cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
to-do list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to‐do list
form: to-do lists
Senses: examples: text: Mowing the lawn and chopping the weeds topped his to-do list of chores.
text: Back in his workshop in the barn, Mr. Scheel refined his to-do list: In addition to putting in the slide, he could cross off restoning the quarter-mile driveway, repairing the windmill-powered watering system and building an arbor gate for the vegetable garden .
ref: 2007 September 14, Jill P. Capuzzo, “Between Film Sets, Life on Gossamer Lake”, in New York Times:
text: I want to make that strawman into a steelman, but I eliminated "the pursuit of happiness" from my to-do list so many years ago that I don't even know where I'd begin.
ref: 2012 July 7, Guy Srinivasan, “Wireheading Steelman”, in lw-seattle (Usenet):
text: Meanwhile, the Transport Select Committee published its final report on May 28, suggesting that the next government would "inherit an already long to-do list" - headed by rail reform, but also including clarity around future rail infrastructure investment.
ref: 2024 June 12, Philip Haigh, “Rail reform is the first big test for incoming rail ministers”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 38:
synonyms: agenda
tasklist
worklist
glosses: A list of errands and other tasks – often written on a piece of paper as a memory aid – that one needs or intends to accomplish.
Related terms: bucket list
checklist
laundry list
shopping list
wish list
inbox
grocery list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grocery lists
Senses: examples: text: The man put milk, bread and eggs at the top of his grocery list.
text: Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwiches, gyoza, Krystal hamburgers, horseshoe sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno poppers, kolaches, pastrami sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, pierogi, pizza, pork ribs, pulled pork, poutine, salt potatoes, shrimp, tacos, tamales, turkey and Twinkies.
ref: 2015 July 2, Michael Pearson, “6 things to know about hot dog king Joey Chestnut”, in CNN:
hypernyms: shopping list
glosses: A written or mental list of grocery items one intends to purchase at a supermarket or similar business.
brimful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪmfʊl/
Etymology: From brim + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: So weighty was the cup, / That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: Filled to maximum capacity.
Synonyms: flush
Derived terms: brimfully
brimfulness
overbrimful
brimful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪmfʊl/
Forms: form: brimfuls
Etymology: From brim + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: If the glass is cracked, it cannot contain a brimful of water; and if and only if the water is calm enough, it can reflect the moon in the sky without distortion.
ref: 2001, P. Koslowski, The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 17:
text: As I listened to the words as they were coming out of my mouth, I realized that I sounded like Ozzy Osborne after three brimfuls of Merlot and a handful of Vicodin .
ref: 2012, Thaddeus Hatter, Malice in Wonderland: What Every Law Student Should Have for the Trip, The Fine Print Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The maximum amount a container can hold.
examples: text: Brimful of Asha on the forty-five / Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the forty-five
ref: 1997, Tjinder Singh, “Brimful Of Asha”, performed by Cornershop:
text: Such a suggestion—even a timid one in her own head—would have been met with a brimful of scorn.
ref: 2002, Hayley Ann Solomon, A Scandalous Connection, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large amount.
Islington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪzlɪŋtən/
Senses: glosses: An inner district of north London, England.
glosses: A London borough of Greater London.
glosses: A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Islingtonian
New Islington
adorably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɔɹəbli/
Forms: form: more adorably
form: most adorably
Etymology: From adorable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She always said that preschoolers danced adorably, so it was no wonder that she opened a dance school for them.
glosses: In an adorable manner.
fowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faʊlz/
rhymes: -aʊlz
homophone: fouls
Senses: glosses: plural of fowl
fowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /faʊlz/
rhymes: -aʊlz
homophone: fouls
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fowl
odalisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odalisks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of odalisque.
boudin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːˈdæ̃/
ipa: /ˈbuː.dæ̃/
ipa: /buˈdæ̃/
Forms: form: boudins
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French boudin. Doublet of pudding. Cf. also poutine.
