cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
delusionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delusionary
form: most delusionary
Etymology: From delusion + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Are they so divorced from reality that in their delusionary state they honestly believe we need more of their tax cuts for the rich and their other forms of plutocratic irresponsibility, the very things that got us to this deplorable state?
ref: 2009 January 27, Bob Herbert, “The Same Old Song”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Delusional.
cookstove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookstoves
Etymology: From cook + stove.
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: stovetop, stovepipe
text: "Sarah Ann Collins, we're goin' right downstairs and stick this letter in that cookstove, quick!"
ref: 1923, Fannie Georgia Stroup, “The House of Death”, in Weird Tales, volume 1, number 1, page 160:
text: Teckla's father, the banker and trustee, owned a one-room cottage with a cook-stove and a two-story bunk, six miles out of town, on Lake Elizabeth, to be reached by a sandy trail, on foot or with horse and buggy.
ref: 1943, Sinclair Lewis, chapter VI, in Gideon Planish, London: Jonathan Cape, page 53:
text: The manners of the people were execrable: they ate in the streets, even the well-dressed wives emerging from bakery shops to walk along munching on fresh sugar rolls, chewing pieces of hot tripe and other specialties from the vendors' carts and street cookstoves, consuming dinner piecemeal in public.
ref: 1961, Irving Stone, chapter 5, in The Agony and the Ecstasy, New York: Signet, page 294:
text: The findings suggest that controls on agricultural burning and improvements in cookstove technology to allow for more complete combustion could make as much of a difference, if not more, in lightening the skies over South Asia as efforts to restrict cars or build cleaner-burning power plants.
ref: 2009 January 27, Henry Fountain, “Study Pinpoints the Main Source of Asia’s Brown Cloud”, in New York Times:
synonyms: cooker
hypernyms: stove
<
appliance
coordinate_terms: cooktop
hotplate
glosses: A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.
Related terms: cookbook
cookery
cookpot
oilstove
woodstove
cookstoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookstove
flame throwers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flame thrower
biotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotherapeutics
Etymology: From bio- + therapeutics.
Senses: examples: text: “We want to become a leader in biotherapeutics and vaccines,” Jeffrey B. Kindler, Pfizer’s chief executive, said Monday at the Manhattan news conference where the deal was announced.
ref: 2009 January 27, Natasha Singer, “In Wyeth, Pfizer Sees a Drug Pipeline”, in New York Times:
glosses: The field encompassing therapeutic materials produced using biological means, including recombinant DNA technology.
biotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + therapeutics.
Senses: glosses: plural of biotherapeutic
biotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotherapeutics
Etymology: From bio- + therapeutic.
Senses: examples: text: “We want to become a leader in biotherapeutics and vaccines,” Jeffrey B. Kindler, Pfizer’s chief executive, said Monday at the Manhattan news conference where the deal was announced.
ref: 2009 January 27, Natasha Singer, “In Wyeth, Pfizer Sees a Drug Pipeline”, in New York Times:
glosses: A therapeutic material produced using biological means, including recombinant DNA technology.
nonguaranteed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + guaranteed.
Senses: examples: text: The Yankees offered Williams a minor league deal, but he would not accept a nonguaranteed contract.
ref: 2009 January 27, Jack Curry, “In His Book, Torre Reveals Fraying Bond With Cashman”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not guaranteed; unguaranteed.
unguaranteed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + guaranteed.
Senses: glosses: Not guaranteed; nonguaranteed.
collaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more collaged
form: most collaged
Senses: examples: text: A collaged poster of it had just entered the collection along with portraits by artists like Gilbert Stuart (George Washington), Norman Rockwell ( Richard Nixon ) and Elaine de Kooning (John Kennedy).
ref: 2009 January 25, Randy Kennedy, “Outlaws at the Art Museum (and Not for a Heist)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Glued together in the manner of a collage.
Derived terms: uncollaged
collaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collage
bleeding hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleeding heart
collaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collage
literarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more literarily
form: most literarily
Etymology: From literary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When he spoke, he spoke in allusion, literarily, often pausing to check, with a look, whether I followed.
ref: 2023, Justin Torres, Blackouts, Granta Books (2024), page 41:
glosses: In a literary manner.
nonsmooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + smooth.
Senses: glosses: Not smooth.
rheologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rheo- + -logic.
