cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
evidence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns/
ipa: /ˈɛv.ə.dəns/
ipa: [ˈɛv.ɪ.ɾɪns]
ipa: [ˈɛv.ə.ɾɪns]
ipa: /ˈev.ɪ.dəns/
Forms: form: evidences
form: evidencing
form: evidenced
form: evidenced
Etymology: From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.
Senses: examples: text: She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.
text: That he was a great locomotive engineer, it would be foolish to deny or even to qualify; that he was also extremely pig-headed is fairly evidenced by David Joy, who in his 'Diaries' said that Stroudley always wanted his way 'to the last nut and bolt.'
ref: 1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234:
text: Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251:
text: "And I think we can do better, and we have to do better, because we need to evidence why public ownership of the railways is going to work for the people who use it.
ref: 2022 April 6, Conrad Landin, “ScotRail in the public eye...”, in RAIL, number 954, page 39:
glosses: To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
Synonyms: attest
testify
witness
Derived terms: evidenceable
evidencer
unevidenced
mammock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmamək/
ipa: /ˈmæmək/
ipa: /ˈmɑmək/
rhymes: (US) -æmək
Forms: form: mammocks
Etymology: From mam (of obscure origin) + -ock (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: "Can. Let me be torn into mammocks with wild Bears if I make not a gallemaufry of thy heart"
ref: 1600, John Day, The Blind Beggar of Bednal-Green:
text: The bird liveth by the scraps, and feedeth upon the leavings of that monster, who gently receiveth him into his mouth, and suffers him to pecke his jawes and teeth for such mamockes [translating morceaux] of flesh as sticke betweene them[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: "Then, by St. Thomas of Canterbury," replied Gurth, "we will have the castle, should we tear it down with our hands!" / "We have nothing else to tear it with," replied Wamba; "but mine are scarce fit to make mammocks of freestone and mortar."
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
synonyms: word: hunk
word: lump
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: A shapeless piece; a fragment.
mammock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmamək/
ipa: /ˈmæmək/
ipa: /ˈmɑmək/
rhymes: (US) -æmək
Forms: form: mammocks
form: mammocking
form: mammocked
form: mammocked
Etymology: From mam (of obscure origin) + -ock (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: I saw him run after a gilded Butterfly, & when he caught it, he let it go againe, and after it againe, and ouer and ouer he comes, and vp againe: catcht it again: or whether his fall enrag'd him, or how 'twas, hee did so set his teeth, and teare it. Oh, I warrant how he mammockt it.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: to keep off the profane touch of the Laicks, whilst the obscene, and surfeted Priest scruples not to paw, and mammock the sacramentall bread, as familiarly as his Tavern Bisket
ref: 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation:
text: Yet, in the meaning of presumptuous, "bold" could reveal the poet's ambivalence, since in their impudence the navvies took liberties with nature by mammocking it. Another reservation could be the implied contrast with Harry […]
ref: 1987, Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters: DQR, page 104:
text: However, his own son has been pulling wings off butterflies, torturing them, mammocking them in his teeth, letting them go, capturing them again, mammocking them, and so on.
ref: 2015, Tina Packer, Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays, page 244:
text: I smiled at her and she smiled back, her mouth sticky with strawberry jam from a piece of toast she was mammocking.
ref: 2020, Bradley W. Wright, Enigma Variations:
qualifier: chiefly North Carolina
glosses: To tear to pieces.
Related terms: mommick
mummock
alley oop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /al.ɪˈuːp/
ipa: /al.ɪˈʊp/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈup/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈʊp/
rhymes: -uːp
rhymes: -ʊp
Forms: form: alley oop !
form: allee-oops
form: alley-oop
form: alleyoop
form: allez-oop
form: allez oop
form: allez-up
form: ally-oop
Etymology: Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: I fortunately found a spark plug on the burn and got that repaired and alley oop!
ref: 1917 September 9, B.S. Walcott, letter printed in the 6 Feb. 1918 Princeton Alumni Weekly, p. 389
text: He lifted her onto the verandah, crying “Allee-oops!”
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 351:
text: Allez--... --oop!
Beautiful! Great flip Mike!
ref: 1985, Kevin Eastman & al., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. I, No. 4, page 2
text: ‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.
ref: 2003, Antoinette Stockenberg, A Month at the Shore, page 185:
glosses: Encouraging or calling attention to a physical performance, especially one involving an upwards lift or leap.
Synonyms: word: get up!
word: go on!
english: encouraging
translation: encouraging
word: come on!
alley oop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /al.ɪˈuːp/
ipa: /al.ɪˈʊp/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈup/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈʊp/
rhymes: -uːp
rhymes: -ʊp
Forms: form: allee-oops
form: alley-oop
form: alleyoop
form: allez-oop
form: allez oop
form: allez-up
form: ally-oop
Etymology: Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Down with the starched collars! Allez up with the soft!
ref: 1923 November 8, The Daily Herald, page 4:
glosses: Synonym of up.
synonyms: word: up
alley oop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /al.ɪˈuːp/
ipa: /al.ɪˈʊp/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈup/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈʊp/
rhymes: -uːp
rhymes: -ʊp
Forms: form: alley oops
form: allee-oops
form: alley-oop
form: alleyoop
form: allez-oop
form: allez oop
form: allez-up
form: ally-oop
Etymology: Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Rollie says... we should cut out our ‘alley-oop’. He says: ‘It's vulgar, that alley-oop. Every small-time acrobat says “alley-oop”.’
ref: 1927, Wallace Smith, Are You Decent?, page 94:
glosses: An instance of saying "Alley oop!"
examples: text: Owens helped beat the Chicago Bears with a catch he made in the end zone;... a week later he gathered in an Alley Oop from Tittle for a victory over Green Bay.
ref: 1965, Harold Rosenthal, The Big Play, page 71:
text: It was a mystery how he managed to ride at all with that set-up, let alone tweak alley-oops on this natural quarter pipe!
ref: 2006, Snowboard Journal, number 10, page 29:
text: Kobe Bryant–to–Shaquille O'Neal alley-oops are among the most iconic and lasting NBA images of the early 2000s. The duo's alley-oop in Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference finals stands above the rest, without a doubt.
ref: 2017, National Basketball Association, "Top Moments: Famous Alley-oop from Kobe to Shaq Caps Lakers' Comeback"
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A high and arcing pass, catch, or move, especially (basketball) a shot made by a player as part of the same jump used to catch a pass.
Synonyms: sense: basketball: alley-oop play
word: lob jam
alley oop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /al.ɪˈuːp/
ipa: /al.ɪˈʊp/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈup/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈʊp/
rhymes: -uːp
rhymes: -ʊp
Forms: form: allee-oops
form: alley-oop
form: alleyoop
form: allez-oop
form: allez oop
form: allez-up
form: ally-oop
Etymology: Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: I decided to go for the Alley-Oop pass. I knew I had to lay it in the end zone, high, and I just rared back and threw as hard as I could.
ref: 1957 November 4, Y.A. Tittle, Reno Evening Gazette, page 14:
text: The Oroville Tigers have adapted the San Francisco '49er football team's famed... play to their own use on the basketball court.
ref: 1959 January 21, “Oroville using ‘Alley Oop’ play”, in The Appeal–Democrat, page 6:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: High and arcing.
examples: text: Do you know what an ollie to frontside 50/50 is? A stale-grab Madonna? A smith-grind to revert? An alley-oop lipslide?... They are all gravity- or death-defying tricks.
ref: 1989 November 29, The Guardian, Society, page 46:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Involving at least a 180-degree turn.
alley oop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /al.ɪˈuːp/
ipa: /al.ɪˈʊp/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈup/
ipa: /ˌæl.iˈʊp/
rhymes: -uːp
rhymes: -ʊp
Forms: form: alley oops
form: alley ooping
form: alley ooped
form: alley ooped
form: allee-oops
form: alley-oop
form: alleyoop
form: allez-oop
form: allez oop
form: allez-up
form: ally-oop
Etymology: Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: K'Nine intentionally bounced the last shot off the edge of the rim, rebounded, dribbled between his legs for three seconds, then alley ooped to Darius.
ref: 2010, Mary B. Morrison, Somebody's Gotta Be On Top:
text: When the ball came back to Tyson, he alley ooped the ball to Larry, who layed it in.
ref: 2011, Daylin Eaton, The Chronicles of Tyson Jenkins: The Witch Sisters, page 107:
glosses: To lift or toss upward, or to be lifted or tossed upward.
majuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædʒəskjuːl/
Forms: form: majuscules
Etymology: Borrowed from French majuscule, from Latin maiusculus.
Senses: glosses: A capital letter, especially one used in ancient manuscripts.
examples: text: Up to this point, Loveday appeared to be an exceptionally typical undergraduate, in that he wrote in majuscule what his fellows scribbled in lower case.
ref: 1951, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Magic of My Youth, R. Hart-Davis, page 111:
text: But it is far from impossible that a scribe writing in minuscule should choose majuscule for a correction at this point: for example, if he had written u for n the only way to avoid all misunderstanding might be to indicate the correction with a capital letter.
ref: 1972, Wiener Studien, H. Böhlaus, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Many of these strips are palimpsest and bear earlier writing in majuscule and old minuscule.
ref: 1975, Aubrey Diller, The Textual Tradition of Strabo’s Geography: With Appendix, the Manuscripts of Eustathius’ Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes, A. M. Hakkert, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Capital letters.
Derived terms: majuscular
majusculed
majuscule writing
majuscule writing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.
Related terms: majuscule
lob jam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lob jams
Etymology: From the two aspects of the play: a lob pass and a jam shot by the receiver.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of alley oop.
synonyms: word: alley oop
splat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /splæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: splats
Etymology: From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).
Senses: synonyms: backsplat
glosses: The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
splat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /splæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: splats
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.
glosses: The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
examples: text: The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.
glosses: The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
The asterisk *
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
The hash symbol #
examples: text: It consists of three dots or periods preceding the last (or only) parameter in the function signature. The splat operator converts the values passed to the function into an array, which can then be used inside the function […]
ref: 2019, David Powers, PHP 7 Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, page 64:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
examples: text: For example, "broadcast" (sometimes called "splat") makes a vector whose lanes are all the same scalar, like Rust's [42; N] array literal.
ref: [2023 November 27, Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch, “Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch”, in mcyoung, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2025:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
glosses: A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
glosses: A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
splat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /splæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: splats
form: splatting
form: splatted
form: splatted
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The egg splatted onto the floor.
glosses: To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
examples: text: She splatted the roach with her shoe.
glosses: To splatter.
examples: text: Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.
ref: 2003, Thomas Ertl, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2003: Proceedings, page 491:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.
Related terms: splatbook
splat map
splat mat
splatter
plop
splash
sploosh
sploop
onomatopoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onomatopoetic
form: most onomatopoetic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of onomatopoeic.
synonyms: word: onomatopoeic
Derived terms: onomatopoetically
Related terms: onomatopoeia
splat mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splat mats
Senses: examples: text: Our splat mat has saved our rug from our baby's messes again and again.
glosses: A waterproof and easily washable sheet used to collect food dropped by a small child while eating, or otherwise to protect easily soiled surfaces.
Related terms: drop cloth
drop cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop cloths
Senses: examples: text: Always put down a drop cloth before you paint a ceiling.
text: A chair draped in a drop cloth.
glosses: A highly impermeable sheet of material meant to catch paint and similar substances to prevent floor stains.
Related terms: dust sheet
tarp
tarpaulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑˈpɔː.lɪn/
ipa: /ˈtɑːɹpəlɪn/
ipa: /tɑɹˈpɔ.lɪn/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪn
Forms: form: tarpaulins
Etymology: From tar + pall (“heavy canvas”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Throw a tarpaulin over that woodpile before it gets wet.
glosses: A tarp, a heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover or blanket.
synonyms: tar
glosses: A sailor.
glosses: Any heavy, waterproof material used as a cover.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Canvas waterproofed with tar, used as a cover.
glosses: A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
tarpaulin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑˈpɔː.lɪn/
ipa: /ˈtɑːɹpəlɪn/
ipa: /tɑɹˈpɔ.lɪn/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪn
Forms: form: tarpaulins
form: tarpaulining
form: tarpaulined
form: tarpaulined
Etymology: From tar + pall (“heavy canvas”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "Cover it up! Don't touch it!" said the Professor. So we tarpaulined it according to his instructions, and there it lies.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: To cover with a tarpaulin.
Derived terms: tarp
paulin
Related terms: pall
quiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: quiches
Etymology: Borrowed from French quiche, from Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche (“cake”), from Middle High German kuoche (German Kuchen, English kuchen), from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (English cookie), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”), whence also English cake (via Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”)). Compare Persian کوکو (kuku, “quiche”). More at cake.
The sexually alluring sense originates from the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".
Senses: glosses: A pie made primarily of egg and cream, perhaps mixed with chopped meat or vegetables, in a pastry crust.
Derived terms: coronation quiche
quiche-eater
quichelike
quichey
real men don't eat quiche
Related terms: quiche lorraine
quiche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: more quiche
form: most quiche
Etymology: Borrowed from French quiche, from Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche (“cake”), from Middle High German kuoche (German Kuchen, English kuchen), from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (English cookie), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”), whence also English cake (via Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”)). Compare Persian کوکو (kuku, “quiche”). More at cake.
The sexually alluring sense originates from the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".
Senses: examples: text: I'm not even bragging, but me and my friends are pretty much quiche.
glosses: Extremely appealing to look at; sexually alluring.
non-fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonfiction.
science fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪəns ˌfɪkʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: science fictions
form: science-fiction
Etymology: From science + fiction. First use appears c. 1851. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Now this applies especially to Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given, interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true—thus circulating a knowledge of the Poetry of Science, clothed in a garb of the Poetry of Life.
ref: 1851, William Wilson, A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject:
text: Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology.
ref: 1975 April 24, Isaac Asimov, “How Easy to See the Future!”, in Natural History, volume 84, number 4, New York: American Museum of Natural History, →ISSN, page 92, column 2:
synonyms: word: scientific romance
word: scientifiction
word: sci-fi
word: SF
word: skiffy
word: stf
hypernyms: imaginative fiction
non-mimetic fiction
SF/F/H
speculative fiction
coordinate_terms: fantasy
horror
glosses: Fiction in which advanced technology or science is a key element.
examples: text: Despite decades of research, mass-market personal aircraft are still science fiction.
glosses: Technology that, while theoretically possible, is not yet practical.
Synonyms: word: science fiction
word: scientific romance
word: scientifiction
word: sci-fi
word: skiffy
word: SF
word: stf
Hypernyms: word: speculative fiction
Hyponyms: word: biopunk
word: cyberpunk
word: dieselpunk
word: edisonade
word: feghoot
word: hard science fiction
word: proto-science fiction
word: soft science fiction
word: space opera
word: steampunk
word: stfantasy
word: transrealism
Related terms: word: fan of science fiction
science fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪəns ˌfɪkʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: science-fiction
Etymology: From science + fiction. First use appears c. 1851. See cite below.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to this genre.
Derived terms: hard science fiction
military science fiction
science fact
science faction
science fantasy
science-fictionish
science-fictiony
soft science fiction
sci-fi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ.faɪ/
rhymes: -aɪfaɪ
Forms: form: sci fi
form: scifi
Etymology: A clipping of science fiction.
Senses: examples: text: I'm the kind of sci-fi addict who can stand any amount of improbability, bad acting, uninterested direction and poverty-row budgets, but can't take The Mind of Mr. Soames.
ref: 1970, National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (contributor), Films in Review, volume 21, page 571:
glosses: A genre of movies featuring mostly fictional scientific scenes.
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of science fiction.
sci-fi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ.faɪ/
rhymes: -aɪfaɪ
Forms: form: sci fi
form: scifi
Etymology: A clipping of science fiction.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to such a genre.
Synonyms: science fiction. science-fiction
sci-fix
sci-fic
SF
S.F.
S. F.
sf
s.f.
Derived terms: skiffy
SF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SFs
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of science fiction or speculative fiction, often used to avoid having to choose between the two.
glosses: Initialism of square feet.
glosses: Initialism of spontaneous fission.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: PG
SG
PF
C
glosses: Initialism of small forward.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: QF
F
FA
FB
FC
FD
glosses: Abbreviation of semifinal.
coordinate_terms: MF
DF
glosses: Initialism of single female.
raw_tags: in personal ads
SF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of San Francisco.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Sinn Féin; an Irish political party.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Street Fighter.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of Super Formula.
SF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of smoker-friendly: not objecting to people who smoke tobacco.
raw_tags: in personal ads
Related terms: SF 10
Madurai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌðʊraɪ/
note: US, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˌmɑːdəˈraɪ/
Forms: form: Madura
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil மதுரை (maturai), from Old Tamil 𑀫𑀢𑀼𑀭𑁃 (maturai).
Senses: glosses: A district of Tamil Nadu, India.
glosses: A city, the headquarters of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India, also the cultural capital of the state.
Related terms: Madurai Veeran
speculative fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speculative fictions
Senses: examples: text: There are at least two principal ways to write speculative fiction—write about people, or write about gadgets.
ref: 1947, Robert A. Heinlein, On the Writing of Speculative Fiction:
text: And the speculation shows signs of turning into very sophisticated science fiction – science fiction in the purest sense; speculative fiction about science.
ref: 1987, Angela Carter, “Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 588:
text: Stephenson is one of speculative fiction’s most meticulous architects, and here he’s got sheets and sheets of blueprint.
ref: 2021 November 16, Omar El Akkad, “Neal Stephenson’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A class of fiction involving fantastic, supernatural, or futuristic elements, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction, dealing with worlds, themes, and characters not part of everyday life.
glosses: A particular work belonging to this class.
Synonyms: word: imaginative fiction
word: non-mimetic fiction
word: SF
word: SF/F/H
word: speculative fiction
Hypernyms: word: genre fiction
Hyponyms: word: alternate history
word: apocalyptic
word: dystopian
word: fantasy
word: horror
word: post-apocalyptic
word: science fiction
word: speculative erotica
word: superhero
word: supernatural
word: utopian
word: magic realism
word: omegaverse
word: punk
code review
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code reviews
Senses: examples: text: After several painful episodes, we've decided to adopt code review for all major changes.
text: How did that get through two separate code reviews?
text: For small projects, code reviews can be used to ensure that software implementations adhere to the detailed designs.
ref: 2008, Anthony J. Lattanze, Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 355:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The practice, or an instance, of identifying and verifying the choice of algorithms, coding styles and compliance with the software design.
code review
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: code reviews
form: code reviewing
form: code reviewed
form: code reviewed
Senses: examples: text: Did anyone code review that class before it went into the shipping version?
text: These changes are code-reviewed by other team members and merged to the main branch upon approval.
ref: 2021, Billy Yuen, Alexander Matyushentsev, Todd Ekenstam, Jesse Suen, GitOps and Kubernetes […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: review
glosses: To perform a code review on.
dequeue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
homophone: deck
Forms: form: dequeues
Etymology: Short for double-ended queue.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deque.
dequeue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
homophone: deck
ipa: /ˌdiːˈkjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: DQ
ipa: /dɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
homophone: deck
Forms: form: dequeues
form: dequeuing
form: dequeueing
form: dequeued
form: dequeued
Etymology: From de- + queue.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove an item from a queue.
Derived terms: dequeuer
stacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stækt/
Forms: form: more stacked
form: most stacked
Senses: examples: text: The plates were stacked waiting to be cleaned.
glosses: Arranged in a stack.
examples: text: That girl at the party was really stacked.
text: You know what I like, I like a girl that's really smart / Provided that she's really stacked
ref: 1982, “Prowlin'”, in Domenic Bugatti, Frank Muskeer, Christopher Cerf (lyrics), Grease 2:
glosses: Having large breasts.
glosses: Having large muscles; buff.
glosses: Wealthy.
examples: text: a stacked deck of cards
text: That game is stacked. Don't even try it.
text: And I tread a troubled track / My odds are stacked / I'll go back to black
ref: 2006, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, “Back to Black”, in Back to Black, performed by Amy Winehouse:
glosses: Unfairly constructed; rigged.
coordinate_terms: loose
solid
glosses: Measured stacked or organized (such as of firewood when in neat stacks), but with gaps between individual pieces.
raw_tags: of volumes of materials
examples: text: The addition of Holiday is especially auspicious because while the team is stacked with great offensive players, it is a little lacking on defense, and he fills that gap.
ref: 2021 July 23, Eve Peyser, “U.S. Men's Basketball Had a Rocky Tokyo Olympics Start. I'm Still Excited.”, in New York Magazine:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
glosses: Having many skilled players.
raw_tags: of a team
examples: ref: 2022 January 2, Carvs, “I Killed a Stacked Player Using 117 Ravagers...”, in YouTube:
topics: video-games
glosses: Having a large advantage as a result of accumulating many items and upgrades.
Derived terms: deep stacked
short stacked
stacked modal
well-stacked
stacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stækt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stack
frosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɔʃ/
ipa: /fɹɑʃ/
ipa: /fɹɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːʃ
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: froshes
Etymology: From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosc, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). Doublet of frosk; more at frog.
Senses: examples: text: 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356
roman: The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.
glosses: A frog.
frosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɔʃ/
ipa: /fɹɑʃ/
ipa: /fɹɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːʃ
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: froshes
form: frosh
Etymology: Blend of freshman + sophomore.
Senses: examples: text: The frosh are really getting on my nerves!
glosses: A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.
qualifier: plural "froshes"
glosses: Ellipsis of frosh week.
Synonyms: word: underclassman
word: newbie
word: fresher
Derived terms: prefrosh
frosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɔʃ/
ipa: /fɹɑʃ/
ipa: /fɹɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːʃ
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: froshes
form: froshing
form: froshed
form: froshed
Etymology: Blend of freshman + sophomore.
Senses: examples: text: This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
glosses: To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
examples: text: Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
glosses: To damage through incompetence.
Synonyms: sense: initiate
word: haze
Derived terms: froshing
freshman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛʃmən/
Forms: form: freshmen
Etymology: From fresh + man.
Senses: examples: text: At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.
text: When he was but yet a freshman in Cambridge.
ref: 1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden:
text: Sir Alexander: Then he's a graduate.
Sir Davy: Say they trust him not?
Sir Alexander: Then is he held a freshman and a sot,¶ And never shall commence, but being still barr'd¶ Be expuls'd from the master's side to th' twopenny ward,¶ Or else i' th' hole be plac'd.
ref: 1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl, act 3, scene 3:
text: As a country, we now enter what the seven freshmen called “unchartered waters”, with an unprecedented political and constitutional crisis looming on the horizon.
ref: 2019 September 25, Geoffrey Kabaservice, “Impeach Trump? The United States is now in uncharted waters”, in The Guardian:
text: Trump may have played a role in swaying some holdouts — calling into a meeting of Republican freshmen the night before, and calling other members ahead of voting.
ref: January 7 2023, Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, “McCarthy elected House speaker in rowdy post-midnight vote”, in AP News:
glosses: a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body
examples: text: I am but a Freshman yet in France, therefore I can send you no News but that all is here quiet, and 'tis no ordinary News that the French should be quiet.
ref: 1619 August 6, James Howell, The Familiar Letters of James Howell, volume 1, published 1892, Letter XIII, page 39:
glosses: a novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge
Synonyms: word: fresher
word: frosh
word: freshie
word: grade nine student
word: grade 9 student
word: Grade 9 student
word: grade-niner
word: grade niner
sense: highschool, university
word: first-year student
sense: highschool, university
word: first year student
sense: highschool, university
word: 1st year student
sense: highschool, university
word: 1st yr student
word: grade seven student
word: grade 7 student
word: Grade 7 student
Derived terms: freshman fifteen
freshmanhood
freshmanic
freshmanly
freshmanship
prefreshman
subfreshman
Related terms: junior
senior
sophomore
upperclassman
ditch day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditch days
Etymology: From ditch (“deliberately not attend classes”).
Senses: glosses: A day on which a group of students, generally the senior class, leaves the campus and its responsibilities for a day.
Synonyms: cut day
skip day
Cal Tech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Caltech.
Caltech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkælˌtɛk/
Forms: form: CalTech
form: Cal Tech
Senses: coordinate_terms: Cal State
glosses: Acronym of California Institute of Technology.
esh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: eshes
Senses: glosses: The IPA symbol ʃ.
glosses: The letter Ʃ/ʃ, used by some African languages.
Derived terms: shibilant
tesh
honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: honours
Senses: examples: text: Honours are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
text: The lorde of the honour or manour
ref: 1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying:
text: A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 13:57:
text: And when the long-illumined cities flame, / Their ever-loyal iron leader's fame, / With honour, honour, honour, honour to him, / Eternal honour to his name.
ref: 1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza X”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 14:
text: Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly from Judbarra National Park in the Northern Territory. It was named in honour of his colleague Cate Lemann, by Bry the Fly Guy (aka Dr Bryan Lessard), an entomologist at our insect collection.
ref: 2019 July 1, “A Game of Flies: naming 230 new species”, in CSIRO:
glosses: British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
Derived terms: honour card
honourless
honourous
honourworthy
point of honour
unhonour
honour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: honours
form: honouring
form: honoured
form: honoured
Senses: glosses: British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
Derived terms: honouree
honourer
honour
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
labradorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹəˌdɔɹˌaɪt/
ipa: /ˌlæb.ɹəˈdɔɹˌaɪt/
Forms: form: labradorites
Etymology: From Labrador + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A plagioclase feldspar mineral, calcium sodium aluminum silicate, often very coarsely crystalline, used as a decorative stone for carvings and building façades.
Derived terms: labradoritic
Related terms: rock
feldspar
plagioclase
good morning
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/
Forms: form: good-morning
Etymology: From Middle English gud mornynge (also as goode morne, gode morne), from Old English *gōdne morgen (“good morning”), an ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good morning", equivalent to good + morning. Compare West Frisian goeie moarn, Dutch goedemorgen, German guten Morgen, Danish god morgen, Swedish god morgon, Icelandic góðan morgunn.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher welcomed the kids to school with "Good morning, boys and girls."
text: Other rules learnt by butlers include lighting candles 15 minutes before guests enter a room, and not saying "good morning" to guests until you are 5ft away.
ref: 2019 December 15, Hugh Graham, Alice Hutton, “Milk or tea first? Charles's butlers have the answer”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,188, page 5:
synonyms: good morrow
glosses: Used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning.
examples: text: Thank you for coming everyone and I hope to see you again next year. Good morning.
text: “Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you![…]” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end. / “What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. “Now you mean that you want to get rid of me,[…]”
ref: 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “An Unexpected Party”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 19:
qualifier: more formal
glosses: A parting in the morning.
examples: text: Up at the crack of dusk! Good morning!
glosses: Used to greet someone who has just awakened (irrespective of the time of day).
examples: text: You're just realizing that now? Good morning!
glosses: Said to someone who has come to a belated realization.
Coordinate terms: good afternoon
good day
good evening
good morrow
good night
Derived terms: word: good-morning
good morning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/
Forms: form: good mornings
form: good-morning
form: goodmorning
Etymology: From Middle English gud mornynge (also as goode morne, gode morne), from Old English *gōdne morgen (“good morning”), an ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good morning", equivalent to good + morning. Compare West Frisian goeie moarn, Dutch goedemorgen, German guten Morgen, Danish god morgen, Swedish god morgon, Icelandic góðan morgunn.
Senses: glosses: A greeting consisting of the interjection.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:good morning.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: An exercise performed by bending forward at the waist and then returning to a standing posture, while bearing a barbell or resistance band across the shoulders.
good morning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/
Forms: form: good mornings
form: good morninging
form: good morninged
form: good morninged
Etymology: From Middle English gud mornynge (also as goode morne, gode morne), from Old English *gōdne morgen (“good morning”), an ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good morning", equivalent to good + morning. Compare West Frisian goeie moarn, Dutch goedemorgen, German guten Morgen, Danish god morgen, Swedish god morgon, Icelandic góðan morgunn.
Senses: examples: text: It could not otherwise befall / (Sir Thomas, and his Wife, this course persuing,) / But that the Lady, affable to all, / Should greet the Friars, on her way / To matins, as she met them, every day, / Good morninging, and how d’ye doing: […]
ref: 1802, George Colman, (the Younger), “Sir Thomas Erpingham’s Sonnet on His Lady”, in Broad Grins; […], London: […] [F]or T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […] [by] W[illiam] Flint, […], →OCLC, page 56:
text: So Puffington sauntered along good morninging “Sir Harrys,” and “Sir Jameses,” and “Lord Johns,” and “Lord Toms,” […]
ref: 1850 February, [Robert Smith Surtees], “Soapey Sponge’s Sporting Tour”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine, and Humorist, volume LXXXVIII, number CCCL, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter XXXIV (Mr. Puffington; or, The Young Man about Town), page 209:
text: He stopped at Maggie’s spot. They “good morninged” each other.
ref: 2016, Teresa Millias, “Bones on the Sidewalk”, in Ripples (Stories from Lone Moon Creek; 2), Mesa, Ariz.: Brighton Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of good-morning (“to say good morning (to someone)”).
bewitching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: bewitchings
Etymology: From bewitch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.
bewitching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: more bewitching
form: most bewitching
Etymology: From bewitch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Harry pursed his lips. He thought about Morgan Robertson and his magical books. He thought about Lyle Lillihammer, thoroughly ensorcelled, who was even now starting the second of what would probably be an entire series of PhDs at the SCP Foundation. He thought about Eileen Veiksaar, who had promised with another bewitching closed-mouth smile to meet him for coffee on his first day at Site-43 a month from now. He didn't like coffee, but he did like the possibilities unfolding in front of him. He thought about those possibilities.
ref: 2021 March 14, HarryBlank, “Defence”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2024:
glosses: Enchanting.
Derived terms: bewitchingly
bewitchingness
amygdala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɪɡ.də.lə/
Forms: form: amygdalas
form: amygdalae
Etymology: Named because of its shape. Learned borrowing from Latin amygdala (“almond”), from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”). Doublet of almond, amygdale, and mandorla.
Senses: examples: text: There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see subsection on "Noradrenaline"). Thus, individuals lacking cortisol would overstore traumatic memories .
ref: 2006, Marcus Lira Brandão, Frederico Guilherme Graeff, Neurobiology of Mental Disorders, page 36:
text: Cognitive scientists distinguish between normal risk-assessment decisions, which activate the reward-prediction regions of the brain, and decisions made amid extreme uncertainty, which generate activity in the amygdala.
ref: 2009 February 12, David Brooks, “The Worst-Case Scenario”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
text: In the study, led by Ryota Kanai of the University College London, people who identified themselves as liberals generally had a larger anterior cingulate cortex — a comma-shaped region near the front of the brain that is involved in decision-making. By contrast, those who identified as conservatives had larger amygdalas — almond-shaped structures that are linked with emotional learning and the processing of fear.
ref: 2011 April 8, Amie Ninh, “Liberal vs. Conservative: Does the Difference Lie in the Brain?”, in TIME:
text: A decreased amygdala response, in other words, may help explain the “slippery slope” of lying, said Sharot, one of the authors of “The Human Brain Adapts to Dishonesty,” just published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
ref: 2017 March 21, Jessica Ravitz, “Lying may be your brain’s fault, honestly”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Each one of the two regions of the brain, located as a pair in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in processing emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.
Derived terms: amygdalar
amygdalase
amygdalic
amygdalocortical
extended amygdala
intraamygdala
Related terms: amygdalian
amygdalin
amygdaloid
mesoamygdala
Kubanskaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Куба́нская f (Kubánskaja), related to Куба́нь (Kubánʹ), Kuban, an area of southern Russian around the Kuban River and the Black Sea.
Senses: glosses: Russian flavoured vodka with a touch of honey
Lewes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.ɪs/
rhymes: -uːɪs
homophone: Lewis
homophone: Louis
Forms: form: Leweses
Etymology: From Middle English Lewes, from late Old English Lewes, a variant of earlier Lǣwe, of uncertain origin. Traditionally derived from Old English hlǣw (“hill”), referring to the several mounts in Lewes. Alternatively, perhaps derived from Old English lǣw (“cut, incision, gash”), referring to the narrow, steep-sided 'gash' where the River Ouse cuts through the line of the South Downs.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename:
A town and civil parish with a town council in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4110).
glosses: A placename:
A local government district in East Sussex, England. Seat: Lewes, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the town.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A community in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Derived terms: Kingston near Lewes
bytownite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bytownites
Etymology: From Bytown + -ite, named for the type locality in Bytown (now Ottawa), Canada, but this locality was later discredited. The name, however, was kept.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A plagioclase feldspar, the fifth member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series. Bytownite is rare, and normally occurs in small grains in lime-rich igneous rocks. Clear pale yellow crystals have come from Mexico and Oregon.
Related terms: rock
feldspar
plagioclase
anorthite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anorthites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αν- (an-, “not”) + ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) "not perpendicular; less than straight", in reference to its odd.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of plagioclase feldspar, the calcium endmember of that series.
Derived terms: anorthitic
striated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪˈeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈstɹaɪeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more striated
form: most striated
Senses: glosses: Having parallel lines or grooves on the surface.
Derived terms: striated babbler
striated heron
striated muscle
unstriated
striated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪˈeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈstɹaɪeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of striate