cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
terazolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tetrazolium.
thermohemolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + hemolysis.
Senses: glosses: thermal hemolysis
thiomethoxam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of thiamethoxam.
tolualdehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolualdehydes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric methyl derivatives of benzaldehyde formally derived from toluene
tolualdehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolualdehyde
transauricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From trans- + auricular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Across or through the auricles of the heart
transilluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of transluminescence.
transluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being transluminescent
transpirative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing transpiration
transpromontorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + promontorial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Across or through a promontory (typically in the ear)
tridecanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tridecanones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic ketone, formally derived from tridecane, containing thirteen carbon atoms
tridecanones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tridecanone
turbidostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbidostats
Senses: glosses: A continuous microbiological culture device in which fluid is automatically added, and product removed, to maintain a constant turbidity
turbidostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbidostat
uncarinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + carinated.
Senses: glosses: Not carinated
underbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbushes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of underbrush.
synonyms: word: underbrush
underbush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underbushes
form: underbushing
form: underbushed
form: underbushed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of underbrush.
synonyms: word: underbrush
undercompensating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + compensating.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently compensating
underprotected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underprotect
underprotected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently protected
unfoldability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unfoldable
unikaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + -karyotic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monokaryotic.
synonyms: word: monokaryotic
vasodegenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vaso- + degenerative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing vasodegeneration
vasorelaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A vasorelaxant eicosapeptide present in the skin secretion of the frog Odorrana schmackeri
videoimaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The production of video images
viscosupplement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viscosupplements
Etymology: From visco- + supplement.
Senses: glosses: The material used in viscosupplementation
viscosupplements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscosupplement
wavebreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wavebreaks
Senses: glosses: The breaking of a wave (instance of wavebreaking)
wavebreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavebreak
yatalase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A commercial enzyme preparation used to digest fungal cell walls
yponomeutoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yponomeutoids
Senses: glosses: Any ermine moth of the superfamily Yponomeutoidea
yponomeutoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yponomeutoid
ionic wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionic winds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ion wind.
synonyms: word: ion wind
primitive polynomials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primitive polynomial
ion wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ion winds
Senses: glosses: airflow induced by electrostatic forces linked to corona discharge arising at the tips of sharp conductors subjected to high voltage
Pinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Cumbric *pant (“hollow, depression”) + Cumbric *cin (“wedge, chisel”).
Senses: glosses: A locality and historical house in Inveresk parish, East Lothian, Scotland.
glosses: The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
Hartlepool monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hartlepool monkey
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A monkey, the only survivor of a French ship that foundered near Hartlepool during the Napoleonic Wars, that was supposedly tried and hanged as a spy.
ectocanthion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectocanthions
Etymology: From ecto- + canthus + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of exocanthion.
synonyms: word: exocanthion
venopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venopathies
Etymology: From veno- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Any disorder of veins (for example, phlebitis, veno-occlusive disease).
trilobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + lobule + -ar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three lobules.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a shape that is broadly triangular but is rounded, with three lobular segments conjoined.
Synonyms: trilobar
trilobar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + lobe + -ar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: trilobular
glosses: Having three lobes.
Related terms: bilobar
multilobar
unilobar
suprapontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + pons + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Despite focus on brainstem areas in central respiratory control, regions rostral to the medulla and pons are now recognized as being important in modulating respiratory outflow during various physiological states. The focus of this review is to highlight the role that suprapontine areas of the mammalian brain play in ventilatory control mechanisms. New imaging techniques have become invaluable in confirming and broadening our understanding of the manner in which the cerebral cortex of humans contributes to respiratory control during volitional breathing.
ref: 1998, EM Horn, TG Waldrop, “Suprapontine control of respiration”, in Respir Physiol, volume 114, number 3, pages 201–211:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Superior to a pons; as (usually, more specifically) superior to the pons Varolii.
pseudoepistaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + epistaxis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Blood flow exiting the nostrils that is not due to a true nosebleed, that is, not truly originating from the nasal cavity; examples include blood coughed up through the airway and ending up in the nasal cavity, then dripping out.
postmolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + mole + -ar.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring after a hydatidiform mole (that is, after a molar pregnancy), as for example postmolar choriocarcinoma.
pansystolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pansystolic
form: most pansystolic
Etymology: From pan- + systole + -ic or pan- + systolic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring throughout systole, as for example a pansystolic murmur.
