cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
landrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlændˌɹeɪs/
Forms: form: landraces
Etymology: From land + race, probably a calque of German Landrasse.
Senses: examples: text: 1961, Breeds of Swine, Farmers' Bulletin No. 1263, US Department of Agriculture, page 7,
One of the newer breeds of swine in the United States is the American Landrace. American Landrace hogs (figs. 19 and 20) are descendants of Danish Landrace hogs imported by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1934.
text: 2009, Pablo Eyzaguirre, Arwen Bailey, International case studies and tropical home gardens projects: offering lessons for a new research agenda in Europe, A. Bailey, Pablo B. Eyzaguirre, L. Maggioni, Crop genetic resources in European home gardens: Proceedings of a Workshop, page 1,
First, many crop landraces in Europe are being lost without our even knowing what is being lost.
text: In both cases the morphological diversity within the oat accessions did not differ between landraces and modern cultivars.
ref: 2011, A. C. Newton et al., “Cereal Landraces for Sustainable Agriculture”, in Eric Lichtfouse, Marjolaine Hamelin, Philippe Debaeke, Mireille Navarrete, editors, Sustainable Agriculture, volume 2, page 154:
glosses: Any local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species that has adapted over time to its ecological and cultural environment (including, in some cases, its work).
Synonyms: sense: any domesticated animal or plant adapted to its new environment
english: animal
translation: animal
word: natural breed
sense: any domesticated animal or plant adapted to its new environment
english: animal
translation: animal
word: traditional breed
sense: any domesticated animal or plant adapted to its new environment
english: plant
translation: plant
word: traditional variety
Derived terms: Hamprace
Related terms: autochthonous
heirloom
heritage
landraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landrace
prostate glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prostate gland
mano destra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian mano (“hand”) and destra (“right”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the right hand.
Synonyms: main droite
Derived terms: m.d.
MD
Related terms: mano sinistra
salival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From saliva + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the saliva; salivary.
main droite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the French main (“hand”) + droit (“right”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the right hand.
Synonyms: mano destra
Derived terms: m.d.
MD
Related terms: main gauche
main gauche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French, meaning "left hand".
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the left hand.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A type of parrying dagger.
Synonyms: mano sinistra
Derived terms: m.g.
MG
Related terms: main droite
mano sinistra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Italian mano (“hand”) and sinistra (“left”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the left hand.
Synonyms: main gauche
Derived terms: m.s.
MS
Related terms: mano destra
m.d.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French main droite and Italian mano destra.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of main droite or mano destra, indicating use of the right hand when use of the left hand is expected.
m.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mano sinistra.
m.g.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: main gauche.
calipygian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of callipygian.
domitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒmɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more domitable
form: most domitable
Etymology: From Latin domitō (“to tame”) + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be tamed or bent to one's will; tamable, subduable.
noble rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘You said they occasionally deliberately infect the grapes with the noble rot,’ I said.
ref: 2019, Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man, Gollancz, page 20:
glosses: A benevolent form of the fungus Botrytis cinerea which, in the right conditions, leads to a concentrated sweet wine.
Related terms: botrytized
flowers of wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Small powdery flecks of mould on grapes used to make wine.
HBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HBTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hole-board test.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of herringbone twill.
bowshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊʃɒt/
Forms: form: bowshots
Etymology: From bow + shot.
Senses: examples: text: It is, however, interesting in connection with that fact to remember that the last bowshot in English warfare was fired during the Civil War.
ref: 1900, Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary, page 113:
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The act of firing an arrow from a bow.
examples: text: If you will obligingly, set up your armour targets within a shortened range, say, for instance, a Robin Hood bowshot of 200 yards, you shall see what the brute force of the old smooth-bore will do.
ref: 1862, William Laxton, “On rifled guns and projectiles adapted for attacking armour plate defences”, in The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, page 395:
text: But first run up the King's banner, hang out all the shields, and send as many men to the fighting top as you can. And about five bowshots hence, when you get open sea on your port bow, run up a few signals.
