cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
how do you do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: how do you dos
form: how-do-you-do
form: how-d'ye-do
form: how-de-do
Senses: examples: text: Well, this is a fine how do you do isn't it, Gromit?
ref: 1993, Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers:
text: On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos.
ref: 2010, Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You: A Novel, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 78:
text: "Vienna!" Mr. B. went on. "This is a bit of a how-do-you-do, is it not?"
ref: 2013, Chris Raschka, Seriously, Norman!, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: A difficult situation
Thal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality in St. Gallen canton, Switzerland.
I'll be a monkey's uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪl biː ə ˈmʌŋkiz ˌʌŋkəl/
ipa: /ɑːl-/
ipa: /ˈɑːl bi ə ˈmʌŋkiz ˌʌŋkəl/
Etymology: Uncertain; the term monkey’s uncle appears in 19th-century works and may allude to early ideas about what is now called the theory of evolution. The term may then have gained more currency after the widely publicized 1925 Scopes Trial in Tennessee, United States, in which a high-school teacher was found guilty of having violated a law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in a state-funded school.
Senses: examples: text: Well I’ll be a monkey's uncle! I would never have thought that tourists would go into space!
text: "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" Lem said. "I've heerd of rifles with transits on 'em, but I ain't ever seen one. Mind if I look at her?"
ref: 1943, Field and Stream, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:
text: Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle, I actually solved that one.
ref: 1970 February, Tech Engineering News, Cambridge, Mass.: Board of Directors of Tech Engineering News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35, column 3:
text: [...] I made as if to step inside—wham, bang, I'll be a monkey's uncle if he didn't slam the door in my face! What was I supposed to do now? It wasn't exactly a cheerful situation.
ref: 1987, Sholem Aleichem [pseudonym; Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich], “[The Railway Stories] The Happiest Man in All Kodny”, in Hillel Halkin, transl., Tevye the Dairyman and The Railway Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics), New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, [2008?], →ISBN, page 149:
text: But I know I am better than that. I completed two and a half years at the M.J.C., and I'll be a monkey's uncle if I did it all just to be neglected in some backwoods, drafty, lo-tech, no-glory, never-been-remembered-for-all-the-great-things-I-do, dead end court wizard position.
ref: 2002, Steve Morrill, Michael Saldivar, Dan LaReaux, Michael LaReaux, “The Three Authors’ Tale II”, in The Three Authors’ Tales, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle if it isn't my old pal, Captain Pete. I haven't seen you in years. Good to see you!
ref: 2008, Carla Hester, chapter 7, in The Adventures of Penelope Plum (Penelope Plum Mysteries), [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 46:
text: "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. That's incredible and …" he was silent working it out, "and that means that I am actually the last of the McNaughtens and now live here in Weatherwood.["]
ref: 2014 October 20, Rosamond Carter, Weatherwood, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 252:
glosses: Often preceded by well: expressing complete surprise or disbelief.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
Scopes Trial
The Observer
just about
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: ‘Have you already reached your sales target?’ ‘Just about.’
text: I’m (just) about ready.
text: Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: -ish
word: about
word: all but
word: almost
word: approaching
word: around
word: by and large
word: circa
word: close
word: close to
word: essentially
word: for all practical purposes
word: fornigh
word: give or take
word: imprecisely
word: just about
word: kind of
word: loosely
word: more or less
word: nearly
word: near
word: nearabout
word: nigh on
word: odd
word: or so
word: plus or minus
word: roundly
word: roughly
word: say
word: some
word: -some
word: sort of
word: thereabout
word: virtually
word: well-nigh
word: ±
glosses: Approximately, very nearly.
dues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /djuːz/
ipa: /duz/
homophone: dews
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: plural of due
dues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /djuːz/
ipa: /duz/
homophone: dews
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: Membership fees.
