cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
door knobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door knob
Tardebigge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Worcestershire.
Hajtamiri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hajtamiris
form: Hajtamiries
form: HajTamiri
form: Haj Tamiri
form: Haj-Tamiri
form: hajTamiri
form: haj Tamiri
form: haj-Tamiri
Etymology: From Persian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A surname from Farsi
Related terms: Haj
Tamiri
DAGN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DAGNs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: dAGN
dual active galactic nuclei
coordinate_terms: AGN
active galactic nucleus
galactic nucleus
galaxy nucleus
nucleus
G
galaxy
glosses: Acronym of dual active galactic nuclei, a type of merging galaxy of two source galaxies that excites both galactic cores.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of discourse-aware graph network.
dAGN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dAGNs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of DAGN Acronym of dual active galactic nuclei.
SAHRC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of South African Human Rights Commission.
gnomism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnomisms
Senses: glosses: A gnomic utterance.
gnomisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnomism
dichloroacetophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + chloro- + acetophenone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with IUPAC name 2,2-dichloro-1-phenylethanone
yellow sallflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow sallfly
yellow sallfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow sallflies
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A member of the Chloroperlidae family of stoneflies
Synonyms: yellow sally
tone in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tones in
form: toning in
form: toned in
form: toned in
Senses: examples: text: The stately couch […]; the high-backed chairs […]; the fine oak carvings—all gave a solemnity to the place that toned in with Constance’s forlorn spirit […]
ref: 1841, Lord William Lennox, chapter 9, in Compton Audley,, volume 3, London: Richard Bentley, page 165:
text: […] some white grapes covered with a silver bloom and a big cluster of purple ones. These last she had bought to tone in with the new dining-room carpet.
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield, “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, pages 117–118:
text: She boiled some of the saveloys, and they sat down and ate them after they had picked the skins off. The thick, rubbery skin toned in with the dress Nance was wearing for the country.
ref: 1970, Patrick White, chapter 4, in The Vivisector, London: Jonathan Cape, page 234:
synonyms: go with
harmonize
match
glosses: To fit well (with something, in colour, mood, etc.).
guestmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guestmasters
form: guest-master
form: guest master
Etymology: From guest + master.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A monk who receives guests in a monastery.
electroretinoencephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An X-ray examination of the electrical activity in the retina and the brain in response to light.
electro-retino-encephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electroretinoencephalography.
gamma-encephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma-encephalographies
Senses: glosses: A method for the detection of intracranial tumours.
gammaencephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gammaencephalographies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gamma-encephalography.
gamma encephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma encephalographies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gamma-encephalography.
akinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akinates
Senses: glosses: A spore-Like stage in algae when unfavorable conditions are encountered such as nutrient deficiency.
boarding card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarding cards
Senses: glosses: boarding pass
azoosporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a + zoospore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the absence of zoospores.
Quiévrechain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Quiévrechain.
Senses: glosses: A town in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
audience hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audience halls
form: audience-hall
Senses: examples: text: The audience hall was in another building , for the Chinese palaces, instead of being one great building as in Europe, consist of a number of pavilions divided by courts and connected by covered archways.
ref: 1913 July, Katharine A. Carl, “A Personal Estimate of teh Character of the Late Empress Dowager Tze-Hsi”, in The Journal of International Relations, volume 4, page 64:
text: In the audience hall Nervi's typical reinterpretation of reinforced concrete leads to an astonishingly direct and symbolic implementation of the functional requirements.
ref: 1998, Stefan Grundmann, Ulrich Fürst, The Architecture of Rome, page 346:
text: When His Majesty the King proceeds to an audience hall or any royal building but has not yet arrived, others of royal lineage, luang mueang, khun, muen, hua phan, saber masters, and various officials attending on the royal foot may not exit beforehand.
ref: 2016, The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat:
text: The poet also described that he had crossed nine gates from the principal gateway of the palace to go to the audience hall.
ref: 2016, Aniruddha Ray, Towns and Cities of Medieval India: A Brief Survey:
glosses: A room in which a ruler or religious official holds audience (i.e. a formal meeting with a dignitary).
examples: text: Seats shall be not less than 2 feet 6 inches from back to back, measured horizontally, and no seat on the audience hall floor shall have more than 7 seats between it and an aisle.