Senses: examples: text: Eurohucksters will find it difficult to wean the sausage lovers of Liége away from their bursting black Belgian boudins and toward Birmingham's humble bangers. Beer hawkers should fare no better.
ref: 1995, Frank Bradley, International Marketing Strategy, Prentice Hall PTR:
text: The principal French boudin competition is held every year at Mortagne-au-Perche in Normandy, attracting hundreds […]
ref: 2002, Alan Davidson, The Penguin Companion to Food, Penguin Group USA, page 98:
text: In general the softer, mousse-like texture of French boudins is the more appropriate in this instance.
ref: 2017, Jonathan Meades, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen: A Lifetime's Culinary Thefts, Unbound Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
glosses: A sausage in southern Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine, made from rice, ground pork (occasionally crawfish), and spices in a sausage casing.
examples: text: Formation of boudins
Although the shape of the greenstone bodies resembles in many ways that of boudins as described elsewhere (Cloos, 1946, 1947; Ramberg, 1955; Jones, 1959), the shape of the greenstone bodies is believed to be ...
ref: 1968, I. M. Stevenson, A Geological Reconnaissance of Leaf River Map-area, New Quebec and Northwest Territories:
text: However, discordant dykes, locally disrupted in boudins, attest to both late dykes and post-crystallization movement of the carbonate rocks. Some of those boudins are interpreted as immiscible silicate blebs in carbonatitic melt […]
ref: 1986, David P. Gold, Carbonatites, Diatremes, and Ultra-alkaline Rocks in the Oka Area, Quebec: May 22-23, 1986:
text: Small bodies of mafic to ultramafic rocks occur as boudins or sills up to 7 km long within the gneiss.
ref: 1994, A. Thomas, Nicholas Culshaw, Kenneth L. Currie, Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of the Lac Ghyvelde-Lac Long Area, Labrador and Quebec:
text: The blocks do not penetrate the leucogneiss foliation that surrounds them, and the result is a single boudin with a composite core.
ref: 1995, Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences:
glosses: A structure formed by boudinage: one or a series of elongated, sausage-shaped section(s) in rock.
Derived terms: boudin blanc
boudin noir
Pitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: Pitts
Senses: glosses: An English topographical surname for someone who lived by, or operated a pit or mine.
glosses: University of Pittsburgh
glosses: A hamlet in Hursley parish, City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4528).
Derived terms: Pitt Avenue
Pitt County
Pitt-Hopkins syndrome
Pitt Island
Pittite
Pitt River
Pittsboro
Pittsburg
Pittsburgh
Pittsfield
Pittsgrove
Pitt's Head
Pittston
Pittstown
Pitt Street
Pittsylvania
Pitt Town
Related terms: Pitts
extended playing time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Once the No. 1 team football built an early 56-0 lead in the game against their weak opponents, the coach - wanting to spare the opponent further embarrassment, to keep his top players from being injured and sensing his own younger players needed experience - decided to give his reserves some well-deserved extended playing time.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In a one-sided sporting contest, when junior varsity players (i.e., second- and third-string players) play a majority of a varsity game.
theisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is for this reason that theisms which, like belief, [are] a notion embodied in Pascal's esprit de finesse or Newman's illative sense.
ref: 1992, Martin Warner, Religion and Philosophy, pages 1–2:
text: There is a multitude of theisms, many understandings of God, even within the same religious tradition.
ref: 2002, Ross Mackenzie, Marcus J. Borg, editors, God at 2000, page 48:
glosses: plural of theism
affordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɔː(ɹ).də.bəl/
ipa: /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/
Forms: form: more affordable
form: most affordable
Etymology: From afford + -able.
Senses: examples: text: an affordable vacation in the local area
text: The bill seeks to make IVF treatment more affordable by mandating coverage for fertility treatments under employer-sponsored insurance and certain public insurance plans.
ref: 2024 June 13, Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, “Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to IVF nationwide”, in CNN:
synonyms: see at inexpensive § Synonyms
antonyms: word: unaffordable
word: expensive
word: affordable
word: attainable
word: bargain
raw_tags: as noun adjunct
word: budget
raw_tags: as noun adjunct
word: cheap
word: discount
raw_tags: as noun adjunct
word: economical
word: econo-
word: inexpensive
word: jitney
word: low-end
word: low-priced
word: nickel
word: value
raw_tags: as noun adjunct
hypernyms: attainable
obtainable
coordinate_terms: semiaffordable
semi-affordable
glosses: Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced.
Derived terms: word: affordable housing
word: affordably
aeronautic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛəɹəˈnɔːtɪk/
Forms: form: more aeronautic
form: most aeronautic
Etymology: From aeronaut + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having to do with aerial navigation
Derived terms: aerobatics
Related terms: aero-
aeronaut
aeronautical
aeronautics
astronautic
-naut
attention whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛn.ʃən ho(ː)ɹ/
Forms: form: attention whores
Senses: glosses: A person who routinely solicits attention through inappropriate tactics and provocation.
