cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
run away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs away
form: running away
form: ran away
form: run away
Senses: examples: text: The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.
text: Sometimes I feel I've got to / Run away / I've got to / Get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me
ref: 1965, Ed Cobb, “Tainted Love”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, performed by Soft Cell, published 1981:
glosses: To flee by running.
examples: text: My parents want me to take a bath every day? Fine, I'm running away.
text: "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that.[…]."
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
text: I decided to move out of the house when I was 24; my mother still refers to this as the time I ran away from home.
ref: 1974, Rhoda (opening credit scene), spoken by Rhoda Morgenstern:
text: Look, kid... it's getting kind of late. It'll be dark soon. Maybe running away today isn't such a good idea.
ref: 2005 September 17, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile.
examples: text: The train's brakes failed and it ran away.
text: An autotrim failure can cause stabiliser trim to rapidly run away in the nose-up or nose-down direction.
text: The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
glosses: To become a runaway. (of a device or vehicle)
Derived terms: look like who did it and ran away
Related terms: runaway
musquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musquets
Etymology: French mousquet
Senses: examples: text: Fig. 1. A matchlock musquet from the Tower of London.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xvi:
glosses: Obsolete form of musket.
Derived terms: musquetry
pyrethrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrethrins
Etymology: From pyrethrum + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Ecoparasite control, with appropriate concentrations of carbaryl, malathion, or pyrethrin dusts, is permissible if the agent is applied externally to both test and control animals not less than seven days prior to the start of the test.
ref: 1983, D. E. Kaukeinen, Vertebrate Pest Control and Management Materials, page 102:
text: The biggest risk raised in the findings, Mr. Abecassis said, is the exposure to pesticides, which have been linked to a range of serious illnesses including fatal cancers and organ damage. Six of the tested products contained chemicals like myclobutanil and pyrethrins in concentrations far above state limits, according to the analysis.
ref: 2022 December 1, Ashley Southall, “What’s in New York’s Illicit Cannabis: Germs, Toxins and Metals”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of naturally occurring insecticides extracted from the pyrethrum plant; unusual in having a cyclopropane ring.
pyrethrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈɹiθɹəm/
Forms: form: pyrethrums
Etymology: From Old English pyretre, from (and later reformed after) Latin pyrethrum (in Pliny), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πύρεθρον (púrethron).
Senses: examples: text: A common beverage credited with aphrodisiac virtue was old wine containing the pungent root of the plant pyrethrum or pellitory.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 250:
text: We children would re-tell the stories the following day to other children who worked in the fields picking the pyrethrum flowers, tea-leaves or coffee beans of our European and African landlords.
ref: 1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 10:
glosses: Any of several daisy-like perennial African plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum cinerariifolium.
glosses: Anacyclus pyrethrum (pellitory of Spain)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several insecticides obtained from these plants; pyrethrin.
pyrexial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyrexial
form: most pyrexial
Etymology: From pyrexia + -al.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to fevers; feverish
terminal stria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminal striae
Senses: glosses: A structure in the brain, being a band of fibers running along the lateral margin of the ventricular surface of the thalamus.
Synonyms: stria terminalis
pyrgom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of the mineral pyroxene.
crannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Muffins are tastiest when butter seeps into all the nooks and crannies.
glosses: plural of cranny
Davidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈvɪdɪk/
Etymology: From David + -ic.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Davidian
glosses: Of, or relating to the Biblical King David and his descendants.
pyridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or relating to pyridine or its derivatives; pyridyl
data stream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data streams
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a sequence of digitally encoded coherent signals used in a transmission
Synonyms: data flow
pyridyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyridyls
Etymology: From pyridine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric univalent radicals, C₅H₄N-, derived from pyridine; analogous to phenyl.
Bermuda shorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermuda-shorts
Senses: glosses: A type of knee-high shorts reminiscent of cut formal trousers.
wikipedia: Bermuda shorts
Synonyms: Bermudas
dress shorts
walk shorts
walking shorts
reflux condenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflux condensers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A water-cooled, double walled piece of laboratory glassware that is fitted on top of a vessel of boiling liquid such that vapour condenses and flows back into the vessel, preventing the contents from boiling dry.
