cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Aylmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Æþelmǣr, from æþel (“noble”) + mǣre, mær (“famous”). Doublet of Elmer.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A town in Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: Elmer
awesomest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: awesome + -est
Senses: examples: text: "The awesomest ever I seed, by the Mass!" exclaimed the falconer, Dick Grundy, joining them. "I'm all in a muck with the heat, and the scruging, and the dust;—but what 'll it be to the morrow?"
ref: 1885, M. L. O'Byrne, Art M'Morrough O'Cavanagh, Prince of Leinster: An Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century:
text: Viewed at closer range, and internally, denuded of the fantastic, it is only what it poses to be, the deepest, awesomest, grandest fissure in the world.
ref: 1906 July 24, American Thresherman, volume 9, number 3, page 7:
text: And the seasons came, and the seasons went, and then they came again, and it was Erry Yom Kippur, the eve of the greatest and holiest and awesomest day in the year, the day of atonement.
ref: 1919 March 24, The Delineator, volume 94, page 52:
text: I'm just going to enjoy this until I wake up, and then I'm going to write it all down as the awesomest, most vivid, wacky-packy dream I have ever had in my entire life.
ref: 2014, Gaby Triana, Summer of Yesterday, page 52:
glosses: superlative form of awesome: most awesome
critical rationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The proposition that scientific theories, and any other claims to knowledge, can and should be rationally criticized, and, if they have empirical content, can and should be subjected to tests which may falsify them.
Related terms: falsificationism
instrumental rationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A specific form of rationality focusing on the most efficient or cost-effective means to achieve a specific end, but not in itself reflecting on the value of that end.
Coordinate terms: epistemic rationality
value rationality
Related terms: hypothetical imperative
is-ought problem
utility function
run rings around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs rings around
form: running rings around
form: ran rings around
form: run rings around
form: run rings round
Etymology: See run circles around.
Senses: examples: text: Liverpool ran rings around Ipswich in a 5-0 victory on Saturday.
glosses: Synonym of run circles around.
synonyms: word: run circles around
run rings round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs rings round
form: running rings round
form: ran rings round
form: run rings round
Senses: glosses: alternative form of run rings around
critical theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Critical Theory
Etymology: Calque of German kritische Theorie, first defined by Max Horkheimer in his 1937 essay “Traditional and Critical Theory”.
Senses: examples: text: I define critical theory as something broader than Critical Theory in the Frankfurt School usage but not unrelated to it. I use the term to designate the traditions of dialectical and self-reflective thought initiated during the historical moment of Kant and Hegel.
ref: 2000, Carl Howard Freedman, Critical Theory and Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page xvi:
text: […]; if you do not know, or care to know, much about critical theory, the writings of Butler are academic in the unflattering sense of that term. But in their world, they are, if not royalty, lords of the realm.
ref: 2018 September 23, Eliot A. Cohen, “The Crisis of the American Elites”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The examination and critique of society and literature, drawing from knowledge across social science and the humanities; (in particular) the original ideas developed by the Frankfurt School.
wikipedia: Max Horkheimer
Meronyms: critical legal studies
critical legal theory
queer theory
technocriticism
thing theory
Derived terms: critical race theory
critical theorist
Flo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləʊ/
ipa: /floʊ/
homophone: flow
homophone: floe
rhymes: -əʊ
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Florence or Flora.
Derived terms: Aunt Flo
start the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starts the ball rolling
form: starting the ball rolling
form: started the ball rolling
form: started the ball rolling
Senses: glosses: Synonym of get the ball rolling.
synonyms: word: get the ball rolling
synchronized diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport in which divers perform synchronised dives.
fleuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleurets
form: fleurette
Etymology: From French fleurette, diminutive of fleur (“flower”). Doublet of floret and floweret.
Senses: glosses: An ornament resembling a small flower.
glosses: A fencing foil.
coilgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɪl.ɡʌn/
Forms: form: coilguns
Etymology: From coil + gun. From being a projectile ejecting device whose launcher tube is wrapped in electromagnetic coils.
