cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
parting shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parting shots
Etymology: Believed to be a variation of Parthian shot, referring to a military maneuver in which Parthian troops retreating on horseback turned back to face the enemy and shot while retreating.
Senses: examples: text: Gold Coast Deputy Mayor David Power took a parting shot at the Crime and Misconduct Commission and his council enemies as he announced his bombshell resignation today.
ref: 2007 September 18, Greg Stolz, “Power's parting shot at enemies”, in Courier-Mail, Australia:
text: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club Cabin Boyhttp://www.avclub.com/articles/cabin-boy,71269/
When news arrives that the school must graduate Nathanial to official “Fancy Lad” status early and put him on the Queen Catherine first class to run the Mayweather in Hawaii, the headmaster dutifully complies, but Nathanial gets in a few parting shots on his way out the door.
glosses: An insult or barbed comment issued as the speaker departs or the conversation comes to an end.
whatever it takes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "I'll do whatever it takes to win."
ref: 1997 January 31, Mike Wise, “Intense and Erratic, John Starks Can Still Jump-Start the Knicks”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Jul 2012:
text: [T]he security forces have exhibited few qualms about doing whatever it takes to quiet the streets, including the imprisoning of an estimated 2,000 opposition supporters.
ref: 2009 August 5, Tony Karon, “A Weakened Ahmadinejad Sworn in for a Second Term”, in Time:
glosses: Anything, including measures which may be extreme or wrongful, that is required to achieve an objective.
raw_tags: for improper behavior
Related terms: play to win
what it takes
tax value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax values
Senses: examples: text: The crooked floors came in handy at tax assessment time. After seeing an orange roll across the slanting floor, the assessor lowered the building's tax value, according to company lore.
ref: 2006, Greg Tasker, Sanders Confectionery, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Tax records from 1860 show that on the eve of the Civil War the Alamance Cotton Factory employed sixty white women and eight white men, and the business had a tax value of $57,000.
ref: 2009, William Murray Vincent, Historic Alamance County: An Illustrated History, →ISBN, page 37:
text: The Guatemalans offered United Fruit $627,572 (about $2.99 an acre) in compensation, a figure that came from the company's own tax value assessment for the land.
ref: 2011, Daniel C. Walsh, An Air War with Cuba: The United States Radio Campaign Against Castro, →ISBN:
glosses: The assessed value of an asset from which the tax owing is computed.
TRAF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Acronym of toss, refer, act, file, a principle of organization describing the possible responses to an incoming message or work item.
have a way with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a way with
form: having a way with
form: had a way with
form: had a way with
Senses: examples: text: She has a way with animals, and they seem instinctively to trust her.
text: to have a way with words
text: […] The slinger can put a stone through a gnat's eye at forty paces, and the ugly one has a way with horses, but if my queen says that they must die. . .”
ref: 2011, George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire), Book Five, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 303:
glosses: To be skilled, adept, or graceful with or at (something).
Related terms: have one's way with
allogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fertilization of an ovum from one individual with the spermatozoa of another; cross-fertilization
Related terms: allogamic
allogamous
autogamy
mind-numbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mind-numbing
form: most mind-numbing
form: mindnumbing
Etymology: From mind + numbing. Compare Old English ġemynd-benimming (“lethargy”, noun, literally “numbing of the mind, mind-numbing”).
Senses: examples: text: After hours of mind-numbing work sorting hundreds of nearly identical form, he needed to stop and do something else.
text: The story described the main character's wristwatch in mind-numbing detail.
synonyms: brain-numbing
glosses: Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation.
Derived terms: mind-numbingly
mind-numbingness
lead time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead times
Senses: examples: text: It's an excellent device, but it has a 10-week lead time, so be sure to order it in advance.
text: With long lead times in timetable planning WMT [West Midlands Trains] has stated that the earliest it can recast the timetable will be May 2020.
ref: 2019 October, “Chase Line service to be split next May”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
glosses: The amount of time between the initiation of some process and its completion, e.g. the time required to manufacture or procure a product; the time required before something can be provided or delivered.
