cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
excimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excimers
Etymology: Blend of excited + dimer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any diatomic exciplex
Derived terms: excimerization
excimer laser
heteroexcimer
Related terms: exciplex
exciplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exciplex
autochthones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɔːˈtɒkθəniːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of autochthon
exciplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.sɪˌplɛks/
Forms: form: exciplexes
form: exiplex
Etymology: Blend of excited + complex.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any complex or heteronuclear molecule existing in an excited state, that is dissociated in the ground state.
Related terms: excimer
autochthons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocthons
Senses: glosses: plural of autochthon.
exergonicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exergonicities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being exergonic
glosses: A measure of the extent to which a reaction is exergonic
exergonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exergonic
form: most exergonic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outer, out”) and Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Releasing energy (especially as heat)
raw_tags: of a reaction
Hyponyms: english: if the energy is released as heat
translation: if the energy is released as heat
word: exothermic
Derived terms: exergonically
Related terms: exergonism
exitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exitances
Senses: examples: text: The entire east sky provided an equivalent exitance of 19 kilolumens per square meter (Method 1) […]
ref: 1984-7, John E. Kaufman, Jack F. Christensen, (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America), IES lighting handbook: Volume 1984
text: For a given temperature, exitance is a function of wavelength. This results in a family of spectral exitance curves dependent on temperature. The equation for spectral exitance is the Planck equation: […]
ref: 1998, Glenn D. Boreman, Basic electro-optics for electrical engineers, page 49:
text: In practice, unless otherwise indicated, it is accepted that exitance is taken to be a hemispherical quantity.
ref: 1999, Joseph Caniou, Passive infrared detection: theory and applications, page 42:
text: Exitance is the amount of power per unit area expressed in watts per square meter (w/m2), or square centimeter (w/cm2), that leaves a surface and is radiated into a hemisphere.
ref: 2006, Craig M. Payne, Principles of Naval Weapon Systems, page 104:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Flux (of radiation).
exiplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exiplexes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exciplex.
exterplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exterplexes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A termolecular exciplex
termolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ter- + molecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Involving three molecules
extrusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extrusion
fluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluences
Etymology: From French fluence.
Senses: examples: text: a voluble and ſmart fluence of Tongue,
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: Fluency
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation)
Derived terms: fluence rate
fluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluences
Etymology: Shortened form of influence.
Senses: examples: text: I don't say she would have done anything, if it had come to the point; but the fluence was on, and she got me hot.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 191:
glosses: A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy.
fluorogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluorogenic
form: most fluorogenic
Etymology: From fluoro- + -genic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That generates fluorescence
fluorometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorometries
Etymology: From fluoro- + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An analytical technique that uses fluorescence to detect and identify small samples of substances
Derived terms: cytofluorometry
fluorometric
immunofluorometry
microfluorometry
spectrofluorometry
spectrophotofluorometry
fluxional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌkʃənəl/
Forms: form: more fluxional
form: most fluxional
Etymology: From fluxion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That undergoes rapid intramolecular rearrangements, component atoms being interchanged among equivalent structures.
raw_tags: of a compound
Derived terms: fluxional compound
fluxionality
fluxionally
nonfluxional
primitive type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primitive types
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
Hypernyms: type
Hyponyms: boolean
byte
character
double
float
integer
long
short
Related terms: built-in type
reference type
composite type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composite types
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A data type that can be constructed in a programming language out of that language's primitive types and other composite types; exemplified by array, structure, and class.
Hypernyms: type
Hyponyms: array
class
object
structure
built-in type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪltɪn ˈtaɪp/
Forms: form: built-in types
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean, but in some languages also list, hash table or first class function.
Related terms: primitive type
composite type
pein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peen.
pein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peins
form: peining
form: peined
form: peined
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peen.
data modeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of creating a data model.
Related terms: information modeling
information modeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of creating information model.