Senses: glosses: Any of various devices that use electromagnets to accelerate a magnetic projectile via non contact means
Synonyms: Gauss gun
Coordinate terms: electric gun
railgun
pleiotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plaɪˈɒtɹəpi/
ipa: /plaɪˈɑtɹəpi/
Forms: form: pleiotropies
Etymology: Coined by German zoologist Ludwig Plate in 1910, from Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn) + -tropy; by surface analysis, pleio- + -tropy.
Senses: examples: text: This experimental design is analogous to the experiment that we performed to test whether antagonistic pleiotropy operates as a genetic mechanism in the evolution of late-life mortality rate plateaus.
ref: 2011, Laurence D. Mueller, Casandra L. Rauser, Michael R. Rose, Does Aging Stop?, Oxford University Press, page 65:
text: George C. Williams (1957) first developed the idea that pleiotropy might be an important determinant of senescence. Pleiotropy simply means that single genes have multiple effects. With regard to aging, Williams proposed that the same genes could have beneficial effects early in life but detrimental effects late in life. Because the effects are counteracting, the theory has been called "antagonistic pleiotropy."
ref: 2015, Lynnette L. Sievert, “Chapter 22: Human Senescence”, in Michael P. Muehlenbein, editor, Basics in Human Evolution, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 315:
text: Much of the recent discussion of the extent of pleiotropy has been stimulated by the work of Gunter Wagner and colleagues (Wagner et al. 2008; Wagner & Zhang 2011), taking advantage of recent methodological advances to test a hypothesis of universal pleiotropy, whereby all traits are affected by each gene.
ref: 2016, Mark W. Blows, Katrina McGuigan, “11: The distribution of genetic variance across phenotypic space and the response to selection”, in Spencer C. H. Barrett, Robert I. Colautti, Katrina M. Dlugosch, Loren H. Rieseberg, editors, Invasion Genetics, Wiley, page 192:
text: I think what people are really asking when they talk about pleiotropy is this idea of genetic trade-offs. If you lower risk for schizophrenia, are you actually unknowingly increasing risk for another condition?
ref: 2025 August 7, Ross Douthat, quoting Noor Siddiqui, “The Next Parenting Trend Starts Before Conception”, in The New York Times:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: polygeny
glosses: The influence of a single gene on multiple phenotypic traits; pleiotropism.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The existence of drug effects (especially beneficial effects) other than the one for which the drug was designed.
Related terms: pleiotropic
polypharmacology
pleiotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleiotropisms
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: pleiotropy
superinsulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + insulation.
Senses: glosses: The efficient thermal insulation of a building or system, especially by using multiple layers, or low-conducting fibre.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum state of zero electrical conductivity (or infinite resistance) - the opposite of superconductivity.
Related terms: superinsulator
superinsulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superinsulators
Etymology: From super- + insulator.
Senses: glosses: A very efficient insulator
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any material that exhibits superinsulation
clinicopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clinicopathologic
Etymology: From clinico- + pathological or clinicopathology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clinicopathologic.
Derived terms: clinicopathologically
clinicopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinicopathologies
Etymology: From clinico- + pathology.
Senses: examples: text: Study objectives: To determine the incidence and mortality as well as to analyze the clinical and pathologic changes of aortic dissection.
ref: 2000, Mészáros I, Mórocz J, Szlávi J, Schmidt J, Tornóci L, Nagy L, Szép L, “Epidemiology and clinicopathology of aortic dissection”, in Chest, volume 117, number 5, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1271–1278:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of the signs and symptoms of a disease and also of its pathology, especially with regard to their correlations.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: clinical pathology.
