cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skookum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːkəm/
Forms: form: more skookum
form: most skookum
Etymology: First attested in 1825–35. Borrowed from Chinook Jargon, from Lower Chehalis.
Senses: glosses: Excellent, impressive.
examples: text: The electrics were fine (amazing considering Joseph Lucas, the Prince of Darkness made 'em), although they were positive ground - admittedly not a serious problem unless you wanted to add electrical accessories - and mostly we didn't in those days unless you had a Hardly Dangerous "garbage wagon". (This was probably cuz the Harley was the only bike with a skookum enough electrical system for the load.)
ref: 1991 October 16, Robert Smits, “Folk Wisdom”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet), message-ID <RwDX01w164w@smits.oneb.wimsey.bc.ca>:
text: There was a young, bold freight trainman here who tried using one of his steel-toed boots as a wheel chock. Not quite skookum enough, though. He lost a big part of his foot.
ref: 1999 November 30, Skeptic, “PROVE GOD EXISTS”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), message-ID <5pW04.12151$M%.98435@news.rdc1.wa.home.com>:
text: I am also configuring for the 18m tip extension, so whatever I do to the winglet attach will need to be skookum enough for the extension.
ref: 2008 November 14, Brad, “winglet weight”, in rec.aviation.soaring (Usenet), message-ID <b29cb04f-153a-41f6-8d33-c0eefd7dcbb1@c36g2000prc.googlegroups.com>:
glosses: Big, strong, durable, reliable, trustworthy, doughty.
skookum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːkəm/
Forms: form: skookums
Etymology: First attested in 1825–35. Borrowed from Chinook Jargon, from Lower Chehalis.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly among Northwest Coast Aboriginal people
glosses: An evil spirit or woodland monster or giant.
glosses: A type of doll in the form of a Native American.
Derived terms: skookum house
cannabutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cannabis + butter.
Senses: glosses: A product of cooking cannabis with butter, used to make edibles.
spacecake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacecakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of space cake.
Manitoba maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manitoba maples
Etymology: Manitoba + maple.
Senses: glosses: A small, fast-growing and fairly short-lived species of North American maple with pinnately compound leaves, Acer negundo.
Synonyms: ash-leaved maple
ash-leaf maple
box elder
Derived terms: Manitoba maple syrup
war to end all war
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of war to end all wars.
variform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛɹɪfɔɹm/
ipa: /ˈvæɹɪfɔːm/
Etymology: From vari- + -form.
Senses: glosses: That can take various forms.
variform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛɹɪfɔɹm/
ipa: /ˈvæɹɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: variforms
Etymology: From vari- + -form.
Senses: glosses: Something that can take various forms.
shovel ready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shovel ready
form: most shovel ready
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shovel-ready.
antiviolence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + violence.
Senses: examples: text: And one-quarter of teenagers in relationships say they have been called names or harassed by their partner through cellphones and text messages, according to a study commissioned by the clothing company Liz Claiborne, which sponsors antiviolence programs.
ref: 2009 January 27, Stephanie Clifford, “Teaching Teenagers About Harassment”, in New York Times:
topics: government
human-sciences
law-enforcement
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Acting against or opposing violence.
Medvedev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Medvedevs
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Медве́дев (Medvédev).
Senses: examples: Dmitry Medvedev, Russian president between 2008 and 2012.
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Медве́дев (Medvédev).
baseliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseliners
Etymology: From baseline + -er.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A player who plays from the baseline, seldom moving to the net.
Coordinate terms: serve-volleyer
baseliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseliner
slopestyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slope + style or a blend of slope + freestyle.
Senses: examples: text: Even a snow-block version of the Great Wall could not protect the athletes from the cold wind that blew through Saturday’s slopestyle competition at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou.
ref: 2022 April 2, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A discipline of freestyle skiing or snowboarding involving an obstacle course.