Derived terms: administrative lead time
procurement lead time
Related terms: critical path
turnaround time
blastoderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastoderm
talk down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks down
form: talking down
form: talked down
form: talked down
Senses: examples: text: If he offers a very high price, see if you can talk him down before you agree to anything.
glosses: To negotiate a lower price.
examples: text: GET TALKED DOWN: When a pilot gets caught in weather, he may call the nearest tower for Ground Controlled Approach landing assistance, wherever the airport has GCA radar.
ref: 1960 Feb, “Business with FAA”, in Flying Magazine, page 109:
text: He got out, looked at me, and said, “I feel like Doris Day in Julie when she was talked down by air traffic control and landed the airplane.”[.]
ref: 2000, Larry King, Anything Goes!: What I've Learned from Pundits, Politicians, and Presidents, →ISBN, page 139:
text: Its Spielberg-inspired first commercial, in which Manhattan Island floated loftily through the sky and was talked down by air traffic control at Heathrow[.]
ref: 2008, Winston Fletcher, Powers of Persuasion: The Inside Story of British Advertising 1951-2000, →ISBN:
text: In other words, if you talk him down and he crashes, you're worse off than if you hadn't tried.
ref: 2008, Nelson DeMille, Thomas Block, Mayday, →ISBN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To verbally assist someone to land an aircraft.
raw_tags: of ground control
examples: text: Talk him down, the rule book went. Calm him, get him secured. Easier said than done. Crane had talked down a would-be jumper standing on a support cable of the George Washington Bridge.
ref: 2007, Lincoln Child, Deep Storm:
text: And that guy that talked him down told us what happen^([sic]). It's kidnapping, attempted assault.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), CJ Raines, Shelby: A Great Love:
glosses: To convince a person to cease a drastic action or response, such as a suicide attempt or act of rage.
glosses: To overcome by spoken argument.
examples: text: They may then go to a hippie clinic crash pad to be "talked down."
ref: 1969, American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 125, number 4, page 154:
glosses: To comfort someone experiencing a bad trip, to help them come down.
Related terms: talk down to
epiboly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈpɪbəli/
Forms: form: epibolies
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιβολή (epibolḗ, “addition”).
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: epibolism
glosses: The expansion of one cell sheet over other cells, as takes place during gastrulation or secondary intention wound healing.
Derived terms: epibolic
epibolically
epibolization
epibolize
baculovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baculoviruses
Etymology: From baculo- + virus, from Latin baculum (“rod”).
Senses: glosses: Any large rod-shaped virus of the family Baculoviridae, including the granuloviruses and nucleopolyhedroviruses.
Derived terms: baculoviral
baculoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baculovirus
innoxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innoxious
form: most innoxious
Etymology: From Latin innoxius.
Senses: examples: text: But of all wayes of hastening the Clarification and Ripening of new Wine, none seems to me to be either more easie, or more innoxious, than that borrowed from one of the Ancients by the Lord Chancellor Bacon, […] which is by putting the wine into vessels well stopped, and letting it down into the Sea.
ref: 1669, Walter Charleton, “Of the Mysterie of Vintners”, in Two Discourses, London: William Whitwood, page 165:
text: The Jav’lin idly fled, / And hiss’d innoxious o’er the Hero’s Head […].
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 17”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 31:
text: Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: Considering that milk is used by persons of all constitutions,—by the young and the aged, and by persons suffering from fever,—the use of a foreign material like borax, in one of the most important of all foods, ought to be restricted, unless it can be shown by authority to be innoxious.
ref: 1875, A. Hutchison Smee, Milk in Health and Disease, London: Edward Newman, page 13:
synonyms: harmless
inoffensive
innocuous
glosses: Having no harmful effect; harmless, innocuous.
Derived terms: innoxiously
innoxiousness
occlusion body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occlusion bodies
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A crystalline protein matrix which occludes the nucleocapsid in some viruses.
in one's right mind
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Is Mike Hartley in his right mind, do you think, sir?” inquired Sweeting, simply.
“Can’t tell, Davy; he may be crazed or he may be only crafty—or, perhaps, a little of both.”
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Levitical”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: If you find she was not in her right mind, that she was the victim of insanity, hereditary or momentary, as it has been explained, your verdict will take that into account.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain, chapter 56, in The Gilded Age:
text: But the poor fellow was—what is it?—demented. He was not in his right mind.
ref: 1905, H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants:
text: Who in his right mind would want to know he had a disease that would inevitably rob him of that mind?
ref: 2010 October 31, Alice Park, “New Research on Understanding Alzheimer's”, in Time:
glosses: Thinking clearly, sensibly, and reasonably.
