cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
furcula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furculae
form: furculæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin furcula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A forked process or structure, generally two-pronged.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles in birds, the wishbone or merrythought.
examples: text: In essence, a furcula is a long, rigid stick, held underneath the body at high tension. When the springtail releases that pressure, the stick pushes down into the ground, or even the water's surface, like an upside-down medieval catapult, firing the springtail into the air in a semi-controlled manner.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 215:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The (two-pronged) forked, somewhat tail-like organ held bent forward and secured by a catch beneath most species of Collembola (springtails), with which they jump by releasing the catch abruptly when alarmed.
ceilidhean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.li.ən/
ipa: /ˈkeː.li.ən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic cèilidhean.
Senses: glosses: plural of ceilidh
seventy-one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy and preceding seventy-two.
raw_tags: number
Synonyms: word: 71
word: LXXI
furuncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjʊə.ɹʌŋ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈfjʊə.ɹʌŋ.kl̩/
ipa: /ˈfjʊɹˌʌŋ.kəl/
Forms: form: furuncles
Etymology: Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin fūrunculus (“a petty thief, pilferer; a pointed burning sore, boil”), diminutive of fūr (“a thief”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A boil or infected, inflamed, pus-filled sore.
Derived terms: furunculosis
seventy-two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: The Platonic Great Year, the time it takes to make a complete circuit through the twelve astrological signs, is 25,920 years; ¹/₃₆₀ of that circle, or one degree, is seventy-two."
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217:
glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-one and preceding seventy-three.
raw_tags: number
Synonyms: word: 72
word: LXXII
seventy-three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-two and preceding seventy-four.
raw_tags: number
Synonyms: word: 73
word: LXXIII
Related terms: 73
seventy-threes
seventy-four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-three and preceding seventy-five.
Synonyms: word: 74
word: LXXIV
word: LXXIIII
seventy-four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventy-fours
Senses: examples: text: the ocean stream / Here and there studded with a seventy-four [...].
ref: 1820, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section V:
text: For all the world like a seventy-four of the line, / Riding the swell and firing off Finisterre.
ref: 1958, Howard Nemerov, “Seven Macabre Songs”, in Mirrors and Windows:
glosses: A ship having seventy-four guns.
seventy-six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-five and preceding seventy-seven.
Synonyms: word: 76
word: LXXVI
seventy-seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-six and preceding seventy-eight.
Synonyms: word: 77
word: LXXVII
fusain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪn
Forms: form: fusains
Etymology: Borrowed from French fusain.
Senses: glosses: Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
glosses: A drawing made with it.
synonyms: mother of coal
hypernyms: mineral coal
coal
;
charcoal
glosses: Fossilized charcoal that exists in geologic formations, which often contain other fossil fuels nearby as well (e.g., bitumen, brown coal).
fuscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌskəs/
rhymes: -ʌskəs
Forms: form: more fuscous
form: most fuscous
Etymology: From Latin fusc(us) (“dark, dusky”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Fresh, fresh, fresh,’ one commented in deep bass on the departing soldier, and the other nodded assent, though in that cave of spoiled air and fuscous lamplight the word ‘fresh’ was misleading […].
ref: 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 140:
glosses: Of a dark, brownish-grey color; dark-hued, dusky, swarthy.
Derived terms: rufofuscous
subfuscous
seventy-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-eight and preceding eighty.
Synonyms: word: 79
word: LXXIX
word: LXXVIIII
furtherance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːðəɹəns/
ipa: /ˈfɜːðɹəns/
ipa: /ˈfɝðɚəns/
Forms: form: furtherances
Etymology: From further + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
synonyms: promotion
advancement
glosses: The act of furthering or helping forward; assistance towards something desired.
Derived terms: in the furtherance of justice
furthermore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ).ðə(ɹ)ˌmɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.ðɚˌmoɹ/
ipa: /ˈfɜː.ðəˌmoː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English furthermore, forthermore, forthermar (also as forther mo), equivalent to further + -more.
Senses: examples: text: He skillfully took charge of the event, and furthermore, he stayed late after it to clean up.
text: He claimed further(more) that he was not even in town the day the murder occured.
text: But, furthermore, the true Revival of pure Religion, is meeting at this day a still more fearful obstacle, in the system of go-betweenity or theological mermaidism, which has arisen out of the ashes of old defunct infidelity, and is boasting its able champions.
ref: 1854 July, “Obstacles to Revivals”, in The Freewill Baptist Quarterly, volume 2, page 306:
text: Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
glosses: In addition; besides; further; what's more (i.e. to denote additional information).
Synonyms: additionally
also
moreover
what is more
furthermore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ).ðə(ɹ)ˌmɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.ðɚˌmoɹ/
ipa: /ˈfɜː.ðəˌmoː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English furthermore, forthermore, forthermar (also as forther mo), equivalent to further + -more.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of further: more further; the more especially forward, ahead or (figurative) progressed
eighty-two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following eighty-one and preceding eighty-three.
Synonyms: word: 82
word: LXXXII
eighty-three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following eighty-two and preceding eighty-four.
Synonyms: word: 83
word: LXXXIII
eighty-four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
ref: 1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430:
glosses: The cardinal number immediately following eighty-three and preceding eighty-five.
Synonyms: word: 84
word: LXXXIV
word: LXXXIIII
eighty-five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -aɪv
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following eighty-four and preceding eighty-six.
Synonyms: word: 85
word: LXXXV
eighty-six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From eighty + six.
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following eighty-five and preceding eighty-seven.
Synonyms: sense: Hindu-Arabic numerals
word: 86
word: LXXXVI
eighty-six
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eighty-sixes
form: eighty-sixing
form: eighty-sixed
form: eighty-sixed
Etymology: Unknown for certain. Possibly rhyming slang for nix (“cancel, say no to”) (given by the OED), or possibly part of a code of such numbers created in the 1920s. See also: Wikipedia:86 (term) and 86.
Senses: examples: text: Equipment on a warship set to be upgraded or disposed of was given the code AT-6, or phonetically “eighty-six”.
ref: 2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of 86.
Synonyms: deep six
nix
ixnay
eighty-seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following eighty-six and preceding eighty-eight.
Synonyms: word: 87
word: LXXXVII
eighty-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following eighty-eight and preceding ninety.
Synonyms: word: 89
word: LXXXIX
word: LXXXVIIII
fousty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fousty
form: most fousty
Senses: qualifier: Bristol
glosses: Fusty.
ninety-one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety and preceding ninety-two.
Synonyms: word: 91
word: XCI
word: LXXXXI
Derived terms: ninety-oneth
capric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₈COOH, obtained from animal fats, and used in the manufacture of perfumes and flavours.
Synonyms: word: decanoic acid
word: decoic acid
word: rutic acid
word: rutinic acid
Related terms: caprate
caproic acid
caprylic acid
ninety-two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-one and preceding ninety-three.
Synonyms: word: 92
word: XCII
word: LXXXXII
caproic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin caper (“goat”) because of its smell.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A liquid fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₄COOH, obtained from animal fats, and used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and flavours.
Synonyms: hexanoic acid
Coordinate terms: word: caproate
english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: hexanoate
Derived terms: aminocaproic acid
isocaproic acid
Related terms: capric acid
caprylic acid
caprylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₆COOH, obtained from butter and other animal fats, and used in the manufacture of perfumes and flavours.
Synonyms: octanoic acid
Related terms: caproic acid
capric acid
ninety-three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-two and preceding ninety-four.
Synonyms: word: 93
word: XCIII
word: LXXXXIII
ninety-four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-three and preceding ninety-five.
Synonyms: word: 94
word: XCIV
word: LXXXXIIII
ninety-five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-four and preceding ninety-six.
Synonyms: word: 95
word: XCV
word: LXXXXV
ninety-six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-five and preceding ninety-seven.
Synonyms: word: 96
word: XCVI
word: LXXXXVI
ninety-seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-six and preceding ninety-eight.
Synonyms: word: 97
word: XCVII
word: LXXXXVII
ninety-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-eight and preceding one hundred.
Synonyms: word: 99
word: XCIX
ninety-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninety-nines
Senses: glosses: A traditional British ice cream cone with a flaky chocolate bar inserted, usually made with soft serve.
glosses: A simple card game with a running total, players dropping out if they would be forced to bring the total above ninety-nine.
Synonyms: sense: ice-cream cone
word: 99 Flake
glib
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: glibber
form: glibbest
Etymology: A shortening of either English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
Senses: examples: text: A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin.
ref: 2004 August 26, Leslie Feinberg, “Survival with Setbacks”, in Workers World:
glosses: Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
examples: text: a sheet of glib ice
glosses: Smooth or slippery.
examples: text: a glib tongue; a glib speech
text: I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
synonyms: facile
suave
glosses: Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
examples: text: Its style is both open and arch, never verging on glib camp but always a little removed, reducing large emotions to small observations and thereby making them all the more effective.
ref: 1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “...And They Called It Puppy Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8:
text: When Mr. Franco called Mr. McCarthy and asked why he had written a book about such a repellent character, he was glib. "He said, verbatim, 'I don't know, James, probably some dumb-ass reason,'" Mr. Franco recalled.
ref: 2011 October 13, Alexandra Alter, “Literary Giant Obsessed by Movies”, in Wall Street Journal:
glosses: Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
Derived terms: glibertarian
glibly
glibness
glib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: glibs
form: glibbing
form: glibbed
form: glibbed
Etymology: A shortening of either English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
Senses: examples: text: 1628, Joseph Hal, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8iUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue; which, being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through heaven and earth; and spares neither him that is God above, nor those which are called gods on earth.
text: And, when to all his Angels he propos'd / To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud, / That he might fall in Ramoth, they demurring, / I undertook that office, and the tongues / Of all his flattering Prophets glibb'd with lyes / To his destruction, as I had in charge.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 21, lines 371–376:
text: They are good internally in Fits of the Stone in the Kidneys, by glibbing the Ureters, and making even a large Stone pass with ease […]
ref: 1730, Edward Strother, Dr. Radcliffe’s Practical Dispensatory, London: C. Rivington, page 342:
text: We were having one of our bitterest cold snaps. Wind due north, shrieking over stiff land; two feet of snow, all substances glibbed with ice and granite-hard.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Gran’s Battle”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: To make smooth or slippery.
glib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: glibs
Etymology: A shortening of either English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
Senses: examples: text: "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."
ref: 1857, Hidden Links; Or the Schoolfellows. A Tale, volume 2, page 233:
synonyms: dubber
glosses: A person's mouth or tongue.
glib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: glibs
Etymology: From Irish glib.
Senses: examples: text: Whom when she saw in wretched weedes disguiz'd, / With heary glib deform'd and meiger face, / Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd, / She knew him not […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
text: Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society:
text: But in the dead of njight, who should come in but James Desmond, sword in hand, with a dozen of his ruffians at his heels, each with his glib over his ugly face, and his skene in his hand.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “Clovelly Court in the Olden Time”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.
glib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: glibs
form: glibbing
form: glibbed
form: glibbed
Etymology: Compare Old English and dialectal English lib (“to castrate, geld”), dialectal Danish live, Low German and Old Dutch lubben.
Senses: examples: text: Fourteen they shall not see
To bring false generations. They are co-heirs;
And I had rather glib myself than they
Should not produce fair issue.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
mandatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.də.t(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /mænˈdeɪ.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈmæn.dəˌt(ɔ)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛən.dəˌtɔɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /maɳɖeʈ(ɵ)ri/
Forms: form: more mandatory
form: most mandatory
Etymology: From Late Latin mandatorius (“of or belonging to a mandator”), from mandātor (“one who commands”), equivalent to mandate + -ory; see mandate.
Senses: examples: text: Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.
text: This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
ref: 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276:
text: It also discusses the access to legal instruments for enforcement with regard to mandatory disclosure of environmental information.
ref: 2011, Dirk Bünger, Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure: Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 57:
text: While in the most serious cases mounting an investigation is usually mandatory, there are other occasions where it is less clear-cut or when it is concluded that an investigation would not fulfil RAIB's objectives to improve safety or prevent future accidents.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 30–31:
synonyms: word: compulsory
word: obligatory
word: binding
word: compulsatory
word: compulsory
word: decretory
word: forced
word: imperative
word: involuntary
word: mandatory
word: nonoptional
word: obligatory
word: required
word: unbewised
word: unvoluntary
antonyms: word: optional
word: elective
word: compulsory
word: mandatory
word: obligate
word: obligatory
word: required
word: requisite
glosses: obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
examples: text: Mandatory Palestine
glosses: Of, being or relating to a mandate.
Derived terms: mandatorily
mandatoriness
mandatory detention
Mandatory Palestine
mandatory reporter
mandatory sentence
nonmandatory
supermandatory
Related terms: mandative
mandatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.də.t(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /mænˈdeɪ.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈmæn.dəˌt(ɔ)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛən.dəˌtɔɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /maɳɖeʈ(ɵ)ri/
Forms: form: mandatories
Etymology: From Late Latin mandatorius (“of or belonging to a mandator”), from mandātor (“one who commands”), equivalent to mandate + -ory; see mandate.
Senses: synonyms: word: mando
qualifier: disc golf
glosses: A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
glosses: A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.
carbamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: amino-formic acid, NH₂COOH; it is too unstable to have been isolated, but its esters and salts are known.
Related terms: word: carbamate
english: ethyl carbamate
translation: ethyl carbamate
word: urethane
urethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urethanes
Etymology: From French uréthane, coined (1833) by Jean Baptiste Dumas.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline organic compound, ethyl-carbamate, NH₂COOC₂H₅, used in the synthesis of other organic compounds.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound consisting of this general structure.
examples: text: He doesn’t remember polishing off the bottle of slivovitz that stands empty on the scratched urethane surface of the oak-veneer tabletop, next to the wing chair.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 161:
glosses: Polyurethane.
Synonyms: ethyl carbamate
Derived terms: ethyl urethane
Related terms: polyurethane
interwar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-war
Etymology: From inter- + war.
Senses: examples: text: His family emigrated to America in the interwar years.
text: But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.
ref: 1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939, page 219:
text: One sample menu from the interwar period includes cream cheese and pimento sandwiches, buttered crumpets, coffee éclairs, chocolate sponge roll, buttered date and walnut loaf, maid-of-honor tarts, and queen cakes.
ref: 2019, Julia Skinner, “The Empire and the Teacup”, in Afternoon Tea: A History, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: During or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939).
Synonyms: sense: between the World Wars, prior to World War II
english: in some uses, like pre-war Germany
translation: in some uses, like pre-war Germany
word: pre-war
Coordinate terms: pre-war
post-war
carbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbamates
Etymology: From carbamic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of carbamic acid.
Synonyms: aminoformate
Derived terms: alkenoylcarbamate
ammonium carbamate
-bamate
bamnidazole
biscarbamate
camazepam
cefcapene
cyclarbamate
demecarium
dicarbamate
diisobutyldithiocarbamate
ethyl carbamate
febarbamate
hydroxycarbamate
methylcarbamate
polycarbamate
thiocarbamate
carbolic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque of German Carbolsäure (modern German Karbolsäure), which was coined in 1834 by its discoverer Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: phenol (C₆H₅OH)
wikipedia: Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge
inter-war
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Christmas Day trains remained on timetables in the inter-war period, but they declined in number after 1945.
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
glosses: Alternative spelling of interwar.
carbonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Had she lived now, she would have talked of the last delightful lecture on gas, or the charming new treatise on carbonic acid; she would have studied German, and delighted in the society of "talented people."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 110–111:
text: [I]t sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and water-courses even as I have heard the carbonic acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 144:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: H₂CO₃
glosses: A weak unstable acid, H₂CO₃, known only in solution, and as carbonate salts; it is present in carbonated drinks, and sparkling wine, but decomposes to form carbon dioxide and water.
glosses: Carbon dioxide.
Derived terms: carbonic acid gas
carbonic acid snow
hemicarbonic acid
a notch above
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The hotel we stayed in this year was fabulous. It put our vacation a notch above the rest.
glosses: superior to; of a higher quality than
Related terms: a cut above
a cut below
according to Hoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Named after Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), an early author on the subject of card gaming.
Senses: examples: text: This isn't a country where things are cut and dried, and done according to Hoyle.
ref: 1902, Gilbert Parker, chapter 11, in Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt:
text: When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, / And Death looks you bang in the eye, / And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle / To cock your revolver and . . . die.
ref: 1912, Robert W. Service, “The Quitter”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone:
text: The opening round of the Presidents' Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament went according to Hoyle.
ref: 2007 February 22, Phil Axelrod, “District Spotlight: PAC men's basketball follows form”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 08 Aug 2008:
text: To be perfectly honest, I wasn't sure he was playing strictly according to Hoyle, but we'll leave it, since the poor chap's missing.
ref: 2013 December 25, Julian Fellowes, “The London Season”, in Downton Abbey, spoken by Terence Sampson (Patrick Kennedy):
glosses: In strict accordance with the rules, especially of card games; in the proper or expected manner.
Related terms: according to Cocker
according to Gunter
all over but the shouting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Such that the substance of the contest is complete, leaving only the cheering.
all the way to Egery and back
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The long way; a roundabout route; a long distance to travel.
Related terms: all over hell's half acre
all around Robin Hood's barn
to hell and back
halfway around the world
party to
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Privy to; having knowledge of.
assault weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assault weapons
Senses: glosses: Any select-fire firearm that allows semi-automatic and fully automatic operation, and is used or was once used by a military organization.
glosses: A semi-automatic firearm that resembles a military weapon.
glosses: A semi-automatic firearm that resembles a military weapon.
A semi-automatic weapon that has a folding stock, a muzzle flash suppressor, a bayonet mount, or a pistol grip.
qualifier: New York State
glosses: A rocket launcher designed to attack fortified structures, such as a Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (aka SMAW).
an apple a day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
as the crow flies
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the fact that while crows fly to their source of food, their flight bypasses obstacles like rivers and terrain. Compare beeline.
Senses: examples: text: It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies.
text: ʽFire,ʼ said Bill, ʽin the form of a common cowshed, is burnin' about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies.ʼ
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 54:
text: The distance from Sarajevo to Ploce is 75 miles as the crow flies, but because of the difficult terrain the new line is 120 miles long.
ref: 1964 April, “Beyond the Channel: Jugoslavia: New line to Adriatic”, in Modern Railways, page 281:
text: Then it told me the distance between the two is 331 miles, which is totally irrelevant as that's as the crow flies and not the 393 miles of the rail route.
ref: 2020 April 22, Barry Doe, “Disappointed at lack of information on LNER website”, in Rail, page 65:
synonyms: as the gull flies
as the raven flies
glosses: In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.
Related terms: word: beeline
topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: displacement
around the clock
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: round the clock
Senses: examples: text: They worked around the clock to finish the project on time.
topics: duration
time
glosses: All the time, or seemingly all the time; constantly.
around the clock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: round the clock
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of around-the-clock.
Synonyms: day and night
Related terms: 24/7
at all hours
dawn to dusk
work like a dog
around the clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round the clock
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of round the clock (“darts game”).
as all get-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: as all get out
form: as get-out
Senses: examples: text: Miss Collins looks pretty as all get out on a club floor, much more so than a frequent TV camera shot would lead you to suppose.
ref: 1955 December 31, Billboard, page 9:
text: John and I got over to the house around eight o’clock and were all set to watch a television show when we noticed Mr. Pignati was sad as all get out.
ref: 1968 October 12, Paul Zindel, chapter 10, in The Pigman:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely; to a superlative degree; very much.
get one's ass in gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's ass in gear
form: getting one's ass in gear
form: got one's ass in gear
form: gotten one's ass in gear
form: get one's arse into gear
form: get one's ass into gear
form: put one's ass in gear
form: have one's ass in gear
Senses: examples: text: He had been sitting there for two hours until the boss showed up and told him to get his ass in gear.
glosses: To exert effective effort; to get going; to get moving; to start producing.
Related terms: find another gear
around Robin Hood's barn
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Reference to Robin Hood, the legendary outlaw, whose barn was simply the fields and pastures surrounding Sherwood forest, his home. “Around Robin Hood’s barn” simply means all around the countryside, all through the fields and pastures.
Senses: glosses: the long way around; a roundabout or circuitous route
glosses: all over the place
Related terms: all over hell's half acre
all the way to Egery and back
the long way around the barn
Kawasaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæwəˈsɑki/
ipa: /kaʊəˈsɑki/
Forms: form: Kawasakis
Etymology: Transliteration of Japanese 川崎 (Kawasaki).
Senses: glosses: A major city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
glosses: A Japanese motorcycle manufacturer.
glosses: Ellipsis of Kawasaki disease.
Derived terms: Kawasaki's disease
Kawasaki syndrome
baby blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for baby blue eyes.
Senses: glosses: Blue eyes.
baby blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baby + blues.
