cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: Lins
Senses: glosses: A male or female given name.
glosses: A surname
Related terms: Linn
Linne
Lyn
Lyne
Lynn
Lynne
Lin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: Lins
form: Lim
form: Lam
form: Lem
form: Ling
form: Lang
form: Leng
form: Lan
form: Len
form: Nin
form: Rim
form: Im
form: Lim
form: Rin
form: Hayashi
form: Lam
Etymology: From Chinese: compare Mandarin 林 (lín), Gan 林 (lin⁴), Wu 林, Xiang 林 (lin²). 林 itself is composed of a reduplication of 木 (“wood, tree”). Literally, “forest”.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
A surname from Mandarin
glosses: A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
A surname from Gan
glosses: A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
A surname from Wu
glosses: A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
A surname from Xiang
Lin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology: From Mandarin 臨／临 (Lín).
Senses: examples: text: Inspired by the communique of the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth CCP Central Committee and in order to greet the convening of the first provincial congress of activists in the creative study and application of Mao Tsetung Thought, the Chinchung Special District Revolutionary Committee recently held a discussion meeting on the study of Mao Tsetung Thought for leading cadres at and above standing committee level of the revolutionary committees of the special district and of the counties and all big factories and mines in the special district.[…]
Study courses in the Thought of Mao Tsetung have been conducted by many leading cadres in the special district, including (Liu Kuo-yao), chairman of the Fenyang County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative; (Chao Hsiao-yuan), chairman of the Lin County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative; and (Kuo Li-chen), chairman of the Pingting County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative.
ref: 1970 October 6 [1970 October 5], “Shansi Special District Holds Activists Congress”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 194, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 1:
text: Together with his friend Tang Min, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, Mao established a micro-credit scheme in Lin County of north China’s Shanxi province eight years ago.
ref: 2002 April 19, Xiao Rong, “'Grandpa Mao' Trains Peasants”, in Beijing Today, number 49, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1:
text: As mines increasingly became privatized, the profits no longer necessarily came to the villages and a major dispute was triggered in Lin County (Shanxi) in 2008 partly because the population felt they had received no benefits from the local mines (Nanfang dushi bao 22 October 2009).
ref: 2012, Tim Wright, The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107:
text: Li Caidong, 68, who has lived in a cave his entire life in Lin county, stands outside his cave, at sunset in Lin county, Shanxi province, China March 14, 2018.[…]
The relocations are voluntary, say residents of Lin county, but Guo sees no reason to abandon her cave house.[…]
“Our work has been proceeding smoothly,” Liu Yongfu, an official handling poverty alleviation and development efforts, told a news conference in Beijing in March. “The common folk are very supportive.” But authorities in Lin county declined to comment on their relocation plans when contacted by Reuters.
ref: 2018 May 11, Joseph Campbell, Elias Glenn, “Better off in a cave: Chinese count costs of apartments in anti-poverty campaign”, in Darren Schuettler, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2018, World News:
glosses: A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
process hot water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It has also been found very useful in certain industries that require large amounts of process hot water, hence the interest of Mohawk Paper Mills.
ref: 1982, United States Congress Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Supply, Department of Energy Fiscal Year 1983 Authorization (conservation Programs): Hearing before the […]
text: The jacket water and lube oil can be used directly with liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers for process hot water [heating].
ref: 1999, F. William Payne, User's Guide to Natural Gas Technologies:
text: The reduction in process hot water load will have a greater impact on the reciprocating engine configuration.
ref: 2003, Neil Petchers, Combined Heating, Cooling & Power Handbook: Technologies & Applications: An Integrated Approach to Energy Resource Optimisation:
hypernyms: water#Noun
coordinate_terms: domestic hot water
DHW
glosses: Hot water for use in industrial processes.
Related terms: boiler
running water
tap water
water tower
soldato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian soldato (“soldier”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the lowest tier of the Italian Mafia.
clergymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clergyman
domestic hot water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Heating, ventilation, domestic hot water and lighting use significant amounts of energy.
ref: 1996, Geraint John, Kit Campbell, Handbook of Sports and Recreational Building Design Volume 3: Ice Rinks and Swimming Pools:
text: Warm or tepid water systems that dilute domestic hot water from a water heater with cold water upstream from the outlet source are not recommended.
ref: 2003, Roger F Jones, Martha J Boss, Dennis W Day, Biological Risk Engineering Handbook:
text: A range of products from high quality industrial steam, to lower temperature water for domestic hot water requirements and space heating.
ref: 2005, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee, Energy Efficiency: 2nd Report of Session 2005-06
synonyms: DHW
hypernyms: running water#Noun
tap water#Noun
<
water#Noun
coordinate_terms: process hot water
glosses: Water used, in any type of building, for domestic purposes, principally drinking, food preparation, sanitation, personal hygiene, and heating (but not including swimming pool heating, or processes such as commercial food preparation or clothes washing).
landgrabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landgrabbers
Etymology: From land + grabber.
