cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
amusing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmjuːzɪŋ/
Forms: form: more amusing
form: amusinger
form: most amusing
form: amusingest
Etymology: By surface analysis, amuse + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.
text: We don’t get amusinger as we get older, we grow prosy and repeat ourselves and talk about our complaints and selfish grievances: but our old friends bear up with our dullness for old times’ sake; […]
ref: 1856 March 10, William Makepeace Thackeray, “To Mrs. Elliot”, in Gordon N[orton] Ray, editor, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume III (1852–1856), London: Oxford University Press, published 1946, →OCLC, page 582:
text: Never borrow money for my amusements. Now paying Mrs. McCrowder just at this present period would be an amusement. In fact when we consider the quality of the article she gives, I think that paying her on the nail would be about the amusingest little thing I could do.
ref: 1861 January 12, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, “The Primpenny Family. […] Chapter II.”, in Vanity Fair, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Louis H. Stephens, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 13–14:
text: ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Off the Record”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 64:
text: They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.
ref: 2012 December 21, George Monbiot, “Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 24:
glosses: Entertaining.
examples: text: An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
ref: 1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 808-809:
text: [T]hey’d had to call it something – i.e. something that differentiated this occasion from others where they might just go for a pint or a curry. So beer & sausages had somehow happily invented itself, […] The best thing, of course, the amusingest thing, was that no one ever brought beer and Jas had only actually done sausages once.
ref: 2003, Phil Hogan, chapter 1, in The Freedom Thing, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Funny, hilarious.
Derived terms: amusingly
amusingness
semiamusing
architectural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑɹkɪˈtɛkt͡ʃəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌɑɹkɪˈtɛktjəɹəl/
Forms: form: more architectural
form: most architectural
Etymology: From architecture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Wheelchair users are restricted entry into many structures and public facilities by architectural barriers.
ref: 1986 February 8, Warren Blumenfeld, “Gay & Lesbian Print Disabled: The Issue is Access”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 29, page 9:
glosses: Pertaining to architecture.
glosses: Resembling architecture in style; seeming to have been designed (by an architect).
Derived terms: angioarchitectural
antiarchitectural
architectural concrete
architecturalism
architecturalization
architecturalize
architecturally
architectural panel
architectural pattern
architectural shingle
chemoarchitectural
cytoarchitectural
histoarchitectural
immunoarchitectural
macroarchitectural
microarchitectural
myeloarchitectural
neuroarchitectural
nonarchitectural
semiarchitectural
subarchitectural
unarchitectural
supposedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpəʊ̯.zɪd.li/
Etymology: From supposed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: supposably, reportedly, reputedly, purportedly, putatively, rumoredly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
text: People from other planets have supposedly visited Earth in flying saucers.
text: According to your testimony, you were supposedly at home watching TV when the murder occurred.
text: In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: France were supposedly a team in pieces, beaten by Tonga just a week ago and with coach Marc Lievremont publicly berating his players, but so clear-cut was their victory that much of the atmosphere had been sucked from the contest long before the end.
ref: 2011 October 8, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France”, in BBC Sport:
text: I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
text: Beyond the glaring sexism inherent in suggesting that women's brains are so different from men's that they can't think properly, Musk lending credence to this dogshit hypothesis is incredibly goofy given that he and his audience of supposedly "high-T" men seem far more likely to fall in line with the sort of groupthink the original post references in such pseudo-phrenological terms.
ref: 2024 September 3, Noor Al-Sibai, “Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone”, in The Byte:
glosses: As a matter of supposition; in the beliefs or according to the claims of some people.
examples: text: My parents told me I am supposedly in bed by 10 P.M.
glosses: Used in place of "supposed to be," often in informal or colloquial speech, as a mispronunciation.
triclinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricliniums
form: triclinia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trīclīnium, from Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion).
Senses: examples: text: Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 259:
glosses: A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
glosses: A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
Coordinate terms: biclinium
Derived terms: triclinial
tricliniary
tablinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablina
Etymology: From Latin tablīnum.
