cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sustainedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sustainedly
form: most sustainedly
Etymology: From sustained + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The neo-liberal reforms after the fall of the Soeharto regime in Indonesia sustainedly strengthened the big business groups.
glosses: In a way that is sustained, or that continues.
swelling soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swelling soils
Senses: examples: text: The most common mineral that causes swelling soil is smectite (montmorillonite).
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A soil containing clay minerals that absorb water and swell, causing bumps across terrain.
advection fog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advection fogs
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of fog caused by the passage of moist air horizontally over a relatively colder surface and the consequent cooling of that air to below its dew point.
Related terms: advectional
staggered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: The drunk staggered to the end of the bar before he collapsed.
glosses: simple past and past participle of stagger
staggered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more staggered
form: most staggered
Senses: glosses: Astonished; taken aback.
examples: text: The U.S. Senate holds staggered elections, with only one third of the seats being filled every two years.
glosses: Arranged in a way that is not uniform.
examples: text: Many of the wayside stations have staggered platforms, a common arrangement on the S.E.R.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529:
text: The line now veers slightly south through a wooded cutting before arriving at the staggered platforms of Stocksmoor station (6½ miles) and a further ¾-mile stretch of level track leads to Shepley & Shelley (7¼ miles).
ref: 1959 May, Yorkshireman, “The Huddersfield-Penistone line and its branches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 253:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Not directly opposite each other.
raw_tags: of platforms at a station
Derived terms: staggered shelves
active front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active fronts
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The boundary between two different air masses, or a portion thereof, which produces appreciable cloudiness and precipitation and is usually accompanied by significant shifts in wind direction.
air drainage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The gravity-induced downslope flow of relatively cold air. Winds thus produced are called gravity winds.
denouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denounce
denouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denouncings
Senses: examples: text: […] if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncings, your humming and hawing, your oh-ing and ah-ing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
glosses: denunciation
airmass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airmasses
form: air mass
Etymology: From air + mass.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a widespread body of air, the properties of which can be identified as: (a) having been established while that air was situated over a particular region of the Earth's surface (airmass source region) and (b) undergoing specific modifications while in transit away from the source region. An air mass is often defined as a widespread body of air that is approximately homogeneous in its horizontal extent, particularly with reference to temperature and moisture distribution; in addition, the vertical temperature and moisture variations are approximately the same over its horizontal extent.
examples: text: Unfortunately, the extinction is very sensitive to the airmass[…]
ref: 2007, Th. Ratzka et al., “High spatial resolution mid-infrared observations of the low-mass young star TW Hydrae”, in Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 471, →DOI:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The amount of air through which light from a celestial object passes, normalized to 1 for an object at zenith.
Related terms: air mass classification
airmass source region
airmass source region
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airmass source regions
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An extensive area of the Earth's surface over which bodies of air frequently remain for a sufficient time to acquire characteristic temperature and moisture properties imparted by that surface. Air so modified becomes identifiable as a distinct air mass. See airmass.
air parcel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air parcels
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An imaginary body of air to which may be assigned any or all of the basic dynamic and thermodynamic properties of atmospheric air. A parcel is large enough to contain a very great number of molecules, but small enough so that the properties assigned to it are approximately uniform within it and so that its motions with respect to the surrounding atmosphere do not induce marked compensatory movements. It cannot be given precise numerical definition, but a cubic foot of air might fit well into most contexts where air parcels are discussed, particularly those related to static stability.
shamata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A calming, stabilizing Indian meditation.
Related terms: vipasyana
wheel and axle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheels and axles
Senses: glosses: A simple machine consisting of a wheel (or similar lever) that turns an axle around which a cord is wound; its mechanical advantage is the ratio of the diameters of the wheel and axle.
altocumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altocumuli
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or greyish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows. (Abbreviated Ac.)
altostratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtəs
Forms: form: altostrati
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A principal medium-level cloud type in the form of a gray or bluish (never white) sheet or layer of striated, fibrous, or uniform appearance.