Related terms: pay one's dues
flump
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: flumpf
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Senses: examples: text: "Now again." The boy readies himself. The other children stand and stare. Parents look on expectantly. Flump . . . he lands on his back.
ref: 1986 August 25, “Children: Mat Mania: Falling for the Martial Arts”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
text: The bird going "flump!" at the end of Barton Fink.
ref: 1999 December 21, Jonathan Romney, “The 90s on film: From antique blood to flying cows”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 May 2014:
text: ben: Just lift the hammer. Good. Now when you bring it down, put your whole strength into it. Really kill him. Ready? Now, GO! / jay: HHHHHHHRRRRRRAAAAAAAGH! [Flump!] / ben: And again? jay: DAMMIT! [Flump!] BASTARD! [Flump!] RRRRRRRRAAAAGH! [Flump!] / ben: Okay, okay. Wow. So how do you feel now? Any better?
ref: 2004 August 1, Nicholson Baker, Checkpoint, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: A sound of something moving or falling heavily, or with a dull sound.
flump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: flumps
form: flumpf
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Senses: synonyms: plunk
thud
glosses: An instance of the dull sound so produced.
examples: text: As the lead cast get ready for an on-screen pint, or a packet of flumps in the case of Thomas, the fun and warmth on set is there for all to see and Riley is busy flitting between her on and off camera jobs.
ref: 2014 November 12, Brian McIver, “Meet the stellar cast and crew behind new romantic comedy Scottish Mussel”, in Scottish Daily Record:
text: So it means you'll always have room for ice cream, flumps, strawberry sauce and a chocolate flake.
ref: 2016, Kes Gray, A Summer Double Daisy, →ISBN:
text: The luxury marshmallows were not your average flump, they had a chewy and sumptous texture that really gave you something to bite in to, covered in rich milk chocolate and sprinkles for that added sweet flavour.
ref: 2017 April 3, “Easter 2017: Top unique and alternative Easter gifts”, in Express and Star:
glosses: A type of large marshmallow.
examples: text: Ruth said: 'I recently treated myself to a fitted, hot pink dress for a night out and banished that image of being a fat, pink flump for good.'
ref: 2015 June 9, Martha Cliff, “'I looked like a blobby blancmange': Obese mother-of-five beat her sugar cravings to lose SIX STONE... after hating how she looked in pink dress at a friend's wedding”, in Daily Mail:
text: In reality I felt like a fat flump, my belly still bulging like a saggy balloon.
ref: 2017, Susi Osborne, Angelica Stone, →ISBN:
text: Peggy: Who you calling a flump?!
ref: 2018 March 8, Jennifer Russell, “All the best one liners from tonight's new episode of Still Game”, in Glasgow Live:
glosses: A fat out-of-shape person.
flump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: flumps
form: flumping
form: flumped
form: flumped
form: flumpf
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Senses: synonyms: plunk
thud
glosses: To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
glosses: To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.
Derived terms: flump down
kisel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːsəl/
enpr: kēʹsəl
rhymes: -iːsəl
Forms: form: kisels
form: kissel
Etymology: From Russian кисе́ль (kisélʹ), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kyselь.
Senses: glosses: A dessert (sometimes consumed as a drink) made from fruit or berry juice and thickened with starch, common in Slavic and Baltic countries as well as Finland and Sweden.
wikipedia: Benjamin Eli Smith
The Century Dictionary
William Dwight Whitney
Derived terms: english: translation hub
translation: translation hub
word: the seventh water after kissel
Related terms: rote Grütze
rødgrød
bipolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipolymers
Etymology: From bi- + polymer.
Senses: glosses: A copolymer derived from two species of monomer.
copolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copolymers
Etymology: From co- + polymer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: heteropolymer
antonyms: homopolymer
coordinate_terms: pseudocopolymer
glosses: A polymer derived from more than one species of monomer.
Derived terms: block copolymer
copolymerization
pseudocopolymer
terpolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terpolymers
Etymology: From ter- + polymer.
Senses: glosses: A copolymer derived from three species of monomer.
quaterpolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaterpolymers
Etymology: From Latin quater + polymer.
