cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
photochemical reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photochemical reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical reaction initiated by the absorption of electromagnetic radiation to form an excited state
Related terms: photochemistry
photochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photochemistries
Etymology: From photo- + chemistry.
Senses: examples: text: “3D photochemistry plays a huge role because it provides heating or cooling, which can affect the thermodynamics and perhaps the atmospheric composition of a planetary system,” Chen said.
ref: 2019 November 11, Ashley Strickland, “What makes a planet potentially habitable”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: chemistry
<
physical science
<
natural science
<
science
coordinate_terms: photophysics
;
radiochemistry
glosses: The study of photochemical reactions.
Related terms: photochemical
photochemical smog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photochemical smogs
Senses: synonyms: summer smog
glosses: Air pollution caused by photochemical reactions involving hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants, especially in still air over cities.
photochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photochromic
form: most photochromic
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or produced by photochromism
glosses: Relating to the part of a molecule responsible for its photochromism
Derived terms: biphotochromic
nonphotochromic
photochromically
photochromic complex
photochromic compound
photochromic glass
photochromic lens
photochromic reaction
polyphotochromic
photochromism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photochromisms
Senses: glosses: The reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation, especially the reversible darkening of a plastic lens when exposed to sunlight.
bunny girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunny girls
Senses: glosses: A club hostess or other female entertainer wearing a sexually provocative outfit with rabbit-like ears and tail.
Related terms: honeybunny
Playboy Bunny
photoclinometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + clinometry.
Senses: glosses: The estimation of slope information by the analysis of brightness distribution in a photograph of a geologic surface (such as a lunar crater)
Hypernyms: clinometry
Related terms: photoclinometer
aide-mémoire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪd.mɛmˈwɑː/
Forms: form: aide-mémoires
form: aides-mémoire
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French aide-mémoire (literally “memory aid”).
Senses: synonyms: pro memoria
glosses: A memory aid; a reminder or memorandum, especially a book or document serving this purpose.
examples: text: In August, Finance Minister Larry Howai signed an aide-mémoire with the IDB for the bank to provide funding and expertise to the government to develop its Public/Private Sector Partnership Programme (PPP).
ref: 2013 November 15, Trinidad Express, “IDB tells T&T: Fix procurement laws”, in Trinidad Express:
topics: diplomacy
government
politics
synonyms: pro memoria
non-paper
glosses: A document circulated in a meeting or summit for discussion purposes.
sea-weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-weeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seaweed.
sea-weeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-weed
seaweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaweed
waws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waw
waws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of waw
antennae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɛni/
ipa: /ænˈtɛnaɪ/
ipa: /ænˈtɛneɪ/
Forms: form: antennæ
Senses: glosses: plural of antenna
Synonyms: antennas
hooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoose
flitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: RA
ipa: /ˈflɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈflɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /-ɾɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: flittings
Etymology: From flit + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the flittings of birds
text: After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.
ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza II, page 11:
text: The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
ref: 1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:
glosses: gerund of flit: the motion of something that flits.
examples: text: Uncle Billy came home for the weekend to help with the flitting.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 87:
glosses: The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
flitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: RA
ipa: /ˈflɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈflɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /-ɾɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From flit + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flit
flitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: RA
ipa: /ˈflɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈflɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /-ɾɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: more flitting
form: most flitting
Etymology: From flit + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Poor Margarita's flitting life appeared to concentrate all its powers for this long desired visit, and her eyes seemed to emit a supernatural light, when they were indeed assured that Glentworth stood before her;...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 102:
glosses: Brief, likely to be of short duration.
Derived terms: flittingly
administratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈmɪnɪstɹətɪvli/
Etymology: From administrative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The country is divided administratively into 12 districts.
text: ICE has begun asking immigration courts to reopen administratively closed deportation cases against DACA recipients who continue to have no criminal record, or only a minor record.
ref: 2019 December 21, Bob Ortega, “ICE reopening long-closed deportation cases against Dreamers”, in CNN:
glosses: In an administrative manner, or for purposes of administration.
Related terms: administer
administrate
administration
admonishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admonishments
Etymology: From admonish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of admonishing; a reprimand or rebuke.
Related terms: admonish
adorableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɔːɹəbəlnəs/
ipa: /əˈdɔːɹəbəlnəs/
Forms: form: adorablenesses
Etymology: From adorable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being adorable.
Related terms: adorable
adore
adulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædjʊlət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈædjʊləˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /ˌædjʊˈleɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: more adulatory
form: most adulatory
Etymology: From Latin adulatorius.
Senses: examples: text: adulatory comments
text: adulatory remark
text: adulatory speech
glosses: Exhibiting adulation; overly flattering.
Derived terms: adulatorily
Related terms: adulate
adulation
adulator
adulterant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adulterants
Senses: examples: text: With regard to the presence of opium in ale, it appears to form a very deleterious adulterant;
ref: 1817 May 1, “Collectanea Dietetica”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume 43, number 297, page 320:
text: Potato-flour is the waste of potato after the starch and alcohol have been extracted; it has no more food value than so much wood, and as its use as a food adulterant is a penal offence in Europe, thousands of tons of it are shipped to America every year.
ref: 1906, Upton Sinclair, chapter 11, in The Jungle, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 139:
text: Once upon a time not so long ago, most of those chemical additives would have been deemed “adulterants” by the Food and Drug Administration. But after an all-out campaign of lobbying by the baking industry in the 1950s, the FDA liberalized its “standard of identity” for bread, permitting bakeries to add dozens of new additives to what had previously been a simple two- or three-ingredient food.
ref: 2013, Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Part 3, p. 268:
glosses: That which adulterates, or reduces the purity of something.
Synonyms: word: cut
english: illicit drugs
translation: illicit drugs
word: mix
Related terms: adulterer
additive
contaminant
dilutant
filler
advantageously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more advantageously
form: most advantageously
Senses: examples: text: […] ſtill he thought no more than that being ſo young, the largeneſs of his machine (for few men could diſpute ſize with him) made all the difficulty, and that poſſibly I had not been enjoy’d by any ſo advantageouſly made in that part as himſelf; […]
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 106:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: In a manner which provides an advantage; in an advantageous manner.
adventuresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
enpr: ədven'chərsəm
ipa: /ədˈvɛntʃəɹsəm/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ədˈvɛntʃəsəm/
rhymes: -ɛntʃə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more adventuresome
form: most adventuresome
Etymology: From adventure + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Life is more adventuresome with you!
glosses: Characterised or marked by adventure.
examples: text: GWM-30's sks travel companion -- must be adventuresome & self-supporting.
ref: 1985 April 6, “1 Way Trip to Greek Islands (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
synonyms: venturesome
glosses: Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
Derived terms: adventuresomely
adventuresomeness
unadventuresome
adventurousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adventurous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being adventurous.
adverbially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From adverbial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Here the use is not part of a predication but does not seem to be merely adverbially subordinate.
ref: 1991, Frances Austin, “Points of English Syntax 1968-1983”, in Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, John Frankis, N. E. Osselton, editors, Language usage and description: studies presented to N.E. Osselton ..., page 182:
glosses: As, or in the manner of, an adverb.
adverseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adversenesses
Etymology: From adverse + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being adverse, or opposed.
advisably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more advisably
form: most advisably
Etymology: From advisable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Wisely, in an advisable manner.
Related terms: alt: plesionymic
word: advisedly
word: ill-advisedly
word: inadvisedly
advisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ədˈvaɪ.zɪd.li/
Forms: form: more advisedly
form: most advisedly
Etymology: From advised + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With intentionality, and deliberately, usually also with a connotation of due consideration and wise choosing.
Related terms: word: advisedness
word: advisability
alt: plesionymic
word: advisably
word: inadvisably
atheisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In short, our contention here is that theism is not only the affirmation of belief against non-belief, it is also the only rational presupposition against the two reductionist atheisms: materialism and humanism, and against the two inflated atheisms: pantheism and ultra-supernaturalism.
ref: 1980, Thomas Molnar, Theists and Atheists: A Typology of Non-Belief, page 187:
glosses: plural of atheism
pantheisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One need only think of various Eastern pantheisms in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions or of the Western pantheisms associated with negative theology.
ref: 2004, Merold Westphal, Transcendence and Self-Transcendence: On God and the Soul, page 53:
glosses: plural of pantheism
deisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If we follow the most enlightened and indulgent of deisms, prepared to believe at once in the Communion of Saints and the Great Wheel of the Tao, then we will reject, as fruit of error, the massacre of infidels and heretics.
ref: 1998, Umberto Eco, Serendipities: Language and Lunacy, page 2:
glosses: plural of deism
pandeisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandeism
monotheisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Thus there developed in the midst of the polytheism in what we provincially call the ancient world two chief monotheisms, one religious and the other metaphysical. Shailer Mathews, The Growth of the Idea of God (1931) p. 116.
glosses: plural of monotheism
photocoagulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocoagulations
Etymology: From photo- + coagulation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical procedure in which a tumour, or diseased retinal tissue, is destroyed by using a laser.
Derived terms: endophotocoagulation
panretinophotocoagulation
Related terms: cyclophotocoagulation
endocyclophotocoagulation
photocoagulated
photocoagulator
photocoagulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocoagulators
Etymology: From photo- + coagulator.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument containing a laser, or a xenon flash lamp, which is used in photocoagulation.
aigrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɡɹɛt/
ipa: /eɪˈɡɹɛt/
rhymes: -eɪɡɹɛt
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: aigrettes
form: aigret
Etymology: Borrowed from French aigrette (“egret”). Doublet of egret.
Senses: examples: text: This bauble, said he, shewing me an elegant sprig of diamonds, is an aigret, sent in last week by a lady of quality, who has ever since kept home with her head muffled up in a double clout for a pretended fit of the tooth-ache.
ref: 1756, George Colman, The Connoisseur, volume 2, London: R. Baldwin, page 706:
text: His turban, furled in many a graceful fold, / An emerald aigrette, with Haidée's hair in't, / Surmounted as its clasp […]
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.77:
text: On a stool, in front [of the throne], was placed a human skull, crowned with an immense emerald, of a pyramidal form, and surmounted by an aigrette of brilliant plumes and precious stones.
ref: 1843, William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, New York: Harper & Brothers, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 33:
text: At intervals you behold the passage of sounds of all forms which come from the triple peal of Saint-Germain des Prés. Then, again, from time to time, this mass of sublime noises opens and gives passage to the beats of the Ave Maria, which bursts forth and sparkles like an aigrette of stars.
ref: 1888, Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, Notre-Dame de Paris, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 149:
text: She was formal in manner, and made calls in rustling, steel-gray brocades and a tall bonnet with bristling aigrettes.
ref: 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 2, Chapter 11, p. 241:
text: Young women attired often in nothing more than ostrich-feather aigrettes dyed in colors of doubtful taste ran nubilely up and down the marble staircases, chased by young men in razor-toed ball shoes of patent-leather.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 181:
glosses: A feather or plume, or feather-shaped item, used as an adornment or ornament.
examples: text: Birds of many kinds skimmed the weedy flats. George pointed out a flock of aigrets, the beautiful wild fowl with the priceless plumes.
ref: 1912, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Ken Ward in the Jungle, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 31:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
synonyms: egret
glosses: The lesser white heron.
glosses: The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion).
aimlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aimlessnesses
Etymology: From aimless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Some fans may have mistaken the album’s floatiness for aimlessness, but Mr. Mercer’s songs have never been sneakier, or prettier.
ref: 2007 October 25, Kelefa Sanneh, “Songs With a Sneaky Streak”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction.
xenon flash lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenon flash lamps
Senses: glosses: A lamp that produces a very short, but very intense, flash of white light; used in photography and in photocoagulation
airiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeə(ɹ)ˌɪi.nəs/
Forms: form: airinesses
Etymology: From airy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being airy.
glosses: The quality of being light in quality or manner.
glosses: Insubsantiality.
insubstantiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insubstantialities
Etymology: From insubstantial + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: unsubstantiality
glosses: The state or quality of being insubstantial.
airplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airplays
Etymology: From air + play.
Senses: examples: text: Country music gets more airplay than heavy metal.
text: During the summer of 1961, Gary U.S. Bonds—he had come up with that name for himself in the hopes that his songs would get more airplay if radio programmers and listeners mistakenly assumed he had a connection to United States Saving Bonds […]
ref: 2008, Bob Greene, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 108:
coordinate_terms: spin
glosses: The playing of a particular song, band or genre on the radio, or the frequency with which it is played.
fallacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fallacy
deciphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decyphered
Senses: examples: text: With some difficulty they deciphered the scrawl, and instantly proceeded to carry its advice into execution.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 44:
glosses: simple past and past participle of decipher
pillaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pillage
factories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factory
simmering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪməɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of simmer
simmering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪməɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: simmerings
Senses: examples: text: The women's insistence since 1992 on justice for Palestinians predicted the political simmerings that would accompany partial justice and a limited peace process […]
ref: 2003, Ayala H. Emmett, Our Sisters' Promised Land, page 233:
glosses: The act of something that simmers.
momenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momentum
bluejay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluejays
Etymology: From blue + jay.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blue jay.
bluejays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluejay (alternative spelling of blue jays).
lum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: lums
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps related to Old Norse lundr (“clump of trees, grove; (rare) tree”) (compare Danish lund (“grove”), Norwegian Bokmål lund, Norwegian Nynorsk lund (“grove”), Swedish lund (“grove”)).
Senses: glosses: A grove or wood; also, a woody valley.
lum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: lums
form: lumb
Etymology: Unknown. The Dictionary of the Scots Language (in their entry on Scots lum (“downpour”)) mentions a dialectal Middle English word lum(b) (“water hole in a mire; deep pool”) and suggests it might ultimately be related to lum (“chimney”).
Senses: examples: text: The Kettle Wells are two lums, situated in Bonson's Wood, near Stanmore, which are not surpassed for Elysian beauty. The fall of the water into the first well is inconsiderable; but that continually empties itself into the lum below, over a smooth precipice of thirty feet.
ref: 1830 September 4, W. H. H., “The ‘Lums’ of Westmoreland”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, volume XVI, number 449, London: […] J[ohn] Limbird, […], →OCLC, page 188, column 2:
glosses: A deep pool, especially one in a riverbed.
blue jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue jay
wifes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wife
wifes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wife
examples: text: […] for all that he had, was litle enough to ſatisfie his wifes ioynter.
ref: 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Paulus Æmilius”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 265:
text: And fearing leſt the torments he felt, might in ſome ſort entender his wifes heart;[…], he beſought her to be pleaſed he might be caried into the next chamber, which was accordingly performed.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of three good Women”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 429:
text: De Salez her Husband ſtriving and ſtrugling for life againſt the pangs of death; fear and haſt (contrary to her intent and mind) had ſo made his murtherous wifes hand ſhake and tremble, as ſhe did not ſo fully cut his throat-bole, but he could yet both cry and groan, which he did very mournfully, and which indeed was ſoon over-heard by a man and a maid-ſervant of his, […]
ref: 1662, John Reynolds, “History XI”, in The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther. […] Book III, London: […] A. M. for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: genitive of wife
squirrel away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squirrels away
form: squirreling away
form: squirrelling away
form: squirreled away
form: squirreled away
form: squirrelled away
form: squirrelled away
Etymology: Suggesting the way that squirrels hide nuts in a cache.
Senses: examples: text: He had bits of string, cans of nails and lots of other useful tidbits squirreled away throughout his garage.
glosses: To stash or hide; to hoard, collect, save, or accumulate; to create a reserve, stash, or hoard of some supply.
Synonyms: accumulate
AIM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Agape International Missions.
topics: ESA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Asteroid Impact Mission.
glosses: Initialism of AOL Instant Messenger.
topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, a NASA satellite.
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: Main Market
glosses: AIM, the secondary stock market of the London Stock Exchange; formerly an initialism of Alternative Investment Market.
examples: text: There are Schimmel Sister stickers, and Navajo Nation stickers, Cherokee Nation stickers, Idle No More, and AIM flags duct-taped to antennas.
ref: 2018, Tommy Orange, “Interlude”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: Initialism of American Indian Movement.
AIM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AIMs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: AAM
SAM
ASM
SSM
SRAAM
MRAAM
IRAAM
LRAAM
SM
glosses: Acronym of air intercept missile.
kunga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kungas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒀲𒋙𒀭 (^(anše)kunga₂ /⁠kunga⁠/).
Senses: glosses: A kind of equid in ancient Mesopotamia (probably a donkey-onager cross).
subspecific epithet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subspecific epithets
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
hypernyms: epithet
<
name
<
word
<
term
coordinate_terms: specific epithet
glosses: The third word in the scientific name of a subspecies, following the name of the species, but only in names of bacteria, plants and fungi. It is not used in formal names of animals.
Related terms: word: autonym
word: forma
word: form
word: f.
word: infraspecies
word: infraspecific
word: infraspecific epithet
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: infraspecific name
word: infraspecific taxon
word: subforma
word: subform
word: subf.
word: subspecies
word: subsp.
word: ssp.
word: subspecific name
word: subvarietas
word: subvariety
word: subvar.
word: ternary name
word: varietas
word: variety
word: var.
suprageneric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + generic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Pertaining to a taxon at a rank above that of genus.
Related terms: suprageneric name
photosynthesize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photosynthesizes
form: photosynthesizing
form: photosynthesized
form: photosynthesized
Etymology: From photo + synthesize.
Senses: glosses: To synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water using the energy of light by photosynthesis
Derived terms: photosynthesizer
photoxylography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From photo- + xylography.
Senses: glosses: A process in which a photograph is printed on wood to use as a template for engraving
photocompose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photocomposes
form: photocomposing
form: photocomposed
form: photocomposed
Etymology: From photo- + compose.
Senses: glosses: To use photocomposition to prepare text for printing
photocomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊtoʊˌkɒmpəˌzɪʃən/
Forms: form: photocompositions
Etymology: From photo- + composition.
Senses: related: word: photocomp
glosses: Synonym of phototypesetting.
synonyms: word: phototypesetting
isochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isochores
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek χώρα (khṓra, “place”).
Senses: examples: text: The numerical results are given from which the authors deduce the relation for constant volume and additional reasons are given for believing acetic acid (whose vapour density at ordinary temperatures is abnormal) to be a mixture of C₂H₄O₂ and C₄H₈0₄, the former preponderating as the temperature rises. The authors ask the Society for a name to designate lines connecting pressure and temperature at constant volume, and for which they suggested “isochore”...
ref: 1887 Anonymous: Engineering, Volume 43 April 29th page 406
glosses: In general, a place or position with relevant parameters matching other places, as in having the same pressure, chemistry, population etc. Even within a single discipline the parameter might vary according to convenience e.g. in physics alone it might refer to velocity, volume, gravity, and many more. cf. contour, isopleth.
examples: text: An isochore is a curve on a PVT diagram, the pressure and temperature being variable, the volume invariable.
ref: 1916, William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, A System of physical chemistry, volume 1, page 92:
text: Thus, an isochore transformation in this case is a transformation at constant volume.
ref: 1956, Enrico Fermi, Thermodynamics, page 7:
text: 1.3 shows the specific heat of argon measured along the critical isochore.
ref: 1992, J M Yeomans, Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions, page 2:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A line drawn on a graph showing the variation of the pressure of a constant volume of gas as it varies with temperature.
examples: text: The isochore plan of the overburden thus obtained is then placed over the isochore plan of the seam.
ref: 1964, Mineral Development in Assam: Symposium Volume, Assam (India) Directorate of Geology and Mining, page 205:
text: Isochore maps of the sandstone bodies also indicate the presence of a number of channels flowing from the basin margin towards a central depression.
ref: 1981, Coalfields of India, Geological Survey of India, page 125:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A contour showing points of equal vertical thickness of strata; equal to an isopach if strata are horizontal.
examples: text: A model that accounts for the differential recognition of transgenes integrated at different chromosomal locations, is the isochore hypothesis.
ref: 1998, Lindsey R Lindsey, Alan R Lindsey, Transgenic Plant Research, page 268:
ref: 1999, Solomon Pavlovich Vasser, Eviatar Nevo, “Scheme of the isochore organization of the human genome”, in Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Papers in Honour of Eviatar Nevo, page 117:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of DNA that has a reasonably constant proportion of pairs of guanine and cytosine bases, and is rich in genes.
Derived terms: macroisochore
megaisochore
phototypesetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + typesetting.
Senses: synonyms: photocomposition
photocomp
hypernyms: typesetting
composition
coordinate_terms: letterpress#Noun
hot metal#Noun
w:digital typesetting
glosses: A printing process that generated columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper, using a phototypesetter.
phototypesetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototypesetters
Etymology: From photo- + typesetter.
Senses: examples: text: Use our phototypesetter facilities to produce your booklet or publication. Good rates.
ref: 1976 April 10, “Typesetting For The Gay Community (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
glosses: A machine used in phototypesetting.
glosses: One who phototypesets.
tre corde
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tre corde (“three strings”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Musical notation indicating that the player release the soft pedal of the piano. In many pianos, this results in the hammer striking three string rather than one as in una corda.
una corda
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian una corda (“one string”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In piano music, the notation indicating that the player depresses the soft pedal, altering, and reducing the volume of the sound. In many pianos, this results in the hammer striking two strings rather than three as in tre corde. Originally, it would have struck one string, but modern pianos have their strings too close together to achieve a true una corda - the movement of the hammers would result in also hitting the first string of the next note.
smorzando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian smorzando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Fading away.
Synonyms: morendo
sforzando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sfɔːtˈsændəʊ/
ipa: /sfɔːtˈsɑːndəʊ/
ipa: /sfɔɹˈtsændoʊ/
rhymes: -ændəʊ
Forms: form: sforzandos
form: sforzandi
form: forzando
form: forzato
form: sforzato
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sforzando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mark that indicates that a note is to be played with a strong initial attack.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
sforzando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sfɔːtˈsændəʊ/
ipa: /sfɔːtˈsɑːndəʊ/
ipa: /sfɔɹˈtsændoʊ/
rhymes: -ændəʊ
Forms: form: more sforzando
form: most sforzando
form: forzando
form: forzato
form: sforzato
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sforzando.
Senses: examples: (abbreviation) sf, sfz, sfz.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In this style.
sforzando
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sfɔːtˈsændəʊ/
ipa: /sfɔːtˈsɑːndəʊ/
ipa: /sfɔɹˈtsændoʊ/
rhymes: -ændəʊ
Forms: form: more sforzando
form: most sforzando
form: forzando
form: forzato
form: sforzato
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sforzando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played in this style.
comodo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: commodo
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian comodo. Doublet of commode.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: moderato
glosses: Comfortably, that is, at moderate speed.
sackbut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sackbuts
form: sacbut
form: sackbutt
form: sagbut
form: shagbolt
form: shakbusshe
Etymology: From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to pull”) + bouter (“to push”).
Senses: examples: text: Every instrument took part in the stately Pavane: the lutes and the dulcimers, and the theorbos, and the sackbuts, and the hautboys; the flutes sweetly warbling as birds in the upper air, and the silver trumpets, and the horns that breathed deep melodies trembling with mystery and tenderness that shakes the heart; and the drum that beateth to battle, and the wild throb of the harp, and the cymbals clashing as the clash of armies.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 35:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.
Derived terms: electronic sackbut
sackbuttist
Related terms: Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
brass instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: woodwind instrument
glosses: Any musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a mouthpiece (or tubular resonator).
Hyponyms: baritone horn
euphonium
flugelhorn
French horn
sousaphone
trombone
trumpet
tuba
Derived terms: brass instrumentalist
Related terms: brass band
capriccioso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian capriccioso. Cognate with capricious.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: capriciously
ashplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæʃ.plænt/
Forms: form: ashplants
Etymology: From ash + plant.
