cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aftercost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercosts
Etymology: From after- + cost.
Senses: examples: text: Merit and value imply comfort. an attractive design. an efficient motor, a sturdy chassis. the use of the best materials, complete equipment of tried accessories and economy in first cost and aftercost.
ref: 1916, Successful Farming, page 4:
text: Of the $5,019-million total ($5,344 million less $325 million for loans), $2,564 million was classified as expenditures for aftercosts of war and $2,455 million for public social welfare or public philanthropy; that is, 51 per cent of the adjusted total expenditures from appropriated funds was disbursed for purposes which fall in our category of aftercosts of war (service-connected) and 49 per cent in our category of public philanthropy (non- service-connected).
ref: 1970, Frank Greene Dickinson, The changing position of philanthropy in the American economy:
text: It may be that the drafters of the regulation considered a State income tax to be an aftercost of earning income.
ref: 1995, United States. Tax Court, Reports of the United States Tax Court - Volume 104, page 760:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A subsequent expense related to but occurring after the source of an expenditure.
examples: text: Whatever be the fate of Walt Whitman as a poet or democratic philosopher, this little book assures his place as a true philanthropist, a benefactor of his suffering brethren in the first degree, bestowing on them not the productions of his singular genius, not the alleviations which wealth may procure (these he had not to give), but his great heart, his measureless sympathy, his solicitude and unwearying patience, and the soothing charm of his tranquil presence, Sweet, unaggressive, tolerant, most humane, as he ministered by day and night to the torn wrecks of men left stranded, by brutal fratricidal war, on the battlefield as on the shoals and shores of a sea of blood — ministered at the aftercost of long years of shattered health.
ref: 1899, The London Quarterly and Holborn Review - Volume 91, page 87:
glosses: A subsequent burden or loss resulting from an endeavor.
aftercosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftercost
after-cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-costs
Senses: examples: text: But originality in war does, and slave- owning nations, having time to think, are likely to be more shrewd in policy, and more crafty in strategy. No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
ref: 2010, Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of aftercost.
after-costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after-cost
sleeve-button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeve-buttons
Senses: examples: text: […] I took my leave of Morgan with many tears, after we had exchanged our sleeve-buttons as remembrances of each other.
ref: 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 35, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 314:
text: “How those sleeve-buttons will suit me!” thought he, as he fixed a pair on the fat pudgy wrists of Mr. Sedley. “I long for sleeve-buttons; and the Captain’s boots with brass spurs, in the next room, corbleu! what an effect they will make in the Allee Verte!”
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: He wore […] projecting cuffs, fastened with large oxidized silver sleeve-buttons, bearing the device of a dog’s face,—English pug.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XXVII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 275:
text: The old man was fumbling with his sleeve button. Parker bared the arm, polished a little spot with a wisp of cotton saturated with alcohol, grasped the pathetically flabby skin with experienced fingers; and, tipping up the syringe, pushed the piston gently to expel the air.
ref: 1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 8, in Green Light, London: Peter Davies, page 137:
glosses: A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
Synonyms: cufflink
sleeve-link
sleeve-buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeve-button
badboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badboys
Senses: examples: text: But he's not here right now, so I'm giving these badboys a toss!
ref: 2003, Josh Thomas, Andy's Big Idea:
text: The Rolling Stones on the other hand, were rumpled roughnecks; the rock 'n' roll badboys.
ref: 2009, Clay Cole, Sh-Boom!: The Explosion of Rock 'n' Roll, 1953–1968, →ISBN:
text: There are some oldschoolers out there who claim it's the older, more expensive SB800, but with the versatility, savvy product packaging, and intelligence of the SB900, it wins handsdown. This badboy comes with a carrying case for the light itself, a cubby for extra batteries, and room for the sample gel pack.
ref: 2011, Dustin Diaz, This Is Strobist Info: Your Setup Guide to Flash Photography, →ISBN:
text: Supergook of the fighting 6th NVA Infantry Regiment...more powerful than a locomotive...faster than a speeding bullet, able to bend the badboys of Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines with bare hands.
ref: 2013, Dale A. Dye, Laos File, →ISBN:
text: Generally girls are naturally attracted to badboys because they're exciting, like being in a thrill ride, challenging etc. which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the father.
ref: 2015, Jack N. Raven, The Injector Protocol: How To Inject Your Essence Literally Into Everything!, →ISBN:
text: The Judge Child quest, the debut of skysurfing badboy Marlon Shakespeare in UnAmerican Graffiti, the MegaRackets, The Hotdog Run, Block Mania, The Graveyard Shift, Bob & Carol & Ted & Ringo, Dave the Orang-utan mayor, Dredd Angel, City of Damned - the list containing most of Dredd's character-defining moments has the name and style of Ron Smith stamped all over it, and all with this heady mix of ultra-violence and a grin that is as much an expression of Smith's own mischievous sense of humour as it is the scripts.
ref: 2015, Michael Molcher, 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews - Volume 01, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bad boy.
badboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badboy
bad-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad-boy
bushchats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushchat
rhizal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.zəl/
rhymes: -aɪzəl
Etymology: From rhiz- + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the root.
TIMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of thermal ionization mass spectrometry.
melanotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From melano- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: That promotes the formation of melanin
merolectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merolectins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lectin that has only a single sugar-binding centre, and does not agglutinate cells
merolectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merolectin
mesepimeron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesepimerons
Etymology: From meso- + epimeron.
Senses: glosses: The epimeron of the mesothorax of an insect
mesepimerons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesepimeron
mesolimbocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + limbic + cortical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: mesolimbic and cortical
mesomechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + mechanics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The mechanics of mesostructures
metabolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metabolite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metabolites
Derived terms: metabolitically
Related terms: metabolic
mixed monarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed monarchies
Senses: examples: text: Regal absolutism might be the preferred ideal, but he was ever fearful of its potential for tyranny, so in practice he approved limits on royal power, as in the case of England's mixed monarchy.
ref: 1994, Neal Wood, Foundations of Political Economy, page 48:
text: Europe's shift from a medieval to a modern sovereign state coincided with the Empire's own reforms, consolidating it as a mixed monarchy where the emperor shared power with a complex hierarchy of imperial Estates.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 171:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A monarchy which includes elements of democracy and aristocracy.
metabolitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metabolitic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to metabolites
Related terms: metabolically
metadiaphyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to metadiaphysis
metadiaphyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metadiaphysis
metalloenzymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metallo- + enzymic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a metalloenzyme
Related terms: metalloenzymatic
metalloradical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloradicals
Etymology: From metallo- + radical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organometallic free radical whose unpaired electron is on the metal atom
metalloradicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloradical
metamodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + modal.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Relating to abstract neurological processing that does not reference a sensory modality
Related terms: multimodal
polymodal
microaerophilically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From microaerophilic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a microaerophilic manner
microalbuminurics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microalbuminuric
microcannulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcannulations
Etymology: From micro- + cannulation.
Senses: glosses: cannulation by means of a microcannula
microcannulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcannulation
microcarnivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcarnivores
Etymology: From micro- + carnivore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A carnivore that eats very small animals (typically insect larva)
Related terms: macrocarnivore
microcarnivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcarnivore
microinfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinfections
Etymology: From micro- + infection.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infection by a microorganism
microinfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microinfection
bankie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of banky ("blanket")
micronuclease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micronucleases
Etymology: From micro- + nuclease.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: micrococcal nuclease
micronucleases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micronuclease
microplasminogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microplasminogens
Etymology: From micro- + plasminogen.
Senses: glosses: The inactive precursor of a microplasmin
microplasminogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microplasminogen
midsegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + segmental.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a midsegment
mitogynogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mitogynogenesis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mitogynogenesis
mucodepletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muco- + depletion.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: depletion in the normal amount of mucus
mycobiontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a mycobiont
mycoparasitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myco- + parasitical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mycoparasitic.
myofibrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myofibroses
Etymology: From myo- + fibrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: fibrosis of muscle tissue
Related terms: myofibrotic
myositis
Dods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dodd + -s (“patronymic suffix”). From Middle English Dodd.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
neurobiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + biogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The biogenesis of neurons
neuroendocrinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroendocrine.
nitroxidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or produced by nitrosylation and oxidation combined
Related terms: nitrosidative
nonamnestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amnestic.
Senses: glosses: Not amnestic
nonanesthetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + anesthetized.
Senses: glosses: Not anesthetized
noncatalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + catalytical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noncatalytic.
noncomorbid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + comorbid.
Senses: glosses: Not comorbid
nondiscordance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + discordance.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nondiscordant
nonerythrocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonerythrocytes
Etymology: From non- + erythrocyte.
Senses: glosses: Any cell that is not an erythrocyte
nonerythrocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonerythrocyte
nonglaucousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + glaucousness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonglaucous
nonintercalated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intercalated.
Senses: glosses: Not intercalated
nonserpentine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serpentine.
Senses: glosses: Not serpentine
nonstomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stomal.
Senses: glosses: Not stomal
normoalbuminurics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normoalbuminuric
occipitosphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From occipito- + sphenoidal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: occipital and sphenoidal
odobenines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odobenine
odonotogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of odontogenesis.
oncomodulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From onco- + modulatory.
Senses: glosses: That modifies the progress of a cancer
Related terms: oncomodulator
oogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oo- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That produces oocytes
Related terms: oogenesis
orthochromatophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + chromatophilic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing an erythroblast, derived from a polychromatophilic one, that is approaching the colour of a mature erythrocyte
orthoteliine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoteliines
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the subfamily Orthoteliinae
orthoteliines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoteliine
osmolytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of osmolytic.
osteoprotegrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of osteoprotegerin.
osteoregenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + regenerative.
Senses: glosses: That promotes osteoregeneration
oxammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxammoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation HO-NH₃⁺
Related terms: oxoammonium
palaeosurface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeosurfaces
Etymology: From palaeo- + surface.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleosurface.
palaeosurfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeosurface
paleomerycid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleomerycids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct ruminant of the family Palaeomerycidae
paleomerycids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleomerycid
paleotropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + tropics.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeotropics.
pancreatobilary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pancreatobiliary.
pancreatogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancreatograms
Senses: glosses: An image produced by pancreatography
pancreatograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreatogram
pancreatographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pancreatography
meets one's Waterloo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meet one's Waterloo
panepidemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: panepidemics
Etymology: From pan- + epidemic.
Senses: glosses: A pandemic.
panepidemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panepidemic
meeting one's Waterloo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meet one's Waterloo
met one's Waterloo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meet one's Waterloo
pantothenamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantothenamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amide of pantothenic acid
pantothenamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantothenamide
paraventrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of paraventricular.
pathoetiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patho- + etiological.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to pathoetiology
pathoetiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pathoetiological.
pencilbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencilbeams
Etymology: From pencil + beam.
Senses: glosses: A narrow beam of light that does not spread out.
pencilbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencilbeam
penecontemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pene- + contemporary.
Senses: examples: text: The chalcolithic Corded Ware culture of North-Central and Eastern Europe has been found to display archaeological as well as genetic affinities to the penecontemporary Yamnaya horizon of the Pontic–Caspian Steppe.
glosses: That lived or existed at almost the same time (as another/others); nearly contemporary
penecontemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penecontemporaries
Etymology: From pene- + contemporary.
Senses: examples: text: However, he found that features more prone to show environmental effects (whether phenotypically plastic or otherwise) separated the tropical Jebel Sahaba skeletons from their penecontemporaries at higher latitudes.
ref: 2013, Trenton W. Holliday, “Population Affinities of the Jebel Sahaba Skeletal Sample: Limb Proportion Evidence”, in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, page 2:
glosses: That which is penecontemporary, living or existing at almost the same time (as another/others)
peniscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penis + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Visual examination of the tissues of the penis.
Related terms: peniscope
pentadecanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentadecanones
Etymology: From pentadeca- + -n- + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric aliphatic ketones having fifteen carbon atoms
peripyramidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + pyramidal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the renal pyramid.
renal pyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renal pyramids
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A conical subdivision of the renal medulla
renal pyramids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renal pyramid
phocoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phocoids
Senses: glosses: Any seal of the superfamily Phocoidea
phocoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phocoid
mafiocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mafiocracies
Etymology: From mafia + -ocracy.
Senses: glosses: Government by mafiosi; (loosely) government by organized crime.
glosses: An instance of such government; a government that is run by mafiosi or similar crime lords.
mafiocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mafiocracy
winged T
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winged Ts
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A formation with two halfbacks, where one lines up just behind the line of scrimmage between the split end and the offensive tackle, and the other lines up behind the quarterback and next to the fullback.
shutter dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutter dams
Senses: glosses: A form of movable dam having large gates opened and closed by a turbine.
shutter dams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shutter dam
tooart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tooarts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tuart (“Australian tree”).
tuarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuart
tewart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tewarts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tuart (“Australian tree”).
tewarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tewart
tooarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tooart
sapremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapremias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sapraemia.
sapremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sapraemic.
elixir of vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture of sulfuric acid and alcohol, once prescribed as a treatment for scurvy.
fleece wool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleece wools
Senses: glosses: Fleece shorn from the living animal.
fleece wools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleece wool
to the turn of a hair
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of to a hair.
synonyms: word: to a hair
bugology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bug + -o- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of insects.
Derived terms: bugologist
bugologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugologists
Etymology: From bugology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies insects.
bugologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bugologist
umbration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrations
Etymology: From umbra + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: ... but for similitude of properties and Divine gifts; which, though resembling, are yet but faint shadows and umbrations of that sublime nature;[…]
ref: 1850, John Evelyn, The History of Religion. A Rational Account of the True Religion ... Now First Published ... from the Original MS. ... Edited, with Notes, by ... R. M. Evanson, page 192:
glosses: Adumbration; shadow or outline.
propaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of propale
propaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of propale
Japan earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of terra-japonica (Uncaria gambir)
synonyms: word: terra-japonica
extra: Uncaria gambir
sesquitertias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesquitertia
serpulitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serpulitic
form: most serpulitic
Etymology: From serpulite + -ic.
Senses: examples: a serpulitic limestone
glosses: Of or relating to serpulites.
serpuloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serpuloid
form: most serpuloid
Etymology: From serpulite + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a serpulite.
double concave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: concavoconcave
saithes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saithe
reparts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repart
reparting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repart
reparted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repart
crossback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crossbacks
form: crossbacking
form: crossbacked
form: crossbacked
Etymology: * cross + back
* (Catholic person): Alluding to Catholic priests wearing crosses on the backs of their vestments in church services.
Senses: examples: text: The rows which are as good as the resistant parent, we crossback to the high-yielding sort.
ref: 1960, Iago Galdston, Human Nutrition: Historic and Scientific, page 156:
text: Progeny were closely culled and crossbacked with emphasis on fertility, mothering ability, and gain ability.
ref: 1974, Farmers' Bulletin, page 21:
glosses: To cross a hybrid species with one of the original parent species.
crossbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossback
crossbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crossback
crossbacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crossback
crossbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crossback
crossbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Madam Dubonnct will wherein a crossbacked spider sways, not have it brushed away; spiders bring luck, and she has had quite enough misfortune in her house.
ref: 1914, The International - Volumes 8-11, page 365:
text: A grilled New York Strip ($12.99) arrived crossbacked and medium rare as ordered.
ref: 1989 November, Joan Fox, “Restaurants: A Munch by the Mall”, in Cincinnati Magazine, volume 23, number 2, page 118:
text: Once Kate reached one of the fancifully carved towers of the palace, a liveried footman led her into an octagonal banqueting room, richly furnished with a round table surrounded by cushioned stools and crossbacked chairs.
ref: 2015, Amanda Carmack, Murder in the Queen's Garden, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a cross on the back.
cross-course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-courses
Senses: examples: text: Williams's lode heaves the cross-course 4 feet towards the left-hand; the cross-course then intersects Trathan's lode, and at some levels heaves it towards the right-hand; and lastly, it heaves the Black lode 11 feet towards the left-hand.
ref: 1843, The Philosophical Magazine:
text: In this end the main part of the lode is probably missed, but the branch on which it is driving has a rather silver character; and as the cross-course is approached, it is not improbably that the silver may be met with here.
ref: 1862, The Mining and Smelting Magazine - Volume 2, page 80:
text: The north section of the mine has also a crossback or cross-course, but the result at the crossing is so completely reversed that one is struck with astonishment to see the opposites in the same formation.
ref: 1894, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Transactions - Volume 43, page 440:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A vein or lode that crosses the main lode, sometimes accompanied by a change of course in the main lode.
cross-courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-course
music demy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A size of writing paper, 20¾ × 14⅜ inches.
try conclusions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tries conclusions
form: trying conclusions
form: tried conclusions
form: tried conclusions
Senses: glosses: To experiment.
glosses: To engage in a contest.
Rice distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rice distribution
prerogative court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prerogative courts
Senses: glosses: A court through which the discretionary powers, privileges, and legal immunities reserved to the sovereign were exercised.
prerogative courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prerogative court
Hildebrandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hildebrandic
form: most Hildebrandic
Etymology: From Hildebrand + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or supporting, Hildebrandism.
Hildebrandism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hildebrand + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The spirit and policy of Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII, 1073-85); unbending assertion of the power of the church, etc.
prepotence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepotences
Senses: glosses: prepotency
prepotences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepotence
cerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerines
Senses: glosses: Dated form of cerin.
cerines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerine
rainpour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainpours
Etymology: Compound of rain + pour. Compare German Regenguss.
Senses: synonyms: downpour
glosses: A heavy rainfall.
rainpours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainpour
arithmocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arithmocratic
form: most arithmocratic
Etymology: From arithmo- + -cratic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to arithmocracy.
arithmocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: arithmocracies
Etymology: From arithmo- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: And we shall probably find that arithmocracies are more amenable to sentiment than reason, less susceptible of serious and sustained purpose, more open to the disintegrating forces of disunion, and have a tendency to divide and sub-divide into countless cliques with discordant interests.
ref: 1909, The Westminster Review, volume 172, page 330:
glosses: A form of government where decisions are made based purely on the numerical majority of supporters.
Related terms: arithmocratic
arithmocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arithmocracy
hypnogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypnogenetic
form: most hypnogenetic
Senses: glosses: inducing hypnosis
asparagus roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asparagus rolls
Senses: examples: text: Yet while those clingfilm-wrapped platters of asparagus rolls, savoury cheese balls and Anzac biscuits have gone out of style, they haven't been totally scorned.
ref: 2002, Craig Dowling, Insight Guide New Zealand, →ISBN, page 89:
text: People had brought food: whitebait patties, cheese Scones, asparagus rolls, Smoked mussels, Cold meats, Salads, garli bread and scallop pies.
ref: 2013, Henriette Fleischer, Back to Anatori: One Woman's Experience of a Small, Rural Town in New Zealand, →ISBN:
text: I told her it would be no trouble for my housekeeper, Mrs Murphy, to make cucumber sandwiches and asparagus rolls for twentyfive.
ref: 2014, Clive Thomas, Thursday's Child : Journeys Far and Wide in the Australian Outback, →ISBN:
glosses: A finger food made by rolling a spear of asparagus in a slice of buttered bread with the crust cut off.
asparagus rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asparagus roll
inseverably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inseverable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So that it cannot be severed.
thenable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈðɛn.ə.bəl/
rhymes: -ɛnəbəl
Forms: form: thenables
Etymology: From then + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An object or function that exposes a then method returning a promise.
thenables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thenable
deadcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadcakes
form: dead cake
Etymology: Calque of Dutch doodkoek (literally “death cake”), equivalent to dood + koek (English dead + cake).
Senses: examples: text: The cakes were of an especial kind and were called "deadcakes." In the case of a funeral in the family of the rich, or of those high-up in the official life of the Colony, large sums were spent on the wine and it was not unusual for a supply of it to be put in the cellar long before the first death so that it would be on hand and improving by age.
ref: 1905, George S. Roberts, Old Schenectady, page 45:
text: ...and of the festivities following Dutch Reformed Church funerals, during which the men who had been invited met after the interment and heartily (some said riotously) toasted the departed with choice wine and "deadcakes" prepared especially for the occasion.
ref: 1980, Jonathan Pearson, First Reformed Church of Schenectady, Three centuries: the history of the First Reformed Church of Schenectady, 1689-1980:
text: In addition, they delivered a bottle of wine, a pair of gloves, and two “deadcakes” that were actually large cookies not to be eaten, but kept as a memento of the deceased.
ref: 2009, Don Corbly, The Last Colonials, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: A small cake or cookie served at a funeral in Dutch-settled colonial New York, often with the initials of the deceased inscribed.
deadcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadcake
Gerber sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gerber sandwiches
Etymology: Named after Dick Gerber, who invented it.
Senses: glosses: An open-faced sandwich from St. Louis, Missouri, consisting of a half section of Italian or French bread, spread with garlic butter and topped with ham and cheese, then toasted.
Gerber sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerber sandwich
tavern-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: party-cut
tavern-style
glosses: Of pizza: cut into squares rather than slices.
Ayemere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname of Nigerian origin.
dead cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead cakes
Senses: examples: text: When any one was dead the friends would commence to make preparation for the funeral; in the first place after the corpse was laid out they would send for 35 or 50 gallons of Cherry wine, and some 15 or 22 gallons of it was taken and a compound of spices was put in it and made hot, and the rest was used cold; also two or three bushels of small sugar cake was made which was called Dote Kooken or dead cake, also three to five pounds of tobacco and from two to three hundred pipes ; then a table was set through the house in every room, on those tables is plates of cake, plates of tobacco and at each side of the plates of tobacco is a number of pipes and a roll of paper done up to light the tobacco; also candles lit, also wine put up in bottles and set on the table, and wine glasses; the spice wine was put in silver tankers and sat on the tables.
ref: 1883, Jonathan Pearson, Junius Wilson MacMurray, A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times:
text: Sanders Lansing was celebrated for her "dead cakes," bearing the monogram of the dead.
ref: 1897, Mary Gay Humphreys, Catherine Schuyler, page 78:
text: For some Pennsylvanian Germans, wine and “dead cakes” were delivered when making such invitations; the cakes, which looked like large cookies and often had the deceased's initials scratched in them, “were not eaten but kept as a memento of the person who had died.
ref: 2008, Kenneth L. Untiedt, Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter:
glosses: Alternative form of deadcake.
dirt pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirt pies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mud pie.
synonyms: word: mud pie
dead cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead cake
dirt pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirt pie
dead-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-eye
uncolliding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + colliding.
Senses: glosses: Not colliding.
collidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colliding
sciotheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sciatheric
sciotherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sciatheric
widow's bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A widow's share of her husband's estate in addition to her jointure.
Related terms: free bench
splenitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to splenitis.
putoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Singalese dish made from palmyra-nut meal, scraped coconut, etc.
deadlegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deadleg
deadlegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deadleg
dead-leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-legs
Senses: examples: text: If they did then they kept quiet about it for fear of dead-legs, dead-shoulders, kidney punches, that sort of thing.
ref: 2007, Sean O'Brien, Colm Tóibín, Iain Mobbs, Mays 15, →ISBN:
text: They'd given kids a dead-leg: a knee to the side of the thigh.
ref: 2008, D. M. Samson, Nails, →ISBN, page 28:
text: I would then have to leave it to stealth, and when I did catch them I would give them a couple of dead-legs until they pleaded and promised they wouldn't do it again.
ref: 2011, Paddy Sinnott, Eejit Strikes Back, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of dead leg (blow to the upper thigh)
examples: text: In a WFI system, usually a distilled water loop, warm standing water can occur in dead-legs which are defined as dead-ends more than 5 to 6 pipe widths in length, and which extend downward, either straight or at an angle, from the loop.
ref: 1987, Wayne P. Olson, Michael John Groves, Aseptic pharmaceutical manufacturing::
text: Critical factors relating to preproduction sterilisation of food contact surfaces include correct assembly of equipment, and assurance that it is clean, and without crevices or dead-legs which are inaccessible for cleaning or heat sterilisation purposes.
ref: 1995, Grahame W. Gould, New Methods of Food Preservation, →ISBN, page 291:
text: When a turbine oil lubricating system is drained of one turbine oil and refilled with another turbine oil, as much as 10 to 15% of the previous oil can remain in the system due to clingage, low-spots, and piping dead-legs.
ref: 2001, William R. Herguth, Thomas M. Warne, Turbine Lubrication in the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of deadleg (pipe with no outflow)
examples: text: There are many different ways to throw the change-up, and through the years pitchers on the Dodgers have used three different methods. They use a "dead leg" in back, which helps the body drop low; holding the ball with three fingers on top;
ref: 1981, Athletic Journal - Volume 62, page 46:
text: When a pitcher is trying to be quicker to the plate, often he will start to dead-leg.
ref: 1990, Joe McFarland, Coaching Pitchers, page 103:
glosses: Alternative form of deadleg (movement with hips and knees held stiff and straight)
dead-legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-leg
drain the swamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drains the swamp
form: draining the swamp
form: drained the swamp
form: drained the swamp
Etymology: First use appears c. 1899.
Senses: examples: text: Why can't the Massachusetts Legislature summon its courage, and the Governor, and drain the swamp of which it is all so well aware, an act which in and of itself would eliminate many of the alligators.
ref: 1972 February 24, Ian Menzies, “Please! Drain swamp”, in The Boston Globe, page 24:
text: In every conversation I had with Trump supporters at his rallies during the election, one impulse kept surfacing: drain the swamp.
ref: 2024 November 11, Peter Hyman, “Donald Trump is right. There is a "swamp", but it’s the left that must drain it”, in New Statesman:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To eliminate the root causes of problems, especially to rid politics and government of evils, such as corruption and bureaucracy.
overriden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of overridden.
deadmelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deadmelts
form: deadmelting
form: deadmelted
form: deadmelted
form: dead-melt
form: dead melt
Senses: examples: text: At 0.09 per cent. carbon the bath is usually underdone.” because a relatively high temperature is required to deadmelt at this carbon.
ref: 1917, The Engineer - Volume 124, page 277:
text: From these two heats it became apparent that steels of this composition, when deadmelted, tend to run several times higher in hydrogen than carbon steels.
ref: 1949, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Incorporated, Proceedings, page 289:
text: After the charge is thoroughly mixed, samples are taken and poured into a small mould to see if the steel is "deadmelted," and also if the silicon content is right, for this may be judged by eye in the way it “settles down."
ref: 1922, Metal Industry (London, England) - Volume 21, page 156:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To melt steel at high temperatures in order to deoxidize it.
deadmelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadmelts
form: dead-melt
form: dead melt
Senses: examples: text: My proposition is to take otherwise finished steel from the Bessemer or open-hearth furnace, and hold it liquid, let us say thirty minutes, giving the oxides a chance to float up and the steel a chance to rest, thus giving it the equivalent of the deadmelt in the crucible.
ref: 1911, Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society:
text: A "sufficient amount" is defined as the gross charge weight of the alloy that is required to add the deficient weight of metal to the heat after the deadmelt oxidation losses have taken place.
ref: 1964, Management Accounting - Volume 46, Issues 1-6, page 14:
text: Once the charge has melted and reached the pouring temperature the furnace is left to stand for a short time and then skimmed, after which the melt is sent for further treatment to a deadmelt and casting furnace, or cast direct.
ref: 1972, The Brown Boveri Review - Volume 59, page 273:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of deadmelting steel.
deadmelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadmelt
deadmelts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deadmelt
deadmelting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deadmelt
deadmelted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deadmelt
dead-melt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead-melts
form: dead-melting
form: dead-melted
form: dead-melted
Senses: examples: text: ...but if cast immediately it is found that a much larger quantity of gas separates during solidification, rendering the steel porous, than is evolved if the metal is dead-melted, i.e., allowed to remain melted for an extra half hour or more, presumably from the reaction of the iron oxide interspersed throughout the steel upon the carbon evolving carbon oxide during the earlier period...
ref: 1890, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, page 341:
text: A crucible-steel maker who knows his business can, and he will, always dead-melt his steel.
ref: 1896, William Metcalf, Steel: A Manual for Steel Users, page 134:
text: However, most producers either dead-melt their heats or oxygen-blow to burn silicon.
ref: 1999, Transactions of the American Foundrymen's Society, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of deadmelt.
dead-melt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-melts
Senses: examples: text: ... thirdly, subjecting the molten metal, after the addition of carbon and silicon, to a dead-melt under a neutral flame until the silicon shall be oxidized to the required degree, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
ref: 1881, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
text: From here to the finish there is practically a dead-melt in a reducing atmosphere.
ref: 1911, Eugene Franz Roeber, Howard Coon Parmelee, Metallurgical & Chemical Engineering - Volume 9, page 273:
text: It was his experience that it was advisable not to rely upon the deoxidising action of elements added at the end of the process, but to make certain of acquiring a satisfactory " dead-melt " in the furnace, and he had not obtained any appreciably better result from the addition of such elements as molybdenum and vanadium.
ref: 1923, The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute - Issue 2, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of deadmelt.
dead-melts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-melt
dead-melts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dead-melt
dead-melting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dead-melt
dead-melted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead-melt
dead melt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead melts
form: dead melting
form: dead melted
form: dead melted
Senses: examples: text: It has to be run eight hours after reaching 1,600°, as high oxygen contents of the bath are not permissible in an acid furnace, and for quite one to two hours an endeavour is made to dead melt, that is, deoxidise the steel.
ref: 1913, William Henry Fowler, The Mechanical Engineer - Volume 31, page 646:
text: As crucible steel is dead melted and killed to a point where it is absolutely quiet, the holding period is just another factor in emulating the crucible practice to produce quality steel.
ref: 1929, Blast Furnace and Steel Plant - Volume 17, page 275:
text: An arc furnace dead melts and desulphurizes the stainless steel charges.
ref: 1969, Metal Producing - Volume 7, page 75:
glosses: Alternative form of deadmelt.