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more agrarian
form: most agrarian
Etymology: From Middle French agrarien, from Latin agrarius (“of the land”), from stem of ager (“field”) + -arius.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
glosses: Agricultural or rural.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field.
Derived terms: agrarianism
agrarianization
agrarianize
agrarianly
agrarianness
agrarian party
agrarian scissors
antiagrarian
nonagrarian
unagrarian
agrarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɛ(ə)ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: agrarians
Etymology: From Middle French agrarien, from Latin agrarius (“of the land”), from stem of ager (“field”) + -arius.
Senses: glosses: A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers.
agrarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrarianisms
Etymology: From agrarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A social and political philosophy that advocates an equitable distribution of land.
Coordinate terms: ruralism
Related terms: agrarian
agrarian party
agrarian party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrarian parties
Senses: glosses: Any of several political parties, mostly in eastern Europe, that advocate agrarianism.
political parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of political party
parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtiz/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹtiz/
ipa: [ˈpɑɹɾiz]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tiz
Senses: glosses: plural of party
glosses: plural of partie (obsolete spelling of party)
parties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtiz/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹtiz/
ipa: [ˈpɑɹɾiz]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tiz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of party
agonistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a contestant in the public games”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest, struggle”).
Senses: glosses: A person engaged in a struggle.
Related terms: agon
agonist
antagonist
protagonist
agony
air base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air bases
form: airbase
Etymology: From air + base.
Senses: examples: text: American officers have observed how Chinese troops stationed at American air bases have frequently refused to shoot at Japanese raiding planes. Asked by an American officer for the reason for this behavior, a Chinese officer at Lao-ho-k’ou air base in Hupeh answered (November 1944): “Well you see, if we shot down a Jap plane, the Japs would be angry and would take revenge and return and bomb the city and do a lot of damage.”
ref: 1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 90:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military airport, providing housing and support for aircraft and personnel.
Hyponyms: alt: AFB
word: air force base
alt: AFS
word: air force station
alt: NAS
word: naval air station
word: Basa Air Base
Related terms: word: airdrome
english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: aerodrome
word: airfreight
word: airpower
airbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbases
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air base.
air cargo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The payload of an aircraft (not counting passengers).
glosses: Cargo (freight) that is carried by air.
Synonyms: sense: cargo carried by air
word: air freight
air chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air chambers
Senses: glosses: A chamber, in a hydraulic system, in which air (or some other gas) is compressed to regulate the flow of a fluid.
air cleaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air cleaners
Etymology: From air + cleaner.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of air purifier.
synonyms: word: air purifier
air corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air corridors
Senses: examples: text: some were planning to fly into London from Europe, though, like many of us, they could only try their best to keep up with the government’s air corridor whack-a-mole.
ref: 2020 August 29, Rebecca Nicholson, “Tom Cruise: another groundbreaking role for cinema's cheerleader”, in The Guardian:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: air lane
glosses: A predefined route, or series of routes, in which a commercial or military aircraft must fly.
air cushion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air cushions
Senses: glosses: A layer of trapped air that supports a hovercraft.
glosses: A shock absorber that uses an air chamber.
glosses: A rubber or plastic inflatable cushion.
air display
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air displays
Senses: examples: text: Lockheed 1011 Tristar, in markings of British European Airways, was a major attraction at the Farnborough air display.
ref: 1988, Aviation Week & Space Technology:
glosses: An air show.
air duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air ducts
Senses: glosses: A duct, through which air is forced or extracted, that forms part of a building's air conditioning and ventilation system.
air flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air flows
Senses: examples: text: We are trying to understand the air flow between exhausts and air-conditioning intakes.
ref: 2021 October 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: RSSB research exposes poor air quality on diesel trains”, in RAIL, number 941, page 15:
glosses: Alternative spelling of airflow.
airflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airflows
form: air flow
Etymology: From air + flow.
Senses: glosses: Any flow of air, especially the motion of air around a moving aircraft or aerofoil.
air hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air holes
Senses: glosses: A hole in any surface that allows air or other gases to pass, especially an opening in the surface of a frozen lake etc.
glosses: An air pocket.
glosses: The blowhole of a whale.
air hostess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air hostesses
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: flight attendant
coordinate_terms: air host
glosses: A female flight attendant; a stewardess.
air intake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air intakes
Senses: glosses: An inlet for air; the part of an engine, especially a jet engine, through which air is drawn.