cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
careers officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: careers officers
Senses: glosses: A person employed to give advice to people, especially young people, about which career to choose.
Synonyms: careers adviser
careers advisor
career girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: career girls
Senses: glosses: A career woman, especially a young one; a young woman determined to make a career for herself in business.
cocoa powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocoa powders
Senses: topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A powder derived from ground cocoa solids, which is used to make the drink of cocoa, various chocolate products, also used as an ingredient in baking.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A form of brown gunpowder, also known as brown powder.
car-lifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: grand theft auto; stealing a car
wrecker's ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrecker's balls
Senses: glosses: A wrecking ball
springfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springfish
form: springfishes
Senses: glosses: Any of the fish in the goodeid genus Crenichthys.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Crenichthys nevadae
word: Railroad Valley springfish
taxonomic: Crenichthys baileyi
word: White River springfish
scaleless dragonfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaleless dragonfish
form: scaleless dragonfishes
Senses: glosses: Bathophilus nigerrimus
glosses: Chirostomias pliopterus, a species found in the Atlantic Ocean
glosses: Eustomias schmidti, a dangerous predator in the deep oceanic waters
glosses: Melanostomias bartonbeani.
Related terms: taxonomic: Stomiidae spp.
word: barbeled dragonfish
hacked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hack off
hacked off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hacked off
form: most hacked off
Senses: examples: text: I'm totally hacked off about having to work all weekend.
glosses: annoyed; upset; angry
Synonyms: word: browned off
word: cheesed off
word: peed off
word: pissed off
word: teed off
word: ticked off
free-thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more free-thinking
form: most free-thinking
Senses: examples: text: His background was academic, though not directly in mathematics or physics. His father, Frank, was an expert in tropical diseases and his mother, Isobel (nee Walker), was a free-thinking radical who had a great influence on him.
ref: 2018 March 14, Roger Penrose, “'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary by Roger Penrose”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having opinions that are contrary to dogma or the positions of authority.
Kerr geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kerr geometries
Etymology: Named after New Zealand physicist Roy Kerr.
Senses: examples: text: The very remarkable conclusion of all this is that the black holes that we expect to find in nature have to conform to this Kerr geometry.
ref: March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose, “'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially-symmetric black hole with a spherical event horizon.
Hawking energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawking energies
Etymology: Named after English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the bending of ingoing and outgoing rays of light that are orthogonal to a 2-sphere surrounding a region of space whose mass is to be defined.
Kerr geometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kerr geometry
overclipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overclipped
form: most overclipped
Etymology: From over- + clipped.
Senses: examples: text: The bed was too neat, like an overclipped show dog, but as the season wore on the plants would settle; the garden would find its character.
ref: 2012, Barbara Claypole White, The Unfinished Garden, page 192:
glosses: Clipped to excess.
sea-lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-lawyers
Senses: examples: text: The learned Jesuit, Joseph Acosta, had certain experiences of sharks, or tiburons, Which do no discredit to the name of those hungry sea-lawyers. "I did wonder," he says, "at the incredible ravening of the tiburons or sharks, whenas I did see drawne from one, out of his gullet, a butcher's great knife, a great iron hooke, and a piece of a cowe's head with one whole horne, neither doe I know if both were there or no..."
ref: 1857, Household Words: A Weekly Journal - Volume, page 48:
text: Shall I tell you how a Shark was once caught ? " It was THE DOG-FISH SHARK. a hot day, and I was strolling on deck, when suddenly one of the officers called me, and pointed out a dark, razor-like fin cutting its slow but steady way through the blue waters that circled our ship. " ' What's that ?' I asked, wonderingly. " ' Don't you know a sea-lawyer yet, sir ?' " ' Sea-lawyer ! Oh, you mean a Shark ; is that one ? ' "
ref: 1878, Clara L. Matéaux, Odd Folks at Home, page 161:
text: Where greedily sea-lawyers roam, And Neptune used to be at home, With barber rude and Triton ; Where sudden squalls with noisy wrath, Like bullies cross the vessel's path, Poor Jack to vent their spite on.
ref: 1893, Robert Bruce, Echoes from Coondambo, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of sea lawyer.
sea-lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-lawyer
sealouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealice
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea louse.
