cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
animatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animatisms
Etymology: From animate + -ism. Originally coined by British anthropologist Robert Marett to refer to "a belief in a generalized, impersonal power over which people have some measure of control".
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The belief that everything is pervaded by a life force giving each inanimate object a consciousness or personality, but not a soul as in animism.
annihilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈnaɪ.ɪləbəl/
Forms: form: more annihilable
form: most annihilable
Etymology: From Latin annihilābilis, from annihilō. Equivalent to annihilate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: [Space] cannot be a created Subſtance; becauſe vve cannot conceive it creable or annihilable; and therefore it carries vvith it an Idea of neceſſary Exiſtence; […]
ref: 1733, I[saac] W[atts], “Essay I. A Fair Enquiry and Debate Concerning Space. Sect[ion] V. Space Cannot be God.”, in Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects, […], London: […] Richard Ford […], and Richard Hett […], →OCLC, page 19:
text: The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC, page 129:
glosses: Capable of being annihilated; able to be destroyed completely.
Derived terms: inannihilable
unannihilable
anniseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aniseed.
Maconite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maconites
Etymology: From Macon + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the city of Macon, in the US state of Georgia.
macrandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having antheridia formed on normal-sized male vegetative filaments.
Related terms: annandrous
micrandrous
monoecious
antheridia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antheridium
antheridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antheridia
Etymology: From anther + -idium.
Senses: examples: text: Ascodesmis is a third type which might be derived either directly or through the erysiphaceous type from an endomycetous ancestor; the antheridium and oogonium are but little differentiated, but the latter is furnished with a trichogyne and becomes septate after fertilization; the ascogenous hyphae are few and the sheath simple.
ref: 2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, page 54:
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organ producing male gametes called antherozoids, found in some algae, ferns, and bryophytes.
Derived terms: antheridial
Related terms: english: the female equivalent
translation: the female equivalent
word: archegonium
antheridial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced in, the antheridium
crabmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab meat
Etymology: From crab + meat.
Senses: glosses: The meat of a crab.
anticipative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticipative
form: most anticipative
Etymology: From anticipate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: […] protestations of friendship, and expressions anticipative of the pleasure which must inevitably flow from so happy an acquaintance, were exchanged […]
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to anticipation; inclined to anticipate; expectant.
Derived terms: anticipatively
anticipativeness
nonanticipative
unanticipative
anticipatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anticipatively
form: most anticipatively
Etymology: From anticipative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an anticipative manner; expectantly.
macraner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macraners
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An unusually large male ant.
micraner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micraners
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An unusually small male ant.
micraners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micraner
macraners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macraner
macrergate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrergates
Etymology: From macro- + ergate.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An unusually large worker ant.
micrergate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrergates
Etymology: From micro- + ergate.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An unusually small worker ant.
micrergates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micrergate
macrergates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrergate
macritude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: leanness
macroalgal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + algal.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, macroalga.
microalgal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + algal.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, microalga.
macrourid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrourids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish of the family Macrouridae; a rattail.
macrourids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrourid
rattail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: răt′-tāl′
ipa: /ˈɹæt.teɪl/
rhymes: -æteɪl
Forms: form: rattails
form: rat-tail
Etymology: From rat + tail: all of the nonliteral senses come from something else's fancied resemblance to the tail of a rat.
Senses: examples: text: In the North Atlantic, Russians pioneered the harvesting of rattails, a ubiquitous deep fish with big eyes and a long tail that swishes back and forth in a sinuous motion.
ref: 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: grenadier
macrourid
whiptail
glosses: Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
glosses: A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).
examples: text: All of which could explain why, when I had my hair styled in a tight ponytail for the shoot accompanying this feature, most people who saw me thought I looked "unapproachable" (which might simply be a polite way of saying: "You looked like you had a rattail and a Croydon facelift").
ref: 2013 July 28, Elizabeth Day, The Observer:
glosses: A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.
synonyms: rat-tail file
glosses: A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.
glosses: A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.
glosses: An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
glosses: The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.