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
text: They are within a bowshot of the kirk door.
ref: 1994, Henry Gilbert, Robin Hood, page 48:
glosses: The distance that the arrow of an average archer can effectively travel.
bowshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowshot
pclk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of peripheral clock.
FRIACO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of flat-rate Internet access call origination.
double dog dare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double dog dares
form: double dog daring
form: double dog dared
form: double dog dared
form: double-dog dare
form: double-dog-dare
Etymology: An emphatic extension of double dare, perhaps playing on the alliterative and forceful nature of the word dog.
Senses: examples: text: "In Mississippi dare and double dog dare are used by children in quarreling. Dog dare and double black dog dare I never have heard.
ref: 1893, Hubert Anthony Shands, Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi, page 71:
text: "She'd do anything if you double dog dared her." "Double dog dared?" I said. "Yeah." She sat up, plunking another stack of pictures into my hands.
ref: 2003–4, Sarah Dessen, How to Deal (or That Summer, respectively)
text: Besides, he and Monroe had double-dog-dared each other to climb it, so there was no turning back. Secretly both of them were a little nervous. Scared that they might chicken out at the last minute.
ref: 2004, Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow, page 17:
text: Edward Jay Roberts didn't get to be an acknowledged leader without three necessary assets: brains, guts, and an almost unnatural absence of fear. No one ever double-dog-dared him anything, because one dare was always sufficient.
ref: 2005, David Chapman, ‘til Summer Comes, page 74:
text: I had been double dog dared. Maybe if Edward had just dared me, I could have chickened out. Now, there was no turning back.
ref: 2005, Stephanie Work, The Witching Season, page 6:
text: Double-dog daring his enemies to prove him otherwise, Jesus declared, “Before Abraham was born, I am” (John 8:58).
ref: 2006, Max Lucado, Next Door Savior, page 126:
text: Someone once wrote in to my radio show and double-dog dared me to address a certain issue on the porch. Their suggestion isn't important to our discussion, but their complete mishandling of the double-dog dare is very alarming.
ref: 2008, Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Suck Your Stomach in and Put Some Color on, page 110:
text: She'd dare anyone to say Heath wasn't a real man after that almost-kiss last night. Double dog dare them. But she held her tongue. "No, I'm serious. He's a new recruit." "Shut. Up. A dude who wants to sell makeup?" Wanda could understand Nina's astonishment.
ref: 2009, Dakota Cassidy, The Accidental Human, page 88:
text: Mandy was the one who'd double-dog dared Ruby to go out with Bobby in the eleventh grade, though she'd long since apologized. She'd dared Ruby to get even when Bobby had bragged all over school that he'd "scored, but she was a lousy fuck".
ref: 2010, Dana Marie Bell, Dare to Believe, page 10:
text: After a skinny-dip, Nora dared me — double-dog-dared me, to be precise — to jump off the falls, which were at least thirty-five feet high. “Have you seen people jump?”
ref: 2010, Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black: One Year in a Women's Prison, page 12:
glosses: Intensified form of dare.
double dog dare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double dog dares
form: double-dog dare
form: double-dog-dare
Etymology: An emphatic extension of double dare, perhaps playing on the alliterative and forceful nature of the word dog.
Senses: glosses: An intensified form of a dare, frequently used after the dared person initially refuses.
play at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays at
form: playing at
form: played at
form: played at
Senses: examples: text: The band are playing at the Odeon tonight.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see play, at.
examples: text: So we played at being pirates for a while.
glosses: To pretend to be a different person while playing a game.
examples: text: In my opinion, John only plays at being an author. He hasn't sold more than two magazine articles in as many months.
text: 'You don't like him, Captain, do you?' 'No, I don't. He plays at being loyal.'
ref: 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: To do something in a manner that lacks seriousness, commitment, or professionalism.
examples: text: Hey! Stop throwing stones at the swans! What on earth do you think you're playing at?
glosses: Used to suggest that someone is doing something very wrong, or incorrectly, usually with the possibility of causing damage or harm.
raw_tags: in rhetorical questions
glosses: To play (a game).
limpet mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limpet mines
Senses: hypernyms: naval mine
;
mine
coordinate_terms: magnetic mine
glosses: A naval mine attached to its target by magnets.
bronze disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the bronzelike discolouration of the skin.
