cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
suboxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suboxides
Etymology: From sub- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any oxide containing a small proportion of oxygen
Derived terms: boron suboxide
carbon suboxide
lead suboxide
macrocyclic carbon suboxide
molybdenum suboxide
silicon suboxide
titanium suboxide
paralytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈlɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: paralytics
form: paralytick
form: parlatic
form: palatic
form: pallatic
Etymology: Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek παραλυτικός (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).
Senses: examples: text: Quoth I to myself, "Haply this Shaykh is of those who were wrecked in the ship and hath made his way to this island." So I drew near to him and saluted him, and he returned my salam by signs, but spoke not; and I said to him, "O nuncle mine, what causeth thee to sit here?" He shook his head and moaned and signed to me with his hand as who should say, "Take me on thy shoulders and carry me to the other side of the well-channel." And quoth I in my mind, "I will deal kindly with him and do what he desireth; it may be I shall win me a reward in Heaven for he may be a paralytic."
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
glosses: Someone suffering from paralysis.
examples: text: For example, use of paralytics in morbidly obese patients or those with spinal instability can precipitate complete upper airway obstruction.
ref: 2010, John J. Marini, Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials, page 312:
glosses: A drug that produces paralysis.
paralytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈlɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: more paralytic
form: most paralytic
form: paralytick
form: parlatic
form: palatic
form: pallatic
Etymology: Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek παραλυτικός (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).
Senses: examples: text: the cold, shaking, paralytic hand
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
glosses: Pertaining to paralysis.
examples: text: Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again?
ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics.
ref: 1996 August 18, Ben McCulloch, “Para-olympics”, in aus.jokes (Usenet):
text: I'm amazed I survived so much drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least it was an automatic.
ref: 1999 January 3, David McLoughlin, “Gundagai - Last Use Of Line?”, in aus.rail (Usenet):
text: He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient.
ref: 2001 May 24, Peter Ryan, “ablett no from hall of fame”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet):
text: On returning to his friends at the bar he remarked " there's a fellow in the jaxx and he's just paralytic. He must be heading for the boat and didn't quite make it."
ref: 2002 April 16, C e r b e r u s - T h e D o g O f H e l l, “On the Isle of Man.”, in free.jokes (Usenet):
glosses: Very drunk.
Synonyms: sense: paralysed
word: frozen
sense: paralysed
word: immobilized
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Derived terms: antiparalytic
hemiparalytic
neuroparalytic
nonparalytic
paralytic abasia
paralytical
paralytically
paralytic dementia
parro
postparalytic
preparalytic
vasoparalytic
Montenegrin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɒntɪˈnɛɡɹɪn/
/-ˈneɪɡɹɪn/
/-ˈniːɡɹɪn/
Forms: form: more Montenegrin
form: most Montenegrin
Etymology: From Italian montenegrino; equivalent to Montenegro + -ine.
Senses: glosses: relating to Montenegro (country)
glosses: relating to Montenegrins (ethnic group)
Synonyms: Montenegran
Montenegrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɒntɪˈnɛɡɹɪn/
/-ˈneɪɡɹɪn/
/-ˈniːɡɹɪn/
Forms: form: Montenegrins
Etymology: From Italian montenegrino; equivalent to Montenegro + -ine.
Senses: glosses: a member of the Montenegrins (ethnic group)
glosses: a person from Montenegro (country)
glosses: The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken in Montenegro.
Synonyms: Montenegran
parasitise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parasitises
form: parasitising
form: parasitised
form: parasitised
form: parasitize
Etymology: From parasite + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.
Derived terms: ectoparasitise
parasitisation
parasitism
parasitoid
pseudoparasitise
parasitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parasitizes
form: parasitizing
form: parasitized
form: parasitized
form: parasitise
Etymology: From parasite + -ize.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.
synonyms: mooch
leech
sponge
suck
glosses: To behave as a parasite more generally.
Derived terms: ectoparasitize
hyperparasitize
kleptoparasitize
parasitism
parasitization
parasitizer
superparasitize
counterfeiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterfeit
counterfeiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterfeitings
Senses: examples: text: Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
glosses: The act of one who counterfeits.