Hypernyms: english: structural
translation: structural
word: tail
Derived terms: giant rattail
rattail cactus
rattail crassula
rattail radish
Related terms: topics: hairstyle
hairdressing
crafts
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
word: mullet
hôtels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hôtel
anticipately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anticipately
form: most anticipately
Etymology: From anticipate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In anticipation, in advance; anticipatedly.
rattails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattail
macula lutea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maculae luteae
Etymology: From Latin macula (“stain, blemish”) + lūtea (“saffron yellow”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: macula (yellow spot in the human eye)
maculiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From macule + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: […] combined with the earth's rotation on the axis, so the maculiferous belts of the sun may owe their origin to a greater equatorial efflux of heat, combined with the axial rotation of the luminary.
ref: 1863, John Herschel, Good words, page 280:
text: They place in a very clear and unmistakable light the anticipation in point of time of the occurrence of the maximum of maculiferous excitement before the middle of the total period which the present rapidly increasing number of spots actually in progress seems to promise fully to confirm for the period (1866·6-1877·7); and here I cannot help observing that although the lengths of the three periods here embraced vary between 9·81 and 12·68 years, yet the mean of the three is almost exactly 11·1, and this agrees with the whole course of the solar history since 1800, which was a year of maximum.
ref: 1870, Warren de la Rue, “Researches on Solar Physics”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 160, page 397:
text: There on the Spanish Steps / sunlight had long since gone, / leaving maculiferous American ladies
ref: 1962, “fragment for o'casey”, in George Dorsey, editor, Contact: The San Francisco Collection of New Writing, Art and Ideas, numbers 10-14:
glosses: Having macules or spots.
Synonyms: maculous
marthambles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marthambles
form: markambles
Etymology: Apparently coined by a Dr. Tufts of early 18th-century London, as the name of one of five diseases his medicine was claimed to be able to cure.
According to C.J.S. Thompson's "The Quacks of Old London" (page 110), the marthambles is one of several nonexistent diseases invented by Dr. Tufts in a pamphlet circa 1700 in order to sell his tonics and medicines. Other diseases mentioned in Tufts' pamphlet are the "Strong Fives", the "Moon Pall", and the "Hockogrockle". Tufts claimed to have encountered these diseases on his travels over a period of forty years, and that he could cure them all.
Senses: examples: text: These are to give notice, (for the benefit of the public,) that there is newly arrived from his travels, a gentleman, who, after above forty years' study, hath, by a wonderful blessing on his endeavours, discovered, as well the nature as the infallible cure of several strange diseases, which (though as yet not known to the world) he will plainly demonstrate to any ingenious artist, to be the greatest causes of the most common distempers incident to the body of man. The names of which take as follow : / The strong fives / The marthambles / The moon-pall / The hockogrocle.
ref: circa 1700, Dr. Tufts, handbill, as reproduced in Relics of Literature by Ruben Percy, published 1828, page 218
text: If you can manage an attack of the Marthambles, we could persuade one to say an incantation over you. You would then be anointed with infallible remedies -- say, live earworms mashed into alcohol.
ref: 1971, Dorothy Dunnett, The Ringed Castle, Vintage, published 1997, →ISBN, page 224:
text: […] Abse, a member of the afterguard, whose complaint was known as the marthambles at sea and griping of the guts by land, a disease whose cause Stephen did not know and whose symptoms he could only render more nearly bearable by opiates […]
ref: 1991, Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: A particular ailment unknown to, and uncurable by, medical science
raw_tags: used in historical fiction
anticipatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anticipatedly
form: most anticipatedly
Etymology: From anticipated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an anticipated manner; in advance.
