cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊmeɪt/
Forms: form: chromates
Etymology: From chromic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt of chromic acid; in solution the yellow chromate anion (CrO₄²⁻) is in equilibrium with the orange dichromate anion (Cr₂O₇²⁻), the relative amount of each ion depending on the pH; they are both very powerful oxidizing agents
Derived terms: arsenochromate
bichromate
cadmium chromate
calcium chromate
chlorochromate
chromated copper arsenate
chromate of iron
chromate of lead
chromate of potash
chromate of potassium
chromatian
chromatize
dichromate
fluorochromate
metachromate
monochromate
peroxychromate
plumbous chromate
polychromate
potassium chromate
pyridinium chlorochromate
sodium chromate
tetrachromate
trichromate
zinc chromate
zinc chromate hydroxide
chromate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊmeɪt/
Forms: form: chromates
form: chromating
form: chromated
form: chromated
Etymology: From chromic acid + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To treat with a chromate solution
Related terms: Le Chatelier's principle
dichromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈkɹəʊmeɪt/
Forms: form: dichromates
Etymology: From di- + chromate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of dichromic acid; in solution the orange dichromate anion.(Cr₂O₇²⁻) is in equilibrium with the yellow chromate anion (CrO₄²⁻), the relative amount of each ion depending on the pH; they are both very powerful oxidizing agents
Derived terms: gum dichromate
potassium dichromate
dichromate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈkɹəʊmeɪt/
Forms: form: dichromates
form: dichromating
form: dichromated
form: dichromated
Etymology: From di- + chromate.
Senses: glosses: To treat with a dichromate.
Related terms: Le Chatelier's principle
treehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiːˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: treehouses
form: tree house
form: tree-house
Etymology: From tree + house. First use appears c. 1867. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: so that I am high and dry, and have all the better view too, quite a grand flight of steps-a broad ladder-up into my house. The Mahaga lads and I call it my tree-house.
ref: 1867, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands, Volume 2, page 177:
glosses: A house, or similar structure within a tree, or several trees, built with light materials.
glosses: A tropical residence built in a tree, or on stilts.
pushing up daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushing daisies
form: pushing up the daisies
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push up daisies
pushing up daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pushing daisies
form: pushing up the daisies
Senses: synonyms: word: six feet under
word: asleep
word: at rest
word: cadaverous
word: clay-cold
word: deceased
word: resting
word: decomposed
word: defunct
word: departed
word: expired
word: extinct
word: fey
word: gone
word: good
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: kaput
word: late
word: lifeless
word: living impaired
word: low
word: no longer with us
word: no more
word: perished
word: reposing
word: six feet deep
word: six feet under
word: stiff
word: wasted
word: whilom
word: with God
glosses: Dead.
kicked the bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick the bucket
brown bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown breads
Senses: glosses: Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread.
synonyms: wheat bread
glosses: Whole-wheat bread.
Related terms: white bread
wholemeal bread
brown bread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.
ref: 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:
glosses: dead
earthhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθˌhaʊs/
ipa: /ˈɝθˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: earthhouses
form: earth house
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English erthe hous, from Old English eorþhūs, from Proto-West Germanic *erþahūs, from Proto-Germanic *erþahūsą, equivalent to earth + house.
Senses: examples: text: There were many other
heirlooms heaped inside the earth-house,
because long ago, with deliberate care,
some forgotten person had deposited the whole
rich inheritance of a high-born race
in this ancient cache.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 71:
glosses: An underground chamber or habitation; a souterrain.
glosses: A dwelling that has been built to blend in with the surrounding landscape, being mostly underground with a grassy contoured roof; it may also be completely underground, or have a topping of intensive growth.
wholemeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊlmiːl/
ipa: [ˈhɔʊɫmiəɫ]
Etymology: From whole + meal.
Senses: synonyms: wholegrain
whole-wheat
glosses: Containing or made from the whole grain, including the bran.
raw_tags: of bread or flour
Derived terms: wholemeal bread
wholemeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊlmiːl/
ipa: [ˈhɔʊɫmiəɫ]
Forms: form: wholemeals
Etymology: From whole + meal.