Synonyms: holosystolic
Coordinate terms: midsystolic
postsystolic
presystolic
the game is up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Secret plans or activities have been revealed, usually leading to their failure.
cap and gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caps and gowns
Senses: glosses: An academic robe and cap with mortarboard.
girgit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girgits
Etymology: From Hindustani गिरगिट (girgiṭ) / گرگٹ.
Senses: glosses: chameleon
romerillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romerillo
abruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to abruption
Derived terms: abruptively
abruptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From abruptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abruptive manner
glosses: Synonym of abruptly.
synonyms: word: abruptly
acetylonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetyloniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation CH₃C=O⁺ derived from the acetyl radical
actinomycetoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinomycetomas
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A tumour produced by infection by bacteria of genus Actinomyces.
adenocarcinomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of adenocarcinomic.
synonyms: word: adenocarcinomic
late riser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: late risers
Senses: examples: text: One oddity of the Scottish Region timetable is that the special page (52) devoted to the "Midday Scot" shows, among other meal prices, that of breakfast, on trains beginning their journeys at 1.30 p.m. Some Scots (or Sassenachs) would appear to be late risers!
ref: 1963 June, “British Railways Summer Timetables: Scottish Region improves connections with Kings Cross”, in Modern Railways, page 382:
antonyms: early bird
early riser
glosses: Someone who gets up late in the morning.
gilet jaune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilets jaunes
Etymology: Borrowed from French gilet jaune.
Senses: examples: text: French protests are always lively, but as the journalist John Lichfield observed, “the white-hot anger” of the gilets jaunes was “something new and different”.
ref: 2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A yellow vest, a member of a French protest movement which started in 2018.
gilets jaunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilet jaune
hemidecorticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + decorticated.
Senses: glosses: Having undergone hemidecortication.
smoke bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke bomb
PHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PH
escrowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From escrow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be held in escrow.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Suitable for partitioning.
cystidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cystidium.
cheilocystidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cheilocystidium.
one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Women have great influence on their male partners or husbands and can have anything done for them.
Related terms: behind every successful man there stands a woman
Hopfield network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hopfield networks
Etymology: Popularised by John Hopfield in 1982 (but described earlier by Little in 1974).
Senses: glosses: A kind of recurrent neural network, providing a model for understanding human memory.
Hopfield networks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hopfield network
the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: One cannot change one's nature, no matter how much time passes.
Synonyms: a leopard cannot change its spots
the fox may grow grey but never good
the fox may grow grey but never good
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: One cannot change one's nature, no matter how much time passes.
Synonyms: a leopard cannot change its spots
the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature
you can't teach an old dog new tricks
plegias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plegia
milk ducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk duct
Polish People's Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Polish People's Republic
Senses: synonyms: PRL
glosses: Former official name of Poland: a country in Central Europe; used from 1952 to 1989 when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state; officially known as the Republic of Poland from 1947 to 1952, but under the same form of government.
Gigli's operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Leonardo Gigli (1863–1908), Italian obstetrician.
Senses: glosses: symphysiotomy
wikipedia: Leonardo Gigli
sigbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigbin
sigbens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigben
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
form: Czechoslovak Socialist Rep.
Senses: synonyms: Czechoslovak People's Republic
Czechoslovak Socialistic Republic
Fourth Czechoslovak Republic
Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia
glosses: Official name of Czechoslovakia: a former country in Central Europe; used from 1960 to 1990 when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state; previously, the official name of Czechoslovak Republic was used from 1948 to 1960 under the same form of government.
