cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
goon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
ipa: /ˈɡuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
ipa: /ˈɡəʊˌɒn/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊˌɑn/
rhymes: -əʊɒn
homophone: go on
rhymes: -uːn
ipa: /ɡuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
ipa: /ˈɡuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
ipa: /ˈɡəʊˌɒn/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊˌɑn/
rhymes: -əʊɒn
homophone: go on
Forms: form: goons
form: gooning
form: gooned
form: gooned
Etymology: Possibly derived from etymology 1, from sense 3 ("a fool; a stupid person"), or from sense 1 ("a thug").
Senses: examples: text: To goon, Christfister says, "Instead of powering through and jerking off 100 percent to orgasm, you ease off around 90 percent and slowly build up" to the point of no return.
ref: 2020 November 21, Michael Stahl, “The Psychedelic Science of 'Gooning' — Or Masturbating Into a Trance”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022:
text: Some gooners use poppers and prescription or illicit drugs to enhance their cave time. “I love to use Adderall or Vyvanse when I goon, it gets you super hyper fixed on the porn, and also very slightly dulls your sensitivity, making you stay on the edge for literally fucking HOURS,” Redditor 420j0bud told me.
ref: 2023 March 13, Samantha Cole, quoting u/420j0bud, “Enter the Goon Cave, Where Porn and Masturbation Is All That Exists”, in Vice, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2023:
glosses: To masturbate for long periods of time without reaching a climax.
glosses: To masturbate for long periods of time without reaching a climax.
To masturbate.
Synonyms: sense: to masturbate
word: fap
word: masturbate
Derived terms: word: goon cave
word: gooner
word: gooning
word: goonvana
Related terms: flicker goon
inexistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnɪɡˈzɪstəns/
Forms: form: inexistences
Etymology: From in- + existence.
Senses: examples: text: Our inexistence indeed was a condition, wherein nothing in us was capable of being a motive of God's love; but our enmity proceeded further, and made us worthy of his detestation; […]
ref: 1648, Robert Boyle, Seraphic Love, Kessinger, published 1997, →ISBN, page 57:
text: In order to prove the inexistence of God, he challenged Him to strike him down in five minutes while timing himself with a watch.
ref: 1941, Giuseppe di Gioia, Swift are the Shadows, page 78:
text: Axiomatics (namely, that everything that will be used for the purposes of a demonstration is explained) does nothing more than formalizing this wiping clean — in other words, inexistence is posed as the condition for necessity to emerge.
ref: 2007, Jacques-Alain Miller, “The Sinthome, A Mixture of Symptom and Fantasy”, in The Later Lacan, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: The state of not being, not existing, or not being perceptible.
examples: text: that there is a mutual inexistence of one in all, and all in one; […]
ref: 1663, Isaac Barrow, “A Defence of the Blessed Trinity”, in The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, published 1830, page 188:
text: She distinguished as to this, the inexistence in God from eternity, and the figurative manifestation in time.
ref: 1854, Christopher Walton, Notes and Materials for an Adequate Biography of the Celebrated Divine and Theosopher: William Law, page 207:
text: Berkeley's theory of the creature's permanent inexistence in God evoked a suspicion of pantheism.
ref: 2005, Louis Dupre, The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture, →ISBN, page 303:
glosses: The state of existing in something
examples: 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
where could they find such receptacle for their inexistence
glosses: That which exists within; a constituent.
Synonyms: sense: not existing
word: nonexistence
word: absence
word: lack
sense: existing within
word: inherence
word: existlessness
word: inexistence
word: mu
word: nihility
word: nonbeing
word: nothingness
word: notness
word: unbeing
word: unexistence
Hyponyms: word: oblivion
word: vacuum
word: void
Related terms: word: inexistent
word: annihilation
word: obliteration
metempsychosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtəmsʌɪˈkəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: metempsychoses
Etymology: From Late Latin metempsychosis, from Koine Greek μετεμψύχωσις (metempsúkhōsis).
