cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
X irradiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X irradiations
Senses: examples: text: The effects of high intensity radiant energy thermal burns, total body X irradiation, and of combinations of thermal burns and total body X irradiation upon the blood coagulation mechanism has been investigated in rats.
ref: 1953, W. M. Davis, A. K. Davis, W. Lee, E.L. Alpen, Combined Effects of Total Body X Irradiation and Radiant Energy Thermal Burns: I. Study of Blood Coagulation:
text: Biochemical effects following X irradiation were investigated in an effort to detect early signs which are indicative of injury or are of prognostic value.
ref: 1954, C. Entenman, Effects of X Irradiation on Lipid Metabolism:
text: Finally, the data mentioned so far have said very little about the possibility of using heat and X irradiation as independent modalities.
ref: 2012, George M. Hahn, Hyperthermia and Cancer, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of X-irradiation.
X irradiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X irradiation
X-irradiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-irradiations
form: X irradiation
form: x-irradiation
Etymology: From X-ray + irradiation.
Senses: examples: text: However, it was recently shown that the ability of Escherichia coli (Harrington, 1964, 1966) and of calf thymus (Zimmermann et al., 1964, 1965) DNA's to prime in vitro RNA synthesis is severely depressed by X-irradiations.
ref: 1968, Advances in Genetics, page 196:
text: The first gene shown to be involved in a cell cycle checkpoint was originally recovered because of its sensitivity to X-irradiation (6).
ref: 1998, Sharyn A. Endow, David M. Glover, Dynamics of Cell Division, page 7:
text: Bardeen and Baetjer (1904) used X-irradiation (without stating doses) on Dugesia tigrina (maculata) and D. lugubris.
ref: 2013, H. V. Brøndsted, G. A. Kerkut, Planarian Regeneration, page 199:
glosses: Irradiation with X-rays.
X-irradiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-irradiation
x-irradiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-irradiations
Senses: examples: text: Administration of olive oil within an hour after whole-body x-irradiation of male mice at a dose of 625 r (LD50 (30)) significantly increases the survival rate when compared with the x-irradiated untreated mice.
ref: 1963, International Congress of Zoology, Proceedings:
text: In a subsequent breeding trial, they bred three groups of 8 mares with semen from one stallion that had been exposed to x-irradiation doses of 0, 1.0, or 10.0 μSv; an entire ejaculate was irradiated and inseminated into each mare once during estrus within 48 hours before ovulation.
ref: 2006, Juan C. Samper, Jonathan Pycock, Angus O. McKinnon, Current Therapy in Equine Reproduction, page 380:
text: In laboratory rats also, intensive, localized x-irradiation of the bowel have been reported to induce intestinal carcinomas (37).
ref: 2012, Elizabeth K. Weisburger, Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of X-irradiation.
x-irradiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of x-irradiation
non-availability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + availability.
Senses: examples: text: Although the winter working timetables provides a completely dieselised service on the N.C.C. section, the evening Larne service has regularly included one steam working due to the non-availability of railcars.
ref: 1963 December, “The Irish scene”, in Modern Railways, page 426:
text: Owing to non-availability of individuals and equipment capable of performing the download, this did not take place until four days after the incident.
ref: 2020 November 18, “Network News: Lack of safety compliance a factor in Loughborough SPAD”, in Rail, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of nonavailability.
ailurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ailurines
Etymology: From New Latin Ailurinae (“taxonomic subfamily”), as Ailurus + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the subfamily Ailurinae.
yawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yawler
Dunmurry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban townland on the outskirts of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Yopurgha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: One prominent case is Yopurgha, a county approximately 60km west of Kashgar city. Traditionally, Yopurgha has been a region where female donkeys are kept for stud purposes, and is also known for the successful breeding of the famous Jiangyuelü, Jiangyue donkeys.
ref: 2010, Donald C. Wood, editor, Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations, volume 30, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:
text: Ibrahim Kurban, from Terim township in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Yopurgha (Yuepuhu) county, disappeared in May 2016 while awaiting a flight from the XUAR capital Urumqi that would eventually bring him to Turkey, a friend told RFA’s Uyghur Service on condition of anonymity.
ref: 2019, “Uyghur Trader Who Went Missing in Xinjiang Ahead of Travel to Turkey Died in Detention”, in Radio Free Asia:
glosses: Alternative form of Yopurga.
Yuepuhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüěʹpo͞oʹho͞oʹ
Forms: form: Yüeh-p'u-hu
form: Yueh-p'u-hu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 岳普湖 (Yuèpǔhú).
Senses: examples: text: Cadres of the Uighur nationality of the Standing Committee of the Yuepuhu County party committee went deep into the midst of the lower levels and among religious believers, energetically preaching the need for national unity.
ref: 1982 May 20 [1982 April 17], Wenfu Huang, “Unity Among All Nationalities in Xinjiang Marked by New Situation”, in China Report, Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 109:
text: Ibrahim Kurban, from Terim township in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Yopurgha (Yuepuhu) county, disappeared in May 2016 while awaiting a flight from the XUAR capital Urumqi that would eventually bring him to Turkey, a friend told RFA’s Uyghur Service on condition of anonymity.
ref: 2019, “Uyghur Trader Who Went Missing in Xinjiang Ahead of Travel to Turkey Died in Detention”, in Radio Free Asia:
glosses: Synonym of Yopurga: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Yopurga
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Yüeh-p'u-hu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 岳普湖 (Yüeh⁴-pʻu³-hu²).
Senses: examples: text: In the western part of the Tarim Basin, cotton is grown mainly between the K'a-Shin-ka-erh (Kashgar Darya) and Yeh-erh-ch'iang (Yark and Darya) rivers where the growing season is longer and population denser. The main centres are K'a-shih (Kashgar), Pa-ch'u, Yüeh-p'u-hu, Mai-kai-t'i (Merket), So-ch'e (Yarkand) and Tse-p'u (Posgam).
ref: 1976 May, Chuen-Yan David Lai, “Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang”, in Pacific Viewpoint, →DOI, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of Yuepuhu.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Related terms: Yüeh-p'an
casino capitalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casino capitalism
zealousy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to emulate, to be jealous”), equivalent to zealous + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We all make mistakes, some more frequently than others. It should not be our purpose to condemn each other for mistakes made. Neither should we, with bitter partisan zealousy, condone all wrongs committed.
ref: 1922, Retail Clerks International Advocate: 1922-23 - Volumes 29-30, page 5:
glosses: Zeal; zealotry.
examples: text: Anyway, she was with him now more than with any of us. It made me angry and scornful, kept my zealousy alive, prevented me from understanding her or forgiving—I always saw the two heads together and the fatal kiss.
ref: 1898, Frank Harris, A Daughter of Eve:
text: There's a fine line, starting with a comparison in a relationship and moving toward either zealousy, a fervent passion to protect an exclusive relationship, and envy, a resentment about a difference and desire to conquer that difference.
ref: 2011, Pure Emotion, page 93:
glosses: The passionate desire for an exclusive relationship.
view from nowhere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: views from nowhere
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: point-of-viewlessness
NPOV
antonyms: POV
point of view
bias
biasedness
slant
tendentiousness
glosses: A purely objective description of something, without any subjectivity.
examples: Near-synonyms: bothsidesism, false balance
topics: media
glosses: A theory about the negative effects of neutrality in journalism whereby reporters create the impression that two parties are equally correct or equally valid, even when the truths of their claims are mutually exclusive and verifiable by a diligent researcher.
Lonski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lonskis
Etymology: From Polish Łoński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
low fidelity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more low fidelity
form: most low fidelity
form: lo-fi
Senses: qualifier: sound
glosses: Having a low bitrate, or being an electronic reproduction of a sound with low accuracy.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having a rough quality, recorded at home with makeshift tools
puts the cart before the horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put the cart before the horse
putting the cart before the horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put the cart before the horse
Columbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Columbine
metropolitan city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metropolitan cities
Senses: glosses: A large city that is the center of a metropolitan area; a metropolis.
glosses: In India, a city at the center of a metropolitan area, which in this context is defined in the Constitution of India as "an area having a population of ten lakhs [one million] or more, comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more Municipalities or Panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by the Governor by public notification to be a Metropolitan area for the purposes of this Part". See List of metropolitan areas in India.
glosses: In Italy, a special type of province that contains a large city at its core. See Metropolitan cities of Italy for a list.
glosses: In South Korea, a particular class of large cities. See Metropolitan cities of South Korea for a list.
Lodyga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lodygas
Etymology: From Polish Łodyga.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
New Rochelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnu ɹəˈʃɛl/
enpr: no͞o' rə-shĕlʹ
ipa: /njuː ɹɒˈʃɛl/
ipa: /njuː ɹəˈʃɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: From new + Rochelle.
From La Rochelle, from French La Rochelle, from Old French rochelle.
Senses: glosses: A city in Westchester County, New York, United States.
hostaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hostage
hostaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hostage
Sughd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tajik Суғд (Suġd); see it for more. Related to Sogdiana and Sogdia.
Senses: glosses: A region of Tajikistan.
wikipedia: Sogdia
macrothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + thermic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of megathermal.
synonyms: word: megathermal
maldoxone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The tricyclic lactone methyl 4-chloro-7-hydroxy-3-methoxy-9-methyl-6-oxobenzo[b][1,4]benzodioxepine-1-carboxylate
maplexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maplexins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of glycosides of gallic acid present in the maple Acer rubrum
maplexins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maplexin
mashability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being mashable
medialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From medial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being medial
mesiopalatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesio- + palatal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mediopalatal.
mesobrowser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesobrowsers
Etymology: From meso- + browser.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A medium-sized browser (animal that browses)
mesobrowsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesobrowser
mesoencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesencephalic.
mesoeutrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + eutrophic.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: mesotrophic
glosses: Having a medium amount of nutrients and minerals
raw_tags: of a body of water
metaestrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metestrus.
metalloisozyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloisozymes
Etymology: From metallo- + isozyme.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metalloisoenzyme.
metalloisoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloisoenzymes
Etymology: From metallo- + isoenzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any isoenzyme that contains a metal atom which is essential for its biological activity
Related terms: metalloisoenzymic
metalloisoenzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloisoenzyme
metalloisozymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloisozyme
shit stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit sticks
Senses: glosses: A small piece of wood or bamboo used to clean the anus after defecation, once commonly used in East and South Asia.
Related terms: shitsticks
shitty stick
shit sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit stick
shit sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mud sticks.
synonyms: word: mud sticks
balogna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bologna.
Gingras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiŋɡɹəs/
Etymology: From French Gingras.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Maddow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mædoʊ/
Forms: form: Maddows
Senses: glosses: A surname.
social distancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊʃəl ˌdɪstən(t)sɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊʃəl ˌdɪstən(t)sɪŋ/
Forms: form: social-distancing
Senses: examples: text: The Governor of an affected State implements isolation and/or social-distancing requirements using State/local legal authorities.
ref: 2004, United States Department of Homeland Security, “Biological Incident Annex”, in National Response Plan, page 7:
text: Nonpharmaceutical interventions outside of healthcare settings focus on measures to 1) limit international spread of the virus (e.g., travel screening and restrictions); 2) reduce spread within national and local populations (e.g., isolation and treatment of ill persons; monitoring and possible quarantine of exposed persons; and social distancing measures, such as cancellation of mass gatherings and closure of schools); 3) reduce an individual person’s risk for infection (e.g., hand hygiene); and 4) communicate risk to the public.
ref: 2006, World Health Organization Writing Group, “Nonpharmaceutical Interventions for Pandemic Influenza, International Measures”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, volume 12, number 1, →DOI, page 81:
text: Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, the medical arm of the National Academy of Sciences, was more pessimistic. “We’re completely unprepared,” Dr. Fineberg said, adding that if an epidemic struck in the next year, the quarantine-based strategy called social distancing “is likely to be all we’re going to have as a strategy.”
ref: 2006 February 6, Donald McNeil Jr., “States and Cities Lag in Bird Flu Readiness”, in The New York Times:
text: A spokesman confirmed that work would continue on projects such as the construction of a grade-separated junction at Werrington [...] where compliance with government advice and "social distancing can be guaranteed".
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: Crossrail heads the construction projects placed on hold”, in Rail, page 12:
text: All I spot are lots of anglers on the canal at Wigan, indulging in a sport where social distancing is de rigueur!
ref: 2020 November 4, Paul Bigland, “At no point have I felt unsafe...”, in Rail, page 47:
text: A huge crowd—visibly not observing social distancing—turned up Friday at the birthday community pantry organized by actress Angel Locsin in Quezon City.
ref: 2021, Neil Arwin Mercado, “Death, huge crowd shut down Angel Locsin’s birthday community pantry”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The practice of maintaining physical distance between people to reduce the spread of communicable diseases by isolating those with such diseases in quarantines, maintaining space between individuals, and prohibiting certain activities.
Synonyms: physical distancing
Coordinate terms: confinement
cordon sanitaire
isolation
lockdown
non-pharmaceutical intervention
NPI
quarantine
sequestration
shelter in place
Related terms: topics: sociology
social-science
human-sciences
sciences
word: social distance
word: socially distant
social distancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊʃəl ˌdɪstən(t)sɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊʃəl ˌdɪstən(t)sɪŋ/
Forms: form: social-distancing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of social distance
Related terms: flatten the curve
curve flattening
social distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social distances
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.
glosses: An appropriate distance for interactions among acquaintances during epidemics.
social distance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: social distances
form: social distancing
form: social distanced
form: social distanced
Senses: glosses: To maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease.
Related terms: english: disease control
translation: disease control
word: social distancing
english: disease control
translation: disease control
word: socially distant
Ustashe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Ustache
form: Ustachi
form: Ustase
form: Ustaše
form: Ustashi
form: Ustasi
form: Ustaši
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian ustaše (“rebels”).
Senses: topics: fascism
government
history
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: Ustasha
glosses: Of or pertaining to Croatian ultranationalism.
Ustashe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ustashes
form: Ustache
form: Ustachi
form: Ustase
form: Ustaše
form: Ustashi
form: Ustasi
form: Ustaši
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian ustaše (“rebels”).
Senses: topics: fascism
government
history
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A Croatian ultranationalist force active from the 1920s to the mid-1940s.
topics: fascism
government
history
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: Ustasha
glosses: A Croatian ultranationalist.
microcorrosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + corrosion.
Senses: glosses: microscopic corrosion
microincrementation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microincrementations
Etymology: From micro- + incrementation.
Senses: glosses: microscopic incrementation
microincrementations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microincrementation
microthalamotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microthalamotomies
Etymology: From micro- + thalamotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: very small-scale thalamotomy
microthalamotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microthalamotomy
microvasculopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + vasculopathic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microvasculopathy
midlactation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + lactation.
Senses: glosses: The middle period of lactation (typically of a cow)
midtrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + trophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In the middle part of a food chain
momentasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mometasone.
monoavidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + avidin.
Senses: glosses: A monomeric form of avidin
monoestry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being monoestrous
monofungal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + fungal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a single species of fungus
monosporangiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + sporangiate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single sporangium
motoneurogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The generation of motor neurons
mucosecretory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muco- + secretory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the secretion of mucus
multicoupled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + coupled.
Senses: glosses: multiply coupled
multifeature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + feature.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple features
multihyphal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + hyphal.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple hyphae
Perren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
multiorganism
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + organism.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple organisms
multiperiodicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + periodicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being multiperiodic
mycobacteriostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bacteriostasis in mycobacteria
Forshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shiplake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU7578).
invoiceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnvɔɪsəˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: From invoice + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being invoiceable.
Wargrave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7878).
drepanosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drepanosaur
drive letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drive letter
driver ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driver ant
DRNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DRN
cooling center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːlɪŋ ˌsɛntə/
ipa: /ˈkulɪŋ ˌsɛntəɹ/
ipa: [-ɾəɹ]
Forms: form: cooling centers
form: cooling centre
Etymology: From cooling (adjective) + center.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he availability of shelter from the heat at a city-sponsored "cooling center" made sense. With temperatures soaring into the 100s it was a move to prevent the situations that led to multiple heat deaths in 1980. […] [T]he cooling center, provided at minimal cost to taxpayers thanks to volunteer effort, provided a trial run for the participants in organizing such an enterprise – which could save lives if such a heat wave returns.
