cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
canvasback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canvasbacks
Etymology: From canvas + back.
Senses: examples: text: 1857 The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
Yesterday, I received a great present from Mr. Webster, from Washington; a large basket of canvasback ducks and a large turkey.
text: The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war.
ref: 1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: A North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.
capaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capaciousnesses
Etymology: From capacious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Capacity is the abstract of capax, receiving or apt to hold ; it is therefore applied to the contents of hollow bodies : capaciousness is the abstract of capacious and is therefore applied to the plane surface comprehended within a given space. hence we speak of the capacity of a vessel; and the capaciousness of a room.
ref: 1818, George Crabb, English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order:
text: The author of the Plays was equipped, beyond every other man of his time, with wisdom, erudition, imagination, capaciousness of mind, grace, and majesty of expression.
ref: 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 358:
glosses: The quality of being capacious.
capeskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capeskins
Etymology: From Cape + skin, after Cape Town in South Africa.
Senses: examples: text: At this time the Director of the WAAC recommended (1) a regulation dress glove of leather similar to capeskin to match the shoes in color, (2) a dress glove […]
ref: 1943, United States Army, Quartermaster Corps - Q.M.C. Historical Studies:
glosses: A soft sheepskin leather especially used for gloves.
capillarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillarities
Etymology: From French capillarité.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the allowance to be made for diminution of the height of a mercurial column, owing to capillarity, is determined by two considerations — the diameter of the tube and versed sine of the corresponding meniscus.
ref: 1856, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences:
glosses: The interaction between the surfaces of a solid and liquid in contact that distorts the normal geometry of the liquid surface; especially the rise or fall of a liquid in a fine tube.
Synonyms: capillary action
wicking
Derived terms: elastocapillarity
electrocapillarity
noncapillarity
thermocapillarity
Related terms: meniscus
surface tension
capital-intensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capital-intensive
form: most capital-intensive
form: capital intensive
Senses: examples: text: Petroleum is the most productive and capital-intensive industry while apparel is the least productive and least capital intensive.
ref: 1999, Karen Parker, Albert Fishlow, Growing Apart: The Causes and Consequences of Global Wage Inequality:
glosses: Needing a relatively large expenditure on capital, especially when compared to that spent on labour.
capital intensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of capital-intensive.
capitalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capitalistic
form: most capitalistic
Etymology: From capitalist + -ic, probably after German kapitalistisch. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.
Senses: examples: text: This gloomy view of the capitalistic production system envisioned ceaseless warfare among the major powers.
ref: 1957, The Development of Air Doctrine in the Army Air Arm, 1917-1941:
text: In other words, the workers will overthrow the capitalistic class and establish a so-called dictatorship of the proletariat, which will finally become a classless society.
ref: 1990, "A" - The Journey of Self-Discovery:
glosses: Of or pertaining to capitalism or to capitalists.
glosses: Organised on a capitalist basis.
Synonyms: capitalist
Derived terms: anarcho-capitalistic
anticapitalistic
capitalistical
capitalistically
neocapitalistic
noncapitalistic
precapitalistic
protocapitalistic
technocapitalistic
uncapitalistic
capriciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From capricious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To employ always the same witnesses, he would excite speculation, and expose himself to the imputation of fickleness or capriciousness.
ref: 1827, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice:
glosses: The quality of being capricious.
capsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From capsule + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: Four muscles are destined to move the os humeri, and to strengthen the capsular ligament.
ref: 1837, Sir Astley Cooper, Principles and Practice of Surgery:
text: Researchers are pursuing vaccines made of capsular polysaccharide types 5 and 8, […]
ref: 2004, Impacts Of Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a capsule.
Derived terms: acapsular
anticapsular
basicapsular
bicapsular
capsular antigen
capsular cataract
capsular contracture
capsular ligament
capsularly
capsular polysaccharide
capsular space
endocapsular
extracapsular
hypocapsular
intercapsular
intracapsular
ischiocapsular
juxtacapsular
meniscocapsular
microcapsular
multicapsular
nasocapsular
neurocapsular
noncapsular
nucleo-capsular
paracapsular
pentacapsular
pericapsular
precapsular
pubocapsular
quadricapsular
quinquecapsular
retrocapsular
rhinocapsular
striatocapsular
subcapsular
supracapsular
transcapsular
tricapsular
unicapsular
capsulize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: capsulizes
form: capsulizing
form: capsulized
form: capsulized
Etymology: From capsule + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: capsulate
glosses: To enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.
examples: text: Nothing is capsulized in me / On either side of town / The streets were never really mine / Not mine these glamour gowns
ref: 1975, Joni Mitchell, “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns:
text: Radical academic Howard Zinn's quip that the U.S. is "always ready to kill people to protect them from communism" capsulized many presentations that examined U.S. international and domestic aggression (cloaked as jingoistic anti-terrorism) against progressive movments ^([sic]) and governments.
ref: 1988 December 11, Wickie Stamps, “Cambridge Conference Chronicles Anticommunism”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 3:
text: Four great sayings capsulize his message: […]
ref: 1999, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Weaver's Wisdom, glossary entry for ‘Yogaswami’, page 289
glosses: To make into a concise form; to encapsulate.
Derived terms: capsulization
captaincy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captaincies
Etymology: From captain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of chieftaincy.
Senses: synonyms: captainship
glosses: The rank or status of a captain.
glosses: The jurisdiction of a captain.
examples: text: He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army
ref: 1828, Juan van Halen, Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquistion at Madrid:
text: The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.
ref: 1859, Garcilaso de la Vega, Christóbel de Acuña, Clements Robert Markham, Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons:
synonyms: capitania
glosses: An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.
Derived terms: cocaptaincy
donatary captaincy
subcaptaincy
captiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captiousnesses
Etymology: From captious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "Yes— and I suppose you want to know why," she replied with dry captiousness.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/V):
glosses: The state of being captious.
glosses: Captious behaviour.
polypous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polypous
form: most polypous
Etymology: From polyp + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, resembling, or characterized by the presence of a polyp.
Related terms: polypoid
captivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captivations
Etymology: From captivate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: But the test of an oration is not only its immediate effect; there are tricks of elocution, a jugglery of manner, and even a personal captivation that so win the senses as to bewilder the judgment.
ref: 1851, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Characteristics of Literature: Illustrated by the Genius of Distinguished Writers:
glosses: The act of captivating or the state of being captivated.
Derived terms: recaptivation
polypoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polypoid
form: most polypoid
Etymology: From polyp + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a polyp.
glosses: Marked by the presence of lesions suggesting polyps.
Derived terms: polypoidal
nonpolypoid
Thoth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: θōθʹ
ipa: /ˈθəʊθ/
enpr: θōθʹ
ipa: /ˈθoʊθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
Etymology: Via Latin Thōth from Ancient Greek Θώθ (Thṓth), from Egyptian ḏḥwtj (“Thoth”, literally “he who is like the ibis”). Compare Coptic Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ (Thōout).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon.
examples: text: To November 1 add 7, and the ſum will ſhew, that the ſeventh day of Thoth fell, that year, upon the eighth day of November.
ref: 1762, John Kennedy, A Complete System of Astronomical Chronology Unfolding the Scriptures:
text: Now the month of Thoth was the first of the Egyptian year, because this month begins a new period.
ref: 1842, Frederick Portal, “Correspondence—Swedenborg and Champollion”, in The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, Etc, volume 21:
text: In that case this quadrimenstruum would be the first one of the Egyptian year, Thoth, Phaophi, Hathyr, Choeac.
ref: 1989, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, volume 56:
glosses: The first month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Thoth has been in roughly September.
cheekbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheekbone
ripshit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ripshit
form: most ripshit
Senses: examples: text: I couldn't understand it, but it was like Benny alternated between humbling himself and pleading, and then getting really ripshit furious and yelling with the red under his eyes glaring.
ref: 1976, Beth Powning, “Benny”, in The Tamarack Review, volume Summer 1976, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 19 May 2017, pages 58–75:
glosses: Enraged or otherwise highly emotional.
examples: text: “Hey, warm sun, cool ocean breezes, getting ripshit on ham.” [Laughs] “Might you say we're getting "hammered"?” “Oh! Nice one.” [Laughs] “This was a great idea, Frank. Great idea.” “This is 90-proof ham.”
ref: 2011 September 22, Dave Chernin & John Chernin, “The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore” (6:10 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 7, episode 2, spoken by Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito):
glosses: Drunk.
Related terms: apeshit
batshit
dipshit
insane
reductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdʌktɪv/
Forms: form: more reductive
form: most reductive
Etymology: From Middle French réductif, from Late Latin reductivus, from the participle stem of Latin reducere (“to reduce”).
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.
glosses: Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.
examples: text: On the relative reductive powers of different classes of American coals, as demonstrated by the experiments with oxide of lead.
ref: 1848, F Knapp, Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures:
text: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
ref: 2013 March 24, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83:
topics: biology
chemistry
economics
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.
examples: text: But then beside the primary and direct sense of the text, the ancients commonly supposed that there was a reductive or anagogical meaning, in which it might be taken.
ref: 1847, John Johnson, The theological works of the rev. John Johnson:
glosses: That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.
qualifier: now frequently derogatory
glosses: That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.
Derived terms: reductive animation
reductive dechlorination
reductive grammar
reductive group
Abbie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abbey
form: Abbi
form: Abby
form: Abi
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Albert.
Derived terms: Ichabbie
anorthosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anorthosites
Senses: examples: text: The second, or Labrador series is characterized, as already remarked, by the predominance of great beds of anorthosite, composed chiefly of triclinic feldspars […]
ref: 1863, T. Sterry Hunt, "On the Chemical and Mineralogical Relations of Metamorphic Rocks", The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume XXXVI, November, 1863, page 224
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A phaneritic, intrusive igneous rock characterized by a predominance of plagioclase feldspar.
Derived terms: anorthositic
morasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morass
ROTFLOL
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the floor laughing out loud.
Related terms: LOL
ROTFL
anthophyllite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthophyllites
Senses: examples: text: Anthophyllite is of a brownish colour, and glistening, pearly, pseudo-metallic lustre; it occurs massive, the mass consisting of crystals or crystalline fibres often disposed in a radiating form.
ref: 1823, William Phillips, An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark brown amphibole mineral; a mixed silicate of iron and magnesium.
Derived terms: anthophyllite asbestos
sodicanthophyllite
pencil case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnsəl ˌkeɪs/
note: older
ipa: /ˈpɛnsɪl ˌkeɪs/
ipa: /ˈpɛnsəl ˌkeɪs/
Forms: form: pencil cases
Senses: examples: text: I love you from the bottom of my pencil case / I love the way you never ask me why
ref: 1989, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Song for Whoever”, performed by The Beautiful South:
synonyms: pencil box
pencil pouch
glosses: An object purposed to contain different stationery like pencil, rubber, correction fluid, etc.
Coordinate terms: pencil holder
pencil pot
pencil box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil boxes
Senses: glosses: A container for stationery such as pencils, pens, rubber, correction fluid, etc.
Synonyms: pencil case
pencil holder
pencil pot
shied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: shide
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shy
shirttails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirttail
shockproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shockproof
form: most shockproof
Etymology: From shock + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: My shockproof watch stood up to everything it reasonably could be expected to and kept ticking; but dropping it down an elevator shaft is asking too much.
glosses: Made sturdily enough to withstand knocks and shocks without being damaged.
glosses: Protected from imparting electric shocks.
shockproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shockproofs
form: shockproofing
form: shockproofed
form: shockproofed
Etymology: From shock + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To protect from imparting electric shocks.
shivery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪvəɹi/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹi
Forms: form: shiverier
form: shiveriest
Etymology: From shiver + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The cold night made me all shivery.
text: Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.
ref: 1878 June, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Man Himself—His House, and Tools”, in The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
glosses: Easily broken; brittle, flaky.
shoddily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shoddily
form: most shoddily
Etymology: From shoddy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shoddy manner; lacking quality and done poorly, usually in a cheap and low quality way.
lieve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lief.
slipknot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipknots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slip knot.
slipknots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipknot
running knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running knots
Senses: glosses: A slip knot.
running knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running knot
FORACS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The USN originally operated five FORACS ranges at Barking Sands, Hawaii, San Clemente Island, California, Fisher's Island, New York, Andros Island, Bahamas and St Croix, US Virgin Islands.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Fleet Operational Readiness Accuracy Check Site, a facility for measuring the bearing and range accuracy of sensor systems on ships, submarines, and aircraft.
spin-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪn.ɔf/
ipa: /ˈspɪn.ɒf/
Forms: form: spin-offs
form: spinoff
Etymology: Deverbal from spin off.
Senses: examples: text: We are about to broach the fraught saga of the Circle Line, but there is another Metropolitan spin-off that comes first, one that has always appealed to me by the baleful beauty of its name: the City Widened Lines or 'The Widened Lines' for short.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 51–52:
glosses: An offshoot.
examples: text: Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
glosses: An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
glosses: A by-product.
examples: text: "Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers".
text: The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.
ref: 2023 October 27, “Fantastic Beasts: JK Rowling franchise has been ‘parked’, director says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect.
synonyms: hive-off
glosses: The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
Synonyms: derivate
descendant
Related terms: word: spindown
word: spinout
word: spin-up
word: spinup
topics: business
english: partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization
translation: partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization
word: carveout
topics: literature
publishing
media
word: subseries
english: work of fiction based on an original media property
translation: work of fiction based on an original media property
word: tie-in
benzocaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕn′-zə-kānʹ
ipa: /ˈbɛn.zəˌkeɪn/
Forms: form: benzocaines
Etymology: From benzo(ate) + -caine (“local anesthetic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A local anesthetic commonly used as a topical pain reliever.
benzules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzule
benzoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzoate
benzoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzole
circle-A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The symbol is an acronym of the slogan "Anarchy is order", coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Senses: glosses: A symbol consiting of an overstruck A surrounded by a circle, representing anarchism.
wikipedia: Anarchy is order
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Related terms: Ⓐ
heterocycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterocycle
furans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furan
trapezius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹəˈpiːziəs/
Forms: form: trapezii
form: trapeziuses
Etymology: Unknown but likely derived from Ancient Greek τράπεζα (trápeza).
Senses: examples: The trapezius muscle resembles a trapezium (trapezoid in American English), or diamond-shaped quadrilateral. The word "spinotrapezius" refers to the human trapezius, although it is not commonly used in modern texts. In other mammals, it refers to a portion of the analogous muscle.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A large vertebrate skeletal muscle divided into an ascending, descending, and transverse portion, attaching the neck and central spine to the outer extremity of the scapula; it functions in scapular elevation, adduction, and depression.
Synonyms: topics: anatomy
word: trapezius muscle
Derived terms: word: trap
Related terms: trapezium
trapezoid
carotenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carotenoid
Berlín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Berlín.
Senses: glosses: A town in Usulután department, El Salvador.
serialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serializations
form: serialisation
Etymology: From serialize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process or action of converting something in a serial or into serial form.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of serializing.
Synonyms: deflating
marshalling
silty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlti
Forms: form: siltier
form: siltiest
Etymology: From silt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The silty river needed its channel dredged periodically to remain navigable.
glosses: Having a noticeable amount of silt.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of silt.
sinuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪnjuˈɒsɪti/
Forms: form: sinuosities
Etymology: From sinuous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Meander is a Riuer in Lycia, a Prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor famous for the ſinuoſitie and often turning thereof, […]
ref: 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie.”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, published 1605, →OCLC, folios 4, verso – 5, recto:
text: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
synonyms: windiness
glosses: The property of being sinuous.
glosses: That which is sinuous.
carotenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carotene
tetraterpenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraterpene
2-methyl-1,3-butadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: isoprene
cultivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cultivate
crocetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocetins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural carotenoid dicarboxylic acid that is found in the crocus flower.
Derived terms: crocetinsemialdehyde
crocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocins
form: crocine
Etymology: From crocus + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural carotenoid that is found in the flowers crocus and gardenia.
where the sun doesn't shine
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of where the sun don't shine.
tretinoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈtɪn.əʊ.ɪn/
ipa: /tɹəˈtɪn.oʊ.ɪn/
Forms: form: tretinoins
Etymology: From tr(ans)- + retino(ic acid) + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The all-trans isomer of retinoic acid that is applied to the skin to treat severe acne and reduce facial wrinkles, roughness, and pigmented spots.
Synonyms: word: all-trans retinoic acid
word: ATRA
word: tret
Derived terms: alitretinoin
isotretinoin
tretinoin tocoferil
Related terms: retinoic acid
vitamin A acid
chloroplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɔːɹəʊˌplæsts/
Senses: glosses: plural of chloroplast
ATRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of all-trans retinoic acid.
all-trans retinoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATRA
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Tretinoin.
impedance plethysmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A technique in which the volume of segments of the body can be continuously measured via electrical impedance; used to study the cardiovascular system and other physiological functions.
intersubjective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪv
Etymology: From inter- + subjective.
Senses: examples: text: The search for certainty about the exact nature of colonial social arrangements — fascinating and important though it may be — is in many ways beyond the scope of my project, which is more concerned with the intersubjective processes of boundary making and marking than it is with objectifying social relations in a sociohistorical manner.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 153:
glosses: Involving or occurring between separate conscious minds.
hypernyms: subjective
coordinate_terms: intrasubjective
glosses: Accessible to or capable of being established for two or more subjects.
Derived terms: intersubjectively
intersubjectiveness
intersubjectivity
plethysmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The diagnostic use of a plethysmograph.
Derived terms: impedance plethysmography
photoplethysmography
plethysmographical
plethysmograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɛˈðɪz.məˌɡɹæf/
ipa: /pləˈðɪz.məˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: plethysmographs
Etymology: Late 19th century: from Ancient Greek πληθυσμός (plēthusmós, “enlargement”) + -graph.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument for measuring changes in volume within an organ or whole body (usually via fluctuations in the amount of fluid it contains).
Derived terms: photoplethysmograph
plethysmography
rheoplethysmograph
small-bore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more small-bore
form: most small-bore
Senses: glosses: Having a small caliber.
raw_tags: of a firearm
glosses: insignificant or trivial.
proxy war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proxy wars
form: war by proxy
Senses: examples: text: With the enhanced insurgent firepower and with Russia steadily raising the number of airstrikes against the government’s opponents, the Syrian conflict is edging closer to an all-out proxy war between the United States and Russia.
ref: 2015 October 12, Anne Barnard, Karam Shoumali, “U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2022:
glosses: A war where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for, fighting each other directly.
Hypernyms: war
plethysmographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plethysmograph
proxy wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proxy war
fags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fag
fags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fag
traductology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French traductologie.
Senses: glosses: The study of the theory and practice of translating and interpreting, especially in an academic context, combining elements of social science and the humanities. More commonly known as translation studies or translatology.
Synonyms: translation studies
translatology
halloa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæˈloʊ/
Senses: examples: text: Halloa! what's this?
text: "Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.
ref: 1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man:
text: "Halloa! Stop there!" he shouted, holding his bicycle to block our road.
ref: 1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention to something or to incite; a shout.
halloa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæˈloʊ/
Forms: form: halloas
form: halloaing
form: halloaed
form: halloaed
Senses: glosses: To utter an exclamation of "halloa".
Related terms: hallo
halloo
hello
pruinose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pruinose
form: most pruinose
Etymology: Latin pruīnōsus, from pruīna.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Covered with a very fine whitish layer of wax particles.
Derived terms: pruinosity
Related terms: pruina
mutually assured destruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutual assured destruction.
mortifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mortify
mortifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mortifying
form: most mortifying
Senses: glosses: Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
Derived terms: mortifyingly
mortifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortifyings
Senses: examples: mortifyings of the flesh
glosses: mortification; abstinence
hatchet man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchet men
form: hatchetman
form: hatchet-man
Senses: examples: text: The crime lord dispatched his favorite hatchet man to make sure the witness would not testify.
synonyms: hitman
hypernyms: hired gun
assassin
<
person
glosses: A male professional killer or gunman.
synonyms: boo how doy
glosses: A male hatchet-wielding participant in a Chinese-American tong war.
examples: text: After the layoffs, he gained a reputation as a hatchet man and ended up eating lunches alone.
glosses: A male who carries out brutal and unpleasant duties on behalf of another, such as firing dead wood employees.
Related terms: hatchet job
chainsaw consultant
paradoxical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈdɒksɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl/
Forms: form: more paradoxical
form: most paradoxical
Etymology: From paradox + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. When properly explained and understood, it is almost self-evident.
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, book II, ch 2:
text: It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book 2, ch 4:
text: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: It was tightly fitted with a cap of the same substance, and bore engraved figurings of an evidently decorative and possibly symbolic nature - conventional designs which seemed to follow a peculiarly alien, paradoxical, and doubtfully describable system of geometry.
ref: 1933, H. P. Lovecraft, Hazel Heald, Out of the Aeons:
text: The new civilizationism is a paradoxical combination of “identitarian” Christianity, secularism, philo-Semitism, Islamophobia, and even some elements of liberalism such as support for gender equality and gay rights.
ref: 2017 December 6, Rogers Brubaker, “The New Language of European Populism”, in brubaker.scholar.ss.ucla.edu, page 2:
glosses: Having self-contradictory properties.
