cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pteroylglutamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: folic acid, a polycyclic heterocyclic carboxylic acid of the vitamin B complex, essential for cell growth and reproduction.
Synonyms: vitamin B9
vitamin Bc
vitamin M
periconceptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + conceptional.
Senses: glosses: Occurring around the time of conception.
Derived terms: periconceptionally
homocysteine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homocysteines
Etymology: From homo- + cysteine.
Senses: examples: 1989, L. A. Smolin, N. A. Benevenga, Chapter 8: Methionine, Homocyst(e)ine, Cysteine—Metabolic Interrelationships, Mendel Friedman, Absorption and Utilization of Amino Acids, Volume 1, CRC Press, page 170,
One possible explanation for the low plasma cystine in homocystinuric patients who are given sufficient dietary cystine is the high plasma concentration of the cysteine-homocysteine mixed disulfide.
2000, Donald W. Jacobsen, 3. Biochemistry and Metabolism, Killian Robinson (editor), Homocysteine and Vascular Disease, Kluwer Academic, page 15,
Homocysteine, a metabolite of the methionine cycle, is a strong independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
2017, Himadri Panda, Handbook on Small & Medium Scale Industries (Biotechnology Products), Asia Pacific Business Press, page 224,
The amino acids produced from L-methionine and substituted thiols were identified as the corresponding S-substituted homocysteines, e.g., 2-mercaptoethanol and cysteamine produced S-(β-hydroxyethyl) homocysteine and S-(β-aminoethyl) homocysteine, respectively.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amino acid which is monitored in the blood to estimate risk of cardiovascular disease.
Derived terms: homocysteic
homocysteinase
homocysteinemia
homocystinuria
hyperhomocysteine
hyperhomocysteinemia
Related terms: homocystine
pterin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pterins
Etymology: From Greek: πτερόν (pteron) = wing (because it was first found in butterfly wings).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A ketonic amide derivative of pteridine responsible for some of the colouring in nature. It is also a component of folic acid.
Derived terms: pteridine
Ammonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɛə̯mɪ̈nʌɪ̯t̚]
Forms: form: Ammonites
Etymology: From Ammon + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Ammon.
Derived terms: Ammonitish
Ammonite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɛə̯mɪ̈nʌɪ̯t̚]
Etymology: From Ammon + -ite.
Senses: synonyms: Ammonitish
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ammonites.
Ammonite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɛə̯mɪ̈nʌɪ̯t̚]
Etymology: From Ammon + -ite.
Senses: glosses: The extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people who used to live in modern-day northwest Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. Extinct since 5th century BCE.
encephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: encephalographies
Etymology: From encephalo- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray examination of the brain in which air replaces some of the cerebrospinal fluid to act as a contrast medium
Derived terms: echoencephalography
electroencephalography
electro-retino-encephalography
encephalographic
gamma-angio-encephalography
gamma encephalography
gamma-encephalography
hemoencephalography
magnetencephalography
magnetoencephalography
pneumoencephalography
rheoencephalography
stereoencephalography
gutfoundered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gutfoundered
form: most gutfoundered
Etymology: From gut + foundered, from founder etymology 3.
Senses: glosses: Extremely hungry.
equiponderance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + ponderance.
Senses: glosses: The state of being equal in weight; equipoise
eavesdrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eavesdrips
Etymology: From eaves + drip.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eavesdrop (“dripping of rain from the eaves of a house”).
synonyms: word: eavesdrop
extra: dripping of rain from the eaves of a house
glosses: Synonym of eavesdrop (“the space around a house on which such water drips”).
synonyms: word: eavesdrop
extra: the space around a house on which such water drips
skall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skalls
form: skalling
form: skalled
form: skalled
Senses: glosses: To scale; to mount
infantine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infantine
form: most infantine
Etymology: From French infantin, variant of enfantin.
Senses: examples: text: Man, because he could not but acknowledge the majesty of Nature, fell into childish exultation at his acquired and still-increasing dominion over her elements. Even while he stalked a God in his own fancy, an infantine imbecility came over him.
ref: 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una:
text: I saw Peggy with the infantine procession at her tail, marching with great dignity towards the stall of a neighbouring lollipop-woman.
