cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Babylonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæbɪˈləʊnɪə/
ipa: /ˌbæbɪˈloʊni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Babylonia, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλωνία (Babulōnía), from Βαβυλων (Babulōn, “Babylon”) + -ία (-ía, forming place names for areas).
Senses: synonyms: Babylonian Empire
;
Chaldea
Chaldean Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire
glosses: An ancient empire and geographic region of Mesopotamia, existing from 1850 BCE to 539 BCE, based around the city of Babylon; at its maximum extent, covering parts of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Iran.
synonyms: Mesopotamia
glosses: A geographic area equivalent to Mesopotamia, from the area of Babylon's empire at its maximum extent.
Hyponyms: sense: southern Babylonia
word: Sumeria
sense: southern Babylonia
word: Chaldea
Derived terms: Assyro-Babylonia
Babylonian
Related terms: Babylon
fludrocortisone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflu.dɹoʊˈkɔɹ.tɪˌsoʊn/
Etymology: Blend of fluoro- + hydrocortisone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A potent mineralocorticoid drug that is derived from hydrocortisone, possesses some glucocorticoid activity, and is administered in the form of its acetate C₂₃H₃₁FO₆ to treat adrenocortical insufficiency.
Assyria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɪɹiə
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital. Doublet of Syria.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt).
Derived terms: Assyrian
Related terms: Assyriac
Babylonia
Iraq
Mesopotamia
Syria
fluoroquinolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroquinolones
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of antibiotics (fluoro derivatives of quinolone) derived from nalidixic acid.
nalidixic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnæl.ɪˌdɪk.sɪk ˈæs.ɪd/
rhymes: -æsɪd
Etymology: From na(phtha)l(ene) + (pyr)idi(ne) + (carbo)x(yl)ic acid.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic quinolone antibacterial which inhibits the multiplication of bacteria, used to treat genitourinary infections.
Derived terms: nalidixate
quinolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭʹnəlōn
ipa: /ˈkwɪnələʊn/
enpr: kwĭʹnəlōn'
ipa: /ˈkwɪnəˌloʊn/
Forms: form: quinolones
Etymology: Formed as quinol(ine) + -one, after the German Chinolon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric ketones derived from quinoline.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a range of broad-spectrum antibiotics, related to nalidixic acid, based on this structure.
Derived terms: azaquinolone
isoquinolone
Related terms: fluoroquinolone
broad-spectrum antibiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad-spectrum antibiotics
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any antibiotic that is active against a wide range of bacteria, especially against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
gram-positive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Gram-positive
Etymology: From Gram (“a surname”) + positive, after Danish bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram, who invented the Gram staining method.
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That is stained violet by Gram's method
raw_tags: of a bacterium
Coordinate terms: gram-negative
Related terms: Gram staining
Gram's method
gram-negative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Gram-negative
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: that is not stained violet by Gram's method
raw_tags: of a bacterium
Related terms: diderm
Gram's method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Hans Christian Gram, Danish bacteriologist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A staining technique, using a sequence of crystal violet, iodine and safranine, used to differentiate bacteria into two large groups of species.
wikipedia: Hans Christian Gram
Synonyms: Gram staining
Related terms: Gram-positive
Gram-negative
Gram staining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gram stainings
Etymology: After Hans Christian Gram, Danish bacteriologist.
Senses: glosses: Gram's method of distinguishing the two main groups of bacteria
wikipedia: Hans Christian Gram
hydrocortisone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˈkɔː.tɪ.zəʊn/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.dɹoʊˈkɔɹ.tɪˌsoʊn/
Forms: form: hydrocortisones
Etymology: From hydro- + cortisone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Name used for cortisol, a glucocorticoid steroid hormone, when used as a medication. Used to treat e.g. inflammation resulting from rheumatism and eczema.