Senses: examples: text: The chemical industry uses mathematical models to simulate polymerization processes, pressing, or extrusion for complex rheologic materials, where the typical macro analysis of continuum mechanics must be connected to the micro one, the latter being more adequate to describe the complex rheology of materials with nanostructure.
ref: 2009 January, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 56, number 1, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2009:
glosses: Of, or relating to, rheology: the deformation and flow of matter.
subalgebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subalgebras
form: subalgebrae
Etymology: From sub- + algebra.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A closed subset of an algebra.
Derived terms: Cartan subalgebra
subalgebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subalgebra
subsurfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsurface
symplectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmˈplɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: symplectics
Etymology: A calque of complex, coined by Hermann Weyl in his 1939 book The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations. From Ancient Greek συμπλεκτικός (sumplektikós), from συμ (sum) (variant of σύν (sún)), + πλεκτικός (plektikós) (from πλέκω (plékō)); modelled on complex (from Latin complexus (“braided together”), from com- (“together”) + plectere (“to weave, braid”)).
The symplectic group has previously been called the line complex group.
Senses: examples: text: The structure of stable symplectics on finite dimensional spaces has been studied by Krein [8], Gelfand & Lidskii [9], and Moser [10] in work of considerable practical importance.
ref: 1967, Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics, volume 16, number 1, Indiana University, page 339:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.
examples: text: The symplectics (9) consist of a somewhat curved central triangular portion with the base upward, and anteriorly and posteriorly from this extends a wing-like process.
ref: 1914, The Philippine Journal of Science, Volume 9, page 27:
text: The symplectics (Fig. 8, sym) are thin slender bones placed vertically in between the quadrates and the hyomandibulars.
ref: 1965, Agra University Journal of Research: Science, Volume 14, page 71:
text: In many teleosts, on the other hand, including the catfishes, the symplectics have been entirely lost.
ref: 1967, Tyson R. Roberts, Studies on the Osteology and Phylogeny of Characoid Fishes, page 59:
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bone in the teleostean fishes that forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium, and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.
tenuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tenure
untenured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tenured.
Senses: glosses: Lacking tenure (permanence at an academic job).
nonoriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + oriented.
Senses: glosses: Not oriented: lacking orientation.
Related terms: disoriented
unoriented
unoriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unoriented
form: most unoriented
Etymology: From un- + oriented.
Senses: glosses: Not oriented: lacking orientation.
Related terms: disoriented
nonoriented
Anatoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æ.nəˈtɑ.li/
ipa: /æ.nəˈtoʊ.li/
ipa: /ˌæ.nəˈtɒ.li/
ipa: /ˌæ.nəˈtəʊ.li/
rhymes: -ɒli
rhymes: -əʊli
Forms: form: Anatoliy
form: Anatoly
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Анато́лий (Anatólij), from Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise”). Cognate with English Anatole and Latin Anatolius.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Анато́лий (Anatólij).
glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian or Ukrainian male given name Анатолій (Anatólij), equivalent to Anatoly
Bloody Caesar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bloody Caesars
form: bloody Caesar
form: bloody caesar
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made from clamato (clam-tomato juice) and vodka, and often garnished with celery.
Synonyms: Caesar
Derived terms: Virgin Caesar
virgin Caesar
Kirill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Кири́лл (Kiríll), from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos). Doublet of Cyril.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Кири́лл (Kiríll).
Related terms: Cyril
Cyrillus
Cyryl
Kiril
Kyril
Kyrill
Kyrylo
firee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firees
Etymology: From fire + -ee, by analogy with hiree.
Senses: examples: text: We got a helluva response - at least 30 calls from angry 'firees' as far away as Petaluma.
ref: 1985 June 18, “If You're Fired, There's No Use Calling Us”, in Sacramento Bee, page AA8:
text: The final two instances look at a single dismissal through two different eyes: the fired and the firee.
ref: 1998 April 20, Katherine Bruce, “Getting fired -- it isn't the end of the world”, in Forbes, page 20:
text: Early firees Bradford and Stacie J. returned, and the teams competed to see which could refurbish a house better to improve its value on the market.
ref: 2004 November 5, “Just lose it”, in Chicago Tribune RedEye, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013, page 42:
glosses: A person who has been fired
Synonyms: fired
Coordinate terms: firer
Related terms: hiree
firees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firee
listserv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listservs
form: listserve
Etymology: Clipping of listserver.
