cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ultrashort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + short.
Senses: examples: ultrashort skirts
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: Very short.
examples: an ultrashort pulse
topics: sciences
glosses: Extremely short in duration, typically on the femtosecond scale
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a wavelength of between 1 and 10 metres
raw_tags: of a wave
examples: an ultrashort bond
topics: business
finance
glosses: Having a very short term of investment, typically less than a year
Synonyms: sense: very short
word: megashort
Related terms: ultrafast
hypershort
supershort
ultrashort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrashorts
Etymology: From ultra- + short.
Senses: examples: text: Ultrashorts were a way for the fund industry to appeal to bank customers, by offering an investment whose price did not vary much but whose yield was higher than that on certificates of deposit.
ref: 1995 February 19, Carole Gould, “Mutual Funds: Ultrashort but Long on Choices”, in The New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A bond with an extremely short term, typically less than a year
pushing up the daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push up the daisies
pushing up the daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pushing up daisies (“dead”).
ultrashorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrashort
half title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half titles
Senses: qualifier: book printing
glosses: A page before the title page in a book, bearing the title but no further details.
qualifier: book printing
glosses: An abbreviated title of a book at the head of the first page of the text, or a title of any subdivision of a book when printed in a full page.
Synonyms: bastard title
fly title
half note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical note that is two beats long, which is half the length of a semibreve and equal in length to two crotchets; a minim.
Silvestro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Silvestros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Silvestro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
illusionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illusionary
form: most illusionary
Etymology: From illusion + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: It is all illusionary today — the fantasy of cowboyism, the western Yippee Syndrome of spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle, of hats as large as Bangalore parasols, of boots smeared with the residue of cowlots […]
ref: 1980, David Muench, Jerry Flemmons, Texas, page 8:
glosses: Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion.
non-native speaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-native speakers
form: NNS
Etymology: From non-native + speaker or non- + native speaker.
Senses: examples: text: Although double modality is outside the scope of Standard English and is not addressed in the school syllabus, it is a widespread phenomenon which non-native speakers of English might find confusing and should at least be aware of.
ref: 2019, Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova, “Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’”, in Training, Language and Culture, volume 3, number 2, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: allophone
antonyms: native speaker
glosses: Someone who has another native tongue than the language being used.
Derived terms: non-native-speaker
illusionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uːʒənɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: illusionisms
Etymology: From illusion + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The performance of magic tricks.
glosses: The theory of dealing with illusions.
glosses: The doctrine that the material world is an illusion.
glosses: The use of illusionary effects in sculpture and art.
Derived terms: willusionism
pyramidal neuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyramidal neurons
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any large, triangular-shaped neuron in the cerebral cortex that transmit impulses to voluntary muscles
Synonyms: projection neuron
pyramidal cell
orange blister beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange blister beetles
Senses: glosses: A poisonous orange beetle, in genus Nemognatha.
black carpet beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black carpet beetles
Senses: glosses: An oval-shaped black beetle, Attagenus unicolor
imbroccata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbroccatas
form: imbrocata
Etymology: From Italian imbroccata, feminine past participle of imbroccare (“to hit a target”).
Senses: examples: text: But then, you haue your passages, and imbroccata's in courtship
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: A hit or thrust.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A hit or thrust.
A particular thrust
thanatophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thanatophiles
Etymology: From thanato- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person fascinated with death and death-related subjects, often sexually.
Related terms: thanatophilia
VHEMT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviː.ə.mənt/
homophone: vehement
Etymology: Pronounced “vehement” because, according to its founder, Les U. Knight, that is what they are.
Senses: examples: text: VHEMT spokesperson Les U. Knight states, “Adopting existing children avoids adding another wildlife habitat usurper to the excessive billions of us […]
ref: 2010, Dina McQueen, Finding Aster: Our Ethiopian Adoption Story, page 206:
text: The idea that humans are essentially cancerous is perhaps not a metaphor calculated to have broad appeal beyond (tiny) VHEMT, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (whose slogan is “May we live long and die out.”).
ref: 2013, John S. Dryzek, The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses, page 42:
glosses: Initialism of Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
wikipedia: The Economist
night shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night shifts
form: nightshift
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: graveyard shift (sometimes coordinate)
text: I prefer to work the night shift, but I take the day shift in stride.
antonyms: day shift
coordinate_terms: first shift
;
second shift
third shift
;
swing shift
glosses: A regularly scheduled period of work, during evening or night hours.
examples: text: Near-synonym: graveyard shift (sometimes coordinate)
text: You'll have to ask the night shift — the equipment was here when we left.
antonyms: day shift
coordinate_terms: first shift
;
second shift
third shift
;
swing shift
glosses: A group of workers who work during the night.
Derived terms: nightshifter
Related terms: at night
be on nights
night job
nightly
night owl
nightwork
night work
shiftwork
autoionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoionizes
form: autoionizing
form: autoionized
form: autoionized
form: autoionise
Etymology: From auto- + ionize.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To spontaneously transition from an electrically neutral state to a lower-energy ionized state
raw_tags: of an atom or molecule
Derived terms: autoionization
autoionizer
autoionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoionize
autoionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoionize
autoionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoionize
demarkations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demarkation
rusks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rusk
picrotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picrotoxins
Etymology: From picro- + toxin.
Senses: examples: text: In a Sydney inquest on a man who died of an overdose of picrotoxin, a seldom-used drug, while undergoing treatment for a brain ailment in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the public learned that, if a medical practitioner makes a risky experiment on a patient and kills him, the practitioner is not criminally liable.
ref: 1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous material, extracted from the seeds of plants of species Anamirta cocculus, used as a stimulant; it is a complex of two alkaloids: picrotoxinin and picrotin.
Synonyms: cocculin
Derived terms: picrotoxinin
Related terms: picrotoxic
supralittoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supralittorals
Etymology: From supra- + littoral.
Senses: glosses: The region of low-lying land closest to the shore, but subject to seasonal or occasional flooding; in marine environments, usually excluding the intertidal zone.
supralittoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supralittoral
form: most supralittoral
Etymology: From supra- + littoral.
Senses: glosses: situated in the region of low-lying land nearest the shore.
cocculin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: picrotoxin
Rett syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: For Andreas Rett, Austrian neurologist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inherited, neurological disease of (mostly female) children characterized by a small head and repetitive hand movements.
wikipedia: Andreas Rett
alumosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alumosilicates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion [AlSiO₄]⁻¹
Related terms: aluminosilicate
hectorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectorites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic silicate of magnesium and lithium; it is a clay mineral of the montmorillonite group.
servohydraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: servo-hydraulic
Senses: glosses: Describing any hydraulic servomechanism
solear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the soleus muscle.
terrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terranes
Etymology: Variant form of terrain.
Senses: examples: text: The mountain belt came together as an accretion of terranes.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 195:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A block of the Earth's crust that differs from the surrounding material, and is separated from it by faults.
Related terms: terrain
chronozone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒnəzəʊn/
Forms: form: chronozones
Etymology: From chrono- + zone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of strata formed during the same chron of geologic time
Derived terms: subchronozone
aragonitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aragonitic
form: most aragonitic
Etymology: From aragonite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or formed from aragonite
colourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colourists
form: colorist
Etymology: From colour + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who colours; an artist with a talent for colouring
glosses: A hairdresser who is a specialist in colouring and tinting hair.
biomineralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biomineralizes
form: biomineralizing
form: biomineralized
form: biomineralized
Etymology: From bio- + mineralize.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, it seems more likely that this organism biomineralizes and arranges endogenous magnetite crystals in a highly controlled fashion within the cell where intracellular structural elements play a significant role in magnetosome, as has been shown for magnetotactic prokaryotes.
ref: 2011, Alexander Altenbach, Anoxia: Evidence for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Strategies:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To mineralize within a biological organism; e.g. to form bone (in vertebrates) or silica skeleton (in diatoms).
Related terms: biomineralization
caryophylliid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caryophylliids
Senses: glosses: Any coral of the family Caryophylliidae.
fill soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fill soils
Senses: topics: agriculture
archaeology
business
construction
history
horticulture
human-sciences
lifestyle
manufacturing
sciences
glosses: Soil used for filling, that is, found within or contemporaneously placed within a cavity, or a supply of soil for use as fill.
septothecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septotheca + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the septotheca.
desmocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmocytes
Etymology: From desmo- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several elongated interstitial cells, but especially the fibroblasts
amplicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amplicons
Etymology: From ampli(fy) + -icon (as in replicon).
Senses: glosses: A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the product of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction
Synonyms: amplimer
Derived terms: ampliconic
interamplicon
subamplicon
amplicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amplicon
ryanodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rʌɪˈæn.əd.iːn/
ipa: /raɪˈæn.əˌdiːn/
ipa: /raɪˈæn.əd.ɪn/
Forms: form: ryanodines
Etymology: From Ryania + d + -ine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physiology
sciences
glosses: A poisonous alkaloid which occurs in the stems of the tropical American shrub Ryania speciosa (family Flacourtiaceae) and has been used as an insecticide and in experimental studies of calcium release within cells.
Related terms: ryanotoxin
Bragg peak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bragg peaks
Etymology: For William Henry Bragg, English physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A maximum in the graph of energy loss of a high-energy particle, as it travels through matter, just before it comes to rest.
smokestack industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokestack industries
Senses: examples: text: Again, the government policy to be pursued when a smokestack industry such as steel is coping with the demand-side effects of a worldwide recession is quite different from what should be done when another smokestack industry such as autos is trying to regain is competitive footing[…]
ref: 1986, Paul R. Krugman, Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 252:
text: Around the same time, nationally syndicated journalist Robert Walters was reporting that ‘many members of Congress refuse to even acknowledge the fact that uncounted thousands of jobs in the auto, steel and other traditional “smokestack” industries have been irretrievably lost while employment opportunities in high technology fields are becoming available at an accelerating rate[…]
ref: 2019, Richard Carr, quoting Robert Walters, March of the Moderates […] , Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Any industry or large manufacturing facility that uses smokestacks to dispose of unwanted materials into the atmosphere.
cross-foster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-fosters
form: cross-fostering
form: cross-fostered
form: cross-fostered
Etymology: From cross- + foster.
Senses: glosses: To remove offspring from its biological mother to be reared by another, especially so as to equalize the numbers in litters.
run year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run years
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A year in which salmon return to spawn in a particular river
endfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of end-feet.
end-feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endfeet
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Button-like terminals of axons that make synaptic connections with other nerve-cells.
Synonyms: axon terminals
wild-type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild-types
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wild type.
wild type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild types
form: wild-type
form: wildtype
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature.
The phenotype of the dominant allele (heterozygous genotype or homozygous dominant genotype).
Related terms: in the wild
garden variety
hot-swappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hot-swap + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be inserted or removed without switching off the computer.
raw_tags: of hardware
Related terms: hot-pluggable
pseudocolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocolors
Etymology: From pseudo- + color.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudocolour.
pseudocolour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocolours
form: pseudocolor
Etymology: From pseudo- + colour.
Senses: glosses: An arbitrary colour assigned to each gray level of a monochrome image; used especially in thermography
coalitionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coalitionary
form: most coalitionary
Etymology: From coalition + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing a coalition
Marky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Markie
Etymology: From Mark + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Mark.
affear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: affears
form: affearing
form: affeared
form: affeared
form: afear
Etymology: Alternative form of afear.
Senses: glosses: To frighten, to scare; to terrify.
Derived terms: affeard
affears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affear
affearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affear
affeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affear
affeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affeared
form: most affeared
Senses: glosses: frightened, afraid
fearnaught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fearnaughts
form: fearnought
Etymology: From fear + naught.
Senses: glosses: A fearless person.
examples: text: [T]he crew however stand it tolerable well, each being cloathed with a Fearnought jacket, a pair of trowsers of the same and a large cap made of canvas & baize, these together with an additional glass of brandy every morning enables them to bear the cold without flinshing.
ref: 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 4 January
glosses: A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnought
glosses: A warm garment, especially one made of this cloth.
fearmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/
Forms: form: fearmongers
form: fear-monger
form: fear monger
Etymology: From fear + monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting something undesirable”).
Senses: examples: text: I think the Tea Partiers, despite their contradictions, are not all wrong about Big Government. But I worry that, in time, a clever fearmonger could manipulate popular opinion into an electoral mandate.
ref: 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “The Deepest Dangers Facing the United States [print version: Why It’s Time to Worry]”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2024:
synonyms: alarmist
fearmongerer
panicmonger
scaremonger
coordinate_terms: hatemonger
glosses: Someone who spreads fear.
Synonyms: word: alarmist
word: fearmonger
word: fearmongerer
word: panicmonger
word: scaremonger
Hypernyms: word: person
word: troublemaker
Related terms: word: fearmongering
word: daunter
word: discourager
word: hatemonger
word: intimidator
word: overwhelmer
word: pessimist
word: terrorist
word: fear
word: frighten
fearmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/
Forms: form: fearmongers
form: fearmongering
form: fearmongered
form: fearmongered
form: fear-monger
form: fear monger
Etymology: Back-formation from fearmongering.
