cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
myophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myophage
myosteatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + steatosis.
Senses: glosses: The abnormal deposition of fat in muscle tissue
Related terms: myosteatotic
nanociliate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanociliates
Etymology: From nano- + ciliate.
Senses: glosses: A nanosized ciliate
nanociliates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanociliate
nanofracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanofractures
Etymology: From nano- + fracture.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale fracture
nanofractures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanofracture
necrophoreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necrophoresis
necrophylactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From necro- + phylactic.
Senses: glosses: That protects against death
necroptosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necroptosomes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A supramolecular organelle involved in necroptosis
necroptosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necroptosome
nectridean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nectrideans
Senses: glosses: Any extinct amphibian of the order †Nectridea
nectrideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nectridean
nefelometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nephelometry.
neomyocardialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + myocardialization.
Senses: glosses: The formation of new myocardium
neoscaffold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoscaffolds
Etymology: From neo- + scaffold.
Senses: glosses: A newly-formed scaffold (typically of a heart valve)
neoscaffolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoscaffold
Basingstoke and Deane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government district with borough status of Hampshire, England, formed in 1974 as Basingstoke and renamed in 1978.
neuroprocessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroprocessors
Etymology: From neuro- + processor.
Senses: glosses: A supposed part of the brain that carries out neuroprocessing
noncaducous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + caducous.
Senses: glosses: Not caducous
noncommutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + commutability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being noncommutable
noncommutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + commutable.
Senses: glosses: Not commutable
characteristic vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characteristic vectors
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: an eigenvector
Related terms: characteristic polynomial
characteristic root
nondeleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deleted.
Senses: glosses: Not deleted
Synonyms: undeleted
nonluminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + luminal.
Senses: glosses: Not luminal
nonossified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ossified.
Senses: glosses: Not ossified
nonpersistently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + persistently.
Senses: glosses: Not persistently
nucleophosphoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleophosphoproteins
Etymology: From nucleo- + phosphoprotein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any complex of a nucleic acid and a phosphoprotein
Related terms: nucleoprotein
nucleophosphoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleophosphoprotein
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: BCP
glosses: A unitary authority of Dorset, England, formed on 1 April 2019, which replaced and merged the boroughs in these three towns.
longcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longcloths
Senses: glosses: A kind of plain cotton cloth originally made in long pieces, and often made in India.
longcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longcloth
alliballies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allaballies
Senses: glosses: A kind of cotton cloth from India.
sannoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sannoes
Senses: glosses: A kind of cotton cloth from India.
sannoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sannoe
mooree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moorees
form: moorie
form: moory
Senses: glosses: A kind of cotton cloth from India.
moorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mooree (“kind of cotton cloth”).
moorees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mooree
nehallewars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of fabric from India.
bandannoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandannoes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bandana.
bandannoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandannoe
laccowries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of plain white cotton cloth from India.
potometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ποτό (potó, “drunken”) + -metry.
Senses: glosses: Measurement of the rate of water uptake of a leafy shoot due to photosynthesis and transpiration.
potometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ποτό (potó, “drunken”) + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to potometry.
transpirometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transpirometers
Etymology: From transpire + -o- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: A potometer for measuring transpiration.
transpirometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transpirometer
evapotranspirometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evapotranspirometers
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring evaporation and transpiration.
evapotranspirometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evapotranspirometer
dinner roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner rolls
Senses: glosses: A bread roll served with a meal.
dinner rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinner roll
Mid Sussex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government district of West Sussex, England, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in Haywards Heath.
Wilby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wilbys
Etymology: Various origins:
* The village in Norfolk is named with Old English welig (“willow”) + Old Norse bý (“farmstead”).
* The village in Northamptonshire is named with the Old Norse personal name Villi + bý (“farmstead”).
* The village in Suffolk is named with Old English welig (“willow”) + bēag (“ring, circle”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Quidenham parish, Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM0389).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP8666).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM2472).
glosses: A placename:
A town in the Shire of Moira, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Butler County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname, from any of the three English villages.
oncosimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncosimeters
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring the specific gravity of a molten metal by recording on a band of paper the sinking or floating effect of a ball of the solid metal immersed in it.
oncosimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncosimeter
on the razz
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: on the razzle
on the razzle-dazzle
on the lash
glosses: Out getting drunk.