sealice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sealouse
sulkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulkies
Senses: examples: text: Jeffery had learned to harness the sulkie, and he pulled two of them around and asked Ray which horse he wanted.
ref: 2014, Joy Treptow McCarthy, Searching:
glosses: Alternative form of sulky (two-wheeled cart)
Matsuba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Romanization of Japanese 松葉 (まつば, matsuba)
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
bobsleigher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobsleighers
Etymology: From bobsleigh + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who participates in bobsleigh.
bobsleighers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobsleigher
commercializable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commercializable
form: most commercializable
Etymology: From commercialize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be commercialized.
conceptualisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceptualiser
zilizopendwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swahili zilizopendwa (“those that were loved (inanimate)”), probably because the genre arose in the post-independence era in East Africa and was loved by locals for its representation of freedom.
Senses: glosses: A genre of urban East African music recorded in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Synonyms: zilipendwa
zilipendwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zilizopendwa (“African music genre”).
synonyms: word: zilizopendwa
extra: African music genre
snurging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snedging.
compulsitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compulsitors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: That which compels.
compulsitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compulsitor
out and away
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It is scarcely so touching as Daisy Miller, which is out and away the best thing of its kind in recent English; but it is a piece of work so capable and original, so vigorous, and to a certain point so telling, as to be worthy of equal praise and study.
ref: 1878, W. E. Henley, review of The Europeans by Henry James; in Academy (xiv, 354)
glosses: by far; far and away
to the life
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Very closely resembling the original; drawn with great accuracy.
oryctics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρυκτικός (oruktikós, “fit for digging or mining”), from ὀρυκτός (oruktós, “dug up”).
Senses: examples: text: He added that his friend is about to sell his books and buy a spade, with a view to graduating with honours in Oryctics.
ref: 1888 January, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, in The Fortnightly Review, page 57:
synonyms: oryctology
glosses: The branch of geology relating to fossils.
oryctographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oryctographic.
oryctographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to oryctography.
remunerativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From remunerative + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Another factor to be allowed for in establishing the remunerativeness of a service was its value as a feeder to the rest of the system.
ref: 1959 August, “Talking of Trains: The costs of transport”, in Trains Illustrated, page 346:
glosses: The quality of being remunerative.
remunerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Capability of being rewarded or remunerated.
Actaeon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ækˈtiːən/
/ækˈtiːɒn/
/ækˈteɪən/
/ækˈteɪɒn/
/ˈæktɪən/
Forms: form: Acteon
Etymology: From Latin Actaeōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).
In Greek mythology, Artemis transformed Actaeon into a stag with horns on his head. In European folklore, horns were considered the sign of a cuckold, whence the noun sense of Actaeon, "cuckold", and the verb sense "to cuckold", are derived. Compare horned, put horns on, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Amid so much prosperity, it was one of his grandsons, Actaeon, who first brought distress to Cadmus, when antlers, foreign to his human shape, sprouted from the youth's forehead, and his hounds gorged themselves on their master's blood.
ref: 1979, Eric S. Rabkin, Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 62:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Actaeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ækˈtiːən/
/ækˈtiːɒn/
/ækˈteɪən/
/ækˈteɪɒn/
/ˈæktɪən/
Forms: form: Actaeons
form: Acteon
Etymology: From Latin Actaeōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).
In Greek mythology, Artemis transformed Actaeon into a stag with horns on his head. In European folklore, horns were considered the sign of a cuckold, whence the noun sense of Actaeon, "cuckold", and the verb sense "to cuckold", are derived. Compare horned, put horns on, etc.
Senses: examples: text: […] but I had the story from some French officers of distinction, who mentioned the name of the injured and prudent husband, and that he was a person of very high rank. That name, however, even if I had not forgotten it, I should not think it fair to repeat, because it would seem to be a matter of some moment to the gentleman though he was an Acteon, not to be thought so.
ref: 1814, Commentaries on the laws of Moses, volume 4, a translation of Johann David Michaelis' German text by Alexander Smith: a footnote on page 127
text: He once lost a friend by kindly inquiring after his wife, who had made an Acteon of him, first by the head ornament presented, and secondly by sending him to the dogs in the way of pecuniary circumstances.
ref: 1819, The Hermit in London, published in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, number 126 (published on June 19, and reprinted in the compilation of Gazette issues printed at the end of the year by William Pople)
text: If she don't make Actaeon of him before she's done, I'm a bishop.
ref: 1960 [1932], Dame Rose Macaulay, They Were Defeated, Collins, page 75:
glosses: A cuckold.
Actaeon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ækˈtiːən/
/ækˈtiːɒn/
/ækˈteɪən/
/ækˈteɪɒn/
/ˈæktɪən/
Forms: form: Actaeons
form: Actaeoning
form: Actaeoned
form: Actaeoned
form: Acteon
Etymology: From Latin Actaeōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).
In Greek mythology, Artemis transformed Actaeon into a stag with horns on his head. In European folklore, horns were considered the sign of a cuckold, whence the noun sense of Actaeon, "cuckold", and the verb sense "to cuckold", are derived. Compare horned, put horns on, etc.
Senses: examples: text: […] where vaine glorious Ixion Proclaymed, that he was the Minion of Juno, and had Acteoned Jupiter: for which arrogancie, Jupiter threw him to Hell, with this pictured vengeaunce.
ref: 1987 [1582], George Whetstone, edited by Diana Shklanka, An Heptameron of Civill Discourses, Garland Publishing, Inc., page 144:
text: Zuc. […] was I not a handſome fellow from my foote to my feather, had I not wit, nay, which is more, was I not a Don. and didſt thou Acteon me, did I not make thee a Lady.
Herc. And did ſhe not make you a more worſhipfull thing, a Cuckold.
ref: 1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
text: There are of opinion that there is in Marriage an ineuitable desteny, not to be auoided which is either to be Acteond [OED actæoned] or not to be […]
ref: 1620, Alexander Niccholes, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving, London, page 35:
glosses: To cuckold.
Bellerophon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɪˈlɛrəf(ə)n/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Βελλεροφῶν, Βελλεροφόντης (Bellerophôn, Bellerophóntēs).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical hero, best known for slaying the Chimera.
chotki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɒtki/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊtki/
Forms: form: chotkis
form: chotki
Etymology: From Russian чётки (čótki, “prayer beads, rosary”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of komboskini.
synonyms: word: komboskini
chotkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chotki
Senses: glosses: plural of chotki
centromerelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more centromerelike
form: most centromerelike
form: centromere-like
Etymology: From centromere + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like or resembling a centromere
lumbayao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbayaos
Etymology: From Cebuano lumbayaw.
Senses: glosses: Heritiera javanica; a Philippine timber tree.
glosses: The wood from this tree, commercially sold as Philippine mahogany
dyschezic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dyschezic
form: most dyschezic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or characterised by dyschezia; having painful bowel movements.
I'm 'onna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪmənə/
/ˈʌmənə/
Senses: glosses: Contraction of I'm gonna.
Related terms: I'ma
Imma
reperitonealization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Regeneration of the mesothelial lining of the peritoneal cavity, following injury.
peritonealization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process by which a surgical surface is covered with peritoneum, via surgical means or natural regeneration.
celiocentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celiocenteses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: paracentesis of the abdomen
celioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celioscopies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of coelioscopy.
cellobiosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellobiosidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that releases cellobiose from one end of the cellulose molecule by hydrolysis
cellobiosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellobiosyls
Senses: glosses: A univalent radical derived from cellobiose
cellohexose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cellohexaose.
cellose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cellobiose.
synonyms: word: cellobiose
cellulocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Both cutaneous and subcutaneous
celosomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celosomias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A congenital malformation of the sternum, with hernial protrusion of the viscera
cementicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cementicles
Senses: glosses: A small globular mass of cementum near the root of a tooth
cementification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cementogenesis.
synonyms: word: cementogenesis
cementifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cementify
cementifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Undergoing cementification.
Derived terms: cementifying fibroma
cementodentinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cemento- + dentinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to cementum and dentin (of teeth)
Derived terms: cementodentinal junction
cenesthesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coenesthetic.
centinormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centi- + normal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a concentration one hundredth that of a normal solution
centractin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centractins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A central subunit of dynactin
centrifugalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrifugalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centrifugation.
centrifugalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrifugalizations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of centrifugation.
synonyms: word: centrifugation
centroplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From centro- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: The substance of the centrosome
quirly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: quirlys
form: quirlies
form: quirlie
form: quirley
Etymology: From quirl (“twist, curl”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: A cigarette, especially one which is hand-rolled.
quirlys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quirly
deastringency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + astringency.
Senses: glosses: The removal or loss of astringency (of some fruit)
Derived terms: postdeastringency
postdeastringency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + deastringency.
Senses: glosses: Following deastringency
georectified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + rectified.
Senses: glosses: modified by georectification
nonastringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + astringent.
Senses: glosses: Not astringent
sidescan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: side scan
form: side-scan
Senses: glosses: That scans sideways rather than straight down
raw_tags: of a sonar system
terramechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of surface soil, especially its interaction with vehicles
cephalhaematocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalhaematoceles
Etymology: From cephal- + haematocele.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cephalhematocele.
cephalhematocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalhematoceles
Etymology: From cephal- + hematocele.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A hematocele underneath the pericranium
cephalocentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalocenteses
Etymology: From cephalo- + -centesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: puncture of the skull in order to drain excess fluid
cephalodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalodynias
Etymology: From cephalo- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of headache.
synonyms: word: headache
cephalogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalogeneses
Etymology: From cephalo- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation of the head (in the developing embryo)
cephalogyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cephalo- + -gyric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the rotation of the head
cephalopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalopathies
Etymology: From cephalo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the head
cephalopelvimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalopelvimetries
Etymology: From cephalo- + pelvimetry.
Senses: glosses: radiographic measurement of the fetal head in utero and of the mother's pelvis
cephalosporanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cephalosporin + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Related to cephalosporanic acid and its derivatives
cephalosporanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bicyclic heterocyclic carboxylic acid that is the base compound of the cephalosporin antibiotics
Derived terms: cefaclor
cefadroxil
cefalexin
cefaloglycin
cefalonium
cefaloram
cefaloridine
cefalotin
cefamandole
cefapirin
cefatrizine
Related terms: cephalosporanate
cephalostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalostats
Etymology: From cephalo- + -stat.
Senses: synonyms: cephalometer
glosses: A framework that holds the head stationary for radiography or other radiology and for surgery.
Related terms: hemostat
cephalotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalotoxins
Etymology: From cephalo- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: A substance, present in the salivary glands of cephalopods, that is toxic to crabs
Crown of Aragon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A composite monarchy, from 1162–1716, which began as the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Aragon with the County of Barcelona, was at its height in the 14th and 15th centuries and ended as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Related terms: Kingdom of Aragon
coya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coyas
form: ccoya
Senses: glosses: The wife of the Sapa Inca in the Inca Empire
Inca Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The pre-Columbian empire spreading over many parts of western South America. It was controlled by the Incas, and had its capital as Cuzco.
Sapa Inca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sapa Incas
Senses: glosses: A ruler of the Inca Empire.
bauno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baunos
Etymology: From Cebuano baluno, bayuno.
Senses: examples: text: There are durian trees, Durio zibethinus, of enormous size and unquestionably very old all along the Agusan in the various settlements up to the Davao boundary, and large baunos, Mangifera caesia, of excellent quality are obtainable at Butuan when they are in season.
ref: 1922, Bulletin, volumes 38-40, Philippines Bureau of Agriculture, page 20:
glosses: Mangifera caesia; a wild mango found in the Philippines.
veneratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to veneration, particularly, to one who venerates or to the act of veneration
zoomorphise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zoomorphises
form: zoomorphising
form: zoomorphised
form: zoomorphised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zoomorphize.
ceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceptors
Senses: examples: text: The ceptors convert (transduce) the various forms of energy to which they are sensitive into electrochemical bits of digitized information.
ref: 2006, Daniel J. Schneck, Dorita S. Berger, Geoffrey Rowland, The Music Effect: Music Physiology and Clinical Applications, page 18:
glosses: A receptor.
Hyponyms: aceticoceptor
amboceptor
baroceptor
beneceptor
cholinoceptor
chemoceptor
electroceptor
exteroceptor
graviceptor
heteroceptor
interoceptor
mechanoceptor
neutroceptor
nociceptor
osmoceptor
photoceptor
proprioceptor
thermoceptor
transceptor
Derived terms: adrenoceptor
viroceptor
ceratin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A process for producing a substitute for animal size which consists in dissolving potato-starch in an alkaline solution of ceratin and water-glass and then adding acetic acid until the result shows a weak alkaline reaction, substantially as described.
ref: 1901, Specifications and Drawings of Patents, United States: Patent Office, page 1207:
glosses: Alternative form of keratin.
ceratoglossus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceratoglossi
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The posterior part of the hyoglossus
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of chondroglossus.
synonyms: word: chondroglossus
posthodiernal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + hodiernal.
Senses: examples: text: As an example of a language which has an opposition between hodiernal and posthodiernal future, where the hodiernal future is distinct from the present tense(s), we may mention Aghem (Bantu, Hyman 1979).
ref: 1984, Brian Butterworth, Bernard Comrie, Östen Dahl, Explanations for Language Universals, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 113:
text: Posthodiernal na- does not appear in my narrative corpus outside of the quoted speech of characters.
ref: 2015, Doris L. Payne, Shahar Shirtz, Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 170:
text: Hodiernal future tense: I will love her sometime today.
Posthodiernal conditional perfect tense: I would have loved her sometime after today.
Hesternal past tense: I loved her early today.
Prehesternal past tense: I loved her earlier today.
ref: 2016, Joseph Cherian, Idiotic English and Idiomatic English: The Professional’s Guide to Using English Intelligently, Influentially, and Internationally, WestBow Press, →ISBN:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to future time later than today.
prehesternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hesternal.
Senses: examples: text: There are two past tenses, a hodiernal-hesternal tense used to refer to 'today' and 'yesterday', and a prehesternal tense used to refer to 'before yesterday', as in the following examples:
ref: 1991, Studies in Language:
text: It refers specifically to yesterday past and, contrary to the hodiernal tense particle, can never be extended to prehesternal use. It can, in addition, occur concurrently with only the hesternal adverb, zààméǹg 'yesterday'. This particle must appear when hesternal reference is intended, with or without the adverb, zààméǹg 'yesterday'. The prehesternal verbal particle, dáá, is also quite specific in that it can never be used to mark hodiernal and hesternal tenses.
ref: 2018, Augustine Agwuele, Adams Bodomo, The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: In contrast, no instances of PP occurred in either the today or yesterday contexts, and prehesternal contexts are highly disfavored (.36). Although low in frequency, the prehesternal factor serves as evidence to argue that in Southern Arizona Spanish, situations are temporally anchored to past time reference points located with respect to utterance time. In this study, indeterminate contexts were determined on lack of temporal anchoring, which is left unspecified by the interlocutor ...
ref: 2018, Jonathan E. MacDonald, Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 184:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to past time earlier than yesterday.
cercocystis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cercocystes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tapeworm cysticercoid larva that develops within the vertebrate host villus rather than in an invertebrate host
cercomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cercomers
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The caudal appendage of a larval cestode
zoomorphised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zoomorphise
zoomorphises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zoomorphise
zoomorphising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zoomorphise
Dearborn Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States, a suburb of Detroit.
Dearborner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dearborners
Etymology: From Dearborn + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who is living in or from Dearborn, Michigan.
Related terms: Dearbornian
Dearborners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dearborner
Dearbornian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dearbornian
form: most Dearbornian
Etymology: From Dearborn + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Dearborn, Michigan.
Related terms: Dearborner
Kitty Hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States that is world-famous because the Wright brothers made the first controlled powered airplane flights in the town.
Derived terms: Kitty Hawker
Shitty Kitty
Dare County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Virginia Dare, the first child born in the Americas to English parents.
Senses: glosses: The easternmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. County seat: Manteo.
wikipedia: Virginia Dare
Ibara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 井原 (Ibara).
Senses: glosses: A city in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
Ibara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ibaras
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Philippine mahogany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philippine mahoganies
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of tree whose wood resemble mahogany (Swietenia spp.) in some ways, such as tanguile (Dipterocarpoideae spp.), red lauan (Shorea negrosensis), white lauan (Parashorea macrophylla), tiaong (Shorea teysmanniana), almon (Shorea spp., esp. Shorea eximia), mayapis (Dipterocarpoideae spp.), bagtikan (Dipterocarpoideae spp., esp. Parashorea malaanon and Parashorea warburgii).
dehydrocyclisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: dehydrocyclisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dehydrocyclization.
makangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of makanga
chakana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chakanas
Etymology: Borrowed from Quechua chakana
Senses: synonyms: Andean cross
glosses: A stepped cross motif, often with a circle in the center, used by the Inca and other Andean cultures.
cocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocal
youthmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youthman
Gorgon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Uillain I tel thee, were that Tamburlaine
As monſtrous as Gorgon, prince of Hel,
The Souldan would not ſtart a foot from him.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
glosses: Synonym of Demogorgon (“a pagan god or demon”).
synonyms: word: Demogorgon
extra: a pagan god or demon
heterorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhɛtəɹɔːɹˈɡænɪk/
Etymology: From hetero- + organic.
Senses: examples: labial m and alveolar n are heterorganic consonants.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: homorganic
glosses: Of consonants: having a different place of articulation.
Satsuma imo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Satsuma imo
Senses: examples: text: Of potatoes, that is, the Satsuma imo, or sweet potato, there were plenty, which were eaten as “refreshments” between meals, being baked at ovens or stands along the street, and sold like cakes or nuts.
ref: 1890, William Elliot Griffis, “The City of the Happy Well”, in Honda the Samurai: A Story of Modern Japan, Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, →OCLC, pages 12–13:
text: The “Satsuma imo,” a species of sweet potato, derives its name from the province of Satsuma, which forms part of this Prefecture. This potato is said to have been originally brought from the Luchu Islands to this district, and from thence to have spread throughout Japan.
ref: 1900 September 19, A. R. Firth, Japan. Report on Agriculture and Horse and Cattle Breeding in Kagoshima Prefecture. (No. 539 Miscellaneous Series. Diplomatic and Consular Reports.), London: […] [F]or Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Harrison and Sons, […], published November 1900, →OCLC, page 6:
text: In the case that there are too many Satsuma imo (sweet potatoes) for immediate requirements, these ought to be dried and stored like rice for private consumption.
ref: 2014 December 27, John Michael Purves, Bixia Chen, “蔡温の農務帳: An English Translation of Sai On’s Noumuchou (Book on Agricultural Affairs)”, in The Science Bulletin of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, number 61, Nishihara, Okinawa: University of the Ryukyus, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
text: REGIONAL FOOD & DRINK […] Satsuma imo (sweet potato), […]
ref: 2022, Steve Wide, Michelle Mackintosh, “Kyūshū”, in Japan: A Curated Guide to the Best Areas, Food, Culture & Art, Sydney, N.S.W.: Plum, →ISBN, “Japan by region” section, page 321:
glosses: Alternative form of satsumaimo.
Satsuma-imo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Satsuma-imo came to be generally cultivated in the country about two hundred years ago, entirely through the efforts of Aoki Konyo, scholar and student of Dutch culture. […] Konyo’s foresight in encouraging the growing of Satsuma-imo was deeply appreciated by farmers and others as the crop saved them many times from famine. […] Satsuma-imo is cooked in many ways as a vegetable.
ref: 1960, Mock Joya, “Satsuma-Imo”, in Quaint Customs and Manners of Japan, volume IV, Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, →OCLC, chapter IV (Food, Drinking and Smoking), page 160:
text: In those days, crop failures and famines were common, and the Satsuma-imo, as it was called, fed millions through harsh times, including World War II, saving many thousands from starvation. […] Here in the U.S., Satsuma-imo grows in every state in the lower 48, but in the northern climates you will want to start it inside, in a bucket of soil.
ref: 2023 February 22, Ari Levaux, “Flash in the pan: Japanese sweet potato”, in Billings Gazette, volume 137, number 293, Billings, Mont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B7, column 4:
text: These days, I go to Tanegashima island to buy Satsuma-imo [Satsuma sweet potato] syrup, which I use in my recipes.
ref: 2024 January 26, Mihoko Iida, quoting Yusuke Takada, “The Dragon-Shaped Japanese Region Where Tokyo Locals Go to Unwind”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of satsumaimo.
Polybius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪbi.əs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Polybius, from Ancient Greek Πολύβιος (Polúbios, literally “much life, long-lived”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polybius, an Ancient Greek historian of the Hellenistic period.
Derived terms: Polybian
Polybius square
Risa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹi(ː)zə/
ipa: /ˈɹi(ː)sə/
ipa: /ˈɹɪ-/
rhymes: -iːzə
rhymes: -iːsə
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese りさ (Risa).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Rosetta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈzɛtə/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈzɛtə/
rhymes: -ɛtə
Etymology: Likely borrowed from Arabic رَشِيد (rašīd) eventually.
Senses: glosses: A town in northern Egypt.
glosses: A suburb of Hobart, in the City of Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A village in Mpofana Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
Rosetta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈzɛtə/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈzɛtə/
rhymes: -ɛtə
Forms: form: Rosettas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Rosetta.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
vitroplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitroplants
Etymology: Blend of in vitro + plant
Senses: examples: text: The LGD medium appeared to be unsuitable for lilac vitroplant culture, resulting in yellow aerial parts, less than 5 mm in height.
ref: 2000, A. C. Cassells, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methods and Markers for Quality Assurance in Micropropagation, page 214:
text: In order to reduce the impact of the labour that accounts for 60 to 75% in the cost price of a vitroplant, one then attends in the robotisation and the laboratories of production decided to move to the countries where the labour is cheaper.
ref: 2002, Melhoramento, page 32:
text: Exact figures for world production of vitroplants are not known, but may represent more than 50 million per annum. This would mean that plant tissue culture multiplication techniques are used more frequently in banana than in any other crop.
ref: 2013, Y.P.S. Bajaj, High-Tech and Micropropagation V, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An artificially propagated plant that is grown in vitro.
vitroplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitroplant
Tolstoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Толсто́й (Tolstój), from a stress variant of the ancestor of то́лстый (tólstyj, “stout”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Толстой (Tolstoj).
Derived terms: Tolstoevsky
Tolstoian
Tolstoyan
Tolstoyesque
Tolstoyish
Tolstoyism
Tolstoyist
Tolstoy shirt
Related terms: tolstovka
unconjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conjugate.
Senses: examples: text: Revaccination should take place a minimum of 2 months after the initial dose of unconjugate polysaccharide vaccine.
ref: 1990, Kathryn M. Andolsek, Obstetric care:
text: Under the alkaline conditions of the duodenum and under the enzymatic activity of β-glucuronidase, conjugate bilirubin is hydrolyzed to unconjugate bilirubin.
ref: 2011, Panna Choudhury, Arvind Bagga, Krishan Chugh, Siddharth Ramji, Principles of Pediatric and Neonatal Emergencies, →ISBN, page 557:
text: To circumvent that problem, it is proposed in [24] to use the conjugate correlation instead of the usual unconjugate one.
ref: 2017, Markku Renfors, Xavier Mestre, Eleftherios Kofidis, Orthogonal Waveforms and Filter Banks for Future Communication Systems, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: Not conjugate.
Rhacotis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Rhacotis, from Ancient Greek Ῥακῶτις (Rhakôtis, “Rhacotis”), Egyptian rꜥ-qdyt (“Alexandria”). Compare Coptic ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ (rakoti).
Senses: glosses: A city in Egypt near Alexandria.
with training wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I mean, even with the luxury of a graphic front end, there's only so much low-level control that you can do on what is basically a canoe with training wheels.
ref: 2000, Steven K. Roberts, From Behemoth to Microship, →ISBN, page 92:
text: You may not be ready to chase down a rabbit and kill it, but you can shuck an oyster, eat it, and get the primal thrill. It's like going native with training wheels.
ref: 2010, Rowan Jacobsen, A Geography of Oysters, →ISBN:
text: Standup paddling can be described as surfing with training wheels, although you provide the propulsion, not the waves.
ref: 2012, Insight Guides: New England, →ISBN:
glosses: Made easier for novices.
examples: text: Also, I introduced him to crayons. Bought the Crayola beginner set—the short, fat, thick ones with training wheels.
ref: 2004, Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, →ISBN:
text: Alternatively, they can drop their tokens into games of chance—basically, slot machines with training wheels.
ref: 2013, Elizabeth Dunn, Michael Norton, Happy Money, →ISBN, page 24:
text: While a faint whiff of raffishness remained, science fiction could be justified as a specialized form of children's or Young Adult literature—as literature with training wheels on it, something that would teach the kids to be familiar with Science and Technology and to think progressively about The Future (much in the fashion of the famous “World of the Future” dioramas at the 1939 World's Fair) until they were ready to put aside childish things and turn to “real literature” about “the real world".
