cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
warpless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From warp + -less.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Without a warp.
examples: a warpless speedrun
topics: video-games
glosses: Without the use of warps to travel between sections of the game world.
puring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pure
lyxosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyxoside
trimethylborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethylborates
form: trimethyl borate
Etymology: From trimethyl + borate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound B(OCH₃)₃, used as a precursor to boronic esters for Suzuki couplings.
trimethylborates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimethylborate
Banana Pancake Trail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Banana Pancake Trail
Senses: glosses: Those routes around Southeast Asia that are popular with backpackers and tourists, and whose inhabitants have therefore started to cater to Western tastes.
Synonyms: Banana Pancake Circuit
twenteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twenteens
Etymology: Blend of twenty + -teen
Senses: examples: text: The classic banner ad that had been driving Internet marketing for a decade would eventually die off, because on social networks it wasn't about throwing ads like confetti at users—it was about integrating product experience. And the demographic that first tuned into social networks—teens, “twenteens,” which was how some in their early twenties not ready to graduate to adulthood referred to themselves, and young working stiffs—were the consumers of the future.
ref: 2010, Adam Penenberg, Viral Loop: The Power of Pass-It-On:
text: But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.
ref: 2015, Rose Bretécher, Pure:
glosses: A person in their twenties who still has teenage tastes and attitudes.
twenteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twenteen
ultrahyped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrahyped
form: most ultrahyped
Etymology: From ultra- + hyped.
Senses: examples: text: Personally, while I appreciate the role that solid and thoughtful public relations can play in selling most toys, I'm not in favor of the ultrahyped approach, often fueled by the media. Ultrahyped toys are at risk of burning out faster because they have a frenzied cycle: interest — shortage — hype — more shortage — more hype — frantic purchase — demise. The purchase becomes a goal in itself (over and above the satisfaction the toy can bring).
ref: 2003, Gene Del Vecchio, The Blockbuster Toy!: How to Invent the Next Big Thing, page 197:
glosses: Promoted with an extreme amount of hype.
quadrupel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrupels
Senses: glosses: A kind of dark beer with 10% or more alcohol by volume.
Synonyms: word: quad
quadrupels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrupel
butcher stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcher's stripes
Etymology: Traditionally seen on butchers' aprons.
Senses: glosses: Vertical stripes on a garment, usually thin white stripes on a navy blue background.
butcher's stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butcher stripes.
Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An important generalization of the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem about complex manifolds.
slightlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slightly: more slightly
slightliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slightly: most slightly
stone money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Large circular limestone disks used as a form of currency by the Yapese people.
Synonyms: rai
how the sausage gets made
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: how the sausage is made
Etymology: A reference to the aphorism "Anyone who loves the law or sausages should never watch either being made"; sausage-making often uses animal parts of which people would rather remain unaware.
Senses: examples: text: It is worlds away from conducting exciting operations, but it allows the officer to see "how the sausage gets made" and a stint in the post usually leads to a more desirable position.
ref: 2007, Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game, page 163:
text: Nevertheless, reform-minded media professionals cannot seem to part with the idea that there is a substantial readership beyond those who subscribe to trade publications willing to spend money to read about how the sausage gets made in the news media business or to read critiques of press performance.
ref: 2008, Arthur S. Hayes, Press Critics are the Fifth Estate: Media Watchdogs in America, page 93:
text: I wanted to divulge not only “how the sausage gets made” (i.e., how film and television properties are actually conveyed through the stages of development, financing, production, screening, and promotion around the world) but also to unveil the wizards behind the tiers of curtains.
ref: 2017, Heather Hale, How to Work the Film & TV Markets: A Guide for Content Creators:
glosses: The unpleasant way in which a process or activity is carried on behind the scenes.
bounce rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bounce rates
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: The proportion of visitors who arrive at a website and then leave rather than continuing to view other pages within the same site.
bounce rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bounce rate
anteverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + verbal.