Senses: glosses: A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
biradical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biradicals
Etymology: From bi- + radical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any molecule having two independent radical centres
glosses: A word or root in a Semitic language which consists of two consonants in its root formula.
biradical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + radical.
Senses: glosses: which consists of two consonants in its root formula.
raw_tags: said of words in Semitic languages
Derived terms: biradicaloid
bismuthine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bismuthines
Etymology: From bismuth + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any hydrocarbyl derivative of bismuthane
Derived terms: trimethylbismuthine
zel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zill.
bisphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɪsˈfiːnɒl/
Forms: form: bisphenols
Etymology: From bis- + phenol.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers analysed samples of nurdles and burnt lumps of plastic from four Sri Lankan beaches for heavy metals and various chemicals, including benzotriazole UV-stabilisers, which are used to prevent discoloration in plastics, bisphenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
ref: 2022 February 9, Karen McVeigh, “‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters ”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 11 Feb 2022, Seascape: the state of our oceans:
text: “Don’t touch this,” she says, explaining that most paper receipts contain a “toxic” chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA, which is easily absorbed through the skin and linked to health issues like infertility, hormone imbalances and certain cancers.
ref: 2025 June 24, Isobel Whitcomb, “I’ve Heard Receipts Are Toxic. Is It Safe to Touch Them?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds, derived from methylenediphenol, CH₂(C₆H₄OH)₂, formed by the condensation of a phenol with an aldehyde or ketone.
Derived terms: bisphenol A
bisphenol S
bisphenolic
tetrabromobisphenol
pluh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to cut off a conversation.
stog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: stogs
form: stogging
form: stogged
form: stogged
Etymology: Early 19th century, perhaps of expressive origin and influenced by stick and bog. Compare stodge.
Senses: examples: text: If any of his party are mad, they'll try it, and be stogged till the day of judgment. There are bogs..twenty feet deep.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, chapter 5, in Westward Ho!:
glosses: To bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.
raw_tags: used in passive
glosses: To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
examples: text: He studied the cold gray rips in the current and dismounted and loosed the girthstraps and undressed and stogged his boots in the legs of his trousers as he'd done before in that long ago […]
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 293:
synonyms: word: prod
word: pierce
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To stab; to probe; to thrust
glosses: To probe a pool with a pole.
Derived terms: stodgy
Related terms: stock
stog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: stogs
form: stogging
form: stogged
form: stogged
Senses: glosses: To smoke a cigarette.
block macromolecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block macromolecules
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any macromolecule composed of a linear sequence of blocks
Related terms: block polymer
block polymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block polymers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer which is a block macromolecule.
Related terms: block copolymer
block copolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block copolymers
Senses: glosses: A copolymer that is a block polymer - adjacent blocks being multiples of different monomers
boranylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boranylidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any molecular species of general formula RB:; the boron analogue of carbenes.
borene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a boranylidene
borinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borinic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of general formula R₂BOH.
Related terms: borinate
boronic acid
boronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boronic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of general formula RB(OH)₂.
Derived terms: haloboronic acid
organoboronic acid
phenylboronic acid
Related terms: borinic acid
borylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A boranylidene
bridgehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒhɛd/
Forms: form: bridgeheads
Etymology: Calque of French tête de pont, equivalent to bridge + head.
Senses: glosses: An area around the end of a bridge.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fortification around the end of a bridge.
examples: text: He believed the invasion would happen elsewhere and it wasn't until late in the afternoon and long after the Allied forces had established a bridgehead that Hitler was convinced of the need to do something.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 243:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: beachhead
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: dibridgehead
word: airhead
word: beachhead
word: railhead
bromohydrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromohydrins
Etymology: From bromo- + hydrin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halohydrin in which the halogen is bromine.
chlorohydrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorohydrins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halohydrin in which the halogen is chlorine.
fluorohydrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorohydrins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halohydrin in which the halogen is fluorine.
iodohydrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodohydrins
Etymology: From iodo- + hydro- + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halohydrin in which the halogen is iodine.
halonium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halonium ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation of the general formula R₂X⁺, where X is any halogen.
