cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tritium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪti.əm/
ipa: /ˈtrɪʃi.əm/
Forms: form: tritiums
Etymology: From trito- + -ium. From Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: mul:T
synonyms: mul:H-3
mul:³H
hydrogen-3
hydrogen 3
hypernyms: hydrogen
mul:H
coordinate_terms: protium
mul:H-1
mul:¹H
hydrogen-1
hydrogen 1
normal hydrogen
light hydrogen
;
mul:H-2
mul:²H
mul:D
hydrogen-2
hydrogen 2
heavy hydrogen
;
mul:H-4
mul:⁴H
mul:Q
glosses: A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T, ³H or ³₁H) having one proton and two neutrons.
examples: text: Electrochemical polymerization of the 1,2-tritiated monomer produced a polymer in which all of the tritiums were eliminated except for those located at the ends of the chains
ref: 1998, Donald Lee Wise, Electrical and optical polymer systems, →ISBN, page 765:
glosses: An atom of this isotope.
Derived terms: tritium oxide
Related terms: triton
isotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.sə.təʊp/
enpr: ī'sətōp
ipa: /ˈaɪ.sə.toʊp/
Forms: form: isotopes
Etymology: From iso- (“equal”) + -tope (“place”), because the different isotopes of an element always occupy the same place in the periodic table. The term was coined by Scottish doctor Margaret Todd in 1909 and first used publicly on February 27, 1913 by English chemist Frederick Soddy.
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Any of two or more forms of an element where the atoms have the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons within their nuclei. Thus, isotopes have the same atomic number but a different mass number.
Derived terms: clumped isotope
daughter isotope
deisotope
isoscape
isotope analysis
isotope dilution
isotope effect
isotope exchange
isotope geochemistry
isotope hydrology
isotope map
isotope separation
isotope shift
isotope signature
isotope table
isotopics
isotopism
isotopometry
medical isotope
monoisotope
nonisotope
radioisotope
radio-isotope
Related terms: isobar
isotone
isotope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.sə.təʊp/
enpr: ī'sətōp
ipa: /ˈaɪ.sə.toʊp/
Forms: form: isotopes
form: isotoping
form: isotoped
form: isotoped
Etymology: Possible back-formation from isotopy.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: To define or demonstrate an isotopy of (one map with another).
Derived terms: deisotoping
Related terms: homotope
radioactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹeɪdiəʊˈaktɪv/
ipa: /ˌɹeɪdioʊˈæktɪv/
rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more radioactive
form: most radioactive
form: radio-active
Etymology: Coined by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie in 1898 as French radio-actif, equivalent to English radio- + active.
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of fact many of our best drinking waters have all sorts of unspecified qualities. Burton water, for example, is radioactive by Beetham's standards up to the ninth degree.
ref: 1917, H. G. Wells, “The First Vision”, in The Soul of a Bishop:
text: Today, no one would intentionally smear radioactive materials on their face, but in 1933, the dangers of radioactivity were not yet fully understood.
ref: 2020 March 8, Jacopo Prisco, “When beauty products were radioactive”, in CNN:
glosses: Exhibiting radioactivity.
examples: text: Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.
text: It was as though he was possessed of an invisible aura repelling incoming bodies. ‘Look. No one wants to be associated with him now. He’s become radioactive.’
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
text: And while Biden’s other nominees have done little to provoke Republican backlash thus far, [Neera] Tanden is “radioactive,” as Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) put it.
ref: 2020 November 30, Burgess Everett, Caitlin Emma, Theodoric Meyer, quoting John Cornyn, “Joe Biden's 'radioactive' nominee”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2020:
text: If, by some miracle, Democrats hang on to one or both houses of Congress this November, it will be because of Cawthorn, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other would-be G.O.P. candidates trying to be just like them — the Radioactive Republicans.
ref: 2022 April 4, Gail Collins, Bret Stephens, “Which ‘Radioactive Republicans’ Are We Betting On?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2022:
glosses: Dangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas.
Derived terms: nonradioactive
radioactive dating
radioactive decay
radioactive disintegration
radioactive equilibrium
radioactive fallout
radioactively
radioactive tracer
radioactive waste
radioactivity
radioactive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹeɪdiəʊˈaktɪv/
ipa: /ˌɹeɪdioʊˈæktɪv/
rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: radioactives
form: radio-active
Etymology: Coined by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie in 1898 as French radio-actif, equivalent to English radio- + active.