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: Infantile; childish.
Synonyms: milky
puerile
childish
die back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies back
form: dying back
form: died back
form: died back
Senses: examples: text: The same walls, when the Virginia creeper dies back in winter, show a date-mark of 1490.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 240:
text: The changing weather pattern, and in particular warmer winters, has also affected the inspection of earthworks. Lineside vegetation is not dying back as previously and has to be cleared before any inspections can take place.
ref: 2023 May 3, 'Industry Insider', “Funds for railway's upkeep”, in RAIL, number 982, page 84:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To wither, particularly during the winter.
raw_tags: of a plant
Derived terms: word: dieback
Related terms: word: die down
word: die off
word: die out
circumnutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumnutations
Etymology: From circum- + nutation.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he increased turgescence of the cells, together with the extensibility of their walls, is the primary cause of the movement of circumnutation.
ref: 1880, Charles Darwin, assisted by Francis Darwin, “Introduction”, in The Power of Movement in Plants, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 3:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
insurrectionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insurrectionary
form: most insurrectionary
Etymology: From insurrection + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.
text: Politics, as the adage goes, is first experienced at home, and the autocratic Dr Gallo had ruled his household in a manner that was so oppressive and so patently unjust that Tony had grown used to thinking of himself in insurrectionary terms.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 31:
glosses: Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection.
Synonyms: rebellious
seditious
Derived terms: noninsurrectionary
insurrectionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurrectionaries
Etymology: From insurrection + -ary.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in insurrection.
technic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.nɪk/
ipa: /ˈtek.nɪk/
ipa: /ˈtek.nək/
Forms: form: technics
Etymology: Partly from Latin technicus and partly from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós); probably modelled on German Technik. Doublet of technique.
Senses: examples: text: "Mother Gooseries from the Convention", by Emilie C. Holladay, is a long stanzaic and Pindaric ode, whose taste and technic are alike impeccable.
ref: 1916, H P Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft's Writings in the United Amateur (1915-1922), page 40:
glosses: The method of performance in any art; technique.
glosses: Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.
glosses: The doctrine of arts in general; those branches of learning that relate to the arts.
technic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.nɪk/
ipa: /ˈtek.nɪk/
ipa: /ˈtek.nək/
Forms: form: more technic
form: most technic
Etymology: Partly from Latin technicus and partly from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós); probably modelled on German Technik. Doublet of technique.
Senses: glosses: Technical.
jointure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɔɪn.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: jointures
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English joynture, from Old French jointure, from Latin iūnctūra. Doublet of juncture.
Senses: glosses: A joining; a joint.
examples: text: Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward’s; / And now forthwith shall articles be drawn / Touching the jointure that your king must make, / Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: Beasts do no jointures lose / Though they new lovers choose; / But we are made worse than those.
ref: 1633, John Donne, Confined Love:
text: You tell me you are secure of having either the Aunt or the Niece, and that you might have married the Aunt before this, whose Jointure you say is immense, but that you prefer the Niece on account of her ready Money.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter V, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XI, page 303:
text: The Baronet owed his son a sum of money out of the jointure of his mother, which he did not find it convenient to pay; indeed he had an almost invincible repugnance to paying anybody, and could only be brought by force to discharge his debts.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter IX, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Freddy had no money and no occupation. His mother's jointure, a last relic of the opulence of Largelady Park, had enabled her to struggle along in Earlscourt with an air of gentility, but not to procure any serious secondary education for her children, much less give the boy a profession.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion. Sequel: What Happened Afterwards.”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, pages 195–196:
topics: law
glosses: An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.
Derived terms: jointureless
jointuress
jointure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɔɪn.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: jointures
form: jointuring
form: jointured
form: jointured
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English joynture, from Old French jointure, from Latin iūnctūra. Doublet of juncture.
