cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
yeastiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yeasty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: You, no doubt, will come to your own conclusion, based on yeastiness and maybe “crumb factor” and possibly “hole-to-dough ratio.”
ref: 2009 July 19, Frank Bruni, “Foie Gras Palates, Hot Dog Pocketbooks”, in New York Times:
text: I'd like to be able to dismiss it all as superficial and irrelevant to what was really going on, people arguing about Hegel and so on, but I'm forced to admit there was a yeastiness in the air that was due to a great deal of unrestrained and irreverent frivolity […]
ref: 2016, Sebastian Groes, quoting Angela Carter, British Fictions of the Sixties, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: The state or condition of being yeasty.
lustinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lustiness
uniced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + iced.
Senses: examples: text: An uniced cake will lose some of its desirable flavor and moistness if exposed to the air, and a "stale" condition will develop.
ref: 1995, Harry Lawson, Food oils and fats: technology, utilization, and nutrition:
glosses: Not iced.
unicast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + broadcast.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper, we describe a model of multicast service we call host groups and propose this model as a way to support multicast in the DARPA Internet environment [14]. We argue that it is feasible to implement this facility as an extension of the existing "unicast" IP datagram model and mechanism.
ref: 1985 December 24, S. E. Deering, D. R. Cheriton, “Host Groups: A Multicast Extension to the Internet Protocol”, in Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments number 966, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2001:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Synonym of singlecast.
synonyms: word: singlecast
unicast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unicasts
form: unicasting
form: unicast
form: unicast
form: unicasted
form: unicasted
Etymology: From uni- + broadcast.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transmit in this manner.
Related terms: anycast
broadcast
multicast
pseudopatients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudopatient
pseudopenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudopenis
spiralwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spiral + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a spiral shape or motion.
spiralwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spiral + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a spiral shape or motion.
nonleukemia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + leukemia.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to leukemia.
nonsclerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sclerotic.
Senses: glosses: Not sclerotic.
seminarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seminar + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a seminar.
lecturelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lecture + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Hard architecture, straight lines of pews, social distance between people, and lecturelike seating arrangements designed for frontal presentations […]
ref: 1999, Lawrence A Hoffman, The Art of Public Prayer: Not for Clergy Only:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lecture.
Medean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mede + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Median.
Medean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mede + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Median.
Medean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Medean
form: most Medean
Etymology: From Medea + -n.
Senses: examples: text: As Dido was (among other things) a tragic and a Medean character in those passages in Virgil, so now Medea can seem Didonian […]
ref: 2005, Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, ch. 2, "Tragic Virgil: The Medea", page 50
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Medea from Greek mythology.
Related terms: Medea
Medic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mede + -ic.
Senses: glosses: The Median language.
phonemicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fəˈniːmɪsaɪz/
/fəʊˈniːmɪsaɪz/
Forms: form: phonemicizes
form: phonemicizing
form: phonemicized
form: phonemicized
Etymology: From phonemic + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To represent as a phoneme or series of phonemes.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To become phonemic as opposed to allophonic.
Derived terms: phonemicization
rephonemicize
unphonemicized
phonemicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phonemicize
phonemicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phonemicize
phonemicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phonemicize
phonemicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonemicizations
Etymology: From phonemicize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process by which speech sounds are analyzed or reorganized into distinct phonemes within a language; the act, process, or result of phonemicizing.
glosses: The act, process, or result of making a writing system phonemic.
phonemicizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonemicization
incarnatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From incarnate + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be incarnated.
Synonyms: creatable
instantiable
proctorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From proctor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a proctor or to the office of proctorship.
Derived terms: proctorially
proctorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctorships
Etymology: From proctor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The post or office of proctor.
proctorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctorship
proctorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From proctorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a proctorial manner.
unphonemicized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + phonemicized.
Senses: glosses: Not phonemicized.
ready room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ready rooms
Senses: examples: text: […] sleeping late, playing acey-deucey and cards, fogging the ready rooms with tobacco smoke,[…]
ref: 1978, Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance, Back Bay Books, published 2002, page 282:
glosses: A room on an aircraft carrier where on-duty pilots are stationed while not flying their aircraft.
reidentification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reidentifications
Etymology: From re- + identification.
