cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
exigent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɪ.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /ˈɛɡ.zɪ.d͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: exigents
form: exigeant
Etymology: From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”). Doublet of exigeant.
Senses: examples: text: Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v], page 104, column 2:
text: Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome [Cicero 5° de finibus.], there was one or other that called for an interpreter: ſo leſt the Church be driuen to the like exigent, it is neceſſary to haue tranſlations in a readineſſe.
ref: 1611, [Miles Smith], “The Translators to the Reader”, in The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
examples: text: [H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]
ref: 1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 102:
glosses: The amount that is required.
examples: text: They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents
ref: 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter:
topics: law
glosses: A writ in proceedings before outlawry.
gephyrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒəˌfaɪɹəˈfoʊbiə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γέφυρα (géphura, “bridge”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Venice is a place to avoid if you suffer from gephyrophobia.
glosses: An inordinate fear of bridges, especially crossing bridges.
necrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From necro- + -phobia, by analogy with necrophilia.
Senses: examples: text: Funerals are ten times worse with necrophobia in addition to grief.
glosses: An abnormal fear of death or corpses.
Related terms: thanatophobia
refractory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈfɹæk.təɹ.i/
rhymes: -æktəɹi
Forms: form: refractories
Etymology: From Latin refractārius (“obstinate”), from refractus, past participle of refringere (“to break up”). Originally refractary, refractarie, but reanalysed after other adjectives in -ory.
Senses: glosses: A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.
glosses: A plant or factory that produces such material.
Kambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kambos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kamboh (member of a particular group of people in north India and Pakistan).
smoking gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoking guns
Etymology: Often traced back to the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Gloria Scott.
Senses: examples: text: We have a theory, but we haven't found a smoking gun yet.
text: When Prophet's place in Decatur, Georgia was raided in July 1989, there was the E911 Document, a smoking gun. And there was Prophet in the hands of the Secret Service, doing his best to "explain."
ref: 1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown, →ISBN:
text: I now turn to the role and results of our current inspections. Evidently if we had found any ‘smoking gun’ we would have reported it to the Council.
ref: 2003 January 9, Hans Blix, “Notes for Briefing the Security Council”, in UNMOVIC:
text: It's all over the blogosphere and Air America, the left-wing talk radio network: This is the smoking gun of the Iraq war. It is proof positive that President Bush was determined to invade Iraq the year before he did so
ref: 2005 June 12, Michael Kinsley, “No Smoking Gun”, in Washington Post:
text: A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.
ref: 2021 June 9, Peter Beaumont, “Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: "He can weasel out if^([sic]) it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch."
ref: 2023 September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: Evidence, particularly of a crime, that is difficult or impossible to dispute.
wikipedia: The Adventure of the Gloria Scott
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
cost center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cost centers
form: cost centre
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
management
coordinate_terms: profit center
glosses: A division or project of an organization to which costs can be specifically allocated.
Related terms: business unit
gang bang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gang bangs
form: gangbang
Senses: examples: text: This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning.
ref: 2005, Jacob Weisberg, Slate Magazine:
glosses: An orgy, especially a sexual one.
glosses: A gang fight.
glosses: Protecting gang turf, especially when dealing drugs or other black market objects.
glosses: A gang rape.
clockwork orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockwork oranges
Etymology: From the novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess, in which the main character is programmed to be incapable of antisocial behavior.
Senses: examples: text: Contrarily, he may be saying, “Look what your computerized, commodified society has made of me—a clockwork orange, for all appearances organic but mechanical."
ref: 1996, Mark Dery, Escape Velocity:
text: The telos of the pathologization of crime is the perfected robot or “clockwork orange” of present-day behaviorism and sociobiology, descendants of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century associationists like Jeremy Bentham.
ref: 1998, Patrick Brantlinger, The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction:
text: This one took reality to be a large machine, a ‘clockwork orange', an automaton.
ref: 1999, Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Ernest Mathijs, Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection: The White Book of "Einstein Meets Magritte:
text: Under the archbishop's ceiling, the self is not a clockwork orange programmed by the state but something more unnerving: Peer Gynt's onion, layers of performance without a core.
ref: 2004, Enoch Brater, Arthur Miller's America: Theater and Culture in a Time of Change:
glosses: A person or organism with a mechanistic morality or lack of free will.
Related terms: queer as a clockwork orange
cassette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsɛt/
ipa: /kæˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: cassettes
form: casette
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Proto-Italic *kapsos
Latin capsa
Old Northern French casse
Middle French -ette
French cassettebor.
English cassette
Borrowed from French cassette.
Senses: examples: text: If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
ref: 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:
synonyms: tape
glosses: A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.
glosses: Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk or cassette air conditioner
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A lightproof container for photographic film.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A saggar (ceramic container used in a kiln)
Derived terms: audiocassette
audio cassette
cassette air conditioner
cassette culture
cassette deck
cassette drive
cassetteless
cassettelike
cassette player
cassette recorder
cassette tape
cassingle
compact cassette
data cassette
diskette
gene cassette
histocassette
microcassette
minicassette
musicassette
music cassette
neocassette
noncassette
radio cassette
videocassette
video cassette
Related terms: DAT
VCR
cartridge
eight track
8 track
reel-to-reel
cassette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsɛt/
ipa: /kæˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: cassettes
form: cassetting
form: cassetted
form: cassetted
form: casette
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Proto-Italic *kapsos
Latin capsa
Old Northern French casse
Middle French -ette
French cassettebor.
English cassette
Borrowed from French cassette.
Senses: glosses: To record onto a cassette
pasquinade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paskwɪˈneɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: pasquinades
Etymology: From Middle French, from Italian pasquinata, from Pasquino, name given to a statue in Rome on which lampoons were posted.
Senses: examples: text: I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade—but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn't say a word.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter IX, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 196:
text: Queen Juana of Castile: Swear that you speak true./Cesare: I could place my palm on the Bible, but my oath would be a pasquinade./Queen Juana: Then swear on something else./Cesare: I would, if I believed in something other than myself./Queen Juana: A dishonest man would have taken the Bible, regardless of its meaning to him, and sworn until Sunday. I accept your word.
ref: 2014 October 27, w:Tom Fontana, Brant Englestein, Larry J. Cohen, chapter 1506 (0:41:18 from the start), in w:Borgia_(TV_series), season 3, episode 14:
glosses: A lampoon, originally as published in public; a satire or libel on someone.
pasquinade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paskwɪˈneɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: pasquinades
form: pasquinading
form: pasquinaded
form: pasquinaded
Etymology: From Middle French, from Italian pasquinata, from Pasquino, name given to a statue in Rome on which lampoons were posted.
Senses: examples: text: Chantilly was a quondam cobler of the Rue St. Denis, who, becoming stage-mad, had attempted the rôle of Xerxes, in Crebillon's tragedy so called, and been notoriously pasquinaded for his pains.
ref: 1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 168, column 1:
glosses: To satirize (someone) by using a pasquinade.
Derived terms: pasquinader
knocker up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockers up
form: knocker ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knocker-up.
knock together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks together
form: knocking together
form: knocked together
form: knocked together
Senses: examples: text: I'll just knock together a quick demo.
synonyms: knock up
run up
slap together
hypernyms: put together
glosses: To assemble something quickly.
examples: text: This has all the hallmarks of a disagreement that needs some heads knocking together. It's not in passenger interests for company and union to be arguing like this.
ref: 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:
glosses: To come together, as if in contact.
Related terms: cobble together
jury-rig
Nile blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nile blues
Senses: glosses: A pale greenish blue colour.
glosses: A stain used in biology and histology.
Nile blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a pale greenish blue colour.
Related terms: Nile green
Nile green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nile greens
Senses: examples: text: Eau de Nil (“water of the Nile”) is a tricky color to pin down precisely. It is a light-greenish hue, more saturated than celadon, less gray than sage. It has tan undertones and a cool bluish cast. It is, confusingly, an entirely different color from Nile green.
ref: 2018 February 13, Katy Kelleher, “Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe”, in The Paris Review:
glosses: A yellowish green colour.
Nile green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a yellowish green colour.