Macusi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Macushi.
anticipatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anticipatingly
form: most anticipatingly
Etymology: From anticipating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an anticipating manner; looking forward; expectantly.
antra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antrum
haoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haole
yobos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yobo
Madagascarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmadəˌɡaˈkɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌmædəˌɡæˈkɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Madagascarian
form: most Madagascarian
Etymology: From Madagascar + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Madagascan.
synonyms: word: Madagascan
Madagascarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmadəˌɡaˈkɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌmædəˌɡæˈkɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Madagascarians
Etymology: From Madagascar + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Madagascan.
synonyms: word: Madagascan
Madagascarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madagascarian
antral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In forms with a modified outer antral fence, both this and the adjacent distal band of the domiciliar wall may be concave and form the antrum (Figs. 6 J-K; 7 B), and in some forms the antrum apparently is formed by the dolon alone (dolonal antrum).
ref: 1964, GFF - Volume 86, page 343:
text: Antral gastritis may be graded as mild, moderate, or severe on the basis of an evaluation of the degree of obliteration of the pyloric glands, the degreee of infiltration of the lamina propria by inflammatory cells, and the presence and extent of intestinal metaplasia.
ref: 1998, Jay H. Stein, Internal Medicine:
text: In sheep and cattle, it takes about 40 days for an early antral follicle (diameter 0.20-0.25 mm) to reach the preovulary stage.
ref: 2003, Ian R. Gordon, Laboratory Production of Cattle Embryos:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an antrum
Derived terms: atticoantral
oroantral
preantral
subantral
transantral
Related terms: extraantral
Madagass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madagasses
Senses: glosses: A negro slave of Madagascan origin.
madapollam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madapollams
form: madapolam
Etymology: From Telugu మాధపొల్లం (mādhapollaṁ), after the village of మాధవయ్య-పాళెము (mādhavayya-pāḷemu) in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Senses: glosses: A soft cotton fabric manufactured from fine yarns.
resail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resails
form: resailing
form: resailed
form: resailed
Etymology: From re- + sail.
Senses: glosses: To sail again.
torchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of torcher
antrectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: antrectomies
Etymology: From antro- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal (resection) of part of the stomach, often combined with a vagotomy.
antrectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antrectomy
midwesterner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midwesterners
Senses: examples: text: But he's not a native midwesterner; he came here from Portland, Oregon, in 1973 to become an architecture student at the U. of I.
ref: 1988 August 26, Sandy Henderson, “In Print: Larry Kanfer's pictures of prairie poetry”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Midwesterner.
Midwesterner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Midwesterners
form: midwesterner
Etymology: From Midwestern + -er.
Senses: examples: text: People from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Kentucky are often considered Midwesterners.
glosses: A person from the Midwest.
Midwesterners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Midwesterner
Midwestern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Midwestern
form: most Midwestern
form: midwestern
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Midwest.
Derived terms: Midwesterner
mads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mad
madded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mad
penis worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penis worms
Etymology: From penis + worm.
Senses: examples: text: Penis worms today use their hydrostatic skeletons to make burrows with a distinctive shape, and paleontologists have discovered similar shapes in rocks 542 million years old.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 30:
synonyms: priapulid
glosses: Any of the marine worms of the phylum Priapulida, with a phallic shape and a spiny proboscis.
Madeiran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Madeiran
form: most Madeiran
Etymology: From Madeira + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or from Madeira.
Madeiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madeirans
Etymology: From Madeira + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Madeira.
maluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malus
maderizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maderize
maderizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maderize
maderized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maderize
lader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laders
Etymology: From lade + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who loads cargo onto a vessel.
penis worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penis worm
madragues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madrague
Madrilenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madrilenian
madroños
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madroño
Madura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Indonesian Madura, said to be from madu (“honey”) + dara (“girl”).
Senses: glosses: An island of Indonesia off the coast of Java.
Derived terms: Maduran
Madurese
Madura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Mathura (“Indian city”).
glosses: Obsolete form of Madurai (“Indian city”).
Madurese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Madurese
form: most Madurese
Etymology: From Madura + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Indonesian island of Madura.
Synonyms: Maduran
Madurese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Madura + -ese.
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken predominantly on the island of Madura.
Synonyms: Maduran
Madurese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Madura + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Raas (“a cat breed”).
synonyms: word: Raas
extra: a cat breed
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Madurese terms
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mad
word: mad
word: mad ⁠
rumpo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rumpy-pumpy + -o.
Senses: examples: text: A film in French with subtitles in which nothing happens for two hours but you'll sit through it because these French films always have a bit of rumpo in somewhere.
ref: 1991, Punch, volume 300, numbers 7862-7873, page 59:
text: He'd been more than happy to impersonate my “valued customer,” especially as he'd been rewarded with a bit of rumpo (on the house) for his pains.
ref: 2014, Carol K. Carr, India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy:
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Maduran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Madura + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Indonesian island of Madura.
Synonyms: Madurese
Maduran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madurans
Etymology: From Madura + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the island of Madura.
Maduran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Madura + -an.
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of Madurese (“an Austronesian language”).
Madurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maduran
Mae Wests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mae West
infoporn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfəʊˌpɔːn/
ipa: /ˈɪnfoʊˌpɔɹn/
Etymology: From info + porn.
Senses: examples: text: This uselessness bestows on art a certain autonomy from the grim dealings in shopworn slogans and infoporn that characterize all other domains of the spectacle.
ref: 2008, McKenzie Wark, 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International, Princeton Architectural Press, page 5
glosses: Information which does not serve a purpose other than to hold the attention of its audience; information for information's sake.
Related terms: clickbait
fluidify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fluidifies
form: fluidifying
form: fluidified
form: fluidified
Etymology: From fluid + -ify.
Senses: glosses: to make fluid
glosses: to become fluid
kinnikinnicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinnikinnick
francocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more francocentric
form: most francocentric
form: franco-centric
Senses: glosses: Centered or focused on France and the French people, language or culture
kinnikinnick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪ.nɪ.kɪˈnɪk/
other: /ˌkɪ.nɪ.kəˈnɪk/
other: /ˈkɪ.nɪ.kəˌnɪk/
Forms: form: kinnikinnicks
Etymology: Originally spelled with an "l" in the first part (i.e. killikinick, killikinnick). From Unami këlëkënikàn (“smoking mixture, killikinick”).
Senses: glosses: A mixture of bark, dried leaves, and often berries and/or tobacco, which is smoked.
examples: text: He ate kinnikinnick berries.
glosses: Any of the plants whose berries, leaves or bark are used in this mixture.
Meronyms: sense: plant
english: Arctostaphylos
translation: Arctostaphylos
word: bearberry
sense: plant
taxonomic: Cornus sericea
word: red osier dogwood
sense: plant
taxonomic: Cornus amomum
word: silky cornel
sense: plant
taxonomic: Cornus canadensis
word: Canadian bunchberry
sense: plant
taxonomic: Rhus virens
word: evergreen sumac
sense: plant
taxonomic: Rhus microphylla
word: littleleaf sumac
canteen cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canteen cups
Senses: examples: text: My tin canteen cup was too hot to touch. I held it in gloved hands, blowing steam from the coffee and watching the sun rise over the fields beyond the fence.
ref: 2005, Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 343:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: mess cup
qualifier: camping
glosses: A metal cup which can be nested on the top or under a canteen.
luciferine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luciferines
Senses: examples: text: These several experiments show that the light produced by the animal is the result of the bringing of a secretion, the luciferine, into contact with the free oxygen in the sea-water, when the luciferine is discharged from the cells[…]
ref: 1916, Ulric Dahlgren, The Production of Light by Animals, page 4:
text: The writer has attempted to devise certain fixations and stains that would serve to determine a substance as luciferine or photogenin or not when this substance was being sought in an organ of unknown location in an animal that had been[…]
ref: 1917, Journal of the Franklin Institute, page 217:
text: The following experiments were planned to secure evidence as to whether Cypridina luciferine and luciferase are proteins. In all the following experiments, luciferase solution which was not treated by HgCl, was used.