Senses: glosses: An ash sapling.
examples: text: The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur. / He began to beat the frayed end of his ashplant against the base of a pillar.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, page 264:
text: She look her hat, and ashplant, and left them.
ref: 1928, Mary Butts, Armed With Madness, page 8:
text: "She'll do," said Kelly and tapped his ash-plant / Across her hindquarters.
ref: 1969, Seamus Heaney, The Outlaw, line 20-21
text: Unconscious of their bulging eyes, he pounded on the door of the mayor's house with the knob of his ashplant.
ref: 2001, Carol Kendall, Erik Blegvad, The Gammage Cup: A Novel of the Minnipins, page 221:
glosses: A walking stick.
examples: text: Bob Cherry bent over and touched his toes. The ashplant swished and swished.
ref: 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Kidnapped from the Air:
glosses: A cane for administering corporal punishment.
ashramite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashramites
Etymology: From ashram + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A person who stays at an ashram
polytheisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytheism
presorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of presort
presorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: that has been sorted by postcode prior to transfer to the postal delivery system
raw_tags: of mail
presort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presorts
form: presorting
form: presorted
form: presorted
Etymology: From pre- + sort.
Senses: examples: text: Mail is presorted by postcode prior to transfer into the postal delivery system.
text: Please presort your waste so that it can be recycled.
text: The algorithm runs faster if the data is presorted.
glosses: To sort in advance.
hydromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromancies
form: ydromancy
form: hydromancie
form: hydromantie
form: hydromanty
Etymology: From French hydromancie or Late Latin hydromantia, from Ancient Greek ὑδρομαντεία (hudromanteía); corresponding to hydro- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.
ref: 1797, Encyclopædia Britannica, 3rd edition:
text: Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 39:
text: Hydromancy, like many other methods of divination, seems to have originated in Babylonia and reached the Greco-Roman world via Egypt, in the first century b.c. or earlier.
ref: 1985, Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi, →ISBN:
glosses: Divination by water or other liquid.
Derived terms: hydromancer
hydromantic
Related terms: hydatoscopy
removalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: removalists
Etymology: From removal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Highly incensed at this treatment of their standard, the removalists flew to their arms,[…].
ref: 1999, Sherman Day, Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania, page 220:
text: Some individuals called opportunists wanted Indians removed from their lands for availability, and they did not care about the Indian Problem. These views put many Christians and humanitarians on one side and removalists on the other. Among the removalists were opportunists who took advantage of the displacement of Native groups to reservations.
ref: 2012, Donald L. Fixico, Landmarks of the American Mosaic: Bureau of Indian Affairs, page 47:
glosses: One who advocates the removal of native populations from their land.
examples: 2008 August, Kimberly Turner, Buzz Kill, Atlanta, page 107,
At 7:30 am on a flawless April day, bee removalist Mike Sorensen is already in his truck, fending off phone calls.
glosses: One who removes (by profession).
examples: text: 2005, Chris Cooper, Kym Weatherly (editor), Behind the Private Eye: Surveillance Tales & Techniques, self published, Australia, page 63,
It was nearly two hours before there was any further movement, but our wait was richly rewarded as the old Holden returned, together with a large removalist truck.
text: 2006, Allison Burnett, The House Beautiful: A Novel of High Ideals, Low Morals, and Lower Rent, Avalon Publishing, US, page 96,
I had wanted to spend the previous night at Pip′s place, so that I could be there when the removalists arrived, but Pip nixed the plan, claiming that my presence would distract him from “pack-pack.”
text: 2011, James Adonis, Corporate Punishment: Smashing the Management Clichs for Leaders in a New World, John Wiley & Sons Australia, page 8,
She moved her furniture across without a whimper or a hint of worry. I, on the other hand, hired a removalist just to take my bed from one bedroom to the other.
text: 2011, Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street, Allen & Unwin, Australia, page 1,
Nineteen thirty-eight was a good year to be a removalist in Vienna. As tens of thousands fled the city following the German annexation of Austria, the Nazis seized their businesses, requiring them to pay punitive departure taxes, prevented them from converting their remaining money into foreign currency and stole much of their art. The refudees were usually able to leave with their other household goods, however, because the Nazis were eager to maintain the pretence that Austria′s Jews were leaving voluntarily, and wanted other countries to take them. The result was a surge in demand for removalists in a city where it was common to rent the same apartment for life.
text: “Three years on, it was time to return home, and the removalists were going through our rooms at lightning speed.”
ref: 2020, Kirsty Needham, “The long arm of authoritarian China reached into my seven-year-old’s bedroom”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
synonyms: word: mover
glosses: A person or company who specialises in domestic removals, that is, the transportation of household contents when moving house.
twincest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪnsɛst/
rhymes: -ɪnsɛst
Etymology: Blend of twin + incest or twin + -cest.
Senses: examples: text: This one's about gay brothers. I'm calling it Twincest. Nice, no?
ref: 1985, Joseph Hansen, A Smile in His Lifetime, New American Library, page 64:
text: As 'twincest' is in (a trend started by Parker Posey and Josh Hamilton in The House of Yes, to be released in the UK in 1998)...
ref: 1998, Film Review: Special: Year Book 1997/98, Visual Imagination Ltd., page 117:
text: These pieces you might very well be able to relate to even if you've never been horny for twincest, had an affair, or been a black man...
ref: 2007, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Best Sex Writing 2008:
text: In the course of one of his climbs, he hears adult voices through a high window, goes to investigate, and comes across Jaime and Cersei energetically engaged in (to use a neologism popular with fans) twincest.
ref: 2013, John Lancaster, “When did you get hooked?”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Incestuous sexual relations between twins, or siblings who look very similar.
fishies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishy
glosses: plural of fishie
doggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doggie
glosses: plural of doggy
kitties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitty
glosses: plural of kittie
kittie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitties
Etymology: From kit + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kitty (“young cat”).
ashramites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashramite
spoken pauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoken pause
clubmosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubmoss
whipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whippers
Etymology: From whip + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that whips.
glosses: A person or thing that whips.
A device that whips a substance, such as cream.
Derived terms: coal-whipper
whipper-ginnie
whipper-in
Related terms: whippersnapper
whippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipper.
whips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whip
whips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whip
snipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snippers
Etymology: From snip + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of to snip; a person or thing that snips.
glosses: A tool used for snipping.
Derived terms: snipper-snapper
whipper snipper
snippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snipper
snipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snip
snipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: snippings
Senses: examples: text: There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.
ref: 1993, Raymond Leppard, Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music, page 78:
glosses: The act by which something is snipped or cut.
examples: text: One of them bit off his toe, others took snippings from his hair or tore off his nails and would have cut pieces from his flesh had they not been prevented.
ref: 1975, Gerald Brenan, St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry, page 82:
glosses: A piece cut off; a clipping.
snips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of snip
glosses: shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs
Derived terms: tinsnips
snips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snip
snippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪpi/
rhymes: -ɪpi
Forms: form: snippier
form: snippiest
Etymology: From snip + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian snippig, snippich (“short, brief, blunt”), Dutch snippig (“snippy, shrill”), German Low German snippig (“snippy, snappy”), German schnippisch (“snippy, snappy”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: choppy
synonyms: snippety#Adjective
glosses: Fragmentary; snipped.
synonyms: snippety#Adjective
snitty#Adjective
coordinate_terms: snide#Adjective
glosses: Irritable; impatient; short-tempered; often, in a condescending way.
examples: Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:stingy, Thesaurus:frugal
glosses: Stingy.
Derived terms: snippiness
Related terms: snipper
snippetiness
snippy snip
snipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniper
kangaroo rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangaroo rat
ZEV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZEVs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of zero-emission vehicle.
Related terms: sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: BEV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: EV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: FCEV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: FCV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: HEV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: LEV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: PFCEV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: PHEV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: PZEV
sense: zero-emission vehicle
word: SULEV
PZEV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PZEVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of partial zero-emissions vehicle.
Coordinate terms: SULEV
SULEV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SULEVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of super ultra-low emission vehicle.
Coordinate terms: PZEV
HEV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HEVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hybrid electric vehicle.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of high endothelial venule.
glosses: Abbreviation of hepatitis E virus.
Related terms: sense: hepatitis E virus
english: hepatitis A virus
translation: hepatitis A virus
word: HAV
sense: hepatitis E virus
english: hepatitis B virus
translation: hepatitis B virus
word: HBV
sense: hepatitis E virus
english: hepatitis C virus
translation: hepatitis C virus
word: HCV
sense: hepatitis E virus
english: hepatitis D virus
translation: hepatitis D virus
word: HDV
sense: hepatitis E virus
english: hepatitis F virus
translation: hepatitis F virus
word: HFV
sense: hepatitis E virus
english: hepatitis G virus
translation: hepatitis G virus
word: HGV