Senses: examples: text: At subregional, regional, and global conferences, as well as through websites, listservs, cyberjournals, newsletters, and public reports and books, feminists from the South have articulated strategies to break down structural inequality […]
ref: 2006, Mary E. Hawkesworth, Globalization and Feminist Activism, page 130:
text: Rather than producing flashy television spots, it has placed simple ads on Web sites of news organizations and urbanbaby.com, and tried to spread its positions by posting on education and community listservs and blogs.
ref: 2009 January 29, Jennifer Medina, “Backers of Mayoral School Control Face Resistance”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021:
text: [A] man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.
ref: 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025:
text: Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.
ref: 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:
synonyms: mailbase
glosses: A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.
listservs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of listserv
tearless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tearless
form: most tearless
Etymology: From tear + -less.
Senses: examples: text: My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
ref: 1982, Judas Priest, “Electric Eye”, in Screaming for Vengeance:
text: Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes
ref: 2009 January 29, John Updike, “Requiem”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without tears.
shirtdress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirtdresses
Etymology: From shirt + dress.
Senses: examples: text: A studded leather vest and shirtdress from Target's McQ collection.
ref: 2009 January 29, Eric Wilson, “But How Will It Play in Tulsa?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of dress, borrowing details, such as a collar or button front, from a man's shirt.
MPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Manila Police District.
examples: text: Five current and former employees of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia, alleging that MPD management created a hostile work environment and retaliated against them for speaking out.
ref: 2022 February 19, Maya Brown, “Fourth lawsuit makes 20 employees alleging a toxic culture within the DC police department”, in CNN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Metropolitan Police Department.
examples: text: “The number of reported violent crimes, like assaults, robberies and homicides are up compared to 2019, according to MPD crime data.
ref: 2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Minneapolis Police Department.
MPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MPDs
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
government
law-enforcement
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
space-science
glosses: Initialism of magnetoplasmadynamics.
topics: government
law-enforcement
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of motive power depot.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
law-enforcement
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: Initialism of multi-purpose document.
examples: text: The WSO station had four multipurpose displays, MPDs, including a moving map that could show a TSD—tactical situation display.
ref: 2013, David Lyons, Blood Game: A Jock Boucher Thriller, New York, N.Y. […]: Emily Bestler Books, →ISBN, pages 8–9:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
law-enforcement
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of multi-purpose display.
topics: government
law-enforcement
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of myeloproliferative disease.
topics: government
law-enforcement
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mammary Paget's disease / mammary Paget disease.
topics: government
human-sciences
law-enforcement
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of multiple personality disorder.
MPD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
government
law-enforcement
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
space-science
glosses: Initialism of magnetoplasmadynamic.
Derived terms: word: MPDD
english: magnetoplasmadymanic drive
translation: magnetoplasmadymanic drive
word: MPD drive
word: MPDE
english: magnetoplasmadymanic engine
translation: magnetoplasmadymanic engine
word: MPD engine
word: MPDP
english: magnetoplasmadymanic propulsion
translation: magnetoplasmadymanic propulsion
word: MPD propulsion
word: MPDT
word: MPD thruster — magnetoplasmadymanic thruster
Related terms: alt: magnetohydrodynamic
word: MHD
alt: magnetodynamic
word: MD
reënact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reënacts
form: reënacting
form: reënacted
form: reënacted
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of reenact.
zelotypia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: jealousy
dry-shod
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: dryshod
Senses: examples: text: For much of the Ice Age, men walked dryshod on the bed of the North Sea many fathoms below where ships now sail.
text: And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 11:15:
text: There, if you are in luck, you will find the tide out and the place fordable dryshod for a man on a horse.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: With one's footwear dry, not in or under water, usually referring to walking on ground which at another time, or usually, is covered with deep water.
Suzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Su-chou
form: Soochow
form: Suchow
form: Suchou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 蘇州 /苏州 (Sūzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The number of people killed in the collapse of an annex of a hotel in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou has climbed to 17, local authorities reported Wednesday, according to state news agency Xinhua.
ref: 2021 July 14, “China hotel collapse death toll climbs to 17: reports”, in EFE, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2021:
synonyms: Wu
Gusu
Helu City
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Yangtze River.
synonyms: word: Wusong
word: Suzhou Creek
extra: A river in Shanghai municipality and Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Huangpu River; despite its name, it is 78 miles long
glosses: Synonym of Suzhou Creek: A river in Shanghai municipality and Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Huangpu River; despite its name, it is 78 miles long.
glosses: Su, a former imperial prefecture in modern Jiangsu, China, surrounding the city.
Derived terms: word: Suzhounese
word: Suzhou numeral
Suzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Su-chou
form: Soochow
form: Suchow
form: Suchou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宿州 (Sùzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: There were more than 200 reported cases in Anhui's Suzhou city on Monday. Since the outbreak was detected on June 26, the province has reported more than 1,000 cases, according to the Suzhou municipal government.
ref: 2022 July 5, Zixu Wang, “Covid Outbreak Emerges in China’s Anhui Province”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2022, The Coronavirus Pandemic:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
Suzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Su-chou
form: Soochow
form: Suchow
form: Suchou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肅州 /肃州 (Sùzhōu).
Senses: glosses: A district of the prefecture-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
glosses: A town in the county-level city of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
anticorrelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticorrelations
Etymology: From anti- + correlation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Negative or inverse correlation, a relationship in which one value increases as the other decreases.
Derived terms: anticorrelative
ambipolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambipolarities
Etymology: From ambipolar + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being ambipolar.
glosses: The extent to which something is ambipolar.
ambipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more ambipolar
form: most ambipolar
Etymology: From ambi- + polar.
Senses: glosses: Reacting to both positive and negative polarity.
Derived terms: ambipolarity
antidiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidiagonals
form: anti-diagonal
Etymology: From anti- + diagonal.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The diagonal of a matrix that leads from top-right towards bottom-left.
Synonyms: counterdiagonal
secondary diagonal
minor diagonal
Derived terms: antidiagonally
Related terms: main diagonal
antipathogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipathogens
form: anti-pathogen
Etymology: From anti- + pathogen.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any drug that counters the effects of a pathogen
decorrelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɒɹəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: decorrelations
Etymology: From de- + correlation.
Senses: glosses: The reduction or removal of correlation.
glosses: A process that reduces autocorrelation or cross-correlation (in electronics, cryptography, neurology etc.)
Derived terms: decorrelation time
decorrelating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɒɹəleɪtɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: more decorrelating
form: most decorrelating
Etymology: From de- + correlating.
Senses: glosses: Tending to reduce the correlation between signals (in electronics, quantum mechanics, cryptography, neurology etc.)
common eider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common eiders
Senses: glosses: A sea duck in the eider family; Somateria mollissima.
anaphor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.nə.fɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈæ.nə.fə/
ipa: /ˈæ.nə.fɔː/
Forms: form: anaphors
form: anaphora
Etymology: Back-formation from anaphora.
Senses: examples: text: Thus far, we have established that each other is an NP [noun phrase] which functions as a reciprocal anaphor requiring to take its reference from some antecedent elsewhere in the sentence, and that themselves is an NP which functions as a reflexive anaphor which also requires an antecedent to take its reference from.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 117:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
Hypernyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: endophor
Related terms: anaphora
deixis
anchos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancho
venography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈnɒ.ɡrəf.i/
ipa: /vɪˈnɑː.ɡrəf.i/
ipa: /veɪˈnɑː.ɡrəf.i/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: venographies
Etymology: From veno- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A diagnostic procedure in which an X-ray of the veins, a venogram, is taken after a special dye is injected into the bone marrow or veins.
Synonyms: phlebography
Derived terms: splenovenography
neo-noir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-noirs
Etymology: From neo- + noir, after film noir.
Senses: examples: text: By the time Martin Scorsese filmed "Taxi Driver," in the mid-70's, the neo-noir palette relied heavily on trash, crumbling streets, burned-out buildings, and many-splendored scuzz. The fedoras disappeared, too.
ref: 1994, William Grimes, “Days and Nights of Murder, Madness and Mayhem”, in New York Times:
text: In only one other neo-noir film, Chinatown, a big-studio, big-stars production, has the screenwriter actually won the Academy Award.
ref: 2006, Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City:
glosses: A genre of film that combines elements of traditional film noir with modern themes and visuals.
examples: text: Typical of neo-noir as a whole, British neo-noirs are highly intertextual and allusive […]
ref: 2007, Andrew Spicer, European Film Noir:
glosses: An individual film of this kind.