ref: 1914, Report of the Chief of the Massachusetts District Police, page 83:
text: A minimum of 4 3/5 sq. ft. (must be at least 33 in. back to back of seats by at least 20 in. width of seat) of floor area as a seating space per occupant, exclusive of aisles and public passageways, shall be provided in the audience hall.
ref: 1916 January, “Report on Minimum Ventilation Requirements For Public and Semi-Public Buildings for Legislation Purposes”, in Transactions: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, volume 22, page 61:
text: A minimum of 90 cubic feet of air space, per occupant, shall be provided in the audience hall.
ref: 1917 November 24, “Heating and Ventilating”, in The American Artisan, volume 74, number 3, page 35:
glosses: An auditorium or large hall with a stage designed to seat an audience (i.e. a group of people watching a performance).
audience halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audience hall
Common Turkic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Shaz Turkic
glosses: A taxon of the Turkic languages that includes all of them except the Oghuric languages.
Derived terms: Common Turkic alphabet(wp)
SI unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SI units
Senses: glosses: Any unit of the International System of Units.
Hypernyms: metric system
unit
SI units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SI unit
wymin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wimmin.
wymmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wimmin.
Xnty.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Christianity.
Centrocaspian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Centrocaspian Dictatorship, a short-lived anti-Soviet administration proclaimed in the city of Baku during World War I.
YAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of yeast artificial chromosome.
Watteau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Watteaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Watteau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
examples: text: “Would you care to see the famous Watteaus? There is not such a crush now.”
ref: 1978, Elinor Glyn, The Sequence, page 73:
glosses: The French painter Antoine Watteau (1684–1721).
Derived terms: Watteau back
Watteau bodice
Watteau pleat
Watteaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Watteau
Rivington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6214).
slobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slob
slobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slob
posadniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posadnik
Beachey Head
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Beachey Head, Sea-Fight there between the Engliſh, Dutch and French, 478
ref: 1719, Roger Coke, A Detection of the Court and State of England, During the Reigns of K. James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. As Also the Inter-regnum. […], volume II, fourth edition ([…]), London: […] J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, […]:
text: In the year 1690 the French totally defeated our fleet, joined to that of the Dutch, off Beachey Head.
ref: 1798, a True Patriot, Matter of Fact for the Multitude, London: […] J. Wright, […], page 36:
text: “I should be very happy, aunt---but Brighton is almost by Beachey Head; and if I could get so far, I could not expect to be welcome in such a smart place as that---poor scrubby midshipman as I am.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 155:
text: From Rye about six miles is Haddock Cliff and the high land of Fairlight; between which and Beachey Head the coast is composed of coarse shingle, with small rocks interspersed.
ref: 1844, John Walker, Alexander Walker, Sailing Directions for the English Channel and Coast of France; with an Accurate Description of the Coasts of England, South of Ireland, and Channel islands. […], London: W[illia]m H[oughton] Allen & Co., […]; Liverpool: J. & A. Walker, […], page 30:
glosses: Obsolete form of Beachy Head.
a kin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more a kin
form: most a kin
Senses: examples: text: […] I conceit him to be neere a kin to him who set forth a Passion Sermon with a formall Dedicatory in great letters to our Saviour.
ref: 1642, John Milton, An apology against a pamphlet call’d A modest confutation of the animadversions upon the remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: John Rothwell, page 7:
text: […] and though there was not the leaſt Hint in all this from what may be called Religion or Conſcience, and far from any thing of Repentance or any thing that was a kin to it, eſpecially at firſt; […]
ref: 1724, [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunate Mistress; […] [Roxana], London: […] E. Applebee, […], published 1740, →OCLC, page 181:
english: Roxana
translation: Roxana
text: Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny’s soliloquies.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248:
glosses: Obsolete form of akin.
a-kin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more a-kin
form: most a-kin
Senses: examples: text: A ſecond observation out of theſe words, and near a-kin to the former is; That it is not enough for a Chriſtian to live harmleſly, and abſtain from ill, but he muſt do that which is good.
ref: 1648, Joseph Mede, The Works of That Reverend, Iudicious, and Learned Divine, Mʳ Ioseph Mede, B.D. Late Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge. […], London: […] M. F. for John Clark, […], page 275:
text: Sabellicus relateth, in his 7th. Book, Ennead. 6. under Martin the 4th. P. R. of one who was a-kin to the Pope, that brought forth a hairy boy, who had claws like a Bear: […]
ref: 1670, Wolfgangus Franzius, translated by N. W., The History of Brutes; or, A Description of Living Creatures. Wherein the Nature and Properties of Four-footed Beasts Are at Large Described, London: […] E. Okes, for Francis Haley, […], page 251:
text: There prevailed in that age an opinion which was a-kin to its other ſuperſtitions, that the royal unction was eſſential to the exerciſe of royal power: […]
ref: 1786, David Hume, The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688, volume I, London: […] T. Cadell, […], page 413:
glosses: Obsolete form of akin.
foretel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foretels
form: foretelling
form: foretold
form: foretold
Senses: examples: text: And yet by the way, as one sometime demanded of one of his complices, How it came to pass, that they, who take upon them by the Stars, to tel everie draggle-tail’d Girl that comes to them to enquire after a Silver Spoon lost, what was become of it, and which way it was gone; yet could not by their star-skil foresee and foretel the Scotch Kings defeat at Worcester […]
ref: 1654, Thomas Gataker, A Discours Apologetical, London: Thomas Newberry, page 4:
text: This wonderful phænomenon has, ſince it was firſt diſcovered, employed the thoughts of very able philoſophers ; many hypotheſes having been offered, not only for its explanation, but even to foretel the future variations in various parts of the world.
ref: November 16, 1786, Tiberius Cavallo, Magnetical Experiments and Obſervations, page #22
text: “I hope not that.—It is not likely. No, Mr. Knightley, do not foretel vexation from that quarter.” “Not I, indeed. I only name possibilities. I do not pretend to Emma’s genius for foretelling and guessing. I hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a Weston in merit, and a Churchill in fortune.—[…]”
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 75:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of foretell.
palateable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palateable
form: most palateable
Senses: examples: text: “I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present;[…]”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 188:
text: […] the rebels made a dive pretty much as sharks do when a palateable man falls overboard.
ref: 1862 May 18, “Gen. Mitchel’s Division. The Withdrawal of Gen. Turchin from Tuscumbia.”, in The New York Times, page 3:
text: In a state of nature there is no better doctor than a man’s own appetite, and no doubt in a state of nature man could find the most palateable food the most wholesome.
ref: [1911], J[ean-]J[acques] Rousseau, translated by Barbara Foxley, Emile or Education (Ernest Rhys, editor, Everyman’s Library: Essays and Belles Lettres), J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Sons Ltd; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, page 115:
glosses: Alternative spelling of palatable.
Pironi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pironis
form: Pironies
Etymology: From Italian Pironi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
Chandhok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chandhoks
Senses: glosses: A surname
fidgettiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fidgetty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This fidgettineſs, to uſe a vulgar expreſſion for want of a better, is occaſioned wholly by an uneaſineſs in the ſkin, owing to the retenſion of the perſpirable matter—the bed-clothes having received their quantity, and, being ſaturated, refuſing to take any more.
ref: 1793, Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator, Dublin: […] P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, page 185:
text: Mr. Woodhouse’s peculiarities and fidgettiness were sometimes provoking him to a rational remonstrance or sharp retort equally ill bestowed.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 197:
text: Was there anything of fidgettiness in St. Paul’s manner as he sat waiting?
ref: 1869, Tho[ma]s T[oke] Lynch, A Group of Six Sermons, London: Elliot Stock, […], page 55:
glosses: Archaic spelling of fidgetiness.
Zuleikha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Zuleikha Robinson, b. 1977
glosses: Alternative form of Zuleika.
our's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: And yet whereinſoever they differ, if their caſe exceed our’s in ſome reſpects, it is exceeded by our’s in ſo many more, as may ſufficiently juſtifie us, and oblige us to the like Lamentation.
ref: 1678, William Lloyd, A Sermon at the Funeral of Sʳ Edmund-Berry Godfrey, One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace, Who Was Barbarously Murthered. […], London: […] Tho. Newcomb, for Henry Brome […], page 10:
text: “The difference of our religions, my dear Oswald,” continued Corinna, “is the cause of that secret censure which you cannot help discovering to me. Your’s is serious and rigid—our’s, lively and tender.[”]
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] V.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: Your only blunder was confined to my ear, when you imagined a certain friend of our’s in love with the lady.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 182:
text: Thus the service in the course of this address proceeds to warn us of the new responsibilities to which we may expect to be called, when as parents it will be our’s to “bring up children in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy name:” […]
ref: 1842, John James, The Mother’s Help Towards Instructing Her Children in the Excellencies of the Catechism, and of the Services Appointed by the Church of England for the More Special Occasions Which Mark Christian Life, London: […] J. G. F. & J. Rivington, […], page 369:
glosses: Obsolete form of ours.
