cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
expedite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.spəˌdaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛk.spɪˌdaɪt/
Forms: form: expedites
form: expediting
form: expedited
form: expedited
Etymology: From Latin expedītus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expediō (“bring forward, set right”).
Senses: examples: text: He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.
text: The bodies and bogies were built by more than one firm, to expedite the work, and the electrical equipment was supplied by the British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd.
ref: 1950 October, “Notes and News: Early Multiple-Unit Trains, C.L.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 712:
text: […] moreover, there are times of pressure when, to expedite deliveries, cars may be driven in what should otherwise be the running-in period at speeds that do them no good - and over long distances too.
ref: 1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R. wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335:
glosses: To accelerate the progress of.
glosses: To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.
glosses: To perform the duties of an expediter.
glosses: To free from impediment; to release or set at liberty.
Related terms: word: expede
word: expedience
word: expediency
word: expedient
word: expediter
word: expedition
word: expeditious
word: expeditiously
word: accelerate
word: dispatch
word: facilitate
word: fast track
word: speed up
expedite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.spəˌdaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛk.spɪˌdaɪt/
Forms: form: more expedite
form: most expedite
Etymology: From Latin expedītus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expediō (“bring forward, set right”).
Senses: examples: text: […] to make the way plaine and expedite […]
ref: 1594, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], 3rd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, book III, page 91:
glosses: Free of impediment; unimpeded.
examples: text: nimble and expedite […] in its operation
ref: 1671, John Tillotson, “Sermon IV. The Advantages of Religion to Particular Persons. Psalm XIX. 11.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B. Aylmer, […]; [a]nd W. Rogers, […], published 1696, →OCLC:
text: […]Speech in general (which is a very ſhort and expedite way of conveying their Thoughts one to another)[…]
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Of other simple Modes”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book II, § 7, page 111:
glosses: Expeditious; quick; prompt.
Derived terms: expeditely
expediteness
expend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛnd/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: expends
form: expending
form: expended
form: expended
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: expend
form: expend
form: expended
form: expend
form: expendest
form: expended
form: expendedst
form: expends
form: expendeth
form: expended
form: expend
form: expended
form: expend
form: expended
form: expend
form: -
form: expending
form: expended
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin expendō (“I weigh; I pay out”). Doublet of spend.
Senses: examples: text: If my death might make this island happy […]
I would expend it with all willingness.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.
ref: 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Federal Railways' progress”, in Modern Railways, page 416:
glosses: To consume, exhaust (some resource).
Derived terms: expendable
expender
misexpend
Related terms: expenditure
expense
expensive
expent
prosopography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: prosopographies
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: prosopo- + -graphy; from the Latin prosōpographia (“description of a person’s appearance; description of an individual’s life”), from the Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face, person”) + -γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (-grăphĭ́ā, “writing, drawing”). See also prosopon.
Senses: examples: text: Since it would be a daunting task to subject the entire profession to audit, he chose to pursue the prosopography of the manageable subset of financial economists who had presented themselves as "faceless" representatives of the orthodox economics discipline, either through the Squam Lake Group (covered above) or the Pew Economic Policy Group Financial Reform Project.
ref: 2014, Phillip Murowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste:
glosses: a study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and their relationships
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Kodagu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coorg
Etymology: Borrowed from Kodava ಕೊಡಗ್ (koḍagŭ).
Senses: glosses: A district of Karnataka, India.
first order stream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first order streams
Senses: glosses: A stream that has no permanent tributaries.
Related terms: second order stream
third order stream
third order stream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third order streams
Senses: glosses: A stream formed by the confluence of two second order streams, or of a second order stream and a third order stream.
Related terms: first order stream
dipsomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪp.sə(ʊ)ˈmeɪn.i.æk/
rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: dipsomaniacs
Etymology: From dipso- + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
ref: 1909, G. K. Chesterton, “The Progressive”, in George Bernard Shaw, New York: John Lane, page 54:
text: The Spaniards are nice, but, of course, most of them are terribly poor, the ones who aren’t are impossible, I don’t like the tourists, mainly English and American dipsomaniacs, paid, my dear, by their families to stay away.
ref: 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 2:
glosses: One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.
glosses: A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.
Synonyms: sense: drunkard
word: alcoholic
word: dipso
word: drunkard
word: lush
word: sot
Related terms: dipsomania
dipsomaniacal
hithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪð/
Forms: form: hithes
form: hythe
Etymology: From Old English hȳþ. See also Lambeth, Chelsea, Queenhithe (a ward in the City of London), Hythe (a coastal town in Kent).
