cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mandragora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænˈdɹæɡ.ə.ɹə/
Forms: form: mandragoras
Etymology: From Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragorās.
Senses: synonyms: mandrake
glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Mandragora.
examples: text: —though she did not know whether her supposed rival was dead or alive, whether the complaints she at once pitied and resented were those which "poppy and mandragora" might medicine, or "those written troubles of the brain" which were incapable of cure, she contrived to make up for herself a draught of most terrible infliction.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 56:
text: The worst fodder for a President is not poppy and mandragora, but strychnine and adrenalin.
ref: 1933 January 30, H.L. Mencken, “The Coolidge Mystery”, in H.L. Mencken On Politics, published 1996, →ISBN, page 136:
synonyms: mandrake
glosses: The root of such a plant, traditionally used as a narcotic.
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
synonyms: mandrake
glosses: A kind of tiny supernatural being, sometimes described as a demon.
Derived terms: mandragorite
notches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notch
notches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of notch
notching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of notch
notching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notchings
Senses: examples: text: She looked up into his face and he into hers, and he saw her light-struck green eyes and the delicate notchings of her crow's feet.
ref: 2003, John Hough, The Last Summer, page 136:
glosses: A notched mark or pattern.
glosses: A method of joining framing-timbers, by halving, scarfing, or caulking.
altoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altoists
Etymology: From alto + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person playing alto saxophone or some other alto instrument.
altoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altoist
chitupas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitupa
immunotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunotoxin
antifeedants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifeedant
trilithons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trilithon
analphabets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analphabet
glycoalkaloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycoalkaloid
etiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etiologist
guayaberas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guayabera
copybooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copybook
dysgeusia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysgeusias
Senses: glosses: The distortion or loss of the sense of taste.
Related terms: dysgeusic
parageusia
ageusia
dysosmia
Paulina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Paulīna, feminine form of Paulīnus, derivative of Paulus, from paulus (“small”). Name of a third-century saint.
Senses: examples: text: O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort / That I have had of thee!
ref: Scene 3
text: She smells like expensive soap and her teeth are shiny-white. She does not in any way look like her name. It's not her fault that she was born in a time when people believed in names like Wanda, Dottie and Betty. She's more of a Vanessa or Paulina.
ref: 1991, Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Simon & Schuster, published 1999, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Paulina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paulinas
Etymology: From Latin Paulīna, feminine form of Paulīnus, derivative of Paulus, from paulus (“small”). Name of a third-century saint.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, gardening was a significant part of the tradition of the Paulinas (the name given to the girls who attended St. Paul's).
ref: 2015, Robert H. Gillette, Escape to Virginia: From Nazi Germany to Thalhimer’s Farm, page 65:
glosses: A pupil or alumna of St Paul's Girls' School, London, England.
owlet moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owlet moths
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the family Noctuidae.
Derived terms: false owlet moth
extrahelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + helical.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Beyond, or temporarily removed from the double helix, of a nucleic acid molecule
bleaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleach
bleaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bleach
base-pair breathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base pair breathing
Senses: examples: text: Intercalation is an energetically favourable process, and thus relates to the dynamic base-pair breathing properties of DNA itself.
ref: 2013, Michael G. Simic, Mechanisms of DNA Damage and Repair: Implications for Carcinogenesis and Risk Assessment:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The transient, lateral opening of a base pair in a nucleic acid molecule as a result of thermal motion or the presence of a defect
common clothes moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common clothes moths
Senses: glosses: Tineola bisselliella, a winged insect of Tineidae family, the caterpillar of which is a serious pest which destroys woollen materials.
ponor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ponors
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian.
