cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
narrowly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛɹoʊli/
ipa: /ˈnæɹəʊli/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈnæɹoʊli/
Forms: form: more narrowly
form: most narrowly
Etymology: From Middle English narowly, equivalent to narrow + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They regarded the new idea rather narrowly.
text: There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: In a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude.
examples: text: They narrowly escaped collision.
text: The next day Opra Pitrachard ſent for Monſieur Conſtance to come to him, and ordered him to go and tell the French Officers that there was no deſign of keeping them Priſoners […] I charge you that you ſay this, and no more to thoſe French Officers; and know, that you ſhall be narrowly watched and overheard.
ref: 1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 6:
text: One inconsequent dream he related, about fancying himself quite young and rich, and finding himself suddenly in a field cropping razors around him, when, just as he had, by steps dainty as those of a French dancing-master, reached the middle, he to his dismay beheld a path clear of the blood, thirsty steel-crop, which he might have taken at first had he looked narrowly; and there he was.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: The visitors had not managed an away win in the top flight since the final day of last season, but Mauro Formica set the tone in the second minute with a rasping 25-yard drive which flew narrowly wide.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in wLBBC Sport:
text: The House narrowly approved a rescissions package from the White House that aims to cancel billions in unspent funds from the prior fiscal year, much of which would not have been spent otherwise.
ref: 2018 June 7, Ashley Killough, “House approves package that would cut $1 billion in spending”, in CNN:
glosses: Closely; by a narrow margin.
Synonyms: word: closely
word: narrowly
decaffeinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæfiːneɪt/
Forms: form: decaffeinates
form: decaffeinating
form: decaffeinated
form: decaffeinated
Etymology: From de- + caffeine + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To remove the caffeine from something (especially from coffee).
Related terms: decaffeinated
decaffeination
Kos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cos
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κῶς (Kôs) and modern Greek Κως (Kos).
Senses: glosses: An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
crew cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crew cuts
form: crewcut
Etymology: Originally worn by rowing crew.
Senses: glosses: A closely-cropped haircut in which the hairs stick upward, like the short bristles of a brush.
Synonyms: brush cut
butch cut
buzz cut
flattop
Derived terms: crew-cutted
crewcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crewcuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crew cut.
fine arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fine art
Senses: glosses: The purely aesthetic arts, such as music, painting, and poetry, as opposed to industrial or functional arts such as architecture or carpentry.
Derived terms: fine artist
evetime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eve + time.
Senses: examples: text: May ye beautifully rime / Your evetime song, ye singers
ref: 1902, George Ratcliffe Woodward, “Ding Dong! merrily on high”, in The Cowley Carol Book:
glosses: evening; eventide
Synonyms: eve
eventide
forenight
evening
jazzercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of jazz + exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know when the hearse is gonna be ready, and Mama has her Jazzercise on Mondays.
ref: 2004, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear: A Novel, page 107:
text: Probably because when she got her period, her father had been so completely freaked out he'd left her in the bathroom, bleeding onto wadded-up toilet paper, for three hours, until Sydelle returned from her Jazzercise class with a box of sanitary napkins.
ref: 2002, Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes: A Novel, page 136:
text: Denise reports that one of the members of her Jazzercise class works for City Hospital, where the nurses also are organized.
ref: 1983, Belinda E. Puetz, Linda J. Shinn, Networking for Nurses: Intra and Interprofessional Relations, page 148:
glosses: A form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.
Related terms: aquasize
aquacise
boxercise
dancersize
dancercise
sexercise
jazzercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jazzercises
form: jazzercising
form: jazzercised
form: jazzercised
Etymology: Blend of jazz + exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.
Senses: glosses: To perform this kind of exercise.
macadamia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mækəˈdeɪmi.ə/
ipa: /mækəˈdeɪmjə/
rhymes: -eɪmiə
Forms: form: macadamias
Etymology: From New Latin Macadamia.
Senses: glosses: An evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii.
glosses: The fruit of this tree; the macadamia nut.
caplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.lət/
rhymes: -æplət
Forms: form: caplets
Etymology: Blend of capsule + tablet
Senses: glosses: A smooth-coated tablet (pill, as in medicine) shaped like a capsule, used as a tamper-resistant alternative to a capsule, or an easy-to-swallow alternative to regular tablets.
caplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.lət/
rhymes: -æplət
Forms: form: caplets
Etymology: From cap (“upper limit or ceiling”) + -let (diminutive suffix).
