cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anti-shock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Of the many anti-shock devices now on the market, those depending on the elastic force of compressed air hold certain advantages.
ref: 1907, Car Illustrated: A Journal of Travel by Land, Sea, & Air:
text: Once the casing had been removed, the shock-proof cover was separated from the electronic section by means of an iron lever (the cover was attached to the electronic section with an anti-shock mounting).
ref: 2010, Allistair Fitzgerald, Air Crash Investigations, →ISBN:
text: The modified fuzzy rules enhanced the anti-shock abilities of the fuzzy PID controller greatly, and at the same time the controller still performs well during the initial levitation process.
ref: 2011, Min Zhu, Electrical Engineering and Control, →ISBN:
text: Anti-shock treatment should be started immediately.
ref: 2012, K. Atsumi, F. Kajiya, Medical engineering in Japan: Research and development, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of antishock.
anti-shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-shocks
Senses: examples: text: However, this amount of anti-shock is possible only if the boot sole is of the proper shape at the toe.
ref: 1974 October, Al Greenberg, “Know Your Bindings: 22, The Salomon S-555”, in Skiing, volume 27, number 2:
text: The blood transfusions were from 400 ml to 1500 ml (those used for anti-shock preoperatively not included).
ref: 2012, Issues in Critical and Emergency Medicine, →ISBN:
text: There are many types of additives: working agents, reticulating agents,stabilizers divided into anti-oxidants and anti-UV, plasticizers, fireproofing agents,pigments and dyes, inflating agents, anti-shocks.
ref: 2013, Yves Mouton, Organic Materials for Sustainable Civil Engineering, →ISBN:
text: They gave the members of the first group round-shaped sweets, and told them that these are pain killer pills or anti-shocks, and they swallowed it.
ref: 2012, Cindy L. Gunn, editor, Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: Reflections from the Classroom, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of antishock.
anti-shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-shock
smallen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smallens
form: smallening
form: smallened
form: smallened
Etymology: From small + -en.
Senses: examples: text: And Ywain looked down in his wheeling, and there was the city of Dœdala very far beneath him, and it smallened and darkened continually, so that save for the moonlight upon the towers he had soon seen it no more.
ref: 1914, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 196, page 193:
text: Do you feel you will be smallening yourself, Norman, if you examine your childhood?
ref: 2015, August Franza, The Life I Had in Mind:
text: In fact, I did—when I wrote Roget's story. Which begs the question, was the tale really diminished—lessened, minimized, or smallened in some way—when I started to lean on that linguistic crutch?
ref: 2019, Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It, page 90:
glosses: To make or become small; diminish
smallened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smallen
smallening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smallen
smallens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smallen
slidescanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slidescanners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slide scanner.
slide scanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slide scanners
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
hypernyms: device
peripheral#Noun
peripheral device
scanner
glosses: A device used to produce a digital copy of a slide.
Related terms: slide projector
slideshow
slideware
slopegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slopegraphs
Senses: glosses: A simplified line graph in which neighbouring points are connected by a straight line
slopegraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slopegraph
tallened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tallen
tallening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tallen
socioaffinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socioaffinities
Etymology: From socio- + affinity.
Senses: glosses: social affinity
spinosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinosaurs
Etymology: From the taxonomic name Spinosaurus. By surface analysis, spino- + -saur.
Senses: examples: text: Since then, all that has been discovered are some specimens of related smaller spinosaurs, as well as some isolated bones of Spinosaurus itself.
ref: 2006 Feb, NewScientist, page 19/1:
synonyms: spinosaurus
glosses: Any theropod dinosaur of the genus †Spinosaurus.
spinosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinosaur
spiropyran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiropyrans
Etymology: From spiro- + pyran.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any spiro compound in which one of the rings is a pyran
spiropyrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiropyran
spirotrichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spirotrich + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the spirotrichs
spleenocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spleenocytes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splenocyte.
spleenocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spleenocyte
spondylarthropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondylarthropathy
stereohistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + histology.
