cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chitlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃitlɪnz/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [ˈtʃɪtˤ.lɪnz]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [tʃɪːlɪnz]
Senses: examples: text: What was the twist—that it was soul food made by white people? Chitlins with some pale pickled thing on top?
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 184:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of chitterlings.
Dixieland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪksilænd/
Etymology: From Dixie + -land.
Senses: glosses: The southern states of the US; Dixie.
glosses: The southwestern corner of Utah; Dixie.
Dixieland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪksilænd/
Etymology: From Dixie + -land.
Senses: examples: text: My sis is tying the knot. I want you to play for the reception. She likes Dixieland. Two of my boys say you play good Dixieland.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: hot jazz
glosses: A type of jazz that originated in New Orleans.
collard greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attribution of collard to greens.
Senses: synonyms: word: spring greens
glosses: A form of Brassica oleracea, sometimes called Brassica oleracea var. acephala or Brassica oleracea var. viridis, similar to kale, that is a popular food in the rural southern United States.
wikipedia: collard greens
grits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Etymology: See grit (Etymology 2, “hulled oats”).
Senses: glosses: plural of grit ('hulled oats'); groats.
qualifier: Western Hemisphere
glosses: Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.
Related terms: grout
gruel
nitty-gritty
cornmeal
polenta
grits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Etymology: See grit (Etymology 1).
Senses: glosses: plural of grit
grits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Etymology: See grit (Etymology 1).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grit
few and far between
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fewer and further between
form: fewer and farther between
form: fewest and furthest between
form: fewest and farthest between
Etymology: Attested at least since the 17th century. Was originally reserved for physical objects, such as houses, appearing with wide gaps between, but today it is also applied to more abstract things. Being rare also implies that the average gaps between the objects are wide.
Senses: examples: text: There are, of course, exceptions to every rule, and I have met several lamas, notably the Phodong Lama of Sikhim and others like him, men who were thoroughly capable, who acted up to their principles, and whom I thoroughly respected, but I am sorry to say such men were few and far between.
ref: 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 15:
text: On a line like the Santa Fe, in such desert country as that on the Chicago-Los Angeles main line through Arizona and New Mexico, stations are few and far between, and at many of them one or two employees are the only permanent staff.
ref: 1950 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 300:
text: As with other railways, more Mk 1s are urgently required but disposals by BR are few and far between at present.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 414:
text: The gear change never happened and although chances were few and far between in the second half it looked like below-par Arsenal would escape the DW Stadium with three points - especially when N'Zogbia was sent off with 12 minutes to play.
ref: 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
synonyms: word: thin on the ground
word: deficient
word: in short supply
word: wanting#Adjective
word: lacking#Adjective
word: uncommon
word: ;
word: rare
word: dearthy
word: few and far between
word: geason
word: infrequent
word: in short supply
word: rare
word: raresome
word: scant
word: scantling
word: scarce
word: selcouth
word: seld
word: seldom
word: selly
word: superrare
word: uncommon
word: unfrequent
antonyms: far and wide
thick on the ground
common
widespread
abundant
;
ubiquitous
glosses: Rare and scarce; hard to find.
Related terms: thick and fast
found out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of find out
Alcides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Alcīdes, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκείδης (Alkeídēs), from Ἀλκαῖος (Alkaîos, “Alcaeus”) + patronymic suffix -ίδης (-ídēs).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Hercules.
synonyms: word: Hercules
Alcides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alcide
chatterbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatterbots
Etymology: From chatter + -bot, coined by Michael Maudlin in 1994.
Senses: examples: text: Since it has been shown that it is very important for a Talking Head interface to appear human and humane—it is instructive to see how a chatterbot is perceived by someone interfacing with them (Foner, 1993).
ref: 2001, Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Robert J. Bignall, editors, Internet Commerce and Software Agents: Cases, Technologies, and Opportunities, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 301:
glosses: Synonym of chatbot.
synonyms: word: chatbot
Indian giving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Meriwether Lewis' and William Clarke's misunderstanding of how Native Americans traded: a tribe that traded beads for a dog might later trade the dog back to its original owner, expecting something (such as the beads) in return, and taking it if it was not offered.