Related terms: data modeling
cackle-bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkækəlˌblædə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: cackle-bladders
form: cackle bladder
Etymology: From cackle + bladder, because originally chicken blood was used.
Senses: examples: text: 1951 June 16, Racket Squad (television review), in The Billboard, page 8,
It tells you how they work on the mark's own larcenous cravings for a killing, how they build him up to betting his entire stake — and then "put the chill on" via the "cackle bladder" routine, a prop murder, so named because originally the "corpse" bit on a chicken bladder and drenched himself in chicken blood.
text: Use a cackle bladder to bite on and spit blood whether faced with a gang or a single assailant. This is often enough to dissuade would-be aggressors […].
ref: 1975, Anthony Greenbank, Survival in the City, page 198:
text: It's a trick con men call the cackle-bladder. You take a little bag made from a pig's bladder and fill it up with chicken blood, and keep it inside your mouth until it's time to play dead.
ref: 1981, James Sherburne, Death's Gray Angel: A Paddy Moretti Mystery, page 39:
text: "A cackle-bladder," she murmured.
"A what?"
"It's a way to deal with the violent ones. You make them party to the consequences of violence, make them believe they've murdered someone."
ref: 2002, Judith Ivory, Untie My Heart, page 141:
glosses: A bladder containing (real or fake) blood, used to fake someone's death or injury, as in espionage or confidence tricks where a person is made to think that he is an accessory to murder.
entity relationship diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entity relationship diagrams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of entity-relationship diagram.
fluxionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluxionalities
Etymology: From fluxional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being fluxional
glosses: The degree to which a molecule is fluxional
conceptual schema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptual schemas
form: conceptual schemata
Senses: qualifier: data modeling
glosses: A map of concepts, their properties, the relationships between the concepts and the properties of the relationships.
Synonyms: conceptual data model
data element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data elements
Senses: glosses: An atomic unit of data that has:
An identification such as a data element name.
glosses: An atomic unit of data that has:
A clear data element definition.
glosses: An atomic unit of data that has:
One or more representation terms.
glosses: An atomic unit of data that has:
Optional enumerated values.
glosses: An atomic unit of data that has:
A list of synonyms to data elements in other metadata registries.
synonym ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synonym rings
Senses: examples: text: A synonym ring is a set of words or phrases (which are regarded as synonymous). A thesaurus is a set of trees whose nodes are synonym rings.
ref: 1982, F. N. Teskey, Principles of Text Processing
text: Each term in a synonym ring is equally likely to occur in any relevant article and so it is necessary to search for them all rather than one preferred term.
ref: 1985, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation
text: A synonym ring (see Figure 9-2) connects a set of words that are defined as equivalent for the purposes of retrieval. In practice, these words are often not true synonyms.
ref: 2002, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 178:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of synset.
synonyms: word: synset
metadata registry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metadata registries
Senses: glosses: A central location in an organization where metadata definitions are stored and maintained in a controlled method.
value domain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: value domains
Senses: glosses: The set of allowed values for a data element.
representation term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: representation terms
Senses: glosses: A word or a combination of words that semantically represent the data type (value domain) of a data element, such as the suffix "ID" for the data element "PersonID", the suffix "Name" for "PersonGivenName" and "PersonFamilyName" and "Date" for "PersonBirthDate".
heliochromism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property of certain photochromic materials of colouring in near-ultraviolet light and then fading in its absence; they are used in the lenses of sunglasses
asine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asines
Etymology: French asine, from Latin asina.
Senses: glosses: she-ass.
heteroexcimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroexcimers
Etymology: From hetero- + excimer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: exciplex
hypersusceptibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersusceptibility
hypersusceptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersusceptibilities
Etymology: From hyper- + susceptibility.
Senses: glosses: A greater than normal susceptibility to something, such as light or infection.
hypochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypochromic
form: most hypochromic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a decrease in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the molecular environment
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a lower than normal amount of hemoglobin in the red blood cells
hyperchromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperchromic
form: most hyperchromic
Etymology: From hyper- + chromo- + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing an increase in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the molecular environment.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a higher than normal amount of hemoglobin in the red blood cells.