Hypernyms: noir
Related terms: film noir
noir
tech noir
neo-noirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-noir
intertextualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intertextuality
shut off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shuts off
form: shutting off
form: shut off
form: shut off
Senses: examples: text: Richardson dropped into the six-foot between the two engines, ran for a few yards, grabbed Mitchell's engine, and swung himself up. Mitchell had got to his feet by this time, but he made no move. Richardson shut off steam, reversed her, and brought her to a stand.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54:
glosses: To stop or turn off by closing something, such as a valve.
examples: text: “You can forget about going to that party on Saturday if you don't shut off that video game right now!”
ref: 2006, Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: To switch off.
examples: text: After his wife died, he shut himself off from the world.
text: In the latter years of its existence, BR was rationalising its estate by pulling down station buildings which were too large for its modern operational needs, or by shutting off parts of them when demolition was not an option. Kilmarnock station falls into this latter category. It dominates the townscape, but its operational importance has seriously diminished since electrification of the West Coast Main Line.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Bam Nuttall Partnership Award: Kilmarnock”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58:
glosses: To separate; to isolate.
Derived terms: word: shutoff
Related terms: word: shutdown
word: shut down
shuts off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shut off
shutting off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shut off
ceramicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceramicists
form: ceramist
Etymology: From ceramic + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Otto Natzler, a ceramicist best known for inventing glazes resembling geologic textures and colors that he applied to forms created by his wife Gertrud in a famous collaboration of more than three decades, died on April 7 in Los Angeles.
ref: 2007 April 23, Roja Heydarpour, “Otto Natzler, 99, a Ceramicist Celebrated for His Inventive Glazes”, in The New York Times:
text: While the work of the contemporary artists in the show is avant-garde, it does not overwhelm the colorful faience made by the Faucon family, seven generations of ceramicists who operated a factory in Apt, a town in the Luberon Valley, from 1890 until 2002.
ref: 2009 January 30, Wendy Moonan, “An Old-School Collector With Ideas on Beauty”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who makes ceramics, such as pottery.
ceramicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceramicist
crookbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crookback
amblyope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amblyopes
Senses: glosses: A person afflicted with amblyopia.
amblyopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amblyope
picocell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picocells
Etymology: From pico- + cell.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A wireless communication system covering a small area, such as a single office or railway station, often used to extend cellular network coverage to indoor areas where signals cannot easily penetrate.
Related terms: picocellular
picocells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picocell
regiones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regio
voladoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voladora
voladora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voladoras
Senses: glosses: A small bus used for public transportation in the Dominican Republic.
partidos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partido
marcos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marco
mitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mitch
mitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mitch
slackerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slacker + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Would not her refusal to do so be craven flight from the new reality which faces her, a kind of desertion or slackerdom?
ref: 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Morale, the Supreme Standard of Life and Conduct:
text: ...so numerous and nebulous that to list just a few of them does a disservice to the vastness of the ennui that prompted the emergence of slackerdom.
ref: 2002, Peter Hanson, The Cinema of Generation X: A Critical Study of Films and Directors:
glosses: The world or lifestyle of slackers; laziness.
echoencephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: echoencephalographies
Etymology: From echo- + encephalography.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The detailing of interfaces in the brain by means of ultrasonic waves.
myelography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From myelo- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of radiographic examination that uses a contrast medium to detect pathology of the spinal cord, including the location of a spinal cord injury, cysts, and tumors.
Related terms: myelographic
myelogram
zonula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zonulae
form: zonulas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin zōnula (“small belt or girdle”).
Senses: examples: text: The zonula originates by a small number of delicate fibres from the vitreous [lamella].
ref: 1883, Half-yearly compendium of medical science, volumes 31-34, page 146:
text: Nevertheless, the zonula is most often considered as the principal agent of transmission.
ref: 1980, Yves Le Grand, Sami G. El Hage, Physiological Optics, page 95:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several small belt-like regions.
Derived terms: zonula adherens
zonula ciliaris
zonula occludens
Related terms: zonule
zoophorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəʊˈɒf.əɹ.əs/
Forms: form: zoophori
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin zōophorus, from Ancient Greek ζωοφόρος (zōophóros).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The frieze of a column, especially one decorated with animals.
Derived terms: zoophoric
zopissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An old medicinal mixture of pitch and tar scraped from the sides of ships.
rum balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rum ball
ruminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruminator
rumour mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumour mill
rump states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rump state
rump steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rump steak
run years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run year
actinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinins
Etymology: From actin + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several microfilament proteins that have a function in the attachment of actin fibres in muscle cells
agronomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From agronomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With reference to agronomics
allografted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + grafted.
