cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
HMF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To obtain pure HMF, chemists have had to redissolve it in a solvent that is hard to boil away, making the process costly and inefficient.
ref: 2006, J. R. Minkel, “Pre-Plastic Fantastic”, in Scientific American, 259(3):36:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 5-hydroxymethylfurfuran
cuproammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cupro- + ammonium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation Cu(NH₃)₄²⁺ formed by adding ammonia to copper salts: A complex of four molecules of ammonia surrounding a copper ion.
Synonyms: word: cuprammonium
alt: tetramminecopper
word: tetraamminecopper
cuprobismutite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black mineral, with a metallic lustre, found in quartz deposits; it is a mixed sulfide of copper and bismuth.
cellularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cellular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: cellularly derived spliceosomal snRNAs
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, biological cells.
examples: text: The kid had a palmtop stock-quoter, a wire in his ear, and the schizophrenic eyes of the cellularly occupied.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, a cellular telecommunication network.
Derived terms: epicellularly
heterocellularly
homocellularly
juxtacellularly
transcellularly
Srta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Srtas
Senses: examples: text: The passengers were Guilherme Gastal, João Oliveira Goulart, and Srta Maria Echenique, who was the official courier of greetings from the Mayor of Porto Alegre to the Mayor of Rio Grande.
ref: 1984, R[onald] E[dward] G[eorge] Davies, Airlines of Latin America Since 1919, London: Putnam, →ISBN, page 340:
text: The play was read by three censors, Padre Artola, Sebastián Bautista de la Torre and Srta María Nieves Sunyer, before the Junta de Censura met on 22 July 1969.
ref: 2005, Catherine O’Leary, The Theatre of Antonio Buero Vallejo: Ideology, Politics and Censorship, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, →ISBN, page 88:
text: We arrived at Moorhill House and Miss Vessey introduced us to Miss Lewis, the cook, and Srtas Eulalia, Carmen and Rita.
ref: 2007, Niños Vascos Refugiados en Gran Bretaña, Mousehold Press for Basque Children of ’37 Association UK, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of Srta..
Cathal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Cathal.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
goes commando
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go commando
going commando
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go commando
went commando
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go commando
gone commando
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go commando
Tottori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tottoris
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鳥取(とっとり) (Tottori).
Senses: glosses: A city in Japan.
glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
pisses like a racehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piss like a racehorse
pissing like a racehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of piss like a racehorse
pissed like a racehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piss like a racehorse
carto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From French carte or Italian carta + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Forms terms relating to maps.
glosses: Forms terms relating to cards.
equipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈkwɪpətənt/
Etymology: From equi- + potent.
Senses: glosses: Having equal strength, ability or efficacy.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of two sets, having a bijection with one another.
Derived terms: equipotency
equipotently
inequipotent
Related terms: equipotence
secretting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹkrətĭng
ipa: /ˈsiːkɹətɪŋ/
Forms: form: secreting
Senses: examples: text: [… M]any Instances have lately happened of notorious Malefactors, as well as Persons imprisoned for Debt, breaking and making their Escape out of Goale, and so by the Help of their Confederates secretting themselves, and clandestinely getting off the Island, by which Means Delinquents evade Justice, and honest People are deprived of their due Debts, to the great Detriment of the Publick […]
ref: 1736: Mark Anthony Mills, Esq. (editor), The Ancient Ordinances and Statute Laws of the Isle of Man, §: “Insula Monæ”, ordinance proclaimed At a Court holden in Castle Rushen the 11th Day of August, Anno Domini 1736, page 240 (The Phœnix Press)
text: (He lets one more stone fall from his hand, then snaps his palm shut, secretting the contents, holding the fist upraised in front of the girl, teasing her with his game.)
ref: 2003, Brian Silberman, Manifest: A Play, University of Tampa Press, →ISBN, page 34, →ISBN:
glosses: present participle and gerund of secret
secretted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹkrətĭd
ipa: /ˈsiːkɹətɪd/
Forms: form: secreted
Senses: examples: text: For if a Man, haue that Penetration of Iudgment, as he can discerne, what Things are to be laid open, and what to be secretted, and what to be shewed at Halfe lights, and to whom, and when, (which indeed are Arts of State, and Arts of Life, as Tacitus well calleth them) to him, a Habit of Dissimulation, is a Hinderance, and a Poorenesse.
