cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
clime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaɪm/
homophone: climb
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: climes
Etymology: From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
Senses: examples: text: After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.
text: Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,
Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat
That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom
For that celestial light?
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, lines 242–245:
text: My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,
ref: 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 9:
text: "And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
text: She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: As heat and wildfires plague many parts of Europe, the desire for cooler climes is driving tourists to Nordic countries, prompting as much concern as celebration. […] The word is “coolcation,” and in an industry that has never met a trend it couldn’t slap a portmanteau onto, the term refers to the growing number of travelers who are avoiding the heat of traditional summer spots in favor of chillier climes.
ref: 2025 August 20, Lisa Abend, “In Norway, Are ‘Coolcations’ Taking a Toll?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025:
glosses: A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
examples: text: A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.
glosses: Climate.
examples: text: It is a poor state of affairs this great nation is in at present. The current political clime is pregnant with attempts and desired to make lawful such discriminatory acts based on factors within an individual's constitution which are beyond her/his control.
ref: 1981 December 19, Andrew C. Irish, “Support For Gay Nurses”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 4:
glosses: The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
Derived terms: bioclime
homoclime
clime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaɪm/
homophone: climb
rhymes: -aɪm
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of climb.
clime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaɪm/
homophone: climb
rhymes: -aɪm
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of climb.
Bellingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlɪŋəm/
note: Northumberland
ipa: /ˈbɛlɪnd͡ʒəm/
Forms: form: Bellinghams
Etymology: Two origins:
* The suburb of London is named with the Old English personal name Bera, a byname from bera (“bear”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).
* The village in Northumberland is named with Old English belle (“bell”), in reference to a bell-shaped hill, + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”)
Senses: examples: text: Bellingham station is a short walk away, and you cut through the park en route.
ref: 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water, Viking, page 29:
glosses: A placename:
A suburb in the borough of Lewisham, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3772).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY8383).
glosses: A placename:
A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of Whatcom County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A coastal settlement in George Town council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Castlebellingham
LCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of League Championship Series for each of the two leagues of Major League Baseball.
Related terms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: NLCS
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: ALCS
LCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LCSs
Senses: examples: text: The “rotational deployment” of the vessels, called littoral combat ships (LCS), comes as China continues to flex its muscles in the South China Sea and tensions remain on the Korean Peninsula. / “We will soon see up to four LCS here in Singapore as we rotationally deploy Seventh Fleet ships,” said Rear Admiral Charles Williams.
ref: 2015 February 18, “US to base four warships in Singapore as China flexes military muscles”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of littoral combat ship: a specialized type of frigate for green water and coastal combat and transoceanic capability designated by the US Navy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of long Covid syndrome.
NLCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of National League Championship Series, a best of seven game series played to determine the champion of the National League and win the NL pennant.
Related terms: ALCS
LCS
NLDS
NL
ALCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The American League Championship Series, a best of seven game series played to determine the champion of the American League.
glosses: Altria Corporate Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Altria Group.
Related terms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: ALDS
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: NLCS
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: LCS
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: AL
ALDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of American League Division Series, a pair of best of five game series played annually by Major League Baseball teams to determine the opponents in the American League Championship Series (ALCS).
Related terms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: AL
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: ALCS
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: NLDS
NLDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of National League Division Series, a pair of best of five game series played annually by Major League Baseball teams to determine the opponents in the National League Championship Series (NLCS).
Related terms: ALDS
NLCS
NL
reliever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: relievers
Etymology: From relieve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Pepto-Bismol is an upset-stomach reliever.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Something which relieves (pain, etc.).
examples: text: The first reliever got the last two outs of the sixth.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A relief pitcher.
examples: text: I'll be the reliever today so that you can each take a break.
glosses: Someone who fills in for another.
examples: text: Now that fellow wants five or ten dollars on his suit. He goes to this pawn shop and asks for a reliever. That is a second-hand suit, pretty well used up.
ref: 1929, Maine. Legislature, Legislative Record, page 1033:
glosses: A garment kept for being lent out.
