cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hydroelectric dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroelectric dams
Senses: glosses: A dam containing hydroelectric generators.
chiefest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chief: most chief
hydrofoil craft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrofoil craft
form: hydrofoil crafts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a high-speed ship that supports its weight by means of wings (hydrofoils) beneath the surface of the water
hydrofoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑe.dɹəˌfoɪl/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.dɹoʊˌfɔɪl/
Forms: form: hydrofoils
Etymology: From hydro- + foil.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wing attached to the hull of a ship that raises it out of the water when travelling at speed and thus reduces drag.
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: hovercraft
glosses: A vessel equipped with such a device.
Synonyms: hydroplane
Coordinate terms: flight controller
Derived terms: hydrofoil craft
hydrofoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑe.dɹəˌfoɪl/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.dɹoʊˌfɔɪl/
Forms: form: hydrofoils
form: hydrofoiling
form: hydrofoiled
form: hydrofoiled
Etymology: From hydro- + foil.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: foil
glosses: To operate or use or ride atop a hydrofoil wing on a hull so equipped.
Related terms: word: aquaplane
word: hydroplane
yuen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A crowned gibbon or pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus)
hydroformylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroformylations
Etymology: From hydro- + formylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reaction of an olefin with carbon monoxide and hydrogen to form an aldehyde.
Related terms: Fischer-Tropsch process
hydrogen ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogen ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hydrogen, ion.: H⁻ or H⁺
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a proton combined with one or more water molecules; usually written H₃O⁺ and called the hydronium ion though is best considered as H₉O₄⁺ but is often written H⁺_((aq)) for simplicity
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a bare hydrogen nucleus; a proton, deuteron or triton
Related terms: hydronium
hydroxide
hydroxyl
pOH
pH
hydronium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈdɹəʊ.ni.əm/
ipa: /haɪˈdɹoʊ.ni.əm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Forms: form: hydroniums
Etymology: From hydro- + onium.
Senses: examples: text: The case of hydronium ions (H₃O⁺) is an example of this. In the gase^([sic]) phase, hydronium is a weak acid. The data in Table 3.10 indicates that bare hydronium ions have a higher electron affinity than most metal surfaces, so a bare hydronium ion should be neutralized when it absorbs on a bare metal surface. However, a hydrated hydronium ion is a stronger acid.
ref: 1996, Richard I. Masel, Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces, Wiley, page 148:
text: Acids are compounds that produce hydronium ions when mixed with water.[…]The hydronium ion is a very special ion because it is the defining particle of all acids.
ref: 2006, Johanna Holm, Forgotten Chemistry: A Refresher Course, Barron's Educational Series, page 160:
text: Hydronium is not a way of stabilizing an acid, because the structure itself is so quickly transient that it can be considered as not existing.
ref: 2016, Philippe Deprez, Textbook of Chemical Peels: Superficial, Medium, and Deep Peels in Cosmetic Practice, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 48:
text: There is experimental evidence for the formation of coordination groups of hydroniums with several water molecules by hydrogen bridges.
ref: 2016, Andrés G. Muñoz, Photoelectrochemical Solar Conversion Systems: Molecular and Electronic Aspects, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 206:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydrated hydrogen ion, H₃O⁺.
Synonyms: sense: hydrated hydrogen ion
word: hydronium ion
Hypernyms: sense: cation of oxygen
word: oxonium
Coordinate terms: hydroxide
hydrogen ion
Derived terms: hydronian
hydrogenolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogenolyses
Etymology: From hydrogen + -o- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the cleavage of a molecule, especially that of a carbon-carbon bond, with the addition of hydrogen atoms to the fragments
Related terms: hydrogenolytic
hydrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈdɹɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
ipa: /haɪˈdɹɑɡ.ɹə.fi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: hydrographies
Etymology: From hydro- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: This small pond is not in the MDNR hydrography dataset but is part of a larger historical feature bisected by the Project Alignment noted in the MDNR hydrography data as a drained wetland.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 89:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The scientific measurement and description of the physical features and conditions of navigable waters and the shoreline.
Derived terms: hydrographer
hydrographic
palaeohydrography
paleohydrography
Related terms: pilotage
hydrometeorology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + meteorology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of meteorology that studies the occurrence, movement and changes of state of water in the atmosphere.
Derived terms: hydrometeorological
manji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manjis
form: mangee
form: mangie
form: manjee
form: manjie
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi माँझी (māñjhī, “boatman, sailor”).