ref: 1625: Francis Lo. Uervlam, Viscount Sᵗ. Alban, The Essayes or Covnsels, Civill and Morall, essay VI: Of Simulation and Dissimulation, page 22 (third author’s edition; London, Printed by Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret)
text: He remembered the way the girl had stared at him, as blood had coursed down her face from the broken glass of his arrival. A pretty face, clear-eyed, smooth-cheeked; she would be easy to find. She would be amusing as well. She would tell him if she had secretted the talisman away. She would scream it to him. After that, he was sure of one thing. The last member of the Gifter’s family had to be silenced.
ref: 2007, Greg Hamerton, The Riddler’s Gift — First Tale of the Lifesong, Eternity Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: simple past and past participle of secret
hoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: hokes
Etymology: From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc.
Senses: examples: text: And thou ſhalt make hokes off golde and two cheynes off fine golde: lynkeworke and wrethed, and faſten the wrethed cheynes to the hokes.
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Exodus xxviij:[13–14], folio LI, recto:
glosses: Alternative form of hook.
Related terms: word: hoked
hoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: hokes
form: hoking
form: hoked
form: hoked
Etymology: From hokum.
Senses: examples: text: Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 126:
text: He even checked the Thomas Cooke & Son travel people about how to get to the East End (here he was hoking a bit), learning that they were ready to advise him on how to journey to any point in the world except the East End. Then he hailed a cab and found (here he was hoking further) that the cab driver didn't know how to get there either.
ref: 1993, Reed Whittemore, Jack London: Six Literary Lives, page 70:
text: If we define partitions of alternative cases by means of ingeniously hoked-up properties, we can get the principle to say almost anything we like.
ref: 1999, David Lewis, 15: Humean Supervenience Debugged: Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, volume 2, page 228:
text: If it be asked how we come to talk about them, the answer is: for purposes of rejecting these misbegotten creatures of sophistic imaginations, “hoked up” with such things as interest, strength, and the like, which do exist, although only outside of these combinations.
ref: 2008, Terry Penner, “12: The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and Plato”, in Hugh H. Benson, editor, A Companion to Plato, page 179:
glosses: To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
Derived terms: hoke up
hokey
hoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: hokes
Etymology: From hokum.
Senses: glosses: Something contrived or artificial.
hoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: hokes
form: hoking
form: hoked
form: hoked
Etymology: From the root of holk (“hollow cavity”). Compare Scots howk.
Senses: examples: text: When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
ref: 1987, Seamus Heaney, Terminus: The Haw Lantern, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: ‘[B]ut the raven winging
darkly over the doomed will have news,
tidings for the eagle of how he hoked and ate,
how he and the wolf made short work of the dead.’
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 95:
text: We met when I was hoking about in the rocks – just the sort of thing a virtual only child does to put in the day.
ref: 2000, John Kelly, The Little Hammer, unnumbered page:
glosses: To scrounge, to grub.
Jupiter mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jupiter masses
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit of mass equal to the mass of the planet Jupiter, used to express the mass of other planets. 1 M_J = 2 × 10²⁷ kg.
Synonyms: MJ
M♃
Related terms: Earth mass
solar mass
Earth mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Earth masses
Senses: examples: text: The mass of Jupiter is 318 M_🜨; its radius is 11 R_🜨.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit of mass equal to that of the Earth, used to express the mass of planets and similar astronomical bodies. 1 M_🜨 = 6 × 10²⁴ kg.
Synonyms: M🜨
M♁
ME
Related terms: Jupiter mass
lunar mass
solar mass
versals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versal
pick sixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pick six
acrophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækɹəˌfoʊb/
Forms: form: acrophobes
Etymology: From acro- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.
ref: 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: Paradoxes abounded in Mr. Tishman’s life. A self-described acrophobe who shied away from the precipices of the skyscrapers he was constructing, he loved piloting his own airplanes.
ref: 2016 February 11, David W. Dunlap, “John Tishman, an Acrophobe Who Took the Manhattan Skyline to New Heights”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2020:
text: Mia and Sebastian take a romantic stroll on an elegant, curvy concrete bridge that love-struck acrophobes wouldn’t be caught dead on.
ref: 2017 January 9, Jordan Rane, “Did you love ‘La La Land’? This L.A. trip is for you”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2025:
glosses: A person who suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights.