Related terms: Nile blue
eau de nil
clench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: clenches
form: clenching
form: clenched
form: clenched
Etymology: From Middle English clenchen, from Old English clenċan (“to clinch; hold fast”), a variant of Old English clenġan (“to adhere; remain”), from Proto-Germanic *klangijaną, causative of *klinganą (“to stick; adhere”). Related to cling.
Senses: examples: text: Clinch the pointed spear.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To grip or hold fast.
examples: text: He clenched his fist in anger.
text: [She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: To close tightly.
glosses: Alternative form of clinch (“bend and hammer a nail”).
examples: text: to clench an argument
glosses: Dated form of clinch (“make certain, finalize”).
Synonyms: sense: grip or hold tightly
word: clasp
word: clutch
word: grip
Derived terms: alt: butt-clenching
word: buttock-clenching
word: clenchable
word: clench-built
word: clencher
word: clench one's fists
word: clenchpoop
word: clencht
word: clinch
word: reclench
clench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: clenches
Etymology: From Middle English clenchen, from Old English clenċan (“to clinch; hold fast”), a variant of Old English clenġan (“to adhere; remain”), from Proto-Germanic *klangijaną, causative of *klinganą (“to stick; adhere”). Related to cling.
Senses: glosses: A tight grip.
glosses: Alternative form of clinch (“the act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed”).
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
examples: text: And perhaps most innovative of all, Drummond and Stang pushed for a policy of clench autonomy […]
ref: 1989, Ted Schultz, The Fringes of Reason, page 210:
text: Every SubGenius clench is required to have a member who does not believe […]
ref: 2003, Peter Knight, Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, page 170:
text: Originality is encouraged, and some clenches have devised their own distinctive organizational names […]
ref: 2012, George D. Chryssides, Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements, page 95:
glosses: A local chapter of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion.
examples: text: Here one poor word an hundred clenches makes
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 1:
synonyms: clinch
glosses: A pun.
telegraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telegraphic
form: most telegraphic
Etymology: From telegraph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: It turned out to be no more than the weekly Reuter’s telegram sent as an ordinary letter from the nearest telegraphic office fifty miles away.
ref: 1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 182:
glosses: Of, or relating to the telegraph.
examples: text: Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style. “Weeds grow like house afire. Can’t keep even with ’em. Shall press you in. Better be careful.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 8:
text: This section is based on […] I am presenting the facts in a telegraphic fashion; for the sources, discussion and disagreements see the five scholars I listed.
ref: 2021, David Golinkin, “What is the Origin and History of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Anat Helman, editor, No Small Matter: Features of Jewish Childhood:
glosses: Brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax.
Derived terms: telegraphically
guyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: guide
Etymology: From guy (“a wire or stay”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fitted with or attached to a guy.
glosses: Fitted to serve as a guy.
Derived terms: unguyed
guyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: guide
Etymology: See guy (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guy
petrol blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A greyish blue colour, tinted with green.
petrol blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a greyish blue colour, tinted with green.
Achæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Achaean.
Achæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Achæans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Achaean.
robin's-egg blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robin's-egg blues
Senses: glosses: A greenish blue colour, like that of an American robin's egg.
robin's-egg blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Associate Justice and Mrs. Owen J. Roberts arrived shortly before the performance started. Mrs. Roberts wore a robins’ egg blue chiffon frock.
ref: 1942 March 4, Carolyn Bell, “Colorful Throng Attends ‘Blackout’ Symphony Concert”, in The Washington Post, number 24,002, page 14:
glosses: Of a greenish blue colour, like that of an American robin's egg.
mv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mv
Senses: synonyms: mV
glosses: Abbreviation of millivolt.
mv
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of move.
veinlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veinlets
Etymology: From vein + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small or secondary vein, especially on the wing of an insect or the leaf of a plant.
Synonyms: venula
venule
zootomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəʊˈɒ.tə.mi/
ipa: /zoʊˈɑ.tə.mi/
ipa: /zuˈɑ.tə.mi/
Forms: form: zootomies
form: zoötomy
Etymology: From New Latin zōotomia, corresponding to zoo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The dissection or anatomy of animals.