Haywards Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Heyworth in 1261, from Old English hege + worð (“enclosure with a hedge”), and as Haywards Hoth in 1544.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3323).
Adur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪdə/
rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
homophone: Ada
homophone: (non-rhotic) aider
Senses: glosses: A river in West Sussex, England, which flows into the English Channel.
glosses: A local government district of West Sussex, formed in 1974 and named after the river, with its headquarters in Shoreham-by-Sea.
Shoreham-by-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and port in Adur district, West Sussex, England.
Related terms: Old Shoreham
iswas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From is + was, i.e. for calculating where the target will be based on where it is and was.
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A kind of hand-held slide rule used for predicting the location of a target based on its current and recent positions.
Irish hurricane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish hurricanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Irishman's hurricane.
Irish hurricanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish hurricane
Groddeckian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Groddeckian
form: most Groddeckian
Etymology: From Groddeck + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Georg Groddeck (1866–1934), physician and writer regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine.
Italian rehearsal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian rehearsals
Senses: examples: text: I have never been a fan of the Italian rehearsal, where actors run lines at double time. Saying lines without thinking is a pitfall actors need to avoid, not seek out.
ref: 2011, William B. Davis, Where There's Smoke...: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, a Memoir:
glosses: A rehearsal where the actors read their lines at high speed, without the accompanying acting.
Italian rehearsals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian rehearsal
coseismals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coseismal
Alençon lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alençon laces
Senses: glosses: A very fine point lace made in France.
Alençon laces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alençon lace
island site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: island sites
Senses: examples: text: At this very moment, solus, semi-solus and island sites are practically unobtainable except during this month of August.
ref: 1951, Newspaper World and Advertising Review:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A space for an advertisement surrounded mostly or entirely by editorial matter.
island sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of island site
Foster's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First stated by J. Bristol Foster in 1964.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of island rule.
synonyms: word: island rule
dispersal prison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispersal prisons
Etymology: So called because criminals can be "dispersed" or moved between such prisons as required.
Senses: synonyms: dispersal
glosses: A secure prison for dangerous criminals.
dispersal prisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispersal prison
rush ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rush rings
Senses: glosses: A fake ring made from a rush (the plant), anciently used to seduce girls into mock marriage.
rush rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rush ring
rush toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rush toads
Etymology: From rush + toad, in allusion to the plant called a rush.
Senses: glosses: The natterjack (Bufo calamita).
rush toads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rush toad
Stolichny salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stolichny salads
Etymology: Calque of Russian салат столичный (salat stoličnyj)
Senses: glosses: A variation of Olivier salad.
Stolichny salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stolichny salad
streamstyles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of streamstyle
streamstyling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of streamstyle
draw the long bow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws the long bow
form: drawing the long bow
form: drew the long bow
form: drawn the long bow
Senses: examples: text: […] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 16:
synonyms: draw a long bow
pull the long bow
throw the hatchet
glosses: To exaggerate; to tell tall tales.
tell volumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tells volumes
form: telling volumes
form: told volumes
form: told volumes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of speak volumes.
synonyms: word: speak volumes
unprovoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unprovokes
form: unprovoking
form: unprovoked
form: unprovoked
Etymology: From un- + provoke.
Senses: examples: text: Lechery, sir, it provokes and it unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery
ref: 1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth:
text: Then we'll just have to unprovoke him.
ref: 1987, William Safire, Freedom, page 758:
text: Just as we in the West say that wine provokes the desire and unprovokes the performance, so in Cipangu they say that Oleander-tea unprovokes the desire but provokes the performance.
ref: 1988, MacDonald Harris, The Cathay Stories and Other Fictions, page 90:
text: Furthermore, I consider political information as catalyst for informatic dialectics; a tranquilizer and of course, an equivocator which can provoke and unprovoke
ref: 2004, Adele Jinadu, Olatunde Oloko, Crisis of Democratization, Development and Electoral Violence in Nigeria:
text: The equivocating Pandulph provokes and unprovokes, damns and absolves, uncrowns and crowns almost from scene to scene.
ref: 2005, Joseph Rosenblum, The Greenwood companion to Shakespeare, →ISBN, page 177:
text: Volpone, in a desperate attempt to undo his own overreaching, to "unprovoke" his lawyer Voltore — "When I provoked him, then I lost myself" [5.11.22] — must falsify the brief and uncharacteristically true pleading of Voltore on the grounds he is possessed:
ref: 2009, Ian McAdam, Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama, page 293:
glosses: To undo or counter a provocation.
unprovokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unprovoke
swinging post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinging posts
Senses: glosses: The post to which a gate is attached, allowing it to swing open and closed.
swinging posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swinging post
tan balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The muddy sediment of tanpits, dried and used for fuel.
nunating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nunate
echiuroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echiuroids
Senses: examples: text: Descriptions of echiuroids based on external characters or on a very summary enumeration of a few internal features have made it difficult to determine the generic position of a number of described forms.
ref: 1948, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, page 217:
text: Despite the resemblances of echiuroids to annelids and to sipunculids, the embryological studies of Newby (1940) on Urechis, together with other evidence, seem to indicate that echiuroids are closer to annelids than they are to molluscs.
ref: 1961, Ralph I. Smith, Frank A. Pitelka, Donald P. Abbott, Frances M. Weesner, Intertidal Inverterbrates of the Central California Coast, page 108:
text: Generally echiuroids are sedentary, remaining in their holes or burrows and extending the proboscis to feed.
ref: 2012, Diana R. Kershaw, Animal Diversity, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: A worm of the order Echiuroidea.
echiuroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echiuroid
heroicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heroicises
form: heroicising
form: heroicised
form: heroicised
Senses: examples: text: In La Route des Flandres, Blum's scepticism counters George's persistent, if ultimately defeated tendency to heroicise and idealise the family past.
ref: 2002, Jean H. Duffy, Alastair B. Duncan, Claude Simon: A Retrospective, →ISBN, page 107:
text: The archly staged 'landing' scenes from this work in particular both sanitise and heroicise the encounter between Britons and 'Natives' in ways that later Britons could, in turn, see as both confirmation of a worthy purpose and a form of transaction, if not transfiguration, that might validate their presence in the distant colonial landscape.
ref: 2005, Robert D. Grant, Representations of British Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement, →ISBN:
text: Both forms have a specific resonance in Russia, albeit for quite different reasons: the war film was used in Soviet times first as a means to heroicise the state, and later to heroicise the soldier (he, in most cases, would give his life for the fatherland).
ref: 2008, Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova, The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals, page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of heroicize.
residental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From resident + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Can. 1299 lays down a rule concerning the sacra supellex left by a residental bishop, even though he may have been a cardinal.
ref: 1921, Charles Augustine Bachofen, A Commentary on the New Code of Canon Law:
glosses: residentiary
heroicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heroicise
heroicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heroicise
heroicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heroicise
heroicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heroicizes
form: heroicizing
form: heroicized
form: heroicized
Etymology: From heroic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich.
ref: 2007, Heinz Eduard Todt, Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth, Glen Harold Stassen, Authentic Faith: Bonhoeffer's Theological Ethics in Context, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Professors of post-coloniality have a curious need to heroicize (and self-heroicize) and these Australians are no exception.
ref: 2007, Richard Serrano, Against the Postcolonial, →ISBN:
text: Societies heroicize soldiers during war to encourage young men to enlist and their families to support the war effort.
ref: 2018, Eugene Edward Beiriger, World War I: A Historical Exploration of Literature, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: To make or depict as heroic.
heroicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heroicize
heroicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heroicize
heroicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heroicize
hierodulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hierodule + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: From this passage two things are to be learned. First, that the systematic separation of that which was holy from profane contact did not exist from the very beginning; that in the temple of Solomon even heathen (Zech. xiv. 21), probably captives, were employed to do hierodulic services which, according to the law, ought to have been rendered by Levites, and which afterwards actually were so rendered.
ref: 1885, Julius Wellhausen, John Sutherland Black, Allan Menzies, Prolegomena to the History of Israel:
text: With the priestesses of goddesses the considerations which tend to lay upon the wife-priestesses of a god the tabu of chastity have no application, and their hierodulic character is retained.
ref: 1927, Robert Briffault, The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions:
text: That Enkidu enters the city of Uruk wearing the garment of a priestess and that his adoption by Ninsun is linked to that of the hierodulic priestesses corroborates this interpretation.
ref: 1993, Randy P. Conner, Blossom of bone: reclaiming the connection between homoeroticism and the sacred:
glosses: Pertaining to hierodules.
fishing frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishing frogs
form: fishing-frog
Senses: glosses: An anglerfish (Lophius spp.).
fishing frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishing frog
make fish of one and fowl of another
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes fish of one and fowl of another
form: making fish of one and fowl of another
form: made fish of one and fowl of another
form: made fish of one and fowl of another
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make fish of one and flesh of another.
make fish of one and flesh of another
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes fish of one and flesh of another
form: making fish of one and flesh of another
form: made fish of one and flesh of another
form: made fish of one and flesh of another
form: make fish of one and fowl of another
Senses: glosses: To make distinctions unfairly; to show undue partiality to one side.
arbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arb
Proto-Isaiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Isaiah.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Chapters 1 to 39 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to be the actual words of Isaiah.
Coordinate terms: Deutero-Isaiah
Trito-Isaiah
Deutero-Isaiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From deutero- + Isaiah.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Chapters 40 to 55 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to be the work of an anonymous 6th-century BCE author writing during the Exile.
Coordinate terms: Proto-Isaiah
Trito-Isaiah
Trito-Isaiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From trito- + Isaiah.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Chapters 56 to 66 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to have been composed after the return from Exile.
Coordinate terms: Deutero-Isaiah
Proto-Isaiah
ruakh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ruach.
air-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The city too, with all the glory she has derived from her misfortunes, has not been able to escape the suspicion of being nothing better than an air-built fabric, though the poet has assigned her a local habitation […]
ref: 1823, The Classical Journal, volume 27, page 1:
glosses: Built upon air; lacking a solid foundation.
driving shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving shafts
Senses: glosses: A shaft from a driving wheel communicating motion to machinery.
driving band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving bands
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A band of soft metal near the base of an artillery shell which is forced into engagement with the gun's rifling upon firing, allowing the rifling to spin up the shell and providing a gastight seal around the base of the shell.
glosses: A band or strap that communicates motion from one machine, or part of a machine, to another.
driving shafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driving shaft
driving bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driving band
Catrail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Catrail
Senses: synonyms: Picts' Ditch
Picts' Work
glosses: A linear earthwork in Roxburghshire, southern Scotland, about 11.5 mi (18.5 km) long, and consisting of a ditch and bank. The time and purpose of its construction are uncertain.
madreporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Madrepora + -al
Senses: examples: text: As the Nautilus headed for Clermont-Tonnere, one of the curious islands of the group discovered in 1822 by Captain Bell of the Minerva, I prepared to study the madreporal system that has created these particular isle.
ref: 1870, Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea:
text: The instrument is about twenty feet above sea level, and is built on ground composed of hard madreporal rock.
ref: 1914, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America - Volume 4, page 223:
text: Liquid fuel, such as the residues of petrol, etc., is absorbed by some porous incombustible substance, such as pumicestone, tufaceous or madreporal material, or bones from which the grease, gelatine, and moisture have been removed, and the resulting product used as a substitute for coal.
ref: 1917, The Petroleum World - Volumes 14-15, page 21:
text: Looking out to sea, the eye rests on a fringe of madreporal shelves over which the blue waves, broken farther out in a line of silvery foam, come lazily.
ref: 1926, The Philippine Journal of Science - Volume 31, page 302:
glosses: Characteristic of or associated with reef coral of genus Madrepora; madreporic.
examples: text: Between these vascular rings there is a long muscular heart, which, united to the calcareous pouch or cord, extends from the madreporal plate to the mouth.
ref: 1874, Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Anatomy of the Invertebrata:
text: Its constituents are all coalesced into one piece, the madreporal filter spreading its pores over its central forepart.
ref: 1883, Sven Ludvig Lovén, Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, page 80:
text: The water-vascular system communicates with the exterior by a separate canal through a single pore or a cluster of pores, the hydropore, situated in the so-called madreporal inter-radius.
ref: 1981, Pieter D. Nieuwkoop, Lien A. Sutasurya, Primordial Germ Cells in the Invertebrates, →ISBN:
text: Dorsal view with genital plates and large, sievelike madreporal plate in the center, below which is the large, anal field (periproct), shaded dark.
ref: 1993, Otto H. Schindewolf, Wolf-Ernst Reif, Basic Questions in Paleontology:
glosses: Pertaining to a sieve-like plate in echinoderms, which admits water into the ambulacral tubes;
dropnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropnets
Etymology: From drop + net.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fishing net suspended from a boom, to be suddenly dropped on a passing shoal of fish.
dropnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropnet
Y cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Y cables
form: wye cable
Etymology: From its shape, resembling the letter Y.
Senses: glosses: A forked cable typically used to split or recombine audiovisual signals.
wye cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wye cables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Y cable.
Y cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Y cable
wye cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wye cable
Hermae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hermes
holdership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holderships
Etymology: From holder + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: This system of penalties shall equally apply to the winners of scratch events, and to the winning of holderships of trophies, but not to the winner of rounds in the C.B.S.A. medal competitions.
ref: 1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games: Rackets - Zebra, page 149:
text: Firstly, we want to apply a theory that allows us to handle the question of multiple holderships, i.e. the circumstance in which one person can be described as holder of more than one of the aforementioned aspects, for instance as holder of rights and knowledge and interest.
ref: 2006, Heiko Hausendorf, Alfons Bora, Analysing Citizenship Talk, →ISBN:
text: Any controversy about the holdership of rights granted to 'everyone' is excluded.
ref: 2014, Christian Tomuschat, Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being a holder; the condition of having rights to something.
examples: text: The Code gives some indications that it would recognize such partial and limited holderships in due course everywhere;
ref: 1955, New York (State). Law Revision Commission, Report of the Law Revision Commission - Volumes 1-2, page 401:
text: Services offered include: operating leases, sale-and-lease-backs, remarketing ol used Fokker aircraft, thud party lease management. inspections. airline audits and holderships.
ref: 1999, Airfinance Annual, page 194:
text: Van der Walt, Houerskap (1985) provides an extensive analysis of the historical development of ownership in relation to the concept of holdership from ancient Roman Law, Germanic Law, Medieval Canon Law through the developments in Germany, the Netherlands and France of the sixteenth century and thereafter, and the reception of the Roman Law in Holland and its application in South Africa.
ref: 2002, Hanri Mostert, The Constitutional Protection and Regulation of Property and Its Influence on the Reform of Private Law and Landownership in South Africa and Germany, →ISBN:
glosses: The legal right to possess and use something that is owned by someone else.
holderships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holdership
canonical disjunctive normal form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
meronyms: minterm
glosses: Disjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the sum contain the same literals, so that the terms differ from each other only in their patterns of complementation (of their literals).
Related terms: canonical conjunctive normal form
canonical conjunctive normal form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canonical conjunctive normal forms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Conjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the product contain the same literals, so that the terms differ from each other only in their patterns of complementation (of their literals).
Meronyms: maxterm
Related terms: canonical disjunctive normal form
Colditz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Colditz.
Senses: examples: text: All a bit Colditz, isn't it?
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:
glosses: A town in Saxony, Germany, famed for its castle and its former POW camp.
like there's no tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of as if there were no tomorrow.
untraceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being untraceable; inability to be traced or tracked down.
parasol ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasol ants
Senses: glosses: leaf-cutter ant
umbrella ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrella ants
Senses: glosses: leaf-cutter ant
parasol ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasol ant
umbrella ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbrella ant
tree-dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree-doves
Senses: glosses: Any of various arboricole Indian pigeons.
tree-doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree-dove
tree cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree cacti
Senses: glosses: Any of various cacti of the genus Pilosocereus.
glosses: A saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)
tree cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree cactus
Dutch feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch feasts
Senses: examples: text: We sat to a late hour, but, as I wished to avoid making a Dutch feast of it, I acted with caution and kept tolerably sober.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 72
glosses: An entertainment where the host becomes drunk before the guests.
Dutch feasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch feast
Dutch widow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch widows
Senses: examples: text: Dra. He says none came in yet, sir, but one mistress Florence.
Hoa. What is that Forence? A widow?
Dra. Yes, a Dutch widow.
Hoa. How?
Dra. That's an English drab, sir
ref: c. 1604–1606 (date written; published 1608), Thomas Middleton, “A Trick to Catch the Old One”, in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton […] (The English Dramatists), volume II, London: John C. Nimmo […], published 1885, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 301:
glosses: A female prostitute.
Dutch bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch bargains
Senses: glosses: A deal agreed while under the influence of alcohol.
Dutch widows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch widow
Dutch bargains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch bargain
Dutch-buttocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of cattle: having abnormally large hindquarters.
misconceivedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From misconceived + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being misconceived.
misconceivedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misconceivedly
form: most misconceivedly
Etymology: From misconceived + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a misconceived manner.
Elzevir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A typeface used in Elzevirian editions of the Latin classics.
arbitrageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arbitrageable
form: most arbitrageable
Etymology: From arbitrage + -able.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Capable of being arbitraged.
arbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arbable
form: most arbable
Etymology: From arb + -able.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Arbitrageable; capable of being arbed.
shatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shatts
Etymology: From Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.
Senses: examples: text: [...] far greater than was originally supposed, and that a great deal of the water finds its way to the 'shatts' where it oozes to the surface and evaporates.
ref: 1956, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Journal:
text: […] On the south the shatts adjoin the Sahara, which constitutes about 40 percent of Tunisia's land area.
ref: 2005, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: Alternative form of chott.
shatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shatt
sporostegium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporostegia
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The so-called fruit of plants in the family Characeae of green algae, consisting of the hard brownish spirally-twisted shell or covering of the spore.
sporostegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporostegium
sporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spore + -ation.
Senses: glosses: sporulation
sporoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporoderms
Etymology: From sporo- + -derm.
Senses: glosses: The wall or covering of a spore.
sporoderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporoderm
sporodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the sporoderm.
sporidiolum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporidiola
Senses: glosses: A secondary sporidium.
sporidiola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporidiolum
underwaterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underwaterish
form: most underwaterish
Etymology: From underwater + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The scene around her—the buildings, the people—all appeared underwaterish—insubstantial and weaving.
ref: 2000, Robert K. Wen, Love Across the Pacific, →ISBN, page 131:
text: With lovely, underwaterish movements, she settled her wide-trunked body into her chair, and there she would remain, expecting to be waited upon by those around her, which indeed nearly always happened.
ref: 2006, Anne Crosby, Matthew: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 51:
text: But in the end the thumping turned out to be the strange, underwaterish rhythm of 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport', coming from a small transistor radio belonging to a fed-up-looking North Countryman with a big family and sand in his turn-ups.
ref: 2015, John Gale, Clean Young Englishman, →ISBN:
glosses: As if underwater.
sporangiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From sporangium + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing a sporangium.
sporangiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sporangiform
form: most sporangiform
Etymology: From sporangium + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a sporangium.
sporidesm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporidesms
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pluricellular body which becomes free like a simple spore, and in which every cell is capable of germination.
BACH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German BACH.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.
B-A-C-H
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of BACH.
grace stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grace strokes
Senses: glosses: A finishing stroke; coup de grâce.
grace strokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grace stroke
porter's knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porter's knots
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Wilcox, the bookseller, on being informed by him that his intention was to get his livelihood as an authour, eyed his robust frame attentively, and with a significant look, said, ‘You had better buy a porter's knot.’
ref: 1793, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 74:
glosses: A double shoulder pad worn with a strap around the forehead, used by hawkers and market porters for supporting burdens on the head.
market cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market caps
Senses: examples: text: Software vendor Novell has just $500 million in revenues but a $4.1 billion market cap.
ref: 2010, Aaron Anderson, editor, The Making of a Market Guru, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 154:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Clipping of market capitalization.
Related terms: small-cap
machineman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinemen
Etymology: From machine + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who manages the working of a machine, especially in a printing office.
machinemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machineman
oligoendopeptidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligoendopeptidase
oligovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or affecting several blood vessels
oophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oophagous.
synonyms: word: oophagous
optimalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of optimalize
osmoequivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osmo- + equivalent.
Senses: glosses: osmotically equivalent
osteochondroprecursor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteochondroprecursors
Senses: glosses: An osteochondral precursor
osteochondroprecursors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteochondroprecursor
Sierra Negra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Sierra Negra (lit. Black Mountain).
Senses: glosses: A mountain and extinct volcano in Puebla, Mexico.
glosses: A shield volcano; A mountain in Galapagos Province, Ecuador.
Synonyms: word: Cerro La Negra
Coordinate terms: Cerro Negro
ototoxically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From oto- + toxically.
Senses: glosses: In an ototoxic manner
outcrossings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outcrossing
oxalomalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxalomalates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of oxalomalic acid
oxalomalic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The tricarboxylic acid 1-hydroxy-3-oxopropane-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid
Related terms: oxalomalate
rappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rap + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The poem "Blues" appropriates the rappable beats of the street, showing the departure of Walcott from the swing of Trinidadian parang.
ref: 2009, Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien, Weird English, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Smith himself can't fully explain the extended retail life of the eponymous product, offering that maybe his simple alliterative name is part of the cachet. Author Steve Rushin concurs, noting: “Somehow Goran Ivanisevic is somehow less rappable” (Rushin, 2016, p. 138). Smith says he still meets people who tell him: “I didn't realize you were an actual person, I thought you were just a shoe” ...
ref: 2019, Daniel Covell, Sharianne Walker, Curt Hamakawa, Managing Sport Organizations: Responsibility for performance, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: That can be rapped (rendered in the style of rap music).
Related terms: rapable
Asian baby girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian baby girls
Senses: synonyms: ABG
glosses: In American subculture, a young Asian American woman, typically of East or Southeast Asian ancestry, who displays stereotypical traits such as enjoying clubbing, wearing excessive makeup and tattoos, drinking bubble tea, wearing revealing clothes etc.; Asian party girl.
spottail bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spottail bass
Senses: synonyms: red drum
redfish
puppy drum
channel bass
red
glosses: The red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a marine fish with a dark spot near the tail.
examples: text: Tropical freshwater snappers are highly prized for food and have economic value through recreational fisheries. Prominent species include mangrove jack Lutjanus argentimaculatus, Papuan black bass L. goldiei, spot-tail bass L. fuscescens, and Moses snapper L. russellii.
ref: 2011, Johann Bell, Johanna Johnson, Alistair James Hobday, Vulnerability of Tropical Pacific Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change, page 585:
glosses: The freshwater snapper, Lutjanus fuscescens, a freshwater fish with a dark spot near the tail.
it's lonely at the top
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: A highly successful person in a particular field will inevitably suffer from a feeling of isolation.
Related terms: uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Tetelcingo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tetelcingo, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tetelli (“mound”).
Senses: glosses: A community in Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico.
Derived terms: Tetelcingo Nahuatl
palaeoproductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoproductivity
Etymology: From palaeo- + productivity.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: prehistoric productivity (of minerals)
paleoclimatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + climatological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeoclimatological.
paleomobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + mobility.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeomobility.
parabotanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabotanists
Etymology: From para- + botanist.
Senses: glosses: A botanist who collects plants for a herbarium
parabotanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parabotanist
simunition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simunitions
Etymology: From simulation + ammunition.
Senses: glosses: Blank or training ammunition, made from wax, paintballs, etc.
parafalcine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + falcine.
Senses: glosses: Above or behind a falx
parahilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + hilar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above or behind a hilum
passionvine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passionvines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of passionflower.
synonyms: word: passionflower
passionvines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passionvine
pectinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectinoids
Senses: glosses: Any bivalve mollusc of the superfamily Pectinoidea
pectinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pectinoid
pentenoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentenoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a pentenoic acid
pentenoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentenoate
pentenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentenoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic carboxylic acid that has five carbon atoms and one double bond
Related terms: pentenoate
pentynoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentynoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a pentynoic acid
pentynoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentynoate
perdialytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peridialytic.
peridialytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + dialytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to peridialysis
periablational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + ablational.
Senses: glosses: Around the time of ablation
periostially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of periosteally.
hand organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand organs
Senses: glosses: A portable organ played by means of a crank turned by the hand.
Synonyms: barrel organ
hand organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand organ
periproctal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From periproct + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a periproct.
periproctal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + proctal.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of perirectal.
synonyms: word: perirectal