cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
good job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good jobs
Senses: examples: text: He seemed to share my disappointment, but was kind enough to say, "You made a good job of it and it deserved a better fate," [...].
ref: 1944 March and April, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: VIII—Sir H. N. Gresley”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, job.
examples: text: It's a good job that he was there to catch the vase when I dropped it.
text: Good job Sarah isn't scared of spiders: I don't think I could cope without someone to remove them.
glosses: a good thing.
Related terms: job's a good 'un
good going
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: well done; congratulations
every little helps
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: every little bit helps
Senses: examples: text: "There's not much money - if that's what you mean."
"Approximately."
"Once all the debts are paid there will be very little."
"Nevertheless. Every little helps. The Brothers are sorely in need of it this weather."
ref: 1980, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Lamb' (novel), (Chapter 1, at page 11 in the 1981 King Penguin paperback edition)
glosses: Even the smallest things are helpful when towards a goal.
Synonyms: many a mickle makes a muckle
take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
little and often fills the purse
one in a million
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […]most commonly break outwardly, and not one in a Million inwardly.
ref: 1686, Gideon Harvey, The Conclave of Physicians, in Two Parts: Detecting Their Intrigues, Frauds, and Plots..., London: for James Partridge, page 43:
text: A one in a million, chance of a lifetime ... one in a million you.
ref: 1980 June, Dees, Sam, “One in a Million You”, in One in a Million You, performed by Larry Graham, Warner Bros.:
glosses: Something extremely rare or unlikely.
Synonyms: hen's tooth
long shot
rarity
the bigger they are, the harder they fall
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: the bigger they come, the harder they fall
glosses: The larger or the higher of a rank something is, the more disastrous and spectacular its downfall.
Related terms: how the mighty have fallen
pride comes before a fall
the highest branch is not the safest roost
uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
have one's number on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's number on it
form: having one's number on it
form: had one's number on it
form: had one's number on it
Senses: examples: text: I'll catch that fish. It has my number on it.
glosses: To be destined for someone.
pollocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See pollock (“fish”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pollock.
pollocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See pollock (“painter”).
Senses: examples: text: Trash was piled at the curb and birdshit pollocked the sidewalk.
ref: 2006, Jonathan Kellerman, Obsession, page 53:
glosses: simple past and past participle of pollock.
Related terms: Jackson Pollocked
Jackson Pollocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jackson Pollocked
form: most Jackson Pollocked
Senses: examples: text: A heavy-duty cleaning team descend to terminate the Jackson-Pollocked floor
ref: 1987, Fiona Pitt-Kethl, Private Parts:
text: 2005 Darragh Johnson, 'The Washington Post', Wednesday, November 23, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/22/AR2005112202098_pf.html
Now upside down, each Thanksgiving dinner slides in front of another guy in a yellow plastic apron Jackson-Pollocked with vivid red blood.
glosses: Having been splattered.
Jackson Pollocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: and to have my face Jackson Pollocked by the muddy spray from his rear wheel
ref: 2001, Tim Moore, Frost on my Mustache, page 83:
text: ...whose carpet had once been gray, but over the years had been Jackson Pollocked with tumbling chunks of sesame chicken...
ref: 2007, Dana Vachon, Mergers & Acquisitions, page 94:
glosses: simple past and past participle of Jackson Pollock
Related terms: pollocked
four-acceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-accelerations
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A four-vector that describes the change in a particle's four-velocity over time
four-force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-forces
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A four-vector that describes the change in a particle's four-momentum over time.
four-momentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-momenta
Etymology: From four + momentum.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A generalization of momentum in four-dimensional spacetime.
four-velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-velocities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A generalization of velocity in four-dimensional spacetime
veridicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veridicalities
Etymology: From veridical + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: word: veraciousness
word: veracity
word: truth
word: straight goods
word: veraciousness
word: veracity
word: veridicality
word: verity
antonyms: falsehood
lies#Noun
;
BS
bullshit
coordinate_terms: truthiness
glosses: Truth.
examples: text: Symbol structures can, and commonly do, serve as internal representations (e.g. "mental images") of the environments to which the symbol system is seeking to adapt. They allow it to model that environment with greater or less veridicality and in greater or less detail, and consequently to reason about it.
ref: 1996, Herbert A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd edition:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: realisticness
glosses: The degree to which something, such as a knowledge structure, is veridical; the degree to which an experience, perception, or interpretation accurately represents reality.
mesokurtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + kurtosis + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Of a distribution: having kurtosis equal to that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having zero excess kurtosis.
Synonyms: mesokurtotic
Related terms: kurtosis
mesokurticity
mesokurtosis
leptokurtic
platykurtic
leptokurtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptokurtic
form: most leptokurtic
Etymology: From lepto- + kurtosis + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Of a distribution: having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having positive excess kurtosis.
Synonyms: sense: having positive kurtosis
word: leptokurtotic
sense: having positive kurtosis
word: fat-tailed
Related terms: kurtosis
leptokurtosis
mesokurtic
platykurtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplatɪˈkəːtɪk/
ipa: /ˌplædiˈkəɹdɪk/
Forms: form: more platykurtic
form: most platykurtic
Etymology: From platy- + kurtosis + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Of a distribution: having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.
Synonyms: platykurtotic
Related terms: kurtosis
platykurtosis
mesokurtic
platykurtosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplatɪkəːˈtəʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌplædikəɹˈtoʊsəs/
Etymology: From platy- + kurtosis.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The property of having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.
Related terms: kurtosis
platykurtic
mesokurtosis
leptokurtosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lepto- + kurtosis.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The property of having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having positive excess kurtosis.
Synonyms: sense: positive kurtosis
word: fat tail
sense: positive kurtosis
word: heavy tail
Related terms: kurtosis
leptokurtic
mesokurtosis
balustraded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From balustrade + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a balustrade.
Derived terms: unbalustraded
folivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊlɪvɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: folivores
Etymology: From Latin folium (“a leaf”) + -vore, Latin vorō (“I devour”).
Senses: examples: text: The Koala of Australia with its elongated cecum, and many species of primates, sloths, and the pandas are noteworthy folivores.
ref: 2007, George A. Feldhamer et al., Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, →ISBN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A herbivore that eats mostly foliage.
bowhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊhɛd/
Forms: form: bowheads
Etymology: From bow + head.
Senses: glosses: A large baleen whale, of species Balaena mysticetus, having a large, rounded head, that inhabits Arctic waters.
Synonyms: bowhead whale
Greenland right whale
ice whale
Arctic whale
steeple-top
polar whale
Russian whale
bp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bp
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of base pair.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of basis point.
glosses: Stylised name of British Petroleum.
chloroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chloroplastic
form: most chloroplastic
Etymology: From chloroplast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a chloroplast
glosses: Containing chloroplasts
Derived terms: intrachloroplastic
cisternae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cisterna
cuprophosphorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cupro- + phosphorus.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: copper phosphide
Related terms: cupro-phosphorus
deoxidizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxidizers
Etymology: From deoxidize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any agent that reduces the oxygen content of a material; a deoxidant
pwnages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pwnage
astringes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of astringe
pwnd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pwn
pwnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pwn; alternative spelling of pwned.
avine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪvaɪn/
Etymology: From Latin avis (“bird”) + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to birds, or to bird-like or flying creatures.
Synonyms: avian
birdly
feathered
plumed
winged
semifluid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + fluid.
Senses: glosses: Having properties intermediate between liquids and solids
semifluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semifluids
Etymology: From semi- + fluid.
Senses: synonyms: semiliquid
glosses: Any substance with properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid.
jepoardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of jeopardy.
pyrotechnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrotechnists
Etymology: From pyrotechnic + -ist, from pyro- + technic.
Senses: examples: text: That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a pyrotechnist for the service of the navy, […]
ref: 1862, The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America:
glosses: A pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays.
examples: text: "It is thus the pyrotechnist (should we say demiurge?) who gives meaning to the so to speak explosive effervescences that are weaving the world of the spectator"
ref: 2006, Michel Weber, Nicholas Rescher, Whitehead's Pancreativism:
glosses: One who demonstrates a brilliant display, as of rhetoric or wit, or of virtuosity in the performing arts.
mesokurtosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + kurtosis.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The property of having kurtosis equal to that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having zero excess kurtosis.
Synonyms: gaussianity
Related terms: kurtosis
mesokurtic
leptokurtosis
platykurtosis
sumak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soumak.
nickeliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more nickeliferous
form: most nickeliferous
Etymology: From nickel + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Yielding or containing nickel.
raw_tags: of ore
Hypernyms: metalliferous
exoconsciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + consciousness (exo- < Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outer, external”)).
Related to and inspired by the term exopolitics. The term was coined by Rebecca Hardcastle.
Senses: glosses: The study of extraterrestrial dimensions of human consciousness: the origins, dimensions, endowments and abilities of human consciousness that link us directly to the cosmos and its inhabitants.
waterfall model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterfall models
Senses: glosses: A sequential software development process in which development is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, integration, and maintenance
Related terms: waterfall method
replate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈpleɪt/
Forms: form: replates
form: replating
form: replated
form: replated
Etymology: From re- + plate.
Senses: examples: text: And you will most likely need to have your silver-plated ware replated far more quickly if you put it in the dishwasher […]
ref: 2005, Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House:
glosses: To plate again.
guasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guasas
Senses: glosses: The jewfish, Epinephelus itajara.
palm syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm syrups
Senses: glosses: Syrup made from the sap of a palm tree.
gauze mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauze mats
Senses: glosses: A piece of laboratory apparatus consisting of a flat piece of wire gauze placed on a tripod to give a beaker or flask additional support or to distribute heat more evenly
Riemann spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Riemann space
alunqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alunquas
Etymology: From Eastern Arrernte alangkwe, the name for the fruit.
Senses: glosses: A twining plant, Marsdenia australis, native to Australia.
examples: text: Another common bush delicacy was the alunqua, some call it the bush cucumber.
ref: 1937, Michael Terry, Sand and Sun: Two Gold-hunting Expeditions with Camels in the Dry Lands of Central Australia:
glosses: The fruit of the alunqua; bush cucumber, bush banana.
inwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inwardnesses
Etymology: From Middle English inwardnesse; analysable as inward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being inward or directed towards the inside.
examples: text: the inwardness of conduct
text: Sense cannot arrive at th’inwardness of things.
ref: 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “(please specify the chapter)”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: crux
word: gist
word: bowels
word: brass tacks
word: core
word: crux
word: essence
word: gist
word: drift
word: guts
word: gravamen
word: heart
word: heart and soul
word: heartstring
word: heartstrings
word: inwardness
word: kernel
word: marrow
word: meat
word: moral of the story
word: nitty-gritty
word: nub
word: nuts and bolts
word: pith
word: punctum saliens
word: quintessence
word: soul
word: spirit
word: stuff
word: substance
word: tenor
glosses: The internal or true state; the essential nature.
examples: text: Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you: / And though you know my inwardness and love / Is very much unto the prince and Claudio, / Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this / As secretly and justly as your soul / Should with your body.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Familiarity; intimacy.
examples: text: The prophets perpetually reminded their nation of the superiority of judgment and justice to any exterior ceremony like sacrifice. […] [W]hat was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling. This was given by adding mercy and humbleness to judgment and justice.
ref: 1873, Matthew Arnold, “Religion New-given”, in Literature & Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. […], →OCLC, section 1, page 83:
glosses: Earnestness; heartiness.
dephosphorylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dephosphorylates
form: dephosphorylating
form: dephosphorylated
form: dephosphorylated
Etymology: From de- + phosphorylate.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or undergo dephosphorylation
Derived terms: autodephosphorylate
Related terms: phosphorylate
dephosphorylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dephosphorylate
derezz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derezzes
form: derezzing
form: derezzed
form: derezzed
form: derez
Etymology: From the film Tron, perhaps from de- and resolve or resolution.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To disappear, or dissolve into pixels.
raw_tags: of an image
wikipedia: Tron
derezzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derezz
dictyate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictyates
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίκτυον (díktuon, “net”) + -ate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A resting stage in the development of oocytes, during the meiotic prophase
enantiornithine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˌnæntiˈɔː(ɹ)nɪθaɪn/
Forms: form: enantiornithines
Etymology: ἐναντίος (enantíos, “opposite”) + ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The enantiornithines were rather diverse in form and size, so it is not clear if Junornis was typical or unusual but it does mean that this form of flight was one of a number being explored by early birds.
ref: 2017 October 25, Dave Hone, The Guardian:
text: The lineage that led to all living birds is known as the ornithuromorphs. But it was the other branch, called the enantiornithines, that dominated the skies for tens of millions of years.
ref: 2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of an extinct group of protobirds of the Enantiornithes.
Synonyms: enantiornithean
enantiornithine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˌnæntiˈɔː(ɹ)nɪθaɪn/
Forms: form: more enantiornithine
form: most enantiornithine
Etymology: ἐναντίος (enantíos, “opposite”) + ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: But enantiornithine birds seem to have developed feathers in a radically different way, as Dr. O’Connor and her colleagues argued in a recent study. They hatched with bare bodies but with fully feathered wings.
ref: 2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to the Enantiornithes.
epiphyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the epiphysis
Derived terms: epiphyseal plate
extraepiphyseal
spondyloepiphyseal
Related terms: interepiphyseal
subepiphyseal
transepiphyseal
filesystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filesystem
flapgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flapgate
flapgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flapgates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flap gate.
flap gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flap gates
form: flapgate
Senses: glosses: A device that allows water to flow in one direction only through a culvert; it is used especially to drain surface water from coastal marshes at low tide
histologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to histology.
Synonyms: histological
Derived terms: cytohistologic
hyperbolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperbolike
form: most hyperbolike
Etymology: From hyperbolic + -like.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having topological properties that are equivalent to the existence of a hyperbolic structure.
orgueil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In older uses, from Middle English orguile, from Old French orgueil, from Vulgar Latin *orgollium, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀgōllju, from Proto-Germanic *uzgōljō. (Compare Old English orgol, orgel (“pride”). For more, see or- (“out”) + Old English *gōl (“boast; showiness; pomp; splendor”) / English gale (“sing”).) Cognate with Old High German urguol, urguoli, urgilo (“pride”) and Spanish orgullo. In modern uses sometimes a fresh borrowing from French orgueil.
Senses: examples: text: Four times, with his orgueil, his love of magnificence, he condemned himself incongruously to the modern and familiar, groaning at every step over the horrible difficulty of reconciling "style " in such cases with truth and dialogue with surface.
ref: 1893, Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere, page 145:
text: Smet, in his second study of Verhaeren, [tries] to define the poet's attitude to Catholicism as one of Pride. It was his orgueil that weaned him from the faith and stood henceforth, an inexorable sentinel at the door of his heart, forbidding God to enter.
ref: 1926, Percy Mansell Jones, Verhaeren:
text: Shaka has been betrayed by two of his generals, but they have merely succeeded in taking advantage of his orgueil, his pride, and his desire for omnipotence.
ref: 1971, Roy Temple House, Books Abroad:
glosses: Pride.
Related terms: orgulous
pocket pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket pairs
Senses: examples: text: Pocket aces is the best possible pocket pair.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Two hole cards of the same value.
hanging loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging loops
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hanging, loop.
glosses: A loop for the purpose of hanging an article on a hook, another loop, or similar.
A cloth strip at the collar of a coat, jacket; on a tea towel, an umbrella etc
glosses: A loop for the purpose of hanging an article on a hook, another loop, or similar.
A loop made of other material, as rope or metal, attached to tools, pendants, picture frames, etc.
disponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispone
dispones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispone
kango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑŋɡoʊ/
Forms: form: kango
Etymology: From Japanese 漢(かん)語(ご) (kango), from Middle Chinese 漢語 (MC xanH ngjoX, “Han, Chinese + speech, language”), compare modern Mandarin 漢語／汉语 (Hànyǔ, “Chinese language”).
Senses: glosses: A Sino-Japanese word, a Japanese word of Chinese origin or a Japanese word coined along Chinese lines.
Related terms: wasei kango
Sino-Japanese
kango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑŋɡoʊ/
Forms: form: kangos
form: kango
Senses: examples: text: He crawled out of the kango, but could not rise off his hands and knees quickly. His servants ran away, and one man cut off his head; six or seven others hacked at his body.
ref: 1901, Walter Dickson & al., Japan, p. 340
glosses: Alternative form of kago, a suspended Japanese sedan chair.
donas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dona
anti-tank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "For the first time in 125 years a powerful enemy was now established across the narrow waters of the English Channel. ... Many people must have been bewildered by the innumerable activities all around them. They could understand the necessity for wiring and mining the beaches, the anti-tank obstacles at the defiles, the concrete pillboxes at the cross-roads, the intrusions into their houses to fill an attic with sandbags, on to their golf-courses or most fertile fields and gardens to burrow out some wide anti-tank ditch." So wrote Winston Churchill in Their Finest Hour, published in 1949.
ref: 2023 November 15, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A crucial part of our nation's defences”, in RAIL, number 996, page 60:
glosses: Alternative spelling of antitank.
brushstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌʃˌstɹoʊk/
Forms: form: brushstrokes
form: brush stroke
form: brush-stroke
Etymology: From brush + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: Since moving to the city [Paris], his [Vincent Van Gogh’s] palette had become lighter and more colorful and his brushstrokes more distinct. In this painting [Boulevard de Clichy], the pastel colors reflect the soft, wintry light. His brushstrokes, now shorter and almost dash-like, give the pedestrians a sense of hurrying along the boulevard.
ref: 2008, Enrica Crispino, translated by Simone Boni, Van Gogh, The Oliver Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: The stroke of a brush, as in painting.
colestrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colostrum.
Ararat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəˌɹæt/
Etymology: From Latin Ararat, from Ancient Greek Ἀραράτ (Ararát), from Biblical Hebrew אֲרָרָט (ʾărārāṭ), in Genesis 8:4. Corresponds to Akkadian 𒆳𒌵 (Urarṭu, “Urartu”), the name of a land which in Classical Antiquity became known as 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 (a-r-mi-i-n /⁠Armina⁠/) (in Behistun inscription, 6th century BC), Ἀρμενία (Armenía) (in Hecataeus of Miletus, ca. 476 BC).
The place names in modern Armenia and the given name are from Armenian Արարատ (Ararat).
Senses: examples: text: We left Poland in a heavy snow and enjoyed the flight to Tehran, flying over some very interesting terrain. Although it was a clear day, we never were sure whether or not we saw Mount Ararat to the north.
ref: 2011 [1977 December 31], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:
glosses: Mount Ararat, the tallest mountain of Turkey and of the entire Armenian Highland. In Armenian antiquity known as Masis, it became associated with the Biblical "Mountains of Ararat" (Genesis 8:4) at some point during the Middle Ages.
glosses: A province (marz) of modern Armenia. Capital and largest city: Artashat.
glosses: A town and urban community in Ararat province, Armenia.
glosses: A large village in Ararat province, Armenia, a few miles north of the town of the same name.
glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia, named after a local Mount Ararat.
glosses: A local government area in western Victoria, which includes the town; in full, the Rural City of Ararat.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Long Hill Township, Surry County, North Carolina, United States, named after the Ararat River.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Patrick County, Virginia, United States, named after the Ararat River.
glosses: A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Արարատ (Ararat).
Derived terms: Ararat plain
Lesser Ararat
girasol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girasols
form: girasole
form: girosol
Etymology: From Italian girasole, from girare (“to rotate”) + sole (“sun”).
Senses: glosses: A fire opal.
ark clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ark clams
Senses: glosses: Any of the small to large-sized edible saltwater clams in the family Arcidae.
mejorana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mejoranas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mejoranera (“musical instrument”).
synonyms: word: mejoranera
extra: musical instrument
hydrochlorothiazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.dɹəˌklɔɹ.əˈθaɪ.əˌzaɪd/
Forms: form: hydrochlorothiazides
Etymology: From hydro- + chloro- + -thiazide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A diuretic drug, 6-chloro-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine-7-sulfonamide 1,1-dioxide, that inhibits the kidneys' ability to retain water and lowers blood pressure.
Synonyms: tenzide
intercrater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From inter- + crater.
Senses: glosses: Between craters.
intrafusal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + fusal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the striated fibres within a muscle spindle
Related terms: extrafusal
lineated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lineated
form: most lineated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lineate.
microarchitecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microarchitectures
Etymology: From micro- + architecture.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The detailed structure of any organ etc. at a very small scale.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The architecture of the data processing parts of a microcomputer.
Hypernyms: architecture
microscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪkəl
Forms: form: more microscopical
form: most microscopical
Etymology: From microscope + -ical. Compare microscopic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the microscope; achieved by means of a microscope.
examples: text: I have observed in green Wood all those long Microscopical pores which appear in Charcoal perfectly empty of any thing but Air.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XVIII:
glosses: Only visible by means of a microscope; very small, microscopic.
Derived terms: copromicroscopical
nonmicroscopical
submicroscopical
ultramicroscopical
moshava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moshavot
form: moshavoth
form: moshavas
Etymology: Hebrew מושבה.
Senses: glosses: An early Jewish agricultural settlement in pre-Israeli Palestine
muscleblind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muscle + blind. The muscleblind gene in Drosophila flies is necessary to the development of muscles and eye photoreceptors.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins that are RNA-binding factors.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the genes associated with these proteins.
denarii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denariuses
Senses: glosses: plural of denarius
neotechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neotechnic
form: most neotechnic
Etymology: From neo- + technic.
Senses: glosses: Describing the period, between the late 19th century and the Second World War, characterized by the development of new technology
Coordinate terms: eotechnic
paleotechnic
denariuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denarii
Senses: glosses: plural of denarius
neurotendinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + tendinous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both a nerve and a tendon
nonhyperbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-hyperbolic
Etymology: From non- + hyperbolic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not hyperbolic.
notothen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notothens
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fish of the family Nototheniidae of cod icefishes.
icefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icefishes
form: icefish
Etymology: From ice + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any member of notothenioid family Channichthyidae; these Antarctic fishes are named for the lack of hemoglobin in their blood
glosses: The noodlefish (family Salangidae in order Osmeriformes).
icefish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: icefishes
form: icefishing
form: icefished
form: icefished
Etymology: From ice + fish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ice fish.
perciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perciform
form: most perciform
Etymology: From translingual Perciformes.
Senses: examples: text: He stood with his sketchbook in front of the case of perciform fishes, lavishing attention on the turn and taper of every rib.
ref: 2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 211:
glosses: Of or pertaining to any of very many fish, of the order Perciformes, that have fin spines, a swim bladder without a duct, usually ctenoid scales, and 17 or fewer caudal fin rays.
perciform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perciforms
Etymology: From translingual Perciformes.
Senses: glosses: Such a fish.
notoungulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notoungulates
Etymology: From Notoungulata (order name), from Ancient Greek νότος (nótos, “south”) + Ungulata.
Senses: examples: text: At its extreme, there are creatures whose teeth grow continuously, even as their gums recede with a lifetime of grit and grass, a strategy only known in woolly rhinos and notoungulates among larger animals.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 72:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of several extinct, hoofed, herbivorous mammals of the order †Notoungulata, from Cenozoic South America.
notoungulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more notoungulate
form: most notoungulate
Etymology: From Notoungulata (order name), from Ancient Greek νότος (nótos, “south”) + Ungulata.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these animals
oogonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oogonium
oogonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oogonia
form: oogoniums
form: oögonium
Etymology: From oo- + -gonium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An immature ovarian egg within a developing fetus.
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sac (the female gametangium) containing oospheres in algae or fungi.
Related terms: oogonial
oocyte
ootid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ootids
form: oötid
Senses: examples: text: Beyond the last of the oocytes, toward the lumen, are found numerous closely packed ootids, which have small pronuclei and are less basophilic than the smaller oocytes, due to the accumulated yolk in the cytoplasm.
ref: 1972, P. R. Gross, L. I. Malkin, M. Hubbard, “Synthesis of RNA During Oogenesis of the Sea Urchin”, in Meredith C. Gould, editor, Invertebrate Oogenesis II, page 37:
text: This process, which now requires 45 min instead of the 20 min needed after hormone stimulation or MPF transfer does not correspond to the amplification of an eventual residual MPF present in the ootid.
ref: 1990, P. Guerrier, I. Néant, P. Colas, L. Dufresne, J. Saint Pierre, F. Dubé, “Chapter 6: Protein synthesis and protein phosphorylation as regulators of MPF activity”, in Brian Dale, editor, Mechanism of Fertilization: Plants to Humans, page 85:
text: The haploid ovum is now called an ootid (Fig. 8—7). The second polar body degenerates, sometimes dividing before it dies.
ref: 1991, Richard E. Jones, Human Reproductive Biology, page 181:
text: It is difficult to predict at this stage whether the cryopreservation of ootids will be allowed in Italy.
ref: 2004, Carlo Bulletti, D. de Ziegler, Carlo Flamigni, The Uterus and Human Reproduction, page 107:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The haploid cell, produced by meiotic division of a secondary oocyte, that is a nearly mature ovum.
Derived terms: ootidogenesis
Related terms: ootidogenisis
oocyte
oogonium
ovum
spermatid
ootids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ootid
ootidogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oötidogenesis
Etymology: From ootid + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of oogenesis leading to the formation of ootids
osteoclastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoclastomas
form: osteoclastomata
Etymology: From osteoclast + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A tumor of bone characterized by the presence of giant, multinucleated cells
osteopontin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteopontins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sialopontin found in bone tissue
sialopontin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialopontins
Senses: glosses: A glycoprotein containing sialic acid
Synonyms: sialoprotein
sialoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialoproteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sialopontin
phonosemantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phono- + semantics.
Senses: glosses: phonetic symbolism
phonetic symbolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The viewpoint that sounds themselves have meaning.
Synonyms: mimologics
phonosemantics
sound symbolism
Related terms: ideophone
bouba/kiki effect
plateways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plateway
plateway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plateways
Etymology: From plate + way.
Senses: examples: text: The late Mr. Clement E. Stretton wrote that it was decided in 1785 to lay a plateway "from the dock at Loughborough to Nanpanton, a distance of three miles, but this system of plateway had to be abandoned, as the Road Commissioners would not allow a ledge to project upwards in their road."
ref: 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
glosses: An early form of railway using L-shaped iron rails.
Related terms: tramroad
playmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From play + making.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The initiation of offensive play with the intent of scoring a goal (or the equivalent)
Related terms: playmaker
positivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From positivist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to positivism.
Derived terms: positivistically
postpositivistic
proenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proenzymes
Etymology: From pro- + enzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: precursor enzyme
glosses: Any inactive precursor of an enzyme that is converted to an enzyme by proteolysis; a zymogen.
Derived terms: proenzymatic
pseudoknot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoknots
Etymology: From pseudo- + knot.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A secondary structure in RNA in which half of one stem is intercalated between the two halves of another stem.
reticuloendotheliosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reticuloendothelioses
Etymology: From reticulo- + endotheliosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of neoplasia characterized by proliferation of the reticuloendothelium in an organ or tissue
sidescrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: side-scrolling
Etymology: From side + scrolling.
Senses: examples: text: Another sequel, Pac-Land, transported the adventurous wedge into a sidescrolling world where he had to navigate a series of platforms and obstacles.
ref: 2008, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca, Understanding video games: the essential introduction, page 63:
topics: video-games
glosses: That scrolls horizontally.
spermatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A haploid cell, produced by meiosis of a spermatocyte, that develops into a spermatozoon
subgeneric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + generic.
Senses: examples: text: The morphological diversity within, as well between, the subgenera of Patellapis and the existence of intermediate species confuses the subgeneric limits.
ref: 2008 October 1, Kim Timmermann, Michael Kuhlmann, “Redefinition of the Southern African Bee Subgenera Patellapis (s. str.), P. (Chaetalictus) and P. (Lomatalictus) (hymenoptera: Halictidae, Genus Patellapis Friese, 1909)”, in Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, volume 81, number 4, →DOI, page 357:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a subgenus.
subgeneric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgenerics
Etymology: From sub- + generic.
Senses: glosses: A very low-priced cigarette.
subparallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subparallel
form: most subparallel
Etymology: From sub- + parallel.
Senses: examples: text: Hind wings crossed by four parallel, nearly straight series of slender interrupted fleckings, subparallel to the outer margin […]
ref: 1889, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, William Morris Davis, Charles William Woodworth, The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada:
glosses: Almost parallel, but diverging or converging slightly.
manganium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: manganese
thiazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌɪ.əz.ʌɪd/
ipa: /ˈθaɪ.əˌzaɪd/
Forms: form: thiazides
Etymology: From thio- + azine + oxide, or blend of (benzo)thia(di)azine + dioxide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of sulfur-containing drugs that increase the excretion of sodium and chloride and are used as diuretics and to assist in lowering the blood pressure.
Derived terms: -thiazide
transvaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transvaluations
Etymology: From trans- + valuation.
Senses: examples: text: 1918, Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, trans. H. L. Mencken
Let us not under-estimate this fact: that we ourselves, we free spirits, are already a “transvaluation of all values,” a visualized declaration of war and victory against all the old concepts of “true” and “not true.”
text: A similar transvaluation took place with the myth of Antichrist.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 118:
glosses: A change of values; a revaluation.
Related terms: transvalue
revaluation
trichlormethiazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thiazide, 6-chloro-3-(dichloromethyl)-1,1-dioxo-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[e][1,2,4]thiadiazine-7-sulfonamide, that encourages water-loss from the body
tryscoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From try + scoring.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The scoring of tries
beat to a pulp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats to a pulp
form: beating to a pulp
form: beat to a pulp
form: beaten to a pulp
form: beat to a pulp
Senses: examples: text: Neanderthals were extremely tough—this is attested to by the thickness of their bones—and were probably capable of beating modern humans to a pulp.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 251:
glosses: To beat up (a person) more than usually severely.
glosses: To defeat severely in various, even non-contact, competitive sports.
Synonyms: word: pulp
unselect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unselects
form: unselecting
form: unselected
form: unselected
Etymology: From un- + select.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cancel a previous selection, especially by removing a mark from a tick box.
glosses: To reverse the previous selection of.
Synonyms: deselect
zero-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: zero day
form: 0-day
Senses: examples: text: Back then, having "zero day warez" (brand new cracked games that are not even one day old yet) on your BBS first was a big status symbol.
ref: 2020, Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
examples: text: If your software is popular and has a high demand, you will want to defend against the "zero-day" cracker.
ref: 2003, John Viega, Matt Messier, Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++:
text: Before discussing ways to counter zero-day attacks, let's begin with the definition of what a zero-day attack is. A zero-day attack is one that the vendor does not yet know about or hasn't been fixed.
ref: 2014, Michael Gregg, CASP CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Study Guide: Exam CAS-002:
text: 2005, Valdes et al, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
Automatically creating reliable signatures of zero-day exploits is the focus of intense research efforts.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of an exploit or its threat or an attack, benefiting from a newly found and yet unpatched or unmitigated flaw in software or hardware; using a zero-day vulnerability.
examples: text: Average residues of 1.44 and 2.18 mg/kg chlortetracycline were seen in liver and kidney, respectively, at zero-day withdrawal.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
zero-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-days
form: zero day
form: 0-day
Senses: examples: text: New Internet Explorer zero-day exploited in Hong Kong attacks
text: These days, however, more zero days are being used and discovered.
text: All the four zero-days originally were reported to Microsoft, affecting Internet Explorer on the desktop.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; a zero-day vulnerability.
unpatched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + patched.
Senses: examples: ragged, unpatched jeans
glosses: Not fitted with patches.
examples: 2007, Harris et al, Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook
Microsoft is actually pretty good about warning users about active attacks abusing unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: For which a patch is not yet available.
examples: text: When working with kernel patches, it's a good idea to apply them to a clean, unpatched kernel.
ref: 2003, Derek Vadala, Managing RAID on Linux:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not patched; to which a patch has not been applied.
uteroferrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uteroferrins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein, containing two atoms of iron, that is a major secretory product of a pig's uterus under the influence of progesterone.
guineafowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guineafowls
form: guineafowl
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of guinea fowl.
stored procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stored procedures
Senses: examples: text: I think the overflow bug is in your stored procedure.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A named program or routine stored in a database.
Hypernyms: procedure