cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
megapoleis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɛˈɡæ.pɒ.lɛɪz/
Senses: examples: text: Whether of time, value, the subject, etc., the axiom and the myth of a real or possible accumulation govern us everywhere, although we know that nothing is ever amassed and that stockpiles are self-consuming, like modern megapoleis, or like overloaded memories.
ref: 1995, Barry Smart, Michel Foucault, pages 68–69:
text: The theme “Integration of Indian territory” focuses on the dynamics of the Indian megapoleis and of secondary metropolises and medium-sized and small towns.
ref: 2004, French Institute of Pondicherry, Activity Report 2004, page 26:
text: The changes just outlined in two “megapoleis” are mirrored in large and small towns across the Greek world, from Massilia to Marakanda.
ref: 2006, Glenn R. Bugh, The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World, page 68:
glosses: plural of megapolis
surgical procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surgical procedures
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A procedure in which one or more incisions are made into the body in order to repair damage or remove diseased tissue; an operation.
Related terms: -centesis
-desis
-ectomy
-opsy
-ostomy
-plasty
-tomy
-opsy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄψις (ópsis, “view”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: examination
Related terms: autopsy
dilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: more dilly
form: most dilly
Etymology: From dill + -y.
Senses: glosses: Redolent of dill (the herb).
Derived terms: dilly bean
dilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: dillies
Senses: examples: text: You're the most impossible man I ever met. And I've met some dillies.
ref: 1958, Raymond Chandler, Playback:
text: Seriously, I mean it: From Russia, With Love is a real wowser, a lulu, a dilly and a smasheroo.
ref: 2013, Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, page 301:
glosses: Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.
dilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: dillies
Senses: glosses: A dilly bag.
dilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: dillier
form: dilliest
Etymology: From Somersetshire dialect; perhaps a blend of daft and silly.
Senses: glosses: Silly; characteristic of a dill.
dilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: dillies
Etymology: Contracted from diligence.
Senses: examples: text: So, down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying six insides.
ref: 1798, John Hookham Frere, George Canning, The Loves of the Triangles:
glosses: A kind of stagecoach.
glosses: A night cart.
dilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: dillies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dilly net
synonyms: word: dilly net
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: dilly-dally
Sheetrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sheetrocks
Etymology: From sheet + rock.
Senses: glosses: Drywall; plasterboard; a building material comprising a layer of gypsum plaster sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
glosses: Any of the various thicknesses and grades of such material.
glosses: A wall made of this.
Sheetrock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Sheetrocks
form: Sheetrocking
form: Sheetrocked
form: Sheetrocked
Etymology: From sheet + rock.
Senses: glosses: To install and finish Sheetrock.
sandwiching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sandwich
sandwiched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sandwich
banalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: banalizes
form: banalizing
form: banalized
form: banalized
Etymology: From banal + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: trivialize
glosses: To make banal or commonplace.
banally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more banally
form: most banally
Etymology: From banal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a banal, trite or boring manner.
peninsulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peninsulates
form: peninsulating
form: peninsulated
form: peninsulated
Etymology: From peninsula + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To make into a peninsula; to surround almost entirely with water.
historiographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historiographical
form: most historiographical
Etymology: From historiography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Related to historiography
Synonyms: historiographic
Derived terms: historiographically
semiosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiospheres
Etymology: From semio- + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: 2003 Iu. M. Lotman, Edna Andrews - Conversations With Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition
Lotman's conceptualization of the semiosphere was inspired by Vernadsky's and Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the biosphere and the noosphere.
text: The semiotic experience in the semiosphere, according to Lotman, precedes the production of discourses because it is one of their conditions. The semiosphere is above all the domain that allows culture to define itself and to situate itself, in order to be able to dialogue with other cultures; it is also a field whose dialogical functioning has as its principle task to regulate and resolve semio-cultural heterogeneities.
ref: 2006, Jacques Fontanille, The Semiotics of Discourse, →ISBN, page 205:
text: The category of boundary leads to two further characteristics of semiosphere: binarism and asymmetry. The translation mechanism responsible for the generation of new meaning in semiosphere presupposes at least two semiotically different participants that are mutually untranslatable.
ref: 2011, Claus Emmeche, Kalevi Kull, Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the Action of Signs, →ISBN, page 183:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: The sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts; The domain of all signs that represent and define a culture.
expanded metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expanded metals
Senses: glosses: An alloy that has expanded upon cooling.
glosses: Sheet metal that has been slit and stretched at right angles to the slits to form a lattice; used for making screens etc and for reinforcing concrete.
