cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
CQMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of company quartermaster sergeant.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of clinical quality management system.
Synonyms: sense: medical
word: CQI
Sabellians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabellian
attirers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attirer
branchiostegals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branchiostegal
revivors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revivor
dialogistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dialogistic
form: most dialogistic
form: dialogistical
Etymology: From dialog + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: dialogistic resources
text: dialogistic positioning
glosses: Relating to a dialogue; having the form or nature of a dialogue.
Related terms: dialogistically
dialogistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dialogistical
form: most dialogistical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dialogistic.
Derived terms: dialogistically
fixures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fixure
prelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prelate
prelating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prelate
ecstatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecstatical
form: most ecstatical
Senses: examples: text: […] frequenting the Places where the Martyrs were enshrined through the pretence of some ecstatical Dreams and Visions […]
ref: 1664, Edward Stillingfleet, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion:
text: His health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth; in short, in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.
ref: 1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Orations and Lectures, page 123:
text: No less ecstatical are the miracles of Jesus , because they have been evolved out of his Messianic consciousness
ref: 1933, Hilarin Felder, Christ and the Critics, page 65:
text: Van Helmont conceived the blood's action as a spiritual one "which when stirred up by an ardent desire" is released as a certain ecstatical power.
ref: 1973, Audrey B. Davis, Circulation Physiology and Medical Chemistry in England, 1650-1680, page 107:
text: And if we believe the chronicles, Rumi himself had experienced ecstatical raptures, was able to transgress time and space, or to be present in several places at once.
ref: 1993, Annemarie Schimmel, The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi, page 311:
glosses: Synonym of ecstatic.
synonyms: word: ecstatic
examples: text: I find in me a great deal of ecstatical love, which continually carries me to good without myself.
ref: , John Norris (philosopher)
text: I have argued that the lived-body does not simply "extend" in space as a non-ecstatical thing, but rather, it "occupies and inhabits" space.
ref: 2001, Corey Anton, Selfhood and Authenticity, page 123:
text: This ecstatical standpoint requires a kind of rewrapping of human beings in their constitutive envelops, links, neighbourhoods, and housing
ref: 2009, Environment and Planning:, page 159:
text: Hence the ecstatical projection of Being must be made possible by some primordial way in which ecstatical temporality temporalizes.
ref: 2017, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, page 249:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Tending to external objects.
repellence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repellences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of repellency.
repellences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repellence
conditing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of condite
condited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of condite
immolators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immolator
⠠⠄
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: the termination sign: cancels all-capitals or emphasis that does not span an entire word, when that word already contains a hyphen [which is the usual ending mark].
head_nr: 1
glosses: transcriber's note indicator [marks beginning and end of passage].
burlettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burletta
passibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passibilities
Etymology: From Latin passibilitas. Compare French passibilité.
Senses: examples: text: the passibility of the matter of the Heavens
ref: 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
passibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passibility
comfortables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfortable
nonalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From non- + alveolar.
Senses: glosses: Not alveolar.
ghost rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost rockets
Senses: examples: text: A poem in Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende, July 31, 1946, last page, made reference to a recent sensational ghost rocket sighting over Byen, expressing relief that the “rocket” was actually a meteor:
ref: 2001, Robert E. Bartholomew, Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns, and Head-hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion, McFarland, page 273:
text: Many ghost rocket sightings came from Sweden, which is near the Soviet Union. U.S. and British officials convinced the Swedes to study reports of the ghost rockets. The Swedes found pieces of metal that they though came from crashed ghost rockets.
ref: 2011, Michael Burgan, Andrew Nichols, Searching for Aliens, UFOs, and Men in Black, Capstone Press, page 11:
text: The Swedish experts claimed that some 20 percent of the ghost rocket reports appeared to be neither aircraft nor natural phenomena.
ref: 2012, Ronald Story, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, Constable & Robinson Ltd, page 243:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: Any of the rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.
microcosmical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microcosmical
form: most microcosmical
Etymology: From micro- + cosmical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microcosmic.
myronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside found in mustard seed.
Derived terms: myronate
Related terms: sinigrin
⠨⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The emphasis mark ⠨ and the final letter ⠙
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence -ound
⠨⠞
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The emphasis mark ⠨ and the final letter ⠞
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence -ount
⠨⠑
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The emphasis mark ⠨ and the final letter ⠑
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence -ance
⠨⠎
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The emphasis mark ⠨ and the final letter ⠎
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence -less
⠨⠝
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The emphasis mark ⠨ and the final letter ⠝
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence -sion
soulili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soulilis
Etymology: French?
Senses: glosses: A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Presbytis melalophos, syn. Semnopithecus mitratus).
Synonyms: sense: Semnopithecus mitratus
word: mitred leaf-monkey
sense: Semnopithecus mitratus
word: mitred monkey
sense: Semnopithecus mitratus
word: capped langur. Sumatran surili.
soulilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soulili
⠰⠝
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The letter marker ⠰ and the final letter ⠝
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence ⟨tion⟩.
⠰⠽
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The letter marker ⠰ and the final letter ⠽
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence ⟨ity⟩.
⠰⠎
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Forms: form: ness
Etymology: The letter marker ⠰ and the final letter ⠎ (s).
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence ⟨ness⟩.
⠰⠑
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The letter marker ⠰ and the final letter ⠑
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence ⟨ence⟩.
⠰⠞
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The letter marker ⠰ and the final letter ⠞
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence ⟨ment⟩.
⠰⠇
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The letter marker ⠰ and the final letter ⠇
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence ⟨ful⟩.
⠰⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The letter marker ⠰ and the final letter ⠛
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence ⟨ong⟩.
magrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Huntington's disease
⠠⠽
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The capital-letter marker ⠠ and the final letter ⠽
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence -ally
⠠⠝
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The capital-letter marker ⠠ and the final letter ⠝
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The letter sequence -ation.
rhabarbarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabarbarine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chrysophanic acid
rhabarbarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhabarbarin.
⠐⠂
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Etymology: The comma, ⠂
Senses: glosses: The ditto mark
raw_tags: punctuation
Synonyms: ⠠⠶ in Unified English Braille
⠐⠂
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The comma, ⠂
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the ratio sign, ∶
unreversed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reversed.
Senses: glosses: Not having been reversed.
unreversed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unreverse
⠐⠜
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: Closing parenthesis, )
raw_tags: punctuation
Synonyms: ⠶
⠴⠄
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Etymology: The closing outer quotation mark, ⠴
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The closing inner quotation mark, ’ in the US, ” in the UK.
raw_tags: punctuation
⠠⠦
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Etymology: The opening outer quotation mark, ⠦
Senses: glosses: The opening inner quotation mark, ‘ in the US, “ in the UK.
raw_tags: punctuation
unreservable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reservable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be reserved.
unreversible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reversible.
Senses: glosses: Not reversible.
⠶⠄
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Etymology: The parentheses, ⠶
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: The closing bracket, ]
raw_tags: punctuation
⠠⠶
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Etymology: The parentheses, ⠶
Senses: qualifier: American Grade 2 Braille
glosses: The opening bracket, [
raw_tags: punctuation
qualifier: Unified English Braille
glosses: The ditto mark, "
raw_tags: punctuation
Synonyms: ⠨⠣
⠐⠂
⠔⠔
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Senses: glosses: A generic mark for footnotes and references. Equivalent to the symbols *, †, §, etc., and to superscripting numbers and letters.
raw_tags: punctuation
glosses: Specifically, the asterisk *, as opposed to ⠢⠢ for the dagger †, etc.
raw_tags: punctuation
black triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black triangles
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, triangle.
examples: text: Somewhere behind that blinking yellow light that black triangle was hovering, (or moving only a few miles per hour), in our direction, straight at us.
ref: 2005, Bill Foster, Peggy Foster, Nadine Wheeler, The Black Triangle Abduction, The Invisible College Press, page 22
text: Note: The black triangle is a commonly seen UFO.
ref: 2007, Craig R. Lang, The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny, lulu.com, page 4:
text: On Thursday, July 15, 2004, I flew to Denver, Colorado, where I was scheduled to speak at the annual symposium of the Mutual UFO Network on the subject of a particular type of UFO that has become known as the “Black Triangle,” and one that has been seen regularly in the skies of practically every corner of the planet for approximately the last two decades.
ref: 2009, Nick Redfern, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, ReadHowYouWant.com, page 105:
text: Just three years after the Belgian black triangle incident, a similar craft appeared over RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury.
ref: 2011, William J. Birnes, The Everything UFO Book: An Investigation of Sightings, Cover-ups, and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, Adams Media, page 229:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: One of a class of triangle-shaped unidentified flying objects, usually with a light in each corner.
organistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organista
⠄⠄⠄
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: ellipsis (... or …)
raw_tags: punctuation
meconophagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meconophagist
Diana monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Diana monkeys
Etymology: In reference to their crescent-shaped browband, held to resemble the crescent on the brow of the goddess Diana.
Senses: glosses: Cercopithecus diana, an Old World monkey found in West Africa.
huckabucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huckabuck
Diana monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Diana monkey
cornic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cornin
edgelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From edgeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of edge or edges; infinity.
stalagmitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stalagmitical
form: most stalagmitical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stalagmitic.
Derived terms: stalagmitically
woman's room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, if your car does not have any mirror because it was broken or so, you can always go to the woman's room and there you will find a mirror.
ref: 2005, Adebola Odukoya, Reflectors of Jesus Christ, page 9:
text: “Your boss get very angry if you tell anybody. Listen, mi amor, I need to go to the woman's room.”
“Me, too, I mean ... the men's room.”
ref: 2009, Francis Duffy, Ian, El Güero, page 247:
text: You'd better go to the woman's room, wash your face and come right back here and we'll be glad to have you.
ref: 2010, Melvin Anderson, Shenango, page 139:
glosses: Alternative form of women's room: a public lavatory intended for women.
Coordinate terms: man's room
Related terms: little girl's room
boys' room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boys' rooms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of men's room (de facto) A restroom for boys or men.
synonyms: word: men's room
extra: (de facto) A restroom for boys or men
girls' room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girls' rooms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ladies' room (de facto) A restroom for girls or women.
synonyms: word: ladies' room
extra: (de facto) A restroom for girls or women
equatorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equatorial
Eblis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Iblis.
stalagmitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stalagmitically
form: most stalagmitically
Etymology: From stalagmitic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Like a stalagmite; accumulating from floor to ceiling.
swagbellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swagbellied
form: most swagbellied
Etymology: See swagbelly.
Senses: examples: text: I learned it in England, where indeed they are most / potent in potting. Your Dane, your German, and your / swagbellied Hollander — Drink, ho! — are nothing to / your English.
ref: c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, act 2, scene 3, lines 71–74:
text: to please some swag-bellied plutocrat
ref: 1928, Edward A. Ross, World Drift, New York; London: The Century Co., page 18:
glosses: Having a prominent, overhanging belly.
Synonyms: overweight
ariettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ariette
balsaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balsam
⠔⠖
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: * ⠔ in + ⠖ to
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: into
postdiluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postdiluvial
form: most postdiluvial
Etymology: From post- + diluvial.
Senses: glosses: After the Biblical Flood.
Related terms: postdiluvian
infrigidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infrigidate
infrigidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infrigidate
erewhiles
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We sit down to our meals, suspect not the intrusion of armed uninvited guests, who erewhiles, we know, were wont to surprise us.
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of erewhile.
hutching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hutch
fossettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fossette
nonmated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mated.
Senses: glosses: Not mated.
⠁⠃
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: ab
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: about
guestish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guestish
form: most guestish
Etymology: From guest + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Even though a generalization may be made that 'riches do tend to foster in you the instincts of a host, and poverty does create an atmosphere favourable to the growth of guestish instincts,' we have to admit that 'not all guests are to be found […]
ref: 1989, B. N. Chaturvedi, The twentieth century essay:
text: "Oh, no." "Is there a problem?" Carla asked in her snottiest, most guestish voice. "The woman who was just here, she left her credit 155.
ref: 1996, Marilyn Kaye, Stranger in Paradise:
glosses: Of, like, resembling, or in the manner of a guest; befitting a guest; guestlike.
⠁⠃⠧
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: abv
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: above
⠁⠉
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: ac
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: according
⠁⠉⠗
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: acr
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: across
⠁⠋
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: af
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: after
⠁⠋⠝
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: afn
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: afternoon
⠁⠋⠺
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: afw
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: afterward
⠁⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: ag
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: again
⠁⠛⠌
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: ags͡t
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: against
⠁⠇
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: al
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: also
⠁⠇⠍
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: alm
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: almost
⠁⠇⠗
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: alr
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: already
⠁⠇⠞
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: alt
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: altogether
⠁⠇⠹
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: alt͡h
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: although
⠁⠇⠺
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: alw
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: always
⠆⠉
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: because (bec)
⠆⠋
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: before (bef)
⠆⠓
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: behind (beh)
⠆⠇
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: below (bel)
⠆⠝
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: beneath (ben)
⠆⠎
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: beside (bes)
⠆⠞
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: between (bet)
⠆⠽
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: beyond (bey)
⠃⠇
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: bl
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: blind
⠃⠗⠇
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: brl
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: braille
lanterned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lanterned
form: most lanterned
Derived terms: unlanterned
lanterned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lantern
lanterning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lantern
⠉⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: cd
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: could
crocoisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crocoite.
sharptail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharptails
Etymology: From sharp + tail.
Senses: glosses: The pintail duck.
glosses: The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.
sharptails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharptail
⠉⠧⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: cvg
Etymology: From ⠉⠧ -ceive.
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: -ceiving
⠉⠧
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: cv
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: -ceive
Derived terms: ⠉⠧⠛ -ceiving
⠒⠉⠧⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: con-cvg
Etymology: * ⠉⠧⠛ -ceiving
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: conceiving
⠗⠉⠧⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: rcvg
Etymology: * ⠉⠧⠛ -ceiving
Senses: examples: text: ⠠⠧⠊⠉⠞⠊⠍⠎⠀⠷⠀⠒⠋⠇⠊⠉⠞⠂⠀⠏⠻⠎⠕⠝⠎⠀⠾⠀⠲⠁⠃⠊⠇⠊⠞⠊⠑⠎⠀⠯⠀⠎⠑⠭⠀⠐⠺⠻⠎⠀⠎⠏⠑⠉⠊⠋⠊⠉⠁⠇⠇⠽⠀⠝⠕⠞⠫⠀⠸⠮⠀⠑⠭⠉⠇⠥⠨⠝⠀⠋⠀⠗⠉⠧⠛⠀⠔⠿⠍⠁⠰⠝⠀⠕⠝⠂⠀⠯⠀⠙⠑⠇⠊⠧⠻⠽⠀⠷⠂⠀⠗⠑⠇⠊⠑⠋⠀⠎⠥⠏⠏⠕⠗⠞⠲
ref: 2021, “UN Framework for Responding to the Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Nepal”, in United Nations (auto-downloading DOCX), archived from the original on 06 Feb 2023:
roman: Victims of conflict, persons with disabilities and sex workers specifically noted their exclusion from receiving information on, and delivery of, relief support.
qualifier: Braille
glosses: receiving
⠙⠉⠧⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: dcvg
Etymology: From ⠉⠧⠛ -ceiving.
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: deceiving
whiffings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiffing
⠙⠉⠧
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: dcv
Etymology: From ⠉⠧ -ceive.
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: deceive
⠗⠉⠧
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: rcv
Etymology: From ⠉⠧ -ceive.
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: receive
⠒⠉⠧
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: con-cv
Etymology: * ⠒ con- + ⠉⠧ -ceive
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: conceive
⠡⠝
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: c͡hn
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: children
reprehenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprehender
reprecipitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprecipitation
⠙⠉⠇
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: dcl
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: declare
Derived terms: ⠙⠉⠇⠛ declaring
Niueans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Niuean
⠙⠉⠇⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: dclg
Etymology: From ⠙⠉⠇ declare.
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: declaring
⠑⠊
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: ei
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: either
nitwittedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nitwittedly
form: most nitwittedly
Etymology: From nitwitted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nitwitted manner.
⠋⠌
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: fs͡t
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: first
⠋⠗
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: fr
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: friend
⠛⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: gd
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: good
⠛⠗⠞
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: grt
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: great
⠓⠍
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: hm
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: him
⠊⠍⠍
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: imm
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: immediate
⠇⠇
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: ll
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: little
⠇⠗
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: lr
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: letter
cardiovascular disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiovascular diseases
form: CVD
Senses: examples: text: Taking a daily multivitamin might be associated with improved brain function in older adults, a new study says, and the benefit appears to be greater for those with a history of cardiovascular disease.
ref: 2022 September 14, Jacqueline Howard, “Study finds potential link between daily multivitamin and improved cognition in older adults”, in CNN:
glosses: A disease involving the heart or blood vessels, i.e. arteries and veins, such as coronary heart disease.
⠍⠡
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: mc͡h
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: much
⠍⠌
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: ms͡t
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: must
⠝⠑⠉
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: nec
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: necessary
⠝⠑⠊
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: nei
Etymology: From ⠑⠊ either.
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: neither
⠕⠄⠉
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: o’c
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: o'clock (o'c)
⠏⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: pd
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: paid
⠏⠻⠓
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: pe͡rh
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: perhaps
⠟⠅
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: qk
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: quick
mimetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mimetical
form: most mimetical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mimetic.
⠗⠚⠉⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: rjcg
Etymology: From ⠗⠚⠉ rejoice.
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: rejoicing
⠗⠚⠉
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: rjc
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: rejoice
Derived terms: ⠗⠚⠉⠛ rejoicing
⠎⠡
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: sc͡h
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: such (sch)
⠎⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: sd
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: said
⠩⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: s͡hd
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: should
⠞⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: td
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: today
⠞⠛⠗
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: tgr
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: together
⠞⠍
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: tm
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: tomorrow
⠞⠝
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: tn
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: tonight
⠧⠎
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: vs
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: (suffix) -selves
Coordinate terms: ⠋ -self
familisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of familism
familistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more familistical
form: most familistical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of familistic.
Derived terms: familistically
⠺⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: wd
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: would
⠭⠎
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: xs
Etymology: From ⠭ it.
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: its
⠭⠋
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: xf
Etymology: * ⠭ it + ⠋ -self
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: itself
⠽⠗
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: yr
Etymology: * ⠽ you
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: your
Derived terms: ⠽⠗⠋ yourself
⠽⠗⠧⠎ yourselves
mouth ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouth ulcers
Senses: glosses: An aphthous ulcer; an open sore in the mouth, or rarely a break in the mucous membrane or the epithelium on the lips or surrounding the mouth.
Related terms: sense: not to be confused with
word: peptic ulcer
⠽⠗⠧⠎
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: yrvs
Etymology: From ⠽⠗ (“your”) + ⠧⠎ (“-selves”).
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: yourselves
⠽⠗⠋
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: yrf
Etymology: * ⠽⠗ your + ⠋ -self
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: yourself
peritoneal dialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PD
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A treatment for patients with severe chronic kidney disease in which fluids are exchanged from the blood in the patient's peritoneum in the abdomen.
gwarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gwarder
shore pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore pines
Senses: glosses: A lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta.
shore teetan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore teetans
Senses: glosses: A rock pipit.
teetan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teetans
Senses: glosses: A pipit (Anthus spp. etc.).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Anthus petrosus
word: shore teetan
shore plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore plums
Senses: glosses: A tree, Prunus maritima, bearing small plums, found along the US Atlantic coast from Maine to Maryland.
Synonyms: beach plum
beach plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach plums
Senses: glosses: A tree, Prunus maritima, bearing small plums, found along the US Atlantic coast from Maine to Maryland.
Synonyms: shore plum
shore snipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore snipes
Senses: glosses: A sandpiper, a bird in the Scolopacidae family.
shore thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore thistles
Senses: glosses: Any thistle of genus Carduus found along a shore, known to cause poisoning of ruminants.
glosses: A thistle of the species Carduus tenuiflorus.
Synonyms: sense: Carduus tenuiflorus
word: sheep thistle
sense: Carduus tenuiflorus
word: slender thistle
sense: Carduus tenuiflorus
word: slender-flower thistle
sense: Carduus tenuiflorus
word: winged slender thistle
sense: Carduus tenuiflorus
word: winged thistle
shore plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore plovers
Senses: glosses: A plover of the endangered New Zealand species Thinornis novaeseelandiae.
Synonyms: sense: Thinornis novaeseelandiae
word: shore dotterel
shore dotterel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore dotterels
Senses: glosses: A plover of the endangered New Zealand species Thinornis novaeseelandiae
Synonyms: sense: Thinornis novaeseelandiae
word: shore plover
shore lark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore larks
Senses: glosses: A horned lark (Eremophila alpestris).
horned lark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horned larks
Senses: glosses: A lark, Eremophila alpestris, with distinctive facial markings.
Synonyms: word: shore lark
shore fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore flies
Senses: glosses: A tiny fly found near seashores or at smaller inland waters, such as ponds, of one the 1,500 species of the family Ephydridae.
Hyponyms: brine fly
Related terms: shore bug
beselve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beselves
form: beselving
form: beselved
form: beselved
Etymology: From be- + selve.
Senses: examples: text: One can say "That individual is angry," or "Mr. X is angry," but never "The self is angry." Even though, to be sure, anger involves having a self; it pertains to X as "beselved." We agree with common usage.
ref: 1968, Mariane L. Simmel, Kurt Goldstein, The Reach of mind: essays in memory of Kurt Goldstein:
text: The mouth is always available for service; the breast is not. So the anticipation is breastdirected. The beselved body in fact lives more outside its literal Habit.
ref: 1992, Brian Massumi, A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia:
text: Two new words are needed, “enworlded” and “beselved.” To be enworlded is to be beselved. To be beside yourself is to be fully conscious.
ref: 2012, dao nguyen
text: In Deleuzian terms, the self—beselved body—is a contour map on which are charted the exhilarating lines of desire.
ref: 2012, Paul C. Martin, The Feminine in the Making of God: Highlighting the Sensible Topography of Divinity:
glosses: To endow with a personhood or self.
blood diamonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood diamond
mercow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercows
Etymology: From mer- + cow, modelled after sea-cow.
Senses: examples: text: Ma ruffled my crew cut. "If you'd been the lookout, you'd've told them these were sea cows, not mermaids, right?" "Right," I said. "Mercows," said Mr. Drake behind us. "Moo. Glub glub glub. Moo."
ref: 2002, Will Shetterly, Dogland:
text: Mercow. The description of pretty mermaids frolicking in the water is so widespread that it was thought there must be a real creature lurking behind the legends.
ref: 2012, QI: quite interesting facts about mythical creatures - Telegraph
glosses: Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong; sea-cow.
merdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɝˌdɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɝˌdɑɡ/
Forms: form: merdogs
Etymology: From mer- + dog.
Senses: examples: text: Lee drank a potion that helped him to breathe underwater. Beardy then told me I could turn into a merman and Holly could turn into a merdog (like in an old book I've written). So I soon turned into a merman and Holly turned into a merdog.
ref: 2010, Steven J. Butler, Jr., The Lost Worlds of Buckstevenson:
text: Rather than the flayed skin associated with the traditional saint, this Saint Bartholomew holds a sword or trident. Something rests beside his feet—it may be a demon, dolphin, or merdog. This creature is Bartholomew's messenger and servant.
ref: 2011, Judika Illes, Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints & Sages:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A mermaid dog.
merlion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːˌlaɪən/
ipa: /ˈmɚˌlaɪən/
ipa: /ˌmɜːˈlaɪən/
ipa: /mə-/
ipa: /ˈməːlɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈmɚˌlɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈmɜːˌlaɪən/
ipa: /ˈmɚˌlaɪən/
ipa: /ˌmɜːˈlaɪən/
ipa: /mə-/
Forms: form: merlions
Etymology: Probably a variant of merlin, from Middle English merlioun, merlinge, marlyon, merlion, merlone, merlyon, from Old French emerillon, esmerillon, from Frankish *smiril (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *smirilaz (“falcon, merlin”).
Senses: examples: text: He beareth two coats quarterly, with an Inſcocheon of pretence, viz. The firſt, per bend nebulee, Or and Sable, a Lion Rampant counterchained, by the name of Sympſon; The ſecond, Argent, a Feſſe, Gules, between three Merlions, or Sparhawks, Sable, beaks and legs, Or, by the name of Oneſlow; […]
ref: 1666, John Guillim, “Section VI, Chapter I”, in A Display of Herauldry: […], 6th edition, London: […] John Williams […], and Joshua Kirton […]; Humphrey Tuckey […], and Francis Tyton […], →OCLC, page 384:
text: Martlet, or merlion, a fabulous bird, of constant adoption in armorials, shaped like a martin or swallow, and always drawn without legs, with short tufts of feathers instead, divided into two parts, somewhat like an erasure, and forming, as it were, thighs. This is the distinctive mark of the fourth son.
ref: [1884, Bernard Burke, “Dictionary of Terms Used in Heraldry”, in The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; […], 2nd edition, London: Harrison & Sons, […], →OCLC, page xli:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet; a martlet.
examples: text: The gentle falcon, that with its feet distraineth / The kingës hand; the hardy sperhawke eke, / The quailës foe; the merlion that paineth / Himself full oft the larkë for to seek; […]
ref: [c. 1381–1382, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foules; republished as “The Assembly of Fowls”, in D[avid] Laing Purves, editor, The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser. […], Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1874, →OCLC, page 220, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of merlin (“a small falcon, Falco columbarius”).
Related terms: english: mythological bird in French heraldry depicted with no beak or feet
translation: mythological bird in French heraldry depicted with no beak or feet
word: merlette
deer fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deer flies
Senses: glosses: A louse fly, a species in the family Hippoboscidae (Lipoptena cervi), parasites of elk, deer and other bovine animals, sucking blood and laying eggs in the fur of the host animals, found in Eurasia.
glosses: A gold- or green-eyed horsefly of the genus Chrysops in the family Tabanidae; pests to cattle, horses and humans, feeding on their blood.
Synonyms: sense: Lipoptena cervi
word: deer ked
sense: horsefly of the genus Chrysops
word: yellow fly
sense: horsefly of the genus Chrysops
word: stout
deer ked
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deer keds
Senses: glosses: A Eurasian species of louse fly in the family Hippoboscidae, Lipoptena cervi, that are parasites of elk, deer and other bovine animals, sucking blood and laying eggs in the fur of the host animals.
Synonyms: sense: Lipoptena cervi
word: deer fly
lithotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From litho- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: A form of homeopathy that uses small quantities of minerals
loadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loadcasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of load cast.
load cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: load casts
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An irregular part of an overlying stratum (often of sandstone) that is forced down into a softer underlying stratum
lodranite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodranites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of meteorite containing orthopyroxene, olivine, diopside and plagioclase
elliptic curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elliptic curves
Etymology: So called because it is the locus of an elliptic function.
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The algebraic set of an equation which equates the square of one variable to a reduced cubic polynomial in another variable, over some field, and such that the discriminant of the reduced cubic is non-zero.
Derived terms: elliptic-curve cryptography
elliptic-curve DSA
hyperelliptic curve
polar opposite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar opposites
Senses: examples: text: Rusticity and Urbanity are polar opposites—and there lie between many million modes of Manners.
ref: 1832 June, Allan Cunningham, "The Maid of Elvar," Blackwoods Magazine, p. 998 (Google preview)
text: Buddhism, which regards all existence as no more than illusion, and the philosophy of existence, which regards existence as real behind the illusion of becoming, are, so to speak, polar opposites.
ref: 1960, Hellmut Wilhelm, Richard Wilhelm, Understanding the I Ching, →ISBN, page 154:
text: [S]he is the prim, androgynous-sounding twin. . . . Her polar opposite, Abigail is the plump, lusty twin.
ref: 2003 September 25, Janet Maslin, “Books of the Times: A Family's Fatuousness”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Dec 2015:
glosses: The complete opposite, opposite in every way.
microfissuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfissurations
Etymology: From microfissure + -ation.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of microfissures
microfissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfissures
Etymology: From micro- + fissure.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microscopic fissure (in a rock)
Derived terms: microfissuration
microgravimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + gravimetric.
Senses: glosses: gravimetric with respect to very small weights or fields
micromineralogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + mineralogy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: mineralogy by use of a microscope; the study of microminerals
London pride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: London prides
Senses: glosses: A perennial saxifragaceous plant (Saxifraga × urbium, a hybrid of Saxifraga umbrosa and Saxifraga spathularis) that has a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers.
Synonyms: none-so-pretty
St Patrick's cabbage
moutonnée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moutonnées
Senses: glosses: Synonym of roche moutonnée.
synonyms: word: roche moutonnée
moutonnées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moutonnée
oedometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oedometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “swell”) + -meter.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A device used for measuring the consolidation properties of soil
Related terms: oedometric
oedometry
shore bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shorebird.
shore bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore bugs
Senses: glosses: An insect of any of numerous small predatory, often burrowing, species of the family Saldidae, found near bodies of water.
Related terms: shore fly
brine fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brine flies
Senses: glosses: An insect of some species in the family Ephydridae.
Hypernyms: shore fly
shore dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore dinners
Senses: glosses: A dinner consisting of seafood.
shore pit viper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore pit vipers
Senses: glosses: A pit viper of the species Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus, of venomous snakes found in India and Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: mangrove pit viper
mangrove viper
shore cod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore cod
Senses: glosses: Any cod-like fish caught close to shore, but especially the Atlantic cod.
Atlantic cod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantic cod
form: Atlantic cods
Etymology: Originally known as cod. The Atlantic was added later to distinguish this species from the related but distinct Pacific cod.
Senses: synonyms: cod
glosses: A sea fish, the Gadus morhua.
station house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: station houses
form: stationhouse
form: station-house
Senses: glosses: A structure or other area set aside for storage of fire-extinguishing equipment.
examples: text: The arrests, in morning raids in California, Florida and New York capped an investigation by San Francisco police into the murder of Sgt. John V. Young, who was killed by a shotgun at a desk in the Ingleside stationhouse on Aug. 29, 1971.
ref: 2007 January 24, Jesse Mckinley, “8 Arrested in 1971 Killing of San Francisco Police Officer”, in New York Times:
glosses: The headquarters of a police force or unit for a specific district; a police station.
examples: text: The station arrangements are modern, and a subway connects the platforms, but the station house is the standard of 60 years ago.
ref: 1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
glosses: A building serving as shelter at a railway station.
Synonyms: sense: area police headquarters
word: police station
sense: area police headquarters
word: precinct
station-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: station-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of station house.
unshored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shored.
Senses: glosses: Without shoring.
paraseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paraseismic
form: most paraseismic
Etymology: From para- + seismic.
Senses: glosses: That resists the destructive effects of an earthquake
shoreface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorefaces
Etymology: From shore + face.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A narrow, steeply sloping zone between a seaward limit of the shore at low water and a nearly horizontal offshore zone.
Related terms: backshore
foreshore
shoreline
backshore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backshores
Etymology: From back + shore.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upper shore zone above high-tide.
Synonyms: backbeach
backshore beach
Coordinate terms: foreshore
Dirac delta function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dirac delta functions
form: Dirac delta
form: Dirac's delta function
form: Dirac's delta
Etymology: Named after English physicist Paul Dirac.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function of one real argument, whose value is zero when the argument is nonzero, and whose integral is one over any interval that includes zero.
Related terms: sense: function
word: Kronecker delta function
sense: function
word: step function
steak house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of steakhouse.
steam table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam tables
Senses: glosses: A serving table or counter with heaters, traditionally using steam, to keep food warm. Today sometimes synonymous with a bain marie or a hot bar.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A data table containing the properties of steam under various conditions.
Related terms: steam heater
track cyclists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of track cyclist
track cyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track cyclists
Etymology: From track + cyclist.
Senses: qualifier: cycle racing
glosses: Someone who cycles on a track.
Related terms: track cycling