cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sea-light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-lights
form: sealight
form: sea light
Etymology: From sea + light.
Senses: examples: text: A damp mist filled the room and the musty-coloured books that lined the walls were bathed in eerie sea-light.
ref: 2012, Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf, →ISBN:
text: There it is: an octagonal shaped white house with a thatched roof, my bedroom with the grey sea-light streaming through slanted windows.
ref: 2013, Jan Campbell, Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature, →ISBN:
text: It is she, they say, who is waving festival lanterns down there, making such beautiful sea-lights.
ref: 2014, Alexander Cordell, The Dreams of Fair Women, →ISBN:
glosses: Light from the sea, either due to reflection off the waves or from bioluminescence.
examples: text: The elevation of the lantern above the sea should not, if possible, for sea-lights, exceed 200 feet ; and about 150 feet is sufficient, under almost any circumstances, to give the range which is required.
ref: 1848, William Laxton, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal - Volume 11, page 208:
text: For the good of man, his father and grandfather planted the high sea-lights upon the Inchcape and the Tyree Coast.
ref: 1999, Elbert Hubbard, Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book, →ISBN:
text: On it's trial as a sea-light at Havre the result was unsatisfactory, as the compromise of merging two different curves in the design halved the concentration of light obtainable from a complete parabolic reflector without gaining sufficient compensation from the wider spread of weak light from the elliptic portion.
ref: 2013, D. Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses: From Ancient Times to 1820, →ISBN, page 1809:
glosses: A light on the seacoast to warn or guide boats.
sea-lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-light
sea light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea lights
Senses: examples: text: I would lie in bed listening to the tugs hooting; I would wake up to find my painter's great north windows awash with foggy sea light.
ref: 1996, Alfred Kazin, New York Jew, →ISBN, page 209:
text: A large square porthole let in the sea light, but this didn't make much difference: The moment Wilson stepped through the hatchway with Ackerman's daily mound of food in hand, he recognized it immediately—the plastic closeness, the pale, powdery smell of offices.
ref: 2008, Robert Girardi, The Pirate's Daughter, →ISBN:
text: Mornings the sea light moves like broadloom, weaving the same endless pattern on the clear bottom sand.
ref: 2011, Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists, →ISBN, page 299:
glosses: Alternative form of sea-light.
Light from the sea.
examples: text: We shall here simply enumerate all the public or sea lights upon the coast of England and Wales, without distinguishing those which belong to the Trinity Board, or are specially under its management, as we conceive that Board, in a general way, to take cognizance, more or less, in the proper and regular exhibition of the lights at all the lighthouses upon the English coast.
ref: 1819, Sir David Brewster, Second American edition of the new Edinburgh encyclopædia, page 54:
text: As there is a dangerous sand bar at the mouth of the harbor, these lights serve as useful guides, and also as sea lights. (1809.)
ref: 1845, Robert Mills, The American Light-house Guide:
text: Ruth stares out of her office window, across the courtyard towards the artificial lake, and thinks about the impending trip to the sea light.
ref: 2012, Elly Griffiths, The House at Sea's End, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: Alternative form of sea-light.
A light on the seacoast to warn or guide boats.
sea lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea light
anti-misogynist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-misogynist
form: most anti-misogynist
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antimisogynist.
anti-misogynist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-misogynists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antimisogynist.
catchment area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchment areas
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
synonyms: catchment basin
drainage basin
glosses: An area from which water drains into a particular lake, river, etc.; the catchment area of a large river includes its tributaries.
examples: text: As well as the new station, the funding will allow the building of the Chelmsford North East bypass, enhancing access to and the catchment area of the station.
ref: 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
text: Wealthy parents buying into preferred catchment areas is nothing new and for years families have been moving to Kent for the grammar schools.
ref: 2023 October 14, Alexandra Goss, “The school run”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:
glosses: The area served by a local institution, such as a hospital or school, or by extension, a railway station.
catchment areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catchment area
hyperphoresy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + phoresy.