Related terms: clinicopathologic
clinicopathological
clinicopathologically
microsporidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsporidium
Derived terms: microsporidiosis
chapter house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapter houses
form: chapter-house
form: chapterhouse
Senses: examples: text: The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference.
ref: 1724, Daniel Defoe, Journey from London to the Land's End:
text: In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
ref: 1906, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 2, in Sir Nigel:
glosses: A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place.
examples: text: At the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass.
ref: 1929 September 23, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time:
glosses: A building used by a sorority or fraternity as a residence or meeting place.
Synonyms: sense: building used by a sorority or fraternity
word: Greek house
Hypernyms: house
microsporidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsporidians
form: microsporidia
Etymology: From Microsporidia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Bulnheim subsequently observed that either of two parasitic microsporidians, Octosporea effeminans and Thelohania herediteria, were invariably associated with the thelygeny.
ref: 1983, James J. Bull, Evolution of Sex Determining Mechanisms, page 94:
text: Moreover , the sequence of ribosomal RNA suggests that the microsporidia are extremely ancient eukaryotes and had separated very early from other eukaryotes.
ref: 1993, Yoshinori Tanada, Insect Pathology, page 425:
synonyms: microsporidium
glosses: Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, considered to be fungi or close relatives of fungi.
Related terms: microsporidial
microsporidiosis
chapter-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapter-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chapter house.
slype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slypes
Etymology: From slip.
Senses: examples: text: Then he ventures down the slypes which lead between pavilions into the cloister yards.
ref: 2022, Jim Crace, eden, Picador, page 62:
topics: architecture
glosses: A covered passageway, especially one connecting the transept of a cathedral or monastery to the chapter house.
catenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kă′tĭ-nĭn
enpr: kə-tē′nĭn
ipa: /ˈka.tɪ.nɪn/
ipa: /kəˈtiː.nɪn/
note: conservative
ipa: /ˈkæ.tɪ.nɪn/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tɪ.nɪn/
ipa: /kəˈti.nɪn/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tɪ.nɪn/
ipa: /kəˈtiː.nɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɛ.tə.nən/
ipa: /kəˈtiː.nən/
ipa: /ˈka.tɪ.nɪn/
ipa: /kəˈti.nɪn/
ipa: /ˈka.ʈɪ.nɪn/
ipa: /kaˈʈiː.nɪn/
rhymes: -ætɪnɪn
rhymes: -iːnɪn
Forms: form: catenins
Etymology: From Latin catēn|a, ~ae (“chain (series of interconnected rings or links)”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that have a role in cell adhesion.
Related terms: katanin
ring around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings around
form: ringing around
form: rang around
form: rung around
form: ring round
Senses: glosses: To call a number of people by phone, usually a circle of friends, to organise something.
ring round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings round
form: ringing round
form: rang round
form: rung round
form: ring around
Senses: glosses: To call a number of people by phone, usually a circle of friends, to organise something.
cholesteryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholesteryls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from cholesterol.
Derived terms: cholesterylation
dicholesteryl
circle of friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circles of friends
Senses: synonyms: friend group
social circle
coordinate_terms: family circle
glosses: A group of close friends who usually do things together.
deacyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deacyl
form: most deacyl
Etymology: From de- + acyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a compound from which one or more acyl groups has been removed
Related terms: deacylated
deacylation
chapterhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapterhouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chapter house.
deacylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + acylated.
Senses: glosses: deacyl
Related terms: deacylation
deacylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deacylations
Etymology: From de- + acylation.
Senses: examples: text: PC remodeling takes place through deacylation and reacylation processes that is defined as the Lands cycle [12 ].
ref: 2015 December 19, “Molecular Characterization of Two Lysophospholipid:acyl-CoA Acyltransferases Belonging to the MBOAT Family in Nicotiana benthamiana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of one or more acyl groups from a compound.
Related terms: deacyl
ring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings out
form: ringing out
form: rang out
form: rung out
Etymology: From ring (verb) + out (adverb).
