cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diegetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more diegetically
form: most diegetically
Etymology: From diegetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The music in the documentary is only used diegetically: there is no soundtrack.
glosses: In a diegetic way or manner.
ice cream bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice cream bars
Senses: coordinate_terms: ice cream sandwich
ice cream cone
dessert bar
glosses: A frozen dessert on a stick or a candy bar that has ice cream in it. The coating is usually a thin layer of chocolate.
glosses: A dessert bar focused on ice cream and sundae fixings.
glosses: A restaurant that serves ice cream: an ice cream parlor.
Related terms: ice cream maker
ice cream truck
ice cream van
choc ice
frozen yogurt
frozen yoghurt
fro-yo
froyo
parfait
sorbet
ice cream sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice cream sandwiches
Senses: glosses: A dessert consisting of a layer of ice cream between two cookies, often thin chocolate wafers.
Related terms: ice cream bar
popsicle
black birch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black birches
Senses: glosses: A tree of the species Betula lenta, with a dark bark resembling a cherry tree's and an aromatic bark and sap used for birch beer.
Synonyms: cherry birch
sweet birch
cherry birch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry birches
Senses: glosses: A tree of the species Betula lenta, with a dark bark resembling a cherry tree's and an aromatic bark and sap used for birch beer.
Synonyms: black birch
sweet birch
sweet birch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet birches
Senses: glosses: A tree of the species Betula lenta, with a dark bark resembling a cherry tree's and an aromatic bark and sap used for birch beer.
Synonyms: black birch
cherry birch
birch beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birch beers
Senses: examples: text: “I've had a long day. You can either order some food or leave.” “Fine. Now, let me see. Hmm. ♪ Bum, bum bum ♪ Oh! No, no. I will have a tonic.” “What kind of tonic?” “Moxie.” “We don't have that.” “Birch beer.” “Nope.”
ref: 2004 October 30, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer, “Return to Spider-Skull Island” (9:45 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 1, episode 14, spoken by Dr. Byron Orpheus (Steven Rattazzi):
coordinate_terms: ginger beer
root beer
glosses: A sweetened, non-alcoholic, sparkling beverage with a wintergreen flavor, traditionally made from the oil of the sweet birch.
homophene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homophenes
Etymology: From homo- +Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, to show, to appear”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of words that sound different, but look identical on a person's lips, so that they cannot be distinguished by lipreading.
quadricentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + centennial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a 400th anniversary.
quadricentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadricentennials
Etymology: From quadri- + centennial.
Senses: examples: text: The Cayuga fairground proposal recalled other Pan-American heritage themes that emerged with the quadricentennials. There was mention of a theme area on the island where reproductions of ancient structures of the Americas would be juxtaposed with reproductions of the birthplaces of U.S. American historical figures.
ref: 2011, Robert Alexander González, Designing Pan-America, page 54:
glosses: A 400th anniversary.
quincentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quin- (“five”) + centennial (“100-year, 100-year anniversary”). Compare the classical Latin form quingenti (“500”).
Senses: glosses: Of or related to a 500th anniversary.
Synonyms: quincentenary
quincentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quincentennials
Etymology: From quin- (“five”) + centennial (“100-year, 100-year anniversary”). Compare the classical Latin form quingenti (“500”).
Senses: glosses: A 500th anniversary.
Synonyms: quincentenary
quingenary
hackneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackney
hackneys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hackney
hackneying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hackney
hackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hackly
form: most hackly
Etymology: From hackle + -y. Cf. Hackley.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: With a Jagged or rough surface.
inebriant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inebriants
Etymology: From Latin inēbriāns (“intoxicating”).
Senses: glosses: An intoxicating agent.
inebriant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inebriant
form: most inebriant
Etymology: From Latin inēbriāns (“intoxicating”).
Senses: glosses: Intoxicating; inebriating.
inebriants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inebriant
matelote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matelotes
Etymology: Borrowed from French matelote.
Senses: glosses: A stew made primarily with fish and wine.
glosses: An old sailors' dance in double time, somewhat like a hornpipe.
matelotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matelote
missy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.i/
rhymes: -ɪsi
Forms: form: missies
Etymology: From miss + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That's enough out of you, missy!
glosses: A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly.
glosses: A female nurse.
Derived terms: missyish
missy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.i/
rhymes: -ɪsi
Etymology: From miss + -y.
Senses: glosses: Girlish; effeminate; sentimental.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, female clothing or clothing sizes.
missy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.i/
rhymes: -ɪsi
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of misy.
Related terms: hitty-missy
missies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of missy
glosses: plural of missie
armure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈmjʊə/
ipa: /ɑːˈmjɔː/
ipa: /ɑːˈmjʊɹ/
ipa: /ɑːˈmjɚ/
Forms: form: armures
Etymology: From French armure, from Middle French armure, from Old French armeure, from Latin armātūra. Doublet of armature and armor.
Senses: glosses: A fabric woven with a raised pattern similar to chain mail.
Related terms: armor
armures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armure
sorcerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sorcery + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Part toy box and part cabinet of curiosities for a young misfit finally finding his tribe, the house has competition only from Black, who always excels in roles that let him play an excitable kid in a grown man’s body, and does so here as the bumbling, sorcerous Uncle Jonathan, forever knocking things over[…]
ref: 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018:
text: That record was about the seductive power of “the aesthetics of wealth”—fashion runways, status brands, velvet-rope glamour—with the sorcerous allure of artifice and illusion seemingly left unchallenged.
ref: 2019 October 10, Simon Reynolds, “The Rise of Conceptronica”, in Pitchfork:
glosses: Similar to, or involving, sorcery.
HI-MEMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HI-MEMSes
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of hybrid insect micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS): A DARPA project to control insect locomotion by placing a mechanical system inside an insect.
bobèches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobèche
memetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈmɛtɪk/
ipa: /mɪˈmɛtɪk/
homophone: mimetic stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more memetic
form: most memetic
Etymology: From meme + -etic, by analogy with gene → genetic.
Senses: examples: text: The term internets[…]is an example of memetic usage that functions as a high profile in-joke.
ref: 2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media:
text: But let’s not assume that all of the innuendo and debate is a product of the Russian info-war, or that the Kremlin is a grandmaster of the memetic chessboard.
ref: 2015 July 7, Mark Galeotti, “'The west is too paranoid about Russia's information war'”, in The Guardian:
text: Within different communities, groups, or dyads, the same memetic media could be deployed as a long-standing community in-joke, dadaist absurdity, or even as fighting words (or images, as the case may be).
ref: 2018, Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner, The Ambivalent Internet […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Gamergate, “the Fappening” (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.
ref: 2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, being, containing, or pertaining to memes; pertaining to replication of concepts.
Derived terms: antimemetic
memetical
memetic algorithm
memetically
memetic computing
memetic engineering
memetic hazard
memetic kill agent
memetics
memetic warfare
phylomemetic
Related terms: mimetic
memetic algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memetic algorithms
Senses: glosses: An algorithm for the evolution of genotypes, which includes a selected, non-genetic component.
Synonyms: genetic algorithm
metaheuristic
diphosphoinositide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphosphoinositides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phosphate of phosphatidylinositol
triphosphoinositide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triphosphoinositides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any bisphosphate of phosphatidylinositol
dodecanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecanols
Etymology: From dodecane + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic alcohol derived from a dodecane; but especially lauryl alcohol
specialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specialisms
Etymology: From special + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Speciality.
glosses: The concentration of one's efforts upon a particular field of study.
lauryl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1-dodecanol
galabiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galabioses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disaccharide based on two galactose residues
galatriaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galatriaoses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disaccharide based on three galactose residues
glucosylceramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucosylceramides
form: glucoceramide
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of glucocerebroside.
synonyms: word: glucocerebroside
Derived terms: lysoglucosylceramide
glucocerebroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucocerebrosides
Etymology: From gluco- + cerebroside.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cerebroside containing glucose as the monosaccharide
Derived terms: glucocerebrosidase
glyceroketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glycero- + ketone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: dihydroxyacetone
glycerone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dihydroxyacetone
glycerophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycerophosphates
Senses: examples: text: But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana.
ref: 1963, Xavier Herbert, Distubing Element, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 178:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of glycerophosphoric acid; but especially the phospholipids.
glycerophosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycerophosphoric acids
Etymology: From glycero- + phosphoric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric acids that are esters of glycerol and phosphoric acid; their derivatives are the phospholipids
glycerophosphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycero- + phosphoric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glycerophosphoric acid or its derivatives
glycerophosphocholine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycerophosphocholines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The choline ester of glycerophosphoric acid
glosses: Its fatty acid derivatives, the phosphatidylcholines (lecithin)
glycerophosphoethanolamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycerophosphoethanolamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ethanolamine ester of glycerophosphoric acid
glosses: Its fatty acid derivatives, the phosphatidylethanolamines (cephalin)
glycerophospholipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycerophospholipids
form: glycerolphospholipid
Etymology: From glycero- + phospho- + lipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phospholipid based on glycerol.
Derived terms: lysoglycerophospholipid
glycoglycerolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoglycerolipids
Etymology: From glyco- + glycerolipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycolipid containing at least one sugar residue linked directly to the glycerol moiety
glycosylceramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosylceramides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide
Synonyms: sphingolipid
Derived terms: monoglycosylceramide
pentaglycosylceramide
glycosyllipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosyllipids
Etymology: From glycosyl + lipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: glycolipid
glycosylsphingolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosylsphingolipids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any sphingolipid containing at least one monosaccharide residue
hemolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemolytic
form: most hemolytic
Senses: examples: text: It has been accordingly suggested that the hemolytic action of the saliva is due to the presence of certain salts.
ref: 1903 September 24, W. D. Miller, “Further experiments relating to the question of immunity”, in The Dental Cosmos: A Monthly Record Of Dental Science, volume 48, number 9, page 691:
glosses: Producing hemolysis; destroying red blood cells.
Derived terms: antihemolytic
cohemolytic
enterohemolytic
hemolytical
hemolytic disease
hemolytic-uremic syndrome
hyperhemolytic
immunohemolytic
nonhemolytic
photohemolytic
subhemolytic
Related terms: hemolysin
hemolysis
hemolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: hemolyses
form: haemolysis
form: hæmolysis
Etymology: From hemo- + -lysis, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + λύσις (lúsis, “loosening”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The destruction of red blood cells, and subsequent release of hemoglobin, at the normal end of the cell's life.
Derived terms: autohemolysis
hyperhemolysis
photohemolysis
thermohemolysis
hexadecanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecanols
Etymology: From hexadecane + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic alcohol derived from hexadecane, but especially cetyl alcohol
cetyl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The waxy aliphatic primary alcohol 1-hexadecanol, used in cosmetics etc.
Synonyms: aethal
ethal
inositolphospholipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inositolphospholipids
Etymology: From inositol + phospholipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phospholipid containing inositol; phosphatidylinositol
lysophosphatidylethanolamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysophosphatidylethanolamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of phosphatidylethanolamine in which one or both acyl derivatives have been removed by hydrolysis
lysophospholipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysophospholipids
Etymology: From lyso- + phospholipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a phospholipid in which one of the acyl derivatives has been removed by hydrolysis
Synonyms: monoacylglycerophospholipid
Related terms: lysoglycerophospholipid
lysoglycosphingolipid
lysolipid
lysophosphatidylcholine
lysolecithin
lysophosphatidylethanolamine
lysocephalin
lysophosphatidylinositol
lysophosphatidylserine
lysosphingomyelin
lysophosphatidylcholine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysophosphatidylcholines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of phosphatidylcholine in which one or both acyl derivatives have been removed by hydrolysis
lysophosphatidylinositol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysophosphatidylinositols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of phosphatidylinositol in which one or both acyl derivatives have been removed by hydrolysis
lysophosphatidylserine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysophosphatidylserines
Etymology: From lyso- + phosphatidylserine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of phosphatidylserine in which one or both acyl derivatives have been removed by hydrolysis
nervon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervone
Senses: glosses: A cerebroside present in brain tissue
Derived terms: nervonic
Related terms: nervonic acid
nervonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The unsaturated fatty acid tetracosa-9-enoic acid that is a constituent of cerebrosides such as nervon
palmitoleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of palmitic + oleic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to palmitoleic acid or its derivatives.
palmitoleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of palmitic + oleic + acid?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated fatty acid, having 16 carbon atoms and one double bond, found in the adipose tissue of all animals.
