cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gladly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlædli/
rhymes: -ædli
Forms: form: gladlier
form: more gladly
form: gladliest
form: most gladly
Etymology: From Middle English gladly, gladliche, from Old English glædlīċe (“gladly”); equivalent to glad + -ly. Compare Danish glædelig (“joyful”), Icelandic gleðilegur (“delightful”). More at glad, -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: 'Find me a job and I'll gladly go to work.'
ref: 1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 4, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 44:
synonyms: word: cheerfully
word: gaily
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: In a glad manner; happily.
examples: text: Would you like a beer? ― Gladly, thank you.
glosses: Willingly; certainly.
Derived terms: suffer fools gladly
chances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃænsɪz/
ipa: /ˈtʃɑːnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of chance
chances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃænsɪz/
ipa: /ˈtʃɑːnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chance
parting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɑːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Forms: form: partings
Etymology: By surface analysis, part + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of parting or dividing; division; separation.
examples: text: The parting of the way.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 21:21:
text: Bridge End is the border station and the scene of many a sad parting between enterprising shoppers and their purchases—for it is a stronghold of the Customs !—and half an hour is allowed in the timetable for examination and shunting.
ref: 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:
glosses: The state of being parted.
examples: text: And there were sudden partings,such as press / The life from out young hearts.
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XXIV:
text: But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A farewell, the act of departing politely.
examples: text: Margaret Thatcher’s 80s power suits were scrutinised; David Cameron’s switching of his parting was national news (Cameron later nominated his barber for an MBE); and eyebrows were raised at Theresa May’s favourite and incongruous Frida Kahlo bracelet.
ref: 2019 September 13, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Canvas of lies: what Dominic Cummings' dress sense tells us about Brexit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: part
glosses: The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
qualifier: founding
glosses: The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
Derived terms: centre parting
parting-cup
parting gift
parting of the ways
parting phrase
parting sand
water parting
parting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɑːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, part + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Prosser's parting words sum up his views on what the ORR [Office of Rail and Road] really means to the industry,. For him, ORR is not simply a regulator, and HMRI's [His/Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate's] purpose is not just about safety...
ref: 2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 37:
glosses: present participle and gerund of part
Derived terms: biparting
parting shot
parting tool
flushed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌʃt/
rhymes: -ʌʃt
Forms: form: more flushed
form: most flushed
Senses: examples: text: Archer lay spread out, with one arm striking across the pillow. He was flushed; and when the heavy curtain blew out a little he turned and half-opened his eyes.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:
glosses: Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
Synonyms: blushing
red
reddened
red-faced
Coordinate terms: plethoric
ruddy
Derived terms: nonflushed
unflushed
flushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌʃt/
rhymes: -ʌʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flush
plunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ʌndʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plunge
folded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fōldʹĭd
ipa: /ˈfoʊldɪd/
ipa: /ˈfəʊldɪd/
Derived terms: backfolded
downfolded
folded mountain
foldedness
folded optics
folded-up
folded up
hyperfolded
malfolded
microfolded
superfolded
folded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fōldʹĭd
ipa: /ˈfoʊldɪd/
ipa: /ˈfəʊldɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fold
dined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dine
columns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏlʹəmz
ipa: /ˈkɑləmz/
ipa: /ˈkɒləmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of column
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: pattern which involves throwing props in the air alternately.
Related terms: cascade
fountain
flash
contented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of content
contented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛntɪd/
Forms: form: more contented
form: most contented
Senses: examples: text: I pray you huſband be not ſo diſquiet. / The meate was well, if you were ſo contented.
ref: c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act III (now act IV, scene i), page 222:
text: "I shall now die contented," [Boswell] breathed, "since I have lived to see the present day."
ref: 1795 James Boswell, as quoted in, 2010, Doug Stewart, the Boy Who Would be Shakespeare, excerpted as "To Be... or Not", Smithsonian, ISSN 0037-7333, volume 4, number 3, June 2010, page 72
text: Bitch aren't you contented into using a rose toy 24/7 non stop and letting random people suck ung ur Vagina my gosh you even told them your Vagina had braces
ref: 2024, hanaz._.hynjineie, Instagram:
glosses: Satisfied.
