cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Saturnus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Sāturnus.
Senses: examples: text: The Saturnalia, named for Saturnus, an ancient agricultural deity, began on Dec. 17.
ref: 1978 December 13, Lorna J. Sass, “Saturnalia: A Feast Fit for a Roman God”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2021:
text: Saturnus, alone among the planet-gods, resisted Germanisation.
ref: 2001 December 20, “The power of seven”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2020:
text: Its pages contain not just recipes but an idyll of prelapsarian plenty, passed down the generations by those who still connect with pagan forces: Saturnus and his groaning table, a Saturnalia from the Golden Age.
ref: 2012 September 21, Justine Jordan, “John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2013:
text: Saturn was named after Saturnus, the Roman god of farming, who with his sickle taught human beings when to sow and when to reap: the inevitable cycle of birth, growth and death. Saturnus was the Roman version of the Greek god Cronos, a Titan who, fearing his own overthrow, devoured all the children born to him.
ref: 2024 November 20, Ann Wroe, “The rings of Saturn will disappear in 2025”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of Saturn (“the god of fertility and agriculture”).
pecan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: most common US pronunciation except in New York, New England and coastal Southeast
ipa: /piːˈkɑːn/
ipa: /pɪˈkɑːn/
note: New York, New England, coastal southeastern Southern US
ipa: /ˈpiːkæn/
note: chiefly Upper Midwestern US
ipa: /ˈpiːkɑːn/
note: uncommon coastal New England variant
ipa: /ˈpɪkæn/
ipa: /pəˈkɔːn/
ipa: /pɪˈkɔːn/
note: occasional US unstressed pronunciation
ipa: /pəˈkɑːn/
ipa: /pɪˈkɑːn/
ipa: /ˈpiːkæn/
ipa: /piːˈkæn/
note: UK, Canada, very rarely US
ipa: /pɪˈkæn/
ipa: /ˈpiːkən/
ipa: /pəˈkɒn/
Forms: form: pecans
form: paccan
form: peccan
Etymology: Borrowed from French pacane and at first spelt paccan. The French word derives from an Algonquian word, perhaps Miami (Illinois) pakani. Compare Cree pakan (“hard nut”), Ojibwe bagaan, Abenaki pagann, bagôn, pagôn (“nut; walnut, hazelnut”).
Senses: examples: text: And away on the farther bank, a motte of huge pecans, standing like giant sentinels over the dwarfed landscape, filled the eye with remote vistas in their shady, twilight aisles. It was very still.
ref: 1885, Howard Seely, A Ranchman's stories, page 154:
text: Within its ornamental fence, the 8/10-acre property includes several of the largest live oaks in the area — plus huge pecans and stately magnolias.
ref: 1978 April, Texas Monthly, page 51:
glosses: A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
examples: text: MEG. […] (Meg takes out two pecans and tries to open them by cracking them together.) Come on ... Crack, you demons! Crack!
LENNY. We have a nutcracker!
MEG. (Trying with her teeth.) Ah, where's the sport in a nutcracker? Where's the challenge?
ref: 1982, Beth Henley, Crimes of the heart, page 17:
glosses: A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
examples: text: Each shell contains two pecans, usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed.
ref: 2005, in The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno; Atria Books
glosses: A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
Derived terms: hican
pecan pie
pecan sandy
pecan tree
pecan truffle
pecan weevil
Chicago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈkɑː.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ʃɪˈkɑ.ɡoʊ/
ipa: /ʃɪˈkɔ.ɡoʊ/
note: Chicago
ipa: /ʃəˈkɑː.ɡo/
note: Chicago
other: /ʃəˈkɔː.ɡo/
ipa: [ʃɪˈkä(ː).ɡo]
Etymology: Etymology tree
French Chécagoubor.
English Chicago
From French Chécagou, a transcription of Miami šikaakwa (“wild leek, ramp, Allium tricoccum; striped skunk”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa; compare Ojibwe zhigaagawanzh / zhigaagawinzh (“onion, leek”), zhigaag (“striped skunk”). Doublet of skunk.
Senses: examples: text: I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Chicago is now #1 in murder and sausages. That sounds like my kind of town!
ref: 2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 7, Norm Macdonald (actor):
text: Homan, who was on the ground in Chicago, maintained it was a “criminal operation.” Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was also in Chicago on Sunday to observe immigration enforcement operations.
ref: 2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: Chi
word: Chiraq
word: Chi-Town
word: Hogtown
word: Shitcago
word: The Windy City
glosses: A large city, the county seat of Cook County, in northeastern Illinois, United States, located on Lake Michigan.