Derived terms: anticounterfeiting
counterfeitingly
sloka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slokas
Senses: examples: text: But it's not to be yet. There's a series of slokas to be recited.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 268:
glosses: Alternative form of shloka.
complaisantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: complacently
Forms: form: more complaisantly
form: most complaisantly
Etymology: From complaisant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One thing she still would not allow was that horrible erotic act which was a commonplace of American and European films, but she took complaisantly enough now to his other husbandly advances.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972:
glosses: In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
IEF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
qualifier: overprint on stamps
glosses: Initialism of Indian Expeditionary Forces.
BCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Central Africa.
BCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bichloroacetic acid.
EAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of East African Federation.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of East African Forces.
raw_tags: as an overprint on British stamps
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of Eid al-Fitr.
EAF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EAFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electric arc furnace.
MEF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: .NET
glosses: Initialism of Managed ExtensibilityExtensibility Framework, a component of the .NET Framework 4.0 aiming to create lightweight, extensible applications.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Marine Expeditionary Force, one of the major subdivisions of the United States Marine Corps.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
qualifier: overprint on British stamps
glosses: Initialism of Middle East Forces.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Mei Foo in Hong Kong.
MEF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of Masochistic Emasculation Fetish.
oscuro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oscuros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish oscuro (“dark”). Doublet of obscure.
Senses: glosses: A cigar made with very dark tobacco.
Coordinate terms: claro
colorado
colorado claro
colorado maduro
double claro
double maduro
maduro
Related terms: chiaroscuro
cuerda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuerdas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cuerda. Doublet of chord and cord.
Senses: glosses: A unit of land area equivalent to 3,929 square meters.
B. I. O. T.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Indian Ocean Territory, sometimes used as an overprint on stamps.
carbon tetrabromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bən ˌtɛt.ɹəˈbɹəʊ.maɪd/
Senses: glosses: the halogenated hydrocarbon tetrabromomethane
Related terms: carbon tetrachloride
carbon tetrafluoride
carbon tetraiodide
carbon tetrachloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The halogenated hydrocarbon tetrachloromethane; a toxic, nonflammable liquid, used as a solvent, formerly used in dry cleaning and in fire extinguishers.
Synonyms: carbon chloride
carbon tet
Necatorina
perchloromethane
tetrachloromethane
Hypernyms: chlorocarbon
chloromethane
halocarbon
halomethane
Related terms: carbon tetrabromide
carbon tetrafluoride
carbon tetraiodide
carbon tetrafluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bən tɛt.ɹəˌflʊɹ.aɪd/
Senses: glosses: the halogenated hydrocarbon tetrafluoromethane
Related terms: carbon tetrabromide
carbon tetrachloride
carbon tetraiodide
carbon tetraiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹ.bən tɛt.ɹəˌaɪ.əʊ.daɪd/
Senses: glosses: the halogenated hydrocarbon tetraiodomethane
Related terms: carbon tetrabromide
carbon tetrachloride
carbon tetrafluoride
puh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: He was sporting his inky Italian moustaches glistering with Vaseline and perfume. Puh! How uncommentable!
ref: 2010, John P. Anderson, Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 4, page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of pugh.
Synonyms: sense: expressing contempt
word: feh
word: pht
word: pish
word: poh
word: pshaw
word: bah
sense: expressing disgust
word: bleah
word: eww
word: ick
word: uck
word: yuck
Related terms: puh-lease
puh-leeze
levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of level
levels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of level
participles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of participle
eponyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eponym
units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of unit
tenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɛnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of tense
tenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /tɛnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tense
prepositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛ.pəˈzɪ.ʃənz/
Forms: form: præpositions
Senses: glosses: plural of preposition
prepositions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛ.pəˈzɪ.ʃənz/
Forms: form: præpositions
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preposition
Avator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood.
ref: 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of avatar.
interjections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interjection
cima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cyma.
maillot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæˈjəʊ/
ipa: /mæˈjoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: maillots
Etymology: Borrowed from French maillot (“shirt, leotard”).
Senses: glosses: A one-piece swimsuit (for women).
glosses: A leotard or tights of stretchable jersey fabric, generally worn by dancers, gymnasts or cyclists.
Synonyms: sense: swimsuit
word: tanksuit
sense: swimsuit
word: tank suit
sense: swimsuit
word: one-piece
sense: leotard
word: leotard
sense: leotard
word: tights
NKVD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: N.K.V.D.
Etymology: From the Russian НКВД (NKVD), through phonetic spelling of Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних де́л (Naródnyj komissariát vnútrennix dél) and the use of acronym.
Senses: examples: text: On the defensive side, Stalin had made equally thorough preparations. Lenin’s personal guard consisted of two men, later increased to four after the attempt on his life by Fanny Kaplan. Stalin’s was several thousand strong, and the NKVD in addition kept other units at a state of readiness. The road to his country dacha, some twenty miles away, was guarded by over 3,000 agents, with cars, telephone connections, etc. When Stalin was actually en route, the road was virtually under martial law.
ref: 1968, Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 546–547:
glosses: The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs — the Soviet interior ministry known for its secret police, forerunner of the KGB
Related terms: FSB
KGB
GRU
smel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of smell.
fleuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʊɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈfluɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈflɝɑn/
ipa: /ˈfl(j)ʊəɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈfl(j)əɹɑn/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɒn
rhymes: -uːɹɒn
rhymes: -ɜːɹɒn
Forms: form: fleurons
Etymology: From Old French floron (“flower”), spelling later changed to match modern French fleuron.
Senses: coordinate_terms: finial
glosses: An ornament or knob in the shape of a flower
topics: architecture
glosses: The small decorative flower at the centre of each side of a Corinthian abacus; a flos.
examples: Fleurons include ❦, 🙐, 🙘, 🙠, 🙨, ☘, 🙬, 🕊, ✾, 𐡷, 𐫱.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A decorative typographic element, used to separate passages or simply for decoration. Often doubled, e.g. 🙚 🙘 or 🙘🙚, or combined with other fleurons into a short line.
Related terms: alt: ⁂
word: asterism
alt: * * *
word: dinkus
word: dingbat
spet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: From Middle English spet.
Senses: examples: text: Well, when I found 'twas Sir Blount my spet dried up within me.
ref: 1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: spittle
spet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: spets
form: spetting
form: spetted
form: spetted
Etymology: From Middle English spet.
Senses: examples: text: the dragon […]spets her thickest gloom
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: A thirsty Train That[…]spet from their dry Chaps the gather'd dust again.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To spit; to throw out.
tell it to Sweeney
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: "Tell it to Sweeney! (The Stuyvesants will understand.)” was an advertisement for the New York (NY) Daily News, first appearing in August 1922. The Daily News positioned itself as the newspaper of the average working man—such as the Irish “Sweeney.” The name “Stuyvesant” was used to represent blue bloods. Thus, if you advertise in the Daily News and reach the Sweeneys of New York City, the Stuyvesants will also get the message.
Senses: glosses: I do not believe what you said.
Synonyms: tell it to the judge
tell it to the marines
bullshit
tell it to the marines
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Unknown, with many apocryphal suggestions.
Senses: examples: text: William. No palaver! tell it to the marines. What, tacking and double tacking! Come to what you want to say at once.
ref: 1829, Douglas Jerrold, Act I, Scene ?:
text: I don’t believe the story you have been telling me, either, and think it far more likely that you are hiding from justice on account of some devil’s work you have been engaged in. Bah! Tell your story to the marines!
ref: 1868 February, Caroline M. Sawyer, “The Jester of Durano; Or, The Times of Old”, in The Ladies’ Repository, a Universalist Monthly Magazine for the Home Circle, volume XXXIX, Boston, Mass.: The Universalist Publishing House, page 128:
glosses: I do not believe what you said.
Synonyms: word: tell it to Sweeney
word: tell it to the judge
word: bullshit
Related terms: horse marine
pull the other one, it's got bells on
tek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛk/
ipa: /tæk/
Forms: form: teks
form: teking
form: tekking
form: took
form: tekked
form: tekt
form: tekken
form: tekked
form: tekt
Etymology: Eye dialect.
Senses: examples: text: Doncher know a cud hole yuh an' tek a kiss anytime a'd a mine tuh?
ref: 1893, Amélie Rives, Tanis, the Sang-digger:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of take, representing dialectal English.
tek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛk/
ipa: /tæk/
Forms: form: teks
Etymology: Respelled clipping of technique.
Senses: glosses: A method of or procedure for extracting, synthesizing, freebasing, or otherwise manufacturing or preparing recreational drugs.
tetraiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraiodides
Etymology: From tetra- + iodide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any iodide containing four iodine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: carbon tetraiodide
diphosphorus tetraiodide
germanium tetraiodide
hafnium tetraiodide
silicon tetraiodide
tellurium tetraiodide
thorium tetraiodide
tin tetraiodide
titanium tetraiodide
uranium tetraiodide
zirconium tetraiodide
rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of rhyme
rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhyme
foods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːdz/
ipa: /fudz/
rhymes: -uːdz
Senses: glosses: plural of food
carbon trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon trades
Senses: glosses: An instance of carbon emissions trading.
rhyming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rhyme
rhyming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: rhymings
Senses: examples: text: With their internal rhymings and cryptic puns and allusions, Williams's lines of dialogue may tax the actor as well as the audience.
ref: 1996, Charles Adolph Huttar, Peter J. Schakel, The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, page 228:
glosses: rhyme
Derived terms: rhyming couplet
rhyming dictionary
rhyming slang
halogenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of halogenate
halogenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: dehalogenated
nonhalogenated
unhalogenated
glosses: Treated or reacted with a halogen.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: dehalogenated
nonhalogenated
unhalogenated
glosses: Treated or reacted with a halogen.
Formally derived from another compound by the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with a halogen.
Derived terms: dihalogenated
monohalogenated
nonhalogenated
perhalogenated
polyhalogenated
radiohalogenated
unhalogenated
Related terms: halogenation
perhalogenation
vowels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaʊəlz/
ipa: /ˈvaʊlz/
rhymes: -aʊəlz
rhymes: -aʊlz
Senses: glosses: plural of vowel
contractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contraction
carbon transmitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon transmitters
Senses: glosses: an early form of carbon microphone
nationalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nationality
carburet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carburets
form: carburate
Etymology: Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during amid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbide.
Derived terms: hydrocarburet
percarburet
carburet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carburets
form: carbureting
form: carburetting
form: carbureted
form: carbureted
form: carburetted
form: carburetted
form: carburate
Etymology: Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during amid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with carbon.
examples: Where there may be objections to the use or application of the foregoing mode of using peat gas for illuminating purposes, I employ another method of obtaining that object, and which is to carburet the peat gas by means of charred peat, in the same way as I carburet the vapours of sulphur to educe a bisulphuret of carbon.
William Benson Stones, an 1850 patent
glosses: To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.
glosses: To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
examples: text: Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.
glosses: To equip with a carburetor.
Derived terms: bicarbureted
carburetant
carbureted
carburetion
carburetor
hydrocarburetted
percarburetted
supercarbureted
supercarburetted
uncarbureted
uncarburetted
beverages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beverage
gallons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallon
headers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.dəz/
ipa: /ˈhɛ.dɚz/
enpr: hĕd'ərz
rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of header
reptiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reptile
chlorocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorocarbons
Etymology: From chloro- + carbon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound containing at least one covalently bonded chlorine atom.
Synonyms: organochloride
organochlorine
reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red
Related terms: reds under the bed
ferrocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrocarbons
Etymology: From ferro- + carbon.
Senses: glosses: A form of steel with a very high concentration of carbon (approximately 10%).
Derived terms: ferrocarbon titanium
fluorochlorohydrocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorochlorohydrocarbons
Etymology: From fluoro- + chloro- + hydrocarbon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from a hydrocarbon by replacing some hydrogen atoms with fluorine and some with chlorine (at least one being retained).
Synonyms: chlorofluorocarbon
glassy carbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a non-graphitic form of carbon used for electrodes and high-temperature crucibles
graphitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From graphite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The iron has been analysed at the Manchester College of Technology. It is a cold-blast iron with the following analysis: Silicon, 1.38 per cent.; sulphur, 0.14 per cent.; phosphorus, 0.65 per cent.; manganese, 0.54 per cent.; combined carbon, 0.49 per cent.; graphitic carbon, 2.95 per cent.
ref: 1948 November and December, “Notes and News: Early Tramplates”, in Railway Magazine, page 412:
glosses: Of, relating to, resembling, or having the structure of graphite.
Derived terms: graphitate
graphitic acid
micrographitic
nongraphitic
semigraphitic
phytomining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪtəʊˌmaɪnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfaɪtoʊˌmaɪnɪŋ/
ipa: [-ɾoʊ-]
Etymology: From phyto- (prefix meaning ‘derived from or pertaining to plants’) + mining.
Senses: examples: text: Cultivation of hyperaccumulators on naturally enriched areas offers the greatest promise for use in phytomining. Phytomining is a more specific form of phytoremediation where the purpose of metal removal from soil is economic gain.
ref: 2005 May, J. Scott Angle, Nicholas A. Linacre, “Cultivation on Naturally Enriched Areas”, in Ecological Risks of Novel Environmental Crop Technologies Using Phytoremediation as an Example (EPT Discussion Paper; 133), Washington, D.C.: Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, →OCLC, page 14:
text: The three metals, nickel, thallium and gold were reported as candidates for phytomining in 1999 owing to the relatively high price that each metal commands on international commodity markets.
ref: 2013, Christopher W. N. Anderson, “Hyperaccumulation by Plants”, in Andrew J. Hunt, editor, Element Recovery and Sustainability (RSC Green Chemistry Series; no. 22), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: RSC Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Added value to the phytoextraction process could be obtained by combining the biomass produced as an energy source, resulting in an ore after incinerating the residual biomass. This would be possible in the case of phytomining, a particular example of phytoextraction. Phytomining involves the exploitation of subeconomic ore bodies using hyperaccumulating plants.
ref: 2013, Meri Barbafieri, Jan Japenga, Paul Romkens, Giannantonio Petruzzelli, Francesca Pedron, “Protocols for Applying Phytotechnologies in Metal-Contaminated Soils”, in Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, editor, Plant-Based Remediation Processes (Soil Biology), Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg; New York, N.Y.: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 23:
topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: agromining
glosses: The planting and harvesting of vegetation that selectively concentrates specific metals from the environment into their tissues, for the purpose of commercial exploitation of the extracted metal.
Related terms: phytoextraction
phytoremediation
bioaccumulation
bioremediation
biosequestration
biosynthesis
hyperaccumulation
semisynthesis
halocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halocarbons
Etymology: From halo- + carbon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound formally derived from a hydrocarbon by replacing at least one hydrogen atom with a halogen, but especially by replacing all hydrogen atoms with halogen(s)
sulfide of carbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbon disulfide
sulphide of carbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbon disulphide
team player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: team players
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see team, player.
examples: text: If you’re not seen as a team player, you won’t have the support of your colleagues when problems arise.
ref: 2012 October 17, Jacquelyn Smith, “14 Bad Habits That Can Cost You Your Job”, in Forbes, retrieved 20 Nov 2015:
topics: management
glosses: A person who can function effectively with others in a group, sharing information and striving towards a common goal.
shants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of shorts + pants
Senses: glosses: An article of clothing too long to be designated as shorts, but too short to be considered pants.
glosses: Synonym of convertible pants.
synonyms: word: convertible pants
cowrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊ.ɹi/
rhymes: -aʊɹi
Forms: form: cowries
form: cowry
form: kauri
Etymology: Mid-17th century, borrowed from Hindi कौड़ी (kauṛī).
Senses: glosses: A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
glosses: Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
glosses: Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell.
Synonyms: sense: Monetaria moneta
word: money cowrie
sense: shell of M. moneta
word: shell money
sense: shell of M. moneta
word: wampum
Derived terms: english: Trivia merces
translation: Trivia merces
word: bean cowrie
english: Nucleolaria nucleus
translation: Nucleolaria nucleus
word: kernel cowrie
english: Macrocypaea zebra
translation: Macrocypaea zebra
word: measled cowrie
taxonomic: Monetaria moneta
alt: syn. Cypraea moneta
word: money cowrie
english: Nucleolaria nucleus
translation: Nucleolaria nucleus
word: nucleus cowrie
taxonomic: Cypraea pantherina
word: panther cowrie
taxonomic: Monetaria annulus
alt: syn. Cypraea annulus
word: ring cowrie
taxonomic: Cypraea tigris
word: tiger cowrie
alt: Chelycypraea testudinaria, syn. Cypraea testudinaria
word: turtle cowrie
english: Nucleolaria nucleus
translation: Nucleolaria nucleus
word: wrinkled cowrie
third-grader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-graders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of third grader.
reveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverie
glosses: plural of revery
woodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woody
glosses: plural of woodie
busied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of busy
Derived terms: unbusied
intelligences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intelligence
scrutinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrutinise
disillusionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsɪˈluːʒənmənt/
ipa: /ˌdɪsɪˈljuʒənmənt/
ipa: /ˌdɪsɪˈluʒənmənt/
ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈluʒənmənt/
ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈlʉːʒənmənt/
Forms: form: disillusionments
Etymology: From dis- + illusion + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything- every disillusionment, every disgust with life.
ref: 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, “3”, in The Brothers Karamazov, book V:
text: I catch on your face the old sad smile / Of our ancient disillusionment, / When the ardent crowd tries to beguile / Your world-old soul to impassionment.
ref: 1917, John Cowper Powys, “Travellers”, in Mandragora:
text: They were self-conscious of their disillusionment and demoralization, and their spokesmen—the artists and journalists among them—publicized their cynicism so successfully that it came to be regarded as the mood of a whole decade.
ref: October 1940, Mortimer Adler\This Prewar Generation, “Harper's Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: 'Oh, this fair is nothing but a chaos of noise and beggars,' I thought in disillusionment. 'I wonder if Western scientists, patiently enlarging the realms of knowledge for the practical good of mankind, are not more pleasing to God than these idlers who profess religion but concentrate on alms.'
ref: 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “Chapter 36: Babaji's Interest in the West”, in Autobiography of a Yogi:
text: 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower, First State of the Union Address,
Our country has come through a painful period of trial and disillusionment since the victory of 1945. We anticipated a world of peace and cooperation. The calculated pressures of aggressive communism have forced us, instead, to live in a world of turmoil.
glosses: A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.
examples: text: It is a very wholesome and regenerating change which a man undergoes when he "comes to himself." […] It is a process of disillusionment. The scales have fallen away.
ref: 1901, Woodrow Wilson, When a Man Comes to Himself, section I:
glosses: The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.
nyctinasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nyct- + -i- + -nasty.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: nyctinastism
nyctitropism
glosses: The movement of leaves or petals in response to darkness; the closing of a flower at night.
Derived terms: nyctinastic
Related terms: heliotropism
nyctinastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From nyctinasty + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: nyctitropic
glosses: Relating to nyctinasty, the movement of leaves or petals in response to darkness.
revolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolve
revolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revolve
remoter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of remote: more remote
remoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: remoters
Senses: examples: text: We also have companion digital copies available for our remoters who don't have access to the physical office library.
ref: 2016 November 22, Laura Mosher, “Continuing Education at Collective Idea - RubyConf 2016”, in Collective Idea:
glosses: One who participates, attends, or works remotely; a remote worker; a teleworker.
approaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹəʊt͡ʃiz/
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊt͡ʃiz/
Senses: glosses: Movements to gain favour; advances.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The covered roads, trenches, or other works made by besiegers or soldiers in their advances toward a place such as a fortress or military post.
approaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹəʊt͡ʃiz/
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊt͡ʃiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of approach
approaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹəʊt͡ʃiz/
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊt͡ʃiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of approach
snowcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowcap
snowcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnoʊˌkæp/
Forms: form: snowcaps
Etymology: From snow + cap.
Senses: glosses: A layer of snow covering a mountain top.
glosses: A small hummingbird, Microchera albocoronata, which is a resident breeder in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama.
glimpses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glimpse
glimpses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glimpse
wisps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wisp
incredibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/
Forms: form: more incredibly
form: most incredibly
Etymology: From incredible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With the parental exaggeration which the birth of his various enterprises always induced, O'Sullivan spoke incredibly of eighty-five "enrolled" members.
ref: 1965, Bruce Mansfield, Australian Democrat: The Career of Edward William O'Sullivan, 1846-1910:
topics: manner
glosses: In an incredible manner; not to be believed.
examples: text: He was incredibly wealthy.
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a great extent; extremely.
examples: text: Incredibly, when he died they found he had left a million dollars to the Poetry Foundation.
glosses: Used to note the surprising or hard-to-believe nature of what is being said and suggest that it is nevertheless true.
Synonyms: unbelievably
incredibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incredibilities
Etymology: From Latin incredibilitas, equivalent to incredible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being incredible; incredibleness.
examples: text: But, as to its contents, who would believe such incredibilities as miracles, inspirations, or prophecies, or that God would command the perpetration of crimes like the destruction of the Canaanites?
ref: 1857, The British Quarterly Review, volume 26, page 111:
text: The repressed-memory therapists in Ms. Bikel's earlier documentaries were light on credentials and heavy on incredibility.
ref: 1995 October 24, Walter Goodman, “TELEVISION REVIEW;Who Programmed Mary? Could It Be Satan?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That which is incredible.
incredibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incredible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The incredibleness of his win two weeks ago.
ref: 2016 November 22, Frank Bruni, “Donald Trump’s Demand for Love”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Incredibility.
brightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brighten
sunward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunward
form: most sunward
Etymology: From sun + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: On some days of autumn you may see the grass full of stringy lines of cobwebs that make a glistening path sunward.
ref: 1896, Clifton Johnson, “The Weather”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 31:
text: His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
text: The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma
ref: 1984, Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams, Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics:
glosses: Directed or turned toward the sun.
Coordinate terms: earthward
moonward
starward
sunward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sunward
form: most sunward
Etymology: From sun + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 4:
glosses: In the direction of the sun.
Synonyms: sunwards
Related terms: heliotrope
unnavigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnavigable
form: most unnavigable
form: unnavigatable
Etymology: From un- + navigable.
Senses: examples: text: unnavigable website
glosses: Not navigable. Difficult or impossible to navigate.
examples: text: A road journey of 70 miles past unnavigable rapids leads to Juba, from which it is seven days' steaming down river through to Kosti, on the Sudan Railways.
ref: 1950 May, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Tanganyika Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 298:
text: Nang county is the name given to the present administrative division of E Dakpo, the principal gateway to the sacred mountain of Tsari, and the region through which the Brahmaputra River cuts its way through an unnavigable 33 km horse-shoe gorge as it flows towards Longpo and Kongpo.
ref: 1996 January, “Southern Tibet”, in Gyurme Dorje, editor, Tibet Handbook: with Bhutan, Passport Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 288, column 1:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Not navigable. Difficult or impossible to navigate.
impossible to sail through
examples: The trail was unnavigable since the flood washed it away.
glosses: Not navigable. Difficult or impossible to navigate.
that cannot be used for any reason.
qualifier: trail; or route; trail; or route
raw_tags: of a path
Synonyms: innavigable
bit of rough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bits of rough
Senses: glosses: A sexual partner (typically male) of a lower social class.
Related terms: rough trade
sit in for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits in for
form: sitting in for
form: sat in for
form: sat in for
Senses: examples: text: Can you sit in for him while he's gone?
glosses: To substitute; to take somebody's place.