Derived terms: a contented mind is a perpetual feast
contentedly
contentedness
discontented
overcontented
uncontented
wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞ondz
ipa: /wuːndz/
rhymes: -uːndz
Senses: glosses: plural of wound
wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞ondz
ipa: /wuːndz/
rhymes: -uːndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wound
doubts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊts/
rhymes: -aʊts
Senses: glosses: plural of doubt
doubts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊts/
rhymes: -aʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doubt
clasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæspt/
ipa: /klɑːspt/
rhymes: -æspt
rhymes: -ɑːspt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clasp
Derived terms: unclasped
calmly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/
Forms: form: more calmly
form: most calmly
Etymology: From calm + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84:
glosses: In a calm manner; coolly.
dashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: past participle of dash
dashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Forms: form: more dashed
form: most dashed
Senses: glosses: Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
raw_tags: of a line
examples: text: It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.
text: I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.
ref: 1824 May 15, “Kiddywinkle History, No. II”, in Blackwood's Magazine, page 540:
text: I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.
ref: 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in Uncle Fred in the Springtime:
glosses: Damned.
Synonyms: sense: line
word: broken
sense: damned
word: darned
Derived terms: dashedly
undashed
Related terms: dash-dotted
dotted
drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drŏps
ipa: /dɹɑps/
ipa: [dɹɑps]
ipa: [d͡ʒɹɑps]
enpr: drŏps
ipa: /dɹɒps/
rhymes: -ɒps
Senses: glosses: plural of drop
drops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drŏps
ipa: /dɹɑps/
ipa: [dɹɑps]
ipa: [d͡ʒɹɑps]
enpr: drŏps
ipa: /dɹɒps/
rhymes: -ɒps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop
faded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪdɪd/
Forms: form: more faded
form: most faded
Senses: examples: text: a faded tablecloth
text: The stop line had a faded appearance but remained visible.
ref: 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
glosses: That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.
examples: text: a faded rock star of the 1970s
text: Some clients adjust their instructions as faded memories come into focus. Mr. Li recalled one prospective client who spent most of an hourlong phone call crying as she reminisced about her old home.
ref: 2023 August 19, Vivian Wang, “In China, Artists Create Miniature Homes From Memories”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2023:
glosses: That has lost some of its former strength or vigour.
examples: text: As I'm walking through the festival entrance, a man casually vomits before continuing on, unfazed. ¶ Twenty-year-old me thinks, "Dope. That guy knows how to get faded like a champ!" ¶ Thirty-year-old me thinks, "I'm concerned for the boy's health and the general sanitation of this festival. Where are the comment cards located?!"
ref: 2015 June 10, Farley Katz, “Music Festivals in Your Thirties”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2017:
synonyms: word: baked
word: blazed
word: blitzed
word: chemically impaired
word: chopped
word: cut
word: drugged
word: drugged-out
word: fuckered up
word: fried
word: gassed
word: geeked
word: high
word: high as a kite
word: hepped up
word: hopped up
word: monged
word: munted
word: trolleyed
word: toasted
word: lifted
word: lit
word: off one's box
word: out of one's box
word: reefed
word: spaced-out
word: stoned
word: up there
word: wasted
word: whacked
word: zooted
word: zorched
glosses: High on drugs; stoned.
Derived terms: fadedly
fadedness
unfaded
faded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fade
nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɝvz/
ipa: /nɜːvz/
ipa: /nɜɪvz/
ipa: /nɛɾvz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vz
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve
nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɝvz/
ipa: /nɜːvz/
ipa: /nɜɪvz/
ipa: /nɛɾvz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nerve
obeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈbeɪd/
ipa: /oʊˈbeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obey
rushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rush
rushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪŋ
Forms: form: rushings
Senses: examples: text: […] the impediment to the entrance of air into the corresponding portions of the lung is sufficient to produce a succession of interrupted rushings of that fluid during the efforts of respiration […]
ref: 1841, Alexander Tweedie, William Wood Gerhard, A system of practical medicine:
glosses: A rapid surging motion.
rushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more rushing
form: most rushing
Senses: glosses: Rapidly flowing or surging.
examples: text: “I have been in Chicago.”