Senses: glosses: histology using a stereomicroscope
Related terms: stereohistological
stereohistological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stereo- + histological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to stereohistology
stereoideogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of steroidogenesis.
stereoideogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of steroidogenic.
styplopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of stylopod.
subclavate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + clavate.
Senses: glosses: Partially clavate
subendothelially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sub- + endothelially.
Senses: glosses: In a subendothelial manner or direction
subexperiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subexperiments
Etymology: From sub- + experiment.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A subsidiary experiment
subexperiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subexperiment
subnominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + nominal.
Senses: glosses: Less than nominal
supermacromolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + macromolecular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of supermacromolecules
supermacromolecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermacromolecules
Etymology: From super- + macromolecule.
Senses: glosses: A very large macromolecule, or a complex of two or more macromolecules
Related terms: supermacromolecular
supramedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + median.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Greater than median
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated above the median
supravisceral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + visceral.
Senses: examples: text: Just as traditional open surgical procedures adopted the use of the retroperitoneal approach, supravisceral aortic clamping, and renalvisceral-intercostal artery reimplantation for such aneurysms, so too has endovascular therapy progressed.
ref: 2018, Konstantinos P. Donas, Endovascular Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the viscera.
sympathotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sympathotropic.
sympathotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sympatho- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: That moves towards, or is attracted to the sympathetic nervous system
carterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carterly
form: most carterly
Etymology: From carter + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:
glosses: Of a rude or churlish disposition, like a carter.
Synonyms: boorish
Palladians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palladian
Learlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Learlike
form: most Learlike
Senses: examples: text: He even declined their company, and went down to the beach alone for his daily walk, to ponder on the event;—wondering whether it excited as much sensation in the family as when, in his early days of wedded life, an heir to the barony of Hartingham was looked for in his own household; and feeling perhaps a Learlike sympathy with the elements raging around him, and bringing the billowy surges to his feet.
ref: 1849, Catherine Gore, chapter 7, in The Diamond, and the Pearl, volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 144:
text: […] that deeply flawed thespian who brought to every role he was given in the Gravesend Players an overblown and befuddled sense of Learlike doom […]
ref: 1989, John Irving, chapter 6, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 265:
text: Of course, no one in the system cares, so his anger is Learlike, screaming to the deaf heavens.
ref: 2003, Rafe Esquith, chapter 8, in There Are No Shortcuts, New York: Pantheon, page 118:
glosses: Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.
or anything
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: No, we won't need weapons on our hike through the forest. It's not like there are bears or anything.
glosses: Synonym of or something; used with negative constructions.
synonyms: word: or something
extra: used with negative constructions
teleoanticipation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teleo- + anticipation.
Senses: examples: text: A hundred and one different variables factor into how training should unfold for individual endurance athletes, and among them is the degree to which one is affected by the process of teleoanticipation.
ref: 2011, Michael Atkinson, Key Concepts in Sport and Exercise Research Methods:
glosses: The anticipation of the end of a physical task that allows more efficient expenditure of energy.
Related terms: teleoanticipatory
telotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of telotrophic.
tetraallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: genetic
glosses: The condition of being tetraallelic
tetrachloraurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrachloraurates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetrachloroaurate.
tetrachloraurates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrachloraurate
thermocontroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermocontrollers
Etymology: From thermo- + controller.
Senses: glosses: Any device that controls temperature, or heat output
thermocontrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermocontroller
thyrosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyrospheres
Etymology: From thyro- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: A spherical cluster of thyroid cancer cells
thyrospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyrosphere
translobar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + lobar.
Senses: glosses: Across or through a lobe
triallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, given the phenomenon of triallelism, it is no longer possible to be certain that the recurrence risk in an affected family will be as high as 25 per cent as it may be a requirement in up to 10 per cent of pedigrees for three mutant alleles to co-segregate.
ref: 2003, Frances Flinter, The Genetics of Renal Disease, page 368:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of being triallelic.
trichogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tricho- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The generation and development of hair
Related terms: trichogenic
trichogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tricho- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to trichogenesis
trichostain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of trichostatin.
trinonadecanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + nonadecanoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester containing three nonadecanoate groups or anions
tripolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being tripolar
tritiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritiations
Senses: glosses: The process, or the result of tritiating (adding tritium to something).
turbocurarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tubocurarine.
tyrosinamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid amide of tyrosine
acid amide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acid amides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amide of an oxoacid, but especially of a carboxylic acid
ultramicropathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + micropathological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ultramicropathology
unalkylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + alkylated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Not alkylated
uncapsulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + capsulated.
