cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disparency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disparencies
Etymology: From disparate + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: Any insufficient tax payable bears interest on the amount of the disparency at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum from April 30th to the time of payment.
ref: 1921, Canadian Dental Association, Dominion Dental Journal, volume 33:
text: There seems to be a slight disparency about the title, for on the inside front cover it is given as "Introduction to Econometric Methods," but the title of the book itself is "Econometrics," which is a far more accurate description.
ref: 1971, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, Bulletin - Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, volume 7:
text: Similar problems arise in the medical field as well, where the disparency between computer tools and formal education methods is acknowledged.
ref: 2008, Bernard Frischer, Beyond illustration: 2d and 3d digital technologies as tools for discovery in archaeology:
glosses: A significant discrepancy.
Synonyms: disparity
sin tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: syntax
Forms: form: sin taxes
Senses: examples: text: He has suggested raising “sin taxes” on cigarettes, liquor and arcade games to pay for the 24-percent teacher pay raise he supports.
ref: 1963 May 1, Kathryn Baker, “White Facing Realities: Time, Cash”, in Victoria Advocate, Texas, USA, retrieved 29 Sep 2012, page 16A:
text: Another form of consumption tax that some foresee is a “sin tax”, which would come in the form of higher excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco.
ref: 1988 Dec. 19, Jan M. Rosen, "Tax Watch: The Likely Forms Of New Taxes," New York Times (retrieved 29 Sep 2012)
text: The sin tax is an established tactic. In the early 1500s, Pope Leo X underwrote his lavish lifestyle in part by taxing licensed prostitutes.
ref: 2009 April 2, Alex Altman, “A Brief History Of: Sin Taxes”, in Time:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A government-imposed tax on a specific good, service, or activity which is legal but widely considered to be unwholesome or socially harmful, such as a tax on alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, or gambling.
Synonyms: sumptuary tax
tent-pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tent-poles
Senses: examples: text: The latest tent-pole blockbuster to bet on Johnson for box-office gold is Disney's comedy Jungle Cruise, which is released around the world this week, and is another rollicking family adventure to match previous Johnson hits such as the Jumanji films and Race to Witch Mountain.
ref: 2021 July 28, Sam Moore, “Dwayne Johnson and why wrestlers make ideal Hollywood stars”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Alternative form of tentpole.
tent pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tent poles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tentpole.
a.a.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: achievement age
glosses: amino acid
glosses: arteriae
āā
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “of each (in sequence)”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Prescription notation: The stated amount of each of the substances is to be used in the compounding of the prescription
aeromodeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeromodellers
Etymology: From aero- + modeller.
Senses: synonyms: aeromodellist
glosses: A maker of model aircraft.
Related terms: aeromodelling
knucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: plural of knuck
anterodorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From antero- + dorsal.
Senses: examples: text: The difference between the kloedenellids and the geisinids, as defined, is the development of an anterodorsal process in the former.
ref: 1978, Robert Vernon Kesling, Ruth B. Chilman, Ostracods of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: in front (at the head end) and toward the back (side nearest the spine)
Derived terms: anterodorsally
chorioretinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorioretinopathies
Etymology: From chorio- + retinopathy.
Senses: examples: text: There was considerable uncertainty, said Zděnek Gregor, about the causes of the disorder, described by the literature on the subject as central serous chorioretinopathy.
ref: 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 51:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A noninflammatory disease of the choroid and retina of the eye.
Related terms: chorioretinitis
colicins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colicin
compartmentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compartmentally
form: most compartmentally
Etymology: From compartmental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: one compartment at a time
Derived terms: intracompartmentally
cyclorrhaphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclorrhaphans
Etymology: From Cyclorrhapha + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Because circumversion originated in the Platypezidae and persists through the highest forms of the Schizophora, because it is featured in the lowest and among the highest cyclorrhaphans, we are convinced that the suborder Cyclorrhapha is properly considered to be a monophyletic group.
ref: 1968, The Wasmann Journal of Biology, volume 26, page 103:
text: The apparent oldest cyclorrhaphan, Opetiala shatalkani, is a compression fossil wing from the Purbeck of England (ca. 140 MYO), and it precedes other early cyclorrhaphans by about 10 MY.