Senses: glosses: grafted as an allograft
allylisothiocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of allyl isothiocyanate.
aminocyclopropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminocyclopropanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cyclopropylamine
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical obtained by removal of a hydrogen atom from the ring of cyclopropylamine
aminonicotinamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminonicotinamides
Etymology: From amino + nicotinamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric amino derivatives of nicotinamide, but especially 6-aminonicotinamide, a teratogen.
anammox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of anaerobic ammonium oxidation, a part of the nitrogen cycle.
Derived terms: anammoxosome
antiendotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiendotoxic
form: most antiendotoxic
Etymology: From anti- + endotoxic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
toxicology
glosses: That counteracts the effects of an endotoxin
antinodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinodal
form: most antinodal
Etymology: From antinode + -al.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or located at an antinode
Related terms: antenodal
antiregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiregulatory
form: most antiregulatory
Etymology: From anti- + regulatory.
Senses: examples: text: The F.D.A., an important agency charged with protecting the food supply, was one of many hobbled by the Bush administration’s antiregulatory efforts.
ref: 2009 January 30, “Hazardous Peanut Butters”, in New York Times:
glosses: That disapproves of excessive regulation
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That counteracts a regulatory process
archaeogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + genetic.
Senses: topics: archaeology
biology
genetics
history
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to archaeogenetics
archaeogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archaeo- + genetics.
Senses: topics: archaeology
biology
genetics
history
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The application of population genetics to archaeology
archaeometallurgist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeometallurgists
Etymology: From archaeo- + metallurgist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in archaeometallurgy.
archaeometallurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archaeo- + metallurgy.
Senses: topics: archaeology
engineering
history
human-sciences
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of the prehistory of metal extraction and working
arundinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arundinoids
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any grass of the subfamily Arundinoideae.
asynchronicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asynchronicities
Senses: glosses: The state of being asynchronous.
glosses: The extent to which something is asynchronous.
Synonyms: asynchrony
Related terms: synchronicity
auditable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auditable
form: most auditable
Etymology: From audit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever the intrinsic merits, questionnaires make teaching 'auditable', and thus easier to regulate in the name of quality.
ref: 1994, Michael Power, The Audit Explosion:
glosses: Able to be audited.
Derived terms: unauditable
autapses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autapse
autapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autapses
Senses: glosses: A synapse formed by the axon of a neuron on its own dendrites
autoactivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoactivate
autoactivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoactivates
form: autoactivating
form: autoactivated
form: autoactivated
Etymology: From auto- + activate.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or undergo autoactivation
autoactivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoactivations
Etymology: From auto- + activation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: autocatalysis
Related terms: autoactivator
autoanalyser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoanalysers
form: autoanalyzer
Etymology: From auto- + analyser.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Any of several different devices that partially automate analysis.
borrachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borracha.
autocatalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocatalysts
Etymology: From auto- + catalyst.
Senses: glosses: Any catalyst that participates in autocatalysis.
glosses: The catalyst in the catalytic converter of a motor car.
avidinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From avidin + -ated.
Senses: glosses: Treated with avidin
bibliometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biblio- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The quantitative analysis of text, including citation analysis
Related terms: bibliometrics
roll with the punches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls with the punches
form: rolling with the punches
form: rolled with the punches
form: rolled with the punches
Senses: examples: text: When life tries to knock all the wind out of you / You've got to roll, roll, roll with the punches / If all life offers is black and blue / You've got to roll, roll, roll with the punches
ref: 2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen, “Roll with the Punches”, in Two, performed by Lenka:
text: You will not to get to control Elon, you have to roll with the punches and channel him.
ref: 2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of ride with the punches.
Related terms: roll with it
felter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛltə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: felters
form: feltering
form: feltered
form: feltered
Senses: examples: text: His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: To clot, tangle, or mat together, such as like felt.
felter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛltə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: felters
Senses: examples: text: Those Spanish Wools for Felters were not Fleece Wools.
ref: 1720, John Stow, edited by John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, volume 2, page 239, col. 1:
text: This is the mark of an experienced felter and the way to monitor the very subtle changes in the late stages of feltmaking
ref: 2007, Christine White, Uniquely Felt, page 77:
glosses: A person who works with or makes felt; a feltmaker.
Berker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Old Masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Old Master
whipper snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipper snappers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whippersnapper.
breek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brick.
rolfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rolf
rolfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rolf
almain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Almain (“type of dance”).