Related terms: acrophobia
excavation unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excavation units
Senses: examples: An excavation unit need not be rectangular, if precise measurements are made to assure good provenience.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pit, trench, shovel test hole, (etc.) or other result of scientific excavation.
acrophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrophobe
homocore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo + -core.
Senses: examples: text: New zines by G.B. Jones--brilliant editor of early girl-oriented homocore zines J.D.s, Hide.
ref: 1992 September 25, Emily White, “Where the Noise Is”, in Chicago Reader:
text: We're homocore," adds D'Ercole, "without the touching."
ref: 2007 September 28, Liz Armstrong, “Band of Bros”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Queercore, an artistic and musical movement dealing with issues of sexual and gender prejudice
examples: text: Homocore — Hardcore rock played by gay musicians.
ref: 1995 June 15, Teresa Gubbins, “Hardcore rock at the root of all other 'cores'”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of punk rock, especially hardcore punk, associated with LGBTQ+ musicians and themes, often expressing queer identity, resistance, and community.
anti-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-Christian
form: most anti-Christian
form: antichristian
Etymology: From anti- + Christian.
Senses: examples: text: Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes.
ref: 2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN:
synonyms: Christianophobic
Christophobic
glosses: Opposed to Christians or Christianity.
anti-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-Christians
form: antichristian
Etymology: From anti- + Christian.
Senses: synonyms: Christianophobe
Christophobe
glosses: One who opposes Christians or Christianity.
bitchfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitchfests
Etymology: From bitch + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: There have been few revivals of Boys in the Band in the past few years; people are unsure how to do it: tragicomedy, comic tragedy, bitch-fest or period piece.
ref: 1987 February 22, Michael Bronski, “Boys in the Band (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 15:
text: "Robbie and I had a bitchfest about our lives," he says. "
ref: 2000 November 3, Peter Margasak, “Good Alt Boy”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An occasion of much bitching (complaining)
bitchfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitchfest
birthparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthparents
form: birth parent
Etymology: From birth + parent.
Senses: examples: text: We met the birthparents several times, had a ceremony where they gave us their baby and we will continue to communicate with them.
ref: 1989 May 26, Name withheld, “Open Adoption”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A biological parent of an adopted child
Synonyms: bioparent
Hyponyms: birthmother
birthfather
birthmother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthmothers
form: birth mother
Etymology: From birth + mother.
Senses: examples: text: The Agency educated us on the adoption process and gave us the opportunity to meet with other adoptive parents and also prospective birthmothers.
ref: 1989 June 16, Adoptive mother and father, “Top-Notch Agency”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The biological mother of an adopted child.
Synonyms: biomother
Related terms: birthparent
birthfather
birthmothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthmother
birthparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthparent
kerflewie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerflooey.
kerflewy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerflooey.
razzamatazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of razzmatazz.
subassemblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subassembly
manoeuvrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manoeuvring
vizslas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vizsla
pepitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepita
outpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpoint
outpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outpoint
outpointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpoint
subprimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subprime
shuras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shura
refloods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflood
reflooding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflood
reflooding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refloodings
Senses: glosses: An act of flooding again.
reflooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflood
peatlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peatland
real men don't eat quiche
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: The idiom derives from the book on stereotypes about masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982.
Senses: glosses: The stereotypical man does not do things that are considered effeminate.
Related terms: quiche-eater
microneighborhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microneighborhood
finetune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finetunes
form: finetuning
form: finetuned
form: finetuned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fine-tune.
finetunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of finetune
finetuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finetune
finetuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finetune
attojoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attojoules
Etymology: From atto- + joule.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of energy, work, and heat equal to 10⁻¹⁸ joules. Symbol: aJ
Synonyms: sense: Symbol
word: aJ
dressingrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dressingroom (alternative form of dressing rooms).
exoticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoticism
classicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: classicizes
form: classicizing
form: classicized
form: classicized
form: classicise
Etymology: From classic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Another approach is exemplified by the performance group known as Mahligai […] which drew on traditional forms in an attempt to classicize them.
ref: 2002, R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: To make classic.
examples: text: Mies' style, for all of its obvious modernity, is essentially rather classicizing […]
ref: 1974 January 20, Paul Goldberger, “Mies Art Pavilion Opens In Houston”, in Eugene Register-Guard:
glosses: To conform to the classic style.
Derived terms: classicization
classicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of classicize
classicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of classicize
classicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more classicizing
form: most classicizing
Senses: examples: text: In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.
ref: 2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:
glosses: Adopting a classical style.
classicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of classicize
millicandela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millicandelas
form: milli-candela
Etymology: From milli- + candela.
Senses: glosses: One thousandth (10⁻³) of a candela, abbreviated as mcd.
millicandelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millicandela
old men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old man
nearhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪə(ɹ).hand/
Forms: form: more nearhand
form: most nearhand
Etymology: From Middle English nerhand, nerehand, nerehonde, equivalent to near + hand.
Senses: examples: text: We are nearer hand to the great coal districts, and there is a tendency for the men to go there. We are nearer hand to the great mining centres than are those that Mr. Scott represented
ref: 1894, Royal Commission on Agriculture, “Minutes of evidence taken before Her Majesty's commissioners”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volumes 1-2, page 527:
text: But whether, when he should break his camp at Forney's plantation, he would go northward after Morgan and the prisoners, or cross the river at some nearhand ford to chase our main, none of our scouts could tell us.
ref: 1902, Francis Lynde, The master of Appleby, page 518:
text: The person discovering the fire will immediately endeavor to extinguish it by the use of the nearest means at hand, such as suffocation by blankets or other material, use of w7ater, or the nearest hand fire extinguisher or pyrene outfit
ref: 1921, United States naval medical bulletin, volume 15, page 320:
glosses: Nearby; close at hand; nigh; adjacent.
nearhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪə(ɹ).hand/
Etymology: From Middle English nerehand, nerhond, nerehande, equivalent to near + hand.
Senses: glosses: Nearly.
glosses: Nearby; near at hand.
nearhand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪə(ɹ).hand/
Etymology: From Middle English nerhand, nerehand, nerhande, from the adverb (above). Equivalent to near + hand.
Senses: examples: text: And when I was nearhand the house, I met Menie, her daughter, and she told me that they had heard word from Sandy that morning [...].
ref: 1862, Margaret Maitland, Passages in the Life of, page 247:
text: but I will tell you that some of my coopers went into the fishing station and vomited, owing to the smell from the whales, and they declared to me when they came back that it was the last time they would go nearhand them
ref: 1904, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by command, volume 42, page 32:
text: You'll be always nearhand us in Tierneys' mill.
ref: 1926, Catholic World, volume 123, page 199:
glosses: Nearby.
Morioka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Japan, capital of Iwate prefecture.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
forechoice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + choice.
Senses: glosses: Preference.
glosses: The act or process of choosing ahead of time; preselection.
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A motive which is in harmony or agreement with right desire.
Related terms: forechoose
brogueing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brogueings
Senses: glosses: A pattern of punch holes along the seams of a shoe, found in various styles of shoe, notably the brogue.
brogueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brogue
New York reloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New York reload
revelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revelments
Etymology: From revel + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Joyful merry-making.
Synonyms: revelry
American basswood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American basswoods
Senses: glosses: A type of linden, native to eastern North America, Tilia americana.
American basswoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American basswood
aeroelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + elastic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aeroelasticity
Derived terms: aeroelastically
angritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angritic
form: most angritic
Etymology: From angrite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing angrite
benchtop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benchtops
Etymology: From bench + top.
Senses: examples: benchtop laboratory equipment
glosses: The surface of a bench or workbench.
bianisotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bianisotropic
form: most bianisotropic
Etymology: From bi- + anisotropic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting bianisotropy
bianisotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + anisotropy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An inhomogenous, asymmetric form of anisotropy.
dial-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from dial in.
Senses: examples: text: You can access your messages via Option 3 of our dial-in service menu.
glosses: Of a system or service: accepting incoming connections over a telephone line.
glosses: Of a radio or television program: synonym of call-in.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a computer, set up to accept incoming modem calls.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Dial-up.
Related terms: mail-in
dial-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dial-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from dial in.
Senses: examples: text: Enterprises need to connect telecommuters and remote offices; ISPs need to take dial-ins from subscribers; and so on.
ref: 2006, Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Cisco: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition, page 48:
glosses: The act of connecting to a system or service by means of a telecommunication network.
qualifier: drag racing
glosses: A driver's estimate of the time required to reach and cross the finish line, used to determine the head start for each vehicle.
Related terms: dial in
bombesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombesins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A neural oligopeptide that stimulates the release of gastrin
dial in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dials in
form: dialing in
form: dialling in
form: dialed in
form: dialed in
form: dialled in
form: dialled in
Etymology: dial + in, from tuning in to a radio frequency by changing the dial, or dialling a telephone number (originally on a rotary dial).
Senses: examples: text: Before starting the recording, make sure you've dialled in the right synthesiser settings.
coordinate_terms: tune#Verb
glosses: To configure or set up (particularly a complex machine with many configuration options [especially knobs and dials]).
examples: text: I tried dialling in to the server, but I couldn't connect.
coordinate_terms: call in
glosses: To connect (to a system or service) by telephone.
examples: text: Did you dial in to that earnings announcement?
synonyms: call in
antonyms: dial out
glosses: To join or participate in (a conference call).
examples: text: The company quickly dialled in to the fact that customers wanted greater convenience.
text: Nowadays most people are dialled in to the idea that smoking is bad for you.
text: Starting in the ’90s, politicians began treating elections like advertising campaigns and used focus groups to dial in the most effective rhetoric, according to the Stanford economist Matthew Gentzkow, who has analyzed congressional speeches.
ref: 2022 November 12, Matteo Wong, “How Did America End Up With the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Act?”, in The Atlantic:
coordinate_terms: pick up on
glosses: To apprehend and align oneself (to an idea, circumstance, way of thinking, etc.).
Derived terms: word: dial-in
word: dial-in time
Related terms: tune in
lock in
boreoeutherian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boreoeutherians
Etymology: Boreoeutheria + -an
Senses: glosses: Any placental mammal of the clade, magnorder, or superorder Boreoeutheria.
boreoeutherians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boreoeutherian
revelrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more revelrous
form: most revelrous
Etymology: From revelry + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: She was thus quietly occupied in her own apartment, and the festivities of the party that were assembled above, were loud and revelrous.
ref: 1823, Henry Fitzroy, Henry Fitzroy, the Young Midshipman, Chalmers & Collins (Glasgow), p. 74
text: An hour and a half of now-revelrous, now-subdued celebration hummed along with admirable energy.
ref: 1984, Jim Moorhead, "‘Superstar’ Company Acquits Itself Well," St. Petersburg Independent, 7 Feb., p. 6B (retrieved 21 Sep. 2009)
text: [M]y husband and I suffered in a Holiday Inn that was the scene of a revelrous post-wedding party.
ref: 1996 November 3, Fran Schumer, “Cyclists' Holiday”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Sep 2009:
text: I was, if you will, the contingent phenomenon, a potential lurking in the unholy fug of a revelrous night spun out of control.
ref: 2006, M. G. Vassanji, When She Was Queen, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Characterized by or engaged in boisterous merry-making.
Synonyms: carousing
celebratory
festive
Related terms: revelry
hoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoke
hoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoke
Kymber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A very rare spelling variant of Kimber.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A female given name from Old English.
pumps up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pump up
pumping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pump up
selfie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlfi/
rhymes: -ɛlfi
Forms: form: selfies
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.
Senses: examples: text: Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.
ref: 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" https://web.archive.org/web/20131123194231/http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/archives/archive32/newposts/169/topic169861.shtm, ABC Online Forum selfie photo
text: Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.
ref: 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." https://web.archive.org/web/20041126014124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcguirk/, Flickr
text: That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.
ref: 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:
text: 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/27/168139129/the-mars-rover-takes-a-selfie, the picture show, National Public Radio
text: Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.
ref: 2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio
text: I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.
ref: 2017, Lord Stag, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay:
text: take a selfie
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
head_nr: 1
glosses: A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
head_nr: 1
glosses: An overly staged or edited self-portrait shared on social media.
Hypernyms: self-portrait
Derived terms: belfie
braggie
brelfie
carfie
chelfie
delfie
drelfie
dronie
felfie
footsie
grelfie
groupie
healthie
helfie
killfie
legsie
lelfie
melfie
nakie
nelfie
pelfie
relfie
selficide
selfie camera
selfie stick
shelfie
shoefie
slofie
stealthie
twofie
ussie
vaxxie
velfie
wefie
welfie
youfie
selfie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlfi/
rhymes: -ɛlfi
Forms: form: selfies
form: selfying
form: selfied
form: selfied
Etymology: From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: To take a selfie.
lalaland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of La-La Land.
selfies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selfie
selfies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of selfie
blue-plate specials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-plate special
blue plate specials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue plate special
gandy dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gandy dancer
gandy-dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gandy-dancer
that's all
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see that, is, all.
examples: text: I just think you should take things slowly, that's all.
glosses: Used to undercut the force of a suggestion, fact, etc.; that is all I want to say; there is no more to it.
Synonyms: is all
that's all, folks
that's it
that's your lot
BitTorrent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: bittorrent
Etymology: From bit + torrent.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.
Related terms: torrent
seed
tracker
leecher
cavicapture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cavity + capture
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The temporary capture of a small molecule in a cavity of a biological macromolecule.
mediocres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediocre
codiverged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of codiverge
codiverge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: codiverges
form: codiverging
form: codiverged
form: codiverged
Etymology: From co- + diverge.
Senses: glosses: To diverge together
contracept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contracepts
form: contracepting
form: contracepted
form: contracepted
Etymology: Back-formation from contraception. Attested US 1932, with earlier occasional use as abbreviation for contraceptive in the medical literature; popularized US mid-1960s in the context of the sexual revolution.
Senses: examples: text: Through the wisdom of our legislators, only the intelligent may contracept, while the stupid are commanded to reproduce their kind.
ref: 1932, Will Durant, R. Long, R.R. Smith, “On the meaning of life”, in Inc., page 121:
text: … the facile assumption that we may be able to contracept our way to the Great Society.
ref: 1965, Stephen J. Plank, quoted in “Professor Warns Against Assuming Birth Pill To Cure Population Boom”, The Harvard Crimson, January 05, 1966
text: it is also assumed that women who breastfeed being contracepting as soon as they stop breastfeeding unless the sum of the duration of breastfeeding and the duration of contraception is greater than the length of the interval from last birth to next conception
ref: 1983, Toni Richards, Comparative analysis of fertility, breastfeeding, and contraception: a dynamic model, National Academies, page 27:
glosses: To use contraception
glosses: To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals
contracepted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contracept
contracepting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contracept
diphenylcyclopropenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphenylcyclopropenones
Etymology: From diphenyl + cyclopropenone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A diphenyl derivative of cyclopropenone; it is used to treat alopecia areata
cyclopropenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopropenones
Etymology: From cyclopropene + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cyclic ketone having three carbon atoms and one double bond opposite the carbonyl group.
Derived terms: diphenylcyclopropenone
Related terms: cyclopropanone
disproportionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disproportionality
eigenpolarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenpolarization
eigenpolarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenpolarizations
Etymology: From eigen- + polarization.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum polarization
alopecia areata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pinkett Smith has shared publicly that she has alopecia areata, addressing her and other patients’ experiences during her June 1 episode of “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch show. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss on the scalp and elsewhere, according to the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.
ref: 2022 June 1, Kristen Rogers, “What causes alopecia, a ‘devastating’ hair loss condition affecting Jada Pinkett Smith”, in CNN:
text: At least 40% of women experience hair loss or alopecia over their lifetimes. This could be alopecia areata (patchy hair loss), traction alopecia (strained hair loss) or another form. The different ways that women’s hair loss has been depicted across art history demonstrates the many different ways it has been interpreted over the years.
In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery.
ref: 2024 March 31, Glen Jankowski, “Alopecia in art history: The many ways women’s hair loss has been interpreted”, in CNN:
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of alopecia in which hair is lost from various areas of the body.
Related terms: ophiasis
exocytosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exocytosed
form: most exocytosed
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Produced by exocytosis
geofluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geofluid
geofluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geofluids
Etymology: From geo- + fluid.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any subsurface fluid, such as groundwater, geothermal fluids, basinal brines, petroleum or magmatic fluid.
gyrotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyro- + -tropy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The helical movement of electromagnetic radiation through a chiral material
Derived terms: agyrotropy
gyrotropization
Related terms: gyrotropic
highstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highstands
Etymology: From high + stand.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An interval during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf
Related terms: lowstand
howardites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howardite
immunocontraception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + contraception.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of an immune response to facilitate contraception
Related terms: immunosterilization
intraplantar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + plantar.
Senses: glosses: Within the sole of the foot
Related terms: planta
longheld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longheld
form: most longheld
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of long-held.
long-held
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more long-held
form: most long-held
Senses: examples: text: The illumination was organised by Martin Whyte from events company The Stage Group, fulfilling a long-held ambition of his to light up the 21-arch Scottish structure.
ref: 2020 April 22, “Network News: Glenfinnan turns blue to honour NHS workers”, in Rail, page 9:
glosses: Held (assumed, proposed, believed etc.) for a long period of time.
memcapacitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memcapacitances
Etymology: Blend of memory + capacitance
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The capacitance of a memcapacitor.
memcapacitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memcapacitors
Etymology: Blend of memory + capacitor
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A capacitor with memory, whose capacitance depends on past input.
Related terms: meminductor
memristor
muropeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muropeptide
muropeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muropeptides
Etymology: From Latin murus (“wall”) + peptide.
Senses: glosses: Any peptidoglycan associated with a cell wall.
Derived terms: anhydromuropeptide
muropeptidase
neurokinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurokinins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of tachykinin oligopeptide of the mammalian central nervous system.
neuromedin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuromedins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of peptides related to bombesin
nonimported
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + imported.
Senses: glosses: Not imported
nonmonotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monotonic.
Senses: glosses: Not monotonic
nonresponse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonresponses
form: non-response
Etymology: From non- + response.
Senses: examples: text: Again, nonresistance is not nonresponse but a psychological nondefiance to the present moment, regardless of any given response.
ref: 2022, Kevin Scott, The Mystery of Self:
glosses: The absence of a response.
percolative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From percolate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That percolates
Derived terms: nonpercolative
percolatively
yerba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yerbas
Etymology: From Spanish yerba. Doublet of herb.
Senses: examples: text: The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba, and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore.
ref: 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle:
text: This was the place at which the leaves and small sprigs of the yerba tree, when brought from the woods, were first scorched--fire being set to the logs of wood within it.
ref: 1854, P. L. Simmonds, The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom:
text: His preparations for breakfast are simple, and he is ready to start out after half an hour spent in imbibing a few mates full of yerba infusion.
ref: 1910, Various, Argentina From A British Point Of View:
glosses: Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage maté.
Related terms: yerba mate
yerba santa
picoeukaryote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picoeukaryotes
Etymology: From pico- + eukaryote.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any eukaryotic organism that ranges in size from 0.2 to 2.0 µm.
Related terms: picoeukaryotic
precoat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precoats
form: precoating
form: precoated
form: precoated
Etymology: From pre- + coat.
Senses: glosses: To coat in advance of another process
precoating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precoat
prodynorphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prodynorphins
Etymology: From pro- + dynorphin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An opioid polypeptide hormone involved with chemical signal transduction and cell communication.
pruritogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pruritogenic
form: most pruritogenic
Etymology: From pruritus + -genic.
Senses: glosses: That causes pruritus (an itching sensation).
pseudoreplicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoreplicate
pseudoreplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoreplicates
Etymology: From pseudo- + replicate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of a group of interdependent data that are mistakenly treated as independent.
Related terms: pseudoreplication
pseudoreplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pseudoreplicates
form: pseudoreplicating
form: pseudoreplicated
form: pseudoreplicated
Etymology: From pseudo- + replicate.
Senses: glosses: To cause or to undergo pseudoreplication.
radiometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From radiometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of radiometry.
reacidifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reacidify
reacidifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That reacidifies.
semipalmated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + palmated.
Senses: glosses: Of birds, having webs between some, but not all, of the toes.
Derived terms: semipalmated plover
semipalmated sandpiper
semipalmated snipe
spanwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spanwise
form: most spanwise
Etymology: From span + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the direction of a span
spinothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spino- + thalamic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the spinal cord and the thalamus.
Derived terms: paleospinothalamic
palaeospinothalamic
neospinothalamic
submodality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submodalities
Etymology: From sub- + modality.
Senses: glosses: A subset or distinction within a larger modality
submodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submodels
form: sub-model
Etymology: From sub- + model.
Senses: glosses: A distinct part of a larger model.
examples: Near-synonym: trim (the usual automotive term for the concept)
glosses: A model within a model (of design).
submodels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submodel
subquality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subqualities
Etymology: From sub- + quality.
Senses: glosses: A distinct part of a larger quality
superphysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superphysiological
form: most superphysiological
Etymology: From super- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Greater than that found in a normal physiology
tricoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + coated.
Senses: glosses: Coated on three sides.