Senses: examples: text: As long as the total capacity q of the spring is smaller than the total capacity q₂ of the ponor, no flooding of the polje will occur.
ref: 1981, Petar T. Milanović, Karst hydrogeology, page 168:
text: The only permanent sea ponor in the world is the sea mill of Argostoli, located on Kefalonia Island in the Ionian Sea (Greece) (Glanz, 1965).
ref: 2004, John Gunn, Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science, page 1283:
text: Ponors are one of the symbol features of karst regions, and crucial features from a hydrogeological and geotechnical point of view.
ref: 2004, Petar Milanovic, Water Resources Engineering in Karst, page 22:
text: The characteristic features of the ponors of glaciokarst mainly manifest in the fact that they were mostly formed in karstic depressions or in glacial erosional depressions.
ref: 2018, Márton Veress, Glaciokarsts, page 203:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A natural surface opening associated with karst.
fugacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fjuːˈɡæsɪti/
Forms: form: fugacities
Senses: glosses: A measure of the tendency of a fluid to expand or escape.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the relative stability of different phases of a substance under the same conditions.
examples: text: Duke Orbal disallowed it on the grounds of fugacity.
ref: 1983, Jack Vance, Cugel's Saga:
glosses: Transience.
Synonyms: sense: transience
word: ephemerality
word: impermanence
word: transiency
word: transience
Related terms: fugacious
koki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokis
Etymology: From a local brand name.
Senses: examples: text: I scribbled the measurements on the wall with a koki.
ref: 2007, Robyn Cohen, Nearly Finished: A Guide to Home Renovation, page 80:
glosses: A fibre-tip pen.
kuti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Ethiopian tisane made from steeped coffee leaves.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: kuti kuti
polki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We're doing a lot of polki or uncut diamond jewellery sets in real gold. A lot of brides are opting for polki jewellery because it looks dressier and works better for a wedding.
ref: 2010 December 20, Radhika Sangam, “Smart tips to buy jewellery for a lifetime”, in India Today:
glosses: Of diamonds: unfaceted.
patch panel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patch panels
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a series of network cable connection sockets.
hexaploidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexaploid + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The replication of the genome of an organism to form a hexaploid.
Derived terms: allohexaploidization
paleohexaploidization
nontrivial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒnˈtɹɪ.vi.əl/
Forms: form: more nontrivial
form: most nontrivial
form: non-trivial
Etymology: From non- + trivial.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not trivial.
Not obvious or easy to prove; not self-evident.
examples: text: nontrivial subgroup
translation: a subgroup with more than one element
english: a subgroup with more than one element
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topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not trivial.
Not being of the simplest kind; not being empty or a singleton.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not trivial.
Needing significant computing power to solve; intractable.
Derived terms: nontrivially
nontrivial solution
thermal desorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The removal of contaminants from soil etc. by heating
cryodetector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryodetectors
Etymology: From cryo- + detector.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several devices that detect something by measuring small differences in very low temperatures
magnetochemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetochemists
Etymology: Back-formation from magnetochemistry, equivalent to magneto- + chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemist whose speciality is magnetochemistry
glycorandomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycorandomisation
Etymology: From glyco- + randomization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The manufacture of a large series of related compounds, containing various sugar moieties, for investigation as pharmaceuticals etc.
ecotoxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + toxicology.
Senses: glosses: The toxicology of a substance towards a wide range of organisms or towards an ecosystem; the study of ecotoxicity.
Derived terms: nanoecotoxicology
cryoprotectant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoprotectants
Etymology: From cryo- + protectant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any substance (typically a polyhydric alcohol) that prevents cell damage on freezing
costimulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: co-stimulatory
Etymology: From co- + stimulatory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
co-stimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-stimulations
form: costimulation
Etymology: From co- + stimulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The requirement of T cells for two signals in order to become fully activated.
ladder polyether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladder polyethers
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several naturally occurring organic compounds having a series of oxygen-containing heterocyclic rings arranged in the form of a ladder; most are poisonous
oxazaborolidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxazaborolidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of five-membered, saturated heterocycles containing two carbon atoms, a nitrogen, boron and oxygen atom
bioconformatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study and engineering of protein folding, especially alternatively folded forms (or conformers).
Related terms: prion
halocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloclines
Etymology: From halo- + -cline.