Derived terms: zootomic
zootomical
zootomist
phytotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: Phytotomy, or anatomy of plants
ref: 1821, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, K. Sprengel, anonymous translator, Elements of the Philosophy of Plants, translation of original in German:
text: Having often been asked for the names of the plants in which these crystals may be most conveniently examined and distinguished, probably a short list of them, with a few explanatory remarks, would be useful to the students of this interesting and too much neglected branch of microscopic phytotomy.
ref: 1877, George Gulliver, “List of Plants which afford Raphides, Sphæraphides, Long Crystal Prisms, and Short Prismatic Crystals”, in Henry Lawson, editor, The Monthly Microscopical Journal:
text: Anatomy may be divided into two great classes, Phytotomy, or vegetable anatomy, and Zoötomy, or animal anatomy.
ref: 1895, William Darling, The Essentials of Anatomy:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the internal structures of plants.
Derived terms: phytotomist
nervure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəːvj(ʊ)ə/
Forms: form: nervures
Etymology: Borrowed from French nervure.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A vein in the wing of an insect.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the veins that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ.
topics: architecture
glosses: One of the ribs in a groined vault; a projecting moulding.
Synonyms: sense: vein
word: vein
Derived terms: nervule
nervuration
caput
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈpʊt/
ipa: /ˈkæp.ət/
homophone: kaput (for pronunciation with stress on second syllable)
Forms: form: caputs
form: capita
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cape, capo, chef, and chief, and distantly of head and Howth.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The head.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
glosses: The top or superior part of a thing.
examples: text: D. has been engaged, he tells me, through a course of laborious years, in an investigation into all curious matter connected with the two Universities; and has lately lit upon a MS. collection of charters, relative to C⁠⸺, by which he hopes to settle some disputed points—particularly that long controversy between them as to priority of foundation. The ardor with which he engages in these liberal pursuits, I am afraid, has not met with all the encouragement it deserved, either here, or at C⁠⸺. Your caputs, and heads of colleges, care less than any body else about these questions.
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Oxford in the Vacation”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of caput succedaneum.
Related terms: capite
caput mortuum
capote
vox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voxes
form: voces
Etymology: From Latin vōx (“voice”). Doublet of voice.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The voice, especially one's singing voice; vocals.
examples: text: The junior can offer to do the voxes, gaining experience and sparing the senior journalist the trouble. Always remember to think how the clips will edit together. If you're the lucky junior sent to do voxes, there are some technical matters […]
ref: 2018, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Ellipsis of vox pop.
Derived terms: vox angelica
vox caelestis
vox humana
vox nihili
cutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjuːˈteɪniəs/
ipa: /kjuˈteɪniəs/
ipa: /kjʉːˈtæɪniəs/
rhymes: -eɪniəs
Forms: form: cutaneious
Etymology: From New Latin *cutaneus, from Latin cutis (“skin”).
Senses: examples: text: But during the hot fit the cutaneous absorbents act also with increased energy, and the exhalation is likewise increased by the greater heat of the skin; and hence it does not appear in drops on the surface, but is in part reabsorbed, and in part dissipated in the atmosphere. But as the mouths of the cutaneous absorbents are exposed to the cool air or bedclothes; whilst those of the capillary glands, which secrete the perspirable matter, are exposed to the warmth of the circulating blood; the former, as soon as the fever-fit begins to decline, lose their increased action first; and hence the absorption of the sweat is diminished, whilst the increased secretion of it continues for some hours afterwards, which occasions it to stand in drops upon the skin.
ref: 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, relating to, existing on, or affecting the exterior skin, especially the cutis.
Synonyms: dermal
derma-
dermato-
epidermal
Derived terms: abdominocutaneous
anocutaneous
bronchopleurocutaneous
cardiocutaneous
cardiofaciocutaneous
cellulocutaneous
chondrocutaneous
colocutaneous
congenital cutaneous candidiasis
cutaneous leishmaniasis
cutaneously
cutaneous rabbit effect
cutaneous rabbit illusion
diacutaneous
electrocutaneous
enterocutaneous
epicutaneous
esophagocutaneous
extracutaneous
fasciocutaneous
gastrocutaneous
ileocutaneous
inguinocutaneous
intercutaneous
intestinocutaneous
intracutaneous
lymphocutaneous
mucocutaneous
mucosocutaneous
musculocutaneous
musulocutaneous
myocutaneous
neurocutaneous
neurooculocutaneous
noncutaneous
oculocutaneous
orocutaneous
osteocutaneous
percutaneous
pericutaneous
pharyngocutaneous
pleurocutaneous
precutaneous
psychocutaneous
pulmocutaneous
rectocutaneous
renocutaneous
septocutaneous
subcutaneous
supercutaneous
supracutaneous
tracheocutaneous
transcutaneous
ureterocutaneous
urethrocutaneous
viscerocutaneous
Related terms: cuticle
cutaneal
cutis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjutəs/
ipa: /ˈkjutɪs/
Forms: form: cutes
Etymology: From Latin cutis (“living skin”).