Senses: examples: text: (b) There was also a Pluteus (which we call Tablinum) a Place or Study, where the Pictures of their Ancestors, and their glorious Atchievements, were drawn or pourtray'd: On the other Side was the Kitchin, from whence they came into a Porch built about the Hall, or Cavedium, which, because `twas four-square, it was therefore surrounded with four Porticos, which may properly be called Walks or Piazzas.
ref: 1715, “Section II, Of Private Buildings”, in The history of many memorable things lost, which were in use among the ancients and an account of many excellent things found, now in use among the moderns ... written originally in Latin ... and now done into English ... with several additions (etc.), volume 1, London: John Nicholson, translation of original by Guido Pancirollus, page 72:
text: To my surprise I was shown not into the bedchamber but into the tablinum, where my imperial lover was half hidden by a mountain of paperwork.
ref: 2010, Kate Quinn, chapter 17, in Mistress of Rome, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: An anteroom in a house of ancient Rome, opening out of the atrium opposite the main entry and often containing the family statues and archives.
applied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈplaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: Put into practical use.
antonyms: pure
glosses: Of a branch of science, serving another branch of science or engineering.
Derived terms: applied anatomy
applied anthropology
applied art
applied arts
applied chemistry
applied computing
applied ecology
applied economics
applied engineering
applied ethics
applied kinesiology
applied linguistics
appliedly
applied math
applied mathematics
applied maths
applied physics
applied probability
applied psychology
applied science
applied semantics
applied sociology
applied statistics
applied tension
malapplied
nonapplied
unapplied
university of applied sciences
applied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈplaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apply
teaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːzɚ/
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: teasers
Etymology: From tease + -er.
Senses: synonyms: tease
glosses: One who teases or pokes fun.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A person or thing that teases.
topics: business
marketing
coordinate_terms: word: trailer
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: preview
glosses: A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
qualifier: video
glosses: A brief portion of a television episode or video that is shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
glosses: A kind of gull, the jaeger
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
glosses: The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
glosses: An assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
examples: text: A whore keeps her promises. A teaser only promises.
ref: 1966, Theodor Reik, The Many Faces of Sex, page 149:
glosses: One who excites a person sexually without fulfilment.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.
Derived terms: appeteaser
brainteaser
clit teaser
cockteaser
fire teaser
geezer teaser
prickteaser
teaser rate
Veps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Veps veps.
Senses: glosses: The Veps language, spoken by the Vepses, belonging to the Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages.
Synonyms: Vepsian
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Veps terms
praying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayings
Senses: examples: c. 1854-1855, John Walford, Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Late Venerable Hugh Bourne
However, after breakfast, the prayings did not stop for the preachings, — each went on with force; people came flocking in; we had Wesleyans in abundance.
glosses: An act of saying a prayer.
Derived terms: praying mill
praying wheel
praying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pray
traditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradition
tinnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinnies
form: tinny
Etymology: From tin + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Far better to send one of the girls out for a pizza and some tinnies, and then give her undivided attention when she returns.
ref: 2005, Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude, page 170:
text: In a city where alcohol was once the main currency (see p23), it′s little wonder that drinking is a big part of the social fabric – whether it′s knocking back some tinnies on the beach or meeting mates at the pub.
ref: 2008, Peter Dragicevich, Jolyon Attwooll, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 154:
text: I′m forty and Tyrene says if I keep supping the tinnies at this rate it won′t be long before I′m forty stone! I′m nineteen stone right now and if I had a dollar for every time Tyrene called me a “big, fat, lazy bastard”, I could charter a yacht and sail to the Whitsundays and we live in Perth!
ref: 2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, page 378:
glosses: A can of beer.
examples: text: The bullies laughed and whistled and the tinnie turned once more, this time racing straight towards them from the port beam, bows tilted up, spray creaming out.
ref: 2003, Christopher Cummings, The Mudskipper Cup: A North Queensland Story about Navy Cadets, page 355:
text: Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk.
ref: 2007, Caroline De Costa, Rookwood Island, page 239:
text: The miracles seem to have followed Kevin and Trevor who have remarkably travelled over fifty-eight nautical miles in little more than a tinnie, encountering all sorts of astounding natural phenomena such as enormous whales and strangely behaving sharks, bixarre star patterns and odd schools of fish.
ref: 2009, Rebecca Pannell, “Seachange, Where Fish Fly”, in Susan Hosking, Rick Hosking, Rebecca Pannell, Nena Bierbaum, editors, Something Rich and Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes, page 56:
glosses: A small open aluminium boat.
examples: text: Or swapped them for some tinnies, a bottle of El D?
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 25:
glosses: Small package of drugs wrapped in foil.
Derived terms: tinnie house
Related terms: tinny
Michel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Michels
Etymology: From French Michel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Related terms: Gros Michel
Saint-Michel-de-Chaillol
toise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
homophone: toys
Forms: form: toises
Etymology: From French toise.
Senses: examples: text: […] the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely […]
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
glosses: A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.
tonitruate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /təˈnɪtɹʊeɪt/
Forms: form: tonitruates
form: tonitruating
form: tonitruated
form: tonitruated
Etymology: From the past participle stem of Latin tonitruare (“to thunder”), from tonitrus (“thunder”).
Senses: examples: text: […] yet through the caliginous sublimity of internexed conundrums, tonitruating with obstreperous cadencies, you rather obfuscate than illuminate our A-b-c-darian conceptions […]
ref: 1733 August, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 412:
text: Stertile thunder tonitruated terribly. ‘Oh Lord forgive us our bloody sins.’ Rain now pelted. It was hard work finding a taxi.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: To thunder.
astrobleme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæs.tɹəʊ.bliːm/
ipa: /ˈæs.tɹoʊ.blim/
Forms: form: astroblemes
Etymology: 1963, from astro- + Ancient Greek βλῆμα (blêma, “wound from a missile”)
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pit-like structure created by an impacting meteoroid, asteroid or comet.
Synonyms: impact crater
Hypernyms: crater
Coordinate terms: caldera
torchecul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔː(ɹ)ʃˈkuːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: torcheculs
Etymology: From French torche-cul, from torche (“wipe”) + cul (“arse”).
Senses: examples: text: Then he must needs sit bare-arsed on his jordan, hand scooping sweat from his brow, and void much black nastiness. His torchecul was yet another discarded page of his play.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
glosses: Something used to wipe the backside after defecation.
Synonyms: sense: something used to wipe one's anus after defecation
word: wipebreech
sense: something used to wipe one's anus after defecation
word: asswipe
sense: something used to wipe one's anus after defecation
word: arsewisp
sense: something used to wipe one's anus after defecation
word: tail-napkin
sense: something used to wipe one's anus after defecation
word: wipe-breech
Hyponyms: english: toilet tissue
translation: toilet tissue
word: toilet paper
tormina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːmɪnə/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹmɪnə/
Etymology: From Latin tormina, ultimately from torqueō (“twist, turn”).
Senses: examples: text: Clonfert’s tormina exercise my mind; for by whatever private scale of pain one may measure them, they must come tolerably high.
ref: 1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: acute pain in the abdomen; colic, gripes
tovarish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒˈvɑːɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: tovarishes
form: tovarishch
form: tovarisch
form: tovarich
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian това́рищ (továrišč).
Senses: examples: text: Instead of addressing them according to revolutionary etiquette as Tovarish (comrade), he asked them their Christian names and that of their fathers, while telling them his own.
ref: 1919 December 6, The Times, p.10 col. C:
text: Touching one of them on the shoulder, she said, “Tovarish, these tovarishes want to know who you are.”
ref: 1938, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography:
text: Jensen laughed, “My wife complains: ‘All day long they ring our door bell. Tovarish here, tovarish there. They come from Moscow, from Leningrad, from Berlin and Hamburg. They don't speak one word of Danish. Comrade Jensen, they say, fix us up with Danish passports.’ So it goes.″
ref: 1940, Jan Valtin, Out of the Night, Kessinger Publishing Company, published 2005, page 436:
text: His Russian was derived from a fortnight's crash course. "You'd better see what this ah tovarish thinks he wants."
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, “Pedwar”, in Any Old Iron, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990, →ISBN, page 173:
text: The tovarishes bring along their harmonicas and balalaikas, their good voices and their good humor.
ref: 1999, Livia Bitton-Jackson, I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust, Simon Pulse, →ISBN:
glosses: Comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR.
tovarishch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɒˈvɑːɹɪʃt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: tovarishches
Senses: examples: text: The people were surprised that the old Moshka had business with tovarishch Commissar.
ref: 1963, Jews and the Jewish People, page 69:
text: Yes, a watch, and this tovarishch has given it to me.
ref: 1963, Jacob Klein-Haparash, He Who Flees the Lion, page 84:
text: ["]As for Spain, do you honestly think" (she was addressing Reg) "that there's a desire on the part of Tovarishch Stalin to save Catalonian anarchism and syndicalism and liberal socialism? I shouldn’t be surprised if Moscow gold is helping to finance Franco."
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, “Dau”, in Any Old Iron, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990, →ISBN, page 82:
text: “I will remember, tovarishch,” I answered uncertainly, not knowing how I should address him.
ref: 2004, Wesley Adamczyk, When God Looked the Other Way, page 45:
text: There's no other way, tovarishch, no other way!
ref: 2010, Patrik Ouředník, translated by Alex Zucker, Case Closed, page 131:
glosses: Alternative form of tovarish.
tovarich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɒˈvɑːɹɪt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: tovariches
Senses: examples: text: Blade gulped and said as steadily as possible, “I'm looking for work, tovarich.”
The sneer increased, exposing more of the yellow upper teeth, as the leathery face moved forward to intimidate, “I'm not your tovarich, maggot!”
ref: 1999, Don W. Shields, David Nickeson, Just a Matter of Times: Adventures of David Blade, page 173:
text: So when he got his hands on that cocaine, he decided to play a little game with the tovarich fellow.
ref: 2005, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Queen of the South, page 212:
text: What possible reason would anyone have for sabotaging your parachute, tovarich?
ref: 2007, David Michaels, Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, page 251:
text: It's our own Russian tovarich, Dimitri, an authority on woodland and shrubs.
ref: 2011, Gordon John Harrison, But That's Absurd: A Tall Story Without That Most Common Fifth Sign of Our ABC, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of tovarish.
fuller's earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfʊləz ˈɜːθ/
Senses: examples: text: On Lord Sunderland's estate, in the county of Westmeath, there is a fine strata of fuller’s earth, a commodity of which our woollen manufacturers stand much in need: yet this bed lies unnoticed to all, except the peasantry on the soil.
ref: 1785 October 17, The Times, page 3 col. D:
text: You are probably aware that fuller’s earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found in one or two places in England?
ref: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb:
text: The bleaching was not always uniform, and sometimes white fuller's earth or gypsum was rubbed into the fabric to even out the whitening effect.
ref: 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 84:
synonyms: walker's earth
glosses: A fine clay used in fulling cloth.
lunchroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌnt͡ʃˌɹum/
Forms: form: lunchrooms
Etymology: From lunch + room.
Senses: examples: text: Company policy was to eat snacks only in the lunchroom.
text: Kraft Heinz said the new products will be available nationwide to all school administrators to procure and offer to students either for purchase in the lunchroom – though the company did not disclose the cost to schools – or for free through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
ref: 2023 March 13, Parija Kavilanz, “Lunchables are going to be rolled out directly to students. Here’s what’s in them”, in CNN:
text: Lunchables, made by Kraft Heinz, took its packaged ready-to-eat kids meals directly into K-12 school lunchrooms nationwide through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) for the first time last year.
ref: 2024 April 9, Parija Kavilanz and Sandee LaMotte, “Consumer Reports says Lunchables ‘should not be allowed on menu’ for schools, petitions USDA for removal”, in CNN:
glosses: A room designated as a place to eat lunch.
examples: text: I don't know how they stay in business serving only lunch, but the lunchroom on the corner is cheap and fast so I like it.
glosses: A diner or small restaurant that serves lunch.
Synonyms: sense: room reserved for eating lunch
word: break room
sense: room reserved for eating lunch
english: in some contexts
translation: in some contexts
word: comfort room
sense: room reserved for eating lunch
english: in some contexts
translation: in some contexts
word: cafeteria
Derived terms: one-arm lunchroom
Related terms: lunchware
cafeteria
dining hall
dhobi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊbi/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊbi
Forms: form: dhobis
form: dhobie
form: dhoby
form: dobie
Etymology: From Hindi धोबी (dhobī, “washerman”)
Senses: examples: text: ... "The first dhobi khana was under the Madras Presidency...”
ref: 2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20050508060337/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/07/07/stories/2003070700750100.htm The 'dhobi khana' at Fort Kochi was once throbbing with activity. […]
glosses: A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman.