Related terms: bromonium ion
chloronium ion
fluoronium ion
iodonium ion
bromonium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromonium ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halonium ion in which the halogen is bromine.
chloronium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloronium ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any halonium ion in which the halogen is chlorine
fluoronium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoronium ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any halonium ion in which the halogen is fluorine
iodonium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodonium ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halonium ion in which the halogen is iodine
helicene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helicenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polycyclic aromatic or heteroaromatic compound, consisting of at least five ortho-fused rings arranged to give a helically-shaped chiral molecule.
Derived terms: azahelicene
carbohelicene
heterohelicene
polyhelicene
Related terms: pentahelicene
hexahelicene
heptahelicene
heteroaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + aromatic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: having the characteristics of an aromatic compound whilst having at least one non-carbon atom in the ring
Derived terms: perchloroheteroaromatic
perfluoroheteroaromatic
heteroaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroaromatics
Etymology: From hetero- + aromatic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aromatic heterocycle
gobbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbɪt/
rhymes: -ɒbɪt
Forms: form: gobbets
Etymology: From Middle English gobet, from Middle French gobet (“mouthful, piece”), diminutive of gobe. See gober.
Senses: examples: text: BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets.
ref: 1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], →OCLC, book VI, page 288:
text: He balked only when the priest scooped from the pot some of the medicine the woman had prepared and presented it for him to eat. The man shouted and Justin obediently opened his mouth to receive the sticky gobbet of paste.
ref: 1962, Ian Brook, The Black List, page 48:
glosses: A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.
examples: text: The gobbet – the largest piece of meat served in hash or soup – was about the size of a man's thumb.
ref: 1875, John Cordy Jeaffreson, A Book about the Table, volume I, page 77:
text: This bottom was littered with great gobbets of flesh, most of which was in the last state of putridity.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat.
examples: text: This new status for primary source material in schools was not a permeation down of the gobbet tradition from undergraduate courses. The gobbet functioned as a prompt to an exposition on the context of the extract — the period, the events, the people and ideas referred to in the gobbet.
ref: 1990, Frances Blow, “Seeking patterns, making meanings: Using computerised sources in teaching history in secondary schools”, in Evan Mawdsley, editor, History and Computing, volume III:
text: Gobbets are designed to assess your ability to comment critically upon source material, whether a text or an object. Each gobbet will have at least one specific point that should be addressed/analysed, so always consider why a particular passage/image has been chosen.
ref: 2002 July 16, “Analysing Primary Sources”, in Cardiff University School of History and Archaeology, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2006:
glosses: An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination.
Derived terms: gobbety
gobbet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbɪt/
rhymes: -ɒbɪt
Forms: form: gobbets
form: gobbeting
form: gobbeted
form: gobbeted
Etymology: From Middle English gobet, from Middle French gobet (“mouthful, piece”), diminutive of gobe. See gober.
Senses: examples: text: The bullets that hit him […] burst the bared head into splinters. Scalp, bones and brain gobbeted the jeep as the dead boy screwed and fell sideways.
ref: 1972, Hugh Atkinson, The Most Savage Animal, page 242:
glosses: To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.
examples: text: Or, did you ever see a dog with a marrowbone in his mouth[…] how prudently he gobbets it: with what affection he breaks it: and with what diligence he sucks it.
ref: 1653, Thomas Urquhart, Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of original by François Rabelais:
glosses: To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
assister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assisters
Etymology: From assist + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who assists; an assistant or helper.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who provides an assist to a goal
aiguille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɡwiːl/
other: /eɪˈɡwiːl/
other: /ˈeɪ.ɡwiː/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɡwil/
other: /eɪˈɡwil/
other: /eɪˈɡwi/
Forms: form: aiguilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French aiguille (“needle”).
Senses: examples: text: Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dome overlooked the valley.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
glosses: A needle-shaped peak.
glosses: An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.