People's Socialist Republic of Albania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the People's Socialist Republic of Albania
Senses: synonyms: People's Republic of Albania
Socialist People's Republic of Albania
glosses: Former official name of Albania: a country in Southeast Europe; used from 1976 to 1991 when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state; previously the name People's Republic of Albania was used.
People's Republic of Bulgaria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the People's Republic of Bulgaria
form: People's Rep. of Bulgaria
Senses: synonyms: Bulgarian People's Republic
PRB
glosses: Former official name of Bulgaria: a country in Eastern Europe; used from 1946 to 1990 when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state.
Hungarian People's Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hungarian People's Republic
form: Hungarian People's Rep.
Senses: synonyms: People's Republic of Hungary
glosses: Former official name of Hungary: a country in Central Europe; used from 1949 to 1989 when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state.
Socialist Republic of Romania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Socialist Republic of Romania
form: Socialist Rep. of Romania
form: Socialist Republic of Rumania
Senses: synonyms: People's Republic of Romania
Romanian People's Republic
Romanian Socialist Republic
glosses: Former official name of Romania: a country in Southeast Europe; in use from 1965 through 1989, when the country was a one-party Marxist-Leninist state; the official name Romanian People's Republic was used from 1947 through 1965.
house-bote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-botes
Senses: examples: text: In 1270, sir Richard Moore had a right, by charter, to house-bote and hey-bote to his house at Pencoed.
ref: 1801, An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire - Volume 1, page 32:
text: But tenants may cut underwood, and take wood sufficient to repair the pales, hedges, and fences, and what is called by law plough-bote, fire-botc, and other house-bote.
ref: 1825, Laws relating to landlords, tenants, and lodgers - Volume 7, page 17:
text: He hath cut down the wood where the petitioners ought to have house-bote ; hath raised more monies out of those woods and forfeitures, than the purchase cost him ; he hath threatened many of their lives, &c.
ref: 1828, Thomas Burton, Diary: From 1656 to 1659 : in Four Volumes - Volume 1, page 197:
text: Your husband was seised of only one carucate of land, to which was appurtenant house-bote and hay-bote to be taken in that wood for burning at only one hearth in his chief messuage ; and if you by reason of your third part could in that wood take house-bote and hay-bote at your pleasure, there would be taken house-bote and hay-bote and fuel for two hearths, whereas they were previously appendant to only one hearth: wherefore, estovers for house-bote &c. you can not have; and we pray judgment.
ref: 1873, Alfred John Horwood, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First: XXI-XXII:
glosses: Alternative form of housebote.
house-botes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-bote
hay-bote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay-botes
Senses: examples: text: If I be seised of a manor, and a stranger grants all manner of estovers for my manor to me, &c. by this grant I shall have house-bote, plough-bote, and hay-bote, &c.
ref: 1827, John Perkins, A Profitable Book, Treating of the Laws of England:
text: There is there a certain wood called Heton-woode in oaks and the like, in which the tenants of Heton, who hold by charter in fee, have house-bote and hay-bote, of the delivery of the lord; by which that wood is wasted [or much destroyed, destruitur], and on that account does not grow again as much in yearly value, in wood, pannage, or other issues of a wood.
ref: 1861, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Your husband was seised of only one carucate of land, to which was appurtenant house-bote and hay-bote to be taken in that wood for burning at only one hearth in his chief messuage ; and if you by reason of your third part could in that wood take house-bote and hay-bote at your pleasure, there would be taken house-bote and hay-bote and fuel for two hearths, whereas they were previously appendant to only one hearth: wherefore, estovers for house-bote &c. you can not have; and we paray judgment.
ref: 1873, Alfred John Horwood, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First: XXI-XXII:
glosses: Alternative form of haybote.
hay-botes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hay-bote
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Afghan Democratic Republic
DRA
Republic of Afghanistan
Soviet Afghanistan
hypernyms: Afghanistan
glosses: Former official name of Afghanistan: a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; used from 1978 to 1987 when it was a one party Marxist-Leninist state; officially known as the Republic of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992, but under the same government.