Derived terms: dhobi-bag
dhobi dust
dhobi itch
dhobi's earth
magneton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetons
Etymology: Borrowed from French magnéton, from magnétique + -on, equivalent to magnet + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several units of magnetic moment of an atom, molecule or subatomic particle.
Derived terms: Bohr magneton
nuclear magneton
Parson magneton
Bohr magneton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bohr magnetons
Etymology: From Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, + magneton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit that expresses the magnetic moment of the electron.
wikipedia: Niels Bohr
nuclear magneton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear magnetons
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The unit of magnetic moment used to describe nucleons such as the proton.
cloddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloddish
form: most cloddish
Etymology: From clod + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.
glosses: Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial.
examples: text: Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights
are blood-red & ovarian -
nurturing the cloddish soil, & always
the farmer working the wheel, hands
gnarled & frostbitten & large.
ref: 1980-1994, John Kinsella, ”Night Seeding & Notions of Property”, poem, last five lines
glosses: Of or pertaining to lumpy soil.
Derived terms: cloddishly
cloddishness
acetylcholine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsitəlˈkoʊlin/
Forms: form: acetylcholines
Senses: examples: text: Acetylcholine build-up in the body can be toxic.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 11:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A neurotransmitter in humans and other animals. It is an ester of acetic acid and choline with chemical formula CH₃COOCH₂CH₂N⁺(CH₃)₃.
Derived terms: acetylcholine chloride
acetylcholine receptor
acetylcholinergic
acetylcholinesterase
acetylcholinic
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
magnetooptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + optics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the branch of physics which deals with the influence of a magnetic field on optical phenomena
Related terms: Cotton-Mouton effect
Faraday effect
magnetooptic Kerr effect
magneto-optic effect
Mazorana effect
Zeeman effect
Voiggt effect
choline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊliːn/
Forms: form: cholines
Etymology: Coined from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).
The chemical compound was first isolated by Adolph Strecker from pig and ox bile (hence the name) in 1862. It was also named neurine when chemically synthesized by Oscar Liebreich in 1865, until 1898 when shown to be identical to choline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxy quaternary ammonium compound with formula (CH₃)₃N⁺CH₂CH₂OHX⁻. It is an essential nutrient for cardiovascular and brain health and for cell membrane formation.
wikipedia: Adolph Strecker
Oscar Liebreich
Synonyms: sense: ammonium compound
word: neurine
sense: ammonium compound
word: vitamin J
sense: ammonium compound
word: sincaline
Derived terms: acetylcholine
arsenocholine
benzoylcholine
bethanechol
butyrylcholine
carbamoylcholine
carbamylcholine
cholinergic
cholinester
cholinesterase
cholinolytic
cholinomimetic
deoxycholine
ecothiopate
hemicholine
methacholine
-nicline
phosphatidylcholine
phosphocholine
phosphorylcholine
succinylcholine
thiocholine
tricholine
imbizo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbizos
form: izimbizo
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu imbizo.
Senses: examples: text: When the Zulu nation calls for an imbizo, it's generally a spectacular affair. These mass gatherings, often organised for social and political purposes, have an important role for this huge and powerful African tribe.
ref: 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20060519180538/http://www.mondomix.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=338
text: 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20060710221846/http://www.info.gov.za/issues/imbizo/index.html
Imbizo is a forum for enhancing dialogue and interaction between government and ... Imbizo also highlights people's concerns, grievances and advice about ...
glosses: A forum for discussion of policy.
essential nutrient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essential nutrients
Senses: qualifier: nutrition
glosses: A compound that must be obtained from food for survival
cardiovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːdi.əʊˈvæskjʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌkɑːdi.əʊˈvæskjələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹdi.oʊˈvæskjəlɚ/
ipa: /ˌkaːdi.əʉˈvæskjələ(ɹ)/
Etymology: From cardio- + vascular.
Senses: examples: text: As another interleukin 12/23 antagonist, briakinumab, was withdrawn from further development in part due to concerns about cardiovascular safety, discussion has also emerged on cardiovascular safety of ustekinumab.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Patient Preferences for Biologicals in Psoriasis: Top Priority of Safety for Cardiovascular Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Taking a daily multivitamin might be associated with improved brain function in older adults, a new study says, and the benefit appears to be greater for those with a history of cardiovascular disease.
ref: 2022 September 14, Jacqueline Howard, “Study finds potential link between daily multivitamin and improved cognition in older adults”, in CNN:
glosses: Relating to the circulatory system, that is the heart and blood vessels.
