cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lentil-weaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentil-weavers
form: lentil weaving
Etymology: See lentil-weaving.
Senses: examples: text: Even in those lentil-weaving, middle-class homes that don't have a television set, there are computers; and rare indeed is the lentil-weaver who has never slipped an allegedly educational DVD into the laptop in order to buy herself half an hour's peace.
ref: 2009 October 17, Jemima Lewis, “Yes, the nanny state is right”, in Daily Telegraph:
text: Bigots grow old. As do lentil weavers. As do you. Trite but true.
ref: 2010, "SerendipitousHarlot" on Mumsnet, quoted by Justine Roberts, Why Did Nobody Tell Me?: Home Truths Every Parent Needs to Know (Mumsnet), Bloomsbury Publishing →ISBN, page 395
text: 2011, "Moondog" on Mumsnet, quoted by Bloomsbury Publishing, The Complete Mumsnet Guides: Pregnancy; Babies; Toddlers, A&C Black →ISBN
My sister read the Deborah Jackson book when she was pregnant. She was enchanted, being a full-on lentil weaver.
glosses: A left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person.
Synonyms: tree hugger
yoghurt-knitter
Related terms: lentil-weaving
fur baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fur babies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of furbaby.
fur babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fur baby
barythymia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbæɹɪˈθaɪmɪə/
Etymology: From bary- + -thymia.
From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy”) + θυμός (thumós, “soul, spirit”).
Senses: examples: text: 1810, John Jackson, Barythymia (poem): referenced in Halkett, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
text: Are we here speaking of the above-mentioned kardioponos? Naturally, this ailment could also refer to barythymia (depression or melancholy).
ref: 2004, Julius Preuss, Biblical and Talmudic Medicine:
text: Neurotic, obsessive-compulsive, infantile-arrested, stuporous melancholia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, barythymia, poikilothymia. I'd settle for anything as long as it was concrete.
ref: 2012, George Gurley, George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship, page 87:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A depressed state of mind.
Related terms: athymia
dysthymia
basculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bascule + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: This twofold movement upon the centre, - this basculation, - has succeeded in cases where the elevation, singly, has been unsuccessful.
ref: 1834, Gillain Boivin, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Uterus and Its Appendages:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
basculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basculations
Etymology: From Spanish basculación.
Senses: examples: text: And during the Middle and Upper Carboniferous the basculation of the palaeozoic deposits was produced forming nowadays a monoclinal system in the northern border of the Tinduf depression […]
ref: 1959, Notes on the Geological Literature of Spanish Sahara:
text: This elongated distribution is unlikely to have been produced by any tectonic cause, either continental drift or local basculations.
ref: 2006, Mabel Mena, “Paleomagnetism, rock-magnetism and geochemical aspects of early Cretaceous basalts of the Paraná Magmatic Province, Misiones, Argentina”, in Earth, Planets and Space, volume 58, page 1283:
text: Flexural basculation towards the south, in combination with the main sediment source being in the Betic cordillera, determined an axial (along-strike) fluvial drainage running along the northern boundary of the sedimentary basin […]
ref: 2019 September, G Jiménez-Moreno, “Early Pliocene climatic optimum, cooling and early glaciation deduced by terrestrial and marine environmental changes in SW Spain”, in Global and Planetary Change, volume 180, page 89:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The tilting of a geological layer.
basial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the basion.
basichromatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From basi- + chromatin.
Senses: glosses: The basophil portion of the chromatin of a cell.
basophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basiphobia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάσις (básis, “step”) + -phobia. Alternatively, from baso- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: In basophobia the patient by a sort of auto-suggestion persuades himself that it is impossible to stand upon his legs.
ref: 1908, A reference handbook of the medical sciences:
text: Although not diagnosed with basophobia, the clinical term for this fear, Bourgeois made it a major theme in her art. For example, the Personages of 1947-9 are unable to stand on their own […]
ref: 2007, Frances Morris, Paulo Herkenhoff, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Louise Bourgeois, page 55:
glosses: Inability to walk or stand erect, due to emotional causes.
glosses: Fear of falling
bedlamism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedlamisms
Etymology: From bedlam + -ism.
Senses: glosses: insanity
work force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work forces
Senses: examples: text: With a small work force, air marshals are able to protect only a small fraction of the more than 42,000 flights in the United States each day.
ref: 2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of workforce.
tannour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tannours
form: tannur
Senses: glosses: A primitive clay oven used in the Arab World.
jinnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jinnias
form: djinnia
form: jinniyah
form: jinniyya
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جِنِّيَّة (jinniyya), from جِنِّيّ (jinniyy, “jinn”) + ـة (-a, feminine suffix).