Related terms: honeycomb
captivator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captivators
Senses: examples: text: Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.
ref: 1858, Mary Cowden Clarke, World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages:
glosses: A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
Derived terms: captivatress
endogenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endogenizes
form: endogenizing
form: endogenized
form: endogenized
Senses: examples: text: First, the simultaneous system allows us to endogenize many economic variables that are likely to be generated in the same economic process, […]
ref: 1999, Shenggen Fan, Peter Hazell, Sukhadeo Thorat, Linkages Between Government Spending, Growth, and Poverty in Rural India:
text: A more realistic (and considerably more complicated) approach, however, would be to endogenize household size over the time horizon, […]
ref: 2002, Stephen A. Vosti, Julie Witcover, Chantal Line Carpentier, Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon:
glosses: To develop (something) internally, especially a parameter within an economic model.
Related terms: endogenization
methanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methanals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The IUPAC name for formaldehyde, rarely used in research or industry.
Proustian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːstɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈpɹusti.ən/
Forms: form: more Proustian
form: most Proustian
Etymology: From French Proust + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The character played by French female lead Lea Seydoux is even called Madeleine Swann, a name whose Proustian double resonance can only be deliberate.
ref: 2015, Stephen Dalton, “‘Spectre’: Film Review”, in Hollywood Reporter:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, or his works.
examples: text: D'Costa's poems so far published also reverberate with an awareness of the past, and a gently Proustian pleasure, as in the elegiac “In Memorandum”.
ref: 1994, Vera Mihailovich-Dickman, “Return”, in Post-Colonial Writing: A Cultural Labyrinth:
glosses: Derived from personal memory, as it often happens in the works of Proust (for example, in the experience of the madeleine).
Derived terms: Proustian moment
sound off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sounds off
form: sounding off
form: sounded off
form: sounded off
Senses: examples: text: I'm sick of his sounding off about how he thinks this country should be run!
text: I would give anything to be at the hearing so that I could really sound off about this attempt to cram another liquor license into Jamaica Plain. I say kill it today.
ref: 1986 February 1, Kim Westheimer, quoting Albert O'Neil, “Board Hears Testimony on Saints' Liquor License”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 10:
glosses: To hold forth about something in an opinionated manner.
examples: text: Hartman: […] Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: Sir, yes, sir!
Hartman: Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair.
Recruits: SIR, YES, SIR!
ref: 1987, Stanley Kubrick, director, Full Metal Jacket:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Command instructing a person to speak up or acknowledge something.
examples: text: Cyclops: […] X-men… Sound off …
Man 1: Iceman, sounding off!Man 2: Fireman, sounding off!
Man 3: Clothing-Man, sounding off!
Man 4: Ability-to-Hop-Man, here!
ref: 2004, Astonishing X-Men, number 5, Marvel Comics:
text: Tagon: Sound off! Brad, do you have the Ambassador?
Brad: Check!
Tagon: Schlock, do you have our money?
Schlock: Check!
Tagon: Are we still being pursued?
Creeth Soldiers: Check!
ref: 2000 August 19, Schlock Mercenary:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Command instructing a person to confirm that they are present or that some other objective has been met.
Related terms: noises off
reference variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reference variables
Etymology: reference + variable
Senses: examples: text: The value of a reference variable is the memory address at which the data associated with the object is stored.
ref: 2003, Grant Palmer, Technical Java: Developing Scientific and Engineering Applications:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A variable used for storing the address of another variable or structure, equivalent to a pointer.
Derived terms: external reference variable
steeplejack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steeplejacks
Etymology: From steeple + jack.
Senses: examples: text: Whether it's a rigger or steeple jack or window washer or any person who has strong nerves and a skilled body.
ref: 1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King:
glosses: A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like steeples in order to make repairs.
Related terms: word: rope access
english: cf. Wikipedia article
translation: cf. Wikipedia article
word: industrial climbing
word: aerial work platform
steeplejacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steeplejack
steelworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steelworks
Etymology: From steel + works.