Senses: glosses: a strong, vertical salinity gradient; the (sometimes indistinct) border between layers of water that contain different amounts of salt
Related terms: thermohalocline
gavelkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡævəlˌkaɪnd/
Forms: form: gavelkinds
Etymology: From gavel + kind
Senses: glosses: a system of inheritance associated with the county of Kent in England whereby, at the death of a tenant, intestate estate is divided equally among all his sons; also, a similar system employed in Ireland
Related terms: disgavel
incursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more incursive
form: most incursive
Etymology: See incursion, incur; compare French incursif.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by incursion; invasive.
Derived terms: incursively
assmonkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assmonkeys
form: ass monkey
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of ass + monkey.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: assclown
text: "Look," said Mayer, suddenly nervous, "there's no sense in acting like complete ass monkeys over this. I'm sure we can reach a mutually beneficial settlement."
ref: 2000, Martin DiPietro, “The Pull”, in Nest: 28 Tales of Pulp Fiction, →ISBN, page 72:
text: “You little assmonkey!” The kid danced away to the front of the car.
ref: 2002, Brian Rockstroh, Far From Grace, →ISBN, page 10:
text: "God, love," I said, "Annnnnd ... trampolines!" ¶ "You are such an assmonkey."
ref: 2004, Stacey Cochran, The Band, →ISBN, page 188:
synonyms: assmuncher
glosses: An obnoxious or contemptible person; a jerk.
scrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: scrots
Etymology: Perhaps related to scrote and/or scrotty.
Senses: examples: text: We know he pushes drugs; his gang regularly robs other little scrots for their mobile phones and money.
ref: 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London (page 107)
glosses: A worthless or contemptible person.
brainpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnˌpaʊə/
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnˌpaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnˌpaʊ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnˌpaʊɹ/
Forms: form: brainpowers
Etymology: From brain + power.
Senses: examples: text: He applied his brainpower to the problem.
glosses: Mental ability; intelligence.
examples: text: I suspect the think tank lacks the brainpower to function effectively.
text: “Brainpower rankings usually identify the usual suspects: college towns like Boston, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay area. And to be sure, these places generally have the highest per capita education levels.”
ref: 2014 April 3, Joel Kotkin, “America's New Brainpower Cities”, in Forbes:
glosses: Intelligent people considered or regarded as a group.
brain freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain freezes
Senses: glosses: A pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold; a cold-stimulus headache.
examples: text: I apologize for giving you another name a moment ago, that was a brain freeze on my part.
ref: 2006, Paul Rodriguez, “Talking brains: a cognitive semantic analysis of an emerging folk neuropsychology”, in Public Understanding of Science, volume 15, page 311:
text: I call it a brain freeze at this age, but whenever you have some kind of a problem remembering something, you think, oh, you know, you automatically think about Alzheimer’s.
ref: 2011, James N. Laditka et al., "Older adults' concerns about cognitive health: commonalities and differences among six United States ethnic groups", Ageing and Society, vol. 31 (7), p. 1214
text: Call it a brain freeze, another 'Aleppo moment,' or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign.
ref: 2016 September 29, Josh Lederman, Patrick Mairs, “Brain freeze? Gary Johnson can’t name favorite world leader”, in PBS NewsHour, Associated Press, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2018:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.
Synonyms: sense: pain in the head
word: ice cream headache
sense: failure to remember
word: tip of the tongue
sense: failure to remember
word: presque vu
somatype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatypes
Senses: glosses: somatotype
Related terms: somatyping
non-repudiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-repudiations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonrepudiation.
non-repudiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-repudiation
somatotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somatotype
constitutional types
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constitutional type
pulmonary artery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary arteries
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: great artery
glosses: The artery that connects the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.
ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ligament
mocking bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mocking birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mockingbird.
mimicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimickings
Etymology: From mimic + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: They had a thousand odd stories and jokes about the events of the day, and burlesque descriptions and mimickings of the spectators who had been admiring them.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Buckthorne, or The Young Man of Great Expectations”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 2 (Buckthorne and His Friends), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 93:
text: Many within our community view childrearing with skepticism or disdain. Affirmatively choosing parenting as a gay man or lesbian is often seen as a retreat from public activism to private life or as a mimicking of heterosexuality.
ref: 1993 October, Nancy D. Polikoff, “Lesbian And Gay Parenting: What's At Stake?”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: gerund of mimic: mimicry; (countable) an instance of this.
