cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
orthographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From orthographical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Although it is possible to represent this phonetic distinction orthographically, such representation is not emically realized.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Regarding or relating to orthography (the way in which languages, usually natural languages, are written).
examples: text: stylings that are orthographically valid (acceptable), albeit not preferable
text: For example, in Mathematics, the SVL includes find and set, which are not as orthographically complex as other entries such as quadrilateral or trigonometric, and furthermore commonly occur outside mathematics.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: According to standardized or formally accepted orthography: using proper spelling, and (more strictly) proper spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and italics.
examples: text: To represent an internal feature orthographically, dashed lines are used instead of solid ones.
topics: business
drafting
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Using an orthographic projection (a way of showing three-dimensional objects in two-dimensional engineering drawings).
bluebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluebooks
Etymology: From blue + book.
Senses: examples: text: Bluebooks are designed to prevent cheating but sometimes they provide cover for cheaters when the student brings an extra blue book with notes, equations, dates, etc. (Wein 1).
ref: 2000, Ann Lathrop, Kathleen E. Foss, Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-up Call, Libraries Unlimited, page 144:
text: The words you will eventually write in your exam bluebook will include the words you have learned by heart, but they will constitute only a portion of the analytical presentation you will develop.
ref: 2003, Tonsing, Dennis J., 1000 Days to the Bar, But the Practice of Law Begins Now, Wm. S. Hein Publishing, page 84
text: What should I bring to the exam? Are pens or bluebooks required? Is scratch paper supplied?
ref: 2005, Fred Obrecht, Boak Ferris, “1. The Testing Mind-Set”, in How To Prepare For The California State University Writing Proficiency Exams (Barron's Educational Series), 3rd edition (paperback), Hauppauge, New York: Barron's, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:
glosses: A blank booklet of lined paper used in the administration of examinations, so named because of its pale blue front and back covers.
bluebook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bluebooks
form: bluebooking
form: bluebooked
form: bluebooked
Etymology: From blue + book.
Senses: examples: text: After all, the nonmember author who has never participated in the endless chores of bluebooking and typing is more successful than most law review members in writing a piece of publishable quality.
ref: 1988, The Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 39, Part 2, page 914:
topics: law
glosses: To format a document, particularly a legal document including citations, according to the rules of the Bluebook, a US style guide.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To have players describe, in writing and in-between regular role-playing sessions, character activities that don't involve the entire group.
pegging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪŋ
Forms: form: peggings
Senses: glosses: The act of fastening with a peg.
glosses: Pegs collectively.
glosses: The activity of artificial climbing on crags and in quarries outside the main mountain areas.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: The act of anal penetration of a man by someone, usually a woman, wearing a strap-on dildo.
glosses: Determined perseverance in work; pegging away.
glosses: A thrashing.
Derived terms: tent pegging
pegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peg
strap-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæpɒn/
ipa: /ˈstɹæpɑn/
rhymes: -æpɒn
Etymology: From strap + on.
Senses: glosses: That can be attached using one or more straps.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a booster rocket, that is mounted on the outside of a launch vehicle (typically around the first stage) to provide an additional boost at lift-off, ultimately separating after the first few minutes of ascent.
strap-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæpɒn/
ipa: /ˈstɹæpɑn/
rhymes: -æpɒn
Forms: form: strap-ons
Etymology: From strap + on.
Senses: examples: text: As a standalone booster, according to Pentagon officials, it could be used to put the smaller reusable spaceplane into orbit. But its more innovative use will be as strap-ons for the larger shuttle.
ref: 1987 March, James Schefter, “The Other Shuttles”, in Popular Science, volume 230, number 3, →ISSN, page 76:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A strap-on booster.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: An artificial phallus attached with a strap, usually a dildo.
examples: text: If you want a portable keyboard, a strap-on could be the answer. Strap-ons have been around since Billy Preston and Edgar Winter used to sling Univox electric pianos around their necks in the pre-MIDI days of the early ’70s.
ref: 1988, Helen Casabona, David Frederick, “Alternate Controllers”, in Brent Hurtig, editor, Advanced MIDI Applications: Computers, Time Codes, and Beyond (Keyboard Magazine Library for Electronic Musicians), Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, →ISBN, pages 34–35:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of keytar (“keyboard supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders”).
synonyms: word: keytar
extra: keyboard supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders
Related terms: strap on a pair
interviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interview
nursing bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nursing bras
Senses: glosses: A bra specifically designed for breastfeeding mothers, with cups which fold down, allowing easy access to the nipple when the infant is to be fed, usually constructed of fabric only.
Synonyms: maternity bra
convulsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convulse
trial by ordeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trials by ordeal
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An archaic practice by which a person accused of a crime could prove their innocence by their survival of physically painful tests.
conspiratorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌspɪɹəˈtɔːɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more conspiratorial
form: most conspiratorial
Etymology: From Latin cōnspīrātōrius + -al. By surface analysis, conspirator + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: His conspiratorial whispers were soft, but that just attracted more attention.
text: I pressed the button and he appeared, giving me, as he entered, the sort of conspiratorial glance the acting secretary of a secret society would have given a friend on the membership roll. “Oh, Swordfish,” I said, having given him a conspiratorial glance in return, for one always likes to do the civil thing, “this is Mr Herring, who has come to join our little group.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to conspiracy or conspirators.
examples: text: Conspiratorial thinking is another predictor of vaccine hesitancy, according to the 2018 study.
ref: 2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2021:
glosses: Believing in conspiracy theories.
Synonyms: conspirational
conspirative
conspiratory
Derived terms: anti-conspiratorial
conspiratorialism
conspiratorialist
conspiratorially
nonconspiratorial
unconspiratorial
Related terms: conspiracy
conspirator
conspiratorily
conspirator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈspɪɹətə/
ipa: /kənˈspɪɹətɚ/
Forms: form: conspirators
form: conspiratour
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman conspiratour.
Senses: examples: text: The conspirators were rounded up by the police and arrested.
text: All the Jacobite gentry of that part of the country were collected together; though, it must be confessed, their appearance and their usual after-dinner conversation were rather at variance. Now they looked calm and comfortable, with as little the appearance of conspirators as possible; then they were (by their own account) the most oppressed of individuals, and the most devoted of partisans, ready to die, so that their wrongs were redressed, and the rightful king restored.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 118–119:
glosses: One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.
Derived terms: archconspirator
co-conspirator
conspiratorship
conspiratress
nonconspirator
Related terms: conspirer
federal question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal questions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: a cause of action brought in a court under the United States Constitution or a federal statute. A federal question gives rise to federal question jurisdiction
federal question jurisdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The authority that a United States federal court has to hear a cause of action brought under the United States Constitution or federal statutes.
cause of action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causes of action
Senses: examples: text: If someone strikes you, then you have a cause of action for battery.
topics: law
glosses: A condition under which one party would be entitled to sue another.
topics: law
glosses: A civil lawsuit.
Related terms: gravamen
standing
survival statute
gilgai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪlɡʌɪ/
Forms: form: gilgais
Etymology: From Gamilaraay gilgaay (“small water hole”).
Senses: examples: text: Though it wasn′t a heavy storm it was enough to put water in gilgai holes and scatter the horses.
ref: 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 160:
text: Argilliturbation is manifested within Vertisol profiles and on the surface as gilgai microtopography, with relief exceeding commonly 15 cm (Fig. 10.35).
ref: 2005, Randall J. Schaetzl, Sharon Anderson, Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology, page 283:
text: One of its most remarkable features is its patterns of gilgai. The gilgais are small, almost circular depressions from a few centimetres to as much as 50 cm deep in the plain and several metres across.
ref: 2007, Richard Webster, Margaret A. Oliver, Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists, page 140:
glosses: A small concavity or depression between ridges, where rainwater gathers.
Synonyms: crab-hole
dead-men's grave
melon hole
hell west and crooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /hɛl wɛst ənd ˈkɹʊkɪd/
Senses: examples: text: When he and Bob knocked Steelman′s plans hell west and crooked after that yellow skunk George Doble betrayed me to Brad, the boy lost his boots in the brush.
ref: 1921, William MacLeod Raine, Gunsight Pass, page 52:
text: “ You see, Parson Brown, your stock is all mixed in and scattered hell-west and crooked ways, so you′ll jest have to pick out what′s handy. Is that all right ? ”
ref: 1922, Elbert Hubbard, Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard, page 310:
text: 24 October 1934 — Wednesday
Mustering the plant horses all day. Now we have stopped shooting they are scattering about Hell West and Crooked.
ref: 1992, Tom Cole, “Riding the Wildman Plains”, in The Tom Cole Omnibus, Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2003, page 109:
text: 2005, Private Albert Franklin Edwards (Canadian Infantry), Two Years in the Ypres Salient, Henry L. Fox (editor), What the Boys Did Over There: Allied Overseas Stories, page 53,
When it was exploded it blew up the entire town and also blew 61000 Huns “Hell, west and crooked.”
text: Unfortunately Les arrived by 4WD to check up on our progress, only to find most of us sound asleep in the shade. He gave us a good revving and sent us hell, west and crooked to forage for bush tucker.
ref: 2007, Rowhan Marshall, A Walk on the Wild Side, page 45:
text: They then scattered half a dozen scraggy chooks hell, west and crooked.
ref: 2011, R.M. Winn, Bury Me Vertical, unnumbered page:
glosses: All over the place; every which way.
engager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engagers
Etymology: From engage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: engagers in conflicts
glosses: One who, or that which, engages.
examples: text: To address this limitation, strategies for redirecting T cells to treat cancer are being intensively investigated, while the bispecific T cell engager (BiTE) therapy constitutes one of the most promising therapeutic approaches.
ref: 2021 May 26, Shujie Zhou, Mingguo Liu, Fei Ren, Xiangjiao Meng, Jinming Yu, “The landscape of bispecific T cell engager in cancer treatment”, in Biomarker Research, volume 9, →DOI, article 38, page 1:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One who, or that which, engages.
A particle or compound which engages certain cells in a process.
examples: text: Several sufficient citizens were engagers.
ref: 1834, George Godfrey Cunningham, Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen:
glosses: One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
Derived terms: nanoengager
bird in the hand
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Cowboys picks are more miss than hit. Galloway is a relatively young guy, so what the hey. Bird in the hand, right?
ref: 2000 September 6, Maze II, “the Seattle curse?”, in alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys (Usenet):
text: Elly had ratcheted up the pressure with her threats of leaving early. I had no other bites on the ad. “Bird in the hand” and all that . . . . So much for negotiating.
ref: 2003, Robert C. Hereth, Money, Xlibris Corp., →ISBN, page 192:
text: ‘Look on the bright side,’ he said when he’d finished. ‘At least we got five hundred quid. Bird in the hand, eh?’
ref: 2013, Andrew Taylor, “Catch-13”, in Martin Edwards, editor, Deadly Pleasures, Sutton: Severn House, →ISBN, page 219:
text: “Well, there is that, sir,” Harcourt replied after a moment to think that over. “Bird in the hand, and all that?”
ref: 2014, Dewey Lambdin, The King's Marauder, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 150:
text: You're afraid of losing the customer. If I offer them this other product, they might stop buying that product for which they've come to me for years. Bird in the hand, right?
ref: 2018, Alex Goldfayn, Selling Boldly, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: A little bit of cash now means more to the boys than the promise of a fortune who knows when. Bird in the hand, and all […]
ref: 2019, Tim Buckley, Cara is Missing, Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador, →ISBN, pages 276–277:
glosses: Ellipsis of a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
sleekit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sleekit
form: most sleekit
Etymology: From Scots sleekit, Scottish form of sleeked. Compare slick, sleek.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Damn your impudence, Duror,’ he said. ‘You're a sleekit one all right.’
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 19:
text: They were not sleakit and did not knife ye, that was one thing. They were not fly men cheaters.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 390:
glosses: Specious, flattering; cunning.
cordel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordels
form: cordeles
Etymology: From Spanish cordel (“surveying rope, 50 varas”), from Catalan cordell (“cord, string”), from Vulgar Latin *cordellus (“little rope”), from Latin chorda (“rope, cord”) + -ellus (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to cord + -el.
Senses: glosses: Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.
Coordinate terms: vara (1⁄50 cordel)
estado (1⁄25 cordel)
legua (100 cordeles)
mecate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mecates
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mecate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl mecatl.
Senses: glosses: A rope of hair or maguey fibre, for tying horses, etc.
compos mentis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpɒs ˈmɛntɪs/
Etymology: From Latin compos (“in control, having mastery”) + mentis (“of mind”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…] you have my hearty consent, sir, to marry the girl whensumdever it’s convenient.’ Dame Mayrose finished her speech with a low courtesy, and Tom Sponge sat like a petrified image. ‘For God’s sake, Mrs. Mayrose, are you compos mentis?’ said he. ‘Please your honour, I don’t understand no foreign languages,’ said the good woman, ‘but my darter tells me you want to make proposhalls.’
ref: 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVIII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 112–113:
topics: law
glosses: Of sound mind, sane; thus fully accountable (legally and/or morally) for one's deeds.
chortled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chortle
chortling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chortle
chortling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chortlings
Senses: examples: text: She laughed—and then started, realizing how long it had been since she'd heard the sound of her own laughter. Real laughter, not the bitter chortlings she'd taken to indulging in.
ref: 2013, Ann Gimpel, Earth's Requiem:
glosses: The act of giving a chortle.
tares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tare
tares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tare
spherand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherands
Etymology: From sphero- + -and?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex cryptand, having an almost spherical structure, that is able to form complexes by enveloping metal cations.
calixarene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calixarenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic macrocycles containing a ring of phenol groups linked by a short bridge; they mimic some properties of enzymes, and have many other applications.
Derived terms: thiacalixarene
banded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪd/
rhymes: -ændɪd
Senses: examples: text: Arms : Argent, on a bend Gules, three garbs Or. Crest : A Garb Or, banded sable.
ref: 1916, Mrs. Dorothy Lord (Maltby) Verrill, Maltby-Maltbie Family History, page 14:
text: leaves, vert. banded gules.
ref: 1918, History of the McDowells and Connections, page 19:
glosses: Marked with bands of colour.
glosses: Divided into bands.
Derived terms: banded antbird
banded anteater
banded archerfish
banded bay cuckoo
banded civet
banded cotinga
banded crake
banded duiker
banded fruit-dove
banded ground-cuckoo
banded hickory borer
banded honeyeater
banded killifish
banded kingfisher
banded lapwing
banded mongoose
bandedness
banded palm civet
banded parisoma
banded pearl
banded penguin
banded physa
banded pig
banded prinia
banded quail
banded rail
banded sea krait
banded snake-eagle
banded stilt
banded sugar ant
banded tube
banded wattle-eye
banded white-eye
banded woodpecker
blue-banded eggfly
blue-banded sea krait
Chinese three-banded box turtle
cross-banded
double-banded courser
double-banded plover
many-banded krait
multibanded
nine-banded armadillo
nonbanded
red-banded sand wasp
three-banded courser
three-banded grasshopper
three-banded warbler
unbanded
banded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪd/
rhymes: -ændɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of band
adsorbate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ədˈsɔːbeɪt/
Forms: form: adsorbates
Etymology: From adsorb + -ate.
Senses: glosses: a substance that has been adsorbed
adsorbates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adsorbate
carcerand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcerands
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of complex polycyclic compounds, based on calixarenes, that form a sphere within which a guest molecule may be held.
Related terms: incarcerate
goatsbeards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatsbeard
goatsbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatsbeards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goat's-beard.
easer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: easers
Etymology: From ease + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that eases or relieves
goat's-beard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊtsbɪəd/
Forms: form: goat's-beards
Etymology: From goat + beard, in translation of Greek τραγοπώγον or Latin barba capri.
Senses: glosses: A woodland plant of the family Rosaceae, Aruncus dioicus.
glosses: A yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, of the genus Tragopogon.
Derived terms: showy goatsbeard
cavitand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavitands
Etymology: From cavity + -and.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
macroevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroevolutions
Etymology: From macro- + evolution.
Senses: glosses: Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life, including the origins of novel organism designs, evolutionary trends, adaptive radiations and extinctions.
Coordinate terms: microevolution
Derived terms: macroevolutionist
Related terms: evolution
microevolution
organismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organismal
form: most organismal
Etymology: From organism + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an organism or organisms.
Synonyms: organismic
Derived terms: extraorganismal
intraorganismal
microorganismal
suborganismal
banner roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banner rolls
Senses: examples: text: BANNER ROLL is a small square flag containing a single escutcheon of the deceased. Thus, if there are twelve quarterings in the banner, the same number of banner rolls will be required to be borne in the funeral procession.
ref: 1846, The manual of heraldry, page 51:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A small square flag containing a single escutcheon of the deceased.
examples: text: [...] and every horse having a man on his back in black, and everyone bearing a banner-roll of divers kings' arms, and[…]
ref: 1967, English Historical Documents: 1485-1558, edited by C. H. Williams:
text: One arm displays a parchment sheet, on which are these words, "THE BILL OF RIGHTS". The other sustains a spear with the cap of liberty and over the whole floats a banner-roll, inscribed - "The spell is broken".
ref: 2000, Anita Callaway, Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-century Australia, UNSW Press, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A banderole.
organismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organismic
form: most organismic
Etymology: From organism + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: organismal
glosses: Of or relating to organicism or organisms.
examples: text: As a projection of the way people experienced daily life, organismic theory emphasized interdependence among the parts of the human body, subordination of individual to communal purposes in family, community, and state, and vital life permeating the cosmos to the lowliest stone.
ref: 1980, Carolyn Merchant, “Nature as Female”, in The Death of Nature:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a family of holistic psychological theories that tend to stress the organization, unity, and integration of human beings expressed through each individual's inherent growth or developmental tendency.
Derived terms: extraorganismic
intraorganismic
multi-organismic
organismically
single-organismic
Madelung constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madelung constants
Etymology: From Erwin Madelung, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A numerical constant used in determining the electrostatic energy of each ion in a crystal.
microevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microevolutions
Etymology: From micro- + evolution, coined by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt in 1909.
Senses: examples: text: “It basically hasn’t become this massive chewing and grinding machine that it becomes later,” Mr. Martin said. The change would have been the result of microevolution, or an evolutionary change occurring within a species.
ref: 2020 November 9, Nicholas St Fleur, “How a Human Cousin Adapted to a Changing Climate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
hypernyms: evolution
coordinate_terms: macroevolution
glosses: Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.
Derived terms: microevolutionist
Related terms: macroevolution
Magellanic Cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magellanic Clouds
Etymology: Named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A galaxy that is a member of the Magellanic Clouds. Either of two irregular galaxies that are close companions of our Milky Way galaxy.
Derived terms: Large Magellanic Cloud
Mini Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud
barbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː(ɹ)bd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barb
Derived terms: barbed wire
baron and femme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baron and feme
Senses: examples: text: [see title]
ref: 1719, Baron and Femme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives …:
text: [see title]
ref: 1816, Tapping Reeve, The Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Master and Servant, and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
law
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Man and wife.
examples: text: When the coats of arms of a married couple, descended of distinct families, are to be marshalled on an escocheon, the field of their respective arms is conjoined pale-ways, and blazoned thus: parted per pale, baron and femme; first the baron's arms are to be described, then the femme's.
ref: 1821, Alexander Jamieson, Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above One Thousand Entertaining and Instructive Facts and Experiments, page 304:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The arms of a man and his wife, marshalled together.
RT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Over at least the past year, RT and its employees, including KOSTIANTYN KALASHNIKOV, a/k/a "Kostya," and ELENA AFANASYEVA, a/k/a "Lena," the defendants, have deployed nearly $10 million, laundered through a network of foreign shell entities, to covertly fund and direct U.S. Company-1.
ref: 2024 September 24, “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. KOSTIANTYN KALASHNIKOV, a/k/a "Kostya," and ELENA AF ANASYEV A, a/k/a "Lena,"”, in UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, page 1:
glosses: Initialism of Russia Today, an international news network.
RT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RTs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of right tackle.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of right twist.
glosses: Initialism of retweet.
topics: sciences
glosses: Initialism of response time.
glosses: Alternative form of R/T.
glosses: Initialism of resistance training.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of respiratory therapy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of respiratory therapy technician / respiratory technician / respiratory therapist.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of radiology technologist / radiology technician.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of radiotherapy.
topics: transport
glosses: Initialism of road test.
glosses: A bus formerly manufactured by the Associated Equipment Company, mostly for use in London.
glosses: Initialism of reaction time.
RT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of real-time.
Derived terms: sense: realtime
word: RTOS
RT
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: RTs
form: RTing
form: RTed
form: RTed
Senses: examples: text: "I see lots of Osama pics floating on twitter, aint gonna RT any of dem though .. Don't wanna get fined by terrorist"
ref: 2011 May 2, Chagney Hunt [username], “Ryan Babel”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of retweet.
resat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resit
resit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resits
form: resitting
form: resat
form: resat
Etymology: From re- + sit.
Senses: glosses: To take an examination a second time.
resit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resits
Etymology: From re- + sit.
Senses: glosses: An examination taken a second time.
Synonyms: retake
retake exam
retake examination
makeup
makeup exam
makeup examination
sny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: snī
ipa: /snaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
enpr: snī
ipa: /snʌɪ/
Forms: form: snies
form: snying
form: snied
form: snied
Etymology: Of obscure origin. Likely from late Middle English sniȝen, snyȝen (“to creep”), from Old Danish *snigæ (whence modern Danish snige), from Old Norse sníkja (“to crawl, creep”). If so, doublet of sneak.
Senses: glosses: To move, proceed.
sny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: snī
ipa: /snaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
enpr: snī
ipa: /snʌɪ/
Forms: form: snies
form: snying
form: snied
form: snied
form: snithe
form: snive
form: snie
form: snye
form: snee
Etymology: First attested in 1674; its etymology is unknown.
Senses: examples: text: “And did you kill it?”
“I did, for they’re a nuisance. The place is fair snied wi’ ‛em.”
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Abound, swarm, teem, be infested, with something
sny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: snī
ipa: /snaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
enpr: snī
ipa: /snʌɪ/
Forms: form: snies
Etymology: First attested in 1711; its etymology is unknown; perhaps from Proto-Germanic *snōwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sneh₁- (“to wind; twist; braid; plait”). Compare snying and the Danish sno (“to twine”, “to twist”).
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: Upward curving observed in the planks of a wooden ship or boat.
An upward curve at the edge of a plank.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: Upward curving observed in the planks of a wooden ship or boat.
An upward curve in the lines of a wooden watercraft from amidships toward its bow and its stern.
sny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: snī
ipa: /snaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
enpr: snī
ipa: /snʌɪ/
Forms: form: snies
Etymology: First attested with this spelling in 1893; see snye.
Senses: examples: text: 1893, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories (1896), page unknown
“Well, Mars Tom, my idea is like dis. It ain’t no use, we can’t kill dem po’ strangers dat ain’t doin’ us no harm, till we’ve had practice — I knows it perfectly well, Mars Tom — ‛deed I knows it perfectly well. But ef we takes a’ ax or two, jist you en me en Huck, en slips acrost de river to-night arter de moon’s gone down, en kills dat sick fam’ly dat’s over on the Sny, en burns dey house down, en —”
text: The word snye, sny or snie has been used for many years to describe a channel behind an island, with slack current or partly dried, or some such similar feature.
ref: 1948, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, editor, Canadian Geographical Journal, volume 36, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, page 151:
glosses: A small channel of water.
magic number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic numbers
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill the major quantum shells, and thus produce exceptionally stable nuclei: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 and 126.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A metric used to determine a team's required performance to make the playoffs.
The sum of one and the wins by one team and losses by an opponent necessary for the team to ensure the opponent cannot catch it in the standings by the end of the regular season. In Major League Baseball, with a regular season of 162 games, the magic number M is calculated as M = 163 - W₁ - L₂, in which W₁ is the leading team's current win total, and L₂ is the opponent's current loss total. A magic number of 0 indicates that the trailing team cannot catch the leading team.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A metric used to determine a team's required performance to make the playoffs.
The lowest such number that assures a team a playoff berth.
examples: We replaced the magic number 31 with a constant called MAX_DAYS_IN_MONTH.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number which is manually entered into source code, rather than defined somewhere as a named constant; especially one which is arbitrary or lacks explanation.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sentinel value which cannot occur in normal use, typically used as a placeholder (e.g. a fictitious date such as 2000-02-32).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hash code, such as those used by some webmail servers to keep track of sessions.
examples: text: These files have a "magic number" stored in a particular place near the beginning of the file that tells the UNIX operating system that the file is a binary executable, and which of several types thereof.
ref: 1987 August 28, Ian Darwin, file(1)"
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number or pattern in a binary file that identifies the filetype.
Coordinate terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: magic word
batune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batunes
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman bastun, itself from mainland Old French baston.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of baton.
magnesium alloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnesium alloys
Senses: glosses: Any solid solution of magnesium with aluminium, zinc, manganese, silicon, zirconium etc that has a low specific gravity and is used in aircraft manufacture, etc.
solid solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solid solutions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any homogenous crystalline solid, consisting of more than one type of molecule or atom randomly dispersed, in which the structure is independent of its composition.
Related terms: alloy
sodality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊˈdæl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /soʊˈdæl.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: sodalities
Etymology: From the French sodalité or its etymon, the Latin sodālitās, from sodālis (“companion”).
Senses: examples: text: There’d even evolved somehow a kind of sodality or fan club that sat around, read from her books and discussed her Theory.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
text: The story is a myth of origins, in this case the story of the origins of a sacred sodality of men in the city of Erech.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 183:
glosses: A fraternity, a society or association.
examples: text: Those would, he thought, be expatriate writers. He was, of course, one of those himself now, but he was indifferent to the duties and pleasures of sodality.
ref: 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:
glosses: Companionship.
examples: text: On the wall of his bedroom hung an illuminated scroll, the certificate of his prefecture in the college of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Spiritual communion with a divine being; a fellowship.
battle axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle axes
form: battleaxe
form: battle-ax
form: battleax
Senses: examples: text: Another battle-ax, in the same collection.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page x:
text: No Jute is left to wield a sword to save this hoard. No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40:
glosses: An ancient military weapon, an axe designed for combat, including (in heraldry) when borne on arms as a mark of prowess.
glosses: A domineering, antagonistic woman.
examples: text: The instruments (one's named Baby) evoke tender talk from macho musicians. But some of these battle-ax beauties have seen more action than a roller derby queen: They bear the gashes and sweat stains to prove it.
ref: 2013, Kiley Armstrong, “"108 Rock Star Guitars" reveals battle-ax beauty”, in Associated Press:
glosses: An electric guitar.
synonyms: flag lot
glosses: An allotment of land at the rear of another property, with a long, narrow strip of land connecting it to the roadway.
Synonyms: sense: antagonistic woman
word: shrew
Related terms: polearm
twibill
magnetic lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic lenses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a magnetic field with axial symmetry capable of converging a beam of charged particles of uniform velocity and of forming images of objects placed in the path of such beam
battlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battlement
sordes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːdiːz/
ipa: /ˈsoɹdiz/
Etymology: From Latin sordes, related to sordere.
Senses: examples: text: Fresh sheets, sponging, a spoonful of animal soup, sordes removed from his cracked lips, black in the candlelight.
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
glosses: Deposits of dirt or bacteria on the body, discharges; bacterial deposits on the teeth or tongue.
battlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbætəɫmənt]
Forms: form: battlements
Etymology: From Middle English batilment, from Old French bataillement, earlier bastillement (“fortification”), from bastillier (“to fortify, to equip with battlements”), from bastille (“fortress”) (see bastion).
Senses: glosses: In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.
glosses: Any high wall for defense.
glosses: The towering roof of heaven.
Synonyms: sense: sense, indented parapet
word: crenellation
Derived terms: battlemented
charged particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charged particles
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any particle, especially a subatomic particle, that carries an electric charge.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An ion.
teras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terata
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέρας (téras).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a grossly malformed fetus
Derived terms: terato-
teramorphous
tars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tar
tars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tar
battlemented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætl̩mɛntəd/
Forms: form: more battlemented
form: most battlemented
Etymology: From battlement + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
Derived terms: unbattlemented
terato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέρας (téras, “monster”). Doublet of tera-.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to birth defects and similar abnormalities.
Derived terms: terataspis
teratogenicity
teratogeny
teratological
teratology
teratoma
teratornis
Related terms: teras
terata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teras
sortilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: sortileges
Etymology: From Old French sortilège, from Medieval Latin sortilegium (“witchcraft”), from Latin sortilegus (“sorcerer, diviner”), from sors (“fate”) + legere (“choose”).
Senses: examples: text: We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: Orthodox believers […] were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 115:
text: ‘Too much evil sortilege,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.
ref: 2001, JT Leroy, Sarah:
text: People who faced difficult decisions or needed insight into the future would consult a diviner, who performed a ritual to locate an oracle in the codex and then interpreted the divinatory text. In Egypt and the wider Mediterranean world, this practice - sortilege - was both common and controversial.
ref: 2014, AnneMarie Luijendijk, “Introduction”, in Forbidden Oracles? The Gospel of the Lots of Mary (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity; 89), Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebek, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.
Derived terms: sortilegious
atbash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: athbash
Etymology: From the letters of the Hebrew alphabet aleph, tav, beth, shin.
Senses: glosses: A simple substitution cipher in which each occurrence of the first letter of the alphabet is substituted with the last, second with next to last, and so on.
dimethyl dicarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colorless liquid, used as a food preservative
Synonyms: E242 when used as a preservative
golden mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden moles
Senses: glosses: Any of several small, insectivorous burrowing mammals of the family Chrysochloridae, native to southern Africa.
Synonyms: chrysochlorid
Derived terms: word: Congo golden mole
taxonomic: Cryptochloris wintoni
word: De Winton's golden mole
taxonomic: Chrysospalax trevelyani
word: giant golden mole
taxonomic: Amblysomus hottentotus
word: Hottentot golden mole
word: Stuhlmann's golden mole
taxonomic: Amblysomus hottentotus iris
word: Zulu golden mole
Related terms: mole
tenrec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenrecs
form: tanrec
form: tendrac
Etymology: From French tanrec, from Malagasy tàndraka or trandraka related to Malay landak (“porcupine”); English from 18th century.
Senses: glosses: Any of several diverse small mammals, of the family Tenrecidae, many native to Madagascar.
Synonyms: tenrecid
Hyponyms: greater hedgehog tenrec
lesser hedgehog tenrec
lowland streaked tenrec
Derived terms: hedgehog tenrec
Major's long-tailed tenrec
rice tenrec
spahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspɑːhiː/
Forms: form: spahis
Etymology: From French spahi, from Ottoman Turkish سپاهی (sipahi), from Classical Persian سِپَاهِی (sipāhī, “horseman, soldier”) (> sepoy), from سِپَاه (sipāh, “army”). Doublet of sepoy and sipahi.
Senses: examples: 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erdağ M Göknar
I hear that the great Sadiki Bey illustrated a copy of Strange Creatures, commissioned by an Uzbek spahi cavalryman, for only forty gold pieces.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An Ottoman (Turkish empire) cavalryman, especially as recruited under a land-based system.
examples: text: TARZAN’S first mission did not bid fair to be either exciting or vastly important. There was a certain lieutenant of spahis whom the government had reason to suspect of improper relations with a great European power.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 86:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A soldier in a mainly Arab-recruited cavalry (originally horse, later light armored) regiment in French colonial service in (former/ in name still) Ottoman North African provinces.
Related terms: sepoy
sipahi
elephant shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephant shrews
Senses: examples: text: For many years elephant shrews, represented here by the rock elephant shrew, were placed wifhin the Order Insectivora. Today they are separated from that group by virtue of their long snouts, heibivotous dentition and different digestive tract.
ref: 1997, M. G. L. Mills, Lex Hes, The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals, page 62:
text: The recognition of elephant shrews as a distinct clade of eutherian mammals and the discovery of their earliest representatives has not simplified the problem of their higher-order affinities.
ref: 2007, Patricia A. Holroyd, Jason C. Mussell, “6: Macroscelidea and Tubulidentata”, in Kenneth D. Rose, J. David Archibald, editors, The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades, page 73:
text: Like treeshrews, elephant shrews are active for half of the twenty-four-hour day, implying that this type of general invertebrate gleaning requires long foraging times in both families. Certain elephant shrews are nearly entirely insectivorous (95-100%; Rathbun 1979), and they are cursorial, not scansorial, so they are in some ecological aspects quite unlike treeshrews.
ref: 2011, Louise H Emmons, Tupai: A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews, page 221:
glosses: A sengi (order Macroscelidea).