cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
set netting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Unlike drifting, set netting is done in a small skiff, not unlike a Boston Whaler, usually between fifteen and twenty feet in length.
ref: 2008, Bill Carter, Red Summer, →ISBN, pages 15–16:
text: The main human-induced threat to Hector's and Maui's dolphins is set netting, followed by trawling.
ref: 2008, Klaus Bosselmann, Ron Engel, Prue Taylor, Governance for Sustainability: Issues, Challenges, Successes, →ISBN:
text: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, among other groups, is proposing the creation of a marine park as well as extension of the fishing bans on set netting to include trawlers.
ref: 2012, Erich Hoyt, Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, →ISBN:
glosses: The practice of fishing with a set net.
set netting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set net
set netted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of set net
set netter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set netters
form: set-netter
form: setnetter
Senses: examples: text: Sheathed in oilskins the boy climbed to the top of the cabin and stared shoreward with the binoculars, growling with frustrated fury when he saw the set netter nearest him row out and calmly pick a score of red salmon from his nets.
ref: 1963, Elsa Pedersen, Cook Inlet decision, page 178:
text: A set netter is constantly watching the river downstream from his net for the arrival of shoals and lifting it when the fish are safely inside.
ref: 1984, R. M. McDowall, The New Zealand Whitebait Book, page 144:
text: A set netter must have both a light touch on the engine when setting the net and the ability to crank down on the engine when facing tough currents.
ref: 2008, Bill Carter, Red Summer, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: One who fishes using a set net.
set netters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set netter
set-netter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set-netters
Senses: examples: text: The set-netter or beach fisherman is one who, by preference or because of lack of financial backing, does his fishing from the beach, and, strangely enough, the preponderance of set-netters are women.
ref: 1946, Carl Irving Wick, Ocean Harvest: The Story of Commercial Fishing in Pacific Coast Waters:
text: This is particularly important to set-netters because each license entitles the holder to certain limits of gear so that the head of a household may increase his gear by an amount proportional to the number of licenses he can command.
ref: 1965, Richard Grey Smith, A Geography of Contemporary Settlement on the Western Kenai:
text: Some set-netters can make millions per year, though the drift-netters (known as drifters) probably have a higher average income.
ref: 1997, David Lebedoff, Cleaning Up, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of set netter.
set-netters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set-netter
setnetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setnetters
Senses: examples: text: Actually when we first met, in 1985, I was a seiner and he was a setnetter.
ref: 1997, Leslie Leyland Fields, The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, →ISBN:
text: Later on in summer 2013w, a group representing setnetters sued the Department of Fish and Game seeking additional fishing time, a demand that turned out to be moot as Kenai River king salmon again showed up in low numbers and late in the season, leading to the July 28 closure ofboththe sport and commercial setnet harvest of king salmon.
ref: 2014, Andrew Jensen, Case For Conserving the Kenai King Salmon, →ISBN:
text: I had never dug a hole before becoming a setnetter.
ref: 2016, Nancy Lord, Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of set netter.
setnetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setnetter
set-net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set-nets
Senses: examples: text: Any net, seine, drag-net, paranzella, or set-net used for taking or catching fish, which shall be used or maintained in any of the waters of this state in violation of any existing or hereafter enacted statutes or laws of this state for the protection of fish, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and it is the duty of every peace officer to seize and keep the same and report such seizure to the board of fish commissioners of the state.
ref: 1901, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy, The Codes and Statutes of California:
text: Because set-nets are fixed to the beach, a locational component enters and influences the settlement pattern of set-net fishermen.
ref: 1965, Richard Grey Smith, A Geography of Contemporary Settlement on the Western Kenai:
text: As no set-nets or harpoon vessels operate between Hsinchu in the north-west and Pingtung in the south-west, there are no capture records for Taiwan's western coastal region except for the Penghu area.
ref: 2002, Sarah L. Fowler, Tim M. Reed, Frances Dipper, Elasmobranch Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of set net.
set-net
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: set-nets
form: set-netting
form: set-netted
form: set-netted
Senses: examples: text: I used to snag; I used to trap; I used to gill-net; I dipnetted, set-netted on scaffolds.
ref: 2000, Mike Baughman, Charlotte Cook Hadella, Warm Springs millennium: voices from the reservation, page 150:
text: He was back from his freshman year of college and they were both working for his father, tending the dogs and the farm while Abel was out set-netting with old Sam Dementieff and Mary Balashoff on Alaganik Bay.
