cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
catachresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæt.əˈkɹiː.sɪs/
Forms: form: catachreses
form: catechresis
form: katachresis
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin catachrēsis, borrowed from Ancient Greek κατάχρησις (katákhrēsis, “misuse (of a word)”).
Senses: glosses: A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
glosses: A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
examples: text: A Catachresis terms abused receives,
And epithets and attributes improper gives.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[The Seven Tropes.] Catachresis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
Synonyms: sense: misuse of a word, with similar sounds
english: this word is sometimes used in a way hyponymic to catachresis, in which sense only absurd and laughable catachreses are malapropisms
translation: this word is sometimes used in a way hyponymic to catachresis, in which sense only absurd and laughable catachreses are malapropisms
word: malapropism
sense: (rhetoric) bad metaphor or trope
word: abusio
Related terms: word: catachresized
word: catachrestic
word: catachrestical
word: catachrestically
word: eggcorn
english: a word that is well-known to seem to refer to something other than its referent but is nonetheless usually correct
translation: a word that is well-known to seem to refer to something other than its referent but is nonetheless usually correct
word: misnomer
english: a word that invites catachrestic use because of its sound or appearance
translation: a word that invites catachrestic use because of its sound or appearance
word: phantonym
bo's'n
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊsn̩/
Forms: form: bo's'ns
Senses: examples: text: When Hennery saw the bo's'n crawl out of the water hole he nearly fainted with fright.
ref: 1901, Julius Washington Muller, Starboard Lights: Salt Water Tales, page 87:
glosses: Alternative form of bosun.
lettuce opium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lettuce-opium
Senses: examples: text: I sleep fine, Frankie. Sometimes a little lettuce opium just to get me into it, but I don't feel like that you have to give me no happy endings here.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 528:
glosses: Lactucarium.
Related terms: wild lettuce
lactucarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /læktjuːˈkɛəɹɪəm/
Etymology: Modern Latin, from Latin lactūca (“lettuce”)
Senses: glosses: The thickened juice of certain varieties of lettuce, used as a drug for its sedative and analgesic properties.
Synonyms: lettuce opium
Related terms: wild lettuce
nautch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːtʃ
Forms: form: nautches
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani नाच / ناچ (nāc).
Senses: examples: text: ‘We will punish no one, no one,’ he repeated, ‘and in the evening we will give a great banquet with a nautch, and lovely girls shall shine on every side of the tank […].’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 65:
glosses: A dance in South Asia, performed by professional dancing girls.
Derived terms: nautch girl
gynecophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, their voices did shake just perceptibly with gynecophobia, or the fear of women, of silent women, in these absolutely silent black gowns
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 562:
glosses: Alternative form of gynaecophobia.
twilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪlɪŋ/
Forms: form: twillings
Etymology: From twill + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining, the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling, which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 563:
glosses: Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.
lazarette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazarettes
Senses: examples: text: Without the harbour, is a lazarette, where persons coming from infected places, are obliged to perform quarantine.
ref: 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Oxford University Press, published 1907, Letter XIII, p. 119:
text: He rolled to the lazarette aft the cabin and began hauling out the big mainsail.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
text: Hope was alive again in my breast, and I looked about me with greater coolness. I noted that the boats were missing. The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle. The hunters had packed their belongings with similar haste. The Ghost was deserted. It was Maud's and mine. I thought of the ship's stores and the lazarette beneath the cabin, and the idea came to me of surprising Maud with something nice for breakfast.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: There were fish in the lazarettes and rope lockers, fish spilled out the portholes and came flapping out of charts as they were unrolled on the chart table
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 586:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of lazaret.
lazaret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: lazarets
form: lazarette
Etymology: Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazzareto (archaic), lazzaretto, lazzeretto; see further at lazaretto. Doublet of lazaretto.
Senses: examples: text: But the civilising was so complete that the survivors of the original inhabitants numbered seven, of whom two were dying of consumption in the Native Compound, three confined in the Native Lazaret with leprosy, the rest, a man and a woman, living in a gunyah at the remote end of Devilfish Bay, subsisting on what food they could get from the bush and the sea and what they could buy with the pennies the man earned by doing odd jobs and the woman by prostitution.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 10:
text: I woke the next morning in a lazaret, a long, high-ceilinged room where we, the sick, the injured, lay upon narrow beds.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 241:
text: The director was locked up in the same institution with his patients, and the institution was equally cut off, isolated on the outskirts of the city like an ancient lazaret with its lepers.
ref: 1989, Carl Jung et al., translated by Richard Winston et al., Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 108:
glosses: Synonym of lazaretto.