Synonyms: sense: having self-contradictory properties
word: oxymoronic
sense: having self-contradictory properties
word: self-contradictory
Derived terms: nonparadoxical
paradoxical embolism
paradoxical frog
paradoxical intention
paradoxicalness
paradoxical rage reaction
paradoxical sleep
paradoxical undressing
semiparadoxical
ultraparadoxical
unparadoxical
Related terms: paradox
paradoxicality
paradoxically
flavorubredoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavoprotein that reduces nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N₂O) under anaerobic conditions. It is an oxygen sensitive nitric oxide reductase that contributes to resistance to nitrosative killing by macrophages.
payslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payslips
form: pay slip
Etymology: From pay + slip.
Senses: synonyms: pay advice
pay stub
coordinate_terms: word: paycheck
glosses: A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of money earned and tax and insurance paid.
preform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preforms
Etymology: From pre- + form.
Senses: glosses: An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
examples: text: Trask notes that Bq. gorosti could have had *goloztri as a pre-form, in which case the presence of -r- in the Sardinian forms might be original.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 130:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
preform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preforms
form: preforming
form: preformed
form: preformed
Etymology: From pre- + form.
Senses: glosses: To shape something before some other operation.
preform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of perform.
ammocoete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammocoetes
form: ammocete
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A larva of a lamprey.
up to one's neck
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: -ɛk
Etymology: See up to here.
Senses: synonyms: word: neckdeep
word: up to here
glosses: Synonym of up to here.
circular parry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular parries
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: a defensive move in fencing; a parry in which the blade moves in a circle to block an opponent's attack from the opposite side from which it started (sometimes called a contra- or counter-parry)
doublé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublés
Etymology: Borrowed from French doublé.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A compound attack that deceives the opponent's attempted circular parry.
false action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false actions
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: false attack.
Phoney War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Phoney War
form: Phony War
form: phoney war
Etymology: Attributed to US senator William Borah.
Senses: examples: text: Study of the Phoney War, especially on the Franco-German front, is still limited.
ref: 2019, Maude Williams, Bernard Wilkin, French Soldiers' Morale in the Phoney War, 1939–1940, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: During World War II, the period of limited military activity from the outbreak of hostilities on September 3rd, 1939 until Germany's attack on the Low Countries on May 10th, 1940.
wikipedia: William Borah
deflagrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfləɡɹeɪt/
Forms: form: deflagrates
form: deflagrating
form: deflagrated
form: deflagrated
Etymology: First attested in 1727; borrowed from Latin dēflagrātus, perfect passive participle of Latin dēflagrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + flagrō (“to burn”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To burn with intense light and heat.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To burn with intense light and heat.
Specifically, to combust subsonically through thermal conduction.
antonyms: detonate
Hypernyms: combust
Derived terms: deflagrative
deflagrator
Related terms: deflagrating spoon
deflagration
deflagration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deflagrations
Etymology: From Latin dēflagrātiō, from dēflagrāre.
Senses: examples: text: If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of oxygen remained after the deflagration, the mixture consisted of six volumes of hydrogen and six volumes of oxygen.
ref: 1849, Heinrich Rose, A Practical Treatise of Chemical Analysis:
text: Black powder . . . It produces a relatively fast burn or deflagration rather than a detonation and is classified as "low explosive".
ref: 1998, Michael R Bromwich, The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices & Alleged Misconduct:
glosses: The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction.
Hypernyms: combustion
Related terms: deflagrate
deflagrating
deflagrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deflagrate
Derived terms: deflagrating spoon
deflagrating spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deflagrating spoons
Senses: examples: text: A piece of metal (sodium) of the size of a pea is placed in a deflagrating spoon, and heated in the blowpipe-flame to redness. Suddenly immersed into a jar containing half a pint of chlorine-gas, it burns with a bright yellow flame to chloride of sodium.
ref: 1854, Albert James Bernays, Household chemistry; or, rudiments of the science applied to every-day life:
text: Take a deflagrating spoon. This is a little brass ladle, attached to the end of an iron wire. It is very commonly used for burning things in gases, for which purpose it is best to push the wire through a flat bung, protected on the lower side by a piece of tin-plate, which may prevent the gas from passing out of the bottle.
ref: 1861, Charles William Heaton, The threshold of chemistry:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A long-handled spoon with a cover, lowered into a glass vessel filled with a gas to demonstrate deflagration.
deflector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈflɛktə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: deflectors
Etymology: From deflect + -or.
Senses: examples: 1992 Nasa Patents Available for Licensing from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
The deflector assembly contains a plurality of vanes which change the direction of the solar energy to the vertical, while constantly keeping the same side of the deflector facing the sun.
glosses: Something which deflects something else, especially a stream of fluid or particles.
glosses: A diaphragm in a lamp, stove, etc. by which the flame and gases are brought together to improve combustion.
examples: text: The blasters are those beams of ravening destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them.
ref: 1945 May 24, Murray Leinster, “First Contact”, in Astounding Stories, volume 35, number 3:
text: Deflectors say there's something there, sensors say there isn't. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative.
ref: 1966 September 22, Samuel A. Peeples, Where No Man Has Gone Before (Star Trek), episode 3, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):
text: PICARD: If the Romulans have returned to this sector we should know about that. Mister Worf, any further activity?
WORF: Negative, sir.
PICARD: Slow to half impulse.
LAFORGE: Going to one half impulse. ... Now entering quadrant nine-zero-seven, mark three.
PICARD: Shields and deflectors up. Go to Yellow Alert.
ref: 1988 March 21, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A force field; an invisible barrier used as a protective shield.
Derived terms: smoke deflector
wind deflector
deflowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deflower
deflowering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: deflowerings
Senses: examples: text: Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmleſs age: […]
ref: 1794, Emanuel Swedenborg, “Of the Lust of Defloration”, in [anonymous], transl., The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: […] Translated from the Latin […], London: […] R. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, paragraph 503, page 463:
text: 2005 Muhammad Khalid Masud et al - Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements
If a midwife testifies that the wound is old, then deflowering may have occurred prior to the husband's initial penetration of his wife.
glosses: The breaking of the hymen of a virgin.
distorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distort
distorting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distorting
form: most distorting
Senses: examples: text: It's like looking in a distorting mirror at the fair.
ref: 2001, Karel Jan Vollers, Twist & build: creating non-orthogonal architecture, page 86:
text: However, the procedure has been applied only to those below the threshold and who might move up, and not to those just above, who might move down. This has had a very distorting effect on the distributions.
ref: 2008, House of Commons: Children, Schools and Families Committee, “Cambridge Assessment”, in Testing and Assessment: Oral and written evidence, volume 2, page 215:
text: This is somewhat counter-intuitive, and indeed goes against the double-dividend argument that in economies with very distorting tax systems we should raise pollution taxes and lower other taxes.
ref: 2010, Ross McKitrick, Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, page 187:
glosses: That distorts.
Derived terms: distorting mirror
nondistorting
adhesiotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhesiotomies
Etymology: From adhesion + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure to divide or separate an adhesion.
Synonyms: adhesiolysis
rassemblement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rassemblements
Etymology: French
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The bringing together of both feet, with the body upright, in order to outreach an opponent.
acropoleis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/
Forms: form: akropoleis
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀκροπόλεις (akropóleis), plural of ἀκρόπολις (akrópolis).
Senses: examples: text: The Cadmea, like almost all Greek acropoleis, was indeed surrounded by the city, and was situated within the walls; but from our historians, it is quite evident, that one side of the Cadmea touched upon the wall of the city, and upon this supposition alone the siege can be understood.
ref: 1852, Barthold Georg Neibuhr, Lectures on Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Taking of Alexandria by Octavianus. Comprising the History of the Asiatic nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians and Carthaginians, page 358:
text: The ἀγορά mentioned by Thucydides. — I have already referred to the view that the saddle between the two Acropoleis was the site of the … and the most probable site for the agora is the level tract which lies between the two Acropoleis, and if this be so, continues some way towards the gate.
ref: 1895, The Managing Committee of the British School at Athens, The Annual of the British School at Athens, page 81:
text: There are three great acropoleis, great natural hills levelled off…
ref: 1937, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, page 95:
text: …the tyrants’ age, the age of the acropoleis, the period of great dynasties with claims to “divine right”…
ref: 2004, Walter Horatio Pater, Greek Studies a Series of Essays, page 103:
text: At Megara, a city which has the unusual distinction of possessing two acropoleis (see Figure 1.3), both of the acropoleis serve as foci for Pausanias’ description: the description begins at the fountain house of Theagenes, proceeds to the eastern acropolis (Karia), and then descends from that acropolis toward the north (1.40.1–41.8).
ref: 2005, William Hutton, Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias, page 139:
glosses: plural of acropolis
high line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high lines
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The target area above the opponent's midriff.
low line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low lines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of underscore.
synonyms: word: underscore
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The target area below the opponent's midriff.