ref: 1921, American Journal of Physiology, page 8:
text: As we have seen, it was the French physiologist Raphael Dubois who first determined the presence of luciferine and luciferase in the case of the marine boring bivalve mollusc Pholas dactylus, and also in the case of a terrestrial[…]
ref: 1923, Sir William Abbott Herdman, Founders of Oceanography and Their Work: An Introduction to the Science of the Sea, page 227:
text: A third substance, photophelein, is supposed to be capable of liberating luciferine from some bound condition in solutions containing luciferase. According to Harvey one part of luciferase in 1,700,000,000 parts of water will give[…]
ref: 1924, Swale Vincent, An Introduction to the Study of Secretion, page 76:
text: Its two basic components, the enzyme luciferase and the substrate luciferine, react with each other after activation of the latter by ATP. However, commercial preparations contain several impurities, among which residual ATP[…]
ref: 2012 December 2, Donald Horrocks, Organic Scintillators and Scintillation Counting, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Alternative form of luciferin.
caravanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caravan + -ing.
Senses: glosses: holidaying in a caravan, either mobile or in a permanent site
convexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convex
scanning electron microscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scanning electron microscope
præsentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præsentations
Senses: examples: text: 1778–1795?, Rev. Ezra Stiles, literary diary; reprinted in:
text: In the afternoon the Disputations being ended, I uncovered my head, made a public Præsentation of the Candidates to the Fellows, & addressed them thus : […]
ref: 1901, Franklin Bowditch Dexter, The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, C. Scribner’s sons, page 41:
glosses: Archaic spelling of presentation.
Related terms: præsent
dysgracia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dyscrasia.
præsentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præsentation
lardaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lardaceous
form: most lardaceous
Etymology: From lard + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Resembling lard.
glosses: Containing lard.
butter bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter bombs
Senses: examples: text: ...this wine has the structure for another 1-3 years of aging. Classic WA Chardonnay, great with food, but not the typical "butter bomb" from California (thankfully!).
ref: 1997, Jason Brandt Lewis, “TN: Hyatt Vineyards, WA”, in alt.food.wine (Usenet):
text: ...between $4 and $5 a bottle, you can't go wrong with those big butter-bomb styles.
ref: 2005, Maureen Christian Petrosky, The Wine Club:
text: 1981 — for a wine that saw no malo, this is a butter bomb. Butter over baked apple pie, despite fullness there is good crispness, my favorite of night.
ref: 2007, DaleW, “TN: Charity tasting: Stony Hill, '68 Taurasi,76Prum, '78 Barolo,'00 CSH, more”, in alt.food.wine (Usenet):
text: ...transforms it into a butter bomb. Northwest wine-makers tend to craft lean, crisp versions with more apple than tropical fruit notes...
ref: 2007, Christina Melander, Janis Miglavs, Pacific Northwest: the Ultimate Winery Guide:
text: The result is a creamy, fruit-driven wine that is by no means a butter-bomb.
ref: 2007, Philip Goldsmith, Moon Northern California Wine Country:
glosses: A wine in which diacetyl is deliberately promoted in order to impart a buttery flavour.
butter bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter bomb
madreporites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madreporite
unjealous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjealous
form: most unjealous
Etymology: From un- + jealous.
Senses: glosses: Not jealous.
unjealously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unjealously
form: most unjealously
Etymology: From unjealous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without jealousy; in an unjealous way.
incomprehensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incomprehensively
form: most incomprehensively
Etymology: From incomprehensive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incomprehensive manner.
incomprehensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incomprehensive
form: most incomprehensive
Etymology: From in- + comprehensive.
Senses: glosses: Not comprehensive; shallow, incomplete.
examples: text: So she for those first few moments stood incomprehensive and stared with empty eyes.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: Uncomprehending.