Senses: examples: text: Any ship nearby will receive a lethal dose of gamma rays, neutrons, and other radioactives.
ref: 2016, Travis S. Taylor, Les Johnson, On to the Asteroid:
glosses: Any radioactive substance.
radioactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌreɪdɪəʊakˈtɪvɪti/
Forms: form: radioactivities
form: radio-activity
Etymology: From radioactive + -ity or radio- + activity.
Senses: examples: text: Today, no one would intentionally smear radioactive materials on their face, but in 1933, the dangers of radioactivity were not yet fully understood.
ref: 2020 March 8, Jacopo Prisco, “When beauty products were radioactive”, in CNN:
glosses: Spontaneous emission of ionizing radiation as a consequence of a nuclear reaction, or directly from the breakdown of an unstable nucleus.
glosses: The radiation so emitted; including gamma rays, alpha particles, neutrons, electrons, positrons, etc.
Hyponyms: alpha decay
beta decay
electron capture
gamma decay
spontaneous fission
Related terms: activity
nuclear radiation
radiation
radiation poisoning
radio-
radioactive decay
becquerel
curie
half-life
Tatler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtætlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ætlə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: An English surname of uncertain origin.
gamma ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma rays
form: Gamma ray
form: gamma-ray
form: Gamma-ray
form: γ ray
form: Γ ray
form: γ-ray
form: Γ-ray
Senses: examples: text: Doc Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays,
Turns into the Hulk – Ain’t he unglamour-rays! [unglamorous]
Wreckin’ the town with the power of a bull,
Ain’t no monster, clown. Who is as lovable
As ever-lovin’ Hulk? - Hulk! Hulk!
ref: 1966, “The Incredible Hulk (theme song)”, Jacques Urbont (lyrics) (The Marvel Super Heroes (television series)):
text: There’s a tongue-in-cheek book titled “Learn Greek in 25 years,” but you’ll be surprised at how straightforward it is to learn the alphabet: those alpha males, beta releases and gamma rays have seen to that.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: Very high frequency (and therefore very high energy) electromagnetic radiation emitted as a consequence of radioactivity.
Derived terms: gamma knife
gamma-ray astronomy
gamma-ray burst
graser
Related terms: gamma radiation
T-ray
X-ray
alpha ray
beta ray
William
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪl.i.əm/
ipa: /ˈwɪl.jəm/
rhymes: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: Wm.
Etymology: From Middle English William, from Anglo-Norman Willame, from Old High German Willahelm, from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz (> Latin Gulielmus), from Proto-Germanic *wiljô (“will”) + *helmaz (“helmet”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European roots *welh₁- (“to choose, wish, want”) and *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”) respectively. Cognate with Dutch Willem, German Wilhelm, etc.; cognate borrowings outside of Germanic include Guillaume and Guillermo.
Senses: synonyms: Whiskey
qualifier: World War II era; joint US/RAF; World War II era; joint US/RAF
glosses: radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter W.
indulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌl.d͡ʒəns/
Forms: form: indulgences
form: indulgency
form: indulgement
Etymology: From Middle English indulgence, indulgens, from Middle French indulgence and its source, Latin indulgentia.
Senses: examples: text: will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience
ref: 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
text: As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy.
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 220:
glosses: The act of indulging.
glosses: Tolerance.
glosses: The act of catering to someone's every desire.
examples: text: "In other words, the ONLY indulgences we'll be getting for a while is fixing your wardrobe. This means no new manga. No new games. Nothing. Get used to it."
ref: 2013, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain, volume 1, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: A wish or whim satisfied.
examples: text: I made but one error—giving way to petulance in the earlier instance; that lost me the Prince of Conti. Temper is bourgeois indulgence, though I own to a predilection for it.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Something in which someone indulges.
examples: text: If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
ref: a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance:
glosses: An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
examples: text: To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 555:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
Hyponyms: sense: pardon from purgatory
word: plenary indulgence
sense: pardon from purgatory
word: partial indulgence
Derived terms: homedulgence
indulgencer
nonindulgence
overindulgence
self-indulgence
underindulgence
Related terms: indulge
indulgent
indulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌl.d͡ʒəns/
Forms: form: indulgences
form: indulgencing
form: indulgenced
form: indulgenced
form: indulgency
form: indulgement
Etymology: From Middle English indulgence, indulgens, from Middle French indulgence and its source, Latin indulgentia.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: to provide with an indulgence
alpha particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha particles
Senses: examples: Holonyms: alpha ray, alpha radiation
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: α-particle
hypernyms: helion
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ion#Noun
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particle#Noun
coordinate_terms: helion
;
beta particle
glosses: A doubly positively charged nucleus of a helium-4 atom (consisting of two protons and two neutrons), emitted as a consequence of radioactivity.
Derived terms: alpha particle X-ray spectrometer
Related terms: gamma ray
brody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹoʊdi/
ipa: /bɹəʊdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
rhymes: -oʊdi
Forms: form: brodies
form: brodie
Senses: examples: text: I spun a brody in some chat up at the old zinc mine.
glosses: Intentionally spinning in circles and sliding in an automobile.
Related terms: doughnut
360
spontaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
ipa: /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
rhymes: -eɪniəs
Forms: form: more spontaneous
form: most spontaneous
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin spontāneus.
Senses: examples: text: He made a spontaneous offer of help.
text: To make a spontaneous decision
synonyms: autonomous
glosses: Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
synonyms: autonomous
glosses: Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
synonyms: autonomous
glosses: Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
glosses: Arising from a momentary impulse.
glosses: Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
examples: text: He persisted in his design; and, because he would not make his wants known, actually subsisted for several days on hips, haws and sloes, and other spontaneous fruits which he gathered in the woods and fields.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 106, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
glosses: Sudden, without warning.
examples: text: He made a spontaneous remarks in the court.
synonyms: word: unwritten
word: abrupt
word: precipitous
word: subitaneous
word: abrupt
word: precipitant
word: precipitate
word: precipitous
word: spontaneous
word: subitaneous
word: sudden
word: suddent
glosses: Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.
Derived terms: spontaneity
spontaneous abortion
spontaneous combustion
spontaneous fission
spontaneous generation
spontaneous human combustion
spontaneously
spontaneous pneumothorax
kowtow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊˌtaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: kowtows
form: kowtowing
form: kowtowed
form: kowtowed
form: kotoo
form: kotow
form: kow-tow
Etymology: From either Cantonese 叩頭 /叩头 (kau³ tau⁴) or Mandarin 叩頭 /叩头 (kòutóu). Literally, “knock head”.
Senses: examples: text: When the weather turned cold, the tears that he shed would become frozen like veins; the blood on his forehead from kowtowing would also freeze and would not drip.
ref: 2013, Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, Jessey J. C. Choo, Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 645:
glosses: To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
examples: text: I suppose you're going to be nice to Odie and kowtow to Jon and lick the mailman's boots! I don't like you already.
ref: 1984 December 30, Jim Davis, Garfield (comic):
text: The letter to Razin contained another thought that preoccupied Stalin in the first months after the war: the need to avoid “kowtowing to the West,” including showing “unwarranted respect” for the “military authorities of Germany.”
ref: 2015, Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 265:
glosses: To grovel, act in a very submissive manner; to show obeisance to (someone or something) in such a manner; to bow.
glosses: To bow very deeply.
Derived terms: kowtower
kowtowing
kowtow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊˌtaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: kowtows
form: kotoo
form: kotow
form: kow-tow
Etymology: From either Cantonese 叩頭 /叩头 (kau³ tau⁴) or Mandarin 叩頭 /叩头 (kòutóu). Literally, “knock head”.
Senses: examples: text: Three elders dressed in their long silk ceremonial gowns perform the kowtow before the altar in their clan ancestral hall.
ref: 1990, Hugh D. R. Baker, Hong Kong Images: People and Animals, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: The act of kowtowing.
Synonyms: sense: Japanese way
word: dogeza
Related terms: prostrate
unstable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsteɪ.bəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: more unstable
form: most unstable
Etymology: From Middle English unstable; equivalent to un- (not) + stable.
Senses: examples: text: The hillside at this point is composed of shaly rock overlaid with a peaty loam which carries a growth of heather, and its unstable condition has resulted in two landslides in the course of the railway's history.
ref: 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
glosses: Not stable.
examples: text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: Having a strong tendency to change.
glosses: Fluctuating; not constant.
glosses: Fickle.
glosses: Unpredictable.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Readily decomposable.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
Synonyms: sense: having strong tendency to change
word: labile
sense: fluctuating, not constant
word: instable
word: unsteady
sense: fickle
word: arbitrary
sense: fickle
word: capricious
sense: not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over
word: tottering
word: wobbly
word: rickety
Derived terms: emotionally unstable personality disorder
unstable equilibrium
Related terms: word: instability
word: unstability
unstable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsteɪ.bəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: unstables
form: unstabling
form: unstabled
form: unstabled
Etymology: From un- (reversive prefix) + stable.