Senses: examples: text: I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).
ref: 1883, Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: corium
glosses: The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The peridium of some fungi.
Derived terms: Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome
calcinosis cutis
corrugator cutis ani
crista cutis
cutaneous
cutin
cutis hyperelastica
cutis laxa
cutis verticis gyrata
cutitis
leukaemia cutis
leukemia cutis
subcutis
sulcus cutis
slate black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A purplish black colour.
slate black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a purplish black colour.
old gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old golds
Senses: glosses: a brownish gold colour
old gold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The rose and purple notes in the rugs were toned down by hanging a panel of printed linen in the wall space between the book shelves, bound with an old gold edge of damask.
ref: 1919, Good Furniture, volume 13, page 100:
glosses: of a brownish gold colour
corium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coriums
form: coria
Etymology: From Latin corium (“leather”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The layer of skin between the epidermis and the subcutaneous tissues; the dermis.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
examples: text: Passing by the Corium Bubulum of the Classical Ancients, we see in an old charter, dated 1036, "Stallus Sutoris Vaccæ," i. e. the stall of a shoe-maker who used cow-skin.
ref: 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopaedia of antiquities, and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval:
glosses: Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans.
corium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From core + -ium. Apparently coined in 1974 by Martin Peehs, a German nuclear engineer.
Senses: examples: ref: 1974, Martin Peehs, “Investigations of molten "corium" phases”, in Thermodynamics of Nuclear Materials, volume 1, Vienna: International Atomic Agency IAEA-SM-190/10:
text: Mexico was given $100,000 to do a series of experiments in which small amounts (10 to 20 grams) of stainless steel and corium (a mixture of 55 percent iron, 10 percent zirconium, and 35 percent uranium dioxide) will be melted and then flooded with water in an arc-melting chamber.
ref: 1975 21 October, Hearings on the Nuclear Initiative: Technological Concerns in Nuclear Reactor Safety, Sacramento (CA): California Legislature Assembly Committee on Resources, Land Use, and Energy:
text: Previous studies of the thermal behavior of corium in a degraded nuclear reactor have focussed primarily on the process of heat transfer within the corium.
ref: 1991, Sheau-Wen Shiah, Fan-bill B. Cheung, Dae-Ho Cho, Michael J. Tan, Louis Baker Jr., “Numerical Modeling of Corium/Steel Structure Interaction with Downfacing Boiling Boundary Conditions”, in Chung, Franklin, Hochreiter, Larry E., editors, Numerical Modelling of Basic Heat Transfer Phenomena in Nuclear Systems, presented at the 28th National Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-31, 1991, New York (NY): American Society of Mechanical Engineers, page 31:
ref: 2009, Wei Wei, Xing-rong Cao, “The Simulation of Corium Dispersion in Direct Containment Heating Accidents”, in Zero Carbon Energy Kyoto 2009:
text: The materials of the nuclear reactor—nuclear oxide fuel and fission products, cladding, metallic alloys, moderator, absorbers, structural materials, coolants, concrete, and so on, could melt to form complex, multiphases, and aggressive mixtures known by the general term corium.
ref: 2011, Pascal Piluso, “Appendix 1: Corium Thermodynamics and Thermophysics, 2. Corium Thermophysics”, in Bal Raj Seghal, editor, Nuclear Safety in Light Water Reactors: Severe Accident Phenomenology, Waltham (MA): Academic Press, →ISBN, page 664:
text: CORIUM: INIS: 1977-10-17; ETDE: 1977-06-02 Molten mixture of fuel, cladding and other core structural material resulting from a meltdown accident.
ref: 2019 October, INIS [International Nuclear Information System] Thesaurus, Multilingual version, IAEA-INIS Reference Series IAEA-INIS-01 (2019/10), Vienna: IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], →ISSN, page 264:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A lavalike mixture of fissile material created in a nuclear reactor's core during a nuclear meltdown.