Synonyms: attention hog
drama queen
Related terms: credit whore
fame whore
look-at-me
media whore
attention whore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛn.ʃən ho(ː)ɹ/
Forms: form: attention whores
form: attention whoring
form: attention whored
form: attention whored
Senses: examples: text: Her [Ann Coulter’s] toxicity is more about salesmanship than citizenship, more high-decibel attention whoring than true ideology.
ref: 2006 June 20, Ray Richmond, “Peacock's perch gives Coulter place to crow”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
related: word: attention-whore
glosses: To seek attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree.
Related terms: troll
aeronaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəɹəˌnɔːt/
ipa: /ˈɛɹəˌnɔt/
ipa: /ˈɛɹəˌnɑt/
Forms: form: aeronauts
form: aëronaut
Etymology: From aero- + -naut, from the French aéronaute; compare the Italian aeronauta.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, what is it that he does that I don't do? Just say the word, - teetotal, vegetarian, aeronaut, theosophist, superman."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who travels through the air in an airship or balloon.
Derived terms: aeronautism
Related terms: aeronautic
aeronautical
aeronautics
astronaut
aeronauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeronaut
clock watcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clock watchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clock-watcher.
clock-watcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clock-watchers
form: clock watcher
Senses: examples: text: The teacher had a heart-to-heart talk with the student who was a clock-watcher, stressing the importance of putting his mind to his schoolwork.
glosses: A person who is eager for time to pass (e.g., at work or school), especially when faced with an undesirable task.
Related terms: clock-watch
clock-watching
the hell with it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I can't understand these directions to building this doghouse because they're so poorly written. The hell with it!
text: “The hell with it,” the world’s richest man wrote on Twitter. “Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”
ref: 2022 October 15, “‘The hell with it’: Elon Musk says SpaceX will fund Starlink internet in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Forget about it; a disgusted or frustrated dismissal of something.
Yukon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.kɑn/
ipa: /ˈjuː.kɒn/
Etymology: From Gwich'in ųųg han, contraction of chųų gąįį han (“white water river”). See Wikipedia's name section for details.
Senses: glosses: A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Whitehorse.
glosses: A river in northwest Canada and Alaska.
glosses: A city and town in Oklahoma.
Synonyms: sense: territory
word: Yukon Territory
Derived terms: word: Yu
word: Yu.
word: Yk
word: Yk.
word: Yukon-Koyukuk
Yukon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.kɑn/
ipa: /ˈjuː.kɒn/
Forms: form: Yukons
Etymology: From Gwich'in ųųg han, contraction of chųų gąįį han (“white water river”). See Wikipedia's name section for details.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A GMC Yukon automobile.
montant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒntənt/
Forms: form: montants
Etymology: From Italian montante. Doublet of mountant.
Senses: examples: text: HOST: To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An upward cut with a blade
montant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒntənt/
Forms: form: montants
Etymology: From Middle English mountant, from Old French montant.
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: An upright piece in any framework, such as a muntin or stile
examples: text: Instead, let the montant meet your nose just above the rim of the glass.
ref: 2004, Anthony Dias Blue, The Complete Book of Spirits, →ISBN, page 238:
qualifier: drinking
glosses: The first scent of a cognac
montant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒntənt/
Etymology: From Old French montant.
Senses: examples: text: […] as it is usually designated, the 'crescent montant,' has long been a symbol of the Turkish empire, which has thus[…]
ref: 1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, page 178:
text: The eagle montant, to borrow a term from falconry, is understood to typify the mythical phœnix, and may be regarded as alluding to the vicissitudes of that illustrious and ever-resurgent family.[…]
ref: 2018 January 31, R. D. Blackmore, Delphi Complete Works of R. D. Blackmore (Illustrated), Delphi Classics, →ISBN:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Ascending toward the chief of the escutcheon.
worthiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of worthy: most worthy
ye gods
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Seventeenth-century British variant of oh my God, probably intended to avoid blasphemy. Compare Danish I guder.
Senses: examples: text: Ye Gods, what Havock does Ambition make
Among your Works!
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in order to keep out this frost?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 2”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Used to express surprise or incredulity.
Derived terms: egads
ye gods and little fishes
poussin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poussins
Etymology: From French poussin.
Senses: glosses: A chicken reared to be eaten at a few weeks of age.
glosses: A Cornish game hen.
miasmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miasmal
form: most miasmal
Etymology: From miasma + -al.