Senses: examples: text: I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […].
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, page 361:
glosses: A captain or skipper of a boat.
manji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manjis
Etymology: From a form of Punjabi ਮੰਜਾ (mañjā, “raised bed”). The Sikh sense is based on their use as seats of authority.
Senses: examples: text: Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji.
ref: 1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152:
text: The significance of a manji lies in its use as the seat of a person in authority, other people sitting on the ground.
ref: 2005, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy:
text: There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!
ref: 2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India, →ISBN:
text: Roop doesn't want to sleep on a mat on the floor; she wants to sleep with Lajo Bhua on a manji, wants Lajo Bhua to tell her stories till she falls asleep.
ref: 2015, Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers:
glosses: A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.
examples: text: In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.
ref: 1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155:
glosses: A Sikh religious administrative unit.
Derived terms: manji sahib
Manji Sahib
manji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manjis
Etymology: Transliteration of Japanese 卍 (manji).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A left-facing Japanese swastika, primarily used in Buddhism.
bivi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bivis
form: bivy
Senses: glosses: A bivouac, a temporary camp.
Derived terms: bivi bag
culpae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culpa
gorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gôrs
ipa: /ɡɔɹs/
ipa: /ɡɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: gorses
Etymology: From Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English gors, gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz or Proto-West Germanic *gerstu (“barley”).
Akin to German Gerste (“barley”) and Latin hordeum (“barley”). Also compare Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”), whence Proto-Celtic *garwos.
Senses: examples: text: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
glosses: An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers.
Synonyms: furze
whin
Derived terms: taxonomic: Linaria cannabina
word: gorse bird
taxonomic: Saxicola rubetra
word: gorse chat
taxonomic: Crex crex
word: gorse duck
taxonomic: Linaria cannabina
word: gorse hatcher
word: gorseland
word: gorsy
word: Meynell's Gorse
overcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚkoʊt/
Forms: form: overcoats
Etymology: From over- + coat.
Senses: examples: text: Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
hypernyms: coat#Noun
coordinate_terms: overshoe
glosses: A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
examples: text: Near-synonym: topcoat
text: Wait 24 hours before applying an overcoat.
antonyms: undercoat#Noun
basecoat#Noun
hypernyms: coat#Noun
glosses: An outer coat, an outer coating (of paint, etc).
Derived terms: Chicago overcoat
concrete overcoat
overcoatless
wooden overcoat
Related terms: sense: coating
word: clearcoat
overcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚkoʊt/
Forms: form: overcoats
form: overcoating
form: overcoated
form: overcoated
Etymology: From over- + coat.
Senses: examples: text: Wait 24 hours before overcoating with either this product or a clearcoat.
text: One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.
ref: 2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications, page 128:
hypernyms: coat#Verb
coordinate_terms: topcoat#Verb
clearcoat#Verb
glosses: To apply an exterior coating to.
Related terms: overpaint
paint over
Flag Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A day commemorating the adoption of a national flag.
September 3, for the first flying of the Australian flag in 1901, Australian National Flag Day.
glosses: A day commemorating the adoption of a national flag.
February 15, for the inauguration of the Canadian flag in 1965, National Flag of Canada Day.
glosses: A day commemorating the adoption of a national flag.
June 14, for the adoption of the US flag in 1777.
in black and white
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'll believe that when I see it in black and white.
glosses: Explicitly, in writing, clearly and without doubt or misunderstanding, without any grey areas.
examples: text: This film was shot in black and white.
glosses: Using shades of gray rather than color.
examples: to watch color films in black and white
glosses: Having it displayed using shades of gray rather than color (as it was shot or recorded).
diametrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əˈmɛt.ɹɪk.li/
Forms: form: more diametrically
form: most diametrically
Etymology: From diametrical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Separated by a diameter, on exactly the opposite side.
examples: text: "I do not see that we are at all called upon to pay so costly a compliment to society, as to assume a character diametrically opposed to our real one,—to utter sentiments we secretly disbelieve,—and to be as angry with our better nature for bursting from restraint, as at other times with our own inferior nature for refusing to submit to it.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 141–142:
text: The distinctness of London has led many to clamor for the capital to pursue its own policies, especially on immigration. The British prime minister, David Cameron, is a Conservative. So is the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. But they have diametrically opposed views on immigration.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: Absolutely (in opposition).