Derived terms: almain rivet
E.D. La.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, as used in case citations.
Related terms: M.D. La.
W.D. La.
M.D. La.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. La.
W.D. La.
W.D. La.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. La.
M.D. La.
bookselling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From book + selling.
Senses: synonyms: word: bibliopolism
word: bibliopolery
word: bibliopoly
glosses: The sale of books.
double bar line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double bar lines
Senses: glosses: A symbol in musical notation used to separate two sections or phrases of music.
Related terms: bar line
double bar lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double bar line
dotted bar line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dotted bar lines
Senses: glosses: A symbol in musical notation used to subdivide long measures into shorter segments for ease of reading.
Related terms: bar line
double bar line
dotted bar lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dotted bar line
firstcomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firstcomers
Etymology: From first + comer.
Senses: examples: text: Britain's phenomenal success as firstcomer in the new industrialism was reflected in her record 38 per cent share of the world trade in manufactures...
ref: 1969, Harold James Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society 1780-1880:
text: But at long last the summer, high summer, was upon them, with the promised arrival of the four firstcomers to the old manor house.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 398:
glosses: One who comes first; a person or entity being the first to arrive, or the first in sequence.
firstcomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firstcomer
magickally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more magickally
form: most magickally
Etymology: From magickal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a magickal way.
intertextually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intertextual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intertextual manner.
intertextual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intertextual
form: most intertextual
Etymology: From inter- + textual.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to intertextuality; being or involving the reference to one text in another.
Derived terms: intertextualization
intertextualize
intertextually
finner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finners
Etymology: From fin + -er.
Senses: glosses: A finback whale.
freecycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freecycle
freecycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of freecycle
freecycled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freecycle
freecycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freecycle
potato cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato cakes
Senses: glosses: A savory flat cake made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked.
glosses: A fried potato; a potato scallop.
Synonyms: word: potato bread
english: in Ireland
translation: in Ireland
word: fadge
english: in Scotland
translation: in Scotland
word: tatty scone
english: in Northern England
translation: in Northern England
word: tatty cake
bicentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more bicentric
form: most bicentric
Etymology: From bi- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Having two centres.
examples: text: Everybody that came over here and then left had essentially the same reaction: YUCK. A large part of that "yuck" was the highly evolved bisexuals who were quick at the gun with anything that didn't fit their bicentric notion of the universe. That a great deal of that bicentrism was thinly veiled homophobia didn't bother them in the least.
ref: 1996 October 7, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Curious Blinkers of Michael Thomas”, in soc.bi (Usenet):
glosses: Having a bisexual bias or basis.
Derived terms: bicentric perspective
bicentric polygon
bicentric quadrilateral
bicentric triangle
Related terms: bicentricity
bicentrism
Rejang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnolinguistic group in Bengkulu.
Rejang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by this group.
Derived terms: Rejangese
bioanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioanalyses
form: bio-analysis
Etymology: From bio- + analysis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: biochemical analysis
bioclimosequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioclimosequences
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bioclimatic sequence of ecosystems
blipvert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blipverts
Etymology: Blend of blip + advert; coined in the film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985), in which they caused the nervous systems of certain viewers to overload.
Senses: examples: text: The blipvert condenses 30 seconds of advertising to 3 seconds in order to prevent viewers from switching channels during an advertisement.
ref: 1991, Alan M Olson, Christopher Parr, Debra Parr, Video Icons and Values:
text: The result was the passing of laws forbidding the use of such "blipvert" advertising, but rumors of its insidious presence abounded.
ref: 2003, Andy Fyfe, When the Levee Breaks: The Making of Led Zeppelin IV:
text: As with television, on the web a user is required to see the blipvert before moving onto their intended destination, unlike banner ads...
ref: 2004, Rick Poynor, David Crowley, Nico Macdonald, John O'Reilly, Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties:
glosses: A subliminal or nearly subliminal advertisement displayed for a very short time.
Related terms: cognitohazard
blipverts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blipvert
Bioconductor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From bio- + conductor.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An open source software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data.
biodistribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodistributions
Etymology: From bio- + distribution.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The distribution (static and dynamic) of compounds within a biological system or within an organism
bioenergetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bioenergetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to bioenergetics
cyberlearning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + learning.
Senses: glosses: Learning by means of a computer, especially over the Internet.
decalcifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decalcify
decalcified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decalcify