Derived terms: fludrocortisone
hydrocortamate
tetrahydrocortisone
cortisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.tɪ.sɒl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.tɪˌsɔl/
Forms: form: cortisols
Etymology: From cortisone + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see subsection on "Noradrenaline"). Thus, individuals lacking cortisol would overstore traumatic memories .
ref: 2006, Marcus Lira Brandão, Frederico Guilherme Graeff, Neurobiology of Mental Disorders, page 36:
text: “While chronic stress can lead to increased levels of cortisol in the body, those levels don’t usually rise high enough to create a moon face,” said dermatologist Dr. Rajani Katta, a clinical assistant professor at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
ref: 2024 October 17, Sandee LaMotte, “Stress and ‘moon face’: What experts say about this TikTok trend”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A glucocorticoid steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that mediates various metabolic processes (such as gluconeogenesis), has anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties, and whose levels in the blood may become elevated in response to physical or psychological stress. When used medicinally it is known as hydrocortisone.
Derived terms: anticortisol
cortisolemia
deoxycortisol
epicortisol
hypocortisolism
tixocortol
hydroquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪdɹəˈkwɪnəʊn/
Forms: form: hydroquinones
Etymology: From hydro- + quinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild reducing agent in photographic developing; isomeric with catechol and resorcinol.
Derived terms: anilinohydroquinone
benzohydroquinone
furylhydroquinone
hydronaphthoquinone
iodohydroquinone
metaxylohydroquinone
tert-butylhydroquinone
tertiary butylhydroquinone
xylohydroquinone
resorcinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈzɔː(ɹ)sɪnɒl/
Forms: form: resorcinols
Etymology: From resin + orcinol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The diphenol meta-dihydroxy benzene, used as a mild antiseptic and in many industrial applications; isomeric with catechol and hydroquinone.
Derived terms: chrysoine resorcinol
naphthoresorcinol
p-nitrobenzene-azo-resorcinol
isoflavone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoflavones
Etymology: From iso- + flavone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of polyphenolic phytoestrogens found in soybeans and similar plants that may have beneficial health properties.
Derived terms: homoisoflavone
polyphenolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polyphenol + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to the polyphenols
polyphenolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphenolics
Etymology: From polyphenol + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A polyphenol, or derivative
phytoestrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfaɪ.təʊˈiː.stɹəd͡ʒ.ən/
ipa: /ˌfaɪ.toʊˈɛ.stɹəd͡ʒ.ən/
Forms: form: phytoestrogens
Etymology: From phyto- + estrogen.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, Kumar et al. investigated the synergistic effects of three phytoestrogens (genistein, quercetin and biochanin A) and found that these phytoestrogens in combination had a more potent inhibitory effect on androgen-responsive prostate cancer cell growth in vitro.
ref: 2015 July 25, “Divide and Conquer May Not Be the Optimal Approach to Retain the Desirable Estrogenic Attributes of the Cyclopia Nutraceutical Extract, SM6Met”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: “Overall, we did not find an association between phytoestrogens and night sweats,” Muka said, though a single experiment with red clover found a reduction in the frequency of night sweats. This is insufficient, though, to draw any firm conclusions.
“A main concern of our study was the length of follow-up,” Muka said. Since most of the research included just 12 to 16 weeks of follow-up, he and his colleagues cannot define the long-term effects of phytoestrogen and whether they might have adverse effects over time.
ref: 2016 June 21, Susan Scutti, “Herbal remedies improve early menopause symptoms”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance found in certain plants (such as genistein) which can produce effects like that of the hormone estrogen when ingested into the body.
Hypernyms: xenoestrogen
Hyponyms: isoflavone
Derived terms: phytoestrogenic
menadione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛn.əˈdʌɪ.əʊn/
ipa: /ˌmɛn.əˈdaɪˌoʊn/
Forms: form: menadiones
Etymology: From me(thyl) + na(phthalene) + dione.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic yellow compound C₁₁H₈O₂ with the biological activity of natural vitamin K menaquinone, used to treat hemorrhage.
Derived terms: menadiol
menadione sodium bisulfite
phytomenadione
naphthoquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthoquinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomers of polycyclic aromatic ketones derived from naphthalene.
Derived terms: 1
2-naphthoquinone
4-naphthoquinone
binaphthoquinone
diazonaphthoquinone
dihydroxynaphthoquinone
hydroxynaphthoquinone
menaquinone
phylloquinone
pyranonaphthoquinone
Related terms: dihydroxynaphthalene
vitamin K
syringes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭ-rĭnʹjĭz
ipa: /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒɪz/
ipa: /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/
Etymology: See syringe.