Derived terms: anticardiovascular
cardiovascular disease
cardiovascularly
cardiovascular system
cerebrocardiovascular
neocardiovascular
nephrocardiovascular
neurocardiovascular
noncardiovascular
acetylcholinesterase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetylcholinesterases
Etymology: From acetylcholine + esterase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into choline and acetic acid.
Derived terms: antiacetylcholinesterase
Related terms: acetylcholine
acetyl
acetylcholine receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetylcholine receptors
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A feature of neurons that detects the presence of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine as part of neural activity.
Derived terms: nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
parochial school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parochial schools
Senses: glosses: A school associated with the parish of a church.
Synonyms: parish school
Related terms: church school
magnetoresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetoresistances
Etymology: From magneto- + resistance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The change of electrical resistance produced in a conductor or semiconductor on application of a magnetic field.
Derived terms: giant magnetoresistance
decanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkeɪn.əl/
ipa: /ˈdɛ.kə.nəl/
Forms: form: more decanal
form: most decanal
Etymology: From French décanal.
Senses: examples: text: decanal side
text: decanal stall
text: the decanal role in the university
text: his rectorial as well as decanal residence
ref: 1809, Ralph Churton, The Life of Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 78:
glosses: Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
Derived terms: subdecanal
decanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkeɪn.əl/
ipa: /ˈdɛ.kə.nəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛkənæl/
ipa: /dɪˈkeɪn.əl/
ipa: /ˈdɛ.kə.nəl/
Etymology: From decane + -al.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic aldehyde, CH₃(CH₂)₈CHO, related to capric acid
Synonyms: capraldehyde
capric aldehyde
caprinaldehyde
magnetostriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetostrictions
form: magneto-striction
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the change of length or shape of a ferromagnetic material when it is magnetized
Related terms: magnetostrictive
lel
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Miscellaneously substituted vowel instead of the 'o' in lol.
Senses: glosses: Variation of lol.
abstract number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstract numbers
Senses: glosses: A number used without application to things, e.g. 6, 8, 10; but when applied to anything, e.g. 6 feet, 10 men, it becomes concrete.
magnetron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɡ.nətˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /-.nɪtˌ-/
ipa: /ˈmæɡ.nətˌtɹɑn/
ipa: /-.nɪtˌ-/
Forms: form: magnetrons
Etymology: From magnet + -tron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device in which electrons are made to resonate in a specially shaped chamber and thus produce microwave radiation; used in radar, and in microwave ovens
Derived terms: cavity magnetron
magnon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum of a spin wave.
Derived terms: bimagnon
electromagnon
magnonic
magnonics
multimagnon
paramagnon
spin wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spin waves
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a wave, propagated through a crystal lattice as a result of changes in the spin angular momentum of electrons in the lattice
Related terms: magnon
abstract term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstract terms
Senses: glosses: A term expressing an abstract idea, such as beauty, whiteness, or roundness, without indicating any object in which it exists.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A name for an order, genera, or species of things in which there is a combination of similar qualities.
Coordinate terms: sense: term which expresses abstract ideas
word: concrete term
veldskoen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeltskʊn/
ipa: /ˈvɛldskʊn/
ipa: /ˈfɛltskʊn/
Forms: form: veldskoens
form: veldskoene
form: veldschoen
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch veldschoen (Cape Dutch), from vel (“skin, hide”) + schoen (“shoe”); later reinforced by Afrikaans veldskoen.
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll my life I've been surrounded by violence. Not in the way any of my quite long line of pioneer forefathers experienced it, leaving their veldskoen tracks through history […]
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 28:
glosses: Originally, a shoe with untanned leather upper sewn without nails, similar to the Canadian moccasin; now generally a heavy boot for outdoor labour.
Related terms: vellie
veldtschoon
Maillard reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈjɑː(ɹ)ɹiˈækʃən/
Forms: form: Maillard reactions
Etymology: Named after French physician and chemist Louis Camille Maillard, 1912.