ref: 1983 July 26, “‘Cooling center’ useful”, in Ed Corson, editor, The Macon News, number 207, Macon, Ga.: Edmund E. Olson, →OCLC, page 10A, column 3:
text: Police from around the city also were given lists of senior citizens that phone bank workers had been unable to reach. In between regular assignments, police were supposed to visit those addresses and check to see if the residents needed advice or transportation to a cooling center. Eight 24-hour cooling centers were open Sunday.
ref: 1995 July 31, “Chicago sweats out heat emergency under new guidelines”, in The Illinois Times, Chicago edition, volume 88, number 20, Munster, Ind.: Howard Publications, →OCLC, section B (Local), page B-1, column 5:
text: The Peter Cardella Center is part of the network of 500 or so public facilities that the city activates as "cooling centers" when the heat index creeps up to 95 for two days in a row, or to 100 for any duration at all. […] At the Brooklyn Public Library, many people had come for the pleasant breeze rippling through the lobby. But none, it seemed, had come because the library is an official cooling center.
ref: 2010 July 9, Ariel Kaminer, “City critic: Cool air, if you can get to it”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
text: In Los Angeles, Aram Sahakian, director of the city's emergency management department, is trying to make cooling centers as virus-proof as possible. When temperatures hit the low 90s at the end of April, Mr. Sahakian's office opened five cooling centers, but under strict conditions: Anyone trying to get in had their temperature taken. People were then given masks, which they had to wear at all times, as well as gloves and sanitizer.
ref: 2020 May 6, Christopher Flavelle, “Coronavirus makes cooling centers risky, just as scorching weather hits”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2025:
synonyms: cool center
cooling shelter
cooling station
antonyms: warming center
warm space
glosses: An artificially cooled emergency shelter that operates during dangerously hot weather to provide care and relief for people affected by the high temperature.
wikipedia: Brooklyn Public Library
Related terms: word: cooldown
word: cool down
word: heat exhaustion
word: heat stroke
word: HVAC
cooling centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooling center
drosophilans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drosophilan
drug abusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drug abuser
dualskis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dualski
nanoanalytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + analytics.
Senses: glosses: The analytics of nanoanalysis
nanodeposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanodeposits
Etymology: From nano- + deposit.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale deposit
Related terms: nanodeposition
nanodeposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + deposition.
Senses: glosses: nanoscale deposition
Related terms: nanodeposit
nemaliophycidaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Nemaliophycidae class of red algae
neochromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neochromosomes
Etymology: From neo- + chromosome.
Senses: glosses: A chromosome that does not occur normally in nature; especially one associated with a cancer
neochromosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neochromosome
neodictyolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The lactone (6Z)-7-methyl-10-[(2R)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]-3,4,5,8,9,10-hexahydrocyclonona[c]furan-1-one present in brown algae of the genus Dictyota.
neomangicol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neomangicols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of tetracyclic derivatives of arabinitol
neomangicols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neomangicol
nephrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nephro- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nephrometry
neurocapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + capsular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the neural capsule
neuroflexibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroflexibilities
Etymology: From neuro- + flexibility.
Senses: glosses: neural flexibility (ability to modulate function of neurons)
neurointerface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurointerfaces
Etymology: From neuro- + interface.
Senses: glosses: A neural interface, typically with an external computer
neurointerfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurointerface
neuronavigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neuronavigate
neuronavigating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neuronavigation.
synonyms: word: neuronavigation
neuropeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropeptidases
Etymology: From neuro- + peptidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptidase that breaks down neuropeptides
neuropeptidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropeptidase
nonbalanid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbalanids
Etymology: From non- + balanid.
Senses: glosses: A barnacle that is not a balanid
nonhypervascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hypervascular.
Senses: glosses: Not hypervascular
Related terms: nonhypervascularity
nonhypervascularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + hypervascularity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonhypervascular
nonzooxanthellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + zooxanthellate.
Senses: glosses: Not zooxanthellate
norfentanyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound N-phenyl-N-4-piperidinyl-propanamide which is a metabolite of fentanyl
Ironville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from iron + -ville in each place.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4351).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Bridgen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bridgens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
An occupational surname for a bridgekeeper
glosses: A surname.
