cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
superfly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superfly
form: most superfly
Etymology: From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, there she was, like disco superfly
ref: 1997, “Sex and Candy”, performed by Marcy Playground:
text: I'm all up in the air, telling her some superfly shit she need to hear
ref: 2001, “Your Woman Has Just Been Sighted (Ring the Alarm)”, in Music & Me, performed by Nate Dogg ft. Jermaine Dupri:
glosses: Excellent, very cool.
superfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superflies
Etymology: From super- + fly.
Senses: glosses: A fly (insect) with remarkable properties, such as resistance to insecticide.
supportless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supportless
form: most supportless
Etymology: From support + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking support; unsupported
supraoptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + optic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the optic tract or chiasma
surculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)kjʊləʊz/
Forms: form: more surculose
form: most surculose
Etymology: Compare Latin surculosus (“woody”). See surcle.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing suckers or sucker-like shoots.
surfacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surfacers
Etymology: From surface + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rises to the surface.
glosses: A person who planes or dresses a surface.
glosses: Any of various machines used to plane or dress a surface.
tapestrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tapestry
surfacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surfacer
sustentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sustentations
Etymology: First attested in 1382: from the Old French sustentacion, from the Latin sustentātio, from sustentō; compare the Italian sostentazione, the Occitan sustentacion, the Portuguese sustentação, and the Spanish sustentación. Doublet of sustentatio.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, under a plausible and specious humility, circumscribing the bounds of human reason, neglecting its powers, and leaving it wholly devoid of that sustentation which would lead to its expansion and culture.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: The act or the result of sustaining; sustainment; sustention.
examples: text: It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:
glosses: The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The scheme by which the ministers of the Free Church of Scotland are supported by voluntary contributions not local or congregational, but with a national altruism or solidarity paid into a great central fund, out of which equal stipends are paid to all alike.
swarmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swarmers
Etymology: From swarm + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Flying ants can be swarmers.
glosses: Something that swarms.
superflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfly
symptomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: symptomizes
form: symptomizing
form: symptomized
form: symptomized
Etymology: From symptom + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To symptomatize
symptomatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: symptomatizes
form: symptomatizing
form: symptomatized
form: symptomatized
Senses: glosses: To be a symptom of (a named condition)
sustentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sustentation
symptomatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of symptomatize
symptomatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of symptomatize
symptomatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of symptomatize
symptomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of symptomize
symptomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of symptomize
symptomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of symptomize
swarmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swarmer
synarthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synarthroses
Etymology: From syn- + arthrosis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of joint in which two bones are connected rigidly by fibrous tissue
Related terms: synarthrotic
synthetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: synthetizes
form: synthetizing
form: synthetized
form: synthetized
Senses: glosses: To synthesize
caut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kôt
ipa: /kɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: cauteth
form: cauting
form: cauted
form: cauted
Etymology: Onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: A Panther Cauteth, which word is taken from the sound of his voice.
ref: 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, volume 2, page 134, column 2
glosses: To emit the characteristic call of a panther.
examples: text: If I have done Service to Men in what I have ſaid, I ſhall hope I have done Service to God; and that will be better than a ſilly Speech made for me, full of whining and cauting, which I utterly deſpiſe, and have never been uſed to; yet ſuch a one I expect to have my Ears tormented with, as I am paſſing along the Streets[.]
ref: 1722 May 2nd, Ebenezer Elliston, “The Laſt Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezer Elliſton” in Miſcellanies (ed. Jonathan Swift, pub. 1751, volume nine, fifth edition), pages 19–20
glosses: To make a noise similar to the call of a panther.
synthetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synthetize
synthetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synthetize
synthetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synthetize
Mizunuma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 水沼.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
phantasmagorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantasmagorian
form: most phantasmagorian
Etymology: From phantasmagoria + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phantasmagoric.
synonyms: word: phantasmagoric
flammant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the dove of the Holy Spirit descending argent flammant proper
glosses: Alternative form of flamant (“flaming, in heraldry”).
uninterestedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uninterested + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uninterested.
stranglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strangling
gaolhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaolhouses
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailhouse.
at the coal face
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From being in a coal mine, at the face where the mining is actually occurring, especially in dark, cramped, dirty, hazardous conditions. Compare front line and trenches, of similar formation.
Senses: glosses: Directly engaged in the operations of a business, rather than in a hands off, managerial position.
wikipedia: coal mine
Synonyms: in the trenches
where the rubber meets the road
Related terms: chalkface
codeface
front line
day-to-day
hands-on
nitty-gritty
nuts and bolts
on the tools
roll up one's sleeves
profilometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From profile + -o- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to profilometry.
unintermitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unintermitted
form: most unintermitted
Etymology: From un- + intermitted.
Senses: examples: text: The only action taken by Mr. Dosson in consequence of his elder daughter's revelations was to embrace the idea as a subject of daily pleasantry. He was fond, in his intercourse with his children, of some small usual joke, some humorous refrain; and what could have been more in the line of true domestic sport than a little gentle but unintermitted raillery upon Francie's conquest?
ref: 1888, Henry James, The Reverberator, Macmillan and Co.:
glosses: Not intermitted; uninterrupted, ceaseless.
nonintermittent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intermittent.
Senses: glosses: Not intermittent.
nepotisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nepotism
noncolonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + colonic.
Senses: glosses: Not colonic.
ankleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ankle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without ankles.
anklelocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anklelock
courtesy name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtesy names
Senses: examples: text: Confucius's birth name was Kong Qiu, but his courtesy name was Kong Zhongni.
synonyms: style name
coordinate_terms: art name
era name
posthumous name
temple name
glosses: An alias used instead of one's given name by peers and subordinates as a symbol of adulthood and respect in China and sometimes more broadly other East Asian cultures.
cinqfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinqfoils
Senses: examples: text: The wife of Saher was Margaret sister and coheir of Robert Earl of Leicester, whose seal exhibits a cinqfoil.
ref: 1869, William Smith Ellis, The Antiquities of Heraldry, pPage 226:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative spelling of cinquefoil.
physical therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physical therapy
cinqfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinqfoil
scraight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scraights
form: scraighting
form: scraighted
form: scraighted
Senses: examples: An' stop they scraightin' childt, Do shut thy face! - From "The Collier's Wife", a dialect poem by D. H. Lawrence
glosses: To cry; to clobber; to conk.
language swap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: language swaps
Senses: glosses: A method of language learning based on mutual language practicing by learning partners who speak different languages.
Synonyms: language exchange
dicynodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicynodonts
Etymology: From di- + cyno- + -odont. From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos, “tooth”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the infraorder Dicynodontia of dominant herbivores of the Late Permian, the most successful group of non-mammalian synapsids.
Related terms: cynodont
dicynodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicynodont
aboriginie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aborigine.
membranaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more membranaceous
form: most membranaceous
Etymology: From Latin membrānāceus.
Senses: examples: text: "Nay he confirms what his Antagonist has wrote, partly by History, and partly by Reason; affirming that himself in his own Garden found two little birds with membranaceous wings utterly devoid of Legs, their form was near to that of a Bat's."
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 75
glosses: Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
Synonyms: sense: resembling a membrane
word: membranous
Derived terms: membranaceously
submembranaceous
Related terms: membrane
membranous
luteum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutea
Senses: glosses: corpus luteum
dim-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dim + headed.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dim-witted.
synonyms: word: dim-witted
Related terms: dim-bulb
not the brightest bulb
glaucus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɔːkəs/
ipa: /ˈɡlɔkəs/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑkəs/
rhymes: -ɔːkəs
homophone: glaucous
Forms: form: glaucuses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
examples: text: This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation.
ref: 1833, Charles Sturt, Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete:
glosses: A desert lime (Citrus glauca), a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
Synonyms: sense: nudibranchiate mollusk
word: sea swallow
sense: nudibranchiate mollusk
word: blue angel
sense: nudibranchiate mollusk
word: blue glaucus
sense: nudibranchiate mollusk
word: blue dragon
sense: nudibranchiate mollusk
word: blue sea slug
sense: nudibranchiate mollusk
word: blue ocean slug
Green Goddesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Green Goddess
purple patches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple patch
pectoral girdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pectoral girdle
surface cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surface car
surface car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface cars
Senses: glosses: A streetcar (tram, trolley).
cocksman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocksmen
Etymology: From cock + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: As far as broads were concerned, I was seventeen years old before I was able to get my finger damp enough to turn a page. Once I got started, though, I became quite the little cocksman.
ref: 1984 [1972], Robert Byrne, McGoorty: A Billiard Hustler's Life, New York: Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 19:
text: There are women out there in front of the hotel that … well, let's just say Jack Kennedy himself would be envious, and he's a legendary cocksman.
ref: 2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 774 of 773–774:
text: “But most important, and I must emphasize that this is the most important thing about me: I am a certified master cocksman.”
ref: 2023 July 27, Max Brockman & Shana Gohd, “The Campaign” (20:13 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: A man who is sexually talented in using his penis.
Derived terms: cocksmanship
sweet sixteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet sixteen
free substitutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free substitution
periodic structures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periodic structure
antiregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + regular.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a graph: having either zero or two vertices of the same degree.
antisextet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisextets
Etymology: From anti- + sextet.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A sextet of related antiparticles
bioeffects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioeffect
bioeffect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioeffects
Etymology: From bio- + effect.
Senses: glosses: A biological effect
circummultiple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + multiple.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: That surrounds a multiple star
electroformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + formed.
Senses: glosses: Produced, or modified by electroforming
flexomagnetoelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flexomagnetoelectric
form: most flexomagnetoelectric
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any magnetoelectric effect produced by bending a material
Related terms: flexoelectricity
magnetoelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: magnetelectrical
Etymology: From magneto- + electrical; compare the better-formed magnetelectrical.
Senses: glosses: magnetoelectric
Derived terms: magnetoelectrically
micropolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + polar.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Exhibiting polarity at a microscopic scale
Derived terms: thermomicropolar
microrotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microrotations
Etymology: From micro- + rotation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: rotation of microscopic parts of a fluid, crystal etc.
multipartition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multipartition
form: most multipartition
form: multi-partition
Etymology: From multi- + partition.
Senses: glosses: Composed of multiple partitions (in various contexts)
multipartition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multipartitions
form: multipartitioning
form: multipartitioned
form: multipartitioned
form: multi-partition
Etymology: From multi- + partition.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To logically divide a hard disk into multiple partitions
octetonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octet + -onium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A color singlet bound state of color-octet scalars.
color-octet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color-octets
form: color octet
form: colour octet
form: colour-octet
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The eight color components of the gluon.
propagational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propagational
form: most propagational
Etymology: From propagation + -al.
Senses: glosses: That propagates, or causes propagation
vergettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vergette
quasiclassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + classic.
Senses: glosses: quasiclassical
quasiperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + perfect.
Senses: glosses: Having most, but not all perfect characteristics
scientometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scientometry + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to scientometry
squircle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kəl
Forms: form: squircles
Etymology: Blend of square + circle
Senses: examples: text: At the NCI, the applicator shapes most often used are circular or "squircular." The squircle applicator has one square and one round end, and it is beveled so that the circular end is longer.
ref: 1985, Hospital Practice, volume 20, page 131:
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A closed quartic curve having properties intermediate between those of a square and a circle.
examples: text: At the NCI, the applicator shapes most often used are circular or "squircular." The squircle applicator has one square and one round end, and it is beveled so that the circular end is longer.
ref: 1985, Hospital Practice, volume 20, page 131:
glosses: An object whose shape combines a circle and a square.
Hypernyms: superellipse
Hyponyms: Lamé's special quartic
Related terms: squircular
sqround
squircles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squircle
trimaximally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trimaximal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a trimaximal manner
uncorrelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncorrelations
Etymology: From un- + correlation.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being uncorrelated
glosses: An absence of correlation
Related terms: noncorrelation
bobweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobweights
form: bob weight
Etymology: From bob + weight.
Senses: glosses: A counterweight on part of a machine.
glosses: A weight fixed to the trim tab of an aircraft that brings the nose down at low airspeeds (to avoid stalling).
catastrophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catastrophisms
Etymology: From catastrophe + -ism, coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1837.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
antonyms: uniformitarianism
glosses: The doctrine that sudden catastrophes, rather than continuous change, cause the main features of the Earth's crust.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The doctrine that, in addition to the more gradual effects of evolution, huge catastrophic events shape the earth's flora and fauna by causing major die-offs which make way for the emergence of new organisms.
examples: text: A therapeutic programme based on pain education showed significant improvements regarding pain intensity, disability, catastrophism, depression, anxiety and health, with few positive results on anguish and cognition.
ref: 2018, René Mauricio Barría, Cohort Studies in Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 55:
text: However, we did not obtain significant relationships with pain catastrophizing. […] On the contrary, catastrophism is measured in a general context, with no motivational context, and without related situations where goals can compete.
ref: 2020, Carmen Ramírez-Maestre, Madelon Peters, John Andrew Sturgeon, Rocio de la Vega, Resilience Resources in Chronic Pain Patients The Path to Adaptation, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: The practice or tendency of catastrophizing, regarding bad things as catastrophic.
