cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
thisaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From this + away, or alternatively from this + intrusive -a- + way.
Senses: examples: text: "It was thisaway, mister; yes, sir; listen: I was camped in the ravine, an' all to wunst I seen the flare of the fire an' I run over there; but 'twas too late--the roof had fell in an' the pore feller must 'a' been cooked alive.
ref: 1915, James B. Hendryx, The Promise:
glosses: This way; in this direction.
Related terms: thataway
—
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
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whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
thorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thorn
thorned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thorned
form: most thorned
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: spined
text: A prickly bindweed (the Smilax Sarsaparilla) forms a feature in the near landscape, with its creamy odoriferous blossoms, coral berries, and glossy thorned leaves.
ref: 1914, John Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete:
text: In these we always find that the thorned holly is spoken of as male, and the Ivy as female.
ref: 1863, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863:
text: In its native form the branches of the honey locust are thorned and bear seed pods up to a foot long.
ref: 1990 January 19, James Krohe Jr., “Green Streets”, in Chicago Reader:
synonyms: thorny
antonyms: thornless
;
spineless
coordinate_terms: barbed#Adjective
glosses: Containing thorns.
thundery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈθʌndəri/
Forms: form: more thundery
form: most thundery
Etymology: From thunder + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She stood at the open door, staggering herself with this enigma, on a rainy, thundery evening.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Mrs. Flintwinch Goes on Dreaming”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 254:
text: The only real objection to peacocks, under ordinary conditions, is the discordance of their cries, especially in thundery weather, when they scream in answer to every thunder-clap.
ref: 1920, Arthur H. Savory, Grain and Chaff from an English Manor:
glosses: Of weather: stormy, with thunder and lightning.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of thunder.
glosses: Threatening.
thropple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɒp(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒpəl
Forms: form: thropples
form: throppling
form: throppled
form: throppled
Etymology: See thrapple.
Senses: examples: text: "They throppled t' ane t' other;" took each other by the throat.
ref: 1868, J[ohn] C[hristopher] Atkinson, “Thropple”, in A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical, London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 531:
text: And oft we fratched and fret about, and throppled udder sair, / Upon the whol' the fell hes meade mischief for ivver mair, [...]
ref: 1875 December 9, Miss Powley, “Art. XXXI.—Past and Present among the Northern Fells. No. II.”, in Richard S[aul] Ferguson, editor, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archæological Society, volume II, Kendal, Westmorland: […] T. Wilson, published 1876, →OCLC, page 370:
glosses: Alternative spelling of thrapple.
throughe
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Thus as the people of prudent pollycye, Prynces of the right shal governe; The chirche preye; the juges justefye; And knighthode, manly, and prudently discerne, Til light of trouthe so clerely the lanterne, That rightewysnesse throughe this regyoune, Represse the darknesse of al extorcyoune.
ref: c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483:
text: Wheras young men also with hauntynge of whores (as it is dayly seene) catche the newe leprosie, nowe otherwyse named Jobs agew, and some cal it the scabbes of Naples, throughe
ref: 1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure:
text: It was som shame to a yong "man, to be seene in the open market: and if for businesse, he "passed throughe it, he did it, with a meruelous modestie, and "bashefull facion.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of through.
thumri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumris
Etymology: From Hindi ठुमरी (ṭhumrī).
Senses: glosses: A genre of light classical north Indian music.
examples: text: Subhra Guha's "rendition of the thumri is notable for its rich technique and aesthetic appeal emanating from her immaculate use of bol."
ref: 1992 May 8, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
text: While the three main styles of Hindustani music have common origins and can be played on the some instruments, the dhrupad, which flourished in the 1500s, is less ornamental, more austere and serene than the khayal and the thumri, which evolved about two centuries later; the thumri is the more romantic of those two.
ref: 1994 January 21, Ted Shen, “Lyon Leifer & Nancy Lesh”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Like many dancers, Elokeshi had a fine voice and could sing exquisite thumris […]
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 82:
text: These courtesans sang beautiful tappas and thumris much to the delight of the citizens.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 146
glosses: An individual piece of music in this style.
thur
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.
ref: 2007 November 11, Virginia Heffernan, “High-Def at High Noon”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there.
thur
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else," said he, "but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth."
ref: 1898, Richard Jefferies, The Toilers of the Field:
text: Any-rate, thur wur lots of talk, fur 'twas seed not only in the church, and churchyard, but up at the house."
ref: 1905, Joseph Hocking, Roger Trewinion:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there.
falshoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falshood
scummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scummers
Etymology: From scum + -er.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for taking off scum.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Alternative form of Scummer (“A supporter of Southampton F.C.”)
topics: video-games
glosses: One who engages in scumming.
examples: text: '[…] fucking scummer like him having precedence over me? That's unheard of.'
ref: 2009 October 29, Martina Cole, Hard Girls: An unputdownable serial killer thriller, Headline, →ISBN:
text: "As it was , three years was all I could do without committin' a crime on him." His face showed his disgust. "He was some kind of scummer. I'd see him hangin' round them guns, takin' the tips an' me knowin' I'd not see any of it, an' us strugglin' like we were."
ref: 2013 April 1, Peter Webb, The Quarry, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN:
text: 'You heard me you fucking scummer. Go on, piss off back where you came from!'
ref: 2013 March 27, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow, eBook Partnership, →ISBN:
glosses: A scummy person? One who scums i.e. skims?
scummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I'd be wading in scummer if it wasn't for works like these. Except, of course, that nobody ever bothered to put such tunnels in the Lower City, so I do wade in scummer there.
ref: 2009, Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2, page 498:
text: 'I ain't setting foot in that place, not ever. It smells of scummer.'
ref: 2013, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow:
text: […] they'd moved him to a different prison - one that stank of scummer and blood and despair. He no longer dangled from the wall, but lay on a pile of filthy blankets on the stone floor. His wrists and ankles were still darbied, but the[…]
ref: 2014 November 25, Cinda Williams Chima, The Seven Realms: The Complete Series: Collecting The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne, and The Crimson Crown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
glosses: Excrement, scumber.
scummer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scummers
form: scummering
form: scummered
form: scummered
Senses: glosses: To scumber.
scumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scumbers
Etymology: Perhaps Old French escumbrier (“to disencumber”).
Senses: examples: text: […]having no regard of me, and never looking upon me but as the scumber of the world.
ref: 1848, Steinmetz, Andrew, 1816-1877, History of the Jesuits, →OCLC:
text: A human vulture, God sent thee The world's great scavenger to be. To cleanse it of its scumber;
ref: 1900, Johnstone, Julian E, Songs of Sun and Shadow, →OCLC:
text: […] the Scumber of the Fox, the Spraints of the Otter[…]
ref: 1660, Howell, James., Lexicon Tetraglotton […] :
text: Let’s see, if by your scumber, you are fox!
ref: 1958, Djuna Barnes, The Antiphon:
text: Someone shouts something and he turns and shouts back, ‘Just going for a scumber, all right? Back in a moment.
ref: 2012, Collins, B. R, The Broken Road, →OCLC:
qualifier: dog or fox
glosses: Dung; excrement.
raw_tags: of a person
scumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scumbers
form: scumbering
form: scumbered
form: scumbered
Etymology: Perhaps Old French escumbrier (“to disencumber”).
Senses: examples: text: But he that gaines the glory here Muſt ſcumber furtheſt, ſhite moſt clear.
ref: 1655, Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671, Musarum Deliciae ; and, Wit Restor'd:
text: Beware of fire when you ſcumber, Though to ſh-- [shit] fire were a wonder,
ref: 1656, Choyce Drollery:
text: […]and old Nick turn me into Bumfodder, if this did not make me ſo hide-bound and coſtive; that for four or five Days I hardly ſcumber'd one poor Butt of Sir-reverance and that too was full as dry and hard, I protest
ref: 1784, Rabelais, Francois., translated by M. Le Du Chat et al., The works of Francis Rabelais. Translated from the French […] :
text: He’s not to come in the house, though, Natasha. Other than to scumber, I suppose. / What? / To disencumber. His bowels.
ref: 2009, Cooke, Sophie, Under the Mountain, →OCLC:
glosses: To defecate.
examples: text: Some tyme pei han a siknesse bat pei mowe not pisse and byn ilost therbi, and also whan pei mowe not scombire
ref: c. 1410, The Master of Game:
english: Sometimes the hounds have a great sickness that they may not piss, and be lost thereby and also when they may not scumber.
translation: Sometimes the hounds have a great sickness that they may not piss, and be lost thereby and also when they may not scumber.
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text: a brace of gray-houndes When they are ledd out of their kennels to ſcumber
ref: 1630, Massinger, Philip, The Picture a Tragae Comaedie […] :
text: But that their beds were heav'd on high ; They thought some dog under did lie, And meant i' th' chamber (fie, fie, fie,) To scumber.
ref: 1832, Scott, Walter, Woodstock; or, The Cavalier, →OCLC:
glosses: To defecate.
of a dog or fox
nongeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + geographic.
Senses: glosses: Not geographic.
nongeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Not geographical.
have one's wicked way with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's wicked way with
form: having one's wicked way with
form: had one's wicked way with
form: had one's wicked way with
Senses: glosses: Synonym of have one's way with (“have sexual intercourse with”).
synonyms: word: have one's way with
extra: have sexual intercourse with
spill ink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spills ink
form: spilling ink
form: spilled ink
form: spilled ink
form: spilt ink
form: spilt ink
Senses: examples: text: Of all the problems which lie on the borderline of philosophy and science, perhaps none has caused more spilled ink, more controversy, and more emotion than "the problem of the direction of time.
ref: 1974, J Earman, “An Attempt to Add a Little Direction to "The Problem of the Direction of Time"”, in Philosophy of Science:
text: While democratic forces remain active throughout the African continent, scholars continue to spill ink debating the promises and pitfalls of African democratic transitions.
ref: 1999, Bamidele A. Ojo, Contemporary African politics, page 1:
glosses: To write, especially professionally.
noninsurrectionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + insurrectionary.
Senses: glosses: Not insurrectionary.
prowhaling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prowhaling
form: most prowhaling
form: pro-whaling
Etymology: From pro- + whaling.
Senses: glosses: Supporting or in favour of whaling.
World Expositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of World Exposition
alferes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ælˈfɛɹɪs/
Forms: form: alferes
Etymology: From Portuguese alferes, Spanish alférez, from Arabic الفَارِس (al-fāris, “the knight”), influenced in meaning by Latin aquilifer (“standard-bearer”).
Senses: examples: text: Is not this my Alferes? he looks another thing
ref: 1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, “Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: An ensign; a standard-bearer.
flying mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying mouse
quiddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quiddle
quiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quiddle
quiddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quiddle
vanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vanlike
form: most vanlike
Etymology: From van + -like.
Senses: examples: text: At the Hanover trade fair in April, the company rolled out a vanlike taxi intended for Milan based on the company’s future Up line of vehicles.
ref: 2010 December 16, Phil Patton, “VW’s Take on the London Taxi”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a van (vehicle).
toasterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toasterlike
form: most toasterlike
Etymology: From toaster + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a toaster.
OOC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more OOC
form: most OOC
Senses: examples: text: Even then, some of the characters were pretty OOC (though I suppose that could be explained by the "magical effect" of the onions).
ref: 2000 February 25, azirok [username], “Re: [Ranma][FanFic] Kuno Finds Out?”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet):
text: It'd be OOC if Vejita^([sic]) weeped^([sic]) upon seeing Goku die at the hands of a big cricket thing. Because he saw it in the series and it didn't really bug him.
ref: 2001 January 15, Talen [username], “Re: Funimation to aquire^([sic]) Yu Yu Hakusho....”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet):
text: A lot of them seem to either almost completely remove Harry and co. from the fic and have the new characters doing all the wonderful things that Harry was supposed to do, or they have the characters acting completely OOC.
ref: 2002 June 26, PriestesMiaka [username], “Re: Best Crossover fanfics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: OC
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Initialism of out of character.
glosses: Initialism of out of contract.
glosses: Initialism of out of context.
OOC
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of out of curiosity.
trebucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trebuckets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trebuchet.
trebuckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trebucket
limbric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of cotton cloth with a fine warp and a soft, lustrous weft.
classicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From classical + -ization.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the treatment of a quantum system in terms of classical statistical mechanics
Related terms: classicalize
classicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: classicalizes
form: classicalizing
form: classicalized
form: classicalized
Etymology: From classical + -ize.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: to treat a quantum system in terms of classical statistical mechanics
Related terms: classicalization
cotunnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotunnites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of lead chloride (PbCl₂) formed by alteration of galena.
Derived terms: anticotunnite
pseudocotunnite
cuproscheelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cupro- + scheelite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral (CuWO₄) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
fractalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fractalization.
magnetofrictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + frictional.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the frictional effect of a magnetic field
magnetothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + thermal.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a heating effect of a magnetic field, or the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a material
marokite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark brown mineral, a mixed oxide of calcium and manganese, found in hydrothermal deposits
mesoscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mesoscopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a mesoscopic manner, or on a mesoscopic scale
mistuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistune
mistuned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistuned
form: most mistuned
Senses: glosses: Incorrectly tuned
mistuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistune
mistuning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistunings
Senses: glosses: An incorrect tuning
nanochannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanochannels
Etymology: From nano- + channel.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale channel
nanochannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanochannel
cuntasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuntass
nonstoichiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stoichiometric.
Senses: glosses: Not stoichiometric.
orthovanadates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthovanadate
paranematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paranematic
form: most paranematic
Etymology: From para- + nematic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the production of nematic order in a liquid crystal under the influence of an applied magnetic field
phosphoproteomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phospho- + proteomics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The proteomics of phosphoproteins.
phosphosites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphosite
phosphosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphosites
Etymology: From phospho- + site.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A site (on a protein etc) responsible for, or associated with, phosphorylation
psychoemotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychoemotional
form: most psychoemotional
form: psycho-emotional
Etymology: From psycho- + emotional.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Describing any psychological interaction with the emotions
residuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being residual
simulatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simulatable
form: most simulatable
Etymology: From simulate + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be simulated
superbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbeams
Etymology: From super- + beam.
Senses: examples: text: Superbeams are thus a technological extrapolation of conventional beams, with a proton beam intensity close to the mechanical stability limit of the target at a typical thermal power of 0.7 MW to MW.
ref: 2003, Vitaly Kudryavtsev, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter: York, UK, 2-6 September 2002, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 597:
text: This would be the first example of "superbeam", that is an LBL accelerator experiment that will use v beams of very high intensities, never reached before.
ref: 2010, Andrea Gaddi, Claude Leroy, Larry Price, Michele Barone, Pier-giorgio Rancoita, Randal C Ruchti, Astroparticle, Particle And Space Physics, Detectors And Medical Physics Applications - Proceedings Of The 11th Conference On Icatpp-11, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 422:
text: Alternatively, having detectors at two different on-axis distances from the same superbeam can provide multiple measurements that help to remove parameter degeneracies.
ref: 2012, Vernon Barger, Danny Marfatia, Kerry Whisnant, The Physics of Neutrinos, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: A very large or powerful beam (in any sense).
tomographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tomographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of tomography.
prospections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prospection
Millean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Millean
form: most Millean
form: Millian
Etymology: From Mill + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the philosophy of John Stuart Mill.
rabatte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rabattes
form: rabatting
form: rabatted
form: rabatted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rabat (“to rotate a plane of projection”).
rabattes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rabatte
adipokinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adipokinin
adipokinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adipokinins
Etymology: Blend of adipose + kinin
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hormone, from the anterior pituitary, that aids the mobilization of fat stored in adipose tissue
antiallergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiallergic
form: most antiallergic
Etymology: From anti- + allergic.
Senses: glosses: That prevents, or relieves an allergy
antiallergic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiallergics
Etymology: From anti- + allergic.
Senses: glosses: Any drug of this kind.
antihyperglycemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihyperglycemic
antilithiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilithiatic
form: most antilithiatic
Etymology: From anti- + lithiatic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That prevents the formation of, or relieves the symptoms of kidney stones
antinutrient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinutrients
Etymology: From anti- + nutrient.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that interferes with the absorption or metabolism of a nutrient
Hyponyms: oxalate
antinutritional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinutritional
form: most antinutritional
Etymology: From anti- + nutritional.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an antinutrient
antioxygenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antioxygenic
form: most antioxygenic
Etymology: From anti- + oxygenic.
Senses: glosses: antioxidant
antipathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipathogenic
form: most antipathogenic
form: anti-pathogenic
Etymology: From anti- + pathogenic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That acts against pathogens
arabinofuranosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinofuranosidases
Etymology: From arabinofuranoside + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an arabinofuranoside
biofertilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofertilizer
biofertilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofertilizers
Etymology: From bio- + fertilizer.
Senses: glosses: Any fertilizer of biological origin
cadinene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadinenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of isomeric sesquiterpenes found in juniper essential oil.
Related terms: cadinenyl
carveol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carveols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpenoid alcohol found in spearmint oil.
Derived terms: dihydrocarveol
chitinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitinases
Etymology: From chitin + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
Derived terms: endochitinase
exochitinase
prochitinase
cholestatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cholestatic
form: most cholestatic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or producing cholestasis.
Derived terms: anticholestatic
noncholestatic
procholestatic
cholestasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəʊ.lɪˈsteɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌkəʊ.ləˈsteɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌkoʊ.ləˈsteɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌkəʉ.ləˈstæɪ.sɪs/
Forms: form: cholestases
Etymology: From chole- + -stasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The suppression of the flow of bile caused by an obstruction associated with the liver.
Related terms: cholestatic
cineol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cineols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: eucalyptol
colocynthis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of colocynth.
balconette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balconettes
Etymology: From French balconnet.
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: Juliet balcony
glosses: A false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and resembling a balcony when the window is open.
examples: text: The figure in the balconette appears of the same height, that it would do if standing upon the pavement immediately under the balconette, and its proportion is determined from that point upon the pavement.
ref: 1809, George John Wood, Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Perspective, page 60:
glosses: A small balcony.
glosses: Synonym of balcony bra.
synonyms: word: balcony bra
Derived terms: balconette bra
balconette bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balconette bras
Senses: examples: text: Just say no to exposed bra straps unless you are in your boudoir in French knickers and a matching balconette-bra ensemble.
ref: 2005 July 31, Jo Adams, “Dressing for the heat”, in The Observer:
glosses: Synonym of balcony bra.
synonyms: word: balcony bra
misser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missers
Etymology: From miss + -er.
Senses: examples: a misser of the mark
glosses: One who misses.
missers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misser
foyerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foyerlike
form: most foyerlike
Etymology: From foyer + -like.
Senses: examples: text: They passed through a small foyerlike room in which there were several coat trees and an old grandfather clock.
ref: 1968, H. R. Kaye, The Dark Mansion, page 23:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a foyer.
airportlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more airportlike
form: most airportlike
Etymology: From airport + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an airport.
airportless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From airport + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There were, at that time, two theories (never quite substantiated) as to why Ibiza was airportless.
ref: 2001, Roger Bray, Vladimir Raitz, Flight to the sun: the story of the holiday revolution:
glosses: Without an airport.
Related terms: portless
topsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topsites
Etymology: From top + site.
Senses: examples: text: Topsites demand that all of the groups affiliated with them pre-release directly to their site.
ref: 2005, Paul Craig, Ron Honick, Mark Burnett, Software piracy exposed:
text: Some topsites are run by specific groups...
ref: 2009, Nathan W. Fisk, Understanding Online Piracy: The Truth About Illegal File Sharing:
glosses: A high-speed FTP server used to store and distribute warez.
topsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topsite
Millian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Millian
form: most Millian
Etymology: From Mill + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the philosophy of John Stuart Mill.
Synonyms: Millean
Derived terms: Millianism
Millian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Millians
Etymology: From Mill + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Millite
glosses: A follower of John Stuart Mill's philosophy.
coregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coregulations
Etymology: From co- + regulation.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous regulation of two systems by the same means, or of one system by multiple regulators.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Mutual regulation.
cucurbitacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucurbitacins
Etymology: Cucurbita + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of bitter steroids, found in plants of the family Cucurbitaceae, that prevent them being eaten by herbivores.
cyanmethemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A relatively non-toxic cyanide derivative of methemoglobin formed when amyl nitrite and sodium nitrite are used as antidotes to cyanide poisoning
polyedric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyedric
form: most polyedric
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of polyhedric.
Synonyms: polyhedral
many-sided
deoxycytidylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxycytidylates
Etymology: From deoxycytidyl + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of deoxycytidine.
endotoxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + toxicology.
Senses: glosses: The toxicology of endotoxins
erythrocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythrocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to erythrocytes.
Derived terms: endoerythrocytic
exoerythrocytic
extraerythrocytic
intraerythrocytic
nonerythrocytic
preerythrocytic
ethoxyethanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monoethyl ether of ethylene glycol, widely used as an industrial solvent
monoethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + ethyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A single ethyl group in a molecule
flavanones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavanone
flavanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavanones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of flavonoid ketones, many of which occur in nature as glycosides
Derived terms: flavanonol
heteroflavanone
hydroxyflavanone
macarangaflavanone
prenylflavanone
succedaneaflavanone
head office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head offices
Senses: glosses: The main administrative centre for a company or organisation.
flavinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavinoid
flavinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavinoids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flavonoid.
synonyms: word: flavonoid
Related terms: flavin
home video
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home videos
Senses: glosses: A televisual recording made privately for domestic use, rather than commercially or professionally
glosses: A film released on video without a previous cinema release.
Synonyms: homevid
in-fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-fills
form: infill
Etymology: From in + fill.
Senses: glosses: Any material used to occupy a void or hiatus
day in the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: days in the sun
Senses: examples: text: The American Party enjoyed a brief day in the sun: in 1854 proponents elected seventy-five members of the House of Representatives and in Massachusetts garnered 376 of 378 seats in the state legislature.
ref: 1992, Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, page 210:
synonyms: time in the sun
glosses: A time of glory or ascendancy.
Related terms: 15 minutes of fame
finest hour
heyday
moment in the sun
moment of glory
place in the sun
synopsize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: synopsizes
form: synopsizing
form: synopsized
form: synopsized
Etymology: From synopsis + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: But into that tangle, just as crucial, went the smell of the cover, the color and cream resistance of the pages, the week in which I read any given epic, the friends for whom I synopsized, the bed, the lamp, the room where I read.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 247:
glosses: To give a synopsis (summary) of.
Synonyms: recapitulate
summarize
synopsizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synopsize
synopsizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synopsize
synopsized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synopsize
jury is out
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the jury is out
form: the jury is still out
Senses: examples: text: The jury is out as to whether there is life anywhere else in the universe.
glosses: An outcome or decision is still unknown and awaited.
Related terms: hung jury
tripus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trīʹpəs
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪpəs/
Forms: form: tripodes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin tripūs, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); doublet of tripod and teapoy. In the sense associated with Cambridge University, the Tripus is named after the three-legged stool on which he sat during the degree-awarding ceremony.
Senses: qualifier: capitalised when used as a title
glosses: A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prevaricator.
raw_tags: in the history of Cambridge University
glosses: A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.
raw_tags: in cypriniform fishes
Synonyms: word: bachelor of the stool
word: prevaricator
english: equivalent at Oxford University
translation: equivalent at Oxford University
word: terrae filius
word: tripos
sense: three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities
word: tripod
sense: bone in fishes
word: malleus
sense: bone in fishes
word: malleus Weberi
tripodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭʹpədēz
ipa: /ˈtɹɪpədiːz/
Etymology: From the Latin tripodēs (nominative plural form of tripūs), from the Ancient Greek τρίποδες (trípodes) (nominative plural form of τρίπους (trípous)); compare tripus.
Senses: examples: text: THE Poet here ſeems to have regarded two or three Paſſages in the 18th Iliad, as that in particular, where, ſpeaking of Vulcan, Homer ſays, that he had made twenty Tripodes, running on Golden Wheels; which, upon occaſion, might go of themſelves to the Aſſembly of the Gods, and, when there was no more Uſe for them, return again after the ſame manner.
ref: 1712: Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele [eds.], The Spectator, volume 5, page 28: № 327 (Saturday, March 15): Joseph Addison, “Criticism on Paradise Lost” (1729 publication)
text: The restriction was deliberate, for the Senate attach[ed] great importance to high distinction in the classes and tripodes of Oxford and Cambridge, from its known influence on the minds of students, and the character which it would impart to out Institution in its period of greatest trial.
ref: 1963, The Australian University, volumes 1-2, page 193:
text: Expansion of the swimbladder will be accompanied by forward movement of the free edges of the thin areas, and so by forward rotation of the tripodes. When the swimbladder contracts, the tripodes will be rotated backwards by the elastic action of ligament 2.
ref: 1964, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, volume 142, Longmans, Greens, page 431:
text: Not only was a new race of lecturing and researching professors inaugurated, and new honours courses, such as the Moral Sciences, Natural Sciences, Theological, and Historical Tripodes at Cambridge and the serious study of mathematics and science at Oxford, introduced, but a new type of college tutor arose, typified by Oscar Browning at Cambridge and Benjamin Jowett at Oxford, dedicated to preparing their students by strenuous intellectual training not merely for scholarship but for devoted service to society outside the university.
ref: 1969: Harold James Perkin, Key Profession: The History of the Association of University Teachers, page 22 (A. M. Kelley)
glosses: plural of tripus
fumonisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumonisins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of neurotoxic, pneumotoxic and hepatotoxic mycotoxins derived from fungi of the genus Fusarium.
fungistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fungistatic
form: most fungistatic
Etymology: International scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from fungi- + -static = fungistasis + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: mycostatic#Adjective
hypernyms: fungitoxic
microbiostatic#Adjective
coordinate_terms: fungicidal
mycocidal
;
bacteriostatic#Adjective
glosses: That inhibits the growth and reproduction of fungi but does not kill off their population.
Derived terms: nonfungistatic
Related terms: fungistasis
fungistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungistatics
Etymology: International scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from fungi- + -static = fungistasis + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: mycostatic#Noun
hypernyms: microbiostatic#Noun
coordinate_terms: fungicide
mycocide
bacteriostatic#Noun
glosses: An agent (drug or other substance) that is fungistatic.
gastroduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + duodenal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the stomach and the duodenum
Derived terms: esophagogastroduodenal
gastroduodenal artery
orogastroduodenal
germacrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germacrenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of sesquiterpenes that act as insect pheromones
Related terms: germacrane
germacratriene
place in the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: places in the sun
Etymology: Possibly a calque of French place au soleil.
Senses: examples: text: that all conscious or seeming-conscious life is worthy of a place in the sun; that the hodman at his plough, the daisy in the field, and the lover with his lass, are alike a part of Nature's pageant
ref: 1908, Laurie Magnus, English literature in the nineteenth century: an essay in criticism, page 32:
text: And beyond the Christian orbit, other religious groups, at first Jews but then others as well, began to claim a place in the sun.
ref: 1992, Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, page 311:
glosses: A favorable position, characterized by comfort, success, wealth or general well-being.
examples: text: Jealousy is simply another way of demanding one's place in the sun – or under the domestic spotlight – a place in the center of the stage, as an exclusive object of consideration and attention.
ref: 1972, Ben Barr Lindsey with Wainwright Evans, The companionate marriage, page 72:
text: And I'm just waiting now, for my place in the sun / And I'm just waiting now, for peace to come
ref: 2019, “Hollywood”, in Ghosteen, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
glosses: Fame or recognition.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see place, sun.
Related terms: made in the shade
moment in the sun
glutamyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlu.tə.mɪl/
Forms: form: glutamyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from glutamic acid.
Derived terms: glutamylase
glutamylation
glutamylcysteine
glutamyltransferase
glutamyltranspeptidase
polyglutamyl
polyglutamylase
pyroglutamyl
break-building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakbuilding
form: break building
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: The act or skill of scoring points by making an uninterrupted series of pots.
Related terms: break-builder
break-build
haemodialysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haemodialyse
haemodialysed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to, or treated by haemodialysis
haemostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haemostatic
form: most haemostatic
form: hemostatic
Etymology: From haemo- + -static.
Senses: glosses: That promotes haemostasis
Derived terms: antihaemostatic
haemostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemostatics
form: hemostatic
Etymology: From haemo- + -static.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemostatic.
hematobiochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haematobiochemical
form: haemato-biochemical
form: hemato-biochemical
Etymology: From hemato- + biochemical.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the biochemistry of blood
hemotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemotoxicity
Etymology: From hemo- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: toxicity that affects the blood (especially that affects red blood cells)
Related terms: hemotoxic
heterodisaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterodisaccharide
heterodisaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterodisaccharides
Etymology: From hetero- + disaccharide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any disaccharide composed of two different monosaccharides
homolysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homolysates
Etymology: From homo- + lysate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lysate produced by homolysis
hydroxytoluene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxytoluenes
Etymology: From hydroxy- + toluene.
Senses: examples: text: The Food and Drug Administration earlier this year seized a common food preservative, butylated hydroxytoluene, known simply as BHT, from Life Extension Products in Dania and Hollywood, Fla., after the product had been advertised as a treatment for herpes and AIDS, an agency spokesman said. The agency said the claims had not been proved in scientific tests.
ref: 1987 August 30, Katherine Bishop, “Authorities Act Against AIDS 'Cures'”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cresol
Derived terms: butylated hydroxytoluene
butylhydroxytoluene
jungleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jungle + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Careful exploration may disclose the existence of an elevated jungleless plateau, or the rolling foot-hills of some undiscovered ridge […]
ref: 1940, Frank W. Kravigny, The jungle route:
glosses: Devoid of jungle.
unlanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lanced.
Senses: glosses: Not having been lanced.
nonfamiliarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + familiarity.
Senses: glosses: Lack of familiarity.