Senses: examples: text: Many varieties of wholemeals are made and all wholemeals have been popular for many years. Now, however, the stone-ground meals are coming into favour […]
ref: 1939, Edmund Baron Bennion, Breadmaking: Its Principles and Practice, page 29:
text: As might be expected, the small white loaf was bought mainly by the smaller wholly adult households, who also purchased much more wholemeal, other brown and "other" bread than did any type of family with children.
ref: 1955, Domestic Food Consumption and Expenditure: Annual Report of the National Food Survey Committee:
glosses: Whole-wheat flour.
moult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊlt/
ipa: /mɒlt/
ipa: /məʊlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
Forms: form: moults
form: molt
Etymology: From Middle English mouten, from Old English *mutian (cf. bemutian), from Latin mūtō, mūtāre. Doublet of mute and mutate. Un-etymological ⟨l⟩ was introduced into the spelling by mistakenly assuming a French origin with -l- (compare fault, vault and solder with correctly restored etymological ⟨l⟩).
Senses: examples: text: Some birds change colour during their winter moult.
synonyms: ecdysis
moulting
glosses: The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
synonyms: exuvia
glosses: The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
Derived terms: catastrophic moult
postmoult
premoult
moult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊlt/
ipa: /mɒlt/
ipa: /məʊlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
Forms: form: moults
form: moulting
form: moulted
form: moulted
form: molt
Etymology: From Middle English mouten, from Old English *mutian (cf. bemutian), from Latin mūtō, mūtāre. Doublet of mute and mutate. Un-etymological ⟨l⟩ was introduced into the spelling by mistakenly assuming a French origin with -l- (compare fault, vault and solder with correctly restored etymological ⟨l⟩).
Senses: synonyms: shed
glosses: To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.
glosses: To shed in such a manner.
Derived terms: intermoult
moulter
unmoulted
hair of the dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ellipsis of hair of the dog that bit one, a folk remedy for rabies by placing hair from the dog that bites one into the wound. The use of the phrase as a metaphor for a hangover treatment dates at least to the 16ᵗʰ century.
The principle of “curing like with like” has existed in various cultures historically; see hair of the dog at Wikipedia for details; the use of the phrase “hair of the dog” for a hangover cure dates to antiquity, an early form being found in the Ugaritic text KTU 1.1114 line 29, where the chief god of the pantheon, i/el, takes some for his health. The usage is in turn a borrowing from Akkadian.A Primer on Ugaritic, p. 121. Cambridge University Press, 2007. →ISBN.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: coffin dodger, corpse reviver, pick-me-up, eye-opener; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
text: I'll be right back. I just need a little hair of the dog that bit me.
text: But with the morning cool repentance came. I felt, in the keenest manner, the violence and absurdity of my conduct, and was obliged to confess that wine and passion had lowered my intellects. . . . I descended to the breakfast hall, like a criminal to receive sentence. . . . [H]e poured out a large bumper of brandy, exhorting me to swallow "a hair of the dog that had bit me."
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Rob Roy:
text: Ha ha! Put a good face upon it, and drink again. Another hair of the dog that bit you, captain!
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 52, in Barnaby Rudge:
text: The good times are killing me / Enough hair of the dog to make myself an entire rug
ref: 2004, Modest Mouse, “The Good Times Are Killing Me”, in Good News for People Who Love Bad News:
glosses: An alcoholic drink, particularly when taken the morning after to cure a hangover.
Related terms: word: doghair
word: dog fur
word: dogfur
word: pelt of the dog
word: a man about a dog
morning after
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning afters
form: mornings after
Etymology: Ellipsis of morning after the night before. Compare French lendemain de veille.
Senses: glosses: The morning after a night of drinking, when one feels its after-effects and is hungover.
Related terms: morning-after pill
in the cold light of day
inkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋklɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋklɪŋ
Etymology: From inkle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inkle
morning-after
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Attributive form of morning after.
glosses: Of or relating to a contraceptive that may be effective up to several days after sexual intercourse has taken place.
Related terms: morning after
just desserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of just deserts; this spelling is sometimes used as a pun in, for example, restaurant names.
grigio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grigios
Etymology: From Pinot Grigio, Italian form of French Pinot gris, "gray Pinot".