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly, a shot rang out and someone screamed.
text: The boys of the NYPD choir were singing "Galway Bay" / And the bells were ringing out for Christmas day
ref: 1987, The Pogues, “Fairytale of New York”:
text: A terrifying volley of pistol-shots rings out—cracks sharply; ripples spread— silence laps smooth over sound
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 3, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
text: Now mind you Todd is 6ft 2in and Lt. Jose 5 ft. 9in, he started walking toward Jose, the first shot ringed out then another it all happen so fast!
ref: 2012, Charles E. Davis, My Life, My Son "Big L" and Family Values, page 61:
glosses: To sound clearly and loudly.
examples: text: You can ring out if you dial 9 first and wait for the tone before dialling the number.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.
examples: text: The objective of ringing-out a system is (believe it or not) to get as many frequencies as possible to ring at the same time as the system goes past its gain-before-feedback limit.
ref: 1996, Scott Hunter Stark, Live Sound Reinforcement, page 110:
text: I've got to get these mic lines set up and ringed out.
ref: 2017, Hayden Nicholas, Rock Bottom, page 43:
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: To equalize a sound system to eliminate feedback.
examples: text: By section 7 a penalty is provided for any “ringing out” of contracts for future delivery.
ref: 1894, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Fifty-Third Congress, Second Session (volume 26, part 7, page 6484)
text: Contracts in stocks w.i. (when issued—see When Issued) are also ringed out in the same manner as contracts in futures in grain, cotton, coffee, etc.
ref: 1930, The Practical Handbook of Business and Finance, page 434:
text: On the CBOT, ringing out was voluntary, while on the New York Cotton Exchange, it was compulsory.
ref: 2003, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, volume 5, page 388:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
ring out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring outs
Etymology: Calque of Japanese リングアウト (ringu auto), equivalent to English ring (noun) + out (verb)
Senses: examples: text: Even when Heihachi doesn't score a ring out with these combos, almost half of an enemy's health disappears […]
ref: 2003, Michael Lummis, Soul Calibur II Official Fighter's Guide Limited Edition, page 105:
topics: video-games
glosses: A win in a fighting game obtained by throwing one's opponent out of the arena.
ring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings out
form: ringing out
form: ringed out
form: ringed out
Etymology: Calque of Japanese リングアウト (ringu auto), equivalent to English ring (noun) + out (verb)
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.
ring in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings in
form: ringing in
form: rang in
form: rung in
Senses: examples: text: John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says.
glosses: To make a phone call to (this place).
examples: text: We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.
glosses: To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.
Synonyms: call in
ring in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings in
form: ringing in
form: ringed in
form: ringed in
Senses: examples: text: T'other day as Apollo sat pitching his darts / Through the clouds of November, by fits and by starts, / He began to consider how long it had been, / Since the bards of Old England had all been rung in.
ref: 1814, [Leigh Hunt], “The Feast of the Poets”, in The Feast of the Poets, […], London: […] [Carew Henry Reynell] for James Cawthorn, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXXVI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: All the world was only the two Copleigh girls, Saumarez and I, ringed in with the lightning and the dark; and the guidance of this misguided world seemed to lie in my hands.
ref: 1888, Kipling, False Dawn:
text: He was ringed in on all sides by a solid circle of gleaming red sparks that shone from the grass. Held back by their fear, the graveyard rats surrounded him, squealing their hate.
ref: 1936, Robert Howard, Graveyard Rats:
glosses: To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
rough diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rough diamonds
Senses: examples: text: By what power he drew after him the hearts of the roughest, and the Tail Twisters counted in their ranks some rough diamonds indeed, was a mystery to both skipper and C.O., who learned from the regimental chaplain that Bobby was considerably more in request in the hospital tents than the Reverend John Emery.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 148:
text: Depardieu will always remain in France’s collective imagination as a rough diamond, saved from a life of delinquency by the power of the French language and the great texts of literature and theatre.
ref: 2023 December 31, Agnès Poirier, “Evoking genius to defend ‘dark stars’ like Gérard Depardieu looks very French – and it is”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of diamond in the rough.
synonyms: word: diamond in the rough
ring back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings back
form: ringing back
form: rang back
form: rung back
Senses: examples: text: John called. He asked for you to ring him back as soon as you arrived.
glosses: To return a phone call.
examples: text: I had to ring you back because I forgot to ask you something important.
glosses: To make another phone call to the same person.
acracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acracies
Etymology: From a- + -cracy.