Derived terms: biomimicking
mimivirus
mimicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mimic + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mimic
monastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monastic
misrepresentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrepresentation
misrepresentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mis- + representative.
Senses: examples: text: When heterosexual men do engage in homosexual sex […] these practices are treated as momentary aberrations, and a good deal of work goes into explaining why they occurred and why they are misrepresentative of, or discordant with, the true sexual orientation of participants.
ref: 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.
money changer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money changers
form: money-changer
form: moneychanger
Senses: examples: text: The money changer gave me rupees for my dollars.
text: And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 21:12:
glosses: A person who will exchange currency of one type for another for a fee or percentage.
examples: text: Women had replaced men on the streetcars as conductors and motormen, and the thought of sailing up and down the hills of San Francisco in a dark-blue uniform, with a money changer at my belt, caught my fancy.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 34, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 224:
glosses: A portable device for dispensing change.
Hyponyms: english: early modern Middle East & India
translation: early modern Middle East & India
word: saraf
english: early modern India & SE Asia
translation: early modern India & SE Asia
word: shroff
monotonic function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monotonic functions
form: monotone function
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
Amazigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æm.əˈzɪɡ/
Forms: form: Amazighs
form: Imazighen
Etymology: Borrowed from Berber amaziɣ.From Proto-Berber *mazīɣ, an endogenous ethnonym attested in various Amazigh languages such Nafusi maziɣ (“Amazigh”), Ghadamsi maziɛ (“Amazigh”), Taznatit maziɣ (“Amazigh, lord, God”), Tamazight amaziɣ (“Amazigh, nobleman”), Tachelhit amaziɣ (“Amazigh”), Tamajeq amajeɣ (“Tuareg noble”), Tamahaq amaheɣ (“Tuareg noble”) and Tamasheq amaceɣ (“Tuareg noble”).
It is first recorded in Libyc inscriptions as "MSK", and in Greco-Roman sources where it appears in various forms such as Μάσικες (Másikes), Μάζικες (Mázikes), Mazic, Mazica, Mazicat and Mazices.
It seems to be an ancient verbal adjective of the Proto-Berber verb *MZƔ "to be noble", attested in Tamazight mmuzeɣ (“to be prestigious”) and Tamajeq mujeɣ (“to be noble, brave”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa; a Berber.
Amazigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æm.əˈzɪɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Berber amaziɣ.From Proto-Berber *mazīɣ, an endogenous ethnonym attested in various Amazigh languages such Nafusi maziɣ (“Amazigh”), Ghadamsi maziɛ (“Amazigh”), Taznatit maziɣ (“Amazigh, lord, God”), Tamazight amaziɣ (“Amazigh, nobleman”), Tachelhit amaziɣ (“Amazigh”), Tamajeq amajeɣ (“Tuareg noble”), Tamahaq amaheɣ (“Tuareg noble”) and Tamasheq amaceɣ (“Tuareg noble”).
It is first recorded in Libyc inscriptions as "MSK", and in Greco-Roman sources where it appears in various forms such as Μάσικες (Másikes), Μάζικες (Mázikes), Mazic, Mazica, Mazicat and Mazices.
It seems to be an ancient verbal adjective of the Proto-Berber verb *MZƔ "to be noble", attested in Tamazight mmuzeɣ (“to be prestigious”) and Tamajeq mujeɣ (“to be noble, brave”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several Amazigh languages spoken by the Amazigh people.
Derived terms: Amazighism
Amazighity
by the looks of things
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: It appears; it seems; apparently.
keened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keen
chronothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrono- + thermal.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to both time and temperature
predefines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predefine
predefining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predefine
RCP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The RCP was a tiny British party, founded in the 70s, officially disbanded in the late 90s.
ref: 2020 August 1, Andy Beckett, “Why Boris Johnson's Tories fell for a tiny sect of libertarian provocateurs”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Revolutionary Communist Party.
examples: text: That’s broadly consistent with the Real Clear Politics average of all general election matchups between the two; RCP shows Biden with an average of a 6-point lead over Sanders.
ref: 2020 April 8, Chris Cillizza, “Why Joe Biden starts as the general election front-runner”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of RealClearPolitics.
RCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RCPs
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of reinforced concrete pipe.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of rich client platform.
examples: text: Needing more information, I looked for a handy 'executive summary' of RCP data, science and development. […] Research takes place in many countries, and RCPs provide a common, agreed foundation for modelling climate change.
ref: 2013 August 30, GP Wayne, “Now available: a guide to the IPCC's new RCP emissions pathways”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: climate change
glosses: Initialism of Representative Concentration Pathway.
hypercholesteraemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercholesteremia
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood
hypercholesteremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypercholesteraemia.
inflaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflatons
Etymology: From inflate + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposed particle that would have been responsible for inflation in the very early universe.
Derived terms: inflatino
HSE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Health Service Executive, the public healthcare system in Ireland.
HSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of health, safety, environment.
glosses: Initialism of high school equivalency.
glosses: Initialism of human systems engineering.
topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
virology
glosses: Initialism of herpes simplex encephalitis.
Synonyms: topics: health
medicine
sciences
sense: safety, environment
english: environment, health, safety
translation: environment, health, safety
word: EHS
ensellure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensellures
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A concave curve formed by the spine, for example in women and horses; lumbar incurvation.
viewing audience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viewing audiences
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
media
glosses: An audience that views an event or show through various forms of media (e.g. television, webcast, podcast), participating in an event without being physically present.
sent down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of send down
Hoya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hoyas
Etymology: Derived from the mixed Greek and Latin chant "Hoya Saxa" (meaning "What Rocks"), which gained popularity at the school in the late nineteenth century. The name Hoyas came into use in the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: Today, the Hoyas’ senior point guard and former first-team All-Met is pursuing a more audacious goal: to take Georgetown deep in the NCAA tournament and add to the Final Four banners on display in McDonough Arena.
ref: 2013 December 20, Liz Clarke, “Georgetown point guard Markel Starks sticks to his plans as Hoyas take on No. 18 Kansas”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A member of the Georgetown Hoyas, the official athletics teams of Georgetown University in the United States.
examples: text: This traveling bear doesn’t belong to a circus — Chunky the Georgetown Panda is a stuffed panda that has been shipped across the country to Hoyas old and new.
ref: 2020 September 10, Michelle Brown, “Traveling Stuffed Panda ‘Chunky’ Visits Hoyas at Their Homes”, in The Hoya:
glosses: A current or former student of Georgetown University.
aestivoautumnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: estivoautumnal
form: aestivo-autumnal
Etymology: From Latin aestīvus (“summer”) + autumnus (“autumn, fall”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or happening in summer and autumn.
Derived terms: aestivoautumnal fever
estivoautumnal fever
estivoautumnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aestivoautumnal.
miniate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miniate
form: most miniate
Etymology: Partly borrowed from Latin miniātus (adjective), partly from miniātus, perfect passive participle of miniō (“to cover with vermilion”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the colour of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.
miniate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miniates
form: miniating
form: miniated
form: miniated
Etymology: Partly borrowed from Latin miniātus (adjective), partly from miniātus, perfect passive participle of miniō (“to cover with vermilion”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: At Trinity college in Cambridge is a Psalter in Latin and Saxon, admirably written, and illuminated with letters in gold, silver, miniated, &c.
ref: 1774, Thomas Warton, The History of English Poetry:
glosses: To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion, or with red letters, as in a manuscript.
Related terms: minium
Benjy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Benjamin + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.
Related terms: Benji
alethophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia) + -phobia, equivalent to aletho- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Is her "official science" fatally smitten with alethophobia?
ref: 1875 April, “The Question of Organic Evolution”, in Quarterly Journal of Science, volume 12, page 202:
text: If Alethophobia infects even one person, we can never attain universal unity.
ref: 2007, Manoucher Parvin, Alethophobia: Fear of Truth : a Novel:
text: It sounds like a rare and serious psychiatric disorder, but I'm betting that two out of three people suffer from alethophobia.
ref: 2010, Susan Scott, Fierce Leadership:
text: And the root of such blindness, hostility, or indifference, cognophobia, misology (Kant) and "alethophobia” (or rather, fear of correct beliefs), is a past in which interest, interest-driven epistemic desires and interrogative stances have regularly lost out to a variety of practical considerations in particular to fear of unpleasant discoveries.
ref: 2016, Leo Zaibert, The Theory and Practice of Ontology, page 258:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: alethophilia
glosses: A fear or dislike of the truth; an unwillingness to come to terms with truth or facts.
