cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
statusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more statusy
form: most statusy
Etymology: From status + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A luggage company sees cheap knockoffs of its products all over town, complete with the distinctive, statusy logo it took years to develop.
ref: 1981, Forbes:
text: ...in keeping with the historically aspirational function of the section, what with its statusy wedding pages and full-page ads for diamonds and fur.
ref: 2006, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture:
text: ...a business card bedecked with statusy titles opens doors.
ref: 2008, Philip A Kuhn, Chinese among others: emigration in modern times:
glosses: Suggesting status (social rank).
open doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open door
open doors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens doors
form: opening doors
form: opened doors
form: opened doors
Senses: examples: text: The training that opens doors for you that men from electrical trade schools can never pass.
ref: 1926 September, Popular Mechanics, volume 46, number 3:
glosses: To lead to opportunities or social advantages.
unberufen
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From German unberufen (“let it not be called down on me”).
Senses: examples: text: "Unberufen ! " cries Sarah, with a shudder that is not all affectation, " do not mention that accursed name ; I could have sworn that I heard her voice just now !"
ref: 1883, Rhoda Broughton, Belinda:
text: " Unberufen !" he cried. "Unberufen!" she echoed. Then their glances met and they laughed...
ref: 1904, Ralph Henry Barbour, Kitty of the roses:
text: Bending over, Ethel turned back the cloth and thumped on the under side of the table. / "Unberufen and Absit omen," she said hastily. "Don't tempt Providence too far, Captain Frazer. …"
ref: 1905, Anna Chapin Ray, Hamilton Brock Fuller, On the Firing Line, EBook edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
text: And I am working so well (unberufen!) with my admirable Secretary; I shouldn't really dare to ask her to join our little caravan...
ref: 1920, Percy Lubbock, editor, The Letters of Henry James:
glosses: Touch wood; knock on wood; an injunction to fate that nothing will go wrong.
tendentiousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendentiousness
nonowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonowners
Etymology: From non- + owner.
Senses: glosses: One who is not an owner, especially in a business enterprise.
nonowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonowner
supernumerarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more supernumerarily
form: most supernumerarily
Etymology: From supernumerary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a supernumerary manner; excessively.
wairua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wairuas
form: wairua
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori wairua.
Senses: glosses: A spirit associated with a person or thing, according to Māori beliefs.
wairuas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wairua
diacritical marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diacritical mark
solonetz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solonetzes
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian солонец (solonec, “salt marsh”).
Senses: qualifier: FAO soil classification
glosses: A type of soil with a so-called "natric horizon" within the upper metre of the soil profile and a subsoil with higher clay content than the upper horizon, the latter having more than 15% exchangeable sodium.
Derived terms: solonetzic
Related terms: gleysol
solonchak
kastanozem
solonetzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solonetz
solonetzic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solonetz + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to solonetz.
aridisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aridisols
Etymology: From arid + -i- + -sol.
Senses: qualifier: soil science; US soil taxonomy; soil science; US soil taxonomy
glosses: A soil of the kind that dominates deserts and xeric shrublands, having a very low concentration of organic matter and little water.
xerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more xerically
form: most xerically
Etymology: From xeric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a xeric way.
aridisols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aridisol
mollisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollisols
Senses: qualifier: US soil taxonomy; soil science; US soil taxonomy; soil science
glosses: A type of soil that forms in semiarid to semihumid areas, typically under a grassland cover, with deep, high organic matter and a nutrient-enriched surface soil (or horizon).
Strabo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Strabō, from Ancient Greek Στρᾰ́βων (Strắbōn).
Senses: glosses: Ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Amaseia in Pontus.
mollisols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mollisol
regosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regosols
Senses: qualifier: FAO soil classification
glosses: A weakly developed mineral soil in unconsolidated materials, found extensively in eroding lands, in particular in arid and semiarid areas and in mountain regions.
Related terms: entisol
regosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regosol
templateless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From template + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without the use of templates.
sugarman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarmen
Etymology: From sugar + -man.
Senses: glosses: A worker in sugar production.
sugarmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugarman
haik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haiks
form: haick
form: haikh
form: haique
form: hayk
Etymology: From Arabic حَيْك (ḥayk).
Senses: examples: text: Woollen hayks for garments are manufactured here of a curious texture, extremely light and fine, called El Haik Filelly.
ref: 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, section VI:
glosses: A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs.
Related terms: thobe
Thucydides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz/
Forms: form: Th.
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θουκυδίδης (Thoukudídēs), from θεός (theós, “ruler, god”) + κῦδος (kûdos, “glory”) + -ῐ́δης (-ĭ́dēs, patronymic suffix).
Senses: glosses: A great ancient Greek historian (c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE) and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE.
Derived terms: Thucydidean
Thucydidesian
Thucydides trap
Simonides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈmɒnɪdiːz/
ipa: /saɪˈmɑːnɪdiːz/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σιμωνίδης (Simōnídēs).
Senses: glosses: Ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Ceos.
Pindar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪndə/
ipa: /ˈpɪndɚ/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πίνδαρος (Píndaros).
Senses: examples: text: True,—we can glow at Homer's lay,
enraptured hang o'er Pindar's lyre,
Start at thy pencil's deathless ray,
Thy breathing marble's force admire,...
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Greece, page 145:
glosses: An Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (ca. 522–443 BC).
Derived terms: Pindaresque
Pindarian
Pindaric
Pindarical
Pindarism
Pindarist
sugar bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar bowl
sugarloaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugarloaf
sugar loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar loaf
sugar-loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar-loaf
sugar alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar alcohol
leaf beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf beetle
leaf-beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf-beetle
leaf frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf frog
blue-sided leaf frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-sided leaf frog
noeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noemes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An irreducible unit of meaning; the semantic component of a glosseme.
atmo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “vapor, smoke, steam”).
Senses: glosses: Related to air or vapor.
Burgher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burghers
form: Burger
Etymology: From burgher (“middle-class person”) and the synonymous Dutch burger. The European colonists who mixed with natives were of that social stratum.
Senses: glosses: A member of a mixed-race ethnic group of Sri Lanka, consisting of descendants of European colonists and local people.
prudeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prude + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I find that this time around, I'm writing with a little less prudeness."
ref: 2009 September 3, Ayala Ben-Yehuda, “Shakira gets in touch with her animal nature”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The quality or state of being prudish.
non-sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-science
macrochaeta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /makɹəʊˈkiːtə/
Forms: form: macrochaetae
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin macrochaeta, equivalent to macro- + chaeta.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large chaeta found in certain organisms
musk shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk shrews
form: muskshrew
Senses: glosses: Any of Crocidura spp.
glosses: A house shrew (Suncus murinus, syn. Sorex indicus)
glosses: A desman (Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus).
glosses: A muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus etc.).
musk-rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk-rats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of muskrat.
mammospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammosphere
mammosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammospheres
Etymology: From mammo- + -sphere.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A clump of mammary gland cells that forms under certain circumstances
Related terms: mammospheric
methylsulfenamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylsulfenamides
Etymology: From methyl + sulfenamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methyl derivative of sulfenamide
microspike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microspikes
Etymology: From micro- + spike.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic spike.
microspikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microspike
muskshrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muskshrews
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of musk shrew.
microvolume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvolumes
Etymology: From micro- + volume.
Senses: examples: text: Microfluidic chips capable of creating mixtures of predetermined concentrations of microvolumes of MTX and CMCS were utilized, and lung carcinoma cells were then treated with these mixtures and tested for viability.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Effects of Incorporating Carboxymethyl Chitosan into PMMA Bone Cement Containing Methotrexate”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A microscopic volume.
muskshrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muskshrew
minilocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniloci
Etymology: From mini- + locus.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small locus
multiacinar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiacinar
form: most multiacinar
Etymology: From multi- + acinar.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple acini
multilobulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, multi- + lobule + -ate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of multilobular.
synonyms: word: multilobular
Related terms: multilobulation
multimirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimirrors
Etymology: From multi- + mirror.
Senses: glosses: multiple mirrors
neoglaciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoglaciations
Etymology: From neo- + glaciation.
Senses: glosses: Relatively recent glaciation, especially in the Holocene period
Related terms: neoglacial
nexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nexins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that constitutes a link between microtubules in cilia and flagella.
Derived terms: pannexin
nonaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ækʃən
Forms: form: nonactions
Etymology: From non- + action.
Senses: examples: text: This country suffers under a stubborn president who refuses to support science, refuses to consider the possibility of his being wrong, and whose actions or nonactions wreak havoc on this country’s abilities to lead through knowledge, diplomacy, honesty and curiosity.
ref: 2007 July 13, “The Surgeon General, Muzzled (6 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: The absence of action; failure to act.
nonbaited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + baited.
Senses: glosses: Not baited
musk-rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musk-rat
erotic transference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erotic transferences
Senses: qualifier: psychotherapy
glosses: The process by which erotic feelings for someone are subconsciously shifted towards another.
empty chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty chairs
Senses: qualifier: psychotherapy
glosses: A chair which is used to personify the client's object of conflict
examples: text: "Megyn Kelly and The Donald's empty chair made Thursday’s debate the most absurd moment of the election cycle—and that's really saying something!"
ref: 2016, Jon Kelly, “Inside the Trump-less Fox News Debate: V.F. Contributors Offer Analysis in Real-Time”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: A podium or chair left empty to highlight the absence of someone from a debate.
glosses: A position held by someone who is absent or otherwise ineffectual.
empty chair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empty chairs
form: empty chairing
form: empty chaired
form: empty chaired
Senses: examples: text: "The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky have said they will “empty chair” any party leaders who refuse to take part in their revised proposals for TV election debates."
ref: 2015, John Plunkett, TV debates: broadcasters will 'empty chair' leaders who refuse to take part The Guardian:
text: "When later asked if Ms May would be “empty chaired”, a spokesperson also refused to rule out the possibility, saying the full plans would be announced in early May."
ref: 2017, May Bullman, “TV broadcasters considering 'empty chair' for Theresa May after she refuses to take part in leaders' debate”, in The Independent:
qualifier: debating
glosses: To draw attention to (a person who is absent from a debate) by providing an empty podium or chair which they would have occupied.
noncollagenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noncollagenous
form: most noncollagenous
Etymology: From non- + collagenous.
Senses: glosses: Not collagenous
gestaltism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gestalt + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Gestalt psychology.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Gestalt therapy.
noncommunicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noncommunicative
form: most noncommunicative
Etymology: From non- + communicative.
Senses: glosses: Not communicative
nonisotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + isotropic.
Senses: glosses: Not isotropic
Synonyms: anisotropic
nonprimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + primed.
Senses: glosses: Not primed.
breathwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From breath + -work.
Senses: examples: text: In his classes at BOUT Boxing, Bishop intentionally includes a lot of focus on breathwork. He used to have panic attacks that he thinks, looking back, could have been eased with slow, intentional breathing—like the kind of breaths you learn to take during recovery after an intense three-minute round of boxing.
ref: 2023 December 2, Anna Gibbs, “Punch Your Way to Inner Peace”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2023:
qualifier: psychotherapy
glosses: The use of breathing as therapy, particularly in the form of consciously controlling one's breathing rhythm.
nonprotruding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonprotruding
form: most nonprotruding
Etymology: From non- + protruding.
Senses: glosses: Not protruding
nonrecruited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recruited.
Senses: glosses: Not recruited
nonreinforced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reinforced.
Senses: glosses: Not reinforced.
nonshower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shower.
Senses: glosses: During which no showers occur
noncooperator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncooperators
Etymology: From non- + cooperator.
Senses: glosses: A person who does not cooperate
noncooperators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncooperator
ostensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ostensively
form: most ostensively
Etymology: From ostensive + -ly.
Senses: topics: manner
glosses: In an ostensive manner.
glosses: Ostensibly.
know shit from Shinola
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows shit from Shinola
form: knowing shit from Shinola
form: knew shit from Shinola
form: known shit from Shinola
Etymology: A colloquialism which dates back to the early 1940s in the United States, sometimes ended with "that's why your shoes don't shine". Shinola was a popular brand of shoe polish.
Senses: examples: text: "He don't know shit from Shinola. (laughter) you know that? Always wondered how the Shinola people felt about that (laughter) Hi, I'm the new man from Shinola. (laughter) Hi, how are ya? Nice to see ya? (laughter) How are ya? (laughter)"
ref: 30 October 1973, George Carlin, "Filthy Words", WBAI Radio, quoted in FCC Reports, Second Series, Volume 56, October 31, 1975 to January 16, 1976, page 101
text: "I'd like to comment on your May editorial, "Who's In Charge Here?" You may be a fair journalist, but you don't know shit from Shinola when it comes to karate."
ref: 1974 August, S. George Pesare, “You Don't Know From Shoe Polish!”, in Black Belt Magazine, issue, pg. 10:
text: "Laura looked at him coolly, levelly. 'Frank,' she said softly, 'the information simply isn't there. Therefore the control can't be there either. So don't try to con me. You don't know shit from Shinola!'"
ref: 1995, Michael Ward, Why your corporate culture change isn't working-- and what to do about it, page 102:
text: "See what I mean Shiela? You've got the logical form, the semantics, and all that, but you don't know shit from Shinola, and with your stupid heuristic learner you can't learn it unless somebody with authority tells you."
ref: 1996, Kenneth M. Ford, Zenon W. Pylyshyn, The robot's dilemma revisited: the frame problem in artificial intelligence, page 28:
text: "Nowadays they've got all those captains and majors and lieutenants strutting around like it's May Day in Moscow, and they don't know shit from Shinola about how to run a ladies' jail."
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.27
glosses: To have the most basic level of intelligence or common sense.
raw_tags: in the negative
wikipedia: Shinola
Synonyms: know one's ass from a hole in the ground
perineuronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perineuronal
form: most perineuronal
Etymology: From peri- + neuronal.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a neuron
Related terms: perineural
perseverative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛvəɹətɪv/
ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛvɹətɪv/
ipa: /pɚˈsɛvɚˌɹeɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more perseverative
form: most perseverative
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to perseveration.
Derived terms: perseverative assimilation
perseveratively
perseverativeness
perseveratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perseveratively
form: most perseveratively
Etymology: From perseverative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a perseverative manner
phleomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phleomycins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An antibiotic obtained from Streptomyces verticillatus.
placozoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placozoa
Senses: glosses: placozoan
prohibitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prohibitins
Etymology: From prohibit + -in?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, found in almost all living things, thought to have multiple functions.
proteonomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹəʊti.əˈnɒmɪks/
Senses: glosses: proteomics
pulsator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pulsators
Etymology: From Latin pulsator.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any pulsating astronomical object
glosses: A beater; a striker.
examples: text: Model washing-machines containing a large tank with a realistic pulsator, and a wringer with independently sprung rubber rollers.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 201:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That which beats or throbs in working.
glosses: A pulsometer.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A jigging machine used in the South African diamond industry.
Related terms: pulsar
puparium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːˈpɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /pjuˈpɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: puparia
Etymology: A New Latin coinage from pūpa (“pupa”, originally “little girl; doll”) + -ārium (“place”), equivalent to English pupa + -arium.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An enclosing case of a pupa that is formed from the exoskeleton of an insect's final stage before pupation.
recooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recool
recooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoolings
Senses: glosses: The process of making or becoming cool again.
recool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recools
form: recooling
form: recooled
form: recooled
Etymology: From re- + cool.
Senses: glosses: To cool again after being heated.
reevolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒlv
Forms: form: reevolves
form: reevolving
form: reevolved
form: reevolved
Etymology: From re- + evolve.
Senses: glosses: To evolve again.
reexposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reexposures
form: re-exposure
form: reëxposure
Etymology: From re- + exposure.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent exposure.
slackards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slackard
slackard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slackards
Senses: glosses: slacker
splitfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splitfins
Etymology: From split + fin.
Senses: glosses: Any fish in the freshwater cyprinodontid family Goodeidae
glosses: Any fish belonging to several species of the percoid genus Synagrops
glosses: Any fish in the serranid genus Luzonichthys
Acropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'rəpŏʹlĭtən
ipa: /ˌækɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
Etymology: Alternative letter-case form of acropolitan.
Senses: examples: text: Who first surrounded the Acropolitan platform with a wall, is unknown, but it is probable that the work of Pelasgi may be traced in part of the boundary wall, from a division of it having received that name by tradition.
The walls of Tiryns and Mycenæ, are the finest remains of Acropolitan building in Greece, but they are inferior in magnitude to erections, (called Cyclopean), of Norba, in Latium; and several other Pelasgic fortresses of Cora, Signia, and Alatrium, in Italy, (the walls of which resemble those of Tiryns, Argos, and Mycenæ,) whose wonderful ruins exhibit walls of equal strength and solidity with those of Argolis.
ref: 1854: Robert Stuart, Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical, pages 60 and 63–64 (A. S. Barnes & Co., 51 John-Street)
text: […] a ferocious gang of Athenian officers, skyward, headed perhaps, by the triumphant Demosthenes, to the Acropolitan cliff, and to see her palsying form slugged down the abyss. The mangled head and trunk, and limbs, dumb in life’s last quivering gasp are the horrid subject of the epitaph.
ref: 1900: Cyrenus Osborne Ward, The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine, volume 2, page 336 (C. H. Kerr & company co-operative)
text: 1931: International museums office, Proceedings of the Athens committe on the anastylosis of the Acropolitan monuments, main title, →OCLC
Proceedings of the Athens committe on the anastylosis of the Acropolitan monuments
text: The younger and wealthier members of the White Acropolis felt the need for some new Acropolitan associations to be created to deal with explicitly political issues concerning the Acropolis region.
ref: 2006: Ethnologia Balkanica, volume 10, page 199 (Prof. M. Drinov Academic Pub. House)
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the style of the Athenian Acropolis; compare acropolitan.
acropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'rəpŏʹlĭtən
ipa: /ˌækɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
Etymology: acropolis + -an
Senses: examples: text: And then, this enduring ocean of houses, of palaces, temples, porticoes, colonnades, which floated before her eyes from the Western Necropolis to the Gardens of the Goddess: Bruchion, the Hellenic town, dazzling and regular; Rhacotis, the Egyptian town, before which the light-flooded Paneion rose like an acropolitan mountain; the Great Temple of Serapis whose façade was horned by two long rosy obelisks; the Great Temple of Aphrodite, surrounded by the murmurs of three hundred thousand palm trees and of numberless waters; the Temple of Persephone and the Temple of Arsinoe, the two sanctuaries of Poseidon, the three towers of Isis Pharis, the seven columns of Isis Lochias, and the Theater and the Hippodrome and the Stadion where Psittacos had run against Nicosthene and the tomb of Stratonice and the tomb of the god Alexander — Alexandria! Alexandria — the sea, the men, the colossal marble Pharos whose mirrors saved men from the sea! Alexandria — the city of Berenice and of the eleven Ptolemaic kings, Physcos, Philometor, Epiphanios, Philadelphos! Alexandria — fulfillment of all dreams, the crown of all glories conquered during three thousand years in Memphis, Thebes, Athens, Corinth, by the chisel, by the reed, by the compass and by the sword!
ref: 1913, Pierre Louÿs, Mitchell Starrett Buck, Aphrodite, page 130:
text: At Hastings and other towns, where archæological ruins monopolise the central height, you see an unwitting abandonment of the acropolitan ideal.
ref: 1924: Victor Branford, Living Religions, a Plea for the Larger Modernism, page 162 (Leplay House Press)
text: Like the ancient citadel, the capitol zone is a place of power and privilege; unlike the earlier acropolitan destination, however, current public access to the capitol complex is thoroughly discouraged.
ref: 1992, Lawrence J. Vale, Architecture, Power, and National Identity, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 102, →ISBN:
text: 2007: Roman Payne, Cities & Countries, chapter XIII: The Conscription of the Troops, page 187 (ModeRoom Press; →ISBN
The rising sun peered between the cypress trees flooding the Grand Plaza with yellow matinal light. The backside of the palace overlooked the plaza with balconies supported by two tiers of colonnades and was framed on each of the three other sides by columned façades of buildings constructed from marble and stone. This plaza was the pride of the acropolitan village that served the palace. It was separated from the foyer where Alexis’ window overlooked simply by a tiny lane of one-storey village houses.
glosses: Of or befitting an acropolis, especially in lofty glory and in the capacity to inspire awe; compare Acropolitan.
suberoylanilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suberoyl + anilide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anilide of suberic acid
Derived terms: suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid
sulfenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sulfene + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to sulfenic acid or its derivatives.
tensin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tensins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A multidomain protein that binds to actin filaments.
transversally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transversally
form: most transversally
form: transversely
Etymology: From transversal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a transverse manner.
glosses: In regard to a transversal.
examples: text: Moreover, art can think “transversally” with scientific functions in artistic ways, just as science can think transversally with artistic sensations in scientific ways. I would argue that such transversal thinking is the possible […]
ref: 2015, Liza Piper, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Urging us to think transversally across three ecological registers – mental, social and environmental – Guattari emphasises the necessity to confront our enslavement in global capitalism.
ref: 2016, Helene Frichot, Deleuze and the City, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: [... not to subsi]tute one binary code for another—West–East, East–West—but to think transversally and ecosophically across paradigms. Behind the “Degrees of Racism” report is a desire to think across borders, beyond individuality and community—to[…]
ref: 2018, David R. Cole, Joff P.N. Bradley, Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: In a way that exhibits or pertains to transversality; connecting hetergeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
dihydro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + hydro-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two hydrogen atoms in a molecule
Derived terms: dihydroalprenolol
dihydrocarbazole
dihydroergocristine
dihydroergocryptine
dihydroergotamine
dihydroisoxazole
dihydrokaempferol
dihydrolipoamide
dihydromyricetin
dihydrooxazine
dihydrophenanthrene
dihydrosanguinarine
dihydrosphingomyelin
dihydrostreptose
dihydrotanshinone
diprenorphine
hydrocodone
sternocleidomastoidei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɝ.nəˌklaɪ.dəˌmæˈstɔɪ.diˌaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of sternocleidomastoideus
digastrici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɡæ.stɹəˌsaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of digastricus
biffo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪfəʊ/
Etymology: From biff + -o.
Senses: examples: text: There was too much biffo going on at that club, so I left.
text: Barrett's working class man is simply one who enjoys his beer, his rock music (like Norton, he's a man in his early thirties), and a bit of biffo.
ref: 2006, Christine Matzke, Susanne Muehleisen, Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective, page 236:
text: We all liked a bit of biffo and gunplay, so when the telecast was broken for a newsflash, everyone groaned.
ref: 2005, William McInnes, A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, unnumbered page:
text: Things peaked a year later with a Sunday afternoon biffo pitting a good-sized detachment of rockers against a combined force of surfies and clubbies.
ref: 2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 207:
glosses: Violence, fighting; a fight.
Colophonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏləfōʹnĭən
ipa: /kɒləˈfəʊnɪən/
Forms: form: Kolophonian
Etymology: From Latin Colophōnius (from Colophōn (“Colophon”)) + English -an
Senses: examples: text: We know that the Colophonian poet Xenophanes narrated the history of his native land, and that in a poem of two thousand lines he also set forth the events connected with the foundation of Velia, in which he participated.
ref: 1908, Ettore Pais, translated by C. Densmore Curtis, Ancient Italy: Historical and Geographical Investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily, and Sardinia, The University of Chicago Press, page 72:
glosses: Of or relating to the Lydian city of Colophon.
Derived terms: Colophonian gum
Colophonian resin
Related terms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
english: erroneous
translation: erroneous
word: colophane
english: perhaps erroneous
translation: perhaps erroneous
word: colophonian
word: colophonize
word: title-page to colophon
word: colophon →
word: colophene
word: colophilene
word: colopholic acid
word: coloph- →
word: colophonate
word: colophonic acids
word: colophonin
word: colophonone
word: colophon- →
word: colophonite
word: colophony →
Colophonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏləfōʹnĭən
ipa: /kɒləˈfəʊnɪən/
Forms: form: Colophonians
form: Kolophonian
Etymology: From Latin Colophōnius (from Colophōn (“Colophon”)) + English -an
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Lydian city of Colophon.
Colophonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Colophonian
syege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of siege.
bugs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bug out
bugging out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bug out
bugged out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bug out
beleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈliːv/
ipa: /bɪˈliv/
ipa: /bi-/
ipa: /bə-/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: believe
Forms: form: beleaves
form: beleaving
form: beleft
form: beleft
Etymology: From Middle English beleven, from Old English belǣfan (“to leave, let remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bilaibijaną. Equivalent to be- + leave. Intransitive use may be influenced by related belive (“to remain”), which see.
Senses: synonyms: word: desert
word: forsake
word: abandon
word: beleave
word: bug out
word: desert
word: forlet
word: forgo
word: forsake
word: leave behind
word: relinquish
glosses: To leave behind, abandon.
synonyms: word: continue
word: stay
word: abide
word: beleave
word: belive
word: continue
word: dwell
word: keep
word: linger
word: remain
word: rest
word: stay
glosses: To be left; to remain.
beleft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beleave
gaiatsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 外圧.
Senses: glosses: Foreign pressure; pressure applied by one country onto another.
lith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: liths
form: lythe
Etymology: From Middle English lith, lyth, from Old English liþ (“limb, member, joint, tip of finger, point”), from Proto-Germanic *liþuz (“limb”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots lith (“part of the body, joint”), West Frisian lid (“part of the body, member”), Dutch lid (“limb, member, section”), Middle High German lit (“limb, member”), Swedish led (“joint, link, channel”), Icelandic liður (“item”), Dutch lid (“part of the body; member”) and gelid (“joint, rank, file”), German Glied (“limb, member, link”).
Senses: glosses: A limb; any member of the body.
examples: text: lith and limb;  out of lith
text: he departed with the lady / & brouȝt her to Camelot / Soo as they rode in a valey it was ful of stones / and there the ladyes hors stumbled and threwe her doun that her arme was sore brysed and nere she swouned for payne / Allas syr sayd the lady myn arme is oute of lythe wher thorow I must nedes reste me
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book III:
glosses: A joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division.
glosses: A segment of an orange, or similar fruit.
Derived terms: lithy
lith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Etymology: From Middle English lith, lyth (“owndom”), from Old Norse lýðr (“people, lede”), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“men, people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“man, people”). Cognate with Dutch lieden and lui, German Leute (“people”), Old English lēode (“people”). More at lede.
Senses: glosses: Property.
lith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: liths
Etymology: From Middle English *lith, from Old Norse hlið (“a gap, gate, space”), from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (“door, lid, eyelid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to conceal, hide”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian lid, led (“an opening in a fence”), Scots lith (“a gap in a fence, gate opening”), Old English hlid (“lid, covering, door, gate, opening”). More at lid.
Senses: glosses: A gate; a gap in a fence.
lith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: liths
Etymology: By shortening.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: coccolith
Hephæstus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I have adopted, not without hesitation, the Latin, rather than the Greek, nomenclature for the Heathen Deities. I have been induced to do so from the manifest incongruity of confounding the two; and from the fact that though English readers may be familiar with the names of Zeus, or Aphrodite, or even Poseidon, those of Hera, or Ares, or Hephæstus, or Leto, would hardly convey to them a definite signification.
ref: 1865, Homer, translated by Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Iliad, volume 1, page viii:
text: Then Zeus called upon the artisan of the gods, lame Hephæstus, and he commanded him to make a being out of clay that would have the likeness of a lovely maiden. […] All strove to add a grace or a beauty to the work of Hephæstus.
ref: 1921, Padraic Colum, The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived before Achilles, The Macmillan company, page 83:
text: There was chaste Artemis, athletic goddess of the hunt; Hermes with his winged feet, fleet messenger of the gods; and the swart and limping Hephæstus, their mechanic, hammering out the heavy armors on his smoky forge.
ref: 1930, B. Z. Goldberg, The Sacred Fire: The Story of Sex in Religion, Forgotten Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 41, →ISBN:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Hephaestus.
Derived terms: Hephæstian
Hephæstic
Hephaistos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hephaestus.
Hephaistus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hephaestus.
Hephestus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hephaestus.
Hephestos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hephaestus.
Hephaestos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hephaestus.
Hephæstos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Hephaestus.
Wallen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wallens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pulsators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulsator
CODAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CODA
cinchophen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋkəfɛn/
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An analgesic drug used to treat gout in animals (and, until the 1930s, in humans, when it was found to cause liver damage).
closest points of approach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closest point of approach
chloroguanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorguanide
Etymology: From chloro- + guanide.
Senses: glosses: Proguanil.
chlorguanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chloroguanide.
aminoquinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminoquinolines
Etymology: From amino + quinoline.
Senses: glosses: Any of various quinoline derivatives notable as antimalarial drugs.
aminoquinolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminoquinoline
toxoplasmoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxoplasmosis
innexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innexins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins used to create gap junctions in invertebrates
Related terms: innexon
innexins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innexin
plasmodesma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasmodesmas
form: plasmodesmata
form: plasmodesm
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”) + δέσμα (désma).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microscopic channel traversing the cell walls of plant cells and some algal cells, enabling transport and communication between them.
Derived terms: plasmodesmal
plasmodesmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmodesma
Derived terms: plasmodesmatal
innervations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innervation
purinergically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From purinergic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a purinergic manner.
purisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purism
puritanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puritanism
connexon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connexons
Etymology: From Latin connexus (“connected”) + -on.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An assembly of six connexins forming a bridge called a gap junction between the cytoplasms of two adjacent cells.
Related terms: hemichannel
connexons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connexon
postgenderism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + gender + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A sociopolitical and cultural movement which arose from the eroding of the cultural, biological, psychological, and social role of gender, and an argument for why the erosion of the gender binary will be liberatory.
glosses: A sociopolitical and cultural movement for the voluntary elimination of gender in the human species through the application of biotechnology.
Related terms: postgender
altersex
phalgina
lottos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lotto
opah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊpə/
ipa: /ˈoʊpə/
Forms: form: opahs
form: opah
Etymology: From Igbo uba. Earliest attestation in English is the Royal Society’s 1752 Philosophical Transactions, 1749–50 (vol. 46, p. 519): “The black Prince, and his Cousin, from Anamaboe on the Coast of Guinea, and Mr. Creighton, formerly Governor of Capo Corso Castle, upon seeing this Fish immediately knew it, and said it was common on that Coast … The Natives call it Opah, and the English there call it the King-fish”
Senses: examples: text: 2003, Margaret M. Smith, Phillip C. Heemstra (editors), Smiths' Sea Fishes (Revision of 1977, James Leonard Brierley Smith, The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa), page 398,
A member of the lower epipelagic community, the opah feeds on squid and fishes (including some benthic species) and is usually found well offshore.
text: For a long time, opah has been thought to be good luck so it was only given away, never sold. Opah is a nonschooling open-ocean fish so it's not caught in great quantities.
ref: 2006, Sharon Hamblin, Adventure Guide Maui, page 36:
text: Opah is an extraordinary-looking ocean fish, with an almost perfectly round shape; a comparatively thin, flat profile; a silvery skin, and bright crimson fins.
ref: 2013, Roy Yamaguchi, John Harrisson, Roy's Fish and Seafood: Recipes from the Pacific Rim, page 77:
glosses: Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae.
Synonyms: sense: fish of family Lampridae
word: Jerusalem haddock
sense: fish of family Lampridae
word: kingfish
sense: fish of family Lampridae
word: moonfish
sense: fish of family Lampridae
word: redfin ocean pan
sense: fish of family Lampridae
word: sunfish
Related terms: Lampridae
bycatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bycatch
moonfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonfish
opahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opah
circumglobally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more circumglobally
form: most circumglobally
Etymology: From circumglobal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a circumglobal manner.
circumjacency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumjacencies
Senses: glosses: An area circumjacent to another; surroundings, environs.
circumjacencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumjacency
circumjacently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more circumjacently
form: most circumjacently
Etymology: From circumjacent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a circumjacent manner.
stomiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomiids
Senses: examples: text: Since stomiids are sensitive to the far-red bioluminescence produced by their suborbital photophores, which other animals in the deep sea cannot see, they have what could be regarded as a private waveband.
ref: 2001, Friedrich G. Barth, Ecology of Sensing:
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.
stomiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomiid
chironomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin chīronomia, from Ancient Greek χειρονομία (kheironomía, “gesticulation”).
Senses: examples: text: Studies of chironomia had, from Elizabethan times, replicated the same descriptions of arm and hand gestures with the same prescription for their rhetorical.
ref: 2003, Frederick Burwick, in Robyn Asleson, Notorious Muse, Yale University Press 2003, p. 130
glosses: Chironomy.
chiromegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chiro- + -megaly.
Senses: glosses: Abnormal gigantism of the hands.
dyneins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynein
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dr. Robert Anderson Aldrich and Dr. Alfred Wiskott.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: eczema-thrombocytopenia-immunodeficiency syndrome
glosses: A rare X-linked recessive disease characterized by eczema, thrombocytopenia, immune deficiency, and bloody diarrhea.
dianetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Dianetic.
veracities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veracity