cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
exfiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exfiltrations
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A method for managing storm water runoff.
topics: sciences
glosses: A filtering out (usually movement of a substance through a barrier).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gradual movement of a substance to exterior (as through cell membrane to extracellular fluid or medium).
examples: text: Phishing is sending emails or other electronic communications to fraudulently or unlawfully induce recipients to reveal personal or sensitive information, such as passwords, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, credit card information, financial information, or other sensitive information, or to gain access to accounts or records, exfiltration of documents or other sensitive information, payment and/or financial benefit.
ref: 2023 July, Microsoft, Microsoft Services Agreement:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: The covert extraction of data from a system.
Synonyms: word: exfil
Related terms: exfiltrate
exoterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoterisms
Senses: examples: 1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73,
It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have here only to put forth in its great Severity and Profundity.
1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535,
The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples...
2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies, Indiana University Press, page 248,
In their exoterism, they showed civic sense is most demanding.
glosses: The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.
Related terms: esoterism
getah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mosquito-borne arboviral disease of horses and pigs.
explant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explants
Etymology: From ex- + plant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any portion taken from a plant or an animal that will be used to initiate a culture. It can be a portion of the shoot, or of the leaves, or even just some cells.
Derived terms: microexplant
explant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: explants
form: explanting
form: explanted
form: explanted
Etymology: From ex- + plant.
Senses: examples: text: Fifty chapters are dedicated to this subject and explain complex issues such as managing radiation induced urethral stricture, reconstruction of the neophallus urethra, methods of explanting urethral stents, and salvaging failed slings and artificial urinary sphincters.
ref: 2015 June 29, Jang Hwan Kim, “Advanced Male Urethral and Genital Reconstructive Surgery. 2nd ed.”, in International Neurourology Journal, volume 19, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To remove something, such as a medical device, that has been implanted.
Derived terms: explantation
bambu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bamboo.
explorista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploristas
Etymology: From explore + -ista.
Senses: glosses: A person with a curious mind who explores the world, encountering different cultures and customs.
kampung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmpɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈkæm-/
ipa: /kæmˈpɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈkʌmˌpɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑm-/
ipa: /-ˌpɑŋ/
ipa: /ˈkʌmpɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑm-/
ipa: /-oŋ/
Forms: form: kampungs
form: campong
form: kampong
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian kampung, and/or its etymon Malay kampung (“enclosure; quarter of a town occupied by a certain nationality; village”). Doublet of kampang.
Cognates
* Dutch kampoeng
Senses: examples: text: They came from solitary huts in the wilderness, from populous campongs, from villages by the sea. At the call of an idea they had left their forests, their clearings, the protection of their rulers, their prosperity, their poverty, the surroundings of their youth and the graves of their fathers.
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Margio seldom saw his mother happy, and often thought of doing things to cheer her up. He would go back to their kampong and look for gifts for her.
ref: 2015, Eka Kurniawan, chapter 4, in Labodalih Sembiring, transl., Man Tiger […], London; New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: A traditional village.
examples: text: Kampung Tanah Merah.
glosses: A district or suburb where a former village once stood.
Derived terms: word: balik kampong
word: balik kampung
english: probably
translation: probably
word: compound
word: kampong chicken
word: kampung chicken
word: kampong spirit
word: kampung spirit
word: vertical kampong
word: vertical kampung
Related terms: kampang
eyass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyasses
Senses: examples: text: When Roland Græme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyass, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from a celebrated eyrie in the neighbourhood, called Gledscraig.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 82:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of eyas.
sarung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarungs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sarong.
rotan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹotɑn/
Forms: form: rotans
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay rotan (“cane”), doublet of rattan.
Senses: examples: text: Two boys, aged 14 and 11, were each sentenced to three strokes of the light rotan at Kluang for stealing duck eggs from Loh Wee Seng.
ref: 1949 November 5, The Straits Times, page 5 [newspaper]:
text: Zaimi Bin Rassak, 20, was yesterday jailed for two years with two strokes of the rotan after he was found guilty of trafficking in 32 rolls of cannabis in Queens Crescent on June 24 at 1 a.m.
ref: 1975 November 25, The Straits Times, page 6 [newspaper]:
text: Khushwant Singh, 38-year-old on the run for five years, put behind bars for six years and two months; gets six strokes of the rotan.
ref: 2008 February 9, The Straits Times, page 39 [newspaper]:
glosses: A long rattan cane used for corporal punishment.
rotan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹotɑn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian рота́н (rotán, “Amur sleeper”).
