cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Santhali
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Santali.
incouplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incoupling
quasisolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasisolutions
Etymology: From quasi- + solution.
Senses: examples: text: The problems studied in the paper include the existence of a quasisolution, the differentiability of the functional, the continuous dependence of the quasisolution on the input data, and the construction of approximate quasisolutions.
ref: 1994, Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, volume 2, page 199:
text: In a special case of defining the quasisolution, the observation space is furnished with the L₂-norm.
ref: 2013, Ne-Zheng Sun, Inverse Problems in Groundwater Modeling, page 53:
glosses: A generalized solution to certain ill-posed problems that is well-posed in the sense of Hadamard.
quasisolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasisolution
dry-fired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dry-fire
dry-fires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dry-fire
dry-firing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dry-fire
coadministrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coadministrate
coadministrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coadministrate
coadministrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coadministrators
form: coädministrator
form: co-administrator
Etymology: From co- + administrator.
Senses: synonyms: coadmin
glosses: A joint administrator.
Related terms: coadministrate
coadministration
coadministrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coadministrator
dead man's handle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead man's handles
Senses: examples: text: Dead-man's handle, automatic train stop, quick-acting compressed-air brake specially suited for high-speed working, and regenerative braking are among the features of the new locomotives.
ref: 1947 March and April, “Swiss High-Speed Electric Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
text: There were two engine men in case one of them fainted or died, the 'dead man's handle' of the later Tubes (a fail-safe device that stops the train if the driver does not maintain manual pressure on a lever) not having been perfected.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 103–104:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
hypernyms: dead man's switch
glosses: A lever used as a safety device, typically on trains, which shuts off power if the operator releases their grip.
dead man's handles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead man's handle
split monomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split monomorphisms
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A morphism which has a left inverse.
Synonyms: split monic
Hypernyms: monomorphism
Hyponyms: isomorphism
Related terms: split epimorphism
P-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P-boxes
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of permutation box.
P-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of P-box
permutation box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permutation boxes
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: P-box
glosses: A method of permuting or transposing bits (binary digits) across S-box inputs while retaining diffusion.
permutation boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permutation box
counting house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counting houses
Senses: examples: text: It had become what Peter Ackroyd calls, in London: The Biography, 'a mere counting house'. The biggest counting house in the world, mind you.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: Alternative form of countinghouse.
counting houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counting house
Pishon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew פִּישׁוֹן.
Senses: glosses: one of the four rivers in Eden.
Gothishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gothish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] when his indignation had been stirred by what he considered her Gothishness, and want of hospitality to his best friend.
ref: 1882, Alice Weber, Two life-stories:
text: […] if you took away the gothishness and heavy makeup.
ref: 2017, Jen Agg, I Hear She's a Real Bitch:
glosses: The quality of being Gothish.
business indexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of business index
ease of doing business indexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ease of doing business index
underestimatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underestimatable
form: most underestimatable
Etymology: From underestimate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being underestimated.
citron-throated toucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citron-throated toucans
Senses: glosses: Ramphastos citreolaemus, a toucan with black upperparts and yellow rump, throat, and breast.
citron-throated toucans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citron-throated toucan
NOHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NOH
downlevels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downlevel
downlevels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downlevel
downleveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downlevel
downlevelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downlevel
downleveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downlevel
downlevelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downlevel
introsusceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of introsusception
cold-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold-backs
form: coldback
form: cold back
Senses: examples: text: It is difficult to compare the human counterpart of what Jeffcott describes as another 'well known' problem in horses, namely, "cold-back".
ref: 1980, R Grahame, Low Back Pain - Volume 2, page 16:
text: Such maladies as osteoarthritis of various joints (spavin in the hocks, ringbone in the pasterns, osselets in the fetlocks, navicular disease in the heels of the forefeet) are very common, as is chronic lower back soreness (coldback) in the lumbar, sacral, and thoracic regions.
ref: 1992, Barbara T. Engel, Margaret L. Galloway, Therapeutic Riding Programs:
text: If horses exhibit a cold-back, it may well signify an underlying problem, but some horses that have only a cold-back and no other signs or performance deficit can be managed by lunging before riding or gradually tightening the girth.
