cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Daedalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdeɪliən/
Forms: form: more Daedalian
form: most Daedalian
form: Daedalean
form: Dedalian
Etymology: From Daedalus + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: 1812, Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations volume 1, book 2, chapter 2, page 484, published in London by Cadell and Davies
"The commerce and industry of the country, ... cannot be altogether so secure when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver"
text: Hicks is both thwarter and thwartee of Daedalean plots. Aboard a train, the rhythm of the wheels sounds to him like "wottachump, wottachump, wottachump."
ref: 2025 October 2, Dwight Garner, “Book Review: 'Shadow Ticket,' by Thomas Pynchon”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2025:
glosses: Ingeniously or cunningly designed; artistic, ingenious, intricate, skillful.
glosses: Difficult to comprehend due to complexity or intricacy.
glosses: Deceitful, duplicitous.
Derived terms: daedalia
schmatte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schmattes
Senses: examples: text: A night in April. We are dressing for a dinner party, I in a black skirt with a porthole over which I have dropped an empire-waisted blue schmatte. Schmatte, along with "merch" for merchandise and "matchy-matchy," as in "That sweater and skirt are too matchy-matchy," is among the words I have picked up at Mlle.
ref: 1995, Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, when I was young, page 139:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shmatte.
langour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of languor.
obligated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obligate
obligated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obligated
form: most obligated
Senses: glosses: committed
examples: text: Under a provision of a larger piece of legislation, popularly known as the Customs Bill, that has been approved by the House and is expected to soon pass the Senate, American officials will be obligated to treat the settlements as part of Israel in future trade negotiations.
ref: 2016 January 26, “When ‘Made In Israel’ Is a Human Rights Abuse”, in The New York Times, retrieved 26 Jan 2016:
glosses: having an obligation; obliged
Synonyms: sense: having an obligation
word: obliged
Derived terms: nonobligated
obligatedly
unobligated
Related terms: word: obligate
hot as hell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hot + as hell.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely hot (all senses).
Synonyms: hot as blazes
hot as Hades
hot as hell's hinges
iterative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪt(ə)ɹətɪv/
ipa: /ˈɪtəˌɹeɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈɪt(ə)ɹətɪv/
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.(ə.)ɹə.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.(ə.)ɹə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈɪtəˌɹeɪtɪv/
ipa: [ˈɪt.əˌɹeɪ.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.əˌɹeɪ.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.əˌɹeɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈɪt(ə)ɹətɪv/
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.(ə.)ɹə.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.(ə.)ɹə.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: iter.
Senses: glosses: Of a procedure that involves repetition of steps (iteration) to achieve the desired outcome; in computing this may involve a mechanism such as a loop.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressive of an action that is repeated with frequency.
Synonyms: sense: involving repetition of steps
word: repeated
sense: involving repetition of steps
word: repetitive
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: frequentative
Derived terms: iterative aspect
iterative deepening search
iteratively
iterativeness
iteron
past iterative
subiterative
Related terms: iterate
iteration
iterative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪt(ə)ɹətɪv/
ipa: /ˈɪtəˌɹeɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈɪt(ə)ɹətɪv/
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.(ə.)ɹə.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.(ə.)ɹə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈɪtəˌɹeɪtɪv/
ipa: [ˈɪt.əˌɹeɪ.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.əˌɹeɪ.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.əˌɹeɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈɪt(ə)ɹətɪv/
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.(ə.)ɹə.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈɪɾ.(ə.)ɹə.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: iteratives
form: iter.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb showing the iterative aspect.
conspiracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conspiracy
conspiracies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conspiracy
end user
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end users
form: end-user
Senses: examples: text: Measuring site health from the end user's point of view is the discipline of EUEM, which is the logical complement to web analytics.
ref: 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring: Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: The final consumer of a product; the intended recipient or user.
Derived terms: end user license agreement
Related terms: EULA
personalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜːs(ə)nəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɝs(ə)nəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /-lɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: personalizations
form: personalisation
Etymology: From personalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of personalizing something, or adapting it for somebody's needs or tastes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of personalizing something, or adapting it for somebody's needs or tastes.
The configuration of a software product to suit the needs or tastes of one specific user.
glosses: The act of personifying; personification.