Senses: examples: text: If the surface temperature exceeds the boiling point, as it does during grilling and frying, the Maillard reactions produce typical roasted, browned aromas.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 4, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The condensation reaction of an amino acid and a reducing sugar, followed by polymerization to form brown pigments - melanoidins; one of the causes of browning during cooking.
Related terms: Maillard browning
vaj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vajes
form: vadge
form: vag
Senses: examples: See Citations:vaj
glosses: The vagina.
reducing sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reducing sugars
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any sugar that has a potential aldehyde or ketone functional group and thus reacts as a reducing agent.
Related terms: Benedict's reagent
Fehling's solution
Benedict's reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Stanley Rossiter Benedict, American chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A buffered solution of copper sulfate which changes from blue to red in the presence of a reducing sugar.
wikipedia: Stanley Rossiter Benedict
Related terms: Fehling's solution
Fehling's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fehling's solutions
Etymology: From Hermann von Fehling, German chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaline solution of copper sulfate which changes from blue to red in the presence of an aldehyde or a reducing sugar.
wikipedia: Hermann von Fehling
Related terms: Benedict's reagent
copper sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copper sulfate.
labelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: labeled
Senses: examples: text: The butterfly collection had each specimen labelled with the scientific name on a little piece of paper.
glosses: Having a label, tagged.
examples: text: He was labelled a racist for his remarks.
glosses: Defined or described (as).
Derived terms: nonlabelled
prelabelled
unlabelled
labelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: labeled
Senses: examples: text: I've labelled the file and put it on your desk.
glosses: simple past and past participle of label
copper sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copper sulphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the common name for copper(II) sulfate, CuSO₄, which forms blue crystals and is used in agriculture, dyeing, electroplating and many other applications; reducing agents reduce it to the red cuprous sulfate
Synonyms: cupric sulfate
blue vitriol
E519 when used as a preservative
Related terms: Benedict's reagent
Bordeaux mixture
Fehling's solution
tagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tagged
form: most tagged
Senses: examples: text: All the tagged items are on sale.
glosses: Having a tag; labeled.
topics: arts
graffiti
visual-arts
glosses: Having been marked with the signature graffiti of an individual.
Derived terms: ear-tagged
radio-tagged
tagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We tagged each item in the store.
glosses: simple past and past participle of tag
kyujitai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Something’s written there,” he said. “More Japanese kyujitai?”
Alders brought the light down nearer the page so they could look more closely at the smudged characters: […]
ref: 2016, Jerome Preisler, NCIS Los Angeles: Extremis, Titan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of kyūjitai.
Bordeaux mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bordeaux mixtures
Etymology: From Bordeaux in France, where it is used on vines.
Senses: examples: text: Reports are coming to hand from a very large number of districts as to the success which has attended the use of the Bordeaux mixture (sulphate of copper and lime) as a preventive of potato disease.
ref: 1891 November 16, The Times, pg 12 col A:
glosses: A mixture of copper sulfate and lime that is sprayed on plants as a fungicide.
commonweal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/
Forms: form: commonweals
form: common weal
Etymology: From Middle English comun wele, commen wele, comune wele, equivalent to common (“public”) + weal (“well-being”). By the 1520s used by some authors as the equivalent of res publica (republic), alongside commonwealth from about the same time.
Senses: examples: text: He had to judge the people as justice Errant […]; to equip his milites, send them duly in war-time to the King; — strive every way that the Commonweal, in his quarter of it, take no damage.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XIII, In Parliament”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: He [David Gelernter] yearns for the days when people, for reasons of the commonweal, did what they were told.
ref: 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It’s easy to imagine that the tools they developed for settling disputes about Star Wars won’t be up to the challenge of saving some informational commonweal, but then again, what does modern politics resemble more than a vicious fandom at war with itself?
ref: 2018 August 7, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: res publica
glosses: The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.
examples: text: […] hit semeth that men haue ben longe abused in calling Rempublica a commune weale. And they which do suppose it so to be called for that, that euery thinge shulde be to all men in commune without discrepance of any astate or condition, be ther to moued more by sensualite, than by any good reason or inclination to humanite. […] And consequently there may appere lyke deuersitie to be englisshe, betwene a publike weale & a commune weale, as shulde be in latin betwene Res publica and Res plebeia.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, chapter I, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: The body politic; republic.
Derived terms: commonwealth
commonwealths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commonwealth
manganese nodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manganese nodules
Senses: examples: 1977 The most likely locations for early commercial mining of these seabed resources will be the Pacific Basin where there is a heavy concentration of manganese nodule sites at depths of between 12,500 feet and 17,500 feet. The Times - May 26, 1977 pg 27 col D
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A concretion of oxides of manganese and iron found on the seafloor.
concretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːʃən
Forms: form: concretions
Etymology: Borrowed from French concrétion, or Latin concretio.
Senses: glosses: The process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass.
glosses: A solid, hard mass formed by a process of aggregation or coalescence.
examples: text: Of the three beds, the central one is the most compact, and more like ordinary sandstone: it includes numerous flattened spherical concretions.
ref: 1844, Charles Darwin, chapter 5, in Geological Observations on South America:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A rounded mass of a mineral, sometimes found in sedimentary rock or on the ocean floor.
examples: text: "My new statue!" said Kenyon. . . . "It is the concretion of a good deal of thought, emotion, and toil of brain and hand."
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 14, in The Marble Faun:
glosses: The action of making something concrete or the result of such an action.
Derived terms: bioconcretion
concretional
concretionary
rhizoconcretion
Related terms: concrete
manganite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manganites
Etymology: By surface analysis, manganese + -ite
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a dark gray mineral of manganese, MnO(OH), found throughout North America and Europe
map projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: map projections
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Any systematic method of transforming the spherical representation of parallels, meridians and geographic features of the Earth's surface to a nonspherical surface, usually a plane.
marcasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːkəsʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.kə.sɑɪ̯t/
ipa: /ˌmɑɹ.kəˈzit/
Forms: form: marcasites
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sumerian 𒈥𒄩𒅆𒆠der.
Arabic مَرْقَشِيتَا (marqašītā)der.
English marcasite
From Medieval Latin marchasita et al., from Arabic مَرْقَشِيتَا (marqašītā).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: white iron pyrite
glosses: The orthorhombic form of iron disulfide, FeS₂, occurring as yellow crystals.
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: Pyrite.
examples: text: If he wants to speak as a physician, however, he must say, this marcasite is the man's disease, hence it will cure him.
ref: 1999, Paracelsus, “Opus Paramirum”, in Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, transl., Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books, page 95:
glosses: Any of various metal sulfides, usually iron sulfide minerals.
Derived terms: golden marcasite
marcasitic
Related terms: pyrite
horse archer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse archers
Senses: glosses: A cavalryman armed with a bow.
colugo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈluːɡoʊ/
Forms: form: colugos
form: colugo
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from a Malayo-Polynesian language.
Senses: examples: text: Colugos, our closest living non-primate relatives, are able to glide as much as 150 metres (more than 490 feet) between trees.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 258:
glosses: An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae of the order Dermoptera, native to Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: cynocephalid
flying lemur
flying lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying lemurs
Senses: examples: text: Flying lemurs do not fly (they glide) and are not lemurs: the nature of their relationship to primates (and to bats and treeshrews, with which they also share characteristics) is the subject of ongoing debate and research.
glosses: A colugo (family spp.), having membranes between the front and hind legs similar to those of flying squirrels.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Galeopterus variegata
word: Malaysian flying lemur
taxonomic: Cynocephalus volans
word: Philippine flying lemur
taxonomic: Galeopterus variegata
word: Sunda flying lemur
cavalryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavalrymen
Etymology: From cavalry + man.
Senses: hypernyms: horseman
coordinate_terms: cavalier
chevalier
cuirassier
dragoon
hussar
lancer
trooper
uhlan
yeoman
glosses: A soldier in the cavalry.
Related terms: spahi
cavalrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavalryman
bow and arrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ ən(d)ˈæɹəʊ/
Forms: form: bows and arrows
Senses: examples: text: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: A weapon consisting of a bow and a supply of arrows, often kept in a quiver.
horse archers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse archer
syli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sylis
Senses: glosses: The currency of Guinea between 1971 and 1985, subdivided into 100 cauris.
ground forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: ground troops
land force
glosses: The military units operating on the ground, including tanks, soldiers, artillery, etc.