ref: 2005, David Grimaldi, Evolution of the Insects, page 533:
text: Unlike the proboscides of Lower brachyceran lineages, which are continuous with the head capsule and tend to dangle (Matsuda 1965), the proboscides of most cyclorrhaphan species are suspended by a membranous region and divided into three functional parts: the basiproboscis (rostrum), medioproboscis (haustellum), and distiproboscis (labellum), each of which is defined by internal muscles but also shares muscles with the other regions (Graham-Smith 1930; Lall and Davies 1971).
ref: 2012, Brian Wiegmann, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 225:
glosses: Any fly of the taxon Cyclorrhapha
Synonyms: circular-seamed fly
dislocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dislocators
Etymology: From dislocate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Something that dislocates
endknot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endknots
Etymology: From end + knot.
Senses: glosses: A knot, at the end of a rope, used to stop it fraying, as a handhold, or as decoration.
endknots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endknot
fungizone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: amphotericin B
geophylogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geophylogenies
Etymology: From geo- + phylogeny.
Senses: glosses: spatially-referenced phylogeny
Related terms: geophylogenetic
geophylogenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geophylogeny
hemisuccinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemisuccinates
Etymology: From hemi- + succinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ester of succinic acid in which only one of its carboxylic acid groups is esterified
lipoaspirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoaspirates
Etymology: From lipo- + aspirate.
Senses: glosses: The material removed by lipoaspiration
lipoaspirate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lipoaspirates
form: lipoaspirating
form: lipoaspirated
form: lipoaspirated
Etymology: From lipo- + aspirate.
Senses: glosses: To carry out, or to undergo lipoaspiration
lipoaspiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoaspirations
Etymology: From lipo- + aspiration.
Senses: glosses: liposuction
Related terms: lipoaspirated
matricellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing extracellular proteins that have a regulatory function in the formation of structural elements in vertebrates
membranotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more membranotropic
form: most membranotropic
Etymology: From membrane + -tropic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That moves towards, or is active at biological membranes
Related terms: membranotropism
microvalve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvalves
Etymology: From micro- + valve.
Senses: glosses: A very small valve (not necessarily microscopic)
microvalves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvalve
microvitreoretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + vitreoretinal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Describing vitreoretinal microsurgery
morphome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphomes
Etymology: From morpho- + -ome.
Senses: glosses: The totality of morphological features of a species.
Related terms: morphomics
multimarker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + marker.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to multiple markers.
multimerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimerisations
Etymology: From multimer + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multimerization.
nanotexture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanotextures
Etymology: From nano- + texture.
Senses: glosses: nanoscale texture
neuroprotectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroprotectant
retinotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinotomies
Etymology: From retina + -otomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision into, or division of, the retina
ribotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribotoxins
Etymology: From ribo- + toxin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of toxic ribonucleases
Related terms: ribotoxic
ribotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribotoxin
systematicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systematicists
Etymology: From systematic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies systematicity.
systematicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systematicist
tubulovillous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tubulo- + villous.
Senses: glosses: tubular and villous
vaporaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaporarium
caponier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæp.əˈnɪə/
ipa: /ˌkæp.əˈnɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: caponiers
form: caponiere
Etymology: From French caponnière.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A work made across or in a ditch, to protect it from the enemy (as fire from it could cover the ditch), or to serve as a covered passageway (e.g. to outworks).
GGG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: (Internet): Coined in 2007 by Tim Berners-Lee.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Giant Global Graph: a proposed successor to the World Wide Web, based on semantic links.
glosses: Initialism of Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin.
Related terms: Semantic Web
Web 3.0
GGG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by sex advice columnist Dan Savage.
Senses: examples: text: While I think people should be GGG in the sack, I didn't say "game for anything."
ref: 2004 January 22, Dan Savage, “Savage Love: To The Truck Stop”, in The Stranger, retrieved 30 Sep 2012:
text: She liked John. Liked having sex with him, naturally. He was totally GGG—good, giving and game.
ref: 2011 November 23, Lyra Marlowe, Girl Next Door, Akron: Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, →OL, page 83:
text: Five years ago, sex columnist Dan Savage suggested that, when it comes to sex, we should all aim to be GGG (“good, giving, and game … Think ‘good in bed,’ ‘giving equal time and equal pleasure’ and ‘game for anything – within reason’”). Long embraced by his readers, the GGG approach now has support from a new scientific study published in the Journal of Sex Research.
ref: 2012 September 11, Debby Herbenick, “Science proves it: Dan Savage is right”, in Salon:
glosses: Initialism of good, giving, and game, as qualities of a good sex partner.