Synonyms: word: As
anabatic wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anabatic winds
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An upslope wind; usually applied only when the wind is blowing up a hill or mountain as a result of local surface heating and apart from the effects of the larger scale circulation; the opposite of katabatic wind. The most common type anabatic is the valley wind.
arctic front
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arctic front
form: Arctic Front
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The semipermanent, semicontinuous front between the deep, cold arctic air and the shallower, basically less cold polar air of northern latitudes; generally comparable to the antarctic front of the southern hemisphere.
arctic front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctic fronts
form: Arctic front
form: Arctic Front
Senses: glosses: A cold front of very cold arctic air advancing on somewhat less cold air.
chinook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈnʊk/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈnuːk/
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: chinooks
Etymology: Borrowed from Lower Chehalis c̓inúk (“the name of a Chinook village on the Columbia River”).
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains that generally blows from the southwest and can rapidly increase the temperature due to the much warmer air it brings.
glosses: The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
Related terms: foehn
Chinook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈnʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Etymology: From Lower Chehalis c̓inúk (the name of a Chinook village on the Columbia river).
Senses: glosses: A Native American language of the Penutian family of Oregon and Washington.
examples: text: The Missionary's address rolled on in choppy Chinook, undertoned by a gentle voice from the back of the room which told Tanook in pure Indian words what he was to do.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: Chinook Jargon, a pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest composed primarily of words from Chinook proper, English, and French, with some borrowings from other languages.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Blaine County, Montana, United States.
glosses: The Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
Derived terms: Columbia Chinook
Lower Chinook
Upper Chinook
Chinook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈnʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: Chinooks
form: Chinook
Etymology: From Lower Chehalis c̓inúk (the name of a Chinook village on the Columbia river).
Senses: examples: text: The Chinook sent a hunting party to the south.
glosses: A member of a Native American people whose traditional tribal grounds were along the lower and middle Columbia River.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of chinook
horses for courses
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)sɪz fə ˈkɔːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹsəz fɚ ˈkɔɹsəz/
Forms: form: courses for horses
Etymology: An allusion to the fact that a racehorse performs best on a racecourse to which it is specifically suited.
Senses: examples: text: Not long ago, a group of Thames-side penthouses went up for sale with giveaway Ducati motorbikes worth £13,000 apiece. […] "In many cases giveaways are horses for courses, the inducements matching the styles of properties being marketed," he [David Hollingworth of London and Country Mortgages] adds.
ref: 2003 May 14, Christopher Browne, “Bonanza time for home buyers”, in The Independent, London, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2017:
text: Far be it from me to judge what anyone else finds attractive – each to their own, horses for courses, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and any number of similar well-meaning platitudes – but no one's going to start arguing forcefully that Mick [Hucknall]'s ever been 'classically handsome'.
ref: 2014 November 10, Helen Coffey, “What does Mick Hucknall have that other men lack?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2015:
text: Emailed greeting cards and digital photos may be more acceptable now, but are not a substitute for the post on every occasion. "People will still want to pour their heart out in letter or want that special photo of a grandchild. It's horses for courses," he [Alki Manias of NetValue] said.
ref: 2002 March 13, Sarah Left, “Email beats snail mail for residential use”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: However intense music becomes, there's always a limit to how far it can go. And that limit is marked out by its genre or style. […] It's an age-old rule, this insistence on "horses for courses", but in the modern era many musicians have become impatient with it. They dream of a music that knows no limits, which can do everything, all at once.
ref: 2013 January 12, Ivan Hewett, “John Zorn: Master of all styles and none”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2016:
text: We must note, too, the good position (third) gained by Esmond as an undeniable instance of the "horses for courses" theory, for Esmond won the Peverill of the Peek Plate on this course two years in succession—1892–3.
ref: 1894 December, Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 62, London: Baily Brothers, →OCLC, page 417:
text: Almost immediately he went on to press for stricter standardisation in the future, saying that "horses for courses" was a luxury B.R. could not afford and that manufacturers must expect more detailed specifications from railway engineers in the future.
ref: 1961 July, “Editorial: Sir Brian begs the questions”, in Trains Illustrated, page 385:
glosses: Different people are suited for different jobs or situations; what is fitting in one case may not be fitting in another.
wikipedia: Musselburgh Racecourse
Related terms: it takes all kinds to make a world
different strokes for different folks
cobbler, keep to your last
orthocenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: orthocenters
form: orthocentre
Etymology: From ortho- + center.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The intersection of the three lines that can be drawn flowing from the three corners of a triangle to a point along the opposite side where each line intersects that side at a 90 degree angle; in an acute triangle, it is inside the triangle; in an obtuse triangle, it is outside the triangle.
cirrocumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cirrocumuli
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a thin, white patch of cloud without shadows, composed of very small droplets in the form of grains or ripples. The elements may be merged or separate, and more or less regularly arranged; they subtend an angle of less than 1° when observed at an angle of more than 30° above the horizon. Holes or rifts often occur in a sheet of cirrocumulus. Abbreviated Cc.
skol
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skål.
Senses: examples: text: Again they notice he has impressed her and again he grows more cheerful, clinking his glass against hers and saying ‘Skol!’
ref: 1990, Alasdair Gray, “A Free Man with a Pipe”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 490:
glosses: A drinking-toast; cheers.
qualifier: among Minnesota Vikings fans
glosses: A cheer to proclaim support for the Minnesota Vikings.
skol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: skols
form: skolling
form: skoling
form: skolled
form: skolled
form: skoled
form: skoled
form: scull
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skål.
Senses: examples: text: Many bottle of dubious gin and whiskey—with much “skoling”—Emil flashing a fat payroll—and treating three or four still more dubious “merry andrews” who had invited themselves to our noisy nook.
ref: 1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 March
glosses: To drink a toast; to drink deeply.
examples: text: When diners leave a quarter of a carafe full of house wine we put it above the sink to refill for new orders, but often I catch him skolling the remains of whatever he can get his hands on.
ref: 2010, Penelope Green, When in Rome: Chasing la dolce vita:
text: The Aussie skolled his beer, threw the Kiwi into the fireplace, and shot him.
ref: 2011, Richard Plant, Life's a Blur:
glosses: To drink the entire contents of a drinking vessel without pausing.
Synonyms: sense: drink the entire drink
word: chug
sense: drink the entire drink
word: down
cirrostratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪɹəˈstɹeɪtəs/
rhymes: -eɪtəs
Forms: form: cirrostrati
Etymology: From Latin cirrus and stratus.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena. Abbreviated Cs
Related terms: cirrostrative
cirrostratous
cirrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪɹəs
Forms: form: cirri
Etymology: From Latin cirrus (“curl”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tendril.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A thin tendril-like appendage.
examples: text: He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above where the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.
ref: 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The old man and the sea, Harper Perennial classics, published 2014, page 282:
text: The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 15:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A principal high-level cloud type, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments, wisps, or narrow bands.
Derived terms: cirral
cirriferous
cirriform
false cirrus
stratocirrus
skeezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeezers
Etymology: From skeeze + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Now I'm smellin' like Indonesia / Bus stop full of fly bitches and skeezers
ref: 1992, “Let Me Ride”, in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre ft. Jewell and Snoop Dogg:
glosses: A woman of lax morals.
Related terms: skeeze
skeezy
small stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: thin string, as opposed to the thick, heavy ropes that are more often used in sailing. It is commonly used in a whipping knot to bind the ends of ropes to prevent fraying.
snaparazzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of snap + paparazzi
Senses: glosses: Citizen journalists (passers-by) who are witness to a newsworthy event and capture it as a photograph or on video.
snortle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snortles
form: snortling
form: snortled
form: snortled
Etymology: Blend of snort + chortle
Senses: examples: text: Hannah looked quite elegant in her gown until she snortled and champagne came out of her nose.
glosses: To give a hearty laugh that is punctuated by a snort on the inhale.
