cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cinnamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic carboxylic acid C₆H₅-CH=CH-COOH obtained from cinnamon; it is used in perfumery etc
Derived terms: hydrocinnamic acid
hydroxycinnamic acid
septembrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: septembrizes
form: septembrizing
form: septembrized
form: septembrized
Etymology: From French septembriser, a reference to the September massacres of Paris in 1797 during the French Revolution.
Senses: examples: text: […] and no sooner had they septembrized France, than they would cross over, and, with the assistance of the travelling Orator, and the Spenceans, septembrize us in the same way.
ref: 1817, Jeremy Bentham, Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism:
glosses: To motivate the common people to overthrow a ruling class by force, and to execute its leaders.
Derived terms: septembrizer
plastifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastifiers
Senses: glosses: A chemical agent that causes other chemical compounds to react to form a plastic.
glosses: A chemical compound added to a polymer in order to produce a softer plastic material.
Synonyms: sense: softener
word: plasticizer
mastalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastalgias
Etymology: From mast- (“relating to the breasts”) + -algia (“forming words denoting kinds of pain”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: mammalgia
glosses: Breast pain.
citronellic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French citronelle, ultimately from Latin citron, a type of lemon tree; with suffix -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to citronellic acid.
citronellic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monoterpenoid carboxylic acid formed by the oxidation of citronellal
citronellal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citronellals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monoterpenoid aldehyde 3,7-dimethyloct-6-en-1-al responsible for the aroma of citronella oil
clathrochelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chelated by a clathrochelate
chelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chelated
form: most chelated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bound with one or more chelates
raw_tags: of a metal atom
Derived terms: nonchelated
unchelated
chelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chelate
clathrochelate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clathrochelates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chelate in which the metal atom is surrounded by, and coordinated to, a single ligand
Related terms: clathrochelated
cobaltinitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobaltinitrites
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The trivalent complex anion Co(NO₂)₆³⁻ (hexanitritocobaltate(III)), or any salt containing this anion
Derived terms: sodium cobaltinitrite
comonomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comonomers
Etymology: From co- + monomer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of monomers that, when polymerized, form a copolymer
complexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of complex
complexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more complexed
form: most complexed
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Combined in the form of a complex
examples: text: And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: complex, complicated
Derived terms: complexedness
immunocomplexed
noncomplexed
uncomplexed
complexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of complex
complexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complexings
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of a complex; complexation
Derived terms: immunocomplexing
precomplexing
compressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more compressive
form: most compressive
Etymology: From compress + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That compresses
Derived terms: compressively
compressiveness
compressive strength
neurocompressive
noncompressive
undercompressive
condensative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more condensative
form: most condensative
Senses: glosses: That tends to condense
coprecipitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coprecipitate
coprecipitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coprecipitated
form: most coprecipitated
Senses: glosses: precipitated along with another substance
coprecipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coprecipitates
form: coprecipitating
form: coprecipitated
form: coprecipitated
Etymology: From co- + precipitate.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo, coprecipitation.
coprecipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprecipitates
Etymology: From co- + precipitate.
Senses: glosses: A substance involved in coprecipitation.
cresolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cresolates
Etymology: From cresol + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of a cresol (when considered to be an acid)
crotonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotonates
Etymology: From crotonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of crotonic acid
Derived terms: oxalocrotonate
cryostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryostats
Etymology: From cryo- + -stat.
Senses: glosses: A device used to maintain a constant low temperature.
examples: text: For Jaumain[…]that long period of uncertainty began on 31 May 2010, when she stabbed her left thumb with a curved forceps while cleaning a cryostat—a machine that can cut tissues at very low temperatures—that she used to slice brain sections from transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE.
ref: 2021 July 28, Barbara Casassus, “France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A device used to maintain a constant low temperature.
A microtome held at a constant low temperature.
Derived terms: thermocryostat
Related terms: cryostasis
cryostatic
cryocooler
cryostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + stasis.
Senses: glosses: The preservation of living organisms by employing low temperatures.
Related terms: cryonics
cryostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryo- + -static.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to a cryostat or to cryostasis
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to the pressure exerted on soil or rocks by the freezing of water
cumene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic hydrocarbon isopropyl benzene present in petroleum.
