cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chug-chug wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chug-chug wagons
Senses: examples: text: Michael Louis McKinlev, the Chicago Civil Service Commission, takes his recreation in an automobile and drives the chug-chug wagon himself.
ref: 1907, The Voter, page 49:
text: This man upon whose breast you lean too often has a jag on; he couldn't buy the raw benzine to run your chug-chug wagon !
ref: 1915, Walt Mason, "Horse Sense" in Verses Tense, page 75:
text: Get a move on you, and I'll take you out in the bubble - the automobile, the car, the chug-chug wagon, the thing we came here in, if you want to know what bubble is - and we'll scare up some breakfast.
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill:
text: Perhaps fuel may have been added to this flame of hatred by the fact that the editor does not own a chug-chug wagon and probably never will be able to do so but the feeling had its origin when as a pedestrian he had been obliged to resort to flight and the protection of a telephone pole in order to escape some charging gasoline demon or has nearly seen himself whisked to the hereafter by being run over by a machine while crossing the street.
ref: 1949, Melvin Hull Miller, A Study of the Circuit Chautauqua in Representative Michigan Communities:
glosses: Alternative form of chug-wagon.
chug-chug wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chug-chug wagon
schesis onomaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχέσις ὀνομάτων (skhésis onomátōn, “state of nouns”).
Senses: glosses: The use of a sentence constructed only of nouns and adjectives, without a verb.
chug wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chug wagons
Senses: examples: text: The latter is able to ride in a “chug” wagon, while Doctor E. Z. is in luck not to be buried as a pauper, Without flowers.
ref: 1902, The Bulletin of the Commercial Law League of America:
text: The two cylinder chug wagon passed us safely at the top, and yet we lingered on enjoying the view.
ref: 1911, Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine:
text: "Chug wagons" frequently broke down, and when they did run well they bounced riders through a holocaust of fine dust, and if impending brush was cut away they outsped burros and wagons.
ref: 1942, Richard Gordon Lillard, Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada, page 177:
text: Some of the girls had two chug wagons apiece. Money was no object.
ref: 2018, Josephine Chase, Marjorie Dean Post-Graduate, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of chug-wagon.
chug wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chug wagon
sirband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirbands
form: seerband
form: seerbund
Senses: glosses: A kind of muslin for making turbans.
seerbund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seerbunds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sirband.
sirbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sirband
seerbunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seerbund
pseudomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of peptide antimycotics isolated from Pseudomonas syringae.
pseudomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomycin
ecomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecomycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of lipopeptides isolated from Pseudomonas viridiflava.
ecomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecomycin
factorializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of factorialize
factorializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of factorialize
factorialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factorializations
Etymology: From factorial + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of factorializing.
factorializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factorialization
nostocoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.
ref: 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166:
text: The filaments are typically somewhat twisted or nostocoid and the trichomes are very narrow, barely three micra in diameter.
ref: 1953, Natural and Applied Science Bulletin:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacterium
anabaenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However the 1970 anabaenoid peak did correspond with an unusually high diurnal pH in the region of 8.5 and no doubt determined by photosynthetic activity.
ref: 1972, Water Resources, Environment, and National Development:
text: NODULARIA MERTENS / This anabaenoid genus has species with trichomes enveloped by more or less firm sheaths.
ref: 2012, Ian R. Falconer, Algal Toxins in Seafood and Drinking Water, page 159:
glosses: Belonging to or resembling the Anabaena, a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria that exist as plankton.
oscillatorioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These algae may be found in desert, as well as non-desert, soils which contain moisture that is available for an extended time period. The filamentous blue-green algae include nostocoid, scytonematoid, rivularioid, and oscillatorioid species.
ref: 1966, Roy E. Cameron, Gerald B. Blank, United States. National Aeronautics, Space Administration, Desert algae: soil crusts and diaphanous substrata as algal habitats, page 26:
text: Also, all of these algae appear to be typical of similar forms found in arid soils of temperate zones (Llano, 1962). The oscillatorioid forms are the most common (Drouet, 1962), […]
ref: 1971, Louis O. Quam, Horace D. Porter, Research in the Antarctic, page 178:
glosses: Being or relating to any cyanobacterium of the order Oscillatoriales.
new game plus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new game +
form: newgame+
form: new game+
Etymology: First used in the game Chrono Trigger (1995).
Senses: examples: text: Players want to experience the different weapon systems, so they will try the “New Game Plus” after they clear the story.
ref: 2016, Rosa Bottino, Johan Jeuring, Remco C. Veltkamp, Games and Learning Alliance: 5th International Conference:
topics: video-games
synonyms: NG+
coordinate_terms: clear game
new game
glosses: The option to play again through a previously completed game, carrying over characters, attributes, or equipment from the previous play session.
wikipedia: Chrono Trigger
Related terms: word: prestige
hexact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexacts
Senses: glosses: A hexactinal structure, one with six rays.
Derived terms: oxyhexact
pentact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentacts
Senses: glosses: A pentactinal structure, one with five rays.
hexacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexact
pentacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentact
open world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊp(ə)n ˈwɜːld/
ipa: /ˌoʊp(ə)n ˈwɜɹld/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
Forms: form: open worlds
Etymology: From open (adjective) + world.
Senses: examples: text: Role-play games […] they use a closed visual world of walls or grids or open worlds across computer systems
ref: 2004, Paul Grover, “Computer Games in Your Hands”, in Visual Texts (The Heinemann English Project), Port Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.: Heinemann Harcourt Education, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Open world games (sometimes referred to as "sandbox games") are one of the most popular genres of video games. They typically feature non-linear gameplay, the ability to roam the game world freely any way the player chooses, unscripted interaction with non-player characters (NPCs), and a living, breathing city, countryside, or fantasy environment to explore.
ref: 2007, David Hutchinson, “Kid-friendly Grand Theft Auto”, in Playing to Learn: Video Games in the Classroom, Westport, Conn.: Teachers Ideas Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 110:
text: Liberty City, the virtual space of Grand Theft Auto III, can be interpreted as the spatial universe that qualitatively changes and combines the limited character attributes of the inhabiting non-player characters. Because they all seem to live and act in such a huge open world, they appear to be more complex themselves.
ref: 2008, Michael Nitsche, “Combining Interaction and Narrative”, in Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, part I (Structure), page 54:
text: The Saints Row games are open worlds, and many consider the Grand Theft Auto series to also be open worlds.
ref: 2014, Carolyn Handler Miller, “Video Games”, in Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment, 3rd edition, Burlington, Mass.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Focal Press, →ISBN, part 4 (Media and Models: Under the Hood), page 283:
text: The second category of storytelling that coexists in GTA [Grand Theft Auto]’s open world takes the form of player-driven stories.
ref: 2017, Chris Solarski, “Transitions in Open-world Games”, in Interactive Stories and Video Game Art: A Storytelling Framework for Game Design (An A K Peters Book), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, section II (The Dramatic Curve and Transitions), page 170:
text: What Guy doesn’t know, but the audience surely will (it's all over the trailers), is that he's not a real person at all but rather an NPC—or non-player character—in a popular and extremely violent open-world video game.
ref: 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds Action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite Age”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023:
topics: video-games
glosses: A gameworld that the player may traverse freely, rather than being restricted to certain predefined areas and quests.
Related terms: fast travel
hub world
overworld
sandbox game
open worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open world
Chasey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
postconsumerist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postconsumerist
form: most postconsumerist
Etymology: From post- + consumerist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to postconsumerism.
postconsumerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + consumerism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A value system that follows, and rejects or moves beyond, consumerism.
Related terms: postconsumerist
postmaterialism
last man standing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last men standing
Senses: examples: text: One contestant will be eliminated at the end of every round. The last man standing wins $1,000,000.
text: “Good idea,” Robbo said. “I'm sure there are going to be more rounds in this fight. It's a matter of who wins the last round because there are no judges awarding points here. Last man standing is the winner.”
ref: 2003, Ray Green, Demize, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 170:
text: Like The Last of the Mohicans, The Last Samurai criticizes the “sickness of greed.” The Mohicans and the samurai are lost, but principles of theirs can survive because the last man standing is white, like us, and we can lean from him, if we are willing to “face life.”
ref: 2013 December 12, Vincent M. Gaine, “Last (White) Man Standing: The Philosophy of Racial Responsibility in The Last of the Mohicans and The Last Samurai”, in Kathryn Anne Morey, editor, Bringing History to Life through Film: The Art of Cinematic Storytelling, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 66:
text: “So you're saying this fund did well. If they reinvested some of the profits into additional shares, then the profits have continued to grow,” Kate stated.
“And when you're talking about winner takes all,” Sykes said, “the last man standing is going to have a very, very nice payout.”
ref: 2019 November 26, Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: The final person remaining in a battle or competition after everyone else has been eliminated.
examples: text: In Last Man Standing mode, you are in an arena with the other player, but you cannot directly attack one another. Instead, you must fight the enemies, and the player who fights the best and survives the longest, wins.
ref: 2003, Bart Farkas, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu Official Strategy Guide, Bradygames, →ISBN, page 7:
text: “Remember that last-man-standing mode they had for a while?” she asked as they goofed around in the rally locationwhile waiting for the next match to begin.
“The one where it was, like, twenty teams on one map? Last team standing wins? Battleground Mode, or whatever?”
ref: 2022 April 18, W. C. Collier, OUTSIDERS: Vol. I, BookLocker.com, Inc., →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: A multiplayer deathmatch gameplay mode in which the last surviving player is the winner.
Related terms: last stand
paromoeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parimion
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρόμοιος (parómoios, “closely resembling”), from ὅμοιος (hómoios, “equal”).
Senses: glosses: alliteration
parimion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paromoeon.
cue-to-cue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
music
television
theater
glosses: Of a rehearsal: moving from one cue to the next, so that lighting etc. can be tested, without rehearsing scenes in their entirety.
undean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undeans
form: undeaning
form: undeaned
form: undeaned
Etymology: From un- + dean.
Senses: examples: text: […]said Mr. Slope, with a deanish sort of smirk on his face. […] Mr. Thorne gave him a look which undeaned him completely for the moment, but [Mr. Slope] soon remembered his high hopes […]
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
text: The nature of the role of former dean is developed through careful onboarding strategies for the new dean and interactions with a new set of constituents who perceive the dean as a former dean.
ref: 2016, A. I. Meleis, “The undeaning transition: Toward becoming a former dean”, in Nursing Outlook, volume 64, number 2:
glosses: To deprive of the office or dignity of a dean.
undeaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undean
undeans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undean
undeaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undean
unpiteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpiteously
form: most unpiteously
Etymology: From unpiteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without pity; pitilessly.
unravellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unravellable
form: most unravellable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unravelable.
unresolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unresolve
phasicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phasicities
Etymology: From phasic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of existing in phases, typically used of blood flow
Related terms: biphasic
monophasic
phasicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phasicity
pholidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φολῐ́ς (pholĭ́s, “horny scale”) + -osis.
Senses: glosses: The pattern made by the scales of a reptile
Related terms: pholidotic
pholidotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pholidosis
phonomicrosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phono- + microsurgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: microsurgery in order to improve the voice, typically of a professional singer
Related terms: phonomicrosurgical
phonomicrosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phono- + microsurgical.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Relating to phonomicrosurgery
phonotaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phono- + -taxic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phonotaxis
phosphoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with, or conversion into, a phosphoric acid
photocolorimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + colorimetric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photocolorimetry
photocolorimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photo- + colorimetrically.
Senses: glosses: In a photocolorimetric manner
photomodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photomodulations
Etymology: From photo- + modulation.
Senses: glosses: modulation by means of light
photopolymerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photopolymerisations
Etymology: From photo- + polymerisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photopolymerization.
photosequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosequences
Etymology: From photo- + sequence.
Senses: glosses: A sequence of photographs (made using a still camera)
apocrisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόκρισις (apókrisis), from ἀποκρίνω (apokrínō). Compare Greek απόκριση (apókrisi).
Senses: glosses: rescript; technical response
photomodulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photomodulation
phytocomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytocomplex
photosequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photosequence
overpredictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overpredictors
Senses: glosses: One who overpredicts.
underpredictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpredictors
Etymology: From underpredict + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who underpredicts.
overpredictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overpredictor
underpredictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpredictor
untooth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untooths
form: untoothing
form: untoothed
form: untoothed
Etymology: From un- + tooth.
Senses: examples: to untooth a zipper
glosses: To remove the teeth from.
untooths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untooth
untoothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untooth
well wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well wagons
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An open goods wagon with a well (depressed loadbed) between the bogies or axles.
Synonyms: well car
well wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well wagon
steam dome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam domes
Senses: glosses: A dome fitted to the top of a boiler where steam is collected before being used in the cylinders.
steam domes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam dome
landdroste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landdros
unselfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unself
unselfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unself
unselfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unself
Glab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Glabs
Etymology: From Polish Głąb.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
sand dome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand domes
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A sand reservoir mounted on top of the boiler of a steam locomotive. The sand was used on wet rails to prevent slipping.
Related terms: sandbox
sand domes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand dome
driving trailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving trailers
Senses: examples: text: The motor coaches will have no driving compartments, and the end vehicles of every unit will be driving trailers.
ref: 1954 November, “Trains for Southend Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 737:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An unpowered coach fitted with a driving cab and placed at one or both ends of a train.
Synonyms: english: older usage
translation: older usage
word: autocoach
Related terms: driving van trailer
motor coach
power car
trailer car
driving trailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driving trailer
nose-suspended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: suspended by a "nose" on the motor from the bogie frame.
raw_tags: of a traction motor
mercury arc rectifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercury arc rectifiers
Senses: examples: text: The secondary winding is laid in four coils, one on top of the other, with oil passages round the laminated-steel core; its 2,770V a.c. output is converted to 1,970V d.c. by four air-cooled mercury arc rectifiers, which feed each pair of 975V traction motors through a smoothing choke.
ref: 1961 March, “Interim report on the Glasgow suburban electric train failures”, in Trains Illustrated, page 175:
text: Additionally, semi-conductor rectifiers are far more economical of space, with the result that there is room in the Doncaster-built locomotives employing them for rheostatic braking apparatus within the weight and dimensions previously needed for mercury-arc rectifiers.
ref: 1961 December, “Talking of Trains: The 25kV rolling stock”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rectifier which converts alternating current to direct current, using a cathode tube with a pool of liquid mercury. Now superseded by solid-state rectifiers.
mercury arc rectifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercury arc rectifier
time-expired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: prisoner etc.
glosses: Whose time has expired, having served their time.
raw_tags: of a soldier
glosses: Where a period of time, during which something can be sold or used, has expired.
examples: text: At the same time the civil engineers knew that the older of the two Clyde bridges was in need of early renewal. The signalling engineers solved their problem by concluding that bi-directional working over all running lines on the later, wider bridge would allow the elimination of the time-expired structure.
ref: 1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 177:
synonyms: life-expired
glosses: At the end of its life.
raw_tags: of a structure
ktetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ctetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κτητικός (ktētikós, “possessive”).
Senses: glosses: possessive
ktetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ktetics
form: ctetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κτητικός (ktētikós, “possessive”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: possessive adjective
ktetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ktetic
doomed if you do, doomed if you don't
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Probably coined as a non-profane alternative to damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Senses: glosses: A situation where either choice results in a negative outcome; dilemma.
over-dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + dimensional.
Senses: glosses: Of a load carried on a vehicle, exceeding the normally permitted dimensions and requiring a special permit.
downdrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An afternoon drinking session.
frontal point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontal points
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Either of two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds.
Synonyms: word: antiae
frontal points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontal point
pinanamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of isopinocampheylamine.
synonyms: word: isopinocampheylamine
isopinocampheylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bicyclic monoterpenoid alcohol (1R,2R,3R,5S)-2,6,6-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.1]heptan-3-ol
planktonivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planktonivores
Etymology: From plankton + -i- + -vore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that feeds on plankton
Related terms: planktonivorous
planktonivory
planktonivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planktonivore
pleamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pleomorphism.
pleuroparenchymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pleuro- + parenchymal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the pleura and the parenchyma
pneumonectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pneumonectomizes
form: pneumonectomizing
form: pneumonectomized
form: pneumonectomized
Etymology: From pneumonectomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To carry out a pneumonectomy
pneumonectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pneumonectomize
pneumonectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to a pneumonectomy
pneumotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumotoxicities
Etymology: From pneumo- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pneumotoxic
pneumotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumotypes
Etymology: From pneumo- + type.
Senses: glosses: Any of several distinct types of microorganism present in the lungs
pneumotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumotype
polyallergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + allergic.
Senses: glosses: allergic to many different materials
Related terms: polyallergy
polyallergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyallergies
Etymology: From poly- + allergy.
Senses: glosses: An allergy to many different materials
Related terms: polyallergic
polyamidoamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyamidoamines
Etymology: From poly- + amido + -amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dendritic polymer composed of amide and amine units
home signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home signals
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway signal controlling entry to the next section of line. Originally it meant a signal governing entry into a station.
Related terms: distant signal
home signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home signal
running line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running lines
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway line used to operate trains on, as opposed to a siding.
Synonyms: running track
running lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running line
running lines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run lines
polytreponemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + treponemal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to treponemata of multiple genera
cryoresistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoresistance
cryosolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryosolution
cryostages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryostage
cryosubstitutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryosubstitution
cryotransformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryotransformation
cryoultramicrotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoultramicrotome
cryptoquarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptoquark
cryptostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptostome
cryptozoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptozoite
crystalline humours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystalline humour
C-secs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-sec
C-spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-spot
ctenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctene
ctenostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctenostome
cubizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubization
cukongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cukong
starting signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starting signals
Senses: examples: text: As it happened, however, it was clear enough, when the platform starting-signal was lowered, for the signalman in box No. 5 to see his advance-starting signal, and he was therefore justified in allowing the train to go forward, and it was not until it had passed his box that, upon looking out, he saw that it had disappeared into the bank of fog, which had by that time hidden the advanced starting-signal from his view.
ref: 1882 June, “Official Reports on Recent Accidents”, in The Railway Engineer, page 157:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, nowadays usually a colour-light signal.
examples: text: At the starting signal, pull up and back against the underside of the starting platform to get your body moving forward.
ref: 2003, Ernest W. Maglischo, Swimming Fastest, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 277:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A signal to begin a race.
Synonyms: starter
starter signal
starting signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starting signal
starter signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starter signals
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of starting signal.
synonyms: word: starting signal
starter signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starter signal
Lostwithiel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cornish, the exact origin is unknown; possibly Old Cornish lost gwydhyel (“tail-end of the woodland”), for the second element see Breton gwez. More at Lostwithiel.
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1059).
colour light signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour light signals
form: colour-light signal
form: color light signal
form: color-light signal
Senses: examples: text: Colour-light signals, for both day and night work, came into use at a much later date, and their first use on any scale in this country was on the London underground railways, where the principle adopted was largely American in origin. But although light signalling is credited to America, one of the first instances of its use was an experimental installation at Herne Hill, although it did not find favour in this country for overground working until some fifty years later.
ref: 1955 April, R. H. Warring, “Some Early Railway Signals”, in Railway Magazine, pages 231-232:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: colour light
glosses: An electric railway signal with colour aspects, showing either red or green in a 2-aspect signal, with the addition of a yellow or double yellow aspect (meaning caution) in 3- and 4-aspect signals.
colour light signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colour light signal
route indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: route indicators
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A panel attached to a colour light signal situated just before a junction, which when lit up indicates that a diverging route has been set for the next train.
Synonyms: junction indicator
simple extension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple extensions
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: field theory
glosses: A field extension obtained by adjoining a single element to a given field.
Hyponyms: primitive element
root field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: root fields
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: Galois theory
glosses: splitting field
unsplendidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsplendidly
form: most unsplendidly
Etymology: From unsplendid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsplendid manner.
renegader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renegaders
Etymology: From renegade + -er.
Senses: synonyms: backstabber
betrayer
double-crosser
rat
renegade
traitor
two-timer
glosses: One who renegades.
renegaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renegader
route indicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of route indicator
bungwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Yagara bangwal.
Senses: glosses: A species of fern, Telmatoblechnum indicum, native to Australia and Southeast Asia.
cnemides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛ.mɪˌdiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cnemis
phyto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytos
Senses: examples: text: The seasonal variation in the demand for phytos is still present, with a peak in November and a slightly lower peak in March/April (Figure 4).
ref: 2001, Wisconsin. Agricultural Resource Management Division, Annual Reports, page 113:
glosses: A phytosanitary certificate.
Gibran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jubran.
glosses: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Kahlil Gibran.
Derived terms: Gibranian
Gibranism
Podolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Podolian
form: most Podolian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Podolia.
Podolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Podolians
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Podolia.
Podolians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Podolian
special saloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːn
Forms: form: special saloons
Senses: examples: text: The failure of a new Brush 1,600 h.p. diesel on the down "Fenman" when it was conveying the Queen in a special saloon was an unfortunate piece of bad publicity for B.R.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 135:
text: After the war, the GWR restored its royal train, in reality special saloons provided for its directors and important guests, but the SR had finally discarded its ancient train, employing Pullman-cars where necessary.
ref: 2014, Bill Horsfall, London Midland & Scottish, Author House, page 75:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A special railway carriage reserved for royalty and other dignitaries.
super-villain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-villains
Senses: examples: text: Is Superman responsible for Livewire's change into a super-villain?
ref: 2009, Blake A. Hoena, Livewire!, page 54:
text: To do this, you plan to build the ultimate super-villain.
ref: 2010, Doug Howard, Kevin Prince, Security 2020: Reduce Security Risks This Decade, page 18:
text: It works for a while, but when Spider-Man maneuvers him ouside the hospital room where Harry is recovering from his overdose, some part of the Goblin's brain that's still the loving father surfaces, drives him unconscious, and when next he wakes up, all memory of his being a super-villain is conveniently wiped clean.
ref: 2011, Pierre Comtois, Marvel Comics in the 1970s:
glosses: Alternative form of supervillain.
super-villains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-villain
special saloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of special saloon
Gilded Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gilded Age
Etymology: Coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner as the title of a novel published in 1873.
Senses: examples: text: Here the Gilded Age had found its music published and here the dawning jazz age would break into general consciousness.
ref: 2007, John Ogasapian, N. Lee Orr, Music of the Gilded Age, page 149:
text: Under Spofford's vigorous stewardship and astute guidance over a thirty-two year period from 1865 to 1897 that encompassed most of the Gilded Age, the Library of Congress greatly expanded its services to Congress and to the country.
ref: 2009, Leonard Schlup, Stephen H. Paschen, Librarianship in Gilded Age America, page 4:
text: Professor Reitano reexamines an issue that roiled the political and intellectual waters of the Gilded Age in ways difficult to conceive today.
ref: 2010, Joanne Reitano, Tariff Question in the Gilded Age: The Great Debate Of 1888, page ix:
text: It’s true that Mr. Piketty and his colleagues have added a great deal of historical depth to our knowledge, demonstrating that we really are living in a new Gilded Age. But we’ve known that for a while.
ref: 2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: During the Gilded Age, many observers in the United States worried that the country was becoming increasingly inegalitarian and moving farther and farther away from its original pioneering ideal.
ref: 2017 [2013], Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 506:
text: This New Gilded Age has found an epicenter in Los Angeles, particularly where Bel-Air, Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills converge. Real estate agents call it the Platinum Triangle.
ref: 2017 December 23, Candace Jackson, “Who Wants to Buy the Most Expensive House in America?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Here, America’s wealthiest megabillionaires gather with the CEOs of America’s most powerful companies[…] to develop the social and business connections that allow the top 0.00001% of earners to continue to accumulate a share of our nation’s wealth that already exceeds the famously cartoonish inequality of the Gilded Age of Rockefeller and Carnegie.
ref: 2021 July 12, Hamilton Nolan, “What happens at Sun Valley, the secret gathering of unelected billionaire Kings?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The period of United States history from the end of the Civil War to the end of the 19th century, a time marked by rapid economic expansion, a lack of government regulation, and rampant corruption.
wikipedia: Charles Dudley Warner
Mark Twain
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
Related terms: golden age
Progressive Era
ktitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ktitors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ktetor.
ktetors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ktetor
ktitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ktitor
disgracefuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of disgraceful: more disgraceful
disgracefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of disgraceful: most disgraceful
heptaoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + oxo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with seven oxygen atoms with double bonds.
hexaoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexa- + oxo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with six oxygen atoms with double bonds.
pentaoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penta- + oxo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with five oxygen atoms with double bonds.
tetraoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + oxo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with four oxygen atoms with double bonds.
octaoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octa- + oxo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with eight oxygen atoms with double bonds.
nonaoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nona- + oxo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with nine oxygen atoms with double bonds.
decaoxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deca- + oxo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with ten oxygen atoms with double bonds.
trioxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + oxo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with three oxygen atoms with double bonds.
salonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salonical
form: most salonical
Etymology: From salon + -ical, from the use of salon to refer to an intellectual and social gathering.
Senses: examples: text: If the book was not clever and amusing, we should not refer to these matters, nor to such epithets as “swanking ” and “salonical.”
ref: 1898, James Silk Buckingham, John Sterling, Frederick Denison Maurice, The Athenaeum, page 817:
text: ...in between these ghastly sonatas and things the Orders and Decorations could stand about like animated waxworks and discuss the Housing of the People Act and your bromidical hunting-stuff in the usual salonical way, but of course anybody who was too alientated could creep off into Arcadia, where my dear the commisariat was sausages, vulgar my dear but quite hot, with mash and everything,...
ref: 1929, Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy, M.P., page 119:
text: Beside all that, I know your salonical divinity well enough. A woman everlastingly sole-sitting, not on the shore of old romance, but on the brink of hysterical mania.
ref: 1904, Thomas Pinkerton, Sun beetles: a comedy in nickname land, page 170:
glosses: Intellectually pretentious.
vendor agnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vendor-agnostic.
potato radii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato radius
steam-hauled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Meantime, some trains continue to be steam-hauled between Oslo and the frontier.
ref: 1952 January, “Electrification Progress in Norway”, in RAIL, page 55:
text: From January 2, writes L. J. Jennings, diesel multiple-units took over completely the local service between Leicester, Hinckley, Nuneaton and Birmingham, except for the 3.10 a.m. Nuneaton Trent Valley-Leicester London Road and the 9.18 p.m. in the reverse direction, which remain steam-hauled.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 134–135:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Pulled by a steam locomotive.
raw_tags: of a train
-uide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: methylsilanuide, tetramethylboranuide
glosses: An anion formally derived by adding a hydride ion to a parent hydride.
stopping train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stopping trains
Senses: examples: text: Most of the through Leicester-Birmingham workings are non-stop between Leicester and Hinckley, leaving the intermediate stations to be served by the largely hourly stopping trains between Leicester and Nuneaton.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 135:
text: Another view of Ashchurch station on August 18, 1961, with "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46148 The Manchester Regiment restarting a Worcester-Cheltenham stopping train and a Class 4 2-6-0 at the branch platform on a train from Redditch.
ref: 1962 May, “Ashchurch to lose another branch service”, in Modern Railways, page 299, photo caption:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.
Synonyms: local
stopper
Related terms: stopping service
uncorrosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncorrosive
form: most uncorrosive
Etymology: From un- + corrosive.
Senses: glosses: Not corrosive.
camripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of camrip
camripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of camrip
cross-collateralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-collateralizations
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The situation where the collateral for a loan is also used as collateral for another loan.
Related terms: cross-collateralize
cross-collateralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-collateralization
hair chalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair chalks
Senses: glosses: A substance made from chalk, pigment, and a binding agent, used for temporarily colouring the hair.
hair chalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair chalk
IRHP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IRHPs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of interest rate hedging product.
IRHPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IRHP
one-trick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: one-tricks
form: one-tricking
form: one-tricked
form: one-tricked
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To consistently play a video game using only one of the available characters or skill sets.
one-trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-tricks
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A player who consistently plays a video game using only one of the available characters or skill sets.
one-tricked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of one-trick
one-tricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of one-trick
one-tricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-trick
one-tricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of one-trick
stopping trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stopping train
showguide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showguides
Etymology: From show + guide.
Senses: examples: text: Show visitors use the showguide (with floor-plan and ads) to pre-plan their limited visiting time […]
ref: 1985, Walter S. Kelley, Henry G. Lord, Walter Bradford Guild, Textile World, volume 135, page 57:
text: Not so very long ago, I would have lugged around twenty pounds of brochures and methodically checked off exhibitors in the showguide until my blistered feet forced a halt.
ref: 1988, Steven K. Roberts, Computing Across America, page 326:
text: Several top-line photographers from a range of disciplines will be present - including Bob Carlos Clarke, Rankin, And Earl and Mark Cleghom - and full time-table details are printed in the showguide.
ref: 2000, British Journal of Photography:
glosses: A catalogue of the exhibitors attending a trade fair.
showguides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showguide