Related terms: starter
pitcher
first baseman
infielder
outfielder
pond-skater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pond-skaters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of water strider.
synonyms: word: water strider
acres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: āʹkəz
ipa: /ˈeɪ.kəz/
enpr: āʹkərz
ipa: /ˈeɪ.kɚz/
homophone: Akers
Senses: glosses: plural of acre
backspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌspeɪs/
Forms: form: backspaces
Etymology: From back + space.
Senses: glosses: The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mul:\b
glosses: A non-printable text character representing a backspace.
Derived terms: backspaceable
backspacer
destructive backspace
backspace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌspeɪs/
Forms: form: backspaces
form: backspacing
form: backspaced
form: backspaced
Etymology: From back + space.
Senses: examples: text: So once you hit 'E', just backspace.
ref: 2024 April 17, SMii7Y, 1:20 from the start, in Content Warning Footage That Should Never Be Uploaded, spoken by SMii7Y:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove a character behind a cursor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
Related terms: ←
craters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crater
craters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crater
fabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fabled
form: most fabled
Senses: glosses: Known only in fables; fictitious.
examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle.
glosses: Made known by fables or reputation; legendary, famed.
Derived terms: unfabled
fabled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fable
famed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Forms: form: more famed
form: most famed
Senses: glosses: Having fame; famous or noted.
Derived terms: far-famed
ill-famed
unfamed
water boatman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water boatmen
Senses: glosses: Any of the various aquatic insects of the family Corixidae that have paddle-shaped hind legs used for swimming.
glosses: Any of genus Sigara, especially of species Sigara arguta.
Derived terms: english: United Kingdom
translation: United Kingdom
taxonomic: Corixa punctata
word: lesser water boatman
english: United Kingdom
translation: United Kingdom
taxonomic: Notonecta glauca
word: greater water boatman
Shawnee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shawnees
form: Shawnee
Etymology: Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio.
Shawnee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.
Senses: glosses: Of, belonging to, or pertaining to this tribe.
Shawnee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.
Senses: glosses: The language of this tribe.
examples: text: The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn.
ref: 2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: A female given name, derived from the name of this tribe.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States.
Derived terms: Shawnee County
Related terms: Shawnese
verdigris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹis/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹɪs/
Forms: form: verdigrises
Etymology: From Middle English vertegrez, from Old French verte grez (literally “acidic green”), an alteration of older verte de Grece (literally “green of Greece”). The modern French writing of this word is vert-de-gris (literally “green of gray”).
Senses: examples: text: Let's to^([sic]) the museum. Cannon-balls; arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 17:
text: […]there were three small brass coins there, the gift of Ymar. Their legends, like their faces, had worn away; and they were dark with verdigris — in appearance precisely the ancient things they were.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281:
synonyms: aerugo
green brass
glosses: A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: Spanish green
glosses: Copper acetate.
examples: text: Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a fine graſs Green.
ref: 1735, [John Barrow], “GREENS”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:
text: […]let them tell me candidly which is nearest truth, the gold of Turner, or the mourning and murky olive browns and verdigris greens in which Claude, with the industry and intelligence of a Sevres china painter, drags the laborious bramble leaves over his childish foreground.
ref: 1843, [John Ruskin], chapter 2, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part II (Of Truth), section VI (Of Truth of Vegetation—Conclusion), § 7, page 123:
text: Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 24, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 242:
synonyms: Spanish green
glosses: The color of this patina or material.
Derived terms: distilled verdigris
Related terms: verdigrisy
verdigris
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹis/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹɪs/
Forms: form: verdigrises
form: verdigrising
form: verdigrised
form: verdigrised
Etymology: From Middle English vertegrez, from Old French verte grez (literally “acidic green”), an alteration of older verte de Grece (literally “green of Greece”). The modern French writing of this word is vert-de-gris (literally “green of gray”).