Senses: glosses: Not capsulated
La Palma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish La Palma.
Senses: glosses: The northwesternmost island of the Canary Islands, Spain.
glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
glosses: A town and municipality of Cundinamarca department, Colombia.
glosses: A town and municipality of Pinar del Río province, Cuba.
glosses: A town and municipality of Chalatenango department, El Salvador.
glosses: A town and corregimiento in Darién province, Panama.
glosses: A corregimiento in Los Santos province, Panama.
Arceaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Arceaga.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
underivatised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of underivatized.
agrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Spanish agrito
Senses: glosses: A Mexican shrub of species Berberis trifolia.
unspliceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spliceable.
Senses: glosses: Not spliceable
uterotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From utero- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The development of the uterus.
Related terms: uterotrophic
vagotomised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vagotomized.
vasomotricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vasomotion.
vasoparalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vaso- + paralysis.
Senses: glosses: vasomotor paralysis
Related terms: vasoparalytic
vasoparalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vaso- + paralytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to vasoparalysis
vasoregulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasoregulators
Etymology: From vaso- + regulator.
Senses: glosses: Anything that leads to vasoregulation
vectorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vector + -less.
Senses: glosses: That lacks a vector
vitellolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vitello- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: The breakdown of egg yolk
Related terms: vitellolytic
vitellolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vitello- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: That breaks down egg yolk
Related terms: vitellolysis
whiskerpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskerpads
Senses: glosses: The part of an animal's nose from which whiskers grow
whiskerpads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskerpad
withanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The steroidal macrolide 6,7-epoxy-5,17-dihydroxy-1-oxowitha-2,24-dienolide
zooxanthelate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of zooxanthellate.
saxify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saxifies
form: saxifying
form: saxified
form: saxified
Senses: glosses: To turn to rock or stone
pavement ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavement ants
Senses: glosses: An ant of a species that often nests under pavement or rocks:
Any ant of genus Tetramorium, principally of the Old World.
glosses: An ant of a species that often nests under pavement or rocks:
Any ant of genus Tetramorium, principally of the Old World.
especially, a red pavement ant (Tetramorium caespitum), of western Eurasia.
glosses: An ant of a species that often nests under pavement or rocks:
A yellow meadow ant (Lasius flavus), of western Eurasia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tetramorium immigrans
word: immigrant pavement ant
taxonomic: Tetramorium tsushimae
word: Japanese pavement ant
pavement ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavement ant
outputter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outputters
Etymology: From output + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that outputs.
transit lounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transit lounges
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A waiting room at an (international) airport for passengers changing flights, or for long-haul passengers who have to leave their aircraft while it is serviced and refuelled (in both cases for passengers who haven't finished their journey).
Related terms: transit passenger
transit lounges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transit lounge
CAPMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CAPM
EVTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EVT
Cadusii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Cadusians
glosses: A tribe of Media settled on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
doubletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doubletails
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of orchids of the genus Diuris; donkey orchids.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Diuris aequalis
word: buttercup doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris aurea
word: golden doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris abbreviata
word: lemon doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris arenaria
word: sand doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris callitrophila
word: Oaklands doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris flavescens
word: yellow doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris disposita
word: Macleay River doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris disposita
word: Willawarrin doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris praecox
word: early doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris praecox
word: Newcastle doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris praecox
word: rough doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris fragrantissima
word: fragrant doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris platichila
word: Blue Mountains doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris venosa
word: veined doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris luteola
word: northern doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris maculata
word: spotted doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris palustris
word: swamp doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris pardalis
word: leopard doubletail
taxonomic: Diuris exitela
word: Mount Moffat doubletail
fruitgrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fruit + growing.
Senses: glosses: The commercial growing of fruit.
foreneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forenecks
Etymology: From fore- + neck.
Senses: glosses: The front section of a bird's neck.
Related terms: forethroat
mudpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudpots
form: mud pot
Etymology: From mud + pot. From being a mud-filled hole, resembling a pot. First use appears c. 1872. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: but the continual caving in of the sides has produced a sort of mud-pot, exactly the same as the process of preparing a kettle of mush.
ref: 1872, Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States, Department of the Interior, Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana, and Portions of Adjacent Territories, page 92:
topics: geography
geology
hydrology
natural-sciences
volcanology
synonyms: mud pool
glosses: A type of acidic hot spring, or fumarole, with a limited amount of water.
glosses: An earthenware pot.
forenecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreneck
clubtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubtails
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae.
glosses: Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Losaria, having a club-like extension to each hindwing.
mountainsnail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountainsnails
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of species of land snails in the genus Oreohelix.
Derived terms: alpine mountainsnail
drillstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drillstrings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drill string.
maindeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maindecks
form: main-deck
Etymology: From main + deck.
Senses: glosses: The principal deck of a ship or vessel
hornline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornlines
Senses: glosses: Collectively, the horn players of a band, especially a marching band
Valsalva manoeuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Valsalva manoeuvres
form: Valsalva maneuver
Etymology: Named after Italian anatomist Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666–1723), whose research focused on the ears.
Senses: examples: text: Variations of the Valsalva manoeuvre can be used during medical examination.
text: We observed forearm vasodilatation following the Valsalva manoeuvre in 11 out of 19 normal subjects; the remainder showed a persistent forearm vasoconstriction (Bennett et al. 1979b).
ref: 1983, Roger Bannister, Autonomic Failure, Oxford University Press, page 426:
text: When that time comes, a person may perform the Valsalva manoeuvre, increasing the pressure inside the abdomen by exhaling against a closed airway as if popping one’s ears on a flight.
ref: 2018, Alex Blasdel, “Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo”, in The Guardian:
text: The Valsalva manoeuvre is performed by forced expiration against a closed glottis. It is attributed to Antonio Valsalva (1666–1723), who described it as a test of Eustachian tube patency and as a method of expelling pus from the middle ear.
ref: 2019, David Chambers, Christopher Huang, Gareth Matthews, Basic Physiology for Anaesthetists, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 175:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: autoinsufflation
glosses: A self-administered procedure comprising an attempted exhalation against a closed airway, usually performed by closing one's mouth and pinching one's nose shut while attempting, with moderate force, to expel air.
pass a stool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes a stool
form: passing a stool
form: passed a stool
form: passed a stool
Senses: examples: text: It takes mammals about 12 seconds to pass a stool, with humans accomplishing the task at a rate of one to two centimeters of faeces per second.
ref: 2018, Alex Blasdel, “Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo”, in Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of pass stool.
youthness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English youthnesse, perhaps dissimilated from Old English ġeoguþhādnes, equivalent to youth + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I have seen the images of old skeletons under the cover of youths. Also I have seen the radiant sun like youth, covered with the clouds of old age. The crown of youthness, only belongs to him - who sustains the powers, moves with the cyclone, shines like the mid-day sun.
ref: 1994, Rezaul Karim Talukdar, Nazrul Islam (Kazi), Nazrul, the gift of the century, page 103:
text: He has insured me of never disobliging nor never to cause you and his wife any more grievance, and will always be bound to your obedience, and he has acknowledged his fault of being so long absent, and it is with no doubt it gives him great concern in reflecting on his follies, but you are fully sensible that youthness and bad advisers are always of great prejudice, and much so when they won't be ruled.
ref: 1997, Stephen Birmingham, The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite, page 124:
text: I follow Rattansi (2000: 123) on disrupting generalisations, for just as “there is no essential black British 'youthness'”, we know there is no essential white British “youthness” either.
ref: 2017, Sadia Habib, Learning and Teaching British Values:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a youth; adolescence
maindecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maindeck
headjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headjoints
form: head joint
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The joint of a flute containing the mouthpiece
head joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head joints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headjoint.
damsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damsites
form: dam site
Senses: glosses: The area of land where a dam is built
malefic planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malefic planets
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: malefic
antonyms: benefic
glosses: A planet thought to bring bad luck to those born within its radius.
mainshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainshafts
form: main shaft
Etymology: From main + shaft.
Senses: glosses: the principal shaft of a motor
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The primary shaft of an arrow into which the foreshaft containing the arrowhead is inserted.
countouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countout
apsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having an apse or apses (semicircular projection(s) from a building).
mainshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainshaft
main-deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main-decks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maindeck.
main-decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of main-deck
headjoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headjoint
head joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head joint
malefics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malefic
malefic planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malefic planet
damsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damsite
hornlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornline
uncause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncauses
form: uncausing
form: uncaused
form: uncaused
Etymology: From un- (“reverse, undo”) + cause (verb).
Senses: examples: text: The truth is simply this: that which causes marriage also uncauses it.
ref: 1909, Lionel Josaphare, The World of Suckers, page 75:
text: Does the new soul, by itself, “cause” the conception? Can I then not uncause it?
ref: 1987, K. B. Welton, Abortion is Not a Sin:
glosses: To revert or undo the causing of an act or action
uncause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncauses
form: uncausing
form: uncaused
form: uncaused
Etymology: From un- (“negative, contrary”) + cause (verb).
Senses: examples: text: It is conceptually wrong to assert that a person makes a causal contribution to an act and its consequences when it is already being caused by others, simply because she fails to do some other act to uncause what is in progress.
ref: 2016, Dennis J. Baker, Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences:
glosses: To block or withstand the causing of an act or action
uncause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + cause (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Origin, in the last resort, means uncause. If what has taken form acknowledges no continuity, no inheritance, no necessity, then what has taken form, again in the extremest meaning, is a beginning.
ref: 1979, Mario J. Rizzo, Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium:
text: If uncause can enter the business of decision and liberate it from determinacy, its natural locus, we may think, is the origination of the sequels, in a sense more absolute than the mere putting together of ingredients.
ref: 2016, F. Frowen, G. L. S. Shackle, Business, Time and Thought:
glosses: Absence of cause
pass judgment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes judgment
form: passing judgment
form: passed judgment
form: passed judgment
Senses: info_templates: extra_data: words: on
‘someone/something’
expansion: [with on ‘someone/something’]
glosses: To judge; to form an opinion about the worth of.
Related terms: sit in judgment
frayle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frayle
form: most frayle
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of frail.
notaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notaryships
Etymology: From notary + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Horace had come to Rome after the battle of Philippi, and obtained, probably by purchase, out of the wreck of his fortunes, a public notaryship.
ref: 1878, Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica, page 144:
text: All the gathered documents, copied from archives and books of the Cabildo, regarding the auction and final bid of the notaryship in 1600, along with the acts of the local authorities in 1607 confirming the claims of Silvestre de Balboa, were prepared to serve as documental evidence ina legal claims process that Balboa is obliged to initiate in order not to lose his notaryship, due to the period of time for royal confirmation having transpired.
ref: 2008, Raúl Marrero-Fente, Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World, →ISBN:
text: The best times had passed for the notaryship, since the Prussian ancestral estate law had been passed and new mortgages slowed to a trickle.
ref: 2011, Margarete Limberg, Hubert Rbsaat, Germans No More: Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being a notary.
notaryships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notaryship
pandectist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pandect + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: First, the absolutist concept of ownership, which was advocated by pandectist philosophers, but which has been challenged as being an ahistorical assertion of the nature of ownership under Roman-Dutch law," and second, the feudal notions of property relations which underpin English land law.
ref: 1995, Heinz Klug, Defining the Property Rights of Others:
text: It is due to the pervasive influence of pandectist scholarship that the concept of ownership is generally described and understood as 'absolute' in nature.