Senses: examples: text: But his poetic mysticism is irreligious; God has become a "drug," a means of provoking the mystical nirvana. The dream state, the mere emptying out of content, is followed by a second, more active one. Out of the "lethal" experience is projected the intoxication immediately preceding the finding of words. While the Ego is suspended in the tranquillity of the dream, an "original vision" (Urgesicht) emerges from it: "In the original vision life is superseded (anteverbal source of instinct), life ..."
ref: 1954, Folio:
text: ... beast-shaped, sphinx-pouched features of the primal face. I recalled the dicta of certain profoundly experienced men, that evil would come of their telling all they knew. I thought of the strange adages, that one should give up searching for the ultimate words that need only be spoken to unhinge heaven and earth. I sniffed in masks, I rattled in runes, I dove into demons with sleep-craving brutality, with mythical instincts, in the anteverbal, instinctual threat of prehistoric neura; I began to ...
ref: 1960, Gottfried Benn, Primal Vision: Selected Writings, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 37:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:anteverbal.
glosses: Prior to being verbal (using words).
examples: text: Among the eleven such relationships within binary tactical phrases are anteverbal (nominal or pronominal material preceding verbal material, and postverbal (nominal or pronominal material following verbal material), and when relationships like the anteverbal and postverbal ...
ref: 1963, Report of the Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:anteverbal.
glosses: Preceding a verb.
immunoedited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + edited.
Senses: glosses: Having undergone immunoediting.
microground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + ground.
Senses: examples: microground coffee
glosses: Ground very finely.
quasiinvariant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quasi-invariant.
quasi-invariant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasiinvariant
Etymology: From quasi- + invariant.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:quasiinvariant.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Preserving a specified property under transformation.
hyletically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hyletic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of hyletics.
dark blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark blues
Senses: glosses: A deep, dim blue colour: navy or similar.
examples: text: The university did not touch my world directly but you couldn't be a boy in Oxford without supporting the dark blues against the Cambridge light blues, in the boat race […]
ref: 2018, Will Wyatt, Oxford Boy: A Post-War Townie Childhood:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
coordinate_terms: light blue
glosses: A member of the Oxford rowing team.
light blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light blues
Etymology: From Middle English light blewe, equivalent to light + blue.
Senses: glosses: A pale blue colour: sky blue or similar.
examples: text: The university did not touch my world directly but you couldn't be a boy in Oxford without supporting the dark blues against the Cambridge light blues, in the boat race […]
ref: 2018, Will Wyatt, Oxford Boy: A Post-War Townie Childhood:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
coordinate_terms: dark blue
glosses: A member of the Cambridge rowing team.
tribalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tribalises
form: tribalising
form: tribalised
form: tribalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tribalize.
tribalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tribalise
tribalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tribalise
tribalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tribalise
VOMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VOM
voltohmmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voltohmmeter
chelped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chelp
voltohmmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltohmmeters
Senses: glosses: A combined voltmeter and ohmmeter.
Gelfond's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Soviet mathematician Алекса́ндр О́сипович Ге́льфонд (Alexander Osipovich Gelfond).
Senses: examples: text: 2009, Samuel W. Gilbert, The Riemann Hypothesis and the Roots of the Riemann Zeta Function, BookSurge Publishing, page 93,
Gelfond's constant satisfies the identity
e^π=(-1)⁻ⁱ
Therefore, the roots of the Riemann zeta function are defined by geometrical constraints of the discrete partial sums of the Dirichlet series terms by continuous and geometrically equivalent envelopes defined by powers of Gelfond's constant.
text: and we have the promised appearance of Gelfond's constant.
ref: 2007, Julian Havil, Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas, Princeton University Press, page 143, This means that ∑ₙₑᵥₑₙV_n(1)=∑ₘ₌₁ ᪲V_2m(1)=∑ₘ₌₁ ᪲(πᵐ)/(m!)=e^π-1
text: 2016, Ravi P. Agarwal, Hans Agarwal, Syamal K. Sen, Birth, growth and computation of pi to ten trillion digits, David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein (editors, Pi: The Next Generation, Springer, page 403,
Alexander Osipovich Gelfond (1906-1968) was a Soviet mathematician. He proved that e^π (Gelfond's constant) is transcendental, but nothing yet is known about the nature of the numbers π + e, πe, or πᵉ.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The value e^π (approximately 23.140692632779), known to be transcendental.
wikipedia: Alexander Gelfond
lagabag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagabags
Senses: glosses: A lazybones.
ubercool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ubercool
form: most ubercool
form: übercool
Etymology: From uber- + cool.