ref: 1997, Current Therapy in Equine Medicine - Volume 4, page 11:
text: One of the most debated subjects in the whole of equestrianism is whether or not horses have bad backs. For some horsemen, a horse with a 'cold-back' is merely demonstrating eccentric behaviour; for others, every unexpected response is indicative of a back problem.
ref: 1998, Sara Wyche, Understanding the Horse's Back, page 43:
glosses: A syndrome in which a horse refuses to accept anything on its back (often a symptom of chronic lower back soreness)
examples: text: "Guess he's a cold-back," Slim observed when Blackie had calmed down somewhat.
ref: 1996, Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson, Gold Rush: North to Alaska and the Klondike, page 33:
text: The stud colt had taken to halter and bit easily enough, but he was a coldback. He had shied at the blanket and rejected the weighted feed sacks Adam had hung over his back before introducing the saddle.
ref: 2009, David Karcher, Winter Kill, page 17:
glosses: A horse with cold-back.
cold-back
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coldback
form: cold back
Senses: examples: text: A cold-back bronc raises his head up high as a single cowboy walks toward him to mount in the cold morning air.
ref: 1995, James P. McCall, The Stallion: A Breeding Guide for Owners and Handlers, page 3:
text: You go back to the corral and saddle that cold-back sumbitch and put on your chaps and spurs.
ref: 2009, John Duncklee, Zemo, page 49:
glosses: Refusing to bear weight on its back; bucking and shying when anything is put on the back.
raw_tags: of a horse
cold-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold-back
cold back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold backs
Senses: examples: text: Some horses and ponies have "cold backs" or are "cinchy."
ref: 1993, Judy Richter, Philip Richter, Pony Talk: A Complete Learning Guide for Young Riders, page 4:
text: That last paragraph leads us to a singularly important aspect of the syndrome of cold back.
ref: 1998, James R. Rooney, The Lame Horse, page 198:
text: The question of whether biting, kicking, rearing, bucking and napping are vices is moot - still more so those horses with headshaking syndrome or cold backs - none of which, the author believes, can truly be described as vices.
ref: 2002, Captain M. Horace Hayes, Roy Knightbridge, Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners, page 814:
text: Note: in some cases the pain may precede the development of overt lesions and the horse may be presented for a 'cold back ' or saddle resentment.
ref: 2009, Derek C. Knottenbelt, Pascoe's Principles and Practice of Equine Dermatology:
text: The signs of a cold back are usually exhibited when the saddle is put on, the girth tightened or as the rider mounts.
ref: 2013, Kenneth W Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery, page 428:
glosses: Alternative form of cold-back.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cold, back.
cold back
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I had learned by then to hog it out with most cold back horses but knew little of real breaking.
ref: 2004, Bruce Kiskaddon, Katherine Field, Bill Siems, Shorty's yarns: western stories and poems of Bruce Kiskaddon, page 4:
text: Horses will resent tacking up and might have violent reactions similar to those seen on a 'cold back' horse.
ref: 2018, Frances M. D. Henson, Equine Neck and Back Pathology: Diagnosis and Treatment, page 226:
glosses: Alternative form of cold-back.
cold backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold back
gizzard stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gizzard stones
Senses: glosses: gastrolith
gizzard stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gizzard stone
HBPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HBP
acredale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acredales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acre-dale.
acredales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acredale
counter-revisionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counter-revisionist
form: most counter-revisionist
form: counterrevisionist
Etymology: From counter- + revisionist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antirevisionist.
synonyms: word: antirevisionist
counter-revisionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-revisionists
form: counterrevisionist
Etymology: From counter- + revisionist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antirevisionist.
synonyms: word: antirevisionist
counterrevisionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counterrevisionist
form: most counterrevisionist
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counter-revisionist.
counterrevisionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterrevisionists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counter-revisionist.
counterrevisionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterrevisionist
counter-revisionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-revisionist
floterials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floterial
periodontitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to periodontitis.
BDRFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BDRF
Lezgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Belonging to one of the seven branches of the Northeast Caucasian language family.
Related terms: Lezgian
bingeworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bingeworthy
form: most bingeworthy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of binge-worthy.
flat fare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat fares
Senses: examples: text: Today London buses have a flat fare, but the Underground covers too wide an area for the policy to be feasible on the network.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 118:
text: The financial growth reflects the return of passengers to rail and bus. The latter has been boosted by the DfT's £2 flat fare for any journey, although (like rail) ridership is still lower than pre-COVID.
ref: 2023 December 13, Mel Holley, “Network News: Open access operations help to boost First's figures”, in RAIL, number 998, page 20:
topics: transport
glosses: A fare, usually for one journey, that remains the same no matter how far one travels.
flat fares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flat fare
thinking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of think up
gasshoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gassho
gasshoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gassho
hypochondroplasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypochondroplasia
Nordically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Nordically
form: most Nordically
Etymology: From Nordic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he was, with her pale high cheekbones and Nordically cold blue eyes, strikingly handsome rather than beautiful.
ref: 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren:
glosses: In a Nordic manner.
watercressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From watercress + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Bright, laughing streams, moving over their gravel beds and drowned ledges, fed by watercressed springs from under towering walls. The Mississippi and our other senior rivers are very solemn, and take themselves very seriously.
ref: 2008, John Madson, Michael McIntosh, Out Home, page 69:
text: Sandwiches in shadow. Row upon dewy row; serried ranks of cheese and cucumber, and watercressed egg, and mustardy ham.
ref: 2011, Paul Golding, Abomination:
synonyms: watercressy
glosses: Adorned or flavored with watercress.
unserried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + serried.
Senses: glosses: Not serried.
watercressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From watercress + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing.
ref: 2016, H. E. Bates, “Oh! Sweeter Than The Berry”, in The Song of the Wren:
glosses: The act or process of gathering watercress.
watercressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From watercress + -ing (participle).
Senses: examples: text: What are you watercressing for?
ref: 1911, Benjamin Bickley Rogers, transl., The comedies of Aristophanes, volume 4, page 66:
text: He used to brag that the ladder had four rounds and that he stood on the middle one when he was watercressing.
ref: 1991, Fred Archer, Grain and Chaff Under the Hill, page 94:
glosses: present participle and gerund of watercress
basining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of basin
basinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of basin
basinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of basin
capeweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capeweeds
Senses: glosses: The plant Arctotheca calendula
carnivoromorphian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnivoromorphians
Senses: glosses: Any animal of the clade Carnivoramorpha
Related terms: carnivoramorphan
carnivoromorphians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carnivoromorphian
cerastocytin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protease present in the venom of some snakes
chemocytokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemocytokines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chemokine.
synonyms: word: chemokine
chemocytokines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemocytokine
chemoradiosensitiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoradiosensitisers
Etymology: From chemo- + radiosensitiser.
Senses: glosses: A chemoradiosensitive material
chemoradiosensitisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoradiosensitiser
chlorolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorolactones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of a lactone
Derived terms: hydroxychlorolactone
chronoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chronoscope + -y.
Senses: glosses: The measurement and study of extremely small time intervals by means of a chronoscope.
chronotopographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrono- + topographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to changes in topography over time
circumequatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + equatorial.
Senses: glosses: That encircles the equator
circumequatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From circum- + equatorially.
Senses: glosses: In a circumequatorial manner
colinearize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colinearizes
form: colinearizing
form: colinearized
form: colinearized
Etymology: From co- + linearize or colinear + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To linearize along with another.
Related terms: colinearization
colinearized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colinearize
columnarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: columnarizes
form: columnarizing
form: columnarized
form: columnarized
Etymology: From columnar + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To arrange in columns
Related terms: columnarization
columnarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of columnarize
columnarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: columnarizations
Senses: glosses: The process, or the result,of columnarizing
commutivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being commutive.
commutivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of commutativity.
conjuncatenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of conjunction + catenation
Senses: glosses: conjunction and catenation
valleyful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valleyfuls
form: valleysful
Etymology: From valley + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Elham, Stelling, Waltham, Bishopsbourne with its literary as well as its architectural treasures, Patrixbourne whose church is one of the most perfect pure Norman pieces in England, Denton, and Wootton, the seat of the Bridges family, that gave us a famous littérateur at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and a great Poet Laureate at the end of it: these are only a sample of the valleyfuls of names that represent a social history to which no writer could do justice in one lifetime.
ref: 1948, Richard Church, Kent, page 197:
text: Holding aloft valleysful of brown wooden huts, like loaded trays in the palms of black-tailed waiters, upturned for the scrutiny of a jewelled moon-goddess, the mountains and valleys rose and swam out of sight.
ref: 1961, Samuel Roth, My Friend Yeshea, page 1:
text: Ann's son was so good at mimicking marmots that he was soon "talking" to a whole valleyful of the critters.
ref: 1997, John Graham, Outdoor Leadership: Technique, Common Sense & Self-confidence:
text: Soon his profits were ten times the value of his investment, and he counted his herds by the valleyful.
ref: 2008, Richard L. Smith, Premodern Trade in World History:
glosses: As much as fills a valley.
valleyfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valleyful
valleysful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valleyful
Greater United States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: Greater America
Imperial America
Imperial Republic
glosses: The United States of America considered with its territories or neocolonies.
free day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free days
Senses: examples: text: It was Friday, the Muslim Sabbath and a free day at the School.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 135:
glosses: A day on which people do not have to attend school, work, etc.
free days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free day
liverishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more liverishly
form: most liverishly
Etymology: From liverish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He dozed liverishly. In his dream he was drinking in Bombay, paying for rounds with ample rupees.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 136:
glosses: In a liverish manner.
sky-flood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky-floods
Senses: examples: text: Behind them they could almost hear still the fierce sky-flood.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 140:
glosses: A deluge of rain.
sky-floods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky-flood
sub-station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-stations
Etymology: From sub- + station.
Senses: examples: text: They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.
ref: 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
text: The stations, lifts and trains were all brightly lit with electricity, and there was no question of voltage drop from being too far from the source of the power because the Central was the first line long enough to justify the building of sub-stations along the route.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 118–119:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of substation.
sub-stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-station
electrodiesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrodiesels
Etymology: From electro- + diesel.
Senses: glosses: A locomotive that can be powered either from an electricity supply or by using the onboard diesel engine.
electrodiesels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrodiesel
fraise des bois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraises des bois
form: fraise du bois
Etymology: From French fraise des bois.
Senses: examples: text: “A lot of fruit, too, has an enormously fugitive flavour — a fraise des bois picked fresh tastes completely different from the ones which have probably come from somewhere like Chile and been chilled.”
ref: 1998 May 22, “All in the best possible taste: Conran to design Standard garden for Chelsea next year”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:
text: A delicate porcelain bowl arrived filled with water or so it appeared, a few fraise^([sic]) des bois and blueberries floating on top.
ref: 2000 July 30, Marilyn McDevitt Rubin, “At some unforgettable meals, the food paled compared with the drama”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 73, number 365, page 14:
text: “It’s November and you are eating fraises des bois . . .”
ref: 2009, Andrew Friedman, “Three Months in Yountville”, in Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d’Or Competition, Free Press, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: The wild strawberry, the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca).
fraises des bois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraise des bois
eudesmane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudesmanes
Senses: examples: text: Among the sesquiterpenoids, eudesmane and cadinanes are the most important for the study of terrestrialization.
ref: 2010, Marco Vecoli, Gaël Clément, B. Meyer-Berthaud, The Terrestrialization Process, page 18:
text: It seems reasonable to conclude that C. polyanthos collected in different locations possesses different sets of enzymes that act in mediating the cyclization process of the germacradiene intermediate leading to the eudesmanes.
ref: 2012, Yoshinori Asakawa, Agnieszka Ludwiczuk, Fumihiro Nagashima, Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes, page 222:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic sesquiterpene found in many nonflowering plants, especially angiosperms, and often associated with drimane. It is considered a marker of plant-based origin for petroleum and sediments.
eudesmanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudesmane
equigravispheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equigravisphere
mabkhara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mabkharas
form: mabakhir
Etymology: From Arabic مِبْخَرَة (mibḵara) (dialects tend to pronounce the prefix ma-).
Senses: glosses: A traditional censer in the Arab world and Turkey, usually having a square pedestal base or legs with inward-sloping sides which support a square cup with outward-sloping sides.
mabakhir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mabkhara
mabkharas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mabkhara
bakhoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بَخُور (baḵūr).
Senses: glosses: incense in the form of scented chips or blocks, used in Arab countries
cadinane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadinanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound found in agarwood oil.
Related terms: cadalene
cadinene
cadinanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadinane
vetispirane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vetispiranes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: spirovetivane
glosses: An organic compound found in agarwood oil.
vetispiranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vetispirane
valencane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valencanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound found in agarwood oil.
valencanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valencane
nootkatanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nootkatane
exobasidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + basidial.
Senses: glosses: Separated from the basidium by a wall.
Coordinate terms: endobasidial
endobasidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + basidial.
Senses: examples: text: In three species at least of Neuropogon the fulcra are of the endobasidial type, as defined by Steiner (1901).
ref: 1939, Journal: Botany, volume 52, Linnean Society of London, page 205:
text: A, endobasidial filament of Buellia canescens; B, part of the endobasidial microsporogenous plexus in Lobaria laetevirens; […]
ref: 2012, Vernon Ahmadijian, The Lichens, page 61:
glosses: Within or as an extension of the basidium.
Coordinate terms: exobasidial
microsporogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A, endobasidial filament of Buellia canescens; B, part of the endobasidial microsporogenous plexus in Lobaria laetevirens; […]
ref: 2012, Vernon Ahmadijian, The Lichens, page 61:
glosses: Involved in microsporogenesis.
Weisses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weisse
trophotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tropho- + -tropy.
Senses: examples: text: Jansen's experiments on noise-induced nervous stress establish that the effect of noise is to create a higher activation of the organism, that is, a transition of the general state from trophotropy to ergotropy.
ref: 1971, United States, An Assessment of Noise Concern in Other Nations, Environmental Protection Agency, page 8:
text: This shifts the attention towards the states of ergotropy and trophotropy.
ref: 2008, Bernadette von Dawans, Neuropeptidergic Modulation of Social Behavior in Health and Social Phobia:
glosses: A state of relaxation, drowsiness and inactivity induced by the parasympathetic nervous system and the action of serotonin.
Related terms: trophotropic
ecocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: ecocracies
Etymology: From eco- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, it is easy for an ecocracy that acts in the name of "one earth" to become a threat to local communities and their life-styles.
ref: 1996, Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy:
glosses: A system of government focused on protecting the natural environment.
Related terms: ecocratic
ecocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecocratic
form: most ecocratic
Etymology: From eco- + -cratic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to ecocracy.
ecocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecocracy
epipericyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epipericysts
Senses: examples: text: Epipericyst and hypopericyst of more or less equal size or epipericyst somewhat larger. Ambital outline widest in pericingular region. Compression dorso-ventral, moderate to extreme.
ref: 1978, Stanford University Publications: Geological sciences:
text: The epipericysts on the Australian and French specimens are generally broadly rounded apically, whereas those from California are acutely rounded, and commonly possess a short, apical horn.
ref: 1987, P. A. Jell, Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Studies in Australian Mesozoic palynology, volume 1, page 273:
glosses: The part of the pericyst that lies anterior to the paracingulum.
Coordinate terms: hypopericyst
epipericysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epipericyst
hypopericyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypopericysts
Senses: examples: text: Epipericyst and hypopericyst of more or less equal size or epipericyst somewhat larger. Ambital outline widest in pericingular region. Compression dorso-ventral, moderate to extreme.
ref: 1978, Stanford University Publications: Geological sciences:
glosses: The part of the pericyst that lies posterior to the paracingulum.
Coordinate terms: epipericyst
hypopericysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypopericyst
exogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: Panspermia, one possible form of exogenesis, is the notion that the seeds of life are scattered throughout the universe.
ref: 2011, Gerald Benedict, The Maya: 2012: the end of the world, or the dawn of enlightenment?, page 21:
text: The hybridization of the viroid and fungoid (creating a life that transmogrifies and creeps) can be tied to the theory of exogenesis. The theory of exogenesis holds that life has always already existed and that life on earth has come from elsewhere.
ref: 2012, Ben Woodard, Slime Dynamics:
glosses: The theory that life on Earth is of extraterrestrial origin.
examples: text: In later development, the merozoites assume a peripheral location and grow outward at the surface, with the limiting membrane of the mother meront forming the outer membrane of the merozoite, as in exogenesis.
ref: 1982, Peter L. Long, The Biology of the Coccidia, page 123:
text: The exogenesis theory forwarded by Targulian reveals the role of boundary in the solid-air and solid-water systems: for their interaction.
ref: 2002, Eurasian Soil Science - Volume 35, page S-116:
text: When they exist eternally, their exogenesis is God's necessarily eternal existence; when they exist in action, their exogenesis lies in the durational existence of other individual (already existent in action) things.
ref: 2012, A. Campos, Spinoza's Revolutions in Natural Law:
glosses: External origin.
ecobotanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + botanical.
Senses: examples: text: The ecobotanical aspects of the vast herbaceous and under-storey vegetation which were overlooked by earlier investigators have received greater attention in the present work.
ref: 1985, Amal Bhusan Chaudhuri, H. B. Naithani, Environment and Resources of Tropical and Temperate Forests of India:
text: These populations differ significantly in seasonality and phenology from the large, more or less continuous population in western Samaria. There are also different ecobotanical associations of R. tripartita in these two rather different habitats, […]
ref: 1987, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences:
glosses: Concerning the ecological aspects of the botanical elements of.
remoderate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remoderates
form: remoderating
form: remoderated
form: remoderated
Etymology: From re- + moderate.
Senses: glosses: To moderate again.
remoderation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remoderations
Etymology: From re- + moderation.
Senses: glosses: The act of remoderating; moderation again.
remoderated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remoderate
remoderates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remoderate
remoderating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remoderate
remoderations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remoderation
biophotonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biophotonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means or, or in terms of, biophotonics.
remoderator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remoderators
Etymology: From remoderate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The beam passes through the two sets of deflector plates which can be used to adjust its angle and position before it enters the final focus lens ELPGF mounted on the bender layer and is focussed into a small spot on the first remoderator.
ref: 1998, Terry Lou Dull, A next generation positron microscope and a survey of candidate samples for future positron studies, page 77:
text: The intrinsic energy distribution of positrons emitted from a moderator (or remoderator) is significantly smaller than 1 eV.
ref: 2012, J. W. Humberston, E. A. G. Armour, Atomic Physics with Positrons, page 327:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A substance used to reduce the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor to a previous level.
Related terms: moderator
remoderate
remoderation
remoderators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remoderator
prechopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prechoppers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A device for prechopping.
prechoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prechopper
prechop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prechops
form: prechopping
form: prechopped
form: prechopped
Etymology: From pre- + chop.
Senses: glosses: To chop beforehand, as in food preparation.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To carry out mechanical nucleofracture prior to phacoemulsification in cataract surgery.
Derived terms: prechopper
prechopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prechop
prechops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prechop
half-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + built.
Senses: examples: text: In 1901 the Great Northern cancelled its agreement with the backers of the Big Tube, by which time the latter was half-built, and its big tunnels looked like a grandiose folly, since it would now not be allowed running rights into Finsbury Park main-line station.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 122:
text: North End station under Hampstead Heath was a half-built station that later became a Cold War bunker.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49:
glosses: Only partially built; not finished or completed.
Related terms: half-finished
rockmass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æs
Forms: form: rockmasses
Etymology: From rock + mass.
Senses: examples: text: The mechanical characteristics of the host rockmass above and below the mine workings are highly anisotropic and complex […]
ref: 1995, F. B. J. Barends, Frits J. J. Brouwer, Frans H. Schröder, Land Subsidence: By Fluid Withdrawal, by Solid Extraction: Theory and Modelling, Environmental Effects and Remedial Measures: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Land Subsidence:
text: Weak intercalation which is comparatively weak and small bedded geological unit and which usually includes fault and thin weak rock, is one of the most important subject^([sic]) in rockmass mechanics.
ref: 1997, Paul G. Marinos, Engineering Geology and the Environment, volume 1, page 445:
glosses: A mass of rock.
rockmasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockmass
underpartition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpartitions
form: underpartitioning
form: underpartitioned
form: underpartitioned
Etymology: From under- + partition.
Senses: glosses: To divide into too few partitions.
underpartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpartition
underpartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpartition
underpartitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpartition
overpartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpartition
overpartitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpartition
multipartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multipartition
multipartitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of multipartition
multipartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multipartition
cigarette machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigarette machines
Senses: examples: text: But anyone who did find the trains was in for a treat: great mahogany wardrobes of carriages with comfortable transverse seats, clocks and cigarette machines.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: A vending machine that dispenses packets of cigarettes.
prunacetin A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antitumor antibiotic found in Streptomyces griseus var. purpureus.
cigarette machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigarette machine
acrasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrasy
schizothymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schizothymous
form: most schizothymous
Senses: glosses: schizothymic
OIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Old Indo-Aryan.
of interest
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: interesting
Derived terms: person of interest
kentrogons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kentrogon
roads to Damascus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road to Damascus
PBBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PBB
katty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katties
form: kattys
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of catty (“Chinese unit of weight”).
katties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katty
Mitanni-Aryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan superstrate over the Hurrian language, attested as anthroponyms, terms relating to horse training, and theonyms of the Kingdom of Mitanni.
Anglomanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anglomania + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This was originally an English, or, as it was called by its opponents, an Anglomanic movement, which, having spread over the Continent through the writings of Voltaire and other French authors during the eighteenth century, was then wholly interrupted for a time by the Revolution, but reappeared after the great peace, deeply dyed in many places by the colours of that Revolution.
ref: 1876, M. E. Grant Duff, The Contemporary Review, Volume 27, page 700:
text: On one side were her Anglomanic mother, Edith, joined by Aunt Gwen of the delicious Fried-Egg Sandwiches and French-Fried Onion Rings.
ref: 1983, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, Masters of American Cookery: M.F.K. Fisher, James Andrew Beard, Raymond Craig Claiborne, Julia McWilliams Child, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 24:
text: The President represented no one but himself and the Anglomanic Hamilton and his allies.
ref: 2015, Thomas Fleming, chapter 14, in The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
glosses: having Anglomania.
Hitchmough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Emm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
EMMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EMM
tripcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripcocks
Etymology: From trip + cock.
Senses: examples: text: When a train runs onto the track, thus connecting the two rails, a short circuit is created, the current drops out and the signal switched to red. The system operates in conjunction with a lever on the tracks. If a train should pass a red light, the lever, which is called a tripcock, comes into play. The tripcock releases the air from the train's air-braking system, thus causing the brakes to come on and stopping the train.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 136–137:
text: Chiltern Class 165s are fitted with tripcocks to allow them to operate on LU infrastructure between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Amersham.
ref: 2020 July 1, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: '165' runs through points and into path of LU service”, in Rail, page 20:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train-mounted safety device which interacts with a trackside device to stop a train automatically if it passes a signal at danger (showing a red light).
Related terms: train stop
poltroonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poltroon + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of poltroonery.
synonyms: word: poltroonery
acarodomatia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acarodomatium
tripcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripcock
conductins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conductin
solar topees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar topee
Nixonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nixonesque
form: most Nixonesque
Etymology: From Nixon + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of Richard Nixon (1913–1994), 37th president of the United States, famously associated with the Watergate scandal.
redam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redams
form: redamming
form: redammed
form: redammed
Etymology: From re- + dam.
Senses: examples: text: The next series of high tides or large waves will tend to rebuild the berm and redam the stream. Ultimately, increased runoff due to fall or winter rains will raise the stream level to the point where it breaks through.
ref: 1994, Ruth Patrick, Rivers of the United States, Estuaries, page 138:
glosses: To dam again.
redams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redam
redamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redam
redamming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redammings
Senses: glosses: The act of damming again; installation of a new dam.
redammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redam
ASARS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of advanced synthetic aperture radar system.
Docs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doc
Senses: glosses: Dr. Martens boots.
return path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return paths
Senses: examples: text: The inner, or negative, rail is also known as the 'current return' rail, because electrical current needs a circuit - a return path to earth, in other words.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 136:
text: One rail (known as the traction return rail) is not broken into [track circuit] sections as it provides the return path for the current.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, pages 30-31:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The route by which a current or signal returns to its source, or to earth.
return paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of return path
hodometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of odometric.
hodometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of odometrical.
MGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MG
punji pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punji pits
Senses: glosses: A trap consisting of a pit lined with punjis.
punji pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punji pit
fistbumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fistbump