Senses: examples: text: A single individual requires as much as 30 kg of other fish (including its own species) to gain 1 kg of weight. The resilience of the rotan, which requires 20 times less oxygen than other species, is best illustrated by its ability to revive a day after being left in open air. In one such instance, the first individual to rebound in a group ate up the others, according to Itar-Tass news agency.
ref: 1998, Dianne Louise Draper, Our Environment: A Canadian Perspective, 1st edition, Toronto: ITP Nelson, →ISBN, page 5b:
ref: 2007, Volodymyr I. Lushchak, Tetyana V. Bagnyukova, “Hypoxia induces oxidative stress in tissues of a goby, the rotan Perccottus glenii”, in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, volume 148, number 4, →DOI, pages 390–397:
glosses: Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii)
rattan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtan/
ipa: /ˈɹatan/
ipa: /ɹəˈtæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: rattans
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay rotan.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
examples: text: It took Elwood an hour to find Mr. Gladwell, who sat in a big rattan chair at the edge of the sweet potato fields.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 180:
glosses: The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
examples: text: He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
ref: 1906, Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula:
text: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: […]the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline[…]
ref: 2008, Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization:
glosses: A cane made from this material.
Derived terms: ant rattan
rattan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtan/
ipa: /ˈɹatan/
ipa: /ɹəˈtæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: rattans
form: rattaning
form: rattaned
form: rattaned
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay rotan.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile Captain Colville rattaned Pearson very severely […]
ref: 1915, Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary, volume 51, page 56:
glosses: To beat with a rattan cane.
roti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊti/
ipa: [ˈɹɔʊɾɪi̯]
ipa: /ˈɹəʊti/
ipa: /ˈɹəʉtɪi̯/
ipa: /ˈɹɔtɪi̯/
ipa: /ˈɹɐʉtəi̯/
ipa: /ˈroːʈiː/
rhymes: (US) -oʊti
rhymes: (UK) -əʊti
Forms: form: rotis
Etymology: From Hindi रोटी (roṭī)/Urdu روٹی (roṭī), from Sanskrit रोटिका (roṭikā, “bread”).
Senses: examples: text: Along the sidewalks, hundreds of vendors hawked everything from commemorative T-shirts to rum to roti, the breadlike Caribbean pastry stuffed with pungently barbecued goat or chicken.
ref: 2007 January 27, Dennis Hevesi, “Carlos Lezama, 83, Dies; Shaped West Indian Parade”, in New York Times:
text: Nepalis eat sweet fried rice-flour doughnuts called sel roti.
synonyms: chapati
glosses: A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean.
Derived terms: burroti
Related terms: meethi roti
roti john
roti prata
meningocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meningoceles
Etymology: From meningo- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of spina bifida in which a meningeal sac of cerebrospinal fluid protrudes through the skull.
Derived terms: encephalomeningocele
lipomeningocele
lipomyelomeningocele
meningocele manqué
pseudomeningocele
susu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: susus
Etymology: Possibly from West African Igbo isusu / esusu (“pooling the funds”) or Yoruba esúsú (“revolving loan fund”).
Senses: examples: text: The informal credit sector has been very active in Ghana and covers a range of activities known as susu, including individual savings […]
ref: 2004, Mr. Rodolphe Blavy, Mr. Anupam Basu, Dr. Murat Â Yülek, Microfinance in Africa: Experience and Lessons From Selected African Countries, International Monetary Fund, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Irene empathized with her susu members as immigrants who were earning low wages in New York, but there appeared to be some socioeconomic advantages to being an organizer that she was not acknowledging.
ref: 2011, Tamara Mose Brown, Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 128:
topics: business
finance
hypernyms: ROSCA
glosses: An informal money pooling scheme practised in Africa, the Caribbean, and some immigrant communities.
jati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jatis
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जाति (jāti). Doublet of gens, genesis, and kind.
Senses: glosses: A clan, tribe, or community in India.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rhythm pattern in Indian music.
marga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːɡə/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːɡə
Forms: form: margas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मार्ग (mārga). Doublet of marg.