snortle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snortles
Etymology: Blend of snort + chortle
Senses: glosses: A hearty laugh that is punctuated by a snort on the inhale.
sofa painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sofa paintings
Senses: glosses: A painting that is acquired to match a color scheme or furniture.
softography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softographies
Etymology: From software + -o- + -graphy. Compare earlier discography.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the document, you should include a brief company profile, including softography and any relevant links[…]
ref: 2003, François Dominic Laramée, Secrets of the Game Business:
text: Delve further into the developer's softography. Find out who were the individuals who worked on the games and what roles they had on the project.
ref: 2013, Heather Maxwell Chandler, The Game Production Handbook, page 76:
text: Her softography includes Sonic Dash, Sonic Jump, Stellar Dawn MMO, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, King of the Course Golf, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Alien Breed Trilogy, Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, and Elveon.
ref: 2014, Venita Pereira, Learning Unity 2D Game Development by Example:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A comprehensive list of the software made by a particular software engineer or organization, usually appearing on a resume, curriculum vitae, or web site.
synergies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synergy
sparagmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spəˈɹaɡməs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπαραγμός (sparagmós).
Senses: examples: text: Dionysian sparagmos was an ecstasy of sexual excitation and superhuman strength.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: The ritual tearing apart of a hero.
spec home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spec homes
Etymology: From spec (speculation) + home.
Senses: glosses: A home that is built by or for a homebuilder according to their specifications without a purchase order; it is instead built on spec.
Related terms: prefab
self-build
spiritual violence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The persecution of a person or group on religious grounds, without actual physical violence.
spongin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongins
Etymology: From sponge + -in.
Senses: glosses: A horny, sulfur-containing protein, related to keratin, that forms the skeletal structure of certain classes of sponges. A proteinaceous compound of which the spicules in Demospongiae are composed.
ensi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensis
Etymology: From Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒉺𒋼𒋛 (ensi₂ /⁠ensik⁠/, “ruler”).
Senses: glosses: a Sumerian title designating the ruler or prince of a city-state
tooltip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtu(ː)l.tɪp/
Forms: form: tooltips
Etymology: From tool + tip, originally used with toolbars to provide a tip or hint as to what function each graphical icon represented. The term was introduced as ToolTip by Microsoft in the 1990s.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: infotip
glosses: An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item.
Hypernyms: tip
Related terms: toolbar
dall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalls
Etymology: Compare French dalle, dallage.
Senses: examples: text: […] for such machine-made slate "dalls," or tiles, as perhaps we might call them, would soon be valued by the architect and builder for the roofs of many other classes of buildings as well as ecclesiastical ones.
ref: 1872, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, page 646:
text: […] tiling. Thus arose those admirable roofs known in France as "en dallage," of which one most instructive example to both engineer and architect may be seen in those of the clerestory roofs of Nôtre Dame at Paris. The "dalls" being hand wrought[…]
ref: 1872, The Engineer:
glosses: A tile with an incised surface.
Related terms: dalls
imino acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imino acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: imidic acid
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any carboxylic acid having an imino substituent.
Related terms: amino acid
imino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iminos
Etymology: From imin(e) + -o-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent radical =NH or =N-R.
Derived terms: iminoacetic acid
imino acid
iminobiotin
iminocyclitol
iminoester
iminoether
iminoethyl
iminolactone
iminopeptide
iminophosphine
iminophosphorane
iminoribitol
iminostilbene
iminosugar
norgestimate
Related terms: amino
inner salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner salts
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A zwitterion.
ionomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionomers
Etymology: From iono- + -mer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer, or a biological macromolecule (such as a protein) in which a small but significant proportion of the constituent monomers have ionic groups.