Senses: glosses: Addison's disease
radioprotectant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioprotectants
Etymology: From radio- + protectant.
Senses: glosses: Any drug that protects against cell damage caused by radiation.
Related terms: cytoprotective
radioprotectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioprotectant
radioprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + protective.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or offering, radioprotection.
radioprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioprotectives
Etymology: From radio- + protective.
Senses: glosses: A radioprotectant.
radioprotectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioprotective
hopyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopyards
Etymology: From hop + yard.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: An outdoor area where hops are grown.
Synonyms: hop garden
hopyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopyard
Horatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology: From Horace + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: There are three typical forms of ode: Horatian, Pindaric and irregular. Horatian odes follow the conventions of Horace, who deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon.
text: Satirical literature can commonly be categorised as Horatian, Juvenalian or Menippean. Horatian satire playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour.
text: Jonson was the most Horatian of the Elizabethans, both by nature and by study.
ref: 1894 May, E. H. Lewis, “The Influence of Horace in English Literature”, in The Quarterly Calendar, Vol. III, No. 1, University of Chicago Press, page 97:
text: Again nothing could be more Horatian than the high spirits of the introduction of the poem.
ref: 1963, C. O. Brink, Horace on Poetry, Volume 1: Prolegomena to the Literary Epistles, Cambridge University Press, page 135:
text: While these writers would have been familiar with both,^([the Horatian and Juvenalian styles of satire]) some were naturally "attracted to the abrasiveness of Juvenal rather than the suavity of Horace" while others found they were able to express whatever they wanted to express in more Horatian tones.
ref: 2022, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Roman Satire, BRILL, page 80:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus; 65–8 BCE) or to his works or style.
arrantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more arrantly
form: most arrantly
Etymology: From arrant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an arrant manner; utterly, thoroughly, outright.
arrantest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of arrant: most arrant
arranter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of arrant: more arrant
hourwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hour + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Hourwise traffic volume variations on arterial, collector, residential streets in Ranchi township are shown in Fig. 2.
ref: 1973, N S Srinivasan, S B Sripathi Rao, Forecasting of traffic and standardisation of widths of roads in industrial townships:
glosses: Hourly or in terms of hours.
hourwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hour + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: 1957, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Letters from Goethe
Let me proffer the observation that work done to a prescribed timetable, within a given time, produces and trains men who also do only the barest minumum by the hour and as it were hourwise.
text: The results of quality control checks and number of reports received hourwise for each synoptic hour for each WMO block are monitored.
ref: 1994, Physics Abstracts:
glosses: Hourly or in terms of hours.
shawties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawty
glosses: plural of shawtie
shorthandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shorthandedly
form: most shorthandedly
form: short-handedly
Etymology: From shorthanded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some form of self-steering on a cruising yacht, whether electronic or wind powered, is a necessity if a vessel is to cruise shorthandedly in comfort and safety.
ref: 1980 Jul-Dec, Peter Watson, “Do-it-yourself Wind Vane Steering Gear”, in Cruising World, page 116:
glosses: In a shorthanded manner.
examples: text: Taking Gomery's well-argued point, it still seems that a new kind of publicity and new sets of social practices that can be shorthandedly described as "television" did replace the cinema as the central site of phantasmatic Americanness at this historical juncture.
ref: 2000, Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman, Music and the Racial Imagination, →ISBN, page 140:
text: These “privatized” rents are not directly controlled by the authoritarian state and they cannot be, in classic rentier-state logic, shorthandedly distributed according to political considerations.
ref: 2013, Holger Albrecht, Raging Against the Machine: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Using shorthand or as a form of shorthand.
silver jubilees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver jubilee
retroplacental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retroplacental
form: most retroplacental
Etymology: From retro + placental.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the placenta and myometrium
elementality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elementalities
Etymology: From elemental + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being elemental or elementary.
enring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enrings
form: enringing
form: enringed
form: enringed
Etymology: From en- + ring.
