cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnjʊəɹ(ə)n/
ipa: /əˈn(j)ʊɹən/
ipa: /æ-/
Forms: form: anurans
Etymology: From New Latin Anoura, Anura (“name of the order of amphibians”), or from French Anoures (“name of a family of amphibians”), from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “lacking”)) + Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that the higher Batrachia go on metamorphosing until several of their structures are so perfect as to require but the gentlest modification to make them fit for the Mammal, does not require one to suppose that the Toad and the Frog lie in the direct route from the Ichthyic to the Mammalian types. That such power of variation, such aptitude for transformation exists in these essential but metamorphic Fish, suggests the probability that some of the very earliest of the Amphibia, filial perhaps to forms far lower than the Lamprey, did not stop at the last metamorphic stage of an Anuran, but changed still further, and thus laid the foundation of the higher classes.
ref: 1871, William Kitchen Parker, “VIII. On the Structure and Development of the Skull of the Common Frog (Rana temporaria, L.). By William Kitchen Parker, F.R.S. Received October 10, 1870,—Read January 19, 1871.”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 161, part I, London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 202:
text: Inactivity may dominate an anuran’s life. Spea hammondii in the deserts of southwestern North America spend >90% of their life inactive; they appear explosively and breed with the first heavy summer rains, then feed for 2–3 weeks before becoming inactive for another year.
ref: 2001, George R. Zug, Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell, “Thermoregulation, Performance, and Energetics”, in Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2nd edition, San Diego, Calif.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 191, column 1:
text: Often the anuran gives a release call, a signal to other anurans that it is either not sexually receptive or is of the wrong sex to be amplexed. The release call may sound similar to a distress call, a vocalization emitted by an anuran in response to predation, but either call may serve to startle a clinician momentarily, by which time the anuran may escape.
ref: 2006, Kevin M. Wright, “Overview of Amphibian Medicine”, in Douglas R. Mader, editor, Reptile Medicine and Surgery, 2nd edition, St. Louis, Mo.: Saunders Elsevier, →ISBN, page 947:
glosses: Any amphibian of the order Anura; a frog, a toad.
Related terms: anourous
anurous
anurophagous
Anura
anural
anuran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnjʊəɹ(ə)n/
ipa: /əˈn(j)ʊɹən/
ipa: /æ-/
Etymology: From New Latin Anoura, Anura (“name of the order of amphibians”), or from French Anoures (“name of a family of amphibians”), from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “lacking”)) + Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: As a further illustration, we may take the results of experiments in which a Urodele organiser (from Triton alpestris) is grafted into an Anuran embryo (Bufo vulgaris).
ref: 1934, Julian S[orell] Huxley, G[avin] R[ylands] de Beer, “Organisers: Inducers of Differentiation”, in The Elements of Experimental Embryology, Cambridge: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 142:
text: It is well known that an anuran tadpole or an insect larva will never turn into its adult form if the respective endogenous metamorphic hormones, thyroxine and ecdysone, were withdrawn or prevented from reaching the target tissues.
ref: 1971, J. R. Tata, “Protein Synthesis during Amphibian Metamorphosis”, in A[ron] A[rthur] Moscona, Alberto Monroy, editors, Current Topics in Developmental Biology, volume 6, New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 79:
text: [I]njection of urodele DNA into an anuran (frog) egg produces an extra "balancer" (i.e., protrusion on the chin of the embryo which may or may not be a real balancer), but so does injection of the DNA of this anuran into its own egg.
ref: 1989, Eric H[arris] Davidson, “An Analysis of Niu Mengchang’s Research on Transformation by RNA”, in Dean H. Hamer, Shain-dow Kung, editors, Biotechnology in China, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Of or relating to the order Anura.
Synonyms: batrachian
Hypernyms: salientian
Related terms: froggish
froggy
froglike
frogly
ranarian
ranine
toadish
toadlike
toadly
capsaicinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsaicinoids
Etymology: From capsaicin + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of irritant compounds, related to capsaicin, that are responsible for the heat of chilli peppers.
eclamptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eclamptic
form: most eclamptic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to eclampsia.