Senses: glosses: Identifying again or as something else.
reidentifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reidentification
renunciatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more renunciatory
form: most renunciatory
Etymology: From renunciate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Many radicals engage in renunciatory styles of dress and personal behavior.
ref: 1993, Seymour Martin Lipset, Rebellion in the university:
glosses: Serving to renounce; rebellious, contrary.
hula hoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hula hoop
hula hoops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hula hoop
Castrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Castrophiles
Etymology: From Castro + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: It remains to be seen whether the United States Government holds to these conditions in political crises (especially if there is a danger of a Castrophile Government appearing);
ref: 1962 June, Dudley Seers, “A Theory of Inflation and Growth in Under-Developed Economies Based on the Experience of Latin America”, in Oxford Economic Papers, volume 14, number 2, page 189:
text: Ed Butler remembers that "he was a total Castrophile. He wanted to promote Fidel Castro and did everything that he could in the debate, prior to it, and afterward."
ref: 1998, Gus Russo, Live by the sword: the secret war against Castro and the death of JFK, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 202:
text: When I started this journey, I was a Castrophile with a soft spot for the Revolution.
ref: 2002, Christopher P. Baker, Mi moto Fidel: motorcycling through Castro's Cuba, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: A supporter or admirer, especially a foreign one, of Fidel Castro or the Castro regime.
Related terms: Castrophilia
Castrophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Castrophile
galpal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælpæl/
Forms: form: galpals
form: gal pal
Etymology: From gal + pal, chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: "Drew dumps boyfriend and shacks up with gay galpal."
ref: 1992, Outlook, Issues 15-17:
text: My kid and her galpals all played this song five hundred thousand times in a row when they first brought it home...
ref: 2001, Kim Cooper, David Smay, Bubblegum music is the naked truth:
text: It is there he first sees Lynn Halsey-Taylor, an up-and-coming young country singer played by Eastwood's then-galpal Sondra Locke.
ref: 2005, Scott Von Doviak, Hick flicks: the rise and fall of redneck cinema:
glosses: A female friend or girlfriend.
galpals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galpal
redneckish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redneckish
form: most redneckish
Etymology: From redneck + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like or indicative of a redneck or rednecks; rural, uneducated, unsophisticated, etc.
Synonyms: redneckian
rednecky
ungorgeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungorgeous
form: most ungorgeous
Etymology: From un- + gorgeous.
Senses: glosses: Far from gorgeous; unattractive.
tablewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English tabylwyse, equivalent to table + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: It was a flat, plain slab of dark gray stone, placed on pillars tablewise, that stood solitary above the turf, commanding attention.
ref: 1902, Munsey's magazine:
glosses: Positioned in a way that suggests the shape of a table.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Oriented like the communion table, with the ends east and west, as opposed to altarwise.
sheepback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepbacks
Etymology: From sheep + back, from its shape.
Senses: topics: geography
glaciology
natural-sciences
synonyms: roche moutonnée
glosses: A rock formation created by glacial erosion.
erosionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From erosional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an erosional manner; by means of erosion.
sheepbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepback
schizotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A continuum of personality characteristics and experiences, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states, to the more extreme end of psychosis (schizophrenia in particular).
Derived terms: schizotypal
opisthobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɵˈpɪsθəbɹæŋk/
Forms: form: opisthobranchs
Etymology: From opistho- + branchia.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A gastropod with gills behind the heart, formerly thought to belong to a single group.
Derived terms: opisthobranchism
opisthobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɵˈpɪsθəbɹæŋk/
Etymology: From opistho- + branchia.
Senses: antonyms: prosobranch
glosses: Placed behind the heart.
raw_tags: of gills
examples: text: For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
antonyms: prosobranch
glosses: Having gills placed behind the heart.
raw_tags: of a gastropod
opisthobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opisthobranch
scarfpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarfpins
Etymology: From scarf + pin.