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A component of an interest rate cap, a derivative instrument that effectively prevents the interest payments on an otherwise variable-rate loan from exceeding an agreed level (the "cap"). Each "caplet", analysable as a call option, covers one interest accrual period (such as three months); the whole interest rate cap is made up of a series of consecutive caplets.
Cocacolonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cocacolonisation
form: CocaColonisation
form: CocaColonization
form: cocacolonisation
form: cocacolonization
form: coca-colonisation
form: coca-colonization
Etymology: Blend of Coca-Cola + colonization The word was first documented in 1949 in Australia and France.
Senses: glosses: Globalization or cultural colonization likened to westernization or Americanization consisting of the importing of western or American goods or cultural values to the detriment of local goods or values.
Synonyms: Coca-Colonialism
McDonaldization
nimbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪm.bəs/
rhymes: -ɪmbəs
Forms: form: nimbi
form: nimbuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”). Doublet of nimb.
Senses: glosses: A circle of light; a halo.
glosses: A gray rain cloud.
Synonyms: sense: circle of light
word: halo
Derived terms: nimbused
nimbuslike
Related terms: nimbed
halo
holoprosencephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛfəli
Forms: form: holoprosencephalies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + πρόσω (prósō, “forwards, onwards”) (referring to the prosencephalon (“forebrain”)) + ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “brain”) + English -y (suffix denoting a condition), i.e. “condition of a whole (inappropriately divided) forebrain”. By surface analysis, holo- + pro- + -s- + encephal- + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: A congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain during fetal development, resulting in skull and facial deformities ranging from minor cleft lip problems to cyclopia, in which a single eye develops where the nose would normally be.
Synonyms: word: HPE
Hyponyms: cyclopia
Coordinate terms: alobar
semilobar
lobar
Classifications of holoprosencephaly
premaxillary agenesis
cyclopia
ethmocephaly
cebocephaly
Associated facial deformities
Derived terms: word: holoprosencephalic
word: HPE
Related terms: prosencephalon
encephalon
macadamia nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macadamia nuts
Senses: glosses: The hard-shelled edible seed of the macadamia tree.
gabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: gabbles
form: gabbling
form: gabbled
form: gabbled
Etymology: From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
Senses: examples: text: I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.
ref: 1900, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg:
text: Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
ref: 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 144:
glosses: To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
examples: text: gabbling fowls
text: I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Pastoral. Or, Lycidas, and Moeris.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 43:
glosses: To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
Synonyms: babble
Derived terms: gabblement
gabbler
outgabble
gabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæbəl/
rhymes: -æbəl
Etymology: From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
Senses: examples: text: a lot of gabble from witnesses
ref: 1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown:
text: [T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Confused or unintelligible speech.
Derived terms: gibble-gabble
dr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drs
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
antonyms: cr
glosses: Abbreviation of debtor, debit.
glosses: Abbreviation of drive.
examples: text: Probably a real change would be the cure the drs can't find.
ref: 1979 April 14, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: Abbreviation of doctor.
replicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛplɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeplɪˌkæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹepləˌkæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləkət/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləkət/
ipa: /ˈɹepləkət/
Forms: form: replicates
form: replicating
form: replicated
form: replicated
Etymology: From Latin replicātus, past participle of replicāre (“to fold or bend back; reply”), from re (“back”) + plicāre (“to fold”); see ply. Doublet of reply and replica.
Senses: examples: text: On entering a host cell, a virus will start to replicate.
text: It is the Northern portals that are most interesting. The earlier structure was given the romantic, grotto-like feature of a tower with windows. When expanded (circa 1893), the engineers chose to replicate that design, seemingly extending the castle further.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46:
glosses: To make a copy (replica) of.
examples: text: [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
ref: 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
text: The idea is that by building the centre with used and new normal railway components, GCRE will "replicate" the UK main line railway. Doherty sees this as a unique selling point: "We have some good rail research/testing universities such as Birmingham and Huddersfield, but you can't replicate a train rattling through at 120mph in a lab."
ref: 2021 June 16, Andrew Mourant, “Plans for new test centre remain on track”, in RAIL, number 933, page 42:
topics: sciences
glosses: To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.
glosses: To reply.