Derived terms: Chi
Chicagoan
Chicago atomizer
Chicago blues
Chicago Boy
Chicago dog
Chicagoese
Chicagoesque
Chicago Heights
Chicagoland
Chicago lightning
Chicago overcoat
Chicago piano
Chicago pizza
Chicago principles
Chicago Protocol
Chicagorilla
Chicago school
Chicago screw
Chicago style
Chicago-style
Chicago-style hot dog
Chicago style pizza
Chicago-style relish
Chicago typewriter
Chicongo
Chimpcago
Chimpcongo
Chiraq
Chisox
Chi-Town
East Chicago
North Chicago
Port Chicago
Shitcago
South Chicago
pone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊni/
enpr: pōʹnē
ipa: /ˈpoʊni/
homophone: pony
Forms: form: pones
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pone, from Anglo-Norman pone, from Late Latin pone, from Latin pōne, imperative of pōnere (“to place”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
topics: law
glosses: A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.
pone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊni/
enpr: pōʹnē
ipa: /ˈpoʊni/
homophone: pony
ipa: /poʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
ipa: /ˈpəʊni/
enpr: pōʹnē
ipa: /ˈpoʊni/
homophone: pony
Forms: form: pones
Etymology: Borrowed from Powhatan apones, appoans (“bread”), from Proto-Algonquian *apwa·n (“thing which has been baked or roasted”), whence also Abenaki abôn (“bread”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
Derived terms: cornpone
Related terms: hominy grits
pone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊni/
enpr: pōʹnē
ipa: /ˈpoʊni/
homophone: pony
ipa: /poʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: pony
ipa: /ˈpəʊni/
enpr: pōʹnē
ipa: /ˈpoʊni/
homophone: pony
ipa: /poʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: pones
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed from Latin ponere.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
law
glosses: The last player to bet or play in turn.
succotash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ/
Forms: form: succotashes
Etymology: Borrowed from Narragansett msíckquatash (“boiled corn kernels”).
Senses: examples: text: Some of their modes of cookery have been adopted, and are retained. [...] [T]heir nokehike, which is corn parched and pounded, their ſuckataſh, which is a mixture of corn and beans boiled, are much uſed, and very palatable.
ref: 1792, Jeremy Belknap, “Monuments and Relics of the Indians”, in The History of New-Hampshire. […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: […] Belknap and Young, […], →OCLC, pages 92–93:
text: This lordly dish is made of oak, and will contain about six quarts, which was indeed a goodly quantity, whether of nokehike, appoon, nausamp, or sukketash, for the breakfast of his tawny majesty.
ref: 1814, Timothy Alden, “551. A Trophy from the Wigwam of King Philip, when He was Slain, in 1676, by —— Richard. […]”, in A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions with Occasional Notes, pentade I, volume III, New York, N.Y.: S. Marks, […], →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: A stew made from kernels of corn, lima beans, tomatoes and sometimes peppers.
Derived terms: suffering succotash
tabasco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabascos
Etymology: See Tabasco.
Senses: examples: text: Robbie adores it when Heather puts tabasco on food.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Tabasco (hot sauce).
examples: text: Louisiana is a major producer of tabascos.
glosses: A tabasco pepper.
tequila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtəˈkiː.lə/
Forms: form: tequilas
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish tequila, from Tequila, a town in Jalisco.
Senses: examples: text: For a moment the bottle of tequila at the bottom of the garden gleamed on his soul, then the Consul stumbled into his bedroom.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 149:
glosses: An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana.
Derived terms: tequila cream
tequila slammer
tequila sunrise
tequilatini
tequini
Related terms: tequilero
batanga
mescal
pulque
wigwam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡwɑːm/
Forms: form: wigwams
Etymology: Borrowed from Abenaki wigwôm (“house”) or Penobscot wigwom (“house”), from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”). Doublet of wickiup.
Senses: glosses: A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.
examples: text: Their houſes or wigwams, which they call carbets, are built as I have already deſcribed thoſe of the negroes; but inſtead of being covered with the leaves of the manicole-tree, they are covered with the leaves of rattans or jointed canes, here called tas, which grow in cluſters in all marſhy places: [...]
ref: 1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XV, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume I, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 388:
text: The Fuegian wigwam resembles, in size and dimensions, a haycock. It merely consists of a few broken branches stuck in the ground, and very imperfectly thatched on one side with a few tufts of grass and rushes.
ref: 1845 edition, Charles Darwin, Journal and Remarks (The Voyage of the Beagle)
glosses: Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world.
Derived terms: wigwam for a goose's bridle
wigwam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡwɑːm/
Forms: form: wigwams
form: wigwamming
form: wigwammed
form: wigwammed
Etymology: Borrowed from Abenaki wigwôm (“house”) or Penobscot wigwom (“house”), from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”). Doublet of wickiup.
Senses: glosses: To dry (flax or straw) by standing it outside in the shape of a wigwam.
Related terms: sense: traditional Native American dwellings
alt: used by the Navajo in the southwestern United States
word: hogan
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used by the Inuit, made of snow
translation: used by the Inuit, made of snow
word: igloo
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the Great Plains
translation: used in the Great Plains
word: teepee
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used by the Inuit during the summer
translation: used by the Inuit during the summer
word: tupik
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
alt: used by the Wampanoag in the northeastern United States
word: wetu
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the southwestern and western United States
translation: used in the southwestern and western United States
word: wickiup
atoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætɒl/
ipa: /əˈtɒl/
ipa: /ˈætɔl/
ipa: /ˈætɑl/
ipa: /ˈætoʊl/
ipa: /ˈeɪtɑl/
ipa: /ˈeɪtɔl/
ipa: /əˈtɑl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: atolls
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese atol, from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu), possibly from Prakrit *𑀲𑀁𑀢𑀻𑀞 (*saṃtīṭha), from Sanskrit *संतीर्थ (*saṃtīrtha, “level ford”). The traditional etymology from Persian آبتل (âb-tal, “water-hillock”) is unlikely.
Senses: glosses: A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform.
Derived terms: atoll fruit dove
microatoll
coir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪə/
ipa: [ˈkʰɔːjə]
ipa: /ˈkoːjə/
ipa: /ˈkɔɪɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɒ(ː)jaʳ/
rhymes: -ɔɪə(ɹ)
homophone: coyer
Forms: form: coirs
form: caire
form: cayar
form: kiar
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil கயிறு (kayiṟu), Malayalam കയർ (kayaṟ).
Senses: glosses: The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.
glutamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluː.tə.meɪt/
ipa: [ˈɡlʉː.tə.mɛɪ̯t]
ipa: /ˈɡlu.tə.meɪt/
ipa: [ˈɡɫu̟.ɾə.meɪ̯t]
ipa: /ˈɡlʉː.tə.mæɪt/
ipa: [ˈɡɫʉː.ɾə.mæɪ̯t]
Forms: form: glutamates
Etymology: From glutamic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of glutamic acid.
examples: text: At a synaptic level, the axon terminal having to repeatedly release glutamate is the lecturer droning on repetitively; the moment when the postsynaptic threshold is passed and the NMDA receptors first activate is the dendritic spine finally getting it.
ref: 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 5, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The anion of glutamic acid in its role as a neurotransmitter.
Derived terms: aspartylglutamate
glutamatergia
glutamatergic
heptaglutamate
hexaglutamate
monammonium glutamate
monoglutamate
monopotassium glutamate
monosodium glutamate
monosodium glutamate symptom complex
octaglutamate
pentaglutamate
polyglutamate
sodium glutamate
tetraglutamate
triglutamate
breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/
homophone: braking
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: breakings
Senses: examples: text: We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation […]
ref: 2009, John Renard, Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation, page 53:
glosses: The act by which something is broken.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
examples: text: The urban dance genre includes breaking, waacking, and house dancing, among others.
ref: 2014, Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond, page 48:
glosses: Breakdancing.
breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/
homophone: braking
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break
Derived terms: backbreaking
barns-breaking
breaking and entering
breaking change
breakingly
breaking news
breaking of the waters
car breaking
codebreaking
gamebreaking
groundbreaking
heartbreaking
homebreaking
horsebreaking
housebreaking
icebreaking
inbreaking
jawbreaking
late-breaking
lawbreaking
microbreaking
non-breaking
nonbreaking
oathbreaking
outbreaking
pairbreaking
pathbreaking
peacebreaking
prison breaking
record-breaking
rulebreaking
safebreaking
sequence breaking
shipbreaking
shopbreaking
strikebreaking
strike breaking
tiebreaking
unbreaking
windbreaking
worldbreaking
notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊts/
ipa: /nəʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
Senses: glosses: plural of note
notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊts/
ipa: /nəʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of note
turned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɜːnd/
ipa: /tɝnd/
ipa: /tɔːnd/
ipa: /tɔːnt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn
takes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take
takes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of take
receiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsiːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of receive
receiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsiːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːvɪŋ
Forms: form: receivings
Senses: examples: text: Those that are received graciously may, and must, render the calves of their lips — poor returns for rich receivings, yet, if sincere, more acceptable than the calves of the stall.
ref: 1708-10, Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
glosses: The act by which something is received; reception.
Synonyms: word: acquisition
word: receiving
word: reception
Hypernyms: word: transference
Hyponyms: word: taking
Derived terms: receiving basin
Related terms: word: receive
word: recipient
plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɑːnts/
ipa: /plænts/
ipa: /pleənts/
rhymes: -ɑːnts
rhymes: -ænts
rhymes: -eənts
Senses: glosses: plural of plant
plants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɑːnts/
ipa: /plænts/
ipa: /pleənts/
rhymes: -ɑːnts
rhymes: -ænts
rhymes: -eənts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plant
hodad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodads
form: ho-dad
form: hodaddy
Etymology: Originally Californian surfer slang from the 1960s. Perhaps from the greeting Ho! Dad, though no evidence for this derivation is known. The suggestion that it derives from Western Hemisphere Spanish jodido (“fucked, difficult, annoying”) similarly lacks evidence; also the vowel change from -did to -dad is unexplained.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.
wikipedia: Green's Dictionary of Slang
Related terms: hoedad
diorama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈrɑːmə/
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈrɑmə/
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈræmə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
Forms: form: dioramas
Etymology: Borrowed from French diorama.
Senses: examples: text: With his diorama-like compositions and tales of longing — usually for a loving family — Wes Anderson has taken audiences most everywhere on the planet: Asia and Europe, New York City and the American southwest, a fox’s hole and an island inhabited by dogs.
ref: 2025 May 29, Alissa Wilkinson, “‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Benicio Del Toro Plans to Save His Soul”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape.
Derived terms: dioramic
impulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpʌlsɪv/
Forms: form: more impulsive
form: most impulsive
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impulsif, from Latin impulsivus.
Senses: examples: text: Poor men! poor papers! We and they / Do some impulsive force obey.
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
examples: text: my heart, impulsive and wayward
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
text: Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.
ref: 2025 April 28, Ross Douthat, Nick Adams, “Condition of America”, in New Left Review, number 152, →ISSN:
synonyms: hasty
precipitant
rash
glosses: Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings; inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous – said of forces.
Derived terms: impulsive speech
impulsivity
nonimpulsive
unimpulsive
Related terms: impulse
impulsion
impulsively
impulsiveness
impulsor
impulsory
impulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpʌlsɪv/
Forms: form: impulsives
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impulsif, from Latin impulsivus.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding all which Motives and impulsives , Sir Thomas Overbury refused to be sent abroad , with such terms
ref: 1613, Henry Wotton, letter to Edmund Bacon:
glosses: That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.
glosses: One whose behaviour or personality is characterized by being impulsive.
emmenagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emmenagogues
form: emmenagog
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμμηνα (émmēna, “menses”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leading”).
Senses: examples: text: Take of the emmenagogue decoction, six ounces; borax, fifteen grains; troches of myrrh, two scruples; dittany of Crete, finely powdered, ten grains; […]
ref: 1775, The practice of the British and French hospitals:
text: The term emmenagogue is applied to any remedy or indeed any resource whatever which normalizes the menses.
ref: 1914, Albert Henry Buck, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences:
text: Because of its phenolic ether content (methyl chavicol), which varies within wide limits, depending on the species, the origin and the time of harvesting, basil is often cited as an emmenagogue.
ref: 2007, Shirley Price, Aromatherapy for Health Professionals, page 71:
text: DES does not propose an etymology for this word [bunnanaru, 'yellow germander'], but merely notes its similarity to the toponym Bunnánaru. Paulis suggests that this similarity may be due to chance or folk etymology, which is plausible. He proposes an etymology *kunn-án-aru, from Lat. cunnus 'vagina' because of this plant's apparent emmenagogue properties.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 66:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An herb that stimulates blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus, causing menstruation.
Related terms: emmenagogic
emmenology
burd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burds
Etymology: From Middle English burde (“woman, lady, young lady”), possibly from Old English byrde (“of noble birth”) (compare Middle English bern (“young man”)), or alteration of Old English brȳd (“bride”). Origin of the English slang bird for a young woman.
Senses: glosses: maiden, young woman
disappointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/
Forms: form: more disappointed
form: most disappointed
Senses: examples: text: After all his anticipation, the trip left him deeply disappointed.
text: If they came to hear me beg, they will be disappointed.
ref: 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Thel 'Vadamee (Keith David), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:
glosses: Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
examples: text: Scattered here and there amongst the steerage passengers were men of a different class: men whose previous lives had not fitted them for the hard and uncertain lot that certainly lay before them - pale-faced boys from Melbourne shops; middle-aged and disappointed men; one and all hoping for a turn of luck in the lottery of the newly-discovered goldfield.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 141:
glosses: Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
Having had a marriage proposal rejected.
examples: text: a disappointed tone / face / silence
glosses: Expressing or indicating disappointment.
Synonyms: discomfited
foiled
frustrated
thwarted
Derived terms: disappointedly
disappointedness
undisappointed
disappointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disappoint
budo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budō
Etymology: From Japanese 武道 (budō).
Senses: glosses: Japanese martial arts.
bufo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufos
Etymology: From translingual Bufo marinus (now Rhinella marina), the cane toad, from Latin būfō (“toad”).
Senses: glosses: toad, frog
buko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bukos
Etymology: From Tagalog buko.
Senses: glosses: A coconut.
Derived terms: buko juice
buko pie
immunoelectrophoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoelectrophoreses
Etymology: From immuno- + electrophoresis.
Senses: glosses: A technique, using a combination of protein electrophoresis and an antigen-antibody interaction, to separate mixtures of proteins and identify them.
Derived terms: counterimmunoelectrophoresis
radioimmunoelectrophoresis
Related terms: immunoelectroosmophoresis
immunoelectrophoretic
immunoelectrophoretically
immunodiffusion
-phore
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -phor
Etymology: From New Latin -phorus, from Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”), a derivative of φέρω (phérō, “to bear, to carry”). See phoresy.
Senses: glosses: Bearer, carrier or conveyor.
Related terms: anaphora
cataphora
chaetophore
dysphoria
electrophoresis
endophora
euphoria
exophora
gametophore
hemophore
heterophoria
osmophore
phosphor
phosphorescence
porophore
sarissophoroi
semaphore
trophophore
killed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪld
ipa: /kɪld/
note: Northumbria, African-American Vernacular, sometimes
ipa: /kɪlt/
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:killed.
glosses: simple past and past participle of kill
Derived terms: home-killed
must have killed a Chinaman
prekilled
roadkilled
self-killed
semikilled
unkilled
killed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪld
ipa: /kɪld/
note: Northumbria, African-American Vernacular, sometimes
ipa: /kɪlt/
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Deoxidized.
raw_tags: of steel
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inactivated.
raw_tags: of vaccine
highly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪli/
rhymes: -aɪli
Forms: form: highlier
form: more highly
form: highliest
form: most highly
Etymology: From Middle English hiȝly, heȝly, heyȝliche, from Old English hēalīce (“highly”), equivalent to high + -ly. Cognate with Dutch hoogelijk (“highly”), German höchlich (“highly”), Danish højlig (“highly”), Swedish högligen (“highly”).
Senses: examples: text: He spoke highly of you.
glosses: In a high or esteemed manner.
examples: text: He is in a highly visible job.
text: The book was highly controversial yet sold unbelievably well.
text: There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line.
ref: 1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
text: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
ref: 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
text: The highly anticipated all-American matchup between Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe — marking the first US Open semifinals between two US men in nearly 20 years — will cost you quite a few Honey Deuces to attend.
ref: 2024 September 6, Jordan Valinsky, “Ticket prices for the all-American men’s matchup at the US Open are surging”, in CNN:
glosses: Extremely; greatly; very much.
Derived terms: highly composite number
highly-enriched uranium
highly sensitive person
highly-strung
highly superior autobiographical memory
superior highly composite number
rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪts/
homophone: rites
homophone: writes
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of right
rights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪts/
homophone: rites
homophone: writes
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of right
directly
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ-rĕk(t)ˈ -lē
enpr: dī-rĕk(t)ˈ -lē
ipa: /dɪˈɹɛk(t)li/
ipa: /daɪˈɹɛk(t)li/
Etymology: From direct + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “He is, he is," Nastenka repeated. “He is here, and I know it. We made an agreement at the time, that evening, before he went away: when we said all that I have told you, and had come to an understanding, then we came out here for a walk on this embankment. It was ten o'clock; we sat on this seat. I was not crying then; it was sweet to me to hear what he said.... And he said that he would come to us directly he arrived, and if I did not refuse him, then we would tell grandmother about it all. Now he is here, I know it, and yet he does not come!"
ref: 1918, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, White Nights, page 54:
text: Tenderly, reluctantly, he took his leave of her, promising that he would contact her directly he got back, perhaps in ten days or so.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 725:
text: He is to go to Calais, directly this is over, to replace Lord Berners as governor [...].
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 463:
glosses: As soon as; immediately (elliptical for directly that/as/when)
ecstatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈstætɪk/
Forms: form: more ecstatic
form: most ecstatic
form: ecstatick
form: extatic
form: extatick
form: extatique
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikós). By surface analysis, ecstasy + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state.
ref: 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms …, London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 191:
synonyms: delirious
rapturous
glosses: Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
examples: text: Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: blissful
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: joyful
word: joyous
word: air-headed
word: blissed out
word: blissful
word: cock-a-hoop
word: delighted
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: exultant
word: filled with happiness
word: giddy
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: greatly pleased
word: joyful
word: joyous
word: lighthearted
word: orgasmic
word: on cloud nine
word: over the moon
word: overjoyed
word: thrilled
word: walking on air
glosses: Extremely happy.
examples: text: ecstatic gaze    ecstatic trance
text: this ecstatic fit of love and jealousy
ref: 1649, Henry Hammond, The Pastor's Motto:
glosses: Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
Derived terms: ecstatically
ecstaticity
ecstaticize
unecstatic
ecstatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈstætɪk/
Forms: form: ecstatics
form: ecstatick
form: extatic
form: extatick
form: extatique
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikós). By surface analysis, ecstasy + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.11:
glosses: Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
examples: text: If there is anything that can be called protoscripture, it is surely the utterances of ecstatics, prophets and seers...
ref: 1993, William A. Graham, Beyond the written word: oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion, Cambridge University Press, page 65:
glosses: A person in a state of ecstasy.
blissful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blissful
form: most blissful
form: blissfull
Etymology: From Middle English blisful, bislvol, equivalent to bliss + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,
And call Britannia's glories back to view;
ref: 1738, Samuel Johnson, London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, lines 25–26:
text: She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 27, in Little Women:
text: New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul.
ref: 1983, James Hijiya, “American Gravestones and Attitudes toward Death: A Brief History,”, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 127, number 5, page 349:
glosses: Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
glosses: Blessed; glorified.
Synonyms: word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: joyful
word: orgasmic
word: overjoyed
word: rapturous
word: on cloud nine
word: air-headed
word: blissed out
word: blissful
word: cock-a-hoop
word: delighted
word: exultant
word: filled with happiness
word: giddy
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: greatly pleased
word: joyous
word: lighthearted
word: over the moon
word: thrilled
word: walking on air
Hypernyms: word: happy
Derived terms: blissfully
blissfulness
unblissful
Related terms: word: cloud nine
word: seventh heaven
word: pleasure
word: thrill
Salon des Refusés
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: salon des refusés
form: salon des refuses
Etymology: From French Salon des Refusés.
Senses: glosses: An exhibition held in Paris from 1863 to 1886, showing works that had been rejected by the Académie des Beaux-Arts when submitted for display at the Paris Salon.
Salon des Refusés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salons des Refusés
form: salon des refusés
form: salon des refuses
Etymology: From French Salon des Refusés.
Senses: examples: text: The press reported rumors that a salon des refuses was in the works.
ref: 1985, Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art, page 69:
text: By the time American photographic pictorialists became interested in organizing their first salon, European painters and sculptors had been organizing salons des refuses in protest against the official salons of Paris for more than forty years.
ref: 1999, Jay Ruby, The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Photographer, page 84:
text: Fifty-five paintings are a lot, and yet this year, for the first time, there is also an alternative show, a salon des refusés, set up by artists who did not make the final cut.
ref: 2011 June 15, Jonathan Jones, “BP Portrait award unlocks our passion for painting”, in The Guardian:
text: One result of this question was Dubuffet's decision, in 1951, to create a Salon des refusés for his Salon des refusés: an “Annex” to his art brut collection to which he relegated certain items, made by children, amateur painters, and others, that he no longer thought deserved to be shown on an equal footing with art brut proper.
ref: 2012, Daniel Cottom, Why Education is Useless, page 94:
glosses: A gallery for outsider art or art rejected from mainstream galleries.
ahata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The musical sounds in nature and in Indian music, especially percussion
extremely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪksˈtɹiːmli/
Forms: form: more extremely
form: most extremely
form: extreamely
form: extreamly
Etymology: From extreme + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The National Center for Health Statistics' latest data indicate that quintuplets are extremely rare, with 66 reported sets of five or more babies in 2013.
ref: 2015 April 14, “America's First All-Girl Quintuplets Born in Texas Hospital”, in Time:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To an extreme degree.
Synonyms: word: acutely
word: awfully
word: beyond
word: damn
word: drastically
word: exceedingly
word: extraordinarily
word: highly
word: hugely
word: immensely
word: insanely
word: intensely
word: jolly
word: murrain
word: severely
word: strikingly
word: terribly
word: violently
word: wicked
word: wildly
Derived terms: extremely low frequency
Related terms: word: degree
word: quantity
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 31. Greatness
asceticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛt.əˌsɪz.əm/
Forms: form: asceticisms
Etymology: From ascetic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.
Related terms: ascetic
ascetical
ascetically
faecal matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The family that makes the Squatty Potty says this posture unfurls your colon and gives your faecal matter a clear run from your gut to the bowl, reducing bloating, constipation and the straining that causes haemorrhoids.
ref: 2018, Alex Blasdel, “Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo”, in Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fecal matter.
DCG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DCGs
Senses: examples: The AGFL formalism for the syntactic description of Natural Languages has been developed by the Computer Science Department of the Radboud University of Nijmegen. It is a formalism in which large context free grammars can be described in a compact way. AGFLs belong to the family of two level grammars, along with attribute grammars and DCG's: a first, context-free level is augmented with set-valued features for expressing agreement between constituents.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of definite clause grammar.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of discounted cumulative gain.
stillicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪlɪsʌɪd/
Forms: form: stillicides
Etymology: Anglicisation of Latin stillicidium.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever in my field of vision dwelt – / An indoor scene, hickory leaves, the svelte / Stilettos of a frozen stillicide – / Was printed on my eyelids' nether side / Where it would tarry for an hour or two, / And while this lasted all I had to do / Was close my eyes to reproduce the leaves, / Or indoor scene, or trophies of the eaves.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
glosses: Water falling in drops, especially in a row from the eaves of a roof, or from icicles or stalactites.
topics: law
glosses: Synonym of stillicidium.
synonyms: word: stillicidium
glosses: A clause written into a land agreement that prohibits the tennant from building so close to the boundary that it would cause the water dripping from the eaves to fall on the neighbouring property.
glosses: The ground onto which the dripping water from the eaves falls. In this sense it means the same as eavesdrop or eavesdrip.
sidle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdl/
enpr: sīd-(ə)l
ipa: /ˈsaɪdəl/
rhymes: -aɪd(ə)l
Forms: form: sidles
Etymology: The verb is from side + -le (frequentative suffix), possibly a back-formation from sideling (“in a sidelong direction; askew, obliquely”, adverb), treating that word as the present participle of sidle.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n this mythic America, we fly along in the fast lane, placing bets against flashing lights in the rearview mirror, against the dreaded sidle into the gravel and the voice at the window demanding our license.
ref: 2015, Meredith Castile, “America”, in Drivers License (Object Lessons), New York, N.Y.; London: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: An act of sidling.
A sideways movement.
examples: text: Listener up there! Here you … what have you to confide in me? / Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, / Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
ref: 1855 July 4, Walt Whitman, “[Song of Myself]”, in Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: [James and Andrew Rome], →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: An act of sidling.
A furtive advance.
absurdism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɜːdˌɪz.m̩/
ipa: /æbˈsɝdˌɪz.m̩/
ipa: /əbˈsɝdˌɪz.m̩/
ipa: /æbˈzɝdˌɪz.m̩/
ipa: /əbˈzɝdˌɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: absurdisms
Etymology: From absurd + -ism (“doctrine, theory”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational and that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail.
examples: text: Henri Duval is a swashbuckling adventure with an absurdism straight out of Douglas Fairbanks: Siegel makes his hero a dandy who draws swords on men who insult his clothes.
ref: 2004, Gerard Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book, →ISBN, page 113:
text: It is a sense of irrational well-being that can seduce perfectly rational people to believe such absurdisms as “Two can live as cheaply as one…” Later (about 9 1/2 weeks) comes the rational spoilsport follow up “…for half as long.”
ref: 2010 May 24, ca, The New York Times:
glosses: Absurdity, something that is absurd
actinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinisms
Etymology: From actin- + -ism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That property of electromagnetic radiation that leads to the production of photochemical effects
nylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪlɒn/
ipa: /ˈnaɪlɑn/
rhymes: -aɪlɒn
Forms: form: nylons
Etymology: Coined by the company DuPont in 1938. According to the company, the name was formed from the random generic syllable nyl- + the common fiber suffix -on (as in rayon and Dacron), said to be ultimately from cotton.
Senses: glosses: Originally, the DuPont company trade name for polyamide, a copolymer whose molecules consist of alternating diamine and dicarboxylic acid monomers bonded together; now generically used for this type of polymer.
examples: text: I tore a hole in my nylons while walking home through the woods.
text: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He put on make-up, nylons, panties, a dress.
text: What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts.
ref: 2007, Matthew Weiner, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Don Draper (Jon Hamm):
glosses: A stocking originally fabricated from nylon; also used generically for any long, sheer stocking worn on a woman's legs.
qualifier: by comparison to silk
glosses: A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel who was appointed as a courtesy, rather than on merit.
Derived terms: Bri-Nylon
nylonase
nyloned
nylon-string guitar
polyester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: polyesters
Etymology: From poly- + ester.
Senses: glosses: Any polymer whose monomers are linked together by ester bonds
glosses: A material or fabric made from polyester polymer
Derived terms: biopolyester
copolyester
homopolyester
nonpolyester
polycotton
polyesterase
polyestered
polyesterification
polyester Protestant
polyesterurethane
polyfill
polyester
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Etymology: From poly- + ester.
Senses: examples: text: Her short stout body was packed into pale pink polyester pants and a matching buttonfront vest.
ref: 1988 April 15, Laura Flaherty, “The Woman in Pink”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Of, or consisting of polyesters.
patibulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patibulums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin patibulum (“crossbeam”).
Senses: glosses: The crossbar of a cross used for crucifixion.
monomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnəmə/
ipa: /ˈmɑnəmɚ/
Forms: form: monomers
Etymology: From mono- + -mer.
Senses: examples: text: The water absorbency of the anionically starch-grafted AA/AM absorbent is markedly affected by the pH of the buffer solution at different ionic strengths. The charge of the ionic monomer affects the pH sensitivity of the superabsorbent polymers. An acidic superabsorbent normally ionizes at high pH but unionizes at low pH.
ref: 2000 October 1, Suda Kiatkamjornwong, Wararuk Chomsaksakul, Manit Sonsuk, “Radiation modification of water absorption of cassava starch by acrylic acid/acrylamide”, in Radiation Physics and Chemistry, volume 59, number 4, →DOI, page 423:
text: Nothing at all in the German fridge, so new that its interior smells only of cold and long-chain monomers.
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 1:
text: In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: molecule
;
compound
coordinate_terms: polymer
;
oligomer
;
dimer
trimer
tetramer
pentamer
hexamer
heptamer
septamer
octamer
nonamer
decamer
glosses: A relatively small molecule which can be covalently bonded to other monomers to form a polymer or oligomer.
Derived terms: biomonomer
comonomer
heteromonomer
intermonomer
intramonomer
macromonomer
monomerisation
monomerise
monomerization
monomerize
pseudomonomer
submonomer
stipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stipites
Etymology: From Latin stīpes.
Senses: glosses: The vertical beam of a cross used for crucifixion.
glosses: The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
glosses: A stipe; a stalk or stem.