"cryonicist" meaning in English

See cryonicist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kɹaɪˈɒnɪsɪst/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav Forms: cryonicists [plural]
Etymology: From cryonic + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cryonic|ist}} cryonic + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} cryonicist (plural cryonicists)
  1. One who works in the field of cryonics. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-cryonicist-en-noun-5QJdXvWs Disambiguation of People: 53 47 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Cryogenics Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 72 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 76 24 Disambiguation of Cryogenics: 88 12
  2. A person who is, or who wishes to be, preserved cryonically. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-cryonicist-en-noun-0juJuyds Disambiguation of People: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Transhumanism
Disambiguation of Transhumanism: 0 0

Inflected forms

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0",
      "kind": "topical",
      "langcode": "en",
      "name": "Transhumanism",
      "orig": "en:Transhumanism",
      "parents": [
        "Philosophy",
        "Technology",
        "All topics",
        "Fundamental"
      ],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cryonic",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "cryonic + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cryonic + -ist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cryonicists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cryonicist (plural cryonicists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ist",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cryogenics",
          "orig": "en:Cryogenics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Chris Middings, The Reincarnation, page 41:",
          "text": "Cryonics was in its infancy then, and cryobiologists were hard to find, let alone cryonicists. The former believed the body could be frozen in pieces; the latter that it could be frozen whole.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 September 12, Amy Harmon, “A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Titled “The Brain Preservation Technology Prize: A challenge to cryonicists, a challenge to scientists,” it argued that if a brain was properly preserved, time would not be an issue.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who works in the field of cryonics."
      ],
      "id": "en-cryonicist-en-noun-5QJdXvWs",
      "links": [
        [
          "cryonics",
          "cryonics"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All, page 377:",
          "text": "This will not always be the fault of the patient or anyone else; a cryonicist may die in a plane crash, reduced to ashes with nothing left to freeze.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nicholas Agar, Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement:",
          "text": "To cryonicists, the chance of resuscitation is worth the money required to fund cryonic suspension arrangements. If resuscitation proves impossible, they reason, you are no “deader” than you would have been without suspension […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is, or who wishes to be, preserved cryonically."
      ],
      "id": "en-cryonicist-en-noun-0juJuyds"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɹaɪˈɒnɪsɪst/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cryonicist"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ist",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Cryogenics",
    "en:People",
    "en:Transhumanism"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cryonic",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "cryonic + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cryonic + -ist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cryonicists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cryonicist (plural cryonicists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Chris Middings, The Reincarnation, page 41:",
          "text": "Cryonics was in its infancy then, and cryobiologists were hard to find, let alone cryonicists. The former believed the body could be frozen in pieces; the latter that it could be frozen whole.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 September 12, Amy Harmon, “A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Titled “The Brain Preservation Technology Prize: A challenge to cryonicists, a challenge to scientists,” it argued that if a brain was properly preserved, time would not be an issue.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who works in the field of cryonics."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cryonics",
          "cryonics"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All, page 377:",
          "text": "This will not always be the fault of the patient or anyone else; a cryonicist may die in a plane crash, reduced to ashes with nothing left to freeze.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nicholas Agar, Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement:",
          "text": "To cryonicists, the chance of resuscitation is worth the money required to fund cryonic suspension arrangements. If resuscitation proves impossible, they reason, you are no “deader” than you would have been without suspension […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is, or who wishes to be, preserved cryonically."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɹaɪˈɒnɪsɪst/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cryonicist.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cryonicist"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cryonicist meaning in English (2.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.