cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mamelons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamelon
mannequins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannequin
fusoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin fusus (“spindle”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fusiform.
synonyms: word: fusiform
Derived terms: fusoid-ventricose
subfusoid
manèges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manège
maquillages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maquillage
fusoid-ventricose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fusoid-ventricose
form: most fusoid-ventricose
Senses: examples: text: […] sp. irregularly elliptic-oblong (angulato-ellipsoideis), 9-15 × 5-7 μ; c. fusoid-ventricose, 60-70 × 19-22 μ.
ref: 1904, George Massee, “A Monograph of the genus Inocybe, Karsten”, in Annals of Botany, volume 18, page 467:
text: The fusoid-ventricose type (fig. A13) apparently arises from the basidiole-type by elongation of the apical region of the cell to produce a ± narrow neck tapered to a more or less obtuse apex.
ref: 1983, Alexander Hanchett Smith, The Veiled Species of Hebeloma in the Western United States, page 7:
text: SPORES 7–9 × 4–5 μm, ellipsoid, smooth, with an apical germ pore, thin-walled, purplish brown in deposit; cheilocystidia clavate or fusoid-ventricose; annulus, and fruits in fall and winter at lower elevations.
ref: 2015, Dennis E. Desjardin, California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a structure which is distinctly enlarged in the middle and tapered toward both ends
Related terms: ventricose-fusoid
red rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red rockets
Senses: examples: text: Toronto's Red Rocket streetcars are renowned worldwide as a symbol of our city.
ref: 1991, "Save the Red Rocket," (editorial) Toronto Star, 9 Sep., p. A14
glosses: Any of the red-painted electrical streetcars and subway trams operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Canada, especially the classic models used during the early and mid-20th century.
examples: text: For his showstopper he’d grab hold of your bumper and start humping it like a Labrador no longer able to contain his red rocket.
ref: 2009, Christopher John Campion, Escape from Bellevue, page 36:
glosses: The erect penis of a canid.
mariages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mariage
galerinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more galerinoid
form: most galerinoid
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a brittle stem, attached gills and an annulus, but no volva.
mendiants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mendiant
menuets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menuet
messagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messager
germ pore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germ pores
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small pore in the outer wall of a fungal spore.
milligrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milligramme
gill trama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gill tramas
Etymology: A macaronic blend of gill + Latin trāma (“woof”)
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The internal flesh of a mushroom gill.
Derived terms: bilateral gill trama
divergent gill trama
parallel gill trama
gloeocystidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloeocystidia
form: gleocystidium
Etymology: From gloeo- + cystidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cystidium which easily stains with a chemical reagent or has oily, resinous, granular contents.
Derived terms: gloeovessel
moellons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moellon
monospaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monospace
mortiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortier
sculpturesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sculpturesque
form: most sculpturesque
Etymology: From sculpture + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: ...many of the most interesting architectural and sculpturesque structures of the Rocky-Mountain system...
ref: 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:
glosses: Like or suggesting sculpture: shapely, statuelike, etc.
hilar appendix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hilar appendices
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of a spore which attaches to the sterigmata at the end of a basidium.
Synonyms: hilar appendage
sterigmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sterigma
glosses: plural of sterigmatum
ovipositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvɪˈpɒzɪtə/
ipa: /oʊvɪˈpɑzɪtɚ/
Forms: form: ovipositors
Etymology: From ovi- (“egg”) + Latin positor (“one who places”, agent noun form of pōnere).
Senses: examples: text: I'm fascinated by a splendid European wasp - Rhyssa persuasoria (sabre wasp). […] It has a remarkable ovipositor. That's the multi-function "hypodermic needle" at the end of the abdomen, and, in this instance, it doubles the length of the wasp to about 8cm.
ref: 2019 September 15, Jonathan Amos, “Wasps: If you can't love them, at least admire them”, in BBC News:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A tubular protruding organ for laying eggs.
Related terms: oviposit
oviposition
homoimerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homoimerous
form: most homoimerous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homoeomerous.
humicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humicolous
form: most humicolous
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing in humus.
ovipositors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovipositor - a tubular egg-laying organ.
hygrophanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hygrophanous
form: most hygrophanous
Etymology: From hygro- (“moistness”) + -phanous (“appearing”).