A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
examples: text: The liver is the lazaret of bile, / But very rarely executes its function
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: Synonym of lazaretto.
A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of lazaretto.
A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.
Derived terms: lazaret fever
picric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkɹɪk/
Forms: form: more picric
form: most picric
Etymology: From French picrique, from Ancient Greek πικρός (pikrós, “bitter”).
Senses: examples: text: Baldy had not moved since lying down, and his regular and somewhat sterterous breathing […] told Monica that he was alive and resting comfortably. “A week of rest and good care and some picric acid on your burns will put you right, Baldy,” Monica told him.
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IX, in The Understanding Heart:
text: “Something in the picric family might do nicely,” Fatou went on, deploying maps and diagrams about the tiny room.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 593:
glosses: Designating a type of bitter yellow acid.
Derived terms: picramic
picric acid
picryl
furoshiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furoshiki
Etymology: From Japanese 風呂(ふろ)敷(しき) (furoshiki).
Senses: examples: text: Around her slender neck, the beauteous Asian was also wearing a furoshiki printed in a woodland motif of peacock blue, taupe, and Chinese red, folded in a triangle so as to make a cowgirl bandana.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 597:
glosses: A traditional Japanese wrapping-cloth, used for clothes, gifts etc.
glosses: The art of wrapping in this kind of cloth.
Related terms: bojagi
Engelbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Engelbeorht
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name from Old French.
glosses: A male given name from German.
adenocarcinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenocarcinomas
form: adenocarcinomata
Etymology: From adeno- + carcinoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of carcinoma that originate in glandular tissue.
Hypernyms: carcinoma
cancer
Hyponyms: lymphoma
Derived terms: gastroadenocarcinoma
prostatic adenocarcinoma
squamoadenocarcinoma
Related terms: adenocarcinomal
adenocarcinomic
antiangiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiangiogenic
form: most antiangiogenic
form: anti-angiogenic
Etymology: From anti- + angiogenic.
Senses: examples: text: When considered in combination with the use of antiangiogenic therapy, this diagnostic tool is easy to apply and has broad utility among medical oncologists to avoid the risk of hemosputum in the great vessels [ 5 ].
ref: 2015 July 30, Hidetaka Uramoto et al., “Easy Diagnosis of Aortic Invasion in Patients with Lung Cancer Using Cine Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in Case Reports in Oncology, volume 8, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: That inhibits angiogenesis, including neoangiogenesis (especially when used to combat cancer).
antiangiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiangiogenics
form: anti-angiogenic
Etymology: From anti- + angiogenic.
Senses: hypernyms: antineoplastic
glosses: Any drug of this kind.
keratitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratitises
form: keratitides
form: ceratitis
Etymology: Probably borrowed from French kératite, from Ancient Greek κέρᾰτ- (kérăt-), κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + French -ite (“-itis”); see kerato-.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the cornea.
Synonyms: corneitis
Hyponyms: keratoconjunctivitis
Derived terms: keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome
photokeratitis
pericarditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pericarditides
form: pericardites
Etymology: From pericard(ium) + -itis.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: carditis
cardiopathy
coordinate_terms: endocarditis
myocarditis
pancarditis
perimyoendocarditis
glosses: Inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart.
Derived terms: endopericarditis
myopericarditis
pyopericarditis
autoinducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoinducers
Etymology: From auto- + inducer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several compounds, synthesized by bacteria, that have signalling functions in quorum sensing
cadherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kædˈhɪəɹɪn/
Forms: form: cadherins
Etymology: From calcium-dependent adhesion molecules + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
Derived terms: adherin
N-cadherin
otocadherin
protocadherin
eldership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elderships
Etymology: From elder + -ship. The Lithuanian sense is a calque of Lithuanian seniūnija.
