cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
façade pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: façade patterns
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Synonym of facade pattern.
synonyms: word: facade pattern
façade patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of façade pattern
thiane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thianes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A saturated six-membered heterocycle containing five carbon atoms and one sulfur atom
facade pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facade patterns
form: façade pattern
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A structural design pattern that provides an object that is a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a class library.
Hyponyms: software design pattern
facade patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facade pattern
thiazinane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiazinanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A saturated six-membered heterocycle containing four carbon atoms, one nitrogen atom and one sulfur atom
Subhadra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सुभद्रा (subhadrā).
Senses: glosses: Subhadra, daughter of Vasudeva, and Rohini, sister of Krishna, and Balarama, wife of Arjuna and the mother of Abhimanyu
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit mostly used in India.
Abhimanyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अभिमन्यु (abhimanyu, “Abhimanyu”).
Senses: glosses: One of the ten sons of Manu.
glosses: The son of Arjuna and Subhadra in Mahabharata.
thiete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thietes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated four-membered heterocycle containing three carbon atoms, one sulfur atom and one double bond
anilinguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anilinguists
form: analinguist
Etymology: From anilingus + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who performs anilingus.
Synonyms: word: arse-licker
word: ass-licker
word: buttlicker
word: rimmer
anilinguists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anilinguist
arselicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arselickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ass-licker.
arselickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arselicker
amœbocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amœbocyte
unsnibs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsnib
unsnibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsnib
unsnibbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsnib
anœstrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + œstrus.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of anestrus.
have a thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a thing
form: having a thing
form: had a thing
form: had a thing
Senses: examples: text: Brad and Mary have a thing.
text: They’ve got a thing.
text: They had a thing, but it's over now.
synonyms: have a thing going on
glosses: To be in a casual or illicit romantic relationship.
examples: text: Brad has a thing for Mary.
text: I have a thing for ghost stories.
synonyms: have the hots for
fancy
glosses: To have a crush on, or a soft spot for, someone or something.
examples: text: Don't ask Mary to drive you there, because she has a thing about highway driving. It sometimes gives her panic attacks.
text: He has a thing about not stepping on sidewalk cracks.
glosses: To have an issue, such as a hang-up.
anæsthetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anæsthetists
Senses: examples: text: It is preferable to anæsthetize in an adjoining room, or to cause all but the anæsthetist and one assistant to leave the room until the patient is thoroughly under the influence of the anæsthetic.
ref: 1919, William B. Campbell, Hand‐Book of Modern Treatment and Medical Formulary, page 26:
glosses: Archaic form of anesthetist.
toga party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toga parties
Senses: glosses: A party at which the participants wear an approximation of Greco-Roman dress, typically featuring mock togas made from bed sheets.
look here
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Look here! That's enough!
text: Now look here! I want you all to stop and sit down
text: "Look here, you've no business to come asking for me in this way. I thought that was distinctly understood?"
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary:
glosses: Listen to me!
Synonyms: english: used for newspaper sellers
translation: used for newspaper sellers
word: extra!
word: hear ye!
word: listen here
word: look!
word: oi!
word: here
not for the world
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Would you like to go for dinner with me? Not for the world!
text: I will never see that movie again. Not for the world!
glosses: Absolutely not; under no circumstances. A defiant no.
Synonyms: no chance
no way
flatulences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatulence
no chance
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: You want to borrow three hundred dollars? No chance!
text: I will never again eat that stuff. No chance!
synonyms: not a chance
not on your life
no way
nothing doing
no fear
by no means
chance'd be a fine thing
glosses: Absolutely not; under no circumstances.
Related terms: fat chance
no dice
grem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grems
Etymology: Clipping of gremmy or gremlin.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the grems recognized us […]
ref: 2011, Ben Marcus, The Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly, page 71:
text: From Narragansett to Boca Raton, legions of Atlantic-baptized grems looked west for their surfing equipment, instruction, and entertainment.
ref: 2011, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 213:
glosses: A young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder.
you'll never guess
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: I have something very surprising to say; you won't be able to guess what I'm about to say.
Synonyms: guess what
cathedræ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The chairs or cathedræ of the Roman ladies were distinguished from those of the men, by being adorned with cushions and embroidery.
ref: 1827, Francis Sellon White, A History of Inventions and Discoveries, page 174:
glosses: plural of cathedra
get one's teeth into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's teeth into
form: getting one's teeth into
form: got one's teeth into
form: got one's teeth into
form: gotten one's teeth into
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sink one's teeth into.
microleak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microleaks
Etymology: From micro- + leak.
Senses: glosses: leakage through a microscopic hole
fire exits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire exit
strainful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strainful
form: most strainful
Etymology: From strain + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The general conclusion we wish to draw is a simple one. Certain strategies are less strainful than others in terms of the demands they place on memory and upon inference.
ref: 1986, Jerome Seymour Bruner, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, George A. Austin, A Study of Thinking:
text: In developing inventories of strainful events, criminologists must keep in mind the fact that there may be important […]
ref: 2002, Suzette Cote, Criminological theories:
text: The first type of coping response changes the situation out of which the strainful experience arises.
ref: 2004, Hamid R. Nemati, Christopher D. Barko, Organizational data mining:
glosses: Full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.
edgrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛdɡɹəʊ/
Forms: form: edgrew
Etymology: From Middle English edgrow, edgrowe, from Old English *edgrōwe (“regrowth”), from edgrōwan (“to grow back”), suggested by derivative edgrōwung (“a regrowing, a growing again”), equivalent to ed- + grow.
Senses: examples: text: 1699, July 29 — This week has produced much rain here; if the same be at Brampton, will not you please to order the grounds to be watered, which may produce good "edgrow."
ref: 1699 July 29, a letter published in 1894 in the reports of Great Britain's Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
text: Very fine Weather—remarkably hot & dry; the Shrubs languishing for Rain, the Edgrew all burn'd up—a fire in the upper Country amongst the Heaths, & they can't extinguish it for want of Water.
ref: 1800 August 15, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: Similarly, Thomas Bowen of Tyddyn, Llanidloes, complained to Harris about the 'careless sayings' of a brother called Jones who at a society meeting in Montgomeryshire uttered words like the following:
You shall be turn'd into the Clover, and afterwards into the Edgrow which was brought [= ? bought] with the blood of the Lamb: the Sun circulateth in the Blood of the Lamb.
ref: 1988, The Great Awakening in Wales, page 99
glosses: Aftergrass; eddish.
Synonyms: edgrowth
edgrowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration (due to growth), of edgrow, equivalent to ed- + growth. More at edgrow.
Senses: examples: text: John Bullock, … desired he might diglage of me for this year, 1635; and, … I doe now let him the hay & edgrowth thereof for this present summer 1635; …
ref: 1635 Mary 15, entry in the Wigan Leger, published in 1889 in the Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, section on the History of the Church and Manor of Wigan, page 386
text: … the sea overflowed … drowning many hundreds of great marsh sheep, destroying 400 or 500 acres of edgrowth (sic) or after-grass and old grass, and injuring his hay; …
ref: 1895, Calendar of State Papers: Of the Reign of Charles II, volume 11, summarizing a petition from 1671 October 12 of John Kendall of Thetford to Lord Arlington
glosses: Synonym of edgrow (“aftergrass, eddish”).
synonyms: word: edgrow
extra: aftergrass, eddish
oxychlorination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxychlorinations
Etymology: From oxy- + chlorination.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Simultaneous oxygenation and chlorination
ambigender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ambi- + gender.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of just listing names (yawn), each name selected for A is for Atticus is profiled for its uniqueness, image, and whether or not it is up-and-coming or more stale than last week's doughnuts. Some listings include other pertinent, real-world info, such as ambigender options, cultural spins, and nicknames.
ref: 2008, Lorilee Craker, A Is for Atticus: Baby Names from Great Books:
text: Androgyny—the presence of male and female characteristics in one individual. Androgynous individuals describe themselves as ambigender, polygender, or genderless.
ref: 2014, Manivong J. Ratts, Paul B. Pedersen, Counseling for Multiculturalism and Social Justice:
glosses: Of both male and female genders.
Synonyms: bigender
ambigendered
androgynous
unugly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ugly.
Senses: examples: text: Well, I lay it down, first, that a book quite unornamented can look actually and positively beautiful, and not merely un-ugly, if it be, so to say, architecturally good, which, by the by, need not add much to its price […]
ref: 1893, William Morris, The Ideal Book:
text: The Caldwells decided, at least for the moment, to be accommodating, unugly Americans. They picked up their pastis and their menus and reestablished themselves at the table across the aisle.
ref: 2000, Charles Gustafson, A Visa for Ahmad: Escape from Libya, page 94:
glosses: Not aesthetically displeasing; not ugly.
rivulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rivulose
form: most rivulose
Etymology: From Latin rivulus (“rivulet”) + -ose.
Senses: examples: text: It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.
ref: 1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329:
glosses: Marked by thin, winding or crooked lines.
Related terms: rivulet
unfalse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + false.
Senses: examples: text: […] when religion was practiced with unfalse solemnity and honest sincerity and when soul salvation was a heritage from heaven for not merely a few thousand, but for many millions.
ref: 1941, The Blood of Jesus (film)
glosses: Not false; true.
have someone going
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has someone going
form: having someone going
form: had someone going
form: had someone going
Senses: examples: text: She had him going around in circles.
text: Grandpa had Johnny going shopping for him.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See have, go.
examples: text: You had me going for a minute there when you said Jimmy Wales had been asking for me.
text: It had us going for a minute […] Was this a personalised bag from Dior? Did it mean Céline (the brand) and Dior were teaming up for a collaboration that they were debuting on Céline (the person)? We really wanted that last one to be true, however it turns out the image was the work of Instagram parody artist Reilly.
ref: 2017 August 7, Maddison Glendinning, “The Real Story Behind Céline Dion’s Personalised Dior Bag”, in harpersbazaararabia.com:
glosses: To temporarily convince someone of a falsehood.
examples: text: When he was lying still on the field, he really had me going. I was afraid he was dead.
glosses: To cause someone to be excited, aroused, or upset.
Related terms: get someone going
squickage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squick + -age.
Senses: examples: text: You want me to do *WHAT*??
Squickage! That's too sick for me.
ref: 1993 December 10, Alan Smith, “Re: screw compressor clamp”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
text: Their reaction to hearing about alternative sexual practices in the abstract is most often amusement, sometimes squickage, rarely moral outrage.
ref: 2004 January 24, Nena, “Re: Why monogamy?”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm.femdom (Usenet):
text: I could handle just about anything except childbirth without squickage, but there was something so biologically nasty about childbirth, just couldn't handle it at all.
ref: 2009 April 3, elizabeth, “Re: Painful Water Birth”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: The condition of being squicked by something; squeamish revulsion.
examples: text: It's that perfect fairy tale x-fic that everyone secretly loves. That, and no squickage whatsoever, which is why I dislike most anachronistic fics. :)
ref: 2002 April 12, XL [username], “REC: Mary Church”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
glosses: Something that squicks.
cousin-uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cousin-uncles
Senses: examples: text: Walter is my dad's first cousin. That makes Walter my cousin-uncle. Jack is my mother's first cousin, so for me he is another cousin-uncle.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cousin-uncle.
glosses: Male first cousin of one's parent; one's male first cousin once removed in a higher generation.
Synonyms: second uncle
Coordinate terms: word: cousin-aunt
A-bomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-bombers
Etymology: From A-bomb + -er. (atomic bomber / atom bomber).
Senses: glosses: An aircraft capable of delivering an atomic bomb as a weapon.
Synonyms: nuclear bomber
Hypernyms: bomber
Abongo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑŋˌɡoʊ/
Forms: form: Obongo
Senses: glosses: A Negrillo people of Gabon.
Abongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑŋˌɡoʊ/
Forms: form: Abongos
form: Abongo
form: Obongo
Senses: glosses: The people of the Abongo tribe.
Abongos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abongo
tablet computers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablet computer
asklepian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asklepians
Etymology: From the Greek deity Asclepius.
Senses: glosses: The symbol of a rod entwined with a serpent, ⟨⚕⟩, which represents healing and medicine.
Synonyms: Aesculapian staff
aboospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æ.boʊ.əˌspɔɹ/
Etymology: From ab- (“away”) + oospore (“zygote”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An oomycete spore that functions like an oospore but has been produced asexually.
Abor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑˌbɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈɑˌbɔ.ɚ/
Forms: form: Abors
form: Abor
Senses: examples: text: No thatching grass is available, and so all the houses are thatched with a kind of plant called tara by the Abors, which is very like the tokopat used in many parts of Assam, but the lower stem of the tara is excessively thorny.
ref: 1886, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, page 316:
topics: anthropology
ethnography
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of a people of northern Assam.
famine resistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more famine resistant
form: most famine resistant
Senses: examples: text: Marge Simpson: Con: you're endangering your health.
Homer Simpson: Pro: I'm drought and famine resistant.
ref: 1995, November 5, Dan Greaney, "King-Size Homer", episode 7-7 of The Simpsons, 00:12:25-00:12:30
text: And they STILL refuse to come out with the Cartman shirts in sizes for famine resistant sysadmins like me. XXL, please!
ref: 1998 January 24, Bill Bradford, “Re: ! South Park Stickers are here!”, in austin.forsale (Usenet):
glosses: Overweight, fat.
Latino-Faliscan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latino- + Faliscan.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Latin and Faliscan.
Latino-Faliscan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latino- + Faliscan.
Senses: glosses: An Italic language family that encompasses both Latin and Faliscan.
psychophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- (“mind”) + -phony (“voice”).
Senses: examples: text: Their motives are perhaps not entirely laudable and probably they are being fooled; but even if they are not getting authentic messages from the dead, yet some queer things have happened and are happening as a result of psychophony.
ref: 1922, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 145, page 679:
text: In this way the ancient knowledge of Pythagoras is applied in the most modern form of psychophony, and in this way, for the first time in the existence of the present world, the special mind-power vibrations which you require are reproduced on the invisible ether, at your command, by the use of the psychophonic records.
ref: 1996, C. De Radwan, The Secret of Mind Power and How to Use It, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Not uncommonly, the vibrations produce a sensation of inflation common in psychophony (vocal channeling) with the apparent expansion and swelling of the hands, feet, lips, cheeks, chin and solar plexus area.
ref: 2011, Sandie Gustus, Less Incomplete: A Guide to Experiencing the Human Condition beyond the Physical Body:
text: The third is the message of one or more spirits, which in psychophony is identified only as a spiritual friend.
ref: 2011, Group of Ethics Studies, The Ethics of Jesus Christ, →ISBN:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Vocal communication with the dead or with spirits.
examples: text: They started their own research at the beginning of the seventies, after hearing of Jürgenson's voices, and since then they have indefatigably dedicated a lot of their time and energy to research, particularly in the field of psychophony, as the phenomenon is known in Spain.
ref: 2010, Anabela Cardoso, Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension?, →ISBN, pages 45–46:
text: Then there was the EVP (Psychophony), that, as I checked on the Internet, is still practised now.
ref: 2014, Enrico Catalucci, The book of Hanni, →ISBN:
text: The technician looked at the people in the living room, feeling unsure how to proceed. His shy nature made him feel uncomfortable in this situation, but he knew he had to share his intuition, however mad they'd be. "That psychophony we recorded from Laura's mother, I've been thinking about it a lot..."
ref: 2015, Enrique Laso, Hell Calling II, →ISBN:
text: Like a sort of ghostly psychophony, Dylan in Between collects the 'residual sound' some people claim to perceive in the short breaks separating the songs on a Bob Dylan vinyl record.
ref: 2015, F. Javier Panera Cuevas, Bu Bir Aşk Şarkısı Değil [This is Not A Love Song], →ISBN, page 145:
english: This is Not A Love Song
translation: This is Not A Love Song
glosses: The appearance of voices or meaningful sounds in the white noise on electronic recordings; electronic voice phenomenon (EVP).
Derived terms: psychophonic
Abors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abor
Judeo-Christian-Islamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Judeo- + Christian + Islamic.
Senses: examples: text: Hell appears in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic context originally as a place of smoke and fire.
ref: 2010, Christopher M. Moreman, Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 251:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam collectively.
Synonyms: Judeo-Islamo-Christian
Related terms: Abrahamic
Danieline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Danieline
form: most Danieline
Etymology: From Daniel + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The third, expressed by the italicised words, is a Danieline adjunct.
ref: 1916, Classical Review, volume 30, page 151:
glosses: Pertaining to any of various figures named Daniel.
unstay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstays
form: unstaying
form: unstayed
form: unstayed
Etymology: From un- + stay.
Senses: examples: text: He plays with the late Watts-Dunton and gets good fun out of it; he rips open the sham, unstays the imperfect, sonnet ; he tackles all fretters of the great English instrument and worries them all, yet with a fine sanity.
ref: 1918, Ford Madox Ford, The English review:
text: "[...] And true it is that the life of man is in the hands of God; and the state of kingdoms doth also belong to Him, to stay or to unstay them." All men had clearly foreseen that Edward's death would beget the evils of a disputed succession.
ref: 1967, John Nichols, The Gentleman's magazine:
glosses: To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest.
examples: text: Staying on a mount that is trying to unstay you is a historic procedure of the livestock business.
ref: 2005, Ivan Doig, English Creek:
glosses: To expel; expulse; remove; release; rid.
howcatchem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howcatchems
Etymology: From how + catch + 'em, modelled on whodunit.
Senses: examples: text: Columbo was not so much a whodunit as it was a "howcatchem" — the fun was in watching Columbo corner the murderer, and we never tired of the game.
ref: 2002, Marc Robinson, Brought to You in Living Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television & Radio from NBC, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: A mystery novel or drama which begins by showing or describing the commission of the crime, generally revealing the perpetrator's identity to the audience, then shows or describes how the detective proves the perpetrator's guilt.
howcatchems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howcatchem
forway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forways
form: forwaying
form: forwayed
form: forwayed
Etymology: From Late Middle English forwayen, forweyen (“to go astay, go out of the way”), partly equivalent to for- + way (compare Old English forweġan (“to overcome, kill”)); and partly continuing, in altered form, Middle English forveien, forsveien, forvoyen (“to err, go astray”), from Old French forsveer, forvoier (“to go astray, err”).
Senses: glosses: To go out of the way; go astray; err; make a mistake; sin.
forwarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forwarns
form: forwarning
form: forwarned
form: forwarned
form: forewarn
Etymology: From Middle English forwernen, from Old English forwærnan, forwoernan, forwiernan (“to hinder, prohibit, prevent, repel, refuse, repudiate, deny, withhold, oppose”), from Proto-Germanic *fra-, *fur-, *far- (“for-”) + *warnijaną (“to care, worry”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, defend”), equivalent to for- + warn (“to deny, refuse, forbid”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh Cousin this wicked Duoena, this Grycta suspects the good Woman who brought the Letter, and has forwarn'd her the House.
ref: 1690, Thomas Shadwell, The amorous bigotte:
text: I meet the Workman by Mr. Pemberton's Gate, and forewarn him from making of it; [...]
ref: 1708, Samuel Sewall, Diary:
text: [...] having been caught putting the inside of the master's desk to a use for which the architect had clearly not designed it, to justify himself, with great simplicity averred, that he did not know that the thing had been forewarned.
ref: 1840, Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, The works of Charles Lamb:
glosses: To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).
Teges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: variation of "Tedious", nickname of early settler, Adoniram "Teges" Allen (1734-1838).
Senses: glosses: A populated place in Clay County, Kentucky, United States.
forfight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forfights
form: forfighting
form: forfought
form: forfought
form: forfoughten
form: forefight
form: forfecht
Etymology: From Middle English forfighten, forfehten (“to fight for, defend; exhaust with fighting”), equivalent to for- + fight.
Senses: glosses: To defend.
glosses: To exhaust or overfatigue (oneself) with fighting.
Derived terms: forfighter
forfought
forfoughten
tragedy of the commons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragedies of the commons
Etymology: Coined by American ecologist Garrett Hardin in 1968.
Senses: examples: text: One theory, known as the tragedy of the commons, holds that people will exploit and abuse something in which they have no ownership stake.
ref: 1995 May 7, Timothy Egan, “Let the Owner Beware”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jul 2012:
text: Overfishing is the classic tragedy of the commons. Since no single nation "owns" the high seas, they exploit it without restraint and without thought to sustainability.
ref: 2010 November 18, “Troubles as deep as the oceans lie ahead”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 04 Jul 2012:
text: The economist Elinor Ostrom, who is on our list this year, has written about the tragedy of the commons, which is the idea that self-interest can undermine the common good.
ref: 2012 April 18, Richard Stengel, “Editor's Letter: A World of Possibilities”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2013:
topics: biology
ecology
economics
government
natural-sciences
politics
sciences
qualifier: social criticism
glosses: A situation in which unmanaged use of a shared resource (such as the atmosphere or an ocean) by a number of participants results in the unintended ruin or total consumption of that resource.
Related terms: anticommons
commons
free rider
let George do it
public good
Frenchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Frenchy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Pixie waved her hands with the Frenchiness of gesture which was the outcome of an education abroad, and which made an amusing contrast with an Irish accent, unusually pronounced.
ref: 1914, Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, The Love Affairs of Pixie, The Religious Tract Society, page 13:
text: The result is a menu of more arty playfulness than many other local establishments, still wearing its Frenchiness on its sleeve.
ref: 2011, Diana K. Schwam, Frommer's New Orleans 2011, Wiley, →ISBN:
glosses: The state or quality of being or seeming characteristically French.
Urmila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit ऊर्मिला (ūrmilā).
Senses: glosses: The daughter of King Janaka of Mithila and the younger sister of Sita. She was the wife of Lakshmana in Ramayana.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used mostly in India.
Sumitra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सुमित्रा (sumitrā).
Senses: glosses: The third wife of King Dasharatha; mother of twins Lakshmana and Shatrughna in Ramayana.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit mostly used in India.
Sabari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A staunch devotee of Rāma in Ramayana.
glosses: A tributary of the Godavari river in India.
subreplacement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + replacement.
Senses: examples: text: The other is the fact that the population of Japan has begun to shrink, the result of years of subreplacement birth rates.
ref: 2011, James W. White, Mirrors of Memory: Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 219:
topics: demographics
demography
glosses: Below the level needed to maintain the current population.
raw_tags: of a birth rate
Sugriva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सुग्रीव (sugrīva, “handsome-necked”).
Senses: glosses: The younger brother of Vali, whom he succeeded as ruler of the Kishkindha in Ramayana.
dotriacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dotriacontanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having thirty-two carbon atoms, but especially n-dotriacontane CH₃(CH₂)₃₀CH₃
Derived terms: dotriacontanoic
heneicosane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heneicosanes
Etymology: IUPAC nomenclature, from Ancient Greek ἕν (“neutral of εἷς one”) + eicosa- (“twenty”) + -ane (“alkane suffix”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having twenty-one carbon atoms, but especially n-heneicosane CH₃(CH₂)₁₉CH₃
wikipedia: IUPAC nomenclature
Derived terms: heneicosanoic
heptatriacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having thirty-seven carbon atoms, but especially n-heptatriacontane CH₃(CH₂)₃₅CH₃
Derived terms: heptatriacontanoic
nonatriacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonatriacontanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having thirty-nine carbon atoms, but especially n-nonatriacontane CH₃(CH₂)₃₇CH₃
pentatriacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentatriacontanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having thirty-five carbon atoms, but especially n-pentatriacontane CH₃(CH₂)₃₃CH₃
Derived terms: pentatriacontanoic
triacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacontanes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῐᾱ́κοντᾰ (trĭā́kontă) + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having thirty carbon atoms, but especially n-triacontane CH₃(CH₂)₂₈CH₃
tricosane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricosanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having twenty-three carbon atoms, but especially n-tricosane CH₃(CH₂)₂₁CH₃.
tritriacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritriacontanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having thirty-three carbon atoms, but especially n-tritriacontane CH₃(CH₂)₃₁CH₃
Related terms: tritriacontene
untriacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untriacontanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having thirty-one carbon atoms, but especially n-untriacontane CH₃(CH₂)₂₉CH₃
tetracontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetracontanes
Etymology: Blend of tetra- (“4”) + Ancient Greek τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta, “40”) + -ane (“saturated hydrocarbon”), from Latin -ānus (“-an: forming adjectives”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having forty carbon atoms, but especially n-tetracontane CH₃(CH₂)₃₈CH₃
Ganapati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gaṇapati
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit गण् (gaṇ)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Sanskrit -अ (-a)
Sanskrit गण (gaṇa)
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pátiš
Sanskrit पति (pati)
Sanskrit गणपति (gaṇapati)translit.
English Ganapati
Transliteration of Sanskrit गणपति (gaṇapati), from गण (gaṇa) + पति (pati).
Senses: glosses: Ganesha (Hindu deity).
reconduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌriːkənˈdʌkʃən/
Forms: form: reconductions
Etymology: From reconduct + -ion. Borrowed from Middle French reconduction in the “repeat lease” sense, itself from Medieval Latin recondūctiō from recondūcere already used by classical Roman jurisprudence.
Senses: examples: text: Most importantly, the suicide attacks of 11 September and the ensuing ‘war against terror’ greatly facilitated the neutralization of the protest movement and the ‘reconduction’ of public order.
ref: 2020, Steffen Erdle, Ben Ali's 'New Tunisia' (1987-2009). A Case Study of Authoritarian Modernization in the Arab World, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Repeat undertaking or restoration.
topics: law
glosses: Repeat locatio conductio.
examples: text: Since Savarkar was prima facie a political criminal, France demanded that England should give him and should request his extradition in a formal way, but England refused to compl with this demand, and the parties, therefore, agreed to have the conflict decided by the Court of Arbitration at The Hague. The award, while admitting that an irregularity had been committed by the reconduction of Savarkar to the British vessel, decided, correctly, I believe, in favour of Great Britain, asserting that there was no rule of International Law imposing, in circumstances such as those which have been set out above, any obligation on the Power which has in its custody a prisoner, to restore him on account of a mistake committed by the foreign agent who delivered him up to that Power.
ref: 1905, Lassa Oppenheim, International Law. A Treatise. Volume I, 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main: Outlook Verlag, published 2018, →ISBN, page 309:
glosses: The conveying something back, escort to its original place.
kilohertzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilohertz
cuntling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuntlings
Etymology: From cunt + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Carey was formulating a picture of this little cuntling who she called Heather in his mind's eye, and it was none too flattering.
ref: 2005, EminemsRevenge, Jew Girl, Shakespeare sans Co., →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: A woman.
cuntlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuntling
alkynol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkynols
Etymology: From alkyne + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alcohol containing an alkyne group
public telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public telephones
alkyloxonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alkyl + oxonium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxonium ion, derived from an alkyl alcohol, of general formula R-OH₂⁺
autothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + thermic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: exothermic to an extent that the generated heat sustains the reaction
raw_tags: of a reaction
butanediols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butanediol
carbocationic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carbocation + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a carbocation
chlorhydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorhydrates
Senses: glosses: hydrochloride
oarage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oar + -age.
Senses: examples: text: The yacht was flying down the current under her powerful oarage.
ref: 1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers:
glosses: The act of using oars; rowing.
examples: text: […] the oarage of the wings of a single great bird, flying high over the valley on some lonely night quest of its own, was distinct.
ref: 1927, C. E. Montague, Right off the Map, Doubleday, Page & Co., page 184:
glosses: A sweeping motion that resembles rowing.
examples: text: With two banks of 13 and 12, or more probably 14 and 11, oars a side the oarage of the pentekontar took up 11.7 m or 12.6 m of its length […]
ref: 1993, H. T. Wallinga, Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme, E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Equipment used for rowing.
cytase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytases
Etymology: From cyto- + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of enzymes, found especially in cereals, that solubilize cell walls by hydrolyzing mannan, galactan, xylan and araban.
Southern Sesotho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Sesotho language, when distinguished from Northern Sesotho.
diazotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diazotations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that forms a diazo compound
Derived terms: dediazotation
launcets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of launcet
bulbophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulbophiles
Etymology: From bulb + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: To those who know it not I may say the flowers are nearly an inch across, like golden stars, the colour being deep yellow, with a medial brown nerve to each perianth division. They last a long time in beauty, and are to one bulbophile at least very attractive.
ref: 1884 July 24, “Hardy Flowers”, in Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening:
text: Perhaps some bulbophile can show us how easy they are to flower "when one knows how."
ref: 1888 February 11, “Lycoris Radiata and Aurea”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle:
text: This year, some of the catalogues offered varieties of this strain, and those of us who are bulbophiles, and who, with appetites whetted by last year's glowing descriptions, were eagerly watching to see these transcendent productions burst into view on the commercial horizon, were promised that we should have bulbs (for consideration) that should produce flowers five inches across in the greatest profusion, which would withstand the fiercest sunshine and the heaviest rain without injury.
ref: 1890 October, W. E. Endicott, “The Newer Gladioli”, in Popular Gardening:
text: Richard Nutt, M.A., F.I.C.E., is a widely travelled engineer, amateur botanist and bulbophile, whose particular interest is the genus Galanthus.
ref: 1988, The Garden, volume 113, page 52:
text: Bulbophiles definitely should consider experimenting with this unique approach to groundcover under their bulbous plants.
ref: 1997, Charles Hardman, “Book Reviews”, in Herbertia, volume 52, page 203:
text: Roehm's fascination with these fancy flowers is shared by many bulbophiles, […]
ref: 2000 April 8, Shelley Gonzales, “The Drama of Tulips Poised to Burst With Color”, in Rocky Mountain News:
glosses: A person who is obsessed with bulb plants.
e-communication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-communications
Etymology: From e- + communication.