Related terms: aglet
disobedient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.əˈbiː.dɪənt/
Forms: form: more disobedient
form: most disobedient
Etymology: From Middle English disobedient, dysobedyent, from Old French desobedient; morphologically, from dis- + obedient.
Senses: glosses: Not obedient.
Synonyms: defiant
Derived terms: civilly disobedient
disobediently
Related terms: disobedience
disobedient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.əˈbiː.dɪənt/
Forms: form: disobedients
Etymology: From Middle English disobedient, dysobedyent, from Old French desobedient; morphologically, from dis- + obedient.
Senses: examples: text: Since civil disobedients act conscientiously, Cohen believes that “extra-long prison terms will not make better men of these disobedients, nor much deter others of similar conviction.”
ref: 1972, Social Theory and Practice, volume 2, page 493:
glosses: One who disobeys.
troponym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troponyms
Etymology: From tropo- + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Stroll’ is a troponym of ‘walk’, since it involves a slow and relaxed sort of walking.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: hyponym
glosses: A verb that indicates more precisely the manner of doing something by replacing a verb of a more generalized meaning.
Derived terms: troponymy
Related terms: -onym
toponym
Arabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ârʹəbz
enpr: āʹrăbz
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.əbz/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɹæbz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Arab
sauf
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of save.
oopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oopas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OOPA.
cinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪn.ə.məˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fiː/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: cinematographies
Etymology: From cinematograph + -y. Compare French cinématographie. Possibly analysable as cinemato- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art, process, or job of filming movies.
glosses: Motion picture photography.
Synonyms: filmmaking § Synonyms
Derived terms: chronocinematography
cinematographer
microcinematography
Related terms: word: cinema
word: cinematic
word: cinematology
english: director of photography
translation: director of photography
word: DP
word: photography
word: videography
Ceylon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɒn/
ipa: /seɪˈlɑn/
ipa: /siˈlɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
Forms: form: Ceylone
form: Zeyloon
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.
Senses: examples: text: Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.
ref: 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
glosses: Former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia .
glosses: A male given name transferred from the place name.
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.
Derived terms: Ceylonese
Ceylon gooseberry
Ceylon ironwood
Ceylon moss
Ceylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɒn/
ipa: /seɪˈlɑn/
ipa: /siˈlɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
Forms: form: Ceylons
form: Ceylone
form: Zeyloon
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.
Senses: glosses: Tea produced in Sri Lanka.
Related terms: Names of Sri Lanka
diesel laundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of removing the dyes added to untaxed diesel fuel, to enable it to be sold illegally as regular fuel at a substantial markup.
Related terms: red diesel
green diesel
DACL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DACLs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of discretionary access control list.
danken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dankens
form: dankening
form: dankened
form: dankened
Etymology: From dank + -en.
Senses: examples: text: They set out southward, skirting around the bison, tawny scouts wandering and studying the creatures, how they moved across the land. The rich manure of the herd dankened the wind.
ref: 2011, James Howerton, The Cold Days, page 196:
glosses: To make dank (all senses)
Ding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 定州 (Dìngzhōu, “Orderly Prefecture”).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of imperial China within present-day Hebei under the Northern Wei, Sui, and Tang dynasties, with its seat at Dingzhou.
glosses: A county of Republican China in Hebei Province.
Synonyms: topics: prefecture
region
location
word: Dingzhou
sense: county
word: Dingxian
Ding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ting
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 丁 (Dīng) or Eastern Min 陳 /陈 (Dĭng).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Mandarin or Eastern Min.
Leeds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Etymology: * The large city in West Yorkshire is from Old English Loidis, from Latin *Lādenses, most likely based on an early river-name derived from Proto-Celtic *lāto (“rut, heat”) (cf. Welsh llawd (“heat, ardour”)).
* The village in Kent is from Middle English Hledes, probably from a stream-name.