Senses: glosses: A place where steel is manufactured and/or shaped.
Synonyms: steel mill
steel plant
Coordinate terms: sense: type of works
word: works § Hyponyms
Related terms: steelwork
steelworker
steelyard
steelworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steelworkers
form: steel-worker
form: steel worker
Etymology: From steel + worker.
Senses: examples: text: The United Steelworkers strike closed the mill.
text: The steelworkers union has been joined by members from the teachers, hotel, and postal workers unions in getting out the vote for Lamb. […] Denny Cregut is a former steelworker who now works for the United Steelworkers Union.
ref: 2018 March 12, Vanessa Yurkevich, “Steel union looks to flip Pennsylvania’s 18th District”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who works in a steel mill.
examples: text: The steelworkers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.
glosses: A person employed to build steel structures, an ironworker.
Synonyms: steelman
steelwright
steeler
steelworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steelworker
ironworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironworkers
Etymology: From iron + worker.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to manufacture and shape iron.
examples: text: Many people believe that growth will only continue. “We’re gonna need stadiums full of electricians, heavy equipment operators, ironworkers, HVAC technicians,” Dwarkesh Patel and Romeo Dean, AI-industry analysts, wrote recently.
ref: 2025 October 30, Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How the AI Crash Happens”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2025:
glosses: A construction worker who assembles the metal frame of buildings.
Synonyms: roughneck
ironworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironworker
voltaic battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltaic batteries
Senses: glosses: A battery; a voltaic cell.
educated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛdjuːkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
ipa: [ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪɾɪd]
Forms: form: more educated
form: most educated
Etymology: From educate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree.
examples: text: an educated guess
text: No matter what strategies you employ as you dissect each multiple-choice question and arrive at an educated answer, remember that you are looking for the best response, not only a correct one.
ref: 2011, Susan L. Rozzi, Michelle G. Futrell, Douglas M. Kleiner, Study Guide for the Board of Certification, Inc., Entry-Level Athletic Trainer Certification Examination, F.A. Davis, page 26:
glosses: Based on relevant information.
Derived terms: educated beyond one's intelligence
educated guess
educated incapacity
educatedness
hypereducated
ineducated
my very educated mother just served us nachos
my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins
my very educated mother just served us noodles
noneducated
overeducated
over-educated
self-educated
semieducated
under-educated
undereducated
uneducated
well-educated
educated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛdjuːkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
ipa: [ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪɾɪd]
Etymology: From educate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of educate
subjugator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjugators
Etymology: From subjugate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who subjugates or conquers.
split-second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsplɪtˈsɛk(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˌsplɪtˈsɛkənd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
Forms: form: split-seconds
form: split second
Etymology: From split (adjective) + second (noun), from split second(s) hands: see sense 1.
Senses: glosses: A stopwatch with two second hands, each of which may be stopped separately to time the intervals of a race by a sportsperson, or to time more than one sportsperson.
examples: text: It's very dangerous, though, when a man thinks for a split second that he understands death.
ref: 1912, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Eye of Death; or, The Murder Charge”, in Manalive, New York, N.Y.: John Lane, →OCLC, part II (The Explanations of Innocent Smith), page 182:
text: I was in the gutter, sitting my bike, willing them to die, […] or otherwise obliterated because this demanded split-second timing.
ref: 1959, William Golding, chapter 4, in Free Fall, Harbinger Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:
text: It appears [Simon] Cowell has been taking notes from South Korea, as his next talent show Walk The Line, coming later this year, has also been game-ified: it will see singers perform, then have to make the split-second decision of whether to take a cash prize or risk advancing in the competition instead.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How Talent Shows Became TV’s Most Bizarre Programmes”, in BBC Online, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023:
synonyms: word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A fraction of a second; hence (figurative, also attributive) a very short time period; an instant, a moment.
Related terms: nick of time
split second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split seconds
Senses: examples: text: It's very dangerous, though, when a man thinks for a split second that he understands death.
ref: 1912, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Eye of Death; or, The Murder Charge”, in Manalive, New York, N.Y.: John Lane, →OCLC, part II (The Explanations of Innocent Smith), page 182:
glosses: Alternative form of split-second.
higher education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
synonyms: further education
higher learning
tertiary-level education
glosses: Education at a university level or beyond.
pinnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪ.nɪs/
rhymes: -ɪnɪs
Forms: form: pinnaces
Etymology: From Middle French pinasse, from Spanish pinaza, from pino (“pine”) + -aza.