Senses: examples: text: Wow! That was ubercool!
text: Even the most ubercool, kitsch-hating teetotaller will sooner or later gravitate to the world’s most famous beer hall out of sheer curiosity.
ref: 2010 March, Marc Di Duca, “Hofbräuhaus, Munich”, in Germany, 6th edition, Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 9, column 1:
glosses: The augmentative form of cool: very cool.
ever-watchful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ever watchful
form: everwatchful
Etymology: From ever + watchful.
Senses: examples: text: But we must not forget the ever-watchful care which comes to us day by day when there is no emergency and when no special danger is in sight.
ref: 1920, The Sabbath Recorder, volume 89, page 132:
text: […] it had to maintain an ever-watchful eye on expenditure; […].
ref: 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:
text: An ever-watchful shepherd not only looks out for bad men and bad teachings. He is also ever watchful of the spiritual condition of his sheep.
ref: 2014, Nathan Brown, An Open Door: Evangelism through the Spiritual Gifts, page 64:
glosses: Constantly vigilant
chromocentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromocentres
Etymology: From chromo- + centre.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of karyosome.
synonyms: word: karyosome
Related terms: chromocentric
chromocystoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromocystoscopies
Etymology: From chromo- + cystoscopy.
Senses: glosses: cystoscopy aided by the use of dyes
Related terms: chromocystoscopic
chromogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The biosynthesis of pigments
chromolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromolipids
Etymology: From chromo- + lipid.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lipochrome.
synonyms: word: lipochrome
chromolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chromatolysis.
chromonar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carbocromen.
synonyms: word: carbocromen
chromophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromo- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chromatophilia.
chromotrichia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hair colouration
chromotrichial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to chromotrichia
chromotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromotropes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of dyes that change colour under certain circumstances
Related terms: chromotropic
chronaximeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronaximeters
Etymology: From chronaxie + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure chronaxie
Related terms: chronaximetry
chronaximetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chronaxie + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of chronaxies
Related terms: chronaximeter
chronopharmacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrono- + pharmacology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of pharmacology concerned with the interaction of drugs and biorhythms
Related terms: chronopharmacological
chronotaraxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A distorted perception of time
chronotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrono- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Modification of the regularity of a periodical movement, such as the heart's action
Synonyms: chronotropy
Related terms: chronotrope
chronotropic
everwatchful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ever + watchful.
Senses: glosses: Continuously vigilant
Paeonians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paeonian
Paeonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /piˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Paeonia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: the Indo-European language spoken by the Paeonians
Paeonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /piˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Paeonians
Etymology: From Paeonia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: a person from Paeonia; a people related to the Thracians
Paeonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /piˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Paeonia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Paeonia or its people
technomancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technomancers
Etymology: From techno- + -mancer.
Senses: examples: text: Magetech only represents one facet of technomancy. It allows you to take a pile of metal parts, Power Crystals, Focussing Crystals, and whatever else you've gathered and turn the whole mess into a technomantic device. Great! You're still no technomancer.
ref: 1993, David B. Pilurs, Lenore R. Caruso, Sara L. Caruso, Sun and Storm: The Enchiridion, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Speed Demon sprinted by within inches of S.C. and suddenly the technomancer looked down to find his hands empty and his ray gun missing in action.
ref: 2008, Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws, →ISBN:
text: What happened was that the bulk of the technomancers and the priests got behind the ideas expressed in Darwin's book, because they gave everyone pretty much what they wanted.
ref: 2011, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett, Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, →ISBN, page 55:
text: I have visions of a Zeropolis so technologically superior to what you've put together so far that it will boggle your mind. You are a very talented technomancer.
ref: 2015, Brandon Mull, Crystal Keepers, →ISBN, page 430:
glosses: One who is skilled in technomancy.
technomancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technomancer
technomantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technomantic
form: most technomantic
Etymology: From technomancy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Magetech only represents one facet of technomancy. It allows you to take a pile of metal parts, Power Crystals, Focussing Crystals, and whatever else you've gathered and turn the whole mess into a technomantic device.
ref: 1993, David B. Pilurs, Lenore R. Caruso, Sara L. Caruso, Sun and Storm: The Enchiridion, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Gideon thought he had won her cooperation, her agreement not to try to undermine the technomantic power structure that, in his words, held the city together.
ref: 2000, Stewart Wieck, Truth Until Paradox, →ISBN, page 45:
text: When the cow-sized mravi entered, bringing the drug administering technomantic apparatus, Spooky held out a hand to stop it for just a second.
ref: 2014, Andrew J Brown, Joseph B Collins, Ultraverse, →ISBN:
text: Redfang was fond of Alaeron, and respected enough in the town for that fondness to extend an aura of general protection to the outsiders, but even a whiff of the technomantic arts could lead to a sudden shift in tone, and the two newcomers could easily find themselves the subjects of a show trial that would end with the two of them fed to a bear, or given some other appropriately rustic form of execution.
ref: 2015, Tim Pratt, Pathfinder Tales: Reign of Stars, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Pertaining to technomancy.
chrysoidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysoidins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chrysoidine.
chylangioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chylangiomas
Etymology: From chylo- + angioma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A tumor filled with chyle
chylocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chylo- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of elephantiasis
chylopericardium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chylo- + pericardium.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of chyle in the pericardium
chylopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chylo- + -poietic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chylopoiesis
chylosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chylo- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The formation and subsequent digestion and transport of chyle
Nipkow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
Derived terms: Nipkow disc
Nipkow disk
chymosinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prochymosin.
synonyms: word: prochymosin
cinchol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sitosterol.
synonyms: word: sitosterol
ever-changing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Will the May timetable still be introduced?
That depends on whether the UK's lockdown measures are lifted before the start date, which (at this time) looks extremely unlikely. With an ever-changing situation and dramatically reduced travel, it seems likely that some changes to timetables will be made, but it is too early to say whether the full timetable will be introduced.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: COVID-19: Questions and Answers”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of everchanging.
Indian saffron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From being a spice from the Indian subcontinent that is similar to saffron.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of turmeric.
synonyms: word: turmeric
Related terms: saffron substitute
matapi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matapis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matapee.
matapis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matapi
Talian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Venetan taƚian (“Italian”).
Senses: synonyms: Brazilian Venetan
glosses: A dialect of the Venetan language, spoken in parts of Brazil.
radioloud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: radio-loud
Etymology: From radio- + loud.
Senses: examples: a radioloud neutron star
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
antonyms: radioquiet
glosses: Producing radio emissions.
cineangiocardiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cineangiocardiographies
Etymology: From cine- + angiocardiography.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An imaging technique that uses videography to capture the passage of a contrast agent through the chambers of the heart.
cineangiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cineangiographies
Etymology: From cine- + angiography.
Senses: glosses: cinematographic angiography
Related terms: cineangiogram
cineangiographic
cinefluorography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinefluorographies
Etymology: From cine- + fluorography.
Senses: glosses: cinematographic fluorography
cinephotomicrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinephotomicrographies
form: cinemicrography
Etymology: From cine- + photomicrography.
Senses: glosses: cinematographic photomicrography
cineplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kineplastic.
cineplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kineplastics.
cineroentgenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cineradiography.
synonyms: word: cineradiography
K-ration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K-rations
Etymology: Coined by the United States War Department in or about 1942, from K + ration. The letter K is arbitrary, chosen to distinguish the name from earlier C ration and D ration.
Senses: examples: text: The K ration is packed in three separate boxes containing breakfast, dinner, and supper. It contains two kinds of biscuit, canned meats, coffee tablets, concentrated bouillon, lemon juice powder, chocolate bar and chewing gum.
ref: 1943 February, “12,000,000 meals a day”, in Popular Mechanics, page 86:
text: The column stopped. The battlewise men at the rear of the column immediately started eating their "K" rations.
ref: 1946, Infantry Journal, volumes 58-59, page 29:
glosses: An individual daily combat food ration introduced by the United States Army during World War II and comprising three courses for breakfast, lunch and supper.
Synonyms: Keys ration
K-rat
Coordinate terms: word: combat ration
alt: C-rat
word: C-ration
alt: D-rat
word: D-ration
word: field ration
alt: IMP
word: individual meal package
alt: MCI
word: meal, combat, individual
alt: MRE
word: meal, ready-to-eat
CNPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CNP
cinerulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The deoxysugar (2S,5R,6S)-5,6-dihydroxy-2-methyloxan-3-one produced by some forms of Streptomyces
cineseismography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cine- + seismography.
Senses: glosses: cinematographic seismography
cinetoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinoplasm.
kinetoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinoplasm.
Saïtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saitic.
cingulectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cingulectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of cingulotomy.
synonyms: word: cingulotomy
ZTz"L
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ZT"L
Caïssa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Invented in 1763 by William Jones for his poem Caïssa.
Senses: examples: text: The Birmingham Meeting would take place shortly after his arrival — the prospect exhibited an opportunity of contest with players of great fame, but above all he looked forward to a struggle with the representative of English Chess, whose name was known and whose reputation was established wherever the votaries of Caïssa dwelt.
ref: 1860, Paul Charles Morphy, Johann Löwenthal, Morphy's Games of Chess:
text: MIRON AND PHANIA, on your bridal day, In joyful strains Caïssa's votaries sing.
ref: 1882, John Augustus Miles, Poems and Chess Problems, page 53:
text: Bringing together the artistry of chess and the gamesmanship of art, Homage to Caïssa represents the tradition as a set of determinations that come to inform any creative move the chess player or artist subsequently makes. As the reference to the muse Caïssa suggests, creativity is now an index not of subjective expression but, rather, of the poetic redeployment of prior determinations.
ref: 2010, Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp, Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: A Thracian dryad who is portrayed as the goddess of chess
wikipedia: William Jones
circhoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to biorhythms that are approximately hourly
Related terms: circadian
circumanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + anal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the anus
Derived terms: circumanal gland
circumarticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + articular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding a joint
circumintestinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + intestinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of perienteric.
synonyms: word: perienteric
perienteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + enteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the intestine
Synonyms: circumintestinal
school resource officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school resource officers
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A police officer stationed at a school, such as a high school.
Synonyms: word: resource officer
word: SRO
Derived terms: word: SRO
circumlental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + lental.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the lens of the eye
Synonyms: perilenticular
perilenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + lenticular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the lens of the eye
Synonyms: circumlental
school resource officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school resource officer
resource officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resource officers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of school resource officer.
synonyms: word: school resource officer
resource officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resource officer
circummandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From circum- + mandibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the mandible
circumzygomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Etymology: From circum- + zygomatic.
Senses: glosses: Around the zygomatic arch
Derived terms: circumzygomatic fixation
circumzygomatic wiring
tomodensitometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tomo- + densitometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to tomodensitometry.
tomodensitometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: By means of tomodensitometry.
claudicatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to claudication.
corticoreticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + reticular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to cortex and reticulum.
craniocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + cardiac.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cranium and the heart.
ourang-outan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ourang-outans
Senses: glosses: Rare form of orangutan.
ourang-outans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ourang-outan
edwardsiellosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Edwardsiellosis of eel breaks out with high incidences every year in farm ponds in the Yoshida area (Wakabayashi and Egusa, 1973b), but is uncommon in other eel-culturing areas. Recently, however, E. tarda was reported to be isolated from eels in farm ponds in Aichi Prefecture adjacent to Shizuoka Prefecture (Uno and Muroga, 1974).
ref: 1976, Syuzo Egusa, “Some Bacterial Diseases of Freshwater Fishes in Japan”, in Fish Pathology, volume 10, number 2, page 103:
text: According to the available reports, edwardsiellosis is restricted to the southern states of the USA and Japan.
ref: 1992, Wilhelm Schäperclaus, Fish diseases, volume 1, page 530:
glosses: A disease of fish caused by the pathogenic bacterium Edwardsiella tarda.
electrogoniometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrogoniometer
electrogoniometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + goniometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electrogoniometry or measured using an electrogoniometer
licofelone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The analgesic and antiinflammatory drug [6-(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2-dimethyl-7-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrrolizin-5-yl]acetic acid
minitransposon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minitransposons
Etymology: From mini- + transposon.
Senses: glosses: A small transposon
Related terms: plasposon
plasposon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasposons
Senses: glosses: A modular self-cloning minitransposon
osteoarthrosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteoarthrosis
weightage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weightages
Etymology: From weight (verb) + -age.
Senses: examples: text: [W]eightage, not by numerical strength but by political importance and value of the contribution made to the defence of the Empire.
ref: 1906 October 1, Azim Husain, quoting a deputation of leading Muslims headed by the Aga Khan, “Muslim Politics 1905-1920”, in Fazl-i-Husain: A Political Biography, Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., published 1946, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of weighting.
synonyms: word: weighting
weightages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weightage
blackthorn winter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackthorn winters
Etymology: So-called because it (typically) falls when blackthorn is flowering.
Senses: examples: text: Blackthorn winters were most severe; (I.) a week at the end of March; (II.) April 13th to 26th. Two perennial springs, in different ranges of hills, failed.
ref: 1885, Great Britain. Meteorological Office, British Rainfall, page 98:
text: An inveterate custom of English conversation, combined with the engaging versatility of the English climate, from which the custom derives both its origin and its vigour, must be our excuse for devoting some specific attention to this branch of the English weather. … In similar fashion we made observe, mutatis mutandis, of the blackthorn winter that, though small, it is peculiarly bitter. … Providence does not invariably temper the wind of the blackthorn winter for him. On the contrary, he too often finds that a balmy north-easter will effectually temper the rise of the May-fly, …
ref: 1888 May 19, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, section Blackthorn Winter, page 590
text: [...] when, sick for home, she stood in tears amid the alien corn, the chimp's sad heart was charmed by no nightingale, for the bird had not yet returned to Stotfield, and what corn was showing was but a scanty acid green, ragged among the flints of those chilly fields. It was the blackthorn winter, and Emily, who had been sent out to gather primroses, found the thin stuff dress she now wore, designed by Amy to resemble the drabbest of charity child's garments, to be but a miserable covering ...
ref: 1957, John Collier, His Monkey Wife: or Married to a Chimp, →ISBN, page 62:
text: A similar term was 'blackthorn winter', which perhaps referred to the frequent cold snaps that occur when the sloes, or blackthorns, flower in late March or April. Blackthorn is a relative of hawthorn but flowers earlier, before it produces foliage. Blackthorn is a common hedgerow tree of chalk and limestone areas, where it seems to thrive better and produce more fruit than on acid or clay soils. But a blackthorn winter may shrivel the flowers in bud or deter bees from pollinating the flowers, ...
ref: 1989, Brian Lee, Fields and Hedgerows:
synonyms: blackberry winter
qualifier: especially rustic UK
glosses: A period of cold weather in spring or early summer (March, April or May).
Coordinate terms: blackberry winter
katagenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catagenesis.
kinkstress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinkstresses
Etymology: From kinkster + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Maddy was in no particular order an heiress, a celebrity, and a renowned kinkstress with enough BDSM accoutrements to open her own dungeon.
ref: 2017, Thea de Salle, The Lady of Royale Street:
glosses: A female kinkster.
kinkstresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinkstress
BOFT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bureau of Foreign Trade.
Sonbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sonbies
Etymology: Blend of Sony + zombie
Senses: glosses: One who is blindly supportive of Sony's products.
Sonbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sonbie
saltyback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saltyback
form: most saltyback
Senses: examples: text: [Sparrow Saltskin:] All the good I done was to get Frankie saltyback at me.
ref: 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:
glosses: Irritated, annoyed, soured.
Synonyms: salty
mediums of exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medium of exchange
O'Connell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: O'Connells
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Ó Conaill (“descendant of Connel”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: O'Connellism
O'Connellite
Related terms: Connel
Connell
Connelly
McConnell
layes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laye
winedark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And our eyes are on Europe, says the citizen. We had our trade with Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were pupped, Spanish ale in Galway, the winebark on the winedark waterway.
ref: , Episode 12, The Cyclops
text: Mr. Fitts, who took his A.B. at Harvard in 1925, is Instructor in English at Phillips Academy, Andover.
Palamedes: A Mystical Colloquy
Peacock-shooting once on the Essex marshes
with David McCord, hunched in that cold blind,
at first my literal mind
could only gape at what treasure the winedark sea,
or its winedark inscrutable backwash, had cast up
at our frozen feet — an inscription, a kind of kenning,
blazed on an oar-blade: haddock hateth hake.
'An inscrutable, winedark message ...'
ref: 1961, Harvard Alumni Bulletin: volume 64, page 20:
text: Sailing on a winedark open sea.
ref: 1993, Paul McCartney, Winedark Open Sea, on the album Off The Ground
glosses: Alternative form of wine-dark.
wine-dark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: winedark
Etymology: The traditional translation/calque of Ancient Greek οἶνοψ (oînops), equivalent to wine + dark.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: vinous, vinaceous, wine-blue, winelike
text: He had that type of countenance which dim tradition was already beginning to assign to the Son of Man—the perfectly oval face, the waved and wine-dark hair, the glowing complexion, the eyes whose depths seemed to be lighted by some holy spiritual flame within—of Him who had been fairer than the children of men.
ref: 2015, Frederic W. Farrar, Gathering Clouds: A Tale of The Days of Saint Chrysostom:
text: The Trojan War was probably real enough, but the myths of Aeneas crossing the wine-dark Mediterranean to lay the foundations of the Roman Empire in Italy, and Brutus's subsequent journey to fill Britain with descendants of the Trojans, are myths.
ref: 2015, Anthony Adolph, Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British, page 200:
glosses: Resembling the dark color (or perhaps other properties) of red wine.
raw_tags: of the sea
glosses: Resembling the dark color (or perhaps other properties) of red wine.
Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.
coordinate_terms: wine-blue
vinaceous
raw_tags: of the sea
wine-dark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winedark
Etymology: The traditional translation/calque of Ancient Greek οἶνοψ (oînops), equivalent to wine + dark.
Senses: coordinate_terms: wine-blue
vinaceous
glosses: A specific color among several that represent red wine.
edaphons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edaphon
CSRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CSR
work round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works round
form: working round
form: worked round
form: worked round
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of work around.
cirrhogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That leads to cirrhosis
microendemisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microendemism
cyclodestructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyclo- + destructive.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: That causes damage to the ciliary body in order to reduce watering as a result of glaucoma
Related terms: cyclocryocoagulation
cyclocryotherapy
cyclodiathermy
cyclophotocoagulation
formiminoglutamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermediate in the metabolism of histidine. (See biomarker applications at formiminoglutamate.)
Synonyms: FIGLU
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: formiminoglutamate
FIGLU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of formiminoglutamic acid.
microcheat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microcheats
form: microcheating
form: microcheated
form: microcheated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micro-cheat.
Derived terms: microcheater
microcheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcheats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micro-cheat.
microcheats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microcheat
microcheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcheat
microcheating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microcheat
microcheated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microcheat
microcheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcheaters
Etymology: From microcheat + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micro-cheater.
microcheaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcheater
-mont
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From French -mont, from French mont (“hill, mountain”).
Senses: glosses: Forming a placename or a surname derived therefrom and denoting or connoting a hill or mountain; sometimes (as in estate names) used more for euphony and connotation than for geomorphic denotation. Word formation in English using the suffix to name towns and family estates was most productive in the mid-19th through mid-20th centuries.
Derived terms: word: Beaumont
word: with roots meaning beautiful hill
word: mountain
word: Belmont
word: Breezemont
word: with roots meaning breezy hill
word: Clairmont
word: with roots meaning clear
word: light-colored
word: shining hill
word: Craigmont
word: with roots meaning Craig's hill
word: Crestmont
word: with roots meaning crest of the hill
word: Edgemont
word: with roots meaning edge of the hill
word: Fairmont
english: beautiful
translation: beautiful
word: with roots meaning fair hill
english: beautiful
translation: beautiful
word: mountain
word: Fremont
word: with roots meaning cold hill
word: Glenmont
word: with roots meaning glen[-adorned] hill
word: Philmont
word: with roots meaning Phillips'
word: Philip's hill
word: Rosemont
word: with roots meaning rose[-adorned] hill
Related terms: word: mount
word: Vermont
word: with roots meaning green mountains
thoracic duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracic ducts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A major vessel of the lymphatic system that originates in the abdomen and drains into the blood circulation at the commencement of the left brachiocephalic vein.
thoracic ducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracic duct
tizzic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tizzics
Senses: examples: text: For sette ye case, there colde be made of physick A draughte as long, who wolde not beare his tizzic, Blotches, or blaines, and rot in veray bonés, Sooner than draine swiche potion all at onés ?
ref: 1860, Thornton Leigh Hunt, The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, page 172:
text: About a dozen big stages hung on to one machine. After a good deal of fuss we all got seated and moved slowly off, the engine wheezing as though she had the tizzic.
ref: 1874, John Stevens, Cabot Abbott, David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, page 268:
text: Robinson didn't like cats. She hated them. She said they gave you the tizzic.
ref: 1977, Bim - Volume 2, page 79:
text: I had forgotten how much my father hated cats, thinking his irritation at my childhood Persian was simply due to his habitual squeamishness, as the animal had tizzic, a perpetual cough caused by eating ground lizards.
ref: 2007, Sandra Martin, The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write about Their Fathers, →ISBN:
glosses: Nonstandard form of phthisic.
tizzics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tizzic
thigh gaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thigh gap
zhaleika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhaleikas
Etymology: From Russian жале́йка (žaléjka).
Senses: examples: text: Zhaleika playing
I cherish the zhaleika given to me by the self-taught craftsman as a precious souvenir.
ref: 1983, Culture and Life:
text: We played music for hours: Polish folk songs; church music; and three songs I'd improbably adapted for our zhaleikas, "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" because my singing along to that record had caused more groans in our house than anything else, and "Your Song" and "Hey Jude."
[…]
 She put my instrument in my hands and she extracted her own zhaleika from the bag she'd carried mine in.
ref: 2011, Meg Waite Clayton, The Four Ms. Bradwells, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, pages 141 and 185:
glosses: A Russian (or broader Slavic) wind instrument with one or two pipes.
zhaleikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zhaleika
seerhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seerhand
superminorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superminority
unstolid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstolid
form: most unstolid
Etymology: From un- + stolid.
Senses: glosses: Not stolid.
style manual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: style manuals
Senses: synonyms: manual of style
MOS
MoS
stylebook
hypernyms: style guide
coordinate_terms: stylesheet
style sheet
glosses: A large style guide that constitutes an entire manual, whether online, in print, or both.
wikipedia: AMA Manual of Style
CSE Manual
Chicago Manual of Style
style manuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of style manual
Rasputin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Распу́тин (Raspútin).
Senses: glosses: Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916), a Russian mystic.
examples: text: Nothing could better describe the numb-skulled thinking behind the havoc that President Donald Trump and his trade Rasputin, Peter Navarro, have wrought on the global economy.
ref: 2025 May 5, “This time really is different for the dollar, writes Kenneth Rogoff”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 05 May 2025:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916), a Russian mystic.
Any influential political advisor who is considered a poor influence due to being a quack or charlatan.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Rasputinesque
Rasputinian
Batino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calamba, Laguna, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Calapan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.