Senses: glosses: The act of demanding the return of a gifted item or taking back something that was previously given, or expecting something in return.
Related terms: Indian giver
Indian gift
twelvemonth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɛlvmʌnθ/
ipa: /ˈtwɛlmʌnθ/
Forms: form: twelvemonths
Etymology: From Middle English twelmonth, twelfmonthe, twelfmonþe, from Old English twelfmōnþ, twelfmōnaþ, equivalent to twelve + month.
Senses: examples: text: But last February, almost a twelvemonth back, she suddenly disappeared.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 169:
text: Take the annals of the majority of hearths for a twelvemonth, and we should be amazed at the quantity of wretchedness that would be writ in them, if writ truly.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 166:
text: For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 196:
text: She was ill very nigh a twelvemonth altogether; and I had to nurse her as best as I could, and clean the house, and cook, and make her gruel and everything, for we could not afford to pay a woman to help us.
ref: 1861 December, “Autobiography of a Navvy”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume V, number 26, Cambridge, Cambs.; London: Macmillan and Co. […], published 1862, chapter VII (Our Last Tramp), page 151, column 2:
text: The time of year a twelvemonth past, / When Fred and I would meet, / We needs must jangle, till at last / We fought and I was beat.
ref: 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXV”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 36:
text: Then they were moved away from the field that had stood fallow for a twelvemonth and there a third and last ploughing preluded the planting of the wheat and other seed for the coming year.
ref: 1937, H[enry] S[tanley] Bennett, “The Peasant’s Year”, in Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150-1400 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought), Cambridge, Cambs.: At the University Press, published 1938, page 84:
glosses: A year.
Derived terms: twelvemonth's mind
twelvemonthly
hard done by
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard done by
form: most hard done by
Senses: examples: text: King should feel a bit hard done by after being replaced in the team.
text: United could have made it 3-0 with further chances, but Norwich's Andrew Crofts also had a shot saved and his side can come away from this encounter with some reason to feel hard done by.
ref: 2011 October 1, Alistair Magowan, “Man Utd 2 - 0 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: used, cheated, or exploited by
execrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of execrate
inexecrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɛk.sɪ.kɹə.bəl/
Forms: form: more inexecrable
form: most inexecrable
Etymology: From in- + execrable.
Senses: examples: text: O be thou damn'd, inexecrable dogge.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: That cannot be execrated enough.
cale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cales
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of marine fish in the family Odacidae
Derived terms: herring cale
inwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnwədli/
ipa: /ˈɪnwɚdli/
Etymology: From inward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Jacob groaned inwardly when he was called on to answer the question.
glosses: In an inward manner; to or toward the inside or to oneself.
examples: text: whanne Percyual vnderstode that she was his veray syster / he was inwardly glad and sayd / faire syster I shalle entre therin / For yf I be a mys creature or an vntrue knyghte there shalle I perysshe
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI:
glosses: Completely, fully.
Related terms: inwards
inly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnli/
rhymes: -ɪnli
Forms: form: more inly
form: most inly
Etymology: From Middle English inly, from Old English inlīc (“inner, inward”), equivalent to in + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Didst thou but know the inly touch of love
 Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
 As seek to quench the fire of love with words.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
glosses: Inward; interior; secret.
inly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnli/
rhymes: -ɪnli
Forms: form: more inly
form: most inly
Etymology: From Middle English inly, inliche, from Old English inlīċe (“inwardly”), equivalent to in + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have inly wept,
Or should have spoke ere this.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: His offering soon propitious fire from heaven / Consumed with nimble glance, and grateful steam; / The other's not, for his was not sincere; / Whereat he inly raged,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 441–444:
text: Thou hidden love of God, whose height, / Whose depth unfathom'd no man knows; I see from far they beauteous light, / Inly I sigh for thy repose:
ref: 1738, Paul Gerhardt, “Thou Hidden Love of God”, in John Wesley, transl., The Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book, London, published 1869, page 325:
text: His heart inly relented,—there was a conflict,—but sin got the victory, and he set all the force of his rough nature against the conviction of his conscience.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “35”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume II, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
text: What mortal, when he saw, / Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, / Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly: / 'I have kept uninfring'd my nature's law; / The inly-written chart thou gavest me / To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end'?