Coordinate terms: halfpipe
pipe
quarterpipe
Related terms: big air
thieboudienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛbuːd͡ʒən/
Etymology: From French thiéboudiène, a transcription of Wolof ceebu jën.
Senses: glosses: A traditional dish from Senegal, consisting of fish and rice with tomato sauce.
banket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankets
Etymology: From Dutch banket.
Senses: glosses: A sweet almond dessert pastry that originated in the Netherlands.
Synonyms: banketstaaf
letterbanket
stomache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomaches
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of stomach.
glosses: Misspelling of stomachache.
sworde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sword.
throate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throates
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of throat.
Gordie Howe hat trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gordie Howe hat tricks
Etymology: From Gordie Howe + hat trick.
Named for Gordie Howe (1928–2016), considered one of the all-time best ice hockey players, but known for his tendency to fight.
Senses: examples: text: "Basil got a ‘Gordie Howe hat trick’," Dave Gagner said. "He scored a goal, got an assist on the winner and got into a fight. A hell of a fight!"
ref: 1989 December 17, “North Stars Snap Road Slump 4-3”, in St. Paul Pioneer Press, retrieved 21 Sep 2013:
text: "Last February against Anaheim," Severyn said . . . "I got a Gordie Howe hat trick that night. You know, a goal, a fight and an assist."
ref: 1996 November 23, Rick Sadowski, “Severyn has starring role as AVs trip up Islanders”, in Rocky Mountain News, retrieved 21 Sep 2013:
text: The assist came in the first period. . . . The goal came later in the first. . . . Then in the third, to complete the Gordie Howe hat trick, the fight just happened, said Milan Lucic.
ref: 2010 October 20, Fluto Shinzawa, “Lucic settles a score and Bruins capitalize”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 21 Sep 2013:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The triple achievement of a goal, an assist for a goal, and participation in a fight, within a single game.
wikipedia: Gordie Howe
en:Gordie Howe
unknow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unknows
form: unknowing
form: unknew
form: unknown
Etymology: From un- + know.
Senses: examples: text: To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows.
ref: 2004, William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1, page 205:
text: You clearly care about this employee’s well-being and want to be supportive. Even though you can’t unknow what you saw on TikTok, this is not your problem to solve.
ref: 2023 February 3, Roxane Gay, “My Co-Worker’s Baby Photo Gallery Put Me Over the Edge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.
unknows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unknow
unknew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unknow
trainband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trainbands
Etymology: Apparently a contraction of trained band.
Senses: examples: text: A train-band captain eke was he / Of famous London town.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpen:
text: Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: A company of trained civilian militia operating in England and North America between the 16th and the 18th centuries.
touronaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touronauts
Etymology: Blend of tourist + astronaut
Senses: glosses: A space tourist.
ultraconservatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultraconservative
ladies' rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladies' room
kalbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galbi
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 갈비 (galbi, “rib”).
Senses: examples: text: Feasting continues with […] top-notch filet mignon ($15) and slick, fatty kalbi short ribs ($10).
ref: 2009 January 28, Tamsyn Burgmann, “Akasaka serves up good food and party tricks”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A Korean barbecued rib dish, usually made from beef
Picard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkɑːrd/
ipa: /pɪˈkɑːrd/
ipa: /ˈpɪkərd/
Etymology: From Picardy, region of northern France.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France.
Synonyms: word: Picardian
Picard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkɑːrd/
ipa: /pɪˈkɑːrd/
ipa: /ˈpɪkərd/
Forms: form: Picards
Etymology: From Picardy, region of northern France.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A member of an Adamite sect of the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia.
glosses: A high shoe for men, introduced to England from France about 1720.
Synonyms: sense: person from Picardy
word: Picardian
Picard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkɑːrd/
ipa: /pɪˈkɑːrd/
ipa: /ˈpɪkərd/
Etymology: From Picardy, region of northern France.
