cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
alkanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkanoates
Etymology: From alkanoic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester formed from the reaction of an alkanoic acid and alkanol
Derived terms: perfluoroalkanoate
alkanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkanoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic carboxylic acid.
amphitropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having both lipotropic and hydrotropic characteristics (used especially of proteins)
Related terms: amphitropism
Odesa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Оде́са (Odésa) (cognate with Russian Оде́сса (Odéssa)).
Senses: examples: text: The Ukrainian government says Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other cities have suffered a barrage of drone attacks, and pleaded with Western countries to step up their assistance in the face of the new challenge.
ref: 2022 October 17, Ivana Kottasová, “‘Kamikaze’ drones are the latest threat for Ukraine. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Odessa
glosses: Alternative spelling of Odessa:
A port city, the administrative center of Odessa Raion and Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Odessa:
A raion of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Odessa:
An oblast of Ukraine.
Derived terms: Odesan
Odesite
piece rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piece rates
Senses: glosses: The monetary amount paid per unit of production in the reward scheme of piece work, contrasting with hourly wage and salary.
hyperbolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɜːbəlaɪz/
ipa: /haɪˈpɝbəlaɪz/
Forms: form: hyperbolizes
form: hyperbolizing
form: hyperbolized
form: hyperbolized
Etymology: From hyperbole + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
examples: text: to purchase credit to their judgement, and draw you on to beleeve them, they commonly adorne, enlarge, yea, and Hyperbolize the matter.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.203
text: But what is this metasubstance that blinks at us from the apex of the morph, and that in Terminator 2 is hyperbolized in the quicksilver substratum of the T-1000?
ref: 2000, Vivian Carol Sobchack, Meta Morphing, page 123:
glosses: To represent or talk about with hyperbole.
Derived terms: hyperbolizer
lazen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lazens
form: lazening
form: lazened
form: lazened
Etymology: From laze + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Both words and music demand such a broadening or "lazening" of the phrase; the voice fades off into a sleepy whisper, while the accompanist plays as though his fingers could not keep their eyes open any longer!
ref: 1912, Harry Plunket Greene, Interpretation in Song, page 72:
text: And the summer heat, that windless, unrelieved, lazening, city heat also helped content me with this lone achievement.
ref: 2008, Will Roth, The World of 1950: The End of Innocence, page 27:
text: What this means is the education needed to allow the soul, that truly needs, has eliminated and forfeited the resource creating the dependency of the soul to lazen the effort, becoming expectant with the hand open for the continual gesture of misfortune.
ref: 2013, Michele Bigness, Planting Seeds on Concrete, page 62:
glosses: To make or become lazed or lazy
Related terms: lazy
driver's licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driver's licences
form: drivers' licences
Senses: glosses: An official identification document which states the recipient may drive a motorized vehicle.
Synonyms: word: driving licence
word: driver's license
word: driver licence
memristance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memristances
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Electrical resistance that varies according to the history of electric charge that has flowed through a device
Related terms: memristive
memristor
antisagging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sagging.
Senses: examples: text: Bentonite clay is often used as an antisagging agent.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Combatting the tendency of paints and other coatings to sag.
memristive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more memristive
form: most memristive
Etymology: From memristor + -ive.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to a memristor; exhibiting memristance.
memristor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memristors
Etymology: Blend of memory + resistor, coined by Leon O. Chua in 1971.
Senses: examples: text: According to Kumar, memristor inventor Leon Chua predicted that if you mapped out the possible device parameters there would be regions of chaotic behavior in between regions where behavior is stable.
ref: 2020 October 1, Samuel K. Moore, “Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron”, in IEEE Spectrum:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A passive electrical element in which the electrical resistance is proportional to the integral of the electrical current between the terminals.
Derived terms: memristic
Related terms: memristance
memristive
barotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more barotropic
form: most barotropic
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: In which the pressure of the atmosphere is dependent upon its density only.
Derived terms: autobarotropic
barotropicity
nonbarotropic
Related terms: baroclinic
biforked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + forked.