Senses: examples: text: A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
ref: 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:
glosses: Having a noxious atmosphere.
Related terms: miasma
year-end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His year-end taxes were supposed to be postmarked by December 30.
glosses: On or happening at the end of the year (e.g., late December).
call off the dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls off the dogs
form: calling off the dogs
form: called off the dogs
form: called off the dogs
Senses: glosses: To ease up on after inflicting great punishment.
examples: text: Doing the opponents an obvious favor, the football coach decided to call off the dogs early after his team was up 56-0.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: During a one-sided sports contest, to remove the first-string unit of a team from the game after dominating the opponent.
Achaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And Osias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:9:
glosses: The New Testament form of Ahaz.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
gentiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentile
sporadically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sporadic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Valencia threatened sporadically in the first half with Miguel having a decent effort deflected wide by Ashley Cole, while Jordi Alba's near-post cross was flicked into the sidenetting by Pablo Hernandez.
ref: 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: At an occasional, infrequent, or irregular frequency.
Synonyms: intermittently
discontinuously
kittenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kittenish
form: most kittenish
Etymology: From kitten + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She was kittenish in her manners, wearing generally an air of soft and fluffy innocence.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 48:
text: Sleeping, Myra appeared cuddly, kittenish. Girls, Gordon thought to himself. Girls can really drive you crazy.
ref: 2011, Jeff Dee, Gordon Ryder's Blues, page 165:
synonyms: kitteny
glosses: Having the qualities or likeness of a kitten.
glosses: Playful, sometimes with overtones of female sexuality.
Derived terms: kittenishly
kittenishness
entranced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈtɹɑːnst/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɹænst/
rhymes: -ɑːnst
Forms: form: more entranced
form: most entranced
Etymology: From entrance + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There sate a Spirit in the vault,
In shape, in hue, in lineaments, like life,
And by him couch’d, as if intranced,
The hundred-headed Worm that never dies.
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Placed in a trance.
examples: text: The entranced spectator was cut off from reality as long as the adventure lasted; it was as if he lived a dream yet believed he was awake.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 37:
glosses: Held at attention, as if by magic.
Synonyms: bedazzled
bewitched
fascinated
hypnotized
mesmerized
spellbound
Derived terms: entrancedly
unentranced
entranced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈtɹɑːnst/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɹænst/
rhymes: -ɑːnst
Etymology: From entrance + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entrance
subliminal message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subliminal messages
Senses: glosses: A signal or message embedded in another object, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception.
AIPAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪpæk/
Forms: form: Aipac
Senses: examples: text: Although AIPAC is prohibited from contributing directly to political candidates because of its status as a registered lobby, its reputation as the primary voice for American Jewry on Israel affairs has earned it significant clout in Washington.
ref: 2009, Rafael Medoff, Chaim I. Waxman, The A to Z of Zionism, →ISBN, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2023, page 16:
text: In their new 30-second ad, the J Street group hammers Stevens for accepting AIPAC support – in the form of bundled donations – in a video featuring images of violence at the US Capitol and from a recent hearing of the House select committee investigating it.
ref: 2022 July 12, Gregory Krieg, “Progressive pro-Israel group takes on AIPAC in Michigan Democratic primary fight”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby in the United States.
Derived terms: AIPACer
AIPACism
stereoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌstɛr.i.əˈskɑː.pɪk/
Senses: examples: text: It is remarkable because its three-dimensional world is even more stereoscopic than the real world.
ref: 1970, Roger Manvell, Experiment in the Film, page 162:
glosses: Of or relating to stereoscopy; three-dimensional.
glosses: Of or relating to the stereoscope.
glosses: Designed to be used by both eyes simultaneously, or obtained by imaging from two viewpoints simultaneously.
Derived terms: nonstereoscopic
stereoscopic microscope
stereoscopic vision
stepparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepparents
form: step-parent
Etymology: From step- + parent.
Senses: examples: text: The age at which a stepparent entered a child’s life, and whether they lived together and for how long, influences the quality of the relationship, studies show. […] As parents age, “there’s a lot of negotiation and uncertainties,” Dr. Silverstein said. “Who has the right to make decisions for stepparents becomes murky.”
ref: 2024 March 8, Paula Span, “When Elder Care Is All in the Stepfamily”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: stepchild
glosses: One's parent's spouse who is not one's biological parent.