Senses: examples: text: This Edred's hithe, after the aforesaid grants, came again to the king's hands, by what means I have not read, but it pertained unto the queen, and, therefore, was called Ripa reginæ, the Queene's bank, or Queene's hithe, and great profit thereof was made to her use, as may appear with this which followeth.
ref: 1603, John Stow, edited by William J. Thoms, A Survey of London, published 1842, page 134:
text: 1839 [1828], Thomas Allen, Thomas Wright (updates for 1839 edition), The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, Volume 3, page 724,
After this, the bailiffs of the said Hithe complained, that, since the said recognition, fourteen foreign ships, laden with fish, arrived at Billingsgate, which ships should have arrived at the said Hithe.
glosses: A landing-place on a river; a harbour or small port.
wikipedia: Hythe, Kent
Queenhithe
snakebite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakebites
form: snake bite
form: snake-bite
Etymology: From snake + bite.
Senses: examples: text: Mohamed's father said his son was a studious young man with a passion for soccer. "He was someone that we all thought would go very far," he said. Mohamed was the third member of his family to suffer a fatal snakebite within 12 months.
ref: 2022 November 7, Sam Bradpiece, “At Guinea's only specialized snakebite clinic, doctors need luck and antivenom”, in NPR:
text: For Tim Friede, who's now the director of herpetology at Centivax, it's about helping the people impacted by venomous snakebites worldwide. When he heard that his antibodies had helped create this new antivenom cocktail, he says he was happy.
ref: 2025 May 2, Ari Daniel, “He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom”, in NPR:
text: The majority of snakebites occur on the hands, feet and ankles. […] Most modern over-the-counter snakebite kits consist of a suction device for drawing out venom from the bite wound.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Snake Safety”, in USDA, pages 1, 2:
glosses: The bite of a snake.
examples: text: We agreed to go down to the bar and get a snakebite together, […]
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: A drink made by mixing hard cider and lager.
examples: text: Ellie recently got a navel piercing and snakebites.
coordinate_terms: angel bites
glosses: Either of a pair of lip piercings below the lower lip, resembling the fangs of a snake.
Derived terms: sense: drink
word: snakebite and black
sense: drink
word: snakey B
Related terms: snakebite and black
helpmeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛlpmiːt/
Forms: form: helpmeets
Etymology: Univerbation of part of a phrase in Genesis 2:18 in the King James Version: “an helpe meet” for Adam (i.e. a helper suitable for him) (help + meet).
Senses: examples: text: [on vocabulary errors] … and helpmates for meet-helps—the difference of the meaning of the two words is so obvious, that it is surprising it should have escaped attention.—A person may be a helpmate and at the same time be very far from being a help-meet, which is here intended.
ref: 1839, The Friend's Intelligencer, volume 1, number 24, Eighth month 1st, 1839, article Friend's Discipline, pages 456–457
text: When he went to Deborah and told her that the Lord had led him to ask her to be his wife, his holy helpmeet, she looked at him for a moment in what seemed to be speechless terror.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: helpmate
word: spouse
word: better half
word: consort
raw_tags: of royalty
word: helpmate
word: helpmeet
word: mate
word: other half
word: partner
word: wedder
glosses: A helpful partner, particularly a spouse.
snappish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæpɪʃ/
rhymes: -æpɪʃ
Forms: form: more snappish
form: most snappish
Etymology: From snap + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: A snappish cur
text: She came to us snappish and suspicious, but when she found what sort of place ours was, it all went off by degrees; […]
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 102:
glosses: Likely to snap or bite.
examples: text: The past fortnight had been one of sullenness, cold black looks, short snappish words, and those ingenious contradictions which sometimes vary the halcyon calm of domestic felicity.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 222:
text: She heard her own voice, snappish and rude, and pressed a hand to her head.
ref: 1990, Nora Roberts, Taming Natasha, Silhouette Books, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: Even though the woman didn't work closely with Barsade, so palpable was her complaining and snappish temperament that it had infected everyone who worked around her.
ref: 2011, Lynne McTaggart, The Bond, Simon & Schuster, published 2011, →ISBN, page 91:
text: There was something underneath her snappish belligerence that made him feel protective and tolerant.