Senses: examples: text: Pythagoras borrowed Metempsychosis of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our Druides[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis, and a sound commercial education does not include Greek.
ref: 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Finest Story in the World:
text: Metempsychosis, he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it. They used to believe you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for instance. What they called nymphs, for example.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: To go along assuming that Victoria the girl tourist and Veronica the sewer rat were one and the same V. was not at all to bring up any metempsychosis: only to affirm that his quarry fitted in with The Big One, the century’s master cabal.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
text: Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction.
ref: 1994, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: Faiths and philosophies the world over have entertained prospects of some existence beyond the grave (perhaps in metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls), and belief in ghosts, shades or the wandering spirits of lost souls has been ubiquitous. Any culture crediting supernatural powers is likely to entertain an afterlife of sorts. But this Christian identification of the self with a 'separate soul' which transcended the flesh was especially indebted to theosophies rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.1, at p.18
glosses: Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
Derived terms: metempsychosic
metempsychosist
charitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charitable
form: most charitable
Etymology: From Old French charitable.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to charity.
examples: text: St. Martin [of Tours] looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!
ref: 1884, John Ruskin, “By the Rivers of Waters”, in “Our Fathers Have Told Us.”: Sketches of the History of Christendom for Boys and Girls who have been Held at Its Fonts, part I (The Bible of Amiens), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 30–31:
text: Pakistan can sometimes be a cruel environment, its residents caught between the dual pressures of poverty and violence. Yet it is also a place of great kindness, with a strong culture of charitable giving.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Kind, generous.
glosses: Having a purpose or character of a charity.
Synonyms: eleemosynary
Derived terms: charitableness
charitable organisation
charitable organization
charitable purpose
charitable trust
charitably
noncharitable
overcharitable
pseudocharitable
uncharitable
Related terms: principle of charity
winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪndz/
rhymes: -ɪndz
Senses: glosses: plural of wind
winds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪndz/
rhymes: -ɪndz
ipa: /waɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
ipa: /wɪndz/
rhymes: -ɪndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wind
throwing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹoʊ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹəʊ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw
throwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹoʊ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹəʊ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: throwings
Senses: examples: text: […] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
ref: 1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party:
glosses: The act by which something is thrown.
glosses: The process of making ceramic ware on the potter's wheel
Derived terms: axe throwing
cock throwing
shadow-throwing
stone-throwing
throwing ax
throwing axe
throwing knife
throwing star
throwing stick
throwing table
throwing wheel
strongest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: strŏngʹgəst
ipa: /ˈstɹɒŋɡəst/
ipa: /ˈstɹɒŋɡɪst/
enpr: strôngʹgəst
ipa: /ˈstɹɔŋɡəst/
enpr: strängʹgəst
ipa: /ˈstɹɑŋɡəst/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒŋɡəst
rhymes: -ɒŋɡɪst
rhymes: (General American) -ɔŋɡəst
rhymes: (cot–caught merger) -ɑŋɡəst
Etymology: From Middle English strongeste, strengeste (“stronger”), from Old English strongesta, strengesta (“strongest”), from Proto-Germanic *strangistô (“*stronger”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“strong”). More at strong.
Senses: glosses: superlative form of strong: most strong
widest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪdəst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wide: most wide
noblest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊbl̩ɪst/
ipa: /ˈnoʊblɪst/
ipa: /ˈnəʊbl̩ɪst/
ipa: /ˈnəʊblɪst/
rhymes: -əʊbl̩ɪst
rhymes: -əʊblɪst
Senses: glosses: superlative form of noble: most noble
sweetest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːtəst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sweet: most sweet
happiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæp.i.ɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of happy: most happy
fairest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈfɛəɹɪst/
Forms: form: fayrest
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fair: most fair
astrophilately
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + philately.
Senses: glosses: The branch of philately dealing with space flight and similar subjects.
UKWMO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation: a United Kingdom defence organisation (1957 to 1992).
ROC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROCs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of region of convergence.
raw_tags: of a series
topics: broadcasting
mathematics
media
radio
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of receiver operating characteristic.
exhibitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhibitioners
Etymology: From exhibition + -er.