ref: 1996, Visser Zimmermann, Reinhard Zimmermann, D. P. Visser, Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa, →ISBN, page 697:
text: Pandectist ideas were taken to be notions of general jurisprudence and therefore applicable to any developed legal system.
ref: 1999, Peter Stein, Roman Law in European History, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Pertaining to the Pandects compiled under the Roman emperor Justinian I.
examples: text: In this way, the prestigious German pandectist science greatly influenced not only continental systems, but also English law and indirectly even American law.
ref: 2002, J. M. Smits, The Making of European Private Law, →ISBN:
text: Thinking in pandectist categories has become so matter-of-fact that in everyday legal practice, for example, the analogous application to unilateral legal transactions (einseitige Rechtsgeschäfte) of the provisions on the conclusion of contracts is no longer considered an issue
ref: 2006, Stefan Grundmann, Martin Schauer, The Architecture of European Codes and Contract Law, →ISBN, page 92:
text: His main opus is the Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts (textbook on pandectist law, 1861-70)
ref: 2010, Nigel G. Foster, Satish Sule, German Legal System and Laws, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Pertaining to the German adaptation of Roman law in the early sixteenth century.
pandectist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandectists
Etymology: From pandect + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the pandectists, however, do not mention the ammus negotia aliena gerendi among the requirements of negotiorum gestio;
ref: 1996, Reinhard Zimmermann, The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition, →ISBN:
text: The legal principles deduced from the textual material of the CIC by such leading pandectists as Georg Friedrich Puchta (1798–1846) and Bernhard Windscheid (1817–1892) were sometimes used as legal norms in courts of law.
ref: 2006, Manfred Landfester, Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill's New Pauly: Oly-Rul, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Windscheid is the prototype pandectist who together with his friend Jhering was probably the most influential lawyer for nineteenth-century German civil law.
ref: 2010, Nigel G. Foster, Satish Sule, German Legal System and Laws, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: An expert on the Pandects compiled under the Roman emperor Justinian I.
examples: text: The scheme the pandectists sought was a scheme dominated by certain legal ideals and principles.
ref: 1948, Annual law review - Volume 1, page 179:
text: No doubt the Roman law of the post-classical period, and English law from and after the career of Pollock, have tended to become more self-conscious and theoretical in character, but Roman law never reached a state at all comparable to that reached by the pandectists of the nineteenth century, nor has English law yet reached it, if it ever will.
ref: 1952, William Warwick Buckland, Arnold Duncan McNair Baron McNair -, Roman Law & Common Law: A Comparison in Outline, page 21:
text: In turn, the German historical school and the pandectists, with their emphasis upon the absoluteness and exclusiveness of property, had an impact upon France.
ref: 1995, Gottfried Dietze, In Defense of Property, →ISBN, page 90:
text: It is an invention of the pandectists that there was no liability for others in Roman law unless the superior himself was at fault.
ref: 2013, Geoffrey Samuel, Law of Obligations & Legal Remedies, →ISBN:
glosses: A proponent or developer of a complete code of laws of a country, especially of the German pandestic law.
pandectists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandectist
strophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strophe + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: When he wishes to mark an important word, he does so by giving it two or three notes, or a striking harmony; but rarely departs from the concise strophical form.
ref: 1883, George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians: (A.D. 1450-1880), page 627:
text: I now purpose to consider the strophical organization of the trimeter poems.
ref: 1886, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, page 152:
text: The Psalmist is feeling after strophical form, but he does not bind himself to it.
ref: 1931, D. C. Simpson, Walter Lock, Westminster Commentaries - Volume 19, Part 1, page IV:
glosses: Composed of strophes.
Ultima Thule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ultimae Thules
form: Ultima Thules
Etymology: Capitalization of ultima Thule, from Latin ultima (“final; furthest”) + Thule (“northernmost inhabited island”).
Senses: examples: text: […]the metropolis of our far west, and about as neat and picturesque an assize town as ever was, with its fine old castle overhanging the river, and, like many of these Ultimæ Thules of civilisation, having several good shops and handsome churches !
ref: 1875, “North-West Pembrokeshire”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 288:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ultima Thule (“a place beyond the known world; highest achievement”).
