cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Cimmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈmɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: more Cimmerian
form: most Cimmerian
Etymology: From the Latin Cimmerius, from Ancient Greek Κιμμέριος (Kimmérios, “pertaining to the Cimmerii”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the ancient Cimmerians.
examples: text: there it sleepeth, here it slumbreth: more or lesse they are ever darknesses, yea Cimmerian darknesses.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Tarzan slept until midnight, then he arose and crept into the Cimmerian blackness of the forest.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 140:
text: But the recent explosions had tapped just a fraction of Tambora’s compressed magma—the real paroxysm came five days later. Crawfurd, two islands away, was forced to conduct his daily affairs by candlelight as a gigantic ash cloud plunged the whole region into Cimmerian gloom.
ref: 2023, Clive Oppenheimer, Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Characteristic of Cimmeria; especially describing particularly dense darkness etc.
Cimmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈmɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Etymology: From the Latin Cimmerius, from Ancient Greek Κιμμέριος (Kimmérios, “pertaining to the Cimmerii”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: the language of the Cimmerians, possibly belonging to the Iranian branch
Cimmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈmɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Etymology: From Cimmeria + -an.
Senses: glosses: related to the prehistoric continent of Cimmeria
cate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪt/
homophone: Kate
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: cates
Etymology: Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).
Senses: examples: text: Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
ref: 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101
text: All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]
ref: 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XX, page 93, lines 172–173:
text: He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: A delicacy or item of food.
Related terms: cater
catechumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæt.ɪˈkjuː.mɛn/
ipa: /ˌkæt.əˈkju.mən/
Forms: form: catechumens
Etymology: From Middle English cathecumynys pl, from Middle French cathecumin (modern French catéchumène) or Ecclesiastical Latin catēchūmenus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κατηχούμενος (katēkhoúmenos, “being instructed”), present participle passive of κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”).
Senses: examples: text: Here in this room an old man had killed and boiled a catechumen, had committed sodomy with a rat, had discussed a rodent nunhood with V., a future saint – depending which story you listened to.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
glosses: A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism; a young or recent Christian preparing for confirmation.
Derived terms: catechumenal
catechumenate
catechumenism
catechumenist
catechumenship
cessile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛsʌɪl/
Forms: form: more cessile
form: most cessile
Etymology: From Latin cess-, past participle stem of cedere (“cede”).
Senses: examples: text: Sa silent is the cessile air.
ref: 1594, Alexander Hume, Of the day Estivall:
text: God’s air, the Allfather’s air, scintillant circumambient cessile air. Breathe it deep into thee.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Of the air, yielding.
chaffer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃæfə/
enpr: chăfʹər
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/
rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chaffers
form: chaffering
form: chaffered
form: chaffered
Etymology: From Middle English chaffare (“bargain, trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare.
Senses: examples: text: To chaffer for preferment with his gold.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Character of a Good Parson; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg’d”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Walter declined the invitation, precisely because he wanted a dinner. He was, also, conscious that he had made a very bad bargain; but how could he chaffer and dispute about things so precious as the contents of those pages which were the very outpourings of his heart?
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 25:
text: While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.
ref: 1866, “Mr. Dod's Six Shots”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 32, page 208:
text: But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
synonyms: bargain
negotiate
haggle
barter
glosses: To haggle or barter.
glosses: To buy.
examples: text: The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire.
ref: 1922, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga:
glosses: To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Derived terms: chafferer
chaffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃæfə/
enpr: chăfʹər
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/
rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chaffers
Etymology: From Middle English chaffare (“bargain, trade”, noun), equivalent to cheap + fare.
Senses: examples: text: vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: bargaining; merchandise
examples: text: Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.
glosses: A person's mouth.
chaffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃæfə/
enpr: chăfʹər
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæfɚ/
rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chaffers
Etymology: From chaff + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.
ref: 2003, William W. Casady, “Grain Harvesting Systems”, in Dennis R. Heldman, editor, Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering, →ISBN, page 449:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
glosses: A person who or thing that chaffs.
