cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Fredericksburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Frederick + -s- + -burg.
Senses: glosses: An independent city in Virginia; named for Frederick, Prince of Wales.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Gillespie County, Texas; named for Prince Frederick of Prussia.
glosses: A census-designated place in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; named for early settler Frederick Stump.
glosses: A city in Iowa; named for Frederick Padden, who platted the town.
glosses: A census-designated place in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A village in Ohio; named for Jacob Frederick, who platted the village.
glosses: A census-designated place in Indiana; named for Frederick Royse, original owner of the town site.
eructations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eructation
coprecipitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊpɹɪsɪpɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: coprecipitations
form: co-precipitation
Etymology: From co- + precipitation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The precipitation of an otherwise soluble substance through the precipitation of another substance.
coprecipitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coprecipitation
co-precipitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-precipitations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coprecipitation.
colocalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊˈloʊkəlaɪz/
ipa: /kəʊˈləʊkəlaɪz/
Forms: form: colocalizes
form: colocalizing
form: colocalized
form: colocalized
form: co-localize
Etymology: From co- + localize.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To occur together in the same cell.
topics: medicine
neurobiology
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: To occur together in the same neuron.
Derived terms: colocalization
immunocolocalize
noncolocalized
Related terms: collocate
colocalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colocalize
colocalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colocalize
colocalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colocalize
PHN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of post-herpetic neuralgia.
herpetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)ˈpɛtɪk/
ipa: /hɚˈpɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Senses: examples: a herpetic sore throat
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to herpes, or to any herpesvirus or herpesvirus-caused disease.
Derived terms: antiherpetic
postherpetic
preherpetic
aglare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡlɛə/
ipa: /əˈɡlɛɹ/
ipa: /əˈɡleː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈɡleə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈɡliə/
ipa: /əˈɡleɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈɡlɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: From a- (“on, in”) + glare.
Senses: examples: text: 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, Act V, in The New English Theatre, London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776, Volume 6, p. 45,
A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds,
His eyes aglare, his hair all stiff with blood,
text: 1728, James Ralph, “The Muses’ Address to the King: an Ode” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: W. Meadows et al., 1729, p. 4,
So, when the providential eye of heav’n’s,
Not seen to blaze
With dreadful majesty aglare,
And vengeance sleeps, mankind
Pursues its darling joys, and mocks
The pow’r divine […]
text: Apodaca set fire to his ships, either in honest despair, or by orders from the Prince of Peace. At least, he would not let them fall into English hands. At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.
ref: 1871, Charles Kingsley, “Trinidad”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 130:
text: His eye was aglare with hate, every glance a stab.
ref: 1898, Henry A. Castle, “The Army Mule”, in The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches, Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, page 29:
text: Many parts of the Mekong were once a star-gazer’s dream; now nights on the river are increasingly aglare with electricity.
ref: 2009 December 18, Thomas Fuller, “A Legendary River Changed by Asian Ambition”, in New York Times:
glosses: Glaring (either verb sense)
undersheriff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersheriffs
Etymology: From under- + sheriff.
Senses: glosses: In certain jurisdictions, a deputy sheriff; second in command to a sheriff.
Related terms: undershrievalty
undersheriffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersheriff
inartistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inartistically
form: most inartistically
Etymology: From inartistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Not artistically; in an inartistic manner.
isms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ism
ISM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The ISM report came as another worrying sign following last month's surprisingly low number, which ended a 34-month growth streak.
ref: 2012 August 1, Emily Jane Fox, “U.S. manufacturing contracts again”, in CNN Money:
glosses: Initialism of Institute for Supply Management.
ISM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ISMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Imperial Service Medal.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of interstellar medium.
qualifier: RF telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of industrial scientific medical.
Related terms: english: interplanetary medium
translation: interplanetary medium
word: IPM
english: intergalactic medium
translation: intergalactic medium
word: IGM
english: intracluster medium
translation: intracluster medium
word: ICM
topics: extragalactic-medium
cosmology
astronomy
natural-sciences
word: EGM
topics: extra-cluster-medium
cosmology
astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ECM
rumourmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumourmongers
Etymology: From rumour + monger.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rumormonger.
rumourmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rumourmongers
form: rumourmongering
form: rumourmongered
form: rumourmongered
Etymology: From rumour + monger.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rumormonger.
hemimethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /hɛmiˈmɛθɪleɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more hemimethylated
form: most hemimethylated
form: hemi-methylated
Etymology: From hemi- + methylated.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Discordant in methylation; partially methylated.
raw_tags: of a strand
Related terms: hemimethylation
homomethylated
combo box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ˈkɒmbəʊ bɒks]
Forms: form: combo boxes
form: combobox
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A widget that is a combination of a dropdown list or list box and a single-line textbox, allowing the user either to type a value directly into the control or choose from the list of existing options.
intracisternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntɹəsɪˈstɝnəl/
Etymology: From intra- + cisternal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring within a subarachnoid cistern.
Derived terms: intracisternally
intracisternal A-particle
Related terms: intercisternal
intrasternal
affluential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæf.luˈɛnʃəl/
ipa: /ˌæf.luˈɛnʃəl/
rhymes: -ɛnʃəl
Forms: form: more affluential
form: most affluential
Etymology: Blend of affluent + influential
Senses: glosses: affluent and influential
Derived terms: affluentially
affluential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæf.luˈɛnʃəl/
ipa: /ˌæf.luˈɛnʃəl/
rhymes: -ɛnʃəl
Forms: form: affluentials
Etymology: Blend of affluent + influential
Senses: glosses: An affluent, influential person
copy number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy numbers
Senses: examples: text: "Reconstruction" or "titration" experiments consisting of amounts of the linear cloned cDNA equivalent to various gene copy numbers in the genomic DNA are run on the same gel.
ref: 1985, John H. Dodds, Plant Genetic Engineering, →ISBN, page 170:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome.
examples: text: In other words, there was no way to correlate a book's barcode number, by which it was filed in the computer, to its copy number on the shelf list.
ref: 1987, Terry D. Webb, The In-House Option: Professional Issues of Library Automation, →ISBN, pages 65–66:
qualifier: library science
glosses: The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work.
kinome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinomes
Etymology: From kinase + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of all kinases expressed in a cell or contained in a genome.
Derived terms: kinomic
kinomics
Related terms: phosphatome
kinomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinome
guardian angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guardian angel
filarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlɛəɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From filaria + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The knowledge of a filarial infection of the region of the eye seems to date from the time of Magellan.
ref: 1914, Edward Rhodes Stitt, The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, page 266:
text: From a cosmetic standpoint, the filarial diseases [...] were especially unfortunate.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 297:
text: Other helminths or wormlike fellow travellers became common in the human gut, including the Enterobius (pinworm or threadworm), the yards-long tapeworm, and the filarial worms which cause elephantiasis and African river blindness.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 18:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.
examples: text: the filarial flight of birds
glosses: Straight, as if in a line.
Derived terms: antifilarial
macrofilarial
microfilarial
nonfilarial
filariae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filaria
arak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹæk/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ɪk/
Forms: form: araks
form: araq
form: arrack
form: rack
Etymology: From Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq, “sweat”), a reference to the condensate in the distillation process. Doublet of ara, raki, and rakija.
Senses: examples: text: A rite of the grape harvest in the Christian villages dotting the Lebanon mountain range[…] is the perfectly legal distillation of homemade arak. This smooth, cool, refreshing liquor, tasting of licorice with a soupçon of peppermint, remains the staple drink at Sunday lunch, an eat-till-you-drop extravaganza of small meze dishes.
ref: 2005 January 25, “The return of arak”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In Lebanon they have arak, in Turkey raki, and they even make something similar in Saudi Arabia. This is not so surprising as the Arabs were probably the first people to distil alcohol; alcohol is an Arabic word. “Arak” means “sweat” in Arabic, and describes the distillation process rather than what happens when you drink too much.
ref: 2015 February 6, Henry Jeffreys, “How to enjoy ouzo, even when you’re not on holiday”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.
glosses: Alternative spelling of arrack (an alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers or sugar cane)
arak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹæk/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ɪk/
Forms: form: araks
Etymology: From Arabic أَرَاك (ʔarāk).
Senses: examples: text: They use perfume freely, paint their eyes with kohl, and are constantly polishing their teeth with twigs of green arak-wood.
ref: 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 51
glosses: A toothbrush tree (Salvadora persica).
understudied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndəɹˈstʌdid/
Forms: form: more understudied
form: most understudied
Etymology: From under- + studied.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently studied.
Related terms: overstudied
underserved
underused
understudied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndəɹˈstʌdid/
ipa: /ˈʌndəɹstʌdid/
ipa: /ʌndəɹˈstʌdid/
Etymology: From understudy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of understudy
automobilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automobilists
Etymology: Borrowed from French automobiliste. By surface analysis, automobile + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: For the automobilist beginner the problem comes when he first meets traffic, and a big truck, say, suddenly cuts in ahead of him.
ref: 1928, Amelia Earhart, 20 Hrs. 40 Min., chapter III, page 59
synonyms: autoist
hypernyms: driver
motorist
operator
coordinate_terms: truck driver
glosses: The driver of an automobile.
Related terms: automobilism
automobility
cadance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cadence.
cadances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cadences.
mike up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mikes up
form: miked up
form: miked up
form: miked up
form: mic up
Senses: examples: text: You will have to be miked up at least ten minutes before we go on air.
glosses: To fit a microphone and transmitter to (a person). Usually for television performers, or for police informers.
dates of birth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of date of birth
phagotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌfeɪɡəˈtɹəʊfɪk/
Etymology: From phagotrophy + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Feeding by engulfing a food cell or particle and ingesting it in a phagocytic vacuole, in the manner of some flagellates.
Coordinate terms: osmotrophic
phototrophic
Related terms: phagotroph
dates of births
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of date of birth
primary colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary colours
form: primary color
Senses: examples: text: Red, blue and green are additive primary colours.
text: Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colours.
glosses: Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours
Coordinate terms: secondary colour
tertiary colour
primary color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary colors
form: primary colour
Senses: examples: text: Red, blue and green are additive primary colors.
text: Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colors.
coordinate_terms: secondary color
tertiary color
glosses: Any of three colors which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colors
tramezzino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramezzini
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tramezzino.
Senses: glosses: A usually triangular sandwich constructed from two slices of soft crustless white bread, popular in Italy.
repdigit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛpˌdɪd͡ʒɪt/
Forms: form: repdigits
Etymology: Blend of rep(eated) + digit.
Senses: examples: text: Repdigit Triangular Numbers [article title]
ref: 1975, David W. Ballew, Ronald C. Weger, “Repdigit Triangular Numbers”, in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, volume 8, number 2, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 96–98:
text: Is there any system of notation in which there is a repdigit aa such that (aa)²#61;ccdd, with c#61;a-1 and d#61;c-1?
ref: 1980 January, Murray S[eymour] Klamkin, quoting Charles W. Trigg, “The Olympiad Corner: 11”, in Crux Mathematicorum, volume 6, number 1, Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Mathematical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
text: Here is another palindromic magic square that has the added property of having main diagonals containing eight repeating "repdigits": 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999. The magic sum is 2442.
ref: 2002, Clifford A[lan] Pickover, “Gallery I: Squares, Cubes, and Tesseracts”, in The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 284:
text: A positive with repeated digit is called a repdigit, for example 222, 55555, and all repunits are repdigits.
ref: 2005, James J[oseph] Tattersall, “Modular Arithmetic”, in Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section 5.6 (Supplementary Exercises), paragraph 14, page 193:
qualifier: recreational mathematics
glosses: A number composed only of one or more occurrences of one specific digit and no other digit.
Hyponyms: repunit
Related terms: repeating decimal
repetend
subtleties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtlety
information velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: information velocities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The speed at which information is transmitted through a particular medium.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The speed of information flow about a product in a market.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The rate at which information that influences the price of securities in informationally efficient markets moves through the market.
margaritomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin margarita (“pearl”).
Senses: examples: text: In ancient times, a form of margaritomancy was used to determine the guilt or innocence of a man or woman suspected of committing a crime.
ref: 2003, Gerina Dunwich, Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery, page 134:
text: Margaritomancy: Divination by pearls. A pearl was covered with a vase, and placed near the fire, and the names of suspected persons pronounced. When the name of the guilty one was uttered the pearl was supposed to bound upwards and pierce the bottom of the vase.
ref: 1920, L. Spence, Encyc. Occult:
text: 1931 Lock tr. de Givry Picture Museum of Sorcery
Very curious was margaritomancy, or divination by a pearl. "The pearl is to be enchanted," says de l'Ancre, "and shut in a pot; then if it chance that the name of the thief be pronounced the pearl will leap, striking against the pot."
glosses: Divination by pearls.
Veronese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Veronese
form: most Veronese
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city or province of Verona in the Veneto region in northern Italy.
Derived terms: Paul Veronese green
Veronese green
Veronese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Veronese
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city or province of Verona in the Veneto region in northern Italy.
repdigits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repdigit
primary colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primary color
primary colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primary colour
meteoromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετέωρος (metéōros, “in mid-air”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1855 Elihu Rich in Smedley et al. Occult Sci.
The Romans are believed to have derived meteoromancy from Etruria.
text: METEOROMANCY: A special branch of astromancy dealing with omens that pertain to shooting stars. Ancient Roman augurs included thunder, lightning, eclipses, and other heavenly phenomena in such divinations.
ref: [1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 321:
text: 1983 Complete Bk Predictions
Meteoromancy: Divination from meteors and shooting stars.
glosses: Divination by interpreting meteorological phenomena such as meteors.
combo boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combo box
rumourmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumourmonger
quirks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quirk
quirks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quirk
seafarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seafarer
saplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapling
artefacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artefact
invasives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invasive
geneticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geneticist
conservationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conservationist
dispersers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disperser
photo ops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photo op
disperser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispersers
Etymology: From disperse + -er.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance that stabilizes a dispersion; an emulsifier.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of bipartite graph.
examples: text: Nesting data from dispersers and nondispersers came from the same set of colonies and were thus directly comparable.
ref: 1996, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow:
text: Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act as both predator and prey.
ref: 2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 1:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that disperses something, such as seeds, in the environment.
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: dispersant
Derived terms: nondisperser
travel agencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travel agency
nanofibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanofiber
colocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊloʊkəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌkəʊləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: colocalizations
Etymology: From co- + localization.
Senses: examples: text: If such events take place, then the colocalization of two molecules may not necessarily mean mutual binding to each other and may simply suggest recruitment to the same site.
ref: 2005, Lukas K. Tamm, Protein-Lipid Interactions: From Membrane Domains to Cellular Networks, →ISBN, page 327:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of colocalizing, occurring within the same cell or cellular region.
Derived terms: immunocolocalization
miscolocalization
Related terms: collocation
colocation
trashman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trashmen
form: trash man
Etymology: From trash + -man.
Senses: glosses: Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
Synonyms: word: bin man
word: dustman
word: garbage collector
word: garbage man
word: garbo
word: refuse collector
word: sanitation engineer
word: garbage collector
nanofiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanofibers
form: nanofibre
Etymology: From nano- + fiber.
Senses: examples: text: The use of Nanospider technology has made it easy to scale up from the laboratory to industrial production, and the technology’s adaptability to high volume production makes it possible to accelerate the introduction of nanofiber products into the market.
Uses of nanofibers are being explored in areas as varied as medicine, clothing, air and water filtration systems and electrical batteries.
ref: 2012 May 22, Jacy Meyer, “To Czech Industry, Everything Is Nano”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2020:
glosses: Any fibre having a nanoscale diameter.
Derived terms: bacterionanofiber
carbon nanofiber
colocalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colocalization
trashmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trashman
microbalances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbalance
garbage man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbage men
form: garbageman
Senses: glosses: Someone, usually male, whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
Synonyms: word: bin man
word: dustman
word: garbage collector
word: garbo
word: refuse collector
word: sanitation engineer
word: trashman
word: garbage collector
garbage men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbage man
bin men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bin man
microbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbalances
Etymology: From micro- + balance.
Senses: glosses: Any balance capable of weighing objects having a mass less than a milligram
Derived terms: electromicrobalance
ultramicrobalance
tinkered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tinker
unstirred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstirred
form: most unstirred
Etymology: From un- + stirred.
Senses: glosses: That has not been mixed by stirring.
examples: text: Who, in after years, could supply a mother's place to the bereaved child, in whom affection's sweetest fountain must remain for ever unstirred?
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 74:
text: Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks.
ref: 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
glosses: Not stirred or emotionally excited.
unstirred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unstir
moleomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moleoscopy
form: moleosophy
form: maculomancy
Etymology: From mole + -o- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination by interpreting moles on the body, supposedly developed by the Greek physician Hippocrates.
palaeoecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoecologies
Etymology: From palaeo- + ecology.
Senses: glosses: The study of past ecologies by using the evidence of fossils
Derived terms: palaeoecological
palaeoecologist
bay leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bay leaf
mammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammy
glosses: plural of mammie
nanobiotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobiotechnologies
Etymology: From nano- + biotechnology.
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of biotechnology employing devices on the nano scale
moleoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: moleomancy.
microsensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsensors
Etymology: From micro- + sensor.
Senses: glosses: Any of several very small sensors that detect small amounts, or changes in a physical variable.
Derived terms: photomicrosensor
moleosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: moleomancy.
maculomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin macula, "spot".
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moleomancy.
fluorophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorophores
form: fluorophor
Etymology: From fluoro- + -phore.
Senses: examples: text: The ideal fluorophore is a small, hydrophilic molecule with a long emission wavelength, large Stokes shift, high extinction coefficient, and high quantum efficiency.
ref: 2006, Christian M. Apfel, Thilo Enderle, “Assays for High-Throughput Screening in Drug Discovery,”, in Combinatorial Chemistry: From Theory to Application, →ISBN, page 629:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence.
Derived terms: fluorophoric
interfluorophore
multifluorophore
Related terms: chromophore
FISH
fluorochrome
fluorophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorophore
glutamatergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlutəməˈtɝd͡ʒɪk/
Forms: form: more glutamatergic
form: most glutamatergic
Etymology: From glutamate + -ergic.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike ketamine, esketamine, and nitrous oxide, scopolamine directly affects the cholinergic pathway but does not directly modulate the glutamatergic pathway.
ref: 2019, Madhukar H. Trivedi, editor, Depression, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
neurology
neuroscience
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
Derived terms: antiglutamatergic
hyperglutamatergic
hypoglutamatergic
Related terms: cholinergic
ajvar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.vɑɹ/
Forms: form: ayvar
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian àjvār (“ajvar, caviar”). Doublet of caviar.
Senses: glosses: A relish made principally out of red bell peppers, sometimes with eggplant, garlic and chili pepper, predominantly popular in the Western Balkans.
periplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛɹiˌplæzəm/
/ˈpɛɹəˌplæzəm/
Forms: form: periplasms
Etymology: From peri- + -plasm. Coined by Peter D. Mitchell in 1961.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The region between the plasma membrane and the outer membrane or cell wall.
Synonyms: periplasmic space
Derived terms: periplasmic
pseudoperiplasm
Related terms: cytoplasm
gonoplasm
ooplasm
periplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periplasm
nonaggression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonaggressions
form: non-aggression
Etymology: From non- + aggression.
Senses: glosses: an absence of aggression
Derived terms: nonaggression axiom
non-aggression pact
nonaggression principle
molybdomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”) and the suffix -mancy. Probably after Greek μολυβδομαντεία (molyvdomanteía) or French molybdomancie.