Synonyms: word: cumol
word: isopropylbenzene
alt: 1-methylethyl
word: benzene
word: 2-phenylpropane
Derived terms: cumene process
pseudocumene
cumyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several univalent radicals derived from cumene
Derived terms: cumylic
cupferron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The salt ammonium N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine used to form complexes with metal ions
data model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data models
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A result of applying a data modeling to some particular application, using a database model such as relational.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A database model, such as relational or hierarchical.
Derived terms: conceptual data model
logical data model
physical data model
Related terms: schema
information model
entity-relationship model
Roma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊmə/
Forms: form: Rroma
Etymology: From Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “lower-caste person working as a wandering musician”), from Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru, “drum”), which may have been borrowed from a Dravidian language. Folk etymology pointed to a legend that the ethnic group were an exiled people from Roman Imperial times.
The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.
Senses: glosses: A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
glosses: A subgroup of the Romani people found primarily in Eastern Europe.
glosses: A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.
Roma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊmə/
Forms: form: Romas
form: Rroma
Etymology: From Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “lower-caste person working as a wandering musician”), from Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru, “drum”), which may have been borrowed from a Dravidian language. Folk etymology pointed to a legend that the ethnic group were an exiled people from Roman Imperial times.
The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.
Senses: glosses: A Rom; a member of the Romani people.
Roma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊmə/
Forms: form: Rroma
Etymology: From Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “lower-caste person working as a wandering musician”), from Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru, “drum”), which may have been borrowed from a Dravidian language. Folk etymology pointed to a legend that the ethnic group were an exiled people from Roman Imperial times.
The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.
Senses: glosses: Romani: of or pertaining to the Romani people.
Related terms: Rom
Roma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊmə/
Etymology: From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome and Rum.
Senses: glosses: A number of places around the world:
A town, the seat of the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia, from the Italian surname di Roma.
glosses: A number of places around the world:
A settlement in Maseru district, Lesotho.
glosses: A number of places around the world:
A town in Ascope province, La Libertad region, northern Peru.
glosses: A number of places around the world:
A commune in Botoșani County, Romania.
glosses: A number of places around the world:
A village in Valencia province, Valencia, Spain.
glosses: A number of places around the world:
A locality in central Gotland, Sweden.
glosses: A number of places around the world:
A city and border crossing point on the Rio Grande in Starr County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.
examples: text: But it would have been so nice to have a private income, and to be able sometimes to go to Venezia, Firenze, Roma, those places with the beautiful names.
ref: 1896, W[alter] D[elaplaine] Scull, “Mrs. Platt”, in The Garden of the Matchboxes and Other Stories, London: Elkin Mathews, page 94:
text: At Neapolis there was chaos as those who could flee Roma came to this port seeking escape.
ref: 1987 October, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, chapter 1, in A Flame in Byzantium, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, part I (Belisarius), page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of Rome:
A major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.
glosses: Alternative form of Rome:
A metropolitan city of Lazio, Italy
glosses: Alternative form of Rome:
An ancient empire based out of the city of Rome, covering vast territories in Europe, Asia and Africa; in full, Roman Empire.
Roma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊmə/
Forms: form: Romas
Etymology: From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome and Rum.
Senses: glosses: A variety of tomato.
Roma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊmə/
Etymology: Compare Indonesian Bahasa Romang (“Roma language”).
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language of Indonesia.
information model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: information models
Senses: glosses: An abstract but formal representation of entities including their properties, relationships and the operations that can be performed on them.
Related terms: data model
information modeling
contrabandista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrabandistas
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish contrabandista and Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese contrabandista.
Senses: glosses: A contrabandist in Spain, Portugal, or Latin America.
working group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: working groups
Senses: glosses: An interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers working on new research activities that would be difficult to develop under traditional funding mechanisms such as federal agencies.
glosses: Any more or less formal team working for a specific purpose.
Synonyms: workgroup
working committee
working party
Coordinate terms: task force
domain of discourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domains of discourse
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In predicate logic, an indication of the relevant set of entities that are being dealt with by quantifiers.
Synonyms: universe of discourse
Related terms: context
sit on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits on
form: sitting on
form: sat on
form: sat on
form: sit upon
Senses: examples: text: The chairman sat on the report until the end of the legislative session.
glosses: To block, suppress, restrain (something).
examples: text: He started to act up, but she sat on him.
glosses: To restrain (a person).
examples: text: I sent the boss my proposal three weeks ago and he's just been sitting on it.
glosses: To take no action on (something); to hold (something) in reserve without actually using.
examples: text: He sits on the appropriations committee.
glosses: To be a member of (something).
glosses: To hold an official inquiry regarding (something); to deliberate about (something).
examples: text: Let me sit on it.
glosses: To insert (something) into one's vagina or anus from below.
examples: text: The cat sat on the mat.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit, on.
Related terms: sit on it
manioca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manioc
mannite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: mannitol
Derived terms: mannide
mannitic
mannitose
nitromannite
nonmannite
balanitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbæl.əˈnaɪ.tɪs/
Forms: form: balanitides
Etymology: From balanus (“glans”) + -itis (“inflammatory disease”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the glans penis.
Derived terms: balanitis xerotica obliterans
mannose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannoses
Etymology: From manna + -ose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A monosaccharide aldohexose found in manna and other legumes.
Synonyms: carubinose
seminose
Derived terms: galactomannan
mannaric
mannaric acid
mannonic acid
mannosan
mannosyl
mannuronic
methylmannoside
monomannose
oligomannosaccharide
oligomannose
paucimannose
pentamannose
polymannose
tetramannose
trimannose
aldohexose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldohexoses
Etymology: From aldo- + hexose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hexose containing an aldehyde group.
Hyponyms: sense: hexose with aldehyde group
word: allose
sense: hexose with aldehyde group
word: altrose
sense: hexose with aldehyde group
word: glucose
sense: hexose with aldehyde group
word: mannose
sense: hexose with aldehyde group
word: gulose
sense: hexose with aldehyde group
word: idose
sense: hexose with aldehyde group
word: galactose
sense: hexose with aldehyde group
word: talose
Related terms: ketohexose
ketohexose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketohexoses
Etymology: From keto- + hexose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hexose containing a ketone group.
Derived terms: deoxyketohexose
Related terms: aldohexose
hexulose
cyanato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanatos
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical NCO- derived from cyanate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical NC- derived from cyanide
Derived terms: cyanoacetate
cyanoacetic
cyanoacetyl
cyanoacrylate
cyanoborane
cyanocomplex
cyanocyclopropane
cyanodiaminomethane
cyanodiazoacetyl
cyanodiethylgold
cyanodimethylarsine
cyanodinitromethanide
cyanoethanol
cyanoethyl
cyanoethylation
cyanoethylhydrazine
cyanoethylsiloxane
cyanoform
cyanoformyl
cyanofurazan
cyanoguanidine
cyanohydrazonoacetyl
cyanomercurio
cyanonitrene
cyanoperfluoroindene
cyanophenylacetimidate
cyanophosphine
cyanopropene
cyanopropyne
cyanotetrazole
cyanotridecahydrodecaborate
cyanotrimethylsilane
cyanoacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanoacetates
Etymology: From cyano- + acetate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of cyanoacetic acid
Derived terms: isocyanoacetate
cyanoacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cyano derivative of acetic acid NC-CH₂-COOH used in the synthesis of barbiturates and other compounds
cyanoacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyano + acetic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to cyanoacetic acid or its derivatives.
cyanoacetyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanoacetyls
Etymology: From cyano- + acetyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical NC-CH₂-CO- derived from cyanoacetic acid
cyanoacrylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanoacrylates
Etymology: From cyano- + acrylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of esters of cyanoacrylic acid that are used as instant adhesives.
Derived terms: buytylcyanoacrylate
octylcyanoacrylate
Related terms: superglue
cyanoethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanoethylations
Etymology: From cyano- + ethylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction, or treatment, with acrylonitrile, especially such treatment of cotton fabric to improve its strength and make it easier to dye
employée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒmˈplɔɪeɪ/
ipa: /ˌɒmplɔɪˈeɪ/
ipa: /(ˌ)ɒ̃-/
ipa: /ˌɑmˈplɔɪeɪ/
ipa: /ˌɑmplɔɪˈeɪ/
homophone: employé
Forms: form: employées
Etymology: Borrowed from French employée.
Senses: hypernyms: employé
employee
glosses: A female employee.
employés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of employé
employées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of employée
multiplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multiplex
multiplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiplex
pressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pression
lavant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavants
form: levant
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English *lavand, *lavant, lavande, present participle of Middle English laven (“to stream, pour out a stream, wash”), from Old English lafian (“to pour water on, wash, lave, bathe, ladle out”), equivalent to lave + -and; or from Old French lavant, present participle of laver (“to wash”). See lave.
Senses: examples: text: Lavants, are land springs, which break out much, on the downs of Sussex, Hants, and Wilts. The country people say, that when the Lavants rise, corn will be dear; meaning, that when the earth is so glutted with water as to send[…]
ref: 1815, James Dallaway, A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: Including the Rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber, with the City and Diocese of Chichester, page 112:
text: In this part of Hampshire a bourn is called a lavant, and after long internals when a lavant rises at Hambledon, some of the springs rise from, or quite close to[,] the churchyard itself.
ref: 1891, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 15:
text: About five miles south of Petersfield, in a valley among the chalk hills, is the village of Charlton. No permanent stream flows through this vallet, but eastward of the village a remarkable "lavant" occurs. This lavant is a flow of water from springs in the chalk of an uncertain and intermittent nature, which occur in the winter or early spring, depending on the time and degree of the winter rainfall and the consequent saturation of the chalk. The lavant springs occur at varying elevations, depending on the nature of the seasons; the higher the lavant, the greater is the flow of water, […]
ref: 1894, Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, Proceedings, page 54:
text: […] an intermittant stream (locally known as a "lavant," but in many parts called a "bourne") appears in the valley bottom […]
ref: 1928, Water and Water Engineering, page 316:
text: The cold wet weather continued unabated during February and the underground springs ('lavants') began to break out of the chalk hills ominously early.
ref: 2007, Richard Mabey, Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of The Natural History of Selborne, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: A shallow or more or less intermittent spring, or the stream of water (bourne) which feeds and springs forth from such a spring.
examples: text: How it did rain! It ran down the street in a lavant.
glosses: A violent flow or rush of water.
kirpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɪə(ɹ)ˈpɑːn/
Forms: form: kirpans
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਕਿਰਪਾਨ (kirpān), from Sanskrit कृपाण (kṛpāṇa, “sword, dagger, sacrificial knife”), from कल्पयति (kalpáyati, “he orders, apportions, cuts, trims”).
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial sword that must be worn at all times by baptized Sikhs, and one of the five Ks.
dictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diction
nias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French niais. See eyas and nyas.
Senses: glosses: A young hawk; an eyas.
Kansans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kansan
catholique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of catholic.
Derived terms: catholiquely
basketballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketballers
Etymology: From basketball + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In fact the latter are likely to develop muscles of the kind and strength that may even be a handicap to the Nth degree basketballer.
ref: 1967, Greyson Daughtrey, Methods in Physical Education and Health for Secondary Schools, page 73:
text: For the basketballer on the court, it expresses itself in individual play: running, passing, defending, shooting for goal.
ref: 2000, Bob Mierisch, On the Level: Striving for Openness to Build Corporate Strength, page 72:
text: The most famous sportsman rumoured to come for a round here was basketballer Michael Jordan, who flew in just for the midnight golf experience.
ref: 2004, Paul Harding, Iceland, page 190:
glosses: A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
Related terms: baller
basketballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketballer
mannan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannans
Etymology: From mann(ose) + -an.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A plant polysaccharide that is a highly branched polymer of mannose (or galactose or glucose).
Derived terms: antimannan
arabinomannan
galactoglucomannan
galactomannan
heteromannan
lipoarabinomannan
mannanase
oligomannan
phospholipomannan
phosphomannan
rhamnomannan
xylomannan
implores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of implore
recoupe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recoupes
form: recouping
form: recouped
form: recouped
Senses: examples: text: Under our former practice this defence could not be pleaded in bar, because it admits that the plaintiff has a right to sue, and seeks to recoupe damages on the ground that the plaintiff has failed to perform some stipulation in the contract[…]
ref: 1855, Isaac Edwards, A treatise on the law of bailments, page 361:
glosses: Archaic form of recoup.
recoupes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recoupe
stet docket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stet dockets
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A list of cases, maintained by a court or prosecutor, that are not to be tried for the time being.
décime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: décimes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decime (“coin”).
décimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of décime
décimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of décima
décima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: décimas
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Alternative form of decima.
bauds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baud
occidentalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: occidentalises
form: occidentalising
form: occidentalised
form: occidentalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of occidentalize.
occidentalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of occidentalise
grabable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grabable
form: most grabable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grabbable.
cyanoethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanoethyls
Etymology: From cyano- + ethyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical NC-CH₂-CH₂- most often obtained by protonation of acrylonitrile
Derived terms: cyanoethylation
cyanoethyl cellulose
cyanoethylhydrazine
cyanoethylsiloxane
cyanoethyl starch
cyanoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyano- + -form.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound CH(CN)₃ analogous to the haloforms
cyclisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cyclization.
Derived terms: bicyclisation
electrocyclisation
heterocyclisation
Christmastime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmastimes
form: Christmas time
Etymology: From Christmas + time.
Senses: glosses: Christmas season; Christmastide; yuletide
cyclised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cyclise
supervacuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /supəˈvækjʊəs/
Forms: form: more supervacuous
form: most supervacuous
Etymology: From Latin supervacuus (“more than needed”), from super (“above”) + vacuus (“vacant”), equivalent to super- + vacuous.
Senses: examples: text: Labor of mind facilitly may be evaded by imitation: for, so, sollicitude of mind conducive to invention becomes supervacuous.
ref: 2004, Frederick William Rolfe, Don Renato: An Ideal Content, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 22:
text: 1850, John Evelyn, R. M. Evanson, The History of Religion: A Rational Account of the True Religion, H. Colburn, page 285,
Of this treasure, the Pope having the key, he may dispense the supervacuous duties of others (who do more than is required for their salvation) to sinners who have no merit of their own.
glosses: superfluous, more than needed
Synonyms: sense: more than needed
word: superfluous
sense: more than needed
word: redundant
cyclising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cyclise
cycloalkene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloalkenes
Etymology: From cyclo- + alkene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated alicyclic hydrocarbon.
Related terms: alkene
cycloalkane
cycloalkyne
benzene
graphene
fullerene
cycloalkanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloalkanones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any saturated alicyclic ketone
cyclobutene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclobutenes
Etymology: From cyclo- + butene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cycloalkene with a four-membered ring and one double bond.
nonplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + planar.
Senses: glosses: Not planar.
cycloheptatriene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloheptatrienes
Etymology: From cyclo- + heptatriene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cycloalkene having a seven-membered ring and three double bonds; removal of a hydride ion produces the aromatic tropylium ion
stingiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stingy: most stingy
stingier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
ref: 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: comparative form of stingy: more stingy
cyclonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: RDX
trimethylenetrinitramine
glosses: The explosive 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine.
unerase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unerases
form: unerasing
form: unerased
form: unerased
Etymology: From un- + erase.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To restore something that has been erased.
Synonyms: undelete
unerases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unerase
unerasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unerase
unerased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unerase
unerased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The neat, uninterlined and unerased manuscript, uniform with that of all the other articles which appeared at the time in the 'Sketch-Book,' […]
ref: 1860, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 224:
glosses: Not having been erased.
hypohalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpəʊˈheɪləs/
Etymology: From hypo- + halous acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any oxyacid of a halogen having a general formula H-O-X
Derived terms: hypohalous acid
Related terms: hypochlorous
hypobromous
hypoiodous
Rhean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈriː.ən/
Forms: form: more Rhean
form: most Rhean
Etymology: From Rhea + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating the Titan Rhea in Greek mythology.
examples: 1978, American Geophysical Union, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, University of Michigan,
The central peaks of Rhean craters appear to be larger with respect to crater size than for lunar and Mercurian craters.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Saturnian moon named for Rhea.
Ganymedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɡænəˈmiːdi.ən/
Etymology: From Ganymede + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ganymedean.
croupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɹuːp/
Forms: form: croupes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of croup.
Titanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈteɪniən/
ipa: /tɪˈtɑːniən/
Forms: form: Titanean
form: Titanic
Senses: examples: text: As whom the fables name of monstrous size, / Titanian or earth-born, that warred on Jove, […]
ref: 1674, Milton, Paradise Lost:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of the Titans
examples: text: if Trafton's (1972) detection of Titanian H₂ is correct, ...
ref: 1974, McDonough & Brice, "The Saturnian 'Gas-Doughnut' Hypothesis", in A. Woszczyk, ed., Exploration of the Planetary System, p 484
text: The Titanian atmosphere consists predominantly of nitrogen gas, with only a few percent methane, the simplest organic molecule.
ref: 2006, Kevin W. Plaxco, Michael Gross, Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 238:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
examples: text: the yin and the yang, or the Oberonic and the Titanian
ref: 2002, Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography, page 387:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of or relating to the Shakespearean faerie queen Titania
examples: text: an isolated colony of Uranus' moon Titania, one of the diminishing vestiges of the Titanian Empire
ref: 1985, Piers Anthony, Bio of a Space Tyrant, vol. 3: Politician:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of Titania, the largest moon of Uranus.
Titanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈteɪniən/
ipa: /tɪˈtɑːniən/
Forms: form: Titanians
form: Titanean
form: Titanic
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of Titan (the Saturnian moon) or of Titania
Callistoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌkælɪˈstoʊ.ən/
Etymology: From Callisto + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the nymph Callisto in Greek mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Callisto, the second largest moon of Jupiter, named for the nymph Callisto.
Synonyms: Callistonian
Callistan
Callistoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkælɪˈstoʊ.ən/
Forms: form: Callistoans
Etymology: From Callisto + -an.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of Callisto
Synonyms: Callistan
exlex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkslɛks/
Forms: form: exlexes
form: ex-lex
form: ex lex
Etymology: From Latin exlēx.
Senses: examples: text: The door opened, and the faces of the rough-looking exlexes were exhibited by the light of the lamp held up by Gregory, […]
ref: 1838, Edinburgh Cabinet Novels, page 121:
glosses: An outlaw.
shadow government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow governments
Etymology: The origin of such terms (e.g., shadow government, shadow cabinet, shadow minister, shadow portfolio) lies in the figurative metaphor of a shadow (shade) following its source object closely and in well-defined parallel. But conspiracy theorists have longed seized upon the way it sounds nefarious, as if it were meant to connote dark and sinister forces. This interpretation is also encouraged by disinformation purveyors seeking to sow societal disruption.
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: shadow cabinet, shadow minister
text: Cuba's two most important exile groups, after months of quarreling, met last week to form a shadow government dedicated to the liberation of their homeland.
ref: 1961 March 31, “Getting Ready”, in Time Magazine, page 24:
topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: A government that is prepared to take control in response to certain events, especially one made up of the leadership of the largest opposition party in parliament which would assume control should the ruling party be displaced in elections.
topics: political-science
social-sciences
synonyms: cryptocracy
deep state
secret government
invisible government
state within a state
glosses: A (real or conspiracy theorized) body of private individuals who exercise actual power behind the scenes instead of a country's or organization's public figures.
Related terms: shadow banking system
work shadowing
power behind the throne
shadow governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow government
sexual orientations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual orientation
scale mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scale mails
form: scalemail
Senses: topics: fantasy
fiction
literature
media
publishing
qualifier: academically obsolete
glosses: Scale armor.
scale mails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scale mail
decalcify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˈkæɫsɪfaɪ]
Forms: form: decalcifies
form: decalcifying
form: decalcified
form: decalcified
Etymology: From French décalcifier, or de- + calcify.
Senses: hypernyms: demineralize
glosses: To deprive of calcareous matter.
Derived terms: decalcifier
shallower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of shallow: more shallow
declinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklaɪnəbəɫ/
Etymology: From decline + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is obvious that the system in present-day English is radically different, and that the notion of case (i.e. a form or modification of a declinable word) is now of very little significance.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 152:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being declined; of a word, having inflections.