Senses: examples: text: To destroy the power of the landlord you must refuse to help him in his cruel work of eviction […] Don't buy anything from a landgrabber. [However,] If the landgrabber sends his children to school, don't drive them away.
ref: 1886, Consul Willshire Butterfield, The University of Michigan, page 213:
text: They were not called upon either morally or legally to hold social intercourse with a notorious liar; and the sins of theft and falsehood were venial sins compared with the sin of the landgrabber, who, in coveting his neighbour's[…]
ref: 1890, Great Britain. Special Commission to Inquire into Charges and Allegations Against Certain Members of Parliament and Others, Report of the Proceedings Before the Commissioners Appointed by the Act, page 100:
text: Israel gained the reputation of being an intransigent, a landgrabber, whose final goal is to incorporate all or a great portion of the[…]
ref: 1986, The Jerusalem Quarterly:
glosses: One in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted; one who engages in a landgrab.
lamest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lame: most lame
areg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erg
raining cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rain cats and dogs
Landron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
layn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: layns
form: layning
form: layned
form: layned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leyn.
it's Greek to me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's all Greek to me.
legacy student
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legacy students
Senses: glosses: A student who is admitted to a school (often a college or university) primarily because one or both of their parents are alumni of the same institution.
latent heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latent heats
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: heat of transformation
glosses: The heat that is released or absorbed accompanying a change of state or of a phase.
lift scheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lift schemes
Senses: examples: text: The neighbors decided on a lift scheme to get their kids to school, so that they wouldn't each have to drive every day.
glosses: A carpool; an arrangement whereby several people travel together in the same car.
Synonyms: carpool
vaporization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaporizations
form: vaporisation
form: vapourisation
form: vapourization
Etymology: From vapor + -ization.
Senses: glosses: A conversion of a solid or a liquid into a gas.
glosses: A destruction of something by turning it into vapor.
Hyponyms: evaporation
boiling
Derived terms: enthalpy of vaporization
heat of vaporization
feme covert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛmˈkʌvət/
Forms: form: femes covert
form: femes coverts
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman feme (“woman”) covert (“covered, protected”).
Senses: examples: text: […]—you, Diana Vernon, spinstress, not being a femme covert; and being a convict popish recusant, are bound to repair to your own dwelling, and that by the nearest way, under penalty of being held felon to the king—[…]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 213–214:
text: A deed of a feme covert, to be valid, must be executed by the husband also.
ref: 1851, Thomas W Waterman, American Chancery Digest, volume II:
text: Connecticut courts failed to recognize feme couvert property rights until 1723, when the legislature finally passed an act significantly reforming the law on conveyancing.
ref: 1986, Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America:
topics: law
glosses: A married woman.
Related terms: feme sole
feme sole merchant
feme sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmsəʊl/
Forms: form: femes sole
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman feme (“woman”) sole (“alone”).
Senses: examples: text: To Mary Smith, an adult feme sole, you are hereby summonsed...
text: A married woman shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be capable of acquiring, holding, and disposing by will or otherwise, of any real or personal property as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a feme sole, without the intervention of any trustee.
ref: 1882, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1(1)”, in Married Women's Property Act 1882, page 1:
topics: law
glosses: A single woman, whether unmarried, spinster, widow or divorcee.
Related terms: feme covert
feme sole merchant
vaporisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaporisations
Etymology: From vapor + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vaporization.
long arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long arm
long arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long arms
Senses: glosses: A person who steals things or borrows them without asking.
Related terms: sticky fingers
Velcro fingers
pussy eating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: carpet munching
muff diving
glosses: cunnilingus
Related terms: cunnilingus
Midlothian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɪdˈloʊðiən/
/mɪdˈloʊθiən/
Senses: glosses: A former county of Scotland, which became a district in Lothian Region in 1975.
glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Bremen Township, Cook County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, named after the Scottish county.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Ellis County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
deconstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʌkt/
ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʊkt/
ipa: /ˌdikənˈstɹʌkt/
Forms: form: deconstructs
form: deconstructing
form: deconstructed
form: deconstructed
Etymology: From de- + construct.
