cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
X11
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So called because it is the 11th version of the X Window System.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
wikipedia: X Window System
destabilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destabilizers
Etymology: From destabilize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, destabilizes.
destabilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destabilizer
window manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window managers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A piece of software that manages the layout of windows on the user's display.
window managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window manager
extincteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extincteurs
Etymology: From French extincteur.
Senses: glosses: A small hollow conical instrument for putting out a candle.
Synonyms: sense: device for putting out a candle
word: extinguisher
uniquenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uniqueness
fire code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire codes
Senses: glosses: A set of building and property regulations designed to establish a mandatory standard for a building's ability to resist the start and spread of a fire as well as facilitating the prompt and safe evacuation of the occupants.
building code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: building codes
Senses: glosses: A mandatory set of rules on building design, construction, testing, inspection, and maintenance to protect public health, safety, and welfare.
fire inspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire inspections
Senses: glosses: An examination of a location to determine the risk of fire breaking out and the equipment and procedures to be used in the event of fire.
Related terms: fire inspector
facial expressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facial expression
Nibley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nibleys
Etymology: From Old English hnybbe (“peak, top, summit”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Westerleigh parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST693822).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Union County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A city in Cache County, Utah, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: North Nibley
VGA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Video Graphics Array, an obsolete computer display standard that superseded CGA and EGA, with a resolution of 640 × 480 pixels, and supporting up to 256 colours on screen from a palette of 262,144.
Derived terms: QVGA
SVGA
EVGA
UVGA (4:3)
WQVGA
WSVGA
WUVGA (16:9)
VGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VGAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of video game addiction.
glosses: Initialism of variable-gauge axle.
DVI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Digital Visual Interface.
DVI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: DVIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of device independent file format.
JDBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java Database Connectivity.
prominences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prominence
behavioristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more behavioristic
form: most behavioristic
form: behaviouristic
Etymology: From behaviorist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to behaviorism, especially B. F. Skinner’s school of radical behaviorism.
Derived terms: behavioristically
Related terms: behaviorism
behaviourism
behaviorist
behaviourist
behaviouristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more behaviouristic
form: most behaviouristic
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of behavioristic.
baulky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baulky
form: most baulky
Etymology: From baulk + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of balky.
necessary condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necessary conditions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A statement Q in relation to statement P such that P implies Q.
Coordinate terms: sufficient condition
Related terms: prerequisite
sine qua non
sufficient condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufficient conditions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A statement P in relation to statement Q such that P implies Q.
Coordinate terms: necessary condition
white currant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /waɪtˈkʌɹənt/
/ˈwaɪtkʌɹənt/
Forms: form: white currants
form: whitecurrant
form: white-currant
Senses: glosses: A deciduous shrub, a less sour and colourless cultivar of Ribes rubrum (red currant), though sometimes named Ribes sativum or Ribes silvestre, and sold as a different fruit.
glosses: The white translucent edible berry of this bush.
Related terms: currant
blackcurrant
red currant
pomme
modal logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modal logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any formal system that attempts to deal with modalities, such as possibility and necessity, but also obligation and permission.
Related terms: deontic logic
doxastic logic
epistemic logic
deontic logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deontic logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The study of obligation, permission, and related concepts.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal system capturing the concepts of obligation and permission.
Related terms: modal logic
white-currant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-currants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white currant.
red-currant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-currants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of red currant.
black-currant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-currants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blackcurrant.
canzona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canzonas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian canzona.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Milnes had a turn in the spotlight with a canzona for solo organ by Johann Caspar Kerll.
ref: 2007 January 15, Steve Smith, “Classic Viennese Music, the Prequel”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of instrumental composition based on multipart vocal settings of canzoni, produced chiefly in the 16th and 17th centuries
pardal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pardals
form: pardale
Etymology: From Latin pardalis, from Ancient Greek πάρδαλις (párdalis), from an unattested Old Iranian word; compare Persian پلنگ (palang), Pashto پړانګ (pṙâng).
