cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
proteotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proteo- + typic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a peptide sequence that is found in only a single known protein and therefore serves to identify that protein.
nightsoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In every licence granted for any nightcart in addition to the particulars hereinbefore required to be set forth there shall be set forth the hours between which it is lawful as herein provided that such nightcart be used as such, and the places at which it is lawful as aforesaid to deposit the nightsoil offal or offensive refuse or matter.
ref: 1890, Robert S. Brain, The Victorian Statutes:
glosses: Alternative spelling of night soil.
fighting words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fighting word
Senses: qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Aggressive remarks that foreseeably may lead to a potentially violent confrontation.
topics: law
qualifier: crime
glosses: Words or remarks that are often considered a form of mitigation for otherwise sanctionable behavior (such as fighting).
kleptomaniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kleptomaniacal
form: most kleptomaniacal
Etymology: From kleptomaniac + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
Derived terms: kleptomaniacally
streptogramin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streptogramins
Senses: glosses: Any member of a class of antibiotics that are effective in the treatment of vancomycin-resistant bacteria.
Hyponyms: pristinamycin
virginiamycin
Derived terms: streptogramin A
streptogramin B
forelook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɹˈlʊk/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹlʊk/
Forms: form: forelooks
form: forelooking
form: forelooked
form: forelooked
Etymology: From Middle English vorloken, forluken, equivalent to fore- + look.
Senses: glosses: To look beforehand, to preview.
glosses: To look forward.
forelook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɹˈlʊk/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹlʊk/
Forms: form: forelooks
Etymology: From Middle English vorloken, forluken, equivalent to fore- + look.
Senses: examples: text: [T]o do one's best on Sunday to interweave that thought with the active life of an active town, and to inspirit both and make both infinite by glimpses of the Eternal Glory, seemed such an exquisite forelook into one's life! . . . If this vision could only have lasted.
ref: 1859 September, Edward Everett Hale, “My Double; and How He Undid Me”, in Atlantic Monthly:
glosses: A preview.
glosses: Someone or something previewed.
Related terms: afterlook
hindlook
forelooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forelook
forelooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forelook
forelooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forelook
forelooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forelook
intercolumnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + columnar.
Senses: glosses: Between columns.
subchunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subchunks
Etymology: From sub- + chunk.
Senses: examples: text: GetData goes down into the data subchunk as well, as can be seen in Listing 14.7.
ref: 1996, Michael Morrison, Randy Weems, Windows 95 game developer's guide using the game SDK:
text: A LIST chunk is another parent chunk that may include several subchunks as well.
ref: 1999, Michael D Root, James R Boer, DirectX complete:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A chunk (block of data) forming part of a larger chunk.
subchunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subchunk
unthoughtfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unthoughtfully
form: most unthoughtfully
Etymology: From unthoughtful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unthoughtful manner.
unthoughtfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unthoughtful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unthoughtful.
signoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signoffs
form: sign-off
Etymology: Deverbal from sign off.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of signing off (approving with a signature).
examples: text: Another problem stems from the fact that many different things can cause a user signoff. ln most cases, it is the issuance of the $SIGNOFF command, but there are other circumstances after which the system will force a user off […]
ref: 1980, Newsletter, volume 10, numbers 1-21, University of Michigan Computing Center, page 5:
synonyms: logoff
logout
signout
sign-out
antonyms: login
log-in
logon
log-on
sign-in
sign-on
glosses: The process of exiting a computer system; logoff.
examples: text: Jack North then tried for game with two no-trump before respecting his partner’s signoff in three diamonds.
ref: 2009 September 26, Phillip Alder, “Jack Gets Bragging Rights in Computer Battle”, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A bid indicating that one's partner should pass.
examples: text: Just think of Walter Cronkite's famous signoff for the CBS Evening News—“And that's the way it is”—or the motto of the New York Times—“All the news that's fit to print.”
ref: 2010 September 28, Keith Kenney, Visual Communication Research Designs, Routledge, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: A valediction, such as at the end of a letter or broadcast.
signoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signoff
primary alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primary alcohol
shRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shRNA
suprabasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suprabasal
form: most suprabasal
Etymology: From supra- + basal.