Senses: examples: text: Like good wine, if you'll let me get a wee bit elitist on you. You probably won't know the difference between a chardonnay and a grigio on first tasting, even if you know they aren't quite the same.
ref: 1998, Mike Hoye, “Racquet advice for newbie”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):
text: "Latte and a grigio," the waiter agreed.
ref: 2006, Laurie R King, The art of detection:
glosses: A Pinot Grigio wine.
teller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlə/
ipa: /ˈtɛləɹ/
rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tellers
Etymology: From Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”), equivalent to tell (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who tells stories.
examples: text: Sukumar was thirty years old, four years into his bank job, where he’d moved up to the role of teller, turning up to work on time every day, counting the money, making the deposits, entering in the ledger, filing the reports.
ref: 2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 93:
topics: banking
business
synonyms: cashier
glosses: A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
examples: text: In the case discussed above, for example, the employee who stole money did so by waiting until another teller was on break, then logging on to that teller's register, ringing a “no sale,” and taking the cash.
ref: 2007, Joseph T. Wells, Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection, page 107:
text: The young femail teller fingered the prices into the cash register at great speed with great dexterity while simultaneously holding a conversation with the teller in the next lane.
ref: 2013, Alastair Henry, Awakening in the Northwest Territories:
text: The main street was shuttered; the only sign of life she detected was behind the window of the petrol station, where the teller was counting the day's cash balance into the till.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 60:
glosses: A cashier at any place of business.
topics: banking
business
synonyms: word: cash machine
word: ATM
word: automated teller machine
glosses: Synonym of automated teller machine.
glosses: A person who counts the votes in an election.
Derived terms: automated teller
automatic teller
automatic teller machine
fortune-teller
interactive teller machine
rascal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑːskl̩/
ipa: /ˈɹæskl̩/
rhymes: -ɑːskəl
rhymes: -æskəl
Forms: form: rascals
Etymology: Recorded since c.1330, as Middle English rascaile (“people of the lowest class, rabble of an army”), derived from 12th century Old French rascaille (“outcast, rabble”) (modern French racaille), perhaps from rasque (“mud, filth, scab, dregs”), from Vulgar Latin *rasicō (“to scrape”). The singular form is first attested in 1461; the present extended sense of "low, dishonest person" is from early 1586.
Senses: examples: text: Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
text: And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: A dishonest person; a rogue, a scoundrel, a trickster.
examples: text: That little rascal bit me!
text: If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.
glosses: Sometimes diminutive: a cheeky person or creature; a troublemaker.
glosses: A member of a criminal gang.
Synonyms: sense: dishonest person; rogue
word: villain
sense: cheeky person
word: devil
word: imp
word: mischief-maker
word: scamp
word: scoundrel
word: troublemaker
Derived terms: fat rascal
rascal stew
rascal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑːskl̩/
ipa: /ˈɹæskl̩/
rhymes: -ɑːskəl
rhymes: -æskəl
Forms: form: more rascal
form: most rascal
Etymology: Recorded since c.1330, as Middle English rascaile (“people of the lowest class, rabble of an army”), derived from 12th century Old French rascaille (“outcast, rabble”) (modern French racaille), perhaps from rasque (“mud, filth, scab, dregs”), from Vulgar Latin *rasicō (“to scrape”). The singular form is first attested in 1461; the present extended sense of "low, dishonest person" is from early 1586.
Senses: glosses: Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.
Derived terms: rascality
rascally
rascalry
come-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmˌɑn/
ipa: /ˈkʌmˌɔn/
ipa: /ˈkʌmˌɒn/
rhymes: (Southern American English) -ʌmɔn
Forms: form: come-ons
Etymology: Deverbal from come on to. First use appears c. 1897, in the publications of Edward W. Townsend. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: The free offers are just come-ons to get you in the store so the sales staff can work on you.
text: He's got a come-on from New Jersey that I'm to steer to the turning joint.
ref: 1897, Edward W. Townsend, Near A Whole City Full, page 164:
glosses: Something intended to attract, as in an advertisement.
examples: text: I thought he'd asked me to lunch to discuss business; I wasn't expecting a come-on.
text: I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
ref: 1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records
text: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
ref: 1989, Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally... (motion picture), spoken by Harry Burns (Billy Crystal):
glosses: A statement or sometimes an action reflecting sexual or romantic interest.
examples: text: When the public no longer rushed to the box-office to buy such synthetic exaltations of the spirit, pitchmen like Jerome K. Jerome and the aforesaid Kennedy got out their theopathic apparatus and had at the trade with elixirs in which actors, their faces chalked into a pallor exceeding Nicky Arnstein's, were programmed as A Stranger, A Wayfarer, or Manson and, by conducting themselves for the major portion of two hours like overly verbose and objectionable pallbearers, peculiarly persuaded the come-ons that they were replicas of Christ and that the rest of the cast, a bunch of low-lifes, were converted to the faith by them.
ref: 1975, George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff, The Theatre Book of the Year, 1942-1943, page 82:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A bad actor whose talents do not extend far beyond walking onto the stage.