Senses: glosses: A Romance language closely related to French.
examples: text: The statements of Mr. Sulman and Mr. Picard, two Minerals Separation engineers, […] form an interesting comparison
ref: 1920, American Institute of Mining Engineers, Engineering and mining journal: Volume 110:
text: Dr. Crusher, using the sample Shinzon provided, confirms that he is a clone of Captain Picard. Furious, Picard wants to know who stole a piece of him.
ref: 2003, Larry Nemecek, The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion: Revised Edition, page 349:
glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Picard-Lindelöf theorem
Picard group
Picard lattice
Picard number
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Picard terms
rest room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rest rooms
Senses: examples: text: There's a change of driver halfway at Crianlarich. Glasgow crews bring the 35-year-old Class 156 north, then wait to take over the next train back south. Crews from Mallaig, Oban and Fort William take their trains from the coast to Crianlarich and swap over. There's a tiny rest room on the platform, with a microwave and a sink, while they wait. Some drivers are signed all the way to the city. Most are not.
ref: 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, pages 37-38:
glosses: Alternative spelling of restroom.
dressing rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dressing-rooms
form: dressingrooms
Senses: glosses: plural of dressing room.
changing rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of changing room
precut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precuts
form: precutting
form: precut
form: precut
Etymology: From pre- + cut.
Senses: examples: text: Before the competition opened, inspectors were backstage opening pots, checking vegetable bags to make sure none had been precut […].
ref: 2009 January 28, Elaine Sciolino, “With Cowbells and Oxtails, Culinary Olympics Begin”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cut in advance.
caricaturish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caricaturish
form: most caricaturish
Etymology: From caricature + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The Bech books constitute a wryly caricaturish collective profile of Mr. Updike’s Jewish contemporaries[…].
ref: 2009 January 28, Bruce Weber, “Updike’s Stories: Some Paths Traveled, Some Not Taken”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a caricature
precuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precut
precutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precut
nonchocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chocolate.
Senses: examples: text: Topps[…] has signed the Clique Girlz as commercial spokeswomen for Baby Bottle Pop, one of the Top 10 nonchocolate candy brands.
ref: 2009 January 28, Brooks Barnes, “Sweet Deal to Promote Tweeny-Bop Girl Group”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not chocolate, or not involving chocolate
midsized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-sized
Etymology: From mid- + sized.
Senses: examples: text: “We are becoming a midsized company that is leaner, more agile and better able to execute our strategy,” James M. Cornelius, the chief executive of Bristol-Myers, said Tuesday in a call with investment analysts.
ref: 2009 January 28, Natasha Singer, “Bristol-Myers’s Reliance on Three Drugs Casts Doubt on Strategy”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2015:
text: Without the funding, she warned, small and midsized farmers could lose financial stability, local food infrastructure could unravel and underserved communities could struggle to access fresh food.
ref: 2025 March 30, Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, “‘A huge blow’: USDA cuts threaten to throw Wisconsin’s local food supply into disarray”, in CNN:
glosses: Of medium size, not particularly large or small
chimneylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chimneylike
form: most chimneylike
Etymology: From chimney + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “Some are tall and chimneylike, heroic cones,[…],” he said.
ref: 2009 January 28, Robin Pogrebin, “MoMA Award Goes to Architecture for an Economic Hangover”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a chimney, especially in shape
booklist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊklɪst/
Forms: form: booklists
form: book list
Etymology: From book + list.
Senses: glosses: Any list of books.
examples: text: As traditional publishers look to prune their booklists and rely increasingly on blockbuster best sellers, self-publishing companies are ramping up their title counts […].
ref: 2009 January 28, Motoko Rich, “Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab”, in New York Times:
glosses: The list of books published by a publisher.
lunchmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunchmeats
Senses: examples: text: “All our lunchmeat, it’s all going to go bad,” said Mr. Abdullah[…].
ref: 2009 January 28, Michael Slackman, “At a Border Crossing, Drivers and Truckloads of Aid for Gaza Go Nowhere”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lunch meat.
booklists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booklist
midperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + performance.