Related terms: fractionating column
pyritaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyritaceous
form: most pyritaceous
Etymology: From pyrite + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or containing pyrites; pyritic.
pyroacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + acetic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of or relating to acetone (once obtained by heating acetates)
Derived terms: pyroacetic ether
pyroacetic spirit
pyroacetic ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acetone.
Synonyms: pyroacetic spirit
pyroacetic spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroacetic spirits
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acetone.
Synonyms: pyroacetic ether
centenionalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centenionales
Senses: glosses: A large bronze coin used in Ancient Rome.
pyroacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroacids
Etymology: From pyro- + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any acid obtained by heating another
pyroantimonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroantimonates
Etymology: From pyro- + antimonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of pyroantimonic acid
Zhuang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃwɑŋ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /d͡ʒwɑŋ/
Forms: form: Zhuangs
form: Zhuang
form: Chuang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 壯 /壮 (Zhuàng).
Senses: examples: text: During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution over 200 teeth of the giant ape were found in Chienshih County, Hupeh Province, and Pama County, the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region.
ref: [1975, “The Giant Ape”, in China Pictorial, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 3:
text: THE OFFICIAL NAME of Kuanghsi province is the Kuanghsi Chuang Autonomous Region. Next to the Han Chinese, the Chuang are China’s largest ethnic group. That surprises people. Most people would think it was the Manchus, or the Uigurs, or the Mongols, or the Tibetans. But in 1990 there were 15 million Chuang in China, compared to 10 million Manchus, 7 million Uigurs, 5 million Mongols, and 4.5 million Tibetans. Since most of China’s 15 million Chuang live in Kuanghsi, hence the province’s distinction as the Kuanghsi Chuang Autonomous Region.
ref: [2015, Bill Porter, “The Chuang [壯族]”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:
english: 壯族
translation: 壯族
glosses: A member of an ethnic group living mostly in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China.
Zhuang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃwɑŋ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /d͡ʒwɑŋ/
Forms: form: Chuang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 壯 /壮 (Zhuàng).
Senses: glosses: The language of these people, belonging to the Tai language group.
Related terms: Guangxi
Zhuang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃwɑŋ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /d͡ʒwɑŋ/
note: anglicized
ipa: /ʒwɑŋ/
ipa: /t͡ʃwɑŋ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /d͡ʒwɑŋ/
Forms: form: Chuang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 莊 /庄 (Zhuāng). Doublet of Trang.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Derived terms: Pacak-Zhuang syndrome
antoninianus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪnəs
Forms: form: antoniniani
form: antoninianuses
Etymology: From Late Latin Antōnīniānus (“pertaining to Antoninus”). Speculatively named in modern times after an Antoninus mentioned in the Augustan History, after whom some silver coins were said to be named. However, it is not known what this coin was called in antiquity.
Senses: examples: text: From the 5th year on, Iuppiter conservator coins are continuously produced actually on antoninianuses;
ref: 1972, Dissertationes Archaelogicae:
text: The coins were base silver antoninianuses of Decius, coins that had not been in circulation for more than 200 years.[…]The gold are extremely rare, but choice specimens of the debased silver antoninianuses can be purchased for less than $100 each.
ref: 1980 July 27, Edward C. Rochette, “Coin Roundup…”, in The Indianapolis Star, section 5, page 4:
text: Whether you enjoy coins for their beauty, history, romance, or antiquity, these ancient Roman antoninianuses are sure to please.
ref: 1985 January, “Treasures of the Roman Empire”, in Special Coin Letter, number 1005, page 5:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A silver coin used during the Roman Empire, equal to two denarii.
wikipedia: Augustan History
mammaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: female breasts; plural of mammary
pyroantimonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + antimonic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, H₄Sb₂O₇ derived from antimonic acid analogously to pyrophosphoric acid.
antimonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The antimony analog of phosphoric acid, H₃SbO₄
Derived terms: pyroantimonic acid
Related terms: antimonate
antimonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimonates
Etymology: From antimonic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of antimonic acid; the anion SbO₄³⁻
Derived terms: antimonatian
hexafluoroantimonate
hexahydroxoantimonate
lead antimonate
pyroantimonate
sodium antimonate
sulfantimonate
sulphantimonate
thioantimonate
denarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ'när(ē)əs
ipa: /dɪˈnɑɹi.əs/
ipa: /dɪˈnɑːɹɪ.əs/
enpr: dĭ'nâr(ē)əs
ipa: /dɪˈnɛəɹɪ.əs/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /dɪˈnɛɚ.i.əs/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /dɪˈnɛɹi.əs/
Forms: form: denarii
form: denariuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of denar, denier, dinar, diner, dinero, and dinheiro.