Derived terms: depersonalization
overpersonalization
Related terms: configuration
profile
straight face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɹeɪt ˈfeɪs/
Forms: form: straight faces
Senses: examples: text: I don't think I could recite "Peter Piper" quickly ten times with a straight face.
coordinate_terms: poker face
;
put on a brave face
glosses: A face that is expressionless, especially not laughing.
Derived terms: straight-faced
straight-face test
Related terms: straight man
stanchions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One minute's surprise, and a dark shadow appeared at the window. A strong grasp forced aside the iron stanchions—a tall slight figure sprang into the room.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: plural of stanchion
stanchions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stanchion
3D jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3D job
wispy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪspi/
rhymes: -ɪspi
Forms: form: wispier
form: wispiest
Etymology: From wisp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The wispy smoke rose from chimneys all around town.
glosses: Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle.
Derived terms: wispily
wispiness
so much for
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: For years, Volkswagen cars were designed to cheat on emissions tests. So much for "German engineering".
text: Well, I guess it'll never work. So much for that idea.
text: So much for goodwill!
text: Lukas Jensen replaced Roberts. The game restarted with an empty feeling around the ground.[…]So much for planning. A man down, Millwall sank back into a low block. Palace had all of the ball and all of the grass, generating a series of close-range scuffles and last-line wrestling matches.
ref: 2025 January 3, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An expression of dismissiveness, disappointment, disregard, or resignation; something said upon rejecting, giving up on, quitting, or disposing of something.
Related terms: kiss goodbye
so much
write off
quitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quit
quitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quittings
Senses: glosses: The deliberate ending of something.
glosses: The ceasing of a habit, especially smoking cigarettes or other addictive behaviors.
glosses: The termination of employment, initiated by the employee.
Derived terms: quiet quitting
quitting time
revenge quitting
disposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispose
disposing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disposings
Senses: glosses: The act by which things are disposed, or set out.
godi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
Forms: form: godis
form: gothi
Etymology: From Icelandic goði.
Senses: examples: text: Odd was the chieftain of Borgarfjord on the south side of Hvita then. He was the godi of the temple to which everyone living south of Skardsheidi paid tribute.
ref: 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 180:
glosses: A local chieftain in Norse society with religious and administrative duties.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A priest of the modern Norse religion.
Coordinate terms: english: a Slavic pagan priest
translation: a Slavic pagan priest
word: volkhv
Related terms: word: godord
english: a female priest
translation: a female priest
word: gythja
shieling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Forms: form: shielings
form: shealing
form: sheeling
form: shielin
form: sheilin
form: sheiling
form: sheelin
Etymology: From Scots shiel (“hut”) (from Old Norse skjól (“shelter, cover”)) + -ing. Akin to Danish skjul (“cover”).
Senses: examples: text: The cattle at Mosfell were kept in a shieling, and Thordis stayed there while the Thing took place.
ref: 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 182:
glosses: An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.
examples: text: And what are twenty beds, when all the drovers,
And all the shieling herdsmen from Bengorach,
Must have a lair provided for the night.
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, act 1:
text: Cabins and shielings had been torn down and burned.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 39:
glosses: A shepherd's hut or shack.
Fitz-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: -ɪts
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman fitz, from Old French fiz (modern fils), from Latin fīlius (“son”).
Senses: glosses: Son of; especially used for the illegitimate sons of royalty.
raw_tags: used in surnames
Derived terms: Fitzalan
Fitzclarence
Fitzgeorge
Fitzgerald
Fitzhenry
Fitzhugh
Fitzjames
Fitzjohn
Fitzmaurice
Fitzneal
Fitzpatrick
Fitzroy
Fitzwarren
Fitzwilliam
Related terms: Mac
Mc-
O'
shiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: shiels
Etymology: Probably from Scots
Senses: glosses: A shepherd's hut or shieling.
examples: text: The craik amang the claver hay, The pairtrick whirrin o'er the ley, The swallow jinkin round my shiel, Amuse me at my spinnin wheel.
ref: 1792, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs:
glosses: A cottage.
shiel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: shiels
form: shieling
form: shieled
form: shieled
Etymology: Probably from Scots
Senses: examples: text: Patrick Robertson, who shieled on the Atholl side of Drumochter, confirmed this practice: his cattle 'continued there till about midsummer, when they were brought down to his farm, having continued there about three weeks, and were then sent back to the shealing.
ref: 2021, David Taylor, Wild Black Region: Badenoch 1750-1800:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To use a place as a shieling.
shepherd kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Translating Greek βασιλείς ποιμένες, a mistranslation of Egyptian heqa khoswe ‘foreign rulers’.