Senses: glosses: forked into two; bifurcate
baseband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basebands
Etymology: From base + band.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The frequency range occupied by a message signal prior to modulation.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
qualifier: noun adjunct
glosses: A method of transmission in which only one frequency channel is used at a time.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device using baseband transmission.
Synonyms: sense: method of transmission
word: lowpass
Related terms: broadband
narrowband
passband
sideband
wideband
calamitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calamitic
form: most calamitic
Etymology: From Latin calamus (“a reed”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing rod-shaped liquid crystals
Derived terms: nematic calamitic
smectic calamitic
discotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discotic
form: most discotic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing disc-shaped liquid crystals
Derived terms: nematic discotic
columnar discotic
dendrimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dendrimeric
form: most dendrimeric
Etymology: From dendrimer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or shaped like a dendrimer
Derived terms: oligodendrimeric
dimesogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dimesogenic
form: most dimesogenic
Etymology: From di- + mesogenic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any of several forms of mesogenic liquid crystals whose molecules are dimers
mesogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesogenic
form: most mesogenic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a mesogen; describing the part of a liquid crystal molecule responsible for mesophase formation.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a relationship between a parasite and a host in which the host survives despite the dominance of the parasite.
glosses: Moderately virulent; between lentogenic and velogenic.
Derived terms: bimesogenic
dimesogenic
nonmesogenic
discoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪs.kɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɪs.koɪd/
rhymes: -ɪskɔɪd
Forms: form: more discoid
form: most discoid
Etymology: From disc + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a disc/disk.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only disk florets, without petal-like ray florets.
raw_tags: of a capitulum
Synonyms: english: in its matching sense
translation: in its matching sense
word: discal
Derived terms: discoidal
Related terms: disco-
disko-
discoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪs.kɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɪs.koɪd/
rhymes: -ɪskɔɪd
Forms: form: discoids
Etymology: From disc + -oid.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A disk-shaped dental excavator designed to remove the carious dentin of a decayed tooth
disruptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disruptors
Etymology: From disrupt + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of disrupter.
Derived terms: chronodisruptor
endocrine disruptor
infodisruptor
electrooptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electrooptic
form: most electrooptic
Etymology: From electro- + optic.
Senses: glosses: describing a system or material in which the optical properties (especially the refractive index) varies with an applied electric charge
glosses: of or pertaining to electrooptics
aggregate species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggregate species
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A grouping of closely-related species that are treated like a single species for practical purposes.
Related terms: species complex
overbites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overbite
underbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbites
Etymology: From under- + bite.
Senses: glosses: A malocclusion, in which the lower teeth extend past the upper ones
underbite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underbites
form: underbiting
form: underbit
form: underbitten
Etymology: From under- + bite.
Senses: glosses: To use insufficient acid in an etching process, so that the result is too shallow.
Related terms: overbite
underbites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbite
onuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onus
ousters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouster
ousters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ouster
ostracizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ostracize
ostracizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ostracize
ostracizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostracizings
Senses: glosses: An act of ostracization.
ostracises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ostracise
ostracising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ostracise
outshines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outshine
outshining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outshine
outshining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outshinings
Senses: examples: text: I know not, brethren, whether you are often favoured to behold the outshinings of the divine glory, and to feel the inlettings of it into your own soul.
ref: 1877, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Sermons Preached and Revised, page 292:
glosses: A shining outward; effulgence.
osteoporotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɒstiəʊpəˈɹɒtɪk/
Forms: form: more osteoporotic
form: most osteoporotic
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteoporosis.
Derived terms: antiosteoporotic
nonosteoporotic
overpays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpay
opaquing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opaque
opaqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opaque
overjoys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overjoy
overjoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overjoy
oversimplifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversimplify
oversimplifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversimplify
orthodoxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthodoxy
ovoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovoid
outlays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outlay
outlays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outlay
outlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outlay
outlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outlayings
Senses: glosses: money spent; expenditure
outlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outlay
oversupplies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oversupply
oversupplies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversupply
air shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air show
oversample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversamples
Etymology: From over- + sample.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: An additional sample of a subpopulation, above and beyond the portion of a main sample that already belongs to that subpopulation.