Senses: examples: text: 2011, L. T. Sabagh, R. J. P. Dias, C. W. Branco, C. F. D. Rocha, New records of phoresy and hyperphoresy among treefrogs, ostracods, and ciliates in bromeliad of Atlantic forest, in Biodivers. Conserv. 20, 1837–1841
text: Hyperphoresy, when one organism is being transported by another that is also in the process of being transported, is extremely rare in the fossil record but does occur (Fig. 203).
ref: 2014, David Penney, James E Jepson, Fossil Insects: An introduction to palaeoentomology, →ISBN, page 168:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The situation of one organism carrying another organism, which is itself carrying a third organism, due to phoresy.
Derived terms: hyperphoretic
trophophoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trophophoresy + -etic or tropho- + phoretic.
Senses: examples: text: This latter form of trophobiosis has been termed trophophoresy (LaPolla et al. 2002). Only two ant genera are known to contain trophophoretic species: Acropyga (Formicinae), in which all 37 species are thought to be trophophoretic, and [...]
ref: 2006, Insect Systematics & Evolution, page 198:
text: In the Solomons, A. lauta is reported as being trophophoretic (Johnson et al., 2001), and has been associated with the mealybugs Eumyrmoccus kolobangarae and E. kusiacus (LaPolla, 2004).
ref: 2012, Eli M. Sarnat, Evan P. Economo, The Ants of Fiji, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting trophophoresy.
trophophoresy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tropho- + phoresy. Coined by John S. LaPolla in 2002.
Senses: examples: text: The mealybug-tending ant A. epedana is an obligate coccidiphile with trophophoretic queens. Trophophoresy is defined as the behavior of a foundress queen transporting a trophobiont on her mating flight for the establishment of a new mealybug "herd" in her new colony.
ref: 2002 December 24, “Natural History of the Mealybug-Tending Ant, Acropyga epedana, with Descriptions of the Male and Queen Castes”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 128, number 4, page 367:
text: Acropyga spp. ants show obligate trophophoresy with mealybugs, in which newly mated queens carry a mealybug with them when founding new colonies.
ref: 2007, M. J. Wade, “The co-evolutionary genetics of ecological communities”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Nature Reviews Genetics:
text: All insect fungus gardeners propagate their primary fungi as clonal monocultures within their nests and mostly across generations too (trophophoresy from parent to offspring in the ants and the beetles).
ref: 2007, P. H. W. Biedermann, Social behaviour in sib mating fungus farmers:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of trophobiosis in which one creature carries another creature to another location to farm it (harvest food from it, often after feeding it) there.
Related terms: trophophoretic
hyperphoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyperphoresy + -etic or hyper- + phoretic.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting hyperphoresy.
fairysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fairysome
form: most fairysome
form: faeriesome
Etymology: From fairy + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and “Folks that hed no call to go to bed, not nights, they slep' the hull time”—had fallen utterly in love with “that fairysome cur'osity that you go and call Viffer;” and bowed to the earth before her, for two reasons: one, that this “mite of a lady” had once appeared in one of Sal.'s solitary haunts, where she lay on the ground in sore anguish [...]
ref: 1872, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, volume 9:
text: Mr. Crane suggests that motor cars might be made "more fairysome," but would that not mean the introduction of gaudy and meretricious adornments which would detract from the sense of power, speed, and strength which, as he admits, is imparted by the plain, unadorned and clean-lined car adopted by our makers at the present day.
ref: 1907, Stanley Spooner, The Auto: The Motorist's Pictorial - Volume 12:
glosses: Characteristic of a fairy
kicks butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick butt
kicking butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick butt
kicked butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick butt
buttkicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttkickers
Etymology: From butt + kicker.
Senses: examples: text: The buttkicker portion of the trail comes towards the end with a steep plunge into Wildcat Canyon Regional Park.
ref: 2001, Eileen Barish, Doin' California With Your Pooch!: Eileen's Directory of Dog-Friendly Lodging & Outdoor Recreation in California:
glosses: Something impressive, that kicks butt.
buttkickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttkicker
whirlsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whirlsome
form: most whirlsome
Etymology: From whirl + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a whirl or whirling
secalotricum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secalotricums
Etymology: Blend of secale + triticum, from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: The tetraploid secalotricums were characterized by a considerable cytological stability, as only 15.10 to 17.68% of the tetrads had micronuclei.
ref: 2002, J. Stoinova, “Genome Analysis and Meiotic Behaviour of New Tetraploid Secalotricum Forms”, in Cytologia, volume 67, number 3:
text: Kretovich was involved in a comparative study of the proteins of wheat, rye, and the first rye–wheat hybrid, bred by Academician GK Meister—the amphidiploid secalotricum.
ref: 2007 May, A.F. Topunov, “To the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Vaclaw Leonovich Kretovich”, in Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology, volume 43, number 3:
text: In some embodiments, techniques and methods useful herein may produce secalotricum in which rye cytoplasm and it is used with wheat pollen to produce triticale.
ref: 2013, D. Penner, M. Simarmata, Glyphosate resistant 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate (epsp) synthase: US Patent App. 13/772,007:
glosses: A hybrid of wheat and rye, similar to triticale but using rye as the cytoplasm donor.
secalotricums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secalotricum
be in and out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: see conjugation of "be"
Senses: examples: text: Hiro: Is this gonna take long?
Tadashi: Relax, you big baby. We'll be in and out.
ref: 2014, Big Hero 6 (film)
glosses: To enter somewhere, and then quickly leave.
niggeryard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggeryards
Etymology: From nigger + yard.
Senses: glosses: An area at a plantation with slave barracks.
niggeryards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niggeryard
biblioblogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliobloggers
Etymology: From biblio- + blogger or biblioblog + -er.
Senses: glosses: A contributor to a blog or online journal concerned with the Bible.
holobasidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holobasidia
Etymology: From holo- + basidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
synonyms: autobasidium
homobasidium
glosses: A nonseptate unicellular basidium.
Derived terms: holobasidiate
Related terms: holobasidial
holobasidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holobasidium
autobasidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autobasidia
Etymology: From auto- + basidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of holobasidium.
synonyms: word: holobasidium
autobasidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autobasidium
homobasidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homobasidia
Etymology: From homo- + basidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of holobasidium.
synonyms: word: holobasidium
homobasidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homobasidium
curlsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curlsome
form: most curlsome
Etymology: From curl + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And time again My bluest lady fair Serenely still passed by And felt her goldlike Hair Ah! here a curlsome smile meekly awhile.
ref: 1918, Eric Paul Schulze, Vers Ego:
text: Physics of H-eigenwaves in a periodic iris-loaded circular waveguide is generally characterized using a number of the typical power flows. Both the reflectionless flows and the ones contra-directional over the guide's cross-section are included, as well as the curlsome ones and others.
ref: 1996, Serge K. Katenev, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves: Volume 17, Issue 1:
text: Well, then take a qu[i]ck gander over at the Surf Channel, an online resource for everything curlsome and frothy.
ref: 2007, Erik Olsen, Surf During Lunch:
text: [...] snifflemas daisies and troublesome coughfulness; hibernating curlsome and logful smokefulness.
ref: 2010, Susie Groom-Smith, Face at the Window:
glosses: Characterised or marked by curls
wiresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wiresome
form: most wiresome
Etymology: From wire + -some.
Senses: examples: text: By forest fountains hast thou seen / The wiresome, fairy sight, / Where banks are clad in mosses green, / Some dark, and some so bright?
ref: 1857, Friends' Intelligencer, volume 13:
text: I was hiresome, hick and hasteful / You were wiresome, wick and wasteful [...]
ref: 1987, Frank Luger, Herzenblut:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wire or wires; wiry.
minglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minglesome
form: most minglesome
Etymology: From mingle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: While holdin' himse'f at what you might call ' par ' on all o'casions, Dave is still plenty minglesome an' fraternal with the balance of the herd, an' would no more think of donnin' airs or puttin' on dog than he'd think of blastin' away at one of us with his gun.
ref: 1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Nights:
text: Is intermingle really more minglesome than mingle on its own?
ref: 2016, Rebecca Gowers, Horrible Words:
glosses: Characterised or marked by mingling; apt to mingle
tinglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tinglesome
form: most tinglesome
Etymology: From tingle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, when you do shake off the sunbeam-fingers and sit up, the cool air slips over your cheek and lifts your hair with so tinglesome a touch that motion — thrilled, ecstatic, ozoneful — seems man"s natural medium of expression.
ref: 2000, John Margolies, Eric Baker, See the USA:
text: "N'ba" has a soft reggae lilt, "Mali Ba" is sparsely lit, with harmonica shadings, and "N'Teri" has a more uplifting vibration, with tinglesome female backing vocals responding to Koité's lines whilst strings make sweepingly elaborate gestures. The album closes in a typically varied fashion, with "Titati", an acoustic guitar meditation.
ref: 2007, Martin Longley, Habib Koite & Bamada Afriki Review:
glosses: Characterised or marked by tingling
timidsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timidsome
form: most timidsome
Etymology: From timid + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He was a timidsome sort of man and Jinnie had to call sharp 'afore he come out, but come he did, all of a tremble.
ref: 1913, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes:
glosses: Characterised or marked by timidness; shyful
Synonyms: fearful
shyful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shyful
form: most shyful
Etymology: From shy + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: My body tensed and went slack, then tensed quickly again, just the same as the mounts I used to walk between polo chukkers at Onwensia Stables—walking hots we called it—the lathered, snorting horses skittish and shyful after someone had run their asses off for fifteen minutes or so.
ref: 2010, Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters:
glosses: Inclined to shy, or jump back in fear.
examples: text: She was somewhat shyful seeing the eternal couple before her.
ref: 2004, B. K. Chaturvedi, Kalki Purana:
text: Through shyful glances a love was born
ref: 2019, Milos Slavkovic, Mirko Topalski, Lightstep #4:
glosses: Exhibiting shyness; timid.
pigeon fancier's lung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bird fancier's lung.
synonyms: word: bird fancier's lung
bird fancier's lung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by exposure to bird droppings or feathers.
Synonyms: bird breeder's lung
pigeon fancier's lung
pay to stay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pay-to-stay.
bibliobloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biblioblogger
biblioblog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biblioblogs
Etymology: From biblio- + blog.
Senses: glosses: A blog or online journal concerned with the Bible.
Related terms: biblioblogger
biblioblogging
biblioblogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biblioblog
biblioblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biblio- + blogging.
Senses: glosses: The process of writing and publishing a biblioblog.
clypeolabral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a clypeus and a labrum.
liquid ecstasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The recreational drug GHB.
victim surcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victim surcharges
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An additional financial penalty, levied on a convicted criminal, that goes into a pool to be distributed to victims of crime.
victim surcharges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victim surcharge
tracheated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having tracheae.
tracheides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheide
warisome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warisome
form: most warisome
Etymology: From wary + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The change in her was almost astonishing: from the edgy, warisome woman I knew only from a distance to this confident, almost assured person who moved about my cottage as if it were her own.
ref: 2002, Paul Brandon, Swim the Moon:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wariness; cautious; careful
tracksides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackside
chocolate digestive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate digestives
Senses: glosses: A digestive biscuit with a chocolate coating on one side.
chocolate digestives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate digestive
trailerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailerites
Etymology: From trailer + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The economic advantages aren't even a consideration with many trailerites. One of Arizona's regular trailer visitors is a millionaire tobacco processor. Another is a wealthy inventor of household gadgets.
ref: 1950, Arizona Highways, volume 26:
glosses: A person who lives or stays in a trailer.
Synonyms: trailerist
trailerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trailerite
trailerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailerists
Etymology: From trailer + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who lives or stays in a trailer.
Synonyms: trailerite
trailerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trailerist
entrancedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more entrancedly
form: most entrancedly
Etymology: From entranced + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While entranced.
trancedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trancedly
form: most trancedly
Etymology: From tranced + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While entranced.
transennas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transenna
transmountain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: trans-mountain
Etymology: From trans- + mountain.
Senses: examples: a transmountain tunnel
glosses: Through the mountains.
Related terms: transmontane
transmutative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transmutative
form: most transmutative
Senses: glosses: Causing or involving transmutation; transformative.
sememics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of sememes.
transmutationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transmutation + -ism.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A belief in the transmutation of species.
Related terms: transmutationist
semolexemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to semolexemes.
transmutatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transmutatively
form: most transmutatively
Senses: glosses: In a transmutative manner.
transmutationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transmutationally
form: most transmutationally
Senses: glosses: In a transmutational manner.
semolexeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semolexemes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A combination of one or more semons that has a lexeme as a realization.
semolexemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semolexeme
Semon's leaf-nosed bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Semon's leaf-nosed bats
Etymology: Named for German zoologist Richard Semon.
Senses: glosses: Hipposideros semoni, a bat in the family Hipposideridae, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
wikipedia: Richard Semon
Synonyms: Semon's roundleaf bat
Semon's roundleaf bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Semon's roundleaf bats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Semon's leaf-nosed bat.
synonyms: word: Semon's leaf-nosed bat
roundleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From round + leaf.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having round leaves.
raw_tags: in the names of plants
Derived terms: roundleaf bat
roundleaf eupatorium
roundleaf sundew
lexon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexons
Etymology: From lexis + -on.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A unit of lexis.
Coordinate terms: morphon
phonon
semon
Derived terms: lexonic
lexons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexon
morphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morphon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to morphons.
stratificationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, stratification.
nonstratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stratified.
Senses: glosses: Not stratified.
stratifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stratify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being stratified.
unstratifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stratifiable.
Senses: glosses: Not stratifiable.
nonstratifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stratifiable.
Senses: glosses: Not stratifiable.
transonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of transonic travel.
transsonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of transonics.
transsonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of transonic.
transshipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transshippers
Senses: glosses: One who transships.
transhipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transhippers
Senses: glosses: One who tranships.
transshippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transshipper
transhippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transhipper
hypobasidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypobasidia
Etymology: From hypo- + basidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The cell at the base of a basidium.
hypobasidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypobasidium
epibasidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epibasidia
Etymology: From epi- + basidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A long and usually tapered outgrowth at the top of a basidium, bearing basidiospores.
epibasidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epibasidium
epibasidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the epibasidium.
hypobasidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the hypobasidium.
probasidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probasidia
Etymology: From pro- + basidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
antonyms: metabasidium
glosses: A basidium prior to meiosis.
probasidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probasidium
metabasidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabasidia
Etymology: From meta- + basidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
antonyms: probasidium
glosses: A basidium after meiosis.
Related terms: probasidium
metabasidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metabasidium
trappiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of trappy: most trappy
trappier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of trappy: more trappy
metabasidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the metabasidium.
probasidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the probasidium.
trayne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traynes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of train.
trayne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: traynes
form: trayning
form: trayned
form: trayned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of train.
trayning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trayne
trayned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trayne
traynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trayne
traynes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trayne
untrayned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of untrained.
tremulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛmjʊleɪt/
Forms: form: tremulates
form: tremulating
form: tremulated
form: tremulated
Etymology: Back-formation from tremulation.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: To tremble, quiver
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: To cause to tremble, quiver
extraterrestrialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extraterrestrial + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For it is beginning with this strange spatial extraterrestrialness - this non-place in the literal sense of the word - that we can take a fresh look at our reality, […]
ref: 2013, Gillian Robinson, John F. Rundell, Rethinking Imagination:
glosses: The state or condition of being extraterrestrial.
tremulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tremulate
tremulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹɛmjʊˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: tremulations
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tremulātus (past participle of tremulāre) + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A trembling, quivering.
Derived terms: tremulate
tremulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tremulate
tremulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tremulate
tremulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tremulation
triadist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triadists
Etymology: From triad + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who believes in a triad.
triadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triadisms
Etymology: From triad + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Belief in a triad.
triadists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triadist
triarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triarchs
Etymology: From tri- + -arch.
Senses: glosses: Any of the three rulers in a triarchy.
diarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarchs
Etymology: From di- + -arch.
Senses: glosses: Either of the two rulers in a diarchy.
diarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diarch
triarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triarch
trickishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trickish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being trickish.
trickishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trickishly
form: most trickishly
Senses: glosses: In a trickish manner.
trifoliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trifolium
triformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a threefold form.
dinkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dinky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being dinky.
wheelpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelpits
form: wheel pit
Etymology: From wheel + pit.
Senses: glosses: A pit in the ground, in which the lower part of a flywheel runs.
wheelpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelpit
wheel pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel pits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wheelpit.
wheel pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel pit
lipsalve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipsalves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lip salve.
lip salve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip salves
Etymology: Compound of lip + salve.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lip balm.
synonyms: word: lip balm
lip salves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lip salve
lipsalves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipsalve
multilock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + lock.
Senses: examples: a multilock door
glosses: Having more than one lock.
multilock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multilocks
Etymology: From multi- + lock.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A lock that restricts access to more than one object.
multilocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multilock
multilocking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + locking.
Senses: glosses: Designed to be secured by more than one lock.
General Certificate of Secondary Education
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) replaced O-levels and CSEs.
glosses: A British qualification taken by secondary school students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Related terms: IGCSE
GCE
CSE
O-level
planidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planidium
planidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planidia
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, “to wander”) + -idium.
Senses: glosses: The first-instar larva of any species of parasitoidal insect in which the life cycle is an example of hypermetamorphosis; so called because the first instar wanders in search of the host, whereas the rest of the instars remain stationary while they feed until they pupate.
Synonyms: triungulin
Derived terms: planidial
planidiform
bioprecursor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioprecursors
Etymology: From bio- + precursor.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The precursor of a biochemical compound, especially when the basis of a prodrug
bioprecursors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioprecursor
carboxamido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from a carboxamide
electroanalytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electro- + analytically or electroanalytical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of electroanalysis
electrochromically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrochromic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of electrochromism.
electrogravimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + gravimetric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or using electrogravimetry
galangin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavanol, 3,5,7-trihydroxy-2-phenylchromen-4-one, found in some types of galangal
planidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Planidial instars generally are highly sclerotized and have functional legs or other means of locomotion.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a planidium or anything similar
tryste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trystes
Senses: examples: text: In the little village of Kirkmichael, before the late depopulation, a weekly market was regularly held and well attended, particularly by shoemakers from Athol, and vendors of bog fir from Badenach; and an annual sheep and cattle fair is still held there at Michaelmas, a few days before the Michaelmas tryste at Falkirk.
ref: 1819, Larkin, Sketch of a Tour in the Highlands of Scotland, through Perthshire, Argyleshire, and Inverness-shire, in September and October, 1818, page 35:
text: With this sum, which it seems was at the time sufficient for the purpose, the master and servant set off to purchase a stock of sheep at Whitsun-Tryste, a fair held on a hill near Wooler in Northumberland.
ref: 1840, J.G.Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott Bart: Complete in One Volume, page 6:
text: A worthy highlander, lately gone to his rest, who in his day was the greatest sheep-farmer and cattle-breeder in the North, was accustomed at the Falkirk trystes, over his toddy in the evening, to hold forth to a sympathetic auditory in his favorite public-house, or “howff”, on the great dignity of his calling.
ref: 1841 March 4, “Appleton’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art: Miscellany”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 265:
glosses: Obsolete form of tryst.
trystes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tryste
tubework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tube + work.
Senses: glosses: An assemblage of tubes.
hernandulcin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish naturalist Francisco Hernández.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An intensely sweet sesquiterpene found in the South American herb Phyla dulcis
wikipedia: Francisco Hernández de Toledo
tuftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tufty: more tufty
tuftiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tufty: most tufty
hesperitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hesperetin.
crackler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracklers
Etymology: crackle + -er
Senses: glosses: That which crackles.
interpigment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + pigment.
Senses: glosses: Between pigments
cracklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackler
blunderbussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blunderbuss
blunderbussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blunderbuss
leptosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptosins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic glycoside found exclusively in manuka honey
manuka honey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manuka honeys
Senses: glosses: A monofloral honey produced from nectar of the manuka tree.
manuka honeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manuka honey
metallophthalocyanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallophthalocyanines
Etymology: From metallo- + phthalocyanine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phthalocyanine having a metal (especially a transition metal) at its core
metallophthalocyanines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallophthalocyanine
tulipant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tulipants
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish tülbent (/⁠tylˈbænt⁠/), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband), also the root of turban and tulip.
Senses: examples: text: A youth […] came to meete vs; apparrelled in a long Roabe of cloth of Gold, and on his head a Shaſh or Tulipant of Silke and Gold, […]
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “Mount Taurus”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: A turban.
tulipants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulipant
methylcyclohexyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylcyclohexyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methyl derivative of a cyclohexyl radical
tuneably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tuneably
form: most tuneably
Etymology: From tuneable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tunably.
mipsagargin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A prodrug that is converted by the body into thapsigargin.
weepen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English wepen, equivalent to weep + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Holly and his merry men, they dancen and they sing;
Ivy and her maidens, they weepen and they wring.
ref: a. 1561, The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly:
text: Whilst Juliet slept, and whilst the other weepen thus,
Our Friar Laurence hath by this sent one to Romeus,
ref: 1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:
text: And yet for all to make amends for this,
The clouds sheed teares and weepen at my misse.
ref: 1593, Michael Drayton, The Shepheards Garland:
glosses: plural simple present of weep
tupek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tupeks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tupik.
tupeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tupek
turbocar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbocars
Etymology: From turbo- + car.
Senses: glosses: A motor car powered by a gas turbine.
turbocars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbocar
turgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənsi
Forms: form: turgencies
Senses: examples: text: It is I think more out of custome than necessity, that I I do at this time premise any thing, the Subject whereof we treat, having been fatally felt by most of the Nation in some way or other, yet is it necessary that the history of such turgencies in the State should be communicated, that posterity may hereafter see, in their rise and fall,the certain punishment of Treason, though for a time guarded and upheld by armed violence, and the highest policies of a subtle malice.
ref: 1660, The Compleat History of Independency.:
text: To ease these turgencies hydropical I'll chew some juices heliotropical.
ref: 1835, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Literary fables, from the Span. by R. Andrews, page 51:
text: We do use preoperative embolization in these cases, not to prevent perfusion breakthrough, which is infrequent except with relatively large, high-flow AVMs but, rather, to decrease flow and turgency of the AVM.
ref: 1999, Jafar J. Jafar, Issam A. Awad, Robert H. Rosenwasser, Vascular Malformations of the Central Nervous System, →ISBN, page 366:
text: In the case of the Romantic poet Lamartine, he is referred to directly in a poem describing a gorgeous eighteen-year-old girl, whose mother expresses jealousy of lost turgencies and mixed feelings about the mother versus daughter relationship.
ref: 2010, David Clark, Rubén Jarazo Álvarez, In the Wake of the Tiger: Irish Studies in the Twentieth-First Century, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: The state or quality of being turgent.
turmerick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of turmeric.
turme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turmes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turm.
turmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turme
muconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of mucic + itaconic
Senses: glosses: Relating to a muconic acid or a derivative of it
Derived terms: muconate
multistirrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multistirrers
Etymology: From multi- + stirrer.
Senses: glosses: A piece of laboratory apparatus incorporating multiple stirrers
multistirrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multistirrer
turrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turrical
form: most turrical
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a tower.
Synonyms: turriform
turriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turriform
form: most turriform
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a tower.
Synonyms: turrical
tussors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tussor
tweedler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweedlers
Etymology: From tweedle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There were confidence tricksters, ranging from small-time 'tweedlers' to big-time operators who invested in long-term scams […]
ref: 2007, Paul Willetts, North Soho 999: A True Story of Gun-crime in 1940s London, page 22:
glosses: One who tweedles.
tweedlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweedler
tweeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tweel
twilted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twilt
twilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twilt
fool's bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fools' bargains
Senses: glosses: A bad bargain; one that leaves the person accepting it worse off.
rhythm pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythm poles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A percussion instrument, consisting of small bells attached to a pole, used exclusively by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
rhythm poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhythm pole
typhose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of typhous.
typey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: typier
form: typiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of typy.
typier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of typey: more typey
glosses: comparative form of typy: more typy
typiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of typey: most typey
glosses: superlative form of typy: most typy
ASDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ASD
woolclasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolclassers
Etymology: From wool + classer.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to sort wool into various grades of quality.
Related terms: woolclassing
woolclassing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wool + classing.
Senses: glosses: The sorting of wool into various grades of quality.
Related terms: woolclasser
woolclassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolclasser
topmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From top + making.
Senses: glosses: The processing of wool into "top" (bundles of combed slivers with the noils removed).
topmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topmakers
Etymology: From top + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person or company in the business of topmaking.
topmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topmaker
quercoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quercoid
form: most quercoid
Etymology: From Quercus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an oak.