A habitational surname for someone living near a bridge or at a location called Bridge or Bridges
glosses: A surname.
A toponymic surname for someone from Bruges
glosses: A surname.
Alternative form of Bridges.
glosses: A surname.
Alternative form of Bridge.
Related terms: Bridge
Bridges
Hayling Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From tribal name Old English *Hælingas from *Hægel (personal name) + -ling (“lineage of”).
Senses: glosses: An island which is part of Havant borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid refs SU70, SZ79).
Related terms: South Hayling
seeing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see out
saw out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see out
seen out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see out
Minffordd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Penrhyndeudraeth community, near Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5938).
if you see what I mean
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if you know what I mean.
Tan-y-Bwlch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A locality near Maentwrog in Maentwrog community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6540).
Sparkian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sparkian
form: most Sparkian
Etymology: From Spark + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Muriel Spark (née Camberg; 1918–2006), Scottish writer.
Zoomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zoomers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of zoomer.
pfaffoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pfaffosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of saponins found in members of species of genus Pfaffia.
pfaffosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pfaffoside
pfaffic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound found in members of Pfaffia spp..
nortriterpenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nortriterpene
Druzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Druze
chalk eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalk eaters
Etymology: From the betting odds being written in chalk.
Senses: examples: text: At six major race tracks across the nation, chalk-eaters (form players) were choking last weekend over a straight flush of longshots.
ref: 1949, Time, volume 54, page 36:
text: Of horse players and the ragged army of grifters, touts and downright swindlers who attach themselves to the noble sport of kings there is no end of stories. Get a few of the chalk eaters and long shot hounds together during a lull in the day's occupation—picking the next day's card of winners—and the tales begin to come, thick and fast.
ref: 1953, Mac Davis, Say it Ain't So!, page 149:
synonyms: chalk player
glosses: One who bets on racehorses that are favourites to win.
chalk eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalk eater
chalk player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalk players
Senses: examples: text: Chalk players can make money if the favorites come in as expected, but since there are so many upsets in horse racing, it is risky to always play the favorites.
ref: 2011, David L. Hudson, Horse Racing's Most Wanted:
text: 2013, Editors of TIME Magazine, Inside the Red Border
Yet, the chalk players have such confidence in Secretariat that a $2 bet will likely fetch no more than $2.10 or $2.20 if he wins at Belmont.
glosses: Synonym of chalk eater (“one who bets on racehorses that are favourites to win”).
synonyms: word: chalk eater
extra: one who bets on racehorses that are favourites to win
chalk players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalk player
change agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: change agents
Senses: examples: text: Coach these leaders to recruit change agents and advocates to tell it like it is, and then make sure they don't throw them out on the street when they tell the truth.
ref: 2012, Christina Tangora Schlachter, Terry H. Hildebrandt, Leading Business Change For Dummies:
text: Stakeholder management activities can be supported by organizational change agents or a change agent network.
ref: 2016, Axel Uhl, Lars Alexander Gollenia, A Handbook of Business Transformation Management Methodology:
topics: business
glosses: A consultant hired to assist with implementing changes in an organization's structure or operations.
change agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of change agent
Charlie bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Charlie bars
Senses: examples: text: Adding texture to lights. Charlie bars (vertical bars, in this case made from tape on an open frame) and also some lace create texture in the scene.
ref: 2012, Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting, page 56:
text: […] traditionally these include things such as vertical Charlie bars — vertical wooden bars used to create shadows.
ref: 2013, Blain Brown, Cinematography: Theory and Practice, page 115:
text: Charlie bar A 1- to 6-inch wide by 3-foot long strip of wood with an attached pin used to create shadows on an object (thin long flags, gobos).
ref: 2013, Michael Uva, Sabrina Uva, Uva's Rigging Guide for Studio and Location, page 260:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A vertical bar positioned in groups to break up the illumination from a light source.
Charlie bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charlie bar
Holocost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Influenced by cost, homophonous with -caust in accents with the cot–caught merger.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Holocaust.
wikipedia: cot–caught merger
Charlie Noble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Charlie Nobles
Etymology: Uncertain; said to allude to an officer or captain of this name who insisted on having the funnel polished.