Senses: topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: In political philosophy, the negation of rule by "regency", or hierarchical "government". The absence of a "ruling class". A society with the absence of imposition or coercion; one of voluntary order.
Synonyms: anarchy
Related terms: -cracy
what would Jesus do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
qualifier: chiefly evangelicalism
glosses: Expression intended to help a person facing a choice with moral, ethical or religious implications.
Synonyms: WWJD
missile silos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missile silo
frat house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frat houses
form: frathouse
Etymology: Abbreviation of fraternity house
Senses: examples: text: She wrote some awfully slushy letters to Phil Bowen, and he read them aloud at the frat house one night.
ref: 1922, Willa Cather, chapter 9, in One of Ours:
glosses: A building in which the members of a fraternity reside or meet, especially one located on or near the campus of a college or university.
Synonyms: chapter house
Greek house
cliticisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliticisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cliticization.
Greek house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek houses
Etymology: From the Greek letters used in the names of fraternities and sororities.
Senses: examples: text: About 50 students live in the average Greek house.
ref: 1997 October 30, Brad Wolverton, “Picking a Frat: Alpha to Omega”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 17 Jul 2013:
glosses: A building in which the members of a fraternity or sorority reside or meet, especially one located on or near the campus of a college or university.
Synonyms: chapter house
Hypernyms: house
wilily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wilily
form: most wilily
Etymology: From wily + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.
ref: 1533 (date written), Thomas More, “The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance […]. Chapter XVIJ.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, page 1004, column 2:
text: They did worke wilily, and went and made as if they had beene embaſſadours, and tooke old ſackes vpon their aſſes, and wine-bottels, old, and rent, and bound vp, […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 9:4:
glosses: In a wily manner.
just-so story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌstˈsəʊ ˌstɔːɹi/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʌstˈsoʊ ˌstɔɹi/
Forms: form: just-so stories
Etymology: PIE word
 *swé
From just so (“(almost) exactly or precisely like something”, adjective) + story, referring to the series of short stories called Just So Stories (collected in book form in 1902) by the English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) which described how various animals acquired their distinctive characteristics, such as how the leopard got its spots. According to Kipling, the stories were so titled because they were intended to put his daughter Josephine (“Effie”) to sleep, “and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. They had to be told just so; or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence.”
Senses: coordinate_terms: backstory
origin story
glosses: A story which supposedly explains the beginning or early development of a current state of affairs; a myth, a pourquoi story.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A story, especially one for children, featuring animals as characters.
examples: text: Sociobiological explanations of human behaviour encounter two special difficulties, suggesting that a Darwinian model may be generally inapplicable in this case. […] Secondly, the standard foundation of Darwinian just-so stories does not apply to humans. That foundation is the implication: if adaptive, then genetic—for the inference of adaptation is usually the only basis of a selective story, and Darwinism is a theory of genetic change and variation in populations.
ref: 1978 November 16, Stephen Jay Gould, “Sociobiology: The Art of Storytelling”, in Bernard Dixon, editor, New Scientist, volume 80, number 1129, London: IPC Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 532:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: An untestable explanation for something, such as a form of behaviour, a biological trait, or a cultural practice.
decanoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛkəˈnəʊɪk/
Etymology: From decane + -oic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to decanoic acid or its derivatives; capric
Derived terms: decanoate
neodecanoic
decanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: capric acid
geno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: Genocide.
geno
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: genos
form: genoing
form: genoed
form: genoed
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: I decided to geno insects because of the risk of swarms in the early game.
topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: To (commit) genocide.