Derived terms: incomprehensively
incomprehensiveness
unibody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unibodies
Etymology: From uni- + body.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An automobile construction technique in which the body is integrated into a single unit with the chassis rather than having a separate body-on-frame.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A body of this type.
examples: text: In selected cases where there is advanced (TASC) D aorto-iliac occlusive disease, treatment with a unibody stent-graft positioned at the aortic bifurcation is a safe and effective treatment.
ref: 2018, Peter Lanzer, Textbook of Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions:
glosses: A shell that is the principal source of structural strength of an object; also, its design and construction.
examples: text: We're looking at the most recent unibody white MacBook here; the first to contain batteries that aren't considered user-serviceable by Apple.
ref: 2012, Mac Maintenance Tips & Tricks, →ISBN:
text: Aesthetics (ID, industrial design) are another obvious reason to go that route, with designers opting for a fluid, unibody motif, since sealed phone body is a beautifully crafted device "... created from a single piece of polycarbonate with precision machined details." This ID design philosophy is in a direct conflict with customers' desire of extended use of their purchased phones; that is, when the sealed battery fails to function because of the limited charging cycles, and a replacement is needed.
ref: 2018, Lih-Tyng Hwang, Tzyy-Sheng Jason Horng, 3D IC and RF SiPs: Advanced Stacking and Planar Solutions for 5G Mobility:
text: Many persons miss this option to simply put in a new battery when the old one is defective as the unibody designs started to take over.
ref: 2016, Michael Galleso, Lg V20: An Easy Guide to the Best Features:
glosses: A style of mobile phone, tablet, or laptop computer where the user cannot replace the battery because the device is manufactured as a single sealed unit.
Related terms: monocoque
unibodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unibody
endogenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endogenizations
Etymology: From endogenize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: the process of endogenizing something.
indies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪndiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of indy
glosses: plural of indie
peletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peleton
syrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syrahs
form: Syrah
Etymology: Borrowed from French syrah. The derivation from the Persian city name of Shiraz (شیراز) is today believed to be a legend. The same goes for derivations from Syria, Syracuse or the Greek island of Syros. The name might be connected to the Celtic root Proto-Celtic *serrā, "billhook", referring to the method of harvesting.
Senses: glosses: A dark-skinned variety of grape, used to produce red wines.
examples: text: There will be organic beer from Anheuser-Busch and Six Gill syrah and Great White chardonnay from Shark Trust Wines, which gives 10 percent of its proceeds to help the endangered marine predators.
ref: 2009 January 18, Leslie Kaufman, “Torn Between Green Galas? At Least They’re a Walk Apart”, in New York Times:
glosses: A wine produced from this variety of grape.
Synonyms: Shiraz
disinvestment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disinvestments
Etymology: From disinvest + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The process of disinvesting; negative investment.
decumulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌkjuːmjəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: decumulations
Senses: glosses: The process of decumulating; in chemistry, any exothermic molecular change that converts a cumulated diene to a conjugated diene.
decumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkjuːmjəleɪt/
Forms: form: decumulates
form: decumulating
form: decumulated
form: decumulated
Etymology: From de- + (ac)cumulate, created as an antonym to accumulate, using the prefix de-. Compare decelerate.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ooner or later, the employed agents will lose their job and start decumulating their wealth again.
ref: 2024, Burkhard Heer, Alfred Maußner, Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling: Computational Methods and Applications, third edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 440:
glosses: To decrease in number.
canteen cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canteen cup
reading week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reading weeks
Etymology: From reading + week.
From every class period of the school day during the school week being a reading period, where students read their notes and self-revised class material in preparation for assessments.
Senses: glosses: A week during a university's term where no teaching takes place, generally so that students may prepare for tests.
glosses: A mid-term break.
A spring break; often specifically the March break.
glosses: A mid-term break.
A harvest break.
Synonyms: revision week
reading break
mgt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mgt.
Senses: topics: management
glosses: Abbreviation of management.