Derived terms: ex-stepparent
stepparental
unnaturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈnætʃʊɹəli/
Forms: form: more unnaturally
form: most unnaturally
Etymology: From Middle English unnaturelly, equivalent to unnatural + -ly and/or un- + naturally.
Senses: examples: text: Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.
ref: 1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:
text: Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In an unnatural manner; to an unnatural extent.
severed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sever
severed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a severed limb
glosses: Separated, cut off or broken apart.
yaray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The palm tree Sabal causiarum.
routed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.tɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
Etymology: From route + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of route
routed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.tɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
Etymology: From route + -ed.
Senses: glosses: assigned a route
routed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.tɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
ipa: /ˈɹaʊ.tɪd/
rhymes: -aʊtɪd
ipa: /ˈɹuː.tɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
Etymology: From rout + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rout
routed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.tɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
ipa: /ˈɹaʊ.tɪd/
rhymes: -aʊtɪd
ipa: /ˈɹuː.tɪd/
rhymes: -uːtɪd
Etymology: From rout + -ed.
Senses: glosses: decisively beaten or defeated
repairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of repair
repairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repair
refocillate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refocillates
form: refocillating
form: refocillated
form: refocillated
Etymology: From the Latin refocillō, an alternative form of refocilō.
Senses: examples: text: by sinking into it, quoth Paræus, as into so much butter, the nose was comforted, nourish'd, plump'd up, refresh'd, refocillated, and set a growing for ever.
ref: 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 3, Penguin, published 2003, page 211:
text: ‘The works,’ Enderby said, with refocillated energy. ‘Ah, yes.’
ref: 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:
glosses: To revive or refresh.
Related terms: refocillation
salt-effect distillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a technique of extractive distillation in which a salt or a non-volatile liquid is added to the mixture being distilled in order to remove azeotropes and aid separation
Likud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Likud
form: the Likud
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew לִיכּוּד (“Likud”, literally “consolidation”).
Senses: examples: text: The elections did show the expected quite sharp drop in support for the Likud. But Labour’s campaign to attract former Likud supporters failed.
ref: 1984 July 29, Conor Cruise O’Brien, “What the Israeli debate is about”, in The Observer, number 10060, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 6:
text: “For this reason, I decided to resign from my job as a minister and member of Knesset,” Shalom said. He is a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
ref: 2015 December 20, Oren Liebermann, “Silvan Shalom, Israel’s interior minister, quitting amid harassment accusations”, in CNN:
text: The fury of [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s right wing Likud party knew no bounds.
ref: 2019 December 4, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2019:
glosses: A leading rightist political party in Israel.
Related terms: Likudnik
azeotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azeotropes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “no”) + ζέειν (zéein, “to boil”) + τρόπος (trópos, “state”).
Senses: examples: text: The formation of azeotropes due to deviations from Raoult's law was discussed in Section 1.3. An azeotrope is a mixture that, at a given pressure (the azeotropic pressure), boils at a constant temperature (the azeotropic temperature), and has the same composition (the azeotropic composition) in the equilibrium vapor and liquid phases. Homogeneous azeotropes are those that form one liquid phase at equilibrium with the vapor; heterogeneous azeotropes are those that form two liquid phases at equilibrium with each other and the vapor.
ref: 1999, Fouad M. Khoury, Predicting the Performance of Multistage Separation Processes, 2nd edition, page 289:
text: When a ternary azeotrope does exist, the curves intersect at the same point.
The presence of a unitary azeotrope curve is not a prerequisite for the generation of a ternary azeotrope.
ref: 1999, Cornel Hagiopol, Copolymerization: Toward a Systematic Approach, page 118:
text: As the boiling point of HCl–H₂O azeotrope is lower than that of azeotrope (HNO₃–H₂O), hydrochloric acid can be eliminated efficiently by successive evaporations with nitric acid.
ref: 2006, Marc Pansu, Jacques Gautheyrou, Handbook of Soil Analysis: Mineralogical, Organic and Inorganic Methods, page 903:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A mixture of two or more substances whose liquid and gaseous forms have the same composition (at a certain pressure); the substances cannot be separated by normal distillation.
Derived terms: heteroazeotrope
Related terms: azeotropic
azeotropy
zeotrope
azeotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: azeotropes
form: azeotroping
form: azeotroped
form: azeotroped
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “no”) + ζέειν (zéein, “to boil”) + τρόπος (trópos, “state”).