oversample
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversamples
form: oversampling
form: oversampled
form: oversampled
Etymology: From over- + sample.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To sample additional members of a subpopulation, above and beyond the members included in the main sample.
examples: Oversampling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
qualifier: systems
glosses: To sample a signal at a frequency well above its Nyquist rate.
sharp-shinned hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharp-shinned hawks
Senses: examples: text: However, there are certain species of hawks which are to be feared; these are the Cooper's hawk and the sharp-shinned hawk, the first being very destructive to poultry and the latter killing many wild birds.
ref: 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 105:
glosses: Accipiter striatus, the smallest hawk to reside in USA and Canada, which preys on songbirds.
Synonyms: Accipiter velox
sharpie
chickenhawk
sharp-shinned hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharp-shinned hawk
outdaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outdacious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She had the outdaciousness to yell my name across the room.
glosses: Audacity.
Synonyms: audacity
Related terms: audacious
tryal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tryals
Senses: examples: text: The Tryal of William Penn & William Mead for Causing a Tumult
ref: 1919. William Penn, William Mead, Don Carlos Seitz. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of trial.
tryals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tryal
dingos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingoes
Senses: glosses: plural of dingo
dingos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dingoes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dingo
dingoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dingo
dingoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dingo
French doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French door
French windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French window
bright eyed and bushy tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
spreadeagle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spreadeagle
form: most spreadeagle
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spread-eagle.
spreadeagle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spreadeagles
form: spreadeagling
form: spreadeagled
form: spreadeagled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spread-eagle.
hung up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang up
hung up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hung up
form: most hung up
Senses: examples: text: Gee, why are you still so hung up about missing those end-of-year activities?
text: And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know [...]
ref: 2011, Gotye, Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) [Official Music Video] (yt)
glosses: Having a hang-up, or emotional difficulty.
examples: text: Snap throw to first, and they’ve got Sanchez hung up.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In a position such that the path to the desired base is blocked by a fielder holding the ball; caught in a rundown.
raw_tags: of a runner
examples: text: I'm hung up on Terry.
text: I've been so hung up on the idea of being a couple.
glosses: In love.
enantiotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enantiotropic
form: most enantiotropic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiotropism
enantiotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enantiotrope + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The reversible transformation of a crystal between different forms when heated above, or cooled below, a transition-point temperature.
Related terms: enantiotropic
hemiphasmidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + phasmidic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a liquid crystal molecule having a rigid core and a flexible side chain.
phasmidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phasmidic
form: most phasmidic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a liquid crystal molecule having a rigid core and a pair of flexible side chains
Derived terms: hemiphasmidic
hyperbranched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperbranched
form: most hyperbranched
Etymology: From hyper- + branched.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a highly branched structure
isotropization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotropizations
Senses: glosses: The reversible transformation between isotropic forms.
examples: text: Isotropization is much slower than gyrotropization and occurs at even significantly larger scales.
ref: 2017, M. Gedalin, “Rankine‐Hugoniot Relations in Multispecies Plasma With Gyrotropic Anisotropic Downstream Ion Distributions”, in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Phyrics:
glosses: The conversion of an anisotropic system to an isotropic one.
Related terms: isotropize
mesogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesogens
Etymology: From meso- + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that can exist as a mesophase
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The part of the molecule of a liquid crystal that is responsible for its properties
glosses: A mesogenic virus
Derived terms: metallomesogen
smectogen
Related terms: mesogenic
mesophase
mesomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesomorphous
form: most mesomorphous
Etymology: From mesomorph + -ous.