Senses: glosses: A pin used to hold a scarf or tie in place.
scarfpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarfpin
sea hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea hares
form: seahare
form: sea-hare
Etymology: From their marine habitat and a pair of rhinophores that resemble a rabbit's ears.
Senses: examples: text: Pliny saith that there are certaine Seahares in India that to us are poison, and we bane to them; so that we die if we but touch them; now whether is man or the Sea-hare poison?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any member of the order Aplysiamorpha or Anaspidea, large marine gastropod molluscs with a soft internal shell made of protein.
rhinophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinophores
Etymology: From rhino- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: A club-shaped structure that occurs in pairs as the most prominent part of the external head anatomy of the dorid nudibranchs.
Derived terms: rhinophoral
rhinophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinophore
dorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the taxonomic superfamily Doridoidea of nudibranchs.
dorids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorid
sohcahtoa
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of SOHCAHTOA.
dactyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dactyles
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dactyl.
subsubroutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (UK)
Forms: form: subsubroutines
Etymology: From sub- + subroutine.
Senses: examples: text: Some programming languages even permit a subroutine to contain itself as a subsubroutine; a brain-twisting arrangement.
ref: 1962, Robert Mills Gagné, Psychological principles in system development:
text: ...hierarchies of subroutines and subsubroutines were used by the programmers to simplify their own organization, introducing a series of levels of control...
ref: 1965, Robert Engel Machol, Wilson P Tanner, Samuel N Alexander, System engineering handbook:
text: The goal stack mechanism makes it simple to represent hierarchical procedures, where routines call subroutines, which in turn call subsubroutines...
ref: 1990, Kurt VanLehn, Mind bugs: the origins of procedural misconceptions:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subroutine called from another subroutine.
subsubroutines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsubroutine
intempestivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭntĕmpĕstĭʹvĭtē
ipa: /ɪntɛmpɛˈstɪvɪti/
Etymology: From the Latin intempestīvitās; cognate with the French intempestivité.
Senses: examples: text: This “untimeliness” has nothing to do with the “intempestivity” of Nietzsche, which implies a denial of the present and an affirmation of future values.
ref: 1957, Renato Poggioli, The Phoenix and the Spider: A Book of Essays About Some Russian Writers and Their View of the Self, Harvard University Press, page 191:
text: I do not know if he wrote his own script, but whoever did, his subsequent pep talk was a masterpiece of intempestivity.
ref: 1974, Michael Pertwee, Name Dropping: The Autobiography of Michael Pertwee, Frewin, →ISBN, page 71:
text: “O dear Schultz, here we go again. Same old headline. Sperm Productions, that innocent company dragged yet again into another Schultz intempestivity. With Gayboy already in a state. Raging that the show is giving the theatre such a bad name that it could ruin business for years to come. And dear me this little news item will promptly blow his hemorrhoids clean out of his backside. Forgive me Rebecca.”
ref: 1979, James Patrick Donleavy, Schultz, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, →ISBN, page 329:
text: [... I]n general, there has been insufficient realization of the intempestivity of much theoretical debate within the discipline.
ref: 1989, William Outhwaite, “Philosophy and Social Science: Towards Reconciliation?”, in The Polish Sociological Bulletin, number 87/88, Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne, page 49:
text: Any talk about the moment suggests that it really is the right moment to talk about the right moment, that its time has come — and explicit claims to untimeliness or intempestivity are, one might suspect, no more than a further twist of this structure.
ref: 2001, Heidrun Friese, The Moment: Time and Rupture in Modern Thought, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: d) Gradualism. The system should avoid certain inherent distortions to the generated processes of centralized structure, such as ritualism, intempestivity, bureaucracy, imposition of norms, etc.
ref: 2002, Odorico Monteiro de Andrade, Management of the Brazilian Health System, CONASEMS, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Nietzsche seems an obvious guide here. No philosopher in the tradition presents himself as more contrarian, indeed polemical; no one abandons himself more to the perils of what would normally pass for contradiction and illogicality, intemperance and intempestivity or untimeliness; no one uses declamation so consistently as a strategy against platitude, value as a weapon against morality, irony and sarcasm in the service of rhetorical demystification, interpretation, and affirmation.
ref: 2008, David Wills, Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: Unseasonability; untimeliness.
Synonyms: unseasonableness
untimeliness
Related terms: intempestive
intempestively
intempestivous
theographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to theography.
theography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: theographies
Etymology: From theo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: Writing about a god or gods.
Derived terms: theographic
totalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From totalist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to totalism.
examples: text: BTW: Of course the rules were parametrised, so any totalistic 2-dimensional 9-neighbourhood CA could be run.
ref: 1989 March 21, Mark Kramer, “Fast LIFE (was: Re: summing 9-cell neighborhoods)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: Note that the game of life is not totalistic: the transition function depends on the cell's own state and on the sum of the neighboring states.
ref: 1993 January 17, Dan Gordon, “Universal Cellular Automata.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: The Xor operation drastically cuts down the number of operations when dealing with totalistic CA rules. For example, a function of four variables a, b, c, d, returning 1 iff there are exactly two ones and two zeros among its arguments, is represented by this Karnaugh diagram:
ref: 1994 July 3, Serge Winitzki, “Optimizing "bitblt" functions using Xor”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having the state of each cell represented by a number, and the value of a cell dependent only on the sum of the values of nearby cells.
examples: text: Many good applets run Moore binary totalistic rules such as Conway's Life, but WebsideCA also runs von Neumann rules, rules in the "Brian's Brain" family, non-totalistic binary and decay rules, and Cyclic rules.
ref: 1999 September 2, J. Elliott, “ANNOUNCE: WebsideCA Java applet update”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: Since Life is totalistic on 8 neighbours, this requires no extra assumptions.
ref: 2000 August 20, Gerard Vriens, “Discussion: neighbourhoods”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: ... but the B/S notation is _the_ standard for two-state totalistic rules.
ref: 2001 October 31, Erik Francis, “Four new rules with replicators”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Outer totalistic.
Derived terms: outer totalistic
semitotalistic
noncentralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + centralized.
Senses: glosses: uncentralized
voix céleste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voix célestes
Etymology: Borrowed from French voix céleste (“heavenly voice”).
Senses: synonyms: vox angelica
glosses: An organ stop consisting of either one or two ranks of pipes slightly out of tune, so as to produce a beating effect when combined with a normally tuned rank.
hotmelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotmelts
Etymology: From hot + melt.
Senses: glosses: An adhesive that is applied in a liquid molten form but sets into a solid form as it cools.
Related terms: hot glue gun
hot melt adhesive
hot melt glue
hotmelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotmelt
infecund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + fecund.
Senses: glosses: infertile
glosses: unable or unwilling to produce children
Derived terms: infecundity
intercardinal directions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercardinal direction
inspirators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspirator
inspiratrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspiratrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin inspīrātrīx. By surface analysis, inspirator + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female inspirator.
inspiratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspiratrix
megafishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafish
megaflops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaflops
Etymology: From mega- + FLOPS.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second.
Derived terms: machoflops
Related terms: FLOPS
megaflops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaflop
intercardinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cardinal.
Senses: glosses: Between the cardinal directions, as for example southwest between south and west.
Derived terms: intercardinal direction
intercardinally
camel spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camel spiders
Senses: glosses: Any fast-moving, predatory desert arachnid belonging to the order Solifugae having massive paired chelicerae and a long body covered with tactile hairs.
Synonyms: word: red roman
word: solifuge
word: solifugid
word: sun spider
word: wind scorpion
word: jerrymander
word: jerrymunglum
Indostan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Hindustan.
clove pinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clove pink
barge masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barge master
draft animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draft animal
draught animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draught animal
inner cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inner city
to pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see to, piece.
examples: The dog tore the doll to pieces.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see to, piece.
Into fragments or parts.
examples: text: I just love my nieces to pieces.
glosses: Completely, utterly.
glosses: Out of control.
examples: text: I went all to pieces when my brother died.
glosses: Into a state of emotional breakdown.
Synonyms: sense: into parts
word: apart
sense: into parts
word: into pieces
sense: into parts
word: to bits
sense: into parts
word: to smithereens
sense: utterly
word: to death
Derived terms: fall to pieces
tear to pieces
procompetitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more procompetitive
form: most procompetitive
Etymology: From pro- + competitive.
Senses: glosses: Promoting competition in the marketplace.
Derived terms: procompetitively
procompetitiveness
mitospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitospores
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A conidium.
Related terms: mitosporic
spore
aplanospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplanospores
Etymology: From aplano- + spore.
Senses: glosses: An immobile spore that may nevertheless potentially grow flagella.
prisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priser
in the raw
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Ellipsis of in the raw state.
Senses: examples: text: I guaranteed him that in both these synagogues hakafot would provide him with music "in the raw."
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 37:
glosses: Unprocessed, rough.
examples: text: He was seeing life in the raw, and it was a different life from what he had known within the printed books of his library.
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, chapter 12, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
text: 1921, Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche,
He read there in the raw what is perhaps the most amazing page in the history of human development, and in the end he was forced to the conclusion that all his early preconceptions had been at fault, and that it was such exalted, passionate enthusiasts as Vilmorin who had been right.
text: In spite of defending indecency, Jacob doubted whether he liked it in the raw.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: In the natural state; in real life.
examples: text: He stood gawking at Cyndee, who was standing in the raw on the shore of the pond his daddy had put in.
ref: 2001, Doug McGuinn, The Apple Indians, page 39:
text: As he waited for Pamela to return, Richard was standing in the raw before his full-length mirror.
ref: 2010, Mark J. Okrant, A Last Resort, page 90:
text: James brought his hand away and immediately jumped at the sight of Cole standing in the raw, calmly passing the bag back to the inspector. “I thought you said it was safe to look,” he accused.
ref: 2011, J. L. O'Faolain, The Thirteenth Child, page 88:
glosses: Naked.
Synonyms: sense: naked
word: in the altogether
Related terms: in the pink
skirrett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skirretts
Senses: examples: text: In the lecture on the third degree, according to the English work, the following is adopted: “I now present to you the working tools of a Master Mason, which are the Skirrett, Pencil and Compasses..."
ref: 1881, The Masonic Review - Volume 55, page 364:
text: The tools of the Master Mason are the Pencil, the Skirrett, and the Compasses. The Pencil is an action tool that symbolizes the use of creative thought. The Skirrett is a tool that constrains the pencil and can symbolize understanding, but also can mean tradition or knowledge that acts as a restraint on action. The Compasses are used to measure in all drafting and for the formation of many geometrical shapes.
ref: 2004, Sangeet Duchane, The Little Book of Freemasonry, →ISBN, page 143:
text: The working tools of the different degrees are in threes: the Apprentices' tools are the gavel, the chisel, and the twenty-four-inch gauge; the Fellowcraft's tools are the square, the level, and the plumb-rule; and the Master Mason's are the pencil, the skirrett, and the compasses.
ref: 2008, Giovanna Summerfield, Credere Aude: Mystifying Enlightenment, page 51:
qualifier: obsolete outside Freemasonry
glosses: A metal spike to which is attached a small drum onto which is wound string or line. In use, the spike is pushed into the ground to anchor it, and then the line is pulled out as far as needed to mark a straight edge.
examples: text: The famous nurserymen, Louden and Wise, did not consider the potato as worthy of notice in their Complete Gardener, published in 1749 ; and Bradley, who about the same time wrote so extensively on horticultural subjects, speaks of them as inferior to skirretts and radishes.
ref: 1851, Roegerson & Co, The Embellishments, page 413:
text: About the orchards here and the beds of asparagus, peas, endive, skirrett, and the rest of the vegetables grown for the London market, lies ever an abiding sense of peace;
ref: 1887, Walter Besant, The World Went Very Well Then: A Novel, page 30:
text: Beer made of barley and herbs, lupin and skirrett for hops, was largely consumed in Egypt ; and thence introduced into Palestine.
ref: 1903, Alexander Rattray, Divine hygiene:
text: To these I intend to add this year angelica, skirrett, balm, clary, basil, catmint, dill, comfrey and purslane, when I think that, in herbs for the kitchen, the collection will be complete.
ref: 1952, Homes and Gardens - Volume 34, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of skirret.
sloshy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈslɒʃi/
Forms: form: sloshier
form: sloshiest
Etymology: From slosh + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears.
ref: 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:
glosses: That sloshes or splashes
Derived terms: sloshily
chromographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromography
body horror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A genre of horror fiction based around the graphic destruction or alteration of the body.
Related terms: Cronenbergian
Simpson's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Edward H. Simpson first described this phenomenon in a technical paper in 1951.
Senses: glosses: The observation that the association of two variables for one subset of a population may be similar to the association of those variables in another subset, but different from the association of the variables in the total population.
letting go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of let go
contradictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contradictors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin contrādictor.
Senses: examples: text: “That was in Casco,” his wife contradicted immediately. She spoke in the unmistakable tones of a veteran contradictor.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: Alternative form of contradicter.
misericords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misericord
founder effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of founder effect
founder effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: founder effects
Senses: examples: text: The view that Navajo neuropathy was purely inherited continued to have its adherents. It did seem logical. There were multiple cases within families. The syndrome had appeared suddenly, the way a “founder effect” disease might.
ref: 2006 November 20, Judy Pasternak, “Oases in Navajo Desert Contained 'A Witch's Brew'”, in Los Angeles Times:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A reduction in genetic diversity resulting when a population is descended from a small number of colonizing ancestors.
lysolecithin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysolecithins
Etymology: From lyso- + lecithin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lysophospholipid derived from lecithin
calaverite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkæləˈvɛəraɪt/
Forms: form: calaverites
Etymology: From Calaveras + -ite. Named for Calaveras County, California, USA; where it was first discovered. From Spanish calavera.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of gold telluride (AuTe₂).
Hypernyms: gold telluride
AuTe2
Coordinate terms: alt: AuTe2
word: krennerite
glucosaminyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glucosamine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from glucosamine
Derived terms: acetylglucosaminyl glucosaminyl muramyl dipeptide
glycates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glycate
glycates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycate
glycate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glycates
form: glycating
form: glycated
form: glycated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with an amino group of a protein
raw_tags: of a sugar
glycate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The product of such a reaction
a-mothering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mothering-.—In former days, when the Roman Catholic was the established religion, it was the custom for people to visit their Mother Church on MidLent Sunday, and to make their offerings at the high altar. ...the now remaining practice of Mothering, or going to visit parents upon Mid-Lent Sunday, is really owing to that good old custom.
ref: 1905, John Brand, William Carew Hazlitt, “National Faiths”, in Faiths and folklore: a dictionary of national beliefs, Vol 2, page 424:
text: "Mothering Sunday," the fourth Sunday in Lent, when absent sons and daughters — particularly the young apprentices — would return to their homes with some little present for both parents, but more especially for the mother. ...Imagine the ... pride of the mother in the simple gift, and the admiration of the small brothers and sisters who gathered around and longed for the time when they also would be out in the great unknown world and could come "a-mothering."
ref: 1894 March 24, Mary B. Merrill, “Mothering Sunday”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: a monthly magazine for boys and girls, volume 21, part 1, page 388:
glosses: The practice of visiting one's literal or figurative mother or mother church (compare Mothering Sunday); also called mothering.
misprise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misprises
form: misprising
form: misprised
form: misprised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of misprize.
Mothering Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the former British custom of visiting mother churches (q.v.) at Mid-Lent, which by the English Civil War had passed on to servants receiving leave to go a-mothering, visiting and providing small gifts to their families. Revived as a national tradition in the early 20th century after the model of Mother's Day in the United States.
Senses: examples: text: ...on Mothering Sunday, when all the ‘servant-lads’ and ‘servant wenches’ are, in some parts of the country, set at liberty for a day, to go and see their mothers...
ref: 1838, William Howitt, Rural Life in England, page 159:
text: Mary, it's twenty good year—twenty-one, come Mothering Sunday—'Since he was here at the farm.
ref: 1880, Arthur Joseph Munby, Dorothy, page 66:
text: "Mothering Sunday," the fourth Sunday in Lent, when absent sons and daughters—particularly the young apprentices—would return to their homes with some little present for both parents, but more especially for the mother... Imagine the... pride of the mother in the simple gift, and the admiration of the small brothers and sisters who gathered around and longed for the time when they also would be out in the great unknown world and could come "a-mothering."
ref: 1894 March, Mary B. Merrill, “Mothering Sunday”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: a monthly magazine for boys and girls, volume 21, part 1, page 388:
text: Mothering Sunday is a British, Christian tradition. The Americans celebrate ‘Mother's Day’ later in the year.
ref: 2007, Susan Elkin, 100 Ideas for Secondary School Assemblies, page 12:
glosses: The fourth Sunday of Lent, three Sundays before Easter, now especially as a day to honor one's mother.
Synonyms: word: Mid-Lent
word: Mid-Lent Sunday
word: Mothering Day
english: UK & Ireland
translation: UK & Ireland
word: Mother's Day
english: usual liturgical name in Catholicism & Anglicanism
translation: usual liturgical name in Catholicism & Anglicanism
word: Laetare Sunday
word: Simnel Sunday
word: Refection Sunday
english: in reference to the customary relaxation of Lenten abstention on this day
translation: in reference to the customary relaxation of Lenten abstention on this day
word: Refreshment Sunday
word: Rose Sunday
english: in reference to Catholic practices on this day
translation: in reference to Catholic practices on this day
word: Sunday of the Five Loaves
word: Jerusalem Sunday
Midlent Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mid-Lent Sunday.
Mid-Lent Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Midlent Sunday
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mothering Sunday.
synonyms: word: Mothering Sunday
Simnel Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the simnel cakes traditionally given and eaten on the day. See also Sunday of the Five Loaves and Refreshment Sunday.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mothering Sunday: the fourth Sunday in Lent.
synonyms: word: Mothering Sunday
extra: the fourth Sunday in Lent
Refreshment Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the relaxation in Lenten abstinence customarily accepted on this Sunday midway through the season. See also Sunday of the Five Loaves and Simnel Sunday.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mothering Sunday: the fourth Sunday in Lent.
synonyms: word: Mothering Sunday
extra: the fourth Sunday in Lent
Rose Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the customary use of this Sunday by the popes to bless the golden rose offered as thanks to important friends of the Roman Catholic Church. Presumably a calque of an informal Latin or Italian name for the day.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mothering Sunday: the fourth Sunday in Lent.
synonyms: word: Mothering Sunday
extra: the fourth Sunday in Lent
Sunday of the Five Loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the traditional Gospel reading at mass, retelling the miracle of Jesus feeding the multitude.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mothering Sunday: the fourth Sunday in Lent.
synonyms: word: Mothering Sunday
extra: the fourth Sunday in Lent
consonant stem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consonant stems
Senses: glosses: A stem ending in a consonant.
decapartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕkəpärʹtīt
ipa: /dɛkəˈpɑːtaɪt/
Etymology: From deca- + -partite.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, the decapartite structure of the Decalogue is not marred by this additional miṣvah; according to Rambam’s (and others’) definition of miṣvot, the Decalogue (in both its versions) already comprises well in excess of ten such subdivisional miṣvot (see second entry on Dt. 33:4).
ref: 2001, Isaac S.D. Sassoon, Destination Torah: Reflections on the Weekly Torah Readings, KTAV Publishing House, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Comprising ten parts.
Derived terms: topics: architecture
word: decapartite vault
citation form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citation forms
Senses: synonyms: canonical form
dictionary form
basic form
glosses: The basic form of a word used as a dictionary headword.
Related terms: headword
lemma
-partite
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: -pärʹtīt
ipa: /-ˈpɑɹtaɪt/
enpr: -pärʹtīt
ipa: /-ˈpɑːtaɪt/
Etymology: See partite.
Senses: qualifier: forming adjectives
glosses: Having the specified number of parts.
Derived terms: bipartite
decapartite
dodecapartite
novempartite
octopartite
quadripartite
quinquepartite
septempartite
sexpartite
tripartite
SNPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SNP
habilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habiline
bioregion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioregions
Etymology: From bio- + region.
Bioregion is from the Greek bios (life), and the French region (region), itself from the Latin regia (territory) and earlier regere (to rule or govern). Etymologically, bioregion means life territory or place-of-life.
Senses: glosses: A region defined by natural characteristics such as flora and fauna and topographic features such as watersheds.
Meronyms: bioprovince
bioregions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioregion
bioregional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + regional.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a bioregion.
Derived terms: bioregionally
ecoregional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + regional.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an ecoregion.
Derived terms: subecoregional
biozonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + zonal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a biozone.
biozone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biozones
Etymology: From bio- + zone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A biostratigraphic unit: an interval of geological strata defined on the basis of its characteristic fossil taxa.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ecozone.
Derived terms: biozonal
biozones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biozone
biochron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biochrons
Etymology: From bio- + chron.
Senses: glosses: the length of time represented by a biozone
biochrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biochron
chiné
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French chiné.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Mottled in appearance, from the warp being dyed in different colours, or from threads of different colours twisted together.
wazup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wassup.
teleconverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleconverters
Etymology: From tele- + converter.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A secondary lens mounted between the camera and a photographic lens so as to enlarge the central part of an image obtained by the objective lens.
Related terms: teleconversion
teleconverters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleconverter
jewelweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewelweeds
form: jewel-weed
Etymology: From jewel + weed.
Senses: examples: text: he could still see a flower here and there smile up at him – the tawny red of the jewel-weed, and the close-tufted ball of the ‘mountain snow.’
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 136:
glosses: Impatiens, especially Impatiens capensis and Impatiens pallida.
jewelweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewelweed
sloshier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sloshy: more sloshy
sloshiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sloshy: most sloshy
sloshily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sloshily
form: most sloshily
Etymology: From sloshy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sloshy manner.
sloshiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sloshy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Our streets are full of a general sloshiness that lingers and won't go away, as if a glacier is deicing to the north.
ref: 1996, Jan Karon, A light in the window:
glosses: The state or condition of being sloshy.
mulberrylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mulberrylike
form: most mulberrylike
Etymology: From mulberry + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Mulberrylike clusters of cocci enveloped in mucoid capsular material that appears light against the denser, more refractive, albumin solution.
ref: 1986, Michael Joseph Pelczar, Eddie Chin Sun Chan, Noel R Krieg, Microbiology:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mulberry.
halfsister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfsisters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half sister.
halfbrother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfbrothers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half brother.
trowel machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trowel machines
Senses: synonyms: helicopter
power trowel
glosses: A type of light construction equipment used to apply a smooth finish to concrete slabs.
halfbrothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfbrother
halfsisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfsister
half-cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-cousins
form: half cousin
Etymology: From half- + cousin.
Senses: glosses: The child of one's parent's half-sibling.
half-cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-cousin
antelopelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antelopelike
form: most antelopelike
Etymology: From antelope + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In this case the antelopelike animal carries an enormous horn, now curved, which has both hollow branches and holes.
ref: 1950, Richard Ettinghausen, The unicorn:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an antelope.
unicornlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unicornlike
form: most unicornlike
Etymology: From unicorn + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a unicorn.
half-sibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-siblings
Etymology: From half- + sibling.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half sibling.
Derived terms: half-sibling-in-law
half-siblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-sibling
nonmyopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + myopic.
Senses: glosses: Not myopic.
nontopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + topical.
Senses: glosses: Not topical: not of current contemporary interest.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not topical: not applied to a localized part of the body.
spirochetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spirochete + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a spirochete or spirochetes.
nonhomoerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + homoerotic.
Senses: glosses: Not homoerotic.
intermale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + male.
Senses: examples: text: Castrating adult male animals reduces intermale aggression […]
ref: 2005, Melissa Hines, Brain Gender:
glosses: Between males.
interfemale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + female.
Senses: examples: text: Interfemale dominance may be facilitated by female sex hormones as well as adrenal testosterone...
ref: 1998, Paul Valent, Trauma and fulfillment therapy: a wholist framework:
glosses: Between females.
griming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grime