“Yes, I’ll bet you have,” Bocage mused.
“But it is too rushing for my nerves,” Stockbridge continued.
ref: 1897, Opie Read, “The Greek God Barber”, in Odd Folks, New York: F. Tennyson Neely, page 45:
text: There are a few months in the winter when business on the farm is less rushing than during other times […]
ref: 1917, Marion G. Kirkpatrick, chapter 13, in The Rural School from Within, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, page 141:
text: In the places where “hard licker” was still to be had patrons were lined in front of the bar in a double rank and the trade in bottled goods was as rushing as the bar patronage.
ref: 1921, George Wesley Davis, chapter 18, in Sketches of Butte, Boston: Cornhill, page 166:
text: Over two hundred and fifty customers invaded the Book Exchange Monday and Tuesday as its portals swung open to those who were to receive cash payment for books sold. So rushing was the business yesterday that $500 which the executive had on hand was paid out long before the proposed closing time.
ref: 1932 October 26, “Book Exchange Will Continue Payments”, in The McGill Daily, volume 22, number 19, page 4:
text: Janie was astonished to see the money Jody had spent for the land come back to him so fast. Ten new families bought lots and moved to town in six weeks. It all looked too big and rushing for her to keep track of.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 66:
glosses: Full of activity, busy.
commands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmændz/
ipa: /kəˈmɑːndz/
Senses: glosses: plural of command
commands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmændz/
ipa: /kəˈmɑːndz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of command
something awful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He wants to get out of there something awful, but he just doesn't have the money.
qualifier: degree
glosses: Intensely or extremely; badly; in the worst way.
Related terms: something bad
something fierce
something good
something terrible
steamer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːmə/
ipa: /ˈstimɚ/
rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: steamers
form: steamering
form: steamered
form: steamered
Etymology: From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly.
Senses: glosses: To travel by steamer.
steamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːmə/
ipa: /ˈstimɚ/
rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: steamers
Etymology: From steam tug, rhyming slang for mug (“a gullible or easily cheated person; a stupid or contemptible person”).
Senses: glosses: A mug.
A gullible or easily cheated person.
glosses: A mug.
A stupid or contemptible person.
glosses: A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
glosses: A prostitute's client.
glosses: a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
Synonyms: sense: homosexual man
word: male homosexual
sense: prostitute's client
word: prostitute's client
disagreeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹiː.əbəl/
ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹɪbəl/
ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹi.əbəl/
Forms: form: more disagreeable
form: most disagreeable
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English disagreable, from Middle French desagreable, from Old French desagraable (compare French désagréable). By surface analysis, dis- + agreeable.
Senses: examples: text: disagreeable weather
text: disagreeable person
text: disagreeable attitude
text: disagreeable taste
text: That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree.
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:
glosses: Causing repugnance; unpleasant to the feelings or senses; displeasing.
examples: text: The first author I shall cite is Justin Martyr, who is not only silent about infant-baptism, as are all the fathers before him, but says what is inconsistent with it; for the reason he assigns, as what he had received from the apostles themselves, why baptism was instituted, is altogether incompatible and disagreeable thereunto.
ref: 1738, Grantham Killingworth, A Supplement to the Sermons Lately Preached at Salters-Hall Against Popery, page 54:
text: Now to say, that justice is opposed to forgiveness, when by forgiveness we mean the entire cure of sin and misery; is to say that justice chooses that to remain forever, which is perfectly disagreeable to itself.