raw_tags: in the phrase diametrically opposed
Derived terms: anisodiametrically
blasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɑː.stɪd/
ipa: /ˈblæs.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈblaː.stɪd/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːstɪd
rhymes: (US) -æstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blast
blasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɑː.stɪd/
ipa: /ˈblæs.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈblaː.stɪd/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːstɪd
rhymes: (US) -æstɪd
Senses: examples: text: The remains of the blasted tank were testament to the power of the landmine it had hit.
glosses: Subjected to an explosion.
examples: text: a blasted tree
text: In the same way the blasted trunk on the left, in Turner's drawing of the spot where Harold fell at the battle of Hastings, takes, where its boughs first separate, the shape of the head of an arrow;
ref: 1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 4, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 6, page 189:
glosses: Subjected to violent gusts of wind; storm-damaged.
examples: text: BLASTED : leafless, applied to trees.
Argent, three scrogs, blasted, sable. Blastock of that Ilk.
ref: 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 57:
text: A modified form of this coat of arms, consisting of a blasted oak, with new branches growing out near the base, and an acorn suspended [...]
ref: 1914, Beatrice Bush, Genealogy of the Descendants of John M. Bush and Jane Osterhoudt of Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y., 1791-1914, page 7:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
qualifier: bush; etc; bush; etc
glosses: Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.
raw_tags: of a tree
examples: text: I've tried for 2 hours to make this blasted part fit, and it still won’t go in.
text: You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!
ref: 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 212:
text: `I'm fed up with this blasted rot,' he exclaimed, as a general expression of emotion inspired by the Sabbath.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 9:
text: With the evidence before me, gathering each day I doahn't wind the blasted Watch,— even so, I can't believe in it…?
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 320:
text: “Whatever you do, don’t let that blasted woman in!”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Accursed; damned.
examples: text: Dude, we got blasted last night.
glosses: Intoxicated, drunk.
Synonyms: sense: subjected to explosion
word: exploded
sense: cursed
word: damned
sense: intoxicated
word: drunk
Derived terms: blastedly
unblasted
blasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɑː.stɪd/
ipa: /ˈblæs.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈblaː.stɪd/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːstɪd
rhymes: (US) -æstɪd
Forms: form: more blasted
form: most blasted
Senses: examples: text: That dog is so blasted stubborn.
glosses: Damned; extremely.
sahib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sahibs
form: Sahib
Etymology: From Hindustani صاحب / साहिब (sāhib, “lord”), from Classical Persian صاحب (sāhib), from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib, “companion”).
Senses: examples: text: One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground. They had marked out a full-size grave, and the Tertium Quid asked them whether any Sahib was sick. They said that they did not know; but it was an order that they should dig a Sahib's grave.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 52:
text: One must never forget that one is a Sahib, and that some day, when examinations are passed, one will command natives.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter VII, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 177:
text: After, went to sahib and packed up sahib's things. We had four hire-ponies; three for loads, and one for sahib to ride. Sahib had a Chinese saddle, that he put on a high horse.
ref: 1923, Rasool Galwan, Servant of Sahibs, Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, page 25:
coordinate_terms: memsahib
glosses: A term of respect for a white European or other man of rank in colonial India.
Derived terms: memsahib
pukka sahib
sahibdom
sahibji
paperback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ.pə.bæk/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/
Forms: form: paperbacks
Etymology: From paper + back, a shortening of the older term paper-backed book.
Senses: glosses: A book with flexible binding.
Synonyms: word: pocketbook
english: French contexts
translation: French contexts
word: livre de poche
Derived terms: paperbacker
trade paperback
paperback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ.pə.bæk/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/
Etymology: From paper + back, a shortening of the older term paper-backed book.
Senses: glosses: Having flexible binding.
raw_tags: of a book
Synonyms: paperbacked
paperbound
softcovered
paperback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ.pə.bæk/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/
Forms: form: paperbacks
form: paperbacking
form: paperbacked
form: paperbacked
Etymology: From paper + back, a shortening of the older term paper-backed book.
Senses: examples: text: Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.
ref: 2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.
Related terms: hardback
pocketbook
softcover
memsahib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memsahibs
Etymology: From ma'am + sahib.