Senses: glosses: To spread fear.
Derived terms: fearmongerer
fearmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fearmonger
fearmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fearmonger
fearnaughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fearnaught
cry the blues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries the blues
form: crying the blues
form: cried the blues
form: cried the blues
Senses: examples: text: "Young people have forgotten how to cry the blues," said Big Bill Broonzy as he lay dying in a dark room above the littered streets of Chicago's Negro South Side.
ref: 1958 September 1, “Best of the Blues”, in Time:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To sing in the style of blues music.
examples: text: "The average citizen gets an extreme emotional delight in ‘crying the blues’ to anyone who might lend an attentive ear."
ref: 1934 October 3, “Slang Declared Barometer Of Nation's State Of Mind”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 20 Nov 2008, page 15:
text: We have immense corporations that cry the blues all day long about how their pension costs are ruining them.
ref: 2006 July 9, Ben Stein, “Everybody's Business”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Nov 2008:
glosses: To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation.
cap in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the act of removing one's headwear in a sign of respect or submission. Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: No longer were we required to go cap in hand to the banks if we wanted money: they were coming to us.
text: He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; […]
ref: 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter 1, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:
text: But with income from fares largely wiped out, it has come at a price. TfL had to go cap-in-hand to central Government for money. In doing so, it had to agree to changes - interference, if you prefer that choice of word - that it previously would have resisted.
ref: 2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 42:
text: The notion that London will go cap in hand for a bailout too big for the IMF to deliver is absurd.
ref: 2022 October 5, Yanis Varoufakis, “Is This the End of ‘Socialism for the Rich’?”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 15 Oct 2022:
glosses: In a humble and respectful manner.
Synonyms: hat in hand
Related terms: doff
doff one's hat to
poormouth
twizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twizzles
Etymology: Alteration of *twissel (“to double”), from twissel (“double, twofold”). More at twissel.
Senses: glosses: A turning, twisting or spinning motion.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A figure skating maneuver that is a surface spin that travels across the ice.
twizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twizzles
form: twizzling
form: twizzled
form: twizzled
Etymology: Alteration of *twissel (“to double”), from twissel (“double, twofold”). More at twissel.
Senses: glosses: To rotate, spin or twirl.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To perform the twizzle maneuver.
debt instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debt instruments
Senses: examples: text: In this case, Entity A would be required to separate the equity conversion option (the embedded derivative) from the host debt instrument
ref: 2005, Abbas Ali Mirza, Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Workbook, page 235:
text: The creditworthiness of a publicly traded debt instrument is often judged in terms of the credit ratings assigned to it by investment rating
ref: 2005, James C. Van Horne with John Martin Wachowicz, Fundamentals of Financial Management, page 525:
topics: business
finance
law
glosses: A document evidencing a debt; the debt so evidenced.
bya
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: The first (oldest) unit of time is the Precambrian Supereon, which covers much of Earth's history from its origins roughly 4.55 bya to 545 mya. Very primitive, one-celled life-forms arose as early as 4.0 bya and near the end of the era (570 mya) the oldest known fossils of multi-celled organisms appear.
ref: 2015, Joyce A. Quinn, Susan L. Woodward, “Introduction”, in Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features, volumes I: A–L, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxxi:
related: word: Bya
word: BYA
word: Bya
word: BYA
glosses: Abbreviation of billion years ago (A symbol for a unit of measure.)
Synonym of Gya (“billion years ago (short scale): 10⁹ years ago”).
coordinate_terms: kya
mya
synonyms: word: Gya
extra: (“billion years ago (short scale): 10⁹ years ago”)
related: word: Bya
word: BYA
glosses: Abbreviation of billion years ago (A symbol for a unit of measure.)
billion years ago (long scale):10¹² years ago: a trillion years ago (short scale).
bioclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + climatic or bioclimate + -ic.
Senses: examples: bioclimatic interactions
glosses: Of or pertaining to the relationship between living things and climate.
examples: bioclimatic housing
topics: architecture
glosses: Focused on providing a comfortable microclimate.
Derived terms: bioclimatically
bioclimatic law
bioclimatics
ostricization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ostracization.
ostracization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostracizations
form: ostracisation
Etymology: From ostracize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The state of being ostracized.
glosses: The process or practice of ostracizing.
Synonyms: ostracism
shunning
silent treatment
fireplace match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireplace matches
Senses: glosses: A fire-starting match with a long shaft used for lighting a fire, where holding a short-shaft match close to the ignitable fuel might pose a risk.
l'ee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: l'ees
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of licensee.
p'ee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p'ees
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of patentee.
followed by
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From the passive voice of follow, and still frequently used as such.
Senses: examples: text: Yesterday morning I saw two ducks, followed by a gaggle of geese in the afternoon, followed by a swan in the evening. All told, it was a bird-filled day for me.
glosses: and then, and after that.
overspreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overspread
overspreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overspread
overspreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overspreadings
Senses: examples: text: But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]
ref: 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese, page 252:
glosses: That which spreads over something else.
overspreading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overspreading
form: most overspreading
Senses: examples: text: The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: Rampant; encroaching.
offsprings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offspring
Senses: glosses: plural of offspring
heterophoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterophorias
Etymology: By surface analysis, hetero- + -phore + -ia; from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + -φορία (-phoría), from φέρειν (phérein, “to bear”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Latent strabismus, which occurs only during dissociation of the left eye and right eye, whereby fusion of the eyes is absent
Related terms: heterophoric
cerumenolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerumenolytics
Etymology: From cerumen + -lytic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
cerumenolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cerumenolytic
form: most cerumenolytic
Etymology: From cerumen + -lytic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to cerumenolysis, the process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
cerumenolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerumen + -lysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
Derived terms: cerumenolytic
cerumenolytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerumenolytic
grumous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grumous
form: most grumous
Etymology: From grume + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The emergency room was filled with people bleeding. Grumous battlers with misshapen heads.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188:
glosses: Resembling grume; thick and lumpy; soft and semisolid
ear candling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ear candle + -ing.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: An alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.
Synonyms: ear coning
thermal-auricular therapy
sinopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnəʊpɪə/
Forms: form: sinopias
form: sinopie
Etymology: From Italian sinopia. Compare sinoper.
Senses: synonyms: sinoper
glosses: A reddish-brown ochre-like pigment, derived from sinople, used in traditional oil painting and as the cartoon for frescos.
examples: text: Today many of the sinopias have been uncovered by a method called stacco.
ref: 1985, Joseph Reese Strayer, Dictionary of the Middle Ages:
text: In the course of lifting the frescoes from the walls the restorers discovered Simone's full-scale working drawings (in red chalk made from iron oxide and known as sinopie) which lay directly beneath the painted plaster [...].
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 89:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The rough sketch (executed in sinopia) which underlies a fresco.
Naziism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nazism.
fabric softener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæbrɪk ˈsɒfənər/
ipa: /ˈfæbrɪk ˈsɔfənər/
ipa: /ˈfæbrɪk ˈsɑfənər/
Forms: form: fabric softeners
Senses: glosses: A chemical agent used to prevent static cling and make fabric softer by coating the surface of the cloth fibers with a thin layer of chemicals; these chemicals have lubricant properties and are electrically conductive, thus making the fibers feel smoother and preventing buildup of static electricity; usually available as a liquid or as dryer sheets.
Synonyms: fabric conditioner
fabric softeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabric softener
semenologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semenologists
Etymology: From semen + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: A physician working in reproductive medicine who specializes in the study of semen.
semenologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semenologist
reproductive medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The area of medical specialization concerned with aiding fertility and reproduction.
grume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: grumes
Etymology: From Latin grumus (“little heap”).
Senses: glosses: A thick semisolid
glosses: A clot (of blood)
Derived terms: grumous
indivision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The absence of division; an undivided state.
sinopie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinopia
sinistrorse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinistrorse
form: most sinistrorse
Etymology: See sinistrorsal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Turning to the left (of the observer) as it grows taller.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a positive torsion.
coevolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəʊ.ɪˈvɒlv/
ipa: /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈvɑlv/
ipa: /-ˈvɔlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: coevolves
form: coevolving
form: coevolved
form: coevolved
Etymology: From co- + evolve.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: To evolve, along with another organism, via coevolution.
coevolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coevolve
coevolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has evolved, along with another organism, via coevolution
factsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factsheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fact sheet.
fact sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fact sheets
Senses: glosses: A document that shows the most important or relevant information about a particular topic in a simple, easy-to-read manner.
hepatocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + cellular.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the cells of the liver
Derived terms: hepatocellular adenoma
hepatocellular carcinoma
hepatocellular fusion
hepatocellular jaundice
interhepatocellular
intrahepatocellular
nonhepatocellular
inconsequentia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The life had been lived and chronicled, and what remained was a happy retirement filled with those inconsequentia which made life pleasant
ref: 2000, Colley Cibber with Byrne R. S. Fone, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber:
glosses: Trivia; items or facts of little or no importance.
indistinguishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indistinguishably
form: most indistinguishably
Etymology: From indistinguishable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings, which seemed to her either "quite splendid" or "really too bad for words." She used to paste these into books, or send them to her friends, having first drawn a broad bar in blue pencil down the margin, a proceeding which signified equally and indistinguishably the depths of her reprobation or the heights of her approval.
ref: 1919 October 20, Virginia Woolf, chapter VI, in Night and Day, London: Duckworth and Company […], →OCLC, page 81:
glosses: In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
glosses: Indiscriminately.
inductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inductivities
Etymology: From inductive + -ity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the capacity for magnetic inductance.
glosses: The susceptibility to a process of induction (in various senses).
Derived terms: noninductivity
osteoinductivity
multitrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multitrophic
form: most multitrophic
form: multi-trophic
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Involving species of different trophic levels of the same food chain
nematology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nemato- + -logy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of biology that studies nematode roundworms.
Derived terms: nematological
nematologist
replisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replisomes
Etymology: From replication + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A matrix of enzymes that is the site of DNA replication in the nucleus of a cell.
subsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsequences
Etymology: From subsequent.
Senses: glosses: A subsequent act or thing; a sequel.
examples: text: It must be remembered, that what we call exertion, in our bodily operations, is nothing more, as we have seen, than the subsequence of muscular motion to the feeling which we denominate desire or will; as magnetic action, in a process purely material, is the subsequence of the motion of iron to the approach of a loadstone.
ref: 1818, Thomas Brown, Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, third edition, page 83:
glosses: The state of being subsequent.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: posteriority
raw_tags: of being subsequent
subsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsequences
Etymology: From sub- + sequence.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A sequence that is contained within a larger one.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A subset of an array with the same ordering.
Related terms: substring
tumourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tumourous
form: most tumourous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tumorous.
virological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From virology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to virology
intaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 1900 James Cockcroft et al.The American And English Encyclopedia of Law A. & E. Encycl. of L., 2d Edition
A charter-party provided for a certain rate of freight on the cargo intaken. The word "delivered" in the charter-party had been stricken out and the word intaken written in. The court said, in construing this provision: "If the number of tons delivered is conclusive evidence of the number of tons intaken, the careful erasure from the charter-party of the printed word delivered' and the insertion of the written word intaken was an idle ceremony. This would assume, and give to respondents the full benefit of the assumption, that the weight of the cargo is fixed by a definite, certain, indexible, and unchangeable standard; that there can be no error or fluctuation, loss of quantity, or diminution in weight; and that the exact number of tons which went in at Pomaron would come out here. The evidence discloses the fact that the weight of the intaken cargo and the output at the port of delivery seldom, if ever, agree."
glosses: past participle of intake
debt-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛt.ɹɪd.n̩/
Forms: form: more debt-ridden
form: most debt-ridden
Etymology: From debt + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: Help is seldom available for debt-ridden citizens.
glosses: Dominated by debt.
crime-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crime-ridden
form: most crime-ridden
Etymology: From crime + -ridden.
Senses: examples: one of the most crime-ridden neighbourhoods of the city
glosses: dominated or plagued by crime.
crisis-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crisis-ridden
form: most crisis-ridden
Etymology: From crisis + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: The crisis-ridden automobile industry is seeking a bail-out from the government.
glosses: Dominated or plagued by crises.
war-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more war-ridden
form: most war-ridden
Etymology: From war + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: War-ridden countries are generally unable to provide basic services for their citizens.
glosses: Dominated or plagued by war.
gynæcocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gynecocracy.
scum-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scum-ridden
form: most scum-ridden
Etymology: From scum + -ridden.
Senses: examples: the scum-ridden streets of the city
glosses: dominated or plagued by scum.
sleaze-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sleaze-ridden
form: most sleaze-ridden
Etymology: From sleaze + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: The sleaze-ridden government was forced to resign and a general election was announced.
glosses: Dominated by sleaze.
strife-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strife-ridden
form: most strife-ridden
Etymology: From strife + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: Transport was difficult to arrange in the strife-ridden province.
glosses: Dominated by strife.
sinopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinopia
disease-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disease-ridden
form: most disease-ridden
Etymology: From disease + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: Disease-ridden livestock can pose a danger to public health.
glosses: dominated by disease.
obstacle-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obstacle-ridden
form: most obstacle-ridden
Etymology: From obstacle + -ridden.
Senses: examples: the obstacle-ridden path to peace in the Middle East
glosses: impeded or plagued by obstacles.
scaleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scaleable
form: most scaleable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scalable.
scaleability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scalability.
intaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intake
intaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intakings
Senses: examples: text: Experiencing like breathing is a rhythm of intakings and outgivings.
ref: 1934, John Dewey, Art as Experience:
glosses: The act of taking something in.
glosses: money received; income
homospecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + specific.
Senses: qualifier: systematics
glosses: Of, or belonging to the same species
Related terms: heterospecific
homospecificity
interspecific
show of force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shows of force
Senses: examples: text: The military parade was an opportunity for the new government to give a show of force to the neighbouring countries.
synonyms: show of strength
power move
glosses: An open demonstration of power by display of a great number of people or resources.
schussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schuss
book-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more book-ridden
form: most book-ridden
Etymology: From book + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: He refused to come out of his dusty book-ridden room.
glosses: Dominated or plagued by books.
you'd've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: If you had been there, you'd've laughed your head off.
glosses: you would have
he'd've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːdəv/
Forms: form: he’d’ve
Senses: examples: text: If I had returned, he'd've made me pay again.
glosses: he would have; he would’ve; he woulda.
caste-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caste-ridden
form: most caste-ridden
Etymology: From caste + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: A caste-ridden society has an additional problem to overcome.
glosses: Dominated or plagued by castes.
priest-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more priest-ridden
form: most priest-ridden
form: priestridden
Etymology: From priest + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: Cologne […] is much decayed within these Hundred Years, having been much Priest-ridden; a Misfortune that hath undone many other great Cities. The Jesuits have had so great Influence upon the Magistrates, that they prevailed with them to banish all Protestants […]
ref: 1691, William Carr, An Accurate Description of the United Netherlands, and of the Most Considerable Parts of Germany, Sweden, & Denmark, London: Timothy Childe, page 83:
text: 1726, William Rufus Chetwood, The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, London: J. Watts, 3rd edition, 1735, p. 150,
The Father finding the Man had too much Understanding to be Priest-ridden, thought it his best way to hold his Tongue.
text: […] Padre Vicentio incautiously drove his heavy spurs into the flanks of his mule as that puzzled animal was hesitating on the brink of a steep declivity. Whether the poor beast was indignant at this novel outrage, or had been for some time reflecting on the evils of being priest-ridden, has not transpired; enough that he suddenly threw up his heels, pitching the reverend man over his head, and, having accomplished this feat, coolly dropped on his knees and tumbled after his rider.
ref: 1873, Bret Harte, “The Adventure of Padre Vicentio”, in Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands, and Other Sketches, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 302:
text: We are an unfortunately priestridden race and always were and always will be till the end of the chapter.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Dominated or plagued by priests.
we'd've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: If you hadn't got us out of that traffic jam, we'd've missed the flight.
glosses: we would have
they'd've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈðeɪdəv/
Forms: form: they’d’ve
Senses: examples: text: If Jones hadn't been sent off for a foul, they'd've won easily.
glosses: they would have; they would’ve; they woulda.
conflict-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conflict-ridden
form: most conflict-ridden
Etymology: From conflict + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: NGOs often work in conflict-ridden areas of the world.
glosses: Dominated or plagued by conflict.
angst-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angst-ridden
form: most angst-ridden
Etymology: From angst + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: Teenage angst-ridden poetry may not be to the liking of all readers.
text: But it wasn't not knowing what to call Will that was bothering Juliet. After all, it was a problem faced by a lot of women who'd moved on from angst-ridden Bridget Jones singledom into angst-ridden coupledom.
ref: 2011, Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Dominated or plagued by angst.
impennate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Characterized by short wings unsuitable for flying, covered with feathers resembling scales, as in the penguins.
drug-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drug-ridden
form: most drug-ridden
Etymology: From drug + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: The country's overcrowded and drug-ridden prisons will be reviewed by an independent board of inquiry.
glosses: Dominated or plagued by illicit drugs.