Synonyms: mgmt
disamenities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disamenity
mittenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mittenlike
form: most mittenlike
Etymology: From mitten + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But the doctors had to amputate the top bone of the two bones in each thumb and the top two of the three bones in each of the other eight fingers, leaving her with mittenlike hands.
ref: 1988 April 22, Steve Bogira, “A Fire in the Family”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling mittens
stealthiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Herons hunt by stealth, and the bittern may be the stealthiest of the lot.
ref: 1988 April 22, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: superlative form of stealthy: most stealthy
streamside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stream + -side.
Senses: examples: text: But once upon a time, bitterns nested in every pothole marsh and every streamside cattail patch from British Columbia to Newfoundland and from Florida to California.
ref: 1988 April 22, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Located near or bordering a stream.
streamside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streamsides
Etymology: From stream + -side.
Senses: glosses: The land bordering a stream.
gutturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gutturally
form: most gutturally
Etymology: From guttural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And you still can't imagine the results without blurring and often removing the lines between composition and improvisation, between acoustic and electronic sound, and between the percussive counterpoint posed by Staley's trombone to the weird lyricism Frisell manages to achieve with gutturally synthesized blocks of sound.
ref: 1988 April 22, Neil Tesser, “Bill Frisell, Ikue Mori, Jim Staley”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a harsh or throaty manner.
Related terms: guttural
antiplaque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiplaque
form: most antiplaque
Etymology: From anti- + plaque.
Senses: examples: text: The extract of one plant common in Illinois, Sanguinaria canadensis, or bloodroot, is an ingredient in brand name antiplaque toothpastes; and the National Cancer Institute has contracted with the University of Illinois to help test the antitumor properties of tropical plants.
ref: 1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting to prevent or remove plaque.
favourited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: favorited
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of favourite
beauty-sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘beauty-sleep.’
ref: 1857, Charles Kingsley, “The Cruise of the Waterwitch”, in Two Years Ago, volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 148:
text: And would I please to remember that I had roused him up at night, and the quality always made a point of paying four times over for a man's loss of his beauty-sleep. I replied that his loss of beauty-sleep was rather improving to a man of so high complexion; and that I, being none of that quality, must pay half-quality prices; […]
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, pages 187–188:
text: At first he was quite peevish. "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."
ref: 1915 November, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Mixer: I. He Meets a Shy Gentleman.”, in The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1922, →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of beauty sleep.
pathologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pathologize
pathologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pathologize
pathologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pathologize
pathologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pathologises
form: pathologising
form: pathologised
form: pathologised
Senses: examples: text: […] a wider professional complacency about these interventions has encouraged women to see such adjustments as worthwhile, as opposed to what they usually are: an astonishing, almost comically cynical pathologising of the healthy.
ref: 2009 January 18, Catherine Bennett, “The beauty industry is at it again ... it's not a pretty sight”, The Observer, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pathologize.
replenishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more replenishable
form: most replenishable
Etymology: From replenish + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Time is the most perishable good in the world, and it is not replenishable.
ref: 2009 January 18, Reid Hastie, “Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to be renewed or replenished.
Synonyms: renewable
antiheroine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiheroines
form: anti-heroine
Etymology: From anti- + heroine.
Senses: examples: text: Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House”.
ref: 2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2012:
text: Fictional male antiheroes like television’s crime patriarchs Tony Soprano and Walter White have reigned for some time, but the antiheroine has only more recently had the opportunity to rise up – and become the cause of her own downfall.
And while a “bad woman” may once have meant a period-piece protagonist who prioritized herself over finding a husband, today’s antiheroines are more complex, as the Netflix dark comedy “I Care a Lot” illustrates.
ref: 2021 August 11, Jacqui Palumbo, “Rosamund Pike in ‘I Care a Lot’ and six more recommendations if you love an antiheroine”, in CNN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female antihero.
Related terms: antihero
coldhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coldhearted
form: most coldhearted
Senses: examples: text: Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House”.
ref: 2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2012:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cold-hearted.
Derived terms: coldheartedly
coldheartedness
electability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electabilities
Etymology: From elect + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: That applicant, the aide said, focused on electability and appeal to voters in all 62 counties of New York, and spoke not only of retaining the seat, but of delivering votes for Mr. Paterson. “We figured that the major frame that he’s looking through in this is his own re-election in 2010,” the aide said.
ref: 2009 January 18, David M. Halbfinger, Jeremy W. Peters, “Would-Be Senators Describe Job Interview With the Governor”, in New York Times:
glosses: The capability of a candidate to be elected.
Derived terms: re-electability
Related terms: electable
elect
smoke signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke signals
form: smoke-signal
Senses: qualifier: often pluralized
glosses: A method of long-distance communication sometimes used in ancient and undeveloped societies, consisting of messages conveyed by means of columns or intermittent puffs of smoke.
examples: text: "I have seen the first of the smoke signals, Gulunna," he said, "Chief Bulla's tribes are on their way."
ref: 1944, H. Lorna Bingham, Tuckonie's Warrior Friend, page 33, column 2:
text: However, there are still signs of the careful study of sources—the smoke-signal which brought Caesar news of the Pompeian escape (279; Caes.3.65.2) and the second fortification inside the camp which Caesar attacked (288; Caes.3.66.4-5).
ref: 1971, A. W. Lintott, “Lucan and the History of the Civil War”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 21, number 2, page 492:
glosses: A message or sign sent by this method.
examples: text: By every kind of wigwag and smoke signal in the language of diplomacy, the Administration seemed to be trying last week to tell Chinese Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung that he had nothing to worry about from the U.S.
ref: 1950 September 11, “The Wooing of Mao”, in Time:
qualifier: often pluralized
glosses: An indirect message or indication, especially concerning a future event.
examples: text: A Huskie helicopter was whirring over the Gulf of Tonkin in search of Cullen when Vietnamese 1st Lieut. Nguyen Van Phu, who ditched his flaming Skyraider near the spot where the U.S. pilot went down, fired a smoke signal to attract its attention.
ref: 1965 March 12, “Operation Rescue”, in Time:
glosses: A type of flare or combustion device sometimes used as a distress signal.
smoke-signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke-signals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smoke signal.
smoke-signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke-signal
smoke signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke signal
pirogis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pirogi
poblanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poblano
poblano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈblɑːnəʊ/
/pəʊˈblɑːnəʊ/
Forms: form: poblanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish poblano.
Senses: examples: text: In our times of popular gourmetism, the Anaheim chili is easy to find year round in the supermarket, but the poblano remains seasonal in spring and fall.
ref: 1993, Huntley Dent, Feast of Santa Fe: Cooking of the American Southwest, page 62:
glosses: A mild green chile pepper native to Mexico; when dried, the chilis are called anchos or chiles anchos (“wide chilis”).
Barons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
Barone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hunger is a good sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.
ref: 1854, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Vol. XXVI, Punch Publications Ltd., page 74:
synonyms: hunger is the best sauce
hunger is the best spice
hunger is the best pickle
hunger is the best seasoning
glosses: Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.
sancta sanctorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanctum sanctorum
delicatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delicata
non-detected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nondetected
Etymology: From non- + detected.
Senses: glosses: Having failed to be detected; not detected
long ranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long rangers
form: long-ranger
Senses: examples: text: He thinks that long-rangers often use Pokorny's material uncritically ("fishing expeditions in Pokorny's") although it is considered to be dated in many respects by the modern state of Indo-European studies.
ref: 1993, N. N., Report on 2nd Comparative Workshop: Nostratic:
text: Yes, all the long rangers, as far as I can tell, are not controlling for the possibility that the similarities between languages they are working on fall within the range of what one would expect by chance alone.
ref: 1995, Donald Ringe, Conference Report, Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics:
text: This painstaking process of checking texts and cultural data rather than dictionaries may seem to be not worth the candle for some (but not all) long-rangers.
ref: 2002, Alexander Vovin, Building a 'Bum-pa for Sino-Caucasian, page 160:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages.
long-ranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-rangers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of long ranger.