Derived terms: compomer
glassinomer
ionomeric
iridoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridoids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any cyclic monoterpenoid based on 1-isopropyl-2,3-dimethylcyclopentane
Derived terms: bisiridoid
iron-sulfur cluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron-sulfur clusters
form: iron-sulphur cluster
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A unit comprising two or more iron atoms and bridging sulfur ligands in an iron-sulfur protein.
iron-sulphur cluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron-sulphur clusters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of iron-sulfur cluster.
iron-sulfur protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron-sulfur proteins
form: iron-sulphur protein
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein in which iron is coordinated with cysteine sulfur and sometimes also with inorganic sulfur; they have electron transfer and enzymatic function.
iron-sulphur protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron-sulphur proteins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of iron-sulfur protein.
isocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocyanates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the univalent radical -N=C=O (tautomeric with cyanate), and any of its hydrocarbyl derivatives R-N=C=O
Derived terms: diisocyanate
diisocyante
methylisocyanate
polyisocyanate
Related terms: isocyanic acid
isocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: homocyclic
isonitrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isonitriles
Etymology: From iso- + nitrile.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: isocyanide
Synonyms: word: isocyanide
word: carbylamine
isonitroso compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isonitroso compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of oxime.
synonyms: word: oxime
drink like a fish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks like a fish
form: drinking like a fish
form: drank like a fish
form: drunk like a fish
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To drink (especially alcohol) heavily and in excess.
eva
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of ever.
isoprenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoprenoids
Etymology: From isoprene + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from one or more isoprene units.
Derived terms: isoprenoidal
norisoprenoid
oligoisoprenoid
polyisoprenoid
Related terms: carotenoid
steroid
terpene
terpenoid
prenol
isoselenocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoselenocyanates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The selenium analogue of isocyanate, R-N=C=Se.
Messrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛs.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈmɛsəz/
Forms: form: Messrs.
Etymology: See Messrs.
Senses: glosses: plural of Mr (“Mister”)
glosses: plural of M (“Monsieur”)
isourea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoureas
Etymology: From iso- + urea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The imidic acid tautomer of urea H₂NC(=NH)OH and any of its hydrocarbyl derivatives.
Messieurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is a draft on Messieurs Smith and Payne, payable to the lord advocate, for the sum of [...]
ref: 1821, Thomas Bayly Howell, Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period [1163] to the Present Time [1820] ..., page 831:
text: Two of the demands which it is proposed to make upon the Zulu King relate to the outrage by Sirayo's sons committed in August last in Natal territory, and to the act of interference by certain Zulus with Messieurs Smith and Deighton whilst [...]
ref: 1879, “Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute”, in Royal Colonial Institute, Great Britain, page 142:
text: It will appear by the Minutes sent You to June i6th last, and by those which accompany this Letter, that Messieurs Smith and Schlatter have done their Part; [...]
ref: 1880, Horace Wemyss Smith, Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D.: First Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. First President of Washington College, Maryland. With Copious Extracts from His Writings, page 140:
glosses: plural of Monsieur
isozyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isozymes
Etymology: Blend of iso- + enzyme
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of isoenzyme.
synonyms: word: isoenzyme
Derived terms: isozymic
metalloisozyme
Related terms: isozymatic
isoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoenzymes
Etymology: From iso- + enzyme.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: allozyme
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: isozyme
hypernyms: isoform
;
enzyme
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction but have structures that are (minorly or substantially) different and have physical, biochemical, and immunological properties that are (minorly or substantially) different.
Derived terms: isoenzymatic
isoenzymic
isoenzymology
metalloisoenzyme
pseudoisoenzyme
ketal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acetal derived from a ketone
Derived terms: didemnaketal
dithioketal
hemiketal
isoketal
ketalization
monoketal
neuroketal
polyketal
semiketal
spiroketal
thioketal
xyloketal
ketenimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketenimines
Etymology: Blend of ketene + imine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any imino analogue of a ketene, having the general formula R₂C=C=NR.
