cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːk/
ipa: /mæk/
ipa: /maːx/
rhymes: -ɑːk
rhymes: -æk
rhymes: -aːx
Etymology: * As a Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Lower Sorbian surname, from pet forms produced by truncation of personal names beginning with Ma- such as Matej, Martin, or Maciej, and the addition of the Slavic suffix -ch.
* As a Jewish surname, from German Mache (“work”).
* Less commonly, a respelling of Hungarian Mács, a pet form of names corresponding to Matthew.
* In some cases, from Vietnamese (Mạch, itself from the Chinese name 麥 /麦) or Cambodian, from Khmer ម៉ាច (maac).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
glosses: Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (1838–1916), born in Moravia (now Czech Republic).
Mach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːk/
ipa: /mæk/
ipa: /maːx/
rhymes: -ɑːk
rhymes: -æk
rhymes: -aːx
Forms: form: Machs
Etymology: * As a Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Lower Sorbian surname, from pet forms produced by truncation of personal names beginning with Ma- such as Matej, Martin, or Maciej, and the addition of the Slavic suffix -ch.
* As a Jewish surname, from German Mache (“work”).
* Less commonly, a respelling of Hungarian Mács, a pet form of names corresponding to Matthew.
* In some cases, from Vietnamese (Mạch, itself from the Chinese name 麥 /麦) or Cambodian, from Khmer ម៉ាច (maac).
Senses: examples: text: The jet traveled at Mach 3.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A ratio of the speed (of an object, etc.) to the speed of sound in the fluid or other medium through which the object travels. Usually used to describe supersonic speeds; always precedes the Mach number.
examples: text: The 1992 review concluded that Machs are generally less satisfied with their jobs.
ref: 2013, Mark R. Leary, Rick H. Hoyle, Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behavior, page 97:
glosses: Clipping of Machiavellian.
Derived terms: Mach diamond
Mach effect
Mach front
Machmeter
Mach number
Mach stem
Mach tuck
Mach wave
sound barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound barriers
Senses: glosses: Sonic barrier, the sudden increase in drag (resistance) and other effects experienced by moving objects when their speed approaches that of sound or becomes supersonic (which used to be considered a barrier to higher speeds).
examples: text: St Ives: The guided busway on the old railway alignment to Cambridge has just passed its tenth anniversary. Railfuture has noted its down-at-heel physical appearance, with dirty concrete beams, damaged sound barriers, and unmanaged vegetation.
ref: 2021 October 6, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Anglia”, in RAIL, number 941, page 29:
glosses: A noise barrier, a structure beside a highway designed to reduce the noise of traffic.
Related terms: speed of sound
transorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Etymology: From trans- + orbital.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Passing through the orbit, or eye socket.
transorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Forms: form: transorbitals
Etymology: From trans- + orbital.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lobotomy carried out through the eye socket.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A commercial spacecraft operating between the planets of the solar system.
transpacific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹæns.pəˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /-ˌtɹænz.-/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: trans-Pacific
Etymology: From trans- + Pacific.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: On, from the other side of, spanning or crossing the Pacific Ocean.
Related terms: transatlantic
transatlantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: trans-Atlantic
Etymology: From trans- + Atlantic.
Senses: examples: text: Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.
ref: 1955 May, Walter McGrath and Colm Creedon, “The Cork-Youghal-Cobh Section of C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 308:
text: Many travellers via Fishguard regret the closing by British Transport Hotels & Catering Services of the Fishguard Bay Hotel, built by the G.W.R. early in the century for the expected transatlantic traffic.
ref: 1961 August 24, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
text: Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.
ref: 2016 November 15, Karla Pequenino, “The women pilots that history forgot”, in CNN:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: On, spanning or crossing, or from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Related terms: transpacific
Mid-Atlantic
toolbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: to͞ol′-bŏks'
ipa: /ˈtuːlˌbɒks/
ipa: /ˈtuːlˌbɑks/
ipa: /ˈtʉːlˌbɔks/
Forms: form: toolboxes
Etymology: From tool + box.
