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fissionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fission + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of undergoing nuclear fission; fissile.
Derived terms: fissionability
unfissionable
fissionable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissionables
Etymology: From fission + -able.
Senses: examples: text: If one nation seized the fissionables within its borders, this would “serve as a danger signal” to other nations. The wrongdoer's gain would be short-lived because other nations would take defensive action in kind.
ref: 1956, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 12, number 4, page 106:
glosses: Any fissile or fissionable substance.
footling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːt.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: more footling
form: most footling
Etymology: From footle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He was explaining to her things about the air service. . . . "Isn't it rather dangerous work?" she asked. She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it.
ref: 1919, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 16, in All Roads Lead to Calvary:
text: Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
text: For 28 footling days the 58-nation General Assembly had been debating the now-famous U.S. afterthought: to postpone partition and substitute a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine.
ref: 1948 May 24, “United Nations: Over to You”, in Time, retrieved 14 Oct 2013:
text: They are electrically hauled, and travel at over 70 m.p.h. between stops, but they make five stops at footling little country towns and take two hours for the 98-mile run.
ref: 1962 December, “Letters to the Editor: Towards 75 m.p.h. expresses”, in Modern Railways, page 429:
text: “Why did you persist in writing hurlothrumbo romances of the footling sort favored by mooncalfs?”
ref: 2009 July 15, Carlo Rotella, “The Genre Artist”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Oct 2013:
glosses: trivial, silly and irritating.
footling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːt.lɪŋ/
Etymology: From footle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of footle
footling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːt.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfʊt.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfuːt.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: footlings
Etymology: From foot + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: In 1999 my fourth child (third daughter) made an unexpected footling breech presentation.
ref: 2006 January 29, James McManus, “Excerpt from Physical: An American Checkup”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Oct 2013:
glosses: A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its foot or feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.
subgraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgraphs
Etymology: From sub- + graph.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph or network that makes up part of a larger graph or network.
a lie has no legs
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: One cannot get away with a lie; the truth will always come out.
Related terms: have legs
long ways, long lies
old sins have long shadows
pronouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronoun
lexicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexicon
citations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citation
conjugations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjugation
Grube
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
lapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapas
Etymology: From Sotho lelapa.
Senses: glosses: An open structure in South Africa, typically a thatched roof supported by wooden poles.
lapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapas
Etymology: From Chinese 喇叭 (lǎba).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A metal wind instrument of 19th-century China, resembling the oboe.
Shizuoka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 静 (shizu, “calm”) and 岡 (oka, “hill”).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: The capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
gitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪti/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: gitties
form: jitty
Senses: glosses: A narrow pedestrian passageway in a residential area, between high brick walls, wooden fences, hedges, etc.
Synonyms: alley
Nara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑːɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 奈良(なら) (Nara).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
examples: text: Despite Nara being home to attractions like Todaiji Temple, one of the world’s largest wooden structures, the majority of tourists come to meet the deer, who are known for bowing politely when given a cracker. Stalls around Nara sell these special rice bran “Shika Senbei” treats, which are safe for the deer to eat.
ref: 2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN:
glosses: The capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan.
two thousands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade of the 2000s.
90s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: '90s
form: 90's
Senses: synonyms: nineties
glosses: The decade beginning in '90 and ending in '99 of a century.
examples: text: The temperatures today are ranging from the low to high 90s.
text: I always score somewhere in the 90s on this test.
text: Most people who live to be in their 90s are from Japan.
glosses: A range of the numbers ninety (90) to ninety-nine (99).
Hyponyms: 1890s
1990s
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80s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: '80s
form: 80's
Senses: examples: text: It was cocaine. I snorted Blow a couple of times. It was the perfect 80s drug after all.
ref: 2014, Laura Di Battista, If It Bleeds It leads, page 125:
text: She started learning the craft at age 13 from her father, who founded the family's tile business, Kam Fat Mahjong, in 1962. Masters who would visit Hong Kong during its manufacturing heyday in the 1970s and 80s also shared their techniques and trained apprentices.
ref: 2025 July 27, Kathleen Magramo, “The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong carvers”, in CNN:
synonyms: 1980s
eighties
glosses: The decade of the 1980s.
examples: text: Many of his friends are joining a burgeoning international community of elderweds, or those who marry in their 60s, 70s or even 80s.
ref: 2002 January 8, Cheong Suk-Wai, “Faith in a new tomorrow”, in The Straits Times:
glosses: A range of the numbers eighty (80) to eighty-nine (89).
