cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chassis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæsi/
ipa: /ˈʃæsi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæsiz/
ipa: /ˈʃæsiz/
ipa: /ˈʃæzi/
rhymes: -æsi
rhymes: -æzi
Forms: form: chassis
form: châssis
Etymology: Borrowed from French châssis, from châsse, from Latin capsa (“case”).
Senses: glosses: A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward.
examples: text: Coordinate term: coachwork
text: The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated runabout[…]stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, … .
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: The base frame of a motor vehicle.
glosses: A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.
glosses: A woman's buttocks.
Derived terms: chassised
chassisless
hot chassis
Thunderbolt chassis
electronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛl.ɪkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /ˌi.lɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /əˌlɪkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /əˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From electron + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
glosses: Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
examples: text: electronic music
glosses: Generated by an electronic device.
examples: text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Internet.
Derived terms: acoustoelectronic
bioelectronic
bionic
cryoelectronic
cybertronic
dielectronic
digitron
electronically
electronic babysitter
electronic benefit transfer
electronic body music
electronic book
electronic brain
electronic car key
electronic cigar
electronic cigarette
electronic circuit
electronic collar
electronic commerce
electronic communication
electronic computer
electronic cottage
electronic dance music
electronic data interchange
electronic flight bag
electronic fog
electronic game
electronic intelligence
electronicist
electronic keyboard
electronicky
electronic mail
electronic media
electronic music
electronic organ
electronic picking
electronic publishing
electronic resource
electronic rock
electronic sackbut
electronic signature
electronic smog
electronic sport
electronic stability control
electronic superhighway
electronification
electronified
electronify
ELINT
emotronic
heatronic
immunoelectronic
interelectronic
isoelectronic
magnetoelectronic
microelectronic
monoelectronic
morphoelectronic
multielectronic
nanoelectronic
neuroelectronic
neurotronic
nonelectronic
optoelectronic
optronic
photoelectronic
piezoelectronic
polyelectronic
postelectronic
preelectronic
psychoelectronic
quadruelectronic
quantized electronic structure
radioelectronic
rocktronic
spintronic
stereoelectronic
technetronic
thermoelectronic
topotronic
trielectronic
unelectronic
unielectronic
vibronic
Related terms: electric
electrical
electronic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛl.ɪkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /ˌi.lɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /əˌlɪkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /əˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: electronics
Etymology: From electron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A device which runs on electricity.
circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.kɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsɜ(ɾ).kɪʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /sə(ɾ)ˈkjuʈ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪt
Forms: form: circuits
form: circuiting
form: circuited
form: circuited
Etymology: From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire.
Senses: examples: text: perpetual Motion keep, / Quick circuiting ; nor dare they close their Eyes
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
examples: text: Having circuited the air.
glosses: To travel around.
circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.kɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsɜ(ɾ).kɪʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /sə(ɾ)ˈkjuʈ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪt
Forms: form: circuits
Etymology: A calque of Chinese 道 (dào) or 路 (lù).
Senses: glosses: Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
glosses: Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
glosses: Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
Synonyms: word: dao
word: lu
english: Later Jin to Song
translation: Later Jin to Song
word: route
word: tao
lever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.və/
ipa: /ˈlɛv.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈli.vɚ/
ipa: /ˈliː.və/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
homophone: leaver
homophone: Lever
Forms: form: levers
Etymology: From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin levātor (“a lifter”), from levō (“to raise”). Doublet of levator.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
examples: text: Retractable steps and handrails are provided on each side of the cars. The steps, which are under the control of the guard, are operated by hand levers in the entrance vestibule.
ref: 1952 September, “Modernised Pull-and-Push Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
glosses: A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button).
examples: text: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
ref: 2012 March 23, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
examples: text: My lord, I brained him with a lever my neighbour lent me, and he stood by and cried, ‘Strike home, old boy!’
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.1:
qualifier: except in generalized senses below
glosses: A crowbar.