Senses: examples: text: I cast my eyes to the ship, and there she rode, within little more than half a mile of the shore; for they had weighed her anchor as soon as they were masters of her, and, the weather being fair, had brought her to an anchor just against the mouth of the little creek; and the tide being up, the captain had brought the pinnace in ...
ref: 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but sometimes a rowboat, and usually serving to carry messages among the larger ships of a fleet.
moringas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moringa
discourse marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discourse markers
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling.
Related terms: connective
filler
interjection
butterfly effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly effects
Etymology: Coined by American author and historian of science James Gleick in 1987 in his book Chaos: Making a New Science, whose first chapter bears the title “The Butterfly Effect”, and in which he discusses “the paradox of the butterfly’s wings” potentially making the difference whether a hurricane will or will not arise somewhere else later. Meteorologist Edward Lorenz, the founder of modern chaos theory, had in 1972, at a scientific meeting, presented a paper entitled “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings set off a tornado in Texas?” without using the specific term butterfly effect. Lorenz also notes that representations of the strange attractor now known as the “Lorenz attractor” resemble a butterfly, as well as that correspondents have drawn his attention to Ray Bradbury’s short science fiction story “A Sound of Thunder”, in which a time traveler’s crushing a butterfly in the Late Cretaceous changes the outcome of a present-day presidential election. But the metaphorical butterfly was actually introduced in the title of the 1972 presentation by meteorologist Philip Merilees, who was not familiar with Bradbury’s story.
Senses: glosses: The technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory.
examples: text: Example of butterfly effect: stepping on a bug 4,000 years ago causes a different person to win the presidential election today.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The notion that small changes in the past via time travel can cause disproportionately large and unforeseeable consequences in the present.
Related terms: domino effect
ripple effect
contaminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contaminate
scoliotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scoliotic
form: most scoliotic
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affected by scoliosis.
scoliotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoliotics
Senses: glosses: One who is afflicted with scoliosis.
preprocessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preprocessors
Etymology: From pre- + processor.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program
genopharmacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geno- + pharmacology.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of the effects of pharmaceuticals and other compounds on genome expression.
proteomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹoʊtiˈɑmɪk/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to proteomics.
Derived terms: chemoproteomic
epiproteomic
exoproteomic
genoproteomic
metalloproteomic
morphoproteomic
nanoproteomic
neuroproteomic
nitrosoproteomic
oncoproteomic
palaeoproteomic
paleoproteomic
phosphoproteomic
phyloproteomic
proteomically
proteomicist
sialoproteomic
subproteomic
transproteomic
unsalted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + salted.
Senses: examples: text: The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)
ref: 2009, Nicholas Belfrage, The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy, →ISBN, page 312:
glosses: To which salt has not been added.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without a cryptographic salt.
unsalted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsalt
close up shop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes up shop
form: closing up shop
form: closed up shop
form: closed up shop
Senses: examples: Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater closed up shop in the early 1950s, but show business carries on: the site is now a multiplex. http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/travel/escapes/26yiddish.html?8dpc
synonyms: shut up shop
put up the shutters
antonyms: set up shop
glosses: To stop what one is doing, especially in the context of a business.
capelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capelets
Etymology: From cape + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small cape worn over the shoulders by women.
atoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atone
BPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Pharmaceutical Codex.
glosses: Initialism of British Potato Council, former name of AHDB Potatoes.
glosses: Initialism of British Poultry Council.
BPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Pharmaceutical Conference.
glosses: Initialism of business planning and consolidation.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of business process compromise.
glosses: Initialism of black plastic crap.
sociolinguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociolinguists
Etymology: Back-formation from sociolinguistics.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies sociolinguistics.
Related terms: sociolinguistics
sociolinguistic
unchastened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchastened
form: most unchastened
Etymology: From un- + chastened.
Senses: examples: In the event, he was able to keep the lid on his fountain pen, but the bank has not escaped unchastened, said Damian Reece in The Daily Telegraph - Issue of the week: how high will interest rates go?, The Week, Issue 597, page 45.
glosses: Not chastened or rebuked.
scouring pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scouring pads
Senses: glosses: A pad, having a soft, sponge-like side and a more abrasive side, used to wash up.
glosses: A flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning purposes.