Derived terms: alethophobe
alethophobic
Related terms: truthaphobia
rightism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rightisms
Etymology: From right + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Belief in, or support of, the principles of the political right.
glosses: An act or statement supporting the political right.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: human-rightism
right-thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more right-thinking
form: most right-thinking
Senses: glosses: Sane, sensible, cogent, clear of thought.
glosses: In agreement on moral positions.
Related terms: bien pensant
reconstitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconstitutions
Etymology: From re- + constitution.
Senses: glosses: The process or result of reconstituting
glosses: restoration, reconstruction
glosses: The addition of water to dehydrated food
recontaminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recontaminates
form: recontaminating
form: recontaminated
form: recontaminated
Etymology: From re- + contaminate.
Senses: glosses: To contaminate again, especially after cleaning of original contamination.
recriminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recriminatory
form: most recriminatory
Senses: examples: text: His dwelling on recriminatory memories pushed him into depression.
glosses: In the way of recriminations.
recrystallize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recrystallizes
form: recrystallizing
form: recrystallized
form: recrystallized
Etymology: From re- + crystallize.
Senses: glosses: To crystallize again; especially as a means of purification.
rectilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛktɪˈlɪniɚ/
ipa: /ˌɹɛktɪˈlɪnɪə/
Forms: form: more rectilinear
form: most rectilinear
Etymology: From post-Classical Latin; either from rectilīneāris or from rectilīneus (whence rectiline) + -ar, in both cases ultimately deriving from rectus (“straight”) + līnea (“line”).
Senses: examples: text: The crankshaft and connecting rods of an engine convert the rectilinear motion of the pistons to rotary motion of the flywheel.
glosses: In a straight line.
topics: art
arts
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Formed from straight lines.
Coordinate terms: circular
pentangular
quadrangular
triangular
Derived terms: word: near-rectilinear
alt: NRHO
word: near-rectilinear halo orbit
alt: NRO
word: near-rectilinear orbit
word: rectilinearity
word: rectilinearly
word: rectilinear orbit
Related terms: word: near-rectilineal
alt: NRO
word: near-rectilineal halo orbit
alt: NRO
word: near-rectilineal orbit
word: rectangle
word: rectangular
word: recti-
word: rectilineal
word: rectilineality
word: rectilineally
word: rectilineal orbit
recuperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recuperative
form: most recuperative
Senses: examples: text: Obtaining recuperative rest is aided by quiet, not by having ambulance sirens go by every five minutes.
glosses: In the way of recuperation.
Derived terms: nonrecuperative
recuperative thermal oxidizer
recuperatively
recuperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recuperatives
Senses: glosses: Any remedy that aids recuperation.
chokedamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokedamps
Etymology: From choke + damp.
Senses: examples: text: "Now, when you described the Wigan coal explosion last month, could you not have gone down and helped those people, in spite of the choke-damp?" "I did." "You never said so." "There was nothing worth bucking about." "I didn't know." She looked at me with rather more interest.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
LRC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Labour Relations Commission.
glosses: Initialism of Labour Representation Committee.