plough-bote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plough-botes
Senses: examples: text: But tenants may cut underwood, and take wood sufficient to repair the pales, hedges, and fences, and what is called by law plough-bote, fire-botc, and other house-bote.
ref: 1825, Laws relating to landlords, tenants, and lodgers - Volume 7, page 17:
text: If I be seised of a manor, and a stranger grants all manner of estovers for my manor to me, &c. by this grant I shall have house-bote, plough-bote, and hay-bote, &c.
ref: 1827, John Perkins, A Profitable Book, Treating of the Laws of England:
glosses: Alternative form of ploughbote.
plough-botes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plough-bote
fire-bote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-botes
Senses: examples: text: But tenants may cut underwood, and take wood sufficient to repair the pales, hedges, and fences, and what is called by law plough-bote, fire-bote, and other house-bote.
ref: 1825, Laws relating to landlords, tenants, and lodgers - Volume 7, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of firebote.
Mongolian People's Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mongolian People's Republic
Senses: examples: text: The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone. The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.
ref: 1958 November 7 [1956], Excerpts from "Economic Geography of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region", United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 58:
hypernyms: Mongolia
glosses: the Mongolian state between 1924 and 1992.
fire-botes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-bote
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Socalist Republic of Viet Nam
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: PDRE
glosses: A former country in East Africa, a communist government that existed in Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991.
depthen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depthens
form: depthening
form: depthened
form: depthened
Etymology: From depth + -en.
Senses: examples: text: And in 1770, a Mr. John Gayford went to Holland to buy an engine to depthen the haven.
ref: 1869, The East Anglian, volume 3:
text: It Is equipped with a 36 In bucket that depthens and clears the ditch of debris.
ref: 1956, Street Engineering, volume 1, page 43:
glosses: To increase the depth of; make deep or deeper
Synonyms: deepen
depthened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depthen
depthening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From depthen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depthen
depthening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From depthen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making (something) deeper.
depthens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depthen
People's Republic of Mozambique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: Mozambique
glosses: Former official name of Mozambique: a country in East Africa and Southern Africa; used from 1975 to 1990 when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state.
People's Republic of Angola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: People's Rep. of Angola
Senses: synonyms: Angolan People's Republic
hypernyms: Angola
glosses: Former official name of Angola: a country in Southern Africa; used from 1975 to 1992 when it was a one-party, self-declared socialist state.
house-commune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-communes
Etymology: Calque of Russian дом-коммуна (dom-kommuna, “house-commune”)
Senses: examples: text: The newly constructed house-communes were, in fact, modest in their communal arrangements.
ref: 1979, Alena Heitlinger, Women and State Socialism, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Although its name and conception bears some resemblance to many projects of utopian architecture -- house-communes and communist homes -- it was tecnically born out of Lenin's head.
ref: 1993, Public Culture, page 276:
text: Communal apartments shared the utopian constructivist ideas with the house-commune in that they also had common areas of use such as the communal kitchens and bathrooms (Utekhin 2003).
ref: 2013, Jacqueline Low, Gary Bowden, The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance, →ISBN:
glosses: A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.
house-communes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-commune
housecommune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housecommunes
Senses: examples: text: There are the apparently outmoded calls for privileges for the industrial proletariat as the "more concentrated, united and educated section of the toiling masses, hardened in battle”; the replacing of antiquated methods of housekeeping by housecommunes, public kitchens, etc ...
ref: 1949 July, John N. Hazard, “Soviet Leadership Problems”, in The Political Quarterly:
text: The story ends at the start of the construction of a housecommune; we learn about the difficulties of dreaming but not about the consequences of those dreams.
ref: 2018, Svetlana Boym, Cristina Vatulescu, Tamar Abramov, The Svetlana Boym Reader, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: Alternative form of house-commune.
housecommunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housecommune
smoke machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke machines
Senses: examples: text: Al Albergate of the District Attorney’s staff said the task force inquiry into the rumors was mainly based on the assumption that where there’s smoke there’s fire. ¶ “But,” said Mr. Melnick plaintively, “in this business, where there’s smoke, there’s more likely to be a smoke machine.”
