cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
what if
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Dates back at least to Old English hwæt ġif, of the same meaning. A similar expression occurs in Latin in the Vulgate, Acts 23:9, "Factus est autem clamor magnus. Et surgentes quidam pharisaeorum, pugnabant, decentes: Nihil mali inveniumus in homine isto: quid si Spiritus locutus est ei, aut angelus?" ("And there arose a great cry. And some of the Pharisees rising up, strove, saying: We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?" Douay-Rheims translation)
Senses: examples: text: What if we arrange it for 9:00 instead of 10:00?
glosses: Used to introduce a suggestion or proposal for a future event.
examples: text: What if we could learn to get along? What would happen then?
glosses: Used to introduce a speculation about a future event.
examples: text: What if Abraham Lincoln had not been assassinated? How might the Reconstruction of the Southern States have been handled?
glosses: Used to introduce a speculation about a past event. Often the basis for counterfactual historical interpretations.
Synonyms: sense: introducing a suggestion
word: what about
sense: introducing a suggestion
word: how about
Derived terms: what-if
Related terms: what now
enquire after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enquires after
form: enquiring after
form: enquired after
form: enquired after
Senses: glosses: British form of inquire after.
where you at
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Last time I saw ya, you were flippin' burgers; where you at now?
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Where are you? Used as an inquiry of location, especially figuratively.
Related terms: where it's at
classifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of classify
desists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desist
dismays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismay
dismaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismay
dismaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dismaying
form: most dismaying
Senses: glosses: Disheartening; daunting.
Derived terms: dismayingly
undismaying
dismaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dismayings
Senses: examples: text: My dismayings utterly consume me: / They encompass me like water: / They press wholly upon me every day.
ref: quoted in 1842, John Mason Good, John Mason Neale, An Historical Outline of the Book of Psalms (page 186)
glosses: A state of dismay.
concientious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conscientious.
disincline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disinclines
form: disinclining
form: disinclined
form: disinclined
form: disencline
Etymology: From dis- + incline.
Senses: glosses: To make reluctant; to lessen the inclination of.
disinclines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disincline
disinclining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disincline
suspensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suspension
superconductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superconductor
superheterodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəˈhɛt(ə)ɹədʌɪn/
Etymology: From super- + heterodyne.
Senses: examples: text: Approaching Louisville, the Tin Hind was almost swallowed up in the Great Ohio Flood (which preoccupied the radio news for days; I hung over my superheterodyne set) and he was unable to visit a new correspondent of Lovecraft's there.
ref: 1937, Fritz Leiber, The Terror from the Depths:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Pertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique.
Derived terms: superhet
superheterodyne receiver
superheterodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəˈhɛt(ə)ɹədʌɪn/
Forms: form: superheterodynes
Etymology: From super- + heterodyne.
Senses: glosses: A receiver of this kind.
supercharged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: blown
coordinate_terms: turbocharged
;
superturbocharged
turbosupercharged
twincharged
glosses: Equipped with a supercharger.
examples: text: On Tuesday, every Republican running for statewide office won by at least 16 points, leaving little doubt that Florida is Republican country — and that Mr. DeSantis’s political career has become supercharged.
ref: 2022 November 10, Patricia Mazzei, “With Runaway Win, DeSantis’s Political Career Becomes Supercharged”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Boosted.
examples: text: [...] And over all, an Inescutcheon Azure, the whole supercharged by a Saltire Argent.
ref: 1729, Abel Boyer, Le Grand théâtre de l'honneur et de noblesse [assisted by John Innes] Fr. & Eng., page 219:
text: The Moretuses took as their arms : Of gold with an eagle of sable charged upon his breast with a scutcheon of gules, supercharged with a star radiating with gold on a champaign checked with azure and five strokes silver.
ref: 1894, Max Rooses, Catalogue of the Plantin-Moretus Museum:
text: [...] is a blue cross supercharged with one of red, the whole enclosed by a blue [...]
ref: 1897, American Numismatic Society, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 39:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Debruised, surmounted.
supercharged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.
ref: 2014 April 13, Nick Bilton, “Bend it, charge it, dunk it: Graphene, the material of tomorrow”, in The New York Times:
glosses: simple past and past participle of supercharge
supercharges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supercharge
carpintero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpinteros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish carpintero (“carpenter; woodpecker”). Doublet of carpenter.