Senses: examples: text: Many playwrights dread sitting among their audiences: Nothing is quite as soul-killing as overhearing people savage your work in midperformance.
ref: 2009 January 28, Patrick Healy, “An Evening in Black and White From a Playwright Who Is Neither”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the middle of a performance
mindscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindscapes
Etymology: From mind + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: In novels like “The Coup,” […] he set his prowess at social observation loose in exotic land- and mindscapes.
ref: 2009 January 28, Bruce Weber, “Updike’s Stories: Some Paths Traveled, Some Not Taken”, in New York Times:
glosses: A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
tipas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipa
mindscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindscape
noncrystallographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + crystallographic.
Senses: glosses: Not pertaining to crystallography.
nonexponential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-exponential
Etymology: From non- + exponential.
Senses: glosses: Not having exponential growth.
Derived terms: nonexponentially
run-o'-the-mill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more run-o'-the-mill
form: most run-o'-the-mill
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of run-of-the-mill.
run o' the mill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more run o' the mill
form: most run o' the mill
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of run-of-the-mill.
accreditors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accreditor
accreditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accreditors
Senses: glosses: A person or organization that provides accreditation
avidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avidity
bioadhesives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioadhesive
bioadhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioadhesives
Etymology: From bio- + adhesive.
Senses: glosses: Any of many gums or other naturally-occurring polymers that act as adhesives
brachinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachinite
brachinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachinites
Senses: examples: text: Microscope image of the Brachina meteorite, the type specimen of the Brachinite meteorites
ref: 2011, Caroline Smith, Meteorites, Firefly books, page 72:
glosses: An achondrite found in some asteroids
breccias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breccia
breedings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breeding
chiralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirality
ciliopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciliopathy
citers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citer
codetections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codetection
codetection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codetections
Etymology: From co- + detection.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous detection of two (or more) things (especially of multiple biological macromolecules)
Related terms: codetect
coelomocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelomocyte
coelomocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelomocytes
Etymology: From coelom + -o- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several cels (including the amebocytes and eleocytes) found in annelids and some other organisms
coextinctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coextinction
coextinction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coextinctions
Etymology: From co- + extinction.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The simultaneous extinction of two or more species (especially when one is dependent on the other)
Related terms: coextinct
condensations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condensation
conductances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conductance
conidiospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conidiospore
conidiospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈnɪdɪəˌspɔː/
Forms: form: conidiospores
Etymology: By surface analysis, conidium + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A unicellular spore produced asexually by a fungus
cryomicrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryomicrograph
cryomicrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryomicrographs
Etymology: From cryo- + micrograph.
Senses: glosses: A micrograph obtained at low temperature
cryosections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryosection
cyberstudents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberstudent
cyberstudent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberstudents
Etymology: From cyber- + student.
Senses: glosses: A student who is taught via the Internet or by a computer-based system rather than by face-to-face tuition.
cyberteachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberteacher
hot extraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See hot (“under fire”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The extraction of military forces by longer-range vehicles (helicopter, boat, armoured personnel carrier) whilst under fire from enemy forces.
glosses: The process of rescuing a friend or colleague from an awkward situation, such as an unsuccessful date.
cyberteacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberteachers
Etymology: From cyber- + teacher.
Senses: glosses: A teacher who teaches students via the Internet or other computer-based system rather than face to face.
cybertutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybertutor
cybertutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybertutors
Etymology: From cyber- + tutor.
Senses: glosses: A tutor who teaches students via the Internet or other computer-based system rather than face-to-face
cytolysins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytolysin
Leilani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Leilani.
Senses: examples: text: Sweet Leilani, Heavenly Flower
I dreamed of a paradise for two.
ref: 1934, Harry Owens, Sweet Leilani (a song):
glosses: A female given name from Hawaiian.
cytolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytolysins
Etymology: From cyto- + lysin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any substance (especially an antibody) capable of breaking down the structure of a cell.
cytoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytoplast
cytoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytoplasts
Etymology: From cyto- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The intact cytoplasm of a cell from which the nucleus has been removed.
Derived terms: cytoplastic
demicytoplast
diebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dieback
dieback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diebacks
Etymology: Deverbal from die back.
Senses: examples: text: The National Trust reports that 30,000 ash trees on its land will have been felled this year owing to ash dieback. “Dieback” sounds like a gentle, seasonal withdrawal. In fact, ash dieback is a devastating disease caused by a fungus, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, likely to have been carried into the UK on imported ash saplings in the early part of this century.
ref: 2021 December 12, “The Guardian view on ash dieback: a tiny chink of hope”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The withering of a plant, especially the cyclical withering in autumn and winter; distal parts die off but core parts stay alive (and semidormant or dormant).
Derived terms: ash dieback
Related terms: word: die back
dietists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dietist
dietist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dietists
Etymology: From diet + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled at formulating diets; a dietitian
dolomites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolomite
dopings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doping
eigenimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenimage
eigenimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenimages
Etymology: From eigen- + image.
Senses: examples: text: Various partial summations of the individual singular eigenimage matrices are included to demonstrate the cumulative effect of the individual outer products on the reconstruction of the entire image.
ref: 1977, Harry C. Andrews, Digital image restoration, page 38:
text: The five eigenimage generic model succeeds as well as the five eigenimage individual model in capturing the global shading pattern, though the geometry is of course different.
ref: 1999, Peter W. Hallinan, Two- and Three-Dimensional Patterns of the Face, page 62:
text: We assume that the KLT, to a first approximation, fully decorrelates the eigenimages; we further assume that the wavelet transform fully decorrelates the pixels in each eigenimage.
ref: 2006, Pankaj N. Topiwala, Wavelet Image and Video Compression, page 266:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of eigenvectors used by a computer system in the recognition of an image (especially of a face).
Synonyms: eigenface
enrolees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enrolee
enrolee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enrolees
Etymology: From enrol + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is enrolled
experiencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experiencer
experiencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experiencers
Etymology: From experience + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who experiences.
examples: text: So after the first few emails with certain of them, I got an introduction from an experiencer to a person who I met at a conference, which was an American Academy of Religion conference. […] And I got insight into the lives that they led, and I became convinced that the government was definitely doing something related to this.
ref: 2025 July 24, Ross Douthat, quoting Diana Walsh Pasulka, “What if the Government Believes in U.F.O.s More Than You Do?”, in The New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: A person who has had a close encounter.
examples: text: The subjects of the intransitive verbs "fall" and "burn" are experiencers.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A thematic relation where something undergoes a situation or sensation lacking a semantic agent.
Derived terms: NDEer
UFOer
flaviviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavivirus
fluoropyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoropyrimidine
fluoropyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoropyrimidines
Etymology: From fluoro- + pyrimidine.
Senses: glosses: Any of many fluorine substitution products of pyrimidine or its derivatives; especially such antimetabolites used to treat cancer
fmoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fmole
fmole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fmoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (metrology) Symbol for femtomole, an SI unit of amount of substance equal to 10⁻¹⁵ moles.
femtomole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femtomoles
Etymology: From femto- + mole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A billionth of a millionth (10⁻¹⁵) of a mole. Symbol: fmole
mocos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moco
formins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formin
fractionations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractionation
galliforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galliform
galliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more galliform
form: most galliform
Etymology: From translingual Galliformes.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a chicken or other member of the order Galliformes.
Derived terms: nongalliform
galliform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galliforms
Etymology: From translingual Galliformes.
Senses: glosses: Any bird in this order
duendes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duende
capas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capa
geochronometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geochronometer
geochronometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geochronometers
Etymology: From geo- + chronometer.
Senses: examples: text: Application of the K-Ca geochronometer therefore is best suited to minerals with high K/Ca ratios (Marshall & DePaolo, 1982) and K-bearing clay materials might appear to be amenable to its use.
ref: 2009, P. J. Hamilton, “A review of radiometric dating techniques for clay mineral cements in sandstones”, in Richard Worden, Sadoon Morad, editors, Clay Mineral Cements in Sandstones, Wiley, page 273:
text: Other geochronometers like ^{₈₇}Rb-\!^{₈₇}Sr, ^{₁₄₇}Sm-\!^{₁₄₃}Nd, or ^{₁₈₇}Re-\!^{₁₈₇}Os are also successfully applied to dating ore deposits and magmatic, metamorphic, or sedimentary processes.
ref: 2019, Marek Smoluch, Giuseppe Grasso, Piotr Suder, Jerzy Silberring, editors, Mass Spectrometry, 2nd edition, Wiley, page 327:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several techniques used to measure the age of rock, especially any technique of radiometric dating, the measuring of the relative abundance of particular radioactive or radiogenic isotopes in order to evaluate the progress of radioactive decay.
examples: text: K-bearing minerals such as biotite, sanidine, plagioclase, and hornblende are geochronometers representative of the time of their crystallization once they were erupted from a volcano, and then transported into marine sedimentary basins.
ref: 1997, G. S. Odin, A. Deino, M. Cosca, M. A. Laurenzi, A. Montanari, “F1: Miocene geochronology”, in A. Montanari, R. Coccioni, G. S. Odin, editors, Miocene Stratigraphy, Elsevier, page 584:
glosses: Any of several crystalline minerals that remain stable over geologic time and that when formed contained radioisotopes whose abundance relative to their decay products can be measured to calculate the age of the crystal (and thus that of the surrounding rock).
Related terms: chronometer
geochronometry
geochronology
gigabases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigabase
granzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granzyme
granzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granzymes
Etymology: Blend of granule + enzyme
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of serine proteases that are released by cytoplasmic granules within natural killer cells
hemoglobinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemoglobinopathy
hemoglobinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemoglobinopathies
form: haemoglobinopathy
Etymology: From hemoglobin + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: dyshemoglobinemia#English:_disorder comprising the finding
glosses: Any of a range of inherited genetic disorders affecting hemoglobin.
herpesviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herpesvirus
heterokaryons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterokaryon
hindcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hindcast
hindcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindcasts
Etymology: Blend of hind + forecast
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A test of a mathematical model by using data from a past event.
hindcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hindcasts
form: hindcasting
form: hindcast
form: hindcast
form: hindcasted
form: hindcasted
Etymology: Blend of hind + forecast
Senses: glosses: To test a mathematical model by using data from a past event.
Related terms: hindcasting
hindlimbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hindlimb Alternative spelling of hind limbs.
hindlimb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindlimbs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hind limb.
histiocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histiocyte
hominoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hominoid
hominoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒmənɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɑmənɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɒmənɔɪd
Forms: form: hominoids
Etymology: From Latin homin- + -oid, after scientific Latin Hominoidea (superfamily name).
Senses: examples: text: Hominoids differ from monkeys in several ways, the most striking being the lack of an external tail.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 111:
glosses: Any primate (including humans and apes) belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea.
honeyeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeyeater
honeyeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeyeaters
form: honey-eater
Etymology: From honey + eater.
Senses: examples: text: 1985, Hugh A. Ford, David C. Paton, Chapter 12: Habitat Selection in Australian Honeyeaters, with Special Reference to Nectar Productivity, Martin L. Cody (editor), Habitat Selection in Birds, 376,
For all honeyeaters combined and White-naped Honeyeaters, the only other common species, there is actually a negative correlation between abundance and nectar productivity […] .
text: The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honeyeaters.
ref: 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, page 23:
text: The adopted sequence of genera of Australian honeyeaters follows that implied by the phylogeny of Driskell and Christidis (2004).
ref: 2008, Les Christidis, Walter Boles, editors, Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds, page 190:
glosses: Any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers.
Synonyms: meliphagid
Derived terms: bar-breasted honeyeater
blue-faced honeyeater
brown honeyeater
New Holland honeyeater
obscure honeyeater
red-headed honeyeater
spiny-cheeked honeyeater
striped honeyeater
white-gaped honeyeater
white-plumed honeyeater
indolics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indolic
indolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indolic
form: most indolic
Etymology: From indole + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: And how nice that scent was. Light, tender, sweet, sunny, vegetal – even a bit indolic, sharing the same dirty base note found in jasmine and tuberose.
ref: 2024 May 10, Lily Stewart, “A love letter to lilacs and the joys of fleeting pleasure”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Of or pertaining to indole, or having a similar structure
Derived terms: bisindolic
diindolic
indolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indolics
Etymology: From indole + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Any derivative of indole
impedances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impedance
indels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indel
interdependencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdependency
interdependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdependencies
Etymology: From inter- + dependency.
Senses: examples: text: All life on our planet exists only because we are enmeshed within a complex web of interdependent ecological and social systems. Executives must remove their blinkers and recognise this natural law of interdependency.
ref: 2012 May 18, Bob Doppelt, “Business leaders need systemic thinking for sustainability”, in The Guardian:
text: In a superbly argued and richly detailed account of the interdependencies of slavery and revolution throughout the Americas, as well as the religious traditions of Protestantism, Catholicism and Islam (many of the west Africans were educated Muslims), […]
ref: 2014 April 16, Michael Moorcock, “The Empire of Necessity: The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A mutual dependence, connection or correlation.
Related terms: interdependence
interdependent
aciculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acicula
interferometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interferometer
ironsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironsmith
ironsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironsmiths
Etymology: From iron + smith.
Senses: glosses: A blacksmith (who makes articles from iron)
glosses: An East Indian barbet (Psilopogon faber) whose note resembles the sounds made by a smith.
Synonyms: blacksmith
Hypernyms: smith
metalsmith
isotopologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotopologue
keratocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratocyte
acoumeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acoumeter
keratocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratocytes
Etymology: From kerato- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: A fibroblastic cell in the tissue of the cornea.
Derived terms: keratocytosis
disintegrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more disintegrative
form: most disintegrative
Etymology: From disintegrate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Losing cohesion or unity.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Having disorganized psychological and behavioral processes.
Derived terms: childhood disintegrative disorder
kiloparsecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiloparsec
prestress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prestresses
form: prestressing
form: prestressed
form: prestressed
Etymology: From pre- + stress.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To apply stress to structural components in order to produce a tension that counteracts the loads to which the component is subjected in its designed use.
prestress
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + stress.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the acute accent is typically characterized by an F₀-maximum in the prestress syllable and an F₀-minimum in the stressed syllable, while for the grave accent the corresponding F₀-maximum occurs in the stressed syllable and the F₀-minimum in the poststress syllable.
ref: 1996, Ann M. Peters, Sven Strömqvist, “The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes”, in James L. Morgan, Katherine Demuth, editors, Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition, New York, NY: Psychology Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 217:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: poststress
glosses: Before a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).
kiloparsec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiloparsecs
Etymology: From kilo- + parsec.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit of distance equal to one thousand parsecs.
Synonyms: kpc
laminites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laminite
laminite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laminites
Etymology: From lamina + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any sedimentary rock composed of very fine layers.
lamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamin
lamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamins
Etymology: From lamina + -in, from their involvement in the nuclear lamina.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of fibrous proteins that provide structure, and regulate transcription in a cell nucleus
Derived terms: prelamin
larvaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larvacean
larvacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larvaceans
Etymology: Larvacea + -an
Senses: synonyms: appendicularian
glosses: Any of various solitary, free-swimming tunicates of the class Larvacea.
leukaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukaemia
lipidoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipidoid
disintegrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disintegration
lipidoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipidoids
Etymology: From lipid + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any material having characteristics of a lipid
literacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literacy
longevities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longevity
lowerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowering
lubricins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lubricin
lubricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lubricins
Etymology: From lubricate + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of water-soluble glycoproteins that provide lubrication to articular cartilage.
lysoclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lysocline
mRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mRNA
megamasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamaser
megamaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamasers
Etymology: From mega- + maser.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any celestial object exhibiting enormous maser activity
waldos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waldo
unicellulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unicellular
tripeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripeptide
tetraploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraploid
buer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buers
Etymology: Irish.
Senses: examples: text: “What about that polony he was with?” ¶ “She doesn't matter”, the Boy said, “She's just a buer—he gave her a half. I saw him hand it out.”
ref: 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann (1947), page 28:
glosses: A woman, especially a sexually promiscuous one.
neonicotinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neonicotinoids
Etymology: From neo- + nicotinoid.
Senses: examples: text: Neonicotinoids may be contributing towards the disappearance of butterflies from the countryside, according to the first scientific study to examine the effect of the controversial agricultural pesticides on British butterflies.
ref: 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:
text: He thinks new classes of insecticides introduced in the last 20 years, including neonicotinoids and fipronil, have been particularly damaging as they are used routinely and persist in the environment: “They sterilise the soil, killing all the grubs.”
ref: 2019 February 10, Damian Carrington, “Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'”, in The Guardian:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: neonic
glosses: Any of a certain class of insecticides that act on the central nervous system in a similar way to nicotine.
Hyponyms: acetamiprid
clothianidin
dinotefuran
imidacloprid
nitenpyram
thiacloprid
thiamethoxam
neonicotinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neonicotinoid
steam trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam train
banditti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banditti
form: banditti
form: bandit
form: banditto
form: bandittis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian banditi, plural of bandito.
Senses: examples: text: [T]his was the very Time when the late Rebellion was at the higheſt; and indeed the Banditti were now marched into England, […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “The Adventure of a Company of Soldiers”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 85:
text: Carlstadt silently trod the strange steps of the wandering Holstein; […] he felt a repugnance at passing through a place most suitably fitted to the depredations of an hardened banditti, and calculated to inspire thought of the most terrific formation.
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter I, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house than a watch-tower—and a troop of tidy, happy villagers please me better than the finest banditti in the world.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 228:
text: The history of the Corsican banditti is rich in heroic, demon-like, and chivalrous traits of character. The people sing bandit dirges throughout the whole country; […] There was with him also a bandit, Brusco, to whom he had sworn eternal friendship, and his uncle Augellone. The latter name signifies Evil Bird, for it is the custom for banditti to give themselves nicknames when they begin to play their part in the Macchia.
ref: 1855, Ferdinand Gregorovius, translated by Russell Martineau, “Bandit Life”, in Corsica in Its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The Record of a Tour in the Summer of 1852, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 144:
glosses: Robbers or outlaws.
Derived terms: Brabanditti
envoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.vɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈɑn.vɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈɛn.vɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈɒ̃.vwɑː/
Forms: form: envois
form: envoy
form: l'envoi
Etymology: Borrowed from French envoi.
Senses: examples: text: From the pulsing throb of the very opening, this was a detailed, incisive playing, culminating in an envoi glowing enough to provide the catharsis this programme so uncompromisingly demanded.
ref: 2009 January 28, Erica Jeal, “LSO/Segerstam”, in The Guardian:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.
mesostructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesostructure
mesostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesostructures
Etymology: From meso- + structure.
Senses: glosses: A structure or superstructure of intermediate size or complexity (in any of several fields)
metallicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallicity
microbiotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbiota
microcrystals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcrystal
microfibrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfibril