nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: geomagnetism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greek der. Proto-Hellenic *gayader. Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip. Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der. English geo- English magnetism English geomagnetism From geo- + magnetism. 1. The magnetism of the Earth. Labels: uncountable 2. The science that studies the magnetism of the Earth. Labels: uncountable
Word: geomorphology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greek der. Proto-Hellenic *gayader. Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip. Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der. English geo- English morphology English geomorphology From geo- + morphology. 1. The study of landforms, their classification, origin, development, and history. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The point is that as fairly static pre-war Davisian geomorphology and Köppenian climate classification gave way to postwar, dynamic, process geomorphology and climate change studies, as geography went through its revolution, the field was radically transformed, geography became–and continues to be–central to and vital for the larger project of understanding global environmental change in all its complexity. Physical things are processural and relational.
Word: Viktor Part of Speech: name 1. A transliteration of the Macedonian or Russian male given name Ви́ктор (Víktor). 2. A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Ві́ктор (Víktor). Example: Viktor is monitoring the brigade’s area of responsibility by watching a livestream from a drone flying somewhere over the outskirts of Kostyantynivka on his smartphone.
Word: Krum Part of Speech: name Etymology: Jewish and German surname, variant of Krumm. 1. An American surname.
Word: seer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”). Pronunciation: /sɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈsiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈsiːɐ/ 1. One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner. Example: "But I must not forget to tell you that the lad was born on a Sunday, and had found a card with the four of clubs; therefore he was a seer, that is to say, he could see the supernatural people, but they could not see him." 2. One who sees something; an eyewitness. Example: As a seer of beautiful visions, or, shall we say, of visions of the beautiful, he is never weary of celebrating the poet and his vocation.
Word: seer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See sihr. Pronunciation: /sɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈsiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈsiːɐ/ 1. Alternative form of sihr. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Miguel Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew מִי (mí) Biblical Hebrew כַּ־ (ka-) Proto-Semitic *ʔil- Biblical Hebrew אֵל (él) Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl)bor. Koine Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mĭkhāḗl)bor. Latin Michāēl Spanish Miguelbor. ▲ Latin Michāēl Old Galician-Portuguese Migael Old Galician-Portuguese Miguel Portuguese Miguelbor. English Miguel Borrowed from Spanish Miguel and Portuguese Miguel. Doublet of Michael, Michel, and Mikhail. Pronunciation: /miˈɡɛl/ 1. A male given name from Portuguese and Spanish. 2. A middle name from the same sources as the given name.
Word: wordplay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From word + play. 1. A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even this modest wordplay was an outlier: Sagers counted only three backronyms across the ’70s and ’80s. 2. A witty verbal exchange; such exchanges collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The part of a cryptic clue that indicates but does not define the solution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: delete the T from another part in the wordplay Example: However, some clues include words that do not form part of the wordplay or the definition.
Word: heartbreak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heart + break. Compare heartache § Etymology. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːt.bɹeɪk/, /ˈhɑɹt.bɹeɪk/ 1. Overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
Word: Armstrong Part of Speech: name Etymology: By surface analysis, arm + strong. The rural municipality in Manitoba is named after politician James William Armstrong (1860 - 1928). Pronunciation: /ˈɑːmˌstɹɒŋ/, /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɔŋ/, /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɑŋ/ 1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone with strong arms. Example: With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.” 2. A city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. 3. A small town in the Rural City of Ararat, Victoria, Australia. 4. A number of places in Canada: 5. A number of places in Canada: 6. A number of places in Canada: 7. A number of places in Canada: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States: 16. A number of places in the United States: 17. A number of places in the United States: 18. A number of places in the United States: 19. A number of places in the United States: 20. A number of places in the United States:
Word: Armstrong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, arm + strong. The rural municipality in Manitoba is named after politician James William Armstrong (1860 - 1928). Pronunciation: /ˈɑːmˌstɹɒŋ/, /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɔŋ/, /ˈɑɹmˌstɹɑŋ/ 1. Ellipsis of Armstrong gun. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: There would be a special commendation for the Royal Artillery, who were handling their Armstrongs with great precision and a speed Wolseley had never seen before in muzzle-loading guns.
Word: Björk Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Icelandic Björk. Pronunciation: /ˈbjɜːk/, /ˈpjɜːk/, /ˈbjɜɹk/, /ˈpjɜɹk/ 1. A female given name
Word: bedizen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *h₁epi From be- (intensifying prefix) + dizen (“to attire, dress, especially showily”). Dizen is derived from dialectal dize (“to put (tow) on a distaff”), probably from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”); further etymology unknown. Pronunciation: /bɪˈdaɪz(ə)n/, /-ˈdɪ-/, /bɪˈdaɪzən/ 1. To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner. Labels: also, figuratively, literary, transitive Example: Self is a great Fop and a great Slattern: Soul has given her very good Cloaths, fine Ornaments, plain and neat, but Self either leaves them, like a Slut, in every Corner of the Houſe; or vvhen ſhe puts them on, ſhe does bedizen them vvith Lace and Embroidery, Fringes and Ruffles, Patches, and Povvder, that you can hardly ſee enough of the Garment to diſtinguiſh the excellent Stuff vvhich it is made of: […] Example: Thus the Violet that gayly bedizens the Mead / A fragrance more ſvveet does ſupply, / Tho' oft' rudely bruſh'd by the Traveller's tread, / Than if rear'd in the garden hard bye. 2. To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty. Labels: Northern-England, literary, transitive Example: Slinger brast aght o'th' door like a roarin lion,—but he wor sooin collard, an' he wor soa bedisend with soft cake an' puttaty pillins at his own mother could'nt ha owned him.
Word: buttoned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of button Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: buttoned Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a button or buttons. Example: a buttoned sofa 2. Having the buttons fastened.
Word: pick and roll Part of Speech: noun 1. An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass. Example: He and [Dennis] Schröder developing pick-and-roll chemistry will certainly be an objective. [Markieff] Morris has a tendency to linger around the mid-range area after setting ball screens, but when he’s popping beyond the 3-point line, he can hurt defenses.
Word: Eliza Part of Speech: name Etymology: Shortened from Elizabeth. Pronunciation: /ɪˈlaɪzə/ 1. A female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century. Example: "My real name's !Eliza!. I've sometimes thought she called me after Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion." "Come again?" said Sean. "Because she intended to do the same thing with me as Pygmalion did with Galatea and as Professor Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle, he remade her to be the way he wanted her, or let's say he had an ideal and he tried to turn her into that." - - - "She said she didn't, anyway, when I asked her. She just liked the name."
Word: 360 backflip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 360, the number of degrees in a full rotation, + backflip, the class of maneuvers that begin similarly. 1. A maneuver in various sports (such as skateboarding) in which the player flips backwards, rotates a full turn, and finishes travelling in the original direction.
Word: elevator music Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Used in the first elevators to reduce anxiousness. 1. Bland, inoffensive music played as a background in elevators and businesses (such as offices and shopping malls). Labels: Canada, US, uncountable
Word: wiz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of wizard. Pronunciation: /wɪz/ 1. A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area. Example: a maths wiz 2. A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon. Labels: Internet, informal Example: One notorious trick in less reputable corners of the MUD universe is to talk somebody into going into a dark corner of a MUD for some tinysex — dirty talking via computer screen, within character for the MUD, along with explicit posing — a dark corner where some invisible wizzes are hiding. Example: The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.
Word: wiz Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of wizard. Pronunciation: /wɪz/ 1. To be promoted to wizard (administrator) status in a multi-user dungeon, by completing the game quest. Labels: Internet, informal, intransitive Example: I lost interest and stopped playing soon after I wizzed.
Word: wiz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic for the sound made by urination. Pronunciation: /wɪz/ 1. Alternative spelling of whiz: an act of urination. Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang, vulgar Example: I have to take a wiz.
Word: wiz Part of Speech: prep Etymology: See with. Pronunciation: /wɪz/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of with. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang
Word: suplex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps related to the suplay of classical wrestling, if not further inspired by super; also see -ex. Another explanation could be from sub + plecto, (meaning essentially I turn, twist, combine, or "braid" from under) which could ultimately reduce into English as suplex due to it being a novel innovation. Pronunciation: /ˈsuplɛks/ 1. A wrestling move in which the wrestler picks up their opponent off the ground (or mat) and then, using a large portion of their own body weight, drives the opponent down on the mat by throwing them over their center of gravity, usually arching their back.
Word: suplex Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps related to the suplay of classical wrestling, if not further inspired by super; also see -ex. Another explanation could be from sub + plecto, (meaning essentially I turn, twist, combine, or "braid" from under) which could ultimately reduce into English as suplex due to it being a novel innovation. Pronunciation: /ˈsuplɛks/ 1. To subject to this maneuver. Labels: transitive
Word: magneto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of magneto-electric (machine). Pronunciation: /maɡˈniːtəʊ/ 1. A small magnetic dynamo, especially one that provides power to the spark plugs of a small internal combustion engine (now mostly used in aircraft). Example: Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts
Word: recluse spider Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of many small venomous spiders of the genera Loxosceles and Sicarius.
Word: yuzu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 柚子 (yuzu). Pronunciation: /ˈjuːzuː/ 1. A citrus fruit originating in East Asia, Citrus ichangensis x Citrus reticulata var. austera. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.
Word: puddles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of puddle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: puddles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of puddle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gestation period Part of Speech: noun 1. The average interval between fertilization and birth of a mammal; ranges from 13 days for the opossum to 626 days for the Indian elephant. Example: We have waited a very long time for the Railways Bill to see the light of day. The starting gun was fired as long ago as May 2021, when the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail was finally published, after its own gestation period of nearly three years.
Word: glaciology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin glaciēs (“ice”) + -ology (“study of a particular subject”). Pronunciation: /ˌɡleɪsɪˈɒlədʒi/, /ˌɡleɪʃiˈɑləd͡ʒi/ 1. The study of ice and its effect on the landscape, especially the study of glaciers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: From this high position in latitude, explorations (furthered for a time by the effective aid of their Esquimaux dogs) were perseveringly made, and rewarded by results of the most interesting nature in geography, hydrography, and glaciology. Example: Until now, aerial photography had been used in glaciology only for mapping the glacier surface and the surface velocity field; other, much more expensive, methods have been used to determine the bed and mass balance.
Word: glow discharge Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of electrical conduction in low-pressure gases (plasmas) that emits light.
Word: gnotobiotics Part of Speech: noun 1. The science involved with maintaining a microbiologically controlled environment. Labels: uncountable
Word: superpower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + power. 1. A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union. Labels: countable Example: Our superpower competition will be reunified Germany (perhaps together with its European satellites) and expanding Japan (perhaps allied with China, if they can bring that off). Example: The year 1945 marked the end of Europe's global hegemony and confirmed the US and the Soviet Union as global superpowers. 2. An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain. Labels: countable Example: Administered in such a way, in that superpowers it assures. Example: This is his superpower, I think. The comic geek always has one, and Oliver's is a poker face that would leave even the Holy Trinity guessing what he's thinking. 3. Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 4. A tetration. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Excessive or superior power. Labels: uncountable
Word: superpower Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From super- + power. 1. To give extraordinary powers to. Labels: transitive
Word: breasticles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of breasticle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sex on a stick Part of Speech: noun 1. A very sexually attractive person or persons. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: 1996, Ken Follett, Third Twin http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Third_Twin.html?id=IcYbe7qsPsQC She put in her favorite nose jewel, a small sapphire in a silver mount. In the mirror she looked like sex-on-a-stick. Example: 2002, Jerry Stahl, Plainclothes Naked http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=hC3U4yk1uwgC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&sig=UoDnDEgc0Xv00HQ2KSi8d-5JvLw Tina was sex-on-a-stick, so he had to be vigilant.
Word: pwn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards). Pronunciation: /pəʊn/, /pɔːn/, /piˈəʊn/, /poʊn/, /piˈoʊn/ 1. To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game). Labels: Internet, ambitransitive, dated Example: I pwned them in game! Example: 2nd guard: "Yeah, shiiit! I PWNED YO @zz!"
Word: pwn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards). Pronunciation: /pəʊn/, /pɔːn/, /piˈəʊn/, /poʊn/, /piˈoʊn/ 1. Triumph, victory. Often exclaimed after an opponent in a video game is defeated. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable 2. An exploit in computer security, especially relating to machine code. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable
Word: tropics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tropic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tropics Part of Speech: noun 1. The region of the Earth centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in the tropics, and as yet there was no moon visible. Example: ‘In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.’...He lifted a warning forefinger...‘Du calme, du calme.’
Word: reinsurance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English insurance English reinsurance From re- + insurance. Pronunciation: /ˌɹi.ɪnˈʃʊɹ.əns/, /ˌɹi.ɪnˈʃɝ.əns/ 1. Insurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized. Such insurance and catastrophe bonds are backstops to insurer insolvency from unexpectedly large losses. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that Sompo International, a global specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, is leveraging AIR's casualty analytics platform, Arium, to better understand and quantify its liability and loss potential across multiple commercial liability lines of business. Example: As the Trump administration stalls federal funding for projects intended to make states more resilient to climate change and private insurers decline to cover properties in high-risk zones, North Carolina just proved there’s another way to fund disaster preparedness: a $600 million catastrophe bond that rewards homeowners and their insurer for installing “super roofs.” Along North Carolina’s beaches, wind damage from hurricanes is such a threat that many private insurers have stopped offering coverage. Hundreds of thousands of homeowners have been forced to buy coverage from the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association (NCIUA), the state-created insurer of last resort for coastal properties. Like other insurers, NCIUA has to buy its own risk mitigation so it can pay customers if a major event causes more damage than it has saved from collecting and investing premiums. One option is reinsurance and another is a catastrophe bond, which pays out a specific amount if damage reaches a particularly severe level. Cat bonds have become popular with institutional investors like hedge funds and endowments in recent years because they trigger rarely and otherwise deliver high returns. […] NCIUA says its financial analysis is that it will recoup $72 million over 10 years on the investment in roofs, some from avoided losses after storms but even more from having to purchase less reinsurance because their portfolio is less risky. With demand for roofs finally surging, Hardy wanted to make sure she had adequate capital for all the willing participants. She began looking beyond her own surplus to fund grants. Every year the association pays for a combination of reinsurance and cat bonds to cover portfolio risk. She had read about cat bonds with resilience features in academic literature and now wanted to make one a reality.
Word: minimize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin minimus + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.maɪz/, /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/, /ˈmɪn.əˌmaɪz/, /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmɑɪz/ 1. To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce. Labels: transitive Example: We have to minimize the budget. Example: Try to minimize your biases. 2. To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish. Labels: transitive Example: The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability. 3. To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption. Labels: transitive Example: I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop. 4. To treat (someone) in a slighting manner. Labels: transitive Example: […] father who had never openly minimized him or anything he did […] 5. To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize. Labels: transitive Example: to minimize someone's feelings
Word: superpowers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superpower Labels: form-of, plural
Word: associations Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz/, /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃənz/, /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃənz/, /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃənz/ 1. plural of association Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boats Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bəʊts/, /boʊts/ 1. plural of boat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boats Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bəʊts/, /boʊts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of boat Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: suppletion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Suppletivwesen, from Latin supplēre (“to supply”), perfect stem supplet-, + -ion. Pronunciation: /səˈpliːʃən/ 1. The supplying of something lacking. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”, or “went” as the simple past of “go”. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. More loosely, the use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine, normally referred to as collateral adjectives. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: associates Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈsoʊʃi.əts/, /əˈsoʊsi.əts/, /əˈsəʊʃi.əts/, /əˈsəʊsi.əts/, /əˈsoʊʃieɪts/ 1. plural of associate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: associates Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈsoʊʃi.əts/, /əˈsoʊsi.əts/, /əˈsəʊʃi.əts/, /əˈsəʊsi.əts/, /əˈsoʊʃieɪts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of associate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: associating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of associate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: privileges Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪ.d͡ʒɪz/, /ˈpɹɪv.ɪ.lɪ.d͡ʒɪz/, /ˈpɹɪv.ə.lɪ.d͡ʒɪz/, /ˈpɹɪv.lɪ.d͡ʒɪz/ 1. plural of privilege Labels: form-of, plural
Word: privileges Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪ.d͡ʒɪz/, /ˈpɹɪv.ɪ.lɪ.d͡ʒɪz/, /ˈpɹɪv.ə.lɪ.d͡ʒɪz/, /ˈpɹɪv.lɪ.d͡ʒɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of privilege Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: privileged Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪd͡ʒd/ 1. simple past and past participle of privilege Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: privileged Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪd͡ʒd/ 1. Having special privileges. Example: "You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech. 2. Not subject to legal discovery due to a protected status.
Word: shitake Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of shiitake. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: accompanies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of accompany Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accompanies.
Word: privileging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of privilege Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: privileging Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which something is made privileged. Example: We must not forget such similar privilegings of harmonic elements as the medieval theologian's analogy between the interrelation of musical sounds and the silences punctuating them […]
Word: accompanying Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈkʌm.p(ə.)ni.ɪŋ/ 1. Present together. Example: The accompanying pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life by S. T. Coleridge
Word: accompanying Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈkʌm.p(ə.)ni.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of accompany Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accompanying.
Word: accompanying Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈkʌm.p(ə.)ni.ɪŋ/ 1. That which accompanies; accompaniment. Example: He was seated / Among his equals; and a holiday / With its accompanyings — loud laughs, and jests, / And boisterous mirth — sped merrily […]
Word: transrational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English rational English transrational From trans- + rational. 1. Beyond the rational; of a scope superseding yet including the rational.
Word: harrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English harry Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English harrier From harry + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈhæɹi.ə/, /ˈhaɹɪjə/, /ˈhæɹi.ɚ/, /ˈhɛɹi.ɚ/, /ˈhɛɹi.ə/ 1. One who harries. 2. Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds. 3. A runner, specifically, a cross country runner. 4. A kind of dog used to hunt hares; a harehound.
Word: decathlete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dec- + athlete. Pronunciation: /diːˈkæθliːt/, /di-ˈkath-ˌlēt/ 1. An athlete who competes in the decathlon. Example: Simply to see what would happen, Paul Terek, a United States decathlete, wore a baseball cap bearing his name in Japanese when he landed at the Osaka airport a few weeks ago. Some children there took the bait. Example: “Heptathlon is very geared and favorable to those who are quick,” said Gray’s coach, Andy Eggerth, who trains both heptathletes and decathletes. “A lot of world-class heptathletes are relatively bad at javelin and shot-put.”
Word: Lisa Part of Speech: name Etymology: Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”. Pronunciation: /ˈliːsə/, /ˈliːzə/, /ˈlaɪzə/, /ˈlisə/, /ˈlizə/ 1. A female given name from Hebrew. Example: You were born in the '70s? Were you named after Lisa on As the World Turns? Example: Elizabeth coloured. "Oh, I don't want the doll called after me, if that is what you mean," she said, rather disdainfully. "Nonsense, Lisa!" laughed her father, "you ought to consider yourself highly honoured to have such a handsome lady as this for your namesake."
Word: Lisa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”. Pronunciation: /ˈliːsə/, /ˈliːzə/, /ˈlaɪzə/, /ˈlisə/, /ˈlizə/ 1. Ellipsis of Apple Lisa. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical Example: Both Macs and Lisas, along with Imagewriter printers, are part of the convention network organized by Sytek of Mountain View, California. 2. An idealised girlfriend. Labels: slang
Word: avoision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of avoidance + evasion. 1. Nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal. Labels: uncountable Example: "Avoision" is how I referred to the panoply of questionable conduct about whose status as either avoidance or evasion we couldn't make up our minds. Example: "Seldon (1979) coined the term 'Avoision' to indicate 'the blurring between tax avoidance and evasion that arises from the looser connection between the legal and the moral'"
Word: tax avoision Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of avoision. Labels: uncountable
Word: tropic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒpɪk/ 1. Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics. Example: O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […] Example: For since on ev'ry Sea, on ev'ry Coast, Your Men have been distress'd, your Navy tost, Sev'n times the Sun has either Tropick view'd, 2. The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.
Word: tropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒpɪk/ 1. Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical. 2. Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical. Labels: rare 3. Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate. Labels: not-comparable Example: The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin is allosterically regulated by various tropic factors, such as BPG and acidity. 4. Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes. Example: This process of tropic change, once identified in nostalgia poems, can be applied to a range of new and emerging genres in various periods. Identifying the tropes of nostalgia, in other words, allows us to appreciate the process[…] Example: Tropes may also interact with other tropes: a trope (for example, a metonymic association) may become an element in a different trope (for instance, a metaphor), and thus undergo a transformation of its tropic identity.
Word: -tropic Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *trep-der. Ancient Greek τρέπω (trépō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek τροπῐκός (tropĭkós)bor. English -tropic Borrowed from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). Compare trope and tropic. 1. Turning or changing. Labels: morpheme 2. Affecting or attracted to the thing specified. Labels: morpheme Example: psycho- (“mind”) + -tropic (“altering”) → psychotropic (“mind-altering”)
Word: torrid zone Part of Speech: noun 1. The region, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, characterised by a hot and humid climate; the tropics. Example: They conceived the torrid Zone unhabitable, and so made frustrate the goodliest part of the Earth.
Word: Tropic of Cancer Part of Speech: name Etymology: The Sun was in the constellation Cancer at the June solstice when it was named. 1. The parallel of latitude 23°26′ north of the equator, marking the northern boundary of the tropics; the sun is directly overhead at the June solstice.
Word: Tropic of Capricorn Part of Speech: name Etymology: The Sun was in the constellation Capricorn at the December solstice when it was named. 1. The parallel of latitude 23°26′ south of the equator, marking the southern boundary of the tropics; the sun is directly overhead at the December solstice.
Word: decurions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of decurion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decurion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin decuriō. Pronunciation: /dɪˈkjʊəɹɪən/ 1. An officer in charge of ten men in the ancient Roman army. Labels: historical 2. A member of local government in ancient Rome. Labels: historical
Word: decuria Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of decury. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: decurtate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested around the beginning of the 16th century; borrowed from Latin dēcurtātus, perfect passive participle of dēcurtō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of decurt. 1. Shortened, curtailed. Labels: rare Example: Bána […] lopped off his own hands and feet […] In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets.
Word: decurtate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested around the beginning of the 16th century; borrowed from Latin dēcurtātus, perfect passive participle of dēcurtō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of decurt. 1. To cut short. Labels: archaic, rare, transitive Example: Other writers there are, that would haue him signifie Tyme, as that with his sythe he should measure and proportionise the length of Time, and therewith to decurtate and cut away all things contained therein.
Word: deep-rooted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈdiːp ˌɹuːtɪd/, /ˌɹʊtɪd/ 1. Of a plant, having deep roots. Labels: literally Example: He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then else∣where, the Oakes broad-spreading, but not deep-rooted; Example: 1726, Jonathan Swift (translator), “Horace, Book I, Ode XIV” in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: T. Woodward and Charles Davis, 1736, Volume 5, p. 193, Poor floating Isle, tost on ill Fortune’s Waves, Ordain’d by Fate to be the Land of Slaves; Shall moving Delos now deep-rooted stand, Thou, fixt of old, be now the moving Land? 2. Of a non-living object, deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.) 3. Firmly established in thought or behavior and difficult to change. Labels: figuratively Example: They avoid conflict at all costs because of their deep-rooted fear of upsetting people. Example: […] Temporarie faith keeping residence only in the out-face of the heart, is ouerswayed & ouerborn in temptation by euery strong desire, or deep-rooted passion.
Word: de-escalation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English escalate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English escalation English de-escalation From de- + escalation. Pronunciation: /diːˌɛskəˈleɪʃən/ 1. A decrease in scope, extension or severity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The efforts at de-escalation have been many and varied. The most obvious have been high-level visits to Israel from US, UK and German leaders.
Word: defensible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French defensable, from Latin defensibilem. Equivalent to defense + -ible. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɛn.sɪ.bəl/, [dɪˈfɛn.sɪ.bɫ], [dɪˈfen.sɪ.bɫ] 1. Capable of being defended against armed attack. Labels: usually Example: Not only were those cities fortified, but their architects based their whole system on the strategical possibilities of the site, and closely followed its defensible contours. 2. Capable of being justified. Labels: usually Example: Those who are most familiar with the working of the present society are also usually interested in the preservation of particular features of that society which may not be defensible on general principle.
Word: chemisorb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of chem- + adsorb. 1. To adsorb a substance on the surface of another by chemical bonding. Labels: physical, transitive
Word: chemisorption Part of Speech: noun 1. the process in which a substance is adsorbed on the surface of another by means of chemical rather than physical bonding Labels: physical, uncountable
Word: chemoautotroph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chemo- + autotroph, the latter from auto- (from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”)) + -troph (from Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”)). 1. a simple microorganism, such as a prokaryote (bacteria and Archaea), that derives its energy from chemical processes rather than photosynthesis
Word: chemokine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English -kine English chemokine From chemo- + -kine. 1. Any of various chemotactic cytokines, produced during inflammation, that organize the leukocytes.
Word: cytokine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyto- + -kine from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis, “movement”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.tə(ʊ)(ˌ)kaɪn/, /ˈsaɪ.təˌkaɪn/, [ˈsaɪ.ɾəˌkaɪn] 1. Any of various small regulatory proteins that regulate the cells of the immune system. Example: Thus, in the case of viral infection, mechanisms of resistance would be threefold, namely, interferon production, the immune response, including both antibody and lymphokine production, and the generation of lymphokine-like substances by the infected cells themselves. These latter substances have been defined as cytokines. Example: A fundamental feature expressed by the vast majority of cytokines is a profound immunomodulatory activity. Many cytokines, presently available in pure recombinant form, modify bone cell metabolism.
Word: chemoprevention Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English prevention English chemoprevention From chemo- + prevention. 1. The prevention of disease by the use of food supplements, drugs, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chemopreventive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English preventive English chemopreventive From chemo- + preventive. 1. Of, or relating to chemoprevention.
Word: chemopreventive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English preventive English chemopreventive From chemo- + preventive. 1. A food supplement, etc. used for chemoprevention.
Word: chemoprophylaxis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English prophylaxis English chemoprophylaxis From chemo- + prophylaxis. 1. Chemoprevention; the prevention of disease using food supplements or drugs. Labels: uncountable
Word: chemoreception Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English reception English chemoreception From chemo- + reception. 1. the physiological sensory response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chemoreceptive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- Latin receptus Latin -īvus Medieval Latin receptivusbor. Middle English receptive English receptive English chemoreceptive From chemo- + receptive. 1. able to respond to a chemical stimulus
Word: chemoreceptivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English receptivity English chemoreceptivity From chemo- + receptivity. 1. the ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus Labels: uncountable
Word: chemosensor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English sensor English chemosensor From chemo- + sensor. 1. a cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action
Word: chemoreceptor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English receptor English chemoreceptor From chemo- + receptor. 1. a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor
Word: chemosensory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English sensory English chemosensory From chemo- + sensory. 1. of, or relating to a chemosensor, or to the perception of chemical signals by the senses; especially of the perception of taste and smell Labels: not-comparable
Word: chemosorb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of chemo- (“chemical”) + adsorb, from Latin sorbere (“to suck”) 1. to chemisorb Labels: transitive
Word: chemosphere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chemo- + -sphere. 1. The region of the Earth's atmosphere (from 20 to 120 miles above the surface) in which photochemical reactions take place.
Word: chemosurgery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- Latin chīrūrgiader. Old French surgie Old French surgeriebor. Middle English surgerie English surgery English chemosurgery From chemo- + surgery. 1. The selective destruction of diseased or malignant tissue by means of chemical substances; used especially in the treatment of the skin. Labels: uncountable
Word: chemosystematics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English systematics English chemosystematics From chemo- + systematics. 1. chemotaxonomy; the classification of organisms based on their biochemistry Labels: uncountable
Word: chemotaxonomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English taxonomy English chemotaxonomy From chemo- + taxonomy. 1. The classification or taxonomy of organisms based on differences and similarities in biochemistry, especially on differences in amino acid sequence in proteins that the organisms have in common. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: chemotropism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English -tropism English chemotropism From chemo- + -tropism. 1. The movement or growth of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chemotropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- Proto-Indo-European *trep-der. Ancient Greek τρέπω (trépō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek τροπῐκός (tropĭkós)bor. English -tropic English chemotropic From chemo- + -tropic. 1. of, related to, or in response to chemotropism