XBONG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XBONGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: X-ray bright optically inactive galaxy
X-ray bright optically normal galaxy
hypernyms: active galaxy
X-ray galaxy
astrophysical X-ray source
X-ray source
coordinate_terms: AGN
glosses: Acronym of X-ray bright optically normal galaxy.
birth-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birth-days
Senses: examples: text: One, Frugal, on his Birth-Day fears to dine: / Does at a Penny's coſt in Herbs repine, / And hardly dares to dip his Fingers in the Brine.
ref: 1693, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, pages 78–79:
text: “He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birth-day is the 23d—just a fortnight and a day’s difference! which is very odd!”
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 56:
text: The Manx attach great importance to the qualtagh, or first person met with on the occurrence of any particularly important event, as in going to the fishery, the first day of the new year, a birth-day or a christening.
ref: 1861, Joseph George Cumming, “Manners and Customs”, in A Guide to the Isle of Man with the Means of Access thereto and an Introduction to Its Scenery: […], London: Edward Stanford, […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Archaic form of birthday.
product base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: product bases
Senses: topics: business
marketing
synonyms: product range
product line
glosses: The range of products that a company sells.
Related terms: customer base
beet-root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beet-roots
Senses: examples: text: From ſome late and well-conducted experiments, there is good reaſon to think ſugar may be extracted from beet-root, not inferior in flavour to the common growth of America.
ref: 1787 July 26, The Bath Chronicle, volume XXVI, number 1391, […] R. Cruttwell, […]:
text: Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some interesting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday’s party at his friend Cole’s, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the cellery, the beet-root and all the dessert.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 188:
text: Slice and cut into squares as many cold cooked beet-roots as needed and place them in wide-mouthed pickle bottles; […]
ref: 1896, Oscar Tschirky, The Cook Book by “Oscar” of the Waldorf, Chicago, Ill.; Akron, Ohio; New York, N.Y.: The Saalfield Publishing Co., page 858:
glosses: Alternative form of beetroot.
Parliamentary green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
monarchy
politics
glosses: A green color used by the House of Commons.
Related terms: Parliamentary red
Parliamentary red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A red color used by the House of Lords.
Related terms: Parliamentary green
postsubiculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postsubicula
Etymology: From post- + subiculum.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to hippocampal inputs, the medial mammillary nuclei receive projections from the rostral subiculum, and the lateral mammillary nuclei receive projections from the pre-, para-, and postsubicula.
ref: 2018, Jill B. Rich, “Mammillary Bodies”, in Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, John DeLuca, Bruce Caplan, editors, Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2nd edition, Springer International Publishing AG, →ISBN, page 2076:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The dorsal part of the presubiculum.
Related terms: postsubicular
midorbitofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-orbitofrontal
Etymology: From mid- + orbito- + frontal.
Senses: glosses: located in the middle of the anterior orbitofrontal cortex in the human brain.
Derived terms: midorbitofrontal cortex pleasure centre
teize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teizes
form: teizing
form: teized
form: teized
Senses: examples: text: […] “Subjects for Painters,” in which, with his uſual ſucceſs, he laughs at, or teizes the Royal Academicians; […]
ref: 1790, “Domestic Literature of the Year 1789”, in The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1789. […], London: […] G. G. J. and J. Robinson, […], page 279, column 1:
text: Its ſiſter,[…], ſtood patiently at the ſide of its cradle, with a large vine-branch in her hand, which ſhe waved backwards and forwards to prevent the numerous flies, that noon brings forth in that country, from teizing the ſick child.
ref: 1798, Helen Maria Williams, A Tour in Switzerland; or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris, volume I, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […], pages 328–329:
text: I hope she will recollect it, and be satisfied, as well she may, with moving the queen of a palace, though the king may appear best in the back ground, and as I have no desire to teize her, I shall never force your name upon her again.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 181–182:
glosses: Obsolete form of tease.
cinM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gene coding proteins responsible for the dehydration of serine and threonine residues in the propeptide followed by the subsequent formation of lanthionine bridges in cinnamycin.
cinA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gene coding the cinnamycin precursor peptide.
cinX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gene that encodes the protein that catalyzes the hydroxylation of aspartate at position 15 of cinnamycin.
back ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back grounds
Senses: examples: text: I hope she will recollect it, and be satisfied, as well she may, with moving the queen of a palace, though the king may appear best in the back ground, and as I have no desire to teize her, I shall never force your name upon her again.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 181–182:
text: In the back ground is represented the city bridge, built by our saint, and the scene of one of his miracles.
ref: [1838], John Milner, The History and Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester, 3rd edition, volume II, Winchester: […] for James Robbins, […], by D. E. Gilmour, […]; London: Orr and Co, […]; and Keating and Brown, […], page 258:
text: But Anna was an enthusiast—in politics and religion—with a Joan d’Arc devotion, she cast every personal consideration in the back ground, and as far as will could make her, was ready to become an aftertype of La Pucelle d’Orleans.
ref: 1839, Castle Martyr: or A Tale of Old Ireland, volume II, London: Hugh Cunningham, […], pages 107–108:
glosses: Obsolete form of background.
Romani studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: gypsiology
word: Romology
word: Romanology
word: tsiganology
qualifier: humanities
glosses: A field of study concerned with the culture, history and language of the Romani people.
adultist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I'm ambivalent about being called a girl. I suspect that at least some of our dislike of this term is related to the systematic and brutal oppression of young people […] Why — except that we are adultist are we so insulted by being called young?
ref: 1982 April 24, Lisa Orlando, “Let Bi Girls Be Bi Girls”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Biased in favor of adults (and against children); exhibiting adultism.
rematchmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rematchmakers
Senses: examples: text: Janet feels that she needs the companionship of an animal, whereas Ethel Shutta has a “George Olsen, Junior,” to play with. “I’ll take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary,” exclaimed Janet hotly. “I must have my Muggsy.” […] Maybe Muggsy may prove to be a rematchmaker.
ref: 1933 April 30, “These Ziegfeld Blondes Were So Alike that Wally Won, Starred and Lost Them Both: First Ethel Walked Out With the Dashing Bandmaster; Now Janet Wails: “I’m Through With Love---Give Me Back My Dog!””, in The Sunday Courier and Journal, volume 10, number 58, Evansville, Ind.:
text: 12-Year-Old Rematchmaker […] My parents are divorced and I am trying to get them back together.
ref: 1979 October 10, Sapulpa Daily Herald, volume 66, number 23, Sapulpa, Okla., page three-A:
text: Facts of Life⁠: Molly plays rematchmaker for estranged parents.
ref: 1980 June 4, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y.: Gannett Co., Inc., page 2C:
text: The series failures kept coming, including hospitality soap “Hotel,” “Dynasty” spinoff “The Colbys,” and “Finder of Lost Loves,” about a rich rematchmaker.
ref: 1996 March 8, Steve Johnson, “TV’s most prolific producer has developed a formula for success that is still creating a demand for the fruits of the Spelling dynasty”, in Chicago Tribune, 149th year, number 68, section 5, page 5:
glosses: One who reunites a couple.
noonchine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noonchines
Senses: examples: text: The ordinary breakfast of farm-servants is bread and skimmed-milk, with the remainder of what bacon was left the day before: their lunch or noonchine, consists of bread and cheese, with the small beer they take in their kegs to the field.
ref: 1810, Charles Vancouver, “Rural Economy”, in General View of the Agriculture of Hampshire, Including the Isle of Wight. Drawn Up for the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement., London: […] for Richard Phillips, […] by B. MᶜMillan, […], section II (Servants), page 383:
text: “Yes---I left London this morning at eight o’clock, and the only ten minutes I have spent out of my chaise since that time, procured me a noonchine at Marlborough.”
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 151:
text: Sit down, Mr. Felix, and take your bit of noonchine.
ref: 1872, [Charlotte Mary Yonge], “The Pillars of the House; or, Under Wode, Under Rode. Chapter XXV. Don or Mynheer?”, in [Charlotte Mary Yonge], editor, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, volume XIII, London: John and Charles Mozley, […]; Oxford: James Parker and Co., page 244:
glosses: Obsolete form of nuncheon.
wash-hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of washhand.
Lidzbark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Lidzbark.
Senses: glosses: A town in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
East Bourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Britiſh Coaſt about Eaſt Bourne is the neareſt of any to the Mouth of the Seine: […]
ref: 1720, Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XXX (For the Years 1717. 1718. 1719.), London: […] W. and J. Innys, […], page 800:
text: “I am not going to run away, Papa,” said Kitty, fretfully; “if I should ever go to Brighton, I would behave better than Lydia.” “You go to Brighton!—I would not trust you so near it as East Bourne, for fifty pounds![…]”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 124:
text: On the Sussex coast, midway between Brighton and Hastings, and at the south-eastern extremity of the chain of hills, so well and so favorably known as the South Downs, is situate East Bourne—a watering-place of no mean repute.
ref: [1851], The Guide to East Bourne and Its Environs. […], East Bourne: […] E. M. E. & G. Hopkins, […], page 5:
text: Before the coming of the railway East Bourne, as it was then styled, was a small village engaged in sheep farming and some agriculture and fishing; […].
ref: 1949 September and October, “Notes and News: The Eastbourne Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
glosses: Obsolete form of Eastbourne.
game-keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game-keepers
Senses: examples: text: And that I may not aſperſe any unjuſtly, this ſhall be a particular account to the world, what Sir Rob. Honywood, Sir Will. Boſwell, Mr. Gwyn his Secretary (and ſome others his ſervants) what Palmer my Sollicitor, Robinſon my man, one Horne the Fabrick of Leydon, but of Engliſh extraction; as alſo one Saſſe a game-keeper to the Prince of Aurange, with divers other under-inſtruments have done to ruine me, hoping to wreſt out of my hands thereby either the Honor, or the profit of my performances.
ref: [1645], [Henry Parker], Mr. William Wheelers Case from His Own Relation, [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 3:
text: The approach of September brought tidings of Mr. Bertram first in a letter to the game-keeper, and then in a letter to Edmund; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 237:
text: Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced "Bobbing Joan," with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall.
ref: 1823, "Select Society, With Observations on the Modern Art of Matchmaking", in The New Monthly Magazine,by C. M., pub. E. W. Allen,, volume 8 pages 91-92
glosses: Alternative form of gamekeeper.
grand-mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand-mothers
Senses: examples: text: I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], pages 2–3:
text: But ah, how great would be their aſtoniſhment and horror, when informed, that numbers of thoſe young perſons, whoſe behaviour was ſo unbecoming, had not been taught by their mothers, their grand-mothers, or any female friend in the world, one ſolid lesson of wiſdom, frugality, or amiable reſerve.
ref: 1766, James Fordyce, “On Female Reserve”, in Sermons to Young Women, 6th edition, volume I, London: […] D. Payne, page 60:
text: It was but three days; and being only a grand-mother, and all happening two hundred miles off, I think there would have been no great harm, and it was suggested, I know; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 254–255:
glosses: Obsolete form of grandmother.
antecrysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antecryst
antecryst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antecrysts
Etymology: From ante- + -cryst
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A crystal formed from an earlier phase of the magmatic system, different from later forming crystals.
Related terms: xenocryst
cryptodomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptodome
cryptodome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptodomes
Etymology: From crypto- + dome.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lava dome that forms underground, hidden from view.
fiscalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiscalizers
Senses: glosses: Someone who politically holds an authority to account.
ash-hopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash-hoppers
Senses: examples: text: There was an ash-hopper by the fence, and an iron pot, for soft-soap-boiling, near it.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter I, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: A cask filled with ash used to produce lye, which would be leached out by water (especially rainwater).
ash-hoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ash-hopper
harden'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harden'd
form: most harden'd
Senses: examples: text: There are, ’tis true, ſome People ſo Harden’d in Wickedneſs, as to have No Senſe at all of the moſt Friendly Offices, or the Higheſt Benefits.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCCXXI. A Mouse and a Kite.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 281:
text: The Monſter mad with Rage, and ſtung with Smart, / His Lance directed at the Hero’s Heart: / It ſtrook; but bounded from his harden’d Breaſt, […]
ref: 1717, John Dryden, “Book XII. [Cæneus transform’d to an Eagle.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 427:
text: “Nobody loves a play better than you do, or can have gone much farther to see one.” “True, to see real acting, good harden’d real acting; but I would hardly walk from this room to the next, to look at the raw efforts of those who have not been bred to the trade,—a set of gentlemen and ladies, who have all the disadvantages of education and decorum to struggle through.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 258:
text: That is—I fear you are most harden'd sinners, / Who in close coffers keep the light of grace / From needy brothers and from young beginners, / That it may shine upon your own dull race.
ref: 1823, Charles Molloy Westmacott, “Pindaric Address to the Royal Academicians”, in Annual Critical Catalogue to the Royal Academy; republished in The Spirit of the Public Journals, London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825, page 223:
text: Harden'd are we by Life: its iron pains, / Its shunless endings, do we know; […]
ref: 1919, Herbert Trench, “Battle of the Marne”, in Poems with Fables in Prose […], volume I, London: Constable and Company, stanza X, page 208:
glosses: Obsolete form of hardened.
niggro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggros
Senses: examples: text: O, now I remember, she's a niggro, as black as a sip."
ref: 1868, Rebecca Sophia Clarke, “New Faces”, in Dotty Dimple Out West, Boston, M.A.: Lee and Shepard, page 89:
text: The niggro is the only person who can stand the fever and ague of this region.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XVI, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 154:
text: But agriculture is the work for the niggro. It has variety. I don't believe they will be any good for the manufactures, cotton or steel. It is too monotonous.
ref: 1910, Octave Thanet [pseudonym; Alice French], By Inheritance, Indianapolis, I.N.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 64:
text: So, you see, when Mr. Corbett made his wrap-up on the Niggro, there was no one but me still attending. I said to him, "Well, that sounds just bully, Mr. Corbett."
ref: 1986, Clayton Bess, Tracks, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 110–111:
text: And not just by the niggro—I understand why the niggro might hold a grudge for two hundred years, but all these phony white liberals—to be turned on by your own kith and kin like that is unforgivable.
ref: 2017, John Banks, W: A Novel, Greensboro, N.C.: 819 Publishing, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Archaic form of negro.
niggros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niggro
torchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torchable
form: most torchable
Etymology: From torch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But it didn’t happen. We moved farther and farther into the ship, setting fires and torching everything that looked torchable, and still the Drymnu held back.
ref: 1987 Spring, Timothy Zahn, “Point Man”, in Jim Baen, editor, New Destinies, volume 1, Wake Forest, N.C.: Baen Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: Able to be torched.
Masjid al-Haram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæsd͡ʒɪd æl ˈhəˈɹɑːm/
other: /məsd͡ʒɪd ɑl ˈhəˈɹɑːm/
ipa: /mʌsd͡ʒɪd ˌæl həˈɹɑːm/
Senses: glosses: a grand mosque enclosing the Kaaba in Mecca and the courtyard surrounding it containing the Black Stone, the Well of Zamzam and the Station of Abraham.
Synonyms: Great Mosque of Mecca
Grand Mosque
Haram Mosque
mononematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + nematic.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having electron-dense extracellular material localized to the junction between the cilia and the attachment cell. (of stretch receptor organs in insects and crustaceans)
Related terms: amphinematic
foot-stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-stools
Senses: examples: text: A number of such Nabals there are now-adays, that tyrannize over, and trample upon their wives, as if they were not their fellows, but their foot-stools, […]
ref: 1656, John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the New Testament. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R. W. and are to be sold by Nath. Ekins, […], page 80:
text: […] its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded foot-stool of Julia’s work, too ill done for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy, and a moonlight lake in Cumberland; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 318:
text: But, anyhow, the memory of him sitting there in the arm-chair with his feet on the foot-stool, holding my hand, smoking the cigarette I had lighted for him and talking brilliantly, would remain with me through life as an exquisite sorrow by means of which, in the end, I’d mount to perfect happiness before the throne of God.
ref: 1922, Gerald O’Donovan, Vocations, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, pages 61–62:
glosses: Alternative form of footstool.
nonplusser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonplussers
Etymology: From nonplus (“to bewilder or perplex”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This might have been a nonplusser to the average individual, but Siandish, already prepared, gave a ready reply.
ref: 1940, Sydney Horler, Tiger Standish Steps on It, London: H&S Services Yellow Jackets, published 1944, page 88:
glosses: Something which causes one to become nonplussed or confused.
nonplussers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonplusser
hawkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hawky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She was drab and depressed and seemed to be trying not to cry. But the depressed face had the right slight hawkiness about it, and there was no question that they knew one another well.
ref: 1981, Diana Wynne Jones, The Time of the Ghost, New York, N.Y.: Beech Tree, published 1997, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: The state of resembling or being similar to a hawk; hawkishness.
bye-stander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bye-standers
Senses: examples: text: Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.
ref: 1785, Thomas Marryat, Therapeutics; or, The Art of Healing, 7th edition, Birmingham: […] Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, […], London, pages 35–36:
text: His being only a bye-stander was not disclaimed.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 300:
text: If a bye-stander assists one of the parties with his advice, it gives no offence to the other; […]
ref: 1819, John Lewis Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia, London: John Murray, […], page 356:
glosses: Obsolete form of bystander.
bed-clothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.
ref: 1785, Thomas Marryat, Therapeutics; or, The Art of Healing, 7th edition, Birmingham: […] Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, […], London, pages 35–36:
text: This fidgettineſs, to uſe a vulgar expreſſion for want of a better, is occaſioned wholly by an uneaſineſs in the ſkin, owing to the retenſion of the perſpirable matter—the bed-clothes having received their quantity, and, being ſaturated, refuſing to take any more.
ref: 1793, Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator, Dublin: […] P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, page 185:
text: Most fortunately the exigence of despair prompted Georgiana to instant action—she seized the letter and thrust it under the bed-clothes, […]
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: […] comparatively speaking, few are convinced of, or perhaps acquainted with the fact, that not only do the bed-clothes intercept and retain a large proportion of this offthrow, but that it penetrates both beds and mattresses, which actually absorb a large proportion of it, […]
ref: 1848, Clifton Cleve, The Book of Inventions; or, The Practical and Economical Results of the Application of Art and Science in Aid of the General Requirements of Society […], London: Henry Hurst, […], page 20:
text: A few days afterwards the coroner’s jury sat on a coffinful of old brickbats and fragments of bed-clothes and boots and brace buttons and bits of Eli, and after a long discussion, came to the only conclusion possible, viz., that the deceased’s death was attributable to a general breaking up of the system.
ref: 1897, W[illiam] Carter Platts, Angling Done Here!, London: Jarrold & Sons, […], pages 24–25:
text: His flexible wings, wrapped round him, serve him as bed-clothes, and his mate carries the batling clinging to her breast even when she flies out to forage.
ref: [1912], J[ohn] A[lexander] Hammerton, editor, Wonders of Animal Life, volume I, London: The Waverley Book Company Ltd. […], page 126, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of bedclothes.
parapolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + politics.
Senses: topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: Political practices and arrangements that are unacknowledged and that intend to misinform or obfuscate a hidden agenda.
Derived terms: parapolitical
parapolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish parapolítica, from paramilitar (“paramilitary”) + política (“politics”).
Senses: examples: text: And parapolitics risks weakening Mr [Álvaro] Uribe's grip on Congress. A tax reform that would have raised government revenues has been watered down.
ref: 2007 March 22, “The perils of "parapolitics"”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023:
text: Domestically President [Álvaro] Uribe enjoys an 84% approval rating. Most Colombians support him for bringing the country from the brink of becoming a failed state and though the parapolitics scandal is important, "the sense of regaining control trumps everything," said [Michael] Shifter.
ref: 2008 April 23, Sibylla Brodzinsky, “Colombia's 'parapolitics' scandal casts shadow over president”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2022:
text: Right-wing paramilitaries still terrorize rural areas, and political corruption is rife; about one-third of Congress, including many allies of the president, is either accused of or in jail for engaging in "parapolitics" with the death squads.
ref: 2010 April 5, “Colombia after Uribe”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2020:
glosses: Collusion or collaboration between politicians and paramilitary groups (referring to the 2006 Colombian parapolitics scandal).
nompC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of No mechanoreceptor potential C
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gene coding for a mechanosensitive ion channel protein in Drosophila melanogaster.