Archground
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Archground
Senses: examples: text: My Sunday Archground walks in Fall are among my fondest memories.
text: The Gateway Archgrounds are about to undergo some major changes. And tax payers may be asked to help fund some of the improvements.
ref: 2012 March 21, Jeff Bernthal, “Taxpayers May Help Fund Archground Development”, in FOX2now.com, St. Louis: KTVI, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2022:
text: Renovation work on the Downtown Archgrounds kicks off Thursday with a celebration and some street closures.¶ Organizers will celebrate with a groundbreaking around lunchtime Thursday. That means Lenor K. Sullivan will shut down around mid-morning.
ref: 2013 November 14, Kim Hudson, “Lenor K. Sullivan [Boulevard] to close for Archground celebration”, in FOX2now.com, St. Louis: KTVI, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2020:
text: The selective type of criteria put forth by the NPS for the Archground expansion was too narrow in scope. Had thIs process taken place in the days of the original competition, Saarinen and Kiley would have been prevented from entering because their firms at that time would not have been large enough.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Saarinen's design inclination for E. St. Louis”, in SaundersSchultz.com, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2020:
glosses: Attributive form of Archgrounds.
disparented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dis- + parented.
Senses: examples: ref: 1906 April 18, One highly significant point of Justice White's opinion was his statement, made with much feeling, that the court realized the deplorable consequences to the thousands of children that might, by reason of this decision, be disparented, but the court could not, because of the fact, be swerved from its duty., quotee, “Myriands of Divorces Are Invalidated by Supreme Court Edict”, in The San Francisco Call, page 1:
text: We will however take deliberate steps to help individual children, to help families tragically disparented as a result of HIV/AIDS, to help communities where orphan children outnumber the adult population and extreme poverty is ravaging opportunity, health, and joy.
ref: 2012, “International Orphan Care”, in Impact Orphans, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2012:
glosses: Having been deprived of one's parents
examples: text: Here is a home for these disparented children, in many cases a more comfortable and a happier one than they have ever known before, where they are properly clothed, fed, and accommodated, receive instruction in the ordinary branches of common school education, are trained to habits of industry by regular daily employment, and have instilled into their minds those principles of moral and religious truth, which will fit them for a life of virtue, happiness, and usefulness.
ref: 1853, Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New-York, Anunual Report, volume 28:
glosses: Having no parents; parentless, orphaned.
globe mallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe mallows
Etymology: From globe + mallow. The flowers of both kinds are globe-shaped just before the petals fully open.
Senses: glosses: Any of many North American plants of the genus Sphaeralcea in the mallow family, Malvaceae.
glosses: Plants of the genus Iliamna in the mallow family, Malvaceae, more commonly known as wild hollyhocks.
Derived terms: copper globemallow
narrow-leaved globemallow
oligomery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being oligomeric.
pentamery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: the condition of being pentameric
polymery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polymer + -y.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of being polymeric.
trimery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being trimeric.
bibliomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bibliome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to bibliomes or to bibliomics
bibliomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bibliome + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The study of bibliomes
enterobacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterobacters
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
Synonyms: enterobacterium
enterobacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterobacter
geoprocessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + processing.
Senses: glosses: The graphical processing and manipulation of geographical data
hypervulnerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + vulnerability.
Senses: glosses: A high (or excessive) level of vulnerability
isoacceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoacceptors
Etymology: From iso- + acceptor.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of transfer RNA acceptors that can accept the same amino acid
isoacceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoacceptor
limacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limacons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of limaçon.
limacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limacon
nanostar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanostars
Etymology: From nano- + star.
Senses: glosses: A star-shaped (concave polygonal) nanoparticle
nanostars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanostar
paleome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleomes
Etymology: From paleo- + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The genome of an extinct species
phylodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phylo- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to phylodynamics
phylodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phylo- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: the study of genetic variation in pathogens, and the affect of such variation on their transmission etc.
houselight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houselights
Etymology: From house + light.
Senses: examples: text: The houselights were dimmed as the curtain went up for the start of the play.
glosses: One of the lights in an auditorium.
Plantagenet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plăn-tăj′ə-nĭt
enpr: plăn-tăj′nət
ipa: /plænˈtædʒ.ə.nɪt/
ipa: /plænˈtædʒ.(ə.)nət/
ipa: /plænˈtædʒ.ɪ.nɪt/
ipa: /planˈtadʒ.(ə.)nət/
Forms: form: Plantagenets
Etymology: Originally a sobriquet of Geoffrey of Anjou (1113-1151), founder of the line, who was said to have worn a yellow broom blossom in his hat, Old French plante genest (French plante genêt), from Latin planta genista (“sprig of broom”), whence Medieval Latin Plantagenistae; subsequently adopted as a surname.
Senses: examples: text: […] all the fine intelligence of all the Plantagenets, […]
ref: 1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 7:
text: The last surviving Plantagenet prince descended in the male line, Edward earl of Warwick was a touchstone for Yorkist affections […] and Lincoln understood the galvanizing effect of Warwick's presence at the head of any uprising.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 23:
glosses: A member of the dynasty which held the English throne from 1154 to 1485.
Plantagenet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: plăn-tăj′ə-nĭt
enpr: plăn-tăj′nət
ipa: /plænˈtædʒ.ə.nɪt/
ipa: /plænˈtædʒ.(ə.)nət/
ipa: /plænˈtædʒ.ɪ.nɪt/
ipa: /planˈtadʒ.(ə.)nət/
Etymology: Originally a sobriquet of Geoffrey of Anjou (1113-1151), founder of the line, who was said to have worn a yellow broom blossom in his hat, Old French plante genest (French plante genêt), from Latin planta genista (“sprig of broom”), whence Medieval Latin Plantagenistae; subsequently adopted as a surname.
Senses: glosses: A community in Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A local government area in the Great Southern region, Western Australia; in full, the Shire of Plantagenet.
Derived terms: Alfred and Plantagenet
Plantagenets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Plantagenet
discredulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discredulous
form: most discredulous
Etymology: From dis- + credulous.
Senses: examples: text: My discredulous friend may stare, but let him take this paper for his guide, and go to Lurgan Street, and he will see one of four great ragged schools.
ref: 1866, "Them Also:" The Story of the Dublin Mission, James Nisbet and Co., page 42:
text: Their task would be to try to figure out what the triggers were, what meds worked to abort the migraine (with a programed probability of working each specific time, so nothing was an absolute bet.) The doctors they would see would be told to be discredulous and pedantic.
ref: 1999 July 28, tedskedz, “Re: Who?”, in alt.support.headaches.migraine (Usenet):
text: To what degree of explanation does a bus driver have to go when he says 'bus is full'?He is man who has duty of controlling passenger numbers and he has announced his decision. He is not required at ever^([sic]) stop to parade the passengers for counting by the discredulous or produce all the Acts and Regulations that govern the passenger load of his bus.
ref: 2005 August 8, Norma, “Re: Outcry as charges dropped in rape case despite DNA link”, in alt.uk.edinburgh.misc (Usenet):
glosses: Unable or unwilling to believe something; incredulous.
wardrober
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːdɹəʊbə/
Forms: form: wardrobers
Etymology: From wardrobe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Her wardrobers furnished the tapestries that swathed the walls and floors, built a tiered wooden stage, hung it with fine textiles […] and placed on it the solid silver font brought from Canterbury Cathedral for the occasion.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 27:
glosses: A member of a royal household responsible for clothing.
wardrobers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wardrober
A.A.C.N.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
glosses: Initialism of American Association of Critical Care Nurses.
A.A.G.P.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Academy of General Practice.
Portuguese oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Portuguese oaks
Senses: glosses: A species of oak, Quercus faginea, native to the western Mediterranean region of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
Canadianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canadianess
Etymology: From Canadian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: By the eve of the Great War, some Canadians, including many of English birth, were searching for literary and artistic forms that better expressed a sense of Canadianness.
ref: 1999, Paul Robert Magocsi, Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples, University of Toronto Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 485:
glosses: The state or quality of being Canadian.
Lefkosia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Λευκωσία (Lefkosía), from a variant of Byzantine Greek Λευκουσία (Leukousía), equivalent to λευκός (leukós, “white”) or λεύκη (leúkē, “poplar”) + οὐσία (ousía, “property, estate”), but deriving from various Ancient Greek forms including Λευτεῶν (Leuteôn), Λευκοθέον (Leukothéon), and Λευκούπολις (Leukoúpolis) adapting an early or pre-Greek name variously recorded as Λέδραι (Lédrai), Λῆδρον (Lêdron), Λεδρῶν (Ledrôn), Λήδρα (Lḗdra), etc. Doublet of Nicosia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.
synonyms: word: Nicosia
extra: the capital city of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus
Derived terms: Lefkosian
Lefkosian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lefkosia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nicosian: of, from, or pertaining to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.
synonyms: word: Nicosian
extra: of, from, or pertaining to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus
Lefkosian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lefkosians
Etymology: From Lefkosia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nicosian: a person from Nicosia.
synonyms: word: Nicosian
extra: a person from Nicosia
Lefkosians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lefkosian
Canadianess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "The ability of this perspective to differentiate between Canadians and Americans and to generate a convincing sense of 'Canadianess' has been problematic."
ref: 2011, James Bickerton, “Janus Faces, Rocks, and Hard Places: Majority Nationalism in Canada”, in Alain-G. Gagnon, André Lecours, Geneviève Nootens, editors, Contemporary Majority Nationalism, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Canadianness.
Tiran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thiran
Etymology: From Arabic تيران.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Tiran Island: an island formerly of Egypt, since 2017 of Saudi Arabia, located between the southern end of the Sinai Peninsula and Arabian Peninsula.
glosses: Ellipsis of Tiran Strait: a strait in the Red Sea, Asia, between this island and the Sinai.
glosses: Ellipsis of Straits of Tiran: a straits in the Red Sea, Asia, between the Sinai Peninsula and Arabian Peninsula, containing this island, which separates the Gulf of Aqaba and the main body of the Red Sea.
Synonyms: word: Iotaba
word: Iotaba Island
word: Iotabe
word: Iotabe Island
word: Island of Iotaba
word: Island of Iotabe
word: Island of Tiran
word: Island of Yotvat
word: Tiran Island
word: Yotvat
word: Yotvat Island
sense: strait
word: Tiran Strait
sense: strait
word: Strait of Tiran
sense: straits
word: Tiran Straits
sense: straits
word: Straits of Tiran
Coordinate terms: Sanafir
Derived terms: Island of Tiran
Strait of Tiran
Straits of Tiran
Tiran Island
Tiran Strait
Tiran Straits
Kemalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kemalist
supercircular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercircular
form: most supercircular
Etymology: From super- + circular.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a supercircle
supercatenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercatenoids
Etymology: From super- + catenoid.
Senses: topics: algebra
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: a geometric surface constituting a transition between a cube (or similar surface) and a catenoid.
supercatenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercatenoid
superegg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supereggs
Etymology: From super- + egg.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A surface formed by rotating a superellipse about one of its axes.
supereggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superegg
supershape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supershapes
Etymology: From super- + shape.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any closed curve that is a generalization of a superellipse; it is defined by a superformula
supershapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supershape
superformular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or describing a superformula
superquadric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superquadrics
Etymology: From super- + quadric.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional relative of a superellipse (or similar curve).
superquadrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superquadric
hand-printed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handprinted.
whaling station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whaling stations
Senses: glosses: A dock in which the carcasses of hunted whales are processed, and where whale hunters sometimes live.
onlyborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From only + born.
Senses: examples: text: An onlyborn parent who is level has plenty of good qualities: He tends to be self-reliant.
ref: 1986, G. Hugh Allred, Teenager: A Survival Guide for Mom and Dad, Bookcraft, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: Born as the only child in a family, flock, or the like.
onlyborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onlyborns
Etymology: From only + born.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most extensive studies ever undertaken tracked more than three thousand high school students — half were onlyborns, half had one sibling — for a twenty-year period.
ref: 2001, Susan Newman, Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your One and Only, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: The only child to be born to a parent or family.
Synonyms: only child
onlyborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onlyborn
A.A.M.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Medical Assistants.
A.A.M.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Mental Deficiency.
A.A.M.I.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.
AAMT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association for Medical Transcription.
A.A.N.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Academy of Nursing.
dodecameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdəʊdɛˈkæmɪtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dodecameters
Etymology: From dodeca- + -meter.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A complex line that consists of twelve metric feet.
secondborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From second + born.
Senses: examples: text: In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett, the heroine, is her family's secondborn child.
glosses: Born as the second child to parent or family.
examples: text: Jane Austen, the secondborn daughter in a family of five boys and two girls, was very close to her sister older Cassandra.
glosses: Second of a particular type to be born to a parent or family.
secondborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondborns
Etymology: From second + born.
Senses: examples: text: My secondborn is more outgoing.
glosses: The second child to be born to a parent or family.
secondborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondborn
geazon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geazon
form: most geazon
Senses: examples: text: One had a saddle, another a pad or a pannel fastened with a cord, for girths were geazon.
ref: 1821, Robert Laneham, Laneham's Letter, Digitized edition, published 2007, page 29:
text: … ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon, …
ref: 1937, George Puttenham, quotee, edited by George Gregory Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays, Digitized edition, published 2008, page 119:
text: Why live I wretch alas (quoth he) where all good luck is geazon?
ref: 1969, George Gascoigne, “Weedes”, in John William Cunliffe, editor, The Complete Works of George Gascoigne, Digitized edition, published 2009, page 370:
glosses: Alternative form of geason.
middleborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From middle + born.
Senses: examples: text: On the positive side, middleborn children are good negotiators and adaptable; they often feel little need to "control."
ref: 1996, Gary Smalley, Making Love Last Forever, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: Born as the middle child to a parent or family.
middleborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middleborns
Etymology: From middle + born.
Senses: examples: text: A middleborn who feels left out may become unsure about his place in the family.
ref: 1986, G. Hugh Allred, Teenager: A Survival Guide for Mom and Dad, Bookcraft, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: The middle child to be born to a parent or family.
middleborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middleborn
A.A.N.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
A. & M.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: Hymns
glosses: Initialism of ancient and modern.
A&R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those visiting British A&R men realized that it would be hard to package the Detroit music they were hearing as house: it was colder and more electronicky, its lineage was not disco, and it was more obviously conceptualized […]
ref: 1999, Mireille Silcott, Rave America: New School Dancescapes, page 27:
text: I would describe him as an A&R of pop culture. He's a really multidimensional person that has so much to offer. He knows so many people, he loves art and he was a very huge moving factor in us meeting. Thank you, Thom [Muah].
ref: 2024 May 10, Justin Moran, quoting Isaac Dunbar, “Isaac Dunbar and Kerri Colby Were Built for This”, in Paper:
related: word: A & R
word: A. & R.
qualifier: music industry
glosses: Initialism of artist(s) and repertoire/repertory.
Related terms: talent scout
A. & R.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A&R
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A & R.
A.A.N.N.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Neurological Nurses.
A.A.O.H.N.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.
A.A.P.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Academy of Pediatrics.
glosses: Initialism of American Association of Pathologists.
A.A.P.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Academy of Physician Assistants.
Qin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭn
ipa: /t͡ʃɪn/
Forms: form: Qins
form: Ch'in
form: Tsin
form: Chin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秦 (Qín), from Middle Chinese (*dzin), from Old Chinese (*dzin).
Senses: glosses: An ancient feudal state of China that existed between 778 and 207 BC.
examples: text: The youth of China, deeply concerned with the future of their country, began to question everything and re-evaluate everything. What had been considered valuable became worthless, and what had been regarded as worthless became priceless. The more they examined, the more doubtful they became. This inquisitive approach shook the ancient political system, which had been handed down with little modification from the Chin Dynasty more than twenty centuries before. The new generation cried, "Democracy."
ref: [1943, Kwok Ying Fung, “Out of Yesterday”, in China, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Sian was the captial of the Cin Dynasty(221B.C. - 201B.C.), which built the Great Wall of China. The city is now known for archeological finds, such as the clay soldiers, horses and arms buried with the emperor of the Cin Dynasty.
ref: [2007, “Our Trip Back to Shanghai”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48:
text: Until 1974, the name Qin Shihuangdi (221-210 B.C.) was essentially known to specialists through the annals of Sima Qian, official historian to the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.). The Han overthrew the Qin dynasty founded by the First Emperor and this might call for reservations concerning his objectivity. Yet Sima, who wrote a century after the facts, was well informed.
ref: 2007 September 14, Souren Melikian, “A Chinese emperor's cultural revolution”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2024, Arts:
text: The highlight of every Chinese New Year meal with the family is when the "hongbao", red envelopes filled with brand new banknotes, are handed out at the end. The tradition goes back to the Qin dynasty (221 - 206 BC) when hongbao were given to children to protect them from evil spirits.
ref: 2016 February 11, Frank Sieren, “Sieren's China: Cashless into the Year of the Monkey”, in DW News, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2016, China:
glosses: The first imperial dynasty of China, lasting from 221 to 207 BC.
examples: text: Qin and Meng applied for permission to have a child from authorities in Huangshan city in eastern Anhui province, where her residency is registered, said the officer, who gave only his surname, also Qin.
ref: 2015 May 19, “China teacher allowed to give birth and ordered to abort”, in AP News, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Derived terms: China
Related terms: Qin Mountains
Tang
Han
Jin
Xin
Qin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭn
ipa: /t͡ʃɪn/
Forms: form: Ch'in
form: Tsin
form: Chin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁 (Qìn).
Senses: glosses: A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
cosmicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cosmic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The cosmicity of the empty, blank view from the telescope made him feel lonely.
glosses: The state of being cosmic.
BPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most major U.S. retailers began replacing BPA with BPS about a decade ago. One 2023 study of 571 paper receipts collected from 24 states concluded that just one percent of those receipts contained BPA — whereas 85 percent contained BPS.
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: Abbreviation of bisphenol S.
glosses: Initialism of bladder pain syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of battered person syndrome.
Related terms: BPA
A.A.R.T.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association for Respiratory Therapy (“former name of American Association for Respiratory Care”).
AASECT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists.
uta monogatari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uta monogatari
Etymology: From Japanese 歌物語 (uta monogatari, “poem-tale”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese literary genre that originated in the Heian period. A subgenre of tale-literature, it includes works that combine poetry (waka) with fictional prose narrative.
AAU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AAUs
Senses: examples: text: The standard allowance, an “assigned amount unit” (AAU), is equivalent to one metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. […] In general, these credits can be purchased, sold, and otherwise transferred by private actors through international markets. Unlike AAUs, they are not allocated by a state but rather are generated through voluntary activities undertaken most commonly by private actors.
ref: 2014, John G Sprankling, “Rights in Airspace and Outer Space”, in The International Law of Property, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 174:
topics: law
qualifier: climate change
glosses: Initialism of assigned amount unit.
AAU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] the AAU […] had not only refused to unsanction the meet but was also said to be contributing funds to bring in foreign competitors […]
ref: 2003, Douglas Hartmann, Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete, page 103:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Amateur Athletic Union; also A.A.U.
abaciscuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abaciscus
Issyk Kul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Issyk-Kul
form: Ysyk Köl
Etymology: From Kyrgyz Ысык-Көл (Isık-Köl) "hot lake" via Russian Иссык-Ку́ль (Issyk-Kúlʹ).
Senses: glosses: A large freshwater endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan.
glosses: A region of Kyrgyzstan.
Uvs Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Uvs Nuur
form: Ubsa Nor
form: Ubsunur
Etymology: From Mongolian Увс нуур (Uvs nuur).
Senses: glosses: a highly saline lake in Mongolia with a small part in Tuva (or Tyva), Russia
umbres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbre
biguttate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + guttate.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of two guttae or spots.
stigme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stigmes
Etymology: An adaptation of the short stem (stigm-, στιγμ- (stigm-)) of the Latin stigma and the Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma). Compare stigmal and stigmate; hypodigm and paradigm; hexastigm, polystigm, tetrastigm, and tristigm.
Senses: examples: text: Ȝe schal not prik ȝor flesch, ne mak to ȝow ani figeris, ne stigmes, þat are woundis.
Ye shall not prick your flesh, nor make to you any figures, nor stigmes, that are wounds.
ref: c.''' 1400, Apology for Lollard Doctrines, page 92
text: None..haue..branded any nation with the marke and stigme of Atheisme.
ref: a.''' 1619, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix (1622), book I, chapter iv, § 1, page 20
glosses: Anglicised form of stigma
glosses: A dot used as a punctuation mark in historical Greek texts, especially at the top of the line, equivalent to a period or full stop.
rye seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rye seeds
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rye, seed.
glosses: Caraway seed, used whole as a flavoring in the best-known type of rye bread, and often mistakenly assumed to be the rye itself.
bedrift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedrifts
form: bedrifting
form: bedrifted
form: bedrifted
Etymology: From be- (“about, around”) + drift.
Senses: examples: text: The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?
ref: 1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history:
text: Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, [...]
ref: 1918, Katharine Lee Bates, The retinue, and other poems:
text: [...] That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, [...]
ref: 2011, Anonymous, William Morris, Eirkr Magnusson, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings:
glosses: To drift about; drift around.
Related terms: bedrive
destresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destress
destressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destress
recloser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reclosers
Etymology: From reclose + -er.
Senses: glosses: A circuit breaker equipped with a mechanism that can automatically close the breaker after it has been opened due to a fault.
Synonyms: autorecloser
automatic circuit recloser
ACR
reclosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recloser
autorecloser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoreclosers
Etymology: From auto- + recloser.
Senses: glosses: A recloser.
autoreclosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autorecloser
freestream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freestreams
Etymology: From free + stream.
Senses: glosses: The air far upstream of an aerodynamic body, i.e. before the body has a chance to deflect, slow down or compress the air.
freestreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freestream
Yanbu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yenbo
Senses: glosses: A city, a governorate and Red Sea port in Medina province, western Saudi Arabia.
dudukahar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dudukahars
Etymology: From Armenian դուդուկահար (dudukahar).
Senses: examples: text: The three younger dudukahars joined him, first interposing solos and then (when audible) weaving around the voice’s call-and-response with Alizâdeh’s shurangiz and the qanun.
ref: 2012 September 30, David Honigmann, “Djivan Gasparyan & Hossein Alizâdeh, Barbican, London”, in Financial Times:
glosses: A duduk player.
dudukahars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dudukahar
siren call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siren calls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of siren song.
synonyms: word: siren song
Janamejaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit जनमेजय (janamejaya, literally “causing men to tremble”).
Senses: glosses: Son of Parikshit, who performed Sarpayaga in Mahabharata.
metaprotocol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaprotocols
Etymology: From meta- + protocol.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A protocol that dictates the form of other protocols.
metaprotocols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaprotocol
Drona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa).
Senses: glosses: The royal guru to Kauravas and Pandavas in Mahabharata.
Dhritarashtra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit धृतराष्ट्र (dhṛtarāṣṭra).
Senses: glosses: The king of Hastinapur in the Mahabharata.
christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: christs
Senses: examples: text: False christs will offer false hope and provide no salvation.
glosses: Alternative form of Christ.
64mo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 64mos
Senses: examples: text: 39. Reed, C. A., H. F. Harvey, & R. I. Brasher. WESTERN BIRD GUIDE: Birds of the Rockies & West to the Pacific. 286 pgs with index. Color prints throughout. Red fabricoid, with chipped cardboard slipcase. Oblong 64mo. NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. Very good condition, with fair case. $21.50 [115273]
ref: 2000 April 29, Acorn Books, “FS: 2nd Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Sat., April 29, 2000.”, in rec.arts.books.marketplace (Usenet):
topics: media
printing
publishing
qualifier: paper
glosses: A size of paper or book: 1.87"-2.5" x 2.5"-3.125".
Masons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mason