Senses: glosses: A student at secondary school or university who has been awarded an exhibition. The exhibition usually involves a financial prize and may include the right to wear a distinctive gown, especially at the University of Oxford.
VBBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Vintage Baseball Association.
base ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1823, National Advocate, April 25, 1823. p. 2, col. 4.
I was last Saturday much pleased in witnessing a company of active young men playing the manly and athletic game of “base ball” at the Retreat in Broadway (Jones’)
1823, New-York Gazette & General Advertiser, Apr. 25, 1823, p. 2, col. 2.
We have received a communication in favor of the manly exercise of base ball;
glosses: baseball
Related terms: VBBA
SHHH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of self-help for the hard of hearing.
shhh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of shh.
phobophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) + -phobia, equivalent to phobo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: When Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was describing phobophobia -- the fear of being afraid.
ref: 2004 July 26, Heather Hatfield, “The Fear Factor: Phobias”, in WebMD:
text: In particular, the rulemakers – here judges who craft free speech doctrine – may themselves display a pathological fear of succumbing to pathological fear, a kind of phobophobia.
ref: 2014, Adrian Vermeule, The Constitution of Risk:
glosses: The fear of fear; the fear of developing a phobia.
Synonyms: phobiaphobia
POS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?
glosses: Initialism of parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation).
Canuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnʌk/
ipa: /kəˈnʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: more Canuck
form: most Canuck
Etymology: Origin uncertain, often hypothesized to derive from the name or speech of an early Canadian minority, later broadened to denote all Canadians:
* Since 1975, many scholars have come to think the name is from Hawaiian kanaka (“man”), a self-appellation of indentured colonial canoemen and Hawaiian sailors working off the Pacific Northwest, Arctic, and New England coasts, from French canaque (“indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia, Kanak”); or, more likely, American whalers’ pidgin, then re-interpreted as Can(adian) + a suffix. (More below on that [specific] putative suffix.) Compare English Kanak and German Kanake.
* Some dictionaries suggest it is derived from the first syllable of Canada, or its etymon Laurentian kanata (“village”), or a related word kanuchsa meaning “villager” in either Laurentian or another Iroquoian language; with the second syllable connected to Inuktitut inuk (“man; person”), from Chinook (“Aboriginal people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest”), or another First-Nation language ending like -oc, -uc, or -uq.
* Fanciful and unlikely suggestions include German genug von Canada (literally “enough of Canada”) (allegedly uttered by German mercenaries during the American War of Independence), French quelle canule (“what a bore”) (allegedly uttered by the French during a siege of Quebec), or the surname Connaught /ˈkɑ.nəxt/ (supposedly a French-Canadian nickname for the Irish).
Senses: examples: text: "I want none of your d—— peasoup excuses, or promises," and, calling upon the hostler, a fat-blooded Englishman, he ordered him to stable the horse immediately, and keep a sharp "look out" to that Canuck Frenchman.
ref: 1866, Andrew Learmont Spedon, “Tale III. Adventures with Religious Impostors.”, in Canadian Summer Evening Tales, Montreal, Que.: […] John Lovell, […], →OCLC, page 71:
text: It is well known that Canada, by the adoption of a protective tariff, shut out many of our American articles from the Canuck markets.
ref: 1879 June 1, “Various topics”, in The Detroit Free Press, volume 44, number 242, Detroit, Mich.: The Detroit Free Press Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
text: Well, what do you think of the Canuck elections?
ref: 1887 March 5, “A Premium on It”, in J[ohn] W[ilson] Bengough, editor, Grip. An Independent Journal of Humor and Caricature., volume XXVIII, number 10, Toronto, Ont.: [Grip Print. & Pub. Co.], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 2:
text: Any trend by the big brother to the south to tell Canadians how to run their affairs can raise Canuck dander very quickly.
ref: 1963 February 2, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ont.: The Globe and Mail Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
synonyms: Canajan
Canajun
Canuckistani
Canuckistanian
antonyms: non-Canadian
glosses: Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people; Canadian.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
space elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space elevators
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical cable, connecting the ground with space, which includes an elevator used to lift payloads or people into orbit.
Synonyms: beanstalk
space bridge
star ladder
begging the question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɡɪŋ ðə ˈkwɛst͡ʃən/
ipa: /-jən/
Senses: examples: text: It is an instance of begging the question to argue that God can only do good deeds because God is good.
text: But the thing which is called begging the question, is the making use of the very point, that is the thing in debate, or the thing to be proved, as an argument to prove itself. […] It is called begging the question, because it is a depending as it were on the courtesy of the other side, to grant me the point in question, without offering any argument as the price of it.
ref: 1844, [Jonathan Edwards], “Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated, in Reply to the Rev. Solomon Williams”, in The Works of President Edwards, in Four Volumes. A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Editions and a Copious General Index, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Leavitt, Trow & Co., 194 Broadway; London: Wiley & Putnam, →OCLC, part III (Remarks on Mr. Williams's Reasoning), section VII (Begging the Question), page 263:
text: We now turn to four particular fallacies that describe special kinds of unacceptable premises. The first two – begging the question and inconsistency – are important because they identify arguments where it is unnecessary even to ask whether its premises are acceptable. […] An argument begs the question when its premises presuppose, directly or indirectly, the truth of its conclusion. […] Begging the question is sometimes referred to by its Latin name: petitio principii. Begging the question typically arises when we want to defend some strongly held conviction, yet have difficulty in finding reasons that will persuade others of its truth.
ref: 2004, William [H.] Hughes, Jonathan Lavery, “Assessing Truth-claims”, in Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills, 4th edition, Peterborough, Ont.; Orchard Park, N.Y.: Broadview Press, →ISBN, page 133:
text: The begging-the-question fallacies are flawed because they assume, in a variety of ways, the truth of the conclusion in their premises. Hence, the premises provide no good reason to accept the conclusion.
ref: 2008, T. Edward Damer, “Fallacies that Violate the Structural Criterion”, in Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-free Arguments, 6th edition, Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A logical fallacy in which a premise of an argument contains a direct or indirect assumption that the conclusion is true; offering a circular argument; circular reasoning.
Synonyms: word: circular argument
english: casual usage
translation: casual usage
word: circular reasoning
word: hysteron proteron
word: petitio principii
Derived terms: beg the question
begging the question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɡɪŋ ðə ˈkwɛst͡ʃən/
ipa: /-jən/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beg the question.
petitio principii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtɪʃiˌəʊ prɪnˈkɪpiˌaɪ/
enpr: pə-tĭshʹē-ō' prĭn-sĭpʹē-ī'
ipa: /pəˈtɪʃiˌoʊ prɪnˈsɪpiˌaɪ/
Etymology: From Latin petītiō prīncipiī (literally “an assumption from the beginning”), calque of Ancient Greek τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖσθαι (tò en arkhēî aiteîsthai, “to assume from the beginning”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The logical fallacy of begging the question (i.e., "assuming the conclusion").
examples: text: A somewhat similar objection has been made by Locke and others, to the effect that the ordinary demonstrative syllogism is a petitio principii.
ref: 1869, C. S. Pierce, “Grounds of Validity of the laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities.”, in Journal of Speculative Philosophy:
text: The Streitberg-Michels Theory is evidently a petitio principii. To explain ē in gēbum, it is from the outset taken for granted, for inadequate reasons of method, that the form must be a perfect. [italics original]
ref: 1938, E. Prokosch, A Comparative Germanic Grammar:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A particular argument which commits the fallacy of begging the question; a circular argument.
welfare parasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welfare parasites
Senses: glosses: A person who is seen as living off the welfare of others.
Related terms: welfare bum
welfare queen
begging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪŋ
Forms: form: beggings
Etymology: From Middle English begging, beggyng, beggynge, equivalent to beg + -ing (gerund ending).
Senses: examples: text: The Brahmans were very annoying in their beggings for money […]
ref: 1832, Charles Coleman, The Mythologie of the Hindus: With Plates:
glosses: The act of one who begs.
examples: text: Then a thin old hag […] moaned out, "Twopence for two ounces!" and had to go out of the shop unmeated, since her earnings — or her beggings — had not brought her enough to have that small price to spare.
ref: 1877, All the Year Round, page 468:
glosses: Money or goods acquired by begging.