Senses: glosses: the Hyksos
telecine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛl.əˈsɪn.eɪ/
enpr: tĕl'ə·sĭnʹā
Forms: form: telecines
Etymology: From tele- + cine.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The process of transferring motion picture film into electronic form.
glosses: A machine used to carry out this process.
telecine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛl.əˈsɪn.eɪ/
enpr: tĕl'ə·sĭnʹā
Forms: form: telecines
form: telecineing
form: telecined
form: telecined
Etymology: From tele- + cine.
Senses: glosses: To transfer (motion picture film) into electronic form.
rotoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roto- + -scope.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
qualifier: visual effects
glosses: A technique in which animators trace live-action movement frame by frame.
Synonyms: rotoscoping
Derived terms: rotoartist
rotoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rotoscopes
form: rotoscoping
form: rotoscoped
form: rotoscoped
Etymology: From roto- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: To use this technique upon.
Synonyms: roto
kei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 軽 (kei, “lightweight”), from Japanese 軽自動車 (keijidōsha).
Senses: examples: text: Nissan Motor Co. revamped one of its more popular lightweight kei cars as the Japanese carmaker refreshes its aging lineup. The fourth-generation Roox will go on sale by the end of the year for ¥1.6 million ($10,800), the company said Friday. The new model has better mileage, more safety features and built-in connectivity. Kei cars account for about a third of Japan’s automobile market and the Roox, a gasoline-powered automobile initially released in 2009, has sold an average of 80,000 units per year, making it one of the more popular kei models among the three that Nissan sells. The carmaker is releasing the vehicle as it looks to cut costs, eliminate jobs and shutter factories. […] Japan’s best-selling kei car is Honda Motor Co.’s N-BOX, which sold more than 200,000 units in 2024. Nissan’s Sakura, also a kei-sized electric car that sells more than 20,000 units annually, is the best-selling battery-powered vehicle in Japan.
ref: 2025 August 21, Emi Tanimoto, “Nissan Updates Popular Kei Car as It Revamps Aging Lineup”, in Bloomberg News, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025:
glosses: A class of lightweight vehicles with small engines.
Derived terms: kei car
kei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 系 (kei, “style”).
Senses: qualifier: aesthetic
glosses: A type of Japanese street fashion and music aesthetics.
Related terms: angura kei
Cult Party kei
decora kei
dolly kei
fairy kei
genderless kei
girly kei
jirai kei
mori kei
oshare kei
Shibuya-kei
visual kei
manpo-kei
goi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goiim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goy.
exult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzʌlt/
rhymes: -ʌlt
Forms: form: exults
form: exulting
form: exulted
form: exulted
Etymology: From Middle French exulter, from Latin exsultō, frequentative of exsiliō (“jump up”), from ex- + saliō (“jump, leap”).
Senses: examples: text: I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across-the darkness, Mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
Derived terms: exulting
Related terms: exultant
exultate
exultation
oxidoreductase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidoreductases
Etymology: From its morphology, oxido- + reductase.
Senses: examples: text: It remains to be seen whether oxidoreductase deficiency is a significant cause of non-syndromic ambiguous genitalia in newborn females and undermasculinized males of unknown diagnosis as assessed by urinary steroid analyses.
ref: 2011, Charles G. D. Brook, Peter Clayton, Rosalind Brown, Brook's Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology, page 196:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction (redox) reaction.
stonedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stonedly
form: most stonedly
Etymology: From stoned + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As though stoned.
oxygenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: oxygenations
Etymology: From oxygen + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of reacting or treating something with oxygen.
Derived terms: aminooxygenation
antioxygenation
azidooxygenation
cyclooxygenation
deoxygenation
dioxygenation
hyperoxygenation
hypooxygenation
microoxygenation
monooxygenation
oxygenation catastrophe
oxygenation crisis
oxygenation event
oxygenation holocaust
photooxygenation
preoxygenation
reoxygenation
superoxygenation
carbon anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbon dioxide
Synonyms: carbonic anhydride
carbonic anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbon dioxide
Synonyms: carbon anhydride
carbon arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon arcs
Senses: glosses: an arc struck between the tip of a carbon electrode and a piece of metal being welded
carbon-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: carbon-based life
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: silicon-based
glosses: Based on organic biopolymers.
smetana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɛ.tə.nə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian смета́на (smetána).