Derived terms: sulfonylketenimine
Common Slavonic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Common Slavic.
conditionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɪʃənəli/
Forms: form: more conditionally
form: most conditionally
Etymology: From conditional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: However, another study examining SOCS3 function in B cell subsets failed to detect B cell developmental and recirculatory defects in mice conditionally deficient in SOCS3 expression in B cells (using Mb1-cre mice), nor when SOCS3 was deleted in MMTV-cre active cells [21 ].
ref: 2015 August 15, “Immature B Cell Egress from Bone Marrow Is SOCS3 Independent”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: under specified conditions
Derived terms: conditionally convergent
meritocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meritocrats
Etymology: From merit + -o- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of meritocracy.
examples: text: The state uses universal testing to identify and elevate meritocrats, leaving most of England’s citizens poor and demoralized, without even a legitimate grievance, since, after all, who could argue that the wise should not rule?
ref: 2019 September 5, Sarah Leonard, “The Fall of the Meritocracy”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2019:
text: In a sharp critique in The New Republic, Sarah Leonard questioned his downplaying of the power of capital over labor, as well as his faith that demoralized meritocrats might make common cause with the beleaguered middle class in exchange for a saner life. […] Amy Chua, author of the best-selling how-to-raise-an-uber-meritocrat memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” (and whom Mr. Markovits credits with helping him write for a popular audience), said she loves “The Meritocracy Trap,” even if she takes a more sanguine view of the system.
ref: 2019 September 9, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2019:
glosses: A person who has authority allegedly based on ability.
Derived terms: meritocratism
arccoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kˌkɒθ/
Etymology: From arc- + coth.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of arcoth (“the area hyberbolic cotangent function, i.e., the inverse hyperbolic cotangent function.”).
Related terms: arcsech
arcsch
coth
arcsech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kˌsɛt͡ʃ/
Etymology: From arc- + sech.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: Alternative form of arsech (“the inverse hyberbolic secant function”).
Related terms: arccoth
arcsch
coth
cotillon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotillons
Senses: examples: text: The second figure [of the dance] commenced, and I made a sad bungle; so I did of the third, and fourth, and fifth, for I never had danced a cotillon.
ref: 1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 200:
text: "Well," I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, "he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one." / "So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?" / I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of cotillion.
out of sight, out of mind
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: out of sight is out of mind
form: outta sight, outta mind
Senses: glosses: When something is not nearby, it is forgotten about.
Related terms: absence makes the heart grow fonder
long absent, soon forgotten
ignorance is bliss
out of sight
don't put all your eggs in one basket
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Do not dedicate all your resources to one project.
glosses: Do not count on any one thing to safeguard what is valuable.
Related terms: put all one's eggs in one basket
forbidden fruit is the sweetest
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest
Etymology: A reference to the story in the Bible in which God tells Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit, but they are tempted and do so anyway.
Senses: glosses: Forbidden things seem more appealing; people desire things more if (or, in some way, because) they can't have them.
Related terms: the grass is always greener
the grass is always greener on the other side
you can't tell a book by its cover
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you can't judge a book by its cover.
when in Rome
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: An ellipsis (anapodoton) of when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Senses: qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: One should adjust to local customs.
Related terms: go native
the pen is mightier than the sword
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: This phrasing due to Bulwer-Lytton, 1839.
The sentiment is traditional, and has many antecedents; see Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: If the pen is mightier than the sword in American history, it is more likely the pen of a novelist than the typewriter of a reporter — Harriet Beecher Stowe stimulating antislavery sentiment or Upton Sinclair enlisting citizens in outrage against the food-processing industry.
ref: 1982, Michael Schudson, The Power of News, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 142:
text: If my teachers had not told me that the pen is mightier than the sword, if my parents had not told me that I have to respect books, I would not have developed that respect for knowledge.
ref: 2011, Qazi Nasir Uddin, Ph.D., The Other Side, Author House, page 108
glosses: More influence and power can be usurped by writing than by fighting.
wikipedia: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Hamlet
Hyponyms: the tongue wounds more than a lance
practice makes perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Golden words make practice, practice makes perfect, perfect is a fault, and fault lines change.
ref: 1986, R.E.M., “I Believe”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:
glosses: If one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it.
Related terms: practice makes progress
perfect is the enemy of good
bodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒd͡ʒ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.d͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bodgers
Etymology: From bodge + -er.
Senses: glosses: A woodworker in the traditional style characterised by the use of hand tools, a pole lathe and use of green timber.
glosses: One who works in a rough and ready, slipshod manner.
Derived terms: bodgie
lene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːn/
homophone: lean
Forms: form: lenes
Etymology: Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
examples: text: When in a crasis, a lene consonant […] is combined with an aspirated vowel, the lene is always changed (except in the Ionic dialect) into the corresponding aspirate […]
ref: 1861, William Edward Jelf, Accidence:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A voiceless, or unaspirated, stopped consonant, such as Greek pi, kappa, or tau.
Derived terms: dagesh lene
Monhegan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Maine.
nice guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nice guys
Senses: examples: text: 1999, The 'Nice Guy' Syndrome, Self-Help Informational Resources, The Counseling Center for Human Development, The University of South Florida https://web.archive.org/web/19991013184527/http://usfweb.usf.edu/counsel/self-hlp/niceguy.htm
The nice guy, they say, finishes last. But in romantic relationships, the nice guy often isn't even in the running. […] The nice guy may have expressed an interest in dating you…. The nice guy is the person who you trust and feel comfortable with, but don't see as "fun" or "challenging" or really all that "interesting," other than as a friend, of course.
text: "My frustrations were pretty typical Nice Guy relationship issues," he says. "Not feeling appreciated, not feeling sexually desired by my wife. I didn't feel like...I received as much as I gave."
ref: 2002 May 3, Cecelia Goodnow, “What's wrong with being a nice guy? Plenty, according to a local therapist”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
text: 2005 September 18, "Dirty D.", Lost Romanticism and the Manwhore, DiaryLand, at uberfrau.diaryland.com
Nice guys are historically the grail of dating. […] As both Nora and I reminisced and compared how we were treated by the manwhore and by the nice guy, the manwhore always won out.
glosses: An inoffensive adult male who desires romantic companionship but who is too bland and uninspiring to be attractive.
examples: text: Plenty of men will treat women kindly, but Nice Guys like to think that behaving kindly earns them a gold star. It doesn't.
ref: 2016 March 12, Suzannah Weiss, “5 Signs Of Nice Guy Syndrome”, in Bustle:
glosses: A man who pretends to be kind and polite with the goal of attracting women, often becoming hostile and misogynistic when their advances are rebuffed; someone affected by nice guy syndrome.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nice, guy.
Derived terms: nice guys finish last
nice guy syndrome
no more Mr. Nice Guy
Related terms: bad boy
friend zone
GSU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GSUs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of geographically separated unit: a military unit not at the same physical location or base as its parent unit.
synonyms: Georgia State
coordinate_terms: Georgia
UGA
glosses: Initialism of Georgia State University
JSON
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪsɑn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪsən/
note: humorous, by creator
ipa: /ˈʒəˌsɔ̃/
rhymes: -eɪsən
rhymes: (General American) -eɪsɑn
homophone: Jason
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: XML
YAML
qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of JavaScript Object Notation, a data format used to represent structured data. It is based on JavaScript syntax.
Derived terms: JSOND
JSONP
JWT
oolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊəlʌɪt/
Forms: form: oolites
Etymology: From oo- + -lite, after German Oolit.
Senses: examples: text: Here and there are beds of oolites, for example, made of little rounded grains – like millet seed – that form only in agitated warm waters, such as you might find off the Bahamas today.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 170:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.
glosses: An ooid or oolith.
Synonyms: ooid
oolith
egg-stone
Derived terms: oolitic
oolitiferous
opalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʉpəˈlesəns/
Forms: form: opalescences
Etymology: From opal + -escence.
Senses: glosses: the state of being opalescent
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the milky iridescent appearance of a dense transparent medium when it is illuminated by polychromatic visible radiation (such as sunlight) due to local fluctuations in its density and therefore in its refractive index
Derived terms: critical opalescence
operations research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: operations
glosses: The application of scientific methods and techniques to problems of decision making, especially in business management and government administration.