Yokohama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjəʊkəˈhɑːmə/
ipa: /ˌjoʊkəˈhɑmə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 横浜(よこはま) (Yokohama).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, near Tokyo.
glosses: A town in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
hypodermis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypodermes
form: hypodermises
form: hypoderm
Etymology: From hypo- + dermis.
Senses: glosses: An epidermal layer of cells that secretes an overlying chitinous cuticle, as in arthropods.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A layer of cells lying immediately below the epidermis.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A subcutaneous layer of loose connective tissue containing fat cells, lying beneath the dermis.
Synonyms: subcutis
superficial fascia
tela subcutanea
Derived terms: hypodermic
Van Allen belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Van Allen belts
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: Synonym of Van Allen radiation belt.
synonyms: word: Van Allen radiation belt
Van Allen radiation belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Van Allen radiation belts
Etymology: From James Alfred Van Allen, US physicist.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: Van Allen belt
hypernyms: radiation belt
glosses: Either of two torus-shaped areas of high-energy charged particles which partly surround Earth, trapped by its magnetic field. The areas are characterised by intense radiation. When the belts "overload", particles strike the upper atmosphere and fluoresce, causing the polar aurora.
wikipedia: James Alfred Van Allen
epithelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈθiːlɪəm/
rhymes: -iːliəm
Forms: form: epitheliums
form: epithelia
Etymology: From New Latin epithēlium.
Senses: examples: text: the passenger's roving eyes paused for a moment as he listened inwardly to a nether itch, which he supposed to be (correctly, thank Log) only a minor irritation of the epithelium.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 25:
text: The sap of this species was able to cause loss of corneal epithelium 16 h after direct exposure to the sap in a 60-year-old male.
ref: 2014 May 30, Victor Kuete, Toxicological Survey of African Medicinal Plants, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 505:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: epithelial tissue
glosses: A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and externally being the skin.
Hyponyms: endothelium
urothelium
Derived terms: epithelial
epithelioid
gastroepithelium
iris pigmented epithelium
lymphoepithelium
mesenchymal epithelium
myoepithelium
neoepithelium
neuroepithelium
pavement epithelium
simple squamous epithelium
stratified columnar epithelium
subepithelium
tessellated epithelium
-thelium
transitional epithelium
trichoepithelioma
uroepithelium
vaginal epithelium
Related terms: thelarche
thelion
thelitis
thelium
epidermis
endothelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːliəm
Forms: form: endothelia
Etymology: From endo- + -thelium, as in epithelium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines the heart, serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels.
Derived terms: word: endothelial
word: endothelially
word: endothelin
word: endothelio-
word: endotheliochorial
word: endotheliocyte
word: endothelioid
word: endotheliopathy
word: endothelioprotective
word: endotheliosis
word: endotheliotoxin
word: endotheloid
word: myoendothelium
word: neoendothelium
word: reticuloendothelium
word: subendothelium
word: transendothelial
word: transendothelium
word: vasoendothelial
Related terms: endothelioma
epithelium
thelium
lackluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæklʌstə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: lacklusters
form: lack-lustre
form: lacklustre
Etymology: From lack + luster.
Senses: glosses: Lack of brightness or points of interest.
glosses: A person or thing of no particular brilliance or intelligence.
lustre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌstə/
rhymes: -ʌstə
Forms: form: lustres
Etymology: From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: Various kinds of minerals differ in their lustre; iron pyrites are described as having a metallic lustre, glassy materials a vitreous lustre; others, such as opal, look resinous, and the lustres of yet others are described as being either pearly, or silky, or dull, like earth.
text: In the centre is painted an eagle, from whose beak an elegant glass lustre chandelier is suspended. There are also ten smaller chandeliers in different parts of the room.
ref: 1838, John Henry Brady, A new pocket guide to London and its environs:
text: On the ground floor, the library (a room in carved oak) is lighted by a lustre composed of twelve regenerative burners enclosed in tinted glasses.
ref: 1889, anonymous author, The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply & Sanitary Improvement:
text: ...he went out through the unfamiliar hall, setting the chandelier clashing its dusty lustres with his hand, leaving a prismatic jangle behind him in the empty house.
ref: 2013, Shena Mackay, Redhill Rococo, →ISBN:
text: As TransPennine Express 185130 departs with the 1654 to Manchester Piccadilly, while Northern 150273 waits with the 1712 to Sheffield, it is clear from this vantage point that the Grade 1 listed station has lost some of its lustre. But this is May 23 2023... before work to restore that lustre started.
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Foster, “Huddersfield's overdue makeover”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 36:
glosses: British standard spelling of luster (shine, etc.).
Derived terms: delustre
dislustre
lustreless
lustreware
outlustre
Related terms: lustrous
lustre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌstə/
rhymes: -ʌstə
Forms: form: lustres
form: lustring
form: lustred
form: lustred
Etymology: From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of luster.
lustre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌstə/
rhymes: -ʌstə
Forms: form: lustres
Etymology: From Middle English lustre, from Latin lustrum, from Old Latin *loustrom, of uncertain origin. More at lustrum.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of luster: A 5-year period, especially (historical) in Roman contexts.
lustre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌstə/
rhymes: -ʌstə
Forms: form: lustres
Etymology: From Latin lustra (“wilds, woods”), thought to derive from unattested *dustrum, from unattested Ancient Greek *δύστρον (*dústron, “place animals wallow”), from δύω (dúō, “to plunge, to wallow”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of luster: a den, a dwelling-place in a wilderness, especially for animals.
stick-in-the-mud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick-in-the-muds
form: sticks-in-the-mud
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stick in the mud.
hei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of he (Hebrew letter)
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "hei"
word: hei hei salt
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "hei"
word: hei-tiki
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "hei"
word: wok hei
go for broke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for broke
form: going for broke
form: went for broke
form: gone for broke
Etymology: From Hawaiian Pidgin craps slang, meaning “to wager everything on one roll”: one would be broke, i.e. bankrupt, if one lost.
Popularized by the movie Go for Broke! (1951), which is named for the 442nd Infantry Regiment’s unit motto.
Senses: glosses: To wager everything.
examples: text: These shoeless gladiators "shoot the works" or as they themselves term it "go for broke" in each game. They battle for every inch ...
ref: 1931 September 19, "Loui", “Want a Lot of Action? See Barefoot Games”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, HI, page 11:
text: Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse microbus.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
text: Going for broke, the BRB said that Edinburgh-Aberdeen and Hull-Doncaster-Leeds should be considered [for electrification], along with Plymouth-Penzance and Crewe-Holyhead, all to be in place by 2001. Norman Fowler's reply was short and to the point: Sorry, no.
ref: 2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “Launched for enthusiasts - now it's for everyone”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 29:
text: But Mr. Trump’s team went for broke, deciding not to seek a jury instruction that would have permitted jurors to find that Mr. Trump committed a misdemeanor rather than a felony.
ref: 2024 May 30, Renato Mariotti, “How Trump’s Team Blew It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To try everything possible or do every last thing possible in a final attempt.
Related terms: go all out
go for it
go for the burn
here goes nothing
here goes nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Well, I checked everything and I think it's wired up correctly, so I guess all that's left is to turn it on. Here goes nothing!
glosses: Indicates a lack of confidence or certainty about the activity about to be tried.
Synonyms: sense: indicates a lack of confidence or certainty
word: here goes
pharmacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fär'mə-kŏl'əjē
ipa: /ˌfɑɹməˈkɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From pharmaco- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The science of drugs, including their origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.
glosses: The science of drugs, including their origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.
The properties and reactions of a given drug, especially with relation to its therapeutic value.