Senses: examples: text: Most women (70–80 percent) will experience “baby blues” beginning a few days or weeks postpartum. Symptoms can include irritability, mood swings, crying spells, feelings of tension or nervousness, sleep disturbance, feelings of being overwhelmed, loss of appetite, and sadness. Baby blues generally lasts anywhere form a few hours to a few days and is caused by the sudden fluctuation of hormones following birth.
ref: 2016, Dr. Nancy Lins, Baby Blues: A Naturopathic Approach for Postpartum Health, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Period and feeling of depressiveness after giving birth; a less severe form of postnatal depression.
Related terms: all eyes
peepers
bits and bobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A random assortment of things; small remaining pieces and items.
Synonyms: sense: small random items
word: odds and ends
sense: small items
word: dribs and drabs
Related terms: bits and bats
farrago
hodgepodge
hotchpotch
melange
mingle-mangle
mishmash
oddments
omnium-gatherum
ragbag
sex symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex symbols
Etymology: 1871 used in Anthropology, first applied to a person in 1959 (Marilyn Monroe).
Senses: examples: text: In the 50's and 60's Marilyn Monroe was considered a sex symbol.
glosses: A person who embodies the sexual ideals of a mass audience.
sexiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛksinəs/
Forms: form: sexinesses
Etymology: From sexy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What we now encounter in the male order of civilization is "sexiness," the erotic power of the beautiful woman to lure the powerful man to his own destruction.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:
glosses: The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal.
goose bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goose bumps
form: goosebump
form: goose-bump
Etymology: From the resemblance of goose bumps to the bumps on the skin of a plucked goose.
Senses: synonyms: goose pimple
goose skin
goose flesh
chicken skin
glosses: Raised skin, usually caused by the involuntary erection of hairs on the neck or arms caused by cold, excitement, or fear.
Related terms: anserine
ghost bump
chill bump
cutis anserina
horripilation
piloerection
pilomotor reflex
ahead of the game
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: If you start work on the new assignment now, you'll be ahead of the game for when the teacher sets it officially.
glosses: Having completed a task before it is due; ready, prepared, or anticipating.
Related terms: ahead of the curve
on the ball
on top of things
beat a dead horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats a dead horse
form: beating a dead horse
form: beat a dead horse
form: beaten a dead horse
form: beat a dead horse
form: flog a dead horse
Senses: examples: text: After having shown us three hours of instructional and safety videos, the inspector was simply beating a dead horse by telling us to buckle up as we got into the van.
text: The library director believes the argument about “professionalism” is a “dead horse we should stop beating.”
ref: 1992, William A. Katz, Reference Services and Reference Processes, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 220:
text: A friend, the political scientist Irving Bernstein, told me that political scientists and historians are inclined to regard the question of objectivity as a dead horse that one should stop beating, and maintained that it is not the scholar but the lay person who has problems with objectivity.
ref: 1999, Fredrick Carl Redlich, Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xii:
text: I won’t stop beating this dead horse until (male) TV executives stop this sexist practice.
ref: 2016, Anthony Livingston Hall, The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries on the Global Events of 2015, volume XI, iUniverse, →ISBN:
glosses: To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.
Related terms: necrohippoflagellation
necrohipposadism
kick someone when they are down
preach to the choir
add insult to injury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adds insult to injury
form: adding insult to injury
form: added insult to injury
form: added insult to injury
Etymology: Derived from the fables of Phaedrus in the first century CE. The story was of a bald man who swats at a fly which has just landed on his head, but instead hits himself on the head. The fly comments, "You wished to kill me for a touch. What will you do to yourself since you have added insult to injury?" (quid facies tibi,
Iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam?) The actual wording appears in English from the middle of the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.
text: [...] the line crossed over an iron bridge spanning Ludgate Hill itself [...] neatly obliterating any view of St Paul's from Ludgate Circus and Fleet Street. A thousand people had put their names to a petition against the bridge. To add insult to injury it carried a small thicket of railway signals as well as regular steam trains.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 52:
synonyms: heap insult on injury
glosses: To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an already unfavorable situation.
wikipedia: Phaedrus (fabulist)
Synonyms: make matters worse
Related terms: insult to injury
grave dancing
Madison Avenue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Madison Avenue, a north–south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, where advertising boomed in the 1920s.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: An avenue in Manhattan, New York, known as the center of the American advertising industry.
examples: text: Maligned by rockers, misunderstood by critics, and merched by Madison Avenue, rave may be the only vital youth culture remaining.
ref: 1995, SPIN, volume 11, number 1, page 10:
head_nr: 2
glosses: The American advertising industry, regardless of location.
cheese and rice
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Euphemism or minced oath for Jesus Christ
cerotic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A very-long-chain saturated fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₂₄COOH, found in beeswax and carnauba wax.
Synonyms: hexacosanoic acid
chloric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: oxyacid#Noun
<
acid#Noun
<
compound
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: hydrochloric acid
english: its hydracid counterpart
translation: its hydracid counterpart
word: ;
english: its other oxyacid counterparts
translation: its other oxyacid counterparts
word: bromic acid
word: iodic acid
word: fluoric acid
english: its other hydracid counterparts
translation: its other hydracid counterparts
word: ;
word: hydrobromic acid
word: hydroiodic acid
word: hydrofluoric acid
glosses: A strong acid, HClO₃, known only in solution and as its chlorate salts; a powerful oxidizing agent.
chlorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorates
Etymology: From chloric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: Chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents.
text: The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.
ref: 1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:
text: The higher levels of chlorate were discovered during routine testing at the company's production facility in Ghent, Belgium, according to an unnamed company spokesperson quoted by the AFP news agency.
ref: 2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of chloric acid.
Derived terms: ammonium chlorate
chlorate of potash
chloratian
hydrogen chlorate
magnesium chlorate
perchlorate
potassium chlorate
sodium chlorate
Related terms: chloric
chloride
hypochlorite
oxidizing agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidizing agents
form: oxidising agent
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that oxidizes, or receives electrons from, another; in so doing, it becomes reduced.
Coordinate terms: reducing agent
reducing agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reducing agents
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: reducer
reductant
glosses: Any substance that reduces, or donates electrons to, another; in so doing, it becomes oxidized.
Coordinate terms: oxidizing agent
cholic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholic acids
Etymology: Mid 19th century, from Greek kholikos, from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a steroidal bile acid, C₂₄H₄₀O₅, derived from cholesterol
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of bile acid.
synonyms: word: bile acid
Derived terms: glycocholic acid
steroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From steroid + -al.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, being, or derived from a steroid.
examples: text: Weaning China off steroidal industrial policies that feel good in the short run but are toxic in the long run is the key to sustained, high-quality growth and reconciliation of international disputes.
ref: 2023, Keyu Jin, The New China Playbook, page 48:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Characterized by rapid growth, especially growth that is unsustainable or out of line with economic fundamentals or expectations.
Derived terms: antisteroidal
disteroidal
nonsteroidal
norsteroidal
steroidally
steroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔɪd
ipa: /ˈstɛɹɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈstɪəɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: steroids
Etymology: From sterol + -oid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of organic compounds having a structure of 17 carbon atoms arranged in four rings; they are lipids, and occur naturally as sterols, bile acids, adrenal and sex hormones, and some vitamins; many drugs are synthetic steroids.
examples: text: Men may also have fertility challenges, especially if their hypogonadism was caused by anabolic steroid use. Anabolic steroids can affect testicular health, including reducing the production of sperm.
ref: 2018 June 25, James Roland, “What is Hypergonadism?”, in Healthline:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any anabolic hormone used to promote muscle growth or athletic performance.
Synonyms: word: steroid
Hyponyms: word: anabolic steroid
word: androgen
word: brassin
word: brassinosteroid
word: bufadienolide
word: corticosteroid
word: estrogen
word: glucocorticoid
word: mineralocorticoid
word: neuroactive steroid
word: neurosteroid
word: oestrogen
word: phytosterol
word: saponin
word: sterol
Derived terms: aminosteroid
anabolic steroid
antisteroid
azasteroid
corticosteroid
cyclosteroid
furanosteroid
horse steroid
hydroxysteroid
isosteroid
ketosteroid
neuroactive steroid
neurosteroid
nonsteroid
norsteroid
oxosteroid
phytosteroid
poststeroid
roid
secosteroid
sex steroid
steroidal
steroidally
steroid dementia
steroidlike
steroidogenesis
steroidogenetic
steroidogenic
steroidome
steroidphobia
Related terms: word: hormone
word: :Category:Steroids