Coordinate terms: anastrophism
Derived terms: neocatastrophism
Related terms: catastrophist
catchfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt͡ʃ.flaɪ/
Forms: form: catchflies
Etymology: From catch + fly.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, mostly in tribe Sileneae, that have sticky leaves on which flies become stuck; especially, the silenes or campions.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Silene alpestris
word: alpine catchfly
taxonomic: Silene latifolia
word: bladder catchfly
english: not in Sileneae
translation: not in Sileneae
taxonomic: Leersia lenticularis
word: catchfly grass
taxonomic: Silene armeria
word: corn catchfly
taxonomic: Silene nutans
word: Dover catchfly
taxonomic: Silene armeria
word: dwarf catchfly
word: forked catchfly
taxonomic: Silene dichotoma
word: forking catchfly
taxonomic: Silene armeria
word: garden catchfly
alt: Lynchnis viscaria
word: German catchfly
taxonomic: Silene armeria
word: Lobel's catchfly
taxonomic: Silene noctiflora
word: night-flowering catchfly
taxonomic: Silene nutans
word: nodding catchfly
taxonomic: Silene dioica
word: red catchfly
taxonomic: Silene caroliniana
word: rock catchfly
taxonomic: Silene antirrhina
word: sleepy catchfly
word: sticky catchfly
taxonomic: Silene armeria
word: sweet william catchfly
taxonomic: Silene vallesia
word: Swiss catchfly
taxonomic: Silene nuda
word: western fringed catchfly
catchlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchlights
form: catch light
Etymology: From catch + light.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A gleam of reflected light in a subject's eye.
Related terms: Obie
catchline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchlines
form: catch-line
form: catch line
Etymology: From catch + line.
Senses: glosses: A short line of text designed to catch the eye, especially one used as an advertising slogan.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A temporary note at the top of a page or galley proof to identify it.
chartbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chartbusters
Etymology: From chart (“ranked listing”) + buster.
Senses: glosses: A best-selling record; the artist featured on such a record
debruise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debruises
form: debruising
form: debruised
form: debruised
Senses: examples: text: STEPANOV -1- A : Per bend argent and gules, a lion rampant contourne proper; surtout on the sinister three costs azure the second and third debruising and clenched in the lion's forepaws. M: Gules lined argent.
ref: 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: To partially obscure one charge with another.
fluxgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluxgates
Etymology: From flux + gate.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
gainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gainable
form: most gainable
Etymology: From gain + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being gained (in any sense), obtained, or reached.
Derived terms: ungainable
handleability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handleabilities
Etymology: From handle + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Pelletization is a proven technology for improving biomass properties, whereas torrefaction is considered a plausible alternative for decreasing the moisture content, increasing the energy density and greatly facilitating the handleability and grindability properties of the torrefied material.
ref: 2011, Luis Puigjaner, Syngas from Waste: Emerging Technologies, page 11:
glosses: The condition of being handleable
locknut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locknuts
Etymology: From lock + nut.
Senses: glosses: A nut with an inner ring made of a material with elastic properties to prevent it from slipping.
glosses: A second nut, screwed down onto another in order to prevent it slipping.
makhana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makhanas
Etymology: From Hindi मखाना (makhānā).
Senses: glosses: The foxnut or gorgon nut (Euryale ferox)
obligational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obligational
form: most obligational
Etymology: From obligation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or in the nature of, obligation.
obligement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obligements
Etymology: From oblige + -ment.
Senses: glosses: obligation
glosses: favour
oligomerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only a few members in a particular organ
Related terms: oligomeric
pneumogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pneumo- + gastric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: vagus (attributive)
Derived terms: pneumogastric nerve
pneumogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumogastrics
Etymology: From pneumo- + gastric.
Senses: examples: text: […]were it not for a strange-smelling, at first not unpleasant, but with the passage of time frankly revolting vapour arising from among the recesses of Mr. Magershon's body-linen and issuing, with great volatility, between his nape and his collar-band, a bold and it must be allowed successful effort on the part of that dignitary's pneumogastric to compensate the momentary confusion of its superior connexions.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pneumogastric nerve; one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.
refringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refringent
form: most refringent
Senses: glosses: That refracts; refractive
remittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From remit + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being remitted
remittal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remittals
Etymology: From remit + -al.
Senses: glosses: Anything remitted; remittance.
remittee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remittees
Etymology: From remit + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person to whom a remittance is sent
remodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remodifies
form: remodifying
form: remodified
form: remodified
Etymology: From re- + modify.
Senses: glosses: To modify again
representationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From representation + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that thoughts are representations of real, external objects
Synonyms: representative realism
restrictionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From restriction + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It was another chapter in a dismal saga of Nimbyist urban mismanagement that is crushing American cities. Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left.
ref: 2019 May 22, Farhad Manjoo, “America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2019:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: The advocacy of restrictions on free trade, immigration etc.
Related terms: restrictionist
taleteller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taletellers
form: tale-teller
Etymology: From Middle English taleteller, tale tellere; equivalent to tale + teller.
Senses: examples: text: There hathe bene alate ſuche tales ſpreade abroade, and moſt vntruly, ſuch falſe taletellers ſhal haue a greuous puniſhement of the Lord whan he ſhall come to rewarde euerye one according vnto his deſertes.
ref: 1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[The First Sermon]”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 5, recto:
text: Different tale-tellers describe the actual meeting in different ways, but the gist is that at that moment, Vicki was discovered.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 296:
glosses: A person who tells tales.
talkboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talkboards
Etymology: From talk + board.
Senses: glosses: A chatroom or bulletin board.
technostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technostructures
Etymology: From techno- + structure.
Senses: glosses: a corporate structure including technicians or other skilled professionals
temperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temperers
Etymology: From temper + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who tempers (in any meaning).
glosses: A device that tempers; an annealer.
glosses: A machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
Synonyms: annealer
Hyponyms: annealer
annealing forge
annealing furnace
annealing kiln
annealing oven
heat treatment forge
heat treatment furnace
heat treatment kiln
heat treatment oven
tempering forge
tempering furnace
tempering kiln
tempering oven
tetraspore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraspores
Etymology: From tetra- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the four asexual spores produced by a sporangium.
Derived terms: tetrasporophyte
Related terms: bispore
textbookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more textbookish
form: most textbookish
Etymology: From textbook + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Another shortcoming of After You're Out is a lack of the emotion-invoking personality that was so evident in Out Of The Closets […] most of the essays seem cold and clinical. In this respect, After You're Out seems textbookish.
ref: 1976 February 7, Mark N. Silber, “After You're Out Is the Post-Stonewall Guide to Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 16:
glosses: Characteristic of a textbook
thermoregulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermoregulates
form: thermoregulating
form: thermoregulated
form: thermoregulated
Etymology: From thermo- + regulate.
Senses: glosses: To regulate the body temperature (by thermoregulation)
kilogram-metre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilogram-metres
form: kilogram-meter
form: kilogrammetre
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a unit of work, equal to that done by a force of one kilogram-force acting through a distance of one metre
chivvier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chivviers
Etymology: From chivvy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She greeted me with one of those piercing view-halloos which she had picked up on the hunting field in the days when she had been an energetic chivvier of the British fox.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Agent noun of chivvy: one who chivvies; especially a hunter.
complotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəmˈplɒtəɹ/
Forms: form: complotters
Etymology: From complot + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who complots; a conspirator.
Synonyms: conspirator
coplotter
chivviers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chivvier
dyspepsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyspepsia
dyspepsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyspepsy
Dark Continent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dark Continent
Etymology: A Victorian nickname, referring to the fact that little was known in the West about the interior of the continent.
Senses: examples: text: De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Bey of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing the isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.
ref: 1879 March 12, The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: Africa is still the Dark Continent, the land of the unknown, the remarkable.
ref: 1903 November 10, The Advertiser Adelaide:
glosses: Africa.
quantum foam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum foams
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Spacetime viewed on a quantum level, i.e. as a "foam" of randomly appearing and disappearing Planck-scale wormholes (black holes and white holes).
Planck scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The scale at which quantum-mechanical effects become significant to depicting spacetime and other gravitational phenomena, typically defined as being on the order of one Planck length (~10⁻³⁵ m).
Planck length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Planck lengths
Etymology: Named after Max Planck, who defined it.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of length, believed to be the scale at which quantum gravity effects become significant, that is defined in terms of the speed of light, the gravitational constant and the reduced Planck's constant, namely: ℓ_P=√hbar Gc³≈1.616 252(81)×10⁻³⁵ mbox m
wikipedia: Max Planck
Related terms: Planck scale
Planck time
Planck unit
superstring
Planck time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Planck times
form: t_P
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A natural unit of time, equivalent to the time it takes light to traverse one Planck length; it is the duration of time at which quantum gravity effects are expected to become significant.
Related terms: Planck epoch
Planck length
Planck unit
Planck units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Planck unit
gravitational constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An empirical physical constant involved in the calculation of the gravitational attraction between objects with mass
Planck unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Planck units
Etymology: Named after Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any one of several natural units in a system originally proposed by Max Planck based on universal constants. Symbols for Planck units are the symbol for the physical quantity with a subscript P.
Related terms: english: Planck entropy
translation: Planck entropy
word: Boltzmann constant
word: Coulomb's constant
english: Planck action
translation: Planck action
word: Dirac constant
word: gravitational constant
word: List of derived terms at Planck
alt: Planck speed/Planck velocity
word: speed of light
sciath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciaths
Etymology: From Irish sciath.
Senses: glosses: An oblong shield of wickerwork once used in Ireland.
natural unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural units
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a group of related physical units defined in terms of natural constants.
Related terms: Bohr radius
rydberg
atomic units
Planck length
Planck mass
Planck time
Planck units
astronomical unit
Solar luminosity
Solar mass
natural units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural unit
Einstein constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Einstein's constant.
Einstein barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Albert Einstein.
Senses: examples: text: Tachyons exist on the other side of the Einstein barrier.
glosses: The speed of light viewed as an uncrossable barrier to acceleration from subluminal and superluminal speeds in special relativity.
Synonyms: light barrier
Boltzmann's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boltzmann constant
Etymology: For Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The physical constant relating energy at the particle level with temperature observed at the bulk level. It is the gas constant R divided by the Avogadro's number N_A:- k=R/(N_rm A),
wikipedia: Ludwig Boltzmann
Boltzmann constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Boltzmann's constant.
tierced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tierce + -ed.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: triparted
glosses: Divided into three (e.g. vertically, horizontally, or per pall).
topazolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topazolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόπαζος (tópazos) + -lite. Equivalent to topaz + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellowish form of andradite
trichromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + chromatic.
Senses: glosses: Involving three colours.
glosses: Able to perceive three primary colours.
Synonyms: trichrome
tricolored
tricolour
Coordinate terms: dichromatic
quadchromatic
Dirac constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after English physicist Paul Dirac
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Planck's constant divided by 2π, symbolized ℏ; the quantum of angular momentum and spin.
Synonyms: rationalized Planck constant
reduced Planck constant
h bar
Takanawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌtɑkəˈnɑwə/
Etymology: From Japanese 高輪.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
h bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: h bars
form: h-bar
form: hbar
Senses: glosses: Spoken form of ℏ, reduced Planck's constant.
good ole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of good old.
Derived terms: good ole boy
good ol'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Just like the good ol' days.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of good old.
Derived terms: good ol' boy
Hamazaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌhɑməˈzɑki/
Forms: form: Hamazakis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 浜崎 (Hamazaki).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Hamasaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌhɑməˈsɑki/
Forms: form: Hamasakis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 浜崎 (Hamasaki).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Utada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌuˈtɑdə/
Etymology: From Japanese 宇多田.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
tritagonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritagonists
Etymology: Ancient Greek, originally in Greek drama, from ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”). By surface analysis, trit- (“third”) + agonist (“combatant, participant”).
Senses: glosses: In Greek drama, the actor who played the third role (after the protagonist and deuteragonist)
glosses: The third most important character in a story, after the protagonist and deuteragonist
Coordinate terms: protagonist
deuteragonist
trunkful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trunkfuls
form: trunksful
Etymology: From trunk + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a trunk will hold
trunkfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunkful
Nakamura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nakamuras
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 中村 (Nakamura) or 仲村 (Nakamura).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
tuberculoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tuberculoid
form: most tuberculoid
Etymology: From tubercule + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tubercule
glosses: Of or pertaining to tuberculosis
Derived terms: tuberculoid leprosy
turnback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnbacks
Etymology: Deverbal from turn back.
Senses: glosses: Part of a garment that is turned back.
examples: text: Most basketmakers make their turnbacks in a particular section of the weaving on the sides or in the middle of the basket.
ref: 1991, Rachel Nash Law, Cynthia Wieboldt Taylor, Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket, page 86:
glosses: The turning back of a weaver around another element.
examples: text: The information commissioner, Professor John McMillan, ruled that requests for watch officer logs and authorisations for turnbacks were exempt from release because they could have a “substantial adverse effect” on the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS).
ref: 2015 July 20, Paul Farrell, “Details about asylum seeker turnbacks to remain secret, commissioner rules”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: turnaway
glosses: The act of turning back a boat containing immigrants.
glosses: The strap from the hames to the hip-strap, on a horse.
examples: text: Removal of one set of train turnbacks also makes more efficient use of infrastructure and reduces peak loads at interchange stations.
ref: 2023 June 14, David Clough, “Tram-trains are making tracks...”, in RAIL, number 985, page 54:
glosses: A place, e.g. on a railway, where vehicles can reverse direction, i.e. turn back.
glosses: A cadet at a military academy who fails a class and has to retake it.
turncock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turncocks
Etymology: From turn + cock.
Senses: glosses: A tap or faucet that regulates the flow of a fluid.
examples: text: 1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
glosses: A person employed to turn on the water for the mains, to regulate the fireplugs, etc. for a water company.
Planck energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Planck energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A natural unit of energy, equivalent to the mass energy of a Planck particle (E_P=c^(2m_P)≈1.95608×10⁹J) or the energy per quantum at a temperature of one Planck temperature (kT_P).
Aoki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈoʊki/
Forms: form: Aokis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 青木 (Aoki).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Kashiwabara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 柏原.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Kirishima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kirishimas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 霧島 (Kirishima).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Shimabukuro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shimabukuros
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 島袋 (Shimabukuro).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
ultimacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultimacy
Solar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We have not yet the instruments that we want for that work, but I have asked for a Solar spectrograph, and I am already in the preliminary talkings to order a spectroheliograph […]
ref: 1906, Filipe Valle, in Arthur Schuster (editor), Transactions of the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Volume I, [Victoria] University [of Manchester] Press, page 115
text: Values at the Solar location (Merrifield, 1992) are denoted by the subscript ○, and the present epoch is t ≡ 0, […]
ref: 2001, John J. Matese et al., "Oort cloud flux due to the Galactic tide", in Mikhail Ya. Marov and Hans Rickman (editors), Collisional Processes in the Solar System, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 93
text: Here our knowledge is somewhat more certain, especially in the local Solar neighbourhood.
ref: 2004, M. A. C. Perryman, “Our Galaxy in three-dimensions: the Jeremiah Horrocks Memorial Lecture”, in D.W. Kurtz, editor, Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy, Cambridge University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 318:
text: Data on absolute values of Solar flux in the wave-range λ < 130nm and in the hydrogen line L_α (λ = 121.6nm) were obtained on-board both CORONAS satellites.
ref: 2004, T. V. Kazachevskaya et al., “Measurments^([sic]) of Solar EUV fluxes on board the ‘CORONAS’ satellites: equipment and main results”, in Alexander V. Stepanov et al., editors, Multi-Wavelength Investigations of Solar Activity: Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 223, 2004, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 633:
glosses: Pertaining to the Sun (the star Sol).
Coordinate terms: Jovian
Lunar
Martian
Mercurian
Neptunian
Plutonian
Saturnian
Terran
Uranian
Venusian
Related terms: solar
Solar luminosity
Solar mass
Solar System
ultimacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultimacies
Senses: examples: text: The ultimacy of God's eschatological revelation impinges proleptically on . . . and, then, it all gets over my head.
ref: 2001, Mark Allan Powell, Chasing the Eastern Star, page 18:
glosses: The condition of being ultimate
Fujiwara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfu.dʒiːˈwɒ.ɹə/
ipa: /ˌfu.dʒiˈwɑ.ɹə/
rhymes: -ɒɹə
Forms: form: Fujiwaras
Etymology: Transliteration of Japanese 藤原 (Fujiwara).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese; variant form Fujiwhara.
Fujihara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌfud͡ʒiˈhɑɹə/
Forms: form: Fujiharas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 藤原 (Fujihara).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Tachibana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 橘 or 立花.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
ultimobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Designating the fifth (last) pharyngeal pouch of the embryo