ref: 2014, Gardner Dozois, Modern Classics of Fantasy, →ISBN:
glosses: Designed or adapted for children.
examples: text: Everyone always thinks they're bigger than drugs -- rock stars with training wheels, hard-eyed corner boys or homemakers with a scrip from their physician.
ref: 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 199:
text: Naturally he had no clue that Todd's “intimate gathering of friends” was actually a cauldron of hormones and questionable fruit punch—a prelude to the all-night bashes that would someday fill Todd's entire college career. In effect, this was a fraternity party with training wheels.
ref: 2012, Neal Shusterman, Downsiders, →ISBN:
glosses: In a formative stage; nascent.
examples: text: My boyfriend and I even saw a scooter with training wheels the other day riding through the mountains for a nice summer drive.
ref: 2008, Marie Stacey, The Election of Ideologies: Do You Know Where You Stand?, →ISBN, page 107:
text: His son, however, has been riding since age four, when Rollin obsessively forced him to drive a cycle with training wheels.
ref: 2012, Bernard Rollin, Cynthia Pineo, Harley-Davidson and Philosophy: Full-Throttle Aristotle, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see with, training wheel.
Spinoza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
aforeknown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + known.
Senses: glosses: Known prior to a given time of speaking or writing.
Kitty Hawker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kitty Hawkers
Etymology: From Kitty Hawk + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone from or living in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States.
Kitty Hawkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kitty Hawker
Arborio rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of arborio rice.
scowlful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scowlful
form: most scowlful
Etymology: From scowl + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by a scowl; scowly
glowr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glowrs
form: glowring
form: glowred
form: glowred
Senses: examples: text: […] Last Morning I was unco airly out, / Upon a Dyke I lean'd and glowr'd about; / I ſaw my Meg come linkan o'er the Lee, / I ſaw my Meg, but Maggie ſaw na me: […]
ref: [1720?], [Allan Ramsay], Patie and Roger: A Pastoral Inscribed to Josiah Burchet Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty, [Edinburgh?]: [Thomas Ruddiman for the author?], →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of glower.
Winograd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Winograds
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Winograd, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Googlian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Googlian
form: most Googlian
Etymology: From Google + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Google.
sledge racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪsɪŋ
Etymology: From sledge + racing.
Senses: glosses: A parasport, an adapted form of (ice) speed skating for wheelchair-bound athletes, using an ice sledge and two poles to propel themselves. The sledge and poles are similar to that found in sledge hockey.
Synonyms: ice sled racing
ice sled speed racing
ice sledge racing
ice sledge speed racing
sledge speed racing
sled speed racing
sled racing
Related terms: sledge hockey
inline sledge hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A parasport, a variant of roller sledge hockey, an adapted form of inline hockey, a modified form of ice sledge hockey. A form of hockey for wheelchair-bound athletes played on floor rinks similar to that found in inline hockey, using sledges similar to those in ice sledge hockey, with the skate blade replaced with an inline skate rollerset, and a front caster instead of the forward ball, paired with the sticks from roller sledge hockey.
Synonyms: inline sled hockey
Hypernyms: roller sledge hockey
parahockey
hockey
Coordinate terms: sledge hockey
Related terms: inline hockey
roller hockey
sledge hockey
normativisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normativisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normativization.
normativisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normativisation
gantong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gantongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gantang.
world-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more world-wise
form: most world-wise
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worldwise.
cerebellopontile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebello- + pontile.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cerebellum and pons
Derived terms: cerebellopontile angle
cerebellorubral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebello- + rubral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the cerebellum and the red nucleus
cerebellospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From cerebello- + spinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the cerebellum and the spinal cord
Derived terms: cerebellospinal fibre
cerebellospinal fiber
cerebrocuprein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of erythrocuprein.
synonyms: word: erythrocuprein
cytocuprein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of erythrocuprein.
synonyms: word: erythrocuprein
hepatocuprein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatocupreins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of erythrocuprein.
synonyms: word: erythrocuprein
cerebroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebromas
Etymology: From cerebro- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of encephaloma.
synonyms: word: encephaloma
cerebromeningitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerebro- + meningitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of meningoencephalitis.
synonyms: word: meningoencephalitis
cerebron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phrenosin.
synonyms: word: phrenosin