Derived terms: genoless
minimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimi
form: minimuses
Etymology: From Latin minimus (“smallest”). See minim.
Senses: examples: text: Get you gone, you dwarf;
You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
You bead, you acorn.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A being of the smallest size.
examples: text: Jones Minimus wants to join the rowing team.
glosses: The youngest pupil in a school having a particular surname.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The little finger or the little toe
Related terms: gluteus minimus
safety island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety islands
Senses: topics: road
transport
synonyms: word: pedestrian island
word: pedestrian refuge
word: refuge
word: refuge island
word: traffic island
extra: a raised or otherwise marked area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, so as to direct the traffic flow and provide a safe place for pedestrians to wait while crossing the road
glosses: Synonym of traffic island (“a raised or otherwise marked area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, so as to direct the traffic flow and provide a safe place for pedestrians to wait while crossing the road”).
island universe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: island universes
Senses: examples: text: Many stories have been invented to account for this milky band of light, but today we know that it is the light of millions and millions of stars making up our “Island Universe” the Milky-Way Galaxy.
ref: 1968 January 15, “Skies Over Port Huron”, in Port Huron Times Herald, volume 58, number 15, Port Huron, Mich., section A, page 8:
text: You will notice that the wide band of sky which follows the Milky-Way from the northeastern horizon to straight overhead (through the summer triangle mentioned in the Aug. 14 Nugget) and on to the southern horizon is far richer in stars than the rest of the sky. This is because the Milky-Way Galaxy, our local “island universe,” is a disk-shaped object and quite thin in comparison with its diameter.
ref: 1975 August 28, Stephen Dodson, “There’s a star in the sky for each person on earth”, in The North Bay Nugget, 69th year, number 62, North Bay, Ont., page 7:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A galaxy
Maunder minimum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Maunder minimum
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maunder Minimum.
Maunder minimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maunder minimums
form: Maunder minima
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A period similar to the Maunder Minimum observed on a star other than the Sun.
routing slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: routing slips
Senses: glosses: A slip of paper that specifies a route for a document to circulate.
shed tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛdˈtɪəz/
Forms: form: sheds tears
form: shedding tears
form: shed tears
form: shed tears
Senses: glosses: To emit tears from the eye, especially as an expression of emotion; to cry; to weep.
Related terms: shed a tear
feeding bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeding bottles
Senses: glosses: A bottle for feeding milk to babies or to the young of other animals.
Synonyms: baby bottle
baby's bottle
baby formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby formulas
form: baby formulae
Senses: glosses: Synonym of infant formula.
synonyms: word: infant formula
Finnian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪniən
Etymology: From Irish, variant of Fionnán; see fionn (“fair”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
misrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misrated
form: most misrated
Senses: glosses: rated incorrectly.
rerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerates
form: rerating
form: rerated
form: rerated
Etymology: From re- + rate.
Senses: glosses: To rate again or differently.
Finian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪniən
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Finnian.
skyey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaɪi/
rhymes: -aɪi
Forms: form: skyier
form: skyiest
form: skiey
Etymology: From sky + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: When twilight came I had vaguely wished some clouds would gather, for an odd timidity about the deep skyey voids above had crept into my soul.
ref: 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space:
glosses: Resembling the sky.
examples: text: It is not enough to say that the twentieth century is the best age in the history of mankind, and to take refuge from the evils of the world in skyey dreams of good.
ref: 1903, Helen Keller, Optimism, page 15:
glosses: Of or relating to the sky.
differentiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: differentiabilities
Senses: synonyms: distinguishability
discriminability
coordinate_terms: categorizability
separability
glosses: The ability to be differentiated.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: differentiable
derivative
difference quotient
glosses: The existence of the derivative.