Ultima Thule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From ultima Thule (“furthest place; a place beyond the known world”).
The object was first observed in 2014 and announced later that year as a potential target for NASA's New Horizons probe. In March 2018, after inviting suggestions from the public, NASA selected Ultima Thule as its nickname. Once it was determined that the body was a bilobate contact binary, the New Horizons team began calling the larger lobe Ultima and the smaller Thule.
Senses: examples: text: With substantial public input, the team has chosen “Ultima Thule” (pronounced ultima thoo-lee”) for the Kuiper Belt object the New Horizons spacecraft will explore on Jan. 1, 2019.
ref: 2018 March 13, “New Horizons Chooses Nickname for ‘Ultimate’ Flyby Target”, in NASA:
text: Since NASA’s New Horizons mission left its rendezvous with the dwarf planet Pluto in late 2015, it has been preparing for another close encounter, with cold classical Kuiper belt object (CCKBO) 2014 MU₆₉, also known as Ultima Thule
ref: 2018 September 24, Paul Wood, “Preparing to meet Ultima Thule”, in Nature Astronomy:
text: Flyby images of (486958) Arrokoth (Ultima Thule, 2014 MU₆₉) show a comparatively bright "necklace" in the neck, or cleft between its two lobes, in contrast to its generally low albedo.
ref: 2020 May 8, J. I. Katz, S. Wang, “Arrokoth's Necklace”, in arXiv:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Arrokoth (“trans-Neptunian object (486958) 2014 MU69”).
synonyms: word: Arrokoth
extra: (“trans-Neptunian object (486958) 2014 MU69”)
Synonyms: Arrokoth
minor planet 486958
Derived terms: alt: the larger lobe of the Ultima Thule contact binary
word: Ultima
alt: the smaller lobe of the Ultima Thule contact binary
word: Thule
dweebery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dweeb + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: “There are some pretty lame displays among all this dweebery,” Robbie said.
Anna leaned over and whispered in my ear. “Did he just say 'dweebery'?”
“Just go with it,” I mumbled back.
ref: 2014, Scott Craven, Dead Jed: Dawn Of The Jed:
glosses: The state or condition of being a dweeb.
caprifoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caprifoils
Senses: examples: text: Sunny, shrubby banks are fairly crowded with caprifoils, so easily known by their opposite leaves, monopeta lous more or less irregular flowers with the parts in fives, save style, and ovary blended with walls of the calyx-tube.
ref: 1878, Japan Weekly Mail, page 295:
text: ...and if we descend to the criterion of stipular line, as is done to evidence the genuineness of some Rubiaceae, we need exclude no caprifoils except those of the genus Alseuosmia which have alternate leaves.
ref: 1921, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club - Volume 48:
text: In some respects they are near caprifoils, from which they are readily known, not only by their parasitical habit, but also by their stamens being opposite valvate lobes of a tubular calyx.
ref: 1847, John Lindley, “Order CCCII. Loranthaceæ — Loranths”, in The Vegetable Kingdom; or, the Structure, Classification and Uses of Plants, page 789:
glosses: A plant of the family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle.
caprifoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caprifoil
stripagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stripagrams
Senses: examples: text: At first she'd wondered if he was a stripagram like the one her friend Meg hired for her surprise party two years ago.
ref: 2012, Jennifer Lewis, Claiming His Royal Heir, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of strippergram.
stripagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stripagram
too long; didn't read
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: too long
form: didn't read
form: tl;dr
form: tl/dr
form: TL;DR
form: TL/DR
form: TLDNR
form: TL/DNR
form: TL-DNR
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that one did not read a (long) text, or to introduce a short summary of a text perceived as overly long.
masterplanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of masterplan
dibismuthide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibismuthides
Etymology: From di- + bismuth + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bismuthide containing two atoms of bismuth in the formula.
pentaaluminium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaaluminum
form: pentaluminum
form: pentaluminium
Etymology: From penta- + aluminium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Five atoms of aluminium in a chemical compound.
Synonyms: pentalumino
pentaluminum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaaluminium
form: pentaluminum
form: pentaluminium
Etymology: From pent- + aluminum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pentaaluminium.
Synonyms: pentalumino
pentaaluminum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaaluminium
form: pentaluminum
form: pentaluminium
Etymology: From penta- + aluminium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pentaaluminium.
Synonyms: pentalumino
pentaluminium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaaluminium
form: pentaluminum
form: pentaaluminium
Etymology: From pent- + aluminium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pentaaluminium.
Synonyms: pentalumino
pentamagnesium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pent- + magnesium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Five magnesium atoms in a molecule.
tetramagnesium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + magnesium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Four magnesium atoms in a molecule.
trimagnesium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + magnesium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Three magnesium atoms in a molecule.
hexaluminium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaaluminum
form: hexaluminum
form: hexaaluminium
Etymology: From hex- + aluminium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Six atoms of aluminium in a chemical compound.
Synonyms: hexalumino
hexaalumino
centuplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centuplets
Etymology: From centuple + -et, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hundred: A group of 100.
synonyms: word: hundred
extra: A group of 100
examples: text: The egg of a chalcid wasp can perform even more impressively; it can keep splitting until it gives birth to centuplets — but not like the artificially induced bovine centuplets of Dr. Hafez. His are all separate individuals, ...
ref: 1969, Albert Rosenfeld, The second genesis: the coming control of life, USA: Vintage Books:
text: The tadpoles thus produced are then identical twins, octuplets, or centuplets of the original donor of the transplanted nuclei.
ref: 1972, Robert T. Francoeur, Eve's New Rib: Twenty Faces of Sex, Marriage and Family:
text: Centuplets. A hundred siblings sharing the same group of codons. What would they be like? How would they grow? Could a man live in a world shared by fifty brothers and fifty sisters? That was part of the experiment.
ref: 2014, Robert Silverberg, Thorns, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: One of a group of 100, particularly one of 100 babies born at the same time, from the same egg, or from the same DNA.
centuplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centuplet
hexaalumino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexalumino
Etymology: From hex- + alumino-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hexalumino.
Synonyms: hexaaluminum
hexaluminum
hexaaluminium
hexaluminium
hexalumino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaalumino
Etymology: From hex- + alumino-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Six atoms of aluminium in a chemical compound.
Synonyms: hexaaluminum
hexaluminum
hexaaluminium
hexaluminium
Italian Spinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian Spinoni
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Spinone Italiano.
synonyms: word: Spinone Italiano
Italian Spinoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian Spinone
tetrahydroxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrahydroxyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: particularly in combination
glosses: A chemical compound containing four hydroxyl groups.
oratures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orature (“oral equivalent of literature”)
oratures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: plural of orature (“small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study”)
corrective lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrective lenses
Senses: examples: text: Her driver's licence requires her to wear corrective lenses while driving.
text: An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes—in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 71:
glosses: A lens worn in front of the eye to correct disorders of the vision such as myopia.
Related terms: distance vision
near vision
eyecare
eye chart
magnifying glass
corrective lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrective lens
tape tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tape trees
Etymology: From tape (“videotape”) + tree.
From being a branching distribution network for passing videotaped content.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A network for distributing content not aired/distributed locally between enthusiasts and fans of the material, copying on home VCRs and passing new tapes to further nodes of the network.
databend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: databends
form: databending
form: databent
form: databent
Etymology: From data + bend, modelled on earlier circuit bending.
Senses: coordinate_terms: datamosh
glosses: To manipulate a digital image by editing the underlying data in a tool not intended for the purpose, producing glitchy results.
iron pyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron pyrites
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pyrite.
synonyms: word: pyrite
iron pyrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pyrite.
synonyms: word: pyrite
iris out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iris outs
Senses: synonyms: circle out
glosses: A contracting iris shot used at the end of a scene.
iris out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: irises out
form: irising out
form: irised out
form: irised out
Senses: synonyms: circle out
glosses: To use a contracting iris shot at the end of a scene.