Senses: examples: text: He never ſo much as ask’d me about my Fortune, or Eſtate; but aſſur'd me that vvhen vve came to Dublin he vvould Joynture me in 600l. a Year good Land; and that he vvould enter into a Deed of Settlement, or Contract here, for the Performance of it.
ref: 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 173:
glosses: To settle a jointure upon.
ideality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /aɪdiˈælɪti/
Forms: form: idealities
Etymology: From Medieval Latin ideālitās (“ideality”), from Late Latin ideālis (“ideal”). By surface analysis, ideal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It is commonly said that love never lasts. Now, that is not so much from change, or that it exhausts itself, as that it is mixed up with the paltry cares and daily interests of life; thus losing its ideality, which constitutes its great charm.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: The quality or state of being ideal.
glosses: The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
glosses: The conceptive faculty.
Derived terms: nonideality
Related terms: idea
ideal
radicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rădʹĭk-əl
ipa: /ˈɹædɪkəl/
homophone: radical
Forms: form: radicles
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rādīcula.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of the embryo.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A rootlet.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Archaic form of radical.
Related terms: radix
radical
radiculous
fruitage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitages
Etymology: From fruit + -age.
Senses: examples: text: For them no spring, with gentle care, / Paints the young bud and scents the air; / Nor autumn bids the loaded stem / Scatter its fruitage fair for them.
ref: 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, The Giving of the Bible to the Esquimaux, page 10:
text: The luscious fruitage clustereth mellowly, / Goldenkernelled, goldencored, / Sunset-ripened above on the tree.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Hesperides”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 106:
text: The tendency of modern science is to close this gate—though it can never stop the search for it—the vague desire after some kind of communication, some kind of poetic identification with the soul that reveals itself through the rolling year, the mysterious presence that is felt to lie behind the outbuddings of spring, the wealth and greenery of summer, with all its whisperings and music and rippling laughter, the blue of autumn, with its fruitage, its expansive horizons, its glory veiling temporary decay.
ref: 1889 March, Walter Besant, “The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 266, number 1899, page 259:
glosses: Fruit, collectively.
glosses: Product or result of any action, effect, good, or ill.
parasynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρασύνθετος (parasúnthetos) + -ic, from παρά (pará, “beside”) + σύνθετος (súnthetos, “compound, composite”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Being a compound word formed by parasynthesis, i.e. by adding several affixes simultaneously, without “intermediate” forms.
Derived terms: parasynthetically
subtilty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtilties
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of subtlety.
deary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdiɹi/
ipa: /ˈdiɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈdiɹe/
ipa: /ˈdiəɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈdɛːɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
homophone: dearie
homophone: dairy (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: dearies
form: dearie
Etymology: From dear + -y.
Senses: glosses: A dear; a darling.
examples: text: Listen, deary: I'd appreciate your not talking about my son like that.
glosses: A term of address for a female.
Related terms: deary me
bichromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bichromates
Etymology: From bi- + chromate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of dichromate.
synonyms: word: dichromate
Derived terms: bichromatize
gum bichromate
bichromate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bichromates
form: bichromating
form: bichromated
form: bichromated
Etymology: From bi- + chromate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dichromate.
synonyms: word: dichromate
controul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controuls
Senses: examples: text: […] whole Herds or Flocks of other Women ſecurely, and ſcarce regarded, traverſe the Park, the Play, the Opera, and the Aſſembly; and though, for the moſt Part at leaſt, they are at laſt devoured, yet for a long Time do they wanton in Liberty, without Diſturbance or Controul.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “An extraordinary Scene between Sophia and her Aunt”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XVII, page 114:
text: As the Knight himself seemed tacitly to disclaim alike interest and controul over the immediate favourite of his lady, young Roland was, by circumstances, exempted from the strict discipline to which, as the retainer of a Scottish man of rank, he would otherwise have been subjected, according to all the rigour of the age.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 73:
glosses: Obsolete form of control.
controul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: controuls
form: controuling
form: controuled
form: controuled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of control.
Derived terms: uncontrouled
Argos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːɡɒs/
ipa: /ˈɑːɡəs/
ipa: /ˈɑɹˌɡɑs/
ipa: /ˈɑɹɡəs/
Forms: form: Argoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἄργος (Árgos).
Senses: glosses: A city in the Peloponnese, Greece.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The dog of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Argus (“many-eyed servant of Hera”).
glosses: A town in Indiana; named for the city in Greece.
glosses: A river in Murcia, Spain; flowing from Caravaca de la Cruz into the Segura at Calasparra.
Related terms: Argot
knaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knaws
form: knawing
form: knawed
form: knawed
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of gnaw.
knaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knaws
form: knawing
form: knawed
form: knawn
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of know.
flambeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flambeau
expressman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expressmen
Etymology: From express + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Many times each day the bell in the kitchen went ting-a-ling-a-ling and Little Elephant rushed to the door to see who was there. Sometimes it was the expressman who drove up in a truck and dumped a big box or two.
ref: 1938, Heluiz Chandler Washburne, Little Elephant's Christmas:
glosses: A courier, especially by train or stagecoach
subcategories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcategory
ensample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensamples
Etymology: From Middle English ensaumple (noun) and ensaumplen (verb), from Old French ensample.
Senses: examples: text: Being ensamples to the flock.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Peter 5:3:
text: The bold ensample of their father's might / Their weapons whetted and their wrath increas'd.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IX, xxviii
text: 1662 Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Second Sunday after Easter
Almighty God, who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also an ensample of godly life:
text: I hope that it may be taken by all of us as a lesson, and an ensample, and a teaching of the Lord's mercy.
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
text: 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 111.
By which ensamples this thing shall be made manifest unto such as may be offended at any part of this my book.
glosses: An example; a pattern or model for imitation.
ensample
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ensamples
form: ensampling
form: ensampled
form: ensampled
Etymology: From Middle English ensaumple (noun) and ensaumplen (verb), from Old French ensample.
Senses: glosses: To exemplify, to show by example.
disembarkation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪm.bɑːˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɛm.bɑɹˈkeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: disembarkations
Etymology: From dis- + embarkation or disembark + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.
ref: 1946 January and February, 'Talisman', “Bückeburg to Aberayron”, in Railway Magazine, page 41:
glosses: The act of disembarking.
patentee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patentees
Etymology: From patent + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The patentee in his specifications speaks of triphenylguanidine and compares its operation as an accelerator with that guanidine, the utility of which as an accelerator he claims to have discovered, called diphenylguanidine.
ref: 1929, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases, page 256:
text: Probably the patentee, whilst fully realising the need for drivers receiving clear signals, did not fully appreciate the primary object of the signalling system.
ref: 1946 November and December, “Notes and News: Colour-Light Signals 100 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 387:
glosses: One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent; a person, group, company etc. that has been granted a patent.
Synonyms: patenter
patentholder
Derived terms: copatentee
patenteeship
patentees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patentee
hand-eye coordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-eye coordinations
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, but I just don't think you have the hand-eye coordination needed to be a juggler in this circus.
glosses: The degree of coordination a person has between their eyes and their hands; a person's dexterity in activities highly dependent upon sight, such as catching a ball.
Synonyms: eye-hand coordination
dishonourably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dishonourably
form: most dishonourably
form: dishonorably
Etymology: From dishonourable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dishonorably.
Pakistanphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pakistan + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Their only lament is that the Indian leaders have been continuously busy inducing Pakistanphobia just for the fun of having a neighbour around to raise their accusing finger for the purpose of indoctrination.
ref: 1985, Pakistan & Gulf Economist (volume 4, part 2, page 5)
text: But as numbers of legal and illegal immigrants increased, the anti-Albanian propaganda receded gradually into the background and a Pakistanphobia took its place.
ref: 2019, C. Nadia Seremetakis, Sensing the Everyday: Dialogues from Austerity Greece:
glosses: Hostility or aversion to Pakistan and/or Pakistani people.
decoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decoy
decoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decoy
decoying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decoyings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who decoys.
diplomats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplomat
dashboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dashboard
anaesthetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anaesthetize
anaesthetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anaesthetize
aquanauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquanaut
authorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of authorise
authorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of authorise
curtsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtsey
curtsies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curtsey
mares' tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mare's tails
Senses: glosses: A cirrus cloud formation resembling horse tails.
curtseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtsey
curtseys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curtsey
Everton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛvətən/
Forms: form: Evertons
Etymology: From Old English eofor (“wild boar”) + tūn (“settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3592).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2051).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Hordle parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SZ2994).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6991).
glosses: A placename:
A town in Boone County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Dade County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A community in Guelph/Eramosa, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A football club, Everton F.C.
Derived terms: Evertonian
poached eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poached egg
kneeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneeboards
Etymology: From knee + board.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A short (often less than 6'), broad (sometimes extremely broad) surfboard designed to be ridden in the surf in a kneeling position, and often having traction pads in the central area as an alternative to wax, to help the knees grip the deck.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A clipboard carried in the lap of an airplane pilot, on which basic flight data is recorded.
qualifier: waterskiing
glosses: A short wakeboard designed to be ridden in the kneeling position.
Derived terms: kneeboarder
kneeboarding
Related terms: footboard
handboard
headboard
wakeboard
kneeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kneeboards
form: kneeboarding
form: kneeboarded
form: kneeboarded
Etymology: From knee + board.
Senses: glosses: to surf or water-ski using a kneeboard
vestibule school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestibule schools
Etymology: From vestibule (“passage or hallway connecting to the interior of a building”) + school.
Senses: examples: text: […]he is then sent to the vestibule school to be trained for a certain position.
ref: 1924, Horatio W. Dresser, Psychology in Theory And Application, published 2005, page 329:
text: Large organizations frequently provide what are described as vestibule schools, a preliminary to actual shop experience.[…]Vestibule schools are widely used in training for clerical and office jobs as well a for factory production jobs.
ref: 2006, Y. K. Singh. H. S. Rabat, Human Resource Management, New Delhi, page 229:
text: However, when the number of trainees is large, vestibule schools are generally utilized; but when the number is small, on-the-job training is preferred.
ref: 2010, Raj Kumar, Human Resource Management: Strategic Analysis Text and Cases, New Delhi, page 148:
glosses: A schooling facility organised within an industrial plant to teach specific skills to trainee workers.
vespiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vespiaries
Etymology: From Latin vespa (“wasp”), formed in imitation of apiary (a similar structure for bees).
Senses: glosses: A nest built by a social wasp species.
glosses: A colony of wasps living in such a nest.
twerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twerk
twerks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twerk
kneeboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneeboard
poached egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poached eggs
Senses: examples: text: With adolescent perversity, he turned up his nose at all of the elegant French items on the Closerie's menu and scandalized the waitron by demanding corned-beef hash—fried extra crisp—with poached eggs, a slice of fresh papaya with lime, banana-walnut bread, and a pitcher of Mexican chocolate.
ref: 1992, Julian May, Jack the Bodiless, Knopf, →ISBN, →OL:
glosses: An egg that has been cooked by gently breaking it into simmering or very hot water.
Synonyms: dropped egg
Coordinate terms: boiled egg
fried egg
scrambled egg
Derived terms: poached egg daisy
Related terms: english: sense 2
translation: sense 2
word: poacher
faultline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faultlines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fault line.
fault-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fault-lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fault line.
fault line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fault lines
form: faultline
form: fault-line
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The line formed by the intersection of the plane of a fault with the surface of the Earth.
examples: text: Yet the process may lead to new fault lines and resentments across the notoriously unstable Lebanese political system whose 18 different confessional groups share all levels of power.
ref: 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera:
glosses: A minor split (in public opinion, etc.) that may develop into something larger.
fimicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈmɪkələs/
Etymology: An adaptation of the Latin fimicolus (“dung-dwelling”).
Senses: examples: text: Only seven or eight […] do not occur on dung, whilst fifty-six are fimicolous.
ref: 1874, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Fungi: Their Nature, Influence, and Uses, 1st edition, published 1875, page 245:
ref: 1996, C.-H. Chung, C.-H. Liu, “More Fimicolous Myxomycetes from Taiwan”, in Taiwania, XLI, pages 259-264, paper title:
text: Since Ahmed & Cain (1972) one more fimicolous Sporormiella with 8-celled spores has been described (S. tomilinii).
ref: 2007, Francesco Doveri, Fungi Fimicoli Italici: A Guide to the Recognition of Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes Living on Faecal Material, Associazione Micologica Bresadola, page 674:
synonyms: coprophilous
glosses: Inhabiting dung.
Related terms: fime
fimetarious
fimetic
European Commission
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the European Commission
Senses: glosses: The executive branch of the European Union.
European Commissioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European Commissioners
Senses: glosses: A member of the European Commission.
strongly connected component
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strongly connected components
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Given a directed graph, a maximal strongly connected subgraph.
Related terms: connected component
partition
strongly connected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a directed graph, such that for every pair of vertices u and v there is a path from u to v and a path from v to u.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a directed graph, such that for every pair of vertices u and v there is a directed path either from u to v or from v to u.
Derived terms: strongly connected component
connected component
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connected components
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A connected subset that is, moreover, maximal with respect to being connected.
Related terms: strongly connected component
-ula
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin -ulabor.
English -ula
Borrowed from Latin -ula. Doublet of -ule.
Senses: examples: text: marimba + -ula → marimbula
text: ameba + -ula → amebula
glosses: Forming diminutive nouns.
independent scholar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: independent scholars
Senses: glosses: A person who works outside traditional academia in the pursuit of truth and knowledge.
ixodid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ixodids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various ticks of the family Ixodidae.
bilabiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + labiate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two lips; two-lipped.
Derived terms: nonbilabiate
Related terms: bilabial
academic institution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: academic institutions
Senses: examples: text: Hazardous waste disposal problems confronted by academic institutions have reached critical proportions today. Schools, colleges, and universities are faced with the harsh reality of compliance with regulations that ten years ago did not exist; in many cases, their administrators are not prepared to pay for this compliance.
ref: 1990, James A. Kaufman, Waste Disposal in Academic Institutions, →ISBN:
text: A century ago the high school was primarily an academic institution—in the sense that its curriculum was dominated by academic subjects, and in the more disparaging sense that formal schooling was distant from the political, community, and economic life outside its doors.
ref: 2009, W. Norton Grubb, Marvin Lazerson, The Education Gospel, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Outside the school system exists a dense network of academic institutions, consisting of home tutors, correspondence schools, juku, and exam prep schools.
ref: 2014, Pamela Fraser-Abder, Professional Development in Science Teacher Education, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: An educational institution, dedicated to teaching and/or research.
examples: text: The second question raised is what conditions influence the abilities of incoming freshmen, as reflected in their Scholastic Aptitude Tests, given by the College Entrance Examination Board and available for most though not all academic institutions.
ref: 1994, Peter Michael Blau, The Organization of Academic Work, →ISBN, page 131:
text: Of the teaching assistants, black female graduate students comprised 80 percent in 1995. It should be borne in mind, however, that these figures do not pertain to all academic institutions for the obvious reason that not all academic institutions have women's studies programs nor African American studies programs.
ref: 1997, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Renée T. White, Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions, →ISBN, page 22:
text: The primary burden of recruiting, hiring, evaluating, promoting, and terminating faculty rests with department heads in virtually all academic institutions, although their decisions are generally made in consultation with others ...
ref: 1997, Marianne A. Ferber, Jane W. Loeb, Academic Couples: Problems and Promises, →ISBN, page 248:
text: It is critical for all academic institutions to embrace this change in the work culture to maintain the best faculty at our medical schools.
ref: 2011, William F. Rayburn, Jay Schulkin, Changing Landscape of Academic Women's Health Care in the United States, →ISBN:
text: This guide is designed to assist academic institutions in developing, strengthening, and improving the search process for high-level appointments and key faculty positions - including but not limited to Presidents, Chancellors, CEOs, ...
ref: 2014, Steven A. Wartman, Searching for Leadership: Best Practices for Academic Institutions, →ISBN:
glosses: An educational institution, dedicated to higher education and research, that grants academic degrees.
bulbil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulbils
Etymology: From Spanish bulbillo, from the diminutive form of Latin bulbus, from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: bulbel
bulblet
glosses: A bulb-shaped bud in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.
learned society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learned societies
Senses: glosses: An organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines.
national academy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national academies
Senses: glosses: A body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates the activities of research in (nearly always) the sciences and (sometimes) other disciplines.
Related terms: learned society
Academy of Sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Academies of Sciences
Senses: glosses: National academy.
glosses: Learned society dedicated to sciences.
trench foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its prevalence during the trench warfare of World War I.
Senses: examples: text: Every year I can, I go to the Glastonbury Festival and pick up a T-shirt or two as a memento. But last year's souvenir was unexpected and certainly unwelcome. I came home with trench foot. […] Trench foot - or Immersion Foot as it is more properly known - occurs when blood vessels restrict their flow to extremities to conserve heat for the body.
ref: 2008 June 23, Andy Sully, “I got trench foot at Glastonbury”, in BBC News:
synonyms: immersion foot
glosses: A medical condition which can affect the feet when they are constantly cold and wet, similar to frostbite.
Related terms: trench mouth
immersion foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: trench foot
glosses: A medical condition, somewhat similar to frostbite, that can affect the feet when they are constantly cold and wet.
the shoe is on the other foot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the boot is on the other foot
Senses: examples: text: Some of the birds on this ship took me for a sucker and tried to make a rummy out of me but I was wise to their game and I guess the shoe is on the other foot this time.
ref: 1919, Ring Lardner, chapter 1, in The Real Dope:
glosses: The roles of people in a situation have been reversed, such that the advantage has shifted to a party which was previously disadvantaged.
Synonyms: the tables are turned
Related terms: walk a mile in someone's shoes
which foot the shoe is on
taste of one's own medicine
glype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glypes
form: glipe
Senses: examples: text: 1896, William Handling, Grandmother's Death and Other Poems http://books.google.com/books?id=pqgtAAAAMAAJ, New Haven: George D. Bone, page 8,
Ye wee bit rakin' cheeky glypes, / Ye'll gang nae farther noo, / A jumpin' burns and six-fit dykes, / And rashes wadin' through.
text: Mr Lyttle is yet another glype who ignores everything of substance. Is it any wonder the AO is in such a mess when it relies on the likes of ye to be its apologists?
ref: 2000 October 12, panopticon1299, “Re: Justice”, in alt.religion.bahai (Usenet):
text: "Soozle" wan't acting the glype...
ref: 2002 July 13, Geoff Burns, “Re: the 11th night”, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove (Usenet):
glosses: A stupid and annoying person.
eavesdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eavesdrop
eavesdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eavesdrop
eavesdrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eavesdrip
Proto-Canaanite alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca. the 15th century B.C.E.), by convention taken to last until a cut-off date of 1050 B.C.E., after which it is called Phoenician.
glypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glype
weaponisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛpənʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: weaponization
Etymology: From weaponise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: At the dawn of the space age the Eisenhower administration came to the conclusion that the weaponisation of space was not in the interests of the United States.
ref: 2007, Michael Sheehan, The International Politics of Space:
text: The weaponization of international credit was nothing new, but its deployment in this instance locked Bulgaria into the policy of the Triple Alliance […].
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 278:
glosses: The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
weaponization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌwɛpənəˈzeɪ̯.ʃɪn/
Etymology: From weapon + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: A new House panel investigating the "weaponization of the federal government" held its first hearing on Thursday [...]
ref: 2023 February 9, Lexie Schapitl, Claudia Grisales, “House panel on 'weaponization' of the government's first hearing takes aim at DOJ, FBI”, in NPR, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2023:
text: [I]f you’re against the weaponization of the Justice Department because you think it was weaponized against you, then you don’t make the situation worse by weaponizing it against your opponents.
ref: 2025, January, John Bolton, quoted in: Cameron Joseph, John Bolton says he’s faced Trump’s retribution. He worries what Kash Patel might do.,, in: The Christian Science Monitor, January 27 2025
glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of weaponisation.
Related terms: weaponize
beweapon
gantan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gantans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gantang.
secret ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret ballots
Senses: synonyms: word: Australian ballot
word: Massachusetts ballot
glosses: The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places.
cry out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries out
form: crying out
form: cried out
form: cried out
Senses: examples: text: Vſurers, you are none of theſe cryers vnto God, but thoſe that hourely vnto God are most cryde out againſt. God hath cryde out vnto you by his Preachers, GOD hath cride out vnto you by the poore ; Pryſoners on their death-beds haue cride out of you : and when they haue had but one houre to interceſſionate for their ſoules, and ſue out the pardon of their numberleſſe ſins, the whole of that howre (ſauing one minute, when in two words they cryde for mercy,) haue they ſpent, in crying for vengeance againſt you.
ref: 1593, Thomas Nash, Christs Teares Over Iervsalem. Whereunto is annexed a comparatiue admonition to London., London: Thomas Thorp, published 1613, →OCLC, page 105; republished as Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem: Whereunto is Annexed A comparative Admonition to London, 1815, page 97:
text: Do you cry out in your sleep?
ref: 1979, Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart:
text: At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree.
ref: 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
glosses: To shout in a loud voice, due to pain, or fear, or unhappiness.
Related terms: cry it out
cry out for
Petri net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Petri nets
Etymology: Named after Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010), German mathematician and computer scientist.
Senses: glosses: One of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems, a 5-tuple (S,T,F,M_0,W)!, where
S is a set of places.
glosses: One of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems, a 5-tuple (S,T,F,M_0,W)!, where
T is a set of transitions.
glosses: One of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems, a 5-tuple (S,T,F,M_0,W)!, where
S and T are disjoint, i.e. no object can be both a place and a transition
glosses: One of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems, a 5-tuple (S,T,F,M_0,W)!, where
F is a set of arcs known as a flow relation. The set F is subject to the constraint that no arc may connect two places or two transitions, or more formally: F⊆(S×T)∪(T×S).
glosses: One of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems, a 5-tuple (S,T,F,M_0,W)!, where
M_0:S→ℕ is an initial marking, where for each place s∈S, there are n_s∈ℕ tokens.
glosses: One of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems, a 5-tuple (S,T,F,M_0,W)!, where
W:F→ℕ⁺ is a set of arc weights, which assigns to each arc f∈F some n∈ℕ⁺ denoting how many tokens are consumed from a place by a transition, or alternatively, how many tokens are produced by a transition and put into each place.
weaponize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛpənaɪz/
Forms: form: weaponizes
form: weaponizing
form: weaponized
form: weaponized
form: weaponise
Etymology: From weapon + -ize. First use appears c. 1938. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Anything can be weaponized. A big enough rock, dropped from a sufficient height, is a very good weapon.
text: The writer has to an unusually high degree the gift of being able to coin a telling phrase, though I do not like the verb in the sentence "However unassailable their arguments may be they could not weaponize their strength."
ref: 1938, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 54, page 119:
text: Though most Russian efforts unveiled thus far seem to have been aimed at weaponizing the far right, the existence of BlackMattersUS indicates Russian agents were equally motivated to infiltrate the far left in order to amplify partisan divides that would simultaneously energize Trump’s base and disillusion Hillary’s.
ref: 2017 October 18, Maya Kosoff, “The Russian troll farm that weaponized Facebook had American boots on the ground”, in Vanity Fair:
text: They have weaponized social media. They have weaponized the First Amendment. They have weaponized civic discourse. And they have weaponized, most of all, politics.
ref: 2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in New York Times:
text: [I]f you’re against the weaponization of the Justice Department because you think it was weaponized against you, then you don’t make the situation worse by weaponizing it against your opponents.
ref: 2025, January, John Bolton, quoted in: Cameron Joseph, John Bolton says he’s faced Trump’s retribution. He worries what Kash Patel might do.,, in: The Christian Science Monitor, January 27 2025
glosses: To make into a weapon.
examples: text: To weaponize anthrax it is made more distributable, not more virulent.
glosses: To make more effective as a weapon.
Derived terms: weaponizable
Related terms: beweapon
weaponization