ref: 1982 December 12, Aljean Harmetz, “How a Hollywood rumor was born, flourished and died”, in The New York Times:
text: A thin, reddish gas drifted upward near the musicians. Produced by a secondhand smoke machine bought by Ibn-Zaidoun from an Israeli disco club, it thickened and spread, forming a mist that enveloped the choir and curled around the plain sandals of the nun.
ref: 2003, A. B. Yehoshua, translated by Hillel Halkin, The Liberated Bride, Orlando: Harcourt, Part 6, p. 449:
glosses: A device that emits a dense vapour that appears similar to fog or smoke, used in theatre, film and other applications.
Synonyms: fogger
fog machine
fog generator
smoke machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke machine
house-flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-flags
form: house flag
form: houseflag
Senses: examples: text: Her house-flag was flying, and her whistle from time to time acknowledged the salutes of friendly boats, who saw that she was new to the High and Narrow Seas and wished to make her welcome.
ref: 1899, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work, page 84:
text: And when the house-flag fluttered half-way to the deck and climbed again to the masthead, the soul of Hector McKaye would thrill.
ref: 2008, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust, →ISBN, page 1:
text: No more dignified ship than the Queen Victoria flies the house-flag of any British line.
ref: 2012, John Dickson Carr, The Blind Barber, →ISBN:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A flag that uniquely identifies the company that owns or, occasionally, that operates a ship.
examples: text: In the school ground, I saw a boy of section B was given the responsibility of leading the march past with house-flag in his hands.
ref: 2014, Prakash Sharma, Ohm, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A flag that identifies a company, unit, or other group.
house-flags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-flag
house flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house flags
Senses: examples: text: The colour finish is the latest Southern green, with gold lines, with the name Channel Packet in raised lettering on a red background on a cast brass ring, surrounding a replica of the house flag of the S.R. fleet in vitreous enamel in the centre.
ref: 1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, pages 173, 175:
text: It is usual, customary and correct for the house flag of a company to be worn at the mainmast head; however there are exceptions, and as Commander Hilary Mead has pointed out in his book on Sea Flags,* the Brocklebank Line have always used the foremast.
ref: 1953, Colin Stewart, Flags, Funnels, and Hull Colours, page 5:
text: The red flag of the sultanate and the house flag of the owners of the Picciola were hoisted.
ref: 2011, J. W. Heldring, The Killing of Dr. Albrecht Roscher, →ISBN, page 36:
text: While, as stated before, the function of the house flag was to identify a vessel's owner, there were occasions when the flag that was shown represented the agent who was operating the vessel for the owner; or, if the vessel was sailing under charter, the flag flown was that of the contracting party.
ref: 2013, William L. Crothers, American-Built Packets and Freighters of the 1850s, →ISBN, page 375:
glosses: Alternative form of house-flag.
Flag that identifies a shipowner.
examples: text: A short time ago I asked one of the American airlines to send me a specimen of their house flag.
ref: 1949, Aeronautics - Volumes 22-23, page 4:
text: As The First National Bank of Shreveport begins its 87th year of continuous service, we are proud to present our new house flag which will soon fly along with the American Flag at the Main Office and at each of our suburban branches.
ref: 1960, Independent Petroleum Association of America, The Oil Producing Industry in Your State, page 37:
text: The next morning, after the drumbeat for the morning muster parade, Gore-Browne arranged for the house flag to fly at half-mast to mourn the King's death, and told the workers there would be a special memorial service in the chapel on Sunday which all would be expected to attend.
ref: 2014, Christina Lamb, The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream, →ISBN:
text: There was another day when Paul W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, came to see him. Litchfield was thoroughly disturbed, because he had heard that Knudsen wanted Goodyear's trademark—a yellow and blue houseflag—left off all tires sold to Chevrolet.
ref: 2017, Col. Norman Beasley, Knudsen: A Biography, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of house-flag.
Flag that identifies a company, unit, or group.
examples: text: I was also not thrilled when two neighborhood girls shredded my house flag with what must have been sharp objects or scissors.
ref: 2012, Jane-Alexandra Krehbiel, What I Learned from Daniel, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A flag flown at a house.
house flags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house flag
houseflag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houseflags
Senses: examples: text: The houseflag was dipped and raised and dipped again by both ; the red ensign was dipped ; and the homeward-bound sounded her monosyllable three times, to which our own whistle replied in equal number.
ref: 1922, Edmund Blunden, The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday, page 68:
text: Many of the smaller vessels, and these often are the subject of the most lively painters, were owned by individuals or groups of individuals who did not aspire to a houseflag to indicate their ownership.
ref: 1975, Roger Finch, The ship painters, page 68:
text: The venerable North Atlantic line adopted this logo in 1972 as part of its change of identity to Holland America Cruises. The logo is found on Holland America printed materials and on the line's houseflag from that date until late 1984.
ref: 1991, Steamboat Bill: Journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America:
text: The United States Lines' history begins in 1921, but generations of sea tradition are behind the great modern ships which carry the blue spread-eagle houseflag across the Atlantic.
ref: 2017, Gordon Newell, Ocean Liners of the 20th Century, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of house-flag.
houseflags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseflag
swarmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swarme
swarme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swarmes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of swarm.
Schumer box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schumer boxes
Etymology: After Chuck Schumer, who introduced the legislation that mandated it.
Senses: glosses: A textual summary of the costs of a credit card.
wikipedia: Chuck Schumer
Schumer boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schumer box
ice-shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-shelves
Senses: examples: text: All planes reached the old base on the eventing of the next day —January 27th—after a swift non-stop flight; and on the 28th we made McMurdo Sound in two laps, the one pause being very brief, and occasioned by a faulty rudder in the furious wind over the ice-shelf after we had cleared the great plateau.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:
text: But he found no Alaloi, and he urged his dogs carefully across the crevasses of the Fairleigh ice-shelf, back out onto the sea.
ref: 2000, Orson Scott Card, Future On Ice, →ISBN:
text: Thunderous roars warned us that the whole ice-shelf had entered a hyperactive phase, causing hitherto safe snow-bridges to collapse all around us into their crevasses.
ref: 2009, Ranulph Fiennes, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ice shelf.
ice-shelves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-shelf
iceshelf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iceshelves
Senses: examples: text: The Indian Bay is the final location, where the expedition ship stays in Polynya in part of Lazarev Sea and all the operations of loading unloading is carried out at the iceshelf here.
ref: 1995, S. R. Jog, Indian Geomorphology: Erosional landforms and processes, page 247:
text: Ice accumulated on it to form a permanent icesheet which expanded to cover the entire continent and reached the ocean, forming iceshelves.
ref: 2005, Peter Fong, Greenhouse Warming and Nuclear Hazards, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ice shelf.
iceshelves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iceshelf
heterophylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin heterophylla + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pyrrolizidine alkaloid found in Parsonsia heterophylla.
Strephons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Strephon
Daocheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: douʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Tao-ch'eng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稻城 (Dàochéng).
Senses: examples: text: If the altitude of Daocheng (稻城) County doesn’t leave tourists speechless, the magnificent mountains and meadows in the vicinity of this 4,000-meter-high plateau surely will.
ref: 2003 January 3, Wenlong, “Paradise Regained”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 16:
text: DAOCHENG (DABPA) 稻城
0836 / pop 7000 / elev 3800m
The county town of Daocheng (Dabpa in Tibetan) is mainly a jumping-off point for Yading Nature Reserve (right).
ref: 2008, Bradley Mayhew, Tibet, 7th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 277:
text: The Piluo site was discovered in May 2020 in Daocheng county, Sichuan province. Archaeologists found nearly 10,000 stone artifacts at the site at an altitude of 3,750 meters.
ref: 2022 March 18, “Two Sichuan sites selected as “China’s New Archaeological Discoveries in 2021””, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2022:
glosses: A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Tibetan
word: Dabpa
rankened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ranken
rankening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ranken
Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fed. People's Rep. of Yugoslavia
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
synonyms: word: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
People's Republic of Kampuchea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the People's Republic of Kampuchea
Senses: hypernyms: Cambodia
Kampuchea
glosses: Former official name of Cambodia: a country in Southeast Asia; used from 1979 to 1989, after the Khmer Rouge was ejected, when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state and a satellite state of Vietnam.
People's Republic of Benin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: Benin
glosses: Former official name of Benin: a country in West Africa; used from 1975 to 1990 when it was a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state.
People's Republic of the Congo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Congo < Africa < Earth
related: word: People's Republic of Congo
word: PRC
word: Democratic Republic of the Congo
word: DR Congo
word: DRC
word: Congo-Kinshasa
synonyms: Congolese People's Republic
glosses: Former official name of Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville): a country in Central Africa; used from 1969 to 1992 when it was a Marxist-Leninist state.
citronette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citronettes
Senses: glosses: A form of vinaigrette (sauce) made using lemon juice (or similar) instead of vinegar
citronettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citronette
agaricoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling an agaric
raw_tags: of a fungus
agroeconomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroeconomies
Etymology: From agro- + economy.
Senses: glosses: The agricultural economy of a region or country
Related terms: agribusiness
agri-politics
agridollars
agroeconomic
agripower
agroeconomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agroeconomy
aldohexuronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldohexuronic acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The aldose form of a hexuronic acid
Related terms: aldohexuronate
aldohexuronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldohexuronates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of an aldohexuronic acid
aldohexuronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldohexuronate
aldouronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldouronates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of an aldouronic acid
aldouronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldouronate
aldouronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldouronic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aldose form of a uronic acid
alepocephaliform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alepocephaliforms
Senses: glosses: Any slickhead of the order Alepocephaliformes
alepocephaliforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alepocephaliform
alloreactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloreaction
amyloblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amyloblasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ameloblast.
amyloblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amyloblast
angioscotomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angioscotoma
angioscotomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angioscotoma
antiprogesteronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiprogesterone.
antipurinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + purinergic.
Senses: glosses: That inhibits the release of purines
aposymbiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From apo- + symbiotically.
Senses: glosses: In an aposymbiotic manner
aridization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aridizations
Senses: glosses: The process by which a region becomes arid
Madaraka Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swahili madaraka (“responsibility, power”).
Senses: glosses: A national holiday celebrated on June 1, commemorating when Kenya gained self-rule.
arrowtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrowtails
Senses: glosses: A fish Melanonus zugmayeri
arrowtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowtail
Jamhuri Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swahili jamhuri (“republic”).
Senses: glosses: A national holiday celebrated on December 12, commemorating when Kenya became independent.
artiodactylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artiodactylates
Senses: glosses: Any even-toed ungulate of the order Artiodactyla
artiodactylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artiodactylate
Mashujaa Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swahili mashujaa (“heroes”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Kenyatta Day
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A Kenyan national holiday celebrated on October 20.
Kenyatta Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jomo Kenyatta.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Mashujaa Day, official until changed in 2010.
wikipedia: Jomo Kenyatta
atropinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atropinises
form: atropinising
form: atropinised
form: atropinised
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To treat with atropine
Related terms: atropinization
audiospatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From audio- + spatial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to spatial aspects of sound, especially relating to the ability to sense the direction that a sound is coming from
Australia antigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australia antigens
Etymology: First isolated by American researcher Baruch S. Blumberg in the serum of an Australian Aboriginal person.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Surface antigen of the hepatitis B virus (HBsAg).
wikipedia: Baruch S. Blumberg
autospectral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + spectral.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to an autospectrum
autostimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autostimulates
form: autostimulating
form: autostimulated
form: autostimulated
Etymology: From auto- + stimulate.
Senses: glosses: to self-stimulate
autostimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autostimulate
autostimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autostimulate
autotitration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotitrations
Etymology: From auto- + titration.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: automatic titration
Related terms: autotitrate
autotitrator
pgs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pg.
azo-galactan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azo-galactans
Etymology: From azo- + galactan.
Senses: examples: text: Eight types of biodegradable substrates (see Table 2) were used in this study; azo-galactan, azocarob galactomannan, AZ-rhamnogalacturonan, azoCM-cellulose, red pullulan, […]
ref: 2012, M Arora, AC Anil, J Delany, N Rajarajan, et al., “Carbohydrate-degrading bacteria closely associated with Tetraselmis indica: influence on algal growth”, in Aquatic Biology:
text: […] was determined on the native dyed substrate Azo-galactan (Megazyme) in accordance with […] Each reaction mixture (200 μL) contained 100 μL of supernatant and 1% Azo-galactan in 50 […]
ref: 2013, O Tabachnikov, Y Shoham, “Functional characterization of the galactan utilization system of Geobacillus stearothermophilus”, in The FEBS journal:
text: Azo-galactan is partly debranched potato galactan dyed with […] solution (2% w/v azo-galactan in 50 mM sodium acetate buffer, pH 4.5 […] All azo-galactan assay measurements were made in […]
ref: 2015, S Torpenholt, L De Maria, MHM Olsson, et al., “Effect of mutations on the thermostability of Aspergillus aculeatus β-1, 4-galactanase”, in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal:
text: […] on the high molecular weight β-1,4-galactan was determined quantitatively by the measurement of the increase of the reducing power or with the dyed substrate Azo-galactan.
ref: 2017, H Watzlawick, “Measurement of the Galactanase Activity of the GanB Galactanase Protein from Bacillus subtilis”, in Bio-protocol:
text: […] substrate AZO-galactan […] of AZO-galactan according to instructions of the manufacturer.
ref: 2007, A Delangle, AF Prouvost, V Cogez, JP Bohin, et al., “Characterization of the Erwinia chrysanthemi gan Locus, Involved in Galactan Catabolism”, in Journal of Bacteriology:
glosses: Galactan, treated with an azo dye, that is used in enzymatic assays.
azonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being azonal
collocutory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to colloquy; conversational.
talk the hind leg off a donkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks the hind leg off a donkey
form: talking the hind leg off a donkey
form: talked the hind leg off a donkey
form: talked the hind leg off a donkey
form: talk the hind legs off a donkey
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: talk someone's head off, talk someone's arm off, talk someone's leg off, talk the ears off someone, talk someone under the table
synonyms: talk the ears off a donkey
talk the legs off a pot
talk the leg off the Lamb of God
glosses: To talk a lot.
talk the hind legs off a donkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks the hind legs off a donkey
form: talking the hind legs off a donkey
form: talked the hind legs off a donkey
form: talked the hind legs off a donkey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of talk the hind leg off a donkey.
talk someone's arm off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks someone's arm off
form: talking someone's arm off
form: talked someone's arm off
form: talked someone's arm off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of talk someone's ear off.
synonyms: word: talk someone's ear off
talk someone's head off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks someone's head off
form: talking someone's head off
form: talked someone's head off
form: talked someone's head off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of talk someone's ear off.
synonyms: word: talk someone's ear off
basemap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basemaps
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The map used as the basic map. Other data may be overlaid upon a basemap: for example, an aerial imagery basemap on which is overlaid property lines.
basemaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basemap
basichondrocranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basichondrocrania
Etymology: From basi- + chondrocranium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A basal chondrocranium
basichondrocrania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basichondrocranium
basipod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basipods
Senses: glosses: Synonym of basipodite.
synonyms: word: basipodite
basipods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basipod
bilineage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilineages
Etymology: From bi- + lineage.
Senses: glosses: bilineal lineage
bilineages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilineage
biocharacteristic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocharacteristics
Etymology: From bio- + characteristic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of biocharacter.
synonyms: word: biocharacter
biocharacteristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biocharacteristic
bioclinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + clinical.
Senses: glosses: biological (or biochemical) and clinical