cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cheapass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheapasses
Etymology: From cheap + -ass.
Senses: glosses: A stingy person; a cheapskate.
cheapasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheapass
cyberpsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyber- + psychological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to cyberpsychology.
cybercasino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercasinos
Etymology: From cyber- + casino.
Senses: glosses: A casino that operates over the Internet.
Related terms: cybergambling
cybercasinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercasino
cybergambling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + gambling.
Senses: synonyms: iGaming
online gambling
glosses: Any type of gambling conducted on the Internet.
Related terms: cybercasino
unbracketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bracketed.
Senses: glosses: Not bracketed.
espieglerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espiegleries
Etymology: Borrowed from French espièglerie, see espiègle.
Senses: examples: text: I yield to no one in my appreciation of her espieglerie, but I'm one of the rabbits and always have been while she is about as pronounced a dasher as ever dashed. What I like is the quiet life, and Roberta Wickham wouldn't recognize the quiet life if you brought it to her on a plate with watercress round it. She's all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII:
glosses: Impish or playful behaviour; mischief.
espiegleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espieglerie
dear me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪəˈmiː/
Senses: examples: text: "Dear me, Mr. Holmes. Dear me!" said this singular epistle. There was neither superscription nor signature. I laughed at the quaint message; but Holmes showed unwonted seriousness.
ref: 1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear:
text: "Dear me," said Mrs. Flanders, when she read in the Scarborough and Harrogate Courier that the Rev. Andrew Floyd, etc., etc., had been made Principal of Maresfield House, "that must be our Mr. Floyd."
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob's Room:
glosses: An expression of surprise, dismay, or indulgent disapproval.
Synonyms: sense: expression of surprise
word: wow
sense: expression of dismay
word: dammit
sense: expression of disapproval
word: tut tut
dearie me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪəɹiˈmiː/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dear me.
Synonyms: sense: expression of surprise
word: wow
sense: expression of dismay
word: dammit
sense: expression of disapproval
word: tut tut
deary me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪəɹiˈmiː/
Senses: examples: text: "Dear, deary me," cried my mother, "what a disgrace upon the house! And your poor father sick!"
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of dear me.
Synonyms: sense: expression of surprise
word: wow
sense: expression of dismay
word: dammit
sense: expression of disapproval
word: tut tut
Pokéfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pokéfans
Etymology: From Poké- + fan.
Senses: examples: text: This is fantastic... I've never met so many Pokéfans, and I've never seen so many Pikachu rucksacks around.
ref: 2000 November 12, Cliff Barnes, “My Whitby Diary”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet):
text: When die-hard Pokéfans outside Japan discovered that portions of the original narrative were being withheld, they flocked to online chatrooms dedicated to the series, where they complained bitterly about censorship and debated various forms of protest.
ref: 2004, Hirofumi Katsuno, Jeffrey Meret, “Localizing the Pokémon TV Series for the American Market”, in Joseph Tobin, editor, Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Few of even the most hard-core Pokéfans will ever have tried this, so just pulling together a copy of Pokémon XD for GameCube and two GameCube-Game Boy cables can deliver a play experience that they've never had before.
ref: 2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers…in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages, American Library Association, published 2007, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: A fan or enthusiast of Pokémon.
Synonyms: Pokémaniac
Pokéfans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pokéfan
fudgily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fudgily
form: most fudgily
Etymology: From fudgy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is far too fudgily phrased.
ref: 1971, House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates:
text: These nodes are treated, fudgily, as if they were terminal nodes.
ref: 1972, Ann Borkin, David Peterson, George Laxoff, Marina K Burt, Where the rules fail: a student's guide:
glosses: With the use of fudges; inaccurately or misleadingly.
cybercheating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + cheating.
Senses: examples: text: The solution to cybercheating is not an easy one, because the technology is changing more quickly than most educators can change their testing practices.
ref: 2008, Charles J Russo, Encyclopedia of Education Law:
glosses: Using the Internet to cheat (violate rules to gain advantage); especially cyberplagiarism.
examples: text: Kind of like when you offer to let your boyfriend check your emails to prove you're not cybercheating on him.
ref: 2006, Lauren Barnholdt, Reality Chick:
glosses: Using the Internet to cheat (be unfaithful).
line dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line dance
jackassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jackassed
form: most jackassed
Etymology: From jackass + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being a jackass.
jackassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From jackass + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jackass
jackassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jackass
love-in-a-mist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nigella damascena, an annual flowering plant of the genus Nigella, the blooms of which are generally blue in colour, though also found in shades of pink, white or pale purple.
Synonyms: nigella
devil-in-a-bush
devil-in-a-mist
devil-in-the-bush
love in a mist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of love-in-a-mist.
gossipily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gossipily
form: most gossipily
Etymology: From gossipy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gossipy way.
nigella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪˈd͡ʒɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: nigellas
Etymology: From Scientific Latin, from Late Latin nigella. Doublet of nielle.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Nigella of about twelve species of annual flowering plants, the blooms of which are generally blue in colour but also found in shades of pink, white and pale purple.
glosses: The seeds of the plant Nigella sativa, used as a culinary spice.
Synonyms: sense: flower
word: love-in-a-mist
sense: spice
word: black onion seed
sense: spice
word: onion seed
sense: spice
word: kalonji
Derived terms: nigelline
nigellone
eggbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggboxes
Etymology: From egg + box.
Senses: glosses: A box in which eggs are packaged, usually made from cardboard shaped into a number of separate cups that hold individual eggs.
eggboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggbox
nigellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigella
sunshineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sunshine + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without sunshine.
cyberpayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberpayments
Etymology: From cyber- + payment.
Senses: examples: text: The following section provides a survey of several cyberpayment systems. Specifically, it outlines by country, some of the smart card systems in operation throughout the world.
ref: 1995, Exploring the World of Cyberpayments: An Introductory Survey, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Department of the Treasury:
glosses: Synonym of e-payment.
synonyms: word: e-payment
Related terms: cybercash
cybermoney
cyberwallet
cyberpayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberpayment
cybercommunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercommunities
Etymology: From cyber- + community.
Senses: glosses: A community in cyberspace or on the Internet.
cybercommunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercommunity
cyberromance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberromances
Etymology: From cyber- + romance.
Senses: glosses: Romance in cyberspace.
Synonyms: cyberlove
cyberromances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberromance
microphoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microphone
microphoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microphone
cyberpiracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + piracy.
Senses: glosses: The illegal or unethical activities of a cyberpirate.
walkie-talkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkie-talkie
supraorganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supraorganisms
Etymology: From supra- + organism.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A system of multiple organisms that may be considered a single organism, such as an insect colony, or an organism with endosymbionts.
bloodletter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodletters
Etymology: From blood + letter.
Senses: glosses: One who performs bloodletting (the removal of blood in the hope of curing illness).
bloodletters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodletter
supraorganisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supraorganism
cyberlove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + love.
Senses: glosses: Love in cyberspace.
Synonyms: cyberromance
enum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈinʌm/
ipa: /ɪˈnum/
Forms: form: enums
Etymology: Clipping of enumeration, used as a keyword in the C programming language and its descendants.
Senses: examples: text: Enums allow you to define a type made up of a finite set of identifiers, with each identifier mapping to an integer.
ref: 2007, Robert Pickering, Foundations of F#:
text: The Access object model contains many enums that you can use in your applications.
ref: 2007, Teresa Hennig, Rob Cooper, Geoffrey L Griffith, Armen Stein, Access 2007 VBA Programmer's Reference:
text: A unique feature of enums is that when you switch on a variable of an enum type, you do not prefix the case statements […]
ref: 2009, Richard F Raposa, SCJP: Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform (Exam CX-310-065):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An enumeration.
enums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enum
evidentiarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From evidentiary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an evidentiary way.
nonrecursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + recursively.
Senses: glosses: In a nonrecursive manner.
astronautically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From astronautic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an astronautic way.
minimisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of minimizable.
maximisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maximise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maximizable.
minimizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From minimize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be minimized.
Derived terms: unminimizable
maximizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maximize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Why isn't this window maximizable? I keep having to scroll to see the full contents.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be maximized.
minimaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimax
minimaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of minimax
minimaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of minimax
minimaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of minimax
Handan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hänʹdänʹ
Forms: form: Han-tan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邯鄲／邯郸 (Hándān).