Senses: examples: text: Though Truth and Falsehood are as twins ally'd, There's eldership on Truth's delightful side.
ref: 1786, Thomas Parnell, The Poetical Works of Dr. Thomas Parnell:
text: It followeth now to entreat how the world began to receive rule and government, which, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership.
ref: 1829, Walter Raleigh, The works of sir Walter Ralegh:
glosses: Seniority; the state or condition of being older.
examples: text: When I came first to Caulds I sought to prevail upon him to accept the eldership, but he aye put me by, and when I heard his tale I saw that he had done wisely.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: The position or office of being an elder.
synonyms: elderate
glosses: The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
desmosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmosomes
Etymology: From desmo- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structural unit that functions in the adhesion of cells to form tissue.
Derived terms: corneodesmosome
hemidesmosome
Related terms: desmosomal
desmosomic
salt substitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt substitutes
Senses: glosses: A substance that tastes salty and stands in for table salt (which is mostly sodium chloride) but contains substantially less sodium; usually somewhere between half as much and nearly zero.
Related terms: word: salt shaker
english: often a salt substitute or a chief ingredient thereof
translation: often a salt substitute or a chief ingredient thereof
word: potassium chloride
table salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table salts
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: common salt, salt (broad sense), NaCl, kosher salt
coordinate_terms: kitchen salt
rock salt
sea salt
road salt
glosses: Sodium chloride or a mineral product chiefly composed of it: the salt most commonly used to season food at table.
Related terms: salt shaker
salt substitute
salt substitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salt substitute
microtoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtoroids
Etymology: From micro- + toroid.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of an array of small ring-shaped structures, normally on the surface of a semiconductor substrate, that function as resonators in photonic devices.
salt and pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: salt-and-pepper
Senses: examples: text: His beard, once black, was now salt and pepper.
text: the salt-and-pepper effect on an untuned television screen
glosses: Mixed black and white.
pinch of salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinches of salt
Senses: glosses: A small amount of salt.
examples: text: Take anything he tells you with a pinch of salt: he's an inveterate liar and mixes truth with his fiction liberally.
glosses: Caution, doubt, consideration.
Synonyms: grain of salt
Related terms: face value
in someone's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English in his eye, in his eyen.
Senses: examples: text: I couldn't see the traffic light because the sun was in my eyes.
glosses: Shining very brightly and directly at the face so that it is difficult to see because one is blinded by the light.
examples: text: And Ornan ſaide vnto Dauid, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 21:23, column 1:
glosses: According to someone's subjective point of view.
Related terms: have the sun in one's eyes
nanocrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nanocrystalline
form: most nanocrystalline
Etymology: From nano- + crystalline or nanocrystal + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of nanocrystals
Derived terms: ultrananocrystalline
nanocrystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocrystals
Etymology: From nano- + crystal.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Berger and his colleagues created their multisize nanocrystals with one enzyme, in water at room temperature.
ref: 2016 May 6, Joanna Klein, “How a Mysterious Bacteria Almost Gave You a Better TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A crystalline entity whose size is measured in nanometers; an individual nanometer-sized crystal of such a material.
Derived terms: heteronanocrystal
nanocrystalline
nanocrystallization
nanocrystallography
Related terms: nanoparticle
quantum dot
rastaquouère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rastaquouères
form: rastacouère
Etymology: Borrowed from French rastaquouère, from South American Spanish rastacuero.
Senses: examples: text: Like the prodigal rastaquouères—those Latin American millionaires who flaunted their wealth in Paris in the hope of gaining entry into the beau monde—writers and intellectuals loved to put on cosmopolitan airs after visiting the French capital—they had left their Hispanic backwaters and could now swim with the tide of modern life.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 304:
text: That is, willing to drop the surveillance and shelve the files of all his other current assignments, to concentrate on this band of rastaquouères who had blown so problematically into town.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 640:
glosses: A social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner.
modularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modularities
Etymology: From modular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being modular.
Derived terms: micromodularity
multimodularity
quasimodularity
supermodularity
ultramodularity
unimodularity
cheval-glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheval-glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheval glass.
peau de soie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəʊdəˈswɑː/
Forms: form: peau-de-soie
Etymology: From French peau de soie (“skin of silk”), perhaps originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: She was in pale violet peau de soie, and a hat so beguiling that Kit was only momentarily surprised to find himself with an erection.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 611:
glosses: A heavy closely-woven silk fabric, faced with satin on both sides.
guipure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡiːˈpjʊə/
Forms: form: guipures
Etymology: Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”).