Senses: examples: text: […] there were always some wretched musicians, with an old fiddle, an old clarinet, and an old verdigrised brass bugle[…]
ref: 1853 August 4 – 1858 January 3 (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1870, →OCLC:
glosses: To cover, or coat, with verdigris.
Related terms: english: alchemical symbol
translation: alchemical symbol
word: 🜨
vaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vaunt
vaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vauntings
Senses: glosses: boasting
venerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to veneration.
viand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.ənd/
ipa: /ˈvajand/
Forms: form: viands
Etymology: From Middle English vyaund, from Anglo-Norman and Old French viande, from Late Latin *vivanda, from Latin vīvenda, from the verb vīvō (“I live”). Compare victual.
The Philippines usage is an anglicization of Spanish vianda (which is ultimately from Latin via French), which is used to translate ulam in Tagalog. See also usage notes.
Senses: examples: text: There was a time, when all the bodies members / Rebell'd againſt the Belly; thus accus'd it: / That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine / I'th midd'ſt a th'body, idle and vnactiue, / Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing / Like labour with the reſt, where th'other Inſtruments / Did ſee, and heare, deuiſe, inſtruct, walke, feele, / And mutually participate, did miniſter / Vnto the appetite; […]
ref: 1613, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act I, scene i, pages 1–2:
glosses: An item of food.
examples: text: The Motier and Lepelletier tables still groan with viands; roofs ringing with patriotic toasts.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: [H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.
ref: 1852, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, William and Robert Chambers:
synonyms: delicacy
glosses: A choice dish.
glosses: rice topping; any food eaten with rice as a part of a main course meal.
Related terms: word: à la carte
viands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viand
viands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: FRANCISCO.
They vanish'd strangely.
SEBASTIAN.
No matter, since
They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.—
Will't please you taste of what is here?
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: provisions, victuals
voice talent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice talents
Senses: glosses: voice actor or voice actress
voice actor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice actors
Senses: hypernyms: voice talent
coordinate_terms: voice actress
glosses: An actor who provides voices or voice-overs for radio drama, animations, commercials, dubbed films, games, etc.
Related terms: voice acting
water beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of various freshwater aquatic beetles that have a smooth oval body and flattened hind legs adapted for swimming, and that carry an air bubble underneath their abdomens.
Derived terms: long-toed water beetle
antlion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antlions
form: ant lion
Etymology: From ant + lion. Compare translingual Myrmeleon.
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.
veritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/
Forms: form: veritates
Etymology: From Latin vēritās.
Senses: examples: text: Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.
ref: 2007 March 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Campus Exposure”, in New York Times:
glosses: Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
Related terms: hebraica veritas
IANAL
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: antonyms: IAAL
coordinate_terms: IANYL
IANAD
glosses: Initialism of I am not a lawyer.
Related terms: don't quote me
what do I know
TIMTOWTDI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of TMTOWTDI.
travers
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From French travers (“breadth, extent from side”). See traverse.
Senses: examples: 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
The earl […] caused […] high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another.
glosses: across; athwart
Jesu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː.zuː/
/ˈd͡ʒiː.suː/
/ˈd͡ʒiː.ʒuː/
/ˈd͡ʒeɪ.zuː/
/ˈd͡ʒeɪ.suː/
/ˈjeɪ.zuː/
/ˈjeɪ.suː/
Etymology: From Middle English Jesu, from the vocative (and genitive, etc) form Jēsū of Latin Jēsūs, and also reflective of the vocative (and genitive, etc) form Ἰησοῦ (Iēsoû) of Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs). Gradually displaced as the normal form by Jesus in the Middle English and Early Modern English period, but retained or restored especially in a few religious texts on the model of Latin and Greek.