Derived terms: preeclamptic
eclamptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclamptics
Senses: glosses: One who suffers from eclampsia.
electrophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to electrophysiology
Derived terms: electrophysiologically
neuroelectrophysiological
electrophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + physiology.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The branch of physiology that studies the electrical activity of organisms.
Derived terms: electrophysiologic
electrophysiological
electrophysiologically
electrophysiologist
neuroelectrophysiology
Related terms: electrogram
electrograph
electrography
electrometer
electrometry
interaural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + aural.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Describing the differences between the reception of sound (especially timing and intensity) by each ear
phasically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more phasically
form: most phasically
Etymology: From phasic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a phasic manner
Derived terms: antiphasically
phonotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phono- + taxis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
coordinate_terms: geotaxis
heliotaxis
hydrotaxis
phototaxis
glosses: The ability to move in an orientation with respect to a source of sound.
Related terms: phonotactic
phonotactics
phonotax
phonotaxic
proepicardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proepicardial
form: most proepicardial
Etymology: From pro- + epicardial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the proepicardium.
proepicardium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proepicardia
Etymology: From pro- + epicardium.
Senses: glosses: An embryonic group of progenitor cells that forms near the venous pole of the heart and gives rise to the epicardium.
promyelocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more promyelocytic
form: most promyelocytic
Etymology: From promyelocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the promyelocyte.
promyelocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promyelocytes
Etymology: From pro- + myelocyte.
Senses: examples: text: Normal promyelocytes are loaded with toxic enzymes and granules that are usually released by adult white blood cells to kill viruses, bacteria, and parasites.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), pages 407–408:
glosses: A granulocyte precursor, developing from the myeloblast and developing into the myelocyte.
Derived terms: promyelocytic
quadruplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadruplex
thalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /θəˈlæ.mɪk/
Etymology: From thalamus + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging Fiber Tracking (DTI FT) the authors describe potential converging ascending and descending MFB and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR) that may mediate major brain reward-seeking and punishment functions. Authors highlight novel connectivity, such as supero-lateral-branch MFB and ATR convergence, caudally as well as rostrally, in the anterior limb of the internal capsule and medial prefrontal cortex.
ref: 2012, Volker A Coenen, Jaak Panksepp, Trevor A Hurwitz, Horst Urbach, Burkhard Mädler, “Human medial forebrain bundle (MFB) and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR): imaging of two major subcortical pathways and the dynamic balance of opposite affects in understanding depression”, in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, →DOI, →PMID:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the thalamus.
Derived terms: bithalamic
bulbothalamic
caudothalamic
cerebellothalamic
collothalamic
corticostriatothalamic
corticothalamic
dentatorubrothalamic
dentatothalamic
epithalamic
extrahypothalamic
extrathalamic
frontothalamic
geniculohypothalamic
hyperthalamic
hypothalamic
infrathalamic
interthalamic
intrahypothalamic
intrathalamic
lemnothalamic
mamallothalamic
mamillothalamic
mammillothalamic
mammilothalamic
metathalamic
monothalamic
neospinothalamic
neothalamic
nonhypothalamic
nonthalamic
palaeospinothalamic
paleospinothalamic
pallidosubthalamic
pallidothalamic
parasubthalamic
parathalamic
perihypothalamic
polythalamic
prethalamic
reticulothalamic
retinohypothalamic
retinothalamic
septohypothalamic
spinoreticulothalamic
spinothalamic
striatothalamic
submammillothalamic
subthalamic
suprathalamic
tectothalamic
thalamically
thalamo-cortico-thalamic
transthalamic
tuberothalamic
thujone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thujones
Etymology: From the genus name translingual Thuja + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomers of a bicyclic monoterpenoid ketone found in several aromatic plants.
zanamivir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəˈnæm.ɪˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From zan- (of unknown origin) + -amivir (“neuraminidase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiviral drug C₁₂H₂₀N₄O₇ that is a neuraminidase inhibitor taken by oral inhalation in the treatment and prophylaxis of Influenzavirus.
metacenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacenters
Senses: glosses: US spelling of metacentre.
space probes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of space probe
metacentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtəsɛntə/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: metacentres
form: metacenter
Etymology: From French métacentre or meta- + centre.
Senses: examples: text: A ship's metacenter (M) is the virtual intersection of two successive lines of action of the force of buoyancy when the ship heels through a very small angle. The initial position of the metacenter is used as a reference in stability calculations. The distance from a ship's center of gravity (G) to its metacenter is known as the metacentric height (GM). GM is a measure of the vessel's ability to right itself when experiencing an overturning moment. For the same vessel, a higher GM value indicates a greater initial static stability.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Stability Information - 1.12.1 Concepts”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 132:
topics: natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
glosses: The point where a vertical line through a tilted vessel's center of buoyancy intersects the originally-vertical (but-now-tilted) line that passed through the center of buoyancy when the vessel was upright; it must be above the vessel's center of gravity for the vessel to have positive static stability (to tend to return to an upright orientation if rolled to one side, rather than to continue rolling to an inverted orientation).
Related terms: metacentral
metacentric
smoothbore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From smooth + bore.
Senses: examples: text: From what distance the smoothbore musket was able to fell a human target has been the source of debate for a long time.
ref: 2008, Earl J. Hess, The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth, University Press of Kansas, page 13:
glosses: Having a bore with a smooth interior, i.e. one that has not been rifled.
raw_tags: of firearms
Synonyms: unrifled
smoothbore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoothbores
Etymology: From smooth + bore.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A cannon, gun or other firearm that has an unrifled barrel.
unrifled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rifled.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Having a bore with a smooth interior, i.e. one that has not been rifled
Synonyms: smoothbore
gloomy Gus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloomy Guses
form: Gloomy Gus
Senses: examples: text: Even the pace-setting auto industry will not be as hard hit as many a Gloomy Gus had predicted.
ref: 1951 March 5, “Gloomy Gus to the Contrary”, in Time:
text: Duke Law School was Nixon's next training ground in persistence, success and frustration. His classmates called him "Gloomy Gus." He lived frugally, studied endlessly and never walked away from a classroom confrontation.
ref: 1990, “Nixon”, in PBS:
glosses: A person with a sullen, unhappy appearance or demeanor; a person with a pessimistic outlook.
Related terms: Alibi Ike
Dapper Dan
Debbie Downer
doubting Thomas
Gentleman Jim
good-time Charlie
nervous Nellie
plain Jane
Silent Sam
skinny Minnie
Gloomy Gus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gloomy Guses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gloomy Gus.
cinematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cinematical
form: most cinematical
Senses: examples: text: We don't make juvenile movies; we make cinematical films.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cinema; cinematic.
backplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backplate
backplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backplates
Etymology: From back + plate.
Senses: examples: text: The cuirass of Roman muscled type is composed of an anatomically modeled breastplate and backplate, each made in one with a gorget […]
ref: 1998, Stuart W. Pyhrr et al., Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 285:
glosses: A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
glosses: The metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, where the ports are found.
glosses: A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
glosses: Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.
Derived terms: backplated
semigroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semigroup
simplifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simplification
sternwheelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternwheeler
sternwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternwheel
subchannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subchannel
subdialects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdialect
subdistricts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdistrict
-ville
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪl/
Etymology: Borrowed from French ville (“town, city”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city.
examples: text: What do you reckon? Far outsville or far insville?
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18:
glosses: Used with an adjective as a mildly intensifying locative, indicating a region or state of that kind.
Tian'anmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Adjoining the parks on the south is part of the remaining southern wall of the former Imperial city. The wall is pierced by T'ien-an Men (Gate of Heavenly Peace), on which China's Communist leaders gather on ceremonial occasions to review military and civilian parades in the square adjoining the gate.
ref: [1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 532, column 2:
text: 27 October 1999 The People's Daily publishes the article '"Falun Gong" is an evil cult', written by a special commentator. Approximately 600 practitioners are arrested in Tian'anmen. Seventeen practitioners drape a Falun Gong banner across the rostrum of Tian'anmen.
ref: 2005, Jennifer Zeng, translated by Sue Wiles, Witnessing History, Soho Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333:
glosses: Alternative form of Tiananmen.
gryllus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grylli
Etymology: From Latin gryllus (“comic figure, caricature”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gryllos.
mitigatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mitigatory
form: most mitigatory
Etymology: From mitigate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: reducing, lessening the effects of something, generally something painful or uncomfortable
Synonyms: alleviatory
themselfs
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Different sorts of pressure and sexual threats need to be not only reduced but stopped altogether. Prison gays must set aside fighting between themselfs over lovers and stick together on the pressure subject.
ref: 1985 December 14, Jack Leck, “Stick Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 4:
glosses: Misspelling of themselves.
monoubiquitinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ubiquitinated.
Senses: examples: text: This protein is monoubiquitinated in response to DNA damage, resulting in its localization to nuclear foci with other proteins involved in homology-directed DNA repair.
glosses: Having one ubiquitin unit attached.
Related terms: ubiquitinate
ubiquitinated
ubiquitination
ubiquitinylation
ubiquitylation
one swallow does not a summer make
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ (mía khelidṑn éar ou poieî), part of a remark found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (1098a18: “one swallow does not a spring make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy”), itself inspired by the fable The Young Man and the Swallow by Aesop.
The proverb is an allusion to the migration of swallows to Europe during spring. The unexpected translation of ἔαρ (éar) (meaning "spring") as "summer" seen in English is also encountered in many other languages, such as Dutch een zwaluw maakt nog geen zomer and German eine Schwalbe macht noch keinen Sommer (note the descendants at the Ancient Greek entry).
The unusual English word order (in use from circa 1920) may be intended to reflect the Greek word order, or it may be influenced by the line “Stone walls do not a prison make,” from To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace (1642).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hough one swallow does not make a summer, one engagement is apt to make several, and her boys were, most of them, at the inflammable age when a spark ignites the flame[.]
ref: 1886, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 9, in Jo's Boys […] , Boston: Roberts Brothers:
text: One swallow does not a summer make, nor one onion a spring garden.
ref: 1921 April 4, “Smile a While”, in The Day, retrieved 29 Nov 2011, page 6:
text: One swallow does not a summer make and one football game doesn't make a season.
ref: 1969 September 19, Bob Johnson, “Sports: September Madness”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle, page 15:
text: Added one Western diplomat: "Aquino's success undoubtedly weakens the Communists' appeal to the so-called mass base. But one swallow does not a summer make."
ref: 2001 June 24, Susan Tifft, “The Philippines: Now the Hard Part”, in Time, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2009:
glosses: One instance of an event (such as the arrival of a single bird) does not necessarily indicate a trend.
wikipedia: Aesop
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
Richard Lovelace
The Young Man and the Swallow
To Althea, from Prison
Related terms: alt: snowclone
word: X does not a Y make
rebond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebonds
form: rebonding
form: rebonded
form: rebonded
Etymology: From re- + bond.
Senses: examples: text: In the weeks he has not competed in Tour events, Mickelson has been spotted playing at Torrey Pines, walking and carrying his clubs, rebonding with the course of his youth.
ref: 2008 June 1, Larry Dorman, “Surf and Turf”, in New York Times:
glosses: To bond again or anew.
grenadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin American Spanish.
Senses: glosses: The wood of a tropical American tree. It is used in the making of clarinets, flutes and other wind instruments.
no shit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊ ˈʃɪt/
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, shit.
examples: text: Well, no shit. What have we got here? A fucking comedian. Private Joker.
ref: 1987 June 17, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey), distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures:
glosses: An exclamation of amazement or disbelief.
examples: text: LAPD Operator: Attention, whoever you are: this frequency is reserved for emergency calls only.
John McClane: No fuckin' shit, lady! Do I sound like I'm orderin' a pizza?!
ref: 1988, Die Hard, spoken by John McClane (Bruce Willis):
glosses: An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.
Synonyms: sense: amazement
word: no kidding
sense: amazement
word: no way
sense: response to the obvious
word: really
sense: response to the obvious
word: oh really
sense: response to the obvious
word: you don't say
Derived terms: no shit, Sherlock
Sherlock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɜɹ.lɒk/
Forms: form: Sherlocks
Etymology: Supposedly from an Old English scir-locc (“bright-lock”).
One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock.
In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
examples: text: — Where that arrow on the map says 'You are here', that must be where we are.
— Yeah, well done Sherlock.
glosses: A detective (from Sherlock Holmes), especially used sarcastically to address somebody who has stated the obvious.
Derived terms: no shit, Sherlock
Sherlocked
Sherlockian
Sherlockish
Sherlocky
Sherly
Sherlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɜɹ.lɒk/
Forms: form: Sherlocks
form: Sherlocking
form: Sherlocked
form: Sherlocked
Etymology: Supposedly from an Old English scir-locc (“bright-lock”).
One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock.
In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.
Senses: examples: text: "Anybody could have Sherlocked at a glance," sniffed young Kennilworth, "that it had been packed by a crazy person!"
ref: 1921, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Rainy Week, E. P Dutton (1921), page 77
text: But almost at once I told myself that I ought to have Sherlocked the truth the moment this troubled, beautiful being had appeared on deck.
ref: 1921, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Brightener, Doubleday, page 274:
text: He wasn't crew, and he wasn't talent. I Sherlocked that from his clothes: […]
ref: 1997, Bharati Mukherjee, Leave It to Me, Fawcett Columbine, published 1997, →ISBN:
synonyms: figure out
solve
glosses: To deduce.
examples: text: That afternoon when the boys were in the field Mr. Frickstad sherlocked around in the tents and under the cots looking for a missing rocking-chair.
ref: 1908, The Blue and Gold, volume 35, page 52:
text: It is reported that Governor McCall will also appoint a committee to investigate the high cost of living, but in the meantime individual investigators have Sherlocked around and their stories would make DeQuincy's Life of an Opium Eater fade into insignificance.
ref: 1917, The National Provisioner, Volume 56, Part 1, page 33:
text: Mlle. Belge's eyes Sherlocked over her chorus until it matched up those curls.
ref: 1919, Theatre Magazine, volumes 29-30, page 24:
synonyms: hunt
seek
glosses: To search.
examples: text: The thing software developers fear most is being "sherlocked".
ref: 2012 July 13, “You've been sherlocked”, in The Economist:
text: All three developers are in a position common enough that it even has a name in the community. They have been "sherlocked".
ref: 2013 October 28, Alex Hern, “Sherlocked: how Mavericks is making some apps obsolete”, in The Guardian:
text: Last year, when Apple released iOS 7 it added a feature to the Photo app, allowing users to sort photos on the basis of location and date. Photoworks, a third-party app, too offered same functionality. In response, app developer Stephen Orth tweeted, "I guess my new app just got sherlocked."
ref: 2014 June 3, Javed Anwer, “WhatsApp CEO mocks Apple for copying features”, in The Times of India:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app.
nymphettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nymphette
nymphets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nymphet
topscorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topscorers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of top scorer.
top scorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top scorers
Senses: examples: text: On our website you can keep tabs of the top scorers in Europe’s major leagues.
text: England's top scorers in the World Championship games were NN and MM.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: ballgames
glosses: A person who scores most or among the best in a specified league, team or game.
telenovela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telenovelas
Etymology: From Spanish telenovela.
Senses: glosses: A television soap opera presented as a miniseries.
tambon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tambons
form: tambon
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ตำบล (dtam-bon).
Senses: glosses: An administrative subunit in Thailand below district (amphoe) and province (changwat).
talkback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talkbacks
Etymology: Deverbal from talk back.
Senses: glosses: A system in broadcasting and recording studios that enables the director to communicate with others (host, presenter, anchor) during performance.
glosses: Communication from members of the public to the makers of a broadcast transmission while it is happening.
Related terms: backtalk
tailslides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailslide
tailslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailslides
form: tail slide
Etymology: From tail + slide.
Senses: glosses: A backwards movement of a stalled aircraft at the top of a vertical climb.
glosses: Any of several maneuvers, of a car, skateboard etc., in which the rear moves faster than the front.
man cave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man caves
form: mancave
form: man-cave
Etymology: man + cave, suggesting the caves in which prehistoric people sometimes lived.
Senses: examples: text: Man caves are better known on the mainland, where space isn't a problem.
ref: 2007 November 18, Charles Memminger, “Cave Men: There are sports and beer but no women in these sanctuaries”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, archived from the original on 13 May 2008:
text: Imagine the set of a prototypical man-cave podcast, and “Flagrant,” co-founded by the comedian Andrew Schulz, wouldn’t be far off: four dudes lounging around, with a few plastic plants and a shelf of brown liquor behind them.
ref: 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
synonyms: mantuary
glosses: A part of a home specifically reserved for adult male activities, such as drinking beer, playing games and watching TV; often a garage or den.
glosses: The vulva or vagina of a trans man.
switchhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switchhooks
form: switch hook
Etymology: From switch + hook.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hookswitch (“spring-loaded button that terminates a telephone call”).
synonyms: word: hookswitch
extra: spring-loaded button that terminates a telephone call
press releases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press release
supremacism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supremacisms
Etymology: From supremacy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that a certain group of people are far more superior compared to anyone else, such as those who belong to it are entitled to dominate, control, or rule those who do not. The supposed superior people can also be defined by age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, language, social class, ideology, nation, culture, or belonging to any other part of a particular population.
Hyponyms: racism
sexism
white supremacism
black supremacism
Derived terms: white supremacism
black supremacism
Related terms: supremacist
supraglenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + glenoid.
Senses: synonyms: supraglenoidal
glosses: Situated above the glenoid cavity of a bone.
suprachiasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpɹəkʌɪəzˈmatɪk/
Forms: form: superchiasmatic
form: suprachiasmatical
Etymology: From supra- + chiasmatic.
Senses: examples: text: When I tell you that the suprachiasmatic nucleus is composed of 20,000 brain cells, or neurons, you might assume it is enormous, consuming a vast amount of your cranial space, but actually it is tiny.
ref: 2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 18:
glosses: Situated above the optic chiasm; specifically, designating a nucleus or region in the paraventricular region of the hypothalamus.
supergroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supergroups
Etymology: From super- + group.
Senses: examples: text: Formally, a supergroup is a more general notion than group. We illustrate the difference between the two notions by a simple example.
ref: 2011, Alexander Kulikov, Nikolay Vereshchagin, editors, Computer Science – Theory and Applications […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 237:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any group composed of other groups.
The group to which a subgroup belongs.
examples: text: In 1974, David Geffen, Asylum's main man, applied his negotiating abilities to creating a country-rock supergroup along the lines of Crosby, Stills & Nash.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 365:
text: A supergroup is a rock and pop music term for a group whose members are already successful and well known, either as solo performers or part of other groups. It was first applied in 1968, to Cream, whose three members had already achieved prominence, […]
ref: [2017, Norman Abjorensen, Historical Dictionary of Popular Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 487:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any group composed of other groups.
A group of musicians, each a star of another band (especially in rock music).
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any group composed of other groups.
A generalization of groups, used in the study of supersymmetry.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Any group composed of other groups.
In the L-carrier system, a multiplexed group of channel groups.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any group composed of other groups.
A sequence of groups of formations that compose a coherent unit.
supercar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercars
Etymology: From super- + car.
Senses: examples: text: Lamborghini, which has built supercars with big 12-cylinder engines for almost 60 years, is one of several supercar makers, including Ferrari and McLaren, that are creating plug-in hybrid sports cars or fully-electric models to meet increasingly stringent carbon emission regulations.
ref: 2021 July 7, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Lamborghini and Lotus unveil last gasoline-only supercars”, in CNN:
text: As much of Seattle tries to sleep, the Hellcat supercar goes on the prowl, the howls of its engine and the explosive backfires from its tailpipes echoing off the high-rise towers downtown.
ref: 2024 May 29, Mike Baker, “Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any high-performance sports car.
Hypernyms: sports car
Hyponyms: hypercar
threatened species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threatened species
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any species of organism that is vulnerable to extinction in the near future
suckermouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckermouths
Etymology: From sucker + mouth.
Senses: glosses: A ventrally orientated (inferior) mouth, in some fish, adapted for grazing on algae etc.
glosses: Any of several fish that have this type of mouth
subterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + terminal.
Senses: glosses: Positioned near an end
glosses: Less than terminal
Derived terms: subterminally
subsemigroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsemigroups
Etymology: From sub- + semigroup.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any subset of a semigroup that is closed under the semigroup operation.
Hyponyms: ideal
semigroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semigroups
Etymology: From semi- + group, reflecting the fact that not all the conditions required for a group are required for a semigroup. (Specifically, the requirements for the existence of identity and inverse elements are omitted.)
Senses: examples: text: If a semigroup S contains a zeroid, then every left zeroid is also a right zeroid, and vice versa, and the set K of all the zeroids of S is the kernel of S.
ref: 1961, Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford, G. B. Preston, The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups, page 70:
text: 1988, A. Ya Aǐzenshtat, Boris M. Schein (translator), On Ideals of Semigroups of Endomorphisms, Ben Silver (editor), Nineteen Papers on Algebraic Semigroups, American Mathematical Society Translations, Series 2, Volume 139, page 11,
It follows naturally that various classes of ordered sets can be characterized by semigroup properties of endomorphism semigroups.
text: If one considers the variety of semigroups, one has the binary operation of multiplication defined on every semigroup.
ref: 2012, Jorge Almeida, Benjamin Steinberg, “Syntactic and Global Subgroup Theory: A Synthesis Approach”, in Jean-Camille Birget, Stuart Margolis, John Meakin, Mark V. Sapir, editors, Algorithmic Problems in Groups and Semigroups, page 5:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any set for which there is a binary operation that is closed and associative.
Hypernyms: sense: set for which a closed associative binary operation is defined
word: magma
Hyponyms: sense: set for which a closed associative binary operation is defined
word: group
sense: set for which a closed associative binary operation is defined
word: monoid
Derived terms: inverse semigroup
semigroup homomorphism
subsemigroup
subgrouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subgroup
subgrouping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgroupings
Senses: glosses: A subgroup
subdialect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdialects
Etymology: From sub- + dialect.
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of a dialect.
Derived terms: subdialectal
subdialectally
subchannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subchannels
Etymology: From sub- + channel.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A distinct division of a channel or frequency band.
examples: text: […] TV shows you watched when you were younger, you'll likely find them on the subchannels of your local TV stations — which are available free to anyone with a TV set and a good antenna.
ref: 2020, Michael R. Miller, My TV for Seniors:
text: It may well be that our viewers are going to say, "You know what? We don't care as much about 10801. We would rather have you rerun 'CBS News' on a subchannel and show your prime time entertainment in a lesser definition of digital television" […]
ref: 2001, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Digital Television: A Private Sector Perspective on the Transition: Hearing..., page 98:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: An additional frequency owned by a television broadcaster used for less lucrative content.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A distinct part of an I/O channel associated with a specific device.
structuralist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more structuralist
form: most structuralist
Etymology: From structural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to structuralism.
structuralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structuralists
Etymology: From structural + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:
glosses: An advocate or follower of structuralism.
Related terms: structuralism
sternwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternwheels
Etymology: From stern + wheel.
Senses: examples: text: The current was more rapid now, the steamer seemed at her last gasp, the stern–wheel flopped languidly, and I caught myself listening on tiptoe for the next beat of the boat, for in sober truth I expected the wretched thing to give up every moment.
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A paddle wheel positioned at the stern of a vessel.
Derived terms: sternwheeler
Related terms: sidewheel
sternwheeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternwheelers
Etymology: From sternwheel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Williams's steamboat crossed paths with a boat that was at the start of its voyage upstream, a long, boxy sternwheeler with a funnel and pilothouse on its top deck.
ref: 1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan, published 2012, page 140:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a single paddle wheel positioned at the stern
Related terms: sidewheeler
sidewheeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidewheelers
form: side-wheeler
form: side wheeler
Etymology: From side + wheel + -er.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a pair of paddle wheels positioned one on each side
Related terms: sternwheeler
paddle wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddle wheels
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A large wheel, fitted with paddles, used to propel a vessel (especially a paddle steamer)
Related terms: sidewheel
sternwheel
sidewheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidewheels
Etymology: From side + wheel.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of a pair of paddle wheels positioned one each side of a vessel
Related terms: sidewheeler
sternwheel
paddle steamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddle steamers
Senses: examples: text: In the second volume of his autobiography, he writes of a journey up the Padma by paddle steamer (built, as it happens, on the river outside my window), where the dry season had exposed many sandbanks...
ref: 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
text: By the 1880s, the pretty harbour village of Lynmouth was enjoying an influx of holidaymakers brought by paddle steamers from the likes of Bristol and Swansea.
ref: 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A steam-powered vessel propelled by one or two paddle wheels
Related terms: PS
paddleboat
sidewheeler
sternwheeler
steamship
steamboat
spraypainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spraypaint
spray paint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spray paints
form: spraypaint
Senses: glosses: paint applied in the form of a spray, especially from an aerosol can.
spray paint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spray paints
form: spray painting
form: spray painted
form: spray painted
form: spraypaint
Senses: examples: text: Dopeness is not a catchprase to be memed on Twitter, tatted on a forearm, or spray painted on a city block.
ref: 2022 October 18, Charity C. Elder, “Preface: A Black Woman’s Gaze”, in Power: The Rise of Black Women in America, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To apply paint in the form of a spray, especially from an aerosol can.
songwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songwritings
Etymology: From song + writing.
Senses: topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: The work of a songwriter.
somatotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatotropes
Senses: glosses: somatotroph
somatotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatotrophs
Etymology: From somato- + -troph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: somatotrope
glosses: One of a set of cells, in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, that produces the growth hormone somatotropin.
Derived terms: lactosomatotroph
somatocrinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hormone, produced in the hypothalamus, that promotes the secretion of growth hormones.
Synonyms: growth hormone-releasing hormone
GHRH
somatoliberin
SRH
sedimented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sediment
sedimented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sedimented
form: most sedimented
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Deposited from sediment
raw_tags: of a strata
glosses: Having much sediment
raw_tags: of a water course
schoolship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolships
form: school ship
Etymology: From school + ship.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel used for the education and training of sailors.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel used as a reformatory.
rotulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotulets
Senses: glosses: A document in the form of a small roll, especially one that forms part of a larger roll.
Related terms: rotulus
libertinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libertinages
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French libertinage.
Senses: examples: text: Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […]
ref: 1965, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and other Writings:
glosses: The conduct or activities of a libertine; licentiousness.
Related terms: libertinism
paginates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paginate
paginating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paginate
paisleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paisley
palpates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of palpate
palpating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of palpate
palpated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palpate
pop guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pop gun
popguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popgun
man caves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man cave
press avail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press avails
Etymology: Shortening of press availability, itself a shortening of "press availability session". First recorded in early 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: "There won't be a press avail," she explained briskly about Clinton's first stop at - where else - the Italian Market. "It'll basically be a photo op."
ref: 1992 April 18, Craig R. McCoy, “A Campaign Juggernaut Jaunts Through Phila.”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, page A4:
topics: government
journalism
media
politics
glosses: Clipping of press availability.
prokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + kinetic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Having the ability to induce motion in smooth muscles, especially those of the digestive system; gastrokinetic
glosses: Relating to prokinesis
prokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prokinetics
Etymology: From pro- + kinetic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: One of the class of drugs used on the digestive system, including all drugs whose primary effect is to augment the speed of intestinal transit by increasing the frequency of contractions in the small intestine or making them stronger, but without disrupting their rhythm.
press avails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press avail
press availability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press availabilities
Etymology: Shortening of "press availability session." Originally synonymous with press conference.
Senses: examples: text: I was told that there was a request for press availabilities.
ref: 1974 June 5, Carl B. Leubsdorf, quoting Ronald Reagan, “Reagan Puts Presidential Ambitions 'Between Lines'”, in The Lima News, page B12:
text: Mrs. Clinton rarely holds press availabilities or takes questions from reporters who cover her campaign.
ref: 2007 November 3, Christina Bellantoni, “Hillary criticized for press strategy”, in Washington Times, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2008:
topics: government
journalism
media
politics
glosses: An event at which a politician is made available for questioning by the media.
Synonyms: press avail
news availability