cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
septation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septations
Senses: glosses: The division of a cavity by means of a partition.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The development of a septum.
siboglinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siboglinids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any polychaete annelid worm of the family Siboglinidae.
siboglinid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siboglinid
form: most siboglinid
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these creatures
speciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speciates
form: speciating
form: speciated
form: speciated
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: To form new biological species by the division of an existing one
Related terms: speciation
subcell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcells
Etymology: From sub- + cell.
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of a cell.
subcomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcomplexes
Etymology: From sub- + complex.
Senses: glosses: Any structure that is a subdivision of a larger complex.
subgingival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: more subgingival
form: most subgingival
Etymology: From sub- + gingival.
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, the more subgingival the restorative margin, the more tooth is reduced.
ref: 2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry, page 13:
glosses: Beneath the gumline (gingival margin).
Related terms: periodontal
Lambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæmˌboʊ/
ipa: /ˈlæmˌbəʊ/
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: Lambos
Etymology: From Clipping of Lamborghini + -o.
Senses: examples: text: It isn't as fast as the Porsche either, despite being £33,000 more expensive. And yet the Lambo grabs you by the heart and the Porsche just doesn't.
ref: 2006, Jeremy Clarkson, Driven to Distraction, Michael Joseph, part 1, chapter 20, "It's the best, but there's a big catch: Porsche 911 Turbo"
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Diminutive of Lamborghini (“a Lamborghini car”).
Derived terms: Lambo door
Rambo Lambo
sulfohemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfohemoglobins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfhemoglobin.
sulfhemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfhemoglobins
Etymology: From sulfo- + hemoglobin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of derivatives of hemoglobin, often in the presence of ferrihemoglobin, that are incapable of transporting oxygen.
superextensile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superextensile
form: most superextensile
Etymology: From super- + extensile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the feet of some molluscs that can be extended to form burrows
syncytial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˈsɪtɪəl/
ipa: /sɪnˈsɪʃəl/
Forms: form: more syncytial
form: most syncytial
Etymology: From syncyti(um) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The epithelium, however, in many regions has a more syncytial appearance due to loss of cell boundaries.
ref: 1906, Robert T. Frank, “Chorionepitheliomatous Proliferation in Teratomata”, in George H. Simmons, editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 46, American Medical Association, page 254:
text: In more syncytial areas, tumour cells have plump cell bodies and rounded nuclei, which may show deep invaginations.
ref: 1986, Timothy H. Moss, Tumours of the Nervous System, Springer, page 85:
text: The cytoplasmic borders of intermediate cells are sometimes sharply demarcated, notably so in areas where cells are less cohesive; however, often the cells have a more syncytial arrangement in which individual borders can be appreciated only with difficulty.
ref: 2013, Nisheet Anant Agni, Rajiv Mukund Borle, Salivary Gland Pathologies, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, page 135:
text: The vaccine would be the first to protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., which is the reason many infants are admitted to children’s hospitals each year and kills several hundred under 5 each year.
ref: 2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 May 2023:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a syncytium.
examples: text: The natural death of a single member is perceived as a collective catastrophe; a maiming would is inflected on the body of all members of the group who are not willing to be separated from him, but fear being dragged to death with him. The syncytial group both denies and works through death in their own way: it transforms death, from a natural and individual event passively endured, into a collective and cultural event controlled by ritual.
ref: 2012, Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg, Politics and Psychology: Contemporary Psychodynamic Perspectives:
text: It was a process that had begun in ancient times, with the institution of the sacred king/double of the people in a social body which was much more syncytial (and therefore more exposed to self-destruction) than the one represented by the consciousness of the Tudor age.
ref: 2018, Domenico A. Nesci, Revisiting Jonestown, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 57:
text: This corresponds to the Dionysian model, in which experience is syncretic and ambiguous, communication is immediate, relationship is fusional, sociability is syncytial and participative (see endnote 3), and mental processes are nonrepresentational, but simply experiential.
ref: 2018, Earl Hopper, Haim Weinberg, The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies:
glosses: Characterized by interdependence and a sense of mutual identity.
Synonyms: syncytical
Derived terms: alt: RSV
word: respiratory syncytial virus
word: syncytiality
word: syncytialization
word: syncytialized
word: syncytially
Related terms: multinuclear
multinucleate
polynuclear
polynucleate
destripes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destripe
destripe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destripes
form: destriping
form: destriped
form: destriped
Etymology: From de- + stripe.
Senses: glosses: To remove stripes from.
Derived terms: destriper
fogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogash
Senses: glosses: A Hungarian food fish, similar to pike or zander.
high ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high grounds
form: highground
Etymology: From high + ground.
Senses: examples: text: President George W. Bush had once again outmaneuvered them by taking the national-security high ground in an election year.
ref: 2006 September 27, Mike Allen, “Why the Fight Over Intelligence May Be a Wash”, in Time, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2008:
glosses: A position of advantage or superiority in a conflict or competition.
examples: text: The trail passes along on high ground—say a thousand feet above sea level.
ref: 1872, Mark Twain, chapter 69, in Roughing It:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, ground.
Hypernyms: sense: ground
word: 1
Related terms: moral high ground
Atayal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22. About an hour later we landed (which is really the only appropriate verb) in the village of Cingcyuan, an Atayal aboriginal community.[…]
That being said, the Atayal of Cingcyuan are among the friendliest people I have met. I wandered through the village market and bought a homemade spicy sausage from a woman tending a barbecue.[…]
“They are very innocent people,” said Yen Yen “And very generous.” I agreed, wondering when I could come back to Cingcyuan.
ref: 2011 April 28, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024:
glosses: An Austronesian people of Taiwan.
Atayal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Austronesian language, which uses the Latin alphabet.
moral high ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɔɹəl ˈhaɪ ɡɹaʊnd/
Forms: form: moral high grounds
Senses: examples: text: Her legitimacy (as the leader of the party that won the 1990 general election), integrity and stoic acceptance of house arrest enable her to occupy the moral high ground.
ref: 2002 May 6, Robert Horn, “The Next Face-Off”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2010:
text: Sara Jacobs, a California Democrat on the House armed services committee, said the US should not “cede the moral high ground”.
ref: 2023 July 8, Sara Jacobs, quotee, “Biden approves cluster bombs for Ukraine”, in FT Weekend, page 4:
glosses: A position or point of view which is ethically superior or more reputable, in comparison to others which are under consideration.
Related terms: high ground
tip the scales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tips the scales
form: tipping the scales
form: tipped the scales
form: tipped the scales
form: tip the scale
Senses: examples: text: "But an uprising in the central provinces would tip the scales for us!" exclaimed Conan.
ref: 1935-1936, Robert E. Howard, The Hour of the Dragon:
text: That lends further credence to the argument that continuing to use diesel in low and limited circumstances makes sense. Unless, of course, we use so little across the country that it becomes rare and expensive. That might tip the scales against it, but I can't see that happening any time soon.
ref: 2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “German study puts hydrogen at the back of the queue”, in RAIL, number 970, page 51:
glosses: To turn to one side of a balanced situation.
Synonyms: turn the scale
Derived terms: tip the scales at
Related terms: thumb on the scale
glassier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of glassy: more glassy
glassiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Every time there's a major technological outage, […] speculation quickly erupts blaming a possible cyberattack. […] mostly, the sentiment of cyber observers is that it's a bad idea to jump to conclusions, especially publicly. ¶ "If we keep crying wolf, then we lose the ability to educate and solve real problems," Bryson Bort, founder of the cybersecurity company Scythe, told me. "We live in the glassiest house in the world with our reliance on information systems."
ref: 2023 January 12, Tim Starks, with Aaron Schaffer, “Don't panic. It might not be a cyberattack. The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter.”, in Washington Post, retrieved 12 Jan 2023:
glosses: superlative form of glassy: most glassy
molimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molimo
burra-khana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burra-khanas
form: burra khana
Etymology: From Hindi बड़ा खाना (baṛā khānā, “big dinner”), from बड़ा (baṛā, “big”) + खाना (khānā, “food, dinner”).
Senses: examples: text: I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delane's burra-khana.
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. Part II.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass.; London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 18:
text: ‘Wasn't a man in town who could put on a burra-khana like he did.’
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 47:
glosses: A great entertainment or feast.
Related terms: Burra Din
khana
grilled cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grilled cheeses
Etymology: The syntax around the term's usage supports the idea that it originated as an ellipsis of grilled cheese sandwich.
Senses: examples: text: I'll have a grilled cheese and a bowl of tomato soup, please.
text: —Do you like grilled cheese? —I love grilled cheese! Especially with bacon and tomato!
text: Third, when you go to lunch today, instead of ordering a steak, ask for a grilled cheese.
ref: 1970, “Time”, in Time Inc., volume 96, numbers 1-9, page 43:
text: A man of impeccable class, he also buys ready-made suits on sale and would as soon have grilled cheese and iced tea as coq au vin.
ref: 1973 September, Anne Crawford and Jack Keever, “John Connally Between the Acts”, in Texas Monthly, ISSN 0148-7736, Volume 1, Issue 8 (September, 1973), page 44
text: We sat out among the sidewalk tables, and I had a grilled cheese with bacon.
ref: a. 2000, C. Bard Cole, “Young Hemingways”, in Briefly told lives, Macmillan, published 2000, →ISBN, page 120:
text: I passed on the healthy stuff and had a grilled cheese.
ref: 2001, Terry Bisson, The Pickup Artist, Macmillan, published 2002, →ISBN, page 23:
text: Stewie: Does anybody wanna buy my shirt? [pause] I'll trade you my shirt for a grilled cheese!
ref: 2008 March 2, Danny Smith, “Play It Again”, in Family Guy, season 6 episode 10, 14:44-14:50:
text: He lunched on grilled cheese in Toronto and sashimi in Tokyo and had the chance to stick his finger in a true-to-life Dutch dike in Almere, Holland.
ref: 2009 December, in Dwell, ISSN 1530-5309, Volume 10, Number 2 (December 2009/January 2010), page 28
hypernyms: sandwich
glosses: A cheese sandwich typically toasted or fried in butter.
Synonyms: sense: grilled cheese sandwich
word: cheese toastie
sense: grilled cheese sandwich
word: snackwich
sense: grilled cheese sandwich
word: grilled cheese sandwich
sense: grilled cheese sandwich
word: toasted cheese
promoved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of promove
raiyat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪət/
Forms: form: raiyats
form: raiyat
form: raiat
form: ryot
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu رَعِیَّت (ra'iyat, “peasant”), from Classical Persian رعیت (ra'iyyat, “peasants; population”), from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya, “flock, herd”).
Senses: examples: text: In Ireland Paddy makes riots, in Bengal raiyats make paddy; and in this lies the difference between the paddy of green Bengal and Paddy of the Emerald Isle.
ref: 1874, Lál Behári Day, Govinda Sámanta, or the history of a Bengal Ráiyat:
text: They are simply the rank-and-file—the food for fever—sharing with the ryot and the plough-bullock the honor of being the plinth on which the State rests.
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. Part II.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass.; London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: A peasant or agricultural labourer in South Asia.
haramzada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haramzadas
form: haramzadeh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani حرام زادہ / हरामज़ादा (harāmzādā), from Classical Persian حرامزاده (harām-zāda).
Senses: examples: text: He had told her, too, how, sick and shaken with the fever their negligence had bred, crippled by the loss of his pet clerk, and savagely angry at the desolation in his charge, he had once damned the collective eyes of his "intelligent local board" for a set of haramzadas.
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. Part II.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass.; London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: A bastard.
envolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envolve
remorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remord
intake manifolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intake manifold
cascado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cascados
form: cascadoes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cascade.
cascaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cascarons
form: cascarón
Etymology: From Spanish cascarón (“eggshell”).
Senses: glosses: An eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc, chiefly in Mexico and the southwestern US.
septillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septillion + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a multiple of one septillion; by a septillion times as much or as many.
septillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From septillion + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of one septillion.
Related terms: thousandfold
millionfold
billionfold
trillionfold
quadrillionfold
quintillion
sextillionfold
sextillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sextillion + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a multiple of one sextillion; by a sextillion times as much or as many.
sextillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sextillion + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of one sextillion.
Related terms: thousandfold
millionfold
billionfold
trillionfold
quadrillionfold
septillionfold
googolfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːɡəlfoʊld/
Etymology: From googol + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: There are people out there cornerning the market on these things hoping ol' Ty will retire them and somehow disappear from the face of the earth - thereby increasing their value a googolfold.
ref: 1999 November 6, chance wolf, “Re: Animefantastique Ends Publication”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), retrieved 10 Dec 2014:
text: To get the intensity of the light travelling the loop we must combine the contributions from photons circling it once, twice, thrice, fourfold, ..., a googolfold […]
ref: 2004 January 19, Robert Shaw, “Re: Interesting non-FTL interstellar settings?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 10 Dec 2014:
text: The situation is about to get a googol-
fold worse.
ref: 2009, Joel Marks, Ought Implies Kant, page 39:
glosses: By a factor of one googol.
Related terms: hundredfold
thousandfold
millionfold
billionfold
trillionfold
quadrillionfold
quintillionfold
sextillionfold
septillionfold
octillionfold
octillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octillion + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a multiple of one octillion; by an octillion times as much or as many.
octillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From octillion + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of one octillion.
Related terms: thousandfold
millionfold
billionfold
trillionfold
quadrillionfold
quintillionfold
sextillionfold
septillionfold
indicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indica
exahertz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exahertz
Etymology: From exa- + hertz.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measurement based on one quintillion hertz.
glosses: One quintillion hertz, 10¹⁸ Hz.
Related terms: megahertz
gigahertz
terahertz
petahertz
petahertz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petahertz
Etymology: From peta- + hertz.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of frequency equal to 10¹⁵ hertz.
Derived terms: word: PHz
yottahertz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yottahertz
Etymology: From yotta- + hertz.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measurement based on one septillion hertz.
glosses: One quadrillion hertz, 10²⁴ Hz.
Related terms: kilohertz
megahertz
gigahertz
terahertz
petahertz
exahertz
zettahertz
zettahertz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zetta- + hertz.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of frequency equal to 10²¹ hertz.
Synonyms: ZHz
infinityfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infinity + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a multiple of infinity; by infinity times as much or as many.
infinityfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From infinity + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of infinity.
Related terms: fewfold
severalfold
manyfold
fewfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From few + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a multiple of a few; by a few times as much or as many.
fewfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From few + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of a few.
severalfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From several + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By several times.
severalfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From several + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of several.
superdeluxe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdeluxe
form: most superdeluxe
Etymology: From super- + deluxe.
Senses: glosses: Very fine in quality; luxurious.
Related terms: deluxe
new school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new schools
form: newschool
form: new-school
form: new skool
form: newskool
Senses: examples: text: Don't tell me that you understand until you hear the man / The book of the new school rap game / Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane
ref: 1988, “Don't Believe the Hype”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy:
text: That means I fly rough early, plus, I know Tae Bo / That means I'm new-school, pop pills and stay in beef
ref: 2001, “Girls, Girls, Girls”, in The Blueprint, performed by JAY-Z:
antonyms: old school
glosses: A style, way of thinking, or method for accomplishing a task that is typical of the current era, as opposed to former eras.
new school
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more new school
form: most new school
form: newschool
form: new-school
form: new skool
form: newskool
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a new school style, way of thinking, or method.
ultraphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + physical.
Senses: glosses: extremely physical.
ultrathin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + thin.
Senses: examples: text: When you build your esteem on the media's ultrathin, superslim image, you are going to lose by comparison.
ref: 2001, Charles R Gerber, Christ-Centered Self-Esteem:
text: Planar metamaterials with subwavelength thickness, or metasurfaces, consisting of single-layer or few-layer stacks of planar structures, can be readily fabricated using lithography and nanoprinting methods, and the ultrathin thickness in the wave propagation direction can greatly suppress the undesirable losses.
ref: 2016, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J Taylor, Nanfang Yu, “A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications”, in arXiv:
glosses: Extremely thin; of utmost thinness.
nutriceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nutriceutical
form: most nutriceutical
Etymology: Blend of nutritional + pharmaceutical.
Senses: examples: text: The team, along with consulting pharmacists and nutriceutical formulators, have developed, through a series of trials with actual medicinal marijuana patients, a way for anyone, anywhere, to make their own THC capsules.
glosses: Both nutritionally and pharmaceutically beneficial.
nutriceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutriceuticals
Etymology: Blend of nutritional + pharmaceutical.
Senses: glosses: A nutritious pharmaceutical.
witchetty grub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchetty grubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of witchety grub.
nativity play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nativity plays
Senses: examples: text: Her most significant role to date had been as a sheep in the school nativity play.
ref: 2008 October 4, Kevin Maher, “Dakota Blue Richards has become a girl in 10,000”, in TimesOnline, UK, retrieved 14 Oct 2008:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A dramatic depiction of the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, commonly performed by children in churches and in Christian schools during the Christmas season.
Related terms: nativity scene
mystery play
passion play
witchety grub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchety grubs
form: witchetty grub
form: witjuti grub
Etymology: From witchety + grub, a partial calque of some Pama-Nyungan language (compare Arabana mako witjuti (“witchety grub”, from mako (“grub”) + witjuti (“witchety bush”))).
Senses: examples: text: I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.
ref: 2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33:
glosses: The large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths and beetles, especially the species Endoxyla leucomochla, traditionally eaten by Aboriginals in the Australian desert.
wikipedia: witchety bush
supercolossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəɹˈkəˈlɒsəl/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Forms: form: more supercolossal
form: most supercolossal
form: super-colossal
Etymology: From super- + colossal.
Senses: glosses: Exceedingly large.
glosses: Grander than or beyond colossal.
absentee ballots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absentee ballot
wallyball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallyballs
Etymology: Invented by Joe Garcia in 1979, from wall and volleyball.
Senses: glosses: A fast-paced sport, a version of volleyball played in a racquetball court, where it is legal to hit the ball off of the walls.
glosses: The ball used in this sport.
Synonyms: rebound volleyball
rebound volleyball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wallyball.
synonyms: word: wallyball
bish bash bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: bish-bash-bosh
Etymology: Expressive retriplication of bosh.
Senses: examples: text: Throw in a love story early on and you're laughing. Write it up as a novel and, bish-bash-bosh, you've got the next Captain Corelli.
ref: 2001 June 1, Gareth McLean, “I like your altitude”, in The Guardian:
text: So infectious was Jamie’s trademark bish bash bosh enthusiasm that it may actually have been counterproductive.
ref: 2007 August 8, Gerard O'Donovan, “Last night on television”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 14 Oct 2008:
synonyms: bada bing bada boom
bingo bango
;
more at bosh
glosses: Indicating the completion of a task with efficiency.
Related terms: easy peasy
no fuss, no muss
DTV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DTVs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: digital television broadcast
Derived terms: DTV signal
DTV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of direct-to-video.
Related terms: DTTV
SDTV
HDTV
HD
SD
DVB
DBS
DTH
ATSC
hard disk drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard disk drives
form: HDD
form: hard disc drive
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hard drive or hard disk; a fixed disc drive containing rigid disks.
Synonyms: hard disc
hard disk
hard drive
fixed disc
fixed disk
fixed drive
fixed disc drive
fixed disk drive
Related terms: disc drive
disk drive
floppy disk drive
floppy drive
optical disc drive
optical disk drive
optical drive
rejoyce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rejoyces
form: rejoycing
form: rejoyced
form: rejoyced
Senses: examples: text: […] we were driven a little to the Eaſt of the Molucca Iſlands, and about three Degrees Northward of the Line, as our Captain found by an Obſervation he took the 2d of May, at which time the Wind ceaſed, and it was a perfect Calm, whereat I was not a little rejoyced.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 150–151:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of rejoice.
floppy disk drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floppy disk drives
form: floppy disc drive
form: FDD
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A floppy drive; a disk drive for floppy disks.
Synonyms: word: floppy diskette drive
word: floppy drive
word: diskette drive
word: FDD
word: FD
Related terms: disk drive
disc drive
hard disk drive
optical disc drive
PVR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PVRs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of personal video recorder.
qualifier: public transport
glosses: Initialism of peak vehicle requirement.
qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: Initialism of peak-to-valley ratio.
glosses: Initialism of plant variety rights.
Synonyms: sense: personal video recorder
word: DVR
digital video recorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital video recorders
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: a personal video recorder
Synonyms: word: personal video recorder
word: PVR
word: DVR
disk drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disk drives
form: disc drive
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer drive that reads disks.
Synonyms: drive
Derived terms: diskette drive
floppy disk drive
floppy drive
hard disk drive
hard drive
optical disc drive
optical drive
Related terms: card drive
cartridge drive
cassette drive
drum drive
flash drive
flashcard drive
tape drive
fabricas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabrica
moxibustions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moxibustion
moxas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moxa
metaboles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metabole
wheelsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelset
mascaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæskəˌɹɒn/
Forms: form: mascarons
Etymology: From French, from Italian mascherone.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A carved, ornamental face, either human-like or grotesque, whose alleged function was originally to frighten away evil spirits so that they would not enter the building.
nuclides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclide
nitrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrite
discases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discase
discase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discases
form: discasing
form: discased
form: discased
Etymology: From dis- + case.
Senses: examples: text: I will discase me, and myself present,
As I was sometime Milan.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: To strip; to undress (remove cclothes)
examples: text: discasing the hearts of all the families within their sphere of influence
ref: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
glosses: To remove; to lay bare
Neapolitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neapolitan
nematocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nematocyst
nightlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightlight
normalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of normalize
nymphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nympho
negresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negress
newsflashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsflash
non-smokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-smoker
non-starters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-starter
nosier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nosey: more nosey
nosiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nosey: most nosey
noontimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noontime
dohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dohols
Senses: glosses: A type of percussion instrument used in Iran, Afghanistan and Kurdistan.
night light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night lights
Senses: examples: text: A bed reading lamp is provided for each passenger; it is so arranged that, in all switching conditions, a blue night light will prevent the berth being placed in complete darkness.
ref: 1952 February, “New Third Class Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nightlight.
manufacturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manufacture + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The re-engineered design was much more manufacturable with cost about half that of the first approved design.
glosses: Capable of being manufactured.
Derived terms: remanufacturable
unmanufacturable
manufacturable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manufacturables
Etymology: From manufacture + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something that can be manufactured.
mass storage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mass storage of the network consisted of 40 megabytes of Bernoulli boxes.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any form of data storage (non-volatile memory) with high capacity relative to that of the faster volatile memory of computers (of its time).
papilionaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more papilionaceous
form: most papilionaceous
Etymology: From New Latin papilionaceus (from Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly”)) + -ous. In scientific sense, after Papilionaceae (family name).
Senses: examples: text: Thefe are alfo called by Reaumur Papillionaceous Flies, that have their wings half tranfparent.
ref: 1792, Richard Brookes, Oliver Goldsmith, Jan Swammerdam, chapter XI, in The Natural History of Insects, page 129:
glosses: Pertaining to a butterfly or butterflies.
examples: text: [T]he broad road is lined with wild bushes and tangled shrubs lavishly decked with brilliant blossoms: the lentisk, so covered with yellow, papilionaceous flowers [translating Schmetterlingsblumen] that not a green leaf is visible…
ref: 1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 261:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a corolla in the form of a butterfly, with prominent wing-like petals; (generally) pertaining to the Faboidea (Papilionoidea) family of plants.
examples: text: Ali G was a glorious, comedic butterfly, but it's my sad duty to report that his exquisitely papilionaceous character is currently being broken upon a wheel.
ref: 2000 April 3, Evening Standard:
glosses: Like a butterfly; showy; capricious.
fique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish fique.
Senses: glosses: A natural fiber, similar to hemp, obtained from the leaves of the plant Furcraea andina and certain other plants of the genus Furcraea.
domestiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domestique
tallgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallgrasses
Etymology: From tall + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of various tall grasses that flourish in prairie with relatively abundant water.
Coordinate terms: sense: grasses
word: shortgrass
targetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of targeting.
thioautotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thio- + autotrophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a chemoautotrophic organism that feeds on sulfides
Related terms: thioautotroph
beclomethasone dipropionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A potent glucocorticoid steroid use to treat asthma.
Synonyms: english: INN
translation: INN
word: beclometasone dipropionate
english: INN
translation: INN
word: beclometasone
replicases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛpləkeɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of replicase
replicase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛpləˌkeɪs/
Forms: form: replicases
Senses: glosses: an enzyme that catalyses the replication of a single-stranded RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecule
apologiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologisers
Etymology: From apologise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of apologizer.
Related terms: apologist
beclometasone dipropionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A potent glucocorticoid steroid used to treat asthma.
Synonyms: english: USAN, former BAN
translation: USAN, former BAN
word: beclomethasone dipropionate
english: INN
translation: INN
word: beclometasone
beclometasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chlo(ro)- + betamethasone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A potent glucocorticoid steroid use to treat asthma.
Synonyms: english: USAN, former BAN
translation: USAN, former BAN
word: beclomethasone dipropionate
english: INN
translation: INN
word: beclometasone dipropionate
thiotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thiotrophic
form: most thiotrophic
Etymology: From thio- + -trophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing an organism that oxidizes sulfur compounds as a major part of its metabolism
Related terms: thiotroph
thiotrophy
thiotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiotrophs
Etymology: From thio- + -troph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any thiotrophic organism.
thrombolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombolites
Senses: glosses: A form of stromatolite that has a clotted, rather than a laminated structure
thyasirid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyasirids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any marine bivalve of the family Thyasiridae.
thyasirid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thyasirid
form: most thyasirid
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these creatures
unarmoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unarmoured
form: most unarmoured
Etymology: From un- + armoured.
Senses: examples: text: In this underground installation unarmoured cable should be used.
glosses: Without armour. Often used to describe people, things, or situations where armour would normally be encountered.
transinfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transinfections
Etymology: From trans- + infection.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The infection of one host with a bacterium or virus taken from another, often using microinjection, in order to study the different roles of host and infected species
tricarboxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + carboxylic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having three carboxylic groups
Derived terms: tricarboxylic acid
trophosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophosomes
Etymology: From tropho- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mass of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a pogonophoran that metabolizes sulfide.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An organ found in some animals, located in the coelomic cavity, that houses symbiotic bacteria, which in turn provide nutrients to the host animal.
Coordinate terms: sense: organ
word: bacteriome
trophosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trophosomal
form: most trophosomal
Etymology: From trophosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a trophosome
trypanosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trypanosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a trypanosome
turbellarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɜːbɪˈlɛəɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌtɝbəˈlɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: turbellarians
Etymology: From translingual Turbellaria (from Latin turbellae (“bustle”), from turba (“confusion”)) + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any flatworm of the class Turbellaria.
turbellarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɜːbɪˈlɛəɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌtɝbəˈlɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more turbellarian
form: most turbellarian
Etymology: From translingual Turbellaria (from Latin turbellae (“bustle”), from turba (“confusion”)) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these creatures
unrooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not rooted
glosses: Uprooted.
unrooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unroot
unroot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unroots
form: unrooting
form: unrooted
form: unrooted
Etymology: From un- + root.
Senses: examples: text: He commences new explorations, more learned and more extensive, and finally, he discovers that the vulgar language of Italy, the one which is illustre, cardinale, &c., exists in all the cities, without belonging exclusively to any of them; it is the mother of idiom, or head of the family, which sows useful seeds, unroots venomous herbs.
ref: 1858, Louis Raymond Véricour, The Life and Times of Dante, page 136:
glosses: To tear up by the roots; to uproot.
unweighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + weighted.
Senses: glosses: Not weighted (used especially of an average or other statistic)
vesicomyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vesicomyids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any bivalve of the family Vesicomyidae.
vesicomyid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vesicomyid
form: most vesicomyid
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these creatures
vestimentiferan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestimentiferans
Etymology: Vestimentifera + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any benthic marine tube worm of the phylum Vestimentifera, now usually considered to be family Siboglinidae in phylum Annelida.
Related terms: Lamellibrachia
weediness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːdinəs/
rhymes: -iːdinəs
Etymology: From weedy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being weedy or feeble.
glosses: The quality of resembling, or being overgrown with, weeds.
xyloglucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xyloglucans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The main hemicellulose in the primary cell wall of dicotyledonous plants.
scalpella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalpellum
necropoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The remains of a well-developed Prothean mining infrastructure dot the planet. Abandoned mines are connected to dead cities by collapsed maglev lines. Unlike the crumbling skyscrapers of Feros, Quana's ruins are reasonably intact. Unfortunately, this only made it easier for looters to strip the silent necropoli of anything valuable.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quana:
glosses: plural of necropolis
virostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virostatic
form: most virostatic
form: virustatic
Etymology: From viro- + static.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tending to inhibit viral replication.
Synonyms: antiviral
virostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virostatics
form: virustatic
Etymology: From viro- + static.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug which inhibits viral replication.
Related terms: cytostatic
geophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + -phily.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The property of spending a stage of life underground.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of bearing flowers and fruit at or below ground level.
Derived terms: geophilic
Related terms: geophile
geophilia
geophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Spending all or a stage of the life cycle underground; exhibiting geophily.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Fruiting and/or flowering at or below ground level; exhibiting geophily.
Related terms: geophil
geophile
geophilia
geophily
zoophilic
anthropophilic
Mezőkövesd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Hungary.
futtock plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futtock plates
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A plate (usually metal) attached horizontally near the top of the lower mast of a square rigged ship in order to secure the topmast. Rigging runs both upwards (topmast rigging) and downwards (futtock shrouds) to maintain stability.
futtock shroud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futtock shrouds
Senses: examples: text: [H]e laid hold of the first ratline with his right hand, then sprung to the second, with his left, and so on alternately, right and left, up to the last, close to the futtock shrouds.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 80
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of a set of ropes, wires or chains that brace the futtock plate from a band on the lower mast.
conus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊnəs/
Forms: form: coni
Etymology: Latin cōnus (“cone”)
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A cone.
Related terms: conus arteriosus
conus medullaris
paleochristian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paleochristian
form: most paleochristian
form: paleo-christian
form: paleo-Christian
form: Paleo-Christian
form: palaeochristian
form: palaeo-christian
form: palaeo-Christian
form: Palaeo-Christian
Etymology: From paleo- + Christian.
Senses: glosses: Describing the early Christian church, its people, architecture and culture, etc.
mandoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandolines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mandolin (“kitchen tool”).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Archaic form of mandolin.
mandoline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mandolines
form: mandolining
form: mandolined
form: mandolined
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mandolin.
finjan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finjans
form: findjan
form: fingan
Senses: examples: text: On each side is a tray, covered with a snoy napkin, the edges worked with gold and silver flowers, upon one are handsome finjans in filigree, silver coffee-cups, and sugar-basins; on the other, cut-glass saucers full of delicious candied sweetmeats, of which the orange- flower, violet and rose are the most fragrant.
ref: 1853, Habeeb Risk Allah Effendi, The thistle and the cedar of Lebanon, page 21:
text: Luis spooned Turkish coffee and sugar into a finjan and, after lighting the stoves in an accomplished manner, he cooked the eggs and boiled the coffee three times.
ref: 1961, R. Leslie Gourse, With gall and honey, page 76:
text: The coffee-shops were already crowded with lean and hungry customers, the pipes were filled and lighted, and the coffee smoked in the finjans.
ref: 2015, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain:
glosses: In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.
voice-activated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We can use this voice-activated remote control to change the channel or adjust the volume of the TV without touching the remote control.
glosses: That responds to spoken commands.
guitaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guitar
guitaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: action of the verb to guitar; playing a guitar