Coordinate terms: blower
cleaning sieve
benzoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛn.zəʊ.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɛn.zoʊˌeɪt/
Forms: form: benzoates
Etymology: From benzoic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of benzoic acid.
Derived terms: acetamidobenzoate
aminobenzoate
bemesetron
benzoated
benzocaine
betoxycaine
bromobenzoate
calcium benzoate
chlorobenzoate
cyanobenzoate
dibenzoate
fluorobenzoate
hydroxybenzoate
iodobenzoate
iodosobenzoate
monobenzoate
nitrobenzoate
orthobenzoate
potassium benzoate
sodium benzoate
sulfobenzoate
sulphobenzoate
thiobenzoate
tribenzoate
hottie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒ.ti/
ipa: /ˈhɔ.ti/
ipa: /ˈhɑ.ti/
ipa: [ˈhɔ.ɾi]
ipa: [ˈhɑ.ɾi]
homophone: haughty (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: hotties
form: hotty
Etymology: From hot + -ie. Sense “stolen vehicle” perhaps from hot-wired.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hotshot.
synonyms: word: hotshot
examples: text: You guys are pathetic. I'm gonna find myself a little hottie.
ref: 1999, Adam Herz, directed by Paul Weitz, American Pie, spoken by Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott):
text: Junior public servants in the Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s graduate program allegedly compiled a “hotties list” which rated female colleagues’ attractiveness.
ref: 2023 October 23, Elias Visontay, “Junior public servants allegedly made ‘hotties list’ that ranked female colleagues, Senate hears”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: fittie
glosses: A physically or sexually attractive person.
glosses: A hot water bottle.
speciality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspɛʃiˈælɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /spɛˈʃæl(ɪ)ʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈspɛʃəl(ɪ)ʈi/
homophone: specialty (for some speakers)
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: specialities
Etymology: From special + -ity, from Middle French spécialité, from Old French specialte, especialte, from Latin specialitas.
Senses: examples: text: They cook well overall, but their true speciality is pasta.
glosses: British standard form of specialty.
chasuble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæzjʊbəl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæzəbəl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæsəbəl/
Forms: form: chasubles
Etymology: From Middle English chesible, from Old French chesible, from Late Latin casubla, an alteration of Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).
Senses: examples: text: Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
ref: 1898, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, from the 1856 French by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, part 3, chapter 10 (ebook)
text: He has magenta eyes, like old-fashioned vest buttons; he’s mowsy and glaubrous, brown like arnica and then green as the Nile; he’s quaky and qualmy and queasy and teasy; he chews chasubles and ripples rasubly.
ref: 1936, Henry Miller, “Jabberwhorl Kronstadt”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, pages 133–134:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for celebrating Eucharist or Mass.
Synonyms: casula
Derived terms: chasubled
killer poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪlə(ɹ)pəʊk/
ipa: /ˈkɪlɚ poʊk/
Forms: form: killer pokes
Etymology: killer + poke (“the storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a computer program”).
Senses: examples: text: killer poke n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and crash analog electronics in the monitor.
ref: [1996, Eric S[teven] Raymond, comp., The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 270:
text: [F]rom what I recall the "killer poke" was POKE 59458,62 […] [W]hat it did was change an I/O line from input to output. The line connected to a signal related to vertical sync. The ROM routines that wrote to the display would wait until it was in vertical blank to avoid the "video snow" that otherwise resulted. The killer POKE would fool it into seeing the display always in vertical blank so it would write whenever. […] That this stressed the electronics was clear from the fact that the brief stint in the "killer" mode (a fraction of a second) often produced a bright flash followed by a dimmed and shrunk video display that would re-expand to its former self over the course of two seconds or so. Of course the later hardware also had the video snow thing fixed and the ROM no longer checked for vertical retrace, so the killer POKE disappeared.