Derived terms: nondifferentiability
ultradifferentiability
undifferentiability
badly off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: worse off
form: more badly off
form: worst off
form: most badly off
form: badly-off
form: bad off
form: bad-off
Senses: examples: text: The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
Synonyms: poor
differentiabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of differentiability
uninstallable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uninstall + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being uninstalled.
Derived terms: un-uninstallable
uninstallable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + installable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being installed.
decanoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decanoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from decanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
heptanoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptanoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from heptanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
hexanoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexanoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from hexanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group; caproyl
hexanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of caproic acid.
synonyms: word: caproic acid
Derived terms: aminohexanoic acid
caproyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caproyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from caproic acid by loss of the hydroxy group; hexanoyl
Derived terms: caproylation
lauroyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lauroyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from lauric acid by loss of the hydroxy group
Derived terms: dilauroyl
lauroylsarcosine
linoleoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linoleoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from linoleic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
Derived terms: tetralinoleoyl
myristoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myristoyls
Etymology: From myristic (acid) + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from myristic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
Derived terms: dimyristoyl
insulin detemir
monomyristoyl
myristome
myristoylation
myristylate
nonanoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonanoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from nonanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group; pelargonoyl
nonanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: pelargonic acid
Derived terms: isononanoic acid
Related terms: nonanoate
pelargonoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelargonoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from pelargonic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
octanoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octanoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from octanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group; capryloyl
Derived terms: dioctanoyl
octanoylation
trioctanoyl
octanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: caprylic acid
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: octanoate
Derived terms: perfluorooctanoic acid
capryloyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capryloyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from caprylic acid by loss of the hydroxy group; octanoyl
palmitoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmitoyls
Etymology: From palmitic acid + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from palmitic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
Derived terms: dipalmitoyl
monopalmitoyl
palmitoylate
palmitoylation
palmitoylcarnitine
palmitoylome
palmitoyltransferase
sapacitabine
tripalmitoyl
propionyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propionyls
Etymology: From propionic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from propionic acid by loss of the hydroxy group.
Derived terms: mercaptopropionylglycine
bank card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank cards
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: A card issued by a bank, which may entitle the holder to a variety of services similar to that of a credit card or debit card, or allow withdrawal of cash from ATMs.
Related terms: payment card
sialosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialosyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from sialic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
stearoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stearoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from stearic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
undecanoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undecanoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from undecanoic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
undecanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The saturated fatty acid having 11 carbon atoms - CH₃(CH₂)₉COOH
sialoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialoyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from sialic acid by loss of the hydroxy group
diacylglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diacylglycerols
Etymology: From di- + acylglycerol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Diglyceride.
Derived terms: diacylglycerol lipase
monogalactosyldiacylglycerol
sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol
sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol
Related terms: diacylglyceryl
monoacylglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoacylglycerols
Etymology: From monoacyl + glycerol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: monoglyceride
triacylglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacylglycerols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: triglyceride
triacyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + acyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Three acyl groups in a compound
monoacyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + fucosyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A single acyl group in a compound
difucosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + fucosyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two fucosyl groups in a compound
banner ad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banner ads
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: An advertisement which extends horizontally across a web-page.
glosses: An advertisement on a banner.
fucosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucosyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from fucose
Derived terms: difucosyl
fucosylation
fucosyltransferase
monoacyl
monofucosyl
sialofucosyl
dipalmitoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + palmitoyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two palmitoyl groups in a compound
monoglycosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + glycosyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A single glycosyl group in a compound
dihydrosphingosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydrosphingosines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: sphinganine
back-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-waters
Senses: examples: text: The eddies and back-water of the Pilcomayo's stronger flow had carried the raft and lodged it high up above the mouth of the lesser stream, leaving an extension interstayed by the roots that reached into deep water; alongside of the raft, in the smaller stream, the steamer moored.