Senses: glosses: A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.
glosses: A village and civil parish of Maidstone borough, Kent, England, the site of Leeds Castle.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Jefferson County, St. Clair County and Shelby County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in the city of Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Murray County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet and census-designated place in Greene County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and township in Benson County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Washington County, Utah.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town and unincorporated community therein, in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: New Leeds
United Counties of Leeds and Grenville
Related terms: Leodensian
Loiner
Durst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜː(ɹ)st/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: Dursts
Etymology: From the German surname, from Durst (“dryness, thirst”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dorns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pompey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒm.pi/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒmpi
Etymology: From Middle English Pompey, anglicization of Latin Pompeius.
Senses: glosses: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.
Related terms: Pompeian
Pompey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒm.pi/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒmpi
Senses: examples: text: I think it is a libel, for I have yet to learn that West Country sailor-men are fonder of their victuals than those from 'Pompey' (Portsmouth), or 'Chats' (Chatham), or than Scotsmen, Irishmen, or Welshmen.
ref: 1918, Chambers's Journal, volume 95, page 393:
glosses: The city of Portsmouth, England.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Portsmouth Football Club.
Derived terms: COYP
Pompey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒm.pi/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒmpi
Etymology: From French Pompey; earliest attested name: Pompangio (896).
Senses: glosses: A city in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France.
sanglier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sangliers
Etymology: Borrowed from French sanglier.
Senses: glosses: A full-grown wild boar.
indefensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indefensible
form: most indefensible
Etymology: From in- + defensible.
Senses: synonyms: vulnerable
glosses: Not defensible; not capable of being defended.
examples: text: Mr. Elliot's frank statement that "sloth and untidiness are indefensible" is a sign that the task will be tackled with vigour.
ref: 1953 April, “Arrears of Station Maintenance”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
text: The president evidently intends to follow his own misguided calculus. A decision to withdraw would be indefensible. It is important to understand why and to consider what we need to do next.
ref: 2017 May 31, Todd Stern, “Leaving the Paris Agreement Would Be Indefensible”, in The Atlantic:
text: Killing civilians is indefensible, whether done by Hamas or Israel [title]
ref: 2023 October 12, Rajan Menon, “Killing civilians is indefensible, whether done by Hamas or Israel”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: inexcusable
unpardonable
untenable
glosses: Not capable of being justified or excused.
synonyms: untenable
insupportable
invalid
glosses: Incapable of being explained.
Derived terms: indefensibility
indefensibleness
indefensibly
Related terms: undefendable
fuck about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fucks about
form: fucking about
form: fucked about
form: fucked about
Senses: examples: text: She's coming over in an hour, so until then I'll just fuck about on the Web.
text: Don't fuck about! Hurry up and finish it.
synonyms: fuck around
dick around
faff about
faff around
fool around
mess about
mess around
glosses: To waste time with unimportant activities; often used as an admonition to urge the other party to stop wasting time.
examples: text: He was just fucking about.
synonyms: fuck around
dick around
fool around
mess about
mess around
glosses: To play around (do silly or entertaining things; tinker).
retromingent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ˈmɪndʒənt/
Forms: form: retromingents
Etymology: From retro- (“backwards”) + past participle of Latin mingō (“I urinate”).
Senses: examples: text: I confess by reason of the postick and backward position of the feminine parts in quadrupedes, they can hardly admit the substitution of a protrusion, effectuall unto masculine generation; except it be in Retromingents, and such as couple backward.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17:
glosses: An animal that urinates backwards, such as the camel, hippo or raccoon.
retromingent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ˈmɪndʒənt/
Forms: form: more retromingent
form: most retromingent
Etymology: From retro- (“backwards”) + past participle of Latin mingō (“I urinate”).
Senses: examples: text: It sat down at last and, as if to express once and for all its disenchantment with the whole sum of canine existence, delivered itself of a retromingent puddle on the beautiful Shiraz.
ref: 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Mountolive:
text: "Additionally, camels are retromingent animals, and so spectators would be advised to beware not only of flying saliva but of pitched urine as well."
ref: 2006 April 17, Danny Baker, “When the spit hits the fan”, in The Times:
glosses: That urinates backwards; also used of such urination.
glosses: Cowardly.