Senses: glosses: A form of soured cream or crème fraîche from Central and Eastern Europe.
Related terms: smetannik
carbon bisulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbon disulfide
carbon bisulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carbon disulfide.
carbon disulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of carbon disulfide.
carbon disulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon disulphide
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of carbon and sulfur, CS₂, a colourless liquid with a not-unpleasant smell; used as a specialist solvent, and in the manufacture of organosulfur compounds.
Synonyms: word: carbon bisulfide
word: sulphuretted carbon
chufa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chufas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chufa, possibly from Latin cȳphi (“gallingale perfume”), from Ancient Greek κῦφι (kûphi, “a kind of Egyptian incense”), from Egyptian kꜣpt (“incense”), a nominal derivative of kꜣp (“to cense”).
Senses: examples: text: Chufa is most popular in two places in the Mediterranean, Spain and Egypt (especially around Damietta). In Spain, especially in the region of Valencia, chufa is used to make a drink called horchata.
ref: 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 119:
text: The chinese water chestnut and the tiger nut, or chufa, are both members of the sedge family, a group of water grasses that includes papyrus.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 6, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
glosses: Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
Synonyms: chufa sedge
yellow nutsedge
tigernut sedge
earthalmond
estufa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstuːfə/
rhymes: -uːfə
Forms: form: estufas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish estufa.
Senses: glosses: A room in a Pueblo Indian house.
tufa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tufas
Etymology: From Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus or tōphus. Doublet of tuff.
Senses: examples: text: B.J. Szabo presented the results of a survey of the tufa mounds that border Pyramid Lake indicating that uranium-series methods can be used to approximate the ages of such tufa deposits. In the Pyramid Lake Basin, tufas less than 50,000 years old contain large quantities of excess thorium, and the error in age estimates made using uranium-series methods is not small enough to confirm results from ¹⁴C determinations.
ref: 1993, George V. Benson, Meeting Highlights, George V. Benson (editor), Proceedings of the Workshop "Ongoing Paleoclimatic Studies in the Northern Great Basin", Geological Survey Circular, US Geological Survey, page 1
text: Resedimented tufas also contribute where erosion has washed detritus from other hillside tufa deposits.
ref: 2003, Martyn Pedley, Ian Hill, “The recognition of barrage and paludal tufa systems by GPR: case studies of the geometry and correlation of Quaternary freshwater carbonates”, in C. S. Bristow, Harry M. Jol, editors, Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments, page 208:
text: The tufas at Tianshengqiao have different shapes in different development stages and in different structural sections.
ref: 2011, Chuxing Huang, “9: Characteristics and Formation Mechanism of the Tufa Landscape in Tianshengqiao in Zhongdian County”, in Tadej Slabe, editor, South China Karst II, page 95:
glosses: Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.
examples: 1825, "Oliver Oldschool" (Joseph Dennie), John Elihu Hall (editors), The Port Folio, page 426,
This again is followed by a bed of stony tufa of a reddish colour, containing fragments of a spongy lava, amphigone, pyroxene, mica, and common lava; and, like the former, traversed by argillaceous veins.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
synonyms: tuff
glosses: A variety of volcanic rock, tuff.
Hypernyms: sense: calcareous deposit
word: calcite
sense: calcareous deposit
word: limestone
Derived terms: calc-tufa
Related terms: travertine
carbon-copy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon-copies
Senses: examples: text: Nor does television screen violence provoke nationwide carbon-copy murders.
ref: 1978, Kenneth Roberts, Contemporary Society and the Growth of Leisure, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of carbon copy.
carbon-copy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbon-copies
form: carbon-copying
form: carbon-copied
form: carbon-copied
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carbon copy.
intentionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃnəli/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənli/
Forms: form: more intentionally
form: most intentionally
Etymology: From intentional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The body design has been carried out to the requirements of the B.T.C. Design Panel in association with the Design Research Unit and its lines are described as "intentionally unelaborate".
ref: 1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 124–125:
text: Today, no one would intentionally smear radioactive materials on their face, but in 1933, the dangers of radioactivity were not yet fully understood.
ref: 2020 March 8, Jacopo Prisco, “When beauty products were radioactive”, in CNN:
text: Astrotourism has the potential to catalyze positive change and reduce light pollution globally, but it must be pursued intentionally with utmost concern for local communities and the natural environment.
ref: 2024 October 8, DarkSky International, DarkSky International releases guiding principles for responsible astrotourism:
synonyms: knowingly
antonyms: unintentionally
glosses: In an intentional manner; on purpose.
Related terms: unintentional
carbon cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon cycles
Senses: glosses: The physical cycle of carbon through the Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere that includes such processes as photosynthesis, decomposition, respiration and carbonification.
Related terms: carbon-nitrogen cycle
CNO cycle
nitrogen cycle
oxygen cycle
hydrogen cycle
respiration
circulatory system
pulmonary circulation
pronominal adverb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronominal adverbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adverb which contains a pronominal element; generally such an adverb replaces a phrase of preposition + pronoun.
pentlandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentlandites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed iron and nickel sulfide mineral, with the chemical formula (Fe,Ni)₉S₈; the major ore of nickel.
Derived terms: pentlanditic
peridotite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪ.dəˌtaɪt/
ipa: /pəˈɹɪd.əˌtaɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪ.doʊˌtaɪt/
Forms: form: peridotites
Etymology: From peridot + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Varieties of peridotite are distinguished by their mineral composition; for example, dunite is a peridotite which is virtually all olivine, and a dense, dark green in colour.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 60:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock consisting of small crystals of olivine, pyroxene and hornblende; the major constituent of the Earth's mantle.
Derived terms: peridotitic
period doubling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: period doublings
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A characteristic of the transition of a system or process from regular motion to chaos, in which the period of one of its parameters is seen to double.
hapax legomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæpˌæks ləˈɡɒmɪnə/
ipa: /ˈhæpˌæks ləˈɡɑmɪnə/
rhymes: -ɒmɪnə
Senses: glosses: plural of hapax legomenon
permafrost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝməˌfɹɔst/
Forms: form: permafrosts
Etymology: From perma- + frost.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, the water molecule is present, as ice, in a solid form in frozen soils or permafrosts, which cover large regions characterised by a polar climate.
ref: 2003, Johannes C. Nonner, Introduction to Hydrogeology, →ISBN, page 157:
text: In agreement with our overall trends within the permafrost samples, lower nirK and nirS and higher nosZ diversity have been identified in cryoturbated peat vs. unturbated peat soils (Palmer and Horn, 2012 ).
ref: 2015 July 21, Christopher R. Penton et al., “Denitrifying and diazotrophic community responses to artificial warming in permafrost and tallgrass prairie soils”, in Frontiers in Microbiology, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Permanently frozen ground, or a specific layer thereof.
wikipedia: Permafrost Kingdom
permafrost
Derived terms: permafrosted
permafrosty
subpermafrost
Related terms: cryogenesis
Acker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækə/
ipa: /ˈækɚ/
rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: An English topographical surname from Old English from Old English æcer (“field”).
glosses: A German topographical surname from German from Old High German ackar (“field”).
glosses: nickname from the Somerset slang for "friend" or "mate", e.g. Acker Bilk
Derived terms: Ackerian
acorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acorn
as if
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæz‿ˈɪf/
ipa: /əz‿ˈɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Etymology: From Middle English as ȝif, alls iff (“as if”), from Old English *ealswā ġif, attested only as swā ġif (“as if”), equivalent to as + if. Compare Dutch alsof (“as if”), Low German as of (“as if”), German als ob (“as if”).
Senses: examples: text: The old man stumbled, as if he were about to fall.
text: It looks as if it's going to rain.
text: She jumped all of a sudden, as if stung.
text: I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow — a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, […]
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 203:
text: Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: As though; in a manner suggesting.
examples: text: When the teacher’s back was turned, the class clown would hold his stomach as if he were ill.
glosses: In mimicry of.
examples: text: How can you even think that? As if I would inform on you to the police!
glosses: Indicating something that the speaker deems very unlikely, or is adamant that he or she would not do (see also interjection sense below).
Derived terms: as-if rule
look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
make as if
Related terms: as it were
as if
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæz‿ˈɪf/
ipa: /əz‿ˈɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Etymology: From Middle English as ȝif, alls iff (“as if”), from Old English *ealswā ġif, attested only as swā ġif (“as if”), equivalent to as + if. Compare Dutch alsof (“as if”), Low German as of (“as if”), German als ob (“as if”).
Senses: examples: text: "I'm going to clean your whole house." — "As if!"
text: Me, take up yoga and become a vegetarian? As if!
text: “Better wait, hadn't you, Laura,” said Aunt Wess’, “and see. Maybe he'll come up and speak to us.” “Oh, as if!” contradicted Laura.
ref: 1903, Frank Norris, The Pit: A Story of Chicago, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, →OL, page 10:
text: Ooo! Get off of me! Uh, AS IF!
ref: 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):
glosses: Indicates that the speaker deems something highly unlikely.
four hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈfɔː ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈfoʊɹ ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈfɔːɹ ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Forms: form: 400
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after three hundred ninety-nine and before four hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 400.
Related terms: word: four-hundredth
word: quattrocento
Elkanah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew אֶלְקָנָה (ʾelqānā, “God has created”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several minor characters in the Old Testament, including the father of Samuel.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.
six hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪks ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈsɪks ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after five hundred ninety-nine and before six hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 600.
Related terms: word: six-hundredth
seven hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛv.ən ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈsɛv.ən ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Forms: form: 700
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after six hundred ninety-nine and before seven hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 700.
Related terms: word: seven-hundredth
eight hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪt ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈeɪt ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Forms: form: 800
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after seven hundred ninety-nine and before eight hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 800.
Related terms: word: eight-hundredth
nine hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪn ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈnaɪn ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Forms: form: 900
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after eight hundred ninety-nine and before nine hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 900. Ordinal: nine-hundredth.
gerenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerendas
Senses: glosses: A kind of snake of the East Indies.
compression set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compression sets
Senses: glosses: The tendency of soft materials, such as elastomers, to undergo permanent deformation; the tendency of such materials to have a memory or to lose their ability to recover in a completely elastic manner.
Related terms: viscoelastic
elastomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elastomer
blackface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈblækˌfeɪs/
Forms: form: blackfaces
form: Blackface
Etymology: From black + face.
Senses: examples: text: Soberano hit back at Instagram comments, writing, "This is not any form of blackface." But has since backtracked.
ref: 2019, Farah Andrews, “Filipina Actress Liza Soberano Slammed for Mel B 'Blackface'”, in The National News:
coordinate_terms: word: brownface
english: race and ethnicity
translation: race and ethnicity
word: redface
word: whiteface
word: yellowface
word: ;
english: sex, gender, and sexual orientation
translation: sex, gender, and sexual orientation
word: gayface
word: transface
english: voice and accent
translation: voice and accent
word: ;
word: blackvoice
word: vocal blackface
glosses: The practice in which a nonblack person blackens their face using theatrical makeup in order to portray a caricature of a black person.
glosses: A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
examples: text: The laboratory procedure in the most important tests and methods is printed in blackface type for convenience of reference.
ref: 1917, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Journal - Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, →OCLC:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of boldface.
synonyms: word: boldface
Derived terms: blackfaced
blackfacing
digital blackface
vocal blackface
womanface
Related terms: blackfish
blackwash
boutonniere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbuːtənˈiːɚ/
other: /ˌbuːtənˈjɛɹ/
Forms: form: boutonnieres
form: boutonnière
Etymology: From French boutonnière.
Senses: examples: text: The rare white "Heliotrope" whose flower can can be worn as a boutanniere ^([sic]) and whose scent can be discreetly sprinkled on hankerchieves.
ref: 1991 August 31, Rudy Grillo, “Color Me Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 7, page 11:
glosses: A small flower or bunch of flowers worn in a buttonhole or pinned to the lapel of a jacket.
Synonyms: english: flower
translation: flower
word: buttonhole
Derived terms: boutonniered
boutonniere deformity
levo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: laevo
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: dextro
glosses: Clipping of levorotatory.
xenocrysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenocryst
unbelieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbelieved
form: most unbelieved
Etymology: From un- + believed.
Senses: examples: text: An unbelieved truth is better than a well-crafted lie.
glosses: Not believed; disbelieved
xenophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenophile
xerodermas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeroderma
polonaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪz
ipa: /ˌpɒləˈneɪz/
ipa: /ˌpoʊləˈneɪz/
Forms: form: polonaises
form: polonese
Etymology: Borrowed from French polonaise (“Polish”).
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stately Polish dance in triple time and moderate tempo.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music for this dance.
synonyms: robe à la polonaise
glosses: A woman's dress having a tight bodice and a skirt divided to show a coloured underskirt.
glosses: A short overcoat bordered with fur.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A garnish made with melted butter, breadcrumbs, and herbs.
glosses: Synonym of Polish bed.
synonyms: word: Polish bed
polonaise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪz
ipa: /ˌpɒləˈneɪz/
ipa: /ˌpoʊləˈneɪz/
Forms: form: polonaises
form: polonaising
form: polonaised
form: polonaised
form: polonese
Etymology: Borrowed from French polonaise (“Polish”).
Senses: glosses: To dance the polonaise.
xerophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xerophyte
admissibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈmɪsɪbli/
Forms: form: more admissibly
form: most admissibly
Etymology: From admissible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a manner that is admissible; acceptably
Related terms: admit
inconnu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconnus
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A large salmonid fish, Stenodus nelma, with a large mouth with a protruding lower jaw and a high and pointed dorsal fin.
Synonyms: nelma
sheefish
connie
encourages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encourage
drench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: drenches
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English drenchen, drench (“to drown; to flood, inundate; to consume (drink or food); to give (someone) a drink; to poison (someone) with a drink; to immerse, soak, drench; to descend, fall, sink; to penetrate, permeate; (figurative) to engulf, overwhelm”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċan (“to give (someone) a drink; to immerse, soak, drench”), from Proto-West Germanic *drankijan, from Proto-Germanic *drankijaną (“to cause (someone) to drink”), the causative of *drinkaną (“to drink”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (verb).
The noun is derived from the verb (sense 1.2).
Cognates
* Old High German trenchen (modern German tränken (“to give a drink; to water”))
* Old Norse drekkja, drenkja (Swedish dränka)
* Old Saxon dręnkian (Dutch drenke (“to get a drink”))
Senses: examples: text: Whenever it was the thought first struck him / How Death, at unawares, might duck him / Deeper than the grave, and quench / The gin-shop's light in Hell's grim drench […]
ref: 1850, Robert Browning, “Christmas-Eve. Stanza III.”, in Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day. A Poem, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
glosses: An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.
drenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɛnt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɛntʃt
Forms: form: more drenched
form: most drenched
Senses: examples: text: The storm's so bad that if you step outside for 20 seconds, you get drenched.
text: Back home the buses went up in flashes / The Irish tomb was drenched in blood
ref: 1979, Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, “Spanish Bombs”, in London Calling, performed by The Clash:
text: Well I'm grinding my life out, steady and sure / Nothing more wretched than what I must endure / I'm drenched in the light that shines from the sun
ref: 2012, Bob Dylan, “Pay in Blood”, in Tempest:
synonyms: word: plashy
word: saturated
word: soaked
word: bewatered
word: damp
word: drenched
word: dripping
word: drunk
word: humid
word: irriguous
word: madid
word: moist
word: moisty
word: overwatered
word: plashy
word: saturated
word: soaked
word: sodden
word: soggy
word: spewy
word: spongy
word: squidgy
word: thoan
word: thone
word: undried
word: watered
word: waterlogged
word: watery
word: wet
word: wetter than an otter's pocket
word: wiery
glosses: Completely wet; sodden
Derived terms: undrenched
drenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɛnt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɛntʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drench
beggary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɡəɹi/
Forms: form: beggaries
Etymology: From beggar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Happily some haplesse man hath conscience,
And for his conscience lives in beggary.
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
text: Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
And say there is no sin but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say there is no vice but beggary.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128,
[…] she does not come hither as a beggar, however well the state of beggary may accord with her poverty: she only sollicits the payment of a bill […]
text: The matter to be decided involved, in addition to the personal risks of life and liberty, the probable forfeiture of an immense estate, and the beggary, in consequence, of an only and beloved daughter.
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XII, page 150:
text: There was, clearly, no future for him but beggary and a death in the workhouse.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
examples: text: […] the landlady […] ushered them into a large garret where twenty or thirty people of all ages and both sexes lay and dozed away the day, choosing the evening and night for their trades of beggary, thieving, or prostitution.
ref: 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 38, in Mary Barton:
text: […] perhaps he would abandon beggary when there was no poor fool about to beg from.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter 8, in Capricornia, New York: Appleton, page 126:
glosses: The fact or action of begging.
examples: text: […] she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret, that everybody, herself included, fancied she was consumed with grief for her father.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Beggarly appearance.
beggary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɡəɹi/
Forms: form: more beggary
form: most beggary
Etymology: From beggar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: beggary counterfeits
ref: c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: early 1600s, Beaumont and Fletcher (attributed), The Nice Valour, Act V, Scene 3, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher, London: J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750, Volume 10, p. 359,
This is Love’s beggary right, that now is ours,
When Ladies love, and cannot shew their Powers.
glosses: beggarly
rester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resters
Etymology: From Middle English restar, restere, equivalent to rest + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Their ideal vacation experience made the rester the focus of care, the object of medical, cultural, and culinary attention.
ref: 2013, Diane P. Koenker, Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream, page 136:
glosses: One who rests.
xylographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylograph
girl next door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girls next door
form: girl-next-door
Senses: examples: text: He didn't want to marry the girl next door: he yearned for the big city.
text: Playboy's motto is: the girl next door. They look for girls that are wholesome and fresh and young and naive. They look for all of that.
ref: 1983, Teresa Carpenter, Bob Fosse, Star 80, spoken by Dorothy Stratten:
text: The Nippy became a national icon, symbolic of the girl next door, always approachable and proper; […]
ref: 2014, Paul Chrystal, Tea: A Very British Beverage:
coordinate_terms: boy next door
glosses: A regular, typical girl, as opposed to a superstar.
superstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.pəˌstɑː/
ipa: /ˈsu.pɚˌstɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈsʉː.pəˌstaː/
Forms: form: superstars
Etymology: From super- + star.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.
examples: text: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent.
ref: 2014 November 17, Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Programmer's Price”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2022:
text: Is your organization looking for its next new hire, that superstar performer to take things to the next level? Be careful: Organizations are greater than just one individual. If you're that superstar, remember to be a good team player. You'll feel better about your job and you'll perform at an even higher level.
ref: 2017 May 19, Hui Liao, “Career Coach: How to handle the new hotshot on your team”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2020:
text: "A superstar employee that is creating that toxic work environment is probably costing that company more than he or she is bringing in," Martin says.
ref: 2017 October 15, Tara Golshan, “Study finds 75 percent of workplace harassment victims experienced retaliation when they spoke up”, in Vox, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023:
text: There's no sense in hiring a superstar developer who will quit after three months because she can't stand the management style or requires flexibility the hiring company doesn't offer.
ref: 2022 June 27, Ariel Shapira, “As 'Tindery' hiring dies down, Unboxable's AI steers companies toward retention”, in The Jerusalem Post, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2023:
qualifier: corporate jargon
glosses: An exceptionally productive employee.
examples: text: The greater an object's mass, the greater its gravitational force. If a star could attain a certain mass --- say a million to 100 million times the mass of our own sun --- then its gravity would become 100 times as powerful as the forces generated by the strongest known nuclear reactions. Such a super superstar, in a normal course of its evolution, would contract.
ref: 1964, Life: Volume 56, No. 4, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Toward the centre of the cluster, where they were more strongly congested, the whole region glowed as though as it were a monstrous superstar.
ref: 1975, Harold W. G. Allen, The Edge of the Universe: What is Our Destiny? Is There Life After Death? What Incredible Secret Lies in the Depths of Space?, Allen Book Pub., page 36:
text: Perhaps a supermassive cluster can coalesce to form a superstar -- a star with a mass of 1 million to 100 million solar masses.
ref: 1979, Michael Zeilik, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, Harper and Row, →ISBN, page 379:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A giant star.
Related terms: megastar
superstardom
outgas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outgases
form: outgasses
form: outgassing
form: outgassed
form: outgassed
Etymology: From out- + gas.
Senses: glosses: To release gaseous substances into the air, especially of a polymer material as it is aged or heated.
outgas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outgases
form: outgasses
Etymology: From out- + gas.
Senses: glosses: Gaseous substances released into the air, especially from a polymer material as it is aged or heated.