Senses: glosses: The canon of established forms of classical music, dance etc., as opposed to modern or regional developments.
qualifier: yoga
glosses: Any of various paths or courses seen as leading to enlightenment.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The noble eightfold path.
marga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːɡə/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːɡə
ipa: [mɑːɡɐ]
ipa: /ˈmɑːɡə/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːɡə
Forms: form: margas
Etymology: From Jamaican Creole mawga, derived from English meagre.
Senses: examples: text: Bro said he really don't lack to much
I reply, can't you see it's a marga
ref: 2018 June 25, K.O., “Rolling Round”, 1:05–1:07:
text: Big Russ, not marga
I still got a crush on Zara
ref: 2020 April 14, Russ Millions, “Playground 2”, 1:00–1:03:
text: That marga boy you brought round… […] He ain't your type, baby.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Tanice (Llewella Gideon):
glosses: Someone of undernourished figure.
derma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mə
Forms: form: dermata
form: dermas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin derma, from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”). Doublet of derm.
Senses: synonyms: dermis
glosses: The inner layer of the skin.
Derived terms: derma ray
derma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mə
Forms: form: dermas
Senses: glosses: Clipping of dermatologist.
derma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)mə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mə
Forms: form: dermas
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish דערמע (derme), plural of דאַרם (darm, “intestine”), from Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German darm, from Proto-West Germanic *þarm, from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to bore”).
Senses: glosses: A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke.
duta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of dutasteride
relativism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relativisms
Etymology: From relative + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
examples: text: Following Gilbert Harman’s lead, my own formulation of relativism about the normative domain was based on the classic examples of thoroughgoing relativisms drawn from physics.
ref: 2008, Paul Boghossian, “Replies to Wright, MacFarlane and Sosa”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, page 413:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
Coordinate terms: subjectivism
Derived terms: cognitive relativism
factual relativism
moral relativism
Related terms: alternativism
pragmatism
pada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːdə/
rhymes: -ɑːdə
Forms: form: padas
Etymology: From Sanskrit पद (pada).
Senses: examples: text: There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 79:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
jauhar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: johar
form: juhar
Senses: glosses: The mass suicide of Rajput women in order to escape defilement by foreign conquerors.
ratu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratus
Senses: examples: text: For the purposes of this discussion, however, it is sufficient to know that all land is traditionally vested in the ratu, and there are no higher order structures of customary landownership.
ref: 2006, Thomas Reuter, Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land, page 257:
glosses: A Fijian chief.
bigas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biga
puti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The puti (a kind of antelope) is the totem of the Bamangwats, another Bechuana clan; and to look on it was a great calamity to the hunter or to women going to the gardens
ref: 1887, James George Frazer, Totemism, page 13:
glosses: The duiker.
spherical geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherical geometries
Senses: examples: text: The basic concepts of Euclidean geometry of the plane are the point and the (straight) line; in spherical geometry, the corresponding concepts are the point and the great circle.
text: Due to the way the geometry of a sphere's surface differs from that of the plane, spherical geometry has some features of a non-Euclidean geometry and is sometimes described as being one. Historically, however, spherical geometry was not considered a fully fledged (non-Euclidean) geometry capable of resolving the question of whether the parallel postulate is a logical consequence of the rest of Euclid's axioms of plane geometry.
text: 1972, Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume 1, Oxford University Press, 1990, paperback, page 119,
Spherical trigonometry presupposes spherical geometry, for example the properties of great circles and spherical triangles, much of which was already known; it had been investigated as soon as astronomy became mathematical, during the time of the later Pythagoreans.
text: We start with spherical geometries. The two geometries on spheres of radiuses R₁ and R₂ are obviously identical if R₁ = R₂; moreover, the converse also holds.
ref: 1994, Viacheslav V. Nikulin, Igor R. Shafarevich, translated by Miles Reid, Geometries and Groups, Springer, page 194:
text: To collect the boundary of the point set in the tree we pass a bounding box (for Euclidean geometries) or the universal set (for spherical geometries) to the root of the tree.
ref: 2008, Sherif Ghali, Introduction to Geometric Computing, Springer, page 272:
text: 2020, Marshall A. Whittlesey, Spherical Geometry and Its Applications, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), unnumbered page,
It has been at least fifty years since spherical geometry and spherical trigonometry have been a regular part of the high school or undergraduate curriculum.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The geometry of the 2-dimensional surface of a sphere;
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The geometry of the 2-dimensional surface of a sphere;
(countable) a given geometry of the surface of a sphere; a geometry of the surface of a given sphere, regarded as distinct from that of other spheres.
a given geometry of the surface of a sphere; a geometry of the surface of a given sphere, regarded as distinct from that of other spheres.