Senses: glosses: The acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus, a woodpecker of southwestern North America, noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees.
chickening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chicken
comediennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comedienne
lutar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutars
Etymology: Blend of lute + guitar
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of lute guitar.
synonyms: word: lute guitar
whidah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whidahs
Etymology: alteration of the first component of widow bird
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whydah.
accelerator mass spectrometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of mass spectrometry in which ions are accelerated to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis.
kinetic energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinetic energy
whydah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)wɪdə/
Forms: form: whydahs
form: whidah
form: whyda
form: wydah
Etymology: Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.
Senses: glosses: Any of various black and white African birds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds.
wikipedia: Ouidah
Derived terms: eastern paradise whydah
long-tailed paradise whydah
central heating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various heating systems in which a central source of heat is used to distribute heat (and sometimes hot water) throughout a building in a controlled manner.
Related terms: centrally heated
steam heating
charitable organization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charitable organizations
form: charitable organisation
Senses: glosses: An organization with charitable purposes only.
Synonyms: charity
Related terms: non-profit organization
wintler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wintlers
Etymology: From wintle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who wintles.
worldling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worldlings
Etymology: From world + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: A foutra for the world and worldlings base!
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: These wicked wares, that worldlings buy and sell,
The moth will eat, or else the canker rust:
All flesh is grass, and to the grave it must.
ref: 1600, Nicholas Breton, “A Solemn Farewell to the World”, in Melancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures:
text: […] if the simple look benevolently on money, how much more do your old worldlings regard it! Their affections rush out to meet and welcome money.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.
ref: 1888, The Lady's Book - Volumes 6-7, page 243:
text: His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 167:
glosses: A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.
breeding-ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breeding-grounds
form: breeding ground
Senses: glosses: A place or region where animals go to breed.
examples: text: Harris criticized the report's emphasis on enforcement, noting that, "Putting people in jail won't stop the virus from spreading." In fact, prisons are virtual breeding grounds for AIDS, due to lack of safer sex and safer drug use education, condoms and uncontaminated needles.
ref: 1988 August 13, Mark O'Malley, “The Report of the Presidential Commission on HIV: An Analysis”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 5, page 3:
text: Echoing Allen Ginsberg, he contends that the suburban setting of “Father Knows Best” is most accurately seen as America's “ludicrous breeding ground for the young meat who will be fed into its wars and rat races and inhuman conformities.”
ref: 1989 April 30, Martha Bayles, quoting David Marc, “Taking Sitcoms Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: What, wonder the denigrators, is county cricket for (if you ignore for a moment the small matter of providing a breeding-ground for the Test team)?
ref: 2007 December 18, Lawrence Booth, The Guardian:
glosses: A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.
Hypernyms: ground
Related terms: fever swamp
hotbed
nidus
vertebre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertebres
form: verteber
Etymology: From French vertebre, from Latin vertebra.
Senses: glosses: A joint of the back.
affronter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affronters
Etymology: From affront + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who affronts.
examples: text: the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee
ref: 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English:
glosses: One who receives an affront.
top brass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top brasses
Etymology: Originally military slang, from [the] brass (“high-ranking officers”).