Senses: glosses: To encircle.
glosses: To surround.
enrings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enring
enringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enring
enringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enring
absolute monarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute monarchy
enculturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enculturation
unenculturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enculturated.
Senses: glosses: Not enculturated.
unacculturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + acculturated.
Senses: glosses: Not acculturated.
unacclimatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unacclimatized
form: most unacclimatized
form: unacclimatised
Etymology: From un- + acclimatized.
Senses: glosses: Not acclimatized.
undissipated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dissipated.
Senses: glosses: Not dissipated.
broomballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broomball
enculturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enculturates
form: enculturating
form: enculturated
form: enculturated
Senses: examples: text: While Nippon Kaisha recruits, trains, and enculturates individuals, these individuals in turn create, modify, and develop the Nippon Kaisha culture.
ref: 1991, Tomoko Hamada, American enterprise in Japan:
glosses: To subject to enculturation.
Derived terms: unenculturated
enculturating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enculturate
enculturated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enculturate
enculturates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enculturate
marriageably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more marriageably
form: most marriageably
Etymology: From marriageable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a marriageable manner.
nonbridal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bridal.
Senses: glosses: Not bridal.
trophic cascades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trophic cascade
church crawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church crawler
irrigational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From irrigation + -al.
Senses: synonyms: irrigative
glosses: Of or pertaining to irrigation.
Derived terms: irrigationally
preirrigational
penicillinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penicillinases
Etymology: From penicillin + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: To date, there have been only 23 confirmed cases of penicillinase-producing gonococcus (totally penicillin-resistant gonorrhea) reported in the United States.
ref: 1976 December 18, Carol S. Ribner, Sanford M. Reder, “Boston's Gay Health Collective Replies to GCN”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 5:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A specific type of beta-lactamase showing specificity for penicillins.
penicillinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penicillinase
unwarrantied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + warrantied.
Senses: glosses: Not warrantied; not under a warranty.
nonrodent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrodents
Etymology: From non- + rodent.
Senses: glosses: A creature that is not a rodent.
nonrodents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrodent
Siatista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /siˈɑtɪstə/
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece located in the western Kozani prefecture.
Tavros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Ταύρος (Távros, “Taurus”).
Senses: glosses: A suburban city in Greece 5 km southwest of Athens and is located in the Attica prefecture.
Related terms: tavros
Ptolemaida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ptolemais
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece located in the western Kozani prefecture.
nondissipated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dissipated.
Senses: glosses: Not dissipated.
Synonyms: undissipated
Related terms: nondissipation
Ptolemais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Ptolemaida.
nondissolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dissolved.
Senses: glosses: Not dissolved.
Synonyms: undissolved
short leashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short leash
Naxos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Νάξος (Náxos).
Senses: glosses: An island in the central Cyclades.
glosses: A town in Greece located on a homonymous island.
Derived terms: Naxiot
Naxos disease
Naxos syndrome
inner core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner cores
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: The solid material found in the centre of some planets at extremely high temperature and pressure, distinct from the liquid outer core.
topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: The solid material found in the centre of some planets at extremely high temperature and pressure, distinct from the liquid outer core.
The innermost part of the Earth, believed to be made of a nickel-iron alloy.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see inner, core.
Tinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τῆνος (Tênos).
Senses: glosses: An island in the northern Cyclades.
glosses: A town in Greece located on a homonymous island.
botanical names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botanical name
Amorgos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀμοργός (Amorgós).