Senses: glosses: A storage case for tools.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of pre-existing routines for use in writing new programs.
examples: text: Developing this chameleon-like skill could prove to be a very useful addition to your toolbox for winning people over – and getting ahead.
ref: 2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC:
glosses: A set of skills or competences
examples: text: From the get go, one can immediately tell that this kid is a fucking toolbox.
ref: 2007, Alexander Kern, Listen! Listen, Listen, Listen, Listen, Listen!!!:
text: I've been in construction since I was dishonorably discharged by those toolboxes in the Royal Guard.
ref: 2019 October 29, Brawny Buck, “A Buck to the Face: A Royal Problem”, in YouTube:
glosses: Dumbass or idiot.
Hypernyms: box
Derived terms: a few spanners short of a tool box
Related terms: toolset
toolkit
tool chest
transparence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transparences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin trānspārentia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of transparency.
synonyms: word: transparency
transparency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/
ipa: /tɹænzˈpæɹənsi/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹænz-/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger, Canada
ipa: /tɹænsˈpɛɹənsi/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger, Canada
ipa: /tɹænz-/
Forms: form: transparencies
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārentia.
Senses: synonyms: word: transparence
word: transparentness
glosses: The quality of being transparent.
examples: text: And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
glosses: Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.
examples: text: According to Bray (Life of Stothard, p. 50), the silversmiths Rundell and Bridge displayed a large transparency by Thomas Stothard, painted in thin oils on canvas and lit from behind, in front of their house on Ludgate Hill in honour of the King's Jubilee in 1810.
ref: 1810, Royal Collection Trust, Design for a transparency of George III:
text: It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of roses, on the other—the path was interrupted by a little knot of gentlemen.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 59:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it.
examples: text: John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless.
ref: 1986 April 12, H. W. Seng, “The Chunks-of-Life Approach Yields Thin Fiction”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: Something transparent.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
Derived terms: overhead transparency
referential transparency
offre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of offer.
offre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offres
form: offring
form: offred
form: offred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of offer.
train wreck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train wrecks
form: trainwreck
form: train-wreck
Senses: synonyms: word: prairie meet
english: hobo slang
translation: hobo slang
word: cornfield meet
english: railroad jargon
translation: railroad jargon
glosses: A train crash.
glosses: The wreckage resulting from a train crash.
examples: text: There is a feeling in Washington that we are gathering at the side of the track to watch a gigantic economic train wreck one of these days.
ref: 1986 September 1, Hugh Sidey, “The Presidency: Colliding with Realities”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2008:
text: "Your personal life has been, and is, a train wreck."
ref: 2007, Mel Odom, Blood Evidence, →ISBN, page 168:
text: “Hrmm. I see your stylist's been working nights.” He surveyed the train wreck of my hair in the rearview mirror.
ref: 2009, Matthue Roth, Never Mind The Goldbergs:
synonyms: catastrophe
car crash
car wreck
glosses: A disaster, especially one which is large, chaotic, and readily seen by public observers.
examples: text: She may have been a train wreck, but she was a train wreck people still can't seem to get enough of. The sordid but fascinating story of her vicious, no-holds-barred battle with life is one of the most gripping, sex-soaked biographies in years.
ref: 2007, Donna Hogan, “blurb”, in Train Wreck: The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith, Phoenix Books Incorporated, →ISBN:
text: […] women, by and large, do not like themselves very much: their ambition gaps, their orgasm gaps, their imposter syndrome, […] their trainwrecks, and their need for trainwrecks; the enduring, self-loathing need to find someone about whom they can say well, at least I'm not that girl.
ref: 2016, Sady Doyle, Trainwreck, page 24:
glosses: Someone who is unbalanced and considered a mess, a disaster, one who is suffering personal ruin.
train wreck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: train wrecks
form: train wrecking
form: train wrecked
form: train wrecked
form: trainwreck
form: train-wreck
Senses: examples: text: […] basic fundamental communication steps must be achieved so not to train wreck the new employee.
ref: 2003, Peter A. Laporta,, Ignite the Passion, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 57:
text: "I want this, too, I want you. Like really want you more than anything I've wanted in a long time. But if you force it, you're going to train wreck the whole thing in a fiery mess over a steep cliff with jagged rocks below."
ref: 2011, Jaden Lane, If You Could Read My Mind, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: To ruin utterly and catastrophically, to cause to end in disaster.