Senses: examples: text: One of the last customs that passed from the decks of the modern navy was the “shooting of Charlie Noble.” The chimney or galley-stack of the ship's kitchen was dignified by the name of Charlie Noble, and when the galley-stack became clogged with soot the ship's cook fired a blank cartridge up it, loosening the soot.
ref: 1917, Orton Porter Jackson, Frank Edgar Evans, The Marvel Book of American Ships, page 357:
text: Charlie Nobles should be fitted with cowls which will automatically turn to leeward and thereby force the draught. A Charlie Noble should be demountable and the hole through the cabin roof should be covered by a strong, tight-fitting lid.
ref: 1945, Harold Augustin Calahan, Learning to Cruise, page 120:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A funnel for discharging smoke from the galley.
Charlie Nobles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charlie Noble
agunah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agunahs
form: agunot
form: agunoth
form: aguna
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עגונה (“chained woman”).
Senses: examples: text: A woman may become an agunah either through her husband's accidental disappearance or through his willful desertion, although accidental disappearance constitutes the main source of difficulty.
ref: 1986, Menachem M. Brayer, The Jewish Woman in Rabbinic Literature, page 187:
text: The problem of the agunah, the woman (or man) who is chained to a marriage and unable to free herself from this marriage, is not a new one.
ref: 2001, Michael J. Broyde, Marriage, Divorce, and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law:
text: Our Master could see the agony of his little relative who was not yet fifteen and was already an agunah. He put aside all his civic affairs and obligations and even his regular lectures on Maimonides and Alfasi and began to look into the matter of freeing this agunah.
ref: 2014, S. Y. Agnon, The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella, pages 10–11:
glosses: A Jewish woman who is trapped in a marriage from which she cannot escape, either because her husband has disappeared or because he will not grant her a gett.
agunahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agunah
radler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radlers
Etymology: From German Radler.
Senses: glosses: German-style shandy (drink of beer mixed with lemonade).
radlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radler
Duke of Exeter's daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Duke of Exeter's daughter
Etymology: After Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, who served as constable of the Tower of London during the period when the rack was in use there.
Senses: examples: text: If we hadn't lagged you when we had, they'd be stretching you now on the Duke of Exeter's Daughter where they racked Guy Fawkes, and you'd be bleating out everything you know and a lot you don't know.
ref: 2022, Thomas B. Costain, For My Great Folly:
glosses: The rack (torture device).
wikipedia: Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter
Related terms: Skeffington's daughter
chemigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemigrams
Etymology: From chemi- + -gram.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A form of experimental artwork made by painting with chemicals on photographic paper or similar.
chemigrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemigram
changshan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changshans
form: changshan
Etymology: From Mandarin 長衫／长衫 (chángshān).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cheongsam (“robe worn by Asian men”).
synonyms: word: cheongsam
extra: robe worn by Asian men
changshans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of changshan
Frizinghall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1536).
atlantification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Global warming results in an “atlantification” of large regions of the contemporary MIZ band in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic and probably in increased export of ArW, fresh-water, ice and ice-bound detritus through the Fram Strait. In the Barents Sea, the term atlantification implies that the current MIZ will move northwards and that stratification will decrease strongly in the MIZ region.
ref: 2003, Paul F. Wassmann, Eduard Bauerfeind, Martin Fortier, Mitsuo Fukuchi, Barry T. Hargrave, Brad Moran, Thomas T. Noji, Eva-Maria Nöthig, Kalle Olli, Rolf Peinert, Hiroshi Sasaki, Vladimir P. Shevchenko, “Particulate Organic Carbon Flux to the Arctic Ocean Sea Floor”, in Rüdiger Stein, Robie W. Macdonald, editors, The Organic Carbon Cycle in the Arctic Ocean: Present and Past, →ISBN, page 135:
text: This encroaching “atlantification” of the Eurasian Basin represents an essential step toward a new Arctic climate state, with a substantially greater role for Atlantic inflows.
ref: 2017 April, Igor V. Polyakov, Andrey V. Pnyushkov, Matthew B. Alkire, Igor M. Ashik, Till M. Baumann, Eddy C. Carmack, Ilona Goszczko, John Guthrie, Vladimir V. Ivanov, Torsten Kanzow, Richard Krishfield, Ronald Kwok, Arild Sundfjord, James Morison, Robert Rember, Alexander Yulin, “Greater role for Atlantic inflows on sea-ice loss in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean”, in Science, volume 356, number 6335, page 285:
text: We see a similar atlantification of the sea to the north and east of Svalbard; less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean leads to less melt-water and thus the warm Atlantic water remains atop the water column for most of the year, staying entirely on the surface.of the sea to the north and east of Svalbard; less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean leads to less melt-water and thus the warm Atlantic water remains atop the water column for most of the year, staying entirely on the surface.
ref: 2019 May 16, Atle Staalesen, “With radical Arctic change comes spawning cod in new northern waters”, in The Independent Barents Observer:
glosses: Alternative form of Atlantification.
scenery-chewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scenery-chewers
Senses: glosses: One who "chews the scenery", performing melodramatically or flamboyantly.
scenery-chewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scenery-chewer
Chicago Boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicago Boys
Senses: examples: text: The Chicago Boys label came from the fact that Mr. Baraona and several others who drafted and managed the program to turn Chile away from statism studied economics at the University of Chicago and became disciples of Milton Friedman's free-market faith.
ref: 1990 October 8, Shirley Christian, “Free-Market Lessons Of Chile's 'Chicago Boys'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Eventually things got so bad that Pinochet was forced to respond by firing many of the Chicago Boys and renationalising many of the privatised companies and banks.
ref: 2017, Jason Hickel, “The Chile Experiment”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of Chilean economists prominent around the 1970s and 1980s, the majority of whom trained at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliate in the economics department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Chicago Boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicago Boy
double chicane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: The situation where a player and his/her partner both hold hands without trumps.
Steeton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Bolton Percy, Colton and Steeton Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE5244).
glosses: A village in Steeton with Eastburn parish, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0344).
Atlantification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Atlantic + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Of course it is clear that with things as they are to-day, every precaution would have to be taken in bringing about the 'Atlantification' of Germany.
ref: 1952, Ferdinand Otto Miksche, Unconditional Surrender: The Roots of a World War III, page 279:
text: The Soviet Union thus should make a vital concession by agreeing to withdraw from the Eastern Zone. 2) Simultaneous de-Atlantification of the Western Germany. The Atlantic Bloc should also make a vital concession by withdrawing from the Western Zone and abandoning all plans for the integration of Germany into the E.D.C.
ref: 1954, Review of International Affairs - Volume 5, page 238:
text: The globalization of culture implies a commercialization, a massification and an "Americanization," or rather "Atlantification," a complex, large-scale integration process on many levels.
ref: 1995, Kristiaan Versluys, Charles Altieri, The Insular Dream: Obsession and Resistance, page 361:
glosses: The process of joining or being influenced by the Atlantic bloc countries.
examples: text: The concurrent "Atlantification" of the seasonal ice-cover zone may result in an expansion of Atlantic species northwards and significant changes in biomass, seasonal variation and spatial distribution of phytoplankton.
ref: 2005, C. A. Brebbia, Air Pollution Thirteen, page 108:
text: This increased “Atlantification” of the Arctic, which may well be a temporary thing given what we now know, explains why the Barents Sea region has seen so little winter sea ice in recent years, and, in turn, why there is a big positive trend in the winter surface air temperatures in this area (fig. 10).
ref: 2018, Mark C. Serreze, Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North, page 214:
text: Below the water's surface, meanwhile, the Atlantification and Pacification of the Arctic continues apace.
ref: 2019, Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall, The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know®, page 71:
glosses: The intrusion of water from the Atlantic ocean into another ocean or sea, and the resultant environmental and biological changes.
oligoisolating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oligoisolating
form: most oligoisolating
Etymology: From oligo- + isolating.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Using a relatively small number of morphemes and having a lower morpheme-to-word ratio.
raw_tags: of a language
Chiltern Hundreds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Chiltern Hundreds
Senses: glosses: An ancient administrative area in Buckinghamshire, England, composed of three hundreds and lying partially within the Chiltern Hills.
Derived terms: take the Chiltern Hundreds