Senses: examples: text: The top brass of the army are up to various types of mischief and they do not want the public or even Members of Parliament to know about them.
ref: 1872, New Zealand Parliament, House of Representatives, “Parliamentary debates”, in 57, volumes 1-6, page 649:
text: The general who turned the tide at Alamein was not, prior to his arrival in the Middle East, one of the very "top brass"; but he was a soldier, not a detergent manufacturer.
ref: 1962 February, “No Talent on the Railways?”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
text: On 3 January, Republican senator Rick Scott urged in a letter to Newsweek’s top brass to “reconsider its relationship with Vipp Jaswal”.
ref: 2022 January 22, Vincent Ni, “China hires western TikTokers to polish its image during 2022 Winter Olympics”, in The Guardian:
text: The military's top brass were seen making the decision on Russian state TV, with Gen Surovikin reporting on the situation on the ground in Kherson.
ref: 2022 November 9, “Kherson: Russia to withdraw troops from key Ukrainian city”, in BBC News:
synonyms: governance
governing body
organisation
administration
establishment
glosses: A group of people who are the leaders or heads of an organization.
volubile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒljʊbaɪl/
Forms: form: more volubile
form: most volubile
form: volubilate
Etymology: From Middle French volubile, from Latin volūbilis (“rolling”), from volvō (“I roll”). Doublet of voluble.
Senses: examples: text: […] or this less volubil earth,
By shorter flight to th' east,
had left him there
Arraying with reflected purple and gold
The clouds that on his western throne attend.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Turning or whirling; winding.
customs officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: customs officers
Senses: glosses: An officer enforcing customs laws.
grads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grad
piment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piments
Etymology: Borrowed from French piment. See pimento, pimiento, and pigment.
Senses: glosses: Wine flavoured with spices or honey.
propiska
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɪskə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian пропи́ска (propíska), from пропи́сывать (propísyvatʹ, “write into”).
Senses: glosses: a system of population control in the ex-USSR, (regional) residence permit, registration
glosses: the stamp in the Soviet internal passport (serving as a personal ID) with the registered address.
glosses: domicile, place where one lives (as stated in the stamp)
Stefanos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Στέφανος (Stéfanos), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Cognate with English Stephen.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Στέφανος (Stéfanos).
glosses: A male given name from Greek.
supercharging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supercharge
Clementine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈklɛməntaɪn/
/ˈklɛməntiːn/
Etymology: From Latin clēmentīnus, from Late Latin Clēmens (“Clement”) (genitive Clēmentis) + -īnus (“of or pertaining to”), from clēmens (“merciful”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Clement, especially to Pope Clement I and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V and his compilations of canon law, or to the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (commonly called the Clementine Vulgate).
Derived terms: Clementine literature
Related terms: clementine
Clementine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈklɛməntaɪn/
/ˈklɛməntiːn/
Etymology: From French Clémentine, from Clément (“Clement”) + -ine (feminine suffix), from Late Latin Clēmens (genitive Clēmentis), from clēmens (“merciful”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine!
Thou were lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine.
ref: 1884, debated authorship, Oh My Darling Clementine (a ballad):
glosses: A female given name from Latin; feminine of Clement.
Derived terms: word: Clem
turbocharges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turbocharge
turbocharging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turbocharge
turbocharged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turbo- + charged.
Senses: examples: text: With all-wheel-drive and a 300-horsepower turbocharged 3-cylinder engine, the GR is far more powerful than the standard, front-wheel-drive Corolla hatchback.
ref: 2022 March 31, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “The Toyota GR Corolla is a mean-looking high-performance hatchback”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Having a turbocharger.
turbocharged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From turbo- + charged.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turbocharge
concision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: concisions
Etymology: Borrowed from French concision, from Latin concisiō(n).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of conciseness (“brevity or terseness”).
synonyms: word: conciseness
extra: brevity or terseness
glosses: A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics on the basis of broadcast time allotments.
examples: text: those of the Concision who made it
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
coordinate_terms: excision
glosses: A cutting off; a division; a schism or faction.
glosses: Mutilation.
topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: circumcision
glosses: penile mutilation, emasculation (used as a polemical term in Paul's epistles)
Roundhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roundheads
Etymology: From round + head, from their short-cropped hairstyle.
Senses: synonyms: Parliamentarian
glosses: A supporter of parliament during the English Civil War (in the 17th century).