Related terms: gapers' block
hot mess
brutalitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹuː.talɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌbɹu.tælɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more brutalitarian
form: most brutalitarian
Etymology: Blend of brutal + totalitarian
Senses: glosses: brutal and totalitarian
brutalitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹuː.talɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌbɹu.tælɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: brutalitarians
Etymology: Blend of brutal + totalitarian
Senses: glosses: A brutal totalitarian.
Related terms: brutalitarianism
goose pimple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goose pimples
form: goosepimple
Senses: examples: text: Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.
ref: 1966 [1961], William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy), New York: Grove Press, page 7:
glosses: Synonym of goose bump.
synonyms: word: goose bump
Derived terms: goosepimpled
goose skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of goose bump.
synonyms: word: goose bump
goose flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡusˌflɛʃ/
ipa: /ˈɡuːsˌflɛʃ/
Forms: form: gooseflesh
Senses: glosses: Synonym of goose bumps.
synonyms: word: goose bumps
Derived terms: goose-flesher
pilomotor reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The reflex that causes raised skin, usually the involuntary erection of hairs on the neck or arms caused by cold, excitement, or fear.
Related terms: goose bumps
goose pimples
goose skin
goose flesh
horripilation
light source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪt.sɔːs/
ipa: /ˈlaɪt.sɔɹs/
ipa: [ˈlʌɪt.sɔɹs]
Forms: form: light sources
Senses: glosses: A source of illumination.
Synonyms: word: light source
Hyponyms: word: sun
word: star
word: moon
word: falling star
word: comet
word: lightning
word: fire
word: firefly
word: lightning bug
word: glowworm
word: anglerfish
word: torch
word: candle
word: flambeau
word: rushlight
word: match
word: lighter
word: lantern
word: lamp
word: flashlight
word: fairy light
word: sidelight
word: jacklight
word: searchlight
word: floodlight
word: photoflood
word: chandelier
word: candlestick
word: girandole
word: headlamp
word: headlight
word: fog lamp
word: fog light
word: footlight
word: houselight
word: traffic light
word: table lamp
word: streetlight
word: fluorescent lamp
word: incandescent lamp
word: lightbulb
word: light-emitting diode
word: neon lamp
word: screen
word: display
Related terms: word: anchor light
word: riding lamp
word: riding light
word: blinker
word: flasher
word: fairy light
word: flambeau
word: torch
word: flashlight
word: flood
word: flood lamp
word: floodlight
word: photoflood
word: foglamp
word: headlamp
word: headlight
word: footlight
word: footlights
word: handlamp
word: houselights
word: jacklight
word: lamp
word: lightbulb
word: navigation light
word: night-light
word: panel light
word: room light
word: running light
word: sidelight
word: searchlight
word: strip lighting
word: theater light
word: theatre light
word: :Category:en:Light sources
flagstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæɡ.stəʊn/
ipa: /ˈflæɡˌstoʊn/
Forms: form: flagstones
Etymology: From flag + stone.
Senses: examples: text: Grass sprouted between the pebbles and a greenish stain lay upon the flagstones.
ref: 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Blue Pavilions:
text: In 1946, several of the heavy flagstones, which form the decking of the viaduct, were replaced or reseated, and manholes were provided in the decking, to facilitate access to the inner walls.
ref: 1949 May and June, “Notes and News: First Repairs in a Century”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:
glosses: A flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing.
glosses: One of several types of rock easily split and suitable for making flagstones.
Derived terms: flagstoned
Related terms: flag
transpiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transpirations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French transpiration, from Medieval Latin transpiratio, from transpiro, from Latin trans + spiro.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes.
glosses: The passage of gases through fine tubes.
Derived terms: evapotranspiration
hypertranspiration
transpirational
Related terms: transpire
transpirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transpire + -able.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: able to be transpired
Related terms: transpirability
transpiration
transplace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transplaces
form: transplacing
form: transplaced
form: transplaced
Etymology: From trans- + place.
Senses: glosses: To move or put something in an opposite or different place; to transpose.
Related terms: transplacement
transplantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transplantable
form: most transplantable
Etymology: From transplant + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be transplanted
transpolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From trans- + polar.
Senses: glosses: extending across, or crossing one of the poles, or a polar region
Synonyms: over-the-pole
bag of bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags of bones
Senses: examples: text: Bradly came out from hiding with a dyspeptic grunt, too depressed by ignominy to send a curse after the old woman. That old bag of bones to bring down cataclysm on him! That old thing the nemesis of an inspired aspiration!
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 211:
glosses: A skinny, malnourished person or animal.
Synonyms: word: rickle o' banes
Related terms: all skin and bones
transponder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænˈspɒn.də/
ipa: /tɹænˈspɑn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: transponders
Etymology: Blend of transmitter + responder.
Senses: examples: text: 36 MHz transponder providing a pool of 794 reallocatable frequencies.
ref: 1976, James Martin, Telecommunications and the Computer:
text: Adult animals were implanted with E-Mitter transponders intraabdominally to record body temperature and locomotor activity continuously.
ref: 2015 December 3, “Abnormal Motor Activity and Thermoregulation in a Schizophrenia Rat Model for Translational Science”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
synonyms: word: parrot
glosses: A radar or radio transceiver that transmits some signal in response to receiving a predetermined signal.
Derived terms: emergency location transponder
emergency locator transponder
emergency transponder
transpond
Related terms: identification friend or foe
identification friend or foe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An identification system designed for command and control. It enables military and national (civilian air traffic control) interrogation systems to identify aircraft, vehicles or forces as friendly and to determine their bearing and their range from the interrogator.
In a civilian aircraft: a transponder that responds by sending a code identifying itself.
glosses: An identification system designed for command and control. It enables military and national (civilian air traffic control) interrogation systems to identify aircraft, vehicles or forces as friendly and to determine their bearing and their range from the interrogator.
In a military aircraft: a transponder that responds by sending a similarly coded signal, only when detecting a code indicating the radar is part of the friendly forces' network.
Synonyms: IFF
Hypernyms: alt: CID
word: combat identification
transportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænˈspɔː(ɹ)təb(ə)l/
ipa: /tɹɑːnˈspɔː(ɹ)təb(ə)l/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpɔɹtəbəl/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpɔɹtəbl̩/
ipa: /tɹænzˈpɔɹtəbəl/
ipa: /tɹænzˈpɔɹtəbl̩/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təbəl
Forms: form: more transportable
form: most transportable
Etymology: From transport + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being transported; easily moved.
examples: text: a transportable offence
glosses: Incurring the punishment of transportation or exile to another place.
Derived terms: transportability
Related terms: portable
transportable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænˈspɔː(ɹ)təb(ə)l/
ipa: /tɹɑːnˈspɔː(ɹ)təb(ə)l/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpɔɹtəbəl/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpɔɹtəbl̩/
ipa: /tɹænzˈpɔɹtəbəl/
ipa: /tɹænzˈpɔɹtəbl̩/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təbəl
Forms: form: transportables
Etymology: From transport + -able.
Senses: glosses: A semi-permanent building, such as a portable classroom in a school, or accommodation for fly-in fly-out workers.
examples: text: In some cases, the heavier transportables are replacing desktop PC models — but they are not leaving the office.
ref: 1990, Computerworld, volume 24, number 21:
glosses: A portable computer or telephone.
transporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transporters
Etymology: From transport + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which transports.
A long truck or lorry for carrying vehicles.
glosses: One who, or that which transports.
A type of crane for loading or unloading a ship.
glosses: One who, or that which transports.
A conveyor belt that transports objects in a factory etc.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: One who, or that which transports.
A device that instantaneously transports, or teleports, a person or object.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A carrier.
Derived terms: car transporter
personal transporter
supertransporter
transporter bridge
transporterome
transporter bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transporter bridges
Senses: examples: text: The most striking feature at Runcorn is the well-known transporter bridge, a suspended car which carries road traffic across both the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal.
ref: 1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 490:
glosses: A type of movable bridge that carries a segment of suspended roadway across a river.
transposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transpose + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be transposed (in any sense)
Derived terms: transposable element
transposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transposers
Etymology: From French transposer.
Senses: glosses: Someone who transposes (in any sense).
glosses: A computer program that automatically transposes music from one key to another.
transposase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transposases
Etymology: From transpose + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme required for the transposition of transposons
Derived terms: retrotransposase
transposon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transposons
Etymology: From transpose + -on.
Senses: examples: text: 2002, Ahmet Ipek, Introduction of an Ac/Ds Based Two-element Transposon Tagging System and Trans-activation of Ds in Carrot (Daucus Carota L.), University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 44,
Transposon tagging is a powerful technique to identify and clone genes. The successful application of transposon tagging requires previous identification and cloning of a transposon in the species under consideration.
text: An alternative approach to the use of retroviruses was to use a DNA transposon to integrate DNA into zebrafish chromosomes.
ref: 2003, Karl J. Clark, The Development of Sleeping Beauty Gene-trap Transposons for Insertional Mutagenesis of Vertebrates, University of Minnesota, page 7:
text: Our genome also contains stretches of genetic material called transposons that, at least in some cases, are thought to have been introduced long ago by viruses.
ref: 2018 March 26, Nicola Davis, “The human microbiome: why our microbes could be key to our health”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: jumping gene
transposable element
TE
glosses: A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to the genome of another species.
Derived terms: retrotransposon
transposonal
transposon mutagenesis
transposon tagging
Related terms: transposase
transpososome
transputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: transputers
Etymology: Blend of transistor + computer.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most intriguing advances has been the development of the transputer, a single-chip computer developed by Inmos Ltd.
ref: 1991, Ronald S. Cok, Parallel programs for the transputer:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A single chip with CPU, memory and communications capability, used in grids to form parallel processing computers.
remuda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈmuːdə/
Forms: form: remudas
Etymology: From Spanish remuda.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Don’t die!’ You can bet your Red River remuda on that.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 157:
text: To one side of the barn was a remuda of work-horses, perhaps twenty in all.
ref: 2003, Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla:
text: Buddy did not know what his mother was going to do, but he was sure that whatever she did would be right; so he hoisted his saddle on the handiest fresh horse, and loped off to drive in the remuda, feeling certain that his father would move swiftly to save his cattle that ranged back in the foothills, and that the saddle horses would be wanted at a moment's notice.
ref: 2004, B. M. Bower, Cow-Country:
text: A big remuda had been driven up, Cayuse ponies mixed with larger American horses.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 29:
glosses: A herd of horses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected.
transubstantiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænz.səbˈstæn.ʃiˌeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: transubstantiations
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānsubstantiātiō.
Senses: examples: text: I was openly dismissive about transubstantiation, by which the host is consecrated, and according to Catholic doctrine, literally turns from mere bread into the body of Christ. “But all the atoms stay the same!” I would insist. “That makes no sense!”
ref: 2020 July 6, Helen Lewis, “How J. K. Rowling Became Voldemort”, in The Atlantic:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are essentially transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.
glosses: Conversion of one substance into another.
Related terms: transubstantial
transubstantiate
stercoranism
transubstantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to transubstantiation
transubstantiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transubstantiates
form: transubstantiating
form: transubstantiated
form: transubstantiated
Senses: glosses: To change one substance into another; to transmute.
glosses: To change the bread and wine of the Eucharist into the body and blood of Jesus.
Related terms: transubstantiation
transudation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transudations
Etymology: By surface analysis, trans + sudation.
Senses: glosses: the process of passing through a membrane, pore or interstice
Related terms: transudate
transude
transudate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transudates
Senses: glosses: The product of transudation
glosses: A substance that transudes
Related terms: transudation
transude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transudes
form: transuding
form: transuded
form: transuded
Etymology: From Latin trans (“through”) + sudare (“to sweat”).
Senses: glosses: To pass through a pore, membrane or interstice.
Related terms: transudate
transudation
transuranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + uranic.
Senses: synonyms: TRU
glosses: Of an element: lying beyond uranium in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 92.
Hyponyms: transfermium
transactinide
transuranic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transuranics
Etymology: From trans- + uranic.
Senses: glosses: Any element lying beyond uranium in the periodic table.
Related terms: transplutonium
transfermium
superheavy element
synthetic element
transactinide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + actinide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Lying beyond lawrencium (the last actinide) in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 103.
Hypernyms: transuranic
transfermium
transactinide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transactinides
Etymology: From trans- + actinide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of the artificially produced elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
Deichtine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Female name. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the mother of Cúchulainn and sister of Conchobar mac Nessa.
tenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.nənt/
enpr: tĕnənt
rhymes: -ɛnənt
Forms: form: tenants
form: tenaunt
form: tennant
form: tennaunt
Etymology: From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre (“hold, keep”).
Senses: examples: text: Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of that last tenant had in no way lightened the gloom that hung about the place.
ref: a. 1945, Arthur Morrison, The Thing in the Upper Room:
text: You are just a tenant here, you say / Living in and out of this life / As cheaply as you can
ref: 1982, “The Sitting Room”, in The Sitting Room, performed by Anne Clark:
synonyms: word: renter
word: lessee
word: rentee
word: leaseholder
glosses: One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
examples: text: c. 1782-1783, William Cowper, Joy in Martyrdom
sweet tenants of this grove
text: the happy tenant of your shade
ref: 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Wish:
text: But not in silence pass Calypso's isles, / The sister tenants of the middle deep; [...]
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto II”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XXVIII, page 75:
text: What words are these have fall’n from me?
⁠Can calm despair and wild unrest
⁠Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 26:
synonyms: dweller
occupant
glosses: One who has possession of any place.
examples: text: multi-tenant hosting
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: seat#Noun
;
user#Noun
glosses: Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
glosses: One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
topics: law
property
glosses: One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
Derived terms: anchor tenant
head tenant
joint tenant
kindly tenant
lead tenant
life tenant
multitenancy
nominated tenant
se-tenant
sitting tenant
sub-tenant
superior tenant
tenancy
tenant at will
tenant farmer
tenant-in-chief
tenant in common
tenantless
tenant-right
tenantry
tenant saw
terre-tenant
ter-tenant
undertenant
Related terms: tenement
tenet
tenant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.nənt/
enpr: tĕnənt
rhymes: -ɛnənt
Forms: form: tenants
form: tenanting
form: tenanted
form: tenanted
form: tenaunt
form: tennant
form: tennaunt
Etymology: From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre (“hold, keep”).
Senses: synonyms: lodge
glosses: To hold as, or be, a tenant.
examples: text: His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: The felling of dense and lofty forests, which covered, even within the records of history, a considerable space on the globe, now tenanted by civilized man, must generally have lessened the amount of vegetable food throughout the space where these woods grew.
ref: 1835, Charles Lyell, chapter IX, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III, page 129:
text: They lived in palatial residences[…]their harems tenanted by numerous women[…]
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 235:
glosses: To inhabit.
tenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.nənt/
enpr: tĕnənt
rhymes: -ɛnənt
Forms: form: tenaunt
form: tennant
form: tennaunt
Etymology: Possibly just a modification of tenet, but note obsolete tenent (“tenet”).
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of tenet.
archivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: är'kə-vĭst
enpr: är'kī'-vĭst
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kɪvɪst/
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kəvɪst/
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)ˌkaɪvɪst/
Forms: form: archivists
Etymology: From archive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The billionaire’s will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.
glosses: One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing and organising archives.
Synonyms: sense: one who creates, maintains or controls archives
word: archiver
sense: one who creates, maintains or controls archives
word: historian
sense: one who creates, maintains or controls archives
word: librarian
sense: one who creates, maintains or controls archives
word: preservationist
sense: one who creates, maintains or controls archives
word: recordkeeper
sense: one who creates, maintains or controls archives
word: scribe
under the wire
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Lying forward flattened along Sunfish's hard-muscled shoulders, Bud was gaining and gaining—one length, then two lengths as he shot under the wire, slowed and rode back to find a silent crowd watching him.
ref: 1921, B. M. Bower, chapter 15, in Cow-Country:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: Across the finish line.
examples: text: Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus.
ref: 1935 July 15, “Zags Jammed”, in Time:
glosses: At the last minute; before the deadline; barely on time; nearly late.
Synonyms: in the nick of time
just in time
mend fences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mends fences
form: mending fences
form: mended fences
form: mended fences
Senses: examples: text: I don't think he was very happy with my work, so I'm going to talk to him and try to mend fences.
text: And furthermore, just because I agree to take a walk doesn't mean we've mended fences. But he doesn't pick up.
ref: 2009, Elinor Lipman, The Family Man, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 23:
text: Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has signalled a rare attempt to mend fences with China when he appointed two MPs considered friendly towards Beijing to two senior posts in his governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP).
ref: 2014 September 3, Justin McCurry, “Japan's Shinzo Abe appoints pro-China MPs in bid to mend fences with Beijing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: She [Meloni] has reduced Italy’s dealings with China, too – and helped mend fences with Orbán.
ref: 2024 May 4, Simon Tisdall, “Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: To repair damage to a friendship or relationship after a disagreement or other mishap.
Related terms: fence-mending
transition element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transition elements
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: transition metal
glosses: Any element in the d block of the periodic table (i.e. groups 3 to 12 inclusive).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The same, but excluding the group 12 elements (i.e. groups 3 to 11 inclusive).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the group of metallic elements that have an incomplete inner (d) electron shell, having multiple valencies and forming coloured compounds and stable complex ions.
Related terms: lanthanide
actinide
mishap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪshæp/
Forms: form: mishaps
Etymology: From Middle English mishap, myshappe, myssehappe, equivalent to mis- + hap.
Senses: examples: text: Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.
text: He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: “Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that occurred today at the Nasser Hospital,” the office said in a statement. It went on to say that “Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff and all civilians.”
ref: 2025 August 25, Isabel Kershner, Aaron Boxerman, Ameera Harouda, quoting office of Benjamin Netanyahu, “Israeli Hospital Strike Kills 20 in Gaza, Including 5 Journalists”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: adversity
contretemps
antonyms: fortuity
glosses: An accident, mistake, or problem.
examples: text: Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest,
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: He ſvvet and ſvvet againe vvith ſuch exceſſiue ſvvoonings, as not only himſelfe, but likevviſe all the beholders, did verily deeme, that his life vvas ending. This ſtorme and miſhappe endured about ſome tvvo hovvres, after vvhich hee remayned not cured as his Maſter, but ſo vveary and indiſpoſed, as hee vvas not able to ſtand.
ref: 1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Wherein are Rehearsed the Innumerable Misfortunes which Don-Quixote and His Good Squire Sancho Suffered in the Inne, which He to His Harme Thought to be a Castle”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, part 3, page 136:
text: There are certain ceremonies which are observed once a year by a whole community or village, and are intended to safeguard its members from dangers of the forest, and from sickness and mishap during the coming twelve months.
ref: 1909, Major A. Playfair, The Garos, page 92:
synonyms: word: adversity
word: misluck
word: adverseness
word: adversity
word: bad luck
word: hard luck
word: ill luck
word: mischance
word: misfortune
word: mishap
word: misluck
word: tough luck
word: unfortunateness
word: unluck
word: unluckiness
antonyms: goodhap
glosses: Ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
mishap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪshæp/
ipa: /mɪsˈhæp/
rhymes: -æp
ipa: /ˈmɪshæp/
Forms: form: mishaps
form: mishapping
form: mishapped
form: mishapped
Etymology: From Middle English mishappen, equivalent to mis- + hap.
Senses: glosses: To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.
Related terms: luck
lucky
reallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rēəlou'
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: reallows
form: reallowing
form: reallowed
form: reallowed
Etymology: From re- + allow.
Senses: glosses: To allow again.
mentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of mention
mentions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnʃənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mention
blueberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blueberry
blueberries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blueberry
ween
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːn/
homophone: wean
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: weens
Etymology: From Middle English wene, from Old English wēn, wēna (“hope, weening, expectation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāni, from Proto-Germanic *wēniz, *wēnǭ (“hope, expectation”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, love, want, reach, win”). Cognate with Dutch waan (“delusion”), Afrikaans waan (“delusion”), German Wahn (“illusion, false hope”).
Senses: glosses: Doubt; conjecture.
ween
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːn/
homophone: wean
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: weens
form: weening
form: weened
form: wende
form: wente
form: weened
form: wende
form: wente
form: wend
form: went
Etymology: From Middle English wenen, from Old English wēnan, from Proto-Germanic *wēnijaną. Cognate with Dutch wanen, German wähnen.
Senses: examples: text: And when they will fight they will shock them together in a plump; that if there be 20000 men, men shall not ween that there be scant 10000.
ref: 1481, Author unknown (pseudonym Sir John Mandeville), The travels of Sir John Mandeville
text: And right as Arthur was on horseback there came a damosel from Morgan le Fay, and brought unto Sir Arthur a sword like unto Excalibur, and the scabbard, and said unto Arthur, Morgan le Fay sendeth here your sword for great love. And he thanked her, and weened it had been so, but she was false, for the sword and the scabbard were counterfeit, and brittle, and false.
text: Then sayde Peter unto hym: Perissh thou and thy money togedder. For thou wenest that the gyfte of god maye be obteyned with money?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
text: Wise men in old time would ween themselves fools; Fools now in new time will ween themselves wise.
ref: 1562, John Heywood, The proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies of John Heywood:
text: … for I ween he will no longer suffer him to abide among the adulterous and wicked Generation of this World.
ref: 1677, Thomas Mall, A cloud of witnesses:
text: But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,
Shall wholly do away, I ween,
The marks of that which once hath been.
ref: 1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: And that junior partnership, I ween, Was the only ship that I ever had seen.
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When I was a lad”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Yet humble second shall be first, I ween
ref: 1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida:
text: Little ween the snug card-players in the cabin of the responsibilities of the sleepless man on the bridge.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XVIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
text: Klapaucius too, I ween,
Will turn the deepest green
To hear such flawless verse from Trurl’s machine.
ref: 1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad:
glosses: To suppose, imagine; to think, believe.
glosses: To expect, hope or wish.
Derived terms: overween
underween
ween
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːn/
homophone: wean
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: weens
form: weening
form: weened
form: weened
Etymology: From Middle English weinen (“to wail, lament”), from Old English wānian (“to bewail, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (“to cry, lament, grieve”). Cognate with Dutch wenen (“to weep, cry”), German weinen (“to weep, cry”), Icelandic veina (“to wail, cry out”), West Frisian weine (“to weep, cry”).
Senses: examples: text: The boy's mother weened day and night.
glosses: To weep or cry.
glosses: To lament.
ween
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːn/
homophone: wean
rhymes: -iːn
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of wean.
ween
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːn/
homophone: wean
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: weens
Etymology: Abbreviation of wiener dog
Senses: glosses: wiener dog, dachshund
ween
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːn/
homophone: wean
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: weens
Etymology: Abbreviation of wiener (penis)
Senses: glosses: penis
hoise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Forms: form: hoises
form: hoising
form: hoised
form: hoised
form: hoist
form: hoist
Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch hisen (modern Dutch hijsen) or Middle Low German hissen. Compare hoist, the modern form.
Senses: qualifier: obsolete except after Shakespeare
glosses: To hoist.
glosses: To hoist, be raised.
tipple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪpəl/
rhymes: -ɪpəl
Forms: form: tipples
Etymology: Unknown but possibly from a Scandinavian source (see Norwegian tipla), or from tip + -le.
Senses: glosses: An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
examples: Alternative form: tippler
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
examples: text: The comedian would have divers bottles of tipple hidden under bushes and in crannies around his house, and would select guests to embark on his idea of a treasure hunt.
ref: 1974, Raoul Walsh, “Hail to the Chief”, in Each Man in His Time: The Life Story of a Director, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →LCCN, page 254:
text: What's your tipple?
ref: 2001, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, “New Girl”, in The Office, season 1, episode 5 (television production), spoken by David Brent (Ricky Gervais):
text: I know nothing about vino nero, and have always vaguely thought it a tipple from Sicily. I have never associated it with Venice.
ref: 2015 April 22, Sam Jordison, quoting Jan Morris, “Jan Morris talks about Venice”, in The Guardian:
text: But not a drop to drink … Love Islanders are limited to two tipples a day.
ref: 2022 July 18, Amelia Tait, “‘Alcohol is a hand grenade’: how reality TV went from boozy Big Brother to nosecco Love Island”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: adult beverage
word: alcohol
word: bevvy
word: booze
word: carouse
word: drink
raw_tags: in context
word: grog
word: libation
word: liquor
word: lush
word: nightcap
word: potation
word: potent potable
word: sauce
word: shot
word: strong-water
word: tiddly
word: tincture
word: tipple
glosses: Any alcoholic drink.