ref: 1999 November 9, Markus Wandel, “Blowing Processors”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet), message-ID <809ej1$2ip$1@bcarh8ab.ca.nortel.com>:
text: Is frying someone's laptop remotely with a killer poke even possible? Even if it is, it may not achieve the desired effect, says Dave Dittrich, a computer specialist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, who is a specialist in the topic. "How expensive is it to buy a new one? $500? Cyber is not the same as physical when it comes to disabling 'weapons' to remove a threat."
ref: 2015 March 9, Danny Bradbury, “Should we hack the hackers?: Western companies are being fleeced for hundreds of millions by cybercriminals. Is it time to give them a dose of their own medicine?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any method of inducing physical harm to a computer or peripheral by software means, especially by inserting invalid values into a control register or by building up harmonic oscillations in a hard disk, etc.
casement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casements
Senses: examples: text: For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:6–7:
glosses: A window sash that is hinged on the side.
examples: text: Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
text: Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw him riding slowly over the heath.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 229:
text: The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.
ref: 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night:
text: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.
Derived terms: casemented
good form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Queen is a model of good form.
text: When any of his descendants chose to take him to task for the crudeness of his manners he was accustomed to look them coldly over and retort that things had come to a pretty pass when comparatively new people ventured to instruct the oldest of the old settlers as to what was or was not good form.
ref: 1909, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 3, in The Autobiography of Methuselah:
glosses: Behavior that is both morally and socially correct; proper manner, decorum or etiquette.
Related terms: propriety
casement window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casement windows
Senses: synonyms: casement
glosses: A window that has frames hinged on the side and that opens outward or inward.
Related terms: awning window
electrostatic discharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrostatic discharges
Senses: glosses: An electric current, such as a spark, that is triggered when the potential difference exceeds a threshold value.
flair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛə̯/
enpr: flâr
ipa: /flɛɚ̯/
ipa: /fleː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fleə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fliə/
ipa: /fleɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /flɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: flare
homophone: fleer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: fleur (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: flairs
Etymology: From Middle English flayre, from Old French flair (“scent, odour”), from flairier (“to reek, smell”), from Latin flāgrō, dissimilated variation of frāgrō (“emit a sweet smell”, verb). More at fragrant.
Senses: examples: text: to have a flair for art
text: Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. [...] The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound. Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary, and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling cases of the day.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 21:
text: For all his directorial flair, though, Jones may well be best remembered for creating such characters as Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson, Cardinal Biggles of the Spanish Inquisition, the Scottish poet Ewan McTeagle and the monstrous musician rodent beater in the mouse organ sketch who hits specially tuned mice with mallets.
ref: 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: The cafard. The cockroach. The French certainly had a flair for labeling their unhappiness. Long ago he had begun to visualize this nagging misery as the insect the word also named.
ref: 1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 73:
synonyms: gift
knack
talent
glosses: A natural or innate talent or aptitude.
examples: text: to dress with flair
text: Each writer offers a unique flair to readers.
text: You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
ref: 1999, Mike Judge, Office Space, spoken by Joanna (Jennifer Aniston):
synonyms: elan
elegance
grace
panache
style
glosses: Distinctive style or elegance.
glosses: Smell; odor.
glosses: Olfaction; sense of smell.
Derived terms: flair bartender
flair bartending
flairless
flairsome
flairtending
flair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛə̯/
enpr: flâr
ipa: /flɛɚ̯/
ipa: /fleː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fleə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fliə/
ipa: /fleɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /flɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: flare
homophone: fleer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: fleur (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: flairs
form: flairing
form: flaired
form: flaired
Etymology: From Middle English flayre, from Old French flair (“scent, odour”), from flairier (“to reek, smell”), from Latin flāgrō, dissimilated variation of frāgrō (“emit a sweet smell”, verb). More at fragrant.
Senses: examples: text: Place your thumb on top of the shank and your bent index finger under the hair and pull the tying thread tight to flair it.
ref: 1988, Poul Jorgensen, Poul Jorgensen's Book of Fly Tying: A Guide to Flies for All Game Fish:
glosses: To add flair.
dialogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒdʒɪk
Forms: form: more dialogic
form: most dialogic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαλογικός (dialogikós, “related to a dialogue”), from διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse, dialogue”), equivalent to dialog + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Even though some students did not actively participate in the dialogic feedback, they were still able to benefit from reading and following the learning dialogue both in class and afterwards.
ref: 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1089:
glosses: Of or relating to dialogue.
qualifier: Of a literary work
glosses: written in dialogue.
examples: text: Intertextuality is concerned with dialogic literature.
glosses: Of or relating to dialogism.
multinucleation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multinucleations
Etymology: From multi- + nucleation.
Senses: glosses: The state of being multinucleate.
multinucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + nucleate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: having more than one nucleus; multinuclear
multinucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multinucleates
Etymology: From multi- + nucleate.
Senses: glosses: A multinucleated cell
Synonyms: multinuclear
polynuclear
polynucleate
Related terms: syncytial
xem
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /zɛm/
/hɛm/
/ksɛm/
Senses: examples: text: 1997, Jared Blackburn, in bit.listserv.autism http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.autism/msg/b20545b793ca6c1e?dmode=source&hl=en
Still, most parents have some intuitive understanding that "our child is not like us, maybe someone like xem could help...."
text: The soft blue sky had the feel of a good omen. In Xir old age, the god moved slower every year; lingering in the shallows long after the last fish had been swallowed up by nets. Sometimes Xe stood still for days, in sight of the shore, as if Xe had not quite decided whether to beach Xemself for good. Let Xem only survive long enough to spawn a new god! Else Xir helpless people would be godless ans stranded in the haunted dryland where the dead cities slept. Where less kindly deities roamed.
ref: 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202
glosses: Object-case of xe.
Fido
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.doʊ/
rhymes: -aɪdəʊ
Etymology: From Spanish or Italian fido from Latin fīdus (“faithful”). Popularly claimed to be directly from Latin fīdō (“I trust, rely on”) instead of the Romance intermediary, but this might be folk etymology. The stereotypical dog's name is evidently very old; a newspaper from 1760 cites, "[a] small white Greyhound with a Collar, answers to the Name of Fido."
Senses: examples: text: He [Jimmy Goodson] also passed along some water-saving tips to customers from residents Ingrid and Doug Scott. “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down. Urine is a sterile liquid and the toilet is not there for the purpose of Fido getting a drink or Junior floating his rubber ducky,” the couple said.
ref: 2015 September 3, Dawn Gagnon, “Castine suffers water shortage: Town buying from Bucksport”, in Bangor Daily News, state edition, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B2, column 2:
text: This may provide a simple explanation for the seemingly universal desire of all dogs to drink from the toilet. Since toilet water has likely been refreshed more recently than the water in Fido's bowl, it tastes better.
ref: 2019, Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce, Unleashing Your Dog:
glosses: A stereotypical given name for a dog.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of FidoNet.
Related terms: Rex
Rover
Fluffy
azide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪzaɪd/
Forms: form: azides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the univalent N₃ radical or functional group or any ester containing this group
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the N₃⁻ anion or any salt containing this anion (^-N=\overset{+}N=N^-)
Derived terms: azidation
azido-
azidoazide azide
caesium azide
cesium azide
diazide
hexaazide
monoazide
phenyl azide
polyazide
tetraazide
triazide
trifluoromethanesulfonyl azide
triflyl azide
trimethylsilylazide
Related terms: Azide alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
hydrogen azide
lead azide
sodium azide
sodium azide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium azides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a white, crystalline salt, NaN₃; it is explosive, and is used in automobile airbags
SMM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SMMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single-molecule magnet.
glosses: Initialism of surface molecular metal, e.g. on silicon wafers, that can affect electrical properties or reliability
glosses: Initialism of social media manager.
single-molecule magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single-molecule magnets
form: SMM
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A complex compound, typically containing clusters of transition elements, each molecule of which acts as a small magnet.
gyrotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: gyrotrons
Etymology: From gyro- + -tron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of microwave generator employing cyclotron resonance coupling between microwave fields and a beam of electrons.
hadronic atom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadronic atoms
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a hydrogen-like system consisting of an ordinary nucleus with a hadron in orbit.
hadronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From hadron + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of, related to, or composed of hadrons
Derived terms: hadronically
hadronic atom
multihadronic
photohadronic
subhadronic
influencable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 2001, Martha B Bronson, Self-Regulation in Early Childhood http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1572307528&id=TUVxOeJRwC4C&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&sig=ouNkHJBQGZQcWp0VnLzzSnEg4xk http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1572307528&id=TUVxOeJRwC4C&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&sig=FAp2GbD_abtUxU60JApN2RRcXLU
A reasonable amount of order, regularity, and responsiveness in the environment allows the child to develop a sense that the world is predictable and influencable.
…
They are “heavily interconnected by feedback loops, or reentrant mechanisms, that make possible high-order regulations between levels” and are “cognitively penetrable” or influencable at some stage of development.
2003, Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology, Olaf Bastian and Uta Steinhardt edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1402009194&id=S6EBh57d2goC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&sig=-t3SvMpApuQ1mNXlM2aVRLSBNMg
The ecologically relevant soil characteristics and properties can be divided into stable (barely influencable) and unstable (easily influencable) ones.
2005, Rudolf Grünig and Richard Kühn, Successful Decision Making http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN3540243070&id=VDxI5kj2QkgC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&sig=f8AsO4Y7U4BKazFJaqViqu-DBho http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN3540243070&id=VDxI5kj2QkgC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&sig=vMa008ykQhd00b5pda4B5Yd7VHE
Influencable features of the situation will often be useful as decision criteria.
…
For example, poor motivation in a sales organisation, an influencable feature, may result from unclear targets on the one hand and inadequate performance-related salary incentives on the other.
glosses: Misspelling of influenceable.
Hall effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hall effects
Etymology: From Edwin Herbert Hall, American physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the effect in which a conductor that carries an electric current perpendicular to an applied magnetic field develops a voltage gradient transverse to both current and field
wikipedia: en:Edwin Herbert Hall
Derived terms: word: FQHE
word: quantum Hall effect
alt: HET
word: Hall effect thruster
savinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savinases
Etymology: Trademark. See -ase.
Senses: glosses: A protease enzyme developed for the detergent industry.
amniotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmniˈɒtɪk/
ipa: /æmniˈɑtɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: Likely borrowed from French amniotique, from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon, “vessel for collecting the blood from sacrifices”). Equivalent to amnion + -otic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the amnion.
Derived terms: amnihook
amniotic acid
amniotic fluid
amniotic sac
anamniotic
chorioamniotic
diamniotic
extra-amniotic
extraamniotic
intraamniotic
intramniotic
monoamniotic
subamniotic
transamniotic
triamniotic
Related terms: amnio-
amniocentesis
Amniota
amniote
bubkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bupkis.
weeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Etymology: Inflected form of weed.
Senses: glosses: plural of weed
weeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Etymology: Inflected form of weed.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weed
weeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Etymology: From Old English wǣd, wǣde, from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz (“piece of cloth, garment”).
Senses: examples: text: Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the alterations of her countenance to the several alterations of her habit: for as this changed from weeds to black, from black to grey, from grey to white, so did her countenance change from dismal to sorrowful, from sorrowful to sad, and from sad to serious, till the day came in which she was allowed to return to her former serenity.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:
text: What sight is this? What company of women
Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds
Conspicuous?
ref: 1886, Aeschylus, Choephori, translated by Anna Swanwick, lines 10–12
glosses: Clothes.
Derived terms: widow's weeds
harmonic analyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonic analyzers
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure the amplitudes, frequencies and phases of the components of a nonsinusoidal waveform; especially one used for analyzing audio frequencies.
frequencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frequency
helimagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a property of some metals and of some salts of transition elements at low temperature in which the atomic magnetic moments are arranged in a helix
Related terms: helimagnet
helimagnetic
Helmholtz coil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Helmholtz coils
Etymology: Named after Hermann von Helmholtz, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device for producing a region of nearly uniform magnetic field.
hematopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhiː.mə.toʊ.pɔɪˈiː.sɪs/
Forms: form: hematopoieses
form: hæmatopœsis
form: haematopoiesis
Etymology: From hemato- + -poiesis.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process by which blood cells are produced.
Synonyms: hematogenesis
Coordinate terms: hematolymphopoiesis
lymphopoiesis
Derived terms: dyshematopoiesis
hematopoietic
Related terms: erythropoiesis
hemicellulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicelluloses
Etymology: From hemi- (“half”) + cellulose.
Senses: examples: text: The changes in texture that occur during ripening and cooking result from changes in the cell-wall materials, in particular the cement carbohydrates. One group is the hemicelluloses, which form strengthening cross-links between celluloses. They are built up from glucose and xylose sugars, and can be partly dissolved and removed from cell walls during cooking.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 5, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture of several plant polysaccharides, of smaller molecular weight than cellulose, that are soluble in dilute alkali; they are involved in the manufacture of paper, and are used in the production of furfural and ethanol.
Derived terms: hemicellulase
hemicellulosic
oligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligosaccharides
Etymology: From oligo- + saccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide of low molecular weight, being a polymer of between three and eight monosaccharide units.
Hyponyms: decaose
Coordinate terms: disaccharide
monosaccharide
polysaccharide
Derived terms: arabinoxylooligosaccharide
chitooligosaccharide
diphosphooligosaccharide
fructooligosaccharide
galactooligosaccharide
glucooligosaccharide
heterooligosaccharide
isomaltooligosaccharide
lipooligosaccharide
maltooligosaccharide
mannooligosaccharide
oligosaccharidic
oligosaccharidosis
pseudooligosaccharide
sialoligosaccharide
sialooligosaccharide
sialyloligosaccharide
xylooligosaccharide
henequen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henequens
form: heniquen
form: heniquin
form: jeniquen
Etymology: From Spanish henequén, probably of Taíno origin.
Senses: glosses: A tropical American agave, Agave fourcroydes, whose thick, sword-shaped leaves yield a coarse reddish fibre used in making rope etc.
glosses: The fibre from this plant (sometimes mistakenly called sisal, which is from Agave sisalana).
war torn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more war torn
form: most war torn
form: war-torn
Senses: examples: text: The war torn country was practically back to the stone age for infrastructure.
glosses: Subjected to the ravages of war.
ravages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ravage
ravages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.
glosses: Harsh damage.
ravages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ravage
Herbig-Haro object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Herbig-Haro objects
Etymology: From George Herbig and Guillermo Haro, astronomers.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: HH object
glosses: a small, bright knot of nebular emission in a dark, interstellar cloud of gas and dust; thought to be mass ejected from a young star.
herbivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈbɪvəɹi/
ipa: /hɚˈbɪvəɹi/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹi
Etymology: From herbivore + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Herbivory is a paradoxical interspecific interaction. On the one hand, upward of a quarter of all species are herbivorous insects (Strong et al., 1984) and some additional fraction of the noninsect species is also herbivorous, so plant-herbivore interactions are common. On the other hand, the simple observation is that, to a first approximation, the earth is green (Hairston et al., 1960), despite the combined effect of those herbivores.
ref: 1998, Sam Scheiner, Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 183:
ref: 2009, J. Wiebe, E. Mouton, Nutria Harvest and Distribution 2008-2009 and a Survey of Nutria Herbivory Damage in Coastal Louisiana in 2009:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
synonyms: phytophagy
glosses: The consumption of living plant tissue by animals.
Related terms: antiherbivory
herbivore
herbivorous
quantum dot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum dots
Senses: examples: text: A quantum dot is a semiconductor crystal a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) across – about 50 atoms wide, in other words.
ref: 2011 June 18, “Dotting the eyes”, in The Economist:
text: There was talk that Apple would release an iMac with a quantum dot screen last year. But then the company switched course, declaring that the existing process for making these little crystals was too toxic to the environment.
ref: 2016 May 6, Joanna Klein, “How a Mysterious Bacteria Almost Gave You a Better TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: QD
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A fluorescent nanoparticle of semiconducting material.
nanoparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoparticles
Etymology: From nano- + particle.
Senses: examples: text: Nanoparticles of various sorts are already found in products like sunscreen, paint and inkjet paper. More exotic varieties offer promise in medicine for sensitive diagnostic tests and novel treatments: the detection of Alzheimer's disease by finding a protein in spinal fluid, for instance, or nanoparticles that heat up and kill cancer cells.
ref: 2005 February 22, Kenneth Chang, “Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021:
text: The high surface area of a nanoparticle relative to its weight and volume makes it behave differently from larger masses of the same material.
ref: 2012 May 22, Jacy Meyer, “To Czech Industry, Everything Is Nano”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2020:
glosses: Any microscopic particle less than about 100 nanometers (nm) in diameter.
Derived terms: bionanoparticle
glyconanoparticle
immunonanoparticle
Related terms: nanotechnology
quantum dot
ultrafine particle
nanotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnænoʊtɛkˈnɑləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: nanotechnologies
Etymology: From nano- + technology. Popularized in 1986 by Eric Drexler.
Senses: examples: text: The first such review would also include a study of whether it is feasible to create nanoscale devices that can assemble themselves or copies of themselves molecule by molecule -- a subject of fierce debate among nanotechnology experts.
ref: 2003 November 20, Barnaby J. Feder, “Nanotechnology: Bill To Create Office Of Nanotechnology”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2021:
text: Nanotechnology, the science of creating functional systems on the scale of molecules or smaller, could enable engineers to combine the functions of memory chips and disk drives on a device the size of a dime.
ref: 2006 September 23, Dan Mitchell, “The March of Nanotechnology”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021:
text: Development of applied nanotechnologies is being pursued by at least 15 research-oriented private companies and 69 manufacturers.
ref: 2012 May 22, Jacy Meyer, “To Czech Industry, Everything Is Nano”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2020:
coordinate_terms: gigatechnology
glosses: The science and technology of creating nanoparticles and of manufacturing machines which have sizes within the range of nanometres (1–100 nm).
wikipedia: Engines of Creation
K. Eric Drexler
Derived terms: bionanotechnology
myconanotechnology
nano
nanotech
nanotechnologist
Related terms: nanomaterial
nanoscale
chordee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːdiː/
Forms: form: chordees
Etymology: From French (chaude-pisse) cordée (“corded (urethral discharge)”), ultimately from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “entrails, intestines”).
Senses: examples: text: Enderby, blinking and squinting, noting that he had slept with his teeth in, wondering where he had put his contact lenses, was emboldened by morning chordee to say, ‘Oughtn’t you to come back to bed for a while?’
ref: 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal downward curve to the erect penis.
toot sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Homophonic translation of French tout de suite.
Senses: examples: text: The train's about to leave; you'd better get down here toot sweet!
text: ‘Them bloody chaps 'ave a cushy job,’ said little Martlow with resentful envy. ‘Just fly over the line, take a peek at ol' Fritz, and as soon as a bit o' shrapnel comes their way, fuck off 'ome jildy, toot sweet.’
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 27:
synonyms: ASAP
PDQ
glosses: Alternative form of tout de suite (“very quickly; straight away”).
wikipedia: homophonic translation
Derived terms: the tooter the sweeter
chrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪz(ə)m/
rhymes: -ɪzəm
Forms: form: chrisms
Etymology: From Middle English crisme, from Late Old English crisma, from Medieval Latin crisma, from Ecclesiastical Latin chrisma, from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “anointing”, “unction”), from χρίω (khríō, “anoint”).