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Changing color as it dries out.
alkanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkanets
Etymology: Diminutive of Spanish alcana, alheña.
Senses: glosses: Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.
glosses: The dyeing matter extracted from the roots of the plant with water or oil, used for cotton especially but also silk and wool, giving a deep red colour.
glosses: Other plants of the genus Alkanna.
glosses: Anchusa officinalis (common bugloss), a similar plant.
glosses: Anchusa ochroleuca (yellow alkanet).
glosses: Cynoglottis barrelieri (syn. Anchusa barrelieri, false alkanet).
glosses: Lithospermum arvense (bastard alkanet or field gromwell).
glosses: Pentaglottis sempervirens (green alkanet), a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves.
glosses: Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis).
Synonyms: sense: Alkanna tinctoria
word: orchanet
sense: Alkanna tinctoria
word: orcanette
sense: Alkanna tinctoria
word: dyer's alkanet
sense: Alkanna tinctoria
word: bugloss
sense: Alkanna tinctoria
word: dyers' bugloss
sense: Alkanna tinctoria
word: Spanish bugloss
sense: Alkanna tinctoria
word: Languedoc bugloss
glutinous rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glutinous rices
Senses: glosses: A variety of short-grain rice popular in Southeast and East Asia, known for its stickiness when cooked.
Synonyms: biroin chal
botan rice
mochi rice
pearl rice
sticky rice
sweet rice
waxy rice
fronds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frond
Erevan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Yerevan.
fiador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfi.ədɔɹ/
Forms: form: fiadors
Senses: glosses: A collar worn by a horse, immediately behind the head, to which a handle, strap, or rope may be attached.
glosses: In some styles of horse halter and bridle, an optional part similar to a throatlatch.
antisemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisemites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-Semite.
megaseism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaseisms
Etymology: From mega- + seism.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: A large or severe earthquake.
end users
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end user
diffracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diffract
diffracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diffract
diffracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diffract
horrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of horrify
Delhi belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛli bɛli/
Etymology: From the diarrhea often experienced by foreign travellers to India; the city of Delhi was doubtless chosen for the rhyme with belly.
Senses: synonyms: Bali belly
glosses: Digestive illness or diarrhoea, especially if suffered by a visitor to India.
Related terms: Montezuma's revenge
traveler's diarrhea
homecomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homecoming
heaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heath
harmonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harmonise
harmonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harmonise
glamorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glamorize
glamorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glamorize
glamorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glamorize
gumballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumball
gun powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun powders
Senses: examples: text: Now their powder would be cannon powder and gun powder, would be made into canister shot, and would propel balls into flesh, and would blow living men to shreds.
ref: 1991, D. L. Carey, Distant Drums - Volume 1, page 523:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gunpowder.
preverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + verbal.
Senses: examples: text: The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition.
ref: 1989, Anne Fernald, “Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants: Is the Melody the Message?”, in Child Development, volume 60, number 6, page 1497:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
psychology
sciences
glosses: At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.
examples: text: I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language.
ref: 1974, J. A. Dunn, “Preverbal Position in Coast Tsimshian”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 40, number 1, page 10:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression.
raw_tags: of a part of speech
preverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preverbals
Etymology: From pre- + verbal.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A preverb.
drac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dracs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of draco.
dinitrotoluene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˌnaɪtɹə(ʊ)ˈtɒljʊiːn/
Forms: form: dinitrotoluenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of six isomeric compounds formed by the nitration of toluene, but especially 1-methyl-2,6-dinitro benzene, which is used as an explosive
Related terms: trinitrotoluene
dinuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈnjuːklɪə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From di- + nuclear.
Senses: glosses: Having two nuclei.
dioic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: dicarboxylic
Derived terms: dioic acid
dione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diones
Etymology: From di- + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: diketone
Derived terms: androstenedione
butanedione
cyclohexanedione
gliquidone
hydroxydione
menadione
mitoquidone
octanedione
piperidinedione
primidone
pyrimidinedione
quinoxalinedione
dioxetane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɒksɪteɪn/
Forms: form: dioxetanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of heterocycle having a four-membered ring with two carbon atoms and two oxygen atoms
dioxolane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dioxolanes
Etymology: From di- + oxolane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterocycle having a five-membered ring with three carbon atoms and two oxygen atoms
Derived terms: amdoxovir
dioxolanone
dobupride
doconazole
diphenylethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphenylethylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric phenyl derivatives of ethylene, but especially trans-1,2-diphenylethylene (stilbene)
diphosgene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + phosgene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The highly chlorinated ester trichloromethyl chloroformate that is used in organic synthesis, and was once used as a military poison
diphosphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphosphides
Etymology: From di- + phosphide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phosphide containing two atoms of phosphorus
dipotassium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + potassium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two atoms of potassium in a compound
dirhenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + rhenium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two atoms of rhenium in a compound.
dirhodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + rhodium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two atoms of rhodium in a compound
dirubidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + rubidium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two atoms of rubidium in a compound
glosses: Diatomic rubidium, Rb₂
turn a deaf ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns a deaf ear
form: turning a deaf ear
form: turned a deaf ear
form: turned a deaf ear
Senses: examples: text: They turned a deaf ear to her entreaties.
text: This really confirms that Sacramentans turn a deaf ear to efforts to legislate bigotry and homophobia. Sacramento ought to take a lot of pride in looking at their community as one that tolerates diversity.
ref: 1986 December 14, Jeffrey Ruda, quoting Ron Gray, “Sacramento Holds On To Lesbian/Gay Rights”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 2:
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
‘someone/something’
expansion: [with to ‘someone/something’]
glosses: To refuse to listen to.
Related terms: fall on deaf ears
preach to deaf ears
turn a blind eye
diprotium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + protium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Normal molecular hydrogen H₂
Derived terms: diprotium monoxide
discountenanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discountenance
discountenanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discountenanced
form: most discountenanced
Senses: glosses: deprecated
glosses: disliked
discountenance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkaʊntənəns/
Forms: form: discountenances
form: discountenancing
form: discountenanced
form: discountenanced
Etymology: From Middle French descontenancer (compare French décontenancer).
Senses: examples: text: A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.
ref: 1855, George Bancroft, chapter XXX, in History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume V, London: Routledge, page 74:
text: So far from friendship being an institution whose value is recognised and understood, it is at best scantily acknowledged, and is often actually discountenanced and misunderstood.
ref: 1908, Edward Carpenter, chapter 4, in The Intermediate Sex, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1921, page 90:
text: Mr Macgregor stiffened at the word 'nigger', which is discountenanced in India.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:
text: 'Mrs' was a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party—you were supposed to call everyone 'comrade'—but with some women one used it instinctively.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 2:
glosses: To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.
examples: text: How would one look from his Majeſtick brow, / Seated as on the top of Vertues hill, / Diſcount'nance her deſpiſ'd, and put to rout / All her array, her female pride deject, / Or turn to reverent awe? […]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 39, lines 216–220:
text: The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation.
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 16, in Ivanhoe:
glosses: To abash, embarrass or disconcert.
examples: text: These were rejected by Parliament, which discountenanced the amalgamation of competing lines but gave broad approval in theory to end-on amalgamations.
ref: 1948 January and February, “British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
glosses: To refuse countenance or support to; to discourage.
Derived terms: discountenancer
discountenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkaʊntənəns/
Etymology: From Middle French descontenancer (compare French décontenancer).
Senses: examples: text: Highly tenacious of preserving over the mind of Sir Aubrey an undisputed sway, Lady De Brooke had seen with great reluctance the ascendency his grand-daughters were acquiring, which she artfully hoped to repress by throwing discountenance on the visits of their father,[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter VII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 92:
glosses: Cold treatment; disapprobation.
jabuti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jabutis
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese jabuti, from Old Tupi îaboti.
Senses: examples: text: The deer gave up the race to the jabuti. The deer then offered to have a trial of strength with the jabuti.
ref: 1879, Herbert Huntington Smith, Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast, page 545:
text: Again, the rabbit would try harder, run faster, and pass the jabuti once more, but no matter how hard he tried or how fast he ran, when he came around the corner, again and again the jabuti was in the lead.
ref: 1977, Roberta C. Wigder, Brazil Rediscovered, Dorrance Publishing Company:
text: The Jabuti is identical with Brother Terrapin. The man carried the Jabuti to his house, put him in a box, and went out. By and by the Jabuti began to sing, just as Brother Babbit did. The man's children listened, and the Jabuti stopped.
ref: 1881, Joel Chandler Harris, Nights with Unlcle Remus:
text: The most popular of all is the jabuti (or Yauti, as it is pronounced in the Tupy language). It is a large turtle, much appreciated as food. Short-legged, slow, weak, and silent, the jabuti in the Amazon tradition is like the fox in the European tales.
ref: 2006(?), Livia de Almeida, Ana Portella, Brazilian Folktales, Libraries Unlimited
glosses: A Brazilian tortoise, especially a yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus).
Related terms: jaboticaba
ladrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladrones
form: ladron
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish ladrón, from Latin latrōnem, accusative singular of latrō. Doublet of latron.
Senses: examples: text: But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: A robber; a pirate; a rascal or rogue.
Derived terms: ladronism
lagna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagnas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit लग्न (lagna).
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Vedic astrology, the degree of the sign that is rising on the eastern horizon at the time of a person's birth.
lampante
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lampante.
Senses: glosses: Extracted by mechanical methods; suitable for lighting, but not suitable for human consumption without further refining
raw_tags: of olive oil
languente
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more languente
form: most languente
Etymology: Italian, present participle of languire. See languish.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a languishing manner; pathetically.
gunpowders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunpowder
latrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /læˈtreɪt/
/ləˈtreɪt/
/leɪˈtreɪt/
Forms: form: latrates
form: latrating
form: latrated
form: latrated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin lātrātus, perfect passive participle of lātrō (“to bark”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Spanish ladrar (“to bark”). Originally seemingly attested as a ghost word.
Senses: examples: text: Latrate, to barke like a dog.
ref: [1623, Henry Cockeram, The English Dictionarie Of 1623, New York: Huntington Press, published 1930, s.v., page 110:
text: I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously at a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.
ref: 1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145:
text: […] Rip ought to know there wasn’t a beggar’s chance of catching one of the birds; all the silly, latrating dogs thus showed off.
ref: 1931, Harry Kemp, Love Among the Cape Enders, page 91:
text: With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.
ref: 1972, Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction, page 201:
glosses: To bark; to make doglike noises.
Related terms: word: latrability
word: latrant
word: latration
word: oblatration
gun powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gun powder
diselenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + selenium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two selenium atoms in a compound
disilicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + silicon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two silicon atoms in a compound
disilver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + silver.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two silver atoms in a compound
ditungsten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + tungsten.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two tungsten atoms in a compound.
divanadium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + vanadium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two vanadium atoms in a compound
seeing is believing
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: They said their product will be ready for shipment in two months and we could even "take that to the bank", but we’ve heard that before. Seeing is believing.
text: There is nothing like Matter of Fact; Seeing is Believing.
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How Lewis Baboon Came to Visit John Bull, and What Pass’d between Them”, in Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: Seeing is believing, says the proverb. Though, of all our senses, the eyes are the most easily deceived, we believe them in preference to any other evidence.
ref: 1848, J. C., A. W. Hare, Guesses at Truth, second edition, page 497:
glosses: One needs to see something in order to believe it; visible facts cannot be denied.
glosses: One is skeptical regarding a claim.
Coordinate terms: believing is seeing
disilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disilanes
Etymology: From di- + silane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The gaseous hydride of silicon SiH₃-SiH₃, the silicon analog of ethane
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic derivative of this compound
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a molecule with a silicon-silicon single bond, or silicon analog of alkanes
Derived terms: disilanyl
Related terms: silane
silene
silyne
disilene
disilyne
disilicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disilicides
Etymology: From di- + silicide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any silicide containing two atoms of silicon
silicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicides
Etymology: From silicon + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of silicon with a more electropositive element
Related terms: silicidation
disilyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disilyls
Etymology: From di- + silyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two silyl groups in a compound
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical SiH₃-SiH₂- derived from disilane
disolvate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disolvates
Etymology: From di- + solvate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solvate containing two molecules of solvent
sciatic nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciatic nerves
Senses: examples: text: His right hand detoured to cover his left shoulder and I kicked him in his mid right thigh, finding, it appeared, his sciatic nerve.
ref: 2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 142:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A large nerve that starts in the lower back and runs through the buttock and down the lower limb.
bebee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bebees
Senses: glosses: A woman or wife.