Synonyms: sane
Related terms: right-minded
error bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: error bars
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A bar used on a graph to indicate the range of one standard deviation in the result of an experimental measurement.
homodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + -dyne.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Pertaining to two waves which originate from a single radiation source, or have exactly the same frequency.
raw_tags: of radiation
Related terms: heterodyne
intradyne
synchrodyne
homodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homodynes
form: homodyning
form: homodyned
form: homodyned
Etymology: From homo- + -dyne.
Senses: glosses: To combine two waves of identical frequency.
bioindustry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioindustries
Etymology: From bio- + industry.
Senses: glosses: Any of the industries associated with biotechnology
Related terms: bioindustrial
mousepox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouse + pox.
Senses: glosses: A skin disease of mice, similar to smallpox, caused by the poxvirus species Ectromelia virus.
poxvirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poxviruses
Etymology: From pox + virus.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of DNA viruses, of the family Poxviridae, that cause pox diseases in vertebrates
Derived terms: antipoxvirus
Yoka poxvirus
Related terms: poxvirologist
DNA virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNA viruses
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
coordinate_terms: RNA virus
glosses: Any of a group of viruses whose nucleic acid is composed of DNA.
Hyponyms: english: dsDNA, Group 1
translation: dsDNA, Group 1
word: double-stranded DNA viruses
english: Baltimore virus classification
translation: Baltimore virus classification
alt: ssDNA, Group II
word: single-stranded DNA viruses
misusage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misusages
Etymology: From mis- + usage.
Senses: glosses: Improper usage (especially of words).
glosses: Abuse; improper handling or treatment.
Ionia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈəʊni.ə/
ipa: /aɪˈəʊnjə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰωνία (Iōnía).
Senses: glosses: A former settlement in Anatolia, on the coast of the Aegean Sea; An Ancient Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor inhabited by the Ionians, one of the four main Hellenic tribes.
glosses: A place in the United States.
A city in Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Ionia County, Michigan.
glosses: A place in the United States.
A village in Missouri.
Derived terms: Ionia County
Ionian
Ionic
Related terms: Ion
feith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feiths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of faith.
feithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feithes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of faith.
fayth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fayths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of faith.
faythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faythes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of faith.
faithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faithes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of faith.
afoord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: afoords
form: afoording
form: afoorded
form: afoorded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of afford.
affoord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: affoords
form: affoording
form: affoorded
form: affoorded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of afford.
affoard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: affoards
form: affoarding
form: affoarded
form: affoarded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of afford.
affowrd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: affowrds
form: affowrding
form: affowrded
form: affowrded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of afford.
Niphon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 日本 (formerly Niffon, now Nippon or Nihon) "Japan".
Senses: examples: text: The greateſt of theſe three, which is called Niphon, doth lye from Eaſt to Weſt, and is 700. miles in length and 180. in breadth, and it deuided into three & fifty little Kingdomes or Prouinces, and therein is the noble Citty of Meaco the chiefe and head of all Iapone.
ref: 1619, W. W. Gent, A Briefe Relation of the Persecution Lately Made Against the Catholike Crhstians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, volume 1, page 20:
text: Niphon, the chief island, is nine hundred miles long, and one hundred miles in average width.
ref: 1853, “Japan”, in Putnam's Monthly, volume 1, number 3, page 242:
glosses: Honshu, the largest island of Japan.
demaund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demaunds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of demand.
demaund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demaunds
form: demaunding
form: demaunded
form: demaunded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of demand.
demaunde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of demand.
cavalcate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavalcates
Senses: examples: text: First he that led the cavalcate,
Wore a sow-gelder's flagellet,
On which he blew as strong a levet.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cavalcade.
saddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddler
sales slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales slips
Etymology: From sales + slip.
Senses: examples: text: The sales slip was for one item.
glosses: A receipt for a purchase.
sailing vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailing vessels
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A boat or ship powered by wind in its sails; a sailboat or sailing ship.
glosses: An ice yacht.
glosses: A land yacht.
sales slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sales slip
safety catch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety catches
Senses: glosses: A latching device that prevents accidental activation of a dangerous event; an interlock.