Senses: glosses: mesomorphic
metallomesogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallomesogens
Etymology: From metallo- + mesogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any mesogen that contains one or more metal atoms
monotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnəʊtrɒpɪk/
ipa: /ˈmɒnətrɒpɪk/
ipa: [mɔnəwtrɔpɪk]
ipa: [ˈmɔnətrɔpɪk]
ipa: /mɑnoʊtrɑpɪk/
ipa: /ˈmɑnətrɑpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From mono- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any material that exists in multiple forms, only one of which is stable at all temperatures and pressures.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That collects pollen the flowers of only one species.
raw_tags: of a pollinator
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: polytropic
glosses: Focusing one's attention on one limited set of things at one time.
multimolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + molecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Involving multiple molecules.
nematogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematogens
form: nematogene
Etymology: Formed as nemat- + -o- + -gen, in zoölogical use after the French nématogène. Compare nematogenous and nematogenic, as well as the scientific Latin Nēmatogena.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyema, which produce vermiform embryos; opposed to rhombogen.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nematic mesogen.
smectogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smectogens
Etymology: Blend of smectic + mesogen
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any smectic mesogen.
nonamphiphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amphiphilic.
Senses: glosses: Not amphiphilic
nonbranched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + branched.
Senses: glosses: Not branched
nonmesogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mesogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not mesogenic
orientationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From orientational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to orientation
impuissant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impuissant
form: most impuissant
Etymology: French, from prefix im- (“not”) + puissant. See puissant.
Senses: glosses: weak; feeble; lacking power
colinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colinearities
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of collinearity.
Derived terms: macrocolinearity
polycatenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polycatenary
form: most polycatenary
Etymology: From poly- + catenary.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple chains
sanidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanidic
form: most sanidic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a board-like mesogen whose orientation reflects the symmetry of its constituent molecules.
subchain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subchains
Etymology: From sub- + chain.
Senses: glosses: Any chain that branches off another.
examples: text: The supermarket chain may also have a retail partner or subchain in the country subject to the same standard; this actor could further interact with policy makers.
ref: 2009, Guillaume Gruère, Debdatta Sengupta, Biosafety Decisions and Perceived Commercial Risks, page 7:
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary chain of businesses.
Hypernyms: chain
subvolume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subvolumes
Etymology: From sub- + volume.
Senses: glosses: Any volume that makes up part of another.
thermophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + physical.
Senses: glosses: Describing any physical property that is affected by temperature.
Related terms: physiochemical
physiomechanical
enantiomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enantiomorphic
form: most enantiomorphic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
Derived terms: enantiomorphically
enantiomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantiomorphisms
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The relationship exhibited by a pair of enantiomorphs.
fullerane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulleranes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fully saturated fullerene
blue-light special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-light specials
Etymology: From use in Kmart, where a flashing blue light was turned on to indicate a short-term discount.
Senses: hypernyms: special#Noun
glosses: A discount or bargain.
Related terms: blue-plate special
blue light special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue light specials
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blue-light special.
microcitoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcitomas
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: small cell lung cancer (SCLC)
rosefinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosefinches
Etymology: From rose + finch.
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds in the genus Carpodacus of the finch family.
Derived terms: common rosefinch
scarlet rosefinch
Sillem's rosefinch
oratories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oratory
outsells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsell
matching numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Firearms; on a bolt action rifle; Firearms; on a bolt action rifle
glosses: corresponding serial numbers on both the removable bolt and the frame of the rifle.
Related terms: english: Maths
translation: Maths
word: matching number
fulleroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulleroids
Etymology: From fullerene + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various compounds whose structure resembles that of a fullerene
Related terms: heterofullerene
norfullerene
homofullerene
secofullerene
heterofullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterofullerenes
Etymology: From hetero- + fullerene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom
Related terms: azafullerene
borafullerene
norfullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norfullerenes
Etymology: From nor- + fullerene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the removal of one or more carbon atoms, and the optional addition of several hydrogen atoms
homofullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homofullerenes
Etymology: From homo- + fullerene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms
secofullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secofullerenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by breaking a carbon-carbon bond and adding two hydrogen atoms
stereoparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereoparents
Etymology: From stereo- + parent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A parent compound whose name implies stereochemistry that need not be explicitly stated.
tricomponent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + component.
Senses: glosses: Having three similar components.
tricomponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricomponents
Etymology: From tri- + component.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A component having three nodes.
tricoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + coordinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a coordination number of three
Related terms: tricoordinated
uninverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninverted
form: most uninverted
Etymology: From un- + inverted.