ref: 2011, Mary Doria Russell, Doc, Random House, published 2011, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
Derived terms: snappishly
snappishness
Long Island iced tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Long Island iced teas
form: Long Island ice tea
form: Long Island Iced Tea
Senses: examples: text: While I’m walking to the bar ‘cause my drink’s getting low / I need a Long Island Iced Tea, double, no ice
ref: 2002, People Under the Stairs, “The Suite For Beaver Part 2”, in O.S.T.:
hypernyms: cocktail
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drink
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drink
beverage
coordinate_terms: Texas tea
glosses: A cocktail made with vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and other ingredients.
deformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɔːmɪti/
ipa: /dɪˈfɔɹməti/
Forms: form: deformities
form: deformitie
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English deformite, from Middle French deformite, from Latin dēfōrmitās (“deformity, ugliness”), from dēfōrmis (“deformed, ugly”) + -itās, from dē + fōrma (“shape, form”).
Senses: examples: text: congenital deformity
text: severe deformity
glosses: The state of being deformed.
examples: text: physical deformity
text: The accident left him with a slight facial deformity.
text: She worked with children born with limb deformities.
glosses: An ugly or misshapen feature or characteristic.
Derived terms: antideformity
boutonniere deformity
Madelung's deformity
swan neck deformity
trapdoor deformity
curvature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɝ.və.t͡ʃɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kə(ɾ)ˈvetʃə(ɾ)/
Forms: form: curvatures
Etymology: From Latin curvare, from Latin curvatura. See also curve. Displaced native Old English ġebīeġednes.
Senses: examples: text: Constructional costs are kept to a minimum by the admissibility of heavy grades and sharp curvature.
ref: 1946 May and June, “Logging Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 151:
text: In the first of the movie's many striking images, we share his majestic view from the top, the curvature of the planet and the glow of the horizon brilliantly reflected in his helmet.
ref: 2018 October 9, A. A. Dowd, “The Star and Director of La La Land Reunite for First Man’s Spectacular Trip to the Moon”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2020:
glosses: The shape of something curved.
examples: text: A turtle drawing an ellipse would have to turn more per distance traveled to get around its “pointy” sides than to get around its flatter top and bottom. This notion of how “pointy something is,” expressed as the ratio of angle turned to distance traveled, is the intrinsic quantity that mathematicians call curvature.
ref: 1980, Harold Abelson, Andrea DiSessa, Turtle Geometry : The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2021, pages 13–14:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.
Derived terms: anticurvature
center of curvature
centre of curvature
curvaton
Darwinian curvature
Gauss curvature
Gaussian curvature
isocurvature
microcurvature
miscurvature
radius of curvature
retrocurvature
Sachs' curvature
Sachs's curvature
supercurvature
meager
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈmiːɡə/
rhymes: -iːɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: meagerer
form: meagerest
form: meagre
Etymology: From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur,
Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.
Senses: glosses: Having little flesh; lean; thin.
examples: text: A meager piece of cake in one bite.
text: The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.
text: ...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...
ref: 1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or ..., page 54:
text: Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...
ref: 1637, William Shakespeare, The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice: With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke..., page E5:
text: Making the run from Taipei to Panchiao every day to sell the gold-colored paper, he scraped together a meager livelihood.
ref: 2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:
synonyms: paltry
scanty
inadequate
measly
miserly
exiguous
glosses: Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
antonyms: dense
glosses: Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
Derived terms: comeager
meagerly
meagerness
nonmeager
meager
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈmiːɡə/
rhymes: -iːɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: meagers
form: meagering
form: meagered
form: meagered
form: meagre
Etymology: From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur,
Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.
Senses: glosses: To make lean.
green tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green teas
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 綠茶 /绿茶 (lǜchá).
Senses: synonyms: word: cha
word: char
word: Rosie
word: Rosie Lee
word: Rosy
word: Rosy Lee
word: tay
word: tea
word: wet and warm
coordinate_terms: black tea
white tea
glosses: Leaves of the tea plant which are treated with steam or roasted to denature the enzymes that cause the leaves to darken and change taste. (Without this step they would become oolong tea or black tea).
glosses: A beverage brewed from green tea leaves.
Derived terms: green tea cake
black coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black coffees
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't enough. They'd be able to rouse her with black coffee.
ref: 1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, pages 305–306:
text: Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.
ref: 2005, Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, page 36:
synonyms: café noir
glosses: Coffee served as a beverage without cream or milk.
coffee bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee bars
Senses: examples: text: HABITUES of Manhattan's multiplying coffee bars have quickly learned a new language: espressospeak.
ref: 1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
glosses: An establishment that sells coffee (and possibly other non-alcoholic drinks), a cafe. Food may also be served.
glosses: A section of an establishment (a restaurant, shop or other business) where coffee is served.
Related terms: coffee house
coffee shop
cryopreservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryopreservations
Etymology: From cryo- + preservation, from Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “icy cold, chill, frost”).
Senses: glosses: the preservation of biological tissue at cryogenic temperatures, typically at -80°C (dry ice temperature) or -196°C (the boiling point of liquid nitrogen).
Related terms: cryopreservational
cryopreserve
coffee break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee breaks
Senses: glosses: A rest period during the business day (usually of about 10 or 15 minutes). So named because it is an opportunity to get coffee.
Synonyms: english: non-native speakers' English
translation: non-native speakers' English
word: coffee pause
word: fika
Related terms: fag break
tea break
water break
elevenses
coffee grinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee grinders
Senses: synonyms: coffee mill
glosses: A device for pulverizing or powdering coffee beans so they can be brewed as coffee. (Technically many of the machines tear the coffee beans).
topics: dance
dancing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A circular sweep of the leg around the body while supporting oneself on one's hands.
astuteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astutenesses
Etymology: From astute + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 161:
glosses: The quality of being astute.
immensely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɛnsli/
Forms: form: more immensely
form: most immensely
Etymology: From immense + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I enjoyed the party immensely.
text: This question is immensely difficult.
text: Then, too, he was always ready to constitute himself a hostile army or a band of marauding Indians on the shortest possible notice: in brief, a distinctly able man, with talents, so far as we could judge, immensely above the majority.
ref: 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 3:
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
glosses: Greatly; hugely; extremely; vastly; to a great extent.
Related terms: immensity
Seven Sages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Seven Sages
Senses: glosses: Seven Ancient Greek men renowned for their wisdom: Thales, Solon, Periander, Cleobulus, Chilon, Bias, and Pittacus.
rhinarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪˈnɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ɹaɪˈnɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: rhinaria
Senses: glosses: The naked surface of skin around the external openings of the nostrils of the nose in most mammals, usually more or less moist and embossed.
Synonyms: nose leather
harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harp
antonyms: heads
glosses: The side of a coin that bears an image of the Irish harp.
Derived terms: heads or harps
harps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harp
gerontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: gerontologies
Etymology: From geronto- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the elderly, and of the aging process itself.
glosses: The branch of science that deals with the problems of aged people. It is to be distinguished from geriatrics, which is the study of the diseases of the elderly. Gerontology covers the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging.
Derived terms: biogerontology
gerontechnology
gerontological
gerontologist
psychogerontology
sociogerontology
geriatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) (see γέρων (gérōn)) + ἰατρός (iatrós, “physician”); coined in English in 1909 by Ignatz L. Nascher in the New York Medical Journal on the model of pediatrics; correct formation would be gerontiatrics. Compare gerontology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself.
Derived terms: ethnogeriatrics
oncogeriatrics
orthogeriatrics
psychogeriatrics
geriatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geriatric
astraddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹædəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Etymology: From a- + straddle.
Senses: examples: text: The Charioteer rides afore, a-ſtraddle on the Beam that makes the Yoke for the Oxen, which is covered with Scarlet, and finely carved underneath […]
ref: 1698, John Fryer, “Takes Notice of Broach; the Change of Governors at Surat; Intestine Broils of the Empire; Rencounters of the English; and Portentous Accidents of This Year”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter VI, page 410:
text: A faint string of smoke was rising from a cigarette-tray—a number of Vanity Fair sat astraddle on the table.
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “A Matter of Civilization”, in The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 3, section “The False Armistice”, page 356:
text: She climbed his body and wrapped her legs around him and they made love there, man standing, woman astraddle, in the stone odor of demolition.
ref: 2003, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, New York: Scribner, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 177:
glosses: In a straddling position; astride.
astraddle
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹædəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Etymology: From a- + straddle.
Senses: examples: text: […] see that your men reload their muskets the meanwhile, ready for any old woman we may see riding through the air astraddle a broomstick.
ref: 1848, Joseph Holt Ingraham, chapter 2, in Mark Manly: or, The Skipper’s Lad, New York: Williams Brothers, page 15:
text: The used-to-be sheriff sat rakishly astraddle his horse.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 3, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 17:
text: He spies a group of Irish officers astraddle the road, conferring on horseback.
ref: 2011, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 22, in A Good Man, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 359:
glosses: In a straddling position on.