Related terms: stand in for
by a long shot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He couldn't keep up with me, not by a long shot.
text: He speaks better than he writes, by a long shot.
text: ‘Yes, I do recognize it now. It is the most wonderful thing I ever heard of; by a long shot the most wonderful—and unexpected.’
ref: 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:
text: Well, he won’t find Billy Roberts a sissy by a long shot.
ref: 1913, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon:
text: See here: You KNOW you feel superior to folks. You're not as bad as I say, but you're not as good as you say—not by a long shot! What’s the reason you’re so superior?
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street:
glosses: By a wide margin; indicates a very big difference or disparity.
raw_tags: with a negative
Synonyms: by far § Synonyms
Related terms: long shot
wide of the mark
sweet potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːt pəˈteɪtəʊ/
Forms: form: sweet potatoes
head_nr: 2
form: sweetpotato
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
examples: text: The sweet potato is the article referred to as potato by Shakespeare and other English writers, previous to the middle of the seventeenth century.
ref: 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 239:
text: I go back to the kitchen and find a knife, still smeared with sweet potato and bits of pheasant meat.
ref: 2013, Sherri L. Smith, chapter 12, in Orleans, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, part 2 (Freesteader), page 116:
head_nr: 2
glosses: The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.
head_nr: 2
glosses: An ocarina.
Synonyms: sense: tropical perennial vine
word: batata
sense: tropical perennial vine
word: Ipomoea
sense: tuber
word: yam
sense: tuber
word: camote
word: kumara
word: kumera
Hyponyms: sense: tuber
word: satsumaimo
Meronyms: sense: tuber
word: beta-carotene
Derived terms: Cuban sweet potato
Japanese sweet potato
Okinawan sweet potato
sweet-potatoey
sweet-potato ring rot
sweet potato vine
sweet-potato whitefly
tropical sweet potato
white-fleshed sweet potato
white sweet potato
Related terms: sense: tuber
english: the moist-fleshed sweet potato
translation: the moist-fleshed sweet potato
word: yam
antitheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + theism.
Senses: glosses: The categorical opposition to the belief in any and all deities.
Derived terms: antitheist
antitheistic
DGPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Differential Global Positioning System, an enhancement to Global Positioning System that uses a network of fixed ground based reference stations to broadcast the difference between the positions indicated by the satellite systems and the known fixed positions.
eden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edens
Senses: examples: text: The essential formula of both the John Carter and the Tarzan stories was that of an upperclass hero confronting a challenging, radically exotic environment, a lush jungle eden or an eden of extraplanetary technology, […]
ref: 1990, Kevin Starr, Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Eden (“a paradise”).
dummy out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dummies out
form: dummying out
form: dummied out
form: dummied out
Etymology: From Japanese ダミー (damī), which was often used as a placeholder term for the designation of certain things that ended up going unused in a video game. The Japanese term was itself derived from English dummy, and thus tended to be translated in games (even if inaccessible by normal means) as "DUMMY".
ダミー may specifically be a derivative of the programming sense of English dummy.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To remove (a feature, subplot, item, or character) from a video game.
acidulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: acidulations
Senses: glosses: The act of acidulating.
acidulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acidulate
apple-pie bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple-pie beds
Senses: synonyms: pie bed
glosses: A shortsheeted bed in which a sheet is folded back on itself halfway down as a practical joke so that the victim cannot get into it.
baby beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby beefs
form: baby beeves
Senses: glosses: Grain-fed cattle (especially Aberdeen Angus) slaughtered while still relatively young.
glosses: The meat from such cattle.
Related terms: veal
backshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækʃɪft/
Forms: form: backshifts
Etymology: From back + shift.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.
backshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækʃɪft/
Forms: form: backshifts
form: backshifting
form: backshifted
form: backshifted
Etymology: From back + shift.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
reported speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If we were to change "Fred says, 'I will do the housework'" into reported speech it would become "Fred said that he would do the housework."
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A form of speech used to express what another has said, often involving a change in tense.
Synonyms: indirect speech
indirect speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: reported speech
Derived terms: free indirect speech