Derived terms: undeclinable
square feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square foot
distributable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distributable
form: most distributable
Etymology: From distribute + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being distributed
Derived terms: distributability
indistributable
nondistributable
undistributable
distributable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distributables
Etymology: From distribute + -able.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Any of the costs that are not directly associated with a specific account.
examples: text: Go to […] to obtain the latest .NET Framework 2.0 version, language packs, and related distributables.
ref: 2008, John Paul Mueller, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 For Dummies, page 36:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software component that can be distributed.
spiritedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spirited + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of a ride I appreciate this horse's stamina, but at the beginning of the ride I could do without his excessive spiritedness.
text: I can't stand her mean-spiritedness. She won't even find time to visit her grandmother in hospital.
glosses: The property of being spirited, of having spirit.
Related terms: high-spiritedness
low-spiritedness
poor-spiritedness
disseverance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disseverances
form: disseveraunce
form: disseueraunce
Senses: glosses: The act of dissevering; separation.
bioaccumulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: bioaccumulations
Etymology: From bio- + accumulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process by which substances accumulate in the tissues of living organisms; used especially of toxic substances that accumulate via a food chain.
Related terms: bioaccumulative
biomagnification
spined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more spined
form: most spined
Etymology: From spine + -ed.
Senses: antonyms: spineless
unspined
unspiny
coordinate_terms: barbed
thorny
glosses: Having spines, spiny.
examples: He's just another linguini-spined politician.
glosses: Having a certain type of spine (backbone).
Derived terms: long-spined bullhead
spined loach
steely-spined
three-spined stickleback
vive la différence
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvivə lɑ ˌdɪfəˈɹɑns/
ipa: /ˌviːv lɑː ˌdɪfəˈɹɒns/
Forms: form: vive la difference
Etymology: Borrowed from French, literally “long live the difference”, from vive (“long live”) + la (“the”) + différence (“difference, diversity”). Although correct and unremarkable French, it is not a stock phrase in French as it is in English.
Senses: examples: ref: 2001 November 1, Sandra Díaz with Marcelo Cabido, “Vive la différence: plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes”, in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, volume 16, number 11, pages 646–655:
glosses: Used to express appreciation of diversity, especially between the sexes; sometimes referring to cultural diversity, and more rarely to diversity of opinion, as in "let's agree to disagree".
Synonyms: long live the difference
apreciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of appreciate.
alterring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of altering.
alterred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of altered.
refering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of referring.
prefering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of preferring.
prefered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of preferred.
Septembrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Septembrizes
form: Septembrizing
form: Septembrized
form: Septembrized
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of septembrize.
skanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skank
skanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skank
skanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæŋks/
rhymes: -æŋks
Senses: glosses: plural of skank
skanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæŋks/
rhymes: -æŋks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skank
russophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Russophobia.
receiving blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receiving blankets
Senses: glosses: A lightweight blanket that is wrapped around or placed under a partially or fully nude baby for warmth and hygiene.
heiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪti/
Forms: form: heitis
form: heiti
Etymology: From Icelandic heiti, from Old Norse heiti, from Old Norse heita (“to be named”), from Proto-Germanic *haitaną (“to call, name, order”). Doublet of hight.
Senses: glosses: A synonym used in Old Norse poetry in place of the normal word for something; a poetic epithet.
Related terms: kenning
diagnosable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diagnosable
form: most diagnosable
Etymology: From diagnos(e) + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be diagnosed; having a cause which can be determined.
Derived terms: diagnosably
undiagnosable
obligingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obligingnesses
Etymology: From obliging + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.
orphanhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphanhoods
Etymology: From orphan + -hood.
 PIE word
 *h₃órbʰos
Senses: glosses: The state of being an orphan; the losing of both parents through their death.
Synonyms: orphancy
orphandom
orphanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orphan + -ity, from Latin orphanitas.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an orphan; orphanhood.
orphanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphanships
Etymology: From orphan + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an orphan.
glosses: The losing of both parents through death.
orphancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orphan + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an orphan.
glosses: The losing of both parents through their death.
Synonyms: orphandom
orphanhood
orphandom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphandoms
Etymology: From orphan + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an orphan.
glosses: The losing of both parents through their death.
Synonyms: orphancy
orphanhood
orphanry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphanries
Etymology: From orphan + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an orphan.
glosses: The losing of both parents through death.
glosses: An institution for the care and protection of orphans; an orphanage.
Synonyms: orphany
orphanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orphan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an orphan.