Senses: glosses: plural of syringe
syringes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭ-rĭnʹjĭz
ipa: /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒɪz/
ipa: /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/
enpr: sĭ-rĭnʹjēz
ipa: /sɪˈɹɪnd͡ʒiːz/
ipa: /sɪˈɹɪnd͡ʒiz/
ipa: /sə-/
enpr: sĭ-rĭnʹjĭz
ipa: /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒɪz/
ipa: /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sȳringes.
Senses: glosses: plural of syrinx
phenobarbitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenobarbitones
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A barbiturate drug used as a sedative.
Synonyms: phenobarbital
purple heart
phenylbutazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylbutazones
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug used to treat arthritis and gout.
plastoquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastoquinones
Etymology: From plasto- + quinone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a quinone, related to the carotenoids, involved in the electron transport process of photosynthesis
Derived terms: decylplastoquinone
prednisolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛdˈnɪs.ə.ləʊn/
ipa: /pɹɛdˈnɪs.əˌloʊn/
Forms: form: prednisolones
Etymology: From prednis(-ol)one.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic glucocorticoid C₂₁H₂₈O₅ that is a dehydrogenated analog of cortisol and is used especially as an anti-inflammatory drug.
Derived terms: word: cloprednol
word: difluprednate
word: fluprednidene
word: fluprednisolone
word: loteprednol
word: -metasone
word: -methasone
word: methylprednisolone
english: steroid or steroid-like drug
translation: steroid or steroid-like drug
word: -olone
word: prednicarbate
word: prednimustine
word: prednylidene
word: pred-
word: -pred-
glucocorticoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucocorticoids
Etymology: From gluco- + corticoid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: Any of a group of steroid hormones, produced by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in metabolism and have anti-inflammatory properties.
Hypernyms: corticoid
corticosteroid
hormone
steroid
Derived terms: word: antiglucocorticoid
english: GR
translation: GR
word: glucocorticoid receptor
word: nonglucocorticoid
prednisone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prĕdʹnĭ-sōn'
enpr: prĕdʹnĭ-zōn'
ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.nɪ.zəʊn/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.nɪˌsoʊn/
Forms: form: prednisones
Etymology: From pre(gnane) + d(ie)ne + (cort)isone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A glucocorticoid C₂₁H₂₆O₅ that is a dehydrogenated analog of cortisone, used to relieve rheumatic and allergic conditions and to treat leukemia.
Derived terms: methylprednisone
prednisolone
rotenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotenones
Etymology: From Japanese ローテン (rōten) + -one (“ketone”), from Hokkien 蘆藤 /芦藤 (lôo-tîn, “Derris elliptica”).
Senses: examples: text: The cryophilic phenotype of the atu mutant was alleviated to some extent by administering rotenone, a pharmacological inhibitor of oxidative phosphorylation, but not tolbutamide, a sulphonylurea that stimulates metabolic rate by raising the lymphatic concentration of glucose.
ref: 2009 March 27, Ken-ichi Takeuchi et al., “Changes in Temperature Preferences and Energy Homeostasis in Dystroglycan Mutants”, in Science, volume 323, number 5922, →DOI, pages 1740–1743:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic crystalline substance obtained from the roots of derris and related plants, widely used as an insecticide.
Synonyms: word: nicouline
Derived terms: rotenolone
rotenonic acid
semiquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiquinones
Etymology: From semi- + quinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermediate free radical generated in the conversion of quinones to/from hydroquinones.
Derived terms: semiquinonic
ubisemiquinone
sulfone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfones
form: sulphone
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds that have a sulfonyl functional group attached to two carbon atoms; drugs of this structure have been used to treat leprosy.
Derived terms: dimethyl sulfone
sulindac sulfone
sulphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfone.
sulfonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonyls
form: sulphonyl
Etymology: From sulfonic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The bivalent radical or functional group -SO₂-
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from a sulfonic acid
Derived terms: amisulpride
benzenesulphonyl
chlorosulfonyl
dalfopristin
disulfonyl
fluorosulfonyl
methylsulfonylmethane
rosuvastatin
satranidazole
sildenafil
sulbactam
sulfonterol
sulfonylated
sulfonylating
sulfonylation
sulfonyl fluoride
sulfonylhydrazone
sulfonylimine
sulfonylketenimine
sulfonyltriazole
sulfonylurea
sultopride
sumarotene
toluenesulfonyl
tolufazepam
Related terms: sulfone
sulfuryl
sulphonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphonyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfonyl.
trimethadione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethadiones
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anticonvulsant drug used to control epilepsy.
ubiquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ubiquinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of several isoprenyl quinones that have a role in cellular respiration
Synonyms: coenzyme Q
tabes dorsalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbiːz dɔːˈseɪlɪs/
Forms: form: tabes dorsales
Etymology: From tabes + dorsalis, "tabes of the back".
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: tabes of the back; a degeneration of the sensory neurons of the spinal cord carrying afferent information.
examples: text: Malcolm X: the death of terminal fibrillation, as elegant as the trembling of hands in tabes dorsalis [...].
ref: 1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
text: [I told her] of patients with neurosyphilis, tabes dorsalis, who had similar symptoms, but confined to the legs.
ref: 1984, Oliver Sacks, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007), page 51
qualifier: more specifically
glosses: neurosyphilis in the form of such degeneration.
Synonyms: locomotor ataxia
talion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtalɪən/
Etymology: From Middle French talion, from Latin talis (“such”).
Senses: examples: text: Simple talion may be fine for wartime, but politics between wars demands symmetry and a more elegant idea of justice, even to the point of masquerading, a bit decadently, as mercy.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: Retaliation; retribution.
diminution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪmɪˈnjuːʃən/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: diminutions
Etymology: From Middle English diminucioun, from Anglo-Norman diminuciun, Old French diminucion, from Latin dīminūtiō.
Senses: examples: text: The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.
text: Another part, feeling a diminution of confidence in him, still hope that the general tenor of his conduct will be essentially right.
ref: 1800 October 24, Alexander Hamilton, “Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States”, in Harold C. Syrett, editor, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, volumes 25, July 1800 – April 1802, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1962, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:
text: Cold is usually shapeless, I suppose, extending over large spaces equally, or with gradual diminution.
ref: 1860, John Ruskin, chapter 1, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VII (Of Cloud Beauty), § 9, page 111:
text: Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.
ref: 1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: A lessening, decrease or reduction.
glosses: The act or process of making diminutive.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
Synonyms: sense: lessening, decrease
word: diminishment
word: abatement
word: declension
word: decline
word: decrease
word: decrement
word: diminution
word: lessening
word: reduction
word: shrinking
Related terms: diminish
diminished
diminuendo
soba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sōʹbə
ipa: /ˈsəʊbə/
enpr: sōʹbə
ipa: /ˈsoʊbə/
enpr: sōʹbə
ipa: /ˈsɐʉbɘ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊbə
rhymes: (General American) -oʊbə
homophone: sober (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: sobas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 蕎麦 (soba).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese buckwheat noodle.
soba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sōʹbə
ipa: /ˈsəʊbə/
enpr: sōʹbə
ipa: /ˈsoʊbə/
enpr: sōʹbə
ipa: /ˈsɐʉbɘ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊbə
rhymes: (General American) -oʊbə
homophone: sober (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: sobas
Senses: glosses: A traditional community leader in Angola.
vod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VoD (“video on demand”).
listlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more listlessly
form: most listlessly
Etymology: From listless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The lamb bunted several irresponsive objects - never its dam's udder - baaing listlessly.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:
text: And as a child stares at the bare walls of a narrow hut, so the gods looked all listlessly upon the worlds, saying: “Will no new thing be?”
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 31:
text: He thrust his head into the aisle. "Boy!" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. "What will you have? Beer?"
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:
text: Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: In a listless manner; without energy or enthusiasm.
fal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa
ref: 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fall.
lithely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lithely
form: most lithely
Etymology: From lithe + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lithe manner.
litigiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From litigious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His litigiousness won him almost as few friends as it won him cases.
glosses: Property of being litigious, of tending to resort to legal means such as lawsuits.
litterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litterers
Etymology: From litter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who litters.
litters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litter
litters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of litter
loader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊdɚ/
rhymes: -əʊdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loaders
Etymology: From load + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There was only one loader for the truck today so it took him a long time to get everything moved.
text: The auto-loader on the gun kept jamming so they did it manually.
text: A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
ref: 1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85:
text: The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
ref: 2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice:
glosses: Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program that prepares other programs for execution.
glosses: A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, tracked loader, wheel loader, etc.
glosses: A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, tracked loader, wheel loader, etc.
Ellipsis of backhoe loader
examples: text: Unique point-of-purchase materials and display loaders dramatically contribute to the display's attention-getting ability.
ref: 1990, Robert B. Konikow, Sales Promotion Design, page 197:
text: Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.
ref: 1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591:
text: Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products. Many companies specialize in providing premium and gift items, and publish catalogues from which you can select appropriate items.
ref: 2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: An incentive given to a dealer.
Derived terms: absolute loader
autoloader
auto-loader
backhoe loader
backhoe-loader
boot loader
breechloader
breech-loader
clapper-loader
classloader
endloader
end-loader
end loader
front-end loader
front end loader
frontloader
front-loader
front loader
low loader
multiloader
multi-loader
muzzleloader
muzzle-loader
payloader
preloader
self-loader
side-loader
skid loader
speed loader
top loader
tracked loader
turboloader
lividly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪvɪdliː/
Forms: form: more lividly
form: most lividly
Etymology: From livid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was so enraged that he screamed lividly for fifteen minutes.
glosses: In a way that is livid.
Related terms: livid
lividity
lividness
loathsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more loathsomely
form: most loathsomely
Etymology: From loathsome + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is loathsome.
loather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loathers
Etymology: From loathe + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who loathes.
dortoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)twɑː/
Forms: form: dortoirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dorter.
tanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɪst/
rhymes: -ænɪst
Forms: form: tanists
Etymology: From Irish tánaiste (“second-in-command”). Doublet of Tánaiste.
Senses: examples: text: Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: In 1570 Dermot died at 'his own house' of Castle Inch. His brother and tanist, Cormac Mac Teige (fourteenth Lord), succeeded him (Ó Murchadha, p. 16).
ref: 2007, Mark Wycliffe Samuel, Kate Hamlyn, Blarney Castle: Its History, Development, and Purpose, Cork University Press, page 36:
text: As a result of the universal introduction of the English common law, therefore, the original tanist acquired a common law title to the disputed land 'without grant or confirmation of the conqueror'.
ref: 2014, Ulla Secher, Aboriginal Customary Law: A Source of Common Law Title to Land, Bloomsbury Publishing (Hart Publishing), page 120:
glosses: The heir presumptive to the chieftainship or kingship of a Celtic clan in ancient Ireland, Scotland or Mann.
Derived terms: tanistry
tantara
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæntəˈɹɑː/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tarantara.
tantara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæntəˈɹɑː/
Forms: form: tantaras
Senses: examples: text: ‘Hail!’ Her clear cry echoed off the cliffs like a tantara, and was answered at once by one thrilling shout from a myriad of voices: ‘Hail!’
ref: 1978, Stephen Donaldson, The Illearth War:
glosses: Alternative form of tarantara.
tapu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːpuː/
rhymes: -ɑːpu
Forms: form: tapus
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori tapu. Doublet of kapu.
Senses: examples: text: Spies were sent to test the Moriori’s mettle by violating tapu & despoiling holy sites.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of taboo.
tapu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːpuː/
rhymes: -ɑːpu
Forms: form: tapus
form: tapuing
form: tapued
form: tapued
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori tapu. Doublet of kapu.
Senses: examples: text: Tapuing seeds and fields are types of the English laws for protecting out-door property; women tapued to men is matrimony; tapuing sick persons is analogous to the quarantine orders against lepers, the plague and the yellow fever.
ref: 1859, Arthur Saunders Thomson, The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present, page 105:
glosses: Alternative form of taboo.
lobed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lobe + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having lobes.
Synonyms: lobate
Hyponyms: double-lobed
Derived terms: bilobed
equilobed
multilobed
nonlobed
pentalobed
plurilobed
polylobed
quadrilobed
quinquelobed
round-lobed hepatica
tetralobed
trilobed
unilobed
unlobed
lobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobe
louvered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: loovered
form: louvred
Etymology: From louver + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having louvers.
lustiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lustinesses
Etymology: From lusty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of having or experiencing lust, of being lusty.
lushness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lushnesses
Etymology: From lush + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The lushness of the jungle impeded travel; it seemed plants deliberately tried to slow us down.
text: Dynamic typography reinvigorates the storytelling genre by anthropomorphizing fonts, defibrillating calligraphy, creating rhythmic, ambient moodscapes without sacrificing speed or lushness.
ref: 1999, Artbyte, volume 2:
text: […] neighbors often stop in summer to admire the lushness of the Japanese lilies and the lavender spires of the liriope.
ref: 2007 March 25, Emily Brady, “Snipping a Vine and Sowing Dismay”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The property of being lush.
lucidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːsɪdnəs/
Etymology: From lucid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The lucidness of his answers argued against his being insane or confused.
text: Surprised and rejoiced thus far at the unanticipated newness, and the sweet lucidness and simplicity of Isabel’s narrating, […] Pierre now, in handing the instrument to Isabel, could not entirely restrain something like a look of half-regret, accompanied rather strangely with a half-smile of gentle humor.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The property of being lucid; lucidity.
lucidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucidities
Etymology: From French lucidité, from Late Latin lūciditās. By surface analysis, lucid + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The lucidity of his answers argued against his being insane or confused.
text: He was notable not only for his longevity but also for his unusual lucidity for his age. Up to his final months, he pored over The Los Angeles Times every morning, discussed the war in Ukraine and other world events and posted dispatches about his life on his blog.
ref: 2024 June 11, Alex Williams, “Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The property of being lucid; lucidness.
glosses: The state of being aware that one is dreaming, i.e. being in a lucid dream.
Derived terms: terminal lucidity
teg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: tegs
Etymology: First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).
Senses: examples: text: One Stringor, that brought a tegg from Wresill.
ref: 1573, Priory of Hexham:
synonyms: pug
glosses: A sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn.
glosses: A doe in its second year.
examples: text: TEG [tɛɡ] - tooth (child's).
ref: 1977, Jeremy G. Storr, Survey of the Dialect of Selston in the Erewash Valley, page 158:
glosses: A child's tooth.
dodge a bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔd͡ʒ ə ˈbʊl.ɪt/
Forms: form: dodges a bullet
form: dodging a bullet
form: dodged a bullet
form: dodged a bullet
Senses: examples: text: "We have all these thousands of bill payers trying to dodge a bullet, trying to shift costs and pay less."
ref: 1989 December 7, Milt Freudenheim, “Scramble on Health-Care Costs”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Mar 2014:
text: Haiti dodged a bullet when Tropical Storm Tomas, once a hurricane, did minimal damage to the country's earthquake-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince.
ref: 2010 November 8, Jessica Desvarieux, “A Storm Averted, Haiti's Cholera Threat Grows”, in Time, retrieved 06 Mar 2014:
text: By finding and fixing my aneurysm before it ruptured, I had miraculously dodged a bullet.
ref: 2013 October 4, Tony Nitti, “Switching Gears”, in Forbes, retrieved 06 Mar 2014:
glosses: To have a narrow escape; to avoid injury, disaster, or some other undesirable situation.
neural canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neural canals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: a canal located at the dorsal side of the centrum formed by neural arches of vertebrae. Houses the spinal cord.
potassium nitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potassium nitrites
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The potassium salt of nitrous acid, KNO₂.
Synonyms: E249 when used as a preservative
sodium nitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊ.di.əm ˈnaɪ.tɹaɪt/
Forms: form: sodium nitrites
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sodium salt of nitrous acid, NaNO₂; used as a food preservative and in many industrial applications.
Synonyms: word: E250 when used as a preservative
word: sal prunella
sodium nitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the sodium salt of nitric acid, NaNO₃; used as a food preservative, and as an oxidizing agent in explosives such as sodatol.
Synonyms: caliche
Chile saltpetre
soda niter
E251 when used as a preservative
potassium nitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: KNO₃, a naturally occurring salt, notably used as an ingredient of gunpowder; also used a food preservative and as an ingredient in toothpaste for sensitive gums; historically used in the production of nitric acid (HNO₃).
Synonyms: english: as a preservative
translation: as a preservative
word: E252
word: nitre
word: saltpetre
word: saltpeter
chymistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪ.mə.stɹi/
Forms: form: chymistries
Senses: examples: text: But the sixteenth century was a time of particular interest in chymistry. The idea of chymistry meant many things to many people of the period, and it is very dangerous to generalize. Chymistry was both theory and practice, involving both an account of at least a part of the natural world and an application of that understanding to the practical problems of transforming base metals into gold and silver.
ref: 2006, Daniel Garber, “Physics and Foundations”, in Katharine Park, editor, Early Modern Science (Cambridge History of Science), volume 3, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Early Modern chemistry, as proto-scientific and not fully distinct from alchemy.
examples: text: The Hill Kieuchin, near to Hanyang, has its name from nine Virgins that were Siſters, and lived always Maids upon this Hill ſtudying Chymiſtry.
ref: 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 240:
text: Mr Mackenzie's usefull and important Volume, which applies all the modern Discoveries in CHYMISTRY to the Arts of Life, and to the various branches of Manufacture, accompanied by numerous engravings and wood-cuts, is now on SALE at the shops of all the booksellers in the United Kingdom
ref: 1821 October 6, The Times, London:
text: In describing this class of substances, it is not my design to treat of their chymical mode of action. This investigation forms one of the most interesting parts of the chymistry of agriculture: but it is not essential to that practical knowledge of the subject which will suffice for the common purposes of the farmer. The remarks to be made, therefore, on the mode of action of these bodies, will be of a very general nature.
ref: 1841, Jesse Buel, The Farmers' Instructor. Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the Garden. Originally Published in the Cultivator; Selected and Revised for the School District Library, volume 1, Harper and Brothers, page 121:
glosses: Obsolete form of chemistry.
Related terms: chymical
ak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: apple of Sodom (Calotropis procera).
ak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of act.
glosses: Abbreviation of acknowledge and related forms of that word (acknowledges, acknowledged, acknowledging, acknowledgement etc.)
loutish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaʊtɪʃ/
Etymology: From lout + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He was a loutish fellow, much bent in the shoulders, with leggings, which lacked most of the buttons, over his disreputable breeks.
ref: 1930 July, John Buchan, “The First Day of the Hegira—The Inn at Watermeeting”, in Castle Gay, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 140:
glosses: Resembling a lout.
Synonyms: yobbish
hoonish
Derived terms: loutishly
loutishness
lovingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lovingly
form: most lovingly
Etymology: From loving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Over the past 20 years, the station complex - including the main platform buildings, signal box and level crossing gates - has been lovingly restored, with the gates replaced according to original plans.
ref: 2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61:
glosses: In a loving manner, affectionately.
anabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈnæ.bəˌlɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: anabolisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”) + -ism. Formed in analogy with metabolism.
Senses: examples: text: We used to think bodybuilding was all about anabolism by way of turning on testosterone and growth hormone secretion.
ref: 2008, Carlon M. Colker, Extreme Muscle Enhancement, 3rd edition, pages 13–14:
glosses: The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism.
Derived terms: osteoanabolism
Related terms: anabolic
anabolize
prowler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaʊlɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹaʊlə/
rhymes: -aʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: prowlers
Etymology: From prowl + -er.
Senses: examples: text: House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: One who roves about for prey; one who prowls.
examples: text: Discourage nighttime prowlers by installing motion-sensitive lights.
ref: 2008 January 11, “What to put between you and burglars”, in CNN:
text: “I was under the impression that a prowler had broken in and killed my baby. Never did they say that it was a deputy-involved shooting until my brother read it on the internet,” Wilburn said.
ref: 2024 July 24, Emma Tucker and Bill Kirkos, “What we know about the deputy charged with killing Sonya Massey in her home after she called 911 for help”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who moves stealthily around a place with intention to commit a crime, especially burglary or theft.
teratomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɛɹəˈtəʊmətə/
Senses: glosses: plural of teratoma
mealy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːli/
rhymes: -iːli
homophone: mealie
Forms: form: mealier
form: mealiest
Etymology: From meal + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.
coordinate_terms: floury
grainy
glosses: Resembling meal (the foodstuff).
examples: text: That it is a cross-breed there can be no doubt, from the fact that after a year or two the brilliant colours, both orange and black, begin to fade—the orange fading into a mealy tint, and the black to a dingy grey.
ref: 1875, The Bird-Keeper's Guide and Companion, page 19:
glosses: Of the pale yellow color of a canary.
Derived terms: mealily
mealiness
mealybug
mealy bug
mealy-mouthed
mealywing
unmealy
Related terms: cornmealy
mealy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːli/
rhymes: -iːli
homophone: mealie
Forms: form: mealies
Etymology: From meal + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I know not, indeed, if the artist could give the beautiful orange which distinguish ^([sic]) the jonque, or the mellowness of tint that pervades the mealy.
ref: 1800, The New and Complete Canary-bird Fancier, page 8:
text: The clear Norwich canaries, as well as the evenly marked, the crested, the ticked, the green, and the unevenly marked, are each divided into two separate classes, i.e., jonques and mealies.
ref: 1884, Robert Linlithgow Wallace, The Canary Book, page 225:
coordinate_terms: jonque
glosses: A canary of a pale yellow color.
terrene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹiːn/
ipa: /tɛˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: more terrene
form: most terrene
Etymology: From Middle English terrene, from Anglo-Norman terriene, feminine of terrien, from Latin terrēnus, from terra (“earth”).
Senses: examples: text: God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
text: The common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience
ref: 1882, Laurens P. Hickok, “The Understanding”, in Empirical Psychology, Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co., page 87:
text: One had never thought of the sea as the great place of safety, but now it came over one that there is no place so safe from the land. When it does not give you trouble it takes it away—takes away letters and telegrams and newspapers and visits and duties and efforts, all the complications, all the superfluities and superstitions that we have stuffed into our terrene life.
ref: 1888, Henry James, The Patagonia:
text: Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: For the earth was both celestial and terrene, the down here and the up there.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: Pertaining to earth or the material world; earthly, terrestrial (as opposed to heavenly or marine).
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
antonyms: contraterrene
glosses: Made of matter (as opposed to antimatter).
Derived terms: salino-terrene
subterrene
superterrene
terrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹiːn/
ipa: /tɛˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Middle English terrene, from Anglo-Norman terriene, feminine of terrien, from Latin terrēnus, from terra (“earth”).
Senses: examples: text: Tenfold the length of this terrene
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
terrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹiːn/
ipa: /tɛˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: terrenes
Senses: examples: March 27, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu Esq.
Execrable varnished pictures, chests, cabinets, commodes, tables, stands, boxes, riding on one another's backs, and loaded with terrenes, filligree, figures, and everything upon earth
glosses: Dated form of tureen.
tertulia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɜːˈtuːlɪə/
Forms: form: tertulias
Etymology: From Spanish tertulia.
Senses: examples: text: At this the man at the left who’d so far not spoke at all rose laughing and gestured for the two boys to follow and they went with him out of the square and into the street leaving the disputants to their rustic parkbench tertulia.
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
glosses: An evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.
ribonuclease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹaɪbəʊˈnjuːklieɪz/
Forms: form: ribonucleases
Etymology: From ribonucleic + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid.
suspenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suspense
tessitura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛsɪˈtʊəɹə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: tessituras
form: tessiture
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tessitura. Doublet of texture.
Senses: examples: text: Byrne shrugged. He started writing a bravura / Opera based on Cleopatra’s death, / Exploiting all Maria’s tessitura, / With a high F before her final breath.
ref: 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:
text: Anne's talented voice made the lines I had written swoop, howl, and whine through an authentically Thatcherite tessitura [...].
ref: 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 257:
text: In classical voice training, and in the world of classical singing, voices are divided into categories dependent on timbre or tonal colour and tessitura or comfortable average pitch range.
ref: 2014, Jane Streeton, Philip Raymond, Singing on Stage, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 146:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: compass
glosses: The most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a singer or musical instrument; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding timbre.
tetrevangelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛtɹəvænˈd͡ʒɛlɪəm/
Forms: form: tetrevangelia
Etymology: From tetra- + ecclesiastical Latin evangelium (“evangel”).
Senses: examples: text: It is an old Bible, of 1619, and turned, by its most frequent usage, into a Tetrevangelium.
ref: 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
glosses: A collection of the four Gospels
tetrevangelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrevangelium