cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
recoverables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoverable
complease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compleases
form: compleasing
form: compleased
form: compleased
Etymology: From Middle French complaire, from Latin complaceō.
Senses: examples: text: The Germans seem to complease themselves in this sort of dubious and misty conception of things; which cloudiness, indeed, some people even elsewhere fancy they think to be essentially poetical.
ref: 1839, Friedrich Schiller, The song of the bell and other poems, page 88:
text: Howeve, in case that which I shall require of you may belike seem to you grievous and hard to put in execution, I would fain know from you if you will do it or not, else hope not that I am ever like, what while I have breath in my body, to do aught to complease you.
ref: 1890, Matteo Bandello, The Novels: Now First Done Into English Prose and Verse, page 219:
text: Who once immite [sic] his furie did surcease, And way-white waûes to vieû her did redound, Breaking at her sight her empire to complease, And blustring windes their forces did release, Least that their tûmult might her eares offend,
ref: 1913, Sir John Salusbury, Robert Chester, Poems, page 63:
glosses: to convince
googob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googobs
Senses: examples: googobs of money
glosses: A large quantity.
googobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of googob
cashels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashel
Gay Gordons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Almost worse were country dances with the school team -"Hamilton House", "The Gay Gordons", "Sir Roger de Coverley", on great occasions publicly on the village green.
ref: 2003, Allan Gray, Homelands, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Although the programme was built round the Bon Dance, it was nevertheless a motley farrago with three main divisions: post-war Japanese dances came first; then, something billed as 'folk-dances'—we had gone expecting the gems of this tradition-lovin district but we found ourselves watching instead something which, from the dancers' steps as well as from the music, might well have been a cross between a square dance and a Gay Gordons!
ref: 2013, Geoffrey Bownas, Pauline Brown, Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices, →ISBN, page 91:
text: They did lariat-spinning, shooting and knife-throwing, then came the clowns, Thick and Thin, and then the Gay Gordons again.
ref: 2015, Christopher Hope, Heaven Forbid, →ISBN:
glosses: A Scottish folk dance popular at ceilidhs.
examples: text: If you're a Solitaire aficionado who knows more than one game, you'll be happy to know that AisleRiot Solitaire provides the following games: Agnes, Athena, […], Freecell, Gaps, Gay Gordons, Glenwood, Golf, […], Yukon, and Zebra.
ref: 2010, William von Hagen, Ubuntu Linux Bible, →ISBN:
glosses: A form of solitaire in which the goal is to remove all cards by creating pairs that add up to 11.
examples: text: New cultivars shown for the first time this year were not particularly exciting, though James Cocker's bi-colour 'Gay Gordons' certainly took the eye.
ref: 1969, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist:
text: Cocker of Aberdeen brought eleven seedlings: "Ann Cocker', 'Gay Gordons', 'Alec's Red', 'Pineapple Poll' among them.
ref: 1970, Gardeners Chronicle, the Horticultural Trade Journal, page 37:
text: During the last few years he has introduced such hybrid teas as the apricot-coloured Fairy Dancers, Gay Gordons, red and yellow, and Northern Lights, creamy yellow with tinges of pink.
ref: 1974, Amateur Gardening - Volume 91, page 45:
text: There has been a hug swing away from the sort of roses my grandparents loved, fancy Hybrid Teas and Florinbundas^([sic]) with names like 'Tallyho' and 'Gay Gordons'.
ref: 2005, Jem Cook, Anna Marsden, Create your dream garden: Tips and techniques to make your garden bloom, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: An orange and yellow hybrid tea rose.
necroscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From necro- + -scopically.
Senses: glosses: In a necroscopic manner
neuroangiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroangiograms
Etymology: From neuro- + angiogram.
Senses: glosses: An image obtained by neuroangiography
neuroangiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroangiogram
neurorepulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + repulsive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to repulsion between adjacent neurons
nonanticoagulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + anticoagulant.
Senses: glosses: Not anticoagulant
nonreserpinised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reserpinised.
Senses: glosses: Not reserpinised
norlichexanthone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norlichexanthones
Etymology: From nor- + lichexanthone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A demethylated form of a lichexanthone
norlichexanthones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norlichexanthone
normalbuminuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normoalbuminuria.
novovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of norovirus.
nutriregulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nutriregulates
form: nutriregulating
form: nutriregulated
form: nutriregulated
Senses: glosses: To undergo nutriregulation
nutriregulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nutriregulate
folk name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk names
form: folkname
Senses: examples: text: Folk names are generally not used in the scientific or birdwatching community. An example of a folk name in Indian English is paddy bird which is used for any of various egrets commonly found feeding in paddy fields.
ref: 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
glosses: A name used in common parlance as opposed to an official name.
folk names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folk name
non-official
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonofficial.
folkname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folknames
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of folk name.
folknames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folkname
celest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more celest
form: most celest
Etymology: From Latin caelestis (“heavenly”), probably via French céleste, from caelum (“sky, heavens, Heaven”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of celestial.
synonyms: word: celestial
glosses: Synonym of heavenly.
synonyms: word: heavenly
Related terms: celestine
extra-factual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extra-factual
form: most extra-factual
Senses: examples: text: Challenging what we understand as “information”, she explores the role of rumour, myth, conspiracy theories, lies and propaganda. Extra-Factual Information (EFI) can influence the development and conduct of state foreign and defence policies.
ref: 2014 May 19, Stefan Borg, “Propaganda: “Better than the Truth – Extra Factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation””, in https://afghanhindsight.wordpress.com, Afghan Hindsight:
glosses: untrue; relating to lies, rumour, propaganda or fake news
odourscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odourscapes
form: odorscape
Etymology: From odour + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: We are unable to appreciate the odorscape of a cat or dog.
ref: 1977, J. Douglas Porteous, chapter 9, in Environment and Behavior: Planning and Everyday Urban Life, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, page 236:
text: For millennia, right up until less than one hundred years ago, horses were an essential part of daily life—the smell of horse manure an undercurrent of every human odourscape.
ref: 1999, Jonica Newby, chapter 3, in The Animal Attraction: Humans and their Animal Companions, Sydney: ABC Books, page 79:
synonyms: scentscape
smellscape
glosses: An olfactory environment; the various odours in an environment.
odourscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odourscape
odorscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odorscapes
Etymology: From odor + -scape.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odourscape.
odorscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odorscape
oesteoclastogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of osteoclastogenesis.
oligogalactoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligogalactosides
Etymology: From oligo- + galactoside.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligoglycoside of galactose
oligogalactosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligogalactoside
oncoimmunotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onco- + immunotherapy.
Senses: glosses: The use of immunotherapy to treat cancers
ovococcoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ovococcal.
ovotoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovotoxicants
Etymology: From ovo- + toxicant.
Senses: glosses: Any ovotoxic substance
ovotoxicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovotoxicant
paleocamelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleocamelids
Etymology: From paleo- + camelid.
Senses: glosses: An ancient, extinct camelid
paleocamelids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleocamelid
paleocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + cortical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the paleocortex
paleokarst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleokarsts
Etymology: From paleo- + karst.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A karst that lies under strata of younger rocks
Derived terms: paleokarstic
paleokarstic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + karstic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a paleokarst
paleoproxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoproxies
Etymology: From paleo- + proxy.
Senses: glosses: Anything (such as a fossil or a tree ring) from which paleographic data may be obtained indirectly
paleoproxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoproxy
paracrinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a paracrine manner
peakwidth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peakwidths
Senses: qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: The width of a peak, typically measured at half the height of the peak
periganglionitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + ganglion + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation surrounding a ganglion
pharmacodevelopmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + developmental.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the effects of medicinal drugs upon development
phenolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenolizations
Senses: glosses: Treatment with phenol.
phonolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of phonolite
photobiomodulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + biomodulatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photobiomodulation
photoinitiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoinitiates
form: photoinitiating
form: photoinitiated
form: photoinitiated
Etymology: From photo- + initiate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To initiate a chemical reaction by means of a form of light
photoinitiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photoinitiate
phylolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phylo- + linguistics.
Senses: glosses: The phylogeny of linguistics
phytosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytosaurians
Senses: glosses: Any of the order †Phytosauria of extinct crocodilian-like archosauriforms or basal archosaurians from the Late Triassic.
phytosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytosaurian
picodicistrovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picodicistroviruses
Senses: glosses: Any dicistrovirus of the genus Dicipivirus
picodicistroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picodicistrovirus
protomodernity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being protomodern
plurilaminar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluri- + laminar.
Senses: glosses: Composed of many thin layers
polychromaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪsɪti
Senses: glosses: The condition of being polychromatic
preatheroma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + atheroma.
Senses: glosses: Prior to the development of an atheroma
Related terms: proatheroma
prebasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + basic.
Senses: glosses: Prior to the development of basic plumage
Derived terms: prebasic molt
prebasic moult
basic plumage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basic plumages
Senses: glosses: The plumage of a bird following its first moult (or the first of a year)
precore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precores
Etymology: From pre- + core.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The part of a viral gene that is not necessary for replication
drug trafficker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug traffickers
Senses: glosses: A person involved in the smuggling, distribution, and sale of illegal drugs.
Related terms: drug trafficking
dogwhistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔɡˌwɪ.səl/
ipa: /-ˌʍɪ.səl/
ipa: [-sl̩]
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: dogwhistles
Etymology: dog + whistle
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dog whistle.
dogwhistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogwhistle
indy-curious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndiˈkjʊəɹɪəs/
Forms: form: indycurious
Etymology: Of a productive pattern of [X]-curious, which may have begun with bi-curious.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Interested in the possibility of independence (for Wales), without necessarily being in favour of it.
Related terms: indy-curiosity
devolutionary
devolutionist
Scexit
unionist
dietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a diet (assembly).
prenylquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenylquinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any prenyl derivative of benzoquinone, some of which have a role in thylakoid membranes in chloroplasts
prenylquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prenylquinone
proembryogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The generation and development of the proembryo
proictogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That leads to ictogenesis
proximobasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proximo- + basal.
Senses: glosses: proximal and basal
proximobasally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a proximobasal manner or direction
psammophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psammophores
Senses: glosses: A collection of long hairs on the underside of the head of some ants that is used to carry sand
psammophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psammophore
pseudoloculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + loculate.
Senses: glosses: Having pseudoloculi
pseudopodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudopod + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a pseudopod
psychomechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + mechanics.
Senses: glosses: mechanical psychophysics
radioimmunologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From radio- + immunologically.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: In a radioimmunological manner
rectocoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectocoeles
Etymology: From recto- + -coele.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rectocele.
rectocoeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectocoele
resveratroloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoside of resveratrol
rhaphoneidacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhaphoneidaceans
Senses: glosses: Any diatom of the family Rhaphoneidaceae
rhaphoneidaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhaphoneidacean
rhombododecahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhombidodecahedral.
ghost driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost drivers
Etymology: Calque of German Geisterfahrer. Equivalent to ghost + driver.
Senses: glosses: wrong-way driver
wrong-way driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrong-way drivers
Etymology: From wrong way + driver.
Senses: synonyms: ghost driver
glosses: A driver who drives in the unpermitted direction, particularly on a highway.
rhombidodecahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a rhombidodecahedron
ruguloreticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rugulo- + reticulate.
Senses: glosses: rugulate and reticulate
Pilsudski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pilsudskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Piłsudski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
sphenodontian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphenodontians
Etymology: From Sphenodontia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any lizard-like reptile in the rhynchocephalian suborder Sphenodontia, whose only living representatives are the tuataras.
sphenodontians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphenodontian
spherulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spherulin
stereolithographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stereo- + lithographically.
Senses: glosses: In a stereolithographic manner
Blumenkopf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blumenkopfs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Blumenkopf.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
straminipilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: strawlike
subcapsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcapsules
Etymology: From sub- + capsule.
Senses: glosses: A subsidiary capsule
Related terms: subcapsular
subclonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sub- + clonally.
Senses: glosses: In a subclonal manner
subpassages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpassage
subpassages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subpassage
supramucosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + mucosal.
Senses: glosses: Over a mucous membrane
surveillence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of surveillance.
bouquets and brickbats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Praise and criticism; complimentary and uncomplimentary feedback (to the same or to different targets).
phlegminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phlegmy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being phlegmy.
proclaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proclame
proclamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proclame
WLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WL
geloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelose
glosses: plural of gelosis
onsweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onsweep
Nupoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Nupe + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to a branch of the Volta-Niger languages spoken in central Nigeria.
Tuftian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tuftian
form: most Tuftian
Etymology: From Tufte + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Edward Tufte (born 1942), American statistician and pioneer in the field of data visualization.
micropractice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropractices
Etymology: From micro- + practice.
Senses: glosses: A small-scale social or cultural practice.
Coordinate terms: macropractice
micropractices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropractice
macropractice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropractices
Etymology: From macro- + practice.
Senses: glosses: A large-scale social or cultural practice.
Coordinate terms: micropractice
macropractices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macropractice
micropreparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + preparation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The preparation of a very small quantity of a substance.
Robin's rye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The haircap moss.
squadded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squad
squadding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squad
Robin Goodfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Puck (the mischievous sprite)
robin-breast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robin-breasts
Senses: glosses: A bird, the robin snipe.
Related terms: robin redbreast
robin-breasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robin-breast
butterbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterboxes
Senses: examples: text: A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: A wooden box in which butter is contained.
glosses: The bufflehead duck.
butterboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterbox
robin dipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robin dippers
Senses: glosses: The bufflehead duck.
robin dippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robin dipper
Thimbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thimbu
species-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: species-mongers
Etymology: From species + monger.
Senses: hypernyms: splitter
glosses: A biologist who is overly concerned with narrow classification, indifferent to wider relationships.
species-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of species-monger
swagger coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊt
Forms: form: swagger coats
Senses: glosses: A kind of coat with a flaring shape, popular in the early 20th century.
swagger coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swagger coat
telemeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of telomeric.
configurably
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From configurable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A method and a system for configurably generating enabling pulse clocks are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, enabling pulse clocks are configurably generated for a selected one of a first and a second signaling mode, employing a configurable enabling pulse clock generator configurable to so generate the enabling pulse clocks.
ref: 2003 December 31, Ying Cole, Songmin Kim, Robert Greiner, Method for configurably enabling pulse clock generation for multiple signaling modes, US Patent US20060139068A1 (PDF version), page 1:
text: Figure 1 is a screenshot of a web-based user interface for configurably monitoring a selected group of patients in real-time according to one embodiment.
ref: 2017 June 13, Emma K. FAUSS, Alexander CSICSERY-RONAY, Richard, A. SCHAFER, USER INTERFACE FOR CONFIGURABLY DISPLAYING REAL-TIME DATA FOR MULTIPLE PATIENTS, US Patent WO2017218587 (PDF version), page 1:
glosses: In a manner which can be configured.
trilophosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trilophosaurs
Senses: glosses: An allokotosaur of the order †Trilophosauria
trilophosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trilophosaur
allokotosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allokotosaurs
Senses: glosses: An extinct reptile of the clade †Allokotosauria
tritridecanoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triglyceride of tridecanoic acid
ALSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Airline Stewardess Association.
glosses: Acronym of Australian Law Students' Association.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
public funds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If they propose to make payments out of public funds, I want to warn the Minister that if he does not come back with a Parliamentary majority of his own party, he will be charged with the moneys he will be paying in the meantime without Parliamentary authority.
ref: 1945 June 7, Aneurin Bevan, quotee, “Housing: Volume 411: debated on Thursday 7 June 1945”, in Hansard, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2024, column 1139:
text: In accordance with the Government's policy of providing increased child care facilities, substantial public funds have been made available to assist the co-operative in refurbishing the premises and running the crèche.
ref: 2001 October 16, “Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001”, in oireachtas.ie, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2025, Written Answers. - Child Care Facilities:
text: If you have permission to enter or stay in the UK, it may include a no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition.
ref: 2025 April 9, “Guidance: Public funds”, in GOV.UK, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2025:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Financial resources of a government, which may be spent on certain specified purposes.
examples: text: Some preliminary legal arrangements were made, but the scheme proceeded no further, as the various local authorities concerned were unwilling to speculate public funds on what was, even at that date, a will o' the wisp.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 345:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Money lent to government for which interest is paid of a stated amount at a stated time.
coumarilic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Benzofuran-2-carboxylic acid; the acid with chemical formula C₉H₆O₃.
Related terms: coumarin
squamuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squamuliform
form: most squamuliform
Etymology: From squamula + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a squamula or little scale.
feather edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather edges
Senses: glosses: An edge of a board, plank, etc. that has been made very thin.
feather edge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feather edges
form: feather edging
form: feather edged
form: feather edged
form: featheredge
Senses: examples: text: Featheredging is a process in preparing the photographs for mosaicking and involves cutting, tearing, and sandpapering the back of the print along its edges in such a way that the edge of the print is thin and will make a smooth match with adjoining prints.
ref: 1944, War Department Technical Manual, volume 5, number 240, page 60:
glosses: To give a very thin edge to.
feather edges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feather edge
come-uppances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of come-uppance
unsage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsage
form: most unsage
Etymology: From un- + sage.
Senses: glosses: Unwise.
walks a straight line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of walk a straight line
walking a straight line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk a straight line
walked a straight line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of walk a straight line
ultra-rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Embossed Ratine"—another of this season's materials—is of such ultra-rich quality that its prohibitive price assures it of a permanently exclusive position in the realm of woolen fabrics.
ref: 1912, The Theatre - Volume 16, page xxvi:
text: Such ultra-rich environments allow the student to choose what he will study, when he will study it and how he will study it, and to what criteria of accomplishment he will aim.
ref: 2003, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort, The NewMediaReader - Volume 1, →ISBN:
text: There are ultra-rich people all over the world, and if individuals like Mallya have earned what they have, they can do what they want with their wealth.
ref: 2012, Dan Mayur, Mumbai to Stockholm Via New York, →ISBN:
text: There are dozens of ramen variations—from shoyu (soy sauce) ramen, to miso ramen, to tonkotsu (ultra-rich pork broth), to mazemen (just a little soup), to tsukemen (noodles and separate dipping sauce).
ref: 2013, Ivan Orkin, Chris Ying, Ivan Ramen, →ISBN:
text: He savored a bite of the ultra-rich dessert for a few seconds.
ref: 2014, Don Brown, Destiny, →ISBN, page 255:
text: The environment is, as Myers (2004, p. 100) puts it, an 'ultra-rich' topic that can enable all kinds of issues to be discussed, so 'local' may then be used as a device to contain the discussion.
ref: 2015, Matthias Ruth, Handbook of Research methods and Applications in Environmental Studies, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ultrarich.
ultra-rich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But as for the Congress, I think the main reason a representative of working- or lower-middle-class Americans supports this kind of tax cut is that they hope to get campaign contributions from the ultra-rich.
ref: 2008, Charles B. Rangel, And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since, →ISBN:
text: As Brian Barry has pointed out, to reduce the wealth of the ultra-rich, the tax rate would have to be substantially higher than the income that wealth generates (Barry, 2005, p. 191).
ref: 2012, Martin O'Neill, Thad Williamson, Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, →ISBN, page 218:
text: We are endlessly fascinated with the strange ultra-rich.
ref: 2019, Dan S. Kennedy, No B.S. Marketing to the Affluent, →ISBN:
text: What the ultra-rich want is to sustain and extend the economic system that put them where they are. The more they have to lose, the more creative their strategies become.
ref: 2023 July 15, George Monbiot, “With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ultrarich.
ultra rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The oil spray core is fed by the oil rushing from the orifice, is "ultra rich," and, there being no oxygen available, it cannot support combustion.
ref: 1929, Automotive Industries - Volume 61, page 85:
text: WATE-ON works because It is ultra rich in stamina.
ref: 1985, Mademoiselle - Volume 91, Issues 4-6, page ccxxxiv:
text: Bold, ripe and creamy, with ultra rich tropical fruit, pear, honey, toast and spice flavors that fold together, finishing with excellent length, depth and concentration.
ref: 1996, Wine Spectator's Guide to White Wines of California, 1997, →ISBN:
text: Tucked into the YARD, TheT-MobileG1 Diner invited VIPs for breakfast and lunch, networking or just warming up with an ultra rich, extra hot cocoa (guests easily texted drink orders from the handy T-Mobile PDAs at each table.)
ref: 2009, Hollywood Weekly Feb 2009:
text: As a result, Treasuries, especially long-dated ones, became ultra rich and 30-year swap-Treasury spreads reached 150 bp.
ref: 2011, Antti Ilmanen, Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards, →ISBN:
text: The catastrophic financial experiments: some became ultra rich while destroying the wealth of many.
ref: 2012, Gilbert Van Kerckhove, Toxic Capitalism: The Orgy of Consumerism and Waste, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of ultrarich.
ultra rich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She introduced my low-income blue-collar husband into a world the working poor can only read about – the world of the ultra rich.
ref: 2008, Tamara Pelosi, Susan Semerade, Pennies from an Angel: Innocent Lives Behind a Crime, →ISBN, page xi:
text: This need to shelter the ultra rich bespeaks unacceptably high real levels of insecurity which beset the middle and working classes.
ref: 2014, Andreas Daniel Fogg, Deferred Pay, Mergers and Acquisitions and Sectoral Deflation, Frame Deconstructions, →ISBN:
text: Wealthy interests can fund advocacy organizations with no disclosure of their contributions required. These kinds of judicial decisions bias the political process in favor of the ultra rich.
ref: 2014, Darrell M. West, Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of ultrarich.
urstromtal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʊəstɹəʊmˌtɑːl/
ipa: /ˈʊɹstɹoʊmˌtɑl/
ipa: /ˈʊəstɹəʊmˌtɛlə/
ipa: /ˈʊɹstɹoʊmˌtɛləɹ/
Forms: form: urstromtäler
form: urstromtals
form: Urstromtal
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Urstromtal, from ur- (prefix meaning ‘original; primitive’) + Strom (“large river; stream”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow; stream”)) + Tal (“valley”) (ultimate etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰól(h₂)os).
The plural form urstromtäler is also an unadapted borrowing from German Urstromtäler.
Senses: examples: text: On the southern margin the plateau falls to a sandy outwash plain which merges into the zone of urstromtäler.
ref: 1950, Margaret Reid Shackleton, Europe: A Regional Geography, London: Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, page 263:
text: This high urstromtal is drained in part by the Notec and Warta rivers; it varies greatly in width with basin-shaped widenings and narrow stretches between, but can be traced for an east-west distance of some 400 miles from the Vistula to the Elbe.
ref: 1961, Geomorphological Abstracts, number 29, London: K. M. Clayton, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23:
text: Certain deposits occur in the central areas of Poland, within the urstromtal of the river Vistula (Ochle deposit near Konin) and the urstromtal of the Notec river.
ref: 1968, International Geological Congress: Report of the Twenty-third Session, Czechoslovakia: Proceedings of Section 10: Tertiary/Quaternary Boundary, Prague: Academia, →OCLC, page 124:
text: Thus the Ottomans moved to the Sea of Marmara, the Castilians down the westward flowing rivers from the Meseta to the Atlantic, the Austrians into the Pannonian basin and the Prussians eastwards along the urstromtal to the Oder.
ref: 1988, Geoffrey Parker, “A Geopolitical Model of Dominance”, in The Geopolitics of Domination, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 64–65:
text: The valley of the lower Elbe was thought to have originated during the Weichsel glacial when it formed the urstromtal segment that drained the runoff from the ice margin in the north, and also the eastern urstromtäler of the Weichsel glacial, towards the North Sea.
ref: 1989, Frank O. Ahnert, editor, Landforms and Landform Evolution in West Germany (Catena Supplement; 15), Cremlingen-Destedt, Lower Saxony: Catena Verlag, →ISBN, page 90, column 1:
text: Characteristic landforms include: morainic uplands, sandar plains, subglacial valleys, east-to-west running sets of end moraine ridges (in Jutland the direction is changing to north-south) and urstromtals (ice-marginal valleys), which transported meltwaters along the ice sheet front in the general inclination of the area—towards WNW.
ref: 2022, Barbara Woronko, Maciej Dąbski, “The North European Plain”, in Marc Oliva, Daniel Nývlt, José M. Fernández-Fernández, editors, Periglacial Landscapes of Europe, Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland, →DOI, →ISBN, page 281:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A broad glacial valley formed during an ice age by meltwater flowing roughly parallel to the ice margin.
urstromtals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urstromtal
condensaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condensary
black-tailed trainbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-tailed trainbearers
Senses: glosses: A species of hummingbird with a long black tail and native to western parts of South America, Lesbia victoriae
green-tailed trainbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green-tailed trainbearers
Senses: glosses: A species of hummingbird with a long green tail and native to western parts of South America, Lesbia nuna
ultraconservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + conservation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Extreme conservation (of genes)
ultrasynaptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æptɪk
Etymology: From ultra- + synaptic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of extrasynaptic.
synonyms: word: extrasynaptic
vasopression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of vasopressin.
veneriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a Venus clam (of the family Veneridae)
videofluoroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videofluoroscopes
Etymology: From video- + fluoroscope.
Senses: glosses: A fluoroscope equipped with a video camera
Related terms: videofluoroscopy
videofluoroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videofluoroscope
videokeratograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videokeratographs
Etymology: From video- + keratograph.
Senses: glosses: The equipment used in videokeratography
volatilome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volatilomes
Etymology: From volatile + -ome.
Senses: glosses: All the volatile compounds in an ecosystem, atmosphere, person's breath etc
Related terms: volatilomic
volatilomics
volatilomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volatilome
voltammetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a voltammetric manner
waveblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waveblocks
Senses: glosses: Something that stops the progress of a wave (in any of several contexts).
waveblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waveblock
wingflap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingflaps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aileron.
synonyms: word: aileron
zhaoermiatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A toxin in the venom of pitvipers of the genus Zhaoermia
zymolectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymolectins
Etymology: From zymo- + lectin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lectin present in yeast.
zymolectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zymolectin
gelcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelcoats
Etymology: From gel + coat.
Senses: glosses: A material used to provide a high-quality finish on the visible surface of a fibre-reinforced composite, and often taking the form of a thermosetting polymer based on epoxy or unsaturated polyester resin chemistry.
owarri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oware.
bear raid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear raids
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The deliberate lowering of the price of a stock by concerted short selling
equigravisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equigravispheres
Senses: glosses: An imaginary sphere enclosing the Moon such that every point on its surface experiences an equal gravitational attraction from the Moon and the Earth
neptunian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In several important cases, it is difficult to determine to what degree the metamorphosis has extended, since it remains uncertain whether the form and structural remains of the neptunian sedimentary formation, or as a product of the metamorphosis itself; for the original form of the neptunian, as well as of the volcanic sedimentary rocks have often become so changed by erosion, and so much alike in both classes of rocks, that this distinctive character is wholly lost; [...]
ref: 1848 April, B[ernhard] Studer, “On Mineral Metamorphism”, in Robert Jameson, editor, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, volume XLIV, number LXXXVIII, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black; London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, →OCLC, page 372:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Neptunian.
neptunian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neptunians
Senses: examples: text: As to the two theories, neither will suffice alone. The neptunian is utterly inadequate to explain the phenomena of basalt; nor can a vulcanist account for the appearance of an hydrophane.—We need both explanations. Those geologists who have travelled in the north of Europe, are generally neptunians; those who have made their observations in the south of the same regions, are generally vulcanists.
ref: 1817 April, “Art. IV.—An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, being an Introduction to the Study of Those Sciences, […] By Parker Cleaveland, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Lecturer in Chymistry and Mineralogy in Bowdoin College, &c. &c. Boston, 1816. Large 8vo. pp. 668.”, in The Analectic Magazine, volume IX, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by Moses Thomas, →OCLC, pages 312–313:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Neptunian.
slack variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slack variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In an optimization problem, a variable added to an inequality constraint to transform it into an equality.
slack variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slack variable
bergfried
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergfrieds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bergfried. Doublet of belfry.
Senses: examples: text: Founded in 1100, and boasting a bergfried (free-standing defensive tower), turreted ramparts, and Gothic additions, it's the only medieval castle on the Rhine never to have been destroyed.
ref: 2019 [2016], Sarah Baxter, A History of the World in 500 Walks, Aurum, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: A tall defensive tower typically found in medieval castles in German-influenced countries.
bergfrieds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergfried
kugelhof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gugelhupf.
fine casual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Offering, or relating to, a style of restaurant dining that combines the convenience of fast casual with more upscale menus and ingredients.
Related terms: fast casual
geoecologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geoecological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of geoecology.
geoecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geoecologists
Etymology: From geo- + ecologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies geoecology.
geoecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geoecologist
geozonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + zonal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a geozone.
heart baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart babies
Senses: examples: text: The parents had several children who were healthy and now a heart baby. Their baby's heart could be repaired however and I thought it was depressing to talk to the mother of the other child. I knew that Jason's heart couldn't be repaired.
ref: 2014, Tedi Tuttle Wixom, A Whisper of Spring time: Jason’s Heart Transplant Miracle:
text: Later I was admitted to the hospital to learn how to care for a “heart” baby before he was discharged, and the doctors came in to deliver conflicting reports.
ref: 2010, Laura C. Bower, WordSpeak: His Word, Your Voice, page 31:
glosses: A baby born with a heart condition.
heart babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart baby
zonobiome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zonobiomes
Etymology: From zono- + biome.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The group of biomes constituting a particular ecozone.
zonobiomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonobiome
quit while one is ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quits while one is ahead
form: quitting while one is ahead
form: quit while one was ahead
form: quit while one was ahead
Senses: examples: text: Getting up on hot, rainy nights, trudging outside, and sitting on a steaming wet toilet seat, being tickled by the cockroaches that congregated just below the lid. Ten days at Gombe feels just right, thank you. I'm ready to quit while I'm ahead.
ref: 2012, Craig Packer, Into Africa:
text: Because I don’t get involved with he said, she said
So take my advice and quit while you’re ahead
Because one day I might not laugh
ref: 1984, Whodini, Big Mouth:
glosses: To stop taking risks before one starts losing.
pointsperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointspersons
form: pointspeople
Etymology: From points + person.
Senses: glosses: A person in charge of railroad points or switches.
PLSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PLSSes
Senses: glosses: Initialism of primary life support system.
glosses: Initialism of portable life support system.
glosses: Initialism of personal life support system.
Coordinate terms: life support
life support system
LSS
primary life support system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary life support systems
form: portable life support system
form: personal life support system
form: PLSS
Senses: glosses: A backpack, worn on a space suit, that provides breathable oxygen and removes expelled carbon dioxide