Related terms: bibi
PUF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PUFs
Senses: examples: text: ... the PUF, as shown in Figure 7.12. In this case X is the hardware device that processes the signals between the PUF and the circuit for authentication. Various attributes of the MRAM cells based on random geometric variations are used as[…]
ref: 2018 June 11, Betty Prince, David Prince, Memories for the Intelligent Internet of Things, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 313:
text: ... the PUF is changed with a high probability [74]. In other words, the challenge-response behavior of the PUF is altered, and therefore, the PUF will be destroyed. However, it is known that side-channel analysis of the Arbiter PUF can[…]
ref: 2018 March 27, Shahin Tajik, On the Physical Security of Physically Unclonable Functions, Springer, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Initialism of physical unclonable function or physically unclonable function.
disolvated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + solvated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: solvated with two molecules of solvent
Markov process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Markov processes
Etymology: Named after Russian mathematician Andrey Markov (Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков) (1856—1922), who researched the processes.
Senses: examples: text: It has been remarked in 1 that a Markov process with time reversal is again a Markov process.
ref: 2007, N. G. Van Kampen, Stochastic Processes in Physics and Chemistry, 3rd edition, page 81:
text: The second part is written for probabilists and it studies the case where fast motions are certain Markov processes such as random evolutions and, in particular, diffusions.
ref: 2009, Yuri Kifer, “Large Deviations and Adiabatic Transitions for Dynamical Systems and Markov Processes in Fully Coupled Averaging”, in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, number 944, page vii:
text: 2013, M. G. Shur, Markov Process, entry in Michiel Hazewinkel (editor), Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, Volume 6, page 102,
In the theory of Markov processes most attention is given to homogeneous (in time) processes.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: Any stochastic process for which the conditional probability distribution of future states depends only on the current state (and not on past states).
wikipedia: Andrey Markov
Hyponyms: Markov chain
Derived terms: Markov renewal process
semi-Markov process
Related terms: Markovian
Markov model
Markov property
memoryless
recurrence time
dispersibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispersibilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being dispersible
glosses: A measure of the relative extent to which something is dispersible
Derived terms: bucodispersibility
polydispersibility
dispersible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dispersible
form: most dispersible
Senses: glosses: Capable of being dispersed, or of forming a dispersion
Derived terms: bucodispersible
orodispersible
redispersible
Related terms: dispersibility
distillations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distillation
disulfite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈsʌlfaɪt/
Forms: form: disulfites
form: disulphite
Etymology: From di- + sulfite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent anion S₂O₅²⁻, or any salt containing this anion
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bisulfite
disulfuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + sulfuric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pyrosulfuric
eel-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eel-like
form: most eel-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eellike.
disulfuryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disulfuryls
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent radical S₂O₅
Derived terms: disulfuryl difluoride
dithiocarbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithiocarbamates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid
Derived terms: diethyldithiocarbamate
diisobutyldithiocarbamate
sodium diethyldithiocarbamate
dithiocarbamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The monobasic acid NH₂-CS₂H that is formally derived from carbamic acid by replacing both oxygen atoms with sulfur
Related terms: dithiocarbamate
governances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governance
gushily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gushily
form: most gushily
Etymology: From gushy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gushy manner.
dithiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithiols
Etymology: From di- + thiol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound having two thiol groups
Derived terms: ethanedithiol
pentanedithiol
gushiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gushy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being gushy.
gushier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gushy: more gushy
gushiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gushy: most gushy
adviseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adviseable
form: most adviseable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of advisable.
dithizone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The thiocarbazone 3-anilino-1-phenylimino-thiourea that is used in the colorimetric analysis of various metals
Derived terms: dithizonate
thiocarbazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiocarbazones
Etymology: From thio- + carbazone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic nitrogen compounds derived from the parent compound HN=N-CS-NH-NH₂
Related terms: carbazone
glaciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glaciate
Derived terms: periglaciated
unglaciated
glaciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glaciate
glaciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glaciate
diuranate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diuranates
Etymology: From di- + uranate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The dibasic anion U₂O₇²⁻ or any salt containing this anion
Related terms: uranate
uranate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʊəɹəneɪt/
homophone: urinate stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: uranates
Etymology: From uran- + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several oxyanions of uranium; any salt containing these anions.
Derived terms: diuranate
Related terms: uranite
miss a trick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misses a trick
form: missing a trick
form: missed a trick
form: missed a trick
Etymology: From card games, where trick means “a sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined”.
Senses: examples: text: John managed to make a profit on that old car you sold him. He never misses a trick, does he?
text: Select someone who abuses children; select someone who fails to detect bombs; select someone who is an impostor; select someone who sabotages a plant; select someone who embezzles the company ... and you could be sued by the victims of the misdemeanor. You missed a trick and placed people in danger.
ref: 2005, A. Furnham, The People Business: Psychological Reflections on Management:
glosses: To allow an advantageous opportunity to pass by.
divinylacetylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The vinyl derivative of acetylene CH₂=CH-C≡C-CH=CH₂ that is an intermediate in the manufacture of neoprene
divinylbenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divinylbenzenes
form: divinyl benzene
Etymology: From divinyl + benzene. From di- + vinyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric vinyl derivatives of benzene that are used to make copolymers with styrene
Synonyms: DVB
Coordinate terms: polystyrene
styrene
Derived terms: DVB
polydivinylbenzene
Related terms: benzene
di-
divinyl
monovinylbenzene
polyvinylbenzene
trivinylbenzene
vinyl
vinylbenzene
diyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diynes
Etymology: From di- + -yne.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound having two acetylene groups.
Derived terms: diynyl
hex sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛks saɪn/
Forms: form: hex signs
Etymology: Compound of hex + sign, coined in English.
Senses: examples: text: This association will partially pay for the repainting of hex signs in the tourist areas.
ref: 1984, Thomas Edmund Graves, The Pennsylvania German Hex Sign: A Study in Folk Process, page 256:
text: 1984 Futharc A Handbook of Rune Magic, Edred Thorsson, Samuel Weiser Inc, 0-87728-548-9, page 107.
Common in Dutch hex signs and a powerful framework for talismans and visual magic.
text: Note the hex signs on the barn, an old Pennsylvania Dutch custom used to ward off the evil spirits.
ref: 2006, Patricia Wanger Smith, “Southeastern Berks County”, in Postcard History Series, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:
text: The original hex signs were created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, a cultural group composed of several different groups of people.
ref: 2008, Ivan E. Hoyt, Hex Signs: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft, Stackpole Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A geometric design usually consisting of a star or flower placed in a circular field, used by the Fancy Dutch on buildings such as barns, often said to be intended as a ward against evil in former times.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A protective symbol used in Heathenry comprising a six-petaled flower or star set within a circle, as a New Age adaptation of the above.
Related terms: hex
dodecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecanes
Etymology: From dodec- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the alkane having twelve carbon atoms, but especially n-dodecane that is used as a solvent and is present in Diesel fuel.
Derived terms: cyclododecane
dodecanethiol
dodecanoic
dodecanol
tetraazacyclododecane
dodecaoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecaoxides
Etymology: From dodeca- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide having twelve oxygen atoms.
Derived terms: tetratungsten dodecaoxide
drainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Material that has been separated by draining
glosses: plural of draining
dropwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From drop + -wise.
Senses: synonyms: dropmeal
guttatim
glosses: In drops; one drop at a time.
dropwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drop + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: dropwise addition
glosses: One drop at a time.
Derived terms: dropwisely
drybag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drybags
form: dry bag
Etymology: From dry + bag.
Senses: glosses: A bag used to keep things dry when in a wet or damp environment
dyestuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyestuff
electrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electric + -s.
Senses: glosses: All the electrical components and wiring of a machine or system.
Derived terms: bioelectrics
piezoelectrics
electrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electric + -s.
Senses: examples: text: There were electric vehicles around, but four-wheel drive electrics were pretty damned rare, and the snow was deep enough to stop anything that didn't have a minimum of four big wheels spinning at all times.
ref: 2004, Dennis Barton, Red Star 4: Victory:
glosses: plural of electric
electrocautery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrocauteries
Etymology: From electro- + cautery.
Senses: glosses: cauterization by the use of an instrument heated by electricity; electrocauterization
glosses: such an instrument
pansied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pansied
form: most pansied
Etymology: From pansy + -ed.
Senses: examples: the pansied grounds
glosses: Covered or adorned with pansies.
hooved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English hoved, hovyde, from Old English ġehōfod (“hoofed, hooved”), equivalent to hoof + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoofed.