Related terms: spherical trigonometry
astrometry
elliptic geometry
great circle
non-Euclidean geometry
parallel postulate
sexennium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛkˈsɛniəm/
ipa: /sɛkˈsɛnɪəm/
Forms: form: sexenniums
form: sexennia
Etymology: From Latin sexennium, from sexennis (“6-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Senses: glosses: A period of six years.
Synonyms: sexennate
Hypernyms: sextet
Related terms: word: sexennial
noneuclidean geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noneuclidean geometries
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of non-Euclidean geometry.
spherical cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherical caps
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion of the surface of a sphere cut off by a plane.
spherical lune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherical lunes
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion of the surface of a sphere cut off by two vertical planes through the centre of the sphere.
Related terms: spherical wedge
spherical wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherical wedges
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A volume of a sphere lying between two vertical planes through the centre of the sphere.
Related terms: spherical lune
bulliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bulliform
form: most bulliform
Etymology: Latin bulla (“any swollen round object”), + -iform
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a blistered appearance; bullate.
Derived terms: bulliform cell
bulliform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulliforms
Etymology: Latin bulla (“any swollen round object”), + -iform
Senses: glosses: A bulliform cell
blow a kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows a kiss
form: blowing a kiss
form: blew a kiss
form: blown a kiss
Senses: examples: text: We haven't yet kissed, but she blew me a kiss as the train pulled out of the station. That meant a lot to me.
glosses: To kiss one's own hand, then blow on it in a direction towards the recipient.
Related terms: throw a kiss
flying kiss
fluorescein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoresceins
form: fluoresceine
Etymology: From fluoresce + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: resorcinolphthalein
glosses: Any of a class of yellow xanthene dyes which are visible when highly diluted; used forensically to detect traces of blood, and in analytical chemistry as an indicator in silver nitrate titrations
Derived terms: calcein
carboxynaphthofluorescein
diaminofluorescein
dichlorofluorescein
fluoresceinated
hexachlorofluorescein
tetrabromofluorescein
misapprehension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misapprehensions
Etymology: From mis- + apprehension.
Senses: examples: text: They had thought it obsolete, but, were relieved of this misapprehension by Yule’s friend Major Trotter.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 57:
glosses: A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding.
Synonyms: wrong number
fluorocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorocarbons
Etymology: From fluoro- + carbon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: perfluorocarbon
PFC
glosses: Any derivative of a hydrocarbon in which every hydrogen atom has been replaced by fluorine.
Derived terms: chlorofluorocarbon
hydrofluorocarbon
tie up loose ends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties up loose ends
form: tying up loose ends
form: tied up loose ends
form: tied up loose ends
Senses: examples: text: Removing her name from the mailing list was her way of tying up loose ends.
text: it is rich in detail and ideas, and it comes from a unique, uncompromising talent who likes to leave some loose ends for the viewer to tie up.
ref: 2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC:
text: The measures for rail that were genuinely new were welcomed, although some had hoped for more. Many of these tied up loose ends around the network - unfinished business left hanging by the last government.
ref: 2024 November 13, Dickon Ross, “Opinion”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 3:
glosses: To deal with the minor consequences of a previous action; to tidy up, finish, or complete.
Related terms: square away
formazan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formazans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the organic nitrogen compound H₂NN=CHN=NH or any of its derivatives
Derived terms: diformazan
monoformazan
nitroformazan
triphenylformazan
twinkletoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinkletoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twinkle toes.
fucolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucolipids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any glycolipid
fulgide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulgides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of photochromic cyclic acid anhydrides of dialkylidenesuccinic acid.
wide awake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wide awake
form: most wide awake
form: wide-awake
Senses: examples: text: "They are almost awake, not quite," said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
text: I woke with a start. With the blackout curtains closed I didn't know what time it was. I looked at my watch. It said four o'clock. I had been asleep for only two hours, but I was wide awake.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973–1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1085:
text: I am the teeth that grinds at your bones / As you lie there a failure with your will so weak / I am the ache you feel in your tomb As you lay in your body still wide awake
ref: 2025, “Bedlam”, in Hymns in Dissonance, performed by Whitechapel:
glosses: awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful
examples: text: LF 37, F 33, working class backgrounds, left-ish politics, seek wide-awake F 30+ to share friendly, indep apt.
ref: 1984 April 21, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
glosses: keyed in or aware of things; not oblivious; woke.