Synonyms: operational research
OR
ophiolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “serpent”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An assemblage of mafic and ultramafic rock fragments of the ocean lithosphere that has been tectonically moved onto a continental margin or island.
Derived terms: ophiolitic
ophiolitologist
opportunistic infection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opportunistic infections
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any infection that causes disease and occurs only when the host's immune system is impaired.
optical flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical flats
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A disk of high-quality quartz glass having at least one side ground and polished with a deviation in flatness less than 50 nanometers all over, and a surface quality of 5 microfinish or less; used, in an interferometer, to measure the flatness of other surfaces.
flatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætnəs/
rhymes: -ætnəs
Forms: form: flatnesses
Etymology: From Middle English flatnesse, equivalent to flat + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
glosses: The state of being flat
glosses: The state of being two-dimensional; planar : planarity
glosses: The state of being bland : dullness
glosses: Mattness, the quality of a painted surface which scatters or absorbs the light falling on it, so as to be substantially free from gloss or sheen
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: Lack of bouquet and freshness of a wine, through too much aeration or infection with film yeasts
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: slim-tailedness or platykurtosis.
Derived terms: noetic flatness
Norah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹə
Senses: glosses: A female given name, a pseudo-Hebrew spelling of Nora, diminutive of Eleonora or Honora.
surface quality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A numerical description of the flatness or roughness of a surface, especially an optical or machined surface.
microfinish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfinishes
Etymology: From micro- + finish.
Senses: examples: 1995 U.S. international Trade Commission - Certain Portable On-Car Disc Brake Lathes
One cut is required and the microfinish will be somewhere in the range of 23 microns which is better than any other lathe on the market.
glosses: a positive integer used as a measure of the smoothness of any surface; higher numbers indicate rougher surfaces
cranberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cranberry
spraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From spray + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spray
spraying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprayings
Etymology: From spray + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The parched lawn needed several sprayings before the grass looked green again.
glosses: The act by which something is sprayed.
beot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beots
Etymology: From Middle English beot (“boast, threat, boastful speech; boastfulness”), from Old English bēot; see below.
Senses: glosses: A boast or threat; boastful speech.
glosses: Boastfulness.
sinc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: word: sinc
alt: x
word: sine cardinal function
word: cardinal sine function
word: sine of x over x
word: sampling function
coordinate_terms: sine function
sine wave
sine
sin
sin function
sin wave
sin func
sin funct
glosses: Ellipsis of sinc function: f = sin(x)/x.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: sinc
alt: x
word: sine of pi times x over pi times x
coordinate_terms: sine function
sine wave
sine
sin
sin function
sin wave
sin func
sin funct
glosses: Ellipsis of sinc function: f = sin(pi*x)/(pi*x).
lactol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactols
Etymology: lacto- + -ol
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any cyclic hemiacetal formed by the intramolecular addition of a hydroxy group to a carbonyl group
Macca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækə/
rhymes: -ækə
Forms: form: Maccas
Senses: examples: ref: 2003, Ian McNamara, On the Road with Macca:
text: ‘It was just Macca being Macca: thumbs up Macca or prodding Macca.’ As he poked Measles in the chest, Paul asked: ‘What the fuck do you know? I fucking brought you down from Liverpool.’
ref: 2010, Howard Sounes, Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, unnumbered page:
synonyms: word: Mac
alt: US and Canada
glosses: A diminutive of any surname beginning with Mac or Mc.
Macca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækə/
rhymes: -ækə
Senses: glosses: A McDonald′s restaurant.
glosses: Macquarie Island; used chiefly by people who have visited the island.
examples: text: We shall use available written accounts and the oral tradition to highlight the Macca expansion and settlement, to study their interaction with other peoples and cultures, and to analyze the subsequent evolutionary and revolutionary changes in their political economy in western central Ethiopia.
ref: 2006, Catherine Griefenow-Mewis, editor, The Political Economy of an African Society in Transformation: the Case of Macca Oromo (Ethiopia), page 31:
glosses: Clipping of Macca Oromo, a tribal grouping of the Oromo people.