Senses: examples: text: Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat.
ref: 1855, “Mantillas and Shawls”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, volume XLVI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Abraham H. See, 106 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 578:
text: it happened actually to be a gray toque of draped velvet, trimmed with antique guipure, and a tall ostrich plume dyed the same shade of violet as her dress. […]
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 611:
glosses: A kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
adjuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adjure
adjuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjurings
Senses: glosses: adjuration
alibiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alibi
alnico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alnicos
Etymology: From the chemical symbols Al, Ni and Co.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of aluminium, nickel and cobalt, sometimes alloyed with smaller amounts of iron, copper, titanium and used primarily in the manufacture of magnets.
alining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aline
alkalinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alkalinize
alkalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alkalize
alliterating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alliterate
alerting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alert
layby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laybys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lay-by.
lay by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay bys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lay-by.
lay by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays by
form: laying by
form: laid by
form: laid by
Senses: examples: text: He had managed to lay by money for college through his years as a paperboy.
coordinate_terms: lay aside
lay away
lay in
lay up
put aside
put away
put by
save
store
store away
store up
glosses: To put away for future use; save; to build up as savings.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: (of a sailing vessel) To remain stationary while heading into the wind; to come to a standstill; heave to; lay to.
glosses: To tend (a crop) for the last time, leaving it to mature without further cultivation.
lay by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of lie by
service plaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service plazas
Senses: glosses: rest area
aliening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alien
Rehe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 熱河 /热河 (Rèhé, “Hot Creek”), from a nearby river that did not typically freeze over during the winters.
Senses: glosses: A river near Chengde, China.
glosses: A former name of Chengde, China.
glosses: A former province of China around Chengde.
alimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aliment
bulbar conjunctiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulbar conjunctivas
form: bulbar conjunctivae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of three parts of the conjunctiva, the bulbar conjunctiva is the conjunctiva covering the eyeball, over the sclera.
Synonyms: ocular conjunctiva
Related terms: tarsal conjunctiva
fornix conjunctiva
hydrophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophobes
Etymology: Borrowed from French hydrophobe, from Latin hydrophobus, from Ancient Greek ὑδροφόβος (hudrophóbos), from ὑδρο- (hudro-, “water”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear, dread”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrophobic compound or material.
examples: text: The shock of the meeting triremes was tremendous, and in a moment the poor little hydrophobes were spluttering in the pond: […]
ref: 1861 September 7, “Tale of the Tub”, in The Living Age, volume XIV (third series), number 901, Boston, M.A.: Littell, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 613, column 1:
text: If I talk to 10 people, there is usually a fellow hydrophobe among them. It is hard to pick them out, because a person who is afraid of water looks very much like a normal person. But, from talking with fellow hydrophobes, I have discovered something we almost all share: more times than not, our fear of water stems from one intensely bad experience that came during our childhoods.
ref: 2006 July 2, Frank Gannon, “The Deep”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2018:
synonyms: aquaphobe
waterfunk
glosses: Someone who is affected by hydrophobia (a fear or aversion to water).
Derived terms: hydrophobin
superhydrophobe
Related terms: hydrophobia
hydrophobic
tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toot
Related terms: rooting tooting
tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tootings
Senses: examples: text: These tootings can be sometimes heard at the distance of a mile.
ref: 1867, Sewell Newhouse, John Humphrey Noyes, The Trapper's Guide:
glosses: The sound of a toot.
hydrolysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹɒlɪsət/
Forms: form: hydrolysates
Etymology: From hydrolysis + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any product of a hydrolysis reaction.
Derived terms: prehydrolysate
Related terms: autolysate
dialysate
hemolysate
lysate
hot working
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hot work
loosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loose
loosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of losing.
fledging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fledge
spaghettoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: A form of thick spaghetti.
transplanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transplant
transplanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transplantings
Senses: examples: text: There appears, however, to be some difference of opinion as to the value of so many transplantings.
ref: 1905, George Edward Stone, Tomatoes Under Glass; Methods of Pruning Tomatoes, page 6:
glosses: transplantation
hydroxonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation obtained by reacting a proton with water - H₃O⁺; hydronium.
rebelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English rebellyng; equivalent to rebel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebel
rebelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebellings
Etymology: From Middle English rebellyng; equivalent to rebel + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Clarice, who had obeyed with much patience, although not without some inward rebellings, the dictation of those elders, now felt with a thrill of joy that the time of her freedom had come at last.
ref: 1909, Justin McCarthy, Julian Revelstone: A Romance, page 41:
glosses: An act or feeling of rebellion.
hewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hew
hewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːɪŋ/
Forms: form: hewings
Senses: examples: text: Hadley [the sculptor] could afford to let his hewings be rough where the monarchical extremities were concerned, as these were to be covered by the raiment of state.
ref: 2010, Stephen Smith, Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets:
glosses: The act of one who hews or chops.
festering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: festerings
Senses: examples: text: […] discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.
ref: 1842, Bradshaw’s Journal, volume III, page 89:
glosses: The condition of something that festers.
festering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fester
Synonyms: word: fester
word: festerment
interrogating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interrogate
interrogating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrogatings
Senses: examples: text: Now, wisdom to the other can materialize, for example, in terms of the interrogatings, actionings, and understandings that will take place beyond 'a set of self-serving narratives' facilitating the deployment of epistemic power […]
ref: 2022, Pierre Legrand, Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought, page 223:
glosses: An instance of interrogating.
fowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/
homophone: fouling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fowl
Derived terms: fowling piece
fowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/
homophone: fouling
Forms: form: fowlings
Senses: glosses: A session of hunting fowl.
Derived terms: bat-fowling
vetiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛtɪvə/
ipa: /ˈvɛtɪvɚ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈvɛtəvɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈvɛʈɪver/
Forms: form: vetivers
form: vetyver
form: vetivert
Etymology: From French vétyver (older spelling) or vétiver, from Tamil வெட்டிவேர் (veṭṭivēr).
Senses: examples: text: Two types of vetiver have been found in India – (i) flowering or seeding vetiver which grows wild in North India, and (ii) non-flowering or non-seeding vetiver which is cultivated in South India.
ref: 2003, Anand Akhila, Mumkum Rani, “4: Chemical Conatituents and Essential Oil Biogenisis in Vetiveria zizanioides”, in Massimo Maffei, editor, Vetiveria: The Genus Vetiveria, page 73:
text: 2007, R. Sinha, et al., Phytoremediation: Role of Plants in Site Management, S.N. Singh, R. D. Tripathi, Environmental Bioremediation Technologies, page 328,
Vetiver can easily thrive in wetlands and can be used in the constructed wetlands for removal of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and heavy metals from the polluted storm water, municipal and industrial wastewater, and effluents from abattoirs, feedlots, piggeries and other intensive livestock industries.
text: Vetiver barriers are planted in 0.50–1m wide strips to minimize the land area under the barrier. Vetiver grass is the only species that is effective for controlling soil erosion on steep terrains (30 and 60% slope). Vetiver strips are also used as windbreaks.
ref: 2008, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Principles of Soil Conservation and Management, page 237:
glosses: The grass Chrysopogon zizanioides (synonym Vetiveria zizanioides), which is native to India, but planted throughout the tropics for its fragrant roots and for erosion control.
glosses: The aromatic root of the grass.
examples: text: She pressed his hand and was gone in a mist of vetiver, abruptly as the other evening.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 612:
text: A sweet scent which relieves stress, tension and headache, promotes restful sleep, heals the skin, lowers high blood pressure and cures sunburn (when blended with cedarwood, clove, clary sage, pine, geranium, vetiver and patchouli).
ref: 2007, Parvesh Handa, Be Your Own Beautician, page 132:
text: […]it came in a joyful fuzz of hair spray and noise, with a delicious, dissonant Habanita-like base of patchouli-vetiver-vanilla putting a growl in its voice.
ref: 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, page 311:
text: Essential oils such as jasmine, rose, vetiver, ilang-ilang, iris, vanilla, sandalwood or lavender cannot be synthesised in the laboratory.
ref: 2014 March 7, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 13, page 30:
glosses: An essential oil derived from the root; the fragrance of the oil.
Synonyms: khus
Derived terms: vetivene
vetiverol
vetivone
cerebralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cerebralizes
form: cerebralizing
form: cerebralized
form: cerebralized
form: cerebralise
Etymology: From cerebral + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make a mental picture or map of.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To make (a consonant) retroflex.
Derived terms: cerebralization
alerted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alert
alerted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alerted
form: most alerted
Senses: glosses: Having been made alert; having been made attentive, alarmed or warned of something coming soon.
Derived terms: unalerted
countable set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countable sets
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A set that is countable.
Merzifon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Turkey.
Corona Austrina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Corona Australis.
synonyms: word: Corona Australis
-iser
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -ise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -izer.
actualiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actualisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of actualizer.
death sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death sentence
planetdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From planet + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: One day our System in its progress through space neared these lost Children of the Mist … such incorrigible vagrants, were enough to corrupt the habits of the staidest young family in Planetdom.
ref: 1873, Enoch Fitch Burr, Pater Mundi: Or, Doctrine of Evolution., Holmes Noyes, pages 233-234
text: [...] yesterday, its members voted to drop Pluto from the ranks of planetdom.
ref: 2006 August 25, Ira Flatow, “Pluto”, in Science Friday, National Public Radio:
text: What did the Chisters say when Ceres was demoted from planetdom back in the 19th century?
ref: 2006 August 26, Wendel Fendel, “Re: Pluto's a dwarf”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
text: Back in the 19-th century the asteroid Ceres was demoted from planetdom.
ref: 2006 August 29, Manny Feld, “Re: solar system”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
glosses: Those things that are planets; the state of being a planet.
affricates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affricate
affricates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affricate
internuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + nuclear.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Acting between nuclei
Derived terms: internuclear ophthalmoplegia
make a point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a point
form: making a point
form: made a point
form: made a point
Senses: examples: text: I suppose the people who wrote that stuff on the wall were trying to make a point, but they mainly made a mess.
synonyms: make a statement
glosses: To argue or promote an idea.
examples: text: Make a point to carry [or of carrying] your calendar with you at all times.
text: My wallet is missing! I know I had it earlier: I made a point of bringing it.
text: He made a point of mentioning that embarrassing incident in front of me whenever he saw me.
glosses: To take care in doing something; to pay attention or ensure that something is done.
Related terms: case in point
hosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
Etymology: From hose + -ing (present participle ending).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hose
hosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: hosings
Etymology: From hose + -ing (gerund ending).
Senses: examples: text: Newspapers spread around
Soaking all that they can
A cleaning is due again
A good hosing down
ref: 1989, “Paper Cuts”, performed by Nirvana:
glosses: A spraying or washing with a hose.
hosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English hosinge, hosiinge, hosiynge, equivalent to hose + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Their hosing, also, in the middle and northern parts of the Valley, is quite insufficient; being generally of cotton or silk […]
ref: 1850, Daniel Drake, A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America:
glosses: Material used for making hosiery.
hosen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊzən
Etymology: From Middle English hosen, from Old English hosan (“hosen, leggings, trousers”), plural of hosa (“hose, legging, stocking”); reinforced by German Hosen (“trousers, pants”). Equivalent to hose + -en (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 3:21:
text: And I hoped that in youth the good path may be chosen By each little man who may chance wear these hosen.
ref: 1877, Golden Hours, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: It has crept up the leg and become hose, and it is made no longer of leather but of cloth. Gradually these hosen became longer and longer, until they joined at the top into one garment, which betrayed its dual origin by keeping the plural [...]
ref: 1979, George G. Coulton, Five centuries of religion: The last days of medieval monachism:
text: Francis the Schoolboy Margaret, give me my hosen; dispatch I pray you.
ref: 2009, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Daily Life in Elizabethan England:
text: [...] and the shape of the horrible swollen members, that seem like to the malady of hernia, in the wrapping of their hosen, and eke the buttocks of them, [...]
ref: 2014, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems:
glosses: plural of hose (the old-fashioned garment; stockings)
hosen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊzən
Etymology: From Middle English hosen, from Old English hosan (“hosen, leggings, trousers”), plural of hosa (“hose, legging, stocking”); reinforced by German Hosen (“trousers, pants”). Equivalent to hose + -en (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: At the court of the Kaiser I born was and bred ; and there my hosen and jerkin were made ; […]
ref: 1857, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
text: Then I searched the pocket of my hosen and found a little knife, such as could be closed, which they had not chosen to take, [...]
ref: 1862, Gustav Freytag, Pictures of German Life in the XVth,XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries:
text: This figure actually wears mail hosen, but others substituted scale or else wore no armour on the legs at all.
ref: 1978, Ian Heath, Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300, →ISBN, page 209:
text: They differed in the length of the leg but were generally similar in the cut at the top. ... By 1770, they bought new hosen.
ref: 1990, Ellen J. Gehret, Rural Pennsylvania Clothing:
text: And the doublet is long enough it hid most of the blood-spattered part of my hosen and they were dark enough the blood didn't much show after I'd rubbed some dirt over them.
ref: 2004, Margaret Frazer, The Hunter's Tale:
text: The invisible cord ... I followed him down a narrow path with a rippling lake of grain on each side, wheat stalks brushing my hosen.
ref: 2005, Adam McCune, Keith McCune, The Rats of Hamelin:
text: Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen [pants, trousers], and their hats, and their other garments, […]
ref: 2009, The Old Testament Made Easier
text: These hosen have saggy butt.” “Don't touch yourself,” Paulo hissed, slapping Jerome's hand away. “I wasn't touching myself, I was trying to pull up these damned—” “Don't touch your clothing, either! Don't touch anything!”
ref: 2014, Karen Chance, Masks:
glosses: Coverings for the legs; trousers; pants.
Derived terms: hosened
Related terms: lederhosen
homers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homer
homers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of homer
hippest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hip: most hip
hipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɪpə/
Forms: form: hippers
Etymology: From hip + -er.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A hip boot.
hipper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɪpə/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hip: more hip
hillbillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillbilly
hillbillies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hillbilly
healers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of healer
hocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒks
Senses: glosses: plural of hock
hocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hock
hocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hock
hocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hock
hocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I was on a running Morgan that could leave anything in six counties behind, and all she had was that short-hocked dapple pony.
ref: 1984, Dan Parkinson, Gunpowder Glory, page 103:
glosses: Having a specified kind of hock.
Derived terms: cow-hocked
vulture-hocked
headsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headset
headlining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of headline
headlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of headline
grifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grifter
frizzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frizzy
glosses: Unkempt curly hair, especially of women.
flyboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyboys
form: fly-boy
Etymology: From fly + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Big Al was back in town, and Cooper, the happy-go-lucky flyboy who was one of the Original Seven, was squashed.
ref: 1999 March 24, Eugene Cernan, Don Davis, The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space, 1st edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 227:
text: Boom! The flyboys are gonna love us for that!
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Storm:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A man employed to clear the printed copies from the printing press.
mousmé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmuːsmeɪ/
Forms: form: mousmés
form: mousmée
form: musume
Etymology: From Japanese 娘 (musume, “daughter, girl”).
Senses: examples: text: “Hello, Kit.” She stared a moment through Miss Tsurigane. “Who's the mousmée?”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 628:
glosses: A Japanese young woman or mistress.
mousmée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousmées
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mousmé.
flyboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyboy
financials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Financial statements.
examples: Financials generally pay high dividends.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Financial institutions, as a group, such as banks and insurance companies.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Shares in financial companies.
Hyponyms: balance sheet
income statement
profit and loss
Related terms: finance
financial
endorsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endorse
egomaniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more egomaniacal
form: most egomaniacal
Etymology: egomaniac + -al
Senses: glosses: Having the psychological condition of egomania.
Derived terms: egomaniacally
eavesdropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eavesdrop
dribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dribble
dribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dribble
oogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuː.d͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/
Forms: form: oogeneses
form: oögenesis
Etymology: From oo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: spermatogenesis
glosses: The formation and development of an oocyte or ovum
Hypernyms: gametogenesis
Related terms: oogenetic
oogenic
neuromuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From neuro- + muscular.
Senses: examples: text: Multiple sclerosis is a neuromuscular disease.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the voluntary or reflexive control of muscles by nerves.
Synonyms: myoneural
Derived terms: neuromuscular junction
neuromuscularly
osteoneuromuscular
psychoneuromuscular
thereatop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌðɛəɹəˈtɒp/
ipa: /ˌðɛəɹəˈtɒp/
Etymology: From there + atop.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:thereatop.
glosses: On top of that.
raw_tags: in patent law
diuretics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diuretic
demonstrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonstrator
decorators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decorator