Synonyms: broad awake
Derived terms: wideawake
wido
Related terms: fast asleep
fulvalene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulvalenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the bicyclic hydrocarbon formed from two cyclopentadiene rings linked with a double bond; any derivative of this compound
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any heterocyclic analogue of these compounds
Derived terms: tetrathiafulvalene
fulvene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulvenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the hydrocarbon methylenecyclopentadiene or any of its derivatives
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any heterocyclic analogue of these compounds
Derived terms: acylfulvene
fulvenyl
heptafulvene
furanocoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furanocoumarins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any furocoumarin.
furocoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furocoumarins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound composed of a coumarin fused to a furan, but especially any derivative of the psoralen skeleton or its angular isomer angelicin
Derived terms: difurocoumarin
go for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for
form: going for
form: went for
form: gone for
Senses: examples: text: I'll go for some milk.
text: If John goes for three days without sleep, he will be very tired.
text: I need to go for a checkup at the clinic.
text: Tickets are going for upwards of $100.
text: I've gotta go for a job interview next Mon.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
examples: text: I'll go for the world record.
text: Go for it!
glosses: To try for, to attempt to reach.
examples: text: His phone was off so I couldn't ask his permission, so I decided to just go for it.
text: I'll go for a swim if it's warm enough.
text: I went for the pay-as-you-go plan.
glosses: To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
examples: text: Careful, he'll go for your throat!
glosses: To attack.
examples: text: Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body.
Jen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not at all.
Douglas: All right.
Jen: No, physically you're just not the sort of man I go for.
Douglas: Yeah, thanks, Jen.
Jen: I go for the classically good-looking men: Blond, broad, and generally clean shaven.
Douglas: Alright, yeah, enough of the jibber-jabber!
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
text: Clyde took one look at Bonnie and really went for her.
glosses: To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
examples: text: Management won't go for such a risky project now.
text: Do you want to climb the mountain with me?
Yeah, I could go for that.
text: And the judge and the jury
They all put the blame on me
They wouldn't go for my story
They wouldn't hear my plea
ref: 1987, “Love in the First Degree”, in Wow!, performed by Bananarama:
glosses: To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
glosses: To fall for (a trick)
examples: text: Stop taking my food from the fridge! That goes for you too, Nick!
text: What I'm about to say goes for all of you.
text: My wife hates football, and that goes for me as well.
glosses: To apply equally to.
examples: text: It's a desk that goes for a dresser too.
text: […] every of them, being gold, whole and weight, shall go and be current in payment throughout this his realm for the sum that they were coined for.
ref: 1503, “19 Henry VII. c. 5: Coin”, in A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the Law, published 1836, page 158:
glosses: To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
examples: text: The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:12:
glosses: To be accepted as.
examples: text: Here in Texas, gas can go for as little as two dollars a gallon.
glosses: To cost.
Derived terms: go for the jugular
furanose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furanoses
Etymology: From furan + -ose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton)
Derived terms: erythrofuranose
fructofuranose
galactofuranose
hexofuranose
ketofuranose
pentofuranose
ribofuranose
xylofuranose
Related terms: furan
furanosyl
pyranose
non-stoichiometric compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-stoichiometric compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical compound in which the number of atoms of each element is not expressible as the ratio of small integers; normally due to missing atoms in a solid state lattice.
Synonyms: berthollide
rotgut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotguts
form: rot gut
Etymology: From rot + gut.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: red-eye
text: Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.
ref: 1913 August, Jack London, chapter VI, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 48:
synonyms: gut rot
hooch
swill
glosses: Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor.
Synonyms: word: rotgut
word: bug juice
word: corn liquor
word: firewater
word: hooch
word: moonshine
word: mountain dew
word: poteen
word: white lightning
Hypernyms: word: alcoholic beverage
word: homebrew
berthollide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berthollides
Etymology: Named after Claude Louis Berthollet, + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any non-stoichiometric compound.
wikipedia: Claude Louis Berthollet
daltonide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːltənaɪd/
Forms: form: daltonides
Etymology: From Dalton + -ide, after John Dalton.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any normal stoichiometric compound, especially one in which atomic ratios are those of small integers
wikipedia: John Dalton
stoichiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stœchiometric
form: stoicheiometric
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στοιχεῖον (stoikheîon, “element”) + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to stoichiometry.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: or of elements in a compound
glosses: Existing in a ratio of small integers.
raw_tags: of reactants
Derived terms: hyperstoichiometric
non-stoichiometric
nonstoichiometric
non-stoichiometric compound
quasi-stoichiometric
stoichiometrical
stoichiometrically
substoichiometric
superstoichiometric
unstoichiometric
nuclear battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear batteries
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any device that converts the energy of particles emitted from atomic nuclei into electrical energy.
Synonyms: atomic battery
atomic battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic batteries
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: any device that converts the energy of particles emitted from atomic nuclei into electrical energy
Synonyms: nuclear battery
roundworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundworm
nuclear chemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The application of chemical techniques to the solution of problems in nuclear physics, including the discovery of naturally occurring and synthetic radioactive elements and the results of nuclear fission.
nuclear physics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.
ref: 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD, published 2013, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: The branch of physics that studies the nucleus of the atom, its internal structure and components.
Derived terms: nuclear physicist
nuclear quadrupole resonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NQR
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A technique, related to nuclear magnetic resonance, that allows detection of transitions of atomic nuclei in the absence of a magnetic field.
nuclear spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The distribution of the intensity of particles or radiation emitted in a nuclear process as a function of energy - a unique signature of each process.
nucleosynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleosyntheses
Etymology: From nucleo- + synthesis.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: nucleogenesis
hypernyms: nuclear fusion#Noun
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fusion#Noun
glosses: Any of several processes that lead to the synthesis of heavier atomic nuclei.
Derived terms: nucleosynthetic
Related terms: carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle
LiBeB process
r-process
s-process
jellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly
jellies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jelly
ohmmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ohmmeters
Etymology: From ohm + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A portable device for measuring relatively small values of electrical resistance.
Derived terms: megohmmeter
microhmmeter
Ohm's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georg Ohm, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Ohm's observation that the direct current flowing in an electrical circuit consisting only of resistances is directly proportional to the voltage applied.
wikipedia: Georg Ohm
directly proportional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Proportional to a constant multiple of an independent variable.
Related terms: inversely proportional
reflector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈflɛktə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reflectors
form: reflecter
Etymology: From reflect + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
glosses: A reflecting telescope.
glosses: A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
glosses: A safety reflector.
examples: text: Most reflectors on leadership are comfortable thinking of "ethical" and "unethical" as modifiers of leadership.
ref: 1993, Robert W. Terry, Authentic Leadership: Courage in Action, page 48:
text: Nonreflectors simply thought through that which they already knew, reflectors evaluated experiences by interpreting these experiences, and critical reflectors re-evaluated their presuppositions to correct distortions in reasoning and attitudes.
ref: 2017, Joke van Velzen, Metacognitive Knowledge, page 154:
glosses: One who reflects on something; one who thinks or considers at length.
examples: text: The biography is an enormously powerful reflector of mainstream values: it is a statement that this person is someone, or did something, worth writing about. Similarly, because the biographer has access to myriads of details about her or his subject, what gets full exposure and what gets swept under the carpet can be more indicative of the biographer's values (and the society that instilled them) than of the actual subject's life.
ref: 1982 August 28, Rob Kaplan, “Gaps in the Glass”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 8:
glosses: Something that is reflective (indicative) of something else.
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pattern which can change the direction and/or offset of an oncoming spaceship without being destroyed.
Derived terms: Cassegrain reflector
Newtonian reflector
parabolic reflector
radar reflector
retroreflector
subreflector
Related terms: sense: telescope
word: refractor
terr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: terrs
Etymology: Abbreviated form of terrorist.
Senses: examples: text: As he entered the trees, he called, "Terrs left about one minute ago – in a hurry. There is abandoned equipment – no time to collect – moving east on tracks."
ref: 2008, Alexandre Binda, The Saints: The Rhodesian Light Infantry, 30° South Publishers, page 92:
text: If a terr's on the run or if he goes to ground,
It doesn't really matter 'cause they'll hunt him down.