Related terms: brillo pad
scourer
pot scrubber
aseity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-sēˈ-ĭ-tē
ipa: /əˈsiː.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: aseities
Etymology: From Medieval Latin aseitas (“state of being by itself”), from Classical Latin a se + -itas.
Senses: examples: text: He is Spiritual, for were He composed of physical parts, some other power would have to combine them into the total, and his aseity would thus be contradicted.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture XVIII: Philosophy”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 439:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
antonyms: contingency
createdness
dependence
derivedness
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Usually ascribed to deity: the attribute of being entirely self-derived, in contrast to being derived from or dependent on another; the quality of having within oneself the entire reason for one's being; utter independent self-existence and self-sustenance.
Derived terms: aseitous
Related terms: eternality
existence
industrial methylated spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial methylated spirits
Senses: glosses: ethyl alcohol denatured by the addition of 5% methyl alcohol, a form of methylated spirit for use in industry and the laboratory - usually free of alcohol taxes
Synonyms: IMS
industrial methylated spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrial methylated spirit
permanent magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permanent magnets
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A material, or piece of such material, which retains its magnetism even when not subjected to any external magnetic fields.
Derived terms: deperm
ligroin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ligroins
form: ligroine
Etymology: Attested since 1872, borrowed from German Ligroin, a trade mark of illuminating liquid hydrocarbon first attested in 1866 as Lygroin and Ligroine. Further origin uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek λιγυρός (ligurós, “clear”).
Senses: glosses: A petroleum fraction boiling 75°-125°C used as a solvent and fuel.
Related terms: petroleum ether
petroleum spirit
petroleum spirits
petroleum ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: ligroin
petroleum spirit
petroleum spirits
glosses: A volatile petroleum fraction, usually available in a number of fractions boiling between 40°C and 140°C, and used as a solvent in the laboratory and industry.
arenose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arenose
form: most arenose
form: arenous
Etymology: From Latin arenosus (“sandy”), from arena (“sand”).
Senses: glosses: sandy, gritty, full of sand.
Synonyms: sandy
gritty
Related terms: arenosity
petroleum spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petroleum spirits
Senses: glosses: Petroleum ether.
petroleum spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Petroleum ether.
glosses: plural of petroleum spirit
solifidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsoʊl.əˈfɪd.i.ən/
ipa: /sɑl-/
ipa: /sɒl-/
Forms: form: solifidians
Etymology: From Latin sōlā fidē (“only by faith”) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Julian upbraided the Chriſtians that they were Solifidians; and the Church of Rome layes upon us this aſperſion, that we are againſt good works; indeed we plead not for the merit of them, but we are for the uſe of them.
ref: 1671, Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, page 204:
antonyms: nullifidian
glosses: A person who believes that faith alone (as opposed to good deeds) brings salvation.
Derived terms: solifidianism
solifidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsoʊl.əˈfɪd.i.ən/
ipa: /sɑl-/
ipa: /sɒl-/
Etymology: From Latin sōlā fidē (“only by faith”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Believing, or relating to the belief, that faith alone (as opposed to good deeds) brings salvation.
tachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachi
form: tachis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 太刀 (tachi).
Senses: glosses: A pre-katana style Japanese sword, characterized by a longer blade with more curvature.
Hyponyms: kodachi
nodachi
odachi
Related terms: tachi-seki
alleging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allege
alleging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegings
Senses: examples: text: The archbishop said to me, All these allegings that thou bringest forth, are nothing else but proud presumptuousness.
ref: c. 1400, William Thorpe, The Examination of William Thorpe:
glosses: allegation
waded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wade
nanophotonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + photonics.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science that studies the behaviour of light, and of optical devices, on a nanometre scale.
Hypernyms: photonics
distinctness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪˈstɪŋkt.nəs/
Forms: form: distinctnesses
Etymology: From distinct + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In New York a Bohemian criminal is such a rarity that the case of two firebugs of several years ago is remembered with damaging distinctness.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 137:
synonyms: clarity
vividness
individuality
distinctiveness
glosses: The property or degree of being distinct.
windigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windigo
form: windigos
form: windigoes
form: windigog
Senses: examples: text: A windigo is an Indian who has eaten, or who (perhaps a poor lunatic) says he wants to eat, human flesh. At Sturgeon Lake (Bishop Clut tells us), among the Indians uninfluenced by religion, there were some supposed windigos. A sudden fear of them seized upon the other Indians, and they executed one windigo. The important point in such a case was to make the cannibal vomit up the ice which he was supposed to have in his inside.
ref: 1923, Rev. P. Duchaussois, O.M.I., “Chapter XXIII: The Children off the Woods: The Cree Indians”, in Mid Snow and Ice: The Apostles off the North-West, page 294:
text: "Windigo psychosis" has been the most celebrated culture trait of the Northern Algonkian peoples for almost half a century. […] The conclusion reached is that, although aspects of the windigo belief complex may have been "components in some individuals' psychological dysfunction" (Preston 1980: 128), there probably never were any windigo psychotics in the sense that cannibalism or murder was committed to satisfy an obsessional craving for human flesh. It is argued, rather that windigo psychosis as an etic/behavioral form of anthropophagy is an artifact of research conducted with an emic/mental bias.
ref: 1982 August, Lou Marano, “Windigo Psychosis: The Anatomy of an Emic–Etic Confusion”, in Current Anthropology, volume 23, number 4, →JSTOR, abstract, page 385; reprinted in Ronald C. Simons and Charles C[ampbell] Hughes, editors, The Culture-bound Syndromes: Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest (Culture, Illness, and Healing), Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985, →DOI, →ISBN, page 411:
text: The Windigo is a flesh-eating, wintry demon with a man buried deep inside of it. In some Chippewa stories, a young girl vanquishes this monster by forcing boiling lard down its throat, thereby releasing the human at the core of ice.
ref: 1984, Louise Erdrich, “Windigo”, in Jacklight, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, →ISBN:
text: The noun windigo [Ojibwa wīntikō, Cree wīhtikōw] refers to one of a class of anthropophagous monsters, “supernatural” from a non-Algonquian perspective, who exhibit grotesque physical and behavioral abnormalities and possess great spiritual and physical power.
ref: 1988 fall, Robert A. Brightman, “The Windigo in the Material World”, in Ethnohistory, volume 35, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 337:
text: No one is safe in such times, not even the Cree of Mushkegowuk. War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.
ref: 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: Viking Canada, →ISBN; republished Toronto, Ont.: Penguin Canada, 2008, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wendigo.
horizontal gene transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horizontal gene transfers
form: HGT
Senses: examples: text: Study of kett DNA shows evidence of horizontal gene transfer and the incorporation of genes from dozens of unknown species.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kett: Biology Codex entry:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: lateral gene transfer
glosses: The transfer of genetic material from one organism to another one that is not its offspring; especially common among bacteria.
HGT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of horizontal gene transfer.
lateral gene transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateral gene transfers
form: LGT
Senses: glosses: Horizontal gene transfer.
LGT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lateral gene transfer.
protomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protomers
Etymology: Blend of prototropy + tautomer
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any prototropic tautomer.
protomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protomers
Etymology: Blend of protein + oligomer
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the subunits that constitute an oligomeric protein.
Derived terms: heteroprotomer
homoprotomer
interprotomer
overload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈloʊd/
ipa: /ˌəʉvəˈləʉd/
ipa: /ˌɐʉvəˈlɐʉd/
ipa: /ˌɐʉvəˈlɐʉd/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌləʊd/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌloʊd/
ipa: /ˈəʉvəˌləʉd/
ipa: /ˈɐʉvəˌlɐʉd/
Forms: form: overloads
form: overloading
form: overloaded
form: overloaded
Etymology: From over- + load.
Senses: glosses: To load excessively.
glosses: To provide too much power to a circuit.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
glosses: To fail due to excessive load.
Derived terms: overloadability
overloadable
overloader
overload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈloʊd/
ipa: /ˌəʉvəˈləʉd/
ipa: /ˌɐʉvəˈlɐʉd/
ipa: /ˌɐʉvəˈlɐʉd/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌləʊd/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌloʊd/
ipa: /ˈəʉvəˌləʉd/
ipa: /ˈɐʉvəˌlɐʉd/
Forms: form: overloads
Etymology: From over- + load.
Senses: glosses: An excessive load.
glosses: The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
examples: text: We did haul overloads sometimes[.]
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 60:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
examples: text: Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.
ref: 2005, John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An overloaded version of a function.
Derived terms: information overload
progressive overload
sensory overload
Related terms: word: overloading
prototropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proto- + -tropy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of tautomerism in which the two forms differ only in the position of a proton; the transfer of a proton between these two forms.
Related terms: protomer
proton transfer
tautomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tautomers
Etymology: From taut- + -o- + -mer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the multiple forms of a tautomeric compound.
Derived terms: tautomerism
prototropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prototropic
form: most prototropic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting prototropy
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to prototrophs
oligomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligomer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being an oligomer.
Synonyms: oligoid
Derived terms: heterooligomeric
homooligomeric
multioligomeric
suboligomeric
supraoligomeric
Related terms: monomeric
dimeric
trimeric
tetrameric
pentameric
hexameric
heptameric
octameric
nonameric
decameric
undecameric
dodecameric
tridecameric
tetradecameric
pentadecameric
hexadecameric
heptadecameric
octadecameric
nonadecameric
eicosameric
interprotomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + protomer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Between the protomers of an oligomeric protein.
telecommunication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛləkəˌmjunɪˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌtɛlɪkəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌteləkəˌmjʉːnɪˈkæɪʃən/
Forms: form: telecommunications
form: telecommunications
Etymology: From French télécommunication. Equivalent to tele- + communication.
Senses: glosses: The science and technology of the communication of messages over a distance using electric, electronic or electromagnetic impulses.
glosses: A message so transmitted.
examples: text: Oct. 1 is “U-Day,” when Myanmar officially will adopt the new system. From then on, all electronic communication from government offices, telecommunications companies, banks and media must be in Unicode, by law.
ref: 2019 September 27, “Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world”, in The Japan Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2020:
glosses: Systems used in transmitting such signals.
Synonyms: telecom
telecoms
Derived terms: telecommunications tower
bazaars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bazaar
countertransport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + transport.
Senses: examples: text: Increased Na+/Li+ countertransport activity has been described in a study of parents of proteinuric type 1 diabetic patients, although not in another.
ref: 2002, Max Ellenberg, Harold Rifkin, et al., Ellenberg and Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The transport of two chemical species across a membrane in opposite directions
countertransport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countertransports
form: countertransporting
form: countertransported
form: countertransported
Etymology: From counter- + transport.
Senses: glosses: To transport two chemical species across a membrane in opposite directions
Related terms: countertransporter
chemotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chemiotactic
Etymology: From chemo- + -tactic.
Senses: examples: text: Altogether, the present data show that the Toxoplasma-induced hypermigratory phenotype in a 3D matrix is consistent with integrin-independent amoeboid DC migration with maintained responsiveness to chemotactic and chemokinetic cues.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Infection by Toxoplasma gondii Induces Amoeboid-Like Migration of Dendritic Cells in a Three-Dimensional Collagen Matrix”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to or exhibiting chemotaxis.
Derived terms: antichemotactic
autochemotactic
chemotactically
chemotacticity
microchemotactic
nonchemotactic
prochemotactic
Related terms: chemotactile
infotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Infotactic trajectories feature 'zigzagging' and 'casting' paths similar to those observed in the flight of moths.
ref: 2006–7, Massimo Vergassola et al., "'Infotaxis' as a strategy for searching without gradients", in Nature, volume 445, pages 406–409 (2007 January 25)
glosses: Of or pertaining to infotaxis.
meaningfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meaningfully
form: most meaningfully
Etymology: From meaningful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Because of this, SSDs are one of the first technologies to meaningfully demonstrate just what synesthesia – or at least one kind of it – might feel like to those who have never had it.
ref: 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN:
glosses: In a meaningful or significant manner.
chenopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chenopods
Etymology: From the genus name Chenopodium, coined as a compound of Ancient Greek χηνο- (khēno-, “goose”) + ποδ- (pod-, “foot”) + Latin -ium. The literal translation, “goosefoot”, refers to the shape of the leaves.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the subfamily Chenopodioideae, (the main part of the sometime family Chenopodiaceae); the goosefoots
goosefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːsfʊt/
Forms: form: goosefoots
Etymology: Calque of translingual Chenopodium, from Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn, “goose”) + πούς (poús, “foot”) + Latin -ium.
Senses: glosses: Any of many flowering plants, of the subfamily Chenopodioideae, having small greenish flowers.
Synonyms: pigweed
Derived terms: clammy goosefoot
fig-leaved goosefoot
leafy goosefoot
many-seed goosefoot
nettle-leaved goosefoot
nitre goosefoot
pitseed goosefoot
stinking goosefoot
white goosefoot
caracul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caraculs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of karakul.
infriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɹɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: infrictions
Senses: glosses: The act of rubbing something into the skin etc.
glosses: Something (such as an ointment) to be so rubbed in
carbuncular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carbuncular
form: most carbuncular
Senses: examples: text: Such a mass of carbuncular disease I have rarely seen.
ref: 1861, Valentine Mott, Eulogy on the late John W. Francis, M.D., LL.D:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a carbuncle.
Derived terms: carbuncularly
carcinogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcinogenicities
Etymology: From carcinogenic + -ity.
Senses: examples: 1996 Scott V Wright - Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents Volume II
Some examples of these adverse effects, sometimes called toxic end points, include carcinogenicity (development of cancer), hepatotoxicity (liver damage), […]
glosses: The state or degree of being carcinogenic.
Derived terms: hepatocarcinogenicity
photocarcinogenicity
card-carrying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Casey I notice that counsel [Mr. Whitley] or someone asked you as to "card carrying Communist."
Mr. McCuistion, Yes.
Mr. Casey,. Is that a well-known phrase, "card carrying Communist"?
Mr. McQuistion, That "card-carrying Communist" is the type of Communist who comes out and admits to everybody he is a Communist.
Mr. Casey. But it has no reference to his membership card at all?
Mr. McQuistion. Yes. He flashes it to everybody, just like a reporter flashes his credentials at this thing here, if it was not known to the other reporters. He tells everybody.
Mr. Casey. Did you ever see Joe Curran's card?
Mr. McQuistion. No; I never saw Joe Curran's card. I know enough about Communist procedure, however, to know that Joe Curran would not be issued a card, anyhow, in the name of "Joe Curran."
Mr. Casey. I mean if he was a "card carrying Communist" who flashes his card.?
Mr. McQuistion. Oh, they would not make that type of man—they very seldom make that type of man an official.
ref: 1939 November 1, “Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities”, in Hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, volume II, pages 6713–4:
text: Except for the men in uniform, few in the hail were card-carrying Nazis. But they must have long shared a silent approval of Hitler's goals.
ref: 2004, Peter Mommsen, Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold:
glosses: Enrolled as a member of an organization, and having a card to prove it; loyal to that organization or the cause it supports.
examples: text: While it's good to hear the band get comfortable in their new skin, it also makes for a record that plateaus a few songs in. As a card-carrying AIC fan-boy, I am tempted to simply shower the band with endless praise for anything they do. But it must be said that much of this album comes across a little too consistent, almost tedious. Some of the writing is better than the rest. And it would be nice if the band would use the harmonies more sparingly and let Michael and Jerry belt out more of their own verses, otherwise the songs tend to wash themselves out too much.
ref: 2013 May 28, J. Andrew, “Album Review: ALICE IN CHAINS The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”, in Metal Injection:
text: [Nigel] Toon is a card-carrying enthusiast, arguing for benefits in fields as varied as weather forcasting, drug discovery and nuclear fusion.
ref: 2024 May 11, John Thornhill, “More than human?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 8:
glosses: Loyal and dedicated to some cause.
glosses: Official.
Synonyms: cardholding
Nevi'im
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nebiim
form: Nebi'im
form: Neviim
Etymology: Hebrew נְבִיאִים (n'vi’ím, “Nevi'im”, literally “prophets”)
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh) that is known in English as the Prophets. This section is subdivided into two sections, the Former Prophets and the Latter Prophets. The Latter Prophets is further subdivided into the Major Prophets and the Minor Prophets (known as the Twelve).
Related terms: Ketuvim
Torah
Ketuvim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כתובים (k'tuvím).
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh), known in English as "The Writings." It includes, in order, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra–Nehemiah and Chronicles. These scriptures are viewed as less authoritative than the Torah.
Related terms: Torah
Nevi'im