ref: 1877, R. Elton Smile [Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter I, in The Manatitlans; or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derecho, Imprenta De Razon, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of backwater: the water held back by a dam or other obstruction
examples: text: The back-water (overflow) can be used for "thinning down" the chests when emptying. If "Wastive" does this, his mind will be at ease regarding waste of pulp, and his machine-men will be happy and do their work much better than by trying to use all the back-water on the paper machine.
ref: 1908, An Old Machineman, “Re Back-water Query.”, in The World's Paper Trade Review, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of backwater: water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
sphinganine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphinganines
Etymology: sphinges + -anine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aminodiol 2-amino-1,3-octadecanediol that is a component of the sphingolipids; any homologous compound that has other than 18 carbon atoms
dihydroxyacetone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydroxyacetones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound CO(CH₂OH)₂ that has a number of industrial uses
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The only ketotriose
Synonyms: DHA
ketotriose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketotrioses
Etymology: From keto- + triose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ketose having three carbon atoms; in reality, only dihydroxyacetone
curricula vitae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curriculum vitae
at any rate
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Jim broke the window — or maybe it was John? At any rate, the window’s broken now.
text: He's stinking rich — or, at any rate, pretty well off.
glosses: In any case, anyway, anyhow, regardless; used to discard or qualify a previous thought.
examples: text: Mr Chairman, I'd point out here that taxation without representation is an affront at any rate, low or high, but it is especially galling at the rate that Mr Smith proposes.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, any, rate.
Synonyms: word: at all events
word: in any event
word: 1947 July and August
word: in
word: page 256:At any rate
word: in my experience
word: they could run like the wind
word: but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them
word: 1978
word: Daniel C. Dennett
word: Bradford Books:What moved from A to B at such speed was surely myself
word: or at any rate my soul
english: the massless center of my being and home of my consciousness.
translation: the massless center of my being and home of my consciousness.
word: mind
word: 2008
word: Graham Oppy
word: David Dowe
word: in :Why couldn't it be the case that there are intelligent things that are unable to carry on a conversation
word: or
word: unable to carry on a conversation with creatures like us?
lowrider bicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowrider bicycles
Senses: glosses: a type of bicycle with a banana seat and sissy bars
survival knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survival knives
Senses: glosses: A knife intended for survival purposes in a wilderness environment, often in an emergency situation when the user has lost other equipment.
Synonyms: Rambo knife
Coordinate terms: pioneering sword
survival kit
Related terms: survival arms
survival gun
survival kit
survival rifle
survival weapon
Maunder Minimum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Maunder Minimum
form: Maunder minimum
Senses: topics: astronomy
climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: The period between 1645 and 1715 marked by records and other indications of very low levels of sunspot activity of the Sun, corresponding to a period of global cooling.
Hypernyms: solar minimum
boot knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot knives
Senses: coordinate_terms: neck knife
pocket knife
glosses: A knife, usually with a fixed double-edged blade, that is carried inside a sheath or attached to a boot.
tanto knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanto knives
Senses: glosses: a tanto (Japanese knife)
diving knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving knives
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
synonyms: dive knife
glosses: a type of knife used by divers, with a wide, serrated blade.
askar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /asˈkɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈaskaɾ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: askar
form: askars
Etymology: From Somali askar, collective of askari (“policeman”), from Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar).
Senses: examples: text: Back out my rambo blade, shit, I just seen askar, gotta move diggy
ref: 2019 April 24, Richi of MaliStrip, “Mobbin’”:
text: I was told go put in my all, I can't leave one foot out the mud
Whether it's jugg, trap and opp block banging, run if I see askar
ref: 2020 January 18, “Routine”, (CGE) MA (lyrics), 2:20:
text: Askars on the block and somebody's getting booked again
ref: 2021 December 16, Mastermind, “Optimus Primus”, 0:29:
text: Headshot ends cuts way too flizz
I’ve just seen bare askar in the strizz
ref: 2024 September 2, “Niz” (0:34 from the start), Liz (lyrics):
glosses: Police.