Synonyms: jimmy
Derived terms: back lever
beer lever
delever
exolever
front lever
lever action
lever arm
leverless
leverman
lever shears
microlever
multilever
pull a lever
ratchet lever
reversing lever
shift lever
side-lever
tuning lever
underlever
Related terms: word: alleviate
word: elevator
word: elevate
word: leaven
word: levant
word: Levant
alt: doublet
word: levator
word: levitator
word: levitate
lever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.və/
ipa: /ˈlɛv.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈli.vɚ/
ipa: /ˈliː.və/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
homophone: leaver
homophone: Lever
Forms: form: levers
form: levering
form: levered
form: levered
Etymology: From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin levātor (“a lifter”), from levō (“to raise”). Doublet of levator.
Senses: examples: text: With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.
text: Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
glosses: To move with a lever.
examples: text: Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
text: Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1:
text: The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. She levered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door.
ref: 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
glosses: To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
examples: text: He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.
ref: 2001 April 9, Joshua Cooper Ramo, “Bagging the Butcher”, in Time:
text: Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.
ref: 2013 December 8, Robert McCrum, “Biographies of the year — review”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
examples: text: "The equity holders want you to 'lever up,' use as much debt as you can," said David Stanley, chairman of Kansas City-based Payless Cashways,
ref: 1989 June 26, “Corporate America wants its privacy”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
Derived terms: compound lever
gear lever
leverage
lever escapement
lever frame
lever jack
lever watch
thrust lever
tire lever
tyre lever
universal lever
lever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.və/
ipa: /ˈlɛv.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈli.vɚ/
ipa: /ˈliː.və/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
homophone: leaver
homophone: Lever
Forms: form: liever
Etymology: From Middle English lever, comparative of leve, leef (“dear, beloved, lief”), equivalent to lief + -er. Related to German lieber (“rather”).
Senses: examples: text: Now therfore take my life from me / for I had leuer dye then liue.
ref: [1531, William Tyndale, transl.], The prophete Ionas […], [Antwerp: Merten de Keyser], chapter iiij:[3]:
text: The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.
ref: [1545?], John Heywood, The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […], 1908, →OCLC, signature [E.ii.], verso:
text: For although they were worthy of any puniſhment: yit had I leuer they might haue flooriſhed in welfare and ſafetie: […]
ref: 1571, John Calvin, “Iohn Calvin to the Godly Readers Sendeth Greeting”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Psalmes of Dauid and Others. With M. Iohn Caluin’s Commentaries, London: […] Thomas East and Henry Middelton; for Lucas Harison, and G[e]orge Byshop, →OCLC, 1st part:
text: For leuer had I die, then ſee his deadly face.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Rather.
lever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.və/
ipa: /ˈlɛv.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈli.vɚ/
ipa: /ˈliː.və/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
homophone: leaver
homophone: Lever
Forms: form: levers
Etymology: Borrowed from French lever.
Senses: examples: text: We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.
ref: 1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters, II.191:
text: Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.
ref: 2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:
glosses: A levee.
Angelopoulos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Αγγελόπουλος (Angelópoulos).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek surname Αγγελόπουλος (Angelópoulos).
Related terms: Angelopoulou
Angelopoulou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Αγγελόπουλου (Angelópoulou).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek surname Αγγελόπουλου (Angelópoulou).
Related terms: Angelopoulos
labor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bɚ/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: labors
form: laboring
form: labored
form: labored
form: labour
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of labour.
salary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæl.ə.ɹi/
homophone: celery (in some dialects)
Forms: form: salaries
form: sallary
form: sellary
Etymology: From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because, supposedly, Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for either of these claims from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
Senses: examples: text: This is hire and salary, not revenge.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
ref: 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
text: I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
ref: 1935, Upton Sinclair, chapter XX, in I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, page 109:
glosses: A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
Derived terms: champagne taste on a beer salary
final salary
salary cap
salary packaging
salary sacrifice
salary scale
Related terms: pay
remuneration
wage
wages
salary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæl.ə.ɹi/
homophone: celery (in some dialects)
Forms: form: salaries
form: salarying
form: salaried
form: salaried
form: sallary
form: sellary
Etymology: From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because, supposedly, Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for either of these claims from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
Senses: glosses: To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
salary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæl.ə.ɹi/
homophone: celery (in some dialects)
Forms: form: more salary
form: most salary
form: sallary
form: sellary
Etymology: From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because, supposedly, Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for either of these claims from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
Senses: glosses: Saline.
punishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/
Forms: form: punishments
Etymology: From Middle English punishement, from Old French punissement, from punir (“to punish”). Equivalent to punish + -ment. Displaced native Old English wīte.