Senses: examples: text: 1727, Bailey, The Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
MOLUBDOMANCY [molybdomanteia of molybdos Lead, and manteia Divination, Gr.] a divining, an observing the motions, Figures, &c. of melted Lead.
text: 1931, de Givry, Lock tr., Picture Museum of Sorcery
Molybdomancy was divination by melted lead; drops of it were allowed to fall into water, and the resulting noises and hissings listened to.
text: The place of molybdomancy is also to be located in the uncertain border area between spontaneous and solicited projection.
ref: 1957, Robert Plank, “Spontaneous Projection of Meaningful Forms”, in Journal of Projective Techniques, page 146:
text: There was a happy group in Tallahassee swapping wives on the basis of molybdomancy.
ref: 1971 January, Tak Hallus, “Homage”, in Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, page 67:
text: Dropping hot lead or tin into water was another method occasionally employed by the Etruscans in a version of molybdomancy, much like ceromancy.
ref: 2003, Raymond Buckland, The Fortune-Telling Book, page 199:
glosses: divination by interpreting shapes formed when molten metal, typically lead or tin, is dropped into water.
plesiomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplizioʊˈmɔɹfɪk/
Forms: form: more plesiomorphic
form: most plesiomorphic
Etymology: From plesiomorph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he cockroach Polyphaga may represent a condition more plesiomorphic than in other Dictyoptera, but it could as well be paedomorphic, and therefore more derived than in other Dictyoptera [72].
ref: 2000, Christine A. Nalepa, Claudio Bandi, “Paedomorphosis and Termite Evolution”, in Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.
glosses: plesiomorphous
Synonyms: primitive
basal
Derived terms: plesiomorphically
Related terms: plesiomorphy
apomorphic
paedomorphic
myomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “mouse”); myo- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1855 Elihu Rich in Smedley et al. Occult Sci.
Myomancy was a method of divination by rats and mice, and is supposed to be alluded to in Isaiah lxvi. 17. Their peculiar cries, or some marked devastation committed by them, was taken for a prognostic of evil.
text: Pliny has a chapter on myomancy, or soothsaying by means of rats and mince, (Nat. Hist., lib. ix. c. 57).
ref: 1865, Samuel Lysons, Our British Ancestors: Who and what Were They?:
text: 1903 Daniels & Stevans Encyc. Occult Sci.
Myomancy - Made use of the sounds and damage done by rats. The great Dictator Fabius Maximus renounced his throne when warned by the squeal of a mouse and Cassius Flaminius threw up his command of cavalry.
text: Myomancy. Divination by mice or rats, for instance, rats leaving a sinking ship.
ref: 1973, K. Ellis, Prediction and Prophecy iii:
glosses: Divination by interpreting rats or mice. Their cries were believed to indicate the presence of evil.
myrmomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μύρμηξ (múrmēx, “ants”) + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination by interpreting the appearance and behaviour of ants, especially their eating habits. A type of augury.
necyomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necromancy
form: egromancy
form: necyomancie
form: necyomantia
form: necyomanty
Etymology: From the Classical Latin necyomantīa, from the Koine Greek νεκυομαντεία (nekuomanteía), from the Ancient Greek νέκυς (nékus, “corpse”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Compare the French necyomance.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of necromancy.
hsiens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hsien
egromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Richard Francis Burton from Middle English forms of necromancy, such as egremauncey and egremauncye.
Senses: examples: text: Then she stood up; and, pronouncing some word to me unintelligible, she said: — By virtue of my egromancy become thou half stone and half man; whereupon I became what thou seest, unable to rise or sit, and neither dead nor alive.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: Whereby I know that this twelfth King of the house of Gorice in Carcë shall be a most crafty warlock, full of guiles and wiles, who by the might of his egromancy and the sword of Witchland shall exceed all earthly powers that be.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 39, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of necromancy.
catarrhal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From catarrh + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to catarrh.
Derived terms: anticatarrhal
anti-catarrhal
bovine malignant catarrhal fever
catarrhal fever
catarrhally
malignant catarrhal fever
noncatarrhal
postnasal drip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postnasal drips
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of post-nasal drip.
runny nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runny noses
Senses: glosses: A condition of discharge of mucus from the nose, often a symptom of the common cold.
Synonyms: rhinorrhea
Related terms: post-nasal drip
Lindsay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪnzi/
ipa: /ˈlɪndzi/
Forms: form: Lindsays
form: Lindsey
form: Lyndsey
Etymology: From Lindsey in Lincolnshire, from Old English Lindesēġe, Lindesīġe (“Isle of Lind”), the Old English name of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in which "Lind" comes from the Common Brittonic form of the name of Lincoln and "isle" refers to Lincoln being surrounded by fenland; from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”), in reference to the Brayford + Old English ēġ (“island”); cf. modern Welsh llyn and Dublin.
Senses: glosses: A surname
A Scottish habitational surname from Old English from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, from the Old English name of the city of Lincoln, "Isle of Lind" ("Isle of Lincoln") in reference to it being surrounded by fenland.
glosses: A surname
An Irish surname, variant of Lindsey
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Tulare County, California.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dawson County, Montana.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Platte County, Nebraska.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Garvin County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Stanley County, South Dakota.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Cooke County, Texas.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Reeves County, Texas.
glosses: A placename
A large community, formerly a town, in the city of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename
An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: sense: female diminutive forms
word: Lind
sense: female diminutive forms
word: Linde
sense: female diminutive forms
word: Lindee
sense: female diminutive forms
word: Lindi
sense: female diminutive forms
word: Lindie
sense: female diminutive forms
word: Lindy
catarrhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catarrh
rhinorrheas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinorrhea
Brainfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: brainfuck
Etymology: From brain + fuck, implying that it is confusing to use.
Senses: examples: text: Some eccentric languages are structurally just as simple, but intentionally made awfully hard to understand — like the notorious languages Brainfuck […] or Malbolge.
ref: 2005, G. Braziller, Inc., edited by Morten Søndergaard, Perttu Rastas, and Björn Norberg, Get real: real time + art + theory + practice + history, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Brainfuck is an archetypically minimalist language, providing merely eight commands, each represented by a single character. These commands operate on an array of 30000 byte cells initialized to 0.
ref: 2008, Matthew Fuller, Software Studies: A Lexicon, →ISBN, page 269:
text: Brainfuck language is the gotoless programming language, and it has a implicit byte pointer which is free to move […] In addition, Brainfuck defines only eight-instructions associated with the pointer[…]
ref: 2010, Miguel Soriano, Sihan Qing, Javier López, Information and Communications Security: 12th International Conference, Icics 2010, Barcelona, Spain, December 15-17, 2010 Proceedings, →ISBN, page 345:
glosses: A minimalist esoteric programming language, created for amusement, in which every basic machine instruction is represented by a single character.
De
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dǔ
Forms: form: Te
form: Tê
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 德 (dé, “virtue, manliness”).
Senses: glosses: A former prefecture of imperial China around Dezhou in northwestern Shandong.
De
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dǔ
Etymology: From Bengali [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A surname from India
runny noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runny nose
downstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: down style
form: down-style
Etymology: From down + style.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: upstyle#Adjective
glosses: Which only capitalizes words (e.g. in headers) that would be capitalized in a normal sentence: which is styled in sentence case.
downstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From down + style.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: sentence case
coordinate_terms: all caps
alternating caps
camel case
initial caps
upstyle#Noun
headline style
title case
lowercase#Noun
glosses: Downstyle capitalization.
upstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: up style
form: up-style
Senses: examples: text: Some style guides write north temperate zone upstyle as North Temperate Zone.
topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: downstyle#Adjective
lowercase#Adjective
glosses: Which capitalizes all nouns, adjectives and adverbs (in a title, heading, headline, header, or similar display type element): which is styled in title case.
upstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upstyles
form: up style
form: up-style
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: title case
headline style
coordinate_terms: all caps
alternating caps
camel case
initial caps
sentence case
downstyle#Noun
lowercase
glosses: Upstyle capitalization.
glosses: Any hairstyle that keeps the hair high on the head, such as a bun or chignon.
down style
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of downstyle.
down style
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of downstyle.
down-style
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of downstyle.
down-style
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of downstyle.
unexpired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From un- + expired.
Senses: examples: text: We were then in the third week of November; but, we took our measures so vigorously, and were so well seconded by the friends in whom we confided, that there was still a week of the month unexpired, when our party all came down together merrily, and mustered in the haunted house.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
text: Regard must be had to the extent to which the original capital outlay has not been covered by the sum of the annual provisions for renewal, that is to say, in insurance terms, to the unexpired life of the original work, although this financial factor has to be modified in the light of the actual physical condition of the work to be replaced.
ref: 1945 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “New Works Procedure”, in Railway Magazine, page 72:
glosses: Not having expired.
glosses: Of food: not having reached its expiry date.
glosses: Of an agreement, coupon, or law, still in force.
Derived terms: unexpired cost
bulrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullrushes
Senses: glosses: plural of bulrush
espousals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espousal
aker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akers
Senses: examples: text: … crope of an aker might have been worth=3 p aker ...
ref: 1858, Jonathan Brown Bright, The Brights of Suffolk, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 127:
text: That all rates that shall arise upon the Towne shall be layed upon Lands accordinge to every ones p'portion aker for aker of howse lotts and aker for aker of meddowe both alike on this side and both alike on the other side …
ref: 1859, New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Digitized edition, S.G. Drake, published 2009, page 295:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of acre.
Derived terms: aker-staf
diastereoselectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪəstɛəɹioʊsəlɛkˈtɪvɪti/
Forms: form: diastereoselectivities
Etymology: From dia- + stereoselectivity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The preferential formation of one diastereoisomer over another; also, the degree of said preference
Related terms: diastereospecificity
co-ops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-op
co-ops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-op
diastereoselectivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diastereoselectivity
Captain Kirk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Captain Kirks
Etymology: From a character in Star Trek, 1960s science-fiction TV series.
Senses: examples: text: 1984, Nena, 99 Red Balloons (English version of 99 Luftballons from 1983).
Everyone's a superhero. Everyone's a Captain Kirk.
text: There may be times when he is undone by his genius and it is the emotion-rich perspective of a Captain Kirk that finally saves the day, but this is the "mystery of being human."
ref: 1999, Peter D. Hershock, Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age, page 90:
text: Whatever the crisis may be, Captain Kirk is always at the helm making the decisions.
ref: 2003, Dan A. Kimball, The Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for New Generations:
text: Flight engineer is not exactly a Captain Kirk position, either. But so what?
ref: 2004, Liam Bracken, Exit Only, page 58:
glosses: A heroic person, particularly one with exaggerated bravery and leadership characteristics.
wikipedia: Star Trek
ultraquantum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌltɹəˈkwɑntəm/
ipa: /ˌʌltɹəˈkwɒntəm/
Etymology: From ultra- + quantum.
Senses: examples: text: In an ultraquantum magnetic field, i.e., when only the lowest Landau level is occupied, plateaus of the Hall resistance are also observed at fractional s (the fractional quantum Hall effect).
ref: 1997, Richard C. Dorf, Electrical Engineering Handbook, →ISBN, page 507:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a state in which only the lowest Landau level (orbit with a discrete energy value) is occupied.
Derived terms: ultraquantum limit
domain wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domain walls
Senses: examples: text: A domain wall corresponds to the rotation of the magnetization vector from one magnetic domain to another.
ref: 1998, Eugene M. Chudnovsky, Javier Tejada, Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetic Moment, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An interface separating magnetic domains.
examples: text: The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton).
ref: 2006, M. Eto et al., “Solitons in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories”, in Particles, Strings and Cosmology, →ISBN, page 266:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: A two-dimensional singularity hypothesized in string theory.
nanofabrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanofabrications
Etymology: From nano- + fabrication.
Senses: glosses: Fabrication, such as building or sculpting, at the nanoscale, on the level of individual molecules.
birthday boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthday boy