Related terms: come on
come-hither
show ankle
citric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪtɹɪk ˈæsɪd/
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless crystalline compound, 2-hydroxy-1,2,3-propanetricarboxylic acid, C₆H₈O₇, found in citrus fruit; it is used as a food additive and in the manufacture of citrates.
wikipedia: citric acid
Synonyms: E330 when used as an antioxidant
Derived terms: citric acid cycle
homocitric acid
isocitric acid
pyrocitric acid
Related terms: citrate
scanno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskænəʊ/
ipa: /ˈskænoʊ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ænəʊ
rhymes: (General American) -ænoʊ
Forms: form: scannos
form: scano
Etymology: From scan + -o, modelled on typo.
Senses: coordinate_terms: clicko
copy-pasto
hearo
printo
speako
spello
thinko
typo
writo
glosses: A typographical error caused by optical character recognition (OCR) software, which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape.
Related terms: homoglyph
homoglyphic
OCR
optical character recognition
levigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvɪɡeɪt/
Forms: form: levigates
form: levigating
form: levigated
form: levigated
form: laevigate
form: lævigate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēvigātus, perfect passive participle of Latin lēvigō (“to smoothen”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from lēvis (“smooth”).
Senses: glosses: To make smooth or polish.
glosses: To make into a smooth paste or fine powder.
glosses: To separate finer grains from coarser ones by suspension in a liquid.
glosses: To lighten.
glosses: To belittle.
glosses: To render mild; to alleviate, assuage.
examples: text: […] whereby his labours beinge leuigate and made moꝛe tollerable he ſhall gouerne with the better aduiſe and conſequently with a moꝛe perfecte gouernance.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, chapter 1, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC, 1st boke, folio 13, verso:
glosses: past participle of levigate
Derived terms: levigator
unlevigated
levigate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvɪɡət/
Forms: form: more levigate
form: most levigate
form: laevigate
form: lævigate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēvigātus, perfect passive participle of Latin lēvigō (“to smoothen”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from lēvis (“smooth”).
Senses: glosses: Smooth.
face-ache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face-aches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of faceache.
citrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹeɪt/
Forms: form: citrates
Etymology: From citric acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of citric acid.
Coordinate terms: Benedict's solution
Derived terms: word: alloisocitrate
word: bicitrate
word: citratase
word: citrate cycle
word: citratemia
word: citraturia
word: dicitrate
word: fentanyl citrate
word: ferric ammonium citrate
word: fluorocitrate
word: homocitrate
word: isocitrate
word: lithium citrate
word: monocitrate
word: potassium citrate
alt: Viagra
word: sildenafil citrate
word: sodium citrate
word: subcitrate
word: tricitrate
citrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹeɪt/
Forms: form: citrates
form: citrating
form: citrated
form: citrated
Etymology: From citric acid + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To cause to form citrate.
Related terms: citration
quoth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəʊθ/
ipa: /kwoʊθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
Etymology: From Middle English quoth, quath, from Old English cwæþ (first and third person past indicative of cweþan (“to say, speak to, address, exhort, admonish”)), from Proto-Germanic *kwaþ (first and third person past indicative of Proto-Germanic *kweþaną (“to say”)). Unrelated to quote.
Senses: examples: text: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
ref: 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:
text: “Pull, if ye never pull’d before; / Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he.
ref: a. 1897, Jean Ingelow, The Brides of Enderby:
text: “Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,” quoth Robin, “thou seemest happy this merry morn.” ¶ “Ay, that am I,” quoth the jolly Butcher, “and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?”
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: simple past of quethe; said
Derived terms: quotha
ferric ammonium citrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a mixed salt of citric acid with iron and ammonia, Fe(NH₄)₃(C₆H₅O₇)₂; used to treat anemia, and in the manufacture of blueprint paper
multiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mʌlˈtɪpəɹəs/
Etymology: From multi- + -parous.
Senses: glosses: Having two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring.
examples: text: It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Producing several offspring at one time.
Derived terms: great grand multiparous
Benedict's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After an American chemist, Stanley Rossiter Benedict.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A solution of sodium citrate, sodium carbonate and copper sulfate whose colour changes from blue to yellow or red in the presence of reducing sugars such as glucose.
Glaser's salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Christopher Glaser, a 17th-century chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: potassium sulphate
Viagra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vaɪˈæɡɹə/
Etymology: Marketing name, perhaps from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghrá, “tiger”), or perhaps based on words such as vigour, virility, victory and Niagara.
Senses: examples: text: Just like any other drug that elevates any aspect or level of performance, Viagra has a pretty harsh comedown, so to speak.
ref: 2004, Jayson Gallaway, Diary of a Viagra Fiend, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 49:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: love pill
glosses: A brand name of the drug sildenafil citrate, used to treat erectile dysfunction.
sildenafil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪlˈdɛn.ə.fɪl/
Forms: form: sildenafils
Etymology: Probably from s(ulfon)yl + -dena- (“alteration of (pyrimi)dine”) + ph(en)yl.
Senses: examples: text: Ellis opens a file from his stack. In 1991, he says, Pfizer wanted to test the safety of what came to be known as sildenafil.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that is used in the form of its citrate C₂₂H₃₀N₆O₄S·C₆H₈O₇ to treat erectile dysfunction in males, that by suppressing a phosphodiesterase enzyme also suppresses the enzyme's inhibitory effect on the hormone cyclic GMP, and that enables the cyclic GMP produced during sexual arousal to initiate the muscular and vascular changes which produce an erection. It is marketed under the trademarks Revatio and Viagra.
Derived terms: -afil
sildenafil citrate
soothsayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuθˌseɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈsuːθˌseɪə/
Forms: form: soothsayers
form: southsayer
Etymology: From Middle English sothsaier, zothziggere, by surface analysis, sooth (“truth”) + sayer.
Senses: examples: text: It is a great pleasure to be with you today and to speak to you concerning the future of medicine. In so doing, I do not wish to pose as a soothsayer or crystal gazer.
ref: 1951 March, John W. Cline, “The Future of Medicine”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 165:
text: The past twenty years have seen their share of soothsayers ready to predict with conviction one extreme or another of the alternative futures I have presented.
ref: 1988, Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine, New York: Basic Books, page 7:
glosses: One who attempts to predict the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
glosses: A mantis (Mantodea spp.)
glosses: One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
glosses: A double dart moth (Graphiphora augur).
Related terms: soothsay
prognosticator
seer
prophet
conjugate acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjugate acids
Senses: examples: HCl => Cl⁻
H₂SO₄ => HSO₄⁻
NH₄⁺ => NH₃
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, of general formula HXⁿ⁺, which can be transformed into a conjugate base X⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾⁺ by the loss of a proton.
sooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʊti/
ipa: /ˈsʌti/
rhymes: -ʊti
Forms: form: sootier
form: sootiest
Etymology: From Middle English sooty, soty, equivalent to soot + -y. Probably influenced by similar Middle English suti (“dirty, filthy”), derived from the same root as Old English besūtian (“to befoul”).
Senses: examples: text: Fire of sooty coal.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, 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:
text: The white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally. And being glazed, it was impervious to London's sooty atmosphere, enabling easier cleaning.
ref: 2023 December 13, Robin Leleux, “Restored... and a richly deserved award: Findlater's Corner”, in RAIL, number 998, page 43:
glosses: Of, relating to, or producing soot.
glosses: Soiled with soot
examples: text: The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Of the color of soot.
examples: text: While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]
ref: 1834, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers: A tale of Georgia:
text: And, though I've laughed at your expense, / O sister of the sooty hue, / No man who has a heart and sense / Would do one deed to injure you.
ref: 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:
glosses: Dark-skinned; black.
Synonyms: sense: dark-skinned
word: black
sense: dark-skinned
word: dusky
sense: dark-skinned
word: inky
sense: dark-skinned
word: sable
sense: dark-skinned
word: swarthy
Derived terms: taxonomic: Laniarius holomelas
word: Albertine sooty boubou
taxonomic: Phoebetria fusca
word: sooty albatross
word: sooty bark disease
word: sooty blotch and flyspeck
word: sooty grouse
taxonomic: Hephaestus fuliginosus
word: sooty grunter
taxonomic: Pycnonotus aurigaster
word: sooty-headed bulbul
word: sooty-headed wren
word: sooty kangaroo
taxonomic: Zegris eupheme
word: sooty orange tip
word: sooty oystercatcher
word: sooty stripe
taxonomic: Onychoprion fuscatus
word: sooty tern
sooty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʊti/
ipa: /ˈsʌti/
rhymes: -ʊti
Forms: form: sooties
form: sootying
form: sootied
form: sootied
Etymology: From Middle English sooty, soty, equivalent to soot + -y. Probably influenced by similar Middle English suti (“dirty, filthy”), derived from the same root as Old English besūtian (“to befoul”).
Senses: examples: text: Sootied with noisome smoke.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To blacken or make dirty with soot.
conjugate base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjugate bases
Senses: examples: Examples
Cl⁻ → HCl
HSO₄⁻ → H₂SO₄
NH₃ → NH₄⁺
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, of general formula Xⁿ⁺, which can be transformed into a conjugate acid HX⁽ⁿ⁺¹⁾⁺ by the gain of a proton.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, of general formula Xⁿ⁺, which can be transformed into a conjugate acid HX⁽ⁿ⁺¹⁾⁺ by the gain of a proton.
Such a base with enough basic activity to participate in its own equilibrium.
soiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔɪld/
note: some speakers
ipa: /ˈsɔɪəld/
rhymes: -ɔɪld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soil
soiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔɪld/
note: some speakers
ipa: /ˈsɔɪəld/
rhymes: -ɔɪld
Forms: form: more soiled
form: most soiled
Senses: glosses: Dirty, defiled, stained.
topics: government
healthcare
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a patient or child, stained or dirtied by defecation.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
qualifier: soil science
glosses: Having a specific or particular type of soil.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: That has been fed or nourished with green fodder.
Derived terms: shop-soiled
soiled dove
sonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒnɪt/
ipa: /ˈsʌnɪt/
rhymes: -ɒnɪt
Forms: form: sonnets
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
Senses: glosses: A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
Derived terms: Elizabethan sonnet
Petrarchan sonnet
Shakespearean sonnet
Spenserian sonnet
Related terms: poem
caudate sonnet
curtal sonnet
English sonnet
Italian sonnet
Scottish sonnet
quatorzain
sonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒnɪt/
ipa: /ˈsʌnɪt/
rhymes: -ɒnɪt
Forms: form: sonnets
form: sonneting
form: sonnetting
form: sonneted
form: sonneted
form: sonnetted
form: sonnetted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
Senses: examples: text: strains that come almost to sonneting
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To compose sonnets.
glosses: To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.
sonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒnd/
ipa: /sɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: sondes
Etymology: Borrowed from French sonde.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Probe; sound.
topics: sciences
glosses: Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations.
Derived terms: backscattersonde
balloonsonde
cryosonde
datasonde
dropsonde
electrosonde
minisonde
ozonesonde
radiosonde
rawinsonde
rocketsonde
sone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊn/
ipa: /səʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: Saône
homophone: sewn
homophone: sown
Forms: form: sones
Senses: qualifier: acoustics
glosses: a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
examples: text: Francis Eaton, and Sarah his wife, and Samuel their sone, a yong child.
ref: 1651, William Bradford, The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were (by the blessing of God) the first beginners, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England (And their families).:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of son.
sonogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.nəˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈsɑnəˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒnəɡɹæm
rhymes: -əʊnəɡɹæm
Forms: form: sonograms
form: sonogramme
Etymology: From Latin sonus (“sound”) + -gram, equivalent to sono- + -gram.
Senses: synonyms: echogram
ultrasonogram
glosses: A medical image produced by an ultrasound echo.
glosses: A spectrogram.
sonogram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.nəˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈsɑnəˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒnəɡɹæm
rhymes: -əʊnəɡɹæm
Forms: form: sonograms
form: sonogramming
form: sonogrammed
form: sonogrammed
form: sonogramme
Etymology: From Latin sonus (“sound”) + -gram, equivalent to sono- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: To perform a sonogram upon.
crotonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated organic acid, trans--CH₃-CH=CH-COOH, found in croton oil and having many industrial uses; the cis- form is isocrotonic acid.
Synonyms: trans-2-butenoic acid
beta-methylacrylic acid
Derived terms: oxalocrotonic acid
angelic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angelica.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated organic acid, CH₃-CH=C(CH₃-COOH), found in angelica and having pharmacological uses; the trans- form is tiglic acid.
dining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: dinings
Senses: examples: text: For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out […]
ref: 1869, The XIX Century, volume 1, page 6:
glosses: Eating dinner as a social function.
glosses: Entertaining someone to dinner.
Related terms: dining car
dining chair
dining facility
dining hall
dining leaf
dining needle
dining room
dining set
dining table
dining time
diningware
fine dining
nondining
non-dining
rotational dining
undining
dining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dine
at bay
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From bay (“excited howling of dogs”).
Senses: examples: text: In that case the enemy himself could have occupied the defences of Corinth and held at bay all the Union troops that arrived.
ref: 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter XXIX, in Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant:
text: These two books—of sacred, and secular, passages for memory—will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts.
ref: 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Preface”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page xv:
text: The home side grew in confidence after keeping the visitors at bay and took the lead after only nine minutes, from their first foray into the penalty area.
ref: 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Unable to come closer; at a distance.
examples: text: The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay / Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay,— / "Now stab and end the creature - to the heft!"
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXXI:
text: For a moment my gaze traversed the landscape beneath until it was caught and held by four figures near the base of the cliff—a human figure held at bay by three hyaenodons, those ferocious and blood-thirsty wild dogs of the Eocene.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter X, in The Land That Time Forgot:
text: Instead of mounted riders following a pack of hounds, it is envisaged that just two dogs will be used to locate a stag and hold it at bay.
ref: 2004 November 22, Valerie Elliott, “Two-dog plan to keep law at bay”, in The Times:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Cornered; unable to flee.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of an animal, especially a docile animal in contrast to a predatory animal which would be blazoned statant: standing, in profile toward dexter, with all four feet on the ground. (If gazing at the viewer, the animal is at gaze.)
Synonyms: sense: at a distance
word: at a distance
sense: at a distance
word: at arm's length
sense: at a distance
word: away
sense: at a distance
word: back
sense: cornered
word: cornered
sense: cornered
word: trapped
bigamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡəmɪst/
Forms: form: bigamists
Senses: glosses: One who practices bigamy.
Hypernyms: wedder
Related terms: bigamy
polyandrist
polygamist
innuendoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innuendos
Senses: glosses: plural of innuendo
pasteurise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæst͡ʃəɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɑːstʃəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: pasteurises
form: pasteurising
form: pasteurised
form: pasteurised
form: pasteurize
Etymology: Borrowed from French pasteuriser. From Louis Pasteur, the inventor of the process, + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Opolot liked his milk straight from the cow – pasteurising kills both the taste and the savour, he claimed – and hardly diluted.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 138:
glosses: To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.
wikipedia: Louis Pasteur
Derived terms: pasteurisable
pasteurisation
unpasteurised
at a glance
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: This report is certainly not comprehensive; it is more of a "Marketing Division at a glance".
text: At a glance it seems that he is a nice guy, but upon digging deeper the truth emerges.
glosses: Upon cursory examination.
Related terms: at first glance
any way one slices it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛni‿weɪ wʌn ˈslaɪsɪz‿ɪt/
ipa: /ˌɛni‿weɪ wʌn ˈslaɪsəz‿ət/
Forms: form: any way one cuts it
Etymology: Perhaps a reference to a food item such as a cake or a sausage looking the same on the inside no matter how it is sliced.
Senses: examples: text: Any way you slice it, we have to get out of here and we have to take him with us.
text: Back inside I thought it all over carefully, weighing my options. Not good, any way you sliced it.
ref: 1998, Bill Pronzini, Boobytrap, Speaking Volumes, →ISBN:
text: Any way one slices it, his dissection of human disease is not a pretty sight.
ref: 2013, William F. Zak, A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Any way I slice it, that's going to take some time. Just flying there and back is going to eat up days.
ref: 2018, Derek Haas, The Way I Die: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
synonyms: however one slices it
no matter how one slices it
no matter how one looks at it
whichever way one slices it
glosses: From any perspective; in every case.
Related terms: no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
PO box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PO boxes
Senses: glosses: A post office box; a lockable box hired from the postal authorities or a private company as a collection point for mail.
Related terms: RMB
comptroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmpˈtɹoʊləɹ/
ipa: /kəmˈtɹoʊləɹ/
homophone: controller
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: comptrollers
Etymology: From late Middle English compteroller, a spelling variant of countreroller (from which controller) due to folk etymology: the word was thought to have an etymological connection with Middle French compte (“account”) (Middle French compteroleur is attested circa 1375). Originally the two spellings were equivalent and pronounced identically; the modern pronunciation with [mp] is based on the spelling.
Senses: examples: text: So the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their accounts.
ref: 1660 March 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 24th, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 339:
text: The terms of the licence shall, in default of agreement, be settled by the comptroller.
ref: 1988, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 237
glosses: The chief accountant of a company or government.
Synonyms: administrator
chief
controller
foreman
head
head man
organiser
organizer
overseer
superintendent
supervisor
Derived terms: comptrollership
Related terms: comptrol
comptroll
controller
RMB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RMBs
Senses: examples: text: Address: RMB 35 Beaumont Crescent, The Ridgeway, Queanbeyan. New South Wales 2620, Australia.
ref: 1997, Nicholas Polunin, Lynn M. Curme, World Who is Who and Does What in Environment & Conservation, page 103:
text: 2005, Katy Mallett (editor), Photographers, Flora of Australia: Volume 44B: Poaceae 3, Australian Biological Resources Study, page x,
[…] The Centre for Crop Improvement, RMB 944 Calala Lane, Tamworth, New South Wales 2340.
text: Sid Fogg′s Coaches ([phone:] 4928 1088; www.sidfoggs.com.au; RMB 2324 Main Rd, Fullerton Cove)[…].
ref: 2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, page 94:
glosses: Initialism of roadside mailbox: part of a postal system used in rural areas where several houses collect their mail from a cluster of mailboxes at the roadside.
glosses: Initialism of Royal Marine Base.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of right mouse button.
Related terms: PO box
cyanuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic heterocyclic organic compound, C₃N₃(OH)₃, that decomposes on heating to form cyanic acid; it is a prebiotic compound found in stellar dust clouds.
Synonyms: 1
3
5-triazinetriol
Derived terms: thiocyanuric acid
cyclamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline organic compound, N-cyclohexylsulfamic acid, whose salts, the cyclamates, have been used as artificial sweeteners
Synonyms: E952 when used as a sweetener
cyclamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclamates
Etymology: From cyclamic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt or ester of cyclamic acid, especially the sodium and calcium salts, which have been used as artificial sweeteners
Synonyms: E952 when used as a sweetener
N-cyclohexylsulfamate
sulphamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfamic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the acid formally derived from sulphuric acid by replacing a hydroxyl (-OH) group by an amino (-NH₂) group - SO₂(OH)(NH₂)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any organic compound derived from sulphamic acid by replacing one or two hydrogen atoms of the amine group by an organic radical — for example cyclamic acid where a hydrogen atom is replaced by a cyclohexyl radical
superhero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/
Forms: form: superheroes
Etymology: From super- + hero. First attested in 1917.
Senses: examples: text: Hobbes: Super heroes wear snow pants?
Stupendous Man: When there's snow out, they do!
ref: 1990 February 13, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
glosses: Any fictional crime-fighting character, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature; a fictional hero who does great things.
examples: text: The power is out but you're watching TV? You must be a superhero.
text: Thanks for driving out here and towing me out of the ditch. You're a superhero!
text: Did you know your community has many invisible superheroes? Each day they perform hundreds of amazing feats that make the community a better place in which to live.
ref: 1991, Boys' Life, volume 81, number 1, page 42:
glosses: A particularly renowned real-world hero, or one who has seemingly impossible abilities.
Derived terms: real superhero
superhero insurance
superhero landing
Related terms: superheroic
superheroine
superhuman
superman
🦸♂️
sweetener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweeteners
Etymology: From sweeten + -er (“agent suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Some examples of the sweeteners include aspartame, saccharin, sucralose and stevia. The W.H.O.’s announcement contradicts previous studies that have said these sweeteners don’t offer any health benefits but also do not cause harm.
ref: 2023 May 15, April Rubin, “World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners”, in The New York Times:
text: Even as FDA works to develop that plan, consumers continue to be exposed to unsafe food chemicals including not just dyes but also the artificial sweetener aspartame, the white pigment titanium dioxide, the preservative propylparaben, and the phthalate food packaging chemicals, according to CSPI.
ref: 2025 January 15, “FDA moves to eliminate carcinogenic Red 3 from foods”, in Center for Science in the Public Interest:
glosses: Something added to food to sweeten its taste, especially an artificial substitute for sugar.
glosses: Something given or added to added to a deal to sweeten another's attitude, especially a bribe or kickback.
glosses: A shill bidder at an auction.
Synonyms: sense: gift or bribe
word: douceur
word: gift and Thesaurus:bribe
Derived terms: artificial sweetener