Senses: examples: text: Wyld beasts in yron yokes he would compell; / The spotted Panther, and the tusked Bore, / The Pardale swift, and the Tigre cruell […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A pard; a panther or leopard.
evolutionary ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Ethics - the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct - that is informed yet not uniquely determined by sociobiology - the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals.
below decks
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: [O]n the wind shifting and becoming more violent, the landsmen soon retired below decks.
ref: 1817, Maria Edgeworth, chapter 31, in Ormond:
text: Phaidor and I were taken below decks, where, still fast bound, we were thrown into a small compartment which contained a single port-hole.
ref: 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Under Arrest”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 117:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In or into any of the spaces below the main deck of a vessel.
Related terms: lower deck
ethical system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethical systems
Senses: examples: text: The main defects of Comte's ethical system are those that are common to all forms of Eudaemonism: its norm of morality is relative and contingent; it possesses no principles by which the quality of its subject-matter, social happiness, may be defined; its imperative imposes no moral obligation.
ref: 1913, “Altruism”, in Catholic Encyclopedia:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A particular set of consistent ethical principles.
Synonyms: moral system
stagnature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: stagnation
horseless carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseless carriages
Etymology: Early term for an automobile, at the time it was common that carriages were pulled by animals, typically horses, but the automobiles were not.
Senses: examples: text: The movement for the introduction of horseless carriages is represented by two periodicals, the Horseless Age and the Motocycle, in the United States; the Autocar, in London; and La Locomotion Automobile and La France Automobile, in France.
ref: 1896 August, Popular Science Monthly, volume 49:
text: Fanny Minafer had begun to talk to Lucy. "Your father wanted to prove that his horseless carriage would run, even in the snow," she said. "It really does, too."
ref: 1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter VIII, in The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: Brass Era car
glosses: An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I.
examples: text: horseless carriage thinking
text: The basic operational mechanisms and business practices were so new and strange, so utterly sui generis, that all we could see was a gaggle of “innovative” horseless carriages.
ref: 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
glosses: Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms.
Related terms: buggy whip
comparative ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anthropology
ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A type of descriptive ethics, focused on studying the nature and origins of beliefs about morality held by people in diverse social or cultural groups.
Related terms: normative ethics
metaethics
potassium bitartrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potassium bitartrates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cream of tartar
-eme
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-iːm/
Etymology: Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Senses: examples: text: phone + -eme → phoneme
text: metaphor + -eme → metaphoreme
text: prosody + -eme → prosodeme
glosses: Indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure.
hypengyophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ”Perhaps,” she says, ”you have hypengyophobia, which is the fear of responsibility.”
ref: 2010, Malcolm White, Another One Bites the Dust, page 75:
text: A classic case of hypengyophobia, the fear of responsibility.
ref: 2001, Richard Hicks, Slender Fantasies:
glosses: A fear of responsibility, or of neglecting one's responsibilities.
bhaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːd͡ʒi/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈbɑːʒi/
ipa: /ˈbʱɑːd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: bhajis
form: bhajia
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi भाजी (bhājī, “fried vegetables”).
Senses: examples: text: onion bhaji
text: Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.
ref: 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Any of various Indian dishes of fried vegetables.
Derived terms: pav bhaji
Related terms: pakora
khana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khanas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani کھانا (khānā) / खाना (khānā), from Sanskrit खादन (khādana), from खाद् (khād, “to eat”, root) + -अन (-ana), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kʰād-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷh₂ed-.
Senses: glosses: food, a meal
Related terms: burra-khana
jail khana
pascola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pascolas
Senses: glosses: A masked dancer and storyteller in some Native American cultures.
nonbonded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-bonded
Etymology: From non- + bonded.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing electron pairs that take no part in bonding
nonperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-perfect
Etymology: From non- + perfect.
Senses: glosses: Not perfect.
nonselectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: non-selectively
Etymology: From non- + selectively.
Senses: glosses: In a nonselective manner
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the isotopic labelling of a compound in which the position and numbering of the labelled nuclides are undefined; such a compound is nonselectively labelled
nuclearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclearities
Etymology: From nuclear + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The number of central metal atoms in a coordination compound.
Derived terms: mononuclearity
multinuclearity
Related terms: dinuclear
trinuclear
tetranuclear
polynuclear
nucleofuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleofuges
Etymology: From nucleo- + -fuge.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A leaving group that takes away a bonding electron pair with it
Related terms: nucleofugal
nucleofugic
nucleofugality
electrofuge
nucleophilicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleophilicities
Etymology: From nucleophilic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nucleophilic
glosses: A measure of the extent to which something is nucleophilic, or of the reactivity of such a reagent
Derived terms: supernucleophilicity
nuclidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nuclide + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to nuclides.
Related terms: binuclidic
mononuclidic
osmolality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmolalities
Etymology: Blend of osmo- + molality
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The molality of an ideal solution that would exert the same osmotic pressure as the solution being considered.
Derived terms: hyperosmolality
hypoosmolality
hyposmolality
Related terms: osmolarity
rijsttafel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪsˌtɑːfəl/
Forms: form: rijsttafels
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch rijsttafel (“rice table”).
Senses: examples: text: The famous rijsttafel, love-hate legacy of Dutch imperial days—at its most numbing brilliance it required 23 men and a boy to serve—[…]
ref: 1972 September 11, Gael Greene, “The Insatiable Critic: Ramayana east of Krakatoa”, in New York Magazine, volume 5, number 37, page 85:
text: I was born too late to experience a real Indonesian rijsttafel, but my mother used to tell me about these feasts.
ref: 1991 May, Guusje Moore, “Windmills and Rice”, in Vegetarian Times, number 165, page 28:
text: The complete or the lesser rijsttafel? I bet they're both huge, […]
ref: 2002, Edward D. Webster, A year of Sundays: taking the plunge (and our cat) to explore Europe, VanderWyk & Burnham, p. 85
text: The basic concept of a rijsttafel is to eat a bit of this and a bit of that, blending flavors and textures.
ref: 2007, George McDonald, Frommer's Amsterdam, Frommer's, page 106:
glosses: A large meal originating in colonial Indonesia composed of many different dishes with rice as the main ingredient; several side-dishes such as krupuk, acar and serundeng are served.
orthokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthokinetic
form: most orthokinetic
Etymology: From ortho- + kinetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any property related to the kinetic energy imparted by collisions with other bodies
examples: the orthokinetic behaviour of the woodlouse
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to orthokinesis.
Related terms: perikinetic
oxenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxeniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: oxylium
oxylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyliums
Etymology: From oxyl + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation such as H-O⁺ or R-O⁺
Derived terms: oxylium ion
Related terms: hydroxylium
methoxylium
oxocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxocarbons
Etymology: From oxo- + carbon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound containing only atoms of carbon and oxygen
Related terms: carbon dioxide
carbon monoxide
carbon suboxide
cyclobutanetetrone
cyclohexanehexone
cyclopentanepentone
cyclopropanetrione
mellitic anhydride
oxalic anhydride
pentacarbon dioxide
tetracarbon dioxide
tricarbon dioxide
bistek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog bistek, from Spanish bistec, from English beefsteak. Doublet of beefsteak and bifshtek.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, I started making bistek in a pan, using New York strip or skirt steak.
ref: 2020, Alvin Cailan with Alexandra Cuerdo, “The Evolution of Bistek”, in Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, “Portland Runaway” section, page 246:
text: Bestsellers on the menu include chicken inasal ($16) — Filipino-style char-grilled lemongrass chicken with calamansi ponzu — and bistek and egg ($18). The latter features citrus-soy beef, Maui onion sauce and ginger scallion sauce.
ref: 2024 August 21, Kelli Shiroma Braiotta, “Filipino food with a twist”, in Crave (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), Honolulu, Haw., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, columns 1–2:
text: The menu includes rice and noodle bowls topped with Filipino specialties such as chicken adobo, sisig (minced pork) and bistek (thinly sliced beef braised in soy sauce).
ref: 2025 February 7, Keith Pandolfi, “Restaurants”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume 184th, number 255, Cincinnati, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5D, column 1:
synonyms: bistek tagalog
glosses: A Filipino dish consisting of thinly-sliced beefsteak braised in soy sauce, calamansi juice, garlic, ground black pepper, and onions cut into rings.
literary theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The theory or the philosophy of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism
literary criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
ref: 1946, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language:
topics: literature
media
publishing
synonyms: lit crit
glosses: The study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
Related terms: literary theory
döner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: döners
Senses: examples: text: They would create a casual restaurant chain specializing in Iskender döners, those drenched in tomato sauce and yogurt but served in a clean, sit-down environment.
ref: 2014, Linda Rottenberg, “A Circle of Mentors”, in Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags, New York, N.Y.: Portfolio / Penguin, →ISBN, part II (Go Big), pages 160–161:
text: There’s a bar here, a döner shop, and a supermarket, so that’s what we do in our spare time, Father wrote. Also that the döners of Schwarzheide were the best döners he’s ever eaten.
ref: 2021, Saša Stanišić, translated by Damion Searls, “Schwarzheide, 1993”, in Where You Come From, London: Vintage, →ISBN:
text: ‘[…] He has a döner place in Frankfurt as well. Or maybe a restaurant.’ / The döner guy laughs. ‘You think everyone who sells kebabs knows each other?’ / ‘No, I know there’s no döner network, I just thought maybe you know your competition.’ / ‘Our döner’s the best.’
ref: 2023, Karosh Taha, translated by Grashina Gabelmann, In the Belly of the Queen, Berlin: V&Q Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of doner (“doner kebab”).
literary technique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literary techniques
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Literary device.
Related terms: narrative technique
literary device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literary devices
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: An identifiable rule of thumb, convention, or structure that is employed in literature and storytelling.
Synonyms: literary technique
sentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentines
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”).
Senses: examples: text: This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices; a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs; […]
ref: 1536 June 19 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, […], volume I, London: […] James Duncan, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
word play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word plays
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see word, play.
glosses: A technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names.
Hyponyms: pun
spoonerism
Gagauzia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An autonomous territorial unit of Moldova.
Related terms: Gagauz
L/C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LC
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of letter of credit.
L/C
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: l/c
Senses: qualifier: proofreading
glosses: Abbreviation of lower case.
yari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yari
Etymology: From Japanese やり (yari).
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Any of various sizes of spear used in Japanese martial arts.
Related terms: yari-yari
Alutor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alyutor
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian алю́торский (aljútorskij), short for алю́торский язы́к (aljútorskij jazýk).
Senses: glosses: A language of Russia that belongs to the Chukchi-Koryak group of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages.
yapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yapons
Senses: qualifier: now less common than "yaupon"
glosses: Alternative form of yaupon.
abiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.baɪ.oʊˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.baɪ.əˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/
Etymology: From a- + biogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not produced or derived by means of living organisms or their processes.
Derived terms: abiogenically
Related terms: abiogenesis
abiogenetic
abiosis
abiotic
krin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drum of African origin made out of a log and struck with drumsticks.
paucidisperse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paucidisperse
form: most paucidisperse
Etymology: From pauci- + disperse.
Senses: glosses: Describing a colloid in which only a few different particle sizes exist
pellicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a pellicle.
glosses: Bearing a pellicle.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the stationary phase of a chromatography system consisting of a porous outer shell on an impermeable particles
Derived terms: subpellicular
lipophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipophores
Etymology: From lipo- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lipochrome-containing chromatophore, usually a xanthophore
shamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sham
shammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sham
sews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sew
chowk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowks
Etymology: From Hindi चौक (cauk, “plaza, square, courtyard”), from Sanskrit चतुष्क (catuṣka, “quadrangular courtyard, crossway”).
Senses: glosses: An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
examples: text: The all-important Jilmil bus was about to arrive at the chowk.
ref: 2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 61:
glosses: A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
glosses: A courtyard.
Related terms: chowki
fanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fana
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fānum (“shrine”). Doublet of fane.
Senses: glosses: The site of an Ancient Roman temple or shrine.
Related terms: profane
King's Counsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: King's Counsel
form: King's Counsels
form: KC
Etymology: king's + counsel
Senses: examples: text: When the case eventually came to court in December 1903, Wellcome’s team, headed by Moulton, contained three King’s Counsel; they had marshalled seventy-two witnesses and intimated that they could produce as many again.
ref: 1994, Robert Rhodes James, “‘A Morbid Misery’”, in Henry Wellcome, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 292:
text: Arrayed in front of him was a very expensive line-up of London’s best legal brains. Each director had his own team of two, and in some cases three, defence barristers. Including two King’s Counsels who represented the Official Receiver, there were a dozen silks in court.
ref: 2011, Martin Vander Weyer, “[Misfeasance] Wilful Neglect?”, in Fortune’s Spear: The Story of the Blue-Blooded Rogue Behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920s, London: Elliott and Thompson Limited, →ISBN, page 256:
qualifier: occasionally Australia
glosses: An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a king.
glosses: A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a king.
Related terms: Senior Counsel
take silk
lipochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: careful
ipa: /ˈlai.poʊˌkɹoʊm/
ipa: /ˈlai.pəˌkɹoʊm/
Forms: form: lipochromes
Etymology: From lipo- (“lipid, fat”) + -chrome (“color”).
Senses: glosses: Any naturally-occurring, fat-soluble pigment such as carotenes or chlorophyll.
peptization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peptizations
Senses: glosses: The stabilization of a hydrophobic colloidal sol by the addition of an electrolyte that is adsorbed on the particle surfaces
perikinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + kinetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any property related to the probability of cohesion during collisions with other bodies
Related terms: orthokinetic
tradeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tradeable
form: most tradeable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tradable.
tradeable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradeables
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tradable.
periselectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periselectivities
Etymology: From peri- + selectivity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The preferential generation of one of a group of products having different symmetries during a reaction.
Related terms: periselective
perstraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perstractions
Etymology: Blend of permeation + extraction
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A separation process in which a solution is permeated through a membrane and subsequently extracted with a solvent
perturbational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perturbational
form: most perturbational
Etymology: From perturbation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or caused by perturbation
phenonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of arenium ions in which a cyclohexadienyl cation is spiro-annulated with a cyclopropane unit.
spiro-annulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spiro- + annulated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing two rings that are joined, via a single atom, to form a spiro compound.
phosphinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From phosphine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phosphinic acid or its derivatives
phosphinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phosphine + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phosphinous acid or its derivatives.
phosphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phosphorus, by analogy with sulfonic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phosphonic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: -dronic
methylphosphonofluoridate
phosphonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phosphorus by analogy with sulfurous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phosphonous acid or its derivatives.
phosphoranyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoranyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organophosphorus radical of the form R₄P.
xanthophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthophores
Etymology: From xantho- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A xanthochrome-containing chromatophore, frequently a lipophore.
xanthochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthochromes
Etymology: From xantho- + -chrome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A yellow pigment.
Related terms: xanthophore
-omas
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: plural of -oma
reparative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɛəɹətɪv/
Forms: form: more reparative
form: most reparative
Senses: examples: text: reparative surgery
text: Men shal giue the patient medicines confortatiue and reparatiue, that restore the spirites, and bringeth them againe.
ref: 1582, Stephen Batman, transl., Batman vppon Bartholome his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, Book 7, Chapter 32, p. 98:
text: To go to law for revenge, we are simply forbidden, that is, to returne evill for evill; and therefore all those suits, which are for vindictive sentences, not for reparative, are directly criminall.
ref: 1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution, Worcester: Francis Ash, Part 2, Discourse 10, p. 135:
text: […] garments had come to her which were old and worn, bearing unmistakable signs of Lotta’s coarse but reparative energies — raiment against which her feminine niceness would have rebelled, had it been possible for her, in her misfortunes, to indulge her feminine niceness.
ref: 1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 13, in Nina Balatka:
text: They made up, saying all the reparative things, but it went only so far. Andrea assured him that everything was forgiven, except when he hung up and went inside it didn’t feel as if everything, or even anything, had been forgiven.
ref: 2011 August 8, Ben Marcus, “What Have You Done?”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Tending to or intended to repair.
examples: text: reparative justice
text: Intended for offenders of misdemeanor or nonviolent felony crimes, the Reparative Probation Program directly involves community members meeting face to face with offenders to negotiate a “reparative agreement” that specifies how offenders will make reparation to their victims and other community members.
ref: 1998, Shay Bilchik, Guide for Implementing the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model, Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, page 13:
text: […] social media was ablaze for days in anticipation of this month’s Atlantic cover story arguing in favor of reparative payments to African-Americans for state-sanctioned slavery and segregation.
ref: 2014 May 23, Errin Haines Whack, “The ‘Case for Reparations’ is solid, and it’s long past time to make them”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.
reparative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɛəɹətɪv/
Forms: form: reparatives
Senses: examples: text: […] the Dukes fame did still remain more and more in obliquie among the masse of people, whose judgements are only reconciled with good successes, so as he saw plainly that he must abroad again to rectifie with his best endeavour under the publike service, his own reputation; Whereupon new preparatives were in hand, and partly reparatives of the former beaten at Sea:
ref: 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham, London: William Sheares, page 22:
text: 1891, Newark and Its Leading Businessmen, Newark, New Jersey: Mercantile Publishing Company, John Sanders, Practical Plumber, p. 80,
It is better to lay out a little more money on a good job of plumbing at the start, than to be obliged to continually lay out money for reparatives on a poor job.
glosses: That which repairs.
Derived terms: neuroreparative
reparative therapy
bibe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: bibes
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish badhb, a variant of badhbh.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours."
ref: 1822, “All Hallow Eve in Ireland”, in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume IX, number XV, page 257:
text: Down there where the Bibe had her hole out of which she would howl to the rising moon and to the fairy peoples that would be peeping out at the new moon only to withdraw their small heads as they heard the cry of the Bibe.
ref: 1952, Shaw Desmond, Love by the Dark Water, page 11:
text: He never believed in the bibe although the people were always talking of her.
ref: 1992, William Nolan, Thomas P. Power, Waterford history & Society, page 628:
text: Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe. She comes when we dies."
ref: 2006, Coralie Hughes Jensen, Lety's Gift:
glosses: A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
Austrian German
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A national standard variety of the German language that is spoken and written in Austria and Bolzano-Bozen (Italy).
Chapel Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃæpəl ˈhɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Senses: glosses: A town in North Carolina.
glosses: A town in Tennessee; named for the town in North Carolina.
glosses: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
pg.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of page.
handshape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handshapes
Etymology: From hand + shape.
Senses: synonyms: handform
qualifier: sign language
glosses: The held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
shape up or ship out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shapes up or ships out
form: shaping up or shipping out
form: shaped up or shipped out
form: shaped up or shipped out
Senses: examples: text: Portions of those letters quoted by Bruccoli indicate that though Hemingway could be sympathetic, he used a lot of ink telling Fitzgerald to shape up or ship out.
ref: 1978 April 3, R. Z. Sheppard, “The Far Side of Friendship (review of Scott and Ernest by Matthew J. Bruccoli)”, in Time:
glosses: To either improve one's behavior or else be required to leave; to either improve one's performance in an activity or else withdraw from that activity completely.
Related terms: shit or get off the pot
fit in or fuck off
up or out
business ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business ethics
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The branch of ethics that examines questions of moral right and wrong arising in the context of business practice or theory.
Related terms: applied ethics
medical ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical ethics
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The branch of ethics that examines questions of moral right and wrong arising in the context of the practice of medicine.
Related terms: applied ethics
environmental ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The branch of ethics that examines questions of moral right and wrong relating to the management, protection, or endangerment of the natural environment.
Related terms: applied ethics
diatomaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪ.ə.təˈmeɪ.ʃəs/
Forms: form: more diatomaceous
form: most diatomaceous
Etymology: From diatom + -aceous.
Senses: synonyms: diatomic
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing diatoms or their coverings.
Derived terms: diatomaceous earth
avoiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avoider
on sight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I recognized him on sight.
text: "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232:
text: Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 10:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: Immediately when sighted.
examples: text: He dismissed the idea on sight.
glosses: Immediately upon coming to one's attention.
on sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on sights
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An ascent of a route without falling, on the first attempt, without having been advised on it or having seen it prior.
Related terms: on site
on-site
onsite
throw-aways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throw-away
brute-force
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brute-forces
form: brute-forcing
form: brute-forced
form: brute-forced
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brute force.
phosphorimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phosphor + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of fluorimetry in which phosphorescence of a sample is measured in conjunction with a pulsed source of radiation
phosphoroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoroscopes
Etymology: From phosphor + -o- + -scope.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several devices used to measure phosphorescence, and to distinguish it from fluorescence
photoadsorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoadsorptions
Etymology: From photo- + adsorption.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An increase in the adsorption of a substance at an interface in the presence of light.
Related terms: photodesorption
photodesorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photodesorptions
Etymology: From photo- + desorption.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An increase in the desorption of a substance from an interface in the presence of light.
Related terms: photoadsorption
photoassisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: photo-assisted
Etymology: From photo- + assisted.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing catalysis in which the catalyst is formed by the absorption of light
saurology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sauro- + -logy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The study of lizards.
Hypernyms: herpetology
zoology
biology
photoelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoelectrical
form: most photoelectrical
Etymology: From photo- + electrical.
Senses: glosses: photoelectric
course work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coursework.
photoelectrolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + electrolytic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a cell in which radiant energy causes a chemical reaction.
Related terms: photosynthetic
photocatalytic
photopeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photopeaks
Etymology: From photo- + peak.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That part of the gamma ray spectrum of a material caused by the photoelectric effect
phthalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phthalides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: phthalein
physisorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physisorptions
Etymology: Blend of physical + adsorption
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise, in the case of pure physisorption, adatoms and very small adclusters would not be observed with the STM because the probability for the sharp eigenstates of the adparticles to lie within the 10 meV energy window ( given by the bias voltage ) would be considerably small.
ref: 1987, PDMS and Clusters, page 125:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: adsorption in which the forces involved are intermolecular rather than chemical
Related terms: chemisorption
phytotoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytotoxicants
Etymology: From phyto- + toxicant.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that is toxic to plants
polygranular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polygranular
form: most polygranular
Etymology: From poly- + granular.
Senses: glosses: Composed of many microscopic granules
Related terms: agranular
polytopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polytopal
form: most polytopal
Etymology: From polytope + -al.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to polytopes.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any rearrangement reaction involving atoms or groups at the vertices of a polyhedron.
porphyrinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porphyrinogens
Etymology: From porphyrin + -o- + -gen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reduced form of porphyrin that is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of heme
Derived terms: coproporphyrinogen
mesoporphyrinogen
uroporphyrinogen
postprecipitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postprecipitations
Etymology: From post- + precipitation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The precipitation of a second (often related) substance upon the surface of an initial precipitate
proprochirality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + prochirality.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of prochirality in which an achiral compound is converted to a chiral one in two steps.
Related terms: proprochiral
proprochiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + prochiral.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing an achiral compound that can be converted to a chiral one in two steps
Related terms: prochiral
proprochirality
protide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protides
Etymology: From proto- + -ide. From protium, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The normal hydride ion using protium.
Hypernyms: hydride
Coordinate terms: deuteride
tritide
Related terms: protium
proton
protolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈtɒlɪsɪs/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈtɑlɪsɪs/
Forms: form: protolyses
Etymology: From proto- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any proton-transfer reaction
Derived terms: autoprotolysis
protophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protophilic
form: most protophilic
Etymology: From proto- + -philic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a solvent that can accept protons, and is therefore basic.
prototroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prototrophs
Etymology: From proto- + -troph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any microorganism that can synthesize its nutrients from inorganic material
Related terms: prototrophic
prototrophy
pseudomolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + molecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having some characteristics of molecules
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: intermolecular
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to a pseudomolecule
pseudopericyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + pericyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a transformation within a cyclic array of atoms in which bonding and nonbonding orbitals exchange roles