Senses: glosses: An island of the Cyclades, Greece.
glosses: A town, the capital of the island of that name.
conditional sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditional sentences
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sentence discussing factual implications or hypothetical situations and their consequences. A full conditional sentence contains two clauses: the condition or protasis, and the consequence or apodosis.
topics: law
glosses: probation.
calling-cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calling-card
conditional sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conditional sentence
salicylize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsæləsəlaɪz/
/səˈlɪsəlaɪz/
Forms: form: salicylizes
form: salicylizing
form: salicylized
form: salicylized
Etymology: From salicyl + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat with salicylic acid.
Spetses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spetsai
form: Spetse
Senses: glosses: An island in the Argosaronic
glosses: A village in Greece located on a homonymous island.
salifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sæləˈfaɪəbəl/
Forms: form: more salifiable
form: most salifiable
Etymology: From salify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being salified.
Spetsai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Spetses.
hockeylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hockeylike
form: most hockeylike
Etymology: From hockey + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the game of hockey or some aspect of it.
croquetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more croquetlike
form: most croquetlike
Etymology: From croquet + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the game of croquet or some aspect of it.
Spetse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Spetses.
tennislike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tennislike
form: most tennislike
Etymology: From tennis + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the game of tennis or some aspect of it.
salification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sæləfəˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology: From sal(ify) + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of salifying.
Skopelos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Northern Sporades, Greece.
glosses: A town in Greece located on the island of the same name.
Salinas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Salinases
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Salinas, a metonymic occupational surname for a worker in a salt mine.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Monterey County, California, United States.
glosses: A coastal city in Santa Elena province, Ecuador.
glosses: A parish in Ibarra canton, Imbabura province, Ecuador.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Salinas Valley
Salinas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Salina
salination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sæləˈneɪʃən/
/seɪləˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: salinations
Etymology: From salinate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A treatment with a salt solution.
examples: text: Such extension of control diminishes disturbances of the peace, stabilises and thus promotes agricultural industry, and puts a check on the exhaustion and salination of the soil.
ref: 1929, Report by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of ‘Iraq for the year 1928, London: UK Colonial Office, page 152:
text: If you look down at the Punjab from an aircraft, you will see here and there below you, splotching the green fields like mold on the wall of an old house, patches of gray decay, rising patternless and ominous across the landscape. This is salination, a rotting of the land caused by a rise in the level of the underground water table, which forces the salts of the earth to the surface and gradually turns fields back to desert.
ref: 1963, Jan Morris, chapter 7, in The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents, New York: Pantheon, page 207:
text: An environmentally conscious population labels the phenomenon of land degradation in Australia (specifically, the erosion of top-soil and salination caused by irrigation after deforestation) as AIDS of the earth; the same metaphor is used in America.
ref: 2006, Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, chapter 9, in Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language, Cambridge University Press, page 219:
glosses: The increase of salt content in soil.
examples: text: It is evident […] that we ought to find every degree of salination of salt lakes.
ref: 1884, Joseph Le Conte, A Compend of Geology, New York: Appleton, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 71:
text: 1939, James Stevens Simmons, Malaria in Panama, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, Chapter 7 “Sanitary methods used for the control of malaria in the Canal Zone,” p. 189,
In many of the vast sea-level swamps of the Atlantic side, no slope whatever can be obtained, and here dependence is placed on a grid system of intercepting earthen ditches, communicating with seawater at each end whenever practicable, to insure quick run-off of rain water and thorough salination of every part of the swamps.
text: 1989, Michael Renner, “Enhancing Global Security” in Lester R. Brown et al., State of the World 1989: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society, New York: Norton, p. 142,
Disputes revolve around water diversion or reduced water flow, industrial pollution, the salination or siltation of streams, and floods aggravated by soil erosion.
glosses: The increase of salt content in water.
Related terms: salinization
salinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salination
bilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilanes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bilin.
synonyms: word: bilin
bilanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilane
bilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilin
bilichrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilichromes
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: bili- + -chrome.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bile pigment.
synonyms: word: bile pigment
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Hypernyms: bilane
bilin
Coordinate terms: phycobilin
bilichromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilichrome
Mdina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maltese Mdina. Doublet of Medina.
Senses: synonyms: Città Vecchia
Città Notabile
glosses: A city and local council of the Western Region, Malta; the former capital city of Malta.
effluxions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effluxion
Mtarfa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and local council of the Northern Region, Malta.
hematoidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematoidins
form: haematoidin
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bilirubin
biliverdin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biliverdins
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from German Biliverdin. By surface analysis, bili- + Italian verde + -in. The German word was naturalized into other languages as international scientific vocabulary (e.g., biliverdin, biliverdine, biliwerdyna).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, a product of heme catabolism, responsible for the greenish color sometimes seen in bruises.
wikipedia: international scientific vocabulary
Hypernyms: bile pigment
Coordinate terms: bilicyanin
bilirubin
Derived terms: biliverdinemia
glaucocystophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡlɔːkəˈsɪstəfaɪt/
Forms: form: glaucocystophytes
Senses: glosses: glaucophyte
glaucocystophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaucocystophyte
urobilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urobilins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow linear tetrapyrrole resulting from the breakdown of heme, produced when urobilinogen is oxidized by intestinal bacteria.
Synonyms: urochrome
Romeo and Juliet couples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romeo and Juliet couple
urobilinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From urobilin + -o- + -gen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless product of bilirubin reduction, formed in the intestines by bacterial action
tetrapyrrolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetrapyrrole + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being a tetrapyrrole.
unsubscripted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + subscripted.
Senses: glosses: Not subscripted.
stercobilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin stercus (“dung, excrement”) + Latin bīlis (“bile”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, one of the end products of heme catabolism, responsible for the brown colour of human faeces
salinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /səˈliːnli/
Forms: form: more salinely
form: most salinely
Etymology: From saline + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With reference to salinity
Related terms: saline
trick-or-treaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trick-or-treater
civitates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪːvɪːteɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of civitas
cysticercosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cysticercoses
Etymology: From cysticercus + -osis. Also refer to -sis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: porcine measles
sheep measles
hypernyms: taeniasis
glosses: A parasitic infestation of the voluntary muscles, lungs, central nervous system and other organs, caused by the ingestion of eggs of the tapeworm Taenia solium.
Derived terms: cysticercal
cysticercotic
neurocysticercosis
cysticercoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cysticercosis
shambler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamblers
Etymology: From shamble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But the dance should not be a slovenly crowd of indifferent and ungraceful shamblers […]
ref: 1867, James Abbott, Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh:
glosses: One who shambles.
shamblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shambler
epanorthosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epanorthoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπανόρθωσις (epanórthōsis, “correction”).
Senses: examples: text: Epanorthosis oft a phrase corrects,
And feeble words, for stronger terms, rejects.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Epanorthosis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
hypophora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypophoras
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπόφορά (hupóphorá).
Senses: glosses: a figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question.
Synonyms: word: anthypophora
BBN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BBNs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bulletin board network.
kemonomimis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kemonomimi
burn to a crisp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns to a crisp
form: burning to a crisp
form: burnt to a crisp
form: burnt to a crisp
form: burned to a crisp
form: burned to a crisp
Senses: glosses: To burn (usually food) very severely.
what's on your mind
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: You look bothered. What’s on your mind?
glosses: What are you thinking about?
presuppositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From presupposition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a presupposition.
Derived terms: presuppositional apologetics
presuppositionalism
presuppositionalist
tabanca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: melancholy, or a painful feeling of unrequited love
Braz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Brazil.
Braz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Brazilian.
basic block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basic blocks
Senses: examples: text: Dividing the code into basic blocks makes analysis of control flow much easier.
qualifier: compilers
glosses: A sequence of contiguous instructions that contains no jumps or labels.
Related terms: extended basic block
basic blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basic block
extended basic block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extended basic blocks
Senses: examples: text: An extended basic block can show more easily when expressions have already been calculated.
qualifier: compilers
glosses: A sequence of contiguous instructions that contains no labels; unlike basic blocks, they may contain jumps.
Related terms: basic block
extended basic blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extended basic block
periodic structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodic structures
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sentence whose main clause appears at the end, after other, especially dependent, clauses.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A structure made of bays coupled through one or more coordinates.
right back at you
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back at you.
flavan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of benzopyran derivatives, found in plants, that use the 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromene skeleton
Derived terms: interflavan
isoflavan
pacificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacificators
Etymology: From Latin pācificātor.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of his services being appreciated, he was accused as a usurper and intruder; he was made responsible for the injuries and prejudices of which his accuser loudly complained; and the founder and pacificator of the Darien was to be prosecuted for the criminal charges brought against him.
ref: 1905, Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8:
glosses: A peacemaker, a pacifier.
to the victor go the spoils
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: to the victor belong the spoils
form: the victor gets the spoils
form: to the victor the spoils
Senses: glosses: The winner of a conflict gains additional benefits, beyond the subject of the conflict.
Related terms: spoils system
those that have, get
winner-take-all
delegatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delegatable
form: most delegatable
Etymology: From delegate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being delegated.
seiyū
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seiyū
form: seiyūs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seiyuu.
voice talents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice talent
poison-pen letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poison-pen letter
German virgins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of German virgin
rondelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rondelet
no brainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no brainer
Occitania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒksɪˈteɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ˌɑksɪˈteɪ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From New Latin Occitānia, from Occitānus (“Occitan”) (as used in lingua Occitāna (“Occitan language)”) + -ia. By surface analysis, Occitan + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A cultural region in southwestern Europe where Occitan has historically been spoken, consisting of southern France, parts of Catalonia in Spain, and some valleys in northwestern Italy.
glosses: An administrative region in southern France, created in 2016 by the merger of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées; Occitanie.
Related terms: Languedoc
Occitanie
muhajireen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muhajir
skeely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: skeelier
form: skeeliest
Etymology: From Scots skeely, Scottish form of skilly.
Senses: examples: text: “I now enjoy more flattering company than you ever provided—a fine, fine woman, McCandless, who owes her life to these fingers of mine—these skeely, skeely fingers!”
ref: 1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 27:
glosses: Skilful.
hostmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostmasters
Etymology: From host + master.
Senses: glosses: A person responsible for managing domain name records within the Domain Name System or any individual computer (typically a server).
phreno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːnə(ʊ)-/
/fɹəˈnɒ-/
/ˌfɹiːnə(ʊ)-/
Forms: form: phren-
form: phreni-
form: phrenico-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn).
Senses: glosses: mind.
glosses: diaphragm.
landes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lande
rockband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockbands
Etymology: From rock + band.
Senses: examples: text: His longtime friend and climbing partner, Chuck Maffei was spared from being pulled into the slide when their rope severed on a rockband.
ref: 1998, Climbing, numbers 178-180, page 45:
text: A 300-foot high rockband of near-vertical climbing stood between us and the summit.
ref: 2001, Alan Hobson, Jamie Clarke, The Power of Passion: Achieve Your Own Everests, page 125:
text: But stymied by a rockband, you are forced to traverse left instead, following cairns to gain the fire road between two large cairns.
ref: 2012, Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country, fourth, →ISBN, page 31:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock formation that encircles a hill or mountain, separating other kinds of terrain that are above and below it.
examples: text: He tried calling again every three minutes until his accountant arrived, but the line was always busy — busy because room-mate John was using the phone to beat the bongo drums to the rhythm of the acid rockband on the stereo.
ref: 1974, Paul Golis, A Day in the Life of Jay Peter Sweetly, page 12:
text: Babes in Toyland - Holiday family show based on Victor Herbert's classic, following the adventures of a rockband through Toyland.
