cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
responding variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: responding variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: dependent variable
nonregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-regular
Etymology: From non- + regular.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not regular.
nonregular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonregulars
form: non-regular
Etymology: From non- + regular.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of the bar, regular men protect women regulars from untoward advances from nonregulars (Katovich & Reese, 1987).
ref: 1998, Geneviève Rail, Sport and Postmodern Times, page 310:
glosses: One who is not a regular.
supergluons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supergluon
ICB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ICBs
Senses: qualifier: Brisbane
glosses: Initialism of inner-city bypass.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of integrated care board.
Antiochene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntɪ.əˌkiːn/
ipa: /ˌænti.əˈkiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: more Antiochene
form: most Antiochene
Etymology: From Latin antiochēnus.
Senses: examples: text: The Antiochene school, however, placed a corresponding emphasis on the humanity of Christ, and attached especial importance to his moral example.
ref: 2017, Alister E. McGrath, Christian theology: an introduction, page 58:
glosses: Synonym of Antiochian (of or pertaining to ancient Antioch)
synonyms: word: Antiochian
extra: of or pertaining to ancient Antioch
Antiochene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntɪ.əˌkiːn/
ipa: /ˌænti.əˈkiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Antiochenes
Etymology: From Latin antiochēnus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Antiochian.
synonyms: word: Antiochian
Antiochene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntɪ.əˌkiːn/
ipa: /ˌænti.əˈkiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -iːni
ipa: /ˈæntɪ.əˌkiːn/
ipa: /ˌænti.əˈkiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: Antiochēna
Senses: examples: (Please provide the book title or journal name), (Can we date this quote?): “Amongst the measures that affected the western Syrians, including the agriculturalists of the Antiochene [...]”
glosses: The territory around ancient Antioch.
Antiochenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Antiochene
semicentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛˌmaɪsnˈtɛniəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛmisnˈtɛniəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛˌmaɪsənˈtɛniəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛmisənˈtɛniəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛmɪsɛnˈtɛnɪəl/
Etymology: From semi- (“half”) + centennial (“100 year, 100th anniversary”), q.v.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to a 50th anniversary, occurring every 50 years.
semicentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛˌmaɪsnˈtɛniəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛmisnˈtɛniəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛˌmaɪsənˈtɛniəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛmisənˈtɛniəl/
ipa: /ˌsɛmɪsɛnˈtɛnɪəl/
Forms: form: semicentennials
Etymology: From semi- (“half”) + centennial (“100 year, 100th anniversary”), q.v.
Senses: examples: text: The city celebrated its semicentennial last year.
glosses: A 50th anniversary.
Synonyms: semicentenary
jubilee
golden anniversary
golden jubilee (50th anniversary of a coronation)
golden wedding (50th anniversary of a marriage)
rocketries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocketry
ZWNJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZWNJs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Initialism of zero-width non-joiner (“non-printing character used to avoid ligatures”).
Related terms: zero-width space
ZWJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɛdˌdʌbl̩juːˈd͡ʒeɪ/
ipa: /zwɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˌziˌdʌbl̩juˈd͡ʒeɪ/
ipa: /zwɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɪdʒ
Forms: form: ZWJs
Senses: examples: text: When an emoji zwj^([sic]) sequence is sent to a system that does not have a corresponding single glyph, the ZWJ characters would be ignored and a fallback sequence of separate emoji would be displayed. […] Family and other groups are built up in exactly same way, one character at a time, with ZWJs in between.
ref: 2016 November 14, Rob Reed, “Everything You Need To Know About Emoji”, in Smashing Magazine, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2025:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Acronym of zero-width joiner.
Derived terms: emoji ZWJ sequence
Related terms: The character itself
semicentennials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicentennial
Antiochian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiˈɒkiən/
ipa: /ˌæntiˈoʊkiən/
ipa: /ˌæntiˈɑkiən/
Forms: form: more Antiochian
form: most Antiochian
form: Antiochan
Etymology: From Antioch + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Antiochene
glosses: Of or pertaining to ancient Antioch.
Derived terms: Antiochianism
Antiochian Orthodox Church
Antiochian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiˈɒkiən/
ipa: /ˌæntiˈoʊkiən/
ipa: /ˌæntiˈɑkiən/
Forms: form: Antiochians
form: Antiochan
Etymology: From Antioch + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Pompey erected the place into a free city for refusing to receive the Armenian King Tigranes, whom the Antiochians had summoned to their aid.
ref: 1876, Palestine and Syria, page 548:
synonyms: Antiochene
glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient Antioch.
Antiochian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiˈɒkiən/
ipa: /ˌæntiˈoʊkiən/
ipa: /ˌæntiˈɑkiən/
Forms: form: more Antiochian
form: most Antiochian
form: Antiochan
Etymology: From Antiochus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Antiochus of Ascalon, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.
Antiochan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Antiochan
form: most Antiochan
Etymology: From Antioch + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Antiochian.
Antiochan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Antiochans
Etymology: From Antioch + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Antiochian.
Antiochians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Antiochian
Antiochans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Antiochan
nonparochial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parochial.
Senses: glosses: Not parochial.
Synonyms: unparochial
nonmute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mute.
Senses: glosses: Not mute.
nonmutation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mutation.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to mutation.
ungraspably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungraspably
form: most ungraspably
Etymology: From ungraspable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ungraspable manner.
tattily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tattily
form: most tattily
Etymology: From tatty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tatty manner.
battily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more battily
form: most battily
Etymology: From batty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a batty manner.
rattily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rattily
form: most rattily
Etymology: From ratty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ratty manner.
unbullied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bullied.
Senses: glosses: Not bullied.
politicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪtɪkəls/
Senses: glosses: plural of political
archosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archosaurian
aralkyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aralkyl
argyrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argyrin
ARIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ARIA
arrowroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrow-roots
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowroot
arylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arylene
asialoglycoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asialoglycoprotein
astrobiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrobiologist
astrocytomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrocytoma
autopodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autopodium
autopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autopod
hen dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hen do
argyrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From argyr- + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: silver poisoning
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: argyria, argyrosis
Daegu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daˈɡuː/
ipa: /dæˈɡu/
ipa: /ˈdeɪɡu/
enpr: tīʹgo͞oʹ
enpr: tǎʹgo͞oʹ
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Taegu
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 대구(大邱) (Daegu, literally “great hill”).
Senses: examples: text: Of the 599 new cases in South Korea announced on Monday, 377 were from the country's fourth largest city, Daegu, home to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, to which the majority of the country's cases have been traced after some its members visited China's Wuhan city, the epicenter of the disease. More than half of South Korea's 4,000 cases have been linked to Shincheonji.
ref: 2020 March 3, “South Korea church leader apologizes for coronavirus spread”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2020, News:
text: In a densely populated but otherwise quiet district in Daegu, a city in southeastern South Korea, a highly emotional standoff is underway.
ref: 2022 March 1, Choe Sang-Hun, “How ‘Multiculturalism’ Became a Bad Word in South Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2022, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A city in South Korea.
Broad Street Bullies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the location of home ice, the hockey rink "The Spectrum" on Broad Street, and their style of play, reminiscent of bullying.
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: nickname of the Philadelphia Flyers of the 1970s era
subway series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subway series
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a cross-town playoff battle between the New York Mets and New York Yankees
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a crosstown baseball series playoff between two New York City baseball clubs; the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and New York Yankees.
Battle of Alberta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: the competition between the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames teams of the NHL
topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the competition between the Edmonton Elks (formerly Eskimos) and Calgary Stampeders teams of the CFL
Related terms: Battle of Ontario
Battle of Quebec
BOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BOPs
Senses: qualifier: oil industry
glosses: Initialism of blowout preventer.
glosses: Initialism of burden of proof.
Related terms: LMRP
BOP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] and myself under the table with the B.O.P., making believe that the tablecloth is a tent.
ref: 1939, George Orwell, "Coming up for Air", London: Victor Gollancz. (p. 46 in Penguin edition 1962.)
glosses: Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.
glosses: Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac.
examples: text: "To be frank, at first I thought it was a joke," Hugh Hurwitz, who served as acting director of the BOP between May 2018 and August 2019, told the BBC.
ref: 2025 July 17, Bernd Debusmann Jr, “Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a prison - could it happen?”, in BBC:
glosses: Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.
blowout preventer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowout preventers
Senses: qualifier: oil industry
glosses: A device that sits at the surface interface of an oil well and prevents a blowout from occurring by closing the orifice, allowing material to flow from the oil reservoir out through the shaft.