Senses: examples: S. Baring-Gould
Jesu, give the weary / Calm and sweet repose.
glosses: Jesus
primary amine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary amines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amine, containing a single radical, of general formula R-NH₂
Related terms: secondary amine
tertiary amine
quaternary ammonium compound
secondary amine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary amines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amine containing two radicals, of general formula R₁R₂-NH; the radicals may be the same, different, or part of a ring.
Related terms: primary amine
tertiary amine
quaternary ammonium compound
tertiary amine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tertiary amines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amine, containing three radicals, of general formula R₁R₂R₃-N; the radicals may be the same, different, or part of a ring.
Related terms: primary amine
secondary amine
quaternary ammonium compound
quaternary ammonium compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaternary ammonium compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amine derivative, containing four radicals, of general formula R₁R₂R₃R₄-N⁺X⁻; the radicals may be the same, different, or part of a ring; X is any univalent anion such as OH⁻.
Synonyms: qac
quat
quaternary amine
quaternary ammonium salt
Hypernyms: quaternary ammonium
quaternium
Related terms: quaternary ammonium cation
quaternary ammonium ion
primary amine
secondary amine
tertiary amine
general formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general formulas
form: general formulae
Senses: examples: The general formula for saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons is CₙH₂ₙ₊₂ and the molecular formula for propane is C₃H₈
The general formula for alcohols is R-OH and the molecular formula for methanol is CH₃-OH
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The molecular formula of a class of compounds in which actual numbers are represented by x, n etc., and organic radicals are represented as Rₙ
polarized light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polarised light
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: light in which the electric and magnetic fields each vibrate in a single plane
Related terms: plane polarized light
circular polarized light
plane polarized light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: polarized light in which the electric and magnetic fields vibrate in same phase
Related terms: circularly polarized light
circular polarized light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: circularly polarized light
epigrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin epigrammaticus.
Senses: glosses: having the characteristics of an epigram
glosses: containing or using epigrams
Derived terms: unepigrammatic
Related terms: epigram
epigrammatically
recrystallization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recrystallizations
Etymology: From re- + crystallization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A technique for the purification of chemical compounds in which the compound is dissolved in a solvent and slowly cooled to form crystals.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of existing grains in metamorphic rocks changing size.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The growth of grain fragments in an alloy, especially when it is worked by cold rolling.
Related terms: recrystallize
recrystallized
take liberties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes liberties
form: taking liberties
form: took liberties
form: taken liberties
Senses: glosses: To act on one's own authority, without asking for permission.
glosses: To behave disrespectfully, especially to make unwanted sexual advances.
Related terms: take the liberty
saturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saturations
Etymology: Etymology tree
Late Latin saturatiobor.
English saturation
Borrowed from Late Latin saturatio, saturationem.
Senses: glosses: The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The state of a saturated solution.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
topology
glosses: The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
raw_tags: of a set S
with respect to an equivalence relation or function
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
topics: art
arts
glosses: The intensity or vividness of a colour.
glosses: Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
glosses: intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
glosses: The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
examples: text: Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
Derived terms: antisaturation
desaturation
oversaturation
oxygen saturation
peripheral oxygen saturation
postsaturation
presaturation
resaturation
saturation current
saturation dive
saturation diver
saturation diving
saturation patrol
saturation point
saturation temperature
saturation vapor pressure
saturation vapour pressure
subsaturation
supersaturation
suprasaturation
undersaturation
unsaturation
zone of saturation
Related terms: saturate
hue
chroma
reverse osmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a technique whereby a solution is forced through a semipermeable membrane under pressure; used to generate drinkable water from seawater, or to separate chemical compounds
entree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: entrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of entrée.
take the liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the liberty
form: taking the liberty
form: took the liberty
form: taken the liberty
Senses: examples: text: I took the liberty of adding your name to the list.
text: —What about Dignam? says Bob Doran. Who's talking about ...? / —Dead! says Alf. He's no more dead than you are. / —Maybe so, says Joe. They took the liberty of burying him this morning anyhow.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To act on one's own authority, without asking for permission.
Related terms: take liberties
scavenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: scavengers
form: skavenger
Etymology: Originally from Middle English scavager, from Anglo-Norman scawageour (“one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector”), from Old Northern French *scawage, escauwage (“scavage”), Old French *scavage, escavage, alteration of escauvinghe (compare Medieval Latin scewinga, sceawinga), from Old Dutch scauwōn (“to inspect, to examinate, to look at”). Usually reinterpreted/re-analysed today as scavenge (which was originally a backformation from this word) + -er. Compare Old English sċēawung (“a showing, spectacle, examination, inspection, toll on exposure of goods”) and Dutch schouwing (“inspection”). More at show.
Senses: examples: text: garbage scavenger
text: A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.
glosses: Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
examples: text: Vultures are natural scavengers.
glosses: An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
glosses: A street sweeper.
glosses: A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.
Derived terms: bioscavenger
scavenger beetle
scavenger crab
scavenger hunt
scavengerism
scavengerous
scavenger sale
scavenger's daughter
water scavenger beetle
white scavenger vulture
scavenger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: scavengers
form: scavengering
form: scavengered
form: scavengered
form: skavenger
Etymology: Originally from Middle English scavager, from Anglo-Norman scawageour (“one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector”), from Old Northern French *scawage, escauwage (“scavage”), Old French *scavage, escavage, alteration of escauvinghe (compare Medieval Latin scewinga, sceawinga), from Old Dutch scauwōn (“to inspect, to examinate, to look at”). Usually reinterpreted/re-analysed today as scavenge (which was originally a backformation from this word) + -er. Compare Old English sċēawung (“a showing, spectacle, examination, inspection, toll on exposure of goods”) and Dutch schouwing (“inspection”). More at show.
Senses: glosses: To scavenge.
glosses: To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.
scud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: more scud
form: most scud
form: skud
Etymology: From Middle English scud (“incrustation, scurf, scab, peel, shedding”), perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot, push, throw off, shed”).
Senses: glosses: Naked.
scud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: scuds
form: scudding
form: scudded
form: scudded
form: skud
Etymology: From Middle English scud (“incrustation, scurf, scab, peel, shedding”), perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot, push, throw off, shed”).
Senses: examples: text: When scudding on from snare to snare I plied
My anxious visitation, hurrying on,
Still hurrying hurrying onward ...
ref: 1799, William Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:
text: From the thick copse the roebucks bound,
The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]
ref: 1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott:
text: The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven […]
ref: 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, chapter XVI, in Coningsby, or the New Generation:
text: I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in […] Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […]
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:
glosses: To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
examples: text: If the Main Topsail should by any accident be split, it will be still necessary to have a lofty Sail set in such a Sea, and the close reefed Topsail singly will be the best to scud under.
ref: 1835, Darcy Lever, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor:
text: all night they were obliged to scud under bare poles.
ref: 1849, Washington Irving, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus; Together with the Voyages of His Companions:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.
glosses: To hit or slap.
glosses: To speed.
glosses: To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
glosses: To scrape (skins) to remove hair etc. as part of the tanning process.
Derived terms: scudding sail
scud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: scuds
form: skud
Etymology: From Middle English scud (“incrustation, scurf, scab, peel, shedding”), perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot, push, throw off, shed”).
Senses: glosses: The act of scudding.
examples: text: But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: ... he will have a wet journey, seeing it is apout to pe a scud."
ref: 1818, Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord: Second series, page 350:
text: Places near the sea have frequent scuds, that keep the atmosphere moist, yet do not reach far up into the country; making thus the maritime situations appear wet, when the rain is not considerable.
ref: 1858, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne ... A New Edition with Notes by Edward Blyth. To which is Added a Description of the Village and Neighbourhood ... by ... Robert Mudie, page 246:
text: She'll cure this scud o' sentimental win' Wi' something o' a mair substantial kin';
ref: 1868, James Salmon (Poetical Writer.), Gowodean: a Pastoral, page 12:
text: ... banks o' scud drave ragged past, And blashed upon his face, For blast on blast, frae the southwast, Did ither raging chace,[…]
ref: 1876, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 498:
text: ... a scud of rain splashed on the window, drowning a sentence of the First Lesson.
ref: 1892, Arthur Quiller-Couch, I Saw Three Ships: And Other Winter Tales, IndyPublish.com, page 12:
text: Tes nothen but a scud o' snow, If you do talk about gwain, I'll lock 'ee in, same as we did pa'son.
ref: 1894, Walter Raymond, "Love and Quiet Life": Somerset Idylls, page 124:
glosses: Clouds or rain(s) (or snow, etc) driven by the wind.
examples: text: Small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts. Such clouds generally are associated with cool moist air, such as thunderstorm outflow.
ref: 2004, US National Weather Service Glossary
glosses: A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.
glosses: A gust of wind.
qualifier: Bristol
glosses: A scab on a wound.
glosses: A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
glosses: Any swimming amphipod, usually Gammarus
glosses: A swift runner.
glosses: A form of garden hoe.
glosses: A slap; a sharp stroke.
glosses: Pornography.
examples: a bottle of scud
glosses: The drink Irn-Bru.
Synonyms: sense: cloud
word: pannus
sense: cloud
word: fractus
Derived terms: scud cloud
scud run
scumbria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian скумбрия (skumbrija).
Senses: glosses: mackerel
raw_tags: in Slavic contexts
Related terms: scombroid
nip in the bud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪp.ɪn.ðəˈbʌd/
Forms: form: nips in the bud
form: nipping in the bud
form: nipped in the bud
form: nipped in the bud
Senses: glosses: To remove a bud (from a plant) to prevent flower and fruit from forming.
examples: text: If you see a bad habit begin to develop, try to nip it in the bud so that it does not become ingrained.
text: Ori. I do confeſs I'm too eaſie, too much Woman, / Not coy enough to take Affection, / Yet I can frown and nip a Paſſion, / Even in the Bud: I can ſay / Men pleaſe their preſent Heats; then pleaſe to leave Us.
ref: 1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Woman Hater, published 1718, act III, scene I:
text: “I couldn’t be any more upset,” said Inge Bank, 82, who lives near the bar. “We have to nip it in the bud if the Nazi party is coming back.
ref: 2020 February 21, Agence France-Presse, “Germany shooting: chants of 'Nazis out' at vigils after gunman kills nine”, in The Guardian:
text: These myths need to be nipped in the bud before they become conventional wisdom.
ref: 2020 July 1, Christian Wolmar, “Jumping on the slavery bandwagon... but the facts don't stack up”, in Rail, page 66:
glosses: To stop something at an early stage.
scutcheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌtʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ʌtʃən
Forms: form: scutcheons
form: 'scutcheon
Etymology: Aphetic form of escutcheon.
Senses: examples: text: But she againe him in the shield did smite / With so fierce furie and great puissaunce, / That, through his three-square scuchin piercing quite / And through his mayled hauberque, by mischaunce / The wicked steele through his left side did glaunce.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: There be now, for martial encouragement, some degrees and orders of chivalry; which nevertheless are conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and some remembrance perhaps, upon the scutcheon; and some hospitals for maimed soldiers; and such like things.
ref: 1627, Francis Bacon, Essays of Francis Bacon or Counsels, Civil and Moral, Chapter 29. "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates"
text: The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.
ref: 1935, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims:
glosses: An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.
glosses: An escutcheon; a small plate of metal, such as the shield around a keyhole.
Derived terms: scutcheoned
scutcheonless
seaboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaboards
form: seabord
Etymology: From earlier sea-bord, perhaps continuing (with change in meaning) Middle English see bord (“porthole cover, seaward side”), equivalent to sea + board.
Senses: examples: text: While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
ref: 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25:
text: Recently the Great Northern Railway, U,S.A., which has a considerable mileage of line bordering the Pacific seaboard, has put in service mobile equipment for applying anti-corrosion treatment to rails.
ref: 1951 October, “Preventing Rail Corrosion”, in Railway Magazine, page 648:
glosses: The area bordering the sea; a coastline; a sealine.
Derived terms: interseaboard
delocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: delocalizations
Etymology: From de- + localization.
Senses: glosses: the process of delocalizing or the fact of being delocalized
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: the phenomenon in which bonding electrons of some molecules serve to bind several atoms instead of just two; it is observed in metals and in aromatic and conjugated organic compounds
Related terms: resonance
dendrochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendro- + chronology.
Senses: topics: archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The science that uses the spacing between the annual growth rings of trees to date their exact year of formation.
Derived terms: dendrochronological
dendrochronologically
dendrochronologist
Related terms: dendroarchaeology
dendrochemistry
dendroclimatology
dendroecology
dendrogeomorphology
dendrohydrology
dendroarchaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendroarcheology
Etymology: From dendro- + archaeology.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: the science that uses dendrochronology to date wooden material from archaeological sites
Related terms: dendroarchaeological
dendrochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendro- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times
dendroclimatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendro- + climatology.
Senses: glosses: the science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions
Derived terms: dendroclimatologist
dendroecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendro- + ecology.
Senses: glosses: The science that uses dendrochronology to analyze historic ecological processes.
endianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endiannesses
Etymology: From endian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.
text: The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed.
ref: 1999, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Input/Output:
text: Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.
ref: 2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99:
text: An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.
ref: 2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.
dendrogeomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendro- + geomorphology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the science that uses dendrochronology to study changes to the Earth's surface over time
Related terms: dendrogeomorphologist
dendrohydrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendro- + hydrology.
Senses: glosses: The science that uses dendrochronology to investigate and reconstruct hydrologic processes, such as river flow and past lake levels.
destructive distillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destructive distillations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas and coke were obtained in this way.
games console
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: games consoles
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game console.
see a man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees a man
form: seeing a man
form: saw a man
form: seen a man
Etymology: Clipping of see a man about a dog.
Senses: examples: text: I'll be right back. I've just got to go to the ladies' room to see a man.
text: Although they were all out, at the bases, and the rest of our nine having gone to see a man there was nobody to take the bat.
ref: 1867 September 12, Ball Players' Chronicle, page 3:
glosses: Used in place of a real explanation when excusing oneself for a short period of time, particularly (euphemistic) to use the toilet or (historical) drink alcohol.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: a man about a horse
sense: all senses
word: a man about a dog
sense: use the toilet
word: a man about the plumbing
word: use the toilet
word: urinate
word: and Thesaurus:defecate
aecidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈsɪdɪəm/
Forms: form: aecidia
form: aecidiums
form: æcidium
form: oecidium
Etymology: From New Latin aecidium, the diminutive form of Ancient Greek αἰκίᾱ (aikíā, “injury”).
However Merriam-Webster takes the origin from Ancient Greek οἰκίδιον (oikídion) and refers to the botanist John Hill, in his A General Natural History, or New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, of the Different Parts of the World, vol. II, A History of Plants (London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, 1751), p. 64: "We have called this genus, distinguished by its peculiar cells, Æcidium, from the Greek οικιδιον, cellula." Compare also many other fungal spore-related terms in -idium, most coined after this one.
Senses: glosses: The cupulate fruiting body borne upon the mycelium of certain fungi commonly parasitic upon specimens of the Compositae, Lamiaceae, Leguminosae, and Ranunculaceae families
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the form genus Aecidium.
Related terms: aecial
aecidial
aecidiospore
aeciospore
aecium
teliospore
urediniospore