Senses: examples: text: "Sorry, I thought you were Aurel. He owes me a denarius. Have you seen him?"
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 146:
text: 2007, Philip Matyszak, Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day (title of the book)
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A small silver coin issued both during the Roman Republic and during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses or 4 sesterces. Roughly one day’s wage for a skilled worker.
isograd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isograds
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A line, either on a map or the surface of the Earth, joining points at which metamorphism reached similar pressures and temperatures; actually the intersection of a surface and that of the Earth.
argenteus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argentei
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin argenteus (“of silver”).
Senses: glosses: A silver coin, minted in the Roman Empire between 294 and 310, weighing approximately 3 scruples.
aureus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːɹɪəs/
ipa: /ˈoɹiəs/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪəs
Forms: form: aurei
form: aureuses
form: aureii
Etymology: From Latin aureus (“golden; gold coin equivalent to 25 denarii”), noun use of adjective, from aurum (“gold”). Doublet of eyrir, öre, øre, and oyra.
Senses: glosses: A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii.
wikipedia: Valerian
pyroarsenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroarsenates
Etymology: From pyroarsenic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of pyroarsenic acid.
pyroarsenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + arsenic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, H₄As₂O₇ derived from arsenic acid analogously to pyrophosphoric acid.
pyroborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroborates
Etymology: From pyroboric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of pyroboric acid.
pyrocatechin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrocatechins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: pyrocatechol
Derived terms: pyrocatechinic
pyrochlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrochlores
Senses: examples: text: In general, the hydroxamates are used for flotation of oxidic minerals (pyrochlore, cassiterite and ilmenite), rare-earth oxides and oxide copper minerals.
ref: 2007, Srdjan M. Bulatovic, Handbook of Flotation Reagents: Chemistry, Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 13:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral whose composition is that of a mixed niobate mostly of sodium, calcium and cerium, (Na,Ca)₂Nb₂O₆(OH,F).
niobate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niobates
Etymology: From niobic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt, XNbO₃, of the weak niobic acid.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent anion NbO₃⁻.
Derived terms: cadmium niobate
diniobate
lithium niobate
niobatian
potassium niobate
uranoniobate
dupondius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dupondii
Etymology: Latin dupondius, literally "two-pounder".
Senses: glosses: A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, equal to two asses.
niobic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the hypothetical acid HNbO₃ derived from niobic oxide Nb₂O₅, only known as its salts, the niobates
pyrocitric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + citric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any of the three unsaturated dicarboxylic acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid.
Derived terms: pyrocitric acid
Related terms: citraconic acid
itaconic acid
mesaconic acid
follis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folles
Etymology: From Latin follis (“a bag”). Doublet of fals and fool.
Senses: examples: text: In Italy, the exarchs at Ravenna preserved the denominational structure of the currency, striking the bronze folles along with fractions and three silver denominations marked as pieces of 125, 150, and 500 nummiae (pl. 23.200). The solidus was officially exchanged at 300 folles (= 12,000 nummiae) or the rate that had obtained under Theodoric.
ref: 1996, Kenneth W. Harl, Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 b.c. to a.d. 700, Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 199:
text: In the beginning, Antioch followed the weight policy of Constantinopolitan coins, but after a break in minting in 540/541–541/542 caused by the sack of the city by the Persians, the mint of Antioch continued to issue bronze folles of high weight standard, ever if the weight in Constantinople was already reduced by that period.
ref: 2016, Pavla Drápelová, “Province in Contrast to City: Irregularities and Peculiarities in the Coinage of Antioch (518–565)”, in Nicholas S. M. Matheou, Theofili Kampianaki, Lorenzo M. Bondioli, editors, From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, part 4 (The Cities), page 180:
text: The silver miliarensia from that era were minted exclusively for propaganda purposes, and in smaller amounts than the gold coins (nomismas) and the copper alloy coins (folles). They were practically not used in circulation, although in theory twelve miliarensia were equal in value to a gold nomisma.
ref: 2022, Vladimir Penchev, “What the coins from the Preslav treasure can tell us about the social status of its owner”, in Contributions to Bulgarian Archaeology, volume XII, →DOI, →ISSN, page 70:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A large bronze coin minted during the Roman Empire.