Synonyms: BOP
Derived terms: word: BOP
Related terms: blowout
containment dome
tophat dome
tophat containment dome
oil derrick
oil well
oil rig
junk shot
LMRP
Parliament
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parl.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of parliament, a specific parliament, particularly that of England or the United Kingdom.
wikipedia: Parliament
Derived terms: Parliamentarian
Parliamentary
brehon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brehons
Etymology: From an Anglicized oblique form (such as genitive singular breitheamhan or dative singular breitheamhain) of Irish breitheamh, from Old Irish brithem, from breth (“judgment”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he brehon handed him a hilted weapon,
a rare and ancient sword named Hrunting.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 48:
glosses: A judge or lawgiver in ancient Celtic Ireland.
Derived terms: Brehon laws
anopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anopsias
form: anopsy
Etymology: From an- + -opsia.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A defect in the visual field
Derived terms: hemianopsia
quadrantanopsia
Related terms: anoopsia
slopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊpi/
rhymes: -əʊpi
Forms: form: slopier
form: slopiest
Etymology: From slope + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characterised by a slope or slopes; sloping
whore around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whores around
form: whoring around
form: whored around
form: whored around
Senses: examples: text: Richard likes to whore around. His wife has no idea about the women on his "business trips".
glosses: To regularly copulate with people that one is not in a relationship with.
1890s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 90s
form: nineties
form: Nineties
form: eighteen-nineties
Senses: examples: text: The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
ref: 2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:
text: The new hygienism beginning in the 1890s, on the other hand, dealt with the most private and intimate: clothing, the bedroom, personal cleanliness.
ref: 2005, Miriam R. Levin, Cultures of Control, page 96:
text: […] the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, during which prostitutes in the poor areas of 1880s and 1890s London became the victims of an infamous string of throat slittings.
ref: 2011, Paula Leverage, Theory of Mind and Literature, page 94:
synonyms: word: Gay Nineties
english: American English
translation: American English
word: Naughty Nineties
word: Roaring Nineties
glosses: The period from year 1890 to (the end of) year 1899; almost the same period as the 10th (and last) decade of the 19th century, which, however, was the years 1891 to 1900.
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Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
1880s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Copeland, like most slaves, is woefully underdocumented; we know that she somehow became literate, migrated to New York in the 1880s and found a job in domestic service.
ref: 2009 March 8, Baz Dreisinger, “A Transracial Man”, in The New York Times:
text: […] the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, during which prostitutes in the poor areas of 1880s and 1890s London became the victims of an infamous string of throat slittings.
ref: 2011, Paula Leverage, Theory of Mind and Literature, page 94:
text: Beginning in the 1880s, the curette quickly became the popular choice for those doctors on the lookout for instrumental aid in cases of pregnancy loss.
ref: 2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page:
glosses: The decade from 1880 to 1889.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
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00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
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noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
2010s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /twɛnti ˈtɛnz/
/tuː ˈθaʊzənd(ˌænd)ˈtɛnz/
Forms: form: twenty-tens
form: twenty-teens
Senses: examples: text: Compared to this litany, the 2010s look a little uneventful, don’t they? Even if you declare Obamacare a big [expletive] deal and grant Trump’s election world-historical significance, even if you bring in European dramas like Brexit and the Syrian refugee crisis, even if you pretend self-driving cars are really happening (just as soon as they learn to drive in rain …) … even then, the last decade’s disruptions don’t quite measure up.
ref: 2019 December 28, Ross Douthat, “The Decade of Disillusionment”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2020:
text: Until the mid-2010s, the ROSCOs 'made hay while the sun shone', taking advantage of growing passenger demand and expanding services to find homes for their rolling assets - in some cases, well beyond their expected design lives.
ref: 2023 June 28, Ben Jones, “Are we getting rid of our (still useful) rolling stock too early?”, in RAIL, number 986, page 28:
text: [Chappell] Roan draws from the mega-pop of the 2010s, from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift – then laces it with sexually frank asides and lavish doses of camp, and performs it with a maximalist, absurd aesthetic indebted to drag, John Waters and Freddie Mercury.
ref: 2024 August 9, Laura Snapes, “It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2024:
glosses: The period from year 2010 to 2019; almost the same period as the second decade of the 21st century, which, however, was the years 2011 to 2020.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
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00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
2020s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /twɛn(t)i ˈtwɛn(t)iz/
/tuː ˈθaʊzənd(ˌænd)ˈtwɛn(t)iz/
Senses: examples: text: Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did horribly in most of them.
ref: 2020 January 2, David Brooks, “A Ridiculously Optimistic History of the Next Decade”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2020:
text: In higher education a similar transformation is being pulled forward: Colleges were expecting a grim landscape in the later 2020s, because 2010s birthrates were so low, but now a decline in foreign enrollment and an acceleration of online learning will threaten marginal state schools and possibly close small liberal-arts colleges much sooner.
ref: 2020 June 27, Ross Douthat, “Waking Up in 2030”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2020:
text: To pull off a roaring 2020s, we should prepare to manage a boom, not fight it.
ref: 2021 June 15, Mike Konczal and J.W. Mason, “How to Have a Roaring 2020s (Without Wild Inflation)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2021:
glosses: The period that started on January 1, 2020 and will end on December 31, 2029; almost the same period as the 3rd decade of the 21st century (which, however, started in year 2021 and will end with year 2030).
Synonyms: '20s
20s
twenties
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
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bullions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullion
occipitofrontales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑkˌsɪp.ət.oʊ.fɹʌnˈteɪˌliz/
Senses: glosses: plural of occipitofrontalis
international reply coupon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: international reply coupons
Senses: glosses: A prepaid international postage voucher.
Related terms: business reply
freepost
international reply coupons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of international reply coupon
Christmas seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas seals
Etymology: Christmas + seal
Senses: glosses: A charity label placed on mail during the Christmas season as a form of cinderella stamp.
charity label
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charity labels
Senses: glosses: A label sold by charities in form of a cinderella stamp to raise funds.
Related terms: Christmas seal
Easter seal
morosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morosities
Etymology: From French morosité, from Latin morositas (“peevishness”), from morosus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mos (“way, custom, habit, self-will”).
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being morose.
Synonyms: moroseness
cinderella stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinderella stamps
Etymology: Named after Cinderella, a folk-tale underdog heroine who was treated as inferior within her family. Cinderella stamps similarly were considered inferior to postage stamps.
Senses: glosses: A label resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by a government postal administration.
Synonyms: cinderella
Cinderella
charity stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charity stamps
Senses: glosses: A postage stamp which includes a premium for charitable causes in addition to the charge for postal service.
Synonyms: semi-postal
semi-postal stamp
semipostal
semipostal stamp
zeppelin mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mail carried on zeppelins.
dogsled mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mail that is carried by dogsled.
bicycle mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: mail delivered by bicycle and identified by stamp and/or postal mark.
acidogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acid + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Which generates acid or acidity.
Derived terms: nonacidogenic
Related terms: acidogen
acidogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidogenicities
Senses: glosses: The condition or extent of being acidogenic
balloon mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
qualifier: postal
glosses: The transport of mail, usually for weight reasons, in the form of a postcard carrying the name of the sender by means of an unguided hydrogen or helium balloon.
asarone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asarones
Etymology: Asarum + -one
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic ether, 2,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl-2-propene, found in the essential oils of plants of the genus Asarum
Derived terms: isoasarone
azacoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azacoumarins
Etymology: From aza- + coumarin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric organic compound related to the coumarins but having a pyridine ring instead of a benzene ring
biomonitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomonitors
Etymology: From bio- + monitor.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that provides quantitative information on the quality of its environment.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A device that displays a readout of a person's vital signs.
Related terms: bioindicator
biostimulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biostimulants
Etymology: From bio- + stimulant.
Senses: glosses: Any material of biological origin that enhances plant growth or development when applied to the soil
calanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calanolides
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of reverse transcriptase inhibitors extracted from trees of the genus Calophyllum.
carbostyril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: alpha-quinolone
Derived terms: carteolol
hydrocarbostyril
indacaterol
procaterol
cariologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cariology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cariology.
cariology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caries + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of dental caries and its development.
Derived terms: cariologic
cariological
cariostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cariostatic
form: most cariostatic
Etymology: From cario- + -static.
Senses: glosses: That halts the development of dental caries.
compactibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compactibilities
Etymology: From compactible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: These plugs fell out perhaps for three reasons—proneness of the teeth to decay, want of sufficient hold for the plug, and compactibility of the gold; but the latter was the greatest cause, at least we think so from the fact that where there was still a portion of the gold remaining, it was soft, water-soaked; hence capillary attraction must be overcome to a great extent or the gold will finally be displaced.
ref: 1862 May 24, J. D. White, “Practical Hints”, in The Dental Cosmos, volume 3, number 10:
text: Their compactibility, neat yet attractive appearance, always gain admirers, and being made of small power they are much in demand.
ref: 1882 April 15, The Architect and Building News, volume 27, number 2, page 230:
text: The data indicate that very "stiff" sands with compactibilities over 55 to 60% cannot be compacted properly in pockets or restricted mold areas unless 1) those areas are peened or 2) compacting energy somehow is applied directly to the individua area or areas.
ref: 1971, Foundry Management & Technology, volume 99, page 78:
glosses: The condition or extent of being compactible.
stratum corneum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strata cornea
Etymology: From Latin strātum ("blanket, bedspread") + corne∙us -a -um ("made of horn; horn-like"), from corn∙ū -ūs ("horn") + -eus.
Senses: examples: text: The outermost surface of the epidermis, called the stratum corneum, is made up entirely of dead cells.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 4:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The outer layer of the epidermis, composed of dead cells that continually flake away.
costatolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An isomer of calanolide that is specific to HIV
croscarmellose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of cross-linked carboxymethylcellulose that is used as a disintegrant in pharmaceutical formulations.
disintegrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disintegrants
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any material that is added to a pharmaceutical preparation to make it disintegrate (and thus release the active ingredient) on contact with water
Derived terms: superdisintegrant
cyclomixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclomixers
Etymology: From cyclo- + mixer.
Senses: glosses: vortex mixer
entomogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entomo- + -genous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows in or on the body of an insect
fulvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin fulvus (“tawny, reddish-yellow, fulvous”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fulvic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: fulvate
fulvic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulvics
Etymology: From Latin fulvus (“tawny, reddish-yellow, fulvous”).
Senses: examples: text: We confirm here that isolated natural marine fulvics and marine fulvics synthesized in the laboratory affect the bioavailability of trace metals to marine phytoplankton.
ref: 1983, Environmental Research Laboratories Publication Abstracts, page 49:
text: Freshwater chemists learned that rather than manipulate large volumes of water through a complex procedure in order to extract a few milligrams of humics or fulvics, a simple adsorption column of certain resins could collect […]
ref: 2020, Roger S. Wotton, The Biology of Particles in Aquatic Systems, Second Edition:
glosses: A derivative of fulvic acid.
Beaucerons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beauceron
Kardashian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [kʰɑɹˈdæʃi.ən]
Forms: form: Kardashians
form: Cardashian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Քարտաշյան (Kʻartašyan) (Western Armenian pronunciation). (adjective): by analogy with -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe a pat on the bottom wasn't a cheap feel. Maybe it was a sweet display of affection. And maybe Kim Kardashian would win an Oscar.
ref: 2011, Liz Talley, A Touch of Scarlet, page 55:
glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Derived terms: Humpdashian
Kardashianesque
Kardashian index
Kardashianization
Kar-Jenner
Kartrashian
Kardashian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [kʰɑɹˈdæʃi.ən]
Forms: form: more Kardashian
form: most Kardashian
form: Cardashian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Քարտաշյան (Kʻartašyan) (Western Armenian pronunciation). (adjective): by analogy with -ian.
Senses: examples: text: “Too sexy,” GoGo said. “Take it off.” A one-shoulder, purple chiffon dress from Jillian. “Too Kardashian,” Lauren said. “She’s so yesterday.”
ref: 2012, Lin Oliver, Almost Identical: Two-Faced, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 203:
text: It’s certainly the most considered with its careful tumble of microgreens and insistence of using blue crab instead of something more Kardashian.
ref: 2015 August 14, Brandon Watson, “Falling Into Place: Jenna’s Asian Kitchen Defies Stereotype”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 34, number 50, page 42:
text: I always thought that was a pinch too Kardashian of you but I’m not here to judge
ref: 2016, David Oliver Cohen, Tanner Cohen, “Hushed, Aggressive, Chic, Threatening, and Scared”, in American Babe: A White Girl Problems Book, Gallery Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 68:
text: But now, you can actually charter private jets to transport your dog in style. Yes, it all sounds very Kardashian, and is substantially more expensive than regular air travel.
ref: 2019, Serena Faber-Nelson, Dog Mama: 200 Tips, Trends, and How-To Secrets for Stylish Dog Owners, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:
text: It’s all very Kardashian.
ref: 2020, Caro Land, Convictions: An Absolutely Gripping Suspense Drama, Bloodhound Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, relating to or characteristic of the Kardashian family.
salt flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt flats
Senses: examples: text: Cold and dry, Neith has a thin nitrogen atmosphere and vast salt flats at its equator, which is warm enough for liquid water to pool during the summer period. The revealed salt is collected and sold to sodium-poor planets for agricultural purposes.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Neith:
glosses: A dry lake or playa whose level bed contains abundant salt.
Synonyms: salt pan
Hypernyms: alkali flat
Hyponyms: dry lake
playa
geoelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + electric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geoelectricity
glycyrrhizic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Glycyrrhiza, the genus of the licorice plant, + -in.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glycyrrhizic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: glycyrrhizate
guaiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpenoid alcohol, 2-[(3S,5R,8S)-3,8-dimethyl-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydroazulen-5-yl]propan-2-ol, obtained from cypress pine, that is used in perfumery
anniversal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ănĭvûrʹsəl
ipa: /ænɪˈvɜːsəl/
Forms: form: anniversall
Etymology: Formed as anniverse + -al by analogy with universal.
Senses: glosses: Occurring yearly; annual.
Related terms: word: anniversarily
word: anniversariness
word: anniversary
word: anniverse
histopathologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From histopathological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a histopathological manner
glosses: With regard to histopathology
humin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humins
form: humine
Senses: synonyms: word: humic acid
word: geic acid
glosses: The part of the organic matter in soil that does not dissolve in dilute alkali.
Derived terms: huminous
indihumin
hydrodistillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrodistillations
Etymology: From hydro- + distillation.
Senses: glosses: A variant of steam distillation in which material is soaked for some time in water after which the mixture is heated and volatile materials are carried away in the steam, condensed and separated
Related terms: hydrodistillate
hydrodistilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + distilled.
Senses: glosses: Obtained by hydrodistillation
perioeci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perioecus
ungregarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungregarious
form: most ungregarious
Etymology: From un- + gregarious.
Senses: glosses: Not gregarious; unsociable.
Related terms: nongregarious
steam distillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam distillations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: distillation
coordinate_terms: see at distillation § Hyponyms
glosses: A technique in which the volatile components of a material are separated by passing steam through the heated material.
perioecus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɹɪˈiːkəs/
ipa: /pɛɹɪˈɔɪkəs/
Forms: form: perioeci
form: periœcus
Etymology: From Late Latin perioeci, from Ancient Greek περίοικοι (períoikoi), plural of περίοικος (períoikos, “neighbour”), from περι- (peri-, “peri-”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).
Senses: examples: text: How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci, there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section ii, member 3:
glosses: Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
Related terms: antoecus
antipodean
ecumenic
hydroxycoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxycoumarins
Etymology: From hydroxy- + coumarin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric hydroxy derivatives of coumarin, some of which are the basis of pharmaceuticals
Synonyms: coumarinol
hydroxyphenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyphenyls
Etymology: From hydroxy + phenyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric hydroxy derivatives of the phenyl radical
Derived terms: cefadroxil
dihydroxyphenylalanine
edrophonium
interday
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-day
Etymology: From inter- + day.
Senses: glosses: Between subsequent days.
Related terms: day-to-day
interpatient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-patient
Etymology: From inter- + patient.
Senses: glosses: Between patients.
Related terms: intrapatient
intragastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + gastric.
Senses: glosses: Within the stomach.
Derived terms: intragastrically
intragastric balloon
isenthalpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isoenthalpic.
isoenthalpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: isenthalpic
Etymology: From iso- + enthalpic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: Having constant enthalpy
raw_tags: of a process
Related terms: isoenthalp
laryngopharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-ɪndʒəl
Etymology: From laryngo- + pharyngeal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or connecting the larynx and the pharynx
leonardite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leonardites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark, vitreous mineraloid produced by surface oxidation of lignite
leucoderma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucodermas
form: leucodermata
form: leukoderma
Etymology: From leuco- + -derma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A loss of skin pigmentation, often in patches
Synonyms: vitiligo
multum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another substance, composed of extract of quassia and liquorice juice, used by fraudulent brewers to economise both malt and hops, is technically called multum.
ref: 1820, Friedrich Accum, A Treatise on Adulterations of Food […] :
glosses: An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.
Derived terms: hard multum
Related terms: multum in parvo
lyophilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyophilizers
Etymology: From lyophilize + -er.
Senses: glosses: freeze-drying equipment; freeze-dryer
microneedle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microneedles
Etymology: From micro- + needle.
Senses: glosses: A very fine needle
glosses: A microinjector
Derived terms: microneedle array
mycopesticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycopesticides
Etymology: From myco- + pesticide.
Senses: glosses: Any pesticide that contains live fungi
nephelauxetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nephelauxetic
form: most nephelauxetic
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the expansion effect of ligands on the electron orbitals of transition metals
octacoordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octa- + coordinated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: coordinated with eight ligands
orodispersable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orodispersable
form: most orodispersable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orodispersible.
orodispersible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orodispersible
form: most orodispersible
Etymology: From oro- (“mouth”) + dispersible.
Senses: glosses: Describing a tablet designed to disintegrate in the mouth
oxinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxinates
Etymology: From oxine + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The complex formed between oxine and a metal ion.
peroxidisulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxidisulphates
Senses: glosses: peroxidisulfate
peroxydisulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxydisulfates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A persulfate containing two sulfate moieties
pharmacophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmacophore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a pharmacophore.
phytotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + therapeutics.
Senses: glosses: phytotherapy
pregastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + gastric.
Senses: glosses: Before (reaching) the stomach (digestion etc)
pseudohypersensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypersensitive.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the effect of minor changes in the coordination environment of some transition metals on their absorption spectra
pseudohypersensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypersensitivity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The effect of minor changes in the coordination environment of some transition metals on their absorption spectra
Related terms: pseudohypersensitive
refluxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refluxers
Etymology: From reflux + -er.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An apparatus fitted with a reflux condenser.
examples: text: It found that the beneficial effects of chewing gum on heartburn lasted up to three hours, “with a more profound effect in refluxers than in controls.”
ref: 2007 July 31, Anahad O’Connor, “The Claim: Chewing Gum After a Meal Can Prevent Heartburn”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who suffers from acid reflux.
scrutinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrutinizations
Etymology: From scrutinize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of scrutinizing; scrutiny
semiconductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + conductive.
Senses: glosses: semiconducting
sepium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cuttlebone
sulphanilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfanilic.
terebinthinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terebinthinate
form: most terebinthinate
Senses: examples: text: Both have a somewhat terebinthinate flavour, and in both, the seeds are enveloped in a copious mucilage. I have seen the guayava produce good effects.
ref: 1882, The Practitioner, page 15:
glosses: Characteristic of turpentine.
undecyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from an undecane
semiocclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semiocclusive
form: most semiocclusive
Etymology: From semi- + occlusive.
Senses: examples: Semiocclusive ointments are used to enhance the healing of wounds and reduce scarring.
glosses: Of or pertaining to substances which are moisture or vapor permeable, as contrasted to occlusive substances which are nonporous or have low moisture vapor transmission.
episcopicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin episcopus + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Each year on the anniversary, Henry is whipped in public by monks to cleanse him of the curse of this episcopicide.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 73:
glosses: The killing of a bishop.
small ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smallball
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: power hitting
glosses: A baseball strategy that relies on baserunning, singles, and hitting for average rather than hitting home runs.
examples: text: The result was a new kind of “small ball” platform that confounded Clinton’s cabinet.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
text: Yes. It was such a small ball presentation. I did watch the event from afar, and I gotta say it was very strange to watch these Apple executives get on stage and express delirious enthusiasm over adding polls to iMessage.
ref: 2025 June 13, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any strategy that involves proceeding by small increments.
autostainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autostainer
with an eye to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: We read the contract with an eye to finding a way out of it.
text: We read the contract with an eye to its renegotiation.
text: We read the contract with an eye to how it could be made to look to voters.
glosses: With an intention, goal, or consideration to.
Synonyms: with a view to
with an eye towards
Related terms: with an eye towards
PMSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PMS
PMSes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of PMS
PMSing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of PMS
PMSed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of PMS
PMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PM
PMs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of PM