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70s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: '70s
form: 70's
Senses: examples: text: “Such templates I heard only in the 70s and 80s — extreme nonprofessionalism and surprisingly visible censorship.
ref: 2007 May 19, C. J. Chivers, “Eviction Notice Is Latest Russian Move Against Journalists”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: 1970s
seventies
glosses: The decade of the 1970s.
examples: text: Many of his friends are joining a burgeoning international community of elderweds, or those who marry in their 60s, 70s or even 80s.
ref: 2002 January 8, Cheong Suk-Wai, “Faith in a new tomorrow”, in The Straits Times:
glosses: A range of the numbers seventy (70) to seventy-nine (79).
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60s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: '60s
form: 60's
Senses: examples: text: I suppose you could blame it on my generation, chickens from the 60s finally coming into roost.
ref: 1995, Loudon Wainwright III, Cobwebs:
text: “It’s possible when we started building research stations in the 50s and 60s words like ‘boondoggle’ might have been common at that time and it became a regular part of speech … in Antarctic culture it can take on a life of its own.”
ref: 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: 1960s
sixties
glosses: The decade of the 1960s.
examples: text: Many of his friends are joining a burgeoning international community of elderweds, or those who marry in their 60s, 70s or even 80s.
ref: 2002 January 8, Cheong Suk-Wai, “Faith in a new tomorrow”, in The Straits Times:
text: The distant cousin of a sabbatical, the miniretirement refers to young workers taking a chunk of time out of their careers to travel, focus on passions or pick up a new side gig while they’re young, rather than waiting until their 60s.
ref: 2024 December 31, Brooke Kato, “What is ‘microretirement’? Gen Z and millennials spawn new career trend to help with woes”, in New York Post:
glosses: A range of the numbers sixty (60) to sixty-nine (69).
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50s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: '50s
form: 50's
Senses: examples: text: “It’s possible when we started building research stations in the 50s and 60s words like ‘boondoggle’ might have been common at that time and it became a regular part of speech … in Antarctic culture it can take on a life of its own.”
ref: 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: 1950s
fifties
glosses: The decade of the 1950s.
examples: text: No way you're in your 50s! I find that hard to believe.
text: Temperatures today will range from the low to high 50s.
glosses: A range of the numbers fifty (50) to fifty-nine (59).
Derived terms: '50s progression
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40s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: '40s
form: 40's
Etymology: Abbreviated form of 1940s.
Senses: synonyms: 1940s
forties
glosses: The decade of the 1940s.
examples: text: Women in their 40s were counseled to make individual decisions together with their health care provider, but there was no explicit recommendation for them to start until they turned 50.
ref: 2024 May 8, Katia Hetter, “Mammograms are now recommended starting at age 40. Should you get one?”, in CNN:
glosses: A range of the numbers forty (40) to forty-nine (49).
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40s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 40 (“bottle of beer”)
Kendra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛndɹə/
Etymology: Coined in the latter half of the twentieth century, presumably a blend of Kenneth + Sandra.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
30s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: '30s
form: 30's
Senses: synonyms: 1930s
thirties
glosses: The decade of the 1930s.
examples: text: He's in his 30s.
text: Casualties numbered in the 30s.
text: The men I met in California who were in their 30s and superambitious never really valued women, but Stephen valued me as a person.”
ref: 2007 May 13, “Natalie Lui, Stephen Duncan”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: A range of the numbers thirty (30) to thirty-nine (39).
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20s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: '20s
form: 20's
Senses: synonyms: 2020s
twenties
glosses: The decade of the 2020s.
synonyms: 1920s
twenties
glosses: The decade of the 1920s.
glosses: A range of the numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
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10s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 10's
Senses: examples: text: Q. 237. Four sixes are how many 24s? 12s? 8s? 6s? 4s? 2s? 1s? 8 fives are how many 10s? 40s? 20s? 5s? 2s? 1s?
ref: 1850, Roswell Chamberlain Smith, The little federal calculator: consisting of questions and tables to employ ..., page 25:
glosses: Tens, written as a number but in plural form; a range of the numbers ten (10) to nineteen (19).
glosses: Tens, written as a number but in plural form; a range of the numbers ten (10) to nineteen (19).
The tens, the second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc.
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10s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 10's
Senses: glosses: plural of 10
rusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: plural of rust
rusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rust
fulling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English fulling, fullynge, from fullen, fulwen (“to baptise”), equivalent to full + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Baptism.
fulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From full + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of full
fulling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fullings
Etymology: From full + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The process of cloth being fulled.
waulk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waulks
form: waulking
form: waulked
form: waulked
Etymology: From Middle English walken, from Old English wealcian (“to roll up; muffle up”), from Proto-West Germanic *walkōn, from Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about; full (cloth)”).
Cognate with Scots waulk (“to full”), Dutch walken (“to full”), German walken (“to full”), Danish valke (“to full”), Swedish valka (“to full”). Doublet of walk.
Senses: examples: text: The frame on which the cloth is waulked is a board some twelve to twenty-four feet long and about two feet broad, grooved lengthwise along its surface.
ref: 1900, Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica, volume 1, page 310:
text: 1992, Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber, Random House Group (Arrow Books), page 590,
I hid a smile at the mention of wool waulking. Alone among the Highland farms, I was sure, the women of Lailybroch waulked their wool not only to the old traditional chants but also to the rhythms of Moliére and Piron.
text: Here, we compare waulking songs and shanties to see how they operated in bringing women and men, respectively, into a sense of close alignment.
ref: 2013, Marek Korczynski, Michael Pickering, Emma Robertson, Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain, Cambridge University Press, page 97:
qualifier: obsolete outside Northern England and Scotland
glosses: to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
Synonyms: sense: make denser and more like felt by soaking and beating
word: full
sense: make denser and more like felt by soaking and beating
word: walk
vax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: văks
ipa: /væks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: vaxes
form: vaxxes
form: vaxx
Etymology: From the phonetic spelling of the clipping of vaccine, vaccination or vaccinate.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of vaccine.
glosses: Clipping of vaccination.
Derived terms: antivax
anti-vax
antivaxer
anti-vaxer
antivaxx
anti-vaxx
anti-vaxxer
antivaxxer
antivaxxing
anti-vaxxing
long vax
provax
pro-vax
pro-vaxer
provaxer
provaxxer
pro-vaxxer
unvaxed
unvaxxed
vaxed
vaxer
vaxident
vaxie
vaxxed
vaxxer
vaxxident
vaxxie
Related terms: vaxin
vax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: văks
ipa: /væks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: vaxxes
form: vaxes
form: vaxxing
form: vaxing
form: vaxxed
form: vaxxed
form: vaxed
form: vaxed
form: vaxx
Etymology: From the phonetic spelling of the clipping of vaccine, vaccination or vaccinate.
Senses: examples: text: In late April, Hazelton organized a protest in Trenton demanding to “open New Jersey now,” saying into a bullhorn: “We have the right not to be tested, not to be tracked, not to be vaxxed.”
ref: 2021 January 19, Ellie Rushing, Anna Orso, “South Jersey mom and anti-vax activist directed part of the mob in breaching the Capitol”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
glosses: To vaccinate.
Related terms: dox
hax
VAXen
VAXherd
mado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mados
Senses: glosses: Any fish in the genus Atypichthys, in Australia mostly Atypichthys strigatus and in New Zealand Atypichthys latus.
fulling mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulling mills
Senses: glosses: A mill, traditionally usually a water mill, used for fulling cloth.
mura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmu.ɹə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Etymology: From Japanese 斑 (mura, literally “blemish, fluctuation”).
Senses: examples: text: Major classes of LCFPD defects encountered at the final inspection are often pixel defects or wide-area pixel defects (also known as Mura defects).
ref: US Patent 5,917,935, Mura detection apparatus and method, 1996 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=5917935.PN.&OS=PN/5917935&RS=PN/5917935
text: Software Simulates Sight: Flat Panel Mura Detection
ref: NASA Scientific and Technical Information, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20090716051258/http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2008/ct_7.html
glosses: Nonuniformity in the luminance of a display device.
topics: business
coordinate_terms: muda
muri
glosses: A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when inventory is required but not immediately available.
ethoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethoxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the anion CH₃CH₂O⁻ derived from ethanol by the loss of a proton
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt of this anion
Synonyms: ethanolate
ethanolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethanolates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: ethoxide
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt derived from ethanol by loss of a proton
Derived terms: monoethanolate
naula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naulas
Senses: glosses: A shallow stepped Himalayan well built on a natural spring.
nuc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
homophone: neuk
homophone: nuke
Forms: form: nucs
form: nuke
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week[…]
ref: 1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them, page 110:
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
thirteen hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The start of the fourteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 13:00.
glosses: The number one thousand three hundred.
glosses: The year 1300.
fourteen hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The number one thousand four hundred.
glosses: The year 1400.
glosses: The start of the fifteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 14:00.
fifteen hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: 1500, one thousand five hundred.
glosses: 1500 hours, the start of the sixteenth hour of the day (3 pm).
souper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsupɚ/
ipa: /ˈsuːpə/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
homophone: super
Forms: form: soupers
Etymology: From soup + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who, during the Irish famine, supplied food such as soup to Catholics who converted to Protestantism.
examples: Croghan Soupers
synonyms: swaddler
glosses: A (former) Catholic who converted to Protestantism in order to gain such food.
Related terms: pea-souper
souperism
soup kitchen
soupmaker
petit souper
stewer
sixteen hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The start of the seventeenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 16:00.
glosses: The number one thousand six hundred.
glosses: The year 1600.
seventeen hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The start of the eighteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 17:00.
glosses: The number one thousand seven hundred.
glosses: The year 1700.
eighteen hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The number one thousand eight hundred.
glosses: The start of the nineteenth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 18:00.
glosses: The year 1800.
nineteen hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The start of the twentieth hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 19:00.
glosses: The number one thousand nine hundred.
glosses: The year 1900.
twenty hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The start of the twenty-first hour of the day on the 24-hour clock, i.e. 20:00.
twenty-one hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The start of the twenty-second hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 21:00.
glosses: The number two thousand one hundred.
glosses: The year 2100.
twenty-two hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The start of the twenty-third hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 22:00.
glosses: The number two thousand two hundred.
glosses: The year 2200.
twenty-three hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The start of the last hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 23:00.
glosses: The number two thousand three hundred.
glosses: The year 2300.
zero hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The start of the first hour of the day on the 24-hour clock, i.e. 0:00, military time.
metaphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphosphates
Etymology: From meta- + phosphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of metaphosphoric acid.
Derived terms: hexametaphosphate
trimetaphosphate
ratite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹætaɪt/
Etymology: From Latin ratis (“raft”) + -ite; ratites (unlike other birds) lack a keel on their sternum, and rafts are vessels that lack keels.
Senses: examples: text: Against what was probably the general expectation, it became undeniable that New Zealand was indeed the home of huge ratite birds.
ref: 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 37:
synonyms: ratitate
glosses: Pertaining to running, flightless birds with no keels on their sternums (as opposed to carinate).
ratite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹætaɪt/
Forms: form: ratites
Etymology: From Latin ratis (“raft”) + -ite; ratites (unlike other birds) lack a keel on their sternum, and rafts are vessels that lack keels.
Senses: glosses: A member of a diverse group of mostly large, running, flightless birds that lack keels on their sternums, mostly extinct such as the elephant bird and moa, but including the extant cassowaries, emu, kiwi, ostrich, and rhea; formerly grouped together in the order Struthioniformes, and including the Paleognathae except the tinamous.
Synonyms: word: ratite
Hypernyms: word: bird
Hyponyms: word: cassowary
word: elephant bird
word: emu
word: kiwi
word: moa
word: nothura
word: ostrich
word: rhea
word: tinamou
sensations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈseɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sensation
proofreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: proof-reading
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proofread
proofreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: proofreadings
form: proof-reading
Senses: examples: text: We gave the document two proofreadings, to make absolutely sure that no errors would remain.
synonyms: proofread#Noun
glosses: The act or process by which a document is proofread.
Related terms: proofreader
shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: glosses: plural of shot
shots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shot
renamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rename
reminds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remind
reconnaissance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈkɒnəsəns/
Forms: form: reconnaissances
form: recce
form: recon
Etymology: Borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition”). Doublet of recognizance.
Senses: examples: text: The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.
ref: 1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama:
glosses: The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
Derived terms: reccy
recon
reconnaissance in force
space reconnaissance
Related terms: reconnoiter
reconnoitre
spn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spns
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of substitution-permutation network.
ly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lys
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of light year.
Synonyms: LY
lightyear
Derived terms: kly
Mly
Gly
Related terms: psc
pc
scriptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scripture
gunsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnˌsmɪθ/
Forms: form: gunsmiths
Etymology: From gun + smith.
Senses: examples: text: In New York, state lawmakers announced legislation on Monday that would require makers of ghost guns to have a gunsmith license and register the firearms.
ref: 2018 July 30, Tiffany Hsu, Alan Feuer, “A Rush to Block Downloadable Plans for 3-D Printed Guns”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
synonyms: gunmaker
gunbuilder
glosses: A manufacturer of guns.
glosses: A person skilled in the repair and servicing of firearms.
Synonyms: armourer
armorer
gatekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪt.kiː.pə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪt.ki.pɚ/
Forms: form: gatekeepers
Etymology: From gate + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: The sources the citations are drawn from are significant, being printed books or newspapers subject to editorial processes and gatekeepers of language standards, as opposed to unedited texts such as blogs, chatroom logs or student writing.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:
glosses: A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
examples: text: […]“Here,” he said, stepping forward and handing twopence to the gatekeeper; “let the young woman pass.”
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 1, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 9:
text: At each station is a level crossing, in addition to others away from stations, and, as both the road and rail traffic are heavy, the gatekeepers (mostly signalmen) are quite busy and have acquired well-merited mention for reducing delays to road traffic to a minimum.
ref: 1946 January and February, G. A. Sekon, “The L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
glosses: A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
glosses: A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
glosses: One who gatekeeps.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
Derived terms: gatekeeperism
gatekeepership
gatekeepery
glass cockpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass cockpits
Senses: glosses: An aircraft cockpit with its avionics displayed on computer screens, rather than on gauges.
wikipedia: Learjet 75
Related terms: fly-by-wire
greenhouse cockpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenhouse cockpits
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A distinctive style of cockpit with numerous windows, rather than simply the front windscreen, as seen on such types as the Lancaster and Stirling bombers.
bistre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbɪstɚ/
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bistres
form: bister
Etymology: From French bistre.
Senses: glosses: A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood.
examples: text: [O]h! what an object he was! The rings round his eyes were of the colour of bistre […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment.
Derived terms: bistred
bister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bistre.
recce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛ.ki/
rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: recces
form: recco
form: reccy
Etymology: Clipping of reconnaissance.
Senses: examples: text: 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography
Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce, she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.
text: As he climbed into the car, his recce of the space behind the seats was still a little too obvious despite best efforts at subtlety.
ref: 2006, Vincent Tuckwood, Karaoke Criminals:
text: I'm afraid you two will have to go on a bit of a recce sometime soon.
ref: 2006, Steve Farndon, Escape Inc.:
text: He'd be over at Christmas to do a proper sort-through of Velerie's things, but in the meantime could Shannon have a quiet recce and make sure everything was secure?
ref: 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Rona disappeared into the little kitchenette and Nicol made a recce of the room.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:
text: 1946, United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
There appears a captured photograph showing cruiser or battleship recovery of an old Jap float recce plane.
text: These record imagery from all three recce sensors - IR, EO and SAR.
ref: 2006, Tony Holmes, US Marine Corps And RAAF Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom:
text: Reconnaissance (recce) patrols were the most effective solution that the British and Indian Army designed to identify Japanese units and their intentions, as these could move through the jungle without alerting the enemy to their presence.
ref: 2006, Hew Strachan, Big Wars And Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the 20th Century:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Reconnaissance.
recce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛ.ki/
rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: recces
form: recceing
form: recced
form: recced
form: recce'd
form: recce'd
form: recceed
form: recceed
form: recco
form: reccy
Etymology: Clipping of reconnaissance.
Senses: examples: text: I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.
ref: 1961, John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel:
text: Take him down there with Entry Two and recce first. If he can't confirm it, we pull out.
ref: 2006, James Scott, The Sweaties:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Reconnoitre.
Synonyms: word: recon
counter-terrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterterrorism
Etymology: From counter- + terrorism.
Senses: glosses: Measures intended to combat or reduce terrorist activities.
recon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɒn/
ipa: /ˈɹiːkɒn/
ipa: /ˈɹikɑn/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
rhymes: (UK) -iːkɒn
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
Forms: form: recons
Etymology: Contracted form of reconnaissance.
Senses: examples: text: During a scan of the Phoenix system asteroid field, you detected an odd energy reading that Tali determined was quarian in nature. She led a recon team into the asteroid field, where she discovered an abandoned freighter.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Carbonaceous Asteroid, Phoenix:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: reconnaissance.
recon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɒn/
ipa: /ˈɹiːkɒn/
ipa: /ˈɹikɑn/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
rhymes: (UK) -iːkɒn
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
Forms: form: recons
form: reconning
form: reconned
form: reconned
Etymology: Contracted form of reconnaissance.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: reconnoiter.
Synonyms: word: recce
recon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɒn/
ipa: /ˈɹiːkɒn/
ipa: /ˈɹikɑn/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
rhymes: (UK) -iːkɒn
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
Forms: form: recons
Etymology: Contracted form of recombination + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as " […] the smallest element in the one-dimensional array that is interchangeable (but not divisible) by genetic recombination."
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.
bifacial core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bifacial cores
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The roughly biconical remains of a piece of worked flint from which all possible blades have been struck.
molybdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molybdates
Etymology: From molybdic acid + -ate (“a derivative, a salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion MoO₄²⁻.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of molybdic acid.
Derived terms: dimolybdate
heptamolybdate
oxythiomolybdate
paramolybdate
pentamolybdate
phosphomolybdate
tetramolybdate
thiomolybdate
Related terms: molybdenate
molybdenyl
metamolybdate
trimolybdate
molybdic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the hydrated form of molybdenum trioxide, H₂MoO₄
Related terms: molybdate
rorqual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔɹkwəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɔːkwəl/
Forms: form: rorquals
Etymology: From Norwegian Nynorsk røyrkval, from Old Norse reyðarhvalr (“fin whale”).
Senses: examples: text: Now then, the biggest whales, those rorqual whales that frequent the waterways of the Aleutian Islands, have never exceeded a length of 56 meters--if they reach even that.
ref: 2001 [1873], Frederick Paul Walter, transl., 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, Wikisource / Project Gutenberg, translation of Vingt mille lieues sous les mers by Jules Verne:
glosses: Any whale of family Balaenopteridae, with longitudinal skin folds running from below the mouth to the navel, allowing the capacity of the mouth to expand greatly when feeding.
Derived terms: lesser rorqual
Sibbald's rorqual
Related terms: baleen
biconical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + conical.
Senses: glosses: consisting of two cones placed together apex to apex
Derived terms: biconical antenna
biconical capacitor
biconically
bordar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bordars
Etymology: From Latin bordarius, of Teutonic origin. See board.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: bordarius
glosses: A person ranking below villeins and above serfs in the social hierarchy of a manor, holding just enough land to feed a family (about five acres) and required to provide labour on the demesne on specified days of the week.
Related terms: cottar
cairn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛən/
ipa: /kɛ(ə)ɹn/
ipa: /keːn/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /keən/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /kiən/
ipa: /keɹn/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /kɜː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: cairns
Etymology: From Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic càrn, from Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
Compare Welsh carn, Cornish carn. Doublet of carn and horn.
Senses: examples: text: "Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.
ref: 1826, Thomas Campbell, “Glenara”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, page 105:
synonyms: See burial mound § Synonyms
glosses: A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
examples: text: After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high saddle on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.
ref: 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 180:
hypernyms: marker
glosses: A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
glosses: A cairn terrier.
Derived terms: word: cairned
word: cairnless
word: cairnlike
word: cairn terrier
word: Cairn Water
word: Cairnwood
word: cairny
word: Clava cairn
word: Tate's Cairn
wolfberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfberries
Etymology: From wolf + berry.
Senses: synonyms: boxthorn
matrimony vine
desert-thorn
glosses: Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium.
synonyms: Chinese matrimony vine
Chinese wolfberry
glosses: Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense
synonyms: goji
goji berry
glosses: The berry of this plant.
glosses: The western snowberry, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, a shrub native to nothern and central North America.
yuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese 湯葉, ゆば (yuba)
Senses: glosses: Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.
Related terms: okara
yarraman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yarramans
form: yarramen
Etymology: Uncertain. Suspected to be from an Australian language of coastal New South Wales, but the term was used by white settlers as a pidgin for communicating with the indigenous people and was rapidly adopted into their languages (preceding actual arrival of horses in some cases), making an origin difficult to ascertain. Each may well have believed they were using the other's word! (Reference: R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN.)
Senses: qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: horse
vacations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacation
vacations
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacation
warra
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wharra.
bubu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boubou (“type of robe”).
campagne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campagna
growan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growans
Etymology: From Cornish growan (“gravel”).
Compare Armorican grouan (“gravel”), Cornish grow (“gravel, sand”).
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
eyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eying
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eye
eying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eyeing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eye
show business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of showbusiness.
pappi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pappus
Rosh Hodesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rosh Chodesh
Senses: glosses: In the Jewish calendar, the first day of a new month.
Synonyms: word: calends
Related terms: Rosh Hashanah
roquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roquets
Senses: glosses: In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
Synonyms: croquet