Synonyms: astraddle of
Baptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæptɪst/
ipa: /ˈbæbtɪst/
ipa: /ˈbæbdɪs(t)/
ipa: /ˈbæbdəs/
Forms: form: Baptists
Senses: glosses: An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults), as opposed to the baptism of infants.
Hypernyms: Christian
Protestant
Hyponyms: Primitive Baptist
Scotch Baptist
Separate Baptist
Seventh Day Baptist
Derived terms: Baptist cakes
Baptist Mills
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist
Related terms: Anabaptism
Anabaptist
Anabaptistic
Anabaptistically
baptise
baptiser
baptism
baptist
baptize
baptizer
credobaptist
paedobaptist
rebaptise
rebaptiser
rebaptize
rebaptizer
Baptist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæptɪst/
ipa: /ˈbæbtɪst/
ipa: /ˈbæbdɪs(t)/
ipa: /ˈbæbdəs/
Forms: form: more Baptist
form: most Baptist
Senses: examples: text: One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Halton Holegate:
glosses: Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.
Related terms: alt: Amishman, Amishwoman
word: Amish
word: Amish Mennonite
word: Hutterite
word: Mennonite
farsighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farsighted
form: most farsighted
form: far-sighted
Etymology: From far + sighted.
Senses: synonyms: hyperopic
long-sighted
antonyms: myopic
nearsighted
short-sighted
glosses: Unable to focus with one's eyes on near objects; presbyopic.
synonyms: long-sighted
foresighted
sagacious
forward-thinking
glosses: Considering the future with respect to one's own plans or deeds; showing anticipation.
Derived terms: farsightedly
farsightedness
oolong tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuː.lʊŋ tʰi/
ipa: /ˈoː.loŋ tʰi/
Forms: form: oolong teas
Etymology: Either a partial calque of Mandarin 烏龍茶 /乌龙茶 (wūlóngchá), or directly from Hokkien 烏龍茶 /乌龙茶 (o͘-liông-tê), from 烏龍 /乌龙 (o͘-liông, literally “black dragon”) + 茶 (tê, “tea”).
Senses: synonyms: oolong
glosses: A type of tea with a taste in between green tea and black tea.
mint tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mint teas
Senses: glosses: An herb tea made by steeping leaves of plants of the mint family in hot water.
farsightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: far-sightedness
Etymology: From farsighted + -ness.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of being unable to focus on near objects; presbyopia.
glosses: The quality of being considerate about what might happen in the future.
Synonyms: sense: The condition of being unable to focus on near objects; presbyopia.
word: hyperopia
word: longsightedness (1,2)
sense: The quality of being considerate about what might happen in the future.
word: foresightedness
tea strainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea strainers
Senses: glosses: A strainer used to filter loose tea leaves from brewed tea.
Coordinate terms: infuser
teabag
tea ball
Related terms: tea
teacup
teapot
tea plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea plants
Senses: coordinate_terms: tea shrub
glosses: The bush Camellia sinensis, the leaves of which are picked, dried and used to make the beverage tea.
tributaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tributary
baptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæptɪst/
ipa: /ˈbæbtɪst/
ipa: /ˈbæbdɪs(t)/
ipa: /ˈbæbdəs/
Forms: form: baptists
Etymology: From Middle English baptist, baptiste, borrowed from Old French baptiste, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptista, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστής (baptistḗs).
Senses: glosses: A person who baptizes.
Derived terms: bush baptist
parabaptist
se-baptist
Related terms: Anabaptism
anabaptist
Anabaptist
Anabaptistic
Anabaptistical
Anabaptistically
Anabaptistry
baptise
baptiser
baptism
baptismal
baptismally
Baptist
baptistery
baptistic
baptistical
baptistically
baptistry
baptize
baptizer
Catabaptism
Catabaptist
credobaptism
credobaptist
paedobaptism
pædobaptism
pædobaptist
paedobaptist
pedobaptism
pedobaptist
rebaptise
rebaptiser
rebaptism
rebaptist
rebaptize
rebaptizer
iconotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From icon + -o- + -tropy.
Senses: glosses: the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the icons or myths of an earlier one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the later one
Related terms: iconotropic
iconotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of a myth or tradition that has its origin in a misrepresentation of an earlier one
Related terms: iconotropy
iconology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪkəˈnɒlədʒi/
Forms: form: iconologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of icons in art or art history.
Related terms: iconological
iconologist
iconography
contrasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contrasting
form: most contrasting
Etymology: From contrast + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: George W. Bush and John Kerry had contrasting debating styles.
glosses: Set in opposition; markedly different.
Derived terms: contrastingly
noncontrasting
uncontrasting
contrasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From contrast + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contrast
ibid
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ibid. ("in the same place")
ibidem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪbˈaɪ̯dəm/
Etymology: From Latin ibīdem (“in the same place”).
Senses: topics: bibliography
computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
head_nr: 1
synonyms: idem
glosses: In the same place; indicates a reference to the same source as the previous one.
dextran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dextrans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A biopolymer of glucose produced by enzymes of certain bacteria; used as a substitute for blood plasma, and as a stationary phase in chromatography.
Derived terms: aminodextran
antidextran
cyclodextran
dextranase
dextranate
dextransucrase
Related terms: dextrin
dextrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkstɹɪn/
Forms: form: dextrins
form: dextrine
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of oligomers of glucose, intermediate in complexity between maltose and starch, produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch; used commercially as adhesives.
Synonyms: E1400
Hyponyms: maltodextrin
Derived terms: achrodextrin
achroodextrin
chitodextrin
cyclodextrin
dextrinase
dextrinization
dextrinize
dextrinogenic
dextrinoid
dextrinosis
erythrodextrin
oligodextrin
xylodextrin
Related terms: dextrose
diazotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diazotizations
Etymology: From di- + azote + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the conversion of an aromatic primary amine into a diazonium compound, especially by the use of nitrous acid
practical nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: practical nurses
Senses: glosses: A person who is certified to provide custodial care such as help in walking, bathing, and feeding.
Synonyms: PN
Coordinate terms: alt: LVN
word: licensed vocational nurse
alt: NA
word: nursing assistant
alt: RN
word: registered nurse
alt: VN
word: vocational nurse
Derived terms: alt: LPN
word: licensed practical nurse
word: PN
pennyroyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛ̝nɪˈɹɔɪ̯əl/
ipa: /pɛnɪjˈɹojəl/
Forms: form: pennyroyals
form: penny royal
Etymology: Apparently an alteration (after penny) of Anglo-Norman puliol royal, from Latin pūlegium.
Senses: examples: text: Dioscorides says that Pennyroyal makes thin, tough phlegm, warms the coldness of any part whereto it is applied, and digests raw or corrupt matter.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 216:
glosses: Mentha pulegium, a plant of the mint family, formerly much used in various medicinal treatments and as a flea repellent.
examples: text: Offenbach and the old college airs, song and dance tunes and pennyroyals, formed the staples for the introduction of hits on manners and times.
ref: 1878 December, “He Playing She”, in The Elocutionist's Journal, number 22, page 4:
text: The singing in the schoolhouse was more like that of one of the old-fashioned, large Yankee families gathered round the hearthstone and singing "pennyroyals" Sunday nights.
ref: 1890 October 6, Arthur A. Putnam, “Recollections of the Church Choirs of North Danvers”, in Historic Collections of the Danvers Society:
text: The sort of tune […] variously denominated "gospel song", "spiritual song", "pennyroyal",
ref: 1905, Methodist Review, volume 87:
text: However, three or four of the old "pennyroyals" seem to have stood the test of time.
ref: 1910 October, The Brown Alumni Monthly, volume 11, page 74:
text: Asking his subscribers to send him "old pennyroyal tunes" and "popular airs," he received many contributions from unknown personages, such as "a Shermantown friend," a "Mr. A. V. Parker," a "Mr. R. H. Williams" of Westmoreland, and a "Brother Robbins."
ref: 1987, Paul Gaarder Kaatrud, Revivalism and the Popular Spiritual Song in Mid-nineteenth Century America: 1830-1870:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A traditional old well-known song, especially a spiritual folksong.
Synonyms: sense: species
word: European pennyroyal
sense: species
word: pennyrile
sense: species
word: pudding grass
sense: species
word: mosquito plant
sense: species
word: squaw mint
Derived terms: bastard pennyroyal
hart's pennyroyal
Related terms: American pennyroyal
American false pennyroyal
savin
tansy
rhombohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhombohedra
form: rhombohedrons
Etymology: From rhombo- + -hedron.
Senses: glosses: A prism with six faces, each a rhombus.
horehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horehounds
form: hairhound
form: hoarhound
Etymology: From Middle English horehoune, from Old English hārhūne, hārehūne.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Marrubium.
glosses: Any plant of the genus Marrubium.
especially, a herb of species (Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, traditionally used as a cough remedy and to make a type of hard candy.
glosses: Any plant of the genus Ballota.
Synonyms: sense: plant of the genus Marrubium
word: marrubium
sense: Marrubium vulgare
word: common horehound
sense: Marrubium vulgare
word: white horehound
sense: Marrubium vulgare
word: common hoarhound
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ballota nigra
word: black horehound
taxonomic: Marrubium vulgare
word: common horehound
taxonomic: Marrubium vulgare
word: white horehound
trapezohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapezohedra
form: trapezohedrons
Etymology: From trapezium + -hedron, with trapezium used in the US sense of a convex irregular quadrilateral.
Senses: examples: text: The general form is called the tetragonal trapezohedron. In this case also there are both left- (Fig. 97) and right-handed (Fig. 98) forms.
ref: 1969, Carl W. Correns, translated by William D. Johns, Introduction to Mineralogy: Crystallography and Petrology, 2nd edition, page 40:
text: This trapezohedron, or antidiamond, is composed of ten quadrilaterals. In each quadrilateral, three of the angles are 108° and one is 36°.
ref: 2002, John Montroll, A Plethora of Polyhedra in Origami, page 105:
topics: chemistry
crystallography
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of polyhedra that have kite-shaped faces and are dual polyhedra of antiprisms.
examples: text: A trapezohedron has 24 equal faces, each a four-sided figure or trapezium. Unlike the forms already described, which are always the same, there are several different trapezohedrons, all having the same number of faces but differing in the angles between the faces.
ref: 1998, Cornelius S. Hurlbut Jr., W. Edwin Sharp, Dana's Minerals and How to Study Them (After Edward Salisbury Dana), page 23:
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A deltoidal icositetrahedron.
Synonyms: sense: polyhedron whose faces are kites
word: antibipyramid
sense: polyhedron whose faces are kites
word: antidipyramid
sense: polyhedron whose faces are kites
word: deltohedron
sense: deltoidal icositetrahedron
word: deltoidal icositetrahedron
sense: deltoidal icositetrahedron
word: strombic icositetrahedron
sense: deltoidal icositetrahedron
word: tetragonal icosikaitetrahedron
sense: deltoidal icositetrahedron
word: tetragonal trisoctahedron
sense: deltoidal icositetrahedron
word: trapezoidal icositetrahedron
Derived terms: twelve-faced trapezohedron
deltohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltohedra
form: deltohedrons
Etymology: From delto- (combining form of deltoid) + -hedron.
Senses: glosses: A polyhedron whose faces are kites (deltoids). The dual polyhedron of a regular n-gonal antiprism.
Derived terms: deltohedral
vitrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪ.tɹɪ.fɪˌkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪtɹɪfɪkeɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: vitrifications
form: vitrifaction
Etymology: From Late Latin *vitrificātio (“glassification”), from *vitrificāre (“to glassify”), from vitrum (“glass”) + -ificāre (“-ify”). Cf. French vitrification, Spanish vitrificación, Italian vitrificazione.
Senses: examples: text: At this point overfiring begins, as is shown particularly by the volume curve, which indicates decided bloating, so that at 1450°C the clay has about the same volume it had at 1050°C before vitrification took place.
ref: 1919, United States. Bureau of Standards, Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 15:
glosses: Turning to glass or glasslike material: the action or process of vitrifying a material: conversion into an amorphous solid free of any crystalline structure by addition or removal of heat or by mixture with an additive.
glosses: An instance of such conversion.
glosses: The result of such conversion: a vitrified substance or object.
Hyponyms: glassification
Related terms: vitrify
vitrifacture
vitreous
petrification
ædicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ædicules
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of aedicule.
saul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauls
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sal (“the tree”).
saul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soul.
hydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹaɪd/
Forms: form: hydrides
Etymology: From hydro- + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of hydrogen with a more electropositive element.
Hyponyms: deuteride
protide
tritide
Derived terms: aluminium hydride
aluminohydride
aluminum hydride
anhydride
arsenous hydride
beryllium hydride
bismuth hydride
borohydride
bromine hydride
calcium hydride
dihydride
diisobutylaluminum hydride
fluorohydride
gallium hydride
helium hydride
hexahydride
hydridic
hydriding
hydrido
indium hydride
lanthanide hydride
lead hydride
lithium aluminium hydride
lithium aluminum hydride
lithium hydride
metal hydride
monohydride
nickel hydride
palladium hydride
plutonium hydride
polonium hydride
polyhydride
positronium hydride
pottasium hydride
selenium hydride
silicon hydride
sodium hydride
superhydride
tellurium hydride
tetrahydride
thallium hydride
tin hydride
titanium hydride
trihydride
Related terms: hydrium
hydrogen
hydron
alane
alkane
alkene
alkyne
alumane
ammonia
arsane
arsine
astatane
azane
bismuthane
bromane
carbane
chlorane
fluorane
gallane
germane
hydrazine
hydrogen peroxide
hydrogen selenide
hydrogen sulfide
hydrogen sulphide
hydrogen telluride
indigane
iodane
oxidane
phosphane
phosphine
plumbane
polane
selane
silane
stannane
stibane
stibine
sulfane
sulphane
tellane
thallane
water
ex libris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex libris
Etymology: From Latin ex librīs (“from the books [of]”).
Senses: glosses: A bookplate that identifies the owner of the book into which it is pasted.
im
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the past few years, T patches have also been released for prescription usage. Both scrotally applied and nonscrotally applied vehicles are available. These forms of delivery offer more constant T levels and avoid the inconvenience of im injection.
ref: 1999, Carrie J. Bagatell, William J. Bremmer, “Androgen and Estrogen Effects on Plasma Lipids in Men”, in Leonard Share, editor, Hormones and the Heart in Health and Disease (Contemporary Endocrinology; 21), Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, →ISBN, page 237:
topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: IM
word: I.M.
word: i.m.
glosses: Initialism of intramuscular.
im
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of I'm.
Aeschylus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕskĭlŭs
ipa: /ˈɛs.kə.ləs/
ipa: /ˈɛ.skə.ləs/
Forms: form: Æschylus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Aeschylus, from Ancient Greek Αἰσχύλος (Aiskhúlos).
Senses: glosses: A Greek dramatic poet (525 BCE—456 BCE); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: Aeschylean
Euripides
Sophocles
FMLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Family and Medical Leave Act.
frees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: freeze
homophone: frieze
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of free
frees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: freeze
homophone: frieze
Senses: glosses: plural of free
breathalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breathalizers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of breathalyzer.
reefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reef
reefs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reef
decaffeinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæfiːneɪtəd/
ipa: /dɪˈkæfɪneɪtəd/
Etymology: From de- + caffeine + -ated or de- + caffeinated.
Senses: glosses: From which caffeine has been removed (e.g. decaffeinated coffee).
Synonyms: caffeine-free
decaf
unleaded
Derived terms: decaf
nondecaffeinated
undecaffeinated
Related terms: decaffeinate
decaffeination
decaffeinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæfiːneɪtəd/
ipa: /dɪˈkæfɪneɪtəd/
Etymology: From decaffeinate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decaffeinate
nicotine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkətiːn/
Forms: form: nicotene
Etymology: Borrowed from French nicotine, equivalent to Nicot + -ine, named after Jean Nicot (1530–1604), the French ambassador to Portugal, who sent tobacco seeds back to France in 1561. The etymology of the surname itself is unclear.
Senses: examples: text: She is addicted to nicotine.
text: The nicotine in tobacco has been held to produce anaphrodisiac effects, in spite of such literary commendation as J.M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 165:
text: The website calls a vote for Alyona a vote against "beauties who do not look natural and who cannot be distinguished from each other" and rails against the "imposed standards" of 90-60-90 vital statistics, and "cigarettes with out nicotine and coffee without caffeine".
ref: 2004 April 13, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ample Alyona shakes up Russian pageant”, in The Guardian:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid (C₁₀H₁₄N₂), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant.
examples: text: He's got nicotine stains on his fingers.
glosses: Tobacco or cigarettes.
Derived terms: antinicotine
conicotine
denicotinized
isonicotine
niceverine
-nicline
nicotiana
nicotinal
nicotinamide
nicotine alkaloid
nicotinean
nicotined
nicotine gum
nicotineless
nicotinelike
nicotine patch
nicotine polacrilex
nicotinergic
nicotine stomatitis
nicotini
nicotinian
nicotinic
nicotinism
nicotinist
nicotinize
nicotinoid
nornicotine