Derived terms: autoreplicate
bioreplicate
dereplicate
endoreplicate
interreplicate
misreplicate
nonreplicate
nonreplicating
overreplicate
pseudoreplicate
replicatable
replicon
rereplicate
self-replicating
subreplicate
transreplicate
underreplicate
Related terms: replica
replicability
replicant
replication
replicative
replicator
reply
replicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛplɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeplɪˌkæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹepləˌkæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləkət/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləkət/
ipa: /ˈɹepləkət/
Forms: form: replicates
Etymology: From Latin replicātus, past participle of replicāre (“to fold or bend back; reply”), from re (“back”) + plicāre (“to fold”); see ply. Doublet of reply and replica.
Senses: glosses: The outcome of a replication procedure; an exact copy or replica.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tone that is one or more octaves away from a given tone.
replicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛplɪkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹeplɪˌkæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹepləˌkæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləkət/
ipa: /ˈɹɛpləkət/
ipa: /ˈɹepləkət/
Forms: form: more replicate
form: most replicate
Etymology: From Latin replicātus, past participle of replicāre (“to fold or bend back; reply”), from re (“back”) + plicāre (“to fold”); see ply. Doublet of reply and replica.
Senses: examples: a replicate leaf or petal
the replicate margin of a shell
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.
incidence matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incidence matrices
form: incidence matrixes
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A matrix showing the relationship between two classes of objects.
pseudograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)uːdəˌɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːdəˌɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈsudoʊˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: pseudographs
Etymology: From pseudo- + graph.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph that may contain loops as well as multiple edges between vertices
pseudograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)uːdəˌɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːdəˌɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈsudoʊˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: pseudographs
Etymology: From pseudo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.
valency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vā'lənsē
ipa: /ˈveɪlənsi/
Forms: form: valencies
Etymology: From Late Latin valentia and Latin valentia (“bodily strength; health; vigour”) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state). Valentia is derived from valēns (“healthy, strong, vigorous”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns); while valēns is the present active participle of valeō (“to be healthy, sound, or well; to be strong; to have influence or power, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to rule; powerful, strong”).
Sense 1 (“combining capacity of an atom”) and sense 3 (“number of arguments a verb can have”) are possibly from valence + -y.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of valence (“the combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.”).
examples: text: vaccine valency
text: Some etymons appear to have greater valency than others when it comes to the formation of portmanteau words.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A Multitude of ‘Lishes’: The Nomenclature of Hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:
text: The rationale behind GSK's buy is that bigger is better, in terms of vaccine valency. It has been shown that including more disease-causing serotypes decreases the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease. To this end, Pfizer and Merck last year got the nod for 20-valent and 15-valent vaccines respectively. Affinivax's AFX3772, meanwhile, is a 24-valent jab.
ref: 2022 May 31, Madeleine Armstrong, “GSK goes back to its vaccine bread and butter”, in Evaluate Vantage, retrieved 09 May 2023:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of valence (“the combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.”).
The capacity of something to combine with other things, as for example the capability of a vaccine as measured by the number of pathogen serotypes that it can counteract.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: degree
glosses: The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of valence (“the number of arguments that a verb can have, including its subject, ranging from zero to three or, less commonly, four”).
glosses: Importance, significance.
Derived terms: bivalency
covalency
electrovalency
hypervalency
monovalency
multivalency
paucivalency
pentavalency
polyvalency
quadrivalency
tetravalency
univalency
Related terms: quantivalency
indegree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪndəˌɡɹiː/
Forms: form: indegrees
Etymology: From in + degree.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of edges directed into a vertex in a directed graph
Related terms: outdegree
outdegree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtdəˌɡɹiː/
Forms: form: outdegrees
Etymology: From out- + degree.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of edges directed out of a vertex in a directed graph.
