cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tetrachlorogermane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binary compound GeCl₄ that is the germanium analog of carbon tetrachloride
Synonyms: germanium tetrachloride
germanium tetrachloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binary compound GeCl₄ that is the germanium analog of carbon tetrachloride
Synonyms: tetrachlorogermane
tetracycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetracycles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετράκυκλος (tetrákuklos, “four-wheeled”), equivalent to tetra- + cycle.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound, containing four rings, related to tetracycline
tetraether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraethers
Etymology: From tetra- + ether.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing four ether functional groups
tetrafluoroethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrafluoroethylenes
Etymology: From tetra- + fluoro- + ethylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The gaseous unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbon, F₂C=CF₂, that is used as a monomer in the production of polytetrafluoroethylene
Synonyms: word: TFE
Derived terms: word: TFE
word: polytetrafluoroethylene
word: PTFE
word: ethylene tetrafluoroethylene
word: ETFE
Related terms: fluoroethylene
tetrafluoro
weirdnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weirdness
strangenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strangeness
oddnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oddness
crazinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craziness
tetrakis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τετράκις (tetrákis, “four times”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having four identical units
Derived terms: tetrakis hexahedron
tetrakis legomenon
peculiarness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peculiar + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being peculiar.
Synonyms: abnormality
enormity
weirdness
strangeness
curiousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curiousness
bizarrenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bizarreness
tetramethylbenzidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetramethylbenzidines
Etymology: From tetramethyl + benzidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric tetramethyl derivatives of benzidine, but especially 3,3’,5,5’-tetramethylbenzidine that is a chromogenic substrate used in immunohistochemistry
coolnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coolness
tetramethylpiperidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetramethylpiperidines
Etymology: From tetramethyl + piperidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric tetramethyl derivatives of piperidine, but especially 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine that is used in organic synthesis
bluenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blueness
yellownesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowness
tetraparesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + paresis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: weakness of the muscles of all four limbs
Related terms: tetraparetic
greennesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenness
blacknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackness
tetraphenylborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraphenylborates
Etymology: From tetra- + phenyl + borate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent anion B(C₆H₅)₄⁻ containing four phenyl groups attached to a boron atom; any salt containing this anion
tetraribonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraribonucleotides
Etymology: From tetra- + ribonucleotide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligoribonucleotide containing four ribonucleotide units
tetrasodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + sodium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Four sodium atoms or ions in a compound
Tskhinvali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtskɪnvali/
Etymology: From Georgian ცხინვალი (cxinvali), from Old Georgian ქრცხინვალი (krcxinvali, “land of hornbeams”), from earlier ქრცხილვანი (krcxilvani). Possibly via Russian Цхинва́ли (Cxinváli).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of South Ossetia, a de-facto independent country internationally recognized as part of the country of Georgia.
Synonyms: word: Cchinvali
word: Cxinvali
english: i; Modern Ossetians call the city this, leaving off the final which is a nominative case ending in Georgian
translation: i; Modern Ossetians call the city this, leaving off the final which is a nominative case ending in Georgian
word: Tskhinval
english: Ossetian (unofficial) name of the city
translation: Ossetian (unofficial) name of the city
word: Chreba
sense: From 1934 to 1961
english: after Joseph Stalin
translation: after Joseph Stalin
word: Staliniri
isophenogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + pheno- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: mating between people who have the same phenotype (who bear a somatic resemblance to each other)
Lebern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in Solothurn canton, Switzerland.
chromatinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From chromatin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chromatin
Derived terms: achromatinic
Stiles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Styles
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sub-excavation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-excavations
form: subexcavation
Etymology: From sub- + excavation.
Senses: examples: text: We were grading the road and found a soft spot where we did a sub-excavation.
glosses: An excavation underneath something, or the excavation of a subgrade
Related terms: word: sub-ex
word: sub-excavate
word: sub-excavated
chromonema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːmə
Forms: form: chromonemata
Etymology: From chromo- + -nema.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The central coiled filament of a chromatid upon which the chromomeres lie
chromomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromomeres
Etymology: From chromo- + -mere.
Senses: examples: text: The nucleus contains the following more or less distinct parts: chromioles, chromomeres, chromosomes, chromoplasts, linoplasts, linin, chromoplasm, endochromatic granules, and parachromatic granules.
ref: 1900 January 24, Gustav Eisen, “A Preliminary Account of the Spermatogenesis of Batrachoseps attenuatus, Polymorphous spermatogonia, Auxocytes and Spermatocytes”, in Biological Bulletin, volume 1, number 2:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of beadlike granules of chromatin that constitutes a chromosome during cell division.
Derived terms: chromomeric
interchromomere
microbiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + biologic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of microbiological.
synonyms: word: microbiological
Derived terms: antimicrobiologic
hamingja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamingjas
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A female guardian angel in Norse mythology, believed to accompany a person and decide their luck and happiness.
subgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgrades
Etymology: From sub- + grade.
Senses: glosses: The layer of native soil on which the foundation of a road is laid.
Coordinate terms: roadbase
precalculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precalculate
precalculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precalculate
precalculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precalculate
welcs
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From welcome.
Senses: glosses: You're welcome.
Synonyms: you're welcs
a-h conduction times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a-h conduction time
throw under the bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws under the bus
form: throwing under the bus
form: threw under the bus
form: thrown under the bus
form: throw under a bus
Etymology: Attested from the early 1980s, possibly of UK origin.
Senses: examples: text: "A person who does things for me and befriended me and helped me out when I needed help, I'm certainly not going to throw them under the bus," she said.
ref: 1993 January 27, Steven Cronin, “Sitter: Girl ‘Asked For It,’ Woman Told Her”, in Press of Atlantic City:
text: "I got thrown under the bus by BAE," she says. "They did not want to take responsibility, so they pointed at us."
ref: 2008 October 2, Brian Grow et al., “Dangerous Fakes”, in Business Week, retrieved 24 Mar 2009:
text: Captain Tagon: So, all you did was serve us fast, before [chef] Ch'votlq could deploy his whisk of ruin?
Liz: Please don't make me throw my new boss under the bus.
ref: 2013 May 24, Schlock Mercenary:
text: If you want to know the deep values that drive someone, sometimes you have to look at who they admire, who they throw under the bus and who they refuse to unreservedly condemn.
ref: 2023 October 27, Alexander Hurst, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a disaster for the French left – his response to the attack on Israel proves it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To betray or blame (something or someone); to deliberately put (something or someone) in an unfavorable situation and then leave to their fate; to make (something or someone) into a scapegoat or otherwise abandon for personal gain.
raw_tags: of a person or group
examples: text: A recent magazine article discussed the need to throw under the bus worn-out cultural catchphrases, with the first being “throw under the bus.”
ref: 2008 July 20, Ken Newton, “Local tiff is the new old thing”, in St. Joseph News-Press, US, retrieved 31 Aug 2021:
qualifier: idea
glosses: To discard or disown.
raw_tags: of a thing
Synonyms: sense: betray or blame, use as a scapegoat
word: sacrifice
sense: betray or blame, use as a scapegoat
word: sell down the river
sense: betray or blame, use as a scapegoat
word: throw to the wolves
sense: discard or disown
word: reject
Related terms: fair-weather friend
hang out to dry
alefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alef
wake-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wake-overs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wakeover.
Synonyms: lock-in
prædilection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prædilections
Senses: examples: text: A remarkable proof of the general uſe of trial by combat, and of the prædilection for that mode of deciſion occurs in the laws of the Lombards.
ref: 1769, William Robertson, The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. and W. Strahan, for W[illiam] Strahan, T[homas] Cadell, […]; and J. Balfour, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of predilection.
prædilections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prædilection
repræsent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repræsents
form: repræsenting
form: repræsented
form: repræsented
Senses: examples: text: The motion of the table men round thorough the points repræsents the motion of the sun thorough the signes of zodiack. It is therefore likely that tables were at first round, but that beeing found inconvenient for the placing of the men they afterwards came to this oblong figure.
ref: 1660–1672, Francis Willughby (edited by David Cram, Jeffrey L. Forgeng and Dorothy Johnston), Francis Willughby’s book of games: a seventeenth-century treatise on sports, games, and pastimes (republished in 2003 by Ashgate Publishing, 9781859284605), page 113
glosses: Obsolete spelling of represent.
Related terms: repræsentation
repræsented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repræsent
repræsenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repræsent
repræsents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The motion of the table men round thorough the points repræsents the motion of the sun thorough the signes of zodiack. It is therefore likely that tables were at first round, but that beeing found inconvenient for the placing of the men they afterwards came to this oblong figure.
ref: 1660–1672, Francis Willughby (edited by David Cram, Jeffrey L. Forgeng and Dorothy Johnston), Francis Willughby’s book of games: a seventeenth-century treatise on sports, games, and pastimes (republished in 2003 by Ashgate Publishing, 9781859284605), page 113
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repræsent
tetratricopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetratricopeptides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A repeating sequence of thirty-four amino acids in a protein
Related terms: pentatricopeptide
factitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From factitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a factitive way.
tetrazolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrazoliums
Etymology: From tetrazole + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent cation derived from a tetrazole
Derived terms: monotetrazolium
nitroblue tetrazolium
nitrotetrazolium
thalamocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thalamo- + cortical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the thalamus and the cerebral cortex.
Derived terms: retinothalamocortical
reticulothalamocortical
thalamocortically
corticothalamocortical
spinothalamocortical
thapsigargin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thapsigargins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene lactone that is an inhibitor of a certain class of enzymes.
tetratricopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetratricopeptide
seif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seifs
form: saif
Etymology: From Arabic سَيْف (sayf, “sword”). Doublet of xiphos.
Senses: examples: text: Such seifs have a somewhat zig-zag form instead of a fairly straight line.
On the top of seifs small transverse dunelets are very often found, and these may be likened to almost straightened-out barchans.[…]On the top of the seif they form a wave-like pattern with a fairly defined "wavelength".
ref: 1954, Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, volume 4, page 196:
text: Though the actual transition forms suggested in Fig. 76 do exist and have been examined by the author, the above tentative explanation of the growth of a seif dune chain should certainly not be taken as implying that all such chains have originated as barchans.
ref: 1973, Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, page 224:
text: Seifs are longitudinal forms elongated parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
ref: 1980, P. Turner, Continental Red Beds, page 80:
text: Tsoar, H. Dynamic processes acting on a longitudinal (seif) sand dune .
ref: 2009 February 26, Bruno Andreotti et al., “Giant aeolian dune size determined by the average depth of the atmospheric boundary layer”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1120–1123:
glosses: A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
Synonyms: longitudinal dune
coronin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An actin binding protein which also interacts with microtubules
thermochronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + chronological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to thermochronology.
thermochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + chronology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of radiometric dating used to estimate the time since a rock solidified.
Synonyms: thermochronometry
unsmooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + smooth.
Senses: examples: text: G. Fletcher
How may weak mortal ever hope to file
His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style?
text: In contrast, treatment with the uncleavable Alexa-labelled Ub-3A-G75A/G76A–CPP Tat resulted in an unsmooth and heterogeneous pattern of fluorescence in the cells, with intense staining of cytoplasmic components and nucleoli.
ref: 2009 March 5, Kohsuke Inomata et al., “High-resolution multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of proteins in human cells”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7234, →DOI:
glosses: Not smooth; rough.
unsmooth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsmooths
form: unsmoothing
form: unsmoothed
form: unsmoothed
Etymology: From un- + smooth.
Senses: examples: text: Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.
ref: 1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman, volume 2, page 170:
glosses: To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.
thermometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + -metry.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science and technology related to the measurement of temperature and the design and construction of thermometers.
Related terms: thermometer
thermometric
thermometrician
thermophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θɜː(ɹ)ˈmɒflɪi/
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a thermophile
oligofluorenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligofluorene
thermophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermophones
Etymology: From thermo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A form of transducer that generates sound waves of precise power.
glosses: A portable telethermometer, using a telephone in connection with a differential thermometer.
glosses: A telephone involving heat effects, as changes in temperature (hence in length) due to pulsations of the line current in a fine wire connected with the receiver diaphragm.
thermochronologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermochronological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thermochronological way; by thermochronology.
thalamocortically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thalamocortical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thalamocortical way.
thermosensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermosensitive
form: most thermosensitive
Etymology: From thermo- + sensitive.
Senses: glosses: That shows a reaction to heat.
tetrazoliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrazolium
thermophilically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thermophilically
form: most thermophilically
Etymology: From thermophilic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a thermophilic way.
gentleperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentlepersons
form: gentlepeople
Etymology: From gentle + -person, after gentleman and gentlewoman.
Senses: glosses: A gentle person of any gender; a member of the gentry.
Derived terms: gentlepersonly
gentlepeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentleperson
gentlepersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentleperson
thicketization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thicket + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An increase in the numbers of woody plants in a savanna or similar environment.
thiogalactopyranoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiogalactopyranosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The pyranoside form of a thiogalactoside
thermosensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermosensitivities
Etymology: From thermo- + sensitivity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being thermosensitive.
glosses: The extent to which something is thermosensitive.
thermosensitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thermosensitively
form: most thermosensitively
Etymology: From thermosensitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thermosensitive way.
thermosensitivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermosensitivity
thioglucoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioglucosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any thioglycoside of glucose
Related terms: thioglucosidic
dreamlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dreamless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
thioglucosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioglucoside
thermophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermophone
thiogalactopyranosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiogalactopyranoside
Khinalug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Northeast Caucasian language spoken mainly in the villages of Khinalug and Qalayxudat just north of Quba (Quba Rayon, Azerbaijan).
Khinalug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to this people of the Greater Caucasus mountains.
Khinalug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Khinalug language or people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Khinalug terms
the squeaky wheel gets the grease
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the squeaky wheel gets the oil
Senses: examples: text: I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel / Always getting the grease
ref: 1979, James Taylor, “Shower the People”, in In the Pocket, →OCLC:
text: You know perfectly well that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and that if you don't complain nothing ever changes.
ref: 1995, Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley, A Farce To Be Reckoned With, Bantam, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: The person who complains or speaks up most loudly receives the redress or attention which they seek.
Derived terms: squeaky wheel system
Related terms: squeaky wheel
the nail that sticks out gets hammered down
empty vessels make the most sound
vocal minority
faint heart never won fair lady
nothing ventured, nothing gained
unkeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + keyed.
Senses: examples: an unkeyed flute
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Atonal.
examples: an unkeyed hash function
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without a key.
early binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Static binding.
Synonyms: static dispatch
late binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Dynamic binding.
static binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A form of binding that occurs before the program is run, typically at compile time.
Synonyms: early binding
dynamic binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A form of binding that occurs at runtime, such as the resolution of a virtual method call to a specific subclass's implementation.
Synonyms: late binding
metareflective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + reflective.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to metareflection.
Derived terms: metareflectively
Tambov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Тамбо́в (Tambóv), from a Moksha language word meaning wetland, although it sounds like a Russian surname.
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Russia.
late-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: dynamic-bound
hypernyms: bound
glosses: Subject to late binding.
early-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Subject to early binding.
varnisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varnishers
Etymology: From varnish + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of varnish; one who varnishes.
examples: text: U was an Uptucker, fly with the cord; / V was a Varnisher, dressed like a lord; […]
ref: 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
glosses: A coiner of counterfeit money.
varnishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varnisher
unflagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flagged, from flag (“piece of cloth”).
Senses: glosses: Not flagged; not marked with a flag.
unflagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flagged, from flag (“leg feathers on certain birds, bushy dog tail”).
Senses: glosses: Having straight, flat ends (not bushy; of bristles).
Synonyms: unflocked
obfuscator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obfuscators
Etymology: From obfuscate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software program that modifies another program to make it harder to decompile or reverse-engineer.
obfuscators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obfuscator
schismatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more schismatically
form: most schismatically
Etymology: From schismatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a schismatic way.
millipedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more millipedal
form: most millipedal
Etymology: From millipede + -al.
Senses: glosses: Like a millipede or millipedes; many-legged.
millipedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more millipedic
form: most millipedic
Etymology: From millipede + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Like a millipede or millipedes; many-legged.
Synonyms: millipedal
Jenn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Gen
homophone: gen
homophone: Jen
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Jennifer.
Jenn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Gen
homophone: gen
homophone: Jen
rhymes: -ɛn
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval variant of John.
PERT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: operations
glosses: Acronym of program evaluation and review technique.
Derived terms: PERT chart
program evaluation and review technique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: program evaluation and review techniques
form: PERT
form: program evaluation review technique
form: programme evaluation and review technique
form: programme evaluation review technique
Senses: synonyms: project evaluation and review technique
qualifier: operations
glosses: A method for diagramming and analyzing the flow of dependent tasks and other events in a project.
Related terms: critical path
project management
program evaluation review technique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: program evaluation review techniques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of program evaluation and review technique.
project evaluation and review technique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of program evaluation and review technique.
synonyms: word: program evaluation and review technique
project evaluation review technique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of program evaluation and review technique.
synonyms: word: program evaluation and review technique
rangering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ranger + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The work of a ranger.
Derived terms: lone rangering
rangering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ranger + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ranger
jughead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jugheads
Etymology: From jug + head.
Senses: glosses: A fool.
Derived terms: Bughead
jugheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jughead
raininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rainy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being rainy.
hybridisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybridisation
apomixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apomixis
centésimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centésimo
parasporal body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasporal bodies
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crystalline structure, within the core of an endospore, containing endotoxins that act as pesticides.
pratincole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹætɪnˌkəʊl/
Forms: form: pratincoles
Etymology: From Latin pratincola (“meadow-dweller”).
Senses: synonyms: greywader
glosses: Any of several species of birds in the genera Glareola and Stiltia.
Derived terms: Australian pratincole
Stiltia isabella
black-winged pratincole
Glareola nordmanni
collared pratincole
Glareola pratincola
grey pratincole
Glareola cinerea
Madagascar pratincole
Glareola ocularis
oriental pratincole
Glareola maldivarum
rock pratincole
Glareola nuchalis
small pratincole
Glareola lactea
tions de Nadal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tió de Nadal
hard-sell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard-sells
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hard sell.
tions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tion
pratincoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pratincole
perp walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perp walks
Etymology: From perp + walk. First use appears c. 1980. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: ... as well-dressed masters of the universe did the ritualized perp walk with their expensive Armani suit jackets draped over their handcuffs.
ref: 1980, Paul Fussell, Abroad - British Literary Traveling Between the Wars, page 114:
text: FBI agents gave former WorldCom executives Scott Sullivan and David Myers the same star treatment, parading the handcuffed quarry in an early-morning perp walk and prompting Sullivan's lawyer to complain about “the unfair taint of the current political climate.”
ref: 2002 August 12, Daniel Eisenberg et al., “Jail To The Chiefs?”, in Time:
text: The copter’s arrival at the Wall Street heliport led to an extraordinary scene: [Luigi] Mangione, surrounded by a swarm of gun-toting NYPD officers, in a slow, lengthy “perp walk” from the helicopter into a black van, with cameras catching every step.
ref: 2024 December 19, Eric Levenson, Ray Sanchez, “A whirlwind day for Luigi Mangione ends with new charges, revelations from a notebook and transfer to a federal prison”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2024:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: The intentional public display before news cameras of a person in police custody, especially someone famous or notorious, for the purpose of satisfying public interest, demonstrating the effectiveness of the authorities, or shaming the person.
Related terms: frogmarch
supererogate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uːpəɹˈɛɹəɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˌsupəɹˈɛɹəˌɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: more supererogate
form: most supererogate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin supererogare. See supererogation.
Senses: glosses: Supererogatory.
supererogate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uːpəɹˈɛɹəɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˌsupəɹˈɛɹəˌɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: supererogates
form: supererogating
form: supererogated
form: supererogated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin supererogare. See supererogation.
Senses: examples: text: They who, in their obedience, attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate, and to do more than God requires, […]
ref: The Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter XVI, article iv
text: Were this all, therefore, or my task confined to such a relation, I should supererogate indeed in making this appearance.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter I, in Shrewsbury:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: To do more than God commands.
glosses: To make up with excess for the lack prepositioned by for.
raw_tags: with for
qualifier: with
glosses: To supererogate (in any sense) in the service of the prepositional argument.
glosses: To give that earned through supererogation to another.
glosses: As in other senses but taking as an object the excess deeds or works.
glosses: To deserve or more than deserve.
glosses: To pay or expend extra.
Related terms: supererogation
supererogatorily
supererogatory
exonucleasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exonuclease + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by an exonuclease
heterochromatinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more heterochromatinic
form: most heterochromatinic
Etymology: From heterochromatin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to heterochromatin
katabases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katabasis
primage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primages
Etymology: From Late Latin primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)
Senses: examples: text: By the bill of lading the maſter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accuſtomed.
ref: 1818, John Adolphus, The Political State of the British Empire, volume 3, page 197:
glosses: A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
glosses: An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
examples: 1932, E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932,
The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.
glosses: An additional import duty levied by customs.
primage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primages
Etymology: From prime + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage; all others exhibit a slight superheat.
ref: 1883, Emory Edwards, Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management, page 75:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
tutilage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tutelage.
tutillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tutelage.
adorables
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adorables
form: most adorables
Senses: glosses: Informal form of adorable.
goverment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Under the decree, the city agrees to establish mayor-City Council form of goverment.
ref: 1985 July 28, Robert Pear, “THE NATION; RESHAPING A CITY GOVERMENT”, in The New York Times:
text: But after the passage of California's tax-cutting Proposition 13, he became interested in how state goverments were responding to what he saw as the end of the era of the New Deal and the Great Society.
ref: 1992 February 17, Fox Butterfield, “Exponent of Government-as-Business Is Gaining Bigger Audience”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Misspelling of government.
heterosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterosomes
Etymology: From hetero- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: sex chromosome
Derived terms: heterosomal
heterosomic
heterosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heterosome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the heterosomes
bankster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋkstə/
Forms: form: banksters
Etymology: Blend of banker + gangster. Popularized in the Pecora Commission (1932–1934) that investigated the causes of the Wall Street crash of 1929. The term was later used by Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist politician and journalist, in 1937 as a pejorative term for high financiers.
Senses: examples: text: Stop supporting bums abroad. Stop all foreign aid, which is aid to banksters and their bonds and their export industries.
ref: 1992 January, Murray Rothbard, “Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement”, in Rothbard-Rockwell Report, page 9:
text: Hearing Sir Fred the Shred and the rest of them utter some hedged half-apologies has not made the public feel any warmer to the banksters.
ref: 2009 February 15, Andrew Rawnsley, “The cabinet's quarrels are a warning of the storms ahead”, in The Observer:
glosses: A banker who is seen as criminally irresponsible, or as extorting bailout money from the taxpayers.
wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
Pecora Commission
Wall Street crash of 1929
Derived terms: banksterism
phagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phagic
form: most phagic
Etymology: From phage + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a phage; bacteriophagic
MEPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Military Entrance Processing Command.
photographable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photographable
form: most photographable
Etymology: From photograph + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being photographed
Derived terms: unphotographable
bucketball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bucket + ball.
Senses: glosses: An informal sport resembling basketball, with the fixed baskets replaced by buckets held by players who must move them to catch the thrown ball.
Mendelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mendel + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Gregor Mendel or his theories of genetics
examples: a Mendelian disease
glosses: Following Gregor Mendel's laws of intergenerational gene transmission.
examples: text: There are Mendelian inconsistencies in the data.
glosses: Of or relating to Mendel's laws of gene transmission.
Derived terms: Mendelian character
Mendelian factor
Mendelianism
Mendelianist
Mendelianly
Mendelian ratio
chunkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chunkily
form: most chunkily
Etymology: From chunky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chunky way.
minisatellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisatellites
Etymology: From mini- + satellite.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A short series of bases that reoccurs many times in a genome
examples: text: Meanwhile, other members of ESA’s Proba minisatellite family – each smaller than a cubic metre – will be looking downwards, attempting to capture views of the Moon’s shadow as it crosses Earth.
ref: 2015, "ESA Minisatellites to Follow Europe’s Solar Eclipse", ESA, archived 2015-03-13
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: A small satellite
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: an artificial satellite massing between 100 and 500 kilograms
Synonyms: minisat
Hypernyms: satellite
Coordinate terms: microsatellite
nanosatellite
Related terms: minisatellite family
ruching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruchings
Etymology: From ruche + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat.
ref: 1855, “Mantillas and Shawls”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, volume XLVI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Abraham H. See, 106 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 578:
text: Probably for the first time since Lindsay Lohan was born, fashion designers, from the high-end likes of Miuccia Prada and Stella McCartney to mainstream classics like Jantzen, have taken a more refined approach to swimwear, emphasizing one-piece looks, halter tops, high-waist boy shorts and ruffles and ruching as camouflaging details.
ref: 2008 May 15, Eric Wilson, “Out with Vegas, in with vamp”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Ruche.
glosses: A strip of fabric to be ruched.
ruching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ruche + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruche
ruchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruching
Shannon entropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shannon entropies
Etymology: Named after Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory".
Senses: glosses: information entropy
wikipedia: Claude Shannon
Related terms: joint entropy
conditional entropy
mutual information
my country, right or wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Originally Stephen Decatur, in an after-dinner toast of 1816–1820:
: “Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!”
Often attributed to Carl Schurz, who in a speech in 1872 amended it as
: “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
Senses: glosses: an expression of patriotism.
wikipedia: Carl Schurz
Stephen Decatur
anthroparchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthroparchies
Etymology: From anthrop- + -archy. Coined by Erika Cudworth (2005, E. Cudworth, Developing Ecofeminist Theory: The Complexity of Difference).
Senses: examples: text: I think, rather, that the anthroparchy's fully legitimate origin allows us to grant it the force and power necessary to fulfill its important mission.
ref: 2010, Rafael Domingo, chapter I, in The New Global Law, page 119:
text: I suggest that five sub-systems, sets of institutions and processes network to form a social system of anthroparchy.
ref: 2010, Judith Burnett, Syd Jeffers, Graham Thomas, editors, New Social Connections: Sociology's Subjects and Objects, page 100:
text: Cudworth's own approach to intersecting oppression is the development of a theory of anthroparchy: 'a social system, a complex and relatively stable set of hierarchical relationships in which “nature” is dominated through formations of social organization which privilege the human' (2011: 67).
ref: 2014, Matthew Cole, Kate Stewart, Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood, page 27:
glosses: A social system of attitudes, practices, and institutions through which the natural world is dominated to the benefit of humans.
Related terms: anthropocracy
corpuscularism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corpuscular + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The bond between politics as a question of the bodies' appetites and physics is suggested to Vico by the at once ancient and modern science of corpuscularism. The “corpuscular hypothesis,” which is the theory of the corpuscular or mechanical constitution of universal matter common to all bodies, originates in the atomism of Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius.
ref: 2014, Giuseppe Mazzotta, The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
Related terms: corpuscle
muricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin mūs, mūris + -cidal.
Senses: examples: text: […] and that bulbectomy-induced increases in muricidal behavior of rats appeared to be related to the destruction of tissue […]
ref: 1977, F V DeFeudis, Patricia A F DeFeudis, Elements of the behavioral code:
glosses: Pertaining to muricide.
examples: text: For this study, muricidal animals were injected with either imipramine (20 mg/kg), atropine (20 mg/kg), or an equivalent volume of saline intraperitoneally […]
ref: 1981, S J Enna, Jeffrey B Malick, Elliott Richelson, Antidepressants: neurochemical, behavioral, and clinical perspectives:
glosses: Possessing the muricide instinct; inclined to kill mice.
Derived terms: nonmuricidal
outrageousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outrageousness
bulbectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: bulbectomies
Etymology: From bulb + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: Removal of the olfactory bulb.
Derived terms: bulbectomize
bulbectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulbectomy
bulbectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bulbectomizes
form: bulbectomizing
form: bulbectomized
form: bulbectomized
Etymology: From bulbectomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform a bulbectomy on.
bulbectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bulbectomize
bulbectomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bulbectomize
bulbectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bulbectomize
excessivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excessiveness
felicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felicides
Etymology: From Latin fēlis (“cat”) + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The killing of a cat.
Synonyms: ailurocide
catslaughter
Derived terms: felicidal
felicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more felicidal
form: most felicidal
Etymology: From felicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to felicide.
glosses: Inclined to kill cats.
corpuscularianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corpuscularian + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The postulate that all physical bodies possess an inner and outer layer of minute particles or corpuscles.
Related terms: corpuscle
recorrect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recorrects
form: recorrecting
form: recorrected
form: recorrected
Etymology: From re- + correct.
Senses: examples: text: After the new guy corrected all our inventory values I had to go back and recorrect all of them applying our internal rules.
glosses: To correct again (possibly undoing a previous 'correction').
Related terms: recorrection
recorrects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recorrect