Related terms: micturate
retromingency
Augustan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɡʌstən/
ipa: [ɔːˈɡʌstn̩]
ipa: /ɔˈɡʌstən/
Forms: form: Aug.
form: Augustian
form: Augustin
Etymology: From the Latin Augustānus, from Augustus, a Roman emperor who ruled a period of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana or Pax Augusta.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the times of the Roman emperor Augustus (63 B.C.E. - 14 C.E.).
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Pertaining to the Roman poetic literature during this time.
examples: text: Jonathan Swift was an Augustan writer.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Pertaining to the period of English literature during the first half of the 18th century, known for satire and political themes.
Derived terms: word: Augustan Age
word: Augustanism
english: after 14 C.E.
translation: after 14 C.E.
word: post-Augustan
word: pre-Augustan
Related terms: Golden Age
Widder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Widders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Widder.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
illegalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illegality
advances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Our generation has witnessed great advances in science.
text: The troops reported enemy advances on several fronts.
text: He made advances to her when he was drunk.
glosses: plural of advance
advances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The group advances up the road.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advance
abducent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdus.ənt/
ipa: /æbˈdjus.ənt/
Forms: form: more abducent
form: most abducent
Etymology: From Latin abducō (“to lead away”).
Senses: glosses: Drawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; see etymology abducting.
Derived terms: abducent nerve
abducent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdus.ənt/
ipa: /æbˈdjus.ənt/
Forms: form: abducents
Etymology: From Latin abducō (“to lead away”).
Senses: glosses: That which abducts.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An abducens nerve.
Hashemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hashemites
Etymology: From Arabic هَاشِمِيّ (hāšimiyy, “Hashemite”) with English suffix -ite, from هَاشِم (hāšim, “Hashim”). The name signifies "breaker of bread", from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”).
Senses: glosses: One who lays claim to being a direct descendant of Hashim, the great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Hashemite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Arabic هَاشِمِيّ (hāšimiyy, “Hashemite”) with English suffix -ite, from هَاشِم (hāšim, “Hashim”). The name signifies "breaker of bread", from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”).
Senses: examples: text: In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.
ref: 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
glosses: Relating to or being descendants of Hashim.
Derived terms: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
strait-laced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strait-laced
form: most strait-laced
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of straight-laced.
examples: text: And if women were themselves to frame the bodies of their children in their wombs, as they 4 often endeavour to mend their shapes when they are out, we should as certainly have no perfect children born, as we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced, or much tampered with.
ref: 1809, John Locke, Some thoughts concerning education, page 16:
text: Juryman. My lord, I desire to know whether her stays were laced? Dell. Yes, she was laced. Mr. Cowper. If I take you right, you say she was strait-laced? Dell. Her stays were laced.
ref: 1816, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors:
text: High she was in the instep, but short in the heel; strait-laced, but loose-bodied.
ref: 2000, John Lyly, G. K. Hunter, David M. Bevington, Galatea: Midas, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: Bound with stays.
Related terms: straitjacket
vineyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vineyard
vinyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinyards
Etymology: From Middle English vyneȝerd, from Old English wīnġeard, by surface analysis, vine + yard.
Senses: examples: text: […] therefore they who are more religiously and holily instructed, neither set a tree nor plant their vinyard, nor undertake any mean work without divine invocation […]
ref: 1533 (1651 pub.), Henry Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia/Book 3/Part 1
text: 1623,, Sir Francis Bacon, Letter to the Decipherer
To the garden,
Whose western side, circummured with brick,
Is with a vinyard back’d.
To that vinyard is a planchéd gate
That makes his opening by a little door
Which from the garden to the vinyard leads.
text: […] she may not be as the fig-tree whome the master of the vinyard came seeking fruit and found none.
ref: 1788 (1876 pub.), Mrs. Godwin Senior (as quoted by Charles Kegan Paul), William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Henry S. King and Co. pub. (1876), p. 55
glosses: Obsolete spelling of vineyard.
doctrinalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctrinalisms
Etymology: From doctrinal + -ism.