Derived terms: hyperchromicity
impinges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impinge
inhomogeneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inhomogeneously
form: most inhomogeneously
Etymology: From inhomogeneous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inhomogeneous manner
interconverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interconvert
interconverting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That interconvert
intermolecularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intermolecular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intermolecular manner; between molecules
Related terms: intramolecularly
intramolecularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intramolecular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within a molecule.
Related terms: intermolecularly
intersystem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + system.
Senses: glosses: Between systems.
intervalence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + valence.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Between metal sites that have different oxidation states.
Derived terms: intervalence charge transfer
findability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From find + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability to be found.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The quality of a particular object being locatable.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The quality of a whole system being navigable.
Synonyms: discoverability
Derived terms: ambient findability
Related terms: findable
searchability
mistify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistifies
form: mistifying
form: mistified
form: mistified
Etymology: From misty + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: Enwrap all this, and more in your imagination, as it is enveloped in the soft transparent haze of this delicious clime, beautifying and mistifying all around, and you may fancy somewhat of the reality.
ref: 1849, Mrs. C. T. Cromwell, Over the Ocean; Or, Glimpses of Travel in Many Lands, page 182:
text: That for six thousand years — and no one knows how many millions of ages before — the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back, thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings—that all this should be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter minutes past one o'clock PM of this sixteenth day of December, A.D. 1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are, after all really water, or nothing but vapor —this is surely a noteworthy thing.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Or, The Whale:
text: The same fog will cover any area and mistify it as the general adjustable criticism does any book.
ref: 1887, Book Chat - Volume 2, page 321:
text: But premature darkness began to mistify distant objects before we had the mules out of the corral.
ref: 1904, Field and Stream, page 1023:
glosses: To envelop or shroud in mist.
examples: text: In this syrup the greenish, oily extract is put, and boiled on a slow fire. Now is the time to mistify the preparation.
ref: 1893, Bulletin of Pharmacy - Volume 7, page 327:
text: Steam "cut-off" is controlled by means of a small cylinder chamber the fuel is metered through a jet to a mistifying pump, the latter being operated by the blower motor.
ref: 1926, Automotive Industries - Volume 55, page 298:
text: I have noticed that this oxidation generally occurs where “foaming” or “mistifying” of the lubricant takes place.
ref: 1947, Institute of Petroleum (Great Britain), The Journal - Volume 33:
text: Watching his breath mistify in the cold, morning air, he continued, "We have pouches full of old parchments declaring all Your powerful past deeds here in Your chosen land of Judah and Israel.
ref: 1996, Tom Steinbach, Now That Forever Has Ended, page 169:
glosses: To turn into mist
glosses: Misspelling of mystify.
irradiance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹeɪ.di.əns/
Forms: form: irradiances
Etymology: irradiant + -ance
Senses: glosses: The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light.
glosses: That which irradiates or is irradiated; lustre; splendour; brilliancy.
examples: text: The geometry of the cone θ and the irradiance at the image of the carbon block were used to determine the absolute steradiancy of the energy in the cone θ as a radiometer calibration value.
ref: 1959, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Technical Note (issues 3641-3650, page 15)
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The radiant power received by unit area of surface.
Related terms: radiance
isoabsorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoabsorptions
Etymology: From iso- + absorption.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A feature of the absorption spectra of a mixture of substances that are reacting with each other, in that at one frequency the absorption will remain constant throughout the reaction
isoclinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Senses: glosses: Having the same, or a constant, slope
Derived terms: isoclinism
isoclinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: isoclinics
Senses: glosses: Synonym of isocline.
synonyms: word: isocline
isoemissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + emissive.
Senses: glosses: Having the same, or constant, intensity of emission; isostilbic
isoenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isoenergetic
form: most isoenergetic
Etymology: From iso- + energetic.
Senses: glosses: Having the same, or constant, energy
acrophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹɒfəni/
Forms: form: acrophonies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros, “uppermost, beginning”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
From acro- + -phony.
Senses: glosses: The naming of letters in an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are represented by the respective letters.
Derived terms: acrophonic
Related terms: acrostic
isolampsic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isolampsic
form: most isolampsic
Senses: glosses: isoemissive
lollygagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒlɪˌɡaɡə/
ipa: /ˈlɑlɪˌɡæɡɚ/
Forms: form: lollygaggers
form: lallygagger
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A lazy person, one who lollygags; a slacker, ne'er-do-well.
glosses: A young man who pets or makes out in public.
isosbestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek iso- + σβεστός (sbestós, “extinguished”), verbal adjective to σβέννυμι (sbénnumi, “I extinguish”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a constant or equal absorption
Derived terms: isosbestic point
Related terms: isodichroic
tie someone's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties someone's hands
form: tying someone's hands
form: tied someone's hands
form: tied someone's hands
Senses: examples: text: This contract would have tied my hands.
text: I'd like to help you, but my hands are tied.
qualifier: often in passive voice
glosses: To render someone powerless to act, to thwart someone.
Related terms: have one's hands tied
have one's hands full
luminophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luminophores
Etymology: From lumin-, stem of Latin lumen + -phore.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That part of a molecule that is responsible for a given emission band when it undergoes luminescence.
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: lumiphore
Related terms: chromophore
lumiphore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumiphores
Senses: glosses: Luminophore.
freind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They were exceedingly handsome and so much alike, that it was not every one who knew them apart.—Nay even their most intimate freinds had nothing to distinguish them by, but the shape of the face, the colour of the Eye, the length of the Nose & the difference of the complexion. Elfrida had an intimate freind to whom, being on a visit to an Aunt, she wrote the following Letter.
ref: [1787–1790], [Jane Austen], “Frederic & Elfrida: a novel”, in Volume the First, chapter I, page 2:
glosses: Misspelling of friend.
lollygaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lollygagger
have one's hands tied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's hands tied
form: having one's hands tied
form: had one's hands tied
form: had one's hands tied
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do. My hands are tied.
glosses: To be powerless to act, to be thwarted.
Related terms: tie someone's hands
have one's hands full
with one hand tied behind one's back
misery whip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misery whips
Senses: topics: business
forestry
synonyms: two-man saw
qualifier: timber industry
glosses: A two-man crosscut saw, often more than ten feet in length, used to fell large trees.
early doors
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: According to some, the phrase originated at a time when English pubs closed in the afternoon as a term for customers who were waiting or arrived soon after the pub re-opened in the evening. Alternatively, the phrase is said to originate in the theatre world, where it described a facility available to early-arriving members of the audience, who were allowed to avoid the crush and choose the best seats in return for paying a small premium.
Senses: examples: text: Mudchester Rovers conceded two goals early doors and never got back into the game.
glosses: Early; at a time before expected; sooner than usual.
early doors
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: According to some, the phrase originated at a time when English pubs closed in the afternoon as a term for customers who were waiting or arrived soon after the pub re-opened in the evening. Alternatively, the phrase is said to originate in the theatre world, where it described a facility available to early-arriving members of the audience, who were allowed to avoid the crush and choose the best seats in return for paying a small premium.
Senses: examples: text: The party was very dull, so I made an early doors exit.
glosses: Early, near the start or beginning.
early doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: According to some, the phrase originated at a time when English pubs closed in the afternoon as a term for customers who were waiting or arrived soon after the pub re-opened in the evening. Alternatively, the phrase is said to originate in the theatre world, where it described a facility available to early-arriving members of the audience, who were allowed to avoid the crush and choose the best seats in return for paying a small premium.
Senses: glosses: Women's drawers.
sheep-dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep-dips
Senses: synonyms: sheepwash
glosses: A liquid formulation of insecticide and fungicide, used to protect sheep from infestation by external parasites.
sheep-dip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sheep-dips
form: sheep-dipping
form: sheep-dipped
form: sheep-dipped
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: To formally, and usually temporarily, transfer military equipment or personnel to nonmilitary ownership for the purpose of its employment in covert action which involves less of a risk of triggering an armed conflict.
sheep-dips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sheep-dip
sheep-dipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sheep-dip
sheep-dipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sheep-dip
RUMINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rumint; orthography from HUMINT, SIGINT and other names for sources of intelligence information.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rumint.
SIGINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡ.ɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪɡɪnt
Forms: form: SIGINTs
form: sigint
Etymology: Blend of signal + intelligence.
Senses: examples: text: (a) Intelligence.—This includes SIGINT, ELINT and their Electronic countermeasures (ECM, ECCM, ECCCM and so on).
ref: 2002, Indian Journal of Strategic Studies, volume 23, page 163:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of signals intelligence.
glosses: An Earth-orbiting satellite used to intercept signals.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A signal sent to a process by its controlling terminal when a user wishes to interrupt the process.
Related terms: COMINT
ELINT
FICINT
HUMINT
MASINT
SOCMINT
HUMINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuː.mɪnt/
rhymes: -uːmɪnt
Forms: form: humint
Etymology: Blend of human + intelligence
Senses: glosses: Acronym of human intelligence.
Coordinate terms: rumint
SIGINT
SOCMINT
Related terms: english: non-human intelligence
translation: non-human intelligence
word: NHI
rencontres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rencountress
Senses: glosses: plural of rencontre
commoditized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commoditize
commoditized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commoditized
form: most commoditized
Senses: glosses: Transformed into a commodity
jimmying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jimmy
the rubber meets the road
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the rubber hits the road
Etymology: A metaphor derived from the point of contact between automobile tires and pavement.
Senses: examples: text: Now we're getting down to where the rubber meets the road.
ref: 1957, Max Shulman, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!:
text: It can only be judged "when the rubber meets the road"; when its implementation does or does not produce results.
ref: 2002, F. Stevens Redburn with Terry F. Buss, Public policies for distressed communities revisited, page 159:
text: It is in the interview that the rubber meets the road.
ref: 2007, Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love, page 85:
synonyms: word: the tackies hit the tar
glosses: A place or circumstance at which the implementation of a plan or intent is to be achieved.
raw_tags: with "where" etc.
examples: text: Even 500 feet probably wouldn't allow you to brake to a stop, because it's "where the rubber meets the road" that counts.
ref: 1928, How to avoid automobile accidents, page 30:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rubber, meet, road.
jack-knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack-knife
jackknifes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jackknife
jackknifing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jackknife
jackknifed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jackknife
commoditize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commoditizes
form: commoditizing
form: commoditized
form: commoditized
form: commoditise
Etymology: From commodity + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: IBM's goal was to commoditize the add-in market, which is a complement of the PC market, and they did this quite successfully.[…] Microsoft's goal was to commoditize the PC market. Very soon, the PC itself was basically a commodity, with ever decreasing prices, consistently increasing power, and fierce margins that make it extremely hard to make a profit.
ref: 2004, Joel Spolsky, “Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source”, in Joel on Software […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 284:
topics: business
glosses: To transform into a commodity, particularly of an existing product.
Synonyms: commodify
Derived terms: commoditization
commoditizer
decommoditize
jack-knifes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jack-knife
jack-knifing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jack-knife
jack-knifed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jack-knife
commoditise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commoditises
form: commoditising
form: commoditised
form: commoditised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of commoditize.
monophotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + photonic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Involving a single photon
multichromophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + chromophoric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having multiple chromophores
multiconfiguration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-configuration
Etymology: From multi- + configuration.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having, or involving multiple configurations.
multiconfigurational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiconfigurational
form: most multiconfigurational
Etymology: From multi- + configurational.
Senses: glosses: Having, or involving multiple configurations
multiphoton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + photon.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple photons
Derived terms: multiphoton absorption
multiphoton ionization
multiplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiplets
Etymology: From multiple + -et.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of many parts, particularly
A spectral line that has multiple components.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A group of many parts, particularly
A compound peak produced in several forms of spectroscopy.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of many parts, particularly
Any of several groupings of subatomic particles that share most properties, but have different charges.
Derived terms: hypermultiplet
isomultiplet
supermultiplet
multireference
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multireference
form: most multireference
form: multi-reference
Etymology: From multi- + reference.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple references.
glosses: Having multiple frames of reference.
multistate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + state.
Senses: examples: text: But in the case of multistate LLCs, laws, regulations and taxes often depend on the state where you do business.
ref: 2023 November 15, Kelsie Anderson, Jason Cother, Kristen Coates, “5 best states to form an LLC in 2024”, in CNN:
glosses: Involving multiple states (in all senses).
nonabsorbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonabsorbing
form: most nonabsorbing
Etymology: From non- + absorbing.
Senses: examples: text: Equation 2 applies only to the case of a dielectric nonabsorbing particle and unpolarized incident radiation.
ref: 2001, Jill M. Olinger, Peter R. Griffiths, Thorsten Burger, “Theory of Diffuse Reflection in the NIR Region”, in Donald A. Burns, Emil W. Ciurczak, editor, Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis, page 42:
text: Another simple, but practically important, case is one of the nonabsorbing film of thickness d₁ on the absorbing film of thickness d₂ over a nonabsorbing substrate.
ref: 2012, Milan Milosevic, Internal Reflection and ATR Spectroscopy:
text: The aerosol layer scattering model can be simplified if a nonabsorbing aerosol, that is, ω = 1, is considered and account is taken of the fact that the optical depth for most tropospheric conditions is usually about 0.1 or smaller, thereby allowing one to assume τ « 1.
ref: 2016, John H. Seinfeld, Spyros N. Pandis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, page 977:
glosses: That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.)
examples: text: To interprest the results given by the fundamental matrix, recall that the nonabsorbing states are states 3 and 4.
ref: 1991, Robert E. Markland, Topics in Management Science, page 553:
text: A matrix C where C = NR determines the probability that the chain will enter a particular absorbing state having begun in a given nonabsorbing state.
ref: 2015, Carla C. Morris, Robert M. Stark, Finite Mathematics: Models and Applications, page 307:
text: Starting in a nonabsorbing state i, the chain will eventually be absorbed into absorbing state a if either (1) the chain transitions immediately into ''a, or (2) the chain transitions into any nonabsorbing state and then eventually is absorbed into state a.
ref: 2020, Matthew A. Carlton, Jay L. Devore, Probability with STEM Applications, page 453:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That permits a transition to a different state.
nonadiabatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adiabatic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Not adiabatic
nonbonding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-bonding
Etymology: From non- + bonding.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not involved in bonding
noncoherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-coherent
Etymology: From non- + coherent.
Senses: glosses: Not coherent
Derived terms: noncoherently
noncrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-crossing
Etymology: From non- + crossing.
Senses: glosses: Not crossing; that do not cross
nondegenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-degenerate
Etymology: From non- + degenerate.
Senses: examples: text: In fanciful language, if our universe is nondegenerate, then so will be almost every world in it.
ref: 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 595:
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Not degenerate.
nondegenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondegenerates
form: non-degenerate
Etymology: From non- + degenerate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: An instance or configuration that is not degenerate.
nondynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-dynamic
Etymology: From non- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Not dynamic; static.
Derived terms: nondynamically
nondynamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-dynamical
Etymology: From non- + dynamical.
Senses: glosses: Not dynamical
nonfluorescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: non-fluorescent
Etymology: From non- + fluorescent.
Senses: glosses: Not fluorescent
noninfrared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noninfrared
form: most noninfrared
form: non-infrared
Etymology: From non- + infrared.