Senses: examples: text: She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible
ref: 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 1, in The Secret Garden:
text: This might be accomplished literally through missionary work (Plate 5.1), but that tended to be unattractively pro-active and spinsterish, and it was rather the memsahibs, the mothers, wives and daughters of the white officers and administrators, who were to instil civilisation, through the example of their own moral refinement.
ref: 1997, Richard Dyer, White, →ISBN, page 184:
coordinate_terms: sahib
glosses: A white European woman in colonial India.
raw_tags: as a respectful term of address
Olympic Winter Games
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Olympic Winter Games
Senses: glosses: The winter counterpart to the summer Olympic Games, featuring winter sports.
Synonyms: Winter Games
Winter Olympic Games
Winter Olympics
Hypernyms: Olympic Games
Related terms: Olympic Summer Games
parsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parson
psalms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːmz/
ipa: /sɑmz/
ipa: /sɑlmz/
ipa: /sɔmz/
ipa: /sɔlmz/
ipa: /sæmz/
rhymes: -ɑːmz
rhymes: -ɑːlmz
Senses: glosses: plural of psalm
Fenrir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fĕn′rîr
ipa: /ˈfɛn.ɹɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈfɛn.ɹɪə/
Forms: form: Fenris
form: Fenriswolf
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Fenrir (“fen-dweller”), Fenrisúlfr (“Fenris wolf”).
Senses: examples: text: Lokasenna, stanzas 37-40, comprise an exchange between Týr and Loki. Loki boasts that Fenrir tore off Týr's arm; Týr responds that although he may be missing his hand, Loki is missing Hródrsvitnir, that is, the famous wolf, Fenrir.
ref: 2001, John Lindow, Handbook of Norse Mythology, ABC-CLIO, page 113:
text: Feared and misunderstood, Fenrir was the bringer of doom to the gods and was known as "an axe-age, a sword-age, a wind-age, a wolf-age before the wrecking of the world."
ref: 2009, Sarah Bartlett, The Mythology Bible, Sterling Publishing Co., page 294:
text: It is my own opinion that the Black Shuck is another manifestation of Fenrir, the large and terrible wolf, who is the eldest child of Loki and the giantess Angrboda.
ref: 2011, Nick Redfern, “Phantom Hounds of the Woods”, in Brad Steiger, editor, Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside, Visible Ink Press, page 46:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A monstrous wolf, one of Loki's offspring, who bites off Tyr's right hand while being bound by the gods in fear of a prophecy that he will kill Odin, remaining so bound until the events of Ragnarok.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Saturn.
Synonyms: sense: monstrous wolf of Norse mythology
word: Fenris Wolf
sense: monstrous wolf of Norse mythology
word: Fenrisulfr
sense: monstrous wolf of Norse mythology
word: Wolf of Fenrir
Related terms: Gleipnir
stenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪˈnɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /stəˈnɑɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: stenographies
Etymology: From steno- (“narrow”) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The practice of transcribing speech (primarily for later dictation or testimony), usually using shorthand
Derived terms: stenographic
Related terms: steno
stenogram
stenographer
steno pad
steno pool
steno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛnoʊ/
rhymes: (US) -ɛnoʊ
Forms: form: stenos
Etymology: Clipping of stenographer and stenography.
Senses: glosses: a stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand
glosses: stenography
Related terms: steno pad
steno pool
steno pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steno pads
Senses: glosses: a pad of paper specially designed for use taking dictation in shorthand
Related terms: stenography
stenographer
Stentor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Stentōr, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr).
Senses: examples: text: For who can be the general of such a vast multitude, or who the herald, unless he have the voice of a Stentor?
ref: 1899, Aristotle, The Politics of Aristotle, page 172:
glosses: A herald in the Iliad celebrated for his loud voice.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The Jovian asteroid 2146 Stentor.
Derived terms: stentorian
stentorious
Iliad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪliˌæd/
ipa: /ˈɪli.əd/
Forms: form: the Iliad
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰλιάς (Iliás), the poem about Ἴλιον (Ílion), an alternative name for Troy.
Senses: glosses: A famous ancient Greek epic poem about the Trojan War, attributed to Homer.
Derived terms: Iliadic
Related terms: Ilium
Iliad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪliˌæd/
ipa: /ˈɪli.əd/
Forms: form: Iliads
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰλιάς (Iliás), the poem about Ἴλιον (Ílion), an alternative name for Troy.
Senses: glosses: A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the above-mentioned Homeric text.
examples: text: [As they] listened to the tale he unfolded, some glow of pity must have possessed them; for it was an Iliad of herculean struggle against absolute disaster, ending with the bitter news of his grandfather's death.
ref: 1907, Gilbert Parker, The Weavers:
glosses: Any long tragic story.
back to the drawing board
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: back to the old drawing board
Etymology: Coined as “Well, back to the old drawing board.” as the caption of a Peter Arno cartoon of The New Yorker of March 1, 1941, depicting an engineer walking away from a crashed plane.
Senses: examples: text: Well, that didn't work at all, so it's back to the drawing board, I guess.
text: For such cases the only thing is to go back to the drawing board and do it better; and it is here that the highest qualities of vision and human leadership are needed.
ref: 1958, The Engineer, volume 205, page 920:
text: If we head for lay up tomorrow, those plans are right down the toilet and it's back to the drawing board.
ref: 1999, Mark L. Thompson, “Monday, October 28: Lake Michigan, Upbound”, in A Sailor’s Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters (Great Lakes Books), Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 282:
text: Poverty is created by institutions, concepts, and policies. We need to go back to the drawing board to redesign these and remove the barriers.
ref: 1999, Muhammad Yunus, “Opinion: Must There be Poverty?”, in Carolyn Dedolph, editor, Rice: Hunger or Hope?: IRRI 1998–1999, Makati City, Philippines: International Rice Research Institute, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Big business wants the main parties to go back to the drawing board on climate policy after the election to try to come up with an agreed plan for an economically efficient way to reduce Australia's emissions and offer investment certainty.
ref: 2013 August 19, Lenore Taylor, “Go back to the drawing board on climate policy, business tells politicians”, in The Guardian:
text: “It’s become clear that in the current environment, ATEAC can’t function as we wanted. So we’re ending the council and going back to the drawing board,” a Google spokesperson told the Guardian in a statement on Thursday.
ref: 2019 April 5, Sam Levin, “Google scraps AI ethics council after backlash: ‘Back to the drawing board’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Indicates that one must try a different strategy for achieving some goal following the failure of a recent attempt.
Related terms: square one
back to square one
showman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊmən
Forms: form: showmen
Etymology: From show + -man.
Senses: examples: text: a consummate showman
text: David is a showman above all else. His showroom is more than merely a sales floor: it is a spectacle.
hypernyms: showperson#Noun
performer#Noun
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coordinate_terms: showwoman#Noun
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showboy#Noun
showgirl#Noun
glosses: A person (usually a man) involved in putting on shows (of various types); especially, one who plays a central role in doing so.
hypernyms: showperson#Noun
performer#Noun
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person#Noun
coordinate_terms: showwoman#Noun
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showboy#Noun
showgirl#Noun
glosses: A person (usually a man) involved in putting on shows (of various types); especially, one who plays a central role in doing so.
One who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus or variety show.
hypernyms: showperson#Noun
performer#Noun
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person#Noun
coordinate_terms: showwoman#Noun
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showboy#Noun
showgirl#Noun
glosses: A person (usually a man) involved in putting on shows (of various types); especially, one who plays a central role in doing so.
One skilled in dramatic or entertaining presentation, performance, or publicity.
Derived terms: showmanish
showmanly
showmanship
showmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showman
sorbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪk
Etymology: From sorb + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to the rowan tree (the sorb).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, or derived from sorbic acid.
exemplar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛm.plə/
ipa: /ɪkˈzɛm.plə/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛm.plɑɹ/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛm.plɚ/
Forms: form: exemplars
Etymology: From Latin exemplar, from Latin exemplum (“example”). Doublet of exemplary.
Senses: examples: text: A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.
ref: 2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:
synonyms: word: archetype
word: epitome
word: example
word: exemplar
word: icon
word: model
word: paradigm
word: paragon
word: pattern
word: quintessence
word: template
glosses: Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a worthy model or role model: a desirable example.
glosses: Something typical or representative; an example that typifies its class.
glosses: A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
glosses: A well-known use of a scientific theory.
glosses: A manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original document to be reproduced in a copy machine.
examples: text: To amend the same [default] according to the true exemplars.
ref: 1539, Richard Taverner, “Preface”, in Taverner's Bible:
glosses: A copy of a book or piece of writing.
Synonyms: word: archetype
word: byspel
word: case
word: case in point
word: embodiment
word: epitome
word: eponym
word: exemplar
word: exemplification
word: example
word: exemplificator
word: Exhibit A
word: illustration
word: incarnation
word: instance
word: prototype
word: quintessence
word: representative
word: sample
word: specimen
word: symbol
word: ur-type
Hyponyms: word: household deity
word: icon
word: model
word: patron saint
word: reject
Derived terms: counterexemplar
exemplar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛm.plə/
ipa: /ɪkˈzɛm.plə/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛm.plɑɹ/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛm.plɚ/
Forms: form: more exemplar
form: most exemplar
Etymology: From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris. By surface analysis, example + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: In our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare, than yours.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Exemplary.
exemplars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exemplar
moco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mocos
Etymology: From Portuguese mocó.
Senses: glosses: Rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris).
molla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mullah.
get away with murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets away with murder
form: getting away with murder
form: got away with murder
form: got away with murder
form: gotten away with murder
Senses: examples: text: Just yesterday it was fashionable to be black. Remember? Any black writer could get away with murder, just as any Jewish-American writer can get away with murder.
ref: 1980, Gore Vidal, Robert J. Stanton, Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal, L. Stuart, →ISBN, page 245:
text: He'd spoil the boy just as we have all spoiled him, and though he's a big strapping fellow and a soldier at that, he'd let Ned get away with murder just as I've done.
ref: 1984, James Purdy, On Glory's Course, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 147:
text: It's because you let people get away with murder, Quill.
ref: 2000, Claudia Bishop, Marinade for Murder, Berkley, →ISBN:
text: He said I found out about everything he did and said, 'I can't get away with nothing, and Jim can get away with murder.' I don't think that I let any of my kids get away with murder, and I don't think any one of them ever did much serious mischief.
ref: 2005, James M. Hill, Sr., I Have Been Blessed!: Hard Work and Happiness, Aforesight Press, →ISBN, page 205:
text: And what do you say to someone who might be on the left, who’d be listening to this conversation and would say: Oh look, Bannon is absolutely right. There was a financial crisis. Wall Street got away with murder.
ref: 2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To do something bad or illegal and escape the punishment that others would receive.
frijol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frijoles
form: frejol
form: frijole
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish frijol.
Senses: glosses: Any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the black seed of a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris.
glosses: The bean-like seed of any of several related plants, such as the cowpea, used as food.
medianoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medianoches
Etymology: From Spanish medianoche (“midnight”), since it was served in nightclubs.
Senses: glosses: A Caribbean sandwich of roast pork, ham, mustard, Swiss cheese, and dill pickles.
devoto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈvəʊtəʊ/
Forms: form: devotos
form: devotoes
Etymology: From Italian devoto.
Senses: examples: 1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects
And this hath been commonly experimented by the Devoto's of all Religions; for even among the devouter Tarks and Heathens we may find as notorious Instances of those Incomes and Enlargements
glosses: A devotee.
devotee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛvəˈtiː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɪˈvoʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɛ-/
Forms: form: devotees
Etymology: From devote + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
text: a devotee of classical music
text: These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
ref: 1908 January 24, John Muir, “Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin:
synonyms: word: addict
word: buff
word: aficionado
word: amateur
word: enthusiast
word: devotee
word: fancier
word: fan
word: fiend
word: freak
word: junkie
word: maniac
word: votary
word: zealot
glosses: An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
examples: text: devotees of Krishna
text: devotees thronged the temple
text: It has been said that a Japanese is a Shintōist in life and a Buddhist at death; and it is also true that he may be during life, at one and the same time, a devotee of both.
ref: 1913, Ernest Wilson Clement, A Handbook of Modern Japan, page 253:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A believer in a particular religion or god.
examples: text: The amputee-devotee community, consisting of women with amputations and the men sexually attracted to them, has been widely discussed within the disability community.
ref: 2004, Alison Kafer, “Inseparable: Gender and disability in the amputee-devotee community”, in Gendering Disability, page 108:
text: He becomes involved in a story about a community of wannabes and devotees, those who desire to be sexually intimate with disabled bodies, and meets Fiona, an art conservator and wannabe, or disabled pretender.
ref: 2019, Ann Millett-Gallant, “Basilisk and the Representation of Physically Disabled Women in Film”, in Contemporary Art and Disability Studies:
text: One of the paradoxical issues facing people with disabilities are "devotees": temporarily able-bodied people who are attracted to them because of their disabilities.[…]Although some women with disabilities experience a positive effect, devotee forums and websites simultaneously sexually objectify women with disabilities.
ref: 2022, Thomas J. Gerschick, “The body, disability, and sexuality”, in Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays, 4th edition:
glosses: A person (almost exclusively a man) with a sexual attraction for people with physical disabilities, especially amputees.
Derived terms: devoteeism
elasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /ɛl.æsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [ɛɫ.æsˈtɪs.ɪ.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪsɪti
Forms: form: elasticities
Etymology: From elastic + -ity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
examples: text: If the sales of an item drop by 5% when the price increases by 10%, its price elasticity is −0.5.
text: Given elasticity of demand, there is a strong argument that filling the millions of empty seats through lower fares could actually increase revenue.
ref: 2022 November 30, Anthony Lambert, “Rail fares fit for the 21st century”, in RAIL, number 971, page 43:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: point elasticity
glosses: The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
glosses: The quality of being elastic.
examples: text: Her elasticity allowed her to recover quickly.
text: "I'll have a try at it, Gladys, if you will only give me an idea what would please you." She laughed at the elasticity of my character.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Adaptability.
Derived terms: aeroelasticity
aero-hydro-servo-elasticity
aero-servo-elasticity
aerothermoelasticity
arc elasticity
cross elasticity of demand
cross-price elasticity of demand
elasticity coefficient
ferroelasticity
fibroelasticity
homoelasticity
hydroelasticity
hyperelasticity
hypoelasticity
income elasticity of demand
inelasticity
linear elasticity
magnetoelasticity
magneto-electro-thermo-elasticity
microelasticity
modulus of elasticity
morphoelasticity
neuroelasticity
nonelasticity
photoelasticity
piezoelasticity
poroelasticity
price elasticity of demand
price elasticity of supply
pseudoelasticity
semi-elasticity
superelasticity
thermoelasticity
thermo-electro-magneto-elasticity
unelasticity
viscoelasticity
tubing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubings
Etymology: From tube + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Tubes, considered as a group.
glosses: A length of tube, or a system of tubes.
examples: text: Enticed by boozy tubing experiences, throngs of twentysomething backpackers cemented its spot on south-east Asia’s famed backpacker trail.
ref: 2024 November 22, Adeshola Ore, Kate Lamb, “Six people are dead after a suspected mass methanol poisoning at a backpacker party town. What went wrong in Laos?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Riding down a river on an inner tube recreationally.
glosses: Tobogganing down a snowy slope or toboggan run on an inner tube.
tubing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tube + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tube
tuck box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuck boxes
Senses: glosses: A hamper of food (such as confectionery) taken to boarding school by students.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A carton for storing a set of playing cards.
Hypernyms: box
tuck shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuck shops
form: tuck-shop
form: tuckshop
Etymology: From tuck (“snack food”) + shop.
Senses: examples: text: One way is to make the sandwiches then choose the three most popular sandwiches to sell in the tuck shop.
ref: 1989, Jenny Ridgwell, Louise Davies, Skills in Home Economics: Technology, Heinemann Educational Publishers, page 11:
text: If possible a school must have a place for a tuck shop.
ref: 1996, K. S. Sidhu, “School Organisation And Administration”, in India, Sterling Publishers, page 90:
text: You had a small amount of pocket money and this increased as you went along and there was a tuck shop where you could spend your earnings.[…]I became a senior boy and then a pefect and it became my responsibility to run the tuck shop.
ref: 2005, Susan K. Moore, I Remember Bare Bottoms and Stinging Nettles, page 108:
text: In this case, the problem is that the tuck-shop has stopped making money and will have to close if you can′t find out what is wrong.
ref: 2009, R. Burger, B. P. Carels, S. Els, FET College Series: Life Orientation: NCV 4, South Africa: Pearson Education, page 163:
text: However, a trend for healthier tuck shops, selling fruit in particular, had already emerged a few years before legislation was introduced.
ref: 2009, Maria Cross, Barbara MacDonald, Nutrition in Institutions, UK: Wiley, page 49:
text: ‘That note you′re holding is an order for the Crobost Stores, to restock the tuck shop.’
ref: 2011, Peter May, The Blackhouse, UK: Quercus, page 23:
glosses: A shop selling confectionery, especially one in or near a school.
Derived terms: tuck shop arm
tuck shop lady arm
aeger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin aeger (“sick”).
Senses: qualifier: British school slang
glosses: Absent and excused from one’s classes due to illness
qualifier: British school slang
glosses: Relating to such an excused absence
aeger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegers
Etymology: From Latin aeger (“sick”).
Senses: qualifier: British school slang
glosses: An excused absence from classes due to illness
examples: text: Dick laughed. 'I'll get the receipt from him. I often want a good thing for an "æger."'
ref: 1870 June 18, “The Nemesis”, in Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, number 338, chapter 7, page 395:
qualifier: British school slang
glosses: A note excusing a student from classes due to illness
Related terms: aegrotat
aeger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegers
Etymology: Obscure, but probably Germanic. Compare eagre.
Senses: qualifier: local dialect
glosses: A particularly high tidal wave on some rivers, esp. the Trent
octet rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rule stating that atoms lose, gain, or share electrons in order to have a full valence shell of 8 electrons. (Hydrogen is excluded because it can hold a maximum of 2 electrons in its valence shell.)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The statement that when atoms combine to form molecules they generally each lose, gain, or share valence electrons until they attain or share eight; also called
arbutus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbutuses
form: arbuti
Etymology: From translingual Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.
Senses: examples: text: Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsy-like, on the ground […]
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
examples: text: Ah, who is he,—on whom young men and maidens look with pitying eye? to whom the old man lifts his hat, and little children cease from their sports as he passes, and quietly slip the innocent daisy, or the sweet-scented arbutus into his hand, which they have culled from the wide commons, where, they have been told, the good Sea-flower loved to stray.
ref: 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
glosses: Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
glosses: Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.
defrost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfɹɒst/
ipa: /diːˈfɹɔst/
ipa: /diːˈfɹɑst/
rhymes: -ɒst
Forms: form: defrosts
form: defrosting
form: defrosted
form: defrosted
Etymology: From de- + frost.
Senses: examples: text: I have just defrosted the fridge.
glosses: To remove frost from.
examples: text: Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?
glosses: To thaw something.
examples: text: See you tomorrow evening; I'll have defrosted from my trip by then.
glosses: To recover from something tiresome.
Derived terms: autodefrost
defrostable
defrostee
defroster
defrost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfɹɒst/
ipa: /diːˈfɹɔst/
ipa: /diːˈfɹɑst/
rhymes: -ɒst
Forms: form: defrosts
Etymology: From de- + frost.
Senses: examples: text: But only recently has automatic quick defrost appeared on production models of domestic refrigerators.
ref: 1953, Refrigeration Engineering, volume 61, page 531:
glosses: The removal of frost.
armarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armaria
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin armārium. Doublet of ambry, armoire, and almirah.
Senses: examples: text: The armarium was generally placed in the atrium of the house.
ref: 1870, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 136:
text: Professor Clark also quotes from the Customs of the Augustinian Order, which required that the armarium be "lined inside with wood, that the damp of the walls may not moisten or stain the books," […]
ref: 1995, The New Yorker, volume 71, numbers 15-22, page 88:
text: An earlier example of an armarium (AD 424—450) appears in a representation of St Lawrence in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, for which see Kitzinger, fig. 95.
ref: 1997, Jocelyn Penny Small, Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity:
text: You can see evidence of this activity: in the south wall is the armarium where the monks kept their books.
ref: 1998, Jean-Pierre Mouton, Mont-Saint-Michel: A Monk Talks about His Abbey, page 40:
glosses: Synonym of ambry (“cupboard or storage area”).
synonyms: word: ambry
extra: cupboard or storage area
examples: text: The proventriculus of both the Blattaria and Isoptera conforms to the basic orthopteran plan and consists of an anterior armarium and the posterior stomodaeal valve; the armarium tapers posteriorly as it merges with the narrow valve.
ref: 1963, Memoir - Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, →OCLC:
text: The proventriculi of both Arenivaga bolliana and Hypercomps fieberi appear to lack the anterior dental belt of the armarium; otherwise, they are dissimilar.
ref: 1964, F. A. McKittrick, Evolutionary Studies of Cockroaches, page 78:
text: The sclerotized portion of the proventriculus (armarium) has six cuticular folds each armed with a tooth for crushing food and a pulvillus bearing hairs which forms a fine filter.
ref: 1975, Lucy D. Leake, Comparative Histology: An Introduction to the Microscopic Structure of Animals:
text: Anteriorly it bears an armarium and posteriosly^([sic]) a stomodaeal valve.
ref: 1991, H.S. Bhamrah, Introduction to Arthropoda, page 169:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: proventriculus