cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
streetsmart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more streetsmart
form: most streetsmart
Etymology: From street + smart.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of street-smart.
antiaggression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + aggression.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, our two peoples have an outstanding virtue in common, namely the noble spirit of self-sacrifice for the sake of justice and righteousness. It is this traditional spirit which should move them towards self-negation for the salvation of mankind. It is also this spirit which prompted China to be the first to take up arms against aggression and in the present war to ally herself unhesitatingly with other anti-aggression countries, not merely for the purpose of securing her own freedom, but also for the purpose of securing justice and freedom for all.
ref: 1942 [1942 February 21], Chiang Kai-shek, “One half of the world's people”, in All We Are and All We Have, New York: Chinese News Service, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: The lack or absence of aggression.
overbejeweled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbejeweled
form: most overbejeweled
Etymology: From over- + bejeweled.
Senses: glosses: Excessively bejeweled.
divisiones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divisio
cytokine storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytokine storms
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: cytokine cascade
cytokine release syndrome
glosses: An immune system–cytokine positive feedback reaction to certain infections and certain drugs, which occurs when large numbers of white blood cells are activated and release inflammatory cytokines, which in turn activate more white blood cells.
cytokine storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytokine storm
snowshower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowshowers
form: snow shower
Etymology: From snow + shower.
Senses: glosses: A snowfall event somewhat stronger than a flurry and gentler than a snowstorm or snow squall.
major planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major planets
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the 8 celestial bodies which orbit the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune (a celestial body that fits the 2006 IAU definition of planet).
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any planet that is significantly larger and more massive than Earth, containing large amounts of hydrogen and helium, such as Jupiter and Neptune.
Synonyms: planet
Related terms: dwarf planet
minor planet
superplanet
ANN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ANNs
Senses: coordinate_terms: CNN
RNN
SNN
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of artificial neural network.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of approximate nearest neighbor.
glosses: Abbreviation of announcement, in e-mail or newsgroup subject lines.
walled garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walled gardens
Senses: examples: text: The walled garden full of shadows blazed with colour as if the flowers were giving up the light absorbed during the day.
ref: 1912, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in A Smile of Fortune:
text: You cannot walk the other side because the walled garden meets the road direct in pools of spangled tarmac after rain; the open gutter choking up with leaves.
ref: 2016 January 16, Sarah Howe, “The Saturday poem: The Walled Garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A garden enclosed by walls for purposes of shelter or decoration.
examples: text: A long time ago, back before Al Gore invented the Internet, there were three big kids on the online block, each of which ran its own proprietary online service. America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe each had a "walled garden" of sorts for their customers.
ref: 2000 September 4, “AOL's 'Walled Garden'”, in Wall Street Journal:
text: AOL tried to provide a walled garden for all their subscribers in the early 1990s.
ref: 2007, Wes Simpson, Howard Greenfield, IPTV and Internet video, →ISBN, page 39:
text: When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end.
ref: 2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885:
text: The walled garden made AOL money, some of it real, but also hastened the site's loss of allure to the Internet, whose open design was the opposite of AOL's, and which was by now growing a greater variety of things to see and do.
ref: 2017, Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
text: The content sludge is also present in Big Tech’s plans to reimagine search as an interactive, chatbot-powered walled garden.
ref: 2023 May 17, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How AI Will Come for Your Job”, in The Atlantic:
topics: engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: A closed platform for content or services controlled by a single carrier or service provider, typically requiring subscription to access.
examples: text: Link love is reciprocal; if you provide it liberally, it comes back to you. If you don't, you'll turn into your own walled garden.
ref: 2007, Michael A. Banks, Blogging Heroes, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: A set of web pages or other resources that are richly interlinked and share a common focus, but have little or no linkage to or from the larger network.
Related terms: paywall
incent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: incents
form: incenting
form: incented
form: incented
Etymology: Back-formation from incentive. Clipping of incentivize
Senses: examples: text: We need to incent people to innovate more.
text: We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.
ref: 2007 February 24, Damon Darlin, “At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?”, in New York Times:
text: HUD programs to incent owners to maintain affordable housing units have preserved over 3,500 projects with about 300,000 units.
ref: 2009 July 15, Shelley Moore Capito, Legislative Options for Preserving Federally- and State-assisted Affordable Housing and Preventing Displacement of Low-income, Elderly, and Disabled Tenants, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, page 4:
text: incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective
ref: 2010 June 24, Al Gore, David Blood, “Toward Sustainable Capitalism”, in Wall Street Journal:
glosses: To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
examples: text: We need to incent more innovation.
text: DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools
ref: 2009 January 13, Arne Duncan, “Duncan Lays Out Positions in Confirmation Hearing”, in WBEZ Chicago Public Radio:
glosses: To provide an incentive for (something).
Related terms: incentivize
incentivise
Clarinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Clara + -inda.
Senses: examples: text: Her nearest handmayd, whom she most did trust, / And to her said: Clarinda, whom of all / I trust a live, sith I thee fostred first; […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Page County, Iowa, United States.
incents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incent
incenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incent
incented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incent
blatherstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blatherstorms
Etymology: From blather + storm.
Senses: examples: 2009, 6 March, The Guardian in TheSportBlog http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/mar/06/premierleague-tennis posted by Harry Pearson. "Good job Nadal doesn't play for Spurs".
Referees know the rules, but they don't know the game, is one of those phrases that keeps emerging from the blatherstorm that currently surrounds sport.
glosses: A spate of commentary in various media about a current polemic topic in the news.
fubu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfu.bʊ/
Forms: form: fubus
Etymology: Abbreviation of fuck buddy.
Senses: glosses: Fuck buddy, friend with benefits.
mallear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the malleus.
Synonyms: malleal
mallei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malleus
malleiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin malleus + -iform.
Senses: glosses: hammer-shaped
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Senses: synonyms: Seven Wonders of the World
glosses: Seven man-made structures that were listed and accepted as the greatest such in the vicinity of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East. (The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Pyramids of Giza, the Statue of Zeus, the Temple of Artemis, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.)
spanghew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋ.hjuː/
Forms: form: spanghews
form: spanghewing
form: spanghewed
form: spanghewed
Etymology: From a combination of spang (“to spring”) and an onomatopoeic second element.
Senses: glosses: To strike (a frog or toad) and cause to fly in the air; to inflate (a frog) and bowl it across the surface of a pond.
ischial callosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ischial callosities
Senses: glosses: A thickened piece of skin found on the buttocks of animals, especially the baboon.
ischial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪskɪəl/
Etymology: From ischi(um) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the ischium.
Derived terms: ilioischial
ischial callosity
ischial tuberosity
postischial
transischial
tuberosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuberosity
box camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box cameras
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A very simple type of photographic camera, being box shaped, and with a simple lens, and using roll film for taking snapshot pictures.
box cameras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box camera
lentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lento
arithmetical hierarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetical hierarchies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A hierarchy which classifies the complexity of first-order formulae (and sets defined by them) based on the number of alternations between series of unbounded existential quantifiers and universal quantifiers.
Synonyms: arithmetic hierarchy
Kleene hierarchy
Kleene-Mostowski hierarchy
arithmetic hierarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetic hierarchies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of arithmetical hierarchy.
scleralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scleralization
marketizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marketizer
cytopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytopathy
readerboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of readerboard
rodomontading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rodomontade
rodomontaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rodomontade
erythrismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erythrismal
form: most erythrismal
Etymology: From erythrism + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having an abnormally prevalent red pigmentation, having the condition erythrism.
Synonyms: erythrismic
arithmetical set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetical sets
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A set of natural numbers that can be defined by a formula of first-order Peano arithmetic.
Synonyms: arithmetic set
Related terms: arithmetical hierarchy
moral hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral hazards
Senses: examples: text: And what about moral hazard—or concern that protecting the system, however errant the behaviour of certain bankers, will encourage more folly in the future?
ref: 2008 October 4, William Keegan, “Moral hazard? It's just another danger along the capitalist way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: I go to a lot of pro-market think tank events where one speaker or another blames the financial crisis and the current recession on moral hazard, as well as basically everything else that has gone wrong in the last sixty years. I'm afraid I don't see it.
ref: 2009 December 18, Megan McArdle, “How Big a Problem is Moral Hazard?”, in The Atlantic:
text: Pyne said the uncapped scheme introduced a “moral hazard” because it encouraged employers and workers to agree to overgenerous redundancy entitlements, knowing taxpayers would foot the bill if the company failed.
ref: 2014 September 4, Lenore Taylor, quoting Christopher Pyne, “Capping redundancy payments fixes 'moral hazard', says Christopher Pyne”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: business
economics
insurance
sciences
glosses: The prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.
Related terms: adverse selection
heads I win, tails you lose
mallam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallams
Etymology: From Arabic مُعَلِّم (muʕallim, “teacher”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: In Africa, a teacher of the Qur'an.
Coran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Quran.
mallemuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallemucks
Senses: glosses: A mollymawk.
mallemucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallemuck
malleoincudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
incudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the incus.
Derived terms: malleoincudal
malleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mallet
malleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mallet
prairie clover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prairie clovers
form: Prairie Clover
Senses: glosses: A genus, Dalea, in the family Fabaceae.
glosses: A species in that genus.
glosses: A plant of that genus.
disiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disiloxanes
Etymology: From di- + siloxane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any siloxane having two -Si-O- groups
prairie clovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prairie clover
trisiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisiloxanes
Etymology: From tri- + siloxane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any siloxane having three -Si-O- groups
tetrasiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrasiloxanes
Etymology: From tetra- + siloxane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any siloxane having four -Si-O- groups
pentasiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentasiloxanes
Etymology: From penta- + siloxane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any siloxane having five -Si-O- groups
hexasiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexasiloxanes
Etymology: From hexa- + siloxane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any siloxane having six -Si-O- groups
oligosiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligosiloxanes
Etymology: From oligo- + siloxane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups
opus spicatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin opus spīcātum (literally “spiked work”), from the resemblance to the interlocking patterns of grain spikes.
Senses: examples: text: One sees in it a pediment in the Empire style on a Jesuit portico; it has rusticated galleries, colonnades like those of the Louvre, Renaissance staircases, Gothic halls, and a Roman crypt. If one were to expose the foundations, one would come upon opus spicatum and Roman cement.
ref: 1910, M. P. Willcocks, transl., chapter VI, in Frederic Chapman, editor, The Wicker Work Woman: A Chronicle of Our Own Times, translation of Le Mannequin d'osier by Anatole France:
synonyms: spicatum
glosses: Herringbone masonry.
wikipedia: Trajan's Market
adverse selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is adverse selection that leads US workers who anticipate high family medical expenditure to seek employers with superior health insurance coverage for their employees.
text: The large number of "lemons" in the used-car market is the result of adverse selection.
topics: business
economics
insurance
sciences
glosses: The process by which the price and quantity of goods or services in a given market is altered due to one party having information that the other party cannot have at reasonable cost.
Related terms: lemon
moral hazard
self-selection
recombineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recombinogenic + engineering.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique, modelled on natural homologous recombination, used to systematically modify DNA
dead man's brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead man's brakes
form: deadman's brake
Senses: hypernyms: dead man's switch
glosses: A brake that normally operates under pressure, but engages fully when all pressure is released.
deadman's brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadman's brakes
form: dead man's brake
Senses: glosses: A brake that normally operates under pressure, but engages fully when all pressure is released.
Related terms: dead man's switch
deadman's brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadman's brake
dead man's brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead man's brake
recombinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recombine + -o- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Giving rise to recombinant DNA
Related terms: recombinogenesis
mallophagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallophagans
Etymology: From translingual Mallophaga + -an.
Senses: examples: text: As a rule, mallophagans are host-specific, each species being restricted and adapted to a single bird species or groups of closely related bird species.
ref: 1985, Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., Ornithology in Laboratory and Field, page 116:
text: Most are associated with birds (although at least one hundred species deign to dine on mammalian body tissues); the majority of mallophagans on birds (and hence the majority of mallophagans in general) have a pair of well-developed claws on the tips of their tarsi.
ref: 1993, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers, page 226:
text: While these mouthparts are not primarily designed to pierce skin some mallophagans do feed on blood. Menacanthus stramineus, a present-day mallophagan, feeds at the base of feathers or on the skin of the chicken.
ref: 2005, M. J. Lehane, The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects, page 8:
glosses: A chewing louse, any louse of the now obsolete suborder Mallophaga, any true louse that is not a sucking louse.
Coordinate terms: sucking louse
Related terms: mallophagous
mallophagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallophagan
reconceptualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconceptualize
reconceptualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconceptualizings
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to recent reconceptualizings of how literary texts relate to other texts and discourses, we need not fret as much as scholars once did about how to distinguish "genuine" influences from commonplace images, techniques, or ideas […]
ref: 1997, Richard Mallette, Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England, page 6:
glosses: A reconceptualization.
reconceptualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconceptualizes
form: reconceptualizing
form: reconceptualized
form: reconceptualized
Etymology: From re- + conceptualize.
Senses: glosses: To conceptualize afresh; to develop a replacement concept of.
mallophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The bird Ibis falcinellus is parasitized by at least seven species of mallophagous insects, each of which is specialized on a single feather type.
ref: 1988 January 14, T. de Meeûs, “Santa Rosalia Revisited: or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Parasites in 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'?”, in Parasitology Today:
glosses: Feeding on feathers.
Related terms: mallophagan
recruitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recruitable
form: most recruitable
Etymology: From recruit + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be recruited.
glosses: Suitable for recruitment.
Mallorcan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mallorca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Mallorca, the largest island of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
Synonyms: Majorcan
Mallorquin
Mallorcan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mallorcans
Etymology: From Mallorca + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Mallorca, the largest island of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
Synonyms: Majorcan
Mallorquin
Mallorcan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mallorca + -an.
Senses: glosses: The variety of Balearic Catalan spoken on Mallorca.
Mallorcans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mallorcan
Mallorquin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Catalan mallorquí (“Mallorcan”).
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or relating to, Mallorca or its culture or people.
Synonyms: Majorcan
Mallorcan
Mallorquin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mallorquins
Etymology: From Catalan mallorquí (“Mallorcan”).
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Mallorca
glosses: The variety of Balearic Catalan spoken on Majorca.
Synonyms: Majorcan
Mallorcan
Mallorquins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mallorquin
redeconvolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redeconvolve
self-selections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-selection
reencounter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reencounters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-encounter.
reencounter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reencounters
form: reencountering
form: reencountered
form: reencountered
Senses: examples: text: How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244:
glosses: Alternative spelling of re-encounter.
Malmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Malmö.
re-encounter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-encounters
Etymology: From re- + encounter. Compare rencounter.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent encounter
glosses: A hostile encounter
re-encounter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-encounters
form: re-encountering
form: re-encountered
form: re-encountered
Etymology: From re- + encounter. Compare rencounter.
Senses: glosses: To encounter again
glosses: To encounter in a hostile manner
malodour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malodours
Etymology: From mal- + odour.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of malodor.
malodors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malodor
reencountered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reencounter
re-encountered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-encounter
refixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refix
malolactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From malo + lactic.
Senses: examples: text: The yeast seems to take up some of the malolactic bug by-products, especially diacetyl, and therefore reduces that butterscotchy aroma.
ref: 1994, Dennis Schaefer, Vintage talk: conversations with California's new winemakers:
qualifier: winemaking
glosses: Describing a type of fermentation in which malic acid is converted into lactic acid
Derived terms: malolactic fermentation
refix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refixes
form: refixing
form: refixed
form: refixed
Etymology: From re- + fix.
Senses: glosses: To fix again.
regiochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From regio- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemistry of regioselective reactions
charry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: charrier
form: charriest
Etymology: From char + -y.
Senses: topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: Having a flavour of charred wood.
glosses: Relating to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
Derived terms: charrily
charriness
regioregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regio- + regular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a polymer in which each repeat unit is derived from the same isomer of the monomer
salady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salady
form: most salady
Etymology: From salad + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling, or used as, salad
wheaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːti/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: wheatier
form: wheatiest
Etymology: From wheat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: wheatlike
text: a wheaty flavor
text: loaded with wheaty goodness
text: 36826. "Barakawi is the great food staple and export date and is said to reach Cairo under the name Ibrimu, though there may be a distinct variety of this name. It is 2½ inches long or longer, narrow, tapering from base to apex; dull purplish red; it dries bone hard, but is sweet and of a wheaty flavor; said to resist the weevil and to keep two or three years. The people say that these dates put in a tightly closed vessel of water a day or two become as good as fresh dates and that the water makes a very pleasant drink. Governor Jackson informs me that this date is much sought as a food supply by pilgrims journeying to Mecca, on account of its excellent carrying and keeping qualities."
ref: 1916 March 25, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Inventory of seeds and plants imported by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction during the period from October 1 to December 31, 1913, number 37 (Nos. 36259 to 36936), page 70:
glosses: Resembling, or tasting of, wheat.
Related terms: Wheaties
wheatish
wheatier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wheaty: more wheaty
wheatiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wheaty: most wheaty
malossol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malosol
Etymology: From Russian малосольный (little salted) <- мало (little) соль (salt).
Senses: glosses: caviar that has been slightly salted.
mitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps from Latin mitis (“mild”).
Senses: glosses: A process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay.
glosses: The malleable iron produced by this technique.
cat states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat state
nuclear wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear war
austinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔstɪnaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑstɪnaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒstɪnaɪt/
homophone: Austenite
homophone: austenite
homophone: Austinite
Forms: form: austinites
Etymology: From Austin + -ite, after Austin Flint Rogers, mineralogist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
glosses: Misspelling of austenite.
Derived terms: nickelaustinite
summa bona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summum bonum
austinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of austinite
ambidexters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambidexter
otacousticon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊtəˈkuːstɪkɒn/
Forms: form: otacousticons
Etymology: From combining form of Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs, “ear”) + ἀκουστικόν (akoustikón), neuter of ἀκουστικός (akoustikós, “acoustic”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Gyges' invisible ring, or some rare perspective glass, or otacousticon, which would so multiply species that a man might hear and see all at once […].
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.69
glosses: An instrument to aid hearing, such as an ear trumpet or hearing aid.
whenas
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛnaz/
ipa: /wɛˈnaz/
Etymology: From when + as.
Senses: examples: text: Tho, when-as all things ready were aright, / The Damzel was before the Altar ſet, / Being already dead with fearful fright.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: And indeed it is a greater blessing from God, more worthy so excellent a creature as man is, and a higher end to honour and sanctifie the league of marriage, whenas the solace and satisfaction of the minde is regarded and provided for before the sensitive pleasing of the body.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
text: […]and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:
text: Omens thicken upon us […] Next, the stumbling of the King whenas he went upon the poop of the long ship which bare us on this voyage to these islands.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: When; at the time (which).
otacousticons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otacousticon
hirquine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːkwaɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɝkwaɪn/
Forms: form: more hirquine
form: most hirquine
Etymology: From Latin hirquīnus, a variant of hircīnus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hircine.
retear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈtɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: retears
form: retearing
form: retore
form: retorn
Etymology: From re- + tear.
Senses: examples: text: “We feel the risk is very limited that he will retear his labrum during that six- to seven-month period.”
ref: 2009 March 9, Joe Lapointe, “Surgery Will Keep Alex Rodriguez Out Until May”, in New York Times:
glosses: To tear again.
retears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retear
retearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retear
retore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of retear
retorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of retear
credentialled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of credential
Derived terms: noncredentialled
uncredentialled
greenway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenways
form: green way
Etymology: From green + way.
Senses: examples: text: By their nature, railways tend to avoid steep gradients, with the result that these greenways are mostly on level, traffic-free paths, ideal for cycling.
ref: 2002 January 27, Tony Kelly, “Nothing to use but your chains”, in The Guardian:
text: […] that signify her drawn-out efforts to raise the $15 million necessary to open the Gynns Falls Trail, a 14-mile urban greenway in her native Baltimore that took 12 years instead of the three she had predicted.
ref: 2007 July 27, Robin Finn, “A Serious Obsession With Playgrounds”, in New York Times:
text: More than 1,300 trees have been planted along the greenway.
ref: 2008 February 24, Abby Goodnough, “Boston Has High Hopes Now That the Dig Is Done”, in New York Times:
text: In general, the smaller, more heavily used and less biologically intact greenways, will likely have less biodiversity value compared to larger, more intact greenways with less human activity.
ref: 2019, Jodi A. Hilty, Annika T. H. Keeley, Adina M. Merenlender, William Z. Lidicker Jr, Corridor Ecology, 2nd edition, Island Press, →ISBN, page 99:
synonyms: word: greengate
glosses: A corridor of undeveloped or parkland, set aside for environmental protection or recreational and primarily nonmotorized use, such as bicycle paths.
Related terms: rail trail
greenways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenway
napaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more napaceous
form: most napaceous
Senses: synonyms: napiform
glosses: Turnip-shaped.
hyperpolyglot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpəɹˈpɒliɡlɒt/
Forms: form: hyperpolyglots
Etymology: From hyper- + polyglot.
Senses: glosses: One who masters or becomes fluent in many different languages (six or more).
Related terms: multilingual
polyglot
hyperpolyglots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpolyglot
cadmium yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadmium yellow
Divine Mercy Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Divine Mercy Sundays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Kurgan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Курга́н (Kurgán), from Russian курга́н (kurgán, “kurgan, burial mound”), from Turkic (compare Turkish kurgan (“fortress”)).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia in Siberia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Kurgan Oblast, Russia. Originally called Tsaryovo Gorodishche (Russian Царёво Городи́ще n (Carjóvo Gorodíšče)) (1662-1782).
Related terms: kurgan
role playing game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: role playing games
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roleplaying game.
mana point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mana points
Senses: qualifier: fantasy roleplaying games board games video games
glosses: magic point.
mana points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mana point
Kaluga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Калу́га (Kalúga).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia.
picks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pick up
picking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pick up
picked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pick up
blindlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blindling.
relocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relocalizations
Etymology: From re- + localization.
Senses: glosses: The act of relocalizing.
remethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + methylated.
Senses: glosses: methylated again (following demethylation)
Related terms: remethylation
remineralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remineralize
remineralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remineralized
form: most remineralized
Senses: glosses: mineralized again (following demineralization)
remineralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remineralizes
form: remineralizing
form: remineralized
form: remineralized
Etymology: From re- + mineralize.
Senses: glosses: To restore the mineral content (after demineralization).
Related terms: remineralization
renaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renaturations
Etymology: From re- + nature + -ation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reconstruction of the original form of a protein or nucleic acid following denaturation
Related terms: renaturase
renature
renatured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renature
renatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more renatured
form: most renatured
Senses: qualifier: nucleic acid; or alcohol; nucleic acid; or alcohol
glosses: restored to its original form following denaturation
raw_tags: of a protein
renature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renatures
form: renaturing
form: renatured
form: renatured
Etymology: From re- + nature, coined as an opposite to denature.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To reconstruct the original form of a protein or nucleic acid following denaturation
Related terms: renaturation
disk images
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disk image
image copies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of image copy
repalmitoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + palmitoylated.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: palmitoylated again, following deacylation
balancing act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balancing acts
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
synonyms: equilibristics
glosses: A performance that involves balancing things precariously and suspensefully.
examples: text: While I have not found corroboration for King's claim, Ivy and Bean series author Annie Barrows has acknowledged that there is a delicate balancing act involved in representing free-range children today
ref: 2015, Jennifer Miskec, Annette Wannamaker, The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture, →ISBN:
text: It is a difficult balancing act because Maguire might not wish to be taken out of the line of fire and such are United's current struggles that Solskjaer may feel he needs his leader going in to battle for him.
ref: 2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport:
text: Labour is also facing a delicate balancing act in managing the expectations of trade unions, following its pledge to nationalise the railways.
ref: 2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 31:
glosses: An effort to manage many conflicting or competing items or interests.
balancing acts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balancing act
side-scroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-scrollers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of side scroller.
side-scrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side-scroller
sidescroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidescrollers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of side scroller.
sidescrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidescroller
rephasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From rephase + -ing. The noun follows from the verb.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rephase
rephasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rephasings
Etymology: From rephase + -ing. The noun follows from the verb.
Senses: glosses: A restoration of the phase of a system.
glosses: A change in the timing of a phased system (such as traffic lights).
examples: text: Early in 1993, ATN [[[w:Atlantic Tele-Network|Atlantic Tele-Network]]] requested and obtained from the GOG [Government of Guyana] a rephasing of the programme. ATN made this request on the basis of suppliers’ delays, and theft and willful destruction of property locally. Thus, whereas the scope of agreed works remains unchanged, the time frames are no longer applicable. At least one implication of this rephasing is clear: at minimum, there must result a postponement of some of the benefits expected from the divestiture.
ref: 1998, Gene O. Evelyn, “The Divestiture of the Guyana Telecommunications Corporation”, in Deryck R. Brown (editor), Evaluation, Learning and Caribbean Development, Canoe Press, page 430
text: In addition, the [Executive] Board [of the International Monetary Fund] also approved a rephasing of the country's future disbursements into five equal amounts of SDR 27.6 million (about US$40.7 million).
ref: 2005 June 9, “IMF Executive Board Completes Second Review Under Peru’s Stand-By Arrangement”, International Monetary Fund Press Release No. 05/137, reproduced in IMF Country Report No. 07/110 (2007 March)
text: The Estimate shows a £20m increase in grants to the compensation Agency as a result of rephasing of non-cash provisions from 2009-10 and 2010-11 into 2008-09 (Estimate, p 381). ¶ […] No, this additional funding in 2008-09 is not treated as a call on the Reserve. It is a rephasing of the Agency’s CSR07 budget within the existing total.
ref: 2009, House of Commons, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee: HC 90 The Work of the Committee in Session 2008–09, →ISBN, page 35:
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: A rescheduling; especially, a rescheduling of debt repayments or other obligations.
wire transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire transfers
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: A transfer of funds between banks by electronic means.
Synonyms: bank transfer
Related terms: word: Western Union
wire transfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire transfer
aphidicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphidicides
form: aphicide
Etymology: From aphid + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Aphids can be controlled by spraying with a modern (targetted) aphidicide early in the season, as a routine precaution, or soft soap sprays can be used on a regular basis.
ref: 2005, Philip McMillan Browse, Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs:
glosses: Any man-made substance that kills aphids.
examples: text: Lacewings, the beautiful, iridescent "nerve-winged" insects of the order Neuroptera, produce larvae that specialize in aphidicide, though they won't pass up ...
ref: 1990, Allen Lacy, The American Gardener:
glosses: The act of killing aphids.
aphidicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphidicide
bar magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar magnets
Senses: glosses: A permanent magnet of rectangular shape.
bar magnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar magnet
repressilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repressilators
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An artificial system, genetically implemented using Escherichia coli and green fluorescent protein, that exhibits stable oscillation.
reprioritization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprioritizations
Etymology: From re- + prioritization.
Senses: glosses: A second, or an altered, prioritization.
bacteriae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteria
repressilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repressilator
reprioritizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprioritization
remineralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remineralize
remineralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remineralize
remineralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remineralization
black locust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black locusts
Senses: glosses: A tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southeastern United States, but widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe and Asia; considered an invasive species in some areas.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, locust.
Synonyms: sense: Robinia pseudoacacia
word: false acacia
sense: Robinia pseudoacacia
word: yellow locust
black locusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black locust
renaturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renaturation
renatures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renature
renaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renature
renaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of bringing back nature to the environment, after damage by pollution, etc.
relocalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relocalization
thiogalactoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiogalactosides
Etymology: From thio- + galactoside.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A galactoside in which the oxygen that links the aglycone to the sugar is replaced by a sulfur
Derived terms: thiodigalactoside
thiogalactoside transacetylase
thiogalactosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiogalactoside
postpartisanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From postpartisan + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Not quite seven weeks into Barack Obama ’s presidency, the capital’s leading thinkers seem to agree that the era of postpartisanship is over.
ref: 2009 March 8, Matt Bai, “Yes, More Mr. Nice Guy”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being postpartisan