ref: 1852, Matthew Arnold, “Human Life”, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, published 1909, lines 1–6:
text: Thus tempted, the lust to avenge me / Germed inly and grew.
ref: 1909, Thomas Hardy, “The Flirt's Tragedy”, in Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., published 1928:
text: A mighty forest inly smokes and smoulders before it bursts into a conflagration:
ref: 1914, Rabindranath Tagore, The King of the Dark Chamber, New York: Macmillan, page 132:
glosses: Inwardly, within; internally; secretly.
examples: text: Ne was their salue, ne was their medicine, / That mote recure their wounds: so inly they did tine.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Heartily, completely, fully, thoroughly; extremely.
dominance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒmɪnəns/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈdɑmɪnəns/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈdɒmɪnəns/
ipa: /ˈdɔmɪnəns/
ipa: /ˈdɒmənəns/
ipa: [ˈdɔ̟mənəns]
Forms: form: dominances
Etymology: From dominant + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.
ref: 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
text: Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
glosses: The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
examples: text: Shepard: Too many lives were lost at that base. I'm not sorry it's gone.
Illusive Man: The first of many lives.
Illusive Man: The technology from that base could have secured human dominance in the galaxy. Against the Reapers and beyond.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC:
glosses: Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.
Derived terms: antidominance
codominance
dominancy
equidominance
Eurodominance
hyperdominance
immunodominance
incomplete dominance
minority dominance
monodominance
nondominance
overdominance
postdominance
pseudodominance
quasidominance
semidominance
serodominance
subdominance
superdominance
transdominance
underdominance
dully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌli
Forms: form: more dully
form: most dully
Etymology: From dull + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The parson, all unaware, dully pursued his calling, perched above the exquisite derision of their glances.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 127:
glosses: In a dull manner; without liveliness; without lustre.
justle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌsəl/
rhymes: -ʌsəl
Forms: form: justles
form: justling
form: justled
form: justled
Senses: examples: text: The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nahum 2:4:
text: 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 106, 13 July, 1713, in The Guardian, edited by Alexander Chalmers, London: J. Johnson et al., 1806, Volume 2, p. 134,
[…] we justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.
text: Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, page 759:
text: When the bells justle in the tower
The hollow night amid,
Then on my tongue the taste is sour
Of all I ever did.
ref: 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, section IX:
glosses: Alternative form of jostle.
grindstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪn(d)ˌstəʊn/
ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪn(d)ˌstoʊn/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪnˌstoʊn/
rhymes: -aɪndstəʊn
Forms: form: grindstones
form: grinding stone
Etymology: From Middle English grind-ston, grindistan, (also as grindel-ston), equivalent to grind + stone. Cognate with Scots grindstane.
Senses: synonyms: millstone
glosses: An abrasive wheel for sharpening, polishing, or grinding.
glosses: Synonym of starry flounder.
synonyms: word: starry flounder
Derived terms: nose to the grindstone
Related terms: daily grind
sucroglyceride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sucroglycerides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any mixture of sucrose esters of fatty acids and glycerides.
ricinoleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ricinoleates
Etymology: From ricinoleic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid.
duende
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duendes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish duende and (especially in reference to Portuguese or Brazilian folklore) Portuguese duende. Doublet of duwende.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:duende.
glosses: A small, mischievous humanoid creature in Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese), Latin American, and Philippine folklore/mythology; an imp.
examples: text: The duende is a momentary burst of inspiration, the blush of all that is truly alive, all that the performer is creating at a certain moment.
ref: 1998, Federico García Lorca, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, In Search of Duende, New Directions, →ISBN, page VIII, →ISBN:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Heightened inspiration or passion, especially in flamenco.
glosses: Personal charm.
propylene glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propylene glycols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: α-propyleneglycol, 1,2-propanediol, CH₃CH(OH)CH₂OH, a thick oily liquid, used as an antifreeze and in many industrial applications
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: propandiol, any propane chain with two alcohol functional groups attached
Synonyms: word: E1520
word: PG
word: 1,2-propanediol / 1,2-propandiol
word: propane-1,2-diol / propan-1,2-diol
word: CH3CH(OH)CH2OH
word: propandiol
word: propanediol
word: C3H6(OH)2
Hypernyms: diol
glycol
C3H8O2
propanediol
propandiol
C3H6(OH)2
Hyponyms: alt: RS
word: -propyleneglycol
alt: R
word: -propyleneglycol
alt: S
word: -propyleneglycol
english: CH3CH2CH(OH)2
translation: CH3CH2CH(OH)2
word: propan-1,1-diol
roman: β-propyleneglycol
alt: (CH2OH
word: propan-1,3-diol2CH2)
alt: (CH3
word: propan-2,2-diol2C(OH)2)
roman: α-propyleneglycol
alt: CH3CH(OH)CH2(OH)
word: propan-1,2-diol
Coordinate terms: ethylene glycol
dipropylene glycol
Derived terms: word: PG
alt: R
word: -propyleneglycol
alt: RS
word: -propyleneglycol
alt: S
word: -propyleneglycol
english: propane-1,2-diol
translation: propane-1,2-diol
word: α-propyleneglycol
english: propane-1,3-diol
translation: propane-1,3-diol
word: β-propyleneglycol
Related terms: propyleneglycol
propylene
propyl-
-ene
glycol
nomads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomad
Jamal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic جَمَال (jamāl, “beauty”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Abdinasir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abdulnasir
form: Abdul Nasir
form: Abdelnasir
form: Abdel Nasir
form: Abdunnasir
form: Abdun Nasir
form: Abdi Nasir
Etymology: From Arabic عَبْد النَّاصِر (ʕabd an-nāṣir, “servant of the Protector”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic (Islamic).
Related terms: Abdul
propelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of propel
Derived terms: self-propelled
hissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Our solid, shiny chairs, our immense, dingy sofas, our heavy mahogany tables and our cast-iron fenders, often bearing the initials of long-dead railway companies, likewise our plaster walls of chocolate and duck-egg green and our hissing gasoliers have their roots deep in our national history.
ref: 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
glosses: present participle and gerund of hiss
hissing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: more hissing
form: most hissing
Senses: glosses: that produces or is accompanied with a hiss
hissing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: hissings
Senses: examples: text: The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common.
ref: 1875, John Lothrop Motley, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland:
glosses: The sound of a hiss.
Derived terms: hissing adder
hissing hot
thiohemiacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiohemiacetals
Etymology: From thio- + hemiacetal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound, of general formula R₂C(SR')OH, R₂C(OR')SH or R₂C(SR')SH, derived from a hemiacetal by replacing oxygen with sulfur
Derived terms: dithiohemiacetal
monothiohemiacetal
dithiohemiacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithiohemiacetals
Etymology: From di- + thio- + hemiacetal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound, of general formula R₂C(SR')SH, derived from a hemiacetal by replacing both oxygens with sulfur
Related terms: thiohemiacetal
monothiohemiacetal
monothiohemiacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monothiohemiacetals
Etymology: From mono- + thio- + hemiacetal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound, of general formula R₂C(SR')OH or R₂C(OR')SH derived from a hemiacetal by replacing one oxygen with sulfur
Related terms: dithiohemiacetal
thiohemiacetal
thionylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thionylamines
Etymology: From thionyl + amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfinylamine
scrape the bottom of the barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrapes the bottom of the barrel
form: scraping the bottom of the barrel
form: scraped the bottom of the barrel
form: scraped the bottom of the barrel
Etymology: Derived from the historical practice in the early European history of storing food in barrels; when food supplies ran low, only what was on the very bottom of the barrel remained, and had to be removed by scraping. Oil in a barrel has different fractions with a different weight. The heavier fractions like asphaltum sink to the bottom of the barrel and can be difficult to scrape from the bottom.
Senses: examples: text: They must really have been scraping the bottom of the barrel if they couldn't find a better design than that.
text: The bottom of the barrel was scraped on August 22 when Shrewsbury had to produce Taunton
2-6-0 No. 6312 to work the 8.10 p.m. from Paddington between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury; the stranger was in trouble in the early hours of the next morning at Hollinswood, but managed to reach Shrewsbury.
ref: 1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 635:
text: We have so few ships that are mission—ready, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. We are to the point where three damaged ships are being stripped to make one flyable ship.
ref: 2004, Ronald Carey, The War Above the Trees, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 259:
synonyms: scrape the barrel
glosses: To settle for a poor option due to a lack or unavailability of anything more favorable.
wikipedia: Maritime Museum (Stockholm)
govs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gov
vulgo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vulgo.