Derived terms: cloven-hooved
hooved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hoove + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoove
haloo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haloos
form: halooing
form: halooed
form: halooed
Senses: examples: text: Scenes shifting, trumpets sounding, mobs halooing, carpets spreading, guards bustling from one door to another; gods, demons, daggers, racks, and ratsbane.
ref: 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:
glosses: Dated form of halloo.
haloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloos
Senses: glosses: Dated form of halloo.
moutons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouton
métros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of métro
noyaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noyau
noirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noir
nombrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nombril
endothermically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endothermically
form: most endothermically
Etymology: From endothermic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an endothermic manner
endothermicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endothermicities
Etymology: From endothermic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being endothermic
glosses: A measure of the relative endothermic character of a reaction or process
endrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: aldrin
dieldrin
glosses: A toxic chlorinated polycyclic epoxide previously used as a pesticide and now considered a persistent organic pollutant.
dime bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dime bag
steam-engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam-engines
Senses: examples: text: […] Lady Wentworth’s elbows were upraised to her shoulders, and then depressed, like the piston of a steam-engine; […]
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 225:
text: There was a sudden loud shriek which nearly set me screaming: I’ve been found out, I’ve been discovered. But it was only the noise of the black steam-engine coming in from the heaps.
ref: 2014, Edward Carey, Foulsham (Iremonger; 2), Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of steam engine.
shoulder-blade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder-blades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoulder blade.
hygrophoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hygrophoroid
form: most hygrophoroid
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having thick waxy gills.
raw_tags: of a mushroom
hilar appendage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hilar appendages
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of a spore which attaches to the sterigmata at the end of a basidium.
Synonyms: hilar appendix
hymenial cystidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymenial cystidia
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cystidium which is found on the spore bearing surface of a fungus.
hymeniderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymeniderms
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A surface layer of lengthened cells arranged side by side on the spore-bearing surface of a fungus.
hymeniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hymeniform
form: most hymeniform
Etymology: From hymenium + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed like the spore-bearing surface of a fungus.
hymenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymeniums
form: hymenia
Etymology: From ὑμήν (humḗn, “membrane”) + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The sporebearing surface of a fungus.
Derived terms: aequihymeniiferous
inaequihymeniiferous
subhymenium
Related terms: euhymenium
hymenial
hymeniform
hymenophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymenophores
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn, “membrane”) + -o- + -phore.
Senses: examples: text: The Agaricales have basidiocarps which are fleshy to subfleshy or rarely, almost leathery (but if the latter then the hymenophore is not poroid).
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of a fungus fruiting body which produces spore-bearing cells.
Derived terms: hymenophoral
hymenophoral trama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymenophoral tramas
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The inside flesh of the hymenophore.
inamyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inamyloid
form: most inamyloid
Etymology: From in- + amyloid.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Not turning red or blue when stained with Melzer's reagent.
incurved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incurved
form: most incurved
Etymology: From in- + curved. Compare Latin incurvus.
Senses: glosses: Turned or curving inward, towards the center.
Related terms: excurved
inequilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inequilateral
form: most inequilateral
Etymology: From in- + equilateral.
Senses: glosses: Having unequal sides; unsymmetrical or lopsided
inrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inrolled
form: most inrolled
Etymology: From in- + rolled.
Senses: glosses: Incurved or rolled inwards.
bottom the house
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bottoms the house
form: bottoming the house
form: bottomed the house
form: bottomed the house
Senses: examples: text: The half-length lace curtains keep out most of what little sun there is, but they establish your privacy: the window-ledges and doorsteps scrubbed and yellowed with scouring-stone further establish that you are a 'decent' family, that you believe in 'bottoming' the house each week.
ref: 1957, Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, →ISBN:
text: She had 'bottomed' the house (ie spring-cleaned) and cooked specially for me.
ref: 1978, Colin Gordon, A richer dust: echoes from an Edwardian album:
text: My mother-in-law pickled walnuts
and covered floors in rag rugs
she bottomed the house each spring
ref: 1985, The Raving Beauties, editors, No holds barred, →ISBN:
glosses: To clean a house from top to bottom; to clean a house extremely thoroughly.
Related terms: spring cleaning
intervenose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intervenose
form: most intervenose
Etymology: From inter- + venose.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Used to describe a mushroom which has veins in the spaces between the gills.