Senses: glosses: Above a basal layer
suprabasally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suprabasally
form: most suprabasally
Etymology: From suprabasal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a suprabasal direction
tenascin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenascins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of glycoprotein found in the extracellular matrix of developing vertebrate embryos
thromboplastin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thromboplastins
Etymology: From thrombo- + plastin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protease that converts prothrombin to thrombin during the clotting of blood.
Derived terms: activated partial thromboplastin time
partial thromboplastin time
tissue thromboplastin inhibition time
choroisotherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choroisotherms
Senses: glosses: A spatial isotherm.
chronoisotherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronoisotherms
Etymology: From chrono- + isotherm.
Senses: glosses: A temporal isotherm
Derived terms: chronoisothermal
megaparsec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaparsecs
Etymology: From mega- + parsec.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An astronomical unit of distance equal to 1 million parsecs.
Synonyms: Mpc
microbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbar
chiaroscuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiaroscuro
precache
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precaches
form: precaching
form: precached
form: precached
Etymology: From pre- + cache.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cache in advance.
stuffed-shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuffed-shirts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stuffed shirt.
back-and-forth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-and-forths
Senses: examples: text: After months of bitter disagreements and legal back-and-forth, he had finally given up and struck out on his own, but he'd met with a string of bad luck—a client who refused to pay, a flood, a false insurance claim—and he'd had to shut up shop; now he was working for a big construction firm as a gun for hire and telling anybody who would listen what a rotten hand he had been dealt.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 128:
glosses: Alternative form of back and forth.
back-and-forths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-and-forth
Related terms: back and forth
back and forths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back and forth
Related terms: back-and-forths
stick-to-it-iveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stick-to-it-ive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sticktoitiveness.
stocking stuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stocking stuffers
form: stocking-stuffer
Senses: examples: text: Gimbels is scintillating with last minute stocking stuffer ideas!
ref: 1945 Dec. 21, "Last . . . But Not Least" (display advertisement), Milwaukee Journal, p. 45 (retrieved 25 Jan. 2010)
text: But for ordinary Canadians, gift guides . . . give readers a window into what others will be receiving on Christmas morning, from the smallest stocking stuffer to the largest luxury gift.
ref: 2007 November 24, Derek McCormack, “A guide to Gift Guides”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 25 Jan 2010:
glosses: A small, relatively inexpensive Christmas present suitable for placing in a child's stocking, which was traditionally hung by a fireplace on Christmas Eve in anticipation that Santa Claus would fill it with gifts.
Platonic dialogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Platonic dialogues
Senses: glosses: A Socratic dialogue authored by Plato.
Related terms: dialectics
Socratic method
Stephanus number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stephanus numbers
Etymology: Stephanus (the surname of the writer of a famous early translation (in 1578) of the dialogues of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato) + number (meaning page number)
Senses: examples: 1974: Plato [aut.] and Desmond Lee [tr.], The Republic, Translator’s Introduction, page 56 (2ⁿᵈ ed. (revised); Penguin Classics; →ISBN
The Republic is traditionally divided into ten books. But this division, as has often been pointed out, was dictated rather by the technicalities of book-production in the ancient world, the amount that would go on to a papyrus roll, than by the sequence of the argument. The division into parts and sections in this translation attempts to represent the structure of the argument more nearly. The traditional division into books and the Stephanus numbers and letters (see p. 5) are given in the margin for purpose of reference.
taxonomic: Stephanus pagination
glosses: A standard reference number for a section of a given Platonic dialogue, referring to a page in the 1578 translation of Plato’s dialogues by Henricus Stephanus.
Related terms: Bekker number
Stephanus letter
Stephanus letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stephanus letters
Etymology: Stephanus (the surname of the writer of a famous early translation (in 1578) of the dialogues of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato) + letter
Senses: examples: 1974: Plato [aut.] and Desmond Lee [tr.], The Republic, Translator’s Introduction, page 56 (2ⁿᵈ ed. (revised); Penguin Classics; →ISBN
The Republic is traditionally divided into ten books. But this division, as has often been pointed out, was dictated rather by the technicalities of book-production in the ancient world, the amount that would go on to a papyrus roll, than by the sequence of the argument. The division into parts and sections in this translation attempts to represent the structure of the argument more nearly. The traditional division into books and the Stephanus numbers and letters (see p. 5) are given in the margin for purpose of reference.
taxonomic: Stephanus pagination
glosses: A standard reference letter (either a, b, c, d, or e) for a one-fifth–equal-part subdivision of a given section (denoted by the preceding Stephanus number) of a given Platonic dialogue.
trophy wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trophy wife
Googles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Google
Googling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Google
Googled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Google
visnomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visnomies
Senses: examples: text: With sorrow dimmed and deform'd it were ,
The goodly ymage of your visnomy
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of physiognomy.
to and fros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-and-fros
Senses: examples: text: ... to and fros, up and downs of so many ...
ref: 1966, Andrew Marvell, The complete works of Andrew Marvell, page 217:
text: The explosions, the red glow above the rooftops, the to and fros and the running crowds in the novel can be seen...
ref: 2007, Shiva Rahbaran, The Paradox of Freedom: A Study of Nicholas Mosley's Intellectual, page 164:
glosses: plural of to and fro
to-and-fros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to and fros
Senses: examples: text: When you swing a child move it in short to-and-fros at first, and do not indulge in any high or rapid swings until the child is well used to the movement, ...
ref: 1875, E. Holland, Health in the nursery and how to feed and clothe a child with observations ..., page 41:
text: It's fascinating to watch these cyclic to-and-fros in science, like the rise and fall of hemlines, but more stimulating, intellectually at least.
ref: 2009, Derek Bickerton, Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans, page 32:
glosses: plural of to-and-fro
you're on
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Let's play a game of chess. ― You're on!
glosses: Used to indicate acceptance by the speaker of a proposal or challenge, especially a competitive one.
coups de foudre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coup de foudre
amourette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amourettes
Etymology: From French amourette.
Senses: examples: text: I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it.
ref: 1876, The New York Drama, volumes 1-2, page 1:
glosses: A petty love affair.
glosses: The love grass, or quaking grass.
glosses: A cupid.
amourettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amourette
balancedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From balanced + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being balanced.
Derived terms: unbalancedness
synchronizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synchronizable
form: most synchronizable
form: synchronisable
Etymology: From synchronize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be synchronized.
unfrustrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + frustrated.
Senses: glosses: Not frustrated.
unsatisfiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + satisfiable.
Senses: glosses: Not satisfiable. Unable to be satisfied.
reanalyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reanalyses
form: reanalysing
form: reanalysed
form: reanalysed
Etymology: From re- + analyse.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of reanalyze.
reanalysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reanalyse
reanalysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reanalyse
antibunched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bunched.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a stream of photons in which the emission on one photon delays the emission of the next.
Related terms: antibunching
antibunching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + bunching.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The situation in which the emission on one photon delays the emission of the next
Related terms: antibunched
antiphasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + phasing.
Senses: glosses: The production of an antiphase boundary
unbalancedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + balancedness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unbalanced.
antiplasticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + plasticization.
Senses: glosses: The reduction if the plasticity of a polymer by the use of additives
Related terms: antiplasticizer
antiplasticizing
synchronisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synchronisable
form: most synchronisable
Etymology: From synchronise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of synchronizable.
antiplasticizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiplasticizers
Etymology: From anti- + plasticizer.
Senses: glosses: Any additive used in the process of antiplasticization
antiplasticizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiplasticizer
bigraded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + graded.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: indexed by a pair of integers
bihamiltonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Etymology: From bi- + hamiltonian.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing any system that may be described by a pair of hamiltonian structures
hamiltonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hamiltonian.
Derived terms: bihamiltonian
hyperhamiltonian
bimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + metric.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Describing any system that may be described using two metrics.
buildout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buildouts
Etymology: Deverbal from build out.
Senses: coordinate_terms: buildup#Noun
glosses: The construction and implementation of a system.
coordinate_terms: scaleout#Noun
scaleup#Noun
glosses: The growth, development, or expansion of something.
Related terms: loadout
cepstrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛpstɹəm/
/ˈsɛpstɹəm/
/ˈkɛpstɹʌm/
/ˈsɛpstɹʌm/
Forms: form: cepstra
Etymology: From a reversal of the first syllable of the word spectrum.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: The inverse Fourier transform of the logarithm of a magnitude spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
Derived terms: cepstral
cepstrogram
kepstrum
Related terms: gamnitude
lifter
liftering
quefrency
rahmonic
chaoticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaoticity
contractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more contractive
form: most contractive
Etymology: From contract + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Able to contract; contractile
Derived terms: contractivity
hypercontractive
pseudocontractive
diagrammatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diagrammatical
form: most diagrammatical
Senses: glosses: diagrammatic
Derived terms: diagrammatically
eigencoefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigencoefficient
eigencoefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: eigencoefficients
Etymology: From eigen- + coefficient.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Any of the coefficients of an eigenstate.
flexons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexon
flexon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A flexural phonon.
focusability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From focus + -ability.
Senses: glosses: the ability to be focused
gyroviscosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyroviscosities
Etymology: From gyro- + viscosity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: gyroscopic viscosity
gyroviscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gyroviscous
form: most gyroviscous
Etymology: From gyro- + viscous.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Displaying gyroviscosity
hemiellipse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiellipses
form: hemi-ellipse
Etymology: From hemi- + ellipse.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A shape obtained by cutting an ellipse in half along one of its axes
intermeshing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + meshing.
Senses: glosses: That mesh between one another.
intermeshing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermeshings
Etymology: From inter- + meshing.
Senses: examples: text: Churchill describes the Wagner/Tomlin partnership as something of a fortuitous intermeshing of disparate types; Wagner being the creative influx for Tomlins' pragmatic and brilliant character acting.
ref: 1987 April 11, Ann Fry, “Filmmaker Joan Churchill on the Real & Reluctant Lily Tomlin”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: The act, process, or result of meshing between one another.
intermittencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermittency
leptogluons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptogluon
leptogluon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptogluons
Etymology: From lepto- + gluon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a class of proposed particles formed from a lepton and one or more gluons
magnetocrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + crystalline.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the interaction between the magnetization and the crystal structure of a material
magnetoplasmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetoplasmon
air guitars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air guitar
magnetoplasmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetoplasmons
Etymology: From magneto- + plasmon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum of a magnetoplasma
Derived terms: magnetoplasmonic
magnetoplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetoplasmas
Etymology: From magneto- + plasma.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A plasma associated with a magnetic field.
majorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majorizations
Etymology: From major + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A preorder on vectors of real numbers.
Derived terms: submajorization
Related terms: majorize
majorizer
metamodels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamodel
banjo enclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banjo enclosures
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feature found on mid-Iron Age sites in Great Britain that resembles a banjo in plan.
banjo enclosures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjo enclosure
metamodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metamodels
form: meta-model
form: meta model
Etymology: From meta- + model.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A model of the modelling process itself.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pragmatic communications model in neuro-linguistic programming.
Derived terms: metamodelization
metaservices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaservice
metaservice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaservices
Etymology: From meta- + service.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An abstraction of the workflow in a network
multibody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + body.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Involving multiple, interacting bodies
multiferroicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + ferroic + -ity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The condition of being multiferroic
multiquark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + quark.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Involving, or composed of multiple quarks
multiquark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiquarks
Etymology: From multi- + quark.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any combination of multiple quarks
nanoprobing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + probing.
Senses: glosses: The use of a nanoprobe
nonselfadjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-selfadjoint
Etymology: From non- + selfadjoint.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not selfadjoint
paramagneticlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paramagneticlike
form: most paramagneticlike
Etymology: From paramagnetic + -like.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having some characteristics of a paramagnetic material
periodograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periodogram
photocount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocounts
Etymology: From photo- + count.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A count of the distributions of photons obtained by counting photoelectric electrons
predictivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predictivities
Etymology: From predictive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being predictive
preionization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preionizations
Etymology: From pre- + ionization.
Senses: glosses: ionization in advance of another process
preionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preionize
photocounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photocount
preionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preionizes
form: preionizing
form: preionized
form: preionized
Etymology: From pre- + ionize.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To ionize in advance of another process
Related terms: preionization
protosolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + solar.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the conditions prior to the formation of the solar system, or describing the protostar that became the sun
home plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home plate
redwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redwards
form: most redwards
Etymology: From red + -wards.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Towards the red end of the spectrum
redwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more redwards
form: most redwards
Etymology: From red + -wards.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Towards the red end of the spectrum
Synonyms: redward
relaxor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relaxors
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A ferroelectric material that exhibits high electrostriction
relaxors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relaxor
photostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + statistics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: statistics of the numbers of photons in various quantum states
plasticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasticizations
Etymology: From plastic + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something more plastic
Derived terms: antiplasticization
superplasticization
thermoplasticization
Related terms: plasticize
rescalings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescaling
resolvent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resolvent
form: most resolvent
Etymology: From Latin resolvēns, present participle of resolvere: compare French résolvant. See resolve.
Senses: glosses: Able to resolve (separate) the constituents of a mixture
resolvent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resolvents
Etymology: From Latin resolvēns, present participle of resolvere: compare French résolvant. See resolve.
Senses: glosses: Any substance or material able to resolve the constituents of a mixture; a solvent.
examples: text: astringent resolvents
ref: 1828, John Read, An appeal to the medical profession:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumours; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given problem depends.
Derived terms: pseudoresolvent
restmass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restmasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rest mass.
schedulability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schedulabilities
Etymology: From schedule + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being schedulable.
schedulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schedule + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be scheduled.
semispaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semispace
statecharts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statechart
statechart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statecharts
Etymology: From state + chart.
Senses: glosses: A diagram of the state(s) of a system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several UML state machines.
Derived terms: Harel statechart
selfadjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-adjoint.
IESNA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
Synonyms: IES
subcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + cycling.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithmic technique involving integration with progressively smaller steps
subdynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A reduced form of dynamics used to describe certain quantum systems
superdevelopment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdevelopments
Etymology: From super- + development.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to developments, a superdevelopment from a term M allows not only residuals of redexes in M to be reduced but also some newly created ones.
ref: 2010, Eduardo Bonelli, Pablo Barenbaum, “Superdevelopments for Weak Reduction”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular form or development
superdevelopments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdevelopment
stocking-stuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stocking-stuffers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stocking stuffer.
supermartingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermartingales
Etymology: From super- + martingale.
Senses: examples: text: If a gambler repeatedly plays a game with negative expectation, his payoff over time is a supermartingale.
text: With these assumptions, something amazing occurs: Euler inequality (1.3.3) implies that the marginal utility of consumption is a nonnegative supermartingale. [emphasis in original]
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 6:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A stochastic process for which the conditional expectation of future values given the sequence of all prior values is bounded above by the current value.
stocking-stuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stocking-stuffer
stocking stuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stocking stuffer
sportponies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportpony
systemness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From system + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The essential attributes that constitute a system; the property of being interconnected so as to operate in way that goes beyond the operation of the component parts.
timestep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timesteps
Etymology: From time + step.
Senses: glosses: A time interval.
transversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transverse + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being transverse; transverseness
cosmocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cosmocratic
form: most cosmocratic
Etymology: From cosmo- + -cratic or cosmocrat + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cosmocrats or a cosmocrat.
glosses: Resembling a cosmocrat.
vibrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibrance
pawn off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pawns off
form: pawning off
form: pawned off
form: pawned off
Senses: examples: text: LeMaster was dealt to the even-lowlier Pittsburgh Pirates for a minor league pitcher. The Indians were so anxious to pawn him off on the Pirates that the club even paid Johnnie a $100,000 "assignment fee" to go to Pittsburgh.
ref: 1987, Bruce Nash, Allan Zullo, The Baseball Hall of Shame 3, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: To get rid of (something or someone unwanted) by transferring it to another.
Related terms: pawn off as
call of nature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calls of nature
Senses: examples: text: It appears from the evidence adduced that after the canvass had continued five or six consecutive hours, Mr. FORBES and Mr. DECKER, two inspectors went out (though not in company) as they say in "obedience to a call of nature," and were gone five or ten minutes, leaving the box containing the votes for member of Assembly sealed in the care of one inspector. . . .
ref: 1871 February 1, “The Twombley-Carey Reports”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Sep 2010:
text: I came here yesternight for a call of nature and to do what none can do for me[.]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 228:
text: . . . the little tree in the big forest of the huge national park behind which Mrs. Marie Dressor retreated from a roadside picnic with her husband and children, to heed a call of nature.
ref: 1966 September 3, William F. Buckley Jr., “Violation Of Privacy Abetted by 'Bugging'”, in Beaver County Times, USA, retrieved 03 Sep 2010:
text: Cook's concentration may have been broken by a call of nature a few minutes earlier, when he held up play to visit the bathroom.
ref: 2007 December 9, Simon Wilde, “England thankful for cautious Cook”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 03 Sep 2010:
glosses: The bodily urge to urinate or defecate.
Synonyms: defecation and Thesaurus:urination
Derived terms: answer the call of nature
Related terms: nature calls
calls of nature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call of nature
temporarinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporariness
romant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romants
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of romaunt.
romant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: romants
form: romanting
form: romanted
form: romanted
Senses: glosses: To romanticize.
niddering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪdəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈnɪdɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: nidderings
form: nidering
Etymology: A variant of nithing, resulting from the letter eth (ð) in Early Middle English niðing in the writings of the English historian William of Malmesbury (c. 1095 – c.  1143) being mistaken for a d followed by a mark of suspension representing a letter that had been omitted as an abbreviation. This led to niðing being wrongly spelled as nidering in early printed versions of his works. The word was later popularized by the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832).
Senses: examples: text: [O]n the bodies of his fallen foes he kicked the gray road dust, and spat on them and named them churls and nidderings and unfit wearers of the mail of men of war.
ref: 1948, Seabury Quinn, “The Road to Bethlehem”, in Roads, Sauk City, Wis.: Arkham House, →OCLC, page 26; reprinted Mohegan Lake, N.Y.: Red Jacket Press, 2005, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Synonym of nithing (“a coward, a dastard; a wretch”).
synonyms: word: nithing
extra: a coward, a dastard; a wretch
niddering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪdəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈnɪdɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more niddering
form: most niddering
form: nidering
Etymology: A variant of nithing, resulting from the letter eth (ð) in Early Middle English niðing in the writings of the English historian William of Malmesbury (c. 1095 – c.  1143) being mistaken for a d followed by a mark of suspension representing a letter that had been omitted as an abbreviation. This led to niðing being wrongly spelled as nidering in early printed versions of his works. The word was later popularized by the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832).
Senses: examples: text: I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 302:
text: Though thou art my son, I say this, that, if thou workest ill to Eric when he is over sea, thou shalt rightly learn the weight of Whitefire: it is a niddering deed to plot against an absent man.
ref: 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric was Outlawed and Sailed A-viking”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: Synonym of nithing (“cowardly, dastardly; notoriously evil or wicked; infamous”).
synonyms: word: nithing
extra: cowardly, dastardly; notoriously evil or wicked; infamous
German Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɜːmən ˈsiː/
Forms: form: the German Sea
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin Mare Germānicum.
Senses: qualifier: otherwise rare
glosses: North Sea
life peer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life peers
Senses: qualifier: Westminster Parliament
glosses: A member of the House of Lords, appointed for life, but whose position is not hereditary.
Related terms: life peerage
thanku
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: rare outside of TTY conversations
glosses: Alternative spelling of thank you.
encoffiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encoffiners
Etymology: From encoffin + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The same critic notes, “the encoffiners’ real task is to bring dignity to death, respect to the deceased and solace to those who grieve, and it is not hard to be moved . . . .”
ref: 2009, Leonor Magtolis Briones, "The Road Home" (film review of Departures), ABS-CBN News (Philippines), 10 Aug. (retrieved 26 Jan. 2010)
glosses: A person whose profession is to prepare the body of a deceased person and place it in a coffin, especially in a ceremonial or ritualistic manner.
Related terms: encoffin
encoffinment
encoffinment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encoffinments
Etymology: From encoffin + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The encoffinment takes place on the third day after death, in the presence of the assembled family.
ref: 1882, Robert K. Douglas, China, with Map, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 294:
text: In rites of encoffinment, burial and commemoration, all human beings are treated as ghosts.
ref: 2002, Linda Woodhead et al., Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: The preparation of the body of a deceased person and placement of it in a coffin, especially in a ceremonial or ritualistic manner.
Related terms: encoffin
encoffiner
belowstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From below + stairs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of below stairs.
belowstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From below + stairs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of below stairs.
belowstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From below + stairs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of below stairs.
encoffinments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encoffinment
Ghaziabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ग़ाज़ियाबाद (ġāziyābād).
Senses: glosses: A large city and district of Meerut division, Uttar Pradesh, India.
psychological warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Li also inspected a psychological warfare unit at Huchingtou, Liehyu, where he saw off a balloon carrying materials showing the free bastion of Taiwan's warm support for the pro-democracy movement on the China mainland.
ref: 1989 June 21 [1989 June 19], “Premier Li Huan Visits Kinmen Island 18 Jun”, in Daily Report: China, numbers 81-118, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 81, column 2:
text: The intelligence services believe it is more likely the Chinese would use psychological warfare to give the impression they were about to seize one of the islands, rather than carry it out. However, if there was pressure within the Chinese military to achieve at least a token military success against Taiwan, this option could not be dismissed.
ref: 1996 March 15, Michael Evans, “China offensive cannot be ruled out, experts say”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 3:
synonyms: war of nerves
hypernyms: psyops[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
glosses: A mentally manipulative approach to warfare involving use of techniques to demoralize or intimidate someone into surrender.
examples: text: Bill Tilden invented tennis as we now know it. He changed it from the gentlemanly pastime of the 1920s into a professional sport involving stars, strategies and large amounts of money, from a dull and predictable game into a tactical enterprise involving strategy and psychological warfare, net shots, scoops and lobs, all calculated to throw opponents off balance.
ref: 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:
synonyms: war of nerves
psyops
glosses: Mind games.
all correct
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: True; agreed, yes indeed.
examples: in particular:
glosses: In order; properly arranged; as expected; above reproach; shipshape.
glosses: In order; properly arranged; as expected; above reproach; shipshape.
Accurate, tallied correctly.
qualifier: amounts; or calculations; amounts; or calculations
raw_tags: of accounts
glosses: In order; properly arranged; as expected; above reproach; shipshape.
Accurate and appropriate.
qualifier: especially legal documents
raw_tags: of documents
Related terms: oll korrect
external conflict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: external conflicts
Senses: qualifier: literary theory
glosses: A conflict that is between a character and an external force, such as another character.
unsolicitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsolicitedly
form: most unsolicitedly
Etymology: From unsolicited + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What came next was Boylen unexpectedly and unsolicitedly supplying some context.
ref: 2019 December 2, Darnell Mayberry, “Nuggets from my notebook: Are you buying the Bulls’ recent improvement?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Without having been asked or commanded.
internal conflict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internal conflicts
Senses: qualifier: literary theory
glosses: A psychological conflict that is internal to a character.
glosses: Mental struggle arising from competing feelings, desires, impulses, etc.
Related terms: cognitive dissonance
buffer lasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffer lass
triggery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more triggery
form: most triggery
Etymology: From trigger + -y (in various senses).
Senses: examples: text: The last thing you want is a threshold that is too triggery (one that goes off too many times) or a threshold that won’t go off until the entire building burns to the ground.
ref: 2001, Douglas R. Mauro, Kevin J. Schmidt, Essential SNMP, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: Easily triggered; tending to go off very frequently.
examples: text: A trigger warning serves as a heads up that the post contains some possibly upsetting material. Triggery subjects include, but are not limited to, pregnant women, children, clinic protesters, insensitive people, ... anniversaries, etc.
ref: a. 2007, antiabortion.com, notice to members, quoted in Miriam Grossman, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student, Sentinel (2007), page 86
glosses: Tending to upset.
triggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trigger + -y (in various senses).
Senses: examples: text: Now bear in mind there are no clap traps nor inconvenient and cumbersome triggery about all this, simply an inch hoop iron with saw-tooth notches cut 1½ inches apart and a frame made bevel edged all the entire length on the under side; […]
ref: 1876 August, J. W. Greene, “Distance of Combs from Centre to Centre”, in American Bee Journal, volume XII, number 8, Thomas G. Newman, page 210:
glosses: Trigger mechanisms, taken collectively.
testacea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin testāceus (“covered with a shell”).
Senses: examples: text: ANAIMONA, Aquatilia Exanguia, Bloodless Fishes, are divided into Mollia Soft Fishes without Shells; Crustata, those that are covered with thin pliant Shells; and Testacea, those which have thick, hard brittle Shells.
ref: 1722, John Jones (tr.), Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients, page 231:
text: The echinite family […] may be deemed characteristic of the chalk formation, affording of itself as many shells as the other testacea do.
ref: 1829, Andrew Ure, A New System of Geology, page 285:
text: […]to fancy, for example, that the testacea of the ocean existed first, until some of them, by gradual evolution, were improved into those inhabiting the land.
ref: 1832, Charles Lyell, chapter I, in Principles of Geology […] , volume II, London: John Murray, page 11:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various shellfish, especially those of the obsolete orders Vermes or Acephala, or the suborder Thecosomata.
testacea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin testāceus (“covered with a shell”).
Senses: glosses: A testaceous substance, something made of shell or shell-like material.
Related terms: word: Testacea