Senses: examples: text: PERICLYMENUM; […] Trumpet Honeyſuckle; vulgô.
ref: 1733, Philip Miller, “PERICLYMENUM”, in The Gardeners Dictionary: […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: [Pope's Hole] derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, vulgo "popes".
ref: 1822, George Woodley, A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands, 264-265:
text: A cow desiring the bull [vulgò a tufty cow]
ref: 1828, John Walters, An English and Welsh Dictionary, page 304:
glosses: In the vernacular; commonly known as.
vulgo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vulgo.
Senses: glosses: The masses.
Synonyms: great unwashed
hoi polloi
laburnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈbɝnəm/
ipa: /ləˈbɜːnəm/
Forms: form: laburnums
Etymology: From Latin laburnum.
Senses: examples: text: […] Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 1:
text: The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:
synonyms: golden chain
golden rain
glosses: Any tree of the genus Laburnum.
Derived terms: laburnine
lacunae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈkuˌni/
ipa: /ləˈkuˌnaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of lacuna
legionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlidʒəˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈliːdʒənəɹi/
ipa: /ˈliːdʒənɹi/
Forms: form: legionaries
Etymology: From legion + -ary. From Latin legiōnārius. Doublet of legionnaire.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly, [...] he saw all this as romantic — the last legionary, his aloneness, the lost cause really lost — and instinctively he pulled in his paunch, stroked down his hair to cover the naked part of the scalp, and wiped the sweat off his cheeks.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 425:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier belonging to a legion; a professional soldier of the ancient Roman army.
glosses: A person who is neither a citizen nor colonial/imperial subject of the state whose military they join.
glosses: A member of a legion, such as the American Legion, or of any organization containing the term legion in its title (e.g. the French Foreign Legion).
Synonyms: sense: member of a Legion organisation
word: legionnaire
Coordinate terms: sense: soldier of the Ancient Roman legion
word: centurion
Derived terms: legionary ant
legionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlidʒəˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈliːdʒənəɹi/
ipa: /ˈliːdʒənɹi/
Etymology: From legion + -ary. From Latin legiōnārius. Doublet of legionnaire.
Senses: examples: a legionary force
glosses: Relating to, or consisting of, a legion or legions.
examples: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (aka, Vulgar Errours), Google Books
Unto whom (what is deplorable in men and Christians) too many applying themselves, betwixt jest and earnest, betray the cause of truth, and insensibly make up the legionary body of error.
glosses: Containing a great number.
avisodomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From avi- + sodomy.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: The act of a human being having sex with a bird.
Derived terms: avisodomist
asar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of osar.
leghorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡhɔːn/
ipa: /lɛˈɡɔːn/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡhɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: leghorns
form: Leghorn
Etymology: Mid 18th century: from Leghorn (“Livorno”), the place the straw and fowls were imported from.
Senses: glosses: A type of dried plaited wheat straw fabric.
examples: text: When straw-hats had become unfashionable, Mrs. Nollekens hinted to old White, the hatter […], that possibly he could accommodate her with a Leghorn hat at a moderate rate.
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 65:
text: The difference between the two classifications has always been intended to cover unblocked and untrimmed hat bodies, such as panamas, bangkoks, and leghorns, and other hats which are woven by the natives in South American and oriental countries where they are produced.
ref: 1918, Schedules M and N, free list, customs administration and income tax; subject index, page 1515:
glosses: A type of hat made from Leghorn straw.
glosses: A small white chicken of a hardy breed.
Debadutta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit [Term?]. The name means "given by God".
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, of Indian usage.
Lukas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uːkəs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Lucas (“a man from Lucania”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Lucas.
glosses: A rare surname, also spelled Lucas.
could care less
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəd kɛə ˈlɛs/
ipa: /kəd kɛ(ə)ɹ ˈlɛs/
ipa: /-ke(ə)ɹ-/
Forms: form: could have cared less
Etymology: An alteration of couldn’t care less (which is first attested slightly earlier), either:
* by deliberate irony, or
* by hyponegation, perhaps influenced by forms such as “as if I could care less”, “no one could care less”, and “to know little (or nothing) and care less”.
Senses: examples: text: Farmers knew that dead fish made plants go better. They could care less about why that happened. Scientists could not sleep until they found out why.
ref: 1967, American Cooperation, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Cooperation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 235:
text: We do work [...] to develop some strength and testing standards so that the industry can be assured that safe products are being produced. The person who is doing a knockoff could care less about that, and so they will just produce the product with virtually no field or laboratory testing and ship it out.
ref: 1995 October 10, Thomas McGann (witness), Trademark Counterfeiting: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session on S. 1136: A Bill to Control and Prevent Commercial Counterfeiting, and for Other Purposes […] (Serial No. J-104-49), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1997, →OCLC, page 33:
text: As someone who lives 30 miles away as the crow flies [...] from New York City, I could care less that New York City or New York State has a sense of jurisdiction. I would want to know whoever is most capable would be able to step in without any jurisdictional battle.
ref: 1999 June 23, Christopher Shays, Subcommittee Chairman, Combating Terrorism: Role of the National Guard Response Teams: Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session […] (Serial No. 106-32), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 64:
text: Maybe it wasn't only time to move away from a job that was killing her spirit, but from people who could care less about her as a person, who saw her only as the good girl from next door, the one who would never do anything to upset anyone, who totally underestimated her.
ref: 2003, Donna Hill, If I Could (Dafina Books), New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing, →ISBN, page 58:
synonyms: couldn't care less
not give a tinker's cuss
not give a tinker's damn
glosses: To not care at all; to have no concern or interest; to be apathetic.
down to a fine art
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: down cold
down pat
down to a science
down to a T
glosses: To a point of exceptional proficiency.
like hot cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: These new toys should sell like hot cakes.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Quickly, especially by purchase or consumption.
Related terms: sell like hot cakes
aloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.loʊz/
ipa: /ˈæ.ləʊz/
rhymes: (UK) -æləʊz
rhymes: (US) -æloʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of aloe
aloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.loʊz/
ipa: /ˈæ.ləʊz/
rhymes: (UK) -æləʊz
rhymes: (US) -æloʊz
Senses: glosses: The resin of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for its fragrant odour.
examples: text: A closid gardin, my sister spouse ; a closid gardyn, a welle selid. Thin outsendingus paradis of poungarnetes, with the frutis of appilis, of cipre tre, with narde ; and narde, and safrun, fistula, and canel, with alle the trees of Liban, myrre, and aloes, with alle the firste oynemens.
ref: c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Song of Solomon IV:12-14, page 78, column 1:
english: My sister spousess, a garden closed (al)together; a garden closed (al)together, a well asealed. Thy sendings-out be (a) paradise of (the) apples of Punic, with the fruits of apples, cypress trees, with nard; nard and saffron, an herb called fistula, and canel, with all [the] trees of the Lebanon, myrrh, and aloes, with all the best, either (the) first, ointments.
translation: My sister spousess, a garden closed (al)together; a garden closed (al)together, a well asealed. Thy sendings-out be (a) paradise of (the) apples of Punic, with the fruits of apples, cypress trees, with nard; nard and saffron, an herb called fistula, and canel, with all [the] trees of the Lebanon, myrrh, and aloes, with all the best, either (the) first, ointments.
bold_translation_offsets: 309
314
glosses: The wood of the agalloch.
Derived terms: aloesin
aloeswood
caballine aloes
lign-aloes
hemostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemostats
form: haemostat
Etymology: From hemo- + -stat.
Senses: examples: text: “We gave them fake arms and taught them to hold a scalpel, how to tie sutures, how to hold multiple instruments,” Dr. Burns, the show’s medical adviser, said in a recent interview in his cluttered study, demonstrating the gunslinger reflexes needed to flip a waiting hemostat, a scissor-like tool, off the wrist and seal a broken blood vessel.
ref: 2014 January 8, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Cocaine, the Blood, the Body Count”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: clamp#Noun
coordinate_terms: hemoclip
glosses: An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.
Derived terms: microhemostat
Related terms: hemostasis
hemostatic
live large
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives large
form: living large
form: lived large
form: lived large
Senses: examples: text: He lived large, in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria. Expensive and elegant suits, silk shirts, handmade shoes, cashmere topcoats and fedoras enhanced his executive image.
ref: 1984 October 15, “The Time 100: Builders & Titans”, in Time:
coordinate_terms: have it large
glosses: To have a lavish or overly extravagant lifestyle.
Related terms: baller
fun house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fun houses
Senses: glosses: A brothel.
examples: text: Carnival! The day was young, but already the streets were thick with revelers, with dancers, with drunks. A score of bands played, youngsters in particular ran about attired in costume, there were barbeques and flowing beer kegs. On the outskirts of town were roller coasters and ferris wheels, fun houses and drive-it-yourself miniature cars. Carnival!
ref: 1962, Mack Reynolds, Mercenary:
glosses: Alternative spelling of funhouse.
examples: text: The result is an eclectic home with a flair for the unusual and not a few touches of humor. It is a fun house, a relaxed house. From the minute you walk into the Cochrane home, "unique" jumps to mind.
ref: 1988, Lorrie Baird, “Governor's Island Living”, in New Hampshire Profiles, volume 37, part 1, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: “The colors add a lot of warmth and the finishes turned out really well,” Matt says. “It's a fun house.”
ref: 2004 April, Jay Uhlenbrauck, “Repeat [Repeat] Performance”, in Log Home Design, Active Interest Media, →ISSN, page 96:
text: Barbara's sixteen-year-old son lashed out when she said he couldn't have friends over while she and her husband were gone, a rule she considered very much a safety issue. “This is not a fun house. No one wants to come here because this is not a fun house,” he protested before storming off.
ref: 2011, Kenneth Ginsburg M.D., Susan FitzGerald, Letting Go with Love and Confidence: Raising Responsible, Resilient, Self-Sufficient Teens in the 21st Century, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: We wanted to go to the fun houses, the ones where they would feed us and let us be a little rambunctious, the ones that had the least amount of rules and where the parents were cool.
ref: 2019, Terry Darnell, Packing for Life: A Parent's Guide to Success, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fun, house.
comforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfort
comforts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comfort
Derived terms: creature comforts
attentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: paid him attentions
ref: 1819, John William Polidori, The Vampyre:
glosses: plural of attention
feudatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞oʹdətərĭ
ipa: /ˈfjuːdətəɹɪ/
Forms: form: feodatory
Etymology: From the Latin feudātōrius, from the Mediaeval Latin feudāre (“to enfeoff”), from feudum, feodum.
Senses: glosses: Relating to feudalism, feudal.
Related terms: feudatory state
feudatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞oʹdətərĭ
ipa: /ˈfjuːdətəɹɪ/
Forms: form: feudatories
form: feodatory
Etymology: From the Latin feudātōrius, from the Mediaeval Latin feudāre (“to enfeoff”), from feudum, feodum.
Senses: glosses: A feudal vassal.
examples: text: Henry VII granted a privilege in 1309 endorsing the three valleys as self-governing rural feudatories forming their own imperial bailiwick directly under him.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 587:
glosses: A feudal territory, a fief.
glosses: A fee paid by such a vassal to hold land.
convention state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convention states
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Any of the Indian feudal states which, during the time of the British Empire, used overprinted Indian stamps valid for postage outside the state.
Related terms: feudatory state
feudatory state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feudatory states
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: any of the Indian feudal states which operated their own internal postal services during the time of the British Empire, issuing stamps that were only valid within the state.
Related terms: convention state
ipsissima verba
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin ipsissima verba (“the very words”).
Senses: examples: text: "The record in the magistrate's court does not purport to reproduce the ipsissima verba of the witness; it does not give questions and answers in the exact words in which the question was put and the answer made; it, at best, gives no more than a summary...."
ref: 1941, Engelbrecht v Nieuwoudt | CPD 54 at 55:
glosses: The actual words (spoken or transcribed).
crock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɒk/
ipa: /kɹɑk/
ipa: /kɹɔk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: croc
Forms: form: crocks
form: crocking
form: crocked
form: crocked
Etymology: From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”).
The English word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik (“jar, jug”), regional German Kruke (“crock”), Icelandic krukka (“pot, jar”), Old English crōg, crōh (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). See also cruse.
Senses: examples: text: "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."
ref: 1904, P.G. Wodehouse, The Gold Bat:
text: Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel
ref: 2007 January 3, Daily Mirror:
text: Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.
ref: 2006 April 30, The Sunday Times:
glosses: To break something or injure someone.
examples: text: thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.
ref: 1917, John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same" http://www.google.com/patents?id=G3xVAAAAEBAJ, US Patent 1371572, page 1
text: Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).
ref: 1964, Isabel Barnum Wingate, Know Your Merchandise, page 109:
text: In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.
ref: 2002, Sandy Scrivano, Sewing With Leather & Suede, →ISBN, page 95:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
examples: text: The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...
ref: 1900, H.A. Burberry, The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book, page 21:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
examples: text: She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
glosses: To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
Derived terms: crocker
crockery
crock haircut
crock off
crock of gold
crock of shit
crock pot
crockpot
crock up
crock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɒk/
ipa: /kɹɑk/
ipa: /kɹɔk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: croc
Etymology: Compare Welsh croeg (“cover”), Scots crochit (“covered”).
Senses: examples: text: […] “here I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from the hair of his head to the sole of his foot!”
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
glosses: Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
crock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɒk/
ipa: /kɹɑk/
ipa: /kɹɔk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: croc
Forms: form: crocks
form: crocking
form: crocked
form: crocked
Etymology: Compare Welsh croeg (“cover”), Scots crochit (“covered”).
Senses: glosses: To give off crock or smut.
amici curiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amicus curiae
krumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: especially Los Angeles
glosses: A free, expressive and energetic style of hip-hop dancing.
MSFT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Amazon will ask a federal court to temporarily block Microsoft (MSFT) from working on a $10 billion cloud computing contract for the military, according to a court filing Monday.
ref: 2020 January 13, Brian Fung, “Amazon will ask a court to block Microsoft from working on a $10 billion cloud computing contract”, in CNN Business:
qualifier: Nasdaq symbol
glosses: Abbreviation of Microsoft.
Derived terms: M$FT
reverent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛv.ə.ɹənt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛv.ɹənt/
ipa: /ˈɹev.ə.ɹənt/
ipa: /ˈɹev.ɹənt/
Forms: form: more reverent
form: most reverent
Etymology: From Middle English reverent, from Middle French reverent (from Old French reverent) and its etymon Latin reverēns. By surface analysis, revere + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: Hackett was a vain, wealthy, violent gentleman, who held his blood and family in high esteem, and believed that a reverent respect was due to his great riches.
ref: 1903, Mark Twain, A New Crime, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
synonyms: reverential
antonyms: irreverent
unreverent
glosses: Showing or characterized by great respect or reverence; respectful.
Derived terms: reverently
reverentness
unreverent
Related terms: irreverent
revere
reverence
reverential
real-world
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The moon rocket was a real-world application of astrophysics.
text: In fact, because the Internet is accessible from almost everywhere in the world, transactions whose real-world analogues would have been restricted to only one or two jurisdictions may potentially be subject to every jurisdiction—this is particularly clear in the case of advertising via a Web site.
ref: 2004, Chris Reed, Internet Law, →ISBN, page 2:
text: But these digital currencies, called “stable” because they are backed by real-world assets such as the dollar, have now become a pet project of the US administration and a hot topic in corporate boardrooms.
ref: 2025 July 5, Philip Stafford, Akila Quinio, “Stablecoins begin to enter the mainstream with backing from Trump administration”, in FT Weekend, page 11:
antonyms: theoretical
imaginary
blue-skies
virtual
glosses: Having a practicable, verifiable quality; not imaginary, theoretical or based in a non-physical realm, such as heaven or cyberspace.
Related terms: in-game
IRL
real world
kindergartener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kindergarteners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kindergartner.
heptad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛptæd/
Forms: form: heptads
Etymology: From hepta- + -ad.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of septet: a group of seven things.
synonyms: word: septet
extra: a group of seven things
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of seven bases.
Derived terms: diheptad
heptadic