cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
turbofan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbofans
Etymology: From turbo- + fan.
Senses: examples: text: Turbofans are always multispool engines.
ref: 2005, Ronald D. Flack, Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion with Applications:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: fanjet
hypernyms: jet engine
<
engine
glosses: A turbojet engine having a (usually ducted) fan that drives a stream of air that partly bypasses the turbojet portion; in high-bypass-ratio types, most of the thrust comes from the bypass portion rather than the turbojet portion, and this can be thought of in simplistic terms as that the turbojet portion drives the fan and the fan propels the aircraft.
synonyms: fanjet
glosses: An aircraft with such engines.
Derived terms: geared turbofan
Related terms: word: propfan
word: turbine
word: turboprop
word: turboshaft
english: usually hypernymous
translation: usually hypernymous
word: aircraft engine
word: gas turbine
word: propjet
turbojet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbojets
Etymology: From turbo- + jet.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A jet engine that develops thrust solely from high-speed exhaust gases expelled from a turbine that drives a compressor.
Coordinate terms: propfan
turbofan
turboprop
turboshaft
gas turbine
turbine
Related terms: jet
ramjet
scramjet
turboprop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turboprops
Etymology: From turbo- + prop.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
examples: text: A 29-year-old mechanic took off in a Horizon Air Q400 turboprop at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Friday night […]
ref: 2018, “Airplane taken from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has crashed”, in the Seattle Times:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft that uses a turboprop engine.
Synonyms: propjet
Coordinate terms: sense: type of gas-turbine aircraft engine
word: turbofan
sense: type of gas-turbine aircraft engine
word: turbojet
sense: type of gas-turbine aircraft engine
word: turboshaft
sense: type of gas-turbine aircraft engine
word: propfan
sense: type of gas-turbine aircraft engine
word: fanjet
sense: type of gas-turbine aircraft engine
word: HBFJ
Related terms: gas turbine
come-at-able
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more come-at-able
form: most come-at-able
Etymology: From come at + -able.
Senses: examples: text: [B]efore steamboats made Greenwich so come-at-able there were many families of distinction who resided there and in its environs — especially in the autumn of the year, when the river offered much amusement.
ref: 1840, Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack:
glosses: Easily accessible.
examples: text: After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 3, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being reached, fetched or attained.
enhancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɑːns.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈhæns.mənt/
ipa: /ɛnˈhæns.mənt/
Forms: form: enhancements
form: inhancement
Etymology: From enhance + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The original product, with its simplistic design, has undergone many enhancements over the years.
text: Dawn mist rolling off the adjacent North Downs creates a sepia effect over the river with no need for digital enhancement.
ref: 2021 July 14, “Modern Images”, in RAIL, number 935, page 37, photo caption:
antonyms: dehancement
glosses: An improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.
examples: text: The enhancement characteristics of a PNET on CT may also have prognostic value, as lesions that hypoenhance on CT scan tend to have worse overall survival than lesions that are isoenhancing or hyperenhancing (5-year survival 54% vs 89% vs 93%).
ref: 2016, Nuzhat A. Ahmad, Management of Pancreatic Diseases:
topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
glosses: The degree to which the image of a scan stands out as a bright area.
Derived terms: coenhancement
dehancement
disease enhancement
human enhancement
hyperenhancement
hypoenhancement
immunoenhancement
isoenhancement
male enhancement
neuroenhancement
nonenhancement
photoenhancement
progressive enhancement
radioenhancement
detrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detritions
Senses: glosses: attrition; erosion by friction
Related terms: detritus
turboramjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turboramjets
Etymology: From turbo- + ramjet.
Senses: glosses: An aircraft engine that is a hybrid of a ramjet and turbofan.
turn-and-bank indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-and-bank indicators
form: bank-and-turn indicator
Senses: glosses: An aircraft instrument that shows both the aircraft's rate of turn about the vertical axis and also the amount of banking about the longitudinal axis.
Tyndall effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From John Tyndall, Irish natural philosopher.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The visible scattering of light along the path of a beam caused by discontinuities such as suspended particles.
wikipedia: John Tyndall
Tyndall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Tynedale.
Senses: glosses: An English surname.
glosses: A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead, Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Bon Homme County, South Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: Tyndall effect
Tyndallian
Tyndallization
Tyndallize
tyndallmeter
tyndallometer
Tyndall's Park
Tyndall stone
Related terms: Tyndell
Tindall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Tynedale.
Senses: glosses: An English topographical surname for someone who lived in the valley of the River Tyne.
glosses: A minor city in Grundy County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia, United States.
ultracentrifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultracentrifuges
Etymology: From ultra- + centrifuge.
Senses: glosses: A high-speed centrifuge, especially one free from convection that is used to separate colloidal particles.
ultracentrifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ultracentrifuges
form: ultracentrifuging
form: ultracentrifuged
form: ultracentrifuged
Etymology: From ultra- + centrifuge.
Senses: glosses: To submit a material to ultracentrifugation
colloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more colloidal
form: most colloidal
Etymology: From colloid + -al.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a colloid.
Derived terms: biocolloidal
colloidal crystal
colloidal electrolyte
colloidal gel
colloidal gold
colloidal graphite
colloidal instability
colloidality
colloidally
colloidal particle
colloidal silver
colloidal system
electrocolloidal
immunocolloidal
nanocolloidal
noncolloidal
grown-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grown-up
form: most grown-up
form: grownup
form: grown up
Senses: synonyms: word: adult
word: adultlike
word: adulty
word: grown up
word: adult
word: big
word: developed
word: full-grown
word: grown
word: grown-ass
word: grown up
word: grownup
word: mature
glosses: Adult, physically mature.
synonyms: word: mature
word: 18+
word: adult
word: grown up
word: grownup
word: mature
word: R-rated
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.
synonyms: word: adultish
word: adultish
word: grown up
word: mature
glosses: Having a mature outlook.
grown-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grown-ups
form: grownup
form: grown up
Senses: examples: text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
text: Do you think the grown-ups will have the world fixed up by the time they hand it over to us?
ref: 1988 June 8, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
text: Because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means.
ref: 2006 August 9, Randall Munroe, “Grownups”, in xkcd (webcomic):
glosses: An adult.
Derived terms: grown-up point
grown up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of grow up
grown up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grown up
form: most grown up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grown-up.
abominatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌbɑ.mɪnˈeɪ.ʃi.oʊ/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin abōminātiō. Doublet of abomination.
Senses: glosses: Bdelygmia.
glosses: Apodioxis.
valuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valuators
Etymology: From valuate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who estimates the value of something; an appraiser.
cantica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canticum
textbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of text box.
Hypernyms: box
bolt-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolt-holes
Senses: examples: text: “You are all over the show,” my friend texted me, and for weeks after I endured brutal mockery that my Parisian bolt-hole was about to become a tourist site, like Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone or the Harry Potter train station platform.
ref: 2021 December 22, Jason Farago, “‘Emily in Paris’ and the City I Thought Was Mine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of bolthole.
bombproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bombproof
form: most bombproof
Etymology: From bomb + -proof.
Senses: examples: bombproof buildings
glosses: Sufficiently strong to resist the effects of a blast from a bomb.
examples: text: Steve's steel-frame mountain bike is heavy and slow, but it's bombproof.
glosses: Very sturdy; as if built to resist the effects of a blast from a bomb.
Synonyms: shellproof
bombproof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombproofs
Etymology: From bomb + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: As I waded through the mud to go down into the bombproof, it struck me uneasily that our officers glanced at each other.
ref: 1915, Edward Lyell Fox, Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany:
text: At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.
ref: 1994, Stephen R. Wise, Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863, page 160:
text: It mounted a 10-inch Columbiad and two 32-pounders on the sea face, with field guns and other 32-pounders elsewhere. In addition to this armament, it contained two bombproofs.
ref: 2014, Kevin Dougherty, Military Leadership Lessons of the Charleston Campaign, 1861-1865:
glosses: An air-raid shelter, a structure designed to give protection against air raids and bombs.
Synonyms: air-raid shelter
bomb shelter
bombproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bombproofs
form: bombproofing
form: bombproofed
form: bombproofed
Etymology: From bomb + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make resistant to bomb blasts.
FIA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fuck it all.
Related terms: english: Fuck you all
translation: Fuck you all
word: FYA
FIA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (professional qualification).
glosses: Abbreviation of FIA curbing or FIA kerbing, a form of roadside kerb formerly specified in the FIA ruleset for Formula 1 during the 1980s, for F1 Grand Prix circuits.
glosses: Initialism of feline infectious anemia.
Derived terms: FIA curbing
FIA kerbing
Related terms: USAC
IRF
diviso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divisos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diviso (literally “divided”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instruction that a section of the orchestra (normally the strings) should divide itself into two, each taking separate parts normally notated on the same staff; either tutti or all'unisono cancels this instruction
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark
diviso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diviso (literally “divided”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: played in this manner
diviso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diviso (literally “divided”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: played in this manner
Australian ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian ballots
Etymology: The secret ballot was first implemented in Australia in 1856.
Senses: glosses: The secret ballot system of voting in which voting is done in private on a state-issued ballot, and ballots incorrectly marked are set aside as invalid.
Synonyms: word: Massachusetts ballot
voice voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice votings
Senses: glosses: A system of voting in which the voters walk up to a recorder and verbally place their votes.
shoulder season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder seasons
Senses: examples: text: When planning future trips, he echoed Ms. Vargas in recommending that people consider traveling during the “shoulder season,” which his tour company now defines as April and October — no longer May and September.
ref: 2022 August 4, Paige McClanahan, “Stockholm Instead of Rome? October Instead of July? How Heat Waves Are Changing Tourism in Europe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: The time between high and low season in a travel market, or, if the market is divided into four segments, the time just below high season.
put pen to paper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts pen to paper
form: putting pen to paper
form: put pen to paper
form: put pen to paper
form: set pen to paper
Senses: glosses: To write something (especially using pen and ink).
examples: text: "The Government's response indicates there is still some way to go before they will be ready to put pen to paper on a detailed plan."
ref: 2023 June 28, “Network News: Government challenged over inertia on decarbonisation”, in RAIL, number 986, page 19:
glosses: To begin to write something.
Related terms: pen and paper
long ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long ballots
Senses: glosses: A ballot that lists all candidates, for all positions, from all political parties, available to a specific voting district.
Related terms: short ballot
short ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short ballots
Senses: glosses: A ballot that lists only the major candidates for the major offices, for a voting district.
Related terms: long ballot
yuh
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌ/
rhymes: -ʌ
Forms: form: ya
Senses: glosses: you
yuh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌ/
rhymes: -ʌ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yeah.
Related terms: yuh-uh
paper ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper ballots
Senses: glosses: A ballot printed on paper, where the voter places a form of acknowledgment next to the candidate of their choice.
voting machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voting machines
Senses: glosses: Any machine used in place of a paper ballot. In the model used in the US the voters mark their choice by switching levers and then pulling the master switch to reset the machine and place their vote.
Bushmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bushman
brake assembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brake assemblies
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The collective replacement parts used to repair an automobile's worn down brakes.
Related terms: brake pad
brake shoe
preheat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈhiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: preheats
form: preheating
form: preheated
form: preheated
Etymology: From pre- + heat.
Senses: examples: text: to preheat the oven for the casserole
text: to preheat the spare room for the guests
synonyms: word: foreheat
english: less frequent
translation: less frequent
glosses: to heat beforehand or in advance, to heat something in preparation for further action
Related terms: reheat
reheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈhiːt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈhiːt/
ipa: /ɹəˈhiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: reheats
Etymology: From re- + heat.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An afterburner.
examples: text: I gave the potatoes a reheat.
glosses: The act of heating something again.
reheat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈhiːt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈhiːt/
ipa: /ɹəˈhiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: reheats
form: reheating
form: reheated
form: reheated
Etymology: From re- + heat.
Senses: examples: text: I’m reheating some leftovers for dinner.
text: […] the street of the Latin and Italian Poets, smelt only like the broth of reheated Coleworts.
ref: 1626, Trajano Boccalini, translated by William Vaughan, The New-Found Politicke, London: Francis Williams, Part 3, Chapter 17, p. 218:
text: 1649, uncredited translator, A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes, London, Part 5, p. 85,
And if we examine how this heat is communicated to the other members, must we not avow that ’tis by means of the bloud, which passing the heart, reheats it self there, and thence disperseth it self thorow the whole body:
text: “Blow up the forge again, for that shoe wants reheating.”
ref: 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in Rodney Stone, London: Smith, Elder, page 38:
text: […] this conversation reheated my strong sense of guilt and responsibility about Paul; the war and my adult life had banked down that fire but not quenched it.
ref: 1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 3, in Fifth Business, Penguin, published 1977, page 137:
text: We already know each other’s views on these subjects; we speak in order to keep the silence away. It’s as though we reheat these issues in our very dear little copper saucepan—so battered and beloved—hoping by accident to stir in something new.
ref: 2003, Carol Shields, “Segue”, in The Collected Stories, London: Fourth Estate, published 2004, page 19:
glosses: To heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses).
examples: text: He put the soup on the stove to reheat.
text: 2011 Helen Hollick, I am the Chosen King [UK title: Harold the King], Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 416,
Dissension was reheating in southern Wales, but at least Wales could be quashed.
text: Top each pielet with a fried egg before garnishing with chives. […] Leftover pielets reheat beautifully.
ref: 2020, Erin Jeanne McDowell, The Book on Pie, page 313:
glosses: To become hot again after having cooled off (also in figurative senses).
Derived terms: reheat nachos
reheat someone's nachos
Related terms: preheat
taper off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪpə ɒf/
ipa: /ˈteɪpɚ ɔf/
Forms: form: tapers off
form: tapering off
form: tapered off
form: tapered off
Etymology: From taper and off.
Senses: examples: text: Months after they printed the article, the number of angry letters finally started to taper off.
text: The traffic tapers off towards mid-May, but it continues in some measure throughout the off-peak months.
ref: 1960 September, G. Freeman Allen, “I.C.I. fertiliser goes by rail from Tees-side”, in Trains Illustrated, page 534:
text: To fill this gap, over the last 25 years, patients have developed a robust Internet-based subculture of volunteer peer support for tapering off psychiatric drugs and recovering from withdrawal syndrome.
ref: 2021 March 16, Adele Framer, “What I have learnt from helping thousands of people taper off antidepressants and other psychotropic medications”, in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, volume 11, →DOI:
coordinate_terms: cycle off
cruise
discontinue
glosses: To diminish or lessen gradually; to become or make smaller, slower, quieter, etc.
examples: text: The glass tapers off at the top.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see taper, off.
gimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gimmer
Darug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌɹʊɡ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dharuk.
Dharug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌɹʊɡ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dharuk.
empty vessels make the most sound
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: empty vessels make the most noise
form: empty barrels make the most noise
form: empty cans make the most noise
Senses: glosses: Talkative, opinionated people are often ignorant.
Related terms: the squeaky wheel gets the grease
the nail that sticks out gets hammered down
barking dogs seldom bite
xeroradiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeroradiographies
Etymology: From xero- + radiography.
Senses: glosses: A method of X-ray photography which uses an electrically charged metal plate instead of film.
Related terms: xeroradiograph
ultrafiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrafiltrations
Etymology: From ultra- + filtration.
Senses: examples: text: Aquafaba was recovered from 10 commercial canned chickpea products and correlations among aquafaba composition, density, viscosity and foaming properties were investigated. Proton NMR was used to characterize aquafaba composition before and after ultrafiltration through membranes with different molecular weight cut offs (MWCOs of 3, 10, or 50 kDa).
ref: 2018 October 3, Youn Young Shim, Rana Mustafa, Jianheng Shen, Kornsulee Ratanapariyanuch, Martin J. T. Reaney, “Composition and Properties of Aquafaba: Water Recovered from Commercially Canned Chickpeas”, in Journal of Visualized Experiments, volume 132, →DOI, →PMID:
glosses: Filtration through a semipermeable membrane that only allows small molecules through.
Derived terms: electro-ultrafiltration
universal joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universal joints
Senses: synonyms: U-joint
universal coupling
Cardan joint
Hardy-Spicer joint
Hooke's joint
coordinate_terms: constant-velocity joint
glosses: A coupling that allows different parts of a machine not in line with each other some freedom of movement at the same time as transmitting rotary motion. Typical applications include driveshafts and socket wrenches.
Related terms: cardan shaft
Cardan shaft
power take-off
gypsy's kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsy's kisses
Senses: glosses: piss
berks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berk
reaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rieving
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reave
reaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reavings
form: rieving
Senses: examples: text: It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
ref: 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:
glosses: An act of pillage or plunder.
reaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reave
reaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reave
reft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛft/
rhymes: -ɛft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reave
reft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛft/
rhymes: -ɛft
Forms: form: refts
Senses: examples: text: If thou mayest finde any shore,
Or hole , or reft , what ever it were
ref: c. 1360s (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:
text: At one time the summit was beautifully bathed in golden light, whilst the middle part was quite blue, and the snow of its peculiar blue-green colour in the refts. Some of the glaciers are very distinct to us, and with the telescope I can see the refts and corrugations of the different parts, and the edges from which avalanches have fallen […]
ref: 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, chapter II, in The Life and Letters of Faraday, volume II, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., page 146:
text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
Now and again through a reft in the smoke a gleam of sunshine could be seen striking the rocks on the great peak to the west, but it had little or no effect in the gorge.
glosses: A chink; a rift.
reive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reives
form: reiving
form: reived
form: reived
form: reft
form: reft
Senses: examples: text: [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.
ref: 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford, quoted in Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10
text: Spine-chilling tales of reiving raids are a legendary legacy of these violent times, when careless murder, theft and pillage were everyday professions.
ref: 2011, Mark Richards, Hadrian's Wall Path: Two-way national trail description, →ISBN, page 102:
text: So, although many borderers regularly engaged in reiving, most were also part-time agriculturalists, raising crops such as oats and rye, as well as livestock.
ref: 2014, Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound, →ISBN:
glosses: Archaic spelling of reave.
reives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reive
reiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reive
reiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reivings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reaving.
reived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reive
impulse buy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impulse buys
Senses: glosses: Something purchased spontaneously, without planning or thought.
Synonyms: impulse purchase
splurchase
Related terms: buyer's remorse
border reiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: border reivers
Senses: glosses: A member of the predatory clans of the border region between England and Scotland.
psychopolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + politics.
Senses: examples: text: As O'Meara has shown, the NP would become viewed through the prism of ideology and cod psycho-politics.
ref: 2001, Hein Marais, South Africa: Limits to Change, page 16:
text: Psychopolitics is a condition shaped by the human relations school of management, in which social relations take precendence over customers and clients and where process becomes king at the expense of productivity.
ref: 2002, Gerald H Gaynor, Innovation by Design, page 65:
text: By psychopolitics, Sykes means the synthesis of Freudian and neo-Marxian views.
ref: 2009, Mark Jarmuth, The Psychology of American Fascism, page 139:
text: Politics too has been transformed in the era of psychopolitics. We’re incapable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens.
ref: 2017 December 30, Stuart Jeffries, “Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – review”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The interaction between human psychology and politics.
Coordinate terms: biopolitics
sugar shack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar shacks
Senses: synonyms: sugarhouse
glosses: A building where sap from a sugarbush is boiled down to make maple syrup.
glosses: Such a facility that receives visitors for traditional meals and entertainment during the period when maple sap is being collected.
koinomatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + matter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Normal matter, as opposed to antimatter.
panellist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panellists
form: panelist
Etymology: From panel + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The panel will meet four times a year and provide consultation on business policy, and panellists will be paid.
ref: 2020 December 30, “Network News: GA and c2c form accessibility panel”, in Rail, page 11:
glosses: A person who appears on a panel, either as a member of a committee or jury, or as part of a panel game.
Derived terms: copanellist
SEAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ceil
seal
Forms: form: SEALs
Senses: examples: text: Enough people connected to the SEALs and the bin Laden mission have confirmed for me that the Shooter was the "number two" behind the raid's point man going up the stairs to bin Laden's third-floor residence […] The point man is the only one besides the Shooter who could verify the kill shots firsthand, and he did just that to another SEAL I spoke with.
ref: 2013 February 11, Phil Bronstein, “The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden… Is Screwed”, in Esquire Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2017:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Ellipsis of Navy SEAL (“member of the Sea, Air, Land unit”).
Derived terms: Gravy SEAL
Navy SEAL
elephant seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephant seals
Senses: glosses: Large marine mammals of the genus Mirounga, the largest of the pinnipeds.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Mirounga angustirostris
word: northern elephant seal
taxonomic: Mirounga leonina
word: southern elephant seal
fur seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fur seals
form: fur-seal
Senses: glosses: Any marine mammal of the genera Arctocephalus and Callorhinus, differing from the sea lions in having dense underfur.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Callorhinus ursinus
word: Alaska fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus tropicalis
word: Amsterdam fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus gazella
word: Antarctic fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus forsteri
word: Antipodean fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus pusillus
word: Australian fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus pusillus
word: brown fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus pusillus
word: Cape fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus galapagoensis
word: Galápagos fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus pusillus
word: giant fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus townsendi
word: Guadalupe fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus philippii
word: Juan Fernandez fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus gazella
word: Kerguelen fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus forsteri
word: New Zealand fur seal
taxonomic: Callorhinus ursinus
word: northern fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus pusillus
word: South African fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus australis
word: South American fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus forsteri
word: southern fur seal
taxonomic: Arctocephalus tropicalis
word: subantarctic fur seal
great seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great seals
Senses: glosses: The main seal of a nation or state that symbolizes its authority, and with which official documents are stamped.
monk seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monk seals
Senses: glosses: A seal of the genus Monachus.
Derived terms: Caribbean monk seal
Hawaiian monk seal
Mediterranean monk seal
West Indian monk seal
ringed seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringed seals
Senses: glosses: Pusa hispida, an earless seal inhabiting Arctic and subarctic coasts.
Synonyms: word: jar seal
english: formerly
translation: formerly
word: Phoca hispida
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pusa hispida ladogensis
word: Ladoga ringed seal
taxonomic: Pusa hispida saimensis
word: Saimaa ringed seal
seal point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seal points
form: sealpoint
Etymology: From the color seal brown and the animal marking sense of point.
Senses: glosses: A dark brown area of fur on the ears, face, legs, and tail of a Siamese cat.
glosses: An animal that has such a marking.
Derived terms: seal-pointed
broad seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad seals
Senses: examples: text: Faith, if we were disposed, we might sin as safe as if we had the broad seal to warrant it; but that night's work will stick by me this forty weeks.
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.3:
glosses: The public seal of a nation, especially the British Great Seal of the Realm; supreme authority.
Derived terms: broad-seal
Great Seal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Great Seals
Senses: glosses: The official public seal of any of several nations.
Related terms: Lord Keeper
broad seal
privy seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privy seals
Senses: synonyms: privy signet
glosses: The personal seal of an English or Scottish monarch.
examples: text: Vergil would have seen the queues himself, people summoned by privy seal or letter, or waiting to pay installments of their fines […]
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 313:
glosses: A document to which such a seal is attached; specifically, a warrant demanding a loan.
glosses: The position of Keeper of the Privy Seal.
Derived terms: Clerk of the Privy Seal
Keeper of the Privy Seal
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal
Privy Seal of Japan
sealbore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealbores
Etymology: From seal + bore.
Senses: glosses: The polished bore of an oil well that accepts a seal assembly as part of a production packer.
Derived terms: sealbore packer
Solomon's seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Solomon's seals
Etymology: From genitive form of Solomon (king of ancient Israel) + seal, translating Medieval Latin sigillum Solomōnis.
Senses: examples: text: Then, when the anemones went, came a few stray periwinkles and Solomon's Seal, and all the bird-cherries blossomed in a burst.
ref: 1898, Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and her German Garden, Vintage, published 2017, page 6:
glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Polygonatum, especially Polygonatuym multiflorum.
glosses: A mystic symbol in the form of a hexagram (or, less often, an octagram).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Polygonatum odoratum
word: angular Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum multiflorum
word: common Solomon's seal
word: downy Solomon's seal Polygonatum pubescens)
taxonomic: Polygonatum humile
word: dwarf Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum multiflorum
word: Eurasian Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Maianthemum spp.
alt: esp. Maianthemum racemosum
word: false Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum odoratum
word: fragrant Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum biflorum
word: giant Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum biflorum
word: great Solomon's seal
word: hairy Solomon's seal Polygonatum pubescens)
taxonomic: Drymophila cyanocarpa
word: native Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum odoratum
word: scented Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum biflorum
word: small Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum biflorum
word: smooth Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Maianthemum spp.
word: two-leaved Solomon's seal
taxonomic: Polygonatum verticillatum
word: whorled Solomon's seal
Related terms: Seal of Solomon
unseal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭn-sēl'
ipa: /ʌnˈsiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: unseals
form: unsealing
form: unsealed
form: unsealed
Etymology: From un- + seal.
Senses: glosses: To break the seal of (something) in order to open it.
examples: text: But it's just the equalising of pressure as the vault door unseals.
ref: 2017, Paul Crilley, Clockwork City: Delphic Division 2:
glosses: To open by having a seal broken.
Derived terms: unsealer
unsealing
enseal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enseals
form: ensealing
form: ensealed
form: ensealed
form: inseal
Etymology: From Middle English enselen, inselen, inseilen, from Old English inseġlian (“to place a seal on”), from Proto-West Germanic *insigilōn (compare Old High German insigilōn, insigilen, Old Norse innsigla (“to seal”)), from Latin insigilāre; merged with and reinforced by Old French enseeler, from the same Latin source. Equivalent to en- + seal.
Senses: glosses: To impress with a seal.
examples: text: So he wrote letters, ensealed with his ring, to his first daughter, that said that she loved him more than herself[…]
ref: 1905, Charles Swan, Gesta Romanorum, Introduction:
glosses: To mark as with a seal.
glosses: To ratify.
Derived terms: ensealed
ensealing
ensealment
heat-seal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heat-seals
form: heat-sealing
form: heat-sealed
form: heat-sealed
Senses: glosses: To enclose (something) in plastic wrapping and make an airtight seal by applying heat to fuse the edges of the wrapping together.
Derived terms: heat-sealed
heat-sealing
reseal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reseals
form: resealing
form: resealed
form: resealed
Etymology: From re- + seal.
Senses: examples: text: My CIA file included two first class letters written by me on Liberation News Service stationery and addressed to Moscow. […] I cannot tell from the xerox copies sent to me if the letters were opened at the CIA and the re-sealed and sent out, or if the CIA merely stole them from the mail. Neither letter ever received a response, as far as I can recall.
ref: 1976 December 18, Allen Young, “Speaking Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 5:
glosses: To seal (something) again (in any sense of "apply a seal to").
Derived terms: resealable
resealing
sealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seal + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be sealed.
Derived terms: unsealable
sealed bid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealed bids
Senses: glosses: A cost estimate, or a proposal to buy something, the value of which is kept secret from competitors until all such bids have been made.
Derived terms: sealed-bid auction
method of sealed bids
sealed source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealed sources
Senses: glosses: A measured amount of radioisotope sealed within a protective container.
Derived terms: sealed-source radiotherapy
underseal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underseals
Etymology: From under- + seal.
Senses: glosses: A thick, resilient coating applied to the underbody or chassis of an automobile to protect against damage from small stones, etc, which would rapidly chip ordinary paint and allowing rusting to begin.
underseal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underseals
form: undersealing
form: undersealed
form: undersealed
Etymology: From under- + seal.
Senses: glosses: To coat (the underbody or chassis of a vehicle) with underseal.
Derived terms: undersealed
undersealing
begynnynge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begynnynges
Senses: examples: text: In the begynnynge was that worde / ãd that worde was with god : and god was thatt worde.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John j:[1], folio cxix, recto:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of beginning.
unpossible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈpɒsɪbəl/
Forms: form: more unpossible
form: most unpossible
Etymology: From Middle English unpossible, equivalent to un- (“not”) + possible.
Senses: examples: text: And this is the .vj. moneth to her / which was called barren / foꝛ with god ſhall nothinge be vnpoſſible.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke j:[36–37], folio lxxiij, recto:
text: But the young man Hippomedon making her priuie vnto it, at the firſt ſhe was amaſed withall, and bad him hold his peace if he were wiſe, and not medle in matters vnpoſſible and vnprofitable.
ref: 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:
text: T’is a hard matter therfore to confine them, being they are ſo various and many, and vnpoſſible to apprehend all.
ref: 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Concupiscible appetite, as Desires, Ambition”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 2, member 3, subsection 11, page 150:
text: In the evening we fired a few rackets, which flying in the ayre ſo terrified the poore Salvages, they ſuppoſed nothing vnpoſſible we attempted; […]
ref: 1624, Anthony Bagnall, Nathanaell Powell, Anas Todkill, “The Government surrendred to Master Scrivener. What happened the second Voyage in discovering the Bay.”, in Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, book 3; reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, … (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC, page 60:
text: [S]o prodigiouſly various are the works of the Creator, and ſo All-ſufficient is he to perform what to man would ſeem unpoſſible, […]
ref: 1665, R[obert] Hooke, “Observ[ation] XXI. Of Moss, and several other small vegetative Substances.”, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 135:
text: Ralph Wiggum: Me fail English? That's unpossible!
ref: 1994, “Lisa on Ice”, in The Simpsons:
text: I think we can all agree that this is unpossible.
ref: 2008, David Goldberg, “meeting with HKS”, in Mimecast:
glosses: Impossible.
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AIDS
form: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infectious disease, caused by HIV, that causes the gradual degeneration of the body's immune system.
Synonyms: word: AIDS
english: gay-related immunodeficiency
translation: gay-related immunodeficiency
word: GRID
word: gay cancer
word: gay plague
Coordinate terms: english: ARC
translation: ARC
word: AIDS-related complex
english: HIV
translation: HIV
word: human immunodeficiency virus
Derived terms: word: AIDS
HIV virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HIV viruses
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Synonym of HIV (“human immunodeficiency virus”).
synonyms: word: HIV
extra: human immunodeficiency virus
human immunodeficiency virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human immunodeficiency viruses
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
synonyms: HIV
house in Virginia
AIDS virus
hypernyms: retrovirus
;
virus
coordinate_terms: SIV
simian immunodeficiency virus
glosses: Either of the two related viruses, human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) and human immunodeficiency virus 2 (HIV-2) that progressively destroy the body's immune system and can potentially lead to AIDS.
Related terms: english: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
translation: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
word: AIDS
english: AIDS-related complex
translation: AIDS-related complex
word: ARC
immunodeficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌmjuːnəʊdɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Forms: form: immunodeficiencies
Etymology: From immuno- + deficiency.
Senses: synonyms: immunocompromise
immunosuppression
antonyms: immunocompetence
immunocompetency
glosses: A depletion in the body's natural immune system, or in some component of it.
Derived terms: english: AIDS
translation: AIDS
word: acquired immune deficiency syndrome
english: AIDS
translation: AIDS
word: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
word: eczema-thrombocytopenia-immunodeficiency syndrome
word: foal immunodeficiency syndrome
word: gay-related immunodeficiency
word: human immunodeficiency virus 1
word: human immunodeficiency virus 2
alt: HIV
word: human immunodeficiency virus
word: primary immunodeficiency
word: secondary immunodeficiency
word: severe combined immunodeficiency
word: simian immunodeficiency virus
Related terms: immunocompetent
immunocompromised
immunodeficient
immunosuppressed
upsilon meson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upsilon mesons
Senses: glosses: The upsilon particle
upsilon particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upsilon particles
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a number of bound states of a heavy quark and its antiquark, especially that formed from a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark.
uraninite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jʊˈɹeɪnɪnaɪt/
Forms: form: uraninites
Etymology: From uran- + -ine + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several brownish-black forms of uranium dioxide, UO₂, (especially pitchblende) that is the chief ore of uranium; it is isomorphous with thorianite.
isomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + -morphous.
Senses: examples: text: As can be expected, the westernmost varieties of North Saami resemble Lule Saami—likewise increasingly affected by Scandinavian—whereas many vernaculars in Finland are largely isomorphous with Aanaar Saami, the most Finnicized of the Saami languages.
ref: 2022, Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte, Jussi Ylikoski, “North Saami”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting isomorphism.
Derived terms: nonisomorphous
condensation product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensation products
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The product of a condensation reaction.
uropygial gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uropygial glands
Senses: glosses: A secretory organ, at the base of a bird's tail, that secretes the oil used in preening.
secretory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈkɹiːt(ə)ɹiː/
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or used in secretion.
Derived terms: antisecretory
endosecretory
excitosecretory
glycosecretory
hypersecretory
hyposecretory
neurosecretory
nonsecretory
presecretory
prosecretory
secretory carcinoma
secretory diarrhea
secretory granule
secretory nerve
secretory otitis media
secretory pathway
secretory protein
secretory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈkɹiːt(ə)ɹiː/
Forms: form: secretories
Senses: examples: text: As has been very justly remarked, we cannot properly regard these cells as secretories.
ref: 1877, Transactions of the American Dental Association:
glosses: That which secretes.
Related terms: secretary