citraconic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From citr(ic) + (it)aconic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: one of the isomeric dicarboxylic acids produced by the distillation of citric acid, or as metabolites by microorganisms, cis-CH₃-C(CO₂H)=CHCO₂H; the trans-isomer is mesaconic acid
Related terms: citraconate
itaconic acid
sproc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprocs
Senses: examples: I think the overflow bug is in your sproc.
glosses: Shortened form of stored procedure.
mesaconic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mes- + (it)aconic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: one of the isomeric dicarboxylic acids produced by the distillation of citric acid, or as metabolites by microorganisms, trans-CH₃-C(CO₂H)=CHCO₂H; the cis-isomer is citraconic acid
Derived terms: mesaconate
Related terms: itaconic acid
itaconic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Anagram of aconitic, modelled on German Itaconsäure as an anagram of Aconitsäure (“aconitic acid”), coined by Gustav Crasso (1840).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the isomeric dicarboxylic acids produced by the distillation of citric acid, or as metabolites by microorganisms, CH₂=C(CO₂H)-CH₂CO₂H.
Derived terms: citraconic acid
ita-
mesaconic acid
pyroelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyroelectric
form: most pyroelectric
Etymology: From pyro- + electric.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or exhibiting pyroelectricity
Coordinate terms: thermoelectric
Derived terms: pyroelectric effect
pyroelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroelectrics
Etymology: From pyro- + electric.
Senses: glosses: a pyroelectric substance
pyroelectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + electricity.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: thermoelectricity
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The generation of electric charge as a result of a change in temperature.
Related terms: pyroelectric
huckster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌkstɚ/
Forms: form: hucksters
form: huxter
Etymology: From Middle English hukster, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, from Middle Low German höken (“to peddle”) or Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle, bend, bear on the back”), all from Proto-Germanic *huk-, probably related to *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of English high). Compare hawkster.
Senses: examples: text: drive those china hucksters from the doors
ref: 1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
examples: text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
glosses: One who deceptively sells fraudulent products; snake oil salesman
glosses: Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
Derived terms: hucksterage
hucksterer
hucksteress
hucksterish
hucksterize
huckstress
Related terms: english: selling produce
translation: selling produce
word: costermonger
word: pitchman
word: spruiker
english: selling food and supplies to armies
translation: selling food and supplies to armies
word: sutler
huckster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌkstɚ/
Forms: form: hucksters
form: huckstering
form: huckstered
form: huckstered
form: huxter
Etymology: From Middle English hukster, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, from Middle Low German höken (“to peddle”) or Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle, bend, bear on the back”), all from Proto-Germanic *huk-, probably related to *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of English high). Compare hawkster.
Senses: glosses: To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
glosses: To sell or offer (goods) from place to place, to peddle.
examples: text: […] Paul Zindel aroused the hope that he might be a playwright in the Williams mode, one who could cast a kindly light in the dark corners of twisted souls. That is precisely the hope dashed by his latest play, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild. Here he is simply huckstering kookdom for cheap laughs, and not producing many of them at that.
ref: 1972 November 27, T.E.K., “Kook in a Candy Store”, in Time, volume 100, number 22, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., The Theater, page 73:
glosses: To promote or sell (goods) in an aggressive, showy manner.
Derived terms: hucksterism
quadrigatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrigati
Etymology: From Latin quadrīgātus, from quadrīgae (“four-horse team”).
Senses: synonyms: quadrigate
glosses: A medium-sized silver coin minted by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century B.C.E.
quinarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪˈnɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /kwɪˈnɑːɹi.əs/
ipa: /kwɪˈnɛɹi.əs/
ipa: /kwɪˈnɑɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: quinarii
Etymology: From Latin quinarius.
Senses: glosses: A small silver coin minted during the Roman Republic, equal to half of a denarius.
semis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of semi
semis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmiːz/
ipa: /ˈsɛmɪs/
rhymes: -ɛmɪs
ipa: /ˈsɛmiːz/
Forms: form: semises
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sēmis.
Senses: glosses: A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.
semuncia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semunciae
Etymology: From Latin semuncia (“half-ounce”).
Senses: glosses: A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at one twenty-fourth of an as.
sakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sāks
ipa: /seɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: examples: text: For all our sakes, please let us pass.
glosses: plural of sake (“benefit”)
Derived terms: land sakes
sakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sāks
ipa: /seɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
enpr: säkēs
ipa: /sɑːkis/
rhymes: -ɑːkis
enpr: sāks
ipa: /seɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Forms: form: sakés
form: sakis
Senses: examples: text: The sailor tried several different sakes before he passed out.
glosses: plural of sake, referring to a Japanese rice wine
sestertius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sestertii
Etymology: From Latin sēstertius (“that is two-and-a-half”), from sēmis (“half”) + tertius (“third”), in which “third” refers to the third as: the sestertius was worth two full asses and half of a third.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
synonyms: sesterce
glosses: A large bronze or (rarely) small silver coin minted during the Roman Republic and Empire, valued at two and a half asses (a quarter of a denarius).
triens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trientes
Etymology: From Latin triēns.
Senses: glosses: A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic valued at 4 unciae.
rangy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -eɪndʒi
Forms: form: rangier
form: rangiest
Etymology: From range + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For an accountant, Robert had a rangy appearance.
text: Her African violets weren't getting enough sun and became rangy.
text: Janet Gwilherm, who was presently dwarfing the duty desk — she was tall and rangy, like a basketball player — whacked the intercom button and announced herself.
ref: 2022 September 7, HarryBlank, “Remember, Remember…”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
glosses: Slender and long of limb; lanky.
examples: text: rangy cattle
glosses: Prone to roaming around.
glosses: Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious.
examples: text: The Star Spangled Banner has been criticized as too rangy for many people to sing along to comfortably.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Requiring a large vocal range; having a great difference from the highest to the lowest notes.
Synonyms: sense: lanky
word: gangling
word: gangly
word: lanky
word: leggy
word: slender
word: scrawny
sense: prone to roaming
word: free-roaming
sense: prone to roaming
word: nomadic
sense: prone to roaming
word: roving
sense: prone to roaming
word: wandersome
sense: permitting range
word: expansive
sense: permitting range
word: comfortable
sense: permitting range
word: commodious
sense: permitting range
word: convenient
sense: permitting range
word: roomy
sense: permitting range
word: spacious
the sky is the limit
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: If you have a refrigerator and a microwave at work, then the sky is the limit for what you can put in your lunchbox.
glosses: Nothing is impossible or out of reach.
Derived terms: sky's-the-limit
Related terms: out of the question
reach for the sky
shoot the moon
victoriatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victoriati
Etymology: From Latin victōriātus.
Senses: synonyms: victoriate
glosses: A silver coin, stamped with an image of Victory, minted during the Roman Republic, and valued at half a denarius.
disintegrating link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disintegrating links
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A pressed metal or plastic link, used to join cartridges for a machine gun, which is expelled when the cartridge is removed during loading.
obolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oboli
form: oboluses
form: obol
form: obolos
Etymology: From Latin obolus, from Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós), from ὀβελός (obelós). Doublet of obole and pul.
Senses: glosses: A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma.
examples: text: Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes
With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.
ref: 1870, John Benson Coles Rose, Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer, Andria, Act II, sc. 2, page 21
glosses: A unit of weight, equal to one-sixth of a drachma.
Derived terms: obolary
obolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oboli
form: oboluses
Senses: examples: text: The Globe editors have marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: "Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an obolus (†)".
ref: 1914, Charles David Stewart, “The Principles of Government”, in Some Textual Difficulties in Shakespeare, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of obelus.
Krugerrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Krugerrands
form: krugerrand
Etymology: Named for the obverse's picture of Paul Kruger, former president of the South African Republic.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A gold coin minted in South Africa, containing a full troy ounce of gold.
wikipedia: Paul Kruger
Derived terms: Dunning-Krugerrand
awe-stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more awe-stricken
form: most awe-stricken
Senses: examples: text: While the children, scarcely awake, awe-stricken at her manner, their eyes growing larger and larger, remained in this position, she took the baby from her bed— […]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the second (Maiden No More), page 184:
glosses: Alternative form of awestricken (“awestruck”).
pain in the neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pains in the neck
Etymology: First attested in the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: Got to know McTodd, found he wasn’t coming to the castle, and came down instead of him, same as me. Only he got there first, damn him! Wouldn’t that give you a pain in the neck!”
ref: 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith, London, page 188:
text: OK, call me a hypersensitive liberal, if you want. It wouldn’t be the first time. I can be a pain in the neck about racial, ethnic and religious bias sometimes, but I think it’s better to be hypersensitive than insensitive.
ref: 2022 November 19, Clarence Page, “Sometimes offensive comedy is just lazy laughs”, in Chicago Tribune:
synonyms: pain in the ass
pain in the butt
pest
nuisance
glosses: Someone or something which is annoying, irritating or inconvenient.
Related terms: trachelodynia
hoarfrost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoarfrosts
Senses: examples: text: […] It is moſt remarkable on the ſurface of ſnovv, vvhen covered vvith hoarfroſt, and on other bodies vvhere hoarfroſt moſt abounds. In ſuch caſes, I have often found the ſurface to be ſeven degrees colder than the air at the diſtance of tvvo feet; […]
ref: 1785, Patrick Wilson, “[Account of Some Experiments on Cold]”, in Andrew Duncan, compiler, Medical Commentaries, for the Years 1783–84. […], volume IX, London: […] J[ohn] Murray, […], and C[harles] Dilly, […]; Edinburgh: W. Gordon and C. Elliott, →OCLC, section III (Medical News), page 426:
text: This striking fact, of the lower temperature of the surface on which dew and hoarfrost are forming, it was always found difficult to explain; for the transition of a body from the state of vapour to the fluid or solid form is always accompanied with an evolution of heat, […] The surface is not warmer in consequence of the formation of the dew or hoarfrost, but the dew or hoarfrost is deposited because the surface is previously cold; and its low temperature, compared with that of the air above, is owing to the discharge of heat by radiation.
ref: 1817, John Murray, “Of Caloric”, in Elements of Chemistry. […], 4th edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] Francis Pillans, […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, →OCLC, book II (Of Repulsion, and the Powers by which It is Produced), section III (Of the Communication and Diffusion of Caloric), page 146:
text: However, high mountains with a long winter and long dry spells, hoarfrosts and infertile soils are not an ideal environment for some annual crops but are well suited for perennial industrial crops and forest species.
ref: 2005, Manh-Cuong Pham, “Conclusions and Policy Implications”, in Land-use Change in the Northwestern Uplands of Vietnam: Empirical Evidence from Spatial Econometric Models and Geo-referenced Analyses and Policy Implications for Sustainable Rural Development, Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag, →ISBN, page 331:
glosses: Alternative form of hoar frost.
Derived terms: hoarfrosty
preexist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preexists
form: preexisting
form: preexisted
form: preexisted
form: præ-exist
form: præexist
form: preëxist
form: pre-exist
Etymology: From pre- + exist.
Senses: examples: text: The new device utilized technologies that preexisted.
synonyms: word: antedate
word: precede
word: predate
word: preexist
glosses: To exist before something else.
Derived terms: preexistence
preexistent
pyritohedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyrite + -o- + -hedral.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of pyrites.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the shape of a pyritohedron.
pyritohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyritohedrons
form: pyritohedra
Etymology: From pyrite + -o- + -hedron.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An irregular dodecahedron, the faces of which are identical but irregular pentagons.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The shape of one of the crystal habits of pyrite.
Related terms: pyritohedral
derail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdəˈɹeɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˌdiːˈɹeɪ.əl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: derails
Etymology: From French dérailler (“to go off the rails”). Analyzable as de- + rail.
Senses: examples: text: The derail was placed deliberately so that the train would fall into the river.
glosses: Synonym of derailer: A device placed on railway tracks in order to cause a train to derail.
synonyms: word: derailer
extra: A device placed on railway tracks in order to cause a train to derail
glosses: An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic.
derail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdəˈɹeɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˌdiːˈɹeɪ.əl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: derails
form: derailing
form: derailed
form: derailed
Etymology: From French dérailler (“to go off the rails”). Analyzable as de- + rail.
Senses: examples: text: The train was destroyed when it was derailed by the collision.
text: Among recommendations arising out of the accident were that greater attention should be devoted to the means of derailing runaways on lines so heavily graded as the Highland main line; were it double throughout, catch points would, of course, be laid in, but the catchpoint problem is a difficult one on a single line.
ref: 1940 November, “Notes and News: A Highland Collision”, in Railway Magazine, page 612:
glosses: To cause to come off the tracks.
examples: text: Fortunately, the CrossCountry train did not derail when it struck the mud. It could easily have been much worse.
ref: 2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire: At the scene...”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: To come off the tracks.
examples: text: The conversation derailed once James brought up politics.
glosses: To deviate from the previous course or direction.
examples: text: The protesting students derailed the professor's lecture.
text: Our offices are full of the walking wounded--people who are suicidal, have been hospitalized after the sexual involvement, unable to hold their usual jobs, derailed from intimate relationships, unable to get on with their lives as they once had planned.
ref: 1990 December 23, Nancy Avery et al., “Criminalizing Doctor-Patient Sex”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 5:
glosses: To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.
Synonyms: unrail
Derived terms: derailable
derailer
derailment
have it made
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has it made
form: having it made
form: had it made
form: had it made
form: have got it made
Senses: glosses: To have accomplished all there is to do; to have no further work or difficulty.
examples: text: It's a great idea, and if it catches on and sells well, we'll have it made.
glosses: To have achieved a lifestyle characterized by good fortune and comfort.
Related terms: easy street
home free
made in the shade
have it going on
cruzado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruzados
form: cruzadoes
Etymology: From Portuguese cruzado. Doublet of cruciate.
Senses: glosses: The monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.
glosses: An old monetary unit of Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries.
glosses: An old monetary unit of Castile in the 14th century.
Related terms: cruzeiro
real
cruzeiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruzeiros
Etymology: From Portuguese cruzeiro (literally “Southern Cross”).
Senses: glosses: The currency of Brazil from 1942 to 1986 and 1990 to 1993.
Related terms: cruzeiro novo
cruzeiro real
cruzado
cruzado novo
peso ley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pesos ley
Senses: glosses: The currency of Argentina between January 1, 1970 and May 5, 1983.
tranquility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /træŋˈkwɪlɪti/
Forms: form: tranquilities
Senses: glosses: American standard spelling of tranquillity.
amperage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăm′-pər-əj
ipa: /ˈæm.pəɹ.əd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: amperages
Etymology: From ampere + -age.
Senses: examples: text: It seems to me that ampèrage cuts just as much of a figure as voltage. In the case of static electricity we find that between the conductors of a machine, where we can get a spark of 6 or 7 inches, we will have an electro-motive force of not less than 3,000 volts, and yet there is not one of us in this room but can take that through his body without injury, because there is no ampèrage to speak of.
ref: 1889 March 23, Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 12, page 421:
text: A "Deltic" has to be handled very carefully on starting to prevent the automatic cut-out from coming into operation. The maximum permissible amperage is 2,400 and that for no more than 60sec in any one hour; 1,800 to 2,000 amps may be used if necessary for up to 5min and 1,650 to 1,800 amps for up to 30min continuously.
ref: 1964 November, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 338:
text: Draw in the location of the circuit breaker box, your workbench, doorways and windows, and label each machine with its amperage and voltage.
ref: 1993, The Small Wood Shop, page 46:
text: Amperage describes the amount of current in a circuit, which is the rate at which electric charge flows past a point in a circuit.
ref: 2015, James A. Langbridge, Arduino Sketches: Tools and Techniques for Programming Wizardry:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The electric current; charge transmitted per unit time, measured in amperes.
Derived terms: microamperage
milliamperage
picoamperage
costumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of costume
costumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For a livelier scene, head here on Friday or Saturday night, when mass beer-sculling (chugging) and yodeling are accompanied by a brass band and costumed waitresses ferrying foaming beer steins about the atmospheric, cellarlike space.
ref: 2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, 14th edition, page 133:
glosses: Wearing a costume; disguised.
Derived terms: uncostumed
bisector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bī'sĕktər
ipa: /ˈbaɪˌsɛktɚ/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bisectors
Etymology: From bisect + -or.
Senses: examples: text: South Street is the bisector of Broken Dreams Boulevard.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line or curve that bisects or divides a line segment, angle, or other figure into two equal parts.
Derived terms: angle bisector
perpendicular bisector
intransigeant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intransigeant
form: most intransigeant
Senses: examples: text: ‘That's not good enough!’ Her voice rang out like a challenge. I would talk to her sometime in the nearish future. ‘No.’ Her reply was intransigeant.
ref: 1964, C. P. Snow, Corridors Of Power:
glosses: Alternative form of intransigent.
intransigeant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intransigeants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intransigent.
vituperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈtjuːpəɹeɪt/
ipa: /vaɪ-/
ipa: /-ˈtʃuː-/
ipa: /vəˈt(j)upəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /vaɪ-/
ipa: /vɪˈtjuːpəɹət/
ipa: /-ɹeɪt/
ipa: /vəˈt(j)upəɹət/
ipa: /-ˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /vɪˈtjuːpəɹeɪt/
ipa: /vaɪ-/
ipa: /-ˈtʃuː-/
ipa: /vəˈt(j)upəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /vaɪ-/
Forms: form: more vituperate
form: most vituperate
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vituperātus (“censured; disparaged”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: examples: text: The glorification of women as mothers informed the propaganda of the Nazi years but social reality told a different story. In 1933, a vituperate campaign against 'double earners' forced married women, whose husbands were employed, out of the labour market.
ref: 1998, Eva Kolinsky, “Non-German Minorities, Women and Civil Society”, in Eva Kolinsky, Wilfried van der Will, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Faced with a vituperate Serbian nationalism and the despotic actions of Slobodan Milošević, who took power in the late 1980s, Slovenia and Croatia seceded from federal Yugoslavia in June 1991[…].
ref: 2019, Keith Doubt, Adnan Tufekčić, “Introduction”, in Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Kinship and Solidarity in a Polyethnic Society, Lanham, Md.; Boulder, Colo.: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 4:
text: At the same time, a broadsheet entitled Memoirs of the Political Life of Robert Alexander and others was published anonymously but was evidently written by Borthwick because he sent a copy to Henry Cockburn. It was a vituperate attack on Alexander, accusing him of being a ne'er-do-well fraudster.
ref: 2019, Michael Moss, “The Field of Auchtertool – A Moral Waterloo?”, in The Duel between Sir Alexander Boswell and James Stuart: Scottish Squibs and Pistols at Dawn, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: Of, characterized by, or relating to abusive or harsh criticism.
examples: text: These, and many more that might be adduced, are instances of the obscure though not absolutely impervious medium through which the present age views ancient history; and at the head of these illusions, is the great illusion of all, on wealth and poverty. Wealth was to be discreditable, unmanly, vituperate, because it was found greatly to indispose men to be active thieves. […] This is the sorry explanation, of the ancient theory of heroic poverty.
ref: 1832 January, “Art. I.—Introductory Lectures on Political Economy, being Part of a Course Delivered in Easter Term, 1831. By Richard Whatley, […]—London. Fellowes. 1831. 8vo. pp. 238. [book review]”, in The Westminster Review, volume XVI, number XXXI, London: […] [Thomas Curson Hansard] for the proprietors, and published by Robert Heward, […], →OCLC, pages 6–7:
glosses: Which has been abusively or harshly criticized; also, deserving harsh criticism.
vituperator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vituperators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vituperātor.
Senses: glosses: One who vituperates, or censures abusively.
Synonyms: censurer
detractor
Related terms: vituperable
vituperant
vituperate
vituperation
vituperative
vituperatively
vituperatory
vituperous
vituperously
censurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: censurers
Etymology: From censure + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
synonyms: censor
scolder
vituperator
glosses: One who censures.
scolder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolders
Etymology: From scold + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scolds.
glosses: The oystercatcher, so called from its shrill cries.
synonyms: scoldenore
glosses: The oldsquaw.
Synonyms: sense: one who scolds
word: castigator
sense: one who scolds
word: censurer
sense: one who scolds
word: vituperator
castigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castigators
Etymology: From castigate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who castigates.
Synonyms: censurer
scolder
vituperator
pyrogallate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrogallates
Etymology: From pyrogallol + -ate (salt or ester).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of the phenol pyrogallol when viewed as an acid.
pyrogallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + gallic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to pyrogallol (pyrogallic acid).
pyrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrogens
Etymology: From pyro- + -gen.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any substance that produces fever, or a rise in body temperature
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance characterized by great flammability, typically used to coat electric matches.
Synonyms: pyrectic
pyrectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: pyrectics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any substance that produces fever or a rise in body temperature.
Synonyms: pyrogen
pyrectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more pyrectic
form: most pyrectic
Senses: glosses: Producing fever or a rise in body temperature.