Related terms: Cromwellian
Ironside
Roundheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roundhead
roundhead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From round + -head.
Senses: examples: text: The roundhead screw and its fraternal twins, the button head and pan head screws, have a head that is flat on the bottom and hemispherical on top.
ref: 2000, Reed Karen, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Woodworking, →ISBN, page 182:
text: You can use flat-head screws and plug the holes, or you can use roundhead blue screws and let the heads project.
ref: 2010, H. H. Windsor, Mission Furniture: How to Make It, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Having a dome-shaped head.
raw_tags: of a screw
roundheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundhead
façades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of façade
egency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egence
Etymology: From Latin egentia from egere (“to need, to be in need”).
Senses: glosses: need; neediness; poverty.
take hostage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes hostage
form: taking hostage
form: took hostage
form: taken hostage
Senses: glosses: To take custody or possession of a person as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand; to take as hostage.
Related terms: hold hostage
hold hostage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds hostage
form: holding hostage
form: held hostage
form: held hostage
Senses: glosses: To hold as hostage.
To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand.
examples: text: Mr. President, when someone holds up this bill and holds it hostage, it is holding hostage the money that would go to aid victims of disaster.
ref: 1996, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates […] :
text: Plans for the resumption of her nursery school were put on hold, held hostage by the polio epidemic.
ref: 2012, Andrew Clyde Little, Wheeler's Wake Volume II: A Biographical Novel, volume 2, page 189:
glosses: To hold as hostage.
To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation).
examples: text: Before Frank could turn in his final exam, Jigsaw held his computer hostage.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: To hold as hostage.
To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.
raw_tags: of a hacker or malware
examples: text: That way, a taxidriver cannot hold the traveler's luggage hostage in the trunk for more money.
ref: 2009, Brian R. Johnson, Brian Kingshott, Safe Overseas Travel: Maximizing Enjoyment by Minimizing Risk:
glosses: To hold in custody or use for any advantage.
Related terms: take hostage
baseball diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseball diamonds
Senses: glosses: A four-cornered part of a baseball field in which the corners are the three bases and the home plate.
gungy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌnd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: gungier
form: gungiest
form: gungey
Etymology: From gunge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having the texture or feel of gunge; gooey or gunky.
gungey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gungey
form: most gungey
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gungy.
biocomputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocomputers
Etymology: From bio- + computer.
Senses: examples: text: These prototype biocomputers use slime moulds to solve a range of geometrical problems.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 71:
topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several proposed systems using DNA, proteins, or other biological materials to perform data processing (in synthetic biology).
biostimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biostimulations
Etymology: From bio- + stimulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stimulation of a system's existing bacteria such that they can have a remedial action.
Derived terms: photobiostimulation
bucketload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucketloads
Etymology: From bucket + load.
Senses: glosses: As much as a bucket can hold
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large amount.
Related terms: bucketful
cavefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavefishes
form: cavefish
Etymology: From cave + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of various fish, typically blind and lacking pigment, that inhabit subterranean waters.
glosses: Any of various fish, typically blind and lacking pigment, that inhabit subterranean waters.
Any fish in the family Amblyopsidae.
Derived terms: northern cavefish
Ozark cavefish
cytomegalovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytomegaloviruses
Etymology: From the genus name Cytomegalovirus, equivalent to cyto- + megalo- + virus.
Senses: examples: text: The peak period for the development of acute graft-versus-host disease overlaps with the time during which cytomegalovirus infection occurs.
ref: 1983, Karl G. Blume, Lawrence D. Petz, editors, Clinical Bone Marrow Transplantation, Churchill Livingstone, page 75:
text: Prophylactic virostatic treatment with aciclovir did not prevent cytomegalovirus infection in an immune suppressed patient.
ref: 1989, Klaus Heimann, P. Wiedemann, editors, Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy, Kaden Verlag, page 322:
text: Additional study is necessary to elucidate the contribution, if any, of cytomegalovirus to the development of this syndrome and to determine optimum therapy.
ref: 1994, AHFS Drug Information, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, page 412:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Any of several herpes viruses, of the genus Cytomegalovirus, that infect the salivary glands of certain primates, including humans.
Synonyms: CMV
Hypernyms: betaherpesvirus
Derived terms: word: anticytomegalovirus
alt: = human betaherpesvirus 5
word: Human cytomegalovirus
Related terms: cytomegalic
cytomegaloviral
deformability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌfɔːməˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /dɪˌfɔːməˈbɪləti/
Forms: form: deformabilities
Etymology: From deform + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being deformable
glosses: A measure of the extent to which something is deformable (under standard conditions)
dodecahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: duodecahedral
Etymology: From dodeca- + -hedral.
Senses: glosses: Having twelve plane surfaces.
Derived terms: didodecahedral
Related terms: dodecahedron
decahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌdɛkəˈhiːdɹəɫ]
Etymology: From deca- + -hedral.
Senses: glosses: having ten plane surfaces
Derived terms: didecahedral
Related terms: decahedron
hexahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + -hedral.
Senses: glosses: Having six plane surfaces.
Derived terms: heptahexahedral
hexahedrally
tetrahexahedral
Related terms: hexahedron
heptahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepta- + -hedral.
Senses: glosses: having seven plane surfaces
Related terms: heptahedron
geometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geometry
zeppelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeppelin
skinny mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinny mirrors
Senses: glosses: A slightly curved mirror, typically fitted in the fitting rooms of clothing shops, that shows the customer to be thinner than in reality.
Hypernyms: distorting mirror
yellowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yellow
yellowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowings
Senses: examples: text: Rusty spotting and yellowings occur on the lower basal leaves.
ref: 2013, Robert F. Nyvall, Field Crop Diseases Handbook, page 419:
glosses: The process of turning yellow.
Derived terms: lethal yellowing
yellowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yellowed
form: most yellowed
Senses: glosses: Having acquired a yellow color (or discoloration), especially when due to age; having been made yellow.
yellowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yellow
photobiomodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + biomodulation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several therapeutic techniques that employ low-level laser or LED light to relieve pain or to heal wounds
Synonyms: phototherapy
Related terms: photobiomodulatory
wineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪnəɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of winery
whiskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whisky
glosses: plural of whiskey
pseudorotaxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudorotaxanes
Etymology: From pseudo- + rotaxane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any complex, having the general form of a rotaxane, but in which the linear component does not have bulky end groups.
Derived terms: polypseudorotaxane
whiplashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiplash
wheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheat
renormalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renormalisations
Etymology: From re- + normalisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of renormalization.
synchronisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronisations
Etymology: From synchronise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of synchronization.
telecom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telecoms
Etymology: Clipping of telecommunications.
Senses: examples: text: But when it comes to cyberindustry, China is moving at Net speed. Driven by soaring computer sales, rapid expansion of China's telecom networks, […]
ref: 1999, Business Week:
text: However, HS2 believes it could sell mobile and broadband providers access to spare capacity in the fibre-optic cabling and telecoms masts being built to support the railway's signalling and telecoms.
ref: 2024 August 21, “Network News: HS2 to sell spare data capacity to improve rural broadband along the route”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 11:
glosses: Telecommunication or telecommunications.
telecom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telecoms
Etymology: Abbreviation of telephone company.
Senses: glosses: A telco (phone company) or telecom company.
Related terms: telcom
telecoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: HS2 Procurement and Commercial Director David Poole explained: "HS2's operational telecoms systems will be the railway's communications backbone. [...]"
ref: 2020 July 1, “Network News: HS2 seeks bids for telecoms contract”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: telecommunications
glosses: plural of telecom
teleconnection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleconnections
Etymology: From tele- + connection.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A causal link between two or more distant weather systems
Related terms: teleconnective
salesmarketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesmarketers
Etymology: From sales + marketer.
Senses: glosses: A salesman or saleswoman
unprovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprovable
form: most unprovable
Etymology: From Middle English unprevable, wnprowabil, equivalent to un- + provable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be proved or verified by any test
topinambour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topinambours
Etymology: From French topinambour.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jerusalem artichoke.
synonyms: word: Jerusalem artichoke
unthoughtful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthoughtful
form: most unthoughtful
Etymology: From un- + thoughtful.
Senses: glosses: Inconsiderate of the feelings of others.
examples: text: During all these years that had elapsed since my husband's death, I had not been unmindful of its cause, or unthoughtful as to means whereby I could apply that punishment, which I religiously believed myself called upon to administer.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22:
glosses: Unplanned or unthinking.
telework
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teleworks
form: teleworking
form: teleworked
form: teleworked
Etymology: From tele- + work.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To telecommute.
telework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + work.
Senses: glosses: remote work, telecommuting, employment as a teleworker.
Related terms: RTO
WFH
working from home
MUFC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Manchester United Football Club, a famous English football club from Manchester.
Synonyms: Man U
Man United
bobble hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobble hats
Senses: glosses: An insulating hat with one or more decorative pieces of spherical fluff at the peak.
Hyponyms: Santa hat
pom-pom girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pom-pom girls
Senses: glosses: A female cheerleader.
wingspans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingspan
barbarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbarity
devourable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more devourable
form: most devourable
Etymology: From devour + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be devoured.
bargees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bargee
battle-axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle-ax
dial tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dial tones
Senses: examples: text: Are we jaded? Has living with AIDS become no big deal? Has AIDS had its "15 minutes?" We're over it. Goodbye. Click. Dial tone.
ref: 1993 October, Robert Vazquez-Pachéco, “Have We Forgotten About AIDS?”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: A telephony signal, usually in the form of a sound, used to indicate that the telephone exchange is working, has recognized an off-hook, and is ready to accept a call.
Synonyms: word: dialling tone
dial tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dial tone
diseaseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diseaseless
form: most diseaseless
Etymology: From disease + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free of disease; uninfected.
Synonyms: disease-free
Derived terms: diseaselessness
angstroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔŋ.stɹəmz/
/ˈæŋ.stɹəmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of angstrom
litigant in person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litigants in person
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A litigant without an attorney.
Related terms: word: in propria persona
word: pro per
word: pro se
pro se
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pro se.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Representing oneself (in court); without an attorney.
Related terms: word: in propria persona
word: litigant in person
word: pro per
pro se
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin pro se.
Senses: examples: text: Previously, [public defender] Rutherford had called [defendant] Appleby "a fag" in open court and asked to be removed from the case. Appleby has also sought Rutherford's removal. All requests have been denied. Appleby is now acting pro se, with Rutherford ordered by the court to act as advisor.
ref: 1980 February 9, Mitzel, “Appleby is Back In Court Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 6:
topics: law
glosses: Representing oneself in court; without an attorney.
co-trimoxazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cotrimoxazole.
trimethoprim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌɪˈmɛθ.ə(ʊ).pɹɪm/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈmɛθ.əˌpɹɪm/
Forms: form: trimethoprims
Etymology: From trimetho(xy) + p(y)rim(idine).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic antibiotic used to treat malaria and respiratory and urinary infections (usually in conjunction with a sulphonamide).
Derived terms: english: dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor, antibacterial
translation: dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor, antibacterial
word: -prim
word: trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
bowler-hatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'When in doubt take the Underground', urged an early Underground poster showing a bewildered little bowler-hatted man with an illuminated 'Underground' sign behind him. That little man was me.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xii, Preface:
synonyms: bowlered
glosses: Wearing a bowler hat.
hatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity[…]
ref: 1893, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant”, in Can Such Things Be?, New York: Cassell, page 192:
text: The harnessing done, he barked suddenly at the house, and there appeared Millie, hatted and gloved[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 92:
text: There is something about the mere sight of this number-nine-size-hatted man that seldom fails to jerk the beholder from despondency’s depths in times of travail.
ref: 1946, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 25, in Joy in the Morning, Random House, published 2009:
text: But then again it’s a red hat, and unless you are a fan of certain red hatted sports teams, I don’t think red hats are really all that cool.
ref: 2024 August 7, palewriter, “Can we talk about that hat?”, in Daily Kos:
glosses: Wearing a hat; wearing a specified type of hat.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Written with a circumflex ('^'). For example, â.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Of a restaurant or chef, awarded one or more 'hats' (for high quality food).
Derived terms: bowler-hatted
cowboy-hatted
stovepipe-hatted
straw-hatted
top-hatted
unhatted
hatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hat
teicoplanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teicoplanins
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of several glycopeptide antibiotics used against Gram-positive bacteria
Related terms: teicoplanic
barium thiocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The barium salt of thiocyanic acid, Ba(SCN)₂, used in photography and in dyeing
anemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anemia
pernicious anemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pernicious anemia
sulfamethoxazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌl.fə.mɪˈtɒk.sə.zəʊl/
ipa: /ˌsʌl.fəˌmɛˈθɑk.səˌzoʊl/
Forms: form: sulphamethoxazole
Etymology: From sulfa- (“sulfonamide”) + meth- + (is)oxazole.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antibacterial sulfonamide C₁₀H₁₁N₃O3S used alone or in combination with trimethoprim (as in the treatment of urinary tract infections or acute otitis media).
Derived terms: trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
have eyes bigger than one's stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has eyes bigger than one's stomach
form: having eyes bigger than one's stomach
form: had eyes bigger than one's stomach
form: had eyes bigger than one's stomach
form: have eyes bigger than one's belly
form: one's eyes are bigger than one's stomach
Senses: examples: text: He has eyes bigger than his stomach.
text: You have eyes bigger than your stomach.
glosses: To take more food on one's plate than one can eat; to be greedy.
examples: text: When choosing software, don't have eyes bigger than your stomach. Rather, stick to whatever level of software you need, and no more.
ref: 2010, Veechi Curtis, Lynley Averis, Bookkeeping For Dummies, page 75:
glosses: To want more than one can handle.
Related terms: bite off more than one can chew
in too deep
acesulfame potassium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potassium acesulfame
form: acesulfame K
Senses: glosses: The artificial sweetener, potassium 6-methyl-2,2-dioxo-oxathiazin-4-olate
Synonyms: E950
potassium acesulfame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acesulfame K
form: acesulfame potassium
Senses: glosses: A particular artificial sweetener.
acesulfame K
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acesulfame potassium
form: potassium acesulfame
Senses: glosses: A particular artificial sweetener.
bitchin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bitchin'
form: most bitchin'
Etymology: Variant of bitching.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitching (“excellent”).
bitchin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Variant of bitching.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitching.
bitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bitchen
form: most bitchen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bitching.
geland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelands
Senses: glosses: A kind of andisol associated with very cold climates.
bitchin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bitchinest
Etymology: From bitching.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitching.
bitchin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bitching.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitching.
bitchinest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bitchin: most bitchin
coleorhiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleorhizae
form: coleorrhiza
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sheath-like structure found in a monocotyledon plant seed that acts as a protective covering enclosing the radicle.
coleorhizae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coleorhiza
mentulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentula
domatium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dəʊˈmeɪʃəm/
/dəʊˈmeɪʃi.əm/
Forms: form: domatia
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin dōmatium, from Ancient Greek δωμάτιον (dōmátion, “chamber, bedroom”), diminutive of δῶμα (dôma, “house, dwelling place of animals”); akin to δόμος (dómos, “house”).
Senses: examples: text: A domatium typically takes the form of a hollow under a leaf, or a system of tunnels in a thorn or stem. Ideally, it is a mutualistic adaptation and should not be confused with simple damage by a borer or gall-forming pest, although commonly there is no sharp distinction between domatia of value to the plant and galls caused by harmful aphids and mites, for example.
text: All are ordinary anatomical features of the plants that the ants exploit, apparently in a unilateral manner. In contrast, the domatia listed comprehensively in Table 14-1 do appear uniquely to serve as ant nests.
ref: 1990, Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson, The Ants, Harvard University Press, page 535:
text: Although the earliest work on mites and leaf domatia was inspired by a belief that mites protected trees from fungal disease (O'Dowd and Willson 1989), mite–fungus–plant interactions received experimental attention only recently.
ref: 2004, David Evans Walter, “11: Hidden in Plain Sight: Mites in the Canopy”, in Margaret D. Lowman, H. Bruce Rinker, editors, Forest Canopies, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 237:
text: Domatia and extrafloral nectaries are plant structures that provide shelter and food to predaceous arthropods and thus affect herbivorous insects only indirectly.
ref: 2005, Louis M. Schoonhoven, Joop J. A. van Loon, Marcel Dicke, Insect-Plant Biology, Oxford University Press, page 40:
topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A chamber produced by a plant in which insects, mites, or fungi live.
wikipedia: Merriam-Webster
Derived terms: acarodomatium
myrmecodomatium
Königsberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: like German
enpr: kœ′nĭᴋʜs-bĕrk′
note: rhotic;like German
ipa: /ˈkøːnɪçsˌbɛɹk/
note: non-rhotic;like German
ipa: /ˈkøːnɪçsˌbɜːk/
ipa: /ˈkɜː.nɪɡzˌbɜːɡ/
ipa: /ˈkɜ.nɪɡzˌbɝɡ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.nɪɡzˌbɝɡ/
enpr: kā′nĭgz-bûrg′
Etymology: Borrowed from German Königsberg, from König (“king”) + Berg (“mountain”), named in honour of Ottokar II, king of Bohemia.
Senses: glosses: The former capital of East Prussia, Germany, now Kaliningrad, Russia.
wikipedia: Ottokar II of Bohemia
Related terms: Königsberger Klopse
Kaliningrad
Prussia
egg timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg timers
Senses: glosses: A small version of an hourglass used to time the boiling of an egg.
glosses: A timer that can be set to sound an alarm after a certain amount of time; a kitchen timer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An hourglass mouse pointer.
Hypernyms: hourglass
kitchen timer
relative dating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative datings
Senses: glosses: A method of determining the age of a fossil by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock.
glosses: An act of so doing.
radioactive dating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioactive datings
Senses: synonyms: radiometric dating
glosses: The process of determining the age of a material by estimating the amount of radioactive decay of one or more radioisotopes present in the material when it was formed.
Hyponyms: carbon dating
carbon-14 dating
C-14 dating
radiocarbon dating
radiometric dating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiometric datings
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most significant achievement of radiometric dating over the past two decades has been to provide an absolute calibration, in years, for the traditional sedimentary time scale.
ref: 1984, Don L. Eicher, Arcie Lee McAlester, Marcia L. Rottman, The History of the Earth's Crust, Prentice-Hall, page 16:
text: Radiometric dating of Moon rocks and meteorites has enabled us to determine that the age of the Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years.
ref: 1999, Stanley Chernicoff, Haydn A. Fox, Essentials of Geology, Houghton Mifflin, page 150:
text: For various reasons, we have discarded the radiometric datings obtained in minero-metallurgical regions of Huelva province:[…].
ref: 2001, Maria Eugenia Aubet, translated by Mary Turton, The Phoenicians and the West, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 379:
text: The first is radiometric dating of meteorites and rocks from the surface of the moon.
ref: 2002, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Volume 6, Academic Press, page 639:
glosses: Synonym of radioactive dating.
synonyms: word: radioactive dating
punctuated equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctuated equilibria
Senses: glosses: A theory of evolution, holding that evolutionary change tends to be characterized by long periods of stability, or equilibrium, punctuated by episodes of very fast development.
mentulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentula
fenland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenlands
Etymology: From fen + land.
Senses: glosses: a kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy
Derived terms: fenlander
Related terms: swamp
bog
marsh
moor