Synonyms: sense: science of drugs
word: materia medica
Meronyms: sense: science of drugs
word: pharmacognosy
Derived terms: biopharmacology
chronopharmacology
cytopharmacology
ethnopharmacology
genopharmacology
immunopharmacology
micropharmacology
nanopharmacology
neuropharmacology
oncopharmacology
pharmacologic
pharmacological
pharmacologically
pharmacologist
photopharmacology
phytopharmacology
polypharmacology
psychopharmacology
radiopharmacology
toxicopharmacology
zoopharmacology
Related terms: pharmacy
prevaricating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prevaricate
pharmacological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑɹməkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Etymology: From pharmacology + -ical.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or having to do with pharmacology.
Synonyms: pharmacologic
Derived terms: biopharmacological
chronopharmacological
clinicopharmacological
electropharmacological
ethnopharmacological
immunopharmacological
micropharmacological
neuropharmacological
nonpharmacological
pharmacologically
photopharmacological
physiopharmacological
phytopharmacological
polypharmacological
suprapharmacological
toxicopharmacological
zoopharmacological
chemotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + therapeutic.
Senses: examples: text: But for a vast majority of cancers, more intensive regimens of standard chemotherapeutic drugs did not necessarily mean more survival.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 232:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Of or having to do with chemotherapy.
Derived terms: chemotherapeutic agent
chemotherapeutically
immunochemotherapeutic
nonchemotherapeutic
photochemotherapeutic
polychemotherapeutic
postchemotherapeutic
prechemotherapeutic
radiochemotherapeutic
chemotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemotherapeutics
Etymology: From chemo- + therapeutic.
Senses: examples: text: Several novel chemotherapeutics that target specific signaling pathways are now available as anti-cancer agents including EGFR inhibitors and rapamycin.
ref: 2005, Michael G. Goggins, “The Molecular Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer”, in Von Hoff et al., editors, Pancreatic Cancer, →ISBN, page 260:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A chemical agent used in chemotherapy
Coordinate terms: pharmacotherapeutic
cruft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Etymology: Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.
Senses: examples: text: Students “still think of privacy as ‘the one secret I don’t want revealed,’ and that’s not the problem. Their problem is all the stuff that’s the cruft, the data dandruff, of life, that they don’t think of as secret in any way, but which aggregates to stuff that they don't want anybody to know,” Moglen said.
ref: 2014, Jim Dwyer, quoting Eben Moglen, More Awesome Than Money, Viking, →ISBN, pages 26–27:
text: The document just goes on at length in the same way, picking out the sort of cruft that’s been littering Trump’s Twitter feed since Nov. 3 and tying it all into one stinky package. It’s sincerely not worth running through the entire litany again; simply consider The Post’s Fact Checker articles as an effective rejoinder.
ref: 2020, The Washington Post:
glosses: Anything that is old or of inferior quality.
examples: text: The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has been added over time.
ref: 2015 [1992], Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 908:
text: Best developer practices run the gamut from keeping the cruft out of your code to ensuring your code is accessible to all your application or site’s users.
ref: 2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook, Sebastopol: O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Sawyer cites responses to a message saying "there is cruft in [Perl]" as the excuse some Perl community members used to "push him into a corner" until he deactivated his Twitter account.
ref: 2021 August 14, Jim Salter, quoting Sawyer X, “The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement”, in Ars Technica:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: clutter
glosses: Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
Derived terms: crufting
crufty
cruftware
fancruft
cruft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: crufts
form: crufting
form: crufted
form: crufted
Etymology: Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To generate cruft.
lamasery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ləˈmɑːsəɹi/
Forms: form: lamaseries
form: lamasary
form: lamaserai
form: lamastery
form: lamestery
Etymology: From French lamaserie, irregular formation from lama.
Senses: examples: text: purposeful melody, reminding veterans of duty on the Himalayan station, of transmundane melody performed upon ancient horns fashioned from the thigh-bones of long-departed priests, in wind-beaten lamaseries miles above the level of a sea at this distance belonging more to legend than geography.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 490:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A monastery for lamas.
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
synonyms: prion disease
TSE
glosses: Any fatal, incurable degenerative disease of the brain transmitted by prions.
TSE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
glosses: Initialism of Toronto Stock Exchange (now TSX)
glosses: Initialism of Test of Spoken English.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Torque Shader Engine.
TSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TSEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of testicular self-examination.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.