Senses: glosses: communication by electronic means, especially over computer networks
e-communications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-communication
surrogate key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrogate keys
Senses: examples: text: We weren't sure which columns in the table would have unique values, so we used a separate surrogate key as the primary key.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unique identifier for an entity or object, not derived from application data.
surrogate keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogate key
pedestrienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedestriennes
Senses: examples: text: Bertha Von Hillern was an amazingly fast speed and endurance walker. In the 1870s, America went crazy, and crowds of thousands gathered to see this "pedestrienne" compete strategically.
ref: 2006, Kathryn Parker, Winchester, page 82:
glosses: A female pedestrian.
Synonyms: pedestrianess
Derived terms: velocipedestrienne
member variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: member variables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A variable that is associated with each instance of a class and can be accessed from all its methods.
Synonyms: data member
member field
Related terms: class variable
instance variable
member variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of member variable
class variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: class variables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A member variable that is associated with a class of which a single copy exists.
instance variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instance variables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A member variable that is associated with a class for which each object of the class has a separate copy.
instance variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instance variable
class variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of class variable
member field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: member fields
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Synonym of member variable.
synonyms: word: member variable
member fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of member field
ethynediol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: acetylenediol
ethynol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acetylenic alcohol of formula HC≡C-OH
ethenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The simplest ketene, of formula CH₂=C=O
fomepizole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfoʊˈmɛpɪzoʊl/
Senses: examples: text: There are two antidotes for methanol poisoning: one is ethanol, which is readily available, while the other is fomepizole.
ref: 2024 November 22, Adeshola Ore, Kate Lamb, “Six people are dead after a suspected mass methanol poisoning at a backpacker party town. What went wrong in Laos?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The heterocycle 4-methylpyrazole, used as an antidote to poisoning by methanol or ethylene glycol.
furaneol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of furanone, 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3-furanone, used in the flavour and perfume industries to impart a strawberry scent.
furanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furanones
Etymology: From furan + -one.
Senses: glosses: The unsaturated lactone 5H-furan-2-one, or any of its derivatives
LoD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LoDs
Senses: examples: text: Multiresolution techniques exploit the additional information that becomes available through a level-of-detail (LoD) representation either by choosing an appropriate resolution for given quality (complexity) requirements or by considering the difference between two levels of detail as a separate geometricfrequency band which contains the detail information that is added or removed when switching between hierarchy levels.
ref: 2002, G. Farin, J. Hoschek, M.-S. Kim, Handbook of Computer Aided Geometric Design, →ISBN, page 343:
text: They include geometric drills which allow the user to navigate between the different LoDs (Level of Detail) associated with an object or to the different geometries of a same LoD that are aimed at different purposes.
ref: 2008, Michael P. Peterson, International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet, →ISBN, page 187:
text: In the first case, we consider the complete transformation of a layer at a certain LoD in another representation of the same layer at a consecutive LoD.
ref: 2008, Liqiu Meng, Alexander Zipf, Stephan Winter, Map-based Mobile Services: Design, Interaction and Usability, →ISBN, page 58:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of level of detail.
LoD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Law of Demeter.
Law of Demeter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for its origin in the Demeter Project, an adaptive programming and aspect-oriented programming effort, itself named after the Greek goddess Demeter.
Senses: examples: text: An adaptive program contains only hooks into the class structure and normally does not fully encode the details of the class structure. This idea of not duplicating the class structure is an application of the key idea behind the Law of Demeter.
ref: 1996, Karl J. Lieberherr, Adaptive Object-oriented Software: The Demeter Method with Propagation Patterns, Pws Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: According to the Law of Demeter, the second approach is better because the summary screen sends a message only to an object that is returned by one of its methods […]
ref: 1998, Scott W. Ambler, Building Object Applications that Work: Your Step-by-Step Handbook for Developing Robust Systems with Object Technology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 249:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: LoD
principle of least knowledge
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A design guideline for developing particularly object-oriented programs that mandates loose coupling between objects.