Senses: examples: text: When the last tune of music floated from the fleet, he unstabled his quarter horse and headed for the coastal road leading west and north on his circuit.
ref: 1992, Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler, Sir John Dodderidge, Celebrated Barrister of Britain, 1555-1628:
glosses: To release (an animal) from a stable.
notify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊtɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: notifies
form: notifying
form: notified
form: notified
Etymology: From Middle English notifien, a borrowing from Old French notifier, notefiier.
Senses: examples: text: The dispatcher immediately notified the volunteer fire department of the emergency call.
text: Once a decision has been reached and notified to the parties it becomes binding.
glosses: To give (someone) notice (of some event).
glosses: To make (something) known.
glosses: To make note of (something).
Synonyms: apprise
inform
Derived terms: denotify
misnotify
notifiability
notifiable
prenotify
renotify
unnotified
unnotify
Related terms: notifier
notification
notifyee
half-life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæfˌlaɪf/
Forms: form: half-lives
Etymology: From half- + life.
Senses: examples: text: "The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay hot for a long time."
ref: 1985, Michael Swanwick, “Boneseeker”, in In the Drift (New Ace Science Fiction Specials; series 3), New York, N.Y.: Ace Science Fiction Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2017, →ISBN, page 80:
text: O₂^(•−) and OH^• are highly unstable (half-life at the level of microseconds and nanoseconds, respectively) and cannot cross membrane, while H₂O₂, though not a free radical but a ROS, is relatively stable (half-life around 1 ms) (Møller et al. 2007) and can cross membranes through aquaporins.
ref: 2015, Rup Kumar Kar, “ROS Signaling: Relevance with Site of Production and Metabolism of ROS”, in Dharmendra K. Gupta, José M. Palma, Francisco J. Corpas, editors, Reactive Oxygen Species and Oxidative Damage in Plants Under Stress, Springer, →ISBN, page 117:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The time required for half the nuclei in a sample of an isotope to undergo radioactive decay.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In a chemical reaction, the time required for the concentration of a reactant to fall from a chosen value to half that value.
examples: text: For nonporous surfaces such as steel, in a dark and low-humidity environment, the CCP virus has an 18-hour half-life—the time required for it to decrease by half , according to the researchers' findings.
ref: 2020, Dr. Alan Pateman, China, Covid-19, World Domination, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The time it takes for a substance (drug, radioactive nuclide, or other) to lose half of its pharmacological, physiologic, or radiological activity.
examples: text: Most books of scholarship have surprisingly short intellectual half-lives during which they make a difference"
ref: 1991, Robert Ackerman, Introduction to Jane Ellen Harrison's Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903)
glosses: The amount of time it takes for an idea or a fashion to lose half of its influential power.
Related terms: radioactivity
exponential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕk-spō-nĕn'-chəl
ipa: /ˌɛk.spəˈnɛn.t͡ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌɛk.spəʊˈnɛn.tʃəl/
enpr: ĕk-spō-nĕn'-chəl
ipa: /ˌɛk.spəˈnɛn.t͡ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌɛk.spoʊˈnɛn.t͡ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌek.spəˈnen.t͡ʃəl/
Forms: form: exponentials
Etymology: From exponent + -ial.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: exponential function
glosses: Any function that has an exponent as an independent variable.
exponential growth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exponential growths
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The growth in the value of a quantity in which the rate of growth is proportional to the instantaneous value of the quantity; for example, when the value has doubled, the rate of increase will also have doubled. The rate may be positive or negative.
glosses: Very rapid growth.
Synonyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: geometric growth
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: constant rate of growth
Related terms: growth rate
exponentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkspə(ʊ)ˈnɛnʃəli/
Forms: form: more exponentially
form: most exponentially
Etymology: From exponential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But every known algorithm for this problem requires a number of steps that increases exponentially as n increases.
ref: 1992, Clark Glymour, Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements, MIT Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 333:
text: Therefore, if absorption causes an attenuation of the oscillation amplitude, the temperature must decrease exponentially with increasing thickness.
ref: 2000, Shuji Nakamura et al., The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story, Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 69:
text: It can be readily derived from Eqs. 6.26 and 6.32 that the field generated by these incident evanescent waves inside the slab do ^([sic]) not decay away exponentially from the upper interface, but increases exponentially as y decreases.
ref: 2008, Henri Benisty et al., Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices, Second Edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 216:
topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: arithmetically
geometrically
glosses: In an exponential manner.
examples: text: The more serious a Christian is about God's kingdom, the more exponentially complicating that venture is […]
ref: 2007, Michael Glenn Maness, Would You Lie to Save a Life: Love Will Find a Way Home, page 357:
text: He'd felt like Kathryn's soul was in her eyes as she'd regarded him for those precious few seconds... and her spirit was even more exponentially beautiful than […]
ref: 2008, Beth Kery, Take a Stranger No More, page 27:
glosses: rapidly, greatly
Derived terms: hypoexponentially
subexponentially
fuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
homophone: Fuller
Etymology: From full.
Senses: examples: text: Comment must be circumspect until fuller particulars are available, [...].
ref: 1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Scottish reorganisation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 119:
glosses: comparative form of full: more full
fuller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
homophone: Fuller
Forms: form: fullers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fullere, from Old English fullere, from Latin fullō (“fuller”) + -ere; equivalent to full (“to densen cloth”) + -er.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: feltmaker, felter
synonyms: tucker#Etymology 2
walker#Etymology 2
waulker
glosses: A person who fulls cloth.
Derived terms: fuller's earth
fuller's herb
fuller's thistle
fuller's weed
fuller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
homophone: Fuller
Forms: form: fullers
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A convex, rounded or grooved tool, used by blacksmiths for shaping metal.
glosses: A groove made by such a tool (in the blade of a sword etc.).
fuller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
homophone: Fuller
Forms: form: fullers
form: fullering
form: fullered
form: fullered
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: to fuller a bayonet
glosses: To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer.
prepositional case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepositional cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun case serving as object of a preposition. Prepositions that often govern the prepositional case include "about", "in", "on", and "near". Russian is an example of a language that uses the prepositional case.
lava lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lava lamps
Etymology: A trademarked name registered by Mathmos in 1963 for the item.
Senses: glosses: A kind of lamp, typically used more for decoration than illumination, in which the gentle flow of randomly-shaped clumps of wax purportedly suggests the flowing of lava.
wikipedia: Mathmos
synapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪnæps/
ipa: /ˈsaɪnæps/
ipa: /sɪˈnæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: synapses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”), from συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to clasp”). Introduced by neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington.
Senses: glosses: The junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass.
Derived terms: antisynapse
chemosynapse
glycosynapse
hemisynapse
immunosynapse
monosynapse
multisynapse
neosynapse
neurosynapse
postsynapse
presynapse
protosynapse
supersynapse
synapsin
unsynapsed
Related terms: synaptic
axon
dendrite
ephapse
synapse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪnæps/
ipa: /ˈsaɪnæps/
ipa: /sɪˈnæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: synapses
form: synapsing
form: synapsed
form: synapsed
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”), from συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to clasp”). Introduced by neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington.
Senses: glosses: To form a synapse.
glosses: To undergo synapsis.
go away
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Go away! Stop annoying me!
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: A command demanding someone to leave.
Synonyms: word: amscray
word: away with you
word: be off with you
word: beat it
word: begone
word: bite me
word: bog off
word: bug off
word: bugger off
word: buzz off
word: clear off
word: do one
word: don't let the door hit you on the way out
word: forget you
word: fuck off
word: gertcha
word: get to fuck
word: get bent
word: get fucked
word: get knotted
word: get lost
word: get out of here
word: get outta here
word: get out of my face
word: get screwed
word: get stuffed
word: get you gone
word: git
word: go and boil your head
word: go and eat coke
word: go away
word: go chase yourself
word: go climb a tree
word: go fly a kite
word: go fuck your mother
word: go fuck yourself sideways
word: go fuck yourself
word: go jump in the lake
word: go play in the traffic
word: go play with yourself
word: go shit yourself
word: go suck an egg
word: go tell your mother she wants you
word: go to hell
word: go to Halifax
word: go to the devil
word: hadaway and shite
word: hence
word: hit the road
word: hop it
word: kick rocks
word: jog on
word: leave
word: leave me alone
word: make like a banana and split
word: make like a tree and leave
word: make yourself scarce
word: naff off
word: nick off
word: now go away
word: off you fuck
word: on with you
word: on yer bike
word: on your bike
word: piss off
word: pound sand
word: push off
word: rack off
word: scram
word: screw off
word: screw you
word: shoo
word: shove off
word: shit off
word: skedaddle
word: sling one's hook
word: sod off
word: split
word: spread out
word: take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
word: take a flying fuck
word: take a hike
word: take a long walk on a short pier
word: up yours
word: Entries in Thesaurus:leave
word: used as imperative verbs.
word: Entries in :Category:English dismissals.
Derived terms: go-away bird
go away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes away
form: going away
form: went away
form: gone away
Senses: examples: text: I'm not going to buy it. Please go away and don't come back.
text: Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away
ref: 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:
text: My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!
ref: 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
text: Don't delay
Something tells me I gotta go away
ref: 2009, Ingrid Michaelson, “Once Was Love”, in Everybody:
glosses: To depart or leave a place.
examples: text: Will you be going away at the weekend?
text: Are you going away this year?
glosses: To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation.
examples: text: If you get caught, you're going away for a long time.
glosses: To go to prison to be incarcerated.
examples: text: As you get closer the haze goes away.
text: This cold just won't go away.
text: But the need for modern, reliable, frequent and clean modes of transport has never gone away.
ref: 2023 October 18, Noel Dolphin, “Climate resilience in an era of budget cuts”, in RAIL, number 994, page 38:
glosses: To vanish or disappear.
Synonyms: sense: to depart
word: leave
Derived terms: going-away party
sell in May and go away
stay put
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays put
form: staying put
form: stayed put
form: stayed put
Senses: examples: text: I'm not moving there; I'd rather stay put.
text: I keep adjusting the focus, but it won't stay put.
glosses: To remain in one fixed place
bibliobibuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The term was coined in 1957 by H. L. Mencken, from the Greek "biblio-", meaning books, and the Latin "bibulous", from "bibere" (to drink).
Senses: examples: "There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing." - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
glosses: The kind of people who read excessively.
schwag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃwæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: shwag
form: swag
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to shag (“shredded tobacco”). The "marijuana" noun sense is attested since the 1980s in the United States, the adjective since the 1990s. The "trinkets or items given away" sense is a variant of swag from 19th century thieves' cant.
Senses: examples: text: The stuff tasted good, better than the usual shwag. I handed him his pipe back, then pulled out my wallet. "Is twenty good?"
ref: 2002, Joe Babcock, The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers, Closet Case Books, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
examples: text: National pride deserves something more than a fistful of freebies from a governmental schwag bag or the wearing of any one of the staggering array of commercially available pins.
ref: 2004, Blaise Cronin, Jeremiad Jottings, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Alternative form of swag (“trinkets or promotional items given away at an event”).
Synonyms: sense: low-grade marijuana
word: mersh
sense: low-grade marijuana
word: regs
sense: trinkets
word: tchotchkes
Coordinate terms: mids
middies
kine bud
kind bud
KB
KBs
heads
headies
schwag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃwæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: shwag
form: swag
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to shag (“shredded tobacco”). The "marijuana" noun sense is attested since the 1980s in the United States, the adjective since the 1990s. The "trinkets or items given away" sense is a variant of swag from 19th century thieves' cant.
Senses: glosses: inferior; low-grade
synapsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈnæpsɪs/
Forms: form: synapses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῠ́νᾰψῐς (sŭ́năpsĭs, “contact”).
Senses: synonyms: syndesis
glosses: The association of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes during the initial part of meiosis.
glosses: Alternative form of synapse.
Derived terms: autosynapsis
heterosynapsis
presynapsis
milliard
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪɑːd/
ipa: /ˈmɪliɑɹd/
Forms: form: milliards
Etymology: From French milliard.
Senses: examples: text: For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 155:
synonyms: billion[short scale]]>
thousand million
glosses: 10⁹, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.)
Coordinate terms: thousand
million
thousand million
billion
trillion
quadrillion
quintillion
sextillion
Derived terms: milliardaire
milliardfold
milliardth
Related terms: word: Previous: million. Next: billion.
sense: Symbolic
word: 109 = 1
sense: Symbolic
word: 000
chipotle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɪˈpɒt.leɪ/
ipa: /tʃɪˈpəʊt.leɪ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈpoʊt.leɪ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈpɑt.leɪ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈpɔt.leɪ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈpoʊt.li/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈpɑt.li/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈpɔt.li/
Forms: form: chipotles
Etymology: From Spanish chipotle, from Classical Nahuatl chīlpōctli, compound of chīlli (“pepper”) + pōctli (“smoke”).
Senses: examples: text: Sweet corn on the cob comes to vibrant life with a caramelized glaze of smoky chipotle peppers, tangy lime juice, sea salt, and agave nectar.
ref: 2012, Bo Rinaldi, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A ripe jalapeño pepper, dried and smoked for use in cooking.
constipated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'stə-pā-təd
ipa: /ˈkɒnstəpeɪtəd/
Forms: form: more constipated
form: most constipated
Senses: glosses: Unable to defecate; costive.
examples: text: But there is no place for grand gestures but there's a basic contempt for women in this puny, constipated drama.
ref: 1977, New West, volume 2, numbers 21-26, page 96:
text: Currently, the way we help people die (and sometimes help them get through the weeks leading up to death) is to stultify or intoxicate them with opiates so that they can't think or feel. They may be pain-free but their body is constipated, their brain is numbed and they often don't have the ability to speak cogently before they die.
ref: 2023, David Nutt, Psychedelics, page 186:
glosses: Failing to make a point or reach a conclusion; stifled.
Derived terms: constipatedly
exhaustipated
unconstipated
Related terms: constipation
constipated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'stə-pā-təd
ipa: /ˈkɒnstəpeɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of constipate
Related terms: laxative
dog days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡ deɪz/
ipa: /ˈdɔɡ deɪz/
Forms: form: dog day
Etymology: Calque of Latin diēs caniculārēs (“puppy days”), a calque of Ancient Greek κυνάδες ἡμέραι (kunádes hēmérai, “dog days”), from κυνάς (kunás, “of or related to dogs”), from Κῠ́ων (Kŭ́ōn, “the Dog”) in reference to the star Sirius, which appears in Homeric Greek as "Orion's dog". The return of Sirius to the night sky (its heliacal rising), occurring in antiquity around July 25 (Athens) or 29 (Rome), was considered by the Greeks and Romans to herald what were considered the hottest, least healthy, and least lucky days of summer.
Senses: examples: text: ... a sterre, wherof canicular or dogge days be named Dies caniculares.
ref: 1538, Thomas Elyot, “Canicula”, in The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot:
text: Dog days bright and clear
Indicate a good year;
But when accompanied by rain,
We hope for better times in vain.
ref: 1883, H.H.C. Dunwoody, "Proverbs Relating to Months, Weeks, and Days" in Weather Proverbs, Signal Service Notes, No. IX, p. 98
synonyms: word: canicular days
glosses: The days following the heliacal rising of Sirius, now in early August (Gregorian) at dates varying by latitude.
examples: text: Why ſhould thoſe Eteſian and Eaſterne winds blow cōtinually in ſome places, at ſet times, one way ſtill, in the dog dayes only: heere perpetuall drought, there dropping ſhowres; [...]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 214:
text: The dog days of August have often spelled trouble for the world economy.
ref: 2013 August 17, “A Rickety Rebound”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849:
glosses: The unpleasantly hot days of late summer.
examples: text: The two-cassette miniseries, produced by Oliver Stone, arrives in early August, in time to stir the dog days of summer rentals.
ref: 1993, Billboard, volume 105, number 24, page 62:
glosses: Any similar period of inactivity, laziness, or stagnation.
Northern Hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: antonyms: Southern Hemisphere
glosses: The hemisphere in Earth to the north of the Equator, in which 90% of the total land area on Earth is located.
Coordinate terms: Eastern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Water Hemisphere
Land Hemisphere
irrefutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹɪˈfjuːtəbəl/
ipa: /ˌɪɹəˈfjuːtəbəl/
ipa: /ɪˈɹɛf(j)ətəbəl/
ipa: /ɪˈɹɛfjuːtəbəl/
Forms: form: more irrefutable
form: most irrefutable
Etymology: From Late Latin irrefūtābilis, from ir- (“not”) + refūtābilis (“refutable”), from refūtō (“to refute”) + -bilis (“-able”), equivalent to ir- + refutable.
Senses: examples: text: […]clear and irrefutable evidence of the Cause I have undertaken
ref: 1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC:
text: True, there had been nothing, in his lifetime, viler than this man. She knew it, there was no other fact within her consciousness that she felt to be so certain; and yet, because her persecutor found himself safe and irrefutable in death, he frowned upon his victim, and threw back the blame on her!
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
text: He had formed his mind by Helvetius, whose system he deemed irrefutable, and in whom alone he had faith.
ref: 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: I have listened also to the remarks of counsel, with high interest—and especially will I commend the masterly and irrefutable logic of the distinguished gentleman who represents the plaintiff. But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this.
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC:
antonyms: refutable
glosses: undeniable; unable to be disproved or refuted
Synonyms: word: inarguable
word: incontestable
word: incontrovertible
word: indeniable
word: indisputable
word: indubitable
word: irrebuttable
word: irrecusable
word: irrefragable
word: nondeniable
word: unanswerable
word: unassailable
word: unattackable
word: unchallengeable
word: uncontrovertible
word: undebatable
word: undeniable
word: undiscutable
word: undisputable
word: undoubtable
word: unimpeachable
word: unquestionable
word: unrebuttable
word: unrecusable
word: unshakable
Hypernyms: word: undisprovable
word: unfalsifiable
word: unnullifiable
Derived terms: irrefutableness
irrefutably
Related terms: word: certain
UE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UEs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of User Equipment (in UMTS).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of User Experience.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Unreal Engine.
Synonyms: topics: software
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: UX
UE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of University of the East.
ignoramus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭg′nə-rā′məs
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌəɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹe.məs/
ipa: /ˌiɡ.noˈɾeː.mus/
rhymes: -eɪməs
Forms: form: ignoramuses
form: ignorami
form: ignoramous
Etymology: After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō (“I do not know, I am unacquainted with, I am ignorant of”).
Senses: examples: text: “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.
ref: 2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2024:
text: “I am sorry to say your History teacher is an ignoramus! She can’t even spell ‘Bayeux’!”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
Synonyms: word: dunce
word: ignoramus
word: jay
word: know-nothing
word: lack-latin
word: mumpsimus
word: nescient
word: numskull
word: rube
word: wild-ass
Hypernyms: word: mentally deficient person
Hyponyms: word: illiterate
word: ultracrepidarian
Derived terms: ignoranus
Related terms: word: charlatan
word: dabbler
word: dilettante
word: smatterer
word: wiseacre
word: ignorant
word: beginner
word: bumpkin
word: idiot
word: fool
ignoramus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭg′nə-rā′məs
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌəɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹe.məs/
ipa: /ˌiɡ.noˈɾeː.mus/
rhymes: -eɪməs
Forms: form: ignoramuses
Etymology: Directly from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.
Synonyms: word: dunce
word: ignoramus
word: jay
word: know-nothing
word: lack-latin
word: mumpsimus
word: nescient
word: numskull
word: rube
word: wild-ass
Hypernyms: word: mentally deficient person
Hyponyms: word: illiterate
word: ultracrepidarian
Related terms: word: charlatan
word: dabbler
word: dilettante
word: smatterer
word: wiseacre
word: ignorant
word: beginner
word: bumpkin
word: idiot
word: fool
ignoramus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭg′nə-rā′məs
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌəɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹe.məs/
ipa: /ˌiɡ.noˈɾeː.mus/
rhymes: -eɪməs
Forms: form: ignoramuses
form: ignoramusing
form: ignoramused
form: ignoramused
Etymology: Directly from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To make such a ruling against (an indictment).
Southern Hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: antonyms: Northern Hemisphere
glosses: The hemisphere in Earth to the south of the Equator, containing only about 10% of the total land area on Earth.
Coordinate terms: Eastern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
Water Hemisphere
Land Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: western hemisphere
Senses: glosses: The hemisphere in Earth to the west of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line), containing the Americas and a small part of eastern Russia.
glosses: The Americas.
Coordinate terms: Eastern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Water Hemisphere
Land Hemisphere
Derived terms: Western Hemispherian
Related terms: New World
West
Eastern Hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The hemisphere in Earth to the east of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and west of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line), containing Africa, Asia and Europe, except for a small part of eastern Russia.
Coordinate terms: Western Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Water Hemisphere
Land Hemisphere
Related terms: Old World
East
longitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈlɒnd͡ʒɪtʃuːd/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈlɒnɡɪtjuːd/
note: more traditional
ipa: /ˈlɒnd͡ʒɪtjuːd/
ipa: /ˈlɑnd͡ʒəˌtud/
ipa: /ˈlɔnd͡ʒəˌtud/
Forms: form: longitudes
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longitūdō (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).
Senses: examples: text: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: latitude
glosses: Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
topics: astronomy
geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: meridian
glosses: Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
examples: text: His shoulders are remarkably sloping, giving an appearance of great longitude to his neck.
ref: 1831, Francis Griffin, “Griffin's Remains”, in The American Quarterly Review, volume 10, page 504:
glosses: Length.
Derived terms: celestial longitude
ecliptic longitude
geolongitude
heliolongitude
lat/lon
longitude clock
longitudinal
palaeolongitude
paleolongitude
Related terms: easting
equator
prime meridian