Senses: glosses: Not inverted
footie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of footy.
footie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footies
Senses: glosses: A blanket sleeper or similar covering that covers the foot.
Girl Guide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Girl Guide movement; Girl Guide organisation
text: From newspaper clippings of Lady Baden Povvell′s visit to the Ontario Girl Guide Camp near Sprucedale to photographs of the first Girl Guides and Brownies from the 1940s, Muriel Parker has filed it all.
ref: 1998, Astrid Taim, Almaguin: A Highland History, page 129:
text: Bonnie MacQueen has looked critically into the Girl Guide movement in British Columbia and feels that Guiding was a double-edged sword for women.
ref: 1998, Cathy Converse, Mainstays: Women Who Shaped BC, page 41:
text: She wrote a “manual of training” based on Boy Scout procedures and the British Girl Guide handbook, and she began organizing girls into Savannah′s first troops.
ref: 2009, Ann Short Chirhart, Betty Wood, Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 1, page 379:
glosses: Attributive form of Girl Guides.
Girl Guide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Girl Guides
Senses: examples: text: It′s cookie season every spring, from early April to mid-May, when hundreds of Girl Guides hit the street flogging boxes of trets in their annual fund-raising drive.
ref: 2002, Scott Mitchell, Secret Toronto: The Unique Guidebook to Toronto's Hidden Sites, Sounds & Tastes, page 117:
text: She was wearing the blue uniform of a Girl Guide.
ref: 2006, Richard Whittington-Egan, Molly Whittington-Egan, Murder on File: The World′s Most Notorious Killers, unnumbered page:
text: Daisy told the group that in Britain, Girl Guides wore uniforms.
ref: 2007, Susan Bivin Aller, Juliette Low, page 32:
glosses: A member of the Girl Guides, a world wide youth organisation for girls.
Synonyms: word: Girl Scout
Related terms: Girl Guiding
Girl Scouts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A worldwide youth organisation for girls. Known as Girl Guides in Commonwealth Countries.
Girl Scouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Girl Scout
Girl Guides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 1935 July 16, Kenya Gazette, page 802,
The proviso to clause 5 makes it possible for existing Girl Guides organizations which were not formed and do not function under the authority of the Girl Guides Association to avoid the penalties prescribed by the Bill.
text: Baden-Powell enlisted his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell, to help him form the Girl Guides, when, at his first call to form the group, 6,000 girls registered.
ref: 2002, Robert T. Grimm, Notable American Philanthropists: Biographies of Giving and Volunteering, page 189:
text: A small satellite exhibition at Casa Loma (1 Austin Tce 416-923-1171) celebrates the contributions of Lady Mary Pellatt, wife of the castle′s builder, to Girl Guides in Canada.
ref: 2002, Scott Mitchell, Secret Toronto: The Unique Guidebook to Toronto′s Hidden Sites, Sounds & Tastes, page 117:
text: Hore-Ruthven accepted appointment as Governor of South Australia, arrived in Adelaide in May 1928, and began to travel the state by Moth aeroplane. He took an active role in the Boy Scouts, his wife in the Girl Guides.
ref: 2004, Brian Carroll, Australia's Governors General: From Hopetoun to Jeffery, page 103:
glosses: A worldwide youth organisation for girls. Known as Girl Scouts in the USA.
Girl Guides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Girl Guide
outselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsell
magmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magma
macaronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macaroni
hot-to-trot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hot to trot.
confirmand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confirmands
Etymology: From Latin cōnfirmandus.
Senses: examples: text: The preacher then tells the confirmands, that as a token of their full consent to the confession just made, each of them should kiss the Scroll of the Law.
ref: 1868, Isaac Mayer Wise, Hymns, Psalms and Prayers, page 203:
text: In confirmation the confirmand confesses his faith and expresses a willingness to accept and obey Jesus Christ as his Lord; and the Christian Church confirms the worthiness of the confirmand to partake of the fellowship and heavenly blessings which this new relation called church-membership involves.
ref: 1917 March 25, “Showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ”, in The Evangelical Herald, volume 16, page 83:
text: These persons are recruited from a list of several, active adults in the church that is submitted by each confirmand.
ref: 2009, Michael J. Coyner, The Race to Reach Out: Connecting Newcomers to Christ in a New Century:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism.
particular Church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: particular Churches
Senses: qualifier: Catholic canon law
glosses: Any of the individual constituent hierarchically ordered ecclesial communities in full communion with Rome that are part of the Catholic Church as a whole.
Synonyms: diocese
particular Churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particular Church
cincher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinchers
Etymology: From cinch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that cinches as in holds and fastens, such as a belt or corset.
examples: text: Now comes the cincher...
glosses: Something that proves a point or concludes a story
glosses: A waist cincher (type of corset).
Derived terms: waist cincher
cinchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cincher
redbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd.boʊn/
Forms: form: redbones
Etymology: From red + bone.
Senses: glosses: A dark-red or tan coonhound.
examples: text: Redbones are commonly supposed to represent a fusion of the Indian, Negro, and white races […]
ref: 1936, LA bulletin: Agricultural Experiment Station of the Louisiana State University & A. & M. College, numbers 268-293, page 13:
text: The store attracted countless colorful characters, including Native Americans, wild-cowboy Texans, Chinese laborers, and “redbones,” the offspring of African Americans and Native Americans.
ref: 2009, Janet Allured, Judith F. Gentry, Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, page 122:
text: I can joke about being a redbone, and I am that. But most folks don't make no distinction between a redbone and a colored man, unless it's to their benefit.
ref: 2012, Gerald Duff, Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League, page 238:
glosses: An African American with light skin with red undertones.
Related terms: high yellow
yellow bone
Redbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Redbones
Senses: glosses: A member of any of several specific North American ethnic groups called Redbones
bridoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridoons
Etymology: From French bridon, from bride (“bridle”).
Senses: glosses: A type of snaffle bit, with small rings, usually used on a double bridle in conjunction with a curb bit.
Synonyms: bradoon
Derived terms: bridoon rein
oft-used
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oftused
form: oft used
Senses: examples: text: The "invisible hand" is an oft-used metaphor for the free market.
text: The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
antonyms: little-used
underused
unused
glosses: Frequently used.
Related terms: ill-used
shopworn
offer one's condolences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offers one's condolences
form: offering one's condolences
form: offered one's condolences
form: offered one's condolences
Senses: examples: text: The president offered his condolences to the mother of the dead soldier.
glosses: To offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one.
Cav.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Cavan.
Chinaman on one's back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The use of "Chinaman" could possibly refer to the use of opium becoming a historical stereotype of Chinese people.
Senses: examples: text: The chances are that he will stay with his first love, the needle, and that the habit will lose the glorious drive and tingle that it had at first, and become the chinaman on his back who drives him like a slave to get more money to buy more junk.
ref: 2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: A drug addiction.
glosses: Withdrawal symptoms.
Synonyms: monkey on one's back
corrosible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corrosible
form: most corrosible
Senses: glosses: corrodible
PRK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of People’s Republic of Kampuchea.
glosses: Initialism of People’s Republic of Korea.
razzia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razzias
Etymology: Borrowed from French razzia, from Algerian Arabic غَزِيَّة (ḡaziya), equalling Arabic غَزْوَة (ḡazwa, “raid, military campaign”). Doublet of ghazwa.
Senses: examples: text: A week ago the police started razzias (raids), and lots of gay and not gay people have been taken to the police department off of the main avenues, bars, (gay and not gay), baths, and restaurants.
ref: 1984 April 21, Jorge A., “Getting Together”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.
cucurbituril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucurbiturils
Etymology: From cucurbit, due to the resemblance between the molecular structure and the appearance of a pumpkin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of macrocyclic molecules consisting of glycoluril repeat units.
vectorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛktəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: vectorizes
form: vectorizing
form: vectorized
form: vectorized
form: vectorise
Etymology: From vector + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The raster and vectorized images are displayed on a graphic monitor where the vector data is an active layer and the raster image is a background layer.
ref: 1997, Sergey Ablameyko, An Introduction to Interpretation of Graphic Images, SPIE Press, →ISBN, page 147:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: rasterize
glosses: To convert an image into a vector graphics format.
examples: text: The principles on which the Cyber 200 FORTRAN compiler tries to detect which parts of a program can be vectorized are similar to those used in the Cray CFT compiler.
ref: 1987, Ronald H. Perrott, Parallel Programming, Addison Wesley, →ISBN, page 157:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert a program that operates on scalar values into the equivalent program operating on vectors, usually as an optimization step inside the compiler (automatic vectorization).
examples: text: […] peculiarities of the CNT structure can be used to vectorize drugs and other chemicals.
ref: 2018, Shyam Mohapatra et al., editors, Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 475:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: To lead selectively a drug to a target.
Derived terms: vectorization
vectorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vectorizations
form: vectorisation
Etymology: From vectorize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The action of vectorizing.
fauns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faun
co-conspirators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-conspirator
coconspirator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconspirators
Senses: examples: text: Albert Lasker became her partner, her adviser, her strategist, her coconspirator.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 110:
glosses: Alternative spelling of co-conspirator.
coconspirators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coconspirator
field glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I pursued her with some thoughts of an explanation, but she flew down the drive, and some minutes afterwards I was able to pick her out with my field-glasses travelling very rapidly in a south-westerly direction.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: binoculars.
calimocho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calimochos
form: kalimotxo
form: kali
form: motxo
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish calimocho, from Basque kalimotxo.
Senses: glosses: A cocktail consisting of approximately 50% red wine and 50% cola-based soft drink.
biblically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: Biblically
Etymology: From biblical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”
ref: 2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN:
glosses: In a biblical manner.
examples: text: Most of them showed an intimate knowledge of the young blonde, leading Seth to the conclusion they had known her biblically.
ref: 2003, L. D. White, Forever House, page 3:
glosses: Carnally; in the biblical sense.
Coordinate terms: Quranically
Derived terms: biblically accurate
bivouack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bivouacks
Senses: examples: text: When we had found a bivouack, all pressed round the corpse of the little fellow. Strange, we had so many brave comrades to mourn for, and yet this boy excited our special sympathy.
ref: 1867, Chatterbox, page 100:
glosses: Archaic form of bivouac.
bivouack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bivouacks
form: bivouacking
form: bivouacked
form: bivouacked
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bivouac.
bivouacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bivouac
bivouacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bivouack
bivouacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bivouack
blackguardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blackguardly
form: most blackguardly
Etymology: From blackguard + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Blackguardly barneys called boxing competitions.
ref: 1882 September 2, Evening News, column 6, page 1:
text: As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: Slipping the rope from the jenny, he handed her off to his fellow in blackguardly deals, and with remarkable inconspicuity put on the halter and dug in his heels.
ref: 2017, Jan D. Hodge, The Bard & Scheherazade Keep Company, San Jose, Calif.: Able Muse Press, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Characteristic of a blackguard.
homophora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homophor
Etymology: From homo- + Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō, “to carry”).
Senses: hypernyms: exophora
coordinate_terms: deixis
glosses: A reference that requires some type of general knowledge to understand.
Derived terms: word: homophoric
foul language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Profane or socially unacceptable words.
borderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From border + -less.
Senses: examples: text: More specifically I would like to see whether and under what conditions we could re-engineer the utopia of a borderless world, and by extension, a borderless Africa, since, as far as I know, Africa is part of the world. And the world is part of Africa.
ref: 2018 November 11, Achille Mbembe, “The idea of a borderless world”, in Africa Is a Country:
text: “We opened our doors to borderless Europe. This goes beyond eliminating border controls, it is the final affirmation of our European identity,” Bozinovic said.
ref: 2023 January 1, “Croatia adopts euro, enters borderless Europe club on New Year”, in Al Jazeera:
text: The reform is instrumental in making the Schengen area more resilient to present and future crises at its external borders. It makes also sure that people living and travelling in the EU can fully enjoy the benefits of borderless travel.
ref: 2024 May 24, “Schengen area: Council adopts update of Schengen Borders Code”, in Council of the European Union:
glosses: Not having a border.
Derived terms: borderlessness