Senses: glosses: To break something down into its component parts.
glosses: To analyse in terms of deconstruction (a philosophical theory of textual criticism).
glosses: To analyse in general.
glosses: To critique.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To prepare (a dish) in an experimental way that presents the core ingredients separately.
examples: ref: 2014 June 16, Ian Levy, The Spurs’ Deconstruction of the Heat Is Now Complete:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To destroy.
Derived terms: deconstructability
deconstructable
deconstructible
deconstructive
deconstructively
deconstructivism
deconstructor
undeconstructed
Related terms: deconstruction
Daisy Dukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪ.zi ˈduːks/
rhymes: -uːks
Etymology: From the apparel of Daisy Duke, a fictional character in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard.
Senses: examples: text: On the shorter side, short-shorts and hot pants are very on trend right now—denim ones are called Daisy Dukes, after the sex symbol on the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard—but you need to be a certain age and have a certain body type to pull them off.
ref: [2012, Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible, page 95:
text: Of course, there are lots of ways in which this happens anyway—you may have the gait of a sprightly gazelle or impala at sixty-eight, you may have the enviable figure of a teenager, you may be wearing Daisy Dukes (please don't be wearing Daisy Dukes).
ref: 2014, India Knight, In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: A middle-aged waitress wearing “Daisy Dukes” whisked by and gave Ham a wink, “Hon, you eatin' or drinkin'?”
ref: 2017, S. C. Sherman, Lone Wolf Canyon, Post Hill Press, →ISBN:
text: Bralettes, itty-bitty bandeaus and crocheted bikinis are everywhere. So, too, are Daisy Dukes cut high enough to expose buttocks curvature.
ref: 2021 July 22, Guy Trebay, “Suddenly It’s Bare Season”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Very short denim shorts worn by women, ending at the upper thighs.
wikipedia: Daisy Duke
The Dukes of Hazzard
Related terms: hot pants
wonky hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonky holes
Etymology: From wonky + hole.
Senses: examples: It was local fishermen who made the most startling seafloor discovery. Something unknown was snagging their nets and nearly capsizing their boats. And they called the mystery – wonky holes. — Australian Broadcasting Commission Catalyst program, 18 May 2006 (transcript)
glosses: A type of undersea hole or spring on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, out of which comes fresh water that has flowed underground from the land.
space heating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1973: US Congress: House Committee on Science and Astronautics: Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications, Energy Research and Development and Space Technology: Hearings Before the Subcommittee - The use of fossil fuel resources for electric space heating has been questioned.
2003: Anthony R Day et al, Heating Systems: Plant and Control - In many regions of the world buildings will require space heating systems to make them habitable.
2004: Mat Santamouris, Energy Rating Of Residential Buildings: A Practical Guide for Energy Rating and Efficiency - The energy required for space heating is heat that is delivered from heating units to the heated space during the heating season.
glosses: Heating of rooms within buildings.
chlorophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chlorophyll + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: having chlorophyll and, hence, able to engage in photosynthesis
Derived terms: homoiochlorophyllous
poikilochlorophyllous
achlorophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + chlorophyll + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: not having chlorophyll and, hence, unable to engage in photosynthesis
SSP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Statutory Sick Pay.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (plane 14 of Unicode, containing 65,536 code points—U+E0000 through U+EFFFF—intended for encoding certain types of special-purpose characters but currently almost entirely unused).
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong.
Coordinate terms: BMP
SIP
SMP
SPUA-A
SPUA-B
TIP
SSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSPs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Abbreviation of senior superintendent, a police rank.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: SBSP
SPS
glosses: Abbreviation of space solar power or space-based solar power.
glosses: Initialism of sound speed profile.
Related terms: topics: law-enforcement
government
word: CSP
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: SP
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: DSupt
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: Ch Supt
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: supt.
topics: law-enforcement
government
word: DCS
iridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From irid(ium) + -ic; hence ultimately cognate with Etymology 2, as New Latin iridium is from Classical Latin iris, from Greek ἶρις (îris)).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: iridious
glosses: Containing tetravalent iridium.
Derived terms: iridico-
iridic oxide
iridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From irid- + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the iris of the eye.
Synonyms: iridal
Derived terms: aniridic
iridico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: iridic
Derived terms: iridico-ammonic sulfate
iridico-ammonic sulphate
iridico-potassic
iridico-sodic
iridio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: iridium
Derived terms: iridio-chloride
iridiocyanic acid
iridio-cyanide
iridio-cyanogen
iridio-platinum
dumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dump
dumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: dumpings
Senses: examples: text: NO DUMPING [sign posted to discourage lawless dumping of trash]
glosses: The disposal of something no longer needed, or of no value.
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
trading
hypernyms: underselling#Noun
undercutting#Noun
undermining#Noun
glosses: Selling goods at less than their normal price, or even at a loss, especially in the export market as a means of securing a monopoly.
Derived terms: antidumping
book dumping
dose dumping
dumping day
dumping ground
dumping syndrome
gastric dumping syndrome
granny dumping
homeless dumping
info-dumping
nondumping
ocean dumping
patient dumping
trauma dumping
water dumping
Related terms: word: dumpcart
word: dumpee
word: dumper
word: dumpster
word: dump truck
topics: economics
sciences
word: countervailing duty
topics: economics
sciences
word: price war
iridious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iridious
form: most iridious
Etymology: From irid(ium) + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: iridic
glosses: Containing trivalent iridium.
Derived terms: iridious chloride
iridious oxide
SMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SMPs
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of statutory maternity pay (“payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work due to their pregnancy”).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of symmetric multiprocessing.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of socialist millionaire problem.
glosses: Initialism of single member plurality.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of support and maintenance package.
glosses: Initialism of system marginal price (“the marginal electricity price in a power system optimization”).
glosses: Initialism of scalp micropigmentation.
glosses: Initialism of statement of monetary policy.
glosses: Initialism of shape-memory polymer.
glosses: Initialism of signal message processor.
glosses: Initialism of silyl modified polymer.
glosses: Initialism of slow-moving proteinase.
glosses: Initialism of stable marriage problem or stable matching problem.
glosses: Initialism of stable massive particle.
glosses: Initialism of surface-mount package.
glosses: Initialism of system modification program.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of survival multiplayer.
SMP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Symbolic Manipulation Program (“a computer algebra system and predecessor of Mathematica”).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Supplementary Multilingual Plane, one of the sets of character codepoints in Unicode; formally known as Plane 1, and comprising the range of codepoints from U+10000 through U+1FFFF.
glosses: Initialism of Scale Model Products.
glosses: Initialism of School Mathematics Project.
glosses: Initialism of Shanghai Municipal Police.
glosses: Initialism of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan.
glosses: Initialism of Sisters of Mary of the Presentation.
glosses: Initialism of Standard Motor Products.
glosses: Initialism of Simulation Model Portability.
glosses: Initialism of SOTA Mapping Project.
glosses: Initialism of Serial Management Protocol.
glosses: Initialism of Saw Mill Parkway.
glosses: Initialism of Shannonville Motorsport Park.
glosses: Initialism of Super Mario Party.
glosses: Initialism of Sounds of Mass Production or Synthesia Murder Program.
glosses: Initialism of Send More Paramedics.
Coordinate terms: BMP
SIP
SPUA-A
SPUA-B
SSP
TIP
ammonium phosphatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammonium phosphatides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ammonium salt of a phosphorylated glyceride; normally manufactured from rapeseed oil, it is used as a food additive especially in chocolate.
Synonyms: E442 when used as an emulsifier
phosphorylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phosphorylate
phosphorylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phosphorylated
form: most phosphorylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: reacted or combined with phosphoric acid
Derived terms: antiphosphorylated
autophosphorylated
biphosphorylated
bisphosphorylated
diphosphorylated
hemiphosphorylated
hexaphosphorylated
hyperphosphorylated
hypophosphorylated
monophosphorylated
multiphosphorylated
nonphosphorylated
pentaphosphorylated
phosphorylated adenosine
polyphosphorylated
pseudophosphorylated
radiophosphorylated
tetraphosphorylated
thiophosphorylated
triphosphorylated
underphosphorylated
Related terms: phosphorylate
phosphorylation
rapeseed oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapeseed oils
Senses: synonyms: colza oil
rape oil
hypernyms: seed oil
<
vegetable oil
<
oil
coordinate_terms: olive oil
palm oil
;
more
glosses: A thick brownish-yellow oil expressed from rapeseed, used chiefly for cooking, lubricating and in the manufacture of soap and india rubber.
platinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more platinic
form: most platinic
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing tetravalent platinum.
Derived terms: chloroplatinic
platini-
platinic chloride
platinic oxide
potassio-platinic chloride
sodioplatinic
Related terms: platinous
platinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing divalent platinum
Derived terms: chloroplatinous
platinoso-
platinous chloride
platinous oxide
Related terms: platinic
platinoso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: platinous
Derived terms: platinoso-platinic chloride
Related terms: platini-
platini-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: platinic
Derived terms: platinichloric
platinichloride
Related terms: platino-
platinoso-
platino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: platinic
Derived terms: platino-barium cyanide
platinochloride
platinocyanide
platino-iridium
platinotype
Related terms: platini-
diphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphosphates
Etymology: From di- + phosphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt or ester containing two phosphate groups
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt or ester of diphosphoric acid; pyrophosphate
Synonyms: biphosphate
Derived terms: adenosine diphosphate
cyclodiphosphate
dicalcium diphosphate
diphosphatase
fructosediphosphate
guanosine diphosphate
thiodiphosphate
platinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: platinises
form: platinising
form: platinised
form: platinised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of platinize.
diphosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + phosphoric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pyrophosphoric acid
platinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: platinizes
form: platinizing
form: platinized
form: platinized
form: platinise
Senses: glosses: To coat with platinum.
Derived terms: platinisation
platinization
platinised
platinized
platinising
platinizing
triphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triphosphates
Etymology: From tri- + phosphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester containing three phosphate groups.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of triphosphoric acid.
Derived terms: adenosine triphosphate
deoxyadenosine triphosphate
guanosine triphosphate
triphosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triphosphoric acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a condensation product of phosphoric acid, H₅P₃O₁₀, known from its salts and esters
Related terms: triphosphate
adenosine triphosphate
helium star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helium stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star which has lost most or all of its hydrogen, leaving just a core of helium.
helium variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helium variables
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star in which the strength of the helium absorption lines vary periodically; at times appearing to be a helium star.
absorption line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ laɪn/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ laɪn/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ laɪn/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ laɪn/
Forms: form: absorption lines
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A spectral line that corresponds to the absorption of electromagnetic radiation at a specific wavelength; the pattern of such lines is characteristic of specific atoms or molecules in the path of the radiation.
Synonyms: Fraunhofer's line
Related terms: emission line
parahelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliəm
Etymology: From para- + helium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The form of the helium atom in which the spins of the two electrons form a singlet state (a state with zero total spin)
Related terms: orthohelium
goldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: goldier
form: goldiest
Etymology: From Middle English goldy, equivalent to gold + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I could not identify these two objects as aeroplanes and I could not follow them due to the fantastic speed at which they were travelling. The first one appeared to be a goldy colour and the second silvery, […]
ref: 2013, David Clarke, The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-life Sightings, page 55:
glosses: Synonym of goldish.
synonyms: word: goldish
Derived terms: goldilocks
Goldilocks
goldy-stone
speedruns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspiːdɹʌnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of speedrun
speedruns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈspiːdɹʌnz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speedrun
speedrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈspiːdɹʌnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speedrun
speedrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspiːdɹʌnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: The practice of making speedruns.
hadeda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadedas
form: hadada
form: hadedah
Etymology: Imitative of its call.
Senses: examples: text: A small formation of hadedahs, four or five of them, flew past overhead, shrieking their wild death-cries across the valley.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 204:
glosses: The hadada ibis.
speedran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speedrun
mossie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒs.i/
Forms: form: mossies
Etymology: From Afrikaans, from Dutch mus (“a sparrow”).
Senses: examples: text: Our four baby mossies have left the nest.
ref: 1963, Lady Joy Petersen Packer, Home from Sea, page 221:
text: Another highly successful species, which has become a serious pest of fruit, is the Mossie or Cape Sparrow. The male mossie, with his black and white head and rufous mantle, is rather a handsome little bird; his wife lacks the head markings, being grey-brown with a pale eye-stripe.
ref: 1969, J. M. Winterbottom, Cornelis Janse Uys, Some Birds of the Cape, page 93:
text: He laughs a deep laugh that rumbles up from somewhere in his drumskin stomach. It spooks the mossies on the overhead telegraph wire.
ref: 2004, Troy Blacklaws, Karoo Boy, page 78:
glosses: Any of various species of sparrow, especially Passer melanurus.
mossie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒs.i/
ipa: /ˈmɒz.i/
rhymes: -ɒzi
ipa: /ˈmɒs.i/
Forms: form: mossies
form: mozzie
form: mozzy
form: mossy
Etymology: Diminutive formed from mosquito. Compare Dutch meuzie (“mosquito”).
Senses: examples: text: She came out, standing a head taller than him, tugging a loose cotton shift into place, and made for a rough brick fireplace beside a pile of rusting pots and pans.
‘Come inside,’ Willi said. ‘The mossies will eat you alive out here.’
ref: 1996, Patricia Shaw, The Opal Seekers, unnumbered page:
text: Tip 1 : Make sure there is clearance between your body and the net. If the net touches your skin, the mossie will be able to bite you through it.
ref: 2003, Jack Lagan, A B Sea: A Loose-Footed Lexicon, page 211:
text: He had becoms full of Bay intelligence about mosquito repellent measures. Apart from the obvious—mossie coils, citronella candles, zappers, fine nets suspended over beds and Rid roll-on or spray—he decided to invest in bush gear from an army disposal store. The mossies, who know a city slicker when they bite one, had been stinging clear through his Calvin Clone T-shirts from the Hong Kong markets and feasting on his bare arms as if presented with a juicy buffet.
ref: 2012, Susan Kurosawa, Coasting: A Year by the Bay, unnumbered page:
glosses: A mosquito.
go-away bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-away birds
form: go-away-bird
Etymology: Onomatopoeic from the sound of its call.
Senses: glosses: Any of three African species of turaco of the genus Crinifer.
glosses: Any of three African species of turaco of the genus Crinifer.
A bird of the species Crinifer concolor
Synonyms: sense: Crinifer concolor
word: grey lourie
sense: Crinifer concolor
word: grey loerie
sense: Crinifer concolor
word: grey go-away bird
Derived terms: taxonomic: Crinifer personatus
word: bare-faced go-away-bird
taxonomic: Crinifer concolor
word: grey go-away-bird
taxonomic: Crinifer leucogaster
word: white-bellied go-away-bird
Related terms: quare
re-record
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-records
form: re-recording
form: re-recorded
form: re-recorded
Etymology: From re- + record.
Senses: glosses: To record again.
examples: text: When making a tool-assisted speedrun, re-recording is inevitable if you want to attain a good time.
topics: video-games
glosses: To revert to an earlier save state while recording a speedrun.
re-record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-records
Etymology: From re- + record.
Senses: examples: text: Gavin Ward's tool-assisted speedrun of Sonic 3 & Knuckles has no fewer than 160,027 re-records.
topics: video-games
glosses: An instance of reverting to an earlier save state while recording a speedrun.
Related terms: undo
lourie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: louries
Etymology: From Afrikaans loerie, ultimately from the same Malay word nuri, luri (“parrot”) as lory.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of the family Musophagidae.
Synonyms: turaco
widow bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widow birds
form: widowbird
Etymology: Compound of widow + bird. The name for the family Viduidae derives from the genus name Vidua, from post-classical Latin vidua (“widow”) for males' black plumage, which resembles the mourning clothes of a widow. Compare whydah, from Whydah, a city in the Kingdom of Dahomey, now Ouidah, Benin. The terms widow-bird and whydah-bird influenced one another due to association of one species with the city.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of birds in the family Viduidae, incorporating whydahs and widow finches.
glosses: Any of several species of birds in the genus Euplectes.
Derived terms: alt: sakabula, Euplectes progne
word: long-tailed widowbird
word: red-collared widowbird
flagtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagtails
Etymology: From flag + tail.
Senses: glosses: A perciform fish, of genus Kuhlia, distinctive due to their scaly sheaths around the dorsal and anal fins.
Synonyms: aholehole
Derived terms: taxonomic: Kuhlia mugil
word: barred flagtail
taxonomic: Kuhlia marginata
word: dark-margined flagtail
taxonomic: Kuhlia sandvicensis
word: Hawaiian flagtail
taxonomic: Kuhlia nutabunda
word: Rapanui flagtail
taxonomic: Kuhlia rupestris
word: rock flagtail
taxonomic: Kuhlia munda
word: silver flagtail
taxonomic: Kuhlia marginata
word: spotted flagtail
aholehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aholehole
form: aholeholes
Etymology: From Hawaiian āholehole.
Senses: glosses: A flagtail.
erastai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛˈɹæstaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of erastes
airbreathing catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbreathing catfish
form: airbreathing catfishes
Senses: synonyms: walking catfish
glosses: Any fish of the family Clariidae, which can breathe air for short periods.
barfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barfishes
Etymology: From bar + fish.
Senses: glosses: A yellow bass (Morone mississippiensis)
glosses: A white bass (Morone chrysops)
glosses: A black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
beachsalmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beachsalmon
Etymology: From beach + salmon.
Senses: glosses: A fish (Leptobrama muelleri) native to the coasts of southern New Guinea, Queensland, and Western Australia.
Synonyms: flat salmon
silver salmon
slender bream
skippy
blackchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackchins
Etymology: From black + chin.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of fish with a black jaw, especially
glosses: Any of several species of fish with a black jaw, especially
in the species of the family Neoscopelidae, particularly;
glosses: Any of several species of fish with a black jaw, especially
in the species of the family Neoscopelidae, particularly;
A Pacific blackchin (Scopelengys tristis)
Related terms: taxonomic: Bathylagoides greyae
word: blackchin blacksmelt
taxonomic: Psednos barnardi
word: blackchin dwarf snailfish
taxonomic: Glaucostegus cemiculus
alt: syn. Rhinobatos cemiculus
word: blackchin guitarfish
taxonomic: Sarotherodon melanotheron
word: blackchin mouthbrooder
taxonomic: Notropis heterodon
word: blackchin shiner
taxonomic: Sarotherodon melanotheron
word: blackchin tilapia
Pacific blackchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific blackchins
Senses: glosses: A dark brown oceanodromous fish, Scopelengys tristis, of the family Neoscopelidae.
popeye blacksmelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popeye blacksmelts
Senses: glosses: A deep-water fish, Lipolagus ochotensis, with a slender compressed body and an anal fin base slightly shorter than its dorsal fin base.
Synonyms: eared blacksmelt
robust blacksmelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robust blacksmelts
Senses: glosses: An oviparous deep-water fish, Pseudobathylagus milleri, with an adipose fin far back on its caudal peduncle.
Synonyms: stout blacksmelt
mitigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did ever anybody seriously confess to envy?
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd ch 12:
glosses: Lessened, reduced, or diminished, and thereby made better, improved.
raw_tags: of problems or flaws
Derived terms: mitigatedly
unmitigated
mitigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mitigate
caudal peduncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudal peduncles
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The narrow part of a fish's body to which the caudal or tail fin is attached. Its proportions, such as the length and breadth, and attached organs, such as spines of surgeonfishes or caudal keels and finlets of Scombridae often are important in descriptions of fish species.
ventral fin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventral fins
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A fin, usually paired, located ventrally below the pectoral fins of a fish.
Synonyms: pelvic fin
adipose fin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adipose fins
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A soft, fleshy fin located behind the dorsal fin and just forward of the caudal fin, found fish of certain families, believed to have some sensory function.
finlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finlets
Etymology: From fin + -let.
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Small non-retractable fins, generally on the caudal peduncle between the last dorsal or anal fin and the caudal fin of some fishes. In some groups, such as tuna, finlets are rayless.
hypural joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypural joints
Senses: glosses: The joint between the caudal fin of a fish and the last of its vertebrae.
cephalic fin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalic fins
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of a set of fins that look like horns on either side of the broad head of a manta ray.
Dawkinsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dawkinsian
form: most Dawkinsian
Etymology: From Dawkins + -ian, after Richard Dawkins.
Senses: examples: text: In an essay entitled 'Selfish Genes and Social Darwinism' (1983, p.366) she argues that 'sociobiological thinking, especially in its Dawkinsian form, actually reinforces Social Darwinism, both by its language and by some of its substance'.
ref: 1985, Tony Solomonides, Les Levidow, Compulsive Technology: Computers as Culture, page 42:
text: In two papers, I argued that differential selection ought to favor more nearly decomposable or more quasi-independent phenotypes, so that the evolution of or selection for quasi-independence paradoxically meant that if a Williamsian or Dawkinsian genic selectionist picture is true, it is true because selection at higher levels produced it!
ref: 1993, Werner Callebaut, Taking the Naturalistic Turn, Or How Real Philosophy of Science Is Done, page 162:
text: It is not entirely clear how much the Dawkinsian perspective has to do with the issues of present concern.
ref: 2002, John Dupré, Humans and Other Animals, page 162:
text: The suggestion that Rolston diverges from Darwinism could also be directed at Ward when he seeks to supplement Dawkinsian, gene-machine-like, accounts of evolution by reference to a guiding purpose.
ref: 2006, Robin Attfield, Creation, Evolution and Meaning, page 145:
glosses: Relating to the "selfish gene" view on evolution as proposed by Richard Dawkins.
examples: text: […] two million people convinced and converted to Dawkinsian atheistic humanism.
ref: 2010, Amarnath Amarasingam, Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, page 121:
text: From that moment, I became an atheist — but we still remained best friends (probably because neither of us tried to convert the other). Let me state right now that I was never Dawkinsian in either temperament or zeal.
ref: 2012, Keith Allen, The God Conclusion, page 54:
glosses: Stridently atheist, like Richard Dawkins.
caudal keel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudal keels
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A lateral ridge found just anterior to each side of the tail fin on the caudal peduncle of some types of fast-swimming fish. The keels improve the stability of the fish's attitude at speed in the water, and strengthen the support of the caudal fin.
hepatopancreas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatopancreases
form: hepatopancreata
Etymology: From hepato- + pancreas.
Senses: glosses: An organ of the digestive tract of arthropods and fish, which provides the functions which in mammals are provided separately by the liver and pancreas.
Synonyms: word: digestive gland
english: in crustaceans
translation: in crustaceans
word: tomalley
trichobothrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichobothria
Etymology: From tricho- + bothrium.
Senses: glosses: An elongate external seta, present in many arachnids and various orders of insects, including Hemiptera and Thysanoptera. They function in the detection of airborne vibrations and air currents, including near-field sounds of central importance to their hearing and communication.
Related terms: trichobothrial
ziege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziege
Etymology: From German Ziege, from Middle High German zige, from Old High German ziga, from Proto-West Germanic *tigā. Compare Old Armenian տիկ (tik, “wineskin”), Albanian dhi (“she-goat”), Ishkashimi [script needed] (dec, “goatskin bag”), and further German Zicke, which is cognate with English tick (“goat”).
Senses: synonyms: sabre carp
sichel
glosses: An edible freshwater fish, Pelecus cultratus, of the order Cypriniformes, with an oblique mouth, a low wavy lateral line and a sharp-edged belly.
lateral line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateral lines
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A sense organ of a fish running lengthwise down each of its sides from the vicinity of the operculum to the base of the tail, used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water.
topics: biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: An equivalent organ found in tadpoles and aquatic salamanders that runs down the head and trunk.
Meronyms: neuromast
moon bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon bags
Etymology: In reference to its crescent shape.
Senses: examples: text: She wears her moon bag every day on her morning jog.
glosses: A small pouch attached to a belt that is worn on the outside of clothing around the waist and used for holding small personal items.
Synonyms: word: bum bag
word: fanny pack
hersir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hersirs
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse hersir.
Senses: examples: text: There was a powerful hersir in Sognefjord called Bjorn, who lived at Aurland; his son Brynjolf inherited everything from him.
ref: 1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 52:
glosses: A local leader in early mediaeval Norway.
Coordinate terms: godi
jarl
kwaito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwaɪtoʊ/
Etymology: From Camtho, from Afrikaans kwaai (“cool”, literally “angry”).
Senses: examples: text: Kwaito is a genre-defying style blending the programmed percussion and vibrant call-and-response vocals of 1980s bubble-gum with British garage, American hip-hop and the new Jamaican ragga music; this inter-cultural mix, in turn, is framed by laid-back bass lines that can sound like Chicago-based house music in slow motion.
ref: 2005, Martin Scherzinger, “The Globalisation of South African Art Music”, in Christine Lucia, editor, The World of South African Music, Cambridge Scholars Press, →ISBN:
text: The residue of this otherworldliness is still audible in contemporary kwaito, which consistently thwarts any simple identification with ethnicity, language, or social position.
ref: 2016, Gavin Steingo, Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of music featuring words chanted over house music, originating in Johannesburg during the 1990s.
examples: text: Sivuyile is part of the kwaito generation.
glosses: The meme or milieu associated with the music style.
kwela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zulu -khwela (“get up”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of music, first played in the townships, whose principal instrument is the penny whistle.
penny whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny whistles
form: pennywhistle
Senses: examples: text: Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a twopenny-halfpenny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached!
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:
glosses: A tin whistle.