Related terms: valency
indegree
chromatic number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatic numbers
Senses: examples: text: The chromatic number of a complete graph K#95;n is n; the chromatic number of a bipartite graph K#95;#123;n,m#125; is 2.
text: The chromatic number of a graph G is the minimum value of k for which G is k-colourable, and is denoted by #92;chi(G).[…]A more essential use of the chromatic number was made by Gallai (1968a) and Roy (1967), who discovered a simple relationship between the chromatic number of a digraph and the length of a longest directed path in the digraph, where the chromatic number #92;chi(D) of a digraph D is defined to be the chromatic number of its underlying graph G(D).
ref: 1995, J. A. Bondy, “1: Basic Graph Theory: Paths and Circuits”, in Ronald L. Graham, Martin Grötschel, László Lovász, editors, Handbook of Combinatorics, Volume 1, Elsevier (North-Holland), page 48:
text: 2004, Monia Discepoli, Ivan Gerace, Riccardo Mariani, Andrea Remigi, A Spectral Technique to Solve the Chromatic Number Problem in Circulant Graphs, Antonio Laganà, et al. (editors), Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2004: International Conference, Proceedings, Part 3, Springer, LNCS 3045, page 745,
The CHROMATIC NUMBER is the minimum number of colors by means of which it is possible to color a graph in such a way that each vertex has a different color with respect to the adjacent vertices. Such a problem is an NP-hard problem [14] and [it] is even hard to obtain a good approximation of the solution in a polynomial time [17]. Although in a lot of computational problems the cost decreases when these problems are restricted to circulant graphs [6, 9], the CHROMATIC NUMBER problem is NP-hard even restrecting to circulant graphs [9]. Moreover the problem of finding a good approximation of the CHROMATIC NUMBER problem on circulant graphs is also NP-hard.
text: 2009, Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang, Chromatic Graph Theory, Taylor & Francis Group (CRC Press / Chapman & Hall), page 149,
There is no general formula for the chromatic number of a graph. Consequently, we will often be concerned and must be content with (1) determining the chromatic number of some classes of interest and (2) determining upper and/or lower bounds for the chromatic number of a graph.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The smallest number of colours needed to colour a given graph (i.e., to assign a colour to each vertex such that no two vertices connected by an edge have the same colour).
Synonyms: sense: smallest number of colours needed to colour the vertices of a graph
english: used to differentiate from edge chromatic number
translation: used to differentiate from edge chromatic number
word: vertex chromatic number
Derived terms: chromatic number problem
edge chromatic number
harmonious chromatic number
total chromatic number
Related terms: achromatic number
chromatic index
chromatic polynomial
k-colouring
k-chromatic
youngest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/
ipa: /ˈjʌŋ.ɡəst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of young: most young
examples: text: I may be the youngest in my family but I still resent being referred to as the baby.
glosses: Most recently begun or formed.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Receiving dealt cards last, i.e. immediately before the next deal to the eldest.
youngest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/
ipa: /ˈjʌŋ.ɡəst/
Forms: form: youngests
Senses: glosses: The youngest child in a family, or individual in a group.
Vandenberg catalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vandenberg catalysts
Etymology: From Edwin J. Vandenberg, American chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aluminoxane, prepared from an alkyl-aluminium and water, used as a catalyst in the manufacture of polyether elastomers.
wikipedia: Edwin J. Vandenberg
Freya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪə/
rhymes: -eɪə
homophone: Freyr (non-rhotic)
Etymology: Scottish form of Old Norse Freyja (“mistress, lady”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Freyja.
glosses: A female given name from Old Norse of mostly British usage.
Related terms: Odin
Woden
Loki
Tyr
Thor
Frigga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə
Etymology: From Frigg + -a, with suffix added to make the name more obviously feminine in English.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Frigg.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 77 Frigga, a main belt asteroid.
Derived terms: friggatriskaidekaphobia
oxetane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxetanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds having a four-membered ring containing 3 carbon atoms and 1 oxygen atom; the parent compound C₃H₆O.
Related terms: epoxide
parent compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parent compounds
Etymology: From parent + compound.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The simplest member of a class of compounds, from which the others are formally obtained by substituting radicals for hydrogen atoms.
polyether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːθə(ɹ)
Forms: form: polyethers
Etymology: From poly- + ether.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a polymer, such as an elastomer, in which carbon atoms of the repeating units are joined by a single oxygen atom
Synonyms: PE
Derived terms: word: ladder polyether
word: PE
word: perfluoropolyether
alt: PC-PE
word: polycarbonate-polyether
alt: PEBA
word: polyether block amide
word: polyether ether ketone
word: polyetherimide
Tyr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Týr, from Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“god”). Doublet of Tiw.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Norse god of war, identifiable with Tiu or Tiw.
Related terms: Thor
repeating unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repeating units
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The basic structural unit of a polymer; the monomer unit which has been polymerized.
Tiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːuː/
rhymes: -iːuː
Forms: form: Tew
form: Tiw
form: Tue
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Tīw, from Proto-West Germanic *Tīw, from Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god”). Doublet of Tuesday and Tyr.
Senses: qualifier: Anglo-Saxon god
glosses: The ancient Germanic god of war and the sky, identified with Tyr of Norse mythology.
Related terms: Tuesday
elastomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlæstəmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: elastomers
Etymology: From elastic + -mer.
Senses: glosses: any polymer having the elastic properties of rubber
Derived terms: bioelastomer
fluoroelastomer
polyelastomer
Lydia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪ.di.ə/
rhymes: -ɪdiə
Forms: form: Lidia
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λυδία (Ludía, “the region of Lydia”), from λυδία (ludía, “beautiful one, noble one”), a feminine form of Λυδός (Ludós) (Lydus, from λυδός (ludós) (lydus)). The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king Λυδός (Ludós) (Lydus, from λυδός (ludós) (lydus)); the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.
Senses: glosses: A historical region and ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey.
examples: text: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 16:14:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A woman converted by St. Paul; presumably named for ancestry or residence in Lydia.
examples: text: Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], “Chapter 9”, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: The first three, Macklin, Lydia, and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah.
ref: 1990, Sue Miller, Family Pictures, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: word: Lydian
word: Lydian stone
Related terms: sense: pet form
word: Liddy
kubihineri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kubihineri
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 首捻り, literally head twisting throw.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker wraps one hand around his opponent's neck and grips his arm with the other; he then forces his opponent down by twisting his neck.
kubinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kubinage
form: kubi nage
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 首投げ (“neck throw”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker wraps one arm around his opponent's neck then turns and throws him.
makiotoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makiotoshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 巻き落とし, meaning "twist down".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker throws his opponent by twisting him towards his own inside hand.
mitokorozeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitokorozemes
Etymology: From Japanese 三所攻め (mi-tokoro-zeme, literally “attacking three places”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker attempts an inside leg trip with one leg, tries to pull the other out from under him, and drives his head into the opponent's stomach so as to force him out backwards. A triple attack force out.
gravity meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity meters
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument that measures the local acceleration due to gravity (strength of the gravitational field).
exists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɪsts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exist
humanosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From human + -o- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: That part of the Earth inhabited by, or influenced by, humans.
presumptuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From presumptuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being presumptuous.
Synonyms: presumptuosity
roadway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊdˌweɪ/
Forms: form: roadways
Etymology: From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radewey-stile (literally “roadway-stile”)), equivalent to road + way; road had the early sense of "riding" when the compound was formed, thus originally "a way for riding on".
Senses: examples: text: It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest quarterly spike in its history of tracking roadway fatalities.
ref: 2023 April 20, Gregory Wallace, “Roadway deaths level off after pandemic spike, but remain high”, in CNN:
text: Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.
ref: 2024 January 21, Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, “Icy conditions make for hazardous travel across central US, but warmer air is on the horizon”, in CNN:
glosses: A way used as a road.
glosses: The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
glosses: The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.
Related terms: pavement
permanent way
right of way
sidewalk
trailway
verge
graybody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graybodies
Etymology: From gray + body.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A body that radiates energy having a blackbody distribution reduced by a constant factor.
Coordinate terms: blackbody
respectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˌspɛktəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: respectabilities
Etymology: From respect + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The quality of being respectable.
glosses: The class of respectable people.
Derived terms: respectability politics
moderately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more moderately
form: most moderately
Etymology: From Middle English moderately, moderatelye, moderatliche, moderatly, modiratli; equivalent to moderate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: During the debate, they disagreed plainly, but moderately.
glosses: In a moderate manner.
examples: text: They were at least moderately happy with their bonuses.
text: All in all, Harris staked out a moderately center-left position, not too different from President Biden’s original Build Back Better agenda, which he was able to implement only in part because in an evenly divided Senate, Joe Manchin had an effective veto.
ref: 2024 August 19, Paul Krugman, “Kamalanomics, Revealed: A Solid Center-Left Agenda”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To a moderate extent or degree.
Synonyms: word: acceptably
word: adequately
word: averagely
word: fairly
word: halfway
word: in a way
word: indifferent
word: mackly
word: moderately
word: middlesome
word: middling
word: middlingly
word: not quite
word: partially
word: passably
word: quite
word: rather
word: reasonably
word: somewhat
word: somewhatly
word: sufficiently
word: tolerably
Related terms: word: intermediate
passably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more passably
form: most passably
Etymology: From passable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The night air was passably cool and he strolled through the town at a measured pace, killing time till bedtime.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: In a passable fashion; moderately; adequately.
blackbody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackbodies
form: black body
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation and reflects none; it has a characteristic emission spectrum
Coordinate terms: graybody
Related terms: black hole
body in black
tolerablish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tolerable + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: There was a good many there, and some on 'em learned to read very well, and some couldn't learn nohow. I got on tolerablish.
ref: 1844, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, W. and R. Chambers, page 412:
text: ‘Ay, ma'am, Betty do fight it out tolerablish,’ was the reply to this compliment.
ref: 1857, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Dynevor terrace: or, The clue of life, Oxford University, page 29:
text: “I like it tolerablish when it's a pretty book, all about killing people,” said Robert.
ref: 1882, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Pickle and his page-boy, or, Unlooked for, Oxford University, page 21:
glosses: Somewhat tolerable.
black body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black bodies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of blackbody.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, body.
Related terms: body in black
metastability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastabilities
Etymology: From meta- + stability.
Senses: examples: text: Soloman's belief that love is necessarily paradoxical issues from his attempt to define it as what Sartre would call a dialectical metastability. Love must therefore be not a "state of the union but a never ending conflict of pushing away and pulling together."
ref: 1989, Irving Singer, The Nature of Love:
glosses: An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
Derived terms: metastable
ground proximity warning system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground proximity warning systems
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device which warns a pilot that their aircraft may be in danger of collision with the ground.
Synonyms: word: GPWS
word: ground-collision warning system
word: groundprox
Derived terms: alt: EGPWS
word: enhanced ground proximity warning system
word: GPWS
Related terms: terrain awareness and warning system
GPWS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of ground proximity warning system.
Coordinate terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: CFIT
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: GCAS
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: TAWS
Derived terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: EGPWS
ground state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground states
form: groundstate
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: excited state
glosses: The stationary state of lowest energy of a particle or system of particles.
excited state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excited states
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: any state of a particle or system of particles that has a higher energy than that of its ground state
mumpsimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌmpsɪməs/
Forms: form: mumpsimuses
Etymology: Malapropism of Latin sumpsimus, form of sūmō (“I take”), from a story of an old monk who misrecited the Eucharist with quod in ōre mumpsimus instead of quod in ōre sumpsimus “which we have taken into the mouth”, and stubbornly continued using the incorrect form even after being corrected. Attested 1530 in The Practice of Prelates by William Tyndale, variously attributed to Richard Pace (1517) or Desiderius Erasmus.
Senses: glosses: A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant and bigoted opponent of reform.
glosses: An obvious error that is obstinately repeated despite correction.
Related terms: obstinacy
group velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: group velocities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the propagation velocity of the envelope of a modulated travelling wave, which is considered as the propagation velocity of information or energy contained in it.
Related terms: phase velocity
bearable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəɹəbəɫ/
Etymology: From Middle English berable, equivalent to bear + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be borne; tolerable; endurable.
examples: text: A joint cause is neither necessary nor sufficient for an effect—for example, any one of six pallbearers is a joint cause of carrying a coffin bearable by four.
ref: 2015, Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, Matthew C. Halteman, Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating:
glosses: Able to be borne or carried; portable.
Derived terms: bearableness
bearably
inbearable
semibearable
unbearable
endurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ.ɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɝ.ɪ.bəl/
Forms: form: more endurable
form: most endurable
form: indurable
Etymology: From endure + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A sharp keen wind blew dead against us; a hard frost prevailed on shore; and the cold was most severe. Yet the air was so intensely clear, and dry, and bright, that the temperature was not only endurable, but delicious.
ref: 1842, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: As his bodily strength increased, and his health, considerably impaired by inward suffering, improved, the trouble of his soul became more endurable—and in some measure to endure is to conquer and destroy.
ref: 1871, George Macdonald, “The Broken Swords”, in The Cruel Painter and Other Stories, London: Strahan & Co., page 191:
text: And when belief was dead and God a myth, / And the world seemed a wandering mote of evil, / Endurable only by its impermanence, / And all the planets perishable urns / Of perishable ashes, to you alone I clung / Amid the unspeakable loneliness of the universe.
ref: 1919, J. C. Squire, “Envoi”, in Poems: First Series, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 115:
text: A novelist can run on and on (and, alas, does!). He can perversely take twenty words to describe the Apocalypse and fifty pages to chronicle the hero's shaving, and still be endurable, because the reader can always slap the book shut and continue it only when he is in the mood.
ref: 1933, Sinclair Lewis, “The Art of Dramatization”, in Harry E. Maule, Melville H. Cane, editors, The Man from Main Street: Selected Essays and Other Writings: 1904-1950, New York: Pocket Books, published 1963, page 221:
text: Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.
ref: 1970, Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, New York: Vintage, published 2007, page 26:
glosses: Able to be endured; tolerable; bearable.
examples: text: […] the agriculturist would outlive the struggle, and his property be as fixed and endurable as the oaks which were planted by his ancestors.
ref: 1834 March 21, John Tyrell, Hansard, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2019:
text: Albert E. Brum was born into one of Petawawa’s founding families who eventually established one of the area’s most endurable businesses.
ref: 2012 September 29, Sean Chase, “Surviving Devil's Brigade member to receive Congressional Gold Medal”, in The Toronto Sun:
glosses: Capable of enduring; likely to endure; durable.
Derived terms: endurability
endurableness
endurably
unendurable
passable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more passable
form: most passable
Etymology: From French passable, equivalent to pass + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be passed or traversed.
examples: text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
text: AIs are no longer just producing passable five-paragraph essays. Now they’re excelling at the SAT, “earning” a score of 1410.
ref: 2023 March 21, Ian Bogost, “Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:
glosses: Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory.
examples: text: The idea of something, or someone, being unusual and sexual is intoxicating. I concluded that if I ever met a very passable transsexual and we were attracted to one another, I'd go bisexual and pursue the relationship.
ref: 2014, Paul Stryker, Confessions of a Sex Offender, page 33:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging.
Synonyms: sense: adequate
word: satisfactory
Derived terms: passability
passableness
passably
unpassable
passableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From passable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being passable.
endurably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endurably
form: most endurably
Etymology: From endurable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an endurable or tolerable manner.
endurableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endurable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being endurable; endurability.
endurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endurabilities
Etymology: From endure + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being endurable.
Derived terms: unendurability
bearableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bearable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bearable.
bearably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bearable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bearable manner.
adequately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adequately
form: most adequately
form: adæquately
Etymology: From adequate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adequate manner.
examples: text: A loving relationship with a proper companion animal, a relationship that adequately provides for the animal's physical and psychological needs, is not at all inconsistent with the principles and advocacy of animal rights.
ref: 2023 August 11 (last accessed), David Pearce, “Companion Animals”, in HedWeb:
glosses: Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need; sufficiently; satisfactorily.
glosses: Barely satisfactory or sufficient.
Derived terms: adequately wet
satisfactorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹɪli/
Forms: form: more satisfactorily
form: most satisfactorily
Etymology: From satisfactory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This is a task which has not yet been satisfactorily performed and which will have to be achieved before this particular impulse toward socialism can be removed.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 426:
glosses: In a satisfactory manner, in a manner adequate to requirements.
tolerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tolerable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being tolerable.
Synonyms: tolerability
tolerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolerabilities
Etymology: From tolerate + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being tolerable.
Synonyms: tolerableness
allowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaʊ.əbəl/
Forms: form: more allowable
form: most allowable
Etymology: From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable.
glosses: Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
glosses: Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
examples: text: And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: New HISA regulations, implemented last month, include strict rules about withdrawal times and allowable medication levels on race day.
ref: 2023 June 10, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon and Pamela Brown, “As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed at keeping the animals safe”, in CNN:
glosses: Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
glosses: Praiseworthy.
Synonyms: sense: permissible
word: leveful
Derived terms: allowableness
allowably
nonallowable
unallowable