Senses: glosses: Not infrared
nonmigrating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-migrating
Etymology: From non- + migrating.
Senses: glosses: Not migrating; that do not migrate
nonoptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-optical
Etymology: From non- + optical.
Senses: glosses: Not optical
nonphotochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-photochromic
Etymology: From non- + photochromic.
Senses: glosses: Not photochromic.
nonpulsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-pulsed
Etymology: From non- + pulsed.
Senses: glosses: Not pulsed.
nonquantitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonquantitative
form: most nonquantitative
form: non-quantitative
Etymology: From non- + quantitative.
Senses: glosses: Not quantitative
Synonyms: qualitative
nonquenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-quenched
Etymology: From non- + quenched.
Senses: glosses: Not quenched; unquenched
nonradiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-radiative
Etymology: From non- + radiative.
Senses: examples: text: He had done that in virtue of having followed out to their logical issue the fundamental scientific principles of the subject which he had so clearly grasped, one of which was the essential distinction between the radiative and the nonradiative circuit.
ref: 1901 May 17, Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 49, page 516:
text: Multi-charge centers and complexes in semiconductors may represent effective centers for nonradiative recombination due to Auger processes involving participation of two localized carriers.
ref: 1991, V.N. Abakumov, Nonradiative Recombination in Semiconductors, page 238:
text: A nonradiative transition then occurs by recombination of a free hole with this trapped electron, the excess energy being transferred to the lattice.
ref: 2009, Orazio Svelto, Principles of Lasers, page 111:
glosses: Not radiative
Derived terms: nonradiatively
nonrelativistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-relativistic
Etymology: From non- + relativistic.
Senses: glosses: Not relativistic; classical, Newtonian.
glosses: Not moving at a speed comparable to the speed of light.
Derived terms: nonrelativistically
nonrelativistic mechanics
nonrelativistic quantum mechanics
nonspecified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-specified
Etymology: From non- + specified.
Senses: glosses: Not specified; unspecified.
nonthermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-thermal
Etymology: From non- + thermal.
Senses: glosses: Not thermal.
Derived terms: nonthermally
nonuniaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-uniaxial
Etymology: From non- + uniaxial.
Senses: glosses: Not uniaxial; multiaxial
multiaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiaxial
form: most multiaxial
Etymology: From multi- + axial.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one axis
Derived terms: multiaxiality
multiaxially
uniaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uniaxal
Etymology: From uni- + axial.
Senses: glosses: Having a single axis; monoaxial
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single stem, with no branches, that terminates in a flower
Derived terms: pseudouniaxial
Related terms: biaxial
coaxial
nonvertical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-vertical
Etymology: From non- + vertical.
Senses: glosses: Not vertical
Derived terms: nonvertically
silver spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Rooted in 18th century European table-setting customs, when diners would bring their own utensils to the meal. To distinguish themselves from serfs and peasants, members of the land-owning classes often used silver cutlery, whence the term silverware.
Senses: examples: text: He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose. He didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former.
text: Some folks are born silver spoon in hand / Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah
ref: 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son”, in Willy and the Poor Boys:
glosses: Wealth passed down or inherited.
Related terms: word: born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
word: silvertail
word: silver fork novel
PIV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of peripheral intravenous.
PIV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIVs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of parainfluenza virus.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of particle image velocimetry.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of peak inverse voltage.
glosses: Initialism of post indicator valve.
examples: text: Therefore, younger couples would be wise to stay open to other types of sexual scenarios, not limiting their sexual interaction to only PIV.
ref: 2010 April 30, Libby Bennett with Ginger Holczer, Finding & Revealing Your Sexual Self: A Guide to Communicating About Sex, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →OL, pages 130–131:
text: To make things worse, it tormented him that he still considered himself a virgin—he'd received oral sex—but never given PIV sex a try.
ref: 2010 December 17, Jess C Scott, Take-Out (Part 1), jessINK, →ISBN, →OL:
text: Repudiating PIV (penis in vagina) and grappling with most forms of penetration, except orally under certain conditions, means for me the unmitigated physical rawness of fucking is not a part of my life.
ref: 2014, Michelle Marie, "Fucking", Bluestockings, Spring 2014, page 36
glosses: Initialism of penis in vagina.
glosses: Initialism of penile inversion vaginoplasty.
Derived terms: hPIV
PIV5
PIV-5
microsome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪk.ɹə.səʊm/
ipa: /ˈmaɪk.ɹə.soʊm/
Forms: form: microsomes
Etymology: From micro- + -some.
Senses: glosses: A vesicle formed as an artifact of cell disruption
Derived terms: antimicrosome
microsomal
microsomic
microsomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsome
MTP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: An important feature of MTP is its capability to relay mail from one transport environment to another.
ref: 1981 May, Suzanne Sluizer, Jonathan B. Postel, “Mail Transfer Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 780:
glosses: Initialism of Mail Transfer Protocol, superseded by SMTP.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Media Transfer Protocol, a generalization of PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Multipurpose Transaction Protocol, a proprietary transport protocol.
MTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MTPs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of medial tibial plateau.
examples: text: Every time you push off and hyperextend the toe, which happens when doing something as simple as taking a step or more strenuous like cutting and jumping, the MTP joint is involved.
ref: 2022 June 20, Virginia Zakas, “The 5 injuries that can derail a fantasy season — and what they mean for your team”, in The New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of metatarsophalangeal joint.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of microsomal triglyceride transfer protein.
glosses: Initialism of major third party.
coelioscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelioscopy
coutures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couture
crevettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crevette
draisiennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draisienne
régimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of régime
ethnosectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛθnə(ʊ)sɛkˈtɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: more ethnosectarian
form: most ethnosectarian
Etymology: From ethno- + sectarian.
Senses: examples: text: Since it is clear that no amount of modernization is likely to eliminate (through total assimilation) minority solidarity groups, the possibility for ethnosectarian conflict remains a constant danger should the conflict-precipitating circumstances arise.
ref: 1977, Michael C. Hudson, Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 79:
text: The political and economic history (especially post-Islamic) of Southwest, Central, and South Asia is marked by episodic ethnosectarian persecutions and massive forced and voluntary movements of the various population groupings.
ref: 1987, M. Jamil Hanifi, "Rejoinder to Ahmed," American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Jun., 1987), pg. 453
text: Moreover, language, discourse, and dialogue, their definition and mobilisation, create chains of equivalence which enclose subjects within not only ethnosectarian but at times entirely self-referential and self-sustained notions of identity, practice and collective devotion.
ref: 2002, Peter Shirlow, “Sinn Féin: Beyond; within Containment” (chapter 4), in Stefan Wolff, Jörg Neuheiser, editors, Peace at Last?: The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 62:
text: "What Iraq needs is leaders who have deep roots here, who have proven themselves to be effective and trusted by the Iraqi public," says Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar, a Governing Council member who represents a large tribal confederation. "The most important thing that should happen is we should stop looking at Iraq through this ethnosectarian lens."
ref: 2004 April 19, Dan Murphy, “Iraq violence gives UN new clout”, in Christian Science Monitor:
text: Given that military intervention has deepened rather than weakened ethnosectarian divisions, the intriguing question becomes whether that was the game plan all along.
ref: 2006 December, Ray Taras, “The (Il)logic of intervention in Iraq: sectarianism, civil war, and the U.S. game plan”, in International Journal on World Peace, volume 23, number 4, pages 33–60:
glosses: Being both sectarian and specific to ethnic identities.
Derived terms: ethnosectarianism
regrouper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: regroupers
Etymology: From regroup + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Some people are “regroupers” who spend the day organizing their closets, doing laundry, mowing the lawn, and basically catching up on all the things that didn't get done during the week.
ref: 2012, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, I Can Make You Hot!: The Supermodel Diet:
glosses: One who regroups.