And if that terr's the first that shoots,
He got no chance against the Black Boots.
ref: c. 1970, John Edmond, Black Boots (song), in Troopiesongs (album)
synonyms: floppy
gook
glosses: An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War.
hiba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hibas
Senses: examples: text: For the first time, the material used will be hiba wood found in the Aomori prefecture in the northeast of Honshu. It is 75% cheaper than cypress, can be worked easily, and is even more resistant to water and insect damage than cypress. However, hiba has a strong tendency to develop shrinkage cracks and gives off a pungent smell.
ref: 2017, Christoph Henrichsen, “Authenticity in Japan”, in Katharina Weiler, Niels Gutschow, editors, Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation, Springer, page 281:
synonyms: asuhi cypress
false arborvitae
hiba arborvitae
glosses: The conifer Thujopsis dolabrata, a cypress (in the broad sense) that is endemic to Japan.
Related terms: arborvitae
Schuld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schulds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schuld.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
digitgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of digitigrade.
digitgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of digitigrade.
flexure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛkʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈflɛksjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: flexures
Etymology: From Latin flexura.
Senses: glosses: The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
examples: text: but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry myself on this wise?
ref: 1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4:
text: varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered
ref: 1860, “Glaciers”, in British Quarterly Review:
glosses: A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A part of a machine designed to bend in operation.
examples: text: The Stomach [of a weasel] about three inches long; proportionably, more than a Dogs. An inch in Diametre at the upper Orifice; and the nether, ¼; having a flexure towards its Conjunction with the Guts: ſhaped like to the body of a pair of Bag-Pipes.
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, “The Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts Begun. Being Several Lectures Read before the Royal Society in the Year, 1676. Chapter I. Of the Stomachs and Guts of Six Carnivorous Quadrupeds; sc. The Weesle, Fitchet, Polecat, Cat, Dog and Fox.”, in Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC, page 1:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
Derived terms: hepatic flexure
sigmoid flexure
splenic flexure
Related terms: flex
flexural
flexion
flexure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛkʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈflɛksjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: flexures
form: flexuring
form: flexured
form: flexured
Etymology: From Latin flexura.
Senses: glosses: To introduce a flexure into; to bend or flex.
barack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒɹətsk/
Etymology: From Hungarian barack (“apricot, peach”), probably an ellipsis of barackpálinka, a compound with pálinka (“brandy”).
Senses: glosses: Hungarian apricot brandy.
barack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒɹətsk/
Forms: form: more barack
form: most barack
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Barack.
rapine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæpaɪn/
Forms: form: rapines
form: rapining
form: rapined
form: rapined
Etymology: From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō. Doublet of rape and ravine.
Senses: examples: text: A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.
ref: 1619, George Buck, History of Richard III:
glosses: To plunder.
sunglint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunglints
Etymology: From sun + glint.
Senses: examples: text: The water gets its eerie hue from sunglint, an optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects directly from the water’s surface into the camera lens.
ref: 2016 October 29, “Eye me a river”, in New Scientist, number 3097, page 27:
glosses: An optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects off the surface of water (an ocean, lake or river) directly towards a satellite sensor viewing the surface, so that in the sunglint area of a satellite image, smooth water appears as a silvery mirror, while rougher surface water is relatively dark.
unusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unusable
form: most unusable
form: unuseable
Etymology: From un- + usable.
Senses: examples: text: The toilet was unusable because it was blocked.
text: From that night until mid-morning on Sunday, November 6, the station was unusable by any electric trains and the Brighton-Eastbourne service was maintained by steam traction, assisted by two Hastings six-car diesel muliple-units—[...].
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
text: This service has suffered badly from Department for Transport-inspired cuts which reduced it from hourly to two-hourly. This, coupled with regular cancellations, has rendered the train service between the area's two biggest towns almost unusable.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:
synonyms: word: nonusable
antonyms: usable
glosses: Not usable.
unusable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unusables
form: unuseable
Etymology: From un- + usable.
Senses: examples: text: All the fat, skin, bones and unusables from the slaughter house went to the soap factory, and got diverted to feed a company of soldiers.
ref: 2004, Frank Kolondra, Never a Straight Path, page 176:
glosses: Something that is not fit for use.
Eichel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eichels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eichel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
fat catshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat catsharks
Senses: glosses: A shark (Apristurus pinguis) of the family Pentanchidae, closely related to the Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus).