cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pneumono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /(p)njuːməʊnəʊ/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō
Ancient Greek πλεύμων (pleúmōn)
Proto-Indo-European *pnew-
Ancient Greek πνέω (pnéō)influ.
Proto-Indo-European *pnew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *pnéwmn̥
Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma)influ.
Ancient Greek πνεύμων (pneúmōn)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English pneumono-
From Ancient Greek πνεύμων (pneúmōn, “lung”) + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pneumo-.
pneumonectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: pneumonectomies
Etymology: From pneumon- + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Evarts Graham [...] pioneered the pneumonectomy (the resection of the lung to remove tumors).
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 242:
glosses: The surgical removal of all or part of a lung.
Synonyms: word: pneumectomy
word: pneumotomy
Derived terms: pleuropneumonectomy
postpneumonectomy
subpneumonectomy
Related terms: pneumonectomize
lobectomy
segmentectomy
birefringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + refringent.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to birefringence
glosses: Having two refractive indices (depending on orientation)
Derived terms: birefringently
nonbirefringent
Related terms: monorefringent
xian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: shyěn
Forms: form: xians
form: hsien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 縣 /县.
Senses: examples: text: Tight and dense motifs occur on bronzes excavated in 1923 from a tomb at Lijialou at Xinzheng Xian in southern Henan attributed to the small state of Zheng.
ref: 1987, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou Period”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
text: At the time of the elections (1980) Nanjing was subdivided into three suburban counties (xian) and nine urban districts (qu).
ref: 1990, Barrett L. McCormick, “Elections to Local People's Congresses”, in Political Reform in Post-Mao China: Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Leninist State, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 138:
text: The Henan Mongol autonomous county (xian) is inhabited by Tsoros Mongols, and there are Ööld Mongols in the Huzhu autonomous county.
ref: 2017, Alan J. K. Sanders, Historical Dictionary of Mongolia, 4th edition, volume I, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 700, page 274:
synonyms: county
glosses: An administrative subdivision of imperial, republican, and communist China roughly equivalent to counties, now distinguished from the more urban "districts" (qu). (Alternative form of hsien for Taiwan (ROC).)
Derived terms: Gui Xian
xian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: shyěn
Forms: form: xians
Etymology: An alternative capitalization of Xian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xian: Christian.
xian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: shyěn
Etymology: An alternative capitalization of Xian.
Senses: examples: text: But what an epoch in the xian world—what a time for a xian Orator to make a deep & eternal impression on socity^([sic]).
ref: 1993, Mary Moody Emerson, edited by Nancy Craig Simmons, The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson, Athens: University of Georgia Press, page 242:
glosses: Alternative form of Xian: Christian.
xian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: shyěn
Forms: form: more xian
form: most xian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sian (“bored, boring”).
sigmoidoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sigmoid + -o- + -scopic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the type of examination of the colon.
Related terms: sigmoidoscopy
sigmoidoscope
metrizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metrize + -able.
Senses: glosses: measurable, quantifiable
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Of a topological space: for which a metric exists that will induce the original topology.
Derived terms: completely metrizable
non-metrizable
nonmetrizable
quasi-pseudo-metrizable
Related terms: metric
metrization
metrize
fiori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian fiori (literally “flowers”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A form of decorative extruded pasta.
fiorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Santa Fiora + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of opal occurring in the cavities of volcanic tuff, having a pearly lustre and forming botryoidal masses.
disinhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dis- + inhibitory.
Senses: glosses: that disinhibits
glosses: of, or relating to a disinhibitor
Derived terms: disinhibitory transmission
disinhibitory pathway
disinhibitory behavior
VHDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: „VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language used in electronic design automation to describe digital and mixed-signal systems such as field-programmable gate arrays and integrated circuits. VHDL can also be used as a general purpose parallel programming language.“
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: hardware
glosses: VHSIC Hardware Description Language.
VHSIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VHSICs
Senses: examples: "The United States Department of Defense launched the VHSIC program in 1980 as a joint tri-service (Army/Navy/Air Force) program. The program led to advances in integrated circuit materials, lithography, packaging, testing, and algorithms, and created numerous computer-aided design tools. A well-known part of the program's contribution is VHDL, a hardware description language. The program also redirected the military's interest in GaAs ICs back toward the commercial mainstream of CMOS circuits."
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: hardware
glosses: Abbreviation of very high speed integrated circuit.
Derived terms: VHDL
Related terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ASIC
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: HSIC
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: IC
solar year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar years
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tropical year.
synonyms: word: tropical year
solar years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar year
capite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capites
Etymology: From Latin caput (“head”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient English tenure, abolished in 1660, by which either person or land was held immediately of the king, or of his crown, by either knight service or socage.
astronomical year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astronomical years
Senses: glosses: The time it takes the Earth to pass once around the Sun, particularly a tropical, sidereal, or anomalistic year.
Synonyms: anomalistic year
sidereal year
solar year
tropical year
ill-begotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-begotten
form: most ill-begotten
Senses: glosses: Of inferior parentage.
examples: an ill-begotten scheme
glosses: ill-conceived
Related terms: misbegotten
ill-gotten
bafflement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaf(ə)lmənt/
Forms: form: bafflements
Etymology: From baffle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: "Have you any theory about this occurrence to-night?" She watched him eagerly as she asked the question. He made a gesture of bafflement. "None whatever—it's beyond me," he confessed.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter XII, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC:
text: The error here is to confuse British composure with the appearance of bafflement, embarrassment and reserve.
ref: 2008, Chris Rojek, Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?, Reaktion Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: baffle
glosses: The result or state of being baffled, confused, or puzzled.
examples: text: The cartoon characters on the front cover, the irritatingly meaningless track names . . . make it seem like a concept album about global warming for kids. Since the lyrics remain a bafflement, it might well be.
ref: 2005 December 16, Josh Tyrangiel, “Best of 2005: Music”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2006:
glosses: Something that causes a state of confusion or puzzlement.
bafflements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bafflement
800 numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 800 number
reenactment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reenactments
form: re-enactment
Etymology: From re- + enact + -ment.
Senses: examples: the reenactment of a former law
glosses: The process of enacting again.
examples: text: They're going to the Civil War battle reenactment this weekend.
glosses: The repetition of an earlier (usually historic) event, as a performance or social event.
Related terms: reenact
enactment
The Few
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a speech by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
Senses: glosses: The British and Allied fighter pilots during the Battle of Britain in World War II.
wikipedia: Winston Churchill
capivi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copaiba.
redemptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redemptive
form: most redemptive
Senses: glosses: Causing, or relating to, redemption or saving; redeeming.
Derived terms: redemptive arc
damn by association
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: damns by association
form: damning by association
form: damned by association
form: damned by association
Senses: glosses: To discredit or condemn (someone or something, such as a position) by attacking someone or something associated.
Related terms: appeal to ridicule
guilt by association
reductio ad Hitlerum
sailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailers
Etymology: From Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns.
ref: 1880, Thomas Hardy, chapter 34, in The Trumpet-Major:
text: The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]
ref: 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 14:
text: Elsewhere it has been said that in the lack of frigates (of course better sailers than line-of-battle ships) in the English squadron up the Straits at that period, the Indomitable was occasionally employed not only as an available substitute for a scout, but at times on detached service of more important kind.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: That which sails; a sailboat.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fastball that skims through the air.
glosses: A butterfly of the genus Neptis
examples: text: The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."
ref: 2002, Cheryl A. Fury, Tides in the Affairs of Men:
glosses: Obsolete form of sailor.
Derived terms: motorsailer
trailer sailer
socklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sockless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 'crisp white socks worn brand new each day in summer' were abandoned for buff, washable options, or even reckless socklessness, including in winter;
ref: 2000, Timon Screech, The Shogun's Painted Culture: fear and creativity in the Japanese states, 1760-1829, page 117:
glosses: The state of being sockless, not wearing socks.
kabish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of capisce.
coppish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪʃ
Forms: form: more coppish
form: most coppish
Etymology: From cop + -ish (suffix meaning ‘being like, similar to, typical of’, forming adjectives from nouns).
Senses: examples: text: “Are you a policeman?” Conroy said. I gave him my most coppish deadpan stare.
ref: 2002, Robert B[rown] Parker, chapter 30, in Widow’s Walk, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 136:
text: "I know I'm going to sound suspicious and very policelike—" / "You're allowed to sound coppish … it's in your DNA," Laura assured him.
ref: 2011, Holly Jacobs [pseudonym; Holly Fuhrmann], chapter 5, in A Father’s Name (Harlequin SuperRomance), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 106:
synonyms: coplike
policelike
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling a cop (“police officer”).
coppish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪʃ
ipa: /kəˈpiːʃ/
ipa: /kəˈpiʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
ipa: /ˈkɒpɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪʃ
Etymology: See capisce.
Senses: examples: text: Simple, I live here so I was nominated. Coppish?
ref: 2001, Lil Cromer, Allen R. Pedrick, chapter 3, in Terminal Greed, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 33:
text: "After that we'll see." Jake reached out and clasped Walter's shoulder. "Coppish?" Walter smiled broadly. "Coppish, Mr. Serranto."
ref: 2006, Michael Beres, chapter 21, in The President’s Nemesis, Palm Beach, Fla.: Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: Alternative spelling of capisce.
coppish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪʃ
ipa: /kəˈpiːʃ/
ipa: /kəˈpiʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
rhymes: -ɒpɪʃ
ipa: /ˈkɒpɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪʃ
ipa: /kəˈpiːʃ/
ipa: /kəˈpiʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: coppishes
Etymology: A variant of codpiece.
Senses: examples: text: And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers.
ref: a. 1954 (date written), Dylan Thomas, “The Holy Six”, in Adventures in the Skin Trade (A New Directions Paperbook; no. 183), New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, published 1969, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: The fly of a pair of trousers.
all talk and no action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all talk, no action
Senses: examples: text: Well, you need somebody, because politicians are all talk, no action. Nothing's gonna get done. They will not bring us—believe me—to the promised land. They will not.
ref: 2015 June 16, Donald Trump, “Transcript: Donald Trump announces his presidential candidacy”, in CBS News:
text: We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action—constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.
ref: 2017 January 20, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech:
glosses: Speaking, promising, or boasting much, but doing little; overpromising, but underdelivering.
Derived terms: all bark and no bite
all booster, no payload
all crown, no filling
all foam, no beer
all garnish and no meat
all hammer, no nail
all hat and no cattle
all icing, no cake
all lime and salt, no tequila
all mouth and no trousers
all mouth and trousers
all shot, no powder
all sing, no dance
all sizzle and no steak
all talk
all talk and no cider
all talk and trousers
all talk, no show
all wax and no wick
Related terms: talk out of one's ass
talk the talk
press agency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press agencies
Senses: glosses: An organisation that gathers and distributes news.
Synonyms: news agency
trouser press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouser presses
Senses: glosses: An electrical appliance used to smooth the wrinkles from a pair of trousers.
final account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final accounts
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The year-end numbers needed to file a balance sheet for a corporation.
topics: law
glosses: The statement submitted at the close of the matter.
confederal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + federal.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being a confederation.
Derived terms: confederalism
confederalist
confederalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confederalisms
Etymology: From confederal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A system of government in which individual states or regions retain most of the power, with a central government that has limited authority for specific purposes.
Thermopylae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɚˈmɑpɪli/
ipa: /θəˈmɒpɪli/
Etymology: From Latin Thermopylae, from Ancient Greek Θερμοπύλαι (Thermopúlai).
Senses: synonyms: Hot Gates
glosses: A narrow pass on the east-central coast of Greece adjacent to the Maliakos Gulf, northwest of Athens. Its name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. It was the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas stood off, for a time, the Persian armies of Xerxes.
actionee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ækʃənˈiː/
Forms: form: actionees
Etymology: From action + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: "The Actionee shall identify the possible options to resolve the issue."
ref: 2000, Bruce Sherrington-Lucas, Ray Tricker, Karel Dobbelaere, Soka Gakkai: 2000 in Brief, page 57:
topics: management
glosses: The recipient of an action item; the person assigned responsibility for a specific task or issue.
sallyport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sallyports
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sally port.
Ishani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Hindu goddess Parvati or Durga; consort of Lord Siva.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
reveille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvæ.li/
ipa: /ˈɹɛ.və.li/
Forms: form: reveilles
Etymology: From French réveillez, imperative form of réveiller (“to wake”) .
Senses: examples: text: A bugler and his brisk reveille woke them most mornings.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 53:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.
feast or famine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A situation in which something is always either extremely abundant or in extremely short supply.
Related terms: binge-and-purge
famine or feast
rubicon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːbɪkɒn/
ipa: /-k(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈɹubəˌkɑn/
Forms: form: rubicons
form: rubiconing
form: rubiconed
form: rubiconed
Etymology: The noun is derived from the phrase cross the Rubicon (“to make an irreversible decision or to take an action with consequences”). Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, a small river in northeastern Italy, on 10 January 49 B.C.E., indicated his intention to start a civil war with Pompey. Rubicon is derived from Latin Rubicō, Rubicōn (“the Rubicon”), possibly from rubeus (“red, reddish”), from rubeō (“to be red”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”), an allusion to the colour of the river caused by mud deposits.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: A curious score was made in a game of piquet with one of the ladies. [...] In the fifth hand she made a piquet and capot, scoring 121 to 0, and in the sixth hand, being the minor, she made a repiquet, taking all but the last trick, counting 111 to 3, totalling 270, and rubiconing her opponent at 99, with a win of 469 points.
ref: 1902 November, Walter Del Mar, “London to Colombo”, in Around the World through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 3–4:
text: Fleming initiated me into the mysteries of Bézique, and at once set about rubiconing me, [...]
ref: 1934, J[ohn] Angus Beckett, “The Return Ice-cap Journey”, in Iceland Adventure: The Double Traverse of Vatnajökull by the Cambridge Expedition, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, →OCLC, pages 125–126:
text: Ten points are received for the last trick but brisques are only counted if they make a difference as to who is the winner or if a player is rubiconed [...].
ref: [1954], Helen Fried Joseph, The Family Book of Games and Sports, [Chicago, Ill.]: Popular Mechanics Press, →OCLC, page 167, column 2:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.
nimbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nimbly
form: most nimbly
Etymology: From nimble + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And now, in ſtead of mounting Barbed Steeds, / To fright the Soules of fearfull Aduersaries, / He capers nimbly in a Ladies Chamber, / To the laſcivious pleaſing of a Lute.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 173:
text: “Nimbly” quoth he, “do the fingers move / If a man be but used to his trade.”
ref: 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 85:
text: "The bee belongs to the one who caught it! If you catch it, it's your bee!" he said, nimbly jumping up and snatching a bee out of the air. "Yow! This one's mine!"
ref: 2000, Eiji Yoshikawa, translated by William Scott Wilson, Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan, →ISBN:
glosses: in a nimble manner
sociological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sociology.
Derived terms: anthroposociological
biosociological
ethnosociological
macrosociological
microsociological
nonsociological
phytosociological
protosociological
psychosociological
sociological imagination
sociologically
sociologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sociological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In reference to sociology.
sociometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociometries
Etymology: From socio- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The quantitative study of social interactions, and the measurement of preferences etc.
Derived terms: sociometric
sociometrist
dustmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustmotes
Etymology: From dust + mote.
Senses: glosses: A mote or speck of dust.
Related terms: dustmite
ecclesiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecclesiological
form: most ecclesiological
Etymology: From ecclesiology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ecclesiology.
ecclesiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˌkliːziˈɒlədʒi/
/ɛˌkliːziˈɒlədʒi/
Forms: form: ecclesiologies
Etymology: From ecclesia + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of theology concerned with the doctrines, role etc. of a church.
glosses: The science of building and decorating churches.
Derived terms: communion ecclesiology
Related terms: ecclesiologic
ecclesiological
ecclesiologist
ecclesiologistic
Ecclesiastes
Christology
eschatology
soteriology
theology
tummy tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tummy tucks
Senses: examples: text: Rupak says that 45 percent of his clients undergo nonemergency, nonelective surgeries (such as knee, shoulder, back, and hip operations), while 30 percent have cosmetic procedures (tummy tucks, breast enlargements, and facelifts.)
ref: 2008 October, Mark Jenkins, “Need surgery? Call a travel agent”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 152:
text: MEXICO CITY — Zalayna Grant last spoke to her brother on Thursday, when he told her he was driving to Mexico with a group of friends — one of them was planning to get a tummy tuck there.
ref: 2023 March 7, Natalie Kitroeff, Maria Abi-Habib, Jack Nicas, Jacey Fortin, “A Trip to Mexico Ends in a Kidnapping and the Deaths of 2 Americans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An abdominoplasty.
Related terms: nip and tuck
cursorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cursorily
form: most cursorily
Etymology: From cursory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cursory manner.
nonbinding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + binding.
Senses: examples: text: Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.
ref: 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in The New York Times:
text: Such is the alarm about the fragility of French in Quebec that a few years ago the provincial government passed a nonbinding resolution calling for shop attendants to replace “bonjour hi” — a common greeting in bilingual, tourist-friendly Montreal — with just “bonjour.”
ref: 2021 October 9, Dan Bilefsky, “French Language Laws Renew Rift With Quebec's English Speakers”, in The New York Times, retrieved 09 Oct 2021:
glosses: Alternative spelling of non-binding.
tin-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪnpɒt/
ipa: /ˈtɪnˌpɑt/
Forms: form: tinpot
form: tin pot
Etymology: From tin + pot, referring to the cheapness and poor quality of pots made from tin or tin plate.
Senses: examples: text: It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
synonyms: word: ass
word: bad
word: base
word: below par
word: broken
word: bum
word: cheap
word: chintzy
word: crappo
word: crappy
word: craptastic
word: crapperific
word: craptabulous
word: craptacular
word: crummy
word: flimsy
word: inferior
word: lousy
word: low
word: low-grade
word: pitiful
word: poor
word: rinky-dink
word: rubbish
word: sad
word: schlocky
word: shoddy
word: slight
word: slim
word: sorry
word: subpar
word: shitty
word: substandard
word: tin-pot
word: unacceptable
word: unfit
word: unsatisfactory
word: unsound
word: unsuitable
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Of inferior quality; shoddy.
examples: text: Jim Hacker: Why are we having an official visit from this tin-pot little African country? / Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, I beg of you not to refer to it as a tin-pot little African country. It's an LDC.
ref: 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby (Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne):
synonyms: word: base
word: contemptible
word: foolish
word: for the birds
word: futile
word: frivolous
word: idle
word: ignorable
word: immaterial
word: inconsequential
word: inconsiderable
word: indifferent
word: insignificant
word: like a fart in a windstorm
word: meager
word: mean
word: minor
word: negligible
word: nothingburger
word: nondescript
word: paltry
word: petty
word: picayune
word: picayunish
word: piddling
word: piddly
word: pissant
word: pitiful
word: pointless
word: silly
word: simple
word: slight
word: tin-pot
word: trifling
word: trivial
word: two-bit
word: unimportant
word: unweighty
word: vain
word: worthless
word: wretched
glosses: Insignificant or minor, especially in an amusing and petty manner.
Derived terms: tin-pot dictator
tin-pot dictatorship
TPLAC
Related terms: tin-foil
tin plate
tin-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪnpɒt/
ipa: /ˈtɪnˌpɑt/
Forms: form: tin-pots
Etymology: From tin + pot, referring to the cheapness and poor quality of pots made from tin or tin plate.
Senses: glosses: A tin-pot dictator.
psychomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From psycho- + motor.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the function of muscles under the control of the mind
Related terms: psychomotricity
sensorimotor
upper side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper sides
Senses: glosses: The uppermost side of anything
Synonyms: upside
gyron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrons
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon.
Derived terms: gyronny
imperative language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperative languages
head_nr: 1
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: Any programming language that consists (mostly) of a series of commands, typically assigning values to objects; a procedural language.
Hypernyms: programming language
demagnetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demagnetize
demagnetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demagnetized
form: most demagnetized
Senses: glosses: From which all magnetism has been removed.
anhysteretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anhysteretic
form: most anhysteretic
Etymology: From an- + hysteretic.
Senses: glosses: Not involving or producing hysteresis.
thermoremanence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoremanences
Etymology: From thermo- + remanence.
Senses: glosses: thermoremanent magnetization
thermoremanent magnetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoremanent magnetizations
Senses: glosses: The magnetization of an igneous rock that was acquired at the time it cooled from the molten state; it provides information on the Earth's magnetic field at that time.
archaeointensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeointensities
Etymology: From archaeo- + intensity.
Senses: glosses: The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field at some time in the distant past.
isothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + thermal or isotherm + -al.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: Of or pertaining to a process that takes place at constant temperature
glosses: Of or pertaining to an isotherm
Derived terms: chronoisothermal
isothermal annealing
isothermal atmosphere
isothermal calorimiter
isothermal chart
isothermal compression
isothermal equilibrium
isothermal expansion
isothermal flow
isothermality
isothermal layer
isothermally
isothermal magnetization
isothermal parameterization
isothermal remanent magnetization
isothermal titration calorimiter
isothermal transformation
isothermal treatment
nonisothermal
isothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isothermals
Etymology: From iso- + thermal or isotherm + -al.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An isotherm
redeposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redepositions
Etymology: From re- + deposition.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The deposition of material originally deposited elsewhere and subsequently moved
Related terms: redepositional
detrending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈtɹɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Etymology: From de- + trend + -ing.
Senses: topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The manipulation of data to remove long-term trends and thus emphasise short-term changes.
detrending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈtɹɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Etymology: From de- + trend + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detrend
lobectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: lobectomies
Etymology: From lobe + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Bravenec is one of the few surgeons in the country performing lobectomies after full-dosage radiation
ref: 2009, “Mandala” (4:00 from the start), in Breaking Bad, season 2, episode 11, spoken by Dr. Delcavoli (David House):
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of a lobe from an organ such as the lung or the brain
Derived terms: bilobectomy
hepatolobectomy
multilobectomy
Related terms: lobectomize
lobotomy
pneumonectomy
lithification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪθɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: lithifications
Etymology: From lith- + -ification.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The compaction and cementation of sediment into rock.
Synonyms: lithifaction
segmentectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: segmentectomies
Etymology: From segment + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of a segment of an organ such as the lung or the liver.
Derived terms: subsegmentectomy
fluvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of fluviatile, marine or lacustrine origin.
raw_tags: of soil
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to fluvic acid.
sympathectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: sympathectomies
Etymology: From sympathetic (nervous system) + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: The surgical cutting of a nerve in the sympathetic nervous system.
pretreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + treatment.
Senses: glosses: Prior to treatment.
pretreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretreatments
Etymology: From pre- + treatment.
Senses: glosses: Any treatment received before some other process.
Related terms: pretreat
immobilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immobilize
immobilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to immobilization.
Derived terms: cryoimmobilized
nonimmobilized
unimmobilized
molecular-weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of molecular weight.
graphitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphitizations
Etymology: From graphite + -ization.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
datable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dateable.
Derived terms: undatable
fœtuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fœtus
fœti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fœtus
terrigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin terrigena (“land-born”) + -ous
Senses: glosses: Produced by the earth.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Derived from the erosion of land-based rocks.
raw_tags: of a marine sediment
inwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inwashes
Etymology: From in + wash.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The washing in of soil (into a lake etc) from elsewhere.
phoetuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoetus
phoeti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoetus
adultism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adult + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A predisposition towards adults (or a bias against children or other younger people).
sympathetic nervous system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathetic nervous systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The part of the autonomic nervous system that raises blood pressure and heart rate, constricts blood vessels, and dilates the pupils when under stress.
Related terms: antisympathetic
parasympathetic nervous system
sympathectomy
sympatholytic
ephebiphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “youth”) + -phobia. The coinage of this term is attributed to a 1994 article by Kirk Astroth published in Phi Delta Kappan.
Senses: examples: text: Such quotes illustrate what I believe has become a historically nurtured and culturally damaging phenomenon: ephebiphobia—the fear of youth. But today this problem is worse than ever.
ref: 2009 March 17, Tanya Byron, “‘We see children as pestilent’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Indeed, Byron (2009) suggests that ephebiphobia (fear of youth) is a historically nurtured and culturally damaging phenomenon that is worse today than ever.
ref: 2011, Gosia M. Brykczynska, Joan Simons, editors, Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 101:
text: However, Hollywood studios did not suddenly blank on hedonistic teen roles in the early 1950s: their process of introducing the postwar teenager was careful if not apprehensive, as they gradually exaggerated the ephebiphobia—fear of teenagers—that was seeping into popular culture and politics.
ref: 2012, Barry Keith Grant, editor, Film Genre Reader IV, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 585:
glosses: An irrational fear of adolescent people.
Related terms: hebephobia
phœtuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phœtus
pedophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paedophobia
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Children embarrass us because they point ever too cleverly and clearly to our denial of personal, material, and maternal history. This accounts, in part, for academia's pedophobia and the hush-hush we maintain about parenting.
ref: 1998, Michael Rectenwald, “Reading around the Kids”, in Constance Coiner, Diana Hume George, The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve, page 112:
text: In 1997, Mariemont asked her to teach at the elementary school, but she said she could not do so because of her pedophobia.
ref: 2015 February 11, Raymond Kethledge writing for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Waltherr-Willard v. Mariemont City Schools, case 14-3168
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An irrational, obsessive fear or dislike of children.
Related terms: pedophobe
pedophobic
pediophobia
pedophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paedophobia
Etymology: From pedo (“pedophile”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: That, I find disgraceful,
On what grounds? Since when is right and wrong decided by your personal preferences? Pedophiles might accuse you of ‘pedophobia’. After all, there are the likes of philosopher Peter Singer who sees nothing wrong in infanticide or bestiality, yet the academic establishment rewarded these morally perverted views with a personal chair at Princeton.
ref: 2005 February 18, Jonathan Sarfati, “The disingenuous and anti-Christian nature of ‘gay rights’ rhetoric”, in Creation Ministries International, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2009:
text: Perhaps, in these days of homophobia, and pedophobia, ANYONE associated with the educational system that isn't totally straight, and moral, is considered a threat.
ref: 2007 October 20, Ron Hunter, “Character information from Jo [i.e., J. K. Rowling]”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet), archived from the original on 29 Sep 2025:
text: >I suspect you're speaking only for yourself here, Pedophile.
Pedophobia noted. Discrimination from a liberal? OMG!
ref: 2018 April 12, Sir Gregory Hall, Esq., “Re: AIN IT GREAT”, in soc.men (Usenet), archived from the original on 29 Sep 2025:
synonyms: pedophilophobia
glosses: A fear or dislike of pedophiles.
Related terms: pedophobe
pedophobic
phœti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fœti
form: phoeti
Senses: glosses: plural of phœtus
vaginectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: vaginectomies
Etymology: By surface analysis, vagin- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of all or part of the vagina.
fætuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fætus
angio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn′-jē-ō
ipa: /ˈæn.d͡ʒi.oʊ/
Forms: form: angi-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel, urn, pot”), itself from ἄγγος (ángos, “vessel”).
Senses: glosses: vessel; relating to blood vessels, lymph vessels, or both.
Synonyms: vasculo-
vascular
Derived terms: angiocarpian
angiogram
angiography
angiomonospermous
angioscintigraphy
angiospermal
angiospermous
angiospermatous
angiostomous
angiotenic
angiotomy
faetus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faetuses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fetus.
arthroplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthroplasties
Etymology: From arthro- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical repair of a joint, or creation of an artificial joint, such as a hip replacement.
Derived terms: alloarthroplasty
hemiarthroplasty
postarthroplasty
Related terms: arthroplastic
faetuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faetus
rhino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: note: stress on root
ipa: /ˌɹaɪnoʊ-/
note: stress on prefix
ipa: /ɹaɪˈnɒ-/
Forms: form: rhin-
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ῥῑνο- (rhīno-), combining form of ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s, “nose”)
Senses: synonyms: naso-
glosses: Of the nose.
Derived terms: rhinocheiloplasty
rhinoentomophthoromycosis
rhinograph
rhinokyphosis
Related terms: rhinoceros
fœtal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed fœtal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears."
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: Dated spelling of fetal.
phœtal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of phoetal.
cutan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrocarbon polymer, of uncertain structure but thought to be similar to kerogen, found in some plants.
qualifier: soil science
glosses: An oriented deposit which can be composed of any of the component substances of the soil material.
Related terms: cutanic
cutin
granivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granivores
Senses: glosses: Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet
Related terms: granivorous
granivory
moenomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moenomycins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a range of phosphoglycolipid antibiotics, of complex structure, that inhibit the growth of a broad spectrum of Gram-positive bacteria.
phosphoglycolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoglycolipids
Etymology: From phospho- + glycolipid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phospholipid glycoside.
vancomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvæŋ.kəˈmaɪ.sɪn/
rhymes: -aɪsɪn
Etymology: From vanquish + -o- + -mycin (“antibiotic produced by a Streptomyces strain”).
Senses: examples: text: Vancomycin was given intravenously in doses of 0.5 gm. at 6-hour intervals for periods of up to 4 weeks to 9 patients, all of whom had staphylococcal infections.
ref: 1956, J. Geraci, “Some Laboratory and Clinical Experiences with a New Antibiotic, Vancomycin”, in Proc. Staff, Meetings Mayo Clinic, volume 31, number 21, page 564:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A glycopeptide antibiotic C₆₆H₇₅Cl₂N₉O₂₄ produced by the actinomycete Amycolaptosis orientalis, used in the form of its hydrochloride C₆₆H₇₅Cl₂N₉O₂₄·HCl against Gram-positive bacteria, especially staphylococci resistant to meticillin and enterococci.
Derived terms: VRE
VRSA
actinomycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæktɪnəˈmaɪsiːt/
Forms: form: actinomycetes
Etymology: From actino- + -mycete.
Senses: glosses: Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria, of the order Actinomycetales, that resemble fungi. Some actinomycetes are pathogens and some are sources of antibiotics.
Synonyms: sense: bacteria of the order Actinomycetes
word: actinobacterium
Hyponyms: sense: bacteria of the order Actinomycetes
english: genus
translation: genus
word: Streptomyces
Derived terms: actinomycetic
endoperoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoperoxides
Etymology: From endo- + peroxide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterocycle containing a peroxide -O-O- residue in the ring; found especially in certain intermediates in prostaglandin biosynthesis.
air strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air strikes
form: airstrike
Senses: examples: text: Iran's known nuclear facilities that earned the country nearly two decades of US and international sanctions, with an estimated cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, are now damaged from the air strikes, although the full extent of this has been hard to assess.
ref: 2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An attack on a ground or naval target by one or more aircraft or missiles.
iPhone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪˌfoʊ̯n/
homophone: eyephone
Forms: form: iPhones
Etymology: From i- + phone. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.
Senses: examples: text: His mom bought him an IPhone for his 11th birthday.
text: This concept puts the curve back on the iPhone 5 with a silhouette that's reminiscent of a banana phone.
ref: 2012, “Best iPhone 5 concept photos”, in CNet:
text: Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.
ref: 2020 July 9, Jacob Krol, “Here’s how to get the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public beta”, in CNN, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023:
text: “This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”
ref: 2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023:
synonyms: word: Jesus phone
hypernyms: smartphone
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.
glosses: Any knockoff or similar high-end smartphone; through trademark genericization.
Coordinate terms: iPad
iPod
iMac
iDevice
Derived terms: iPhone moment
iPhoner
Related terms: iOS
BlackBerry