Synonyms: hexadecenoic acid
Derived terms: palmitoleate
palmityl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmityls
Etymology: From palmit(in) + -yl.
Senses: glosses: cetyl
phosphatidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phosphatide + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a phosphatide
Derived terms: phosphatidic acid
phosphocholine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphocholines
Etymology: From phospho- + choline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The choline ester of phosphoric acid
glosses: The fatty acid esters of this compound; lecithin
phosphoethanolamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoethanolamines
Etymology: From phospho- + ethanolamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ethanolamine ester of phosphoric acid
glosses: The fatty acid ester of this compound; cephalin
phosphoglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoglycerols
Etymology: From phospho- + glycerol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The glycerol ester of phosphoric acid that is a component of phospholipids
phosphoinositide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phospho- + inositide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The inositol ester of phosphoric acid that is a component of phosphatidylinositols
Derived terms: bisphosphoinositide
polyphosphoinositide
phosphonolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphonolipids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: phospholipid
phytosphingosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytosphingosines
Etymology: From phyto- + sphingosine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: dihydrosphingosine (and related compounds)
plasmalogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /plæzˈmæl.ə.d͡ʒən/
Forms: form: plasmalogens
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of phospholipids, found in cell membranes, in which one of the fatty acids is replaced by an aldehyde (connected to the glycerol with an unsaturated ether linkage)
Derived terms: plasmalogenic
Related terms: plasmal
plasmalogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plasmalogenic
form: most plasmalogenic
Etymology: From plasmalogen + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the plasmalogens.
stereospecifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stereospecifically
form: most stereospecifically
Etymology: From stereospecific + -ally.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In a stereospecific manner.
tetraose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraoses
Etymology: From tetra- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligosaccharide containing four monosaccharide moieties
Derived terms: gangliotetraose
xylotetraose
triaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triaoses
Senses: glosses: triose
triester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triesters
Etymology: From tri- + ester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing three ester groups, but especially a triglyceride
unsaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsaturations
Etymology: From un- + saturation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The degree or condition of being unsaturated.
acyloxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acyloxys
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical R-COO-, derived from a carboxylic acid
Related terms: acyl
allocholane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + cholane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The isomer of cholane 5α-cholane
Nash equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nash equilibria
Etymology: Named after American mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of choices of players' strategies for which no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy assuming that the other players keep theirs unchanged.
usurpant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin usurpans, present participle.
Senses: examples: text: factious and insolent Presbyters ventured to be extravagant and usurpant
ref: 1659, John Gauden, The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England:
glosses: Usurping; encroaching.
barré
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barry.
déjeuné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdeɪʒəˈneɪ/
Forms: form: déjeunés
Etymology: From French déjeuné.
Senses: examples: text: Take a déjeuné of muskadel and eggs.
ref: 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: We forbear to describe, or even to enumerate, the variety of balls, suppers, dinners, déjeunés, galas, and masquerades, which Miss Turnbull gave to the fashionable world during this winter.
ref: 1809, Maria Edgeworth, “Almeria”, in Tales of Fashionable Life:
glosses: A lunch.
déjeunés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of déjeuné
Pareto improvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pareto improvements
form: Pareto-improvement
Etymology: Named after Vilfredo Pareto.
Senses: topics: computing
economics
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A change in the allocation of a resource to a set of individuals that is an improvement for at least one and no worse for any other.
wikipedia: Vilfredo Pareto
Related terms: Kaldor-Hicks improvement
Pareto efficient
Pareto optimal
Pareto efficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pareto efficient
form: most Pareto efficient
Senses: topics: computing
economics
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.
Synonyms: Pareto optimal
Derived terms: Pareto efficiency
Related terms: Pareto improvement
Pareto optimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Pareto-optimal
Senses: topics: computing
economics
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a situation in which the profit of one party cannot be increased without reducing the profit of another.
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a strategy that cannot be made to perform better against one opposing strategy without performing less well against another.