Senses: examples: 1898. Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge,, page 704,
But many of the more extreme Pietists carried their antipathy to the doctrinalism and the established services of the church...
1951. Walter Yust. Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, page 882,
The soviet government facilitated the return to loyalty by departing temporarily from Marxist doctrinalism and appealing to Russian patriotism.
1995. Karl H. Potter, Harold G. Coward. Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, page 1022,
The question of doctrinalism in the Buddhist epistemology....
glosses: The abuse, or strict adherence, of a doctrine to a specific purpose.
Brønsted acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brønsted acids
form: Bronsted acid
Etymology: From Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist.
Senses: glosses: Any molecular entity capable of donating a proton to a base.
wikipedia: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
Related terms: Brønsted base
Brønsted-Lowry acid
conjugate acid-base pair
Brønsted base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brønsted bases
form: Bronsted base
Etymology: From Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted Danish physical chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any molecular entity capable of accepting a proton from an acid
Related terms: Brønsted acid
Brønsted-Lowry base
conjugate acid-base pair
retroflex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹə.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹə.flɛks/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾɛʈɾoflɛks/
Forms: form: more retroflex
form: most retroflex
Etymology: From Latin rētrōflexus, the perfect participle of rētrōflectō (“bend, turn”), from flectō (“bend, turn”).
Senses: glosses: Bent or curved backwards.
examples: text: In the case of the Wubuy alveolar versus retroflex contrast for instance, we argue that the phonetic overlap is so great that native listeners can behave as if this were an instance of a good and a 'less good' instance of a single category (CG).
ref: 2015 December 4, “Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised and bent backwards, so that the underside of the tongue approaches or touches the palate.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of pronunciation in which the blade of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
qualifier: general sense
glosses: Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
Synonyms: sense: bent backwards
word: reflexed
sense: of pronunciation with the tongue underside
word: subapical palatal
sense: of pronunciation with the tongue tip
word: apical postalveolar
sense: of pronunciation with the tongue blade
word: laminal postalveolar
sense: of pronunciation with the tongue blade
word: flat postalveolar
Related terms: retroflex hook
retroflexed
retroflexion
retroflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹə.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹə.flɛks/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾɛʈɾoflɛks/
Forms: form: retroflexes
Etymology: From Latin rētrōflexus, the perfect participle of rētrōflectō (“bend, turn”), from flectō (“bend, turn”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A consonant pronounced with the underside of the tongue approaching or touching the palate.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A consonant pronounced with the blade of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
qualifier: general sense
glosses: Any of the aforementioned consonants.
retroflex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹə.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ.flɛks/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɹə.flɛks/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾɛʈɾoflɛks/
Forms: form: retroflexes
form: retroflexing
form: retroflexed
form: retroflexed
Etymology: From Latin rētrōflexus, the perfect participle of rētrōflectō (“bend, turn”), from flectō (“bend, turn”).
Senses: examples: text: […] retroflexing the endoscope tip and mechanically rotating the transducer.
ref: 2010, Stephen Nicholls, Stephen Worthley, Cardiovascular Imaging for Clinical Practice, page 123:
glosses: To bend or curve backwards.
conjugate acid-base pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjugate acid-base pairs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: acid-base pair
glosses: An acid and a base which differ by a single proton; a pair of molecular compounds consisting of a conjugate acid and a conjugate base.
Related terms: conjugate acid
conjugate base
Brønsted acid
Brønsted base
cage compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cage compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any polycyclic compound having the form of a cage
carbaborane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbaboranes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carborane.
carbanion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbanions
Etymology: From carbo- + anion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any organic anion of general formula R₃C⁻
Derived terms: carbanionic
carbene analogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbene analogues
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several hydrides having a similar structure to that of carbene.
Related terms: arsenylidene
boranylidene
germylidene
nitrene
phosphanylidene
plumbylidene
silylene
stannylidene
stibanylidene
erotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more erotically
form: most erotically
Etymology: From erotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in an erotic manner