Senses: glosses: To create a mixture of this kind.
Related terms: eutectic
extractive distillation
salt-effect distillation
salt gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt glands
Senses: glosses: a specialized gland, located near the eyes or nose of certain marine animals that secretes a liquid having a high salt content; it enables the animal to drink seawater without having to eliminate the excess salt through the kidneys
sand dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand dollars
Senses: examples: text: In the sand dollars, the arrangement of the food grooves and consequently the lateral water vessels and their accessory tube feet is more complex (Phelan 1977).
ref: 1987, John M. Lawrence, chapter I, in A Functional Biology of Echinoderms, page 75:
text: Adult echinoderms have a five-part body plan corresponding to the arms of a sea star or the design on the "shell" of a sand dollar.
ref: 2000, Sandra Alters, chapter I, in Biology: Understanding Life, page 692:
text: If you look carefully, a sand dollar is merely a sea urchin in flattened form.
ref: 2001, Jennifer Hahn, Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage, published 2009, page 135:
synonyms: clypeasteroid
sand cookie
sea cookie
glosses: Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida, having a flat, disk-shaped body with the mouth in a mid-ventral position, and living in sand, on or near the surface.
Derived terms: Bahamian sand dollar
eccentric sand dollar
keyhole sand dollar
sapropel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsapɹə(ʊ)pɛl/
Forms: form: sapropels
Etymology: From German Sapropel, corresponding to sapro- + Ancient Greek πηλός (pēlós, “mud, clay”).
Senses: examples: text: Another instance in which Mediterranean sapropels have provided clues about events deep within the African continent is the ‘greening’ of the Sahara about 120,000 years ago.
ref: 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 47:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An aquatic sludge-like sediment rich in organic matter formed in oxygen-free areas at the bottom of lakes, seas etc.
Derived terms: sapropelic
organic matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The residues of dead plants and animals in various stages of decomposition
Hyponyms: biomass
compost and most mulches
humus and humic acids
Related terms: organic farming
vanpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanpools
Etymology: From van + pool.
Senses: glosses: The transport of a pool of commuters in a shared van.
vanpool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vanpools
form: vanpooling
form: vanpooled
form: vanpooled
Etymology: From van + pool.
Senses: glosses: To transport people in a vanpool.
glosses: To be transported in a vanpool.
ridesharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ride + sharing economy.
Senses: synonyms: ridehailing
glosses: A form of commercial transportation in which, through social media, clients call a driver who privately owns his vehicle, and proceed in their trip as passengers.
ridesharing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ride + sharing economy.
Senses: glosses: present participle of rideshare
Related terms: carpooling
shared taxi
vanpooling
e-hail
Knesset
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛs.ət/
ipa: /kəˈnɛs.ɛt/
note: Hebraized
ipa: /ˈknɛs-/
ipa: /ˈnɛs-/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כְּנֶסֶת (k'néset, literally “assembly”).
Senses: examples: text: Shalom has been a member of Knesset since 1992, serving in a number of different ministries, including science and technology, finance, foreign affairs, and most recently, the interior.
ref: 2015 December 20, Oren Liebermann, “Silvan Shalom, Israel’s interior minister, quitting amid harassment accusations”, in CNN:
text: On Tuesday, a month since they were abducted, families of those kidnapped are expected to protest at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism, as well as at the Knesset, over what they say are inadequate efforts to reach a deal with Hamas to release their loved ones.
ref: 2023 November 6, Peter Beaumont, Bethan McKernan, “Israeli troops encircle Gaza City and expected to enter in force within 48 hours”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The Israeli parliament, located in Jerusalem.
sarsaparilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɑːspəˈɹɪlə/
ipa: /ˌsaspəˈɹɪlə/
ipa: /ˌsæspəˈɹɪlə/
Forms: form: sarsaparillas
form: sarsparilla
form: sasaparilla
form: sasparilla
Etymology: From Spanish zarzaparrilla. The first element may ultimately derive from Basque; see Spanish zarza (“blackberry bush”) for more. The usual pronunciation of the first part of the word as /sæsp-/ or /sɑːsp-/ may be due to dissimilatory loss of the first of two r sounds (compare governor /ˈɡʌvənɚ/ and February /ˈfɛb.juˌɛɹi/). Occasionally this word is pronounced with a schwa between the s and the p, or without a schwa between the p and the r.
Senses: glosses: Any of various tropical (Central and South) American vines of the genus Smilax, such as Smilax aspera, which have fragrant roots.
glosses: Dried roots of these plants, or a flavoring material extracted from these roots.
examples: text: “[…]If Cassidy goes around shooting their fingers off, how are they going to lift their sarsaparilla?” “Rustlers don't drink sarsaparilla,” came the reply, ending the conversation and throwing me back inside my twenty-yard line.
ref: 1951, John Lardner, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women, page 4:
text: Many root teas taste delightful and the old American drink, sarsaparilla, was made on the lines of a decoction, while its pleasant taste was known by most of Victorian Britain.
ref: 1985, Jill Davies, A Garden of Miracles, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Say, friend, you got any more of that good sarsaparilla?
ref: 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Stranger (Sam Elliott):
glosses: A beverage (soft drink) flavored with this root, such as root beer.
glosses: Any of several North American plants, of the genus Aralia, having umbels and small white flowers.
glosses: An American vine of species Nephroia diversifolia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aralia hispida
word: bristly sarsaparilla
taxonomic: Hardenbergia violacea
word: false sarsaparilla
taxonomic: Smilax ornata
word: Honduran sarsaparilla
taxonomic: Hemidesmus indicus
word: Indian sarsaparilla
taxonomic: Smilax ornata
word: Jamaican sarsaparilla
taxonomic: Smilax aristolochiifolia
word: Mexican sarsaparilla
word: native sarsaparilla
word: Para sarsaparilla
taxonomic: Alphitonia spp.
word: sarsaparilla tree
taxonomic: Smilax glyciphylla
word: sweet sarsaparilla
taxonomic: Aralia nudicaulis
word: Virginia sarsaparilla wild sarsaparilla
Related terms: sense: botanical ingredients of root beer
word: sassafras
sasparilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sasparillas
Etymology: Non-rhotic pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sarsaparilla.
sulfuretum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfuretums
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulphuretum.
debitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debitors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin debitor, equivalent to debit + -or. Doublet of debtor.
Senses: glosses: A debtor
Related terms: debit
sulphuretum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphuretums
Senses: glosses: An ecosystem in which bacteria convert sulfur into different chemical forms (sulfate, sulfide etc.), often in a cyclic manner.
sulphuriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sulphur + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfuriferous.
sulfuriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more sulfuriferous
form: most sulfuriferous
Etymology: From sulfur + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Containing or yielding sulfur.
sulfurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulphurity.
sulphurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphurities
Etymology: From sulphur + -ity.
Senses: glosses: the relative amount of sulphur in a substance
sulfur ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur ores
Senses: glosses: any ore containing elemental sulfur, or a sulfide from which it may be obtained
sulfur parakeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur parakeets
Etymology: From the bright yellow sulfur-like colour of some specimens.
Senses: glosses: The ring-necked parakeet, Psittacula krameri
Related terms: sulphur-breasted parakeet
sulfur-breasted parakeet
sulphur-winged parakeet
sulfur-winged parakeet
sulfur pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur pearls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulphur pearl.
conjuror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjurors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of conjurer.
topics: law
synonyms: conjurator
glosses: One bound by a common oath with others.
sulfur print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur prints
Senses: glosses: A technique used to examine the surface of a metal for sulfide inclusions
powwow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powwows
form: pow wow
form: pow-wow
form: pau wau
Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian language, probably Massachusett pauwau (“he uses divination; he practices magic or sorcery”) or Narragansett powwáw (“sorcerer, shaman”), ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *pawe·wa (“one who dreams”).
Senses: glosses: A ritual conducted by a Native American shaman.
glosses: A Native American shaman.
glosses: A Native American council or meeting.
examples: text: While the powwow was going on the big woman came back again. She was consider'ble rumpled and scratched up, but there was fire in her eye.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A short, private conference.
examples: text: On the way out, Octavio handed me a flyer for the powwow that listed the prize money in each dance category.
ref: 2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 24:
glosses: A large gathering during which Indigenous songs and dances are showcased for an audience, essentially a recital or concert. Often also doubles as a fundraiser, or can be held in conjunction with a non-indigenous fair or exhibition in order to attract a large crowd, as at the Calgary Stampede and K-Days.
glosses: A tradition of folk magic practiced by the Pennsylvania Dutch.
powwow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powwows
form: powwowing
form: powwowed
form: powwowed
form: pow wow
form: pow-wow
form: pau wau
Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian language, probably Massachusett pauwau (“he uses divination; he practices magic or sorcery”) or Narragansett powwáw (“sorcerer, shaman”), ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *pawe·wa (“one who dreams”).
Senses: examples: text: [The] Indians saw everything that happened and powwowed all night, needing more than anything else the presence of Tecumseh. The most aggressive element was the Winnebagos, who insisted on attacking.
ref: 2005, Glen Tucker, Tecumseh: A Vision of Glory, page 224:
glosses: To hold a meeting; to gather together in council.
raw_tags: of Native Americans
examples: text: Maybe no one— except possibly Leah— powwowed anymore.
ref: 2007, David W. Kriebel, Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch, page 10:
qualifier: such as the Pennsylvania Dutch
glosses: To conduct a ritual in which magic is used.
raw_tags: of Native Americans and by extension other groups
glosses: To hold a private conference.
Derived terms: powwower
sulfur pyrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the mineral pyrite
sulfur rain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rain that has a pale yellow colour caused by impurities picked up by the falling raindrops.
Related terms: sulfur shower
unretentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unretentive
form: most unretentive
Etymology: From un- + retentive.
Senses: glosses: Not retentive
Synonyms: forgetful
sulfur salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: salt with about 3% added sulfur; supplied in blocks as a feed supplement for cattle and sheep
sulfur shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur showers
Senses: glosses: A shower bath using sulfurous water, especially as part of a curative therapy.
glosses: A fall of sulfur rain.
sulfur soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur soaps
Senses: glosses: A soap containing up to 10% added sulfur, used as an antiseptic or antifungal treatment.
sulfur spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur springs
form: sulphur spring
Senses: glosses: a spring of naturally sulfurous water, often of volcanic origin and therefore hot
jesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
Forms: form: jestings
Senses: examples: text: Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.
ref: 1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC:
text: What an extraordinary mental delusion jesting is; that sort of laboured vivacity which fancies it is pointed when it is only personal; and more extraordinary still, it is always the resource of stupid people.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: joking
glosses: bantering; ridicule
glosses: mocking
jesting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
Forms: form: more jesting
form: most jesting
Senses: glosses: facetious
examples: text: He will find that these are no jesting matters.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: humorous
glosses: playful; mocking
glosses: jeering
Derived terms: jestingly
unjesting
jesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jest
Related terms: jesting-stock
bantering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banterings
Senses: examples: text: Her smiles were distributed among the tourists, and she learned to give keen answers to their good-humored banterings.
ref: 1889, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Two Runaways and Other Stories:
glosses: teasing
glosses: joking; jesting
bantering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of banter
bantering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bantering
form: most bantering
Senses: glosses: That teases
Derived terms: banteringly
sulfur tuft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur tufts
form: sulphur tuft
Senses: examples: text: The fasciculol poisons in the sulfur tuft damage the stomach and intestines, causing vomiting and diarrhea.
ref: 2009, Steve Parker, Molds, Mushrooms & Other Fungi, page 33:
text: Finally, the mass appearance of fungi species such as sticky buns (Suillus luteus), sulfur tufts (Hypholoma fasciculare) or, slightly later, chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) and porcinis (Boletus edulis) would not be possible (Figure 6).
ref: 2010, Jan Szyszko, “Forest Policies, Carbon Sequestration and Biodiversity Protection”, in R. Ragaini, editor, International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies: 42nd Session, page 72:
text: The sulfur tuft [Hypholoma fasciculare (Huds.) P. Kumm.] has been associated with mushroom poisoning,^(8,9) but the toxic constituents have not been identified.
ref: 2012, Donald G. Barceloux, Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances, unnumbered page:
glosses: A yellow poisonous mushroom, Hypholoma fasciculare (= Naematoloma fasciculare).
sulfur weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sulphurwort
sulfur works
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An array of geothermal vents in the Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
sulfur yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur yellows
Senses: glosses: A yellow colour similar to that of the element sulfur.
sulphury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sulphury
form: most sulphury
Etymology: From sulphur + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfury.
sulfury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sulfury
form: most sulfury
Etymology: From sulfur + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having a colour similar to that of sulfur.
glosses: Having a smell similar to that of sulfur compounds.
sulphuryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphuryls
Etymology: From sulphur + -yl.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfuryl.
Derived terms: sulphuryl bromide
sulphuryl chloride
sulphuryl fluoride
sulphuryl iodide