Derived terms: e-begging
begging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English beggin, beggyn, beggyng, (also beggand), present participle of beggen (“to beg”), equivalent to beg + -ing (participle ending).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beg
Derived terms: begging bowl
begging letter
beggingly
beggingness
begging the question
cyberbegging
go begging
soft begging
UNICEF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈju.niˌsɛf/
Forms: form: Unicef
form: U.N.I.C.E.F.
Etymology: Acronym of its original name, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. Now officially United Nations Children's Fund.
Senses: examples: text: The UNICEF was established in December 1946 by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. […] To present an adequate picture of the problem which the Committee on Foreign Affairs faced during the Eighty-first Congress in connection with the UNICEF, the background of congressional action in the Eightieth Congress is necessary.
ref: 1951, “Contributions to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)—H. R. 2785”, in Survey of Activities of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949–January 2, 1951), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, section I (Strengthening United States Participation in International Organizations), page 16:
text: According to UNICEF, SII’s delivery delays are a major reason why the COVAX rollout is so behind schedule, along with vaccine nationalism, limited production capacity and a lack of funding. COVAX should have already delivered 170 million total doses, UNICEF said.
ref: 2021 May 25, Julia Hollingsworth, “The world’s biggest vaccine maker is stalling on exports. That’s a problem for the planet’s most vulnerable”, in CNN:
glosses: An agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
UNAMIR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda.
parasitology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parasite + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of parasites.
Derived terms: palaeoparasitology
paleoparasitology
parasitologic
parasitological
parasitologist
TRIPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
qualifier: international law
glosses: The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
brood parasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brood parasites
Senses: glosses: An animal - bird, fish or insect - that relies on other species to raise their young.
Related terms: brood parasitism
parasitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹəs(a)ɪˌtɪzm̩/
Forms: form: parasitisms
Etymology: From parasite + -ism. Cognate with French parasitisme and Portuguese and Spanish parasitismo.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.
examples: text: We accused her of parasitism in taking his hard-earned money for new dresses.
text: These devices' energy consumption is parasitism upon the electrical grid.
text: Either theſe men imagine themſelves to be marvelouſly high ſet and exalted in the chair of Belfaſt, to vouchſafe the parliament of England no better ſtile than Servants, or elſe their high notion, which we rather believe, falls as low as court paraſitiſm ; ſuppoſing all men to be ſervants, but the king.
ref: a. 1674, “Observations upon the Articles of Peace with the Iriſh Rebels”, in The Works of John Milton, Hiſtorical, Political, and Miſcellaneous, volume 1, London: A. Millar, published 1753, page 399:
glosses: A similar interaction between people or things.
Derived terms: adelphoparasitism
alloparasitism
autoparasitism
brood parasitism
ectoparasitism
endoparasitism
epiparasitism
holoparasitism
hyperparasitism
kleptoparasitism
monoparasitism
multiparasitism
mycoparasitism
nonparasitism
polyparasitism
pseudoparasitism
self-parasitism
superparasitism
xenoparasitism
bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of brick
bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brick
perceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈsɛptəbl̩/
ipa: /pəˈsɛptɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more perceptible
form: most perceptible
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis, from Latin percipio.
Senses: examples: text: Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
Synonyms: word: conspicuous
word: detectable
word: discernable
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: perceivable
word: perceptible
word: sensable
word: sensible
Hyponyms: word: audible
word: gustable
word: olfactible
word: tactile
word: visible
word: measurable
word: obvious
word: subtle
Derived terms: nonperceptible
perceptibleness
perceptibly
Related terms: word: auditory
word: palatable
word: sensory
word: visual
word: sense
perceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈsɛptəbl̩/
ipa: /pəˈsɛptɪbl̩/
Forms: form: perceptibles
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis, from Latin percipio.
Senses: glosses: Anything that can be perceived.
sensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sense
sensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Humans are five-sensed beings, having touch, taste, sight, hearing, and smell.
glosses: Having a specified number or kind of senses.
discerned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɝnd/
ipa: /dɪˈsɜːnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discern
introspective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈspɛktɪv/
ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈspektɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: more introspective
form: most introspective
Etymology: From Latin intro "inward, within" (see intro-) + Latin specere "look at".
Senses: examples: text: All of a sudden Syme, who was standing as if blind with introspective thought, swung round and cried out, like a man waking from sleep—
ref: 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 264:
glosses: Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself.
Derived terms: introspective sort
nonintrospective
unintrospective
Related terms: introspect
introspectability
introspectibility
introspection
introspectional
introspectively
introspectiveness
introspectivity
German measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described and distinguished from rubeola, red measles by the German doctor Friedrich Hoffmann in 1740
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Rubella.
wikipedia: Friedrich Hoffmann
cognoscenti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒ.njəˈʃɛn.ti/
ipa: /ˌkɒɡ.nəˈʃɛn.ti/
ipa: /ˌkanəˈsɛn.ti/
enpr: käg-nə-'shen-tē
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cognoscente, from Latin cognōscere (“to know, become aware of”).
Senses: glosses: plural of cognoscente
Derived terms: blognoscenti
noncognoscenti
Lassa fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lhasa fever
Senses: examples: text: When he showed up in A & E with a cough and chest pain later that evening, the doctor on call suspected Lassa fever and asked that he be transferred to Ifẹ̀ for isolation.
ref: 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 243:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An acute, and often fatal, viral infection endemic to West Africa. Symptoms include fever, sore throat, muscle aches, a skin rash, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, ulcers, heart and kidney failure.
Synonyms: word: Lassa hemorrhagic fever
word: Lassa haemorrhagic fever
Hypernyms: fever
sentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.ti.ənt/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.ʃənt/
Forms: form: more sentient
form: most sentient
Etymology: From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
Senses: synonyms: sensate
glosses: Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
antonyms: insensate
glosses: Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
examples: text: Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.
ref: 2002, André Bormanis, “Silent Enemy”, in Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1, episode 12, spoken by Jonathan Archer:
text: Lemoine has been placed on “paid administrative leave” after publishing a transcript of conversations with LaMDA which he claims support his belief that the chatbot is sentient and comparable to a seven- or eight-year-old child. […] While Lemoine no doubt genuinely believes his claims, LaMDA is likely to be as sentient as a traffic light.
ref: 2022 June 14, Toby Walsh, “Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines”, in The Guardian:
text: After more than 25 years as an artificial intelligence researcher[…]Dr. Goertzel knew he had finally reached the end goal: Desdemona, a machine he had built, was sentient. But a few minutes later, he realized this was nonsense.
ref: 2022 August 5, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: word: sapient
word: intelligent
word: sentient
word: self-aware
word: sapient
glosses: Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
Coordinate terms: sapient
Related terms: conscient
sentient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.ti.ənt/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.ʃənt/
Forms: form: sentients
Etymology: From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
Senses: glosses: Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
examples: text: The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.
ref: 1965, Philip José Farmer, The Maker of Universes:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An intelligent, self-aware being.
Synonyms: word: intelligence
word: sentient
word: sapient
word: sophont
Hyponyms: word: artificial intelligence
word: Homo sapiens
word: human
word: person
Meronyms: word: anima
word: apprehension
word: awareness
word: consciousness
word: mind
word: knowledge
word: perception
word: sense
word: sentience
word: sapience
word: self-awareness
word: witfulness
Related terms: word: self-aware
parasitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌpɛɹ.əˈsɪɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ˌpæɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌpæɹ.əˈsɪɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: more parasitic
form: most parasitic
form: parasitical
Etymology: From parasite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a biological or symbolic parasite.
glosses: Drawing upon another organism for sustenance.
glosses: Exploiting another for personal gain.
topics: law
glosses: Of emotional damages: accompanying a physical or pecuniary injury.
Derived terms: alloparasitic
antiparasitic
autoparasitic
biparasitic
brood-parasitic
chemicoparasitic
circumparasitic
ectoparasitic
endoparasitic
entomoparasitic
epiparasitic
extraparasitic
haemoparasitic
hemiparasitic
hemoparasitic
holoparasitic
hyperparasitic
imparasitic
intraparasitic
kleptoparasitic
macroparasitic
mesoparasitic
microparasitic
monoparasitic
multiparasitic
mycoparasitic
neuroparasitic
nonparasitic
parasitical
parasitically
parasiticalness
parasitic drag
parasitic element
parasitic gap
periparasitic
phytoparasitic
polyparasitic
postparasitic
preparasitic
self-parasitic
semiparasitic
superparasitic
uniparasitic
unparasitic
xenoparasitic
zoöparasitic
zooparasitic
parasitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌpɛɹ.əˈsɪɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ˌpæɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌpæɹ.əˈsɪɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: parasitics
form: parasitical
Etymology: From parasite + -ic.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A component of a circuit that does not show up in a circuit's schematic but does show up in the circuit's behavior.
sustenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/
Forms: form: sustenances
Etymology: From Middle English sustenaunce, from Old French sustenance, from sustenir with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Compare also Late Latin sustinentia.
Senses: examples: text: More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: Something that provides support or nourishment.
Derived terms: self-sustenance
Related terms: subsistence
symbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: more symbolic
form: most symbolic
Etymology: From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”).
Senses: examples: text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
glosses: Pertaining to a symbol.
examples: text: a symbolic gesture
glosses: Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
Derived terms: antisymbolic
asymbolic
Blissard's symbolic method
concolic
multisymbolic
nonsymbolic
postsymbolic
presymbolic
shambolic
sociosymbolic
sound-symbolic
subsymbolic
symblematic
symbolical
symbolically
symbolicate
symbolic constant
symbolic expression
symbolicism
symbolic language
symbolic link
symbolic logic
symbolicness
symbolics
symbolic speech
unsymbolic
Related terms: sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbol
sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbolism
sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbolist
sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbolistic
sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbolization
sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbolisation
sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbolize
sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbolise
sense: terms related to symbolic (adjective)
word: symbology
zigeuner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪɡɔɪnɚ/
ipa: /(t)sɪɡɔɪnɚ/
Forms: form: zigeuners
form: Zigeuner
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zigeuner. See the German entry for further etymological information. Doublet of tzigane.
Senses: glosses: A Gypsy.
urne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urnes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of urn.
wein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weins
form: weining
form: weined
form: weined
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wean.
antistrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antistrophes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin antistrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ, “turning about”).
Senses: glosses: In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
glosses: The lines of this part of the choral song.
glosses: The repetition of words in an inverse order.
synonyms: epistrophe
glosses: The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
Derived terms: antistrophize
Related terms: antistrophic
antistrophon
ass hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of asshole.
polished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏlʹĭsht
ipa: /ˈpɑlɪʃt/
enpr: pŏlʹĭsht
ipa: /ˈpɒlɪʃt/
Forms: form: more polished
form: most polished
Senses: examples: text: polished shoes
text: But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
text: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
examples: text: a polished performance
text: We may be well assured, that a writer, conversant with the world, would never have ventured to expose the gods of his country to public ridicule, had they not already been the objects of secret contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society.
ref: 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 2-pt i:
text: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
ref: 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
text: She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:
glosses: Refined, elegant.
Derived terms: impolished
nail-polished
perpolished
polishedly
polishedness
polished rice
subpolished
unpolished
well-polished
polished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏlʹĭsht
ipa: /ˈpɑlɪʃt/
enpr: pŏlʹĭsht
ipa: /ˈpɒlɪʃt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polish
bitterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪtəɹli/
ipa: /ˈbɪtəli/
Forms: form: more bitterly
form: most bitterly
Etymology: From Middle English bitterli, biterli, biterliche, from Old English biterlīċe, bitterlīċe (“bitterly”), equivalent to bitter + -ly. Cognate with German Low German bitterlik (“bitterly”), German bitterlich (“bitterly”), Swedish bitterligen (“bitterly”).
Senses: examples: text: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Heidi threw herself down beside Clara's chair and began to cry bitterly.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 91:
text: Liverpool's £58m strikeforce of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored the goals that settled the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park - but Everton were left complaining bitterly about Jack Rodwell's controversial early red card.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a bitter manner.
examples: text: On a bitterly cold evening at Wembley, the Lionesses knew only victory would be enough to keep alive Team GB's hopes of competing in Paris.
ref: 2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Extremely
aphorisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphorism
aphorisms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aphorism
teme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temes
Etymology: Blend of technological + meme; introduced by Susan Blackmore in 2008.
Senses: glosses: A meme which lives in a technological artifact rather than the human mind.
wikipedia: Susan Blackmore
man-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmænˌmeɪd/
Forms: form: manmade
Etymology: From man + made.
Senses: glosses: Created by people, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic.
Synonyms: human-made
person-made
Hyponyms: woman-made
fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹuːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit
fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹuːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fruit
virtues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəː.t͡ʃuːs/
Senses: glosses: plural of virtue
emotions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈməʊʃənz/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊʃənz/
ipa: /iˈmoʊʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of emotion
cheerfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfəli/
ipa: /ˈtʃɪəfəli/
Forms: form: more cheerfully
form: most cheerfully
Etymology: From Middle English cherefully; equivalent to cheerful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That principle carried out consistently and logically, makes the individual not a claimant upon society, but a benefiter of it. He contributes whatever talent, natural or acquired, he may have, cheerfully to the promotion of the common good, […]
ref: 1849, William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 17, page 217:
text: 'Well, what have you done this time?' asked Sebastian cheerfully.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 90:
synonyms: word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: In a cheerful manner.
Ekavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect or group of dialects of Serbo-Croatian spoken primarily in Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as /e/.
Related terms: Ikavian
Ijekavian
preeminent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈɛmɪnənt/
Forms: form: præeminent
form: pre-eminent
form: preëminent
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French preeminent and its source, Latin praeēminēns, present participle of praeēmineō (“to stand out, excel”), from prae- (“pre-”) + ēmineō.
Senses: examples: text: China is still preeminent for its Goldfish, of which Pennant informs us that the most beautiful kinds, both for elegance of shape and richness of tinting, are taken in a small lake in the Province of Che-kyang.
ref: 1863, H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, “The Carp Family”, in The Angler-Naturalist: A Popular History of British Fresh-water Fish, with a Plain Explanation of the Rudiments of Ichthyology, London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, page 116:
glosses: Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important.
Derived terms: preeminence
preeminently
seminars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seminar
dinar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːnɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dinars
Etymology: From Arabic دِينَار (dīnār) and Serbo-Croatian динар (also from Arabic), derived from the Latin dēnārius. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, diner, dinero, and dinheiro.
Senses: examples: text: Standing near Joseph, carrying a bag of taboon flatbreads, was Olivier, from Ivory Coast. He arrived a year ago and has been trying to save the 3,000 dinars (£780) he said it would cost to make the trip to Europe.
ref: 2023 March 30, Simon Speakman Cordall, “Tunisian morgue overflows as more people attempt risky sea crossing”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, Tunisia and (as denar) North Macedonia.
glosses: An ancient Arab gold coin of 65 grains in weight.
Derived terms: dinarization
Related terms: denarius
BCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BCCs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bcc; initialism of blind carbon copy.
examples: text: Ulcerated BCC may mimic SCC, and Bowen's disease may be misdiagnosed for the superficial and morphoeic forms.
ref: 1993, W. E. De Launey, Harvey Rotstein, W. A. Land, De Launey and Land Principles and Practice of Dermatology:
text: Among the inhibitors of the Hh pathway that interact directly with SMO, vismodegib and sonidegib are the two compounds approved by FDA in 2012 and 2015, respectively, for the treatment of basal cell carcinoma (BCC).
ref: 2016 March 3, “Novel Acylguanidine Derivatives Targeting Smoothened Induce Antiproliferative and Pro-Apoptotic Effects in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of basal cell carcinoma.
Related terms: sense: blind carbon copy
word: CC
BCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of British Chambers of Commerce.
Related terms: chamber of commerce