Synonyms: sense: describing a situation
word: Pareto efficient
Related terms: Pareto improvement
supping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sup
supping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.
examples: text: Wax taken inwardly in a supping or broth.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXII.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: That which is supped; broth.
bufanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufanolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of toxic steroid lactones originally found in certain toads
campestanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The plant sterol 24-methyl-5 a-cholestan-3 β-ol
carbocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbocycles
Etymology: From carbo- + cycle.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The system of hydrocarbon rings in a specific class of compounds.
armer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armers
Etymology: From arm + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who arms, or supplies weapons.
Synonyms: armorer
Coordinate terms: arms dealer
armsmaker
armer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arm + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of arm: more arm
Related terms: strong-armer
cardanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardanolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of steroid lactones that, as plant glycosides, are toxic
cardenolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardenolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many steroid lactones present in plants as glycosides; they are all toxic, affecting the heart
Related terms: acetyldigitoxin
acetyldigoxin
cymarine
digitoxigenin
digitoxin
digoxigenin
digoxin
medigoxin
ouabain
strophanthidin
strophanthin
cholestane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholestanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The tetracyclic hydrocarbon precursor of most steroids, such as cholesterol.
Derived terms: bromocholestane
chlorocholestane
cholestanetriol
cyclocholestane
dibromocholestane
isopropylcholestane
norcholestane
cholane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid hydrocarbon having a 4-pentane sidechain instead of the normal cholestane sidechain
Derived terms: allocholane
Shapley value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Lloyd Shapley, who introduced it in 1953.
Senses: examples: ϕᵢ(v)=∑_(S⊆N⧵i)(|S|!;(n-|S|-1)!)/(n!)(v(S∪i)-v(S)),
given a coalitional game with a set N of n players and a worth function v;:;𝒫(N);→ℜ.
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A real number determined for the player i as
cholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). By surface analysis, chol(e) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bile.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to cholic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: acholic
cholate
dehydrocholic
deoxycholic
lithocholic
Related terms: choler
cholera
choleric
cholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholics
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of colic (“abdominal distress”).
conanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid alkaloid derived from pregnane
coprostane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 5β-cholestane
cucurbitane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucurbitanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of lanostane
lanostane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanostanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The steroid hydrocarbon 4,4,14-trimethyl-5α-cholestane
Derived terms: lanostanoid
digitaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From digitalis + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the toxic glycosides related to digitoxin
digitoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitoxins
Etymology: Blend of digitalis + toxin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic cardiac glycoside, obtained from digitalis, related to cardenolide.
Derived terms: acetyldigitoxin
educed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of educe
educed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: evoked
glosses: deduced
Derived terms: uneduced
epicortisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicortisols
Etymology: From epi- + cortisol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of cortisol
ergostane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergostanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid hydrocarbon that is the basis of many natural products
normal form game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normal form games
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Formally, a structure (P, mathbf S, mathbf F) where P = {1,2, ...,m} is a set of players, mathbf S=(S_1,S_2,…,S_m) is an m-tuple of pure strategy sets, one for each player, and mathbf F=(F_1,F_2,…,F_m) is an m-tuple of payoff functions.
Related terms: extensive form game
characteristic function form
estrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estranes
form: oestrane
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid hydrocarbon that is the basis of several female hormones
give the devil his due
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the devil his due
form: giving the devil his due
form: gave the devil his due
form: given the devil his due
Senses: examples: text: […]for he was never yet a breaker of
proverbs: he will give the devil his due.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Yet give the devil his due; Says grace before he doth a deed of villainy.
ref: 1821, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 4, in Kenilworth:
text: And to give the devil his due he's finer than ever. Too damn fine for this crowd!
ref: 1922, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in The Day of the Beast:
text: We are obliged, at least this once, to give the devil his due — and to consider the possibility that he may even be, in this instance, the angel of bleak truthfulness.
ref: 2007 April 5, Richard Schickel, "The Fog of War Resistance" (film review), Time
glosses: To acknowledge the positive qualities of a person who is unpleasant or disliked.
extensive form game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extensive form games
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: centipede game
glosses: Informally, a representation of a game as a tree of decision nodes, with the game beginning at a unique initial node, and flowing through the tree along a path determined by the players until a terminal node is reached, where play ends and payoffs are assigned to all players; each non-terminal node belongs to a player; that player chooses among the possible moves at that node, each possible move is an edge leading from that node to another node.
Related terms: normal form game
estriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛˌstɹaɪˌɔl/
Forms: form: estriols
form: oestriol
Etymology: Blend of estratriene + triol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: theelol
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A relatively weak natural estrogenic hormone that is a glycol C₁₈H₂₄O₃ found in the body chiefly as a metabolite of estradiol, is the main estrogen secreted by the placenta during pregnancy, and is the estrogen typically found in the urine of pregnant women.
Derived terms: epiestriol
nilestriol
etherified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of etherify
etherified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Converted into an ether
etherify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: etherifies
form: etherifying
form: etherified
form: etherified
Etymology: From ether + -ify.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To convert (an alcohol etc.) into an ether.
etianic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etianic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of steroid carboxylic acids related to 5β-androstane-17-β-carboxylic acid
cooperative game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooperative games
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Informally, a game formalized using a function (called the characteristic function) that assigns to each coalition of players a real number representing the payoff that the coalition can gain if it is formed, without specifying how the outcome is divided among the participants of the coalition; upon the execution of the game, each player can be a member of at most one coalition.
DNU
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of do not use: marking used to tag equipment or material that is not to be used.
foliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foliation
m.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: m
glosses: Abbreviation of masculine.
qualifier: chiefly genealogy
glosses: Abbreviation of married.
glosses: Abbreviation of minimum.
m.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ms.
Senses: examples: text: Clunbury, a hamlet and chapelry to the par. of the same name, hund. of Purslow, Salop. 5 m. from Bishop's Castle, and 153 from London; cont. 63 ho. and 359 inhab.
ref: 1825, Benjamin Pitts Capper, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, page 217:
related: word: mi.
word: mi
glosses: Alternative form of m (abbreviation of mile, etc.)
PGPR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of polyglycerol polyricinoleate, a particular emulsifier.
Synonyms: E476
polyglycerol polyricinoleate
Hypernyms: emulsifier
Related terms: polyglycerol polyricinoleate
polyglycerol polyricinoleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PGPR (abbreviation)
Senses: glosses: A particular emulsifier used in food.
Synonyms: E476
PGPR
Derived terms: PGPR
a. m.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Yeſterday at half paſt five a. m. I received information from Captain Hancock, then off Oſtend, that the enemy’s flotilla was hauling out of that pier, and had already twenty-one one-maſted veſſels, and one ſchooner, outſide in the roads;
ref: 1804 May 26, Caledonian Mercury, number 12,905, Edinburgh: […] Robert Allan:
text: […]; and remain with the outward bound as per last, except the Mary for Calcutta, which sailed at five a. m.
ref: 1823 July 10, The Morning Post, number 16,396:
text: Come again Tuesday at 10 a. m.[…]TUESDAY at 10 a. m. Mr. Oliver Whidden was no sooner in the chair than the dentistress synchronously began dental and verbal operations.
ref: 1930 October 4, Joseph Faus, ““Oh, Miss Dentist!”: Being the ridiculous romance of Oliver Whidden, insurance salesman, who found his love in the cavity of a bad tooth”, in Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, seventeenth year, number 5286, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., page six:
text: He goes into an all-night doughnutery at 3:40 a. m. and falls to talking with the lonely counterman, who is a college student as well and who isn’t satisfied with just selling doughnuts and coffee. He looks into things. THIS SAME young man’s bride, also a college student and part-time researcher, came in at 3:55 a. m and her contribution to lore was that the first home air-conditioning unit was seven feet high, six feet wide and twenty feet long and was installed in the three-story mansion of Charlie Gates, son of John W. (Bet-a-Million) Gates.
ref: 1958 October 12, Cumberland Sunday Times, volume LXXXIX, number 281, Cumberland, Md., page four:
glosses: Alternative form of a.m..
p. m.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: At 10 p. m., two miles west of Brownsville, in a resaca, found these frogs in small bushes, in weedy clumps, and even grassy tangles in overflowed tomato field adjoining the overflowed resaca.
ref: 1933, Anna Allen Wright, Albert Hazen Wright, Handbook of Frogs and Toads: The Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada (Handbooks of American Natural History; 1), Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publ., page 110:
text: Tommy Riggs and his housekeeper, Mrs. McIntyre, will have harsh words over the size of the grocery bills, with the result that Tommy and Betty Lou will find themselves housekeeperless, on the “Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou” program Tuesday, over WHP and the Columbia network at 9 p. m.
ref: 1942 August 22, “Housekeeper Wanted by Tommy Riggss”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 199, Harrisburg, Pa.:
text: At 2:28 p. m. on Monday, exactly a week after an 8.O-magnitude earthquake jolted Wenchuan, the 1.3-billion Chinese people stopped to observe three minutes in silence for the victims.
ref: 2011, 听听中国怎么说 [China Invites The World To Listen], Beijing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 271:
english: China Invites The World To Listen
translation: China Invites The World To Listen
glosses: Alternative form of p.m..
reoccurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reoccurrences
Etymology: From re- + occurrence.
Senses: glosses: Something that takes place again.
Synonyms: word: recurrence
word: iteration
word: recurring
word: reiteration
word: reoccurrence
word: repeat
word: repeating
word: repetition
Hyponyms: word: do-over
word: echo
word: encore
word: reprise
word: rerun
word: retest
reoccurrences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reoccurrence
verbiages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbiage
mackerels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mackerel
orientates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of orientate
abs-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: a-
form: ab-
Etymology: From ab (“away from”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ab-; away from; from; outside of.
gonane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The underlying tetracyclic hydrocarbon of steroids without any alkyl sidechains
hexacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having six rings of atoms.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in six whorls.
hangtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangtimes
Etymology: From hang + time.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: The length of time something can stay in the air.
isoxazoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoxazolines
Etymology: From iso- + oxazoline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A five-membered unsaturated heterocycle containing three carbon atoms, one nitrogen and oxygen atoms (adjacent) and a carbon-nitrogen double bond
smores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of s'mores.
skunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: skunkier
form: skunkiest
Etymology: From skunk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Don't know when to expect reimbursements from Chloe. After all this time I consider her behavior skunky.
ref: 1944, Patricia Highsmith, Her Diaries and Notebooks, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2021, April 4
glosses: Mean, contemptible.
examples: text: Sure enough, he had the skunky odor of marijuana.
ref: 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 116:
text: One American brewer with trademark clear bottles developed a modified hop extract that’s free of the vulnerable hop acid, and this prevents its beer from going skunky.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 13, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling a skunk; especially, having a strong or unpleasant odor or (of food, drink) taste.
lactonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Converted into a lactone by internal condensation
raw_tags: of a hydroxy carboxylic acid
corn oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn oils
Senses: hypernyms: seed oil
<
vegetable oil
<
oil
coordinate_terms: word: cornflour
word: cornmeal
word: ;
english: vegetable oils
translation: vegetable oils
word: olive oil
word: palm oil
word: ;
word: more
glosses: A light oil extracted from corn (maize) kernels, used mainly for cooking.
Related terms: corncob
cornhusk
cornhusker
cornstalk
lanosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanosterols
Etymology: Blend of lanolin + sterol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpenoid sterol found in lanolin
Related terms: lanosteryl
lithocholic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bile acid 3α-hydroxy-5β-cholan-24-oic acid, which acts as a detergent to solubilize fats for absorption
Derived terms: isolithocholic acid
Related terms: lithocholate
monohydric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + hydric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a single replaceable hydrogen atom
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a single hydroxy group
Synonyms: monohydroxy
norpregnane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norpregnanes
Etymology: From nor- + pregnane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of pregnane with a shorter sidechain
page boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: page boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pageboy.
comp sci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑmp ˈsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑmp ˌsaɪ/
Forms: form: compsci
Etymology: Clipped compound.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of computer science
wikipedia: Clipped compound
uninstalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From uninstall + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uninstall
uninstalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + installed.
Senses: glosses: That has not been installed
oxathiolane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxathiolanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A five-membered saturated heterocycle having a three carbon atoms, one oxygen atom and one sulfur atom
uninstallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uninstallations
Etymology: From un- + installation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The process of removing a program from a computer.