Senses: examples: text: A reinforcement of fresh troops staggered in, one man soaked and dripping, his hair sticky with the chrism of poured beer, another with his pockets crammed with sauce-bottles.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 352:
text: I observe no confirmation of this reversal and Pole specifically restored chrisms in 1555 (Cardwell, op. cit. i. 147).
ref: 1982, A. G. Dickens, Reformation Studies, page 305, footnote:
text: ‘The King,’ Will cried, ‘is my master and bathed in the chrism of the Lord God.’
ref: 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
text: For Christian examples of condensed symbols, consider the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist and the Chrisms.
ref: 1986, Thomas G. Pavel, Fictional Worlds, page 111:
text: He was more dangerous than the plump satisfied ones, he was so sure of the value of his witchcraft, the holy oils and chrisms and unctions.
ref: 2000, Joseph O'Neill, The Black Shore, page 62:
text: Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 8:
text: […]even if modest gestures of modernisation have slimmed down the ceremony, the chrism of unction is no longer perfumed with animal effluents—ambergris, musk and civet—and Andrew Lloyd Webber added to Handel and Elgar?
ref: 2023 May 6, Simon Schama, “Magic and Modernity”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
synonyms: muron
myrrh
glosses: A mixture of oil and balm, consecrated for use as an anointing fluid in certain Christian ceremonies, especially confirmation.
Derived terms: chrismation
hoplochrism
chumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌmb(ə)l/
Forms: form: chumbles
form: chumbling
form: chumbled
form: chumbled
Etymology: Probably of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: The baby, whimpering when Janey thrust the crust into his mouth, now whimpered no longer but chumbled at the dry bread, slobbered over it, wiped it down Janey's front, dropped it in the grass and at once forgot about it, sitting on her lap […]
ref: 1941, Sarah Campion, Mo Burdekin, page 8:
text: "Can you play the violin?" asked Rosemary loftily, out of a chumbling refined mouth.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 475:
text: Little dogs (his spaniel’s eyes encountered many) leaped and fawned about her, their sharp neat teeth clogging in the soft candy they chumbled from her gloved hand.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
glosses: To peck at or nibble.
opa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opas
Etymology: Borrowed from German Opa.
Senses: examples: text: We love to eat: Opa's apple cake […] My opa (grandfather) had a long and beautifully kept allotment in the north German town of Flensburg.
ref: 2012 July 13, Clare Hansen, “Family life”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2015:
text: I intuited that somehow I’d always been, yet, clearly, there was time — a considerable time — when I was not. So, where was I? I didn’t have an opa to ask.
ref: 2016 September 20, Jim Carnett, “Pondering the eternal with my grandson”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025:
text: That story of him playing football on his crutches I’ve heard from at least four people: my grandparents, my mum and one of the other boys, who’s since become a mildly creepy evangelical Christian. He retold it to me at my opa’s funeral, about half a century after the game. It’s true that I asked my opa some less than tactful questions on that visit. […] My opa had actually started writing a memoir once before, soon after my oma died.
ref: 2020, Alexander Starritt, We Germans, London: John Murray (Publishers), →ISBN:
text: My children have an oma and an OPA, so I knew that I could put in the O and the A.
ref: 2020 September 1, Deb Amlen, “Sales Spiel in 60 Seconds or Less”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2020:
text: My opa grew up poor in Vienna and then got a scholarship to a prestigious Jewish high school.
ref: 2022 September 14, Jessica Grose, “What School Anxiety Dreams Teach Us About Ourselves”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2022:
coordinate_terms: oma
qualifier: among people of German-speaking ancestry
glosses: Grandfather, grandpa.
chyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: kile
homophone: kyle
homophone: Kyle
Forms: form: chyles
Etymology: From French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “animal or plant juice”).
Senses: examples: text: 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524,
It is said that when the tidings were brought him, he was ashore sitting beneath a hemlock eating his dinner of venison - and as the tidings were told him, after the first start he kept on eating, but slowly and deliberately, chewing the wild news with the wild meat, as if both together, turned to chyle, together should sinew him to his intent.
text: And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
Derived terms: blastochyle
cacochylia
chylaceous
chylaqueous
chylic
chyliferous
chylific
chylification
chylify
chylorrhœa
chylosis
chylous
chyluria