ref: 1824, Gospel Advocate - Volume 1, page 140:
text: We cannot but judge it disagreeable with the spirit and principles of the gospel, and an encroachment upon the divine prerogative and the undoubted rights of mankind, to punish any for their conscientious and peaceable dissent from the established way of religion, while they are not justly chargeable with any immorality, or what is plainly destructive of civil society.
ref: 1871, Isaac Backus, A History of New England with Particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians Called Baptists, page 466:
text: and that this Nation that is invested in a Law particular and municipal, which doth in no wise so much as challenge or claim any derivation from, or dependency of the Civil Law, but is altogether different and disagreeable thereunto in its proceedings, and oftentimes in its determinations, and hath no foundation or grounds whereon the decisions of Sea controversies can be built, should without the knowledge and practise of these Civil and Maritime Laws deal and trade with such as do live under them, and are guided by them?
ref: a. 1668, John Exton, The Maritime Dicaeologie, Or, Sea-jurisdiction of England, page 55:
glosses: Not suitable; that does not conform or fit.
Derived terms: disagreeableness
disagreeably
undisagreeable
disagreeable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹiː.əbəl/
ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹɪbəl/
ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹi.əbəl/
Forms: form: disagreeables
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English disagreable, from Middle French desagreable, from Old French desagraable (compare French désagréable). By surface analysis, dis- + agreeable.
Senses: examples: text: The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
ref: 1855, Blackwood's magazine, volume 77, page 331:
glosses: Something or someone displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
exercised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sə.saɪzd/
Etymology: From exercise + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exercise
exercised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sə.saɪzd/
Forms: form: more exercised
form: most exercised
Etymology: From exercise + -ed.
Senses: glosses: The property of having been exercised, used, acted upon.
examples: text: Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang.
ref: 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘We Frolic while ’Tis May’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Experienced, practiced, trained.
Derived terms: nonexercised
underexercised
unexercised
recollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: recollections
form: re-collection
Etymology: Via French récollection or the verb recollect, both from Latin recollectus, the past participle of recolligere (“to collect again”), itself from re- + colligere (“to gather”).
Senses: synonyms: reminiscence
remembrance
glosses: The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.
examples: text: Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
glosses: The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance.
examples: text: One of his earliest recollections.
glosses: That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.
examples: text: From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.
text: In a world filled with media and electronic devices, recollection can be difficult.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.
Synonyms: word: reminiscence
word: remembrance
word: memory
word: mind
word: recall
word: recollection
Derived terms: recollective
Related terms: recollect
recollected
recollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
ipa: /ɹiˌkəˈlɛkʃən/
ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: recollections
form: re-collection
Etymology: From re- + collection.
Senses: glosses: Process of collecting again.
Synonyms: word: memory
word: mind
word: recall
word: recollection
word: remembrance
word: reminiscence
traces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of trace
glosses: minute remnants
traces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trace
consented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consent
consented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛntɪd/
Senses: antonyms: unconsented
glosses: To which consent has been given; agreed to.
indemnify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/
Forms: form: indemnifies
form: indemnifying
form: indemnified
form: indemnified
Etymology: From indemn (“unhurt”) + -ify (forming verbs)
Senses: examples: text: The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
ref: 1670, Sir William Temple, letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple, page 101
glosses: To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
examples: text: The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.
ref: 1906, Civil Code of the State of California, page 405:
topics: law
glosses: To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.
Derived terms: indemnifiable
indemnification
indemnifier
unindemnified
Related terms: indemnity
endamnify
indemnify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/
Forms: form: indemnifies
form: indemnifying
form: indemnified
form: indemnified
Etymology: From in- (“into”) + damnify (“to injure; to wrong”), assimilated to indemn and indemnify (“secure against loss; compensate, reimburse”).
Senses: examples: 1583, Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries, i. 63a
He... did not belieue that his Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified.
1593, Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard, E ij
What harme the Rhodians haue doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?
glosses: to hurt, to harm
dost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌst/
homophone: dussed
homophone: dust
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: doest
form: do'st
Etymology: From do + -st.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of do
Related terms: didst
do
doth
thou
Poisson's ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poisson's ratios
Etymology: Named after French mathematician, mechanician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson.
Senses: glosses: Of a material in tension or compression, the ratio of the strain in the direction of the applied load to the strain normal to the load, abbreviated ν (nu).
Charpy impact test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Charpy impact tests
Etymology: Named after French scientist Georges Charpy (1865–1945).
Senses: synonyms: Charpy
Charpy test
qualifier: materials science
glosses: A test of the impact strength of a material, used to determine its relative ductility or brittleness.
wikipedia: Georges Charpy
prudent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːdənt/
rhymes: -uːdənt
Forms: form: more prudent
form: most prudent
Etymology: From Middle English prudent, from Old French prudent, from Latin prūdēns, contracted from prōvidēns (“foresight”) (English providence), the past participle of prōvideō (“I forsee”). Unrelated to prude. Doublet of provident.
Senses: examples: text: He did not hesitate what to do. It would be prudent to continue on to Omaha, for it would be dangerous to return to the train, which the Indians might still be engaged in pillaging.
ref: 1864, Jules Verne, chapter 30, in Around the World in 80 Days, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2012:
text: Moses established a grave and prudent law.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
synonyms: word: careful
word: considerate
word: discreet
word: alert
word: attentive
word: careful
word: cautelous
word: cautious
word: canny
word: chary
word: circumspect
word: conservative
word: deliberate
word: discreet
word: guarded
word: heedful
word: heedy
word: hesitant
word: meticulous
word: mindful
word: prudent
word: reckful
word: safe
word: sensible
word: shy
word: slow
word: tentative
word: timid
word: timorous
word: well-advised
word: wary
glosses: Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.
examples: text: His prudent career moves reliably brought him to the top.
text: A prudent man foreseeth the euill, and hideth himselfe: but the simple passe on, and are punished.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 22:3:
text: The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).
ref: 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 60:
synonyms: word: astute
word: clairvoyant
word: deep
word: frood
word: grounded
word: judicious
word: oracular
word: perspicacious
word: politic
word: profound
word: prudent
word: quick-witted
word: reasonable
word: sagacious
word: sage
word: sapient
word: sensible
word: wise
word: witful
glosses: Practically wise, judicious, shrewd.
examples: text: Only prudent expenditure may provide quality within a restrictive budget.
synonyms: word: abstemious
word: canny
word: chary
word: cheap
word: close with a buck
word: economical
word: frugal
word: husbandly
word: huswifely
word: parsimonious
word: penny-pinching
word: prudent
word: spareful
word: sparing
word: spary
word: thrifty
word: tight
word: tightwad
antonyms: extravagant
glosses: Frugal, economical.
Derived terms: prudence
prudent man rule
prudently
Related terms: jurisprudence
prudence
prudential
provident
durometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durometers
Senses: examples: text: She tested the sample with a durometer to verify its consistency.
glosses: An instrument used to measure the hardness or stiffness of a material, especially of an elastomer, such as rubber. A simple durometer consists of a movable tip on a spring with a dial gauge.
examples: text: They specified a 70 durometer polyurethane.
glosses: The measurement of the hardness or stiffness of a material, especially of plastic or rubber.
Derived terms: Shore durometer
Related terms: durable
memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛm.(ə.)ɹiz/
ipa: /ˈmɪm.(ə.)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of memory
all along
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He thought he had me fooled, but I knew the truth all along.
topics: duration
time
glosses: For the entire time; always.
all along
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: All along the beach, people were lounging on orange chairs. Why orange?
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, along.
danced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑːnst/
rhymes: -ɑːnst
ipa: /dænst/
rhymes: -ænst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dance
sadly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsædli/
rhymes: -ædli
Forms: form: sadlier
form: more sadly
form: sadliest
form: most sadly
Etymology: From Middle English sadly; equivalent to sad + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Only when we climb up can we see it,” he said sadly.
glosses: In a sad manner; sorrowfully.
examples: text: If you think you’re getting out of this place alive, you are sadly mistaken, my friend.
text: Sadly, the two were never to meet again.
text: Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: Unfortunately, sad to say.
examples: text: The people of Ebeltoft were once sadly plagued by them, as they plundered their pantries in a most unconscionable manner; so they consulted a very wise and pious man and his advice was, that they should hang a bell in the steeple of the church.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 161:
glosses: In a manner to cause sadness; badly; terribly.
examples: text: "Don't ask me: don't make me talk of it," she answered. "I'm not fit now. I have been cruelly used and cruelly wronged. You will be kinder than ever, if you will walk on fast, and not speak to me. I sadly want to quiet myself, if I can."
ref: 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
glosses: Very much (of a desire etc.); dearly; urgently.
examples: text: By my feythe sayd syre launcelot in that pauelione wil I lodge alle this nyghte / and soo there he alyghte doune and tayed his hors to the pauelione / and there he vnarmed hym / and there he fond a bedde / and layd hym theryn / and felle on slepe sadly
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
glosses: Deeply, completely.
Synonyms: sense: in a sad manner
word: sorrowfully
sense: in a sad manner
word: ruefully
sense: in a sad manner
word: mournfully
sense: in a sad manner
word: heavily
sense: unfortunately
word: unfortunately
sense: unfortunately
word: sad to say
sense: unfortunately
word: regrettably
sense: unfortunately
word: regretfully
sense: unfortunately
word: alas
Derived terms: unsadly
doorway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔɹweɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɔːweɪ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈdo(ː)ɹweɪ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈdoəweɪ/
Forms: form: doorways
Etymology: From door + way.
Senses: examples: text: A re-arrangement of the seating in relation to doorway positions gives an even distribution of seated passengers, no change has been made in the number or size of the doorways.
ref: 1950 February, “Rolling Stock for London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
glosses: The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
examples: text: How fares it with the happy dead?
For here the man is more and more;
⁠But he forgets the days before
God shut the doorways of his head [i.e. the sutures of the skull].
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 66:
glosses: An opening or passage in general.
Derived terms: darken someone's doorway
doorwayed
doorway page
doorway state
hearty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹti/
ipa: /ˈhɑːti/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: hearties
Etymology: Equivalent to heart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “Ay, ay,” muttered the chief mate, as they rolled out of then-boats and swaggered on deck, “it’s your turn now, but it will be mine before long. Yaw about while you may, my hearties, I’ll do the yawing after the anchor’s up.”
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, chapter VI, in Redburn. His First Voyage:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
gravely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪvli/
Forms: form: more gravely
form: most gravely
Etymology: From grave + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'No, no one's called that at home,' said Heidi gravely.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 100:
glosses: In a grave or serious manner.
gravely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪvli/
Forms: form: more gravely
form: most gravely
Etymology: See gravelly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gravelly.
boldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊldli/
ipa: [ˈbɒʊldli]
ipa: /ˈboʊldli/
Forms: form: boldlier
form: more boldly
form: boldliest
form: most boldly
form: bouldly
Etymology: From Middle English boldely, boldeliche, baldeliche, from Old English bealdlīċe (“boldly, earnestly”), equivalent to bold + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: to boldly go where no man has gone before
text: Postcards that are billboardlike communications with an immediate message stated boldly and creatively.
ref: 2000, Mark Oldach, Creativity for graphic designers:
glosses: In a bold manner; with confidence.
Derived terms: boldly go where no man has gone before
CBBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CBBCs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of callable bull/bear contract, a type of exotic derivatives contract.
glosses: Initialism of chemically bonded bioceramic.
CBBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Children's BBC.
sufferings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌfəɹɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of suffering
rejoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪnd/
/ɹiːˈd͡ʒɔɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rejoin
centromere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɹə(ʊ)mɪə/
ipa: /ˈsɛntɹəˌmiɚ/
Forms: form: centromeres
Etymology: Borrowed from German Centromer, corresponding to centro- + -mere (from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”)).
Senses: examples: text: The aberrant bivalents with single terminal chiasmata are specially liable to this failure of orientation, presumably because their centromeres lie exceptionally far apart, as is the case in similar circumstances in a Lilium hybrid with reduced chiasma-frequency.
ref: 1936, C. D. Darlington, “The Analysis of Chromosome Movements, I. Podophyllum versipelle”, in Cytologia, volume 7, numbers 1-2, page 242:
text: Every chromosome has a long arm and a short arm separated by a pinch point known as a centromere.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 16:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The central region of a eukaryotic chromosome where the kinetochore is assembled.
Derived terms: anticentromere
autocentromere
centromeral
centromerelike
centromeric
holocentromere
neocentromere
pericentromere
kinetochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /k(ʌ)ɪˈniːtəʊkɔː/
ipa: /kəˈnitoʊkɔɹ/
Forms: form: kinetochores
Etymology: From kineto- + Ancient Greek χῶρος (khôros, “space”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The protein structure in eukaryotes which assembles on the centromere and links the chromosome to microtubule polymers from the mitotic spindle during mitosis.
Derived terms: interkinetochore
intrakinetochore
eukaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: eucaryotic
Etymology: From eukaryote + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
ref: 1991, Lynn Margulis, René Fester, Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a eukaryote.
Derived terms: antieukaryotic
dieukaryotic
eukaryotically
microeukaryotic
monoeukaryotic
nanoeukaryotic
noneukaryotic
picoeukaryotic
eukaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eukaryotics
form: eucaryotic
Etymology: From eukaryote + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Such a cell or organism
remembrance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmɛm.bɹəns/
Forms: form: remembrances
form: remembrancing
form: remembranced
form: remembranced
Etymology: From Middle English remembraunce, from Old French remembrance, from remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorārī (“to call to mind, to remember”). Equivalent to remember + -ance.
Senses: glosses: To remember; to recall to mind.
Related terms: memory
mitotic spindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitotic spindles
Senses: glosses: A structure of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton involved in mitosis and meiosis.
Synonyms: spindle apparatus
cytoskeleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytoskeletons
form: cytoskeleta
Etymology: From cyto- + skeleton.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, large systems such as viruses, multienzyme complexes, cell-cytoskeleta and flagella are usually constructed from multiple copies of the same protein.
ref: 1981, Leonardo, volume 14, page 311:
text: Judged from Electron-Microscopy (EM) studies of bilayer depleted cytoskeleta the spectrin/actin network exhibits basically a hexagonal (triangular) topology.
ref: 1992, A. Zilker, H. Strey, E. Sackmann, “Erythrocytes Membranes: Tethered Shells with Fluid-Like Deformation Regime”, in Reinhard Lipowsky, Dieter Richter, Kurt Kremer, editors, The Structure and Conformation of Amphiphilic Membranes: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Amphiphilic Membranes, Jülich, Germany, September 16–18, 1991 (Springer Proceedings in Physics; 66), Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, part II (Conformation of Membranes), page 114:
text: In this process, cellular debris and cytoskeleta of the lysed cells were effectively removed, and the underlying ECM remained intact and adhered to the entire area of the tissue culture dish.
ref: 1994, Cancer Research, volume 54, number 9, page 2592, column 1:
text: Cells including leukocytes are not just bags of cytosol, but have structured cytoskeleta, surface structures, and different viscoelastic properties at different length and time scales.
ref: 2009, Maria K. Pospieszalska, Klaus Ley, “Modeling Leukocyte Rolling”, in Klaus Ley, editor, Leucocyte Rolling and Adhesion (Current Topics in Membranes; 64), Academic Press, →ISBN, section 2 (Adhesion Molecules), page 224:
text: One may consider then the resulting forms as due to the plasticity of organismal development, as cytoskeleta seem shaped, not just selected, also by gravity.
ref: 2015, Barbara Bravi, Giuseppe Longo, “The Unconventionality of Nature: Biology, from Noise to Functional Randomness”, in Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, editors, Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 14th International Conference, UCNC 2015, Auckland, New Zealand, August 30 – September 3, 2015, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 29:
text: The Poisson distribution can model fiber-fiber contacts in random fiber networks. Biological examples include connective tissues (cartilage and tendons) and cellular cytoskeleta.
ref: 2021, Michael Frame, Mathematical Models in the Biosciences 1, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 394:
glosses: A matrix of intercellular protein, in the forms of microfilaments and microtubules, that provide some rigidity to cells
Derived terms: neurocytoskeleton
twilight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt/
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- (“double, half-”) + light, literally ‘second light, half-light’. Cognate to Scots twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (“twilight”), Low German twilecht, twelecht (“twilight”), Dutch tweelicht (“twilight, dusk”), German Zwielicht (“twilight, dusk”). Compare Old English twēone lēoht (“twilight”).
Senses: examples: ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
examples: text: twilight zone
glosses: Synonym of mesopelagic (“Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.”)
synonyms: word: mesopelagic
extra: Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.
Related terms: crepuscular
twilight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: twilights
form: twilighting
form: twilit
form: twilit
form: twilighted
form: twilighted
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- (“double, half-”) + light, literally ‘second light, half-light’. Cognate to Scots twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (“twilight”), Low German twilecht, twelecht (“twilight”), Dutch tweelicht (“twilight, dusk”), German Zwielicht (“twilight, dusk”). Compare Old English twēone lēoht (“twilight”).
Senses: glosses: To illuminate faintly.
rejoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
ipa: /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: rejoins
form: rejoining
form: rejoined
form: rejoined
Etymology: From Middle English rejoynen, partly from Middle French rejoin- (stem of rejoindre, from re- (“again”) + joindre (“to join”)) and partly from re- + joynen. By surface analysis, re- + join. Doublet of rejoinder.
Senses: examples: text: Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
antonyms: disjoin
unjoin
glosses: To join again; to unite after separation.
examples: text: Meet and rejoin me, in my penſive Grott.
ref: 1737, [Alexander] Pope, The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 14, line 18:
text: The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom, who with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is: […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 575:
text: Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.
ref: 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
Related terms: conjoin
rejoint
rejoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
ipa: /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: rejoins
form: rejoining
form: rejoined
form: rejoined
Etymology: From Middle English rejoynen, from Middle French rejoin- (stem of rejoindre, from re- (“again”) + joindre (“to join”)). By surface analysis, re- + join. Doublet of rejoinder.
Senses: examples: text: "Be careful what you do," rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, "lest someone see you digging, and scent us out."
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, “In the Vault”, in Moonfleet (Arnold’s English Literature Series), London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, page 44:
glosses: To state in reply.
glosses: To answer to a reply.
topics: law
glosses: To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
topics: intellectual-property
law
patent-law
glosses: To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder.
centriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntɹɪˌəʊl/
Forms: form: centrioles
Etymology: From Latin centriolum, diminutive of centrum. English equivalent centri- + -ole.
Senses: examples: text: The aster is at this period closely similar to those of Ascaris at certain periods, as figured by Boveri, and the red mass with its central group of granules corresponds exactly, I think, to Boveri's "centrosome" with its "Centralkorn" or "centriole" ("centrosphere" with its "centrosome" in Strasburger's terminology).
ref: 1895, Edmund B. Wilson, “Archoplasm, centrosome, and chromatin in the sea-urchin egg”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 11, number 1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A barrel-shaped microtubule structure found in most animal cells, important in the process of mitosis (nuclear division).
Derived terms: centriogenesis
centriolar
centriologenesis
pericentriole
procentriole
microtubule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtubules
Etymology: From micro- + tubule.
Senses: glosses: A small tube made of protein and found in cells; part of the cytoskeleton.
Derived terms: antimicrotubular
antimicrotubule
intermicrotubule
microtubular
Related terms: microtubulin
microfilament