Synonyms: word: safety
scarifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scarify
scarifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarification
sausage meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sausage meats
Senses: glosses: Ground, spiced meat that can be stuffed in a sausage or used as a sausage patty.
sausage meats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausage meat
sausage casings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausage casing
saunterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saunterers
Etymology: From saunter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who saunters.
saunterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saunterer
lounger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loungers
Etymology: From lounge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15:
text: These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: One who lounges; an idler.
examples: text: You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was
ref: 2020, “I Don't Belong”, in A Hero's Death, performed by Fontaines D.C.:
coordinate_terms: recliner
lazyboy
barcalounger
glosses: A chair made for lounging.
Derived terms: banana lounger
barcalounger
sunlounger
sun lounger
sun-lounger
loungers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lounger
saw tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sawtooth
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a saw tooth.
topics: engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a function or waveform that consists of repeated triangular transitions when graphed.
Derived terms: saw-tooth roof
saw tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw teeth
form: sawtooth
Senses: glosses: A cutting bit of a saw.
sawtooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːtuːθ/
Forms: form: sawteeth
form: saw tooth
Etymology: From saw + tooth.
Senses: glosses: A tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
Derived terms: sawtooth coriander
sawtooth goldenweed
Related terms: sawback
saw-tooth
sawtoothed
saw-toothed
sawtooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːtuːθ/
Forms: form: sawtooths
form: saw tooth
Etymology: From saw + tooth.
Senses: glosses: A sawtooth wave.
glosses: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris.
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.
Derived terms: sawtooth eel
say grace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: says grace
form: saying grace
form: said grace
form: said grace
Senses: synonyms: give thanks
say a blessing
glosses: To recite a prayer of invocation or thanksgiving at meal time.
literary agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literary agents
Senses: glosses: A person who represents writers and their written works to publishers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same.
sea star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea stars
Etymology: From sea + star. Compare West Frisian seestjer (“sea star”), Dutch zeester (“sea star”), German Seestern (“sea star”), Danish søstjerne (“sea star”), Swedish sjöstjärna (“sea star”), Icelandic sjóstjarna (“sea star”).
Senses: related: word: seastar
synonyms: starfish
asteroid
glosses: A starfish (class Asteroidea).
Derived terms: sunflower sea star
Related terms: Star of the Sea
sea stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: see stars
Senses: glosses: plural of sea star
process tomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
medicine
sciences
glosses: Tomographic imaging of processes, especially industrial.
see stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: sea stars
Forms: form: sees stars
form: seeing stars
form: saw stars
form: seen stars
Senses: examples: text: Of course they bumped their heads smartly together, saw stars, and both came up flushed and laughing, without the ball, to resume their seats, wishing they had not left them.
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 43, in Little Women:
text: Malcolm hit his head and fell to the floor, seeing stars.
ref: 1995 September 25, Michael Crichton, “Arts & Media: Excerpt from Jurassic Park: The Lost World”, in Time:
text: During his 13-year career as a game-changing NFL linebacker, Lawrence Taylor hit opponents so hard he often made them see stars.
ref: 2009 February 9, William C. Rhoden, “A Hall of Fame Linebacker Turns 50”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Sep 2010:
glosses: To experience apparent flashing lights in one's field of vision, especially after receiving a blow to the head.
glosses: To be reeling immediately after a sudden misfortune analogous to a blow.
coarse-graining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coarse-grainings
form: coarse graining
Senses: examples: text: As human observers we focus almost entirely on coarse-grainings of this quasiclassical realm. However, quantum theory does not distinguish the classical realm from other decoherent sets...
ref: 2005, James B. Hartle, “What Connects Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics?”, in Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?, →ISBN, page 75:
topics: sciences
glosses: The rescaling of a phenomenon into units or cells of size close to the uncertainty of measurement.
Related terms: coarse-grained
coarse-grainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coarse-graining
Markovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/
Etymology: From Markov + -ian, named for the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov.
Senses: examples: text: It is not immediately obvious that a random variable with distribution f(x) can be produced by the Gibbs sequence of (2.3) or that the sequence even converges. That this is so relies on the Markovian nature of the iterations, which we now develop in detail for the simple case of a 2 × 2 table with multinomial sampling.
ref: 1992, Casella and George, Explaining the Gibbs Sampler, in: The American Statistician 46(3) 167–174
text: AR(p) models are simple univariate devices to capture the often-observed Markovian nature of financial and macroeconomic data […]
ref: 2018, Guidolin and Pedio, Essentials of Time Series for Financial Applications, Academic Press:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Exhibiting the Markov property, in which the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and all past states, depends only upon the present state and not on any past states.
raw_tags: of a process
Derived terms: Markovianity
non-Markovian
time-homogeneous Markovian type
time-independent Markovian type
nonalignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonalignments
form: non-alignment
Etymology: From non- + alignment.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonaligned
nonallergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + allergic.
Senses: glosses: Not allergic.
glosses: That does not cause an allergic response; nonallergenic.
nonappearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonappearances
form: non-appearance
Etymology: From Middle English noon apparans, noon apparaunce, noun apperaunce; equivalent to non- + appearance.
Senses: glosses: A failure to appear, especially at a legal trial.
nonassignable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + assignable.
Senses: examples: a nonassignable annuity
glosses: That cannot be assigned to another.
examples: text: Constants, unlike variables, are nonassignable.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: That cannot be assigned to.
nonathletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + athletic.
Senses: glosses: Having no athletic ability (or interest), especially describing one whose interests are academic.
nonattendance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonattendances
Etymology: From non- + attendance.
Senses: glosses: A failure to attend; nonappearance.
nonavailability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonavailabilities
form: non-availability
Etymology: From non- + availability.
Senses: glosses: A lack of availability.
nonbelligerent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-belligerent
Etymology: From non- + belligerent.
Senses: glosses: Not belligerent, aggressive or warlike.
nonbelligerent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbelligerents
form: non-belligerent
Etymology: From non- + belligerent.
Senses: glosses: A peaceful person, or a nation that is not at war.
nonbreakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + breakable.
Senses: glosses: Not easily broken.
Synonyms: unbreakable
nonbreakable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbreakables
Etymology: From non- + breakable.
Senses: glosses: Something that cannot be easily broken.
nonburnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + burnable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be burnt; incombustible.
deltiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltiologists
Etymology: From deltiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A collector of picture postcards.
labour union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labour unions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of labor union.
confessione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessiones
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of confession.
uniformize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjunɪfɔɹˌmaɪz/
ipa: /ˈjuːnɪfɔːˌmaɪz/
Forms: form: uniformizes
form: uniformizing
form: uniformized
form: uniformized
form: uniformise
Etymology: From uniform + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The American Medical Association (AMA) was formed in 1845 to gain for medical doctors a monopoly on legal licensure as health practitioners. The young AMA waged fierce (and quite successful) battles to de-certify the then-dominant natural healers — a range of herbalists, midwives, and homeopathic doctors […] By the early 20th century, the AMA had secured powerful big-coporation ^([sic]) backing for its plan to uniformize legal requirements to practice medicine in every state.
ref: 1989 August 19, Bob Lederer, “Hiding Behind HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 8:
glosses: To make uniform; to make the same throughout.
examples: text: It is clear that these functions are also the only ones to be uniformized by the simple mapping of the Riemann surface, for of course any function that is single-valued in t must have been, before the mapping, a single-valued function on the Riemann surface.
ref: 2000, Ludwig Bieberbach, Conformal Mapping, →ISBN, page 198:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To carry out a process of uniformization, by which a multiple-valued function on a Riemann surface is converted to a single-valued function.
Derived terms: uniformizable
uniformization
remobilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹimoʊbɪlɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: remobilizations
form: remobilisation
Etymology: From re- + mobilization.
Senses: examples: text: The sediment content of this sample was assumed to reflect the remobilization of fine sediment mantling the surface and contained within the bed material matrix.
ref: 2004, A.J. Wilson et al., “In-channel storage of fine sediment in rivers of Southwest England”, in Sediment Transfer Through the Fluvial System, →ISBN, page 293:
glosses: The return of a substance to circulation within a system, such as substances which had been locked in sediments.
examples: text: this result is entirely satisfactory and offers possibilities of gradual remobilization of unfit individuals or inducing them to take a first step towards renewing active lives.
ref: 1961, I.F. Dersch, US Patent 3088457: Therapeutic Device, page 4:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A return to mobility.
remobilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remobilization
convocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: convocates
form: convocating
form: convocated
form: convocated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin convocatus, past participle of convocare (“to convocate”). Doublet of convoke.
Senses: examples: text: To the Apoſtolical authority (ſaid Pope Adrian I.) by our Lord's command, and by the merits of Saint Peter, and by the decrees of the Holy Canons and of the Venerable Fathers, a right and ſpecial povver of convocating Synods hath many vviſe been committed; […]
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The VI. [Supposition] that in Fact the Roman Bishops Continually from Saint Peter’s Time have Enjoyed and Exercised this Sovereign Power]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 275:
text: A General Synod was when all the Bishops of every Diocess of the whole Empire were Convocated by the Emperour
ref: 1694, George Dawson, Origo Legum:
glosses: To call together (people); to convoke.
disfavor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disfavors
Etymology: From dis- + favor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disfavour.
disfavor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disfavors
form: disfavoring
form: disfavored
form: disfavored
Etymology: From dis- + favor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disfavour.
energyware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energywares
Etymology: From energy + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Oil, gas, coal, grid electricity and district heating are energywares listed in Annex A of ISO 13600.
glosses: A tradable commodity used mainly as a source of energy to produce mechanical work or heat, or to operate chemical or physical processes.
Related terms: energy carrier
energy carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy carriers
Senses: examples: text: Solar radiation is an energy carrier that is not an energyware.
glosses: A substance or phenomenon that can be used to produce mechanical work or heat or to operate chemical or physical processes (ISO 13600).
Related terms: energy source
palinspastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pælɪnˈspæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάλιν (pálin, “again”) + σπαστικός (spastikós, “drawing”).
Senses: examples: text: To improve the accuracy of spatial reconstruction through time, it is necessary to estimate and restore bulk strain by working backward in time so that the maps represent palinspastic reconstructions of geologic development.
ref: 1995, James L. Pindell, Kenneth D. Tabbutt, “Mesozoic-Cenozoic Andean Paleogeography and Regional Controls on Hydrocarbon Systems”, in A. J. Tankard, Ramiro Suárez Soruco, Herman J. Welsink, editors, Petroleum Basins of South America, volume 62, page 102:
text: Exactly when the first palinspastic reconstruction was published is uncertain.
ref: 1996, M. P. A. Jackson, “Chapter 1: Retrospective Salt Tectonics”, in M. P. A. Jackson, David G. Roberts, Sig Snelson, editors, Salt Tectonics: A Global Perspective, page 8:
text: 2009, K. Ustaszewski, et al., A map-view restoration of Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic system for the early Miocene, Nikolaus Froitzheim, Stefan M. Schmid (editors), Orogenic Processes in the Alpine Collision Zone, Swiss Journal of Geosciences Supplementary Issue, page S276,
Another set of palinspastic restorations aimed at restoring tectonic units based on the quantification of shortening amounts derived from balanced cross sections or from restoring offsets along major strike-slip faults.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Showing the previous location of geological features, correcting for any intervening crustal movements.
raw_tags: of a map
Derived terms: palinspastically
energy source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy sources
Senses: glosses: A source from which useful energy can be extracted or recovered either directly or by means of a conversion or transformation process (e.g. solid fuels, liquid fuels, solar energy, biomass, etc.)
Related terms: energy carrier
resource energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resource energies
Senses: glosses: Energy taken from a source that is depleted by extraction (such as fossil fuels).
oxythiomolybdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑksiθaɪoʊˈmɑlɪbdeɪt/
ipa: /ɒksiθaɪəʊˈmɒlɪbdeɪt/
Forms: form: oxythiomolybdates
Etymology: From oxy- + thio- + molybdate.
Senses: glosses: An anion containing molybdenum, sulfur, and oxygen, specifically MoOS₃⁻².
forty-ninth parallel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nickname for the approximately 1200-mile (1900-kilometer) portion of the border between Canada and the USA, extending along the forty-ninth parallel of latitude from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific Ocean.
glosses: A nickname for the entire border between Canada and the USA.
Walrasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Walrasian
form: most Walrasian
Etymology: From Walras + -ian.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the theories of the 19th-century French economist Léon Walras.
examples: text: a Walrasian auction
text: The economy is thus in a kind of non-Walrasian equilibrium in which wage rates are correctly guessed. But they are never truly known as in the Walrasian world; a change of some island’s wage would not be immediately learned.
ref: 1970, Edmund S. Phelps, “Introduction: The New Microeconomics in Employment and Inflation Theory”, in Edmund S. Phelps, editor, Microeconomic Foundations of Employment and Inflation Theory, New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., page 6 of 1-23:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a tatonnement process for achieving exchange equilibrium.
Derived terms: non-Walrasian
Related terms: Walras' law
detrital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈtɹaɪtəl/
rhymes: -aɪtəl
Forms: form: more detrital
form: most detrital
Etymology: From detritus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The light-chestnut soils are much more detrital than the chestnut varieties — not only at the surface but throughout the soil strata, except on sandy tracts.
ref: 1964, N.D. Bespalov, Soils of Outer Mongolia, page 172:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Consisting of, or pertaining to, geological detritus.
Derived terms: biodetrital
nondetrital
organodetrital
phytodetrital
grid electricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Electric energy delivered to a consumer from the public electricity network.
prank call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prank calls
Senses: examples: text: Until noon only 251 prank calls to the Bronx Zoo had been sifted out, compared with the day-long total of 3352 on April 1, 1960. The pranksters would call Wellington 3-1500 to talk with a "Mr. Fox" (or Lyon, Bear or Wolf).
ref: 1961 April 2, “April Fool Phone Calls Decline Sharply in City”, in New York Times, page 87:
glosses: A practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually pretending to be somebody else.
Synonyms: crank call
prank call
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prank calls
form: prank calling
form: prank called
form: prank called
Senses: glosses: To call (an unsuspecting person) on the telephone as a practical joke.
Related terms: nuisance call
hawaiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /həˈwaɪ.aɪt/
Forms: form: hawaiites
Etymology: From Hawaii + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An olivine basalt intermediate between alkali olivine and mugearite.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gem variety of olivine peridot.
Derived terms: hawaiitic
Related terms: Hawaiian peridot
hawaiites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawaiite
prank calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prank call
diageneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagenesis
felsic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more felsic
form: most felsic
Etymology: Blend of feldspar + silica, + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.
ref: 1954, J. C. Olson, D. R. Shawe, L. C. Pray, W. N. Sharp, Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits of the Mountain Pass District, San Bernadino County, California, U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 261, page 22:
text: Within comagmatic suites, successively younger granitoids are commonly, but not invariably, more felsic, representing progressively lower temperature mineral assemblages.
ref: 1983, Paul C. Bateman, “A summary of critical relations in the central part of Sierra Nevada batholith, California, U.S.A.”, in J. A. Roddick, editor, Circum-Pacific Plutonic Terranes, Geological Society of America, Memoir 159, page 241:
text: The Claret Creek Supersuite granites are a little more felsic (65-77% SiO₂), and are chemically distinctive, having higher Al₂O₃, CaO, Na₂O and Sr, and lower K₂O, Rb, Th and U than the granites of the Almaden Supersuite.
ref: 1992, David C. Champion, Bruce W. Chappell, “Petrogenesis of felsic I-type granites: an example from northern Queensland”, in P. E. Brown, B. W. Chappell, editor, The Second Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites and Related Rocks, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 272, page 115:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
synonyms: acidic
sialic
silicic
coordinate_terms: mafic
glosses: Enriched in minerals predominantly composed of the lighter elements such as silicon, oxygen, aluminium, sodium, and potassium.
Derived terms: felsification
nonfelsic
Related terms: felsite
felsic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felsics
Etymology: Blend of feldspar + silica, + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The central part of this nepheline syenite is very white felsics with black mafics in it. The entire area contains many nepheline-bearing dike rocks, but almost all are gray or pink or even red due to the color in the felsics.
ref: 1953, R. C. Emmons, “Petrogeny of the Syenites and Nepheline Syenites of Central Wisconsin”, in R. C. Emmons, editor, Selected Petrogenic Relationships of Plagioclase, Geological Society of America, Memoir 52, page 80:
text: There are also calcalkaline felsics that have highly enriched LREE^([light rare-earth element]) patterns with lower overall abundances.
ref: 1992, T. E. Smith, chapter 1, in K. C. Condie, editor, Proterozoic Crustal Evolution, Elsevier, page 35:
glosses: A rock with such properties.
superchondritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /supɚkɑnˈdɹɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: supra-chondritic
Etymology: From super- + chondritic.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: Greater than found in a typical chondrite.
raw_tags: of an elemental ratio
Related terms: subchondritic
aphanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæf.əˈnɪt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: more aphanitic
form: most aphanitic
Etymology: From aphanite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Pertaining to aphanites, igneous rocks composed of microscopic mineral crystals (fine grains too small to be visible to the naked eye.
Derived terms: microaphanitic
chondritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑnˈdɹɪtɪk/
ipa: /kɒnˈdɹɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: more chondritic
form: most chondritic
Etymology: From chondrite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a chondrite.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: Similar to that found in chondrites.
raw_tags: of an elemental ratio
Derived terms: nonchondritic
osteochondritic
subchondritic
superchondritic
at the end of one's tether
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 152:
synonyms: word: at the end of one's rope
glosses: At the limit of one’s patience; frustrated or annoyed.
merchant navy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchant navies
Senses: examples: text: Owing to its location at the entrance to the River Tyne, South Shields was of strategic importance in the Second World War, especially to the merchant navy, and the town was heavily hit by a Luftwaffe strike in October 1941.
ref: 2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 57:
glosses: A civilian maritime fleet dedicated to the sea transport of goods and merchandise; especially, such a fleet of any particular nationality.
Synonyms: merchant fleet
merchant marine
reanimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reanimate
reanimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reanimate
reanimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reanimate
reanimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reanimators
Etymology: From reanimate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who reanimates
reanimators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reanimator
prepartum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + Latin partum (“giving birth”).
Senses: glosses: Before giving birth; prenatal.
Synonyms: antepartum
Related terms: intrapartum
peripartum
sculpting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sculpt
sculpting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sculptings
Senses: examples: text: The paintings and sculptings found in caves such as Lascaux and Altamira in today's France and Spain date from as recent as 9,000 BCE […]
ref: 2013, Richard Schechner, Performance Studies: An Introduction, page 57:
glosses: The act or product of one who sculpts; sculpture.
sculpts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sculpt
sculpts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sculpt
Bosphorus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒs.fəɹ.əs/
ipa: /ˈbɒs.pəɹ.əs/
ipa: /ˈbɑs.fɚ.əs/
ipa: /ˈbɑs.pɚ.əs/
rhymes: -ɒspəɹəs
Forms: form: the Bosphorus
form: Bosporus
Etymology: From medieval Latin Bosphorus, from Ancient Greek Βόσπορος (Bósporos).
Senses: examples: text: The 20-min. crossing of the Bosphorus by ferry steamer from the Golden Horn, the busy river-fed harbour that divides old and new Istanbul on the European side of the Bosphorus, was a pleasure in itself.
ref: 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
glosses: The narrow strait beside Istanbul, Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, the northern end of the Turkish Straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean.
Synonyms: Constantinople Strait
Istanbul Strait
Hypernyms: Turkish Strait(s)
Related terms: Dardanelles
crwths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crwth
cattleya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkatlɪə/
Forms: form: cattleyas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cattleya, named after William Cattley, English botanist.
Senses: examples: text: The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: A bell chimes as you open the door, and fans swirl below a pressed-tin ceiling. Cymbidiums, cattleyas and other flowering orchids are presented in decorative pots on round tables.
ref: 2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Cattleya, a genus of orchids.
wikipedia: William Cattley
Derived terms: Percival's cattleya
tmeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tmesis
executive order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executive orders
Senses: examples: text: Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America, and the revolution of common sense.
ref: 2025 January 20, Donald Trump, Inaugural Address (2025):
text: Trump said he signed the executive orders while aboard Air Force One on a return flight to Washington from Florida. […] Asked about possible exceptions on Monday, Hegseth said only that there will be an executive order “on that right now, today.”
ref: 2025 January 27, Alayna Treene, Pamela Brown, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, “Trump signs executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops”, in CNN:
topics: law
glosses: An ordinance issued by the authority of the head of the executive branch of government.
Related terms: order-in-council
presidential memorandum