ref: 1979 December 31, New York Magazine, page 22:
text: By which measure he should have a library's worth of themes in his mind since his cv also lists his peregrinations as a rockband leader, radio performer, university lecturer ("crushing failure") in Kathmandu and Bangkok, travel agent ("bankrupting defeat"), highway construction worker, tourist guide, columnist and a journalist.
ref: 2005, Joel Rai, “Interpreter of Maladies”, in India Today International, volume 4, page 159:
text: I started the class that day by having them listen to a powerful contemporary song by an Irish rockband.
ref: 2006, Carola Conle, Teacher's Stories, Teacher's Lives, page 204:
text: Since then the scene has quickly developed: New York stars such as Bit Shifter, Nullsleep or the chiptune rockband Anamanaguchi, and also 8 Bit Weapon from California and Sabrepulse from Great Britain, tour extensively and achieve up to three million replays on internet radio Last.fm.
ref: 2012, Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, page 172:
glosses: Alternative form of rock band (band that plays rock music).
rockbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockband
AUM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of assets under management.
pot mod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pot mods
form: pot modding
form: pot modded
form: pot modded
Etymology: Abbreviation from "potentiometer modification".
Senses: examples: text: The laser was pot modded, so eventually its diode burned out with overuse.
glosses: To modify the potentiometer of a laser so as to increase its power output above safer conventional levels, a practice among handheld laser enthusiasts and some manufacturers.
signalling event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signalling events
form: signaling
Senses: glosses: A transmitter encodes data by producing a signal which is a continuous stream of signalling events each which has sufficient information for the receiver to recover the original data. Just like a quantum leap is the smallest measurable leap, a signalling event is the smallest possible amount of signal that the receiver needs to recover the original data without error.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A change of the state of a communication channel, each state representing a symbol that is to be transmitted.
Related terms: baud
potty-training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of potty training.
Derived terms: unpotty-training
fungi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From the compound form of Latin fungus, from fungus (“mushroom”) + -i- (compound word interfix).
Senses: synonyms: myco-
glosses: Fungus, fungi: mushrooms, yeasts, molds, and so on.
Related terms: fungal
fungoid
fungous
gessos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesso
raspiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From raspy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The speaking voice was clear and strong with no raspiness, but there was a noticeable rasp in the loud singing voice.
ref: 1978, Mavis Douglas, Vocal problems of the young singer:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being raspy.
waryson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warysons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of warison.
hour change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hour changes
Senses: examples: text: Speaking of the convenience of the community, is the hour change better than the two hours, or not?
ref: 1908, Parliamentary papers, Great Britain: House of Commons:
text: […] but the profession as such had no grounds for opposing Daylight Saving in general or the hour change in particular […]
ref: 1949, Frank Hope-Jones, Electrical timekeeping:
text: The hour change means you'll lose some sleep but gives you more time for fun in the sun.
ref: 1982 April 26, Jet, volume 62, number 7:
glosses: The changing of clocks one hour forward or backward, in line with daylight saving time.
Chard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There was to be no official opening ceremony, but nevertheless the inhabitants of Chard were not going to neglect this opportunity for a bean-feast, for they were also to celebrate the demolition of the town's East Gate.
ref: 1954 February, R. J. Sellick, “Railways to Chard”, in Railway Magazine, page 121:
glosses: A town and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district, near the Devon border. The civil parish is named Chard Town, and served by Chard Town Council. (OS grid ref ST3208).
glosses: A commune in Creuse department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
glosses: Synonym of Janvier South, Alberta, Canada, from the name of A. Chard.
synonyms: word: Janvier South
word: Alberta
word: Canada
word: from the name of A. Chard
examples: text: Three men got out and surrounded Mr Chard. They were police officers, and he was under arrest, charged with taking indecent pictures of his children under the Protection of Children Act 1978 (POCA).
ref: 1998, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: porn, sex, technology and desire:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Chard Junction