Senses: examples: text: The naughty children were given a punishment by their teachers.
glosses: The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.
examples: text: a light punishment
text: a harsh punishment
text: But officials here maintain that their methods do make a difference, and they follow it up with post-release programs. The aim of Bastoy is not to punish or seek revenge, Nilsen said. The only punishment is to take away the prisoner’s right to be a free member of society.
ref: 2012 May 24, John D. Sutter, “Welcome to the world’s nicest prison”, in CNN:
glosses: A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
glosses: A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
examples: text: a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
glosses: Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
Synonyms: beating
castigation
punition
Hyponyms: corporal punishment
mirror punishment
retribution
Derived terms: antipunishment
brute for punishment
capital punishment
collective punishment
counterpunishment
funishment
glutton for punishment
group punishment
nonpunishment
overpunishment
petticoat punishment
punishmental
punishment pass
self-punishment
sucker for punishment
unpunishment
vicarious punishment
Related terms: impunity
punishable
punisher
punishing
punitive
punitory
telishment
Michael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mīʹkəl
ipa: /ˈmaɪkəl/
ipa: [ˈmɐɪ.kɫ̩]
rhymes: -aɪkəl
Forms: form: Michaels
form: Michaell
form: Mykal
Etymology: From Middle English Michael, from Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, and directly from their source Latin Michaēl, from Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mĭkhāḗl), from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”). Doublet of Miguel and Mikhail.
Senses: examples: text: Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel or Michael, giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.
ref: 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed: The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
text: He works in the steelworks, the boyfriend, on the factory floor. I'd say that was quite unusual, he's called Michael. Insists on that, he does, not being called Mike or Micky or Mick, pretends not to hear you, then, "No, my name's actually Michael."
ref: 2008, Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 498:
text: He looked more like a Michael; big guy, dark-haired, good posture, his back ramrod straight.
ref: 2015 August 25, Sue Grafton, X, Penguin, →ISBN, page 277:
text: The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
ref: 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
examples: text: And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince that standeth for the children of thy people.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 12:1:
text: And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 12:7:
topics: Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Provost of Heaven
Provost of Paradise
Saint Michael
glosses: An archangel associated with defending the faithful in the tribulation.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
meronyms: Ballaugh
Jurby
glosses: A parish and sheading of the Isle of Man.
Derived terms: Creech St Michael
Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels
Kirkmichael
Kirk Michael
Michael acceptor
Michael addition
Michael donor
Michael reaction
Michaels
Michaelson
Saint Michael
St Michael
St Michael Caerhays
St Michael Penkevil
St Michael Penkivel
St Michael's
St Michael's Mount
St Michael's on Wyre
Stoke St Michael
take the Michael
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Mick
sense: pet forms
word: Mickey
sense: pet forms
word: Micky
sense: pet forms
word: Mike
sense: pet forms
word: Mikey
word: Michell
word: Miles
word: Mitchell
sense: feminine forms
word: Michaela
sense: feminine forms
word: Michele
sense: feminine forms
word: Michelle
Bonnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒni/
rhymes: -ɒni
Etymology: Originally an American nickname from Scottish bonnie (“fine, beautiful”).
Senses: examples: text: Rhett leaning over the child had said: 'Her eyes are going to be pea-green.'
'Indeed they are not,' cried Melanie indignantly, forgetting that Scarlett's eyes were almost that shade.
'They are going to be blue, like Mr O'Hara's eyes, as blue as - as blue as the bonnie blue flag.'
'Bonnie Blue Butler,' laughed Rhett, taking the child from her and peering more closely into the small eyes. And Bonnie she became until even her parents did not recall that she had been named for two queens.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part V, page 891:
glosses: A female given name from English.
slope field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slope fields
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A field of plotted slopes of a differentiable function.
kerosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerosines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kerosene.
semiconductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktə/
ipa: /ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktɚ/
ipa: /ˌsemikənˈdɐktə/
ipa: /ˌsemikənˈdaktə/
Forms: form: semiconductors
Etymology: From semi- + conductor.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: chip, microchip, integrated circuit
text: Integrated circuits are made from semiconductors, especially silicon.
text: In this sense we are to understand the following table in which bodies are classed as conductors, semiconductors, and nonconductors; those bodies being conveniently designated as conductors which, when applied to an electroscope charged with either kind of electricity discharge it almost instantaneously; semiconductors being those which discharge it in a short but measurable time, a few seconds, for instance; while nonconductors effect no discharge even, in the course of a minute.
ref: 1876, Adolphe Ganot, Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young Persons, page 422:
text: The following table of conductors may therefore be used in inverse order as a table of resistances, the good conductors being bodies of slight resistance, the semiconductors being bodies of great resistance, and the insulators being bodies of so great resistance that they almost effectually oppose the passage of any current.
ref: 1901, George W. Jacoby, A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: Electrotherapy:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: chip, microchip, integrated circuit
text: The company supplies semiconductors to laptop, server, and smartphone manufacturers.
text: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Wednesday said its revenues increased more sharply in the first quarter of 2024 than in any previous quarter since 2022 following a surge in demand for microchips driven by the artificial-intelligence boom. TSMC, which supplies semiconductors to top companies including Apple and Nvidia, posted a 16.5% increase in its first-quarter sales to NT$592.64 billion ($18.54 billion), in a sign the global chip market has now started recovering from the major slump that hit sales in 2023.
ref: 2024 April 10, Louis Goss, “Chip maker TSMC posts sharpest increase in sales since 2022 following AI boom”, in MarketWatch, retrieved 08 May 2024:
text: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo proudly held up the progress of American industry on semiconductor manufacturing Sunday, declaring the U.S. has “outinnovated” China as the two nations fight to advance their domestic technology manufacturing.
ref: 2024 April 21, Nick Robertson, “Gina Raimondo says ‘we’ve outinnovated China’ amid chips war”, in The Hill:
topics: business
glosses: Ellipsis of semiconductor device.
Derived terms: intrinsic semiconductor
semiconductor heterostructure
semiconductor memory
Related terms: semiconductance
semiconducting
semiconduction
semiconductive
semiconductivity
germanium
silicium
silicon
insulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.s(j)ə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: insulators
Etymology: From insulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A substance that does not transmit heat (thermal insulator), sound (acoustic insulator) or electricity (electrical insulator).
examples: text: To isolate electrical wires from the pylons supporting them, one often uses glass insulators.
glosses: A non-conductive structure, coating or device that does not transmit sound, heat or electricity (see image)
examples: text: Alan Vasen worked as an insulator at this site from September 1968 through mid-April 1969. Mr. Vasen installed thousands of lineal feet of asbestos pipe covering and thousands of square feet of asbestos block insulation throughout the operating units of the Benicia refinery.
ref: 2007, Kenneth S. Cohen, Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: Surviving in the Courtroom:
glosses: A person who installs insulation.
Synonyms: sense: substance
word: insulant
word: isolation
Derived terms: mica insulator
microinsulator
strain insulator
superinsulator
topological insulator
Related terms: insulant
insulate
insulation
resistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɪstə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɪstɚ/
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: resistors
Etymology: From resist + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.
examples: text: The resistor limits the current and prevents damage to the LED. […] It is possible to pick resistors and capacitors that will make the pitch higher than humans can hear.
ref: 2021 December 23, “Snap Circuits Classic”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, pages 13, 27:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.
Hyponyms: tax resister
Derived terms: sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: ballast resistor
sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: carbon resistor
sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: light-dependent resistor
sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: photoresistor
sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: piezoresistor
sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: pull-down resistor
sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: pull-up resistor
sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: thermistor
sense: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it
word: varistor
currant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌɹənt/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈkʌɹənt/
rhymes: -ʌɹənt
note: General American, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈkɝənt/
homophone: current
homophone: (hurry–furry merger, cure–fir merger) courant
Forms: form: currants
form: coran
form: curran
Etymology: Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”). Cognate with Dutch krent. Doublet of Corinth.
Senses: glosses: A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4 mm in diameter when dried.
glosses: The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.
glosses: A shrub bearing such fruit.
Derived terms: blackcurrant
cherry currant
currant bun
currantlike
currant tomato
curranty
flowering currant
golden currant
Missouri currant
red currant
snow currant
sticky currant
wax currant
white currant
Zante currant
Related terms: date
raisin
sultana
Neapolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɑlɪtən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɑlətən/
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Etymology: From Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis, literally “new city”), a Greek city in modern Naples. Doublet of naporitan.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Naples, capital and largest city of Campania, Italy, or the surrounding metropolitan city.
synonyms: harlequin
glosses: Designating an ice cream combination of the flavours chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry in order. (Until the mid-20th century the flavours were pistachio, vanilla, and strawberry, giving the colours of the Italian flag.)
glosses: Describing a variety of ice cream made with eggs as well as cream.
Derived terms: Neapolitan chord
Neapolitan disease
Neapolitan ice cream
Neapolitan mastiff
Neapolitanness
Neapolitan pizza
Neapolitan sauce
Neapolitan wafer
Neapolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɑlɪtən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɑlətən/
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Forms: form: Neapolitans
Etymology: From Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis, literally “new city”), a Greek city in modern Naples. Doublet of naporitan.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Naples, capital and largest city of Campania, Italy, or the surrounding metropolitan city.
glosses: An individually wrapped piece of chocolate, sold in assortments of various flavours such as coffee and orange.
Neapolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɑlɪtən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌniːəˈpɑlətən/
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Etymology: From Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis, literally “new city”), a Greek city in modern Naples. Doublet of naporitan.
Senses: examples: text: It was a while before someone told him they were speaking Neapolitan, which in his understanding wasn’t quite Italian but wasn’t quite not Italian either.
ref: 2010, Emily St. John Mandel, The Singer’s Gun, Picador (2015), page 237:
glosses: A language spoken in South Italy, approximately in the area of the former Kingdom of Naples.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Neapolitan terms
1st
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɝst/
ipa: /fɜːst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: 1ˢᵗ
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of first.
Related terms: number
Venetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈniʃən/
ipa: /vɪˈniːʃən/
rhymes: -iːʃən
Etymology: From Latin Venetianus (“Venetic; Venetian”), from Venetia (“lands of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto; Armorica”) + -anus (“-ian”), from Veneti + -ia. In the case of the Veneti of northern Brittany, derived from Gaulish Uenetoi (“the friendly ones, the kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a derivation from *wenyā (“kindred”). In the case of the Veneti of northeastern Italy, of uncertain origin but presumably taken from a Venetic endonym, possibly Illyrian or Celtic. Equivalent to Veneto or Venetia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Venice or surrounding province, Veneto region, northeastern Italy.
glosses: Of or related to the former republic of Venice and its colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean Seas.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or related to Venetan, the language spoken in Veneto, or more specifically the Venetian dialect spoken in the city itself.
glosses: Synonym of Venetic, of or related to Veneto, the Italian region around the city.
synonyms: word: Venetic
extra: the Italian region around the city
word: of or related to Veneto
extra: the Italian region around the city
glosses: Synonym of Venetic, of or related to the Veneti, either of two unrelated tribes of ancient Europe.
synonyms: word: Venetic
word: of or related to the Veneti
word: either of two unrelated tribes of ancient Europe
glosses: Synonym of Venusian, of or relating to the planet Venus.
synonyms: word: Venusian
word: of or relating to the planet Venus
Derived terms: Venetian blind
Venetian blue
Venetian carpet
Venetian ceruse
Venetian chalk
Venetian door
Venetian glass
Venetianness
Venetian red
Venetian soap
Venetian sumac
Venetian sumach
Venetian swell
Venetian turpentine
Venetian white
Venetian window
Related terms: Venetan
Venetic
Veneto
Venice
Venetian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈniʃən/
ipa: /vɪˈniːʃən/
rhymes: -iːʃən
Forms: form: Venetians
Etymology: From Latin Venetianus (“Venetic; Venetian”), from Venetia (“lands of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto; Armorica”) + -anus (“-ian”), from Veneti + -ia. In the case of the Veneti of northern Brittany, derived from Gaulish Uenetoi (“the friendly ones, the kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a derivation from *wenyā (“kindred”). In the case of the Veneti of northeastern Italy, of uncertain origin but presumably taken from a Venetic endonym, possibly Illyrian or Celtic. Equivalent to Veneto or Venetia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Venice or surrounding province, Veneto region, northeastern Italy.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the surrounding region of Veneto.
examples: text: Ladies are usually conveyed about Calcutta, or any where for short distances, in a kind of palanquin, called a boҫhah... Its deep shape, and its seat, much resemble the [English sedan chair]; but having two doors, one on each side, with one window in front, as well as a small one behind, all furnished with Venetians and glasses, give it, in those respects, some claim to alliance with the [chariot].
ref: 1810, Thomas Williamson, East India Vade-Mecum..., page 323:
text: We never saw her ladyship, but the attendants told us, that the Venetians of her apartments were not impenetrably opaque from within, and that the old lady had seen us, and was concerned for our welfare.
ref: 1859, Mowbray Thomson, The Story of Cawnpore:
glosses: A Venetian blind.
glosses: Galligaskins.
glosses: Synonym of sequin (“type of gold coin”).
synonyms: word: sequin
extra: type of gold coin
Venetian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈniʃən/
ipa: /vɪˈniːʃən/
rhymes: -iːʃən
Etymology: From Latin Venetianus (“Venetic; Venetian”), from Venetia (“lands of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto; Armorica”) + -anus (“-ian”), from Veneti + -ia. In the case of the Veneti of northern Brittany, derived from Gaulish Uenetoi (“the friendly ones, the kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a derivation from *wenyā (“kindred”). In the case of the Veneti of northeastern Italy, of uncertain origin but presumably taken from a Venetic endonym, possibly Illyrian or Celtic. Equivalent to Veneto or Venetia + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Venetan
glosses: The Romance language spoken mostly in the Veneto region of Italy.
glosses: The form of this language spoken in Venice.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Venetan terms
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/vec
word: vec
accommodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: of the US
ipa: /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: [əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt]
note: of Canada
ipa: /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: [əˈkʰɑməˌdeɪt]
ipa: /əˈkɔməˌdæɪt/
ipa: [əˈkʰɔməˌdæɪt]
ipa: /əˈkɒməˌdæɪt/
ipa: [əˈkʰɔ̟məˌdæɪt]
Forms: form: accommodates
form: accommodating
form: accommodated
form: accommodated
Etymology: 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).
Senses: examples: text: to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
text: IT is an old Obſervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate themſelves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Counſels to his Inclinations, and adviſe him to ſuch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ſet upon.
ref: 1712 June 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 18, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 475; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 15:
synonyms: adapt
conform
adjust
arrange
suit
glosses: To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
examples: text: to accommodate differences
synonyms: reconcile
glosses: To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
examples: text: to accommodate an old friend for a week
glosses: To provide housing for.
examples: text: My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
glosses: To provide sufficient space for.
examples: text: This venue accommodates three hundred people.
glosses: To contain comfortably; to have space for.
examples: text: to accommodate a friend with a loan
glosses: To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
synonyms: oblige
glosses: To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
examples: text: to accommodate prophecy to events
glosses: To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
glosses: To give consideration to; to allow for.
glosses: To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
glosses: To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
raw_tags: of an eye
Derived terms: accommodatable
accommodatedness
accommodately
accommodateness
accommodation
accommodationism
accommodationist
accommodative
accommodator
accommodatory
disaccommodate
overaccommodate
reaccommodate
unaccommodated
underaccommodate
accommodate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: of the US
ipa: /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: [əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt]
note: of Canada
ipa: /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: [əˈkʰɑməˌdeɪt]
ipa: /əˈkɔməˌdæɪt/
ipa: [əˈkʰɔməˌdæɪt]
ipa: /əˈkɒməˌdæɪt/
ipa: [əˈkʰɔ̟məˌdæɪt]
Forms: form: more accommodate
form: most accommodate
Etymology: 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).
Senses: examples: text: God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination.
ref: a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions, London: A.M., page 181:
glosses: Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
accommodableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒ.mə.də.bəl.nəs/
Etymology: From accommodable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: a poor Idiot, […][who]had so little of this Accommodableness, as to be quite outrageous
ref: 1773, Catherine Talbot, Essays on Various Subjects in Prose and Verse:
glosses: The quality or condition of being accommodable
accomodator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of accommodator.
accompanable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌmp.nə.bəl/
ipa: /əˈkʌmp.ən.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more accompanable
form: most accompanable
Etymology: From accompany + -able.
Senses: examples: text: As for the houses of the country (for many other houses came vnder their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by th’ other, & yet not so far off as that it barred mutuall succor: a shew, as it were, of an accompanable solitarines, & of a ciuil wildnes.
ref: c. 1580, Philip Sidney, “The First Booke”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, folio 6, recto, page 6:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: sociable
accompanier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌmp(ə)nɪə/
Forms: form: accompaniers
Etymology: From accompany + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that accompanies.
Hyponyms: accompanist
accompanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌmp(ə)nɪst/
Forms: form: accompanists
Etymology: First attested in 1833. From accompany + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
accompletive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accompletive
form: most accompletive
Etymology: From Medieval Latin accompletivus.
Senses: glosses: Tending to accomplish.
accompliceship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accomplice + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: How say'st thou that he lied? Sirs, it is true
I with this craven beggarly companion —
Of whose accompliceship to do the deed,
And not the deed itself, I speak with shame —
I with this caitiff truly did conspire,
For good and ample reasons, to remove
Sir Walter D'Arlon from this troublesome world.
ref: 1863, Sir Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde:
glosses: The state of being an accomplice.
accomplicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.kɔmˈplɪ.sɪ.ti/
Etymology: From accomplice + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The act or state of being an accomplice.
Related terms: complicity
lavaret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæv.ə.ɹɪt/
Forms: form: lavarets
Etymology: From French lavaret, from Late Latin levaricinus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A European whitefish Coregonus lavaretus, found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland, and in the archipelago in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland.
lava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: läʹvə
ipa: /ˈlɑːvə/
ipa: /ˈlɑːvə/
ipa: /ˈlævə/
homophone: larva (non-rhotic)
homophone: lather (Cockney)
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: lavas
Etymology: From Italian, from Neapolitan and Sicilian lava (“lava”, but also “downpour overflowing the streets”). Likely in the sense of “landslide, torrent” from Latin labes (“fall”), compare labina (“avalanche, landslide”). A supposed relation with lavare (“to wash”) is now widely discredited. Neither is there probably any relation with Arabic لابة (lāba, “black volcanic rock”). Alternatively the Romance words are connected with Provençal lavo, lauvo (“flat stone”), from a Vulgar Latin source borrowed from a Celtic language such as Gaulish *lawā, but ultimately of obscure origin; see Proto-Celtic *līwos for details.
Senses: examples: text: Marine iguanas line the shores of the islands, and are usually seen sprawled over lava rocks near the sea.
ref: 1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 44:
glosses: The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides; magma that has breached the surface of the earth.
glosses: Magma.
glosses: A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.
Hyponyms: cryolava
pillow lava
Derived terms: fat lava
hot lava
lava bear
lava bomb
lava bread
lava cake
lavacicle
lava cone
lava dome
lavafall
lava field
lava flow
lavaform
lava lake
lava lamp
lavaless
lavalike
lava-like
lava millstone
lavascape
lava sledding
lava tube
lava ware
laze
molten lava cake
the floor is lava
Related terms: aa
lavalava
pahoehoe
laurone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lauric + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ketone of lauric acid.
laurite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɹ.aɪt/
Forms: form: laurites
Etymology: After Laura R. Joy, wife of American chemist C. A. Joy. Named in 1866.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon, with the chemical formula RuS₂.
laurinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laurin + -ol; so called in allusion to the family name Lauraceae of the camphor trees.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ordinary camphor.
Related terms: camphor
laurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːɹɪn/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪn
Etymology: Compare French laurine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.
Derived terms: laurinol