cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪbəl/
ipa: /ˈseɪbɫ/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: sabler
form: sablest
form: sa.
form: s.
Etymology: Attested since 1275, from Middle English sable, from Old French sable and martre sable (“sable marten”), in reference to the animal or its fur; from Medieval Latin sabelum, from Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel); ultimately from a Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Middle Persian smwl (*samōr).
Senses: examples: text: When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
ref: 1742, [Edward Young], “Night the First”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:
text: They wound between the wagons to a tent removed from the rest of the traders'. It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.
ref: 2002, Christopher Paolini, chapter 3, in Eragon:
glosses: Sable-coloured, black.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In blazon, of the colour black.
glosses: Made of sable fur.
examples: text: She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/2/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: Dark, somber.
examples: text: Some of the sable females, who formerly stood aloof, now began to relax and appear less coy; but my heart was still fixed on London, where I hoped to be ere long.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 7, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
text: Ethnologists are in the wrong / About our sable brothers[.]
ref: 1880 June 19, Henry Kendall, “My Piccaninny”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 28, column 4:
text: Of this one of the drovers writes thus: - "Very soon there will be homesteads and stations dotted all over the Territory within easy distances of one another, driving our sable brethren from their ancient hunting grounds."
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 281:
text: For twelve long months I had to pace, / Humping my swag with a cadging face, / Sleeping in the bush, like the sable race.
ref: 1905, Banjo Paterson, Old Bush Songs, page 40:
glosses: Dark-skinned; Black.
Synonyms: sense: dark-skinned
word: black
sense: dark-skinned
word: dusky
sense: dark-skinned
word: inky
sense: dark-skinned
word: sooty
sense: dark-skinned
word: swarthy
encrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: encrusts
form: encrusting
form: encrusted
form: encrusted
form: incrust
Etymology: From French incruster, from Latin incrustare, from in- (“in”) + crustare (“to cover with a crust”). By surface analysis, en- + crust.
Senses: examples: text: iron encrusted with rust
text: a doughnut encrusted with sugar
text: And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow,
 Incrusted hard.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: To cover with a hard crust.
glosses: To form a crust.
examples: text: The jeweller encrusted the ring with gems.
glosses: To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
Derived terms: encruster
encrustment
nonencrusting
morgan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔɹɡən/
ipa: /ˈmɔːɡən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡən
Forms: form: morgans
Etymology: Named for Thomas Hunt Morgan.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome.
wikipedia: Thomas Hunt Morgan
Derived terms: centimorgan
trans-equatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: transequatorial
Etymology: From trans- + equatorial.
Senses: examples: Birth of Hurricane Agnes—Triggered by the Transequatorial Movement of a Mesoscale System Into a Favorable Large-Scale Environment -Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 177–179
glosses: On the other side of, or crossing the equator.
transferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /trɑːnsˈfɜːrəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈtrɑːnsf(ə)rəbl̩/
ipa: /trænsˈfɜːrəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈtrænsf(ə)rəbl̩/
ipa: /trænsˈfɝrəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈtrænsfr̩əbl̩/
Forms: form: transferrable
form: transferrible
Etymology: From transfer + -able. Compare inferable, deferrable.
Senses: examples: text: To start a new career, you need transferable skills.
text: The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC, page 129:
glosses: Able to be transferred.
Derived terms: nontransferable
single transferable vote
transferable skill
Related terms: transferability
transferal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈfɝəl/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈfɜːɹəl/
ipa: /tɹænz-/
rhymes: -ɜːɹəl
Forms: form: transferals
form: transferral
Senses: synonyms: transference
glosses: A transfer.
synonyms: transference
glosses: A transfer.
The making over of legal title or ownership to another.
transferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transferases
Etymology: From transfer + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a functional group, such as amine or phosphate from one molecule to another.
Derived terms: abequosyltransferase
acetylgalactosaminylphosphotransferase
acetylgalactosaminyltransferase
acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase
acetylglucosaminyltransferase
acetylmannosaminyltransferase
acetyltransferase
acyltransferase
adenosyltransferase
adenyltransferase
adenylyltransferase
alkyltransferase
amidinotransferase
amidophosphoribosyltransferase
amidotransferase
aminoacyltransferase
aminomethyltransferase
aminotransferase
arabinofuranosyltransferase
arabinosyltransferase
arginyltransferase
arylsulfotransferase
arylsulphotransferase
benzoyltransferase
butyryltransferase
caffeoyltransferase
carbamoyltransferase
carbamyltransferase
carboxyl methyltransferase
carboxylmethyltransferase
carboxyltransferase
carboxymethyltransferase
carboxytransferase
cholinephosphotransferase
cyclotransferase
cytidyltransferase
cytidylyltransferase
deacetyltransferase
deoxycytidyltransferase
deoxynucleotidylexotransferase
deoxynucleotidyltransferase
deoxyribosyltransferase
deoxytransferase
dimethylallyltranstransferase
dimethyltransferase
diphosphotransferase
ethanolaminephosphotransferase
exotransferase
farnesyltransferase
farnesyltranstransferase
feruloyltransferase
formiminotransferase
formyltransferase
fructosyltransferase
fructotransferase
fucosyltransferase
galactosyltransferase
galacturonosyltransferase
geranylgeranyltransferase
geranyltransferase
glucanosyltransferase
glucanotransferase
glucoronyltransferase
glucosyltransferase
glucotransferase
glucuronosyltransferase
glucuronyltransferase
glutamyltransferase
glycerophosphotransferase
glycosyltransferase
glycotransferase
guanosyltransferase
guanyltransferase
guanylyltransferase
heptosyltransferase
hexosyltransferase
hydroxycinnamoyltransferase
hydroxymethyltransferase
isopentenyltransferase
leucyltransferase
lipoyltransferase
malonyltransferase
maltosyltransferase
mannosylphosphoryltransferase
mannosyltransferase
methyltransferase
monomethyltransferase
mycolyltransferase
mycoyltransferase
myristoyltransferase
nucleotidylexotransferase
nucleotidyltransferase
octanoyltransferase
oligoprenyltransferase
oligosaccharyltransferase
ornithine carbamoyltransferase
palmitotransferase
palmitoyltransferase
pentosyltransferase
peptidyltransferase
peptidyl transferase
phosphate acetyltransferase
phosphofructotransferase
phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase
phosphoribosyltransferase
phosphoryltransferase
phosphotransferase
phytyltransferase
polysialyltransferase
prenyltransferase
pyrophosphotransferase
rhamnosyltransferase
ribosyltransferase
ribotransferase
sialyltransferase
succinyltransferase
sulfotransferase
sulfurtransferase
sulphotransferase
sulphurtransferase
terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
thioltransferase
thymidylyltransferase
trimethyltransferase
uridyltransferase
uridylyltransferase
xylosyltransferase
transferee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transferees
Etymology: From transfer + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is transferred.
topics: law
glosses: A person to whom title or ownership is conveyed.
transferrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈfɛɹɪn/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪn
Forms: form: transferrins
Etymology: From trans- + ferr- + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: ferritin
glosses: A glycoprotein, a beta globulin, in blood serum that combines with and transports iron.
transfigure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈfɪɡjɚ/
ipa: /tɹænsˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: transfigures
form: transfiguring
form: transfigured
form: transfigured
Etymology: From Old French transfigurer.
Senses: glosses: To transform the outward appearance of; to convert into a different form, state or substance.
glosses: To glorify or exalt.
Related terms: transfigurate
transfiguration
transfigurative
transfigurement
transfiguringly
transfiguration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfigurations
Etymology: From Middle English transfiguracioun, from Old French transfiguracion, Anglo-Norman transfiguraciun, and Latin transfigūrātio.
Senses: glosses: A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
glosses: A change that exalts or glorifies.
glosses: superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.
transfigurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transfigurative
form: most transfigurative
Etymology: From transfigure + -ative.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or causing transfiguration.
transfixion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈfɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: transfixions
Etymology: From transfix + -ion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: In amputation, passing the knife from side to side through tissue close to the bone and dividing muscles outward.
transfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfluences
Senses: glosses: The flowing of a liquid through or across something.
Related terms: transfluent
transfluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + fluent.
Senses: glosses: flowing through or across something (such as under a bridge)
raw_tags: of water or other liquid
Related terms: transfluence
transfluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + fluvial.
Senses: glosses: Across a river.
transformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transformable
form: most transformable
Etymology: From transform + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be transformed.
transformant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transformants
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a cell (bacteria, fungus, yeast or plant) into which foreign DNA has been introduced
Derived terms: electrotransformant
retransformant
supertransformant
curd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kû(r)d
ipa: /kɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: Kurd
Forms: form: curds
Etymology: From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.
Senses: examples: text: Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
ref: 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23:
glosses: The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
glosses: dahi
glosses: The coagulated part of any liquid.
examples: text: Broccoli should not be allowed to remain till the compactness of the head is broken, but should always be cut while the 'curd,' as the flowering mass is termed, is entire
ref: 1865, Fearing Burr, The Field and Garden Vegetables of America:
text: This beautiful vegetable [Romanesco broccoli] looks rather like a green cauliflower designed by a mathematician and has lime-green 'spiralled' curds. The curds are nutty and tasty, and romanesco is worth growing just for its good looks. You can use romanesco in the same ways that you would normally use cauliflower but the flavour is sweeter and they look far more impressive. I try to leave them in large pieces when serving them because they're so beautiful.
ref: 2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, Chichester, W. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 162–163:
glosses: The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
Coordinate terms: sense: coagulated fraction of milk
word: whey
Derived terms: bean curd
blood curd
crud
curd cheese
curdless
curds and whey
curd soap
curdy
fruit curd
glazed curd
lemon curd
soapcurd
stirred-curd cheese
stirred curd cheese
Related terms: buttermilk
milk
yoghurt
curd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kû(r)d
ipa: /kɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: Kurd
Forms: form: curds
form: curding
form: curded
form: curded
Etymology: From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.
Senses: glosses: To form curd; to curdle.
examples: text: Does it curd thy blood
 To say I am thy mother?
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
Derived terms: curdle
Fourier transform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fourier transforms
form: FT
Etymology: Named after French mathematician and physicist Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, who initiated the study of what is now harmonic analysis.
Senses: examples: text: Fourier transforms are not limited to acting on functions of time, but the domain of the original function is commonly called the time domain.
text: The Fourier transform of a function of time is a complex function of frequency, whose magnitude (absolute value) represents the amount of that frequency present in the original function, and whose argument is the phase offset of the basic sinusoid in that frequency.
text: Since a separate integration is needed to give each point of the transformed function, the process would become extremely tedious if it were to be attempted manually and many ingenious devices have been invented for preforming Fourier transforms mechanically, electrically, acoustically and optically.
ref: 2002, J. F. James, A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 116:
text: 2005, Emmanuel Letellier, Fourier Transforms of Invariant Functions on Finite Reductive Lie Algebras, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1859, page 1,
The trigonometric sums of 𝒢^F are thus (up to a scalar) the Fourier transforms of the characteristic functions of the G^F!!-orbits of 𝒢^F.
text: 2012, David Brandwood, Fourier Transforms in Radar and Signal Processing, Artech House, 2nd Edition, page 1,
The Fourier transform is a valuable theoretical technique, used widely in fields such as applied mathematics, statistics, physics, and engineering.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
qualifier: harmonic analysis
glosses: A particular integral transform that when applied to a function of time (such as a signal), converts the function to one that plots the original function's frequency composition; the resultant function of such a conversion.
wikipedia: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Hypernyms: integral transform
Derived terms: word: inverse Fourier transform
alt: CFT
word: continuous Fourier transform
alt: DFT
word: discrete Fourier transform
alt: FFT
word: fast Fourier transform
alt: FTIR
word: Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
sinusoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/
ipa: /ˌsɑɪnəˈsoɪdəl/
ipa: /ˌsaɪnəˈsoɪdəl/
rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more sinusoidal
form: most sinusoidal
Etymology: From sinusoid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: An averager of the sort described earlier would operate such that, as the frequency of sinusoidal variation of ITD was increased, more and more samples of the dynamically varying ITD would fall within the averaging window and the effective ITD would tend toward their mean of zero.
ref: 2014, Robert Gilkey, Timothy R. Anderson, Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the shape or characteristics of a sine wave.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to any of several channels (the sinusoids) through which venous blood passes in various organs.
Derived terms: cosinusoidal
intrasinusoidal
nonsinusoidal
perisinusoidal
postsinusoidal
presinusoidal
sinusoidal function
sinusoidalize
sinusoidally
sinusoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/
ipa: /ˌsɑɪnəˈsoɪdəl/
ipa: /ˌsaɪnəˈsoɪdəl/
rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: sinusoidals
Etymology: From sinusoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: A sine wave (or combination of such waves)
transformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈfɔɹmɚ/
ipa: /tɹænsˈfɔːmə/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmə/
Forms: form: transformers
form: tformer
form: t-former
form: transformator
Etymology: From transform + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.
examples: text: While initial reports Thursday traced the glow to a transformer explosion or a fire, Mr. McGee said there was no fire, and there were no transformers involved.
ref: 2018 December 28, Michael Gold, “How an Explosion (Not Aliens) Turned New York’s Night Sky an Electric Blue”, in The New York Times:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately.
examples: text: Transformer is a deep machine learning model based on the encoder–decoder network architecture and is used primarily in the field of NLP.
ref: 2021, Lei Chen, Deep Learning and Practice with MindSpore, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 116:
text: The transformer helped machine-learning systems improve at a much faster pace, leading directly to last year’s release of ChatGPT and the attendant boom in interest around AI. (Transformers are the “T” in ChatGPT.)
ref: 2023 January 31, Casey Newton, “Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text”, in The Verge:
text: Privately, many at Google have bristled at criticism of its AI credentials, in particular given that it incubated the underlying technology and released it publicly in the 2017 transformers paper.
ref: 2025 May 24, Stephen Morris, Melissa Heikkilä, Cristina Criddle, “Defending the high ground”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 7:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Transformer.
Derived terms: autotransformer
distribution transformer
isolation transformer
multiple transformer
Transformer
transformerless
transformerlike
Related terms: transform
transformation
metamorphosis
shape change
transformism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transformisms
Etymology: From transform + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.
ref: 1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography (page 552)
antonyms: abiogenesis
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of trasformismo.
synonyms: word: trasformismo
Derived terms: transformist
transformistic
transformist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transformists
Etymology: From transform + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in or follower of transformism.
transformist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transformist
form: most transformist
Etymology: From transform + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to transformism.
transformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transformities
Senses: examples: text: Transformity increases with the increase in temperature between cold and hot reservoirs.
ref: 2001, Emerging Technologies in Airconditioning and Refrigeration, page 46:
text: Boggess (1994), studying the circulation of phosphorus in a Florida watershed, showed how the transformity zone of money circulation and market prices overlapped only the higher transformities of the circulation of phosphorus.
ref: 2004, Christina Howells, French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader:
text: When an ecological network is expressed as a series of energy flows and transformation steps where the transformation steps are represented as Lindeman efficiencies, the resulting transformities represent trophic convergence and a measure of the amount of solar energy required to produce each level in the hierarchy.
ref: 2016, Sven E. Jørgensen, Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health, page 100:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: The ratio of emergy to available energy.
emergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of embodied + energy
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: the total energy used in the life cycle of some product; the available energy of one kind that has to be used up directly and indirectly to make a product or service.
Derived terms: emergy investment ratio
transfuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈfjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: transfuses
form: transfusing
form: transfused
form: transfused
Etymology: From trans- + fusus, past participle of fundō (“I pour, I melt”). By surface analysis, trans- + fuse.
Senses: examples: text: A few years subsequent to his investigation, Richard Lower, also working on dogs, successfully tranfused the blood of one dog to that of another.
ref: 1952, Vincent Joseph Collins, Principles and Practice of Anesthesiology, page 461:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To administer a transfusion of.
glosses: To pour liquid from one vessel into another.
glosses: To diffuse or permeate through something.
transfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈfjuʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: transfusions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin transfūsiō.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: blood transfusion
coordinate_terms: infusion
glosses: The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.
synonyms: decanting
coordinate_terms: infusion
glosses: The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another.
Derived terms: autotransfusion
haemotransfusion
hemotransfusion
hypertransfusion
intertransfusion
microtransfusion
mistransfusion
myelotransfusion
posttransfusion
pretransfusion
retransfusion
transfusional
transfusionist
transpoosion
twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
xenotransfusion
blood transfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood transfusions
Senses: examples: text: A blood transfusion stabilized her condition until surgery to stop her internal bleeding could begin.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: haemotransfusion
hemotransfusion
hypernyms: transfusion[Appendix:Glossary#ellipsis|elliptically]] synonymous>
glosses: The act or process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously; an instance of it.
examples: text: Our extramural sports program was on life support until a generous philanthropic donation gave it a much-needed blood transfusion.
glosses: A refreshing or reinvigoration of something.
transgress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈɡɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: transgresses
form: transgressing
form: transgressed
form: transgressed
Etymology: From Middle English transgressen, from Old French transgresser and Latin transgressus, past participle of transgredior.
Senses: examples: text: surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: They sometimes transgressed colonial boundaries, forming border communities with Native Americans and escaped black slaves.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 17:
glosses: To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
examples: text: For man will hearken to his glozing lies,
 And easily transgress the sole command.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: There were some young men who transgressed the ḥerem and danced with foreign women [i.e. non-relatives] and forbidden women.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Is Mixed Dancing Really Forbidden At Weddings?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 240:
glosses: To act in violation of some law.
examples: text: Why give you peace to this untemperate beast
 That hath so long transgressed you?
ref: c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To commit an offense; to sin.
raw_tags: construed with against
glosses: To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
raw_tags: of the sea
Synonyms: sense: to exceed or overstep
word: forpass
word: surpass
word: transcend
Related terms: transgressible
transgression
transgressive
transgressor
transgressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transgressors
form: transgressour
Etymology: From Middle English transgressour, from Anglo-Norman transgressour, from Latin transgressor. Equivalent to transgress + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who transgresses.
Related terms: transgression
transgressive
tranship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈʃɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tranships
form: transhipping
form: transhipped
form: transhipped
form: transship
form: trans-ship
Etymology: From tran(s)- + ship.
Senses: glosses: To transfer goods from one ship or other conveyance to another.
glosses: To be transferred from one ship or other conveyance to another.
raw_tags: of goods
Related terms: transshipment
split hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Microsoft trial had been in danger of slipping out of the public eye. Its endless procession of less-than-riveting economics professors and forgetful executives, mixed with scads of legal and technical split hairs, just hasn't made for gripping headlines.
ref: 1999 February 4, Lev Grossman, “Microsoft Tangled Up in Videotape Evidence”, in Time:
glosses: Tedious details; minutiae.
split hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits hairs
form: splitting hairs
form: split hairs
form: split hairs
Senses: examples: text: Let's get everything sorted into the right drawers and not split hairs about subdividing it further yet.
synonyms: cavil
glosses: To consider or argue about fine details; to worry about minutiae.
Related terms: hair-splitting
hair-splittingly
chop logic
nitpick
kerching
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: Imitative of the sound made by an old-fashioned cash register when an amount is rung up.
Senses: examples: text: I asked a smiling lawyer what she thought of this policy. She replied, 'I have one word to say on the prospect of taking MPs to court: "Kerching!"'
ref: 2010, Mark Thomas, The People's Manifesto:
synonyms: ka-ching
glosses: Suggesting the arrival of a large amount of money.
Related terms: cha-ching
deforestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌdiːfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deforestations
Etymology: From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.
Senses: examples: text: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: The world leaders gathered at a crucial climate summit secured new agreements on Tuesday to end deforestation and reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, building momentum as the conference prepared to shift to a more grueling two weeks of negotiations on how to avert the planet’s catastrophic warming.
ref: 2021 November 2, Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers, Lisa Friedman, “With Methane and Forest Deals, Climate Summit Offers Hope After Gloomy Start”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: afforestation
reforestation
glosses: The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.
Derived terms: antideforestation
nondeforestation
global warming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First attested in the 1950s. Came into common use in the mid-1970s with Wallace Smith Broecker's paper “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” and Mikhail Budyko's statement in 1976 that “a global warming up has started”.
Senses: examples: text: As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming.
ref: 2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in Time, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2011:
text: In the popular imagination, global warming is mostly seen as a threat to cold-loving species, and there are good reasons for this. […] But global warming is going to have just as great an impact—indeed, according to Silman, an even greater impact—in the tropics.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 150:
text: The study is one of the first to implicate global warming from human activities as one of the factors that played into the Syrian conflict which is estimated to have claimed more than 190,000 lives.
ref: 2015 March 2, Ian Sample, “Global warming contributed to Syria's 2011 uprising, scientists claim”, in The Guardian:
text: The pope’s acceptance that global warming is almost certainly man-made has irked the vocal minority with more skeptical views.
ref: 2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The Tibetan Plateau will experience significant water loss this century due to global warming, according to research published Monday that warns of severe supply stress in a climate change "hotspot".
ref: 2022 August 16, “Tibetan Plateau water stores under threat: study”, in France 24, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2022:
synonyms: global heating
antonyms: global cooling
glosses: A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change.
wikipedia: Mikhail Budyko
Wallace Smith Broecker
Related terms: climate change
greenhouse effect
greenhouse gas
climatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaɪˈmætɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /klaj.meʈ.ɪk/
Etymology: From climate + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The people of the United States, owing, no doubt, to climatic reasons, have been thoroughly educated in the use of ice[…]
ref: 1901, “Cold Storage and Refrigeration”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 1, page 13:
text: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
ref: 2012 January 24, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70:
glosses: Of, relating to, or influenced by climate.
Derived terms: agroclimatic
archaeoclimatic
astroclimatic
bioclimatic
biogeoclimatic
climatically
climatic optimum
climatic pessimum
dendroclimatic
ecoclimatic
enviroclimatic
geoclimatic
homoclimatic
hydroclimatic
macroclimatic
mesoclimatic
microclimatic
morphoclimatic
nonclimatic
paleoclimatic
phyloclimatic
phytoclimatic
pyroclimatic
subclimatic
topoclimatic
warming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwoɹmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Forms: form: warmings
Etymology: From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A small rise in temperature.
examples: text: More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.
ref: 2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth, page 193:
glosses: A beating; a thrashing.
Related terms: cockwarming
flat-warming
global warming
greenhouse warming
heart-warming
house-warming
house warming
strapwarming
sudden stratospheric warming
warming center
warming centre
warming drawer
warming pan
warming room
warming up
warming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwoɹmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English warminge, warmynge, from Old English wærmiġende, wermende, wyrmende, present participle of Old English wyrman, wirman (“to warm”), equivalent to warm + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warm
heart-warming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart-warming
form: most heart-warming
form: heartwarming
Senses: examples: text: It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.
text: Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
ref: 2020 September 24, @pookleblinky, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2024:
glosses: Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
Related terms: heartwarmingly
warming pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warming pans
Senses: examples: text: Good Bardolfe / Put thy noſe betweene the ſheetes, and do the office of a warming pan.
ref: 1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 81:
synonyms: bedwarmer
glosses: A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
examples: text: […] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship.
ref: 1820, The Steeliad, a Poem, in Three Cantos, page 35:
text: We used to call him in my parliamentary time W. P. Adams, in consequence of his being Warming Pan for a young fellow who was in his minority.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Housewarming”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 364:
synonyms: locum tenens
glosses: A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.
warming up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a regime of gentle exercise undertaken before some strenuous exercise or sport
Related terms: warm-up
warming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warm up
treason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiː.zən/
rhymes: -iːzən
Forms: form: treasons
Etymology: From Middle English tresoun, treison, from Anglo-Norman treson, from Old French traïson (“treason”), from trair, or from Latin trāditiō (“a giving up, handing over, surrender, delivery, tradition”), from trādō (“give up, hand over, deliver over, betray”, verb), from trāns- (“over, across”) + dō (“give”). Doublet of tradition.
Senses: examples: text: Treaſon doth never [pro]ſper: what's the reaſon? / For yf yt [pro]ſper none dare call yt treaſon
ref: c. 1605, John Harington, “42: Of Treason”, in Epigrams (British Library Additional MS. 12049), Book III, folio 75, verso; republished at London: British Library Digitised Manuscripts, 2020 September 17:
text: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unleſs on the Testimony of two Witneſses to the same overt Act, or on Confeſsion in open Court.
ref: 1787 September 17, Alexander Hamilton et al., “Article III, Section 3”, in Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia: Jacob Shallus:
text: If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination: treason in high places can be found at almost every turning.
ref: 1964 November 24, Richard J. Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, in Robert Shnayerson, editor, Harper's Magazine, New York City: Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company:
text: M. Vonel: 'Your involvement with a group calling themselves THE ORDER OF THE EZIC STAR has been uncovered. […] At least one EZIC member has confessed to receiving your help. This represents treason of the highest order. Goodbye inspector.'
ref: 2013, Lucas Pope, Papers, Please, scene: Ending 14:
glosses: The crime of betraying one’s own country.
glosses: An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence.
Synonyms: betrayal
perfidiousness
perfidy
treacherousness
treachery
Derived terms: constructive treason
high treason
petit treason
petty treason
treasonable
treasonableness
treasonably
treasonist
treasonistic
treasonistically
treasonous
treasonously
treasonousness
Related terms: traitor
traitorlike
traitorly
traitorous
traitorously
traitorousness
sedition
van der Waals force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: van der Waals forces
Etymology: From van der Waals + force.
From Dutch van der Waals.
from Johannes Diderik van der Waals, who first described them.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles.
wikipedia: en:Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Hypernyms: intermolecular force
Related terms: van der Waals strain
Van de Graaff generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Van de Graaff generators
Etymology: Invented by Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901–1967), American physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: word: Van de Graaff
glosses: A device in which an electric charge is built up on a large spherical electrode by means of a rapidly moving belt.
wikipedia: Robert J. Van de Graaff
Related terms: Van de Graaff accelerator
crouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crouch
crouching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: crouchings
Senses: examples: text: […] so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.
ref: 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:
glosses: The action of the verb crouch.
crouching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtʃɪŋ
Senses: examples: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
glosses: That crouches or crouch.
optical character recognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Texts were scanned, converted via optical character recognition, and part of speech tagged using CLAWS 7.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 4:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: OCR
glosses: The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.
Related terms: homoglyph
homoglyphic
scanno
speech recognition
voice recognition
transhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transhuman
form: most transhuman
Etymology: From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, as French trans-humain (noun, sometimes capitalised as (le) Trans-humain), who used it alongside ultra-humain (“the ultra-human”). As a countable English noun (plural transhumans) introduced by F. M. Esfandiary in the 1960s (here trans- is short for transitional).
Senses: examples: text: Turning fallible human foot soldiers into transhuman machines who need neither sleep nor food, and are incapable of resistance and independent thought, is a Napoleonic dream .
ref: 2009, Vinoth Ramachandra, Subverting Global Myths, →ISBN:
text: A template for those who will become transhuman.
ref: 2015, Laurence Moroney, TRANSHUMAN: Volume 1 : The Deconstruction of Hu Ying Chao:
glosses: More than human; superhuman.
examples: text: I believe that this is important, because taken in isolation the kind of enhancements portrayed by transhuman philosophers might seem relatively innocuous.
ref: 2011, Ronald Cole-Turner, Transhumanism and Transcendence, →ISBN:
text: The transhuman ideal is based upon a reconception of evolution, a perfecting and transcending of the human race through the next step in progress: not through biological mutation but through science and technology.
ref: 2012, J. B. Stump, Alan G. Padgett, The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, →ISBN:
text: In a study of transhumanists and video games, fully twothirds of the participants claimed that video games incline players toward a transhuman sense of self.
ref: 2014, Robert M. Geraci, Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life, →ISBN:
glosses: Related to transhumanism.
examples: text: Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)
text: This "other world" is transcendent because the experience of the sacred—an encounter with a reality transcending immanent life—gives birth to the idea that there are absolute, that is, transhuman, realities.
ref: 2000, Victor Segesvary, Dialogue of Civilizations: An Introduction to Civilizational Analysis, →ISBN:
text: Thus, regardless of whether one prefers to replace the father symbol with other human symbols like mother and maternal—or with transhuman and transsexual symbols like first/last reality—none of these images or symbols are really integral to the message of the Gospels.
ref: 2001, Anna Wierzbicka, What did Jesus Mean?, →ISBN:
text: Subjectivity, as a paradoxically transhuman phenomenon of awareness renderred only in ecologies, is rendered into inscriptions and images even as no self is adequate to the report.
ref: 2011, Richard M. Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere, →ISBN:
glosses: Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.