Senses: examples: text: Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway. Although the first real city I had seen since leaving Kuomintang areas, Hantan was only half alive.
ref: [1949, Jack Belden, “Traveling Companions”, in China Shakes the World, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 38:
text: The coking-coal center of Fengfeng in southern Hopei, for example, was among the first places designated as a mining district, about 1951, and was raised to the status of city in 1954. (Two years later, it was incorporated into the expanding urban complex of Hantan.)
ref: [1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 317:
text: Xiufen Xie, 53, was born in a village near Handan City, Hebei Province, China. Her story was originally published in an official Chinese newspaper in 1998.
ref: 2001, “People with Disabilities”, in Falun Gong Stories: A Journey to Ultimate Health, Golden Lotus Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:
text: At age 20, Tian enlisted in the army, and nine years later she joined the police force of Handan, a city 300 miles south of Beijing.
ref: 2014 December 1, William Wan, “Once a cop, now an outcast: A Chinese tale of abuse and a craving for justice”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2014, World:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
niggerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more niggerlike
form: most niggerlike
Etymology: From nigger + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] now he listens to mine host as he recounts the strange absence of the preacher, pauses and combs his long red beard with his fingers, looks distrustfully, and then says, with a quaintness that disarmed suspicion, "Niggerlike! — preacher or angel, nigger will be nigger! […]
ref: 1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nigger.
Synonyms: niggerish
body modification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body modifications
Senses: examples: text: Voluntary amputeeism or apotemnophilia — where the subject wishes to have a limb or appendage removed — might arguably fall within the category of radical body modification.
ref: 2008, Belinda Bennett, Terry Carney, Isabel Karpin, Brave New World of Health, page 78:
glosses: Deliberate physical alteration of the human body for aesthetic purposes, such as tattooing and piercing.
body modifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body modification
cybertronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of cyber- + electronic.
Senses: examples: text: The temperature element used in cybertronic devices is a nickel wire winding. (A cybertronic device is an electronic control system.)
ref: 2006, Mark R. Miller, Air conditioning and refrigeration, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being an electronic control system.
Related terms: cybertronics
cybertronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study and design of cybertronic devices (electronic control systems).
hip bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip bone
cyberinteraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberinteractions
Etymology: From cyber- + interaction.
Senses: glosses: Interaction in cyberspace or through computer networks.
cyberinteractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberinteraction
cyberporn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + porn.
Senses: glosses: Pornography distributed on the Internet.
Related terms: technoporn
cyberbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberbanks
Etymology: From cyber- + bank.
Senses: glosses: A bank that operates in cyberspace; an Internet bank.
cyberbanking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + banking.
Senses: glosses: Banking in cyberspace.
Related terms: cyberbank
cybermoney
cyberfinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + finance.
Senses: glosses: Finance in cyberspace, comprehending such concepts as cyberbanking and cyberpayments.
cyberbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberbank
niggerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more niggerly
form: most niggerly
Etymology: From nigger + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a nice, clean, tidy, healthy little city, with a native population neither so thoroughly niggerly, nude and nidorous as it was when my lines were cast there.
ref: 1885, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London Society, volume 47, page 289:
text: And again: to be niggerly is not necessarily to be niggardly. It is niggerly for instance to single out Fannie Stearns Davis for dispraise, but it can't be called niggardly to name nobody else in the world but to praise them.
ref: 1988, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Reading Race:
text: He was a wild black beast who raped my mother. […] Ever since I can remember he's been in a nigger pose of agony. He is the wilderness. He speaks niggerly groveling about wanting to touch me with his black hand.
ref: 1988, Adrienne Kennedy, Adrienne Kennedy in One Act, page 10:
glosses: Niggerlike.
cyberterror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + terror.
Senses: glosses: Cyberterrorism.
uses up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of use up
using up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of use up
boneshaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boneshakers
Etymology: From bone + shaker, from the uncomfortableness of the ride.
Senses: glosses: A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).
examples: text: a boneshaker of a journey
text: The car was a real boneshaker.
text: As this was my third journey on these boneshakers I am beginning to think there must be some very serious fault in their design.
ref: 1959 December, “Letters to the Editor: The riding of S.R. multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 628:
glosses: Something jolty.
boneshakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boneshaker
cyberfrontier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberfrontiers
Etymology: From cyber- + frontier.
Senses: glosses: A frontier in cyberspace or on the Internet; a digital barrier that marks some new form of progress.
cyberfrontiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberfrontier
cynicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cynicism
cyberslut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybersluts
Etymology: From cyber- + slut.
Senses: examples: text: Should these methods fail to produce the name of this cyberslut or cyberstud […]
ref: 2005, Chuck Chambers, The Private Investigator's Handbook:
text: The techno-geek has been in one of those online cyberslut places chatting up every anonymous dick that comes by, thank you.
ref: 2006, Chuck Zito, A Habit for Death:
glosses: A slut in cyberspace.
cybersluts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberslut
cyberaddiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberaddictions
Etymology: From cyber- + addiction.
Senses: glosses: Addiction to the Internet.
cybersociety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybersocieties
Etymology: From cyber- + society.
Senses: glosses: Society in cyberspace.
Synonyms: cybercommunity
cybersocieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybersociety
cyberstud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberstuds
Etymology: From cyber- + stud.
Senses: examples: text: To be a cyberstud, you need to be a good writer.
ref: 1997, Celia Pearce, The interactive book:
text: Grace says that depends on who I like talking to more, the cyberstud (as she calls him) or Dylan.
ref: 2003, Sonya Sones, What My Mother Doesn't Know:
text: Should these methods fail to produce the name of this cyberslut or cyberstud...
ref: 2005, Chuck Chambers, The Private Investigator's Handbook:
glosses: A stud (male lover) in cyberspace.
cyberstuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberstud
cybergothic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cybergothic
form: most cybergothic
Etymology: From cyber- + gothic.
Senses: examples: text: […] from the early 1990s onwards, bands such as Feindflug in Germany and VNV Nation in England started to combine EBM with the ultimately machine-made musical style, techno, into cybergothic music. This musical style typically has a high bpm (beat per minute) count, and its harmonic structure is built on the rhythmical basses of techno and trance […]
ref: 2009, Marianne van den Boomen, Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology, page 127:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cybergoth subculture.
keymask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keymasks
Etymology: From key + mask.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A bitmask specifying which keypresses were made.
keymasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keymask
cyberidentity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberidentities
Etymology: From cyber- + identity.
Senses: glosses: Identity in cyberspace or on the Internet.
cyberidentities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberidentity
xoxoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: xo
form: xoxo
Senses: glosses: An abbreviation for hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.
cyberpirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberpirates
Etymology: From cyber- + pirate.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who engages in illegal or unethical activities on the Internet; especially a cybersquatter.
Related terms: cyberpiracy
cyberpirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberpirate
cyberissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberissues
Etymology: From cyber- + issue.
Senses: glosses: An issue pertaining to cyberspace or the Internet.
cyberlit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + lit.
Senses: glosses: Cyberliterature.
cybergroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybergroups
Etymology: From cyber- + group.
Senses: glosses: A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
Synonyms: cybercommunity
cybergroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybergroup
nonscalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scalar.
Senses: glosses: Not a scalar.
nonscalar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonscalars
Etymology: From non- + scalar.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a scalar.
nonscalars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonscalar
cybernetwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybernetworks
Etymology: From cyber- + network.
Senses: glosses: A computer network.
cybernetworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybernetwork
cybersociology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + sociology.
Senses: glosses: A subdiscipline of sociology concerned with the social effects and implications of computer technologies such as the Internet and virtual reality.
hyperliterature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + literature.
Senses: glosses: Literature that uses the hypertext medium, particularly in order to add interactivity to a story or work.
cyberliterature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + literature.
Senses: glosses: Literature that relies on a cyber medium, particular in order to achieve interactivity.
Synonyms: cyberlit
hyperliterature
sequenceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sequence + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be sequenced.
preformatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + formatted.
Senses: examples: text: Buying preformatted floppy disks means that you don't have to waste time formatting them.
glosses: Formatted in advance.
cybernerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybernerds
Etymology: From cyber- + nerd.
Senses: examples: text: […] cybernerds, the artsy crowd, the intellectuals, the druggies, and others, create their own cultures. Each of these cultures has its own heroes, its own rules, and often its own language system.
ref: 2001, Kevin Ryan, Kaleidoscope: Readings in Education, page 71:
glosses: A computer nerd.
Synonyms: cybergeek
cybergeek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybergeeks
Etymology: From cyber- + geek.
Senses: examples: text: There is also great concern about an impending invasion by cybergeeks. For the most part, however, such ventures are essentially forms of crime or vandalism, and do not require military preparations.
ref: 2018, A. Trevor Thrall, Benjamin H. Friedman, US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint:
glosses: A computer geek.
Synonyms: cybernerd
cybernerds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybernerd
cybergeeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybergeek
cybercensorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + censorship.
Senses: glosses: Censorship on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + rape.
Senses: examples: text: […] as the Baker case shows, saying that no physical attacks actually occur and that the cyberrape or cyberharassment is just "words" would not ease the feeling of violation.
ref: 1997, Ching-Yi Liu, The Regulation of Cyberspace:
glosses: Rape in cyberspace or on the Internet.
Related terms: cybersex
cybermuseum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybermuseums
Etymology: From cyber- + museum.
Senses: glosses: A museum that exists only in cyberspace or on the Internet.
cybermuseums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybermuseum
cyberlibrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberlibraries
Etymology: From cyber- + library.
Senses: glosses: A cybrary (online collection of reference material).
cyberlibraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberlibrary
filmlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filmlike
form: most filmlike
Etymology: From film + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a film.
glosses: Unrealistically romantic, exciting, scenic, etc.
glosses: Having qualities similar to those of images captured on photographic film.
raw_tags: of a digital photograph or video
Synonyms: movielike
cyberchurch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberchurches
Etymology: From cyber- + church.
Senses: glosses: A church that exists only on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberchurches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberchurch
cyberjargon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪbəˌdʒɑːɡən/
Etymology: From cyber- + jargon.
Senses: glosses: Jargon pertaining to computers, the Internet, or cyberspace; technobabble.
sonatalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sonatalike
form: most sonatalike
Etymology: From sonata + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a sonata.
beeflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beeflike
form: most beeflike
Etymology: From beef + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like beef, or some aspect of beef.
seaminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seamy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being seamy.
ghostless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English *gostles, from Old English gāstlēas (“lifeless, dead”), equivalent to ghost + -less. Cognate with Dutch geestloos, German geistlos.
Senses: glosses: Without spirit, soul, or life; dead.
examples: text: I don't know about Gary, but I dreamed about dark, spooky houses and horrible, groaning ghosts all night. I was glad to wake up and find it was a bright, sunny, ghostless morning.
ref: 1996, Michael Dugan, It's Just a Trick:
glosses: Without a ghost.
Derived terms: ghostlessness
hostless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From host + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a host.
examples: text: a hostless house
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: inhospitable
cyberutopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyberutopian
form: most cyberutopian
Etymology: From cyber- + utopian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cyberutopia.
cyberutopian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberutopians
Etymology: From cyber- + utopian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of cyberutopianism.
cyberutopians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberutopian
cyberutopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberutopias
Etymology: From cyber- + utopia.
Senses: examples: text: The Matrix constructs a new discourse of race in the Digital Age, one that plugs us in to our own dreamworlds about cyberutopias and cyberfutures.
ref: 2002, Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes […] , Routledge, →ISBN:
text: According to van Zoonen (2002), in cyberutopia the participants would be absent of sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion and disability.
ref: 2014, Mark Vicars, Tarquam McKenna, editors, Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 61:
text: The conquest of America is complete, and yet the highly technologised vision of a future Islamic cyberutopia with its surfing, jetskis and starships is quite reassuring, from the point of view of an American used to correlating wealth and comfort with technological progress.
ref: 2016, Scott Wilson, Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:
text: This was no cyberutopia: the contribution of tech collectives responsible for the spread of hacking and tech literacy in Italian social movements goes far beyond the circulation of information and coordination; […]
ref: 2020, Alessandra Renzi, Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A utopia in cyberspace or achieved by means of computer technology.
Derived terms: cyberutopian
cyberutopianism
Related terms: technoutopia
cyberutopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberutopia
cyberutopianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + utopianism.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: techno-utopianism
text: Cyberutopianism is a set of ideas and practices based on the assumption that information technologies and especially the World Wide Web can lead to a more prosperous and fairer society at the local, national, and global levels [Rheingold 2000].
ref: 2018, A. Javier Treviño, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 137:
coordinate_terms: cyberoptimism#Noun
technodeterminism#Noun
techno-futurism#Noun
techno-optimism#Noun
technophoria#Noun
glosses: The belief that a utopia can be achieved in cyberspace.
Related terms: cyberutopia
cyberutopian
heart-whole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart-whole
form: most heart-whole
Senses: examples: text: Lady Mandeville, if not the keeper of Emily's conscience, took some care of her constancy. She had quite made up her mind, that a marriage between Miss Arundel and Mr. Lorraine was the most eligible thing in the world for both parties; and when a mind is once made up, it is very tiresome to have to unmake it. No wonder Edward had hitherto escaped heart-whole.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 111–112:
glosses: Alternative spelling of heartwhole.
cybersuicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybersuicides
Etymology: From cyber- + suicide.
Senses: examples: text: Reports such as these have underscored public health concerns about a cybersuicide epidemic […]
ref: 2008, Megan-Jane Johnstone, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective:
text: There are also very dark chapters that have opened with the disturbing phenomenon of "cybersuicide," in which strangers meet online, form group suicide pacts, and then meet in person to execute their macabre plan together.
ref: 2009, John Haffner, Tomas Casas i Klett, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Japan's Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship:
glosses: Suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people simultaneously after meeting on the Internet.
examples: text: Self-constructed personae online (unlike the offline variety) can be abandoned or re-created at will; cybersuicide may simply provide the clearest path to a fresh start.
ref: 2004, Patricia R Schroeder, Robert Johnson, mythmaking, and contemporary American culture:
glosses: The deliberate destruction of one's own online persona.
Related terms: cybercide
Karachay-Cherkessia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A republic of Russia in the Caucasus. Capital: Cherkessk.
Related terms: Karachay
Cherkess
neuroethology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroethologies
Etymology: From neuro- + ethology.
Senses: glosses: The study of animal behavior and its underlying control by the nervous system
Derived terms: neuroethological
neuroethologist
volcanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: volcanizes
form: volcanizing
form: volcanized
form: volcanized
Senses: glosses: To expose to volcanic heat.
Related terms: vulcanize
dorser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorsers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dosser (a basket).
diamictites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamictite
diaminoalkanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaminoalkane
diaminoalkane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaminoalkanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic diamine
diapirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diapir
diapir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.pɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: diapirs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαπειραίνω (diapeiraínō, “to pierce through”).
Senses: examples: text: "If a diapir is outside an established plume it rises at a much slower rate," Loper says.
ref: 29 April 1989, Nigel Henbest, “Geologists hit back at impact theory of extinctions”, in New Scientist:
text: This final stage is characterized by the cooling and resolidification of the partially molten diapir within the mantle, slow subsidence at the surface, and greatly diminished rates of crustal addition.
ref: 1994, Peter Olson, “Mechanics of Flood Basalt Magmatism”, in Michael P. Ryan, editor, Magmatic Systems, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Deeply buried deposits of sea-salt dome upwards and pass through the overlying strata, as a kind of intrusive lobe, eventually emerging at the surface – the rising tongue is called a diapir.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth: An Intimate History, HarperCollins, published 2010, →ISBN, page unnumbered page:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden.
Derived terms: diapiric
diapirically
diapirism
diarylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarylations
Etymology: From di- + arylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any arylation reaction in which two aryl groups are added to a molecule
sope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sopes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sope.
Senses: examples: text: They’re then ground into a homogeneous dough that holds whatever shape you choose to give it: thin circles for tortillas, thicker ones for gorditas and sopes, plump ovals for huaraches and triangles for black-bean stuffed tetelas.
ref: 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2023:
glosses: A traditional Mexican food consisting of a masa base with various savory toppings.
sope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sopes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soap.
diathermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diathermic
form: most diathermic
Etymology: From diathermy + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to diathermy
glosses: That allows the free passage of heat
Derived terms: adiathermic
sopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sope
diencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + encephalic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
Derived terms: diencephalic syndrome
mesodiencephalic
luger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːʒ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: lugers
Etymology: From luge + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who competes in the luge.
dihydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪhaɪˈdɹɒksaɪd/
Forms: form: dihydroxides
Etymology: From di- + hydroxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing two hydroxide groups or ions.
Related terms: word: dihydric
word: dihydride
english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: dihydro-
word: dihydrogen
word: dihydroxy
dihydroxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + hydroxo.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two hydroxy groups in a molecule
lugers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luger
Luger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈluːɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Lugers
Etymology: From the German surname, from Lugau in Saxony, a placename of Slavic origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Luger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈluːɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Lugers
Etymology: From the German surname, from Lugau in Saxony, a placename of Slavic origin.
Senses: examples: text: He got Dancer and Prancer with an old German Luger
And he slashed up Dasher just like Freddy Krueger
ref: 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:
glosses: A German semiautomatic pistol used by their troops in both World Wars.
diodelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diodelike
form: most diodelike
form: diode-like
Etymology: From diode + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a diode
derogator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derogators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dērogātor, from dērogō.
Senses: glosses: A detractor.
diptericin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diptericins
Etymology: From Diptera.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antibacterial peptides, rich in glycine, that have antibacterial properties
disubstitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disubstitutions
Etymology: From di- + substitution.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substitution reaction in which two groups are substituted
dorsoflexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorsoflexions
Senses: glosses: The act of bending a limb backwards
downturned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downturned
form: most downturned
Etymology: From down- + turned.
Senses: glosses: turned downwards
downwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downwellings
Etymology: From down- + welling.
Senses: glosses: The sinking of a higher-density medium through a lower-density one.
glosses: A current caused by the clash of two currents causing one to dive down.
Synonyms: sense: current
word: downwelling current
Coordinate terms: sense: current
word: upwelling
sense: current
word: upwelling current
sense: current
word: riptide
sense: current
word: riptide current
downwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From down- + welling.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downwell
drillcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drillcores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drill core.
drill core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drill cores
Senses: glosses: The long cylinder of material obtained by use of a core drill
core drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core drills
Senses: glosses: A device used to remove a cylinder-shaped sample of material for examination
drosomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drosomycins
Etymology: Drosophila + -mycin
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An antifungal and antibacterial peptide isolated from Drosophila melanogaster
dystroglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dystroglycans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein associated with dystrophin.
Derived terms: dystroglycanopathy
random sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random sequences
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
statistics
glosses: A sequence of identically distributed random variables.
ejectosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ejectosomes
Etymology: From eject + -o- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ejectile organelle
Synonyms: trichocyst
cubicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubica
ejectile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ejectile
form: most ejectile
Etymology: From eject + -ile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That serves to eject, or that is ejected
ejectile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ejectiles
Etymology: From eject + -ile.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particle that is emitted during a reaction, typically the lighter reaction product in a two-body reaction.
ejectosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ejectosome
ellipsometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ellipsometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ellipsometry.
emargination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emarginations
Senses: glosses: A recess, notch, or hollow (or series of such hollows) in a margin or outline, such as in a feather or a leaf.
Related terms: emarginate
meseraic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meseraic
form: most meseraic
form: meseraick
Etymology: From Late Latin meseraicus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μεσαραϊκός (mesaraïkós) (in Galen), from μεσάραιον (mesáraion, “mesaraeum”).
Senses: examples: text: Blood is a hot, sweet, temperate, red humour, prepared in the meseraic veins, and made of the most temperate parts of the chylus in the liver […].
ref: , Bk.I, New York 2001, pp.147-8
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Mesenteric.
meseraic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meseraics
form: meseraick
Etymology: From Late Latin meseraicus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μεσαραϊκός (mesaraïkós) (in Galen), from μεσάραιον (mesáraion, “mesaraeum”).
Senses: examples: text: it entreth not the veins with those electuaries, wherein it is mixed: but taketh leave of the permeant parts, at the mouths of the Meseraicks, or Lacteal Vessels, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion unto the siege.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A mesenteric vein.
pituita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtjuːɪtə/
Etymology: From Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm”). Doublet of pip.
Senses: examples: text: Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder part of the chylus […]
ref: , Book I (New York 2001 edition), p.148
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Phlegm; mucus.
enantiornithean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantiornitheans
Etymology: Enantiornithes + -an
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of extinct birds (or bird-like reptiles) of the group Enantiornithes.
endproducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endproduct
endproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endproducts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of end product.
enterokinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterokinases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin
Synonyms: enteropeptidase
trypsinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trypsinogens
Etymology: From trypsin + -o- + -gen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inactive precursor of trypsin
Related terms: mesotrypsinogen
epaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + axial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located above and behind an axis (typically a midline)
epaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epaxials
Etymology: From epi- + axial.
Senses: glosses: Such a muscle
epialleles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiallele
epiallele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epialleles
Etymology: From epi- + allele.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specific DNA methylation pattern of a genetic locus.
epiallelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + allelic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to epialleles.
epidurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From epidural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an epidural manner
extrapair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: extra-pair
Etymology: From extra- + pair.
Senses: examples: text: But in a few instances, females were observed in extrapair copulations, after which they'd take a rock or two back to their own nest and the male wouldn't attack.
ref: 2019, Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring outside of a stable pairing.
extraterritorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extraterritorially
form: most extraterritorially
Etymology: From extraterritorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Outside of a territory.
femtolitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femtolitres
form: femtoliter
Etymology: From femto- + litre.
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume equal to 10⁻¹⁵ litres