ref: 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 46:
text: They've set-netted off this point for all the years I've fished here, since before the war, and I expect they will until they die.
ref: 2013, William B. McCloskey, Highliners: A Novel, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: Alternative form of set net.
set-nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set-net
set-nets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set-net
set-netting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Ministry has initiated a study on set-netting, chiefly in the Bay of Plenty, to look at the effects of set-netting as a fishing method.
ref: 1978, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 3605:
text: The level of amateur set-netting is thus particularly high.
ref: 1991, Margaret Klinowska, Dolphins, Porpoises and Whales of the World, →ISBN:
text: Felix is a widely experienced fisherman; he has worked on everything from oceangoing commercial rigs to single-canoe drift netting on the river where he grew up, to the set-netting he does now in the canyon.
ref: 1999, Crisca Bierwert, Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River: Coast Salish Figures of Power, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of set netting.
set-netting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set-net
setnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setnets
Senses: examples: text: The large-scale setnet (Fig. 1) is the most important type of setnet and its construction is more complex than that of smaller nets.
ref: 1980, International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Fish Behavior and Its Use in the Capture and Culture of Fishes, →ISBN:
text: In California, setnets are only allowed outside of three miles.
ref: 2005, Essential Fish Habitat Designation and Minimization of Adverse Impacts:
text: The most effective way of preventing loss and damage is to completely submerge the usual type of floating setnet so that it becomes a submerged or bottom setnet.
ref: 2009, A.N. Shukla, Fishing Techniques, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of set net.
setnet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: setnets
form: setnetting
form: setnetted
form: setnetted
Senses: examples: text: I'd never setnetted before, so we did a lot of things the hard way, the wrong way.
ref: 1997, Leslie Leyland Fields, The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, →ISBN:
text: He had never setnetted before, but he was used to hard work and roughing it, and he was eager to learn.
ref: 2003, Jack Ranweiler, For the Love of Fishing, →ISBN, page 179:
text: I learned early on that the reason Bob setnetted, the reason he made it his job, was because it allowed him to live here in Prince William Sound for months on end.
ref: 2017, Dave Atcheson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of set net.
setnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setnet
setnets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of setnet
setnetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At the public meetings a range of management options were discussed, ranging from the 'do nothing' option through to a complete ban on setnetting within the proposed marine sanctuary.
ref: 1989, David A. Norton, Management of New Zealand's natural estate, page 113:
text: But he was sick of setnetting, so we talked about it and that year he traded his setnet permit for a seine boat and permit, an even-up trade.
ref: 1997, Leslie Leyland Fields, The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, →ISBN:
text: Alaska has many salmon fisheries — seining, drift gillnetting, trolling, beach seining, and setnetting are the common ways to fish salmon.
ref: 2003, Jack Ranweiler, For the Love of Fishing, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of set netting.
setnetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of setnet
set-netted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of set-net
setnetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of setnet
meltoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meltoffs
Etymology: melt + off
Senses: examples: text: Thus mosses are in a position to photosynthesize at significant rates immediately after meltoff since their relative photosynthetic competence is high and since a substantial amount of evergreen tissue is present.
ref: 2012, Larry L. Tieszen, Vegetation and Production Ecology of an Alaskan Arctic Tundra, →ISBN:
text: In years of late meltoff, ground squirrels emerge and burrow up through the snow with little difficulty.
ref: 2013, H.H. Genoways, Current Mammalogy - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: The melting of snowpack at the end of winter.
examples: text: The snowpack deepens as long as accumulation exceeds meltoff , usually until mid-March.
ref: 2000, David Gilligan, The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above the Trees:
text: It was low and slow at this time of year, all the fish up the creek, all the meltoff out in the Gulf, but it was still beautiful.
ref: 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: The water produced by the melting of the snowpack.
meltoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meltoff
Mengzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mǔngʹdzûʹ
Forms: form: Meng-tzu
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).
Senses: glosses: The Chinese philosopher Mencius.
glosses: A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.
Synonyms: Mencius
Mengzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mǔngʹdzûʹ
Forms: form: Mengtsz
form: Mengtzu
form: Meng-tzu
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 蒙自 (Méngzì).
Senses: examples: text: Since the Peasant Night School of Fine Arts in Hsinan Commune of Mengtzu County in Yunnan Province was set up in 1972, its students have created more than two hundred works of art and held four exhibitions of traditional Chinese paintings, New-Year pictures, scissor-cuts, wood carvings and clay sculptures.
ref: [1975, “A Peasant Night School of Fine Arts”, in Chinese Literature [中国文学], number 5, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:
english: 中国文学
translation: 中国文学
text: “Yunnan is a forgotten province, a piece of China mislaid by the world,” wrote the British novelist Stella Benson when she was living in Mengzi, not far from the Vietnamese border, in the 1920s.
ref: 2024 June 22, Peter Neville-Hadley, “‘A piece of China mislaid’: in Mengzi, Yunnan, charming traces of its time as treaty port”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024, Travel:
glosses: A county-level city of Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.
erisophake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erisophakes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An instrument once used to hold the lens of the eye during an operation to remove a cataract
erythematovesicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythemato- + vesicular.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Characterised by erythema and vesiculation
erythraemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to erythraemia
Derived terms: erythraemic myelosis
make conversation
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes conversation
form: making conversation
form: made conversation
form: made conversation
Senses: examples: text: They had their meals with Mr. Gibson and Molly, and were felt to be terribly in the way; Mr. Gibson not being a man who could make conversation, and hating the duty of talking under restraint.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 3, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
text: Lee felt that disaster lurked ahead, and he did his best to stave it off by making conversation.
ref: 1923, Max Brand, chapter 18, in The Quest of Lee Garrison, New York: Leisure Books, published 1999, page 135:
text: […] mechanically like a hostess whose mind is elsewhere but who must make conversation with however uninteresting a guest, she said, ‘Pretty girl, jig jig, one pound.’
ref: 1948, Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, London: Heinemann, Part Two, Chapter 1, section 3, p. 208:
text: One day, when a neighbour called and sat in the kitchen with them having tea, Eilis realized that her mother and Rose were doing everything to hide their feelings. The neighbour, almost casually, as a way of making conversation, said: “You’ll miss her when she's gone, I'd say.”
ref: 2009, Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn, New York: Scribner, published 2015, page 30:
glosses: To talk with someone out of courtesy, to pass time, or in an effort to engage with them socially.
Related terms: small talk
shoot the breeze
starlight tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starlight tours
Senses: glosses: A method of torture in which Saskatoon police drove Aboriginal people out of the city and left them to freeze.
scissor binoculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scissor + binoculars, calque of German Scherenfernrohr.
Senses: synonyms: donkey's ears
trench binoculars
glosses: A pair of adjustable stereoscopic binoculars consisting of two periscopes.
trench binoculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of trench + binoculars.
Senses: synonyms: donkey's ears
scissor binoculars
glosses: A pair of binoculars consisting of two periscopes.
TAA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TAAs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of thoracic aortic aneurysm.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of temporal anti-aliasing.
arithmetic average
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetic averages
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The arithmetic mean.
erythralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythr- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A painful redness of the skin
erythrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrines
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of erythrite.
synonyms: word: erythrite
Derived terms: zoöerythrine
erythrityl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrityls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent, divalent, trivalent or tetravalent radical derived from erythritol
Derived terms: erythrityl tetranitrate
economic rationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Referring to its far-reaching assumption of private actors as thoroughly rational agents.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neoliberalism.
synonyms: word: neoliberalism
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see economic, rationalism.
erythroblastemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythroblastemias
form: erythroblastaemia
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of nucleated erythrocytes in the peripheral blood
Synonyms: erythroblastosis
erythroclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythro- + -clastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: destructive to erythrocytes
Related terms: erythroclasis
erythrocyanosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + cyanosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A blueish-red discolouration of the skin caused by exposure to cold
Derived terms: erythrocyanosis crurum
erythrocythemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˌɹɪθroʊˌsaɪˈθiːmiə/
Forms: form: erythrocythemias
Etymology: From erythrocyte + -emia, with /θ/ for euphony; akin to erythro- + -cyte + -emia and erythro- + -cyte + hem- + -ia; morphologically parallel with polycythemia.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of polycythemia.
synonyms: word: polycythemia
Brooke County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Robert Brooke.
Senses: glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Wellsburg.
wikipedia: Robert Brooke (Virginia)
Wellsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Wells + -burg.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Wells County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A small city in Grundy County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A village in Chemung County, New York, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Brooke County, West Virginia, United States.
Carrhae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a town of Osroene
Synonyms: Harran
reengine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reengines
form: reengining
form: reengined
form: reengined
form: re-engine
Etymology: From re- + engine.
Senses: examples: text: They were re-engined and modified as required, then had either turntables attached for semis or else traybodies fitted and some trailers tacked on.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 47:
glosses: To put in a new engine.
Pendleton County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both counties were named after Edmund Pendleton.
Senses: glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Falmouth.
glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Franklin.
Preston County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Patton Preston.
Senses: glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Kingwood.
wikipedia: James Patton Preston
Kingwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Harris County and Montgomery County, near Houston, Texas, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Preston County, West Virginia, United States.
Related terms: Kingswood
Ritchie County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Thomas Ritchie.
Senses: glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Harrisville.
wikipedia: Thomas Ritchie (journalist)
achievement age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achievement ages
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The level of an individual's educational development, as measured by a standardized test, expressed in terms of the chronological age of a normal person with the same degree of educational attainment.
Synonyms: attainment age
Related terms: chronological age
educational age
mental age
achievement ages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achievement age
Harrisville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Harris + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A rural town and locality in Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A locality in Waikato, North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Alcona County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Simpson County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Lewis County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Harrison County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place and village in Providence County, Rhode Island.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Weber County, Utah.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Ritchie County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
Roane County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Kingston. Named after Archibald Roane.
glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Spencer. Named after Spencer Roane.
erythrocytolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + cytolysis.
Senses: glosses: hemolysis of erythrocytes
erythrocytopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + cytopoiesis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of erythropoiesis.
synonyms: word: erythropoiesis
CGB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
astrophysics
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of cosmic gravitational-wave background.
Synonyms: cosmic gravitational-wave background
cosmic gravitational wave background
gravitational-wave background
gravitational wave background
GWB
Related terms: english: gravitational wave
translation: gravitational wave
word: GW
english: cosmic microwave background
translation: cosmic microwave background
word: CMB
english: cosmic infrared background
translation: cosmic infrared background
word: CIRB
english: cosmic infrared background
translation: cosmic infrared background
word: CIB
english: cosmic neutrino background
translation: cosmic neutrino background
word: CvB
english: cosmic neutrino background
translation: cosmic neutrino background
word: CνB
english: cosmic neutrino background
translation: cosmic neutrino background
word: CNB
erythrohepatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythro- + hepatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to (an abnormal amount of) erythrocytes in the liver
Derived terms: erythrohepatic protoporphyria
erythrokeratoderma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrokeratodermas
Etymology: From erythro- + keratoderma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin condition characterised by redness and thickened skin
erythroleukaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythro- + leukaemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Related to erythroleukaemia
cosmic gravitational-wave background
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmic gravitational wave background
Senses: glosses: The stochastic background of gravitational waves produced during the creation of the universe.
glosses: The irresolvable diffuse background resulting from the mixture of weak gravitational waves of all sources.
Synonyms: word: CGB
word: gravitational wave background
word: gravitational-wave background
word: GWB
Related terms: alt: GW
word: gravitational wave
alt: CMB
word: cosmic microwave background
alt: CIRB / CIB
word: cosmic infrared background
alt: CvB / CνB / CNB
word: cosmic neutrino background
erythroleukosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythroleukoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition, resembling leukemia, characterised by an abnormal increase in numbers of granulocytes and erythrocytes
gravitational wave background
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitational-wave background
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of cosmic gravitational-wave background.
Synonyms: word: GWB
erythromelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythromelias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of erythema and atrophy of the skin of the lower limbs
gravitational-wave background
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gravitational wave background.
Summers County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after George W. Summers.
Senses: glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Hinton.
wikipedia: George W. Summers
cosmic gravitational wave background
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cosmic gravitational-wave background.
erythron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrons
Senses: glosses: All the erythrocytes circulating in the bloodstream together with their precursors
erythrophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + -phagia.
Senses: glosses: phagocytosis of erythrocytes
Synonyms: erythrophagocytosis
erythrophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrophils
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell or tissue that readily stains red
erythrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of erythrophilous.
synonyms: word: erythrophilous
erythrophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythro- + -philous.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That readily stains red
erythroprosopalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder similar to erythromelalgia, but with facial redness and pain
Dorothy Crater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the fictional character Dorothy Gale, from L. Frank Baum's Oz.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An impact feature on Charon, the moon or binary companion of the dwarf planet Pluto.
wikipedia: en:Dorothy Gale
en:L. Frank Baum
Nasreddin Crater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the folk character from Middle Eastern folktales. The folk character is modelled on the satirical sufi Nasreddin Hodja.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crater (impact feature) on Charon, the moon or binary companion of the dwarf planet Pluto.
wikipedia: en:Nasreddin Hodja
Related terms: english: on the Moon (of Earth)
translation: on the Moon (of Earth)
word: Nasireddin Crater
Nemo Crater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nemo + crater. Named after the fictional character Captain Nemo, created by Jules Verne, most famously featured in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crater (impact feature) on Charon, the moon or binary companion of the dwarf planet Pluto.
wikipedia: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
en:Captain Nemo
en:Jules Verne
Pirx Crater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pirx + crater. Named after the fictional character Pilot Pirx (Pirx the Pilot), created by Stanislaw Lem.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crater (impact feature) on Charon, the moon or binary companion of the dwarf planet Pluto.
wikipedia: en:Pilot Pirx
en:Stanislaw Lem
Sadko Crater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sadko + crater. Named after the mythic character Sadko (Садко (Sadko)) from a Russian epic poem (a bylina (были́на (bylína)), who journeys to the bottom of the sea.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crater (impact feature) on Charon, the moon or binary companion of the dwarf planet Pluto.
wikipedia: en:Sadko
en:bylina
esteropeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esteropeptidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptidase that cleaves a polypeptide at a specific peptide ester linkage
esthesiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more esthesiogenic
form: most esthesiogenic
Senses: glosses: That produces a sensation
Bracken County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William Bracken.
Senses: glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Brooksville.
wikipedia: William Bracken
esthesioneurocytoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esthesioneurocytomas
Etymology: From esthesio- (“sensory”, variant of aesthesio-) + neurocytoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A neuroblastoma of the olfactory plate
estratriene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triply unsaturated estrane that is presumed to be the nucleus of most naturally occurring estrogenic steroids in animals
Derived terms: estradiol
estriol
mestranol
promestriene
esylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ethanesulfonate.
synonyms: word: ethanesulfonate
constituent assembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constituent assemblies
Senses: glosses: A body of representatives convened to draft and adopt a new constitution for a country.
Revati Crater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Revati + crater. Named after the mythological character Revati, from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata (महाभारतम् (mahābhāratam)).
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crater (impact feature) on Charon, the moon or binary companion of the dwarf planet Pluto.
wikipedia: en:Mahabharata
en:Revati
constituent assemblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constituent assembly
Brooksville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Most are from the surname Brooks + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Blount County, Alabama.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Alabama.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Hernando County, Florida, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Bracken County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.
glosses: A town in Noxubee County, Mississippi, United States. Named after brooks in the area.
glosses: A small town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States.
Alcona County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a neologism coined by Henry Schoolcraft.
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Harrisville.
wikipedia: Henry Schoolcraft
Alcona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈkəʊ.nə/
ipa: /ælˈkoʊ.nə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Senses: glosses: A community in Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A settlement in Sioux Lookout, Kenora District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A township in Alcona County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Haynes Township, Alcona County, Michigan.
Derived terms: Alcona County
Simpson County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Franklin. Named after John Simpson.
glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Mendenhall. Named after judge Josiah Simpson.
Hernando County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aʊnti
Etymology: Named after Hernando de Soto.
Senses: glosses: One of 67 counties in Florida, United States. County seat: Brooksville.
wikipedia: Hernando de Soto
Noxubee County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Choctaw word nakshobi meaning to stink.
Senses: glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Macon.
Cecot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: CECOT
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cecot (“Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo”).
Senses: examples: text: But the ruthless cleaning up of those streets and merciless treatment of gang members have triggered outrage and concern among human rights organizations, which have condemned Cecot as inhumane and unacceptable.
ref: 2024 November 6, David Culver, Abel Alvarado, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, “Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador”, in CNN:
glosses: The Terrorism Confinement Center; a large maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
Delta County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Delta. Named after the county seat, which is situated on a delta.
glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Escanaba. Situated on the Upper Peninsula. Named after the Greek letter delta.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Cooper. Named after the Greek letter.
LDAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LDA
spoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spox
eluctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eluctation
plain papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plain paper
Escanaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɛskəˈnɑːbə/
Etymology: Named after the Escanaba River; from the Ojibwe language.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Delta County, Michigan, United States, on the Upper Peninsula.
wikipedia: Escanaba River
nunate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nunates
form: nunating
form: nunated
form: nunated
Etymology: From nun + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: You can only nunate the name in the case of the nominative and the genitive,[…]
ref: 1995, Kees Versteegh, C. H. M. Versteegh, The Explanation of Linguistic Causes: Az-Za?????'s Theory of Grammar : Introduction, Translation, Commentary, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 169:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To add nunation to (a word).
Related terms: nunation
Kit Carson County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Kit Carson.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Burlington.
wikipedia: Kit Carson
Related terms: Carson County
repressurizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repressurizers
Etymology: From repressurize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine that repressurizes.
repressurizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repressurizer
overrely
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrelies
form: overrelying
form: overrelied
form: overrelied
Etymology: From over- + rely.
Senses: examples: text: Practical experience suggests that there are circumstances in which managers have a tendency to overrely on tests.
ref: 2008, SL Martin, “Managers also overrely on tests”, in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, volume 1, number 3, →DOI, pages 359–360:
glosses: To rely too much (on something or someone); to be overly dependent (on) or expectant (about).
Related terms: overreliance
overreliant
overrelies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrely
overrelying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrely
overrelied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrely
Ouray County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Chief Ouray.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Ouray.
wikipedia: Ouray (Ute leader)
Ouray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjʊəɹeɪ/
Etymology: Named after Chief Ouray.
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Ouray County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Uintah County, Utah, United States.
Derived terms: Ouray County
diesel therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of punishment in which prisoners are shackled and transported long distances for days or weeks.
Pitkin County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Frederick Walker Pitkin.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Aspen.
wikipedia: Frederick Walker Pitkin
private branch exchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private branch exchange
PSLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSL
fall foliage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall foliages
Senses: examples: text: As Chatter adjusted her scarf and cowboy hat to ward off the increasing winds, Sally Ann saw several gray leaves tumble over the grass and realized there had been no fall foliage in Half Moon. No week or so where the leaves explode with color and paint the hillsides with majestic hues of red, orange, yellow and gold. Just like the town itself, the trees and flowers -- remarkably bright and vivid throughout the season -- had simply paled and appeared to be on their way to an ashen bone-like pallor.
ref: 2004, Zackary Richards, Half Moon Falls, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Nature is at her most harmonious beauty with the colorful splash of fall foliages of yellows, reds, browns and greens it is accompanied by a slight wafting breeze.
ref: 2010, Edward Anthony Gibbsons, American Corruption: A Story of Boston Corruption Under J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, →ISBN:
text: Mount spectacular summits and ogle eyepopping fall foliage.
ref: 2016, Amy C Balfour, Gregor Clark, Lonely Planet New England Fall Foliage Road Trips, →ISBN:
glosses: The brightly colored leaves of deciduous trees that appear in the autumn.
fall foliages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fall foliage
City and County of Broomfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The official title of Broomfield, a consolidated city and county, one of 64 counties in Colorado, USA.
ACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AC
maize syrups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maize syrup
WIN
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of whip inflation now: a 1974 US political slogan.
principates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of principate
Cassavetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cassavetian
form: most Cassavetian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Cassavetes (1929–1989), Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter, who pioneered the use of improvisation and a realistic cinéma vérité style.
perfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perf
clairgustant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clairgustants
Etymology: From clairgustance + -ant.
Senses: glosses: A person who has the psychic ability of clairgustance.
clairgustants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clairgustant
clairscent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: clairalience
nanook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanooks
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓇᓄᖅ (nanoq, “polar bear”).
Senses: examples: text: Let's build a nanook. A big one. Almost as big as a real one!
ref: 1935, Armstrong Sperry, One Day with Tuktu: An Eskimo Boy:
text: "I have a way with nanooks," Mazwuk explained, hoping that none would notice the tremor in his voice, […]
ref: 1967, North - Volumes 14-15, page 52:
text: She dressed: white T-shirt, black jeans, blue sweatshirt with the gold UAF nanook on the front, white anklets, black-and-white Nike tennis shoes.
ref: 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 110:
text: Promising in her Inaugural Address to protect the state like a "nanook defending her cub," she has continued to play down social issues as governor.
ref: 2008, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 172, page 102:
qualifier: Alaska
glosses: A polar bear.
nanooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanook
carroted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carrot
unbullshitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbʊlʃɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more unbullshitable
form: most unbullshitable
form: unbullshittable
Etymology: From un- + bullshit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He was every inch the cop now, unbullshitable eyes trained on Kate's face.
ref: 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 125:
text: Are you out of your fucking mind? Think you can control her? She's relentless. Unbullshitable.
ref: 2012, Ken Pakman, Domestic Tranquility: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: Unfortunately for Jessie, though, Charlene's a recovering junkie and completely unbullshitable.
ref: 2014, Steve Ulfelder, Wolverine Bros. Freight & Storage: A Conway Sax Mystery, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Able to see through bullshit; not able to be fooled.
examples: text: He has done backed his ass into an unbullshitable situation and now he's desperate.
ref: 2015, Kiki Curry Winters, Eating Crow, →ISBN:
glosses: Not supporting any but a straightforward explanation.
McCar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McCars
Etymology: From Mc- + car.
Senses: examples: text: Their kids are fairly popular, and we refer to everything they have as McCars, McClothes, McToys.
ref: 1985, Joni Hilton, Joni Winn, Braces, gym suits, and early-morning seminary, →ISBN:
text: I know most of you are just going from one McNowhere to another — with your McKids in your McCars on your McCations.
ref: 1999, Lavonne Mueller, Monologues from the Road: Audition and Performance Pieces, →ISBN:
text: "A Ford Escort, also known as a McCar," he said.
ref: 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Any popular middlebrow model of car.
premonishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premonishment
spruce hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spruce hen
form: spruce hens
Senses: examples: text: Well, I had the damndest time pointing that spruce hen out to Buck.
ref: 2010 -, Kitty Noirot, Noirot’s Call of the Moose: The Biography of Clark Noirot, →ISBN:
text: My other brother Gust Jensen and his friend, Paul Zachar, were out hunting for spruce hen, too.
ref: 2013, Barbara Atwater, Walter's Story: Pedro Bay, Alaska -- Past, Present, and Distant Memories, →ISBN:
text: Spruce hens are mostly found in or near spruce trees, and there are usually 10 to 20 in a flock.
ref: 2014, Deborah Wood, The Legend of River Mahay, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of spruce grouse (Dendrapagus canadensis)
synonyms: word: spruce grouse
extra: Dendrapagus canadensis
spruce hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spruce hen
hook shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook shops
Senses: examples: text: Van Raalte said the girl would have "received better treatment in any hook shop."
ref: 1949, Henry W. Sams, Waldo F. McNeir, Problems in Reading & Writing, page 237:
text: One of the girls in one of the hook shops in Niniltna, back when it was party town for the Kanuyaq Copper Mine.
ref: 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 136:
text: And he never comes back, Mr Dillon; he's damned well told that it ain't necessary, because this is a hotel not a hook shop.
ref: 2010, Jim Thompson, The Grifters, →ISBN:
glosses: A brothel.
Related terms: hooker
hook shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hook shop
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ramsay Hunt syndromes
Etymology: All were first described by the neurologist James Ramsay Hunt (1872–1937).
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of unrelated syndromes:
Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 1: a rare form of cerebellar degeneration.
glosses: Any of a number of unrelated syndromes:
Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2: the reactivation of herpes zoster in the geniculate ganglion.
glosses: Any of a number of unrelated syndromes:
Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 3: occupationally induced neuropathy of the deep palmar branch of the ulnar nerve.
Synonyms: sense: type 1
word: Ramsay Hunt cerebellar syndrome
sense: type 3
word: artisan's palsy
sense: type 3
word: Hunt's disease
Ramsay Hunt syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramsay Hunt syndrome
artisan's palsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 3
LRRPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LRRP
Hunt's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 3
thermoremanences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermoremanence
remanency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remanencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of remanence.
nunated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nunate