LRC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LRCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of longitudinal redundancy check.
piloti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilotis
Etymology: From French pilotis, from Middle French pilot (“stake”). Attested from the 17th century.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: One of the columns, pillars, or stilts that lift a building above ground or water.
transmits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transmit
uninitiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnɪnˈɪʃi.eɪtɪd/
Etymology: From un- + initiated.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: exoteric
text: His jargon-filled talk was gibberish to the uninitiated, but clear and concise to practitioners.
text: Even in the midst of the full swing of fancy, swayed to and fro by the many currants of thought that arise out of a single word, snatches of the verse from which the flight was taken will suddenly appear on the surface like a refrain or a keynote, showing that in reality there is a connexion, though hidden to the uninitiated.
ref: 1863, Sir William Smith, editor, A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising its Antiquities, Biography, Geography and Natural History, Volume III. Red Sea-Zuzims, Little, Brown, and Co, Versions, Ancient (Targum), pages 1653–1654:
text: To the uninitiated, the belief not merely in the influence of the dead, but in their actual presence during secret rites is, or has until lately been, very real, and in so far as the uninitiated are brought into relation with the societies will possess a religious character.
ref: 1914, William Halse Rivers Rivers, The History of Melanesian Society, volume 2, Part 1, Adegi Graphics, published 2001, →ISBN, Chapter XXXIII. Religion and Magic, page 411:
text: A quick guide for the uninitiated
ref: 1962 January 24, “Tape recorders: A quick guide for the uninitiated”, in Herbet L. Brown Jr, editor, Changing Times: The Kiplinger Magazine, volume 16, number 1, Kiplinger Washington Editors, →ISSN, page 13:
text: Although the priests are the initiated, they remain ignorant and incapable of instructing the uninitiated in the proper method of painting the temples.
ref: 2008, David E. Johnson, Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture, Fordham University Press, →ISBN, Ex-Cited Dialogue, page 107:
glosses: Not having been initiated; not having the special knowledge of a particular group.
yawpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yawper
dermoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dermoid
form: most dermoid
Etymology: From derm- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling skin
Synonyms: dermatoid
Derived terms: dermoid cyst
dermoid sinus
dermoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermoids
Etymology: From derm- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A dermoid cyst.
dermatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜːməˌtɔɪd/
Forms: form: more dermatoid
form: most dermatoid
Etymology: From dermato- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: dermoid
telomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛləˈmɛɹɪk/
/ˌtiːləˈmɛɹɪk/
Etymology: From telomere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a telomere.
Derived terms: extratelomeric
heterotelomeric
homotelomeric
intratelomeric
multitelomeric
nontelomeric
peritelomeric
subtelomeric
telomerically
ranunculaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹəˌnʌŋkjʊˈleɪʃəs/
Etymology: Ranunculaceae + -ous
Senses: examples: text: The stomata are ranunculaceous (anomocytic) and confined to the lower leaflet surface.
ref: 1993, Klaus Kubitzki, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, page 349:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to buttercups
dilly-dallying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dilly-dally
tidied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tidy
tidier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidiers
Etymology: From tidy + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tidies.
tidier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tidy: more tidy
UDA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ulster Defence Association.
UDA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of urticaria-deafness-amyloidosis syndrome.
UVF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The ‘Ulster Day’ march will take place this Saturday to mark both the centenary of the UVF and 101st anniversary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant.
ref: 2013 September 24, “18,000 loyalists expected for ‘Ulster Day’ march to commemorate UVF formation”, in Belfast Telegraph, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Ulster Volunteer Force.
tidies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tidy
uncategorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + categorized.
Senses: examples: text: We have all the uncategorized error reports to go through, figure out who they go to and fix.
synonyms: noncategorized
antonyms: categorized
glosses: Not having been sorted into a category.
earless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪə̯ləs/
ipa: /ɪɹləs/
ipa: /iɹləs/
Etymology: From ear + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Earless seals are probably more hydrodynamic without ear lobes.
text: There are but few farmers who have failed to notice the large number of poor and earless stalks in the crop, but few can give any reason. They have often seen a good stalk and a poor one in the same hill—one with perhaps two good ears, the other with none on it. Just so long as we select as we do, and fail to improve on our system of saving seed, we shall have more earless stalks than prolific ones.
ref: 1883 January, A. E. Blount, “Experiments in Corn Culture”, in Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume III, number 1, page 11:
text: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
synonyms: uneared
antonyms: eared
glosses: Lacking ears.
Derived terms: earless dragon
earless monitor lizard
earlessness
earless seal
cryptographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryptography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The cryptographic community includes both cryptographers (those who make codes) and cryptanalysts (those who break codes).
text: The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems.
ref: 2014, Thomas Feller, Trustworthy Reconfigurable Systems:
glosses: Relating to cryptography.
Derived terms: cryptographically
noncryptographic
nilpotent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪlˈpəʊtənt/
Forms: form: nilpotents
Etymology: From nil (“not any”) + potent (“having power”) with literal meaning “having zero power” - bearing Latin roots nil and potens.
Coined in 1870, along with idempotent, by American mathematician Benjamin Peirce to describe elements of associative algebras.
Senses: examples: text: The so-called spinor algebra of C(2), the language of the quantum mechanics, is formulated in terms of the idempotents and nilpotents of the geometric algebra of space, including its beautiful representation on the Riemann sphere, and a new proof of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
ref: 2015, Garret Sobczyk, “Part I: Vector Analysis of Spinors”, in arXiv:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A nilpotent element.
CSPRNG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CSPRNGs
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: PRNG
glosses: Initialism of cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator.
cryptographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cryptographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a cryptographic manner; using cryptography; for cryptographic purposes
codebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codebooks
Etymology: From code + book.
Senses: examples: text: In the 19th century codebooks were used not so much for secrecy as for compression, to bring down the prohibitive cost of telegraph communication. […] But when Dr. Bellovin hunted though the card catalog, his interest was piqued by an 1882 codebook whose title included the word “secrecy.”
ref: 2011 July 25, John Markoff, “Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs”, in The New York Times:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code.
examples: text: We assume that DWT coefficients belong to a codeblock that is divided by its quantization step size in advance and the two codebooks, C⁰ and C¹, for the two quantizers can be defined as […]
ref: 2013, Kazuhiro Kondo, Multimedia Information Hiding Technologies and Methodologies for Controlling Data, Hershey, P.A.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 226, column 2:
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A lookup table.
examples: text: The change, which has so far been approved by each committee that has considered it, is under review for the next edition of the W.H.O. codebook, which classifies diseases and influences the treatment of patients worldwide.
ref: 2016 July 26, Pam Belluck, “W.H.O. Weighs Dropping Transgender Identity From List of Mental Disorders”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A list of disorders or conditions and the codes that represent them.
peregrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peregrine
magnetometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetometer
degradations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degradation
hatcheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchery
outputs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of output
outputs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of output
whistleblowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistleblower
grantees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grantee
repairers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repairer
repairer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repairers
Etymology: From repair + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 58:12:
text: The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter IV, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, published 1910, pages 151–2:
text: 1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 168,
Where the European city grid of right angles was overgrown and broken up by the purposeful tangle of African pursuits—the shortest point-to-point meander taken on foot between barbers and fruit-sellers, scribes and bicycle repairers—to be white was to feel invisible; only a sensuous self-assurance, while it lasted, could counter that.
glosses: A person who repairs things.
Synonyms: word: repairperson
word: translator
Hyponyms: repairman
repairwoman
Plateau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the North Central geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Jos.
glosses: A surname
glosses: Former name of Lusong: a barangay of Buenavista, Bohol, Philippines.
Derived terms: Talbot-Plateau law
xenograft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzɛnəʊɡɹæft/
/ˈzɛnəʊɡɹɑːft/
Forms: form: xenografts
Etymology: From xeno- + graft.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise the survival of xenografts of rat megaislets transplanted into miceis extended by these special pretransplant culture conditions.
ref: 1982, D. Faustman, P. E. Lacy, J. M. Davie, “Transplantation without immunosuppression”, in Diabetes, →DOI:
synonyms: heterograft
glosses: A tissue graft taken from a species different from that of the recipient.
Coordinate terms: alt: homograft
word: allograft
word: autograft
word: isograft
xenograft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈzɛnəʊɡɹæft/
/ˈzɛnəʊɡɹɑːft/
Forms: form: xenografts
form: xenografting
form: xenografted
form: xenografted
Etymology: From xeno- + graft.
Senses: synonyms: heterograft
glosses: To perform a tissue graft using tissue taken from a species different from that of the recipient.