Senses: examples: text: A recent author maintains that it is lawful for a man to marry a djinnia, but not for a woman to be married to a djinn.
ref: 1975, Abdelwanab Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam, page 69:
text: This jinnia was Jewish, ugly, and desired Ibrahim to be her husband.
ref: 2001, Gail Currie, Celia Rothenberg, Feminist Revisions of the Subject, page 154:
text: We haven’t seen any jinn for a while because their passages into our world were sealed up about a thousand years ago, not long after the greatest jinnia princess, Dunia, had a love affair in Andalucia with the philosopher Ibn Rushd (also known as the great Aristotelian philosopher Averroes).
ref: 2015 September 4, Ursula K Le Guin, “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A female jinn.
unfanatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfanatic
form: most unfanatic
Etymology: From un- + fanatic.
Senses: examples: text: Ibn Rushd tried to reconcile reason and humane morality with God and faith, positing a kindly God and an unfanatic faith.
ref: 2015 September 4, Ursula K Le Guin, “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not fanatical.
earlobeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earlobeless
form: most earlobeless
Etymology: From earlobe + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Minal, endearingly cheerful but earlobeless, loves her work at a company that makes breakfast bars.
ref: 2004, India Today, volume 29, page 102:
text: When she returns to Earth after a thousand years, it is to defend “her children” – but this means her remote descendants, a scattered group of earlobeless people whom she calls the Duniyat, asserting her authorship of a lineage.
ref: 2015 September 4, Ursula Le Guin, The Guardian:
glosses: Without earlobes.
Roubaisian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊˈbeɪzɪən/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈbeɪʒən/
Forms: form: Roubaisians
Etymology: From Middle French Roubaisien.
Senses: examples: text: Even very large immigrant communities managed to integrate into the ranks of the Roubaignos (native Roubaisians) through their membership in the working class.
ref: 1994, Patrick Richard Ireland, The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity: Immigrant Politics in France and Switzerland, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Sure enough, she is indeed Canadian and not by chance but by necessity seeing that she was born that way and isn't married to a foreigner (she doesn't state that she is a virgin) and hasn't had herself naturalised Roubaisian or Zanzibian.
ref: 1967, Raymond Queneau translated by Barbara Wright, Between blue and blue: a sort of novel, OCLC 954865, page 27
glosses: A person who was born in, or is a citizen or inhabitant of Roubaix, France
Roubaisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊˈbeɪzɪən/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈbeɪʒən/
Forms: form: more Roubaisian
form: most Roubaisian
Etymology: From Middle French Roubaisien.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating, or pertaining to Roubaix, France
duetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duetists
Etymology: From duet + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duettist.
duetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duetist
zombiedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zombie + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: But what else was there to do, besides hanging around, shooting the shit and drinking or drugging one's self into zombiedom?
ref: 2012, Phil Geusz, Stick and Bones:
text: But before he succumbs entirely to a nonlife of zombiedom, he is determined to track down BJ (Morgan Peter Brown), the man responsible for Samantha’s infection.
ref: 2015 September 3, Andy Webster, The New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being a zombie.
Roubaisians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roubaisian
yardsnap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardsnaps
form: yard-snap
Etymology: From yard + snap.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A strap equipped with snaps at the outer end of a yard for securing signal halyards.
Újpest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Újpest.
Senses: glosses: A former village and town in Hungary; now the fourth district of Budapest.
upmake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upmakes
form: upmaking
form: upmade
form: upmade
Etymology: From up- + make.
Senses: examples: text: O how are they upmade, who have a true interest in, and such a sure relation unto such a Lord, head and husband, as can and will carry on their profit and advantage, even by such dispensations, …
ref: 1745, John Brown (Minister of the Gospel at Wamphray.), A Pious and Elaborate Treatise concerning Prayer
text: Now, my dear friends, ye that are desiring singly to stand for God, hold on your way, and wait for the Lord, and quit not a hoof of the truth: He will be an upmaking God to you, and he has promised to be a present help to you in the time of your need.
ref: 1794, A cloud of witnesses, for the royal prerogatives of Jesus Christ: or, The last speeches and testimonies of those who have suffered for the truth in Scotland, since 1680
text: And these essentials can be seen at Smail's Printing Works. When, for example, Walter Scott's copy was received, compositors began to upmake lines of type in the caseroom or composing room.
ref: 2011, Alistair Moffat, The Borders: A History of the Borders from Ealiest Times:
glosses: To make up.
Synonyms: compose
constitute
form
Derived terms: upmaker
gimmel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gimmels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gimel.
gimmel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gimmels
Senses: examples: text: One of the most impressive pieces is a Renaissance gimmel ring made in Germany in 1631.
ref: 2015 September 3, Ken Johnson, “‘Treasures and Talismans,’ at the Cloisters, Puts Rings on a Pedestal”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of gimmal.
gimmels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gimmel
jinnias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jinnia
warmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warmakers
Etymology: From war + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who wages war.
warmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warmaker
alcogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcogel
amblyoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amblyoscope
amyotrophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amyotrophy
anapleroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaplerosis
anconei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anconeus
anelectrotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anelectrotonus + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to anelectrotonus.
antiodontalgics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiodontalgic
tharcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tharcake
Russia German
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russia Germans
Etymology: Calque of German Russlanddeutscher.
Senses: glosses: A member or descendant of any of the German communities which settled in the Russian Empire (Russia, Ukraine, etc.) and either remain there or migrated on to the US, Argentina, back to Germany, etc.
Synonyms: english: used of Russia Germans (Russian Germans) who left Russia
translation: used of Russia Germans (Russian Germans) who left Russia
word: German from Russia
english: historically used for the Russia Germans (Russian Germans) in Canada, the USA, and other parts of the world
translation: historically used for the Russia Germans (Russian Germans) in Canada, the USA, and other parts of the world
word: Rooshian
word: Russian German
Rooshian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rooshians
Etymology: Modification of Russian.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Russian, representing dialectal English.
glosses: A Russia German (Russian German, German from Russia) in the US (member of one of the German communities which migrated first to the Russian Empire and then from there to the US).
arthrodias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthrodia
Russia Germans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russia German
Rooshians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rooshian
asynergias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asynergia
autovaccinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autovaccination
bashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bashable
form: most bashable
Etymology: From bash + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being bashed or hit.
moshable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moshable
form: most moshable
Etymology: From mosh + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The fired-up foursome takes itself very seriously, singing politically charged lyrics, which, in the tradition of Strife and Damnation AD, are strategically placed in the middle of slamming, moshable breakdowns.
ref: 1999, CMJ New Music Report, volume 59, number 631, page 28:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Befitting the moshing style of dance.
poopbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poopbags
Etymology: From poop + bag.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poop bag.
poop bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poop bags
form: poopbag
Senses: glosses: A bag into which pet faeces, especially those of a dog, are collected for disposal.
poop bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poop bag
pignapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pignappers
Etymology: Blend of pig + kidnapper
Senses: examples: text: He bounded out of bed, grabbed his gun, aimed at a shadowy figure climbing out of the pen and fired. The pignapper fell to the ground. Rushing out to the pen, the gentleman placed the squealing piglet back in the pen and examined the thief.
ref: 2003, Herbert Lockwood, San Diego's Hysterical History, page 177:
text: Surely the pignappers must realize Belinda's worth a great deal more as a breeder than as a barbecue.
ref: 2014, Charlotte MacLeod, The Luck Runs Out:
glosses: A person who abducts a pig.
pignappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pignapper
treeswift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treeswifts
Etymology: From tree + swift.
Senses: glosses: Any bird in the family Hemiprocnidae, closely related to the true swifts in the family Apodidae, but differing in having a forked tail and a crest or other facial ornamentation, and in being able to perch on branches.
Synonyms: crested swift
treeswifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treeswift
edible bird's nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edible bird's nests
Senses: glosses: A nest of certain species of swiftlet, especially edible-nest swiftlet, Aerodramus fuciphagus or the black-nest swiftlet, Aerodramus maximus, made by the male swiftlet from its gelatinous saliva, and highly prized in Chinese cuisine for delicacies such as bird's nest soup.
Related terms: bird's nest soup
edible bird's nests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edible bird's nest
nebulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nebulites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chorismite in which one of the textural elements occurs in lenticular masses that have indistinct boundaries.
Derived terms: nebulitic
nebulites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nebulite
chorismite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorismites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mixed rock whose fabric is of visually uneven textures and which is composed of dissimilar types of materials with varied origins.
chorismites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorismite
white owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white owl
zootechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zootechny + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zootechny.
femmes fatales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femme fatale
DAWGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DAWG
brown owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown owl
carns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carn
semitrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semitrances
Etymology: From semi- + trance.
Senses: glosses: A state of mild trance.
semitrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semitrance
postreform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + reform.
Senses: glosses: After a reform.
posthypnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + hypnosis.
Senses: glosses: After hypnosis.
pain-relieving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pain-relieving
form: most pain-relieving
Senses: synonyms: painkilling
analgesic#Adjective
glosses: That relieves pain.
Related terms: word: painkiller
word: pain relief
word: analgesic
anti-submarine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + submarine.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Intended to attack submarines.
whoozit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoozits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whosit.
whoozits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whoozit
whazzit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whazzits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatsit.
whazzits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whazzit
ranchslider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchsliders
Etymology: From a trademark, Ranchslider, from ranch + slider.
Senses: examples: text: It is common ground that all four young men entered the house through an unlocked ranchslider door giving access to the combined kitchen-living room area.
ref: 1995, The New Zealand Law Reports, volume 3, page 132:
glosses: A kind of sliding glass door with a moving panel that slides behind a fixed panel.
ranchsliders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranchslider
wossit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wossits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatsit.
wossit
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: Wossit worth to you?
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what's it.
What is it.
examples: That funny bag you're carrying around: wossit got in it?
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what's it.
What has it.
examples: Wossit mean?
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what's it.
What does it.
wossits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wossit
ranch slider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranch sliders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ranchslider.
ranch sliders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranch slider
cbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cbars
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of centibar.
cbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cbar
syncellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncelli
Etymology: From Latin syncellus, from Ancient Greek σύγκελλος (súnkellos).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: One who holds an office in an Eastern Catholic or Orthodox Church roughly equivalent to that of an episcopal vicar in the Roman Catholic Church.
Related terms: protosyncellus
syncelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syncellus
protosyncelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protosyncellus
cephalothoracopagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalothoracopagus
colopexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colopexy
cudbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cudbear.
cruentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruentation
discissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discission
zygomaticomaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygomatico- + maxillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the zygomatic bone and maxilla.
bowed dulcimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowed dulcimers
Senses: glosses: A type of Appalachian dulcimer played with a bow and held upright like a cello.
bowed dulcimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowed dulcimer
dama gazelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dama gazelles
Senses: glosses: A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert (Nanger dama).
Synonyms: addra
mhorr
dama gazelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dama gazelle
darkling beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darkling beetles
Senses: glosses: Any beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, especially of the genus Zophobas.
darkling beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darkling beetle
berdes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berde
bugarija
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugarijas
Senses: glosses: A stringed instrument of Bosnian origin, a type of lute with circular soundholes, a long neck, and usually four strings.
Synonyms: bulgarija
kontra
bugarijas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bugarija
bull fiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull fiddle
bull fiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull fiddlers
Senses: glosses: A double bassist; someone who plays the bull fiddle (double bass)
dawn redwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dawn redwoods
Senses: glosses: A large deciduous conifer native to China, of species Metasequoia glyptostroboides, a well-known living fossil.
dawn redwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dawn redwood
sloughs of despond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slough of despond
buzuq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzuqs
Etymology: From Arabic بزق. Doublet of bouzouki.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mandolin-shaped lute of Arab origin, with a long neck, movable frets and two or three strings played with a plectrum.
Synonyms: bozuq
bouzouk
buzuk
Pheidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Phidian.
Phidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌɪdɪən/
Forms: form: Pheidian
Etymology: From Phidias + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Apollonian beautiful boy dramatizes the special horror of dissolved form to Pheidian Athens, with its passionate vision of the sunlit human figure.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek artist Phidias (Φειδίας; c. 480–430 BC), renowned for his sculpture.
buzuqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzuq
game fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game fish
Sumerogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sumerograms
Etymology: From Sumero- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Several ancient Near Eastern texts made cross references so as to cause readers to apprehend more than one text or theme at a time. Sumerograms in Akkadian literature or biblical quotations in Qumran pesharim are clear examples.
ref: 1998 October 24, Terje Stordalen, Echoes of Eden: Genesis 2-3 and Symbolism of the Eden Garden in Biblical Hebrew Literature, Oslo: The Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology, page 36:
text: Often the context will be clear enough and leave little room for doubt, but in many cases the need was felt to make the function of the Sumerogram in a particular clause explicit. This was done by adding the Hittite case ending to the Sumerogram: e.g., išḫaš is the subject case, išḫan the object case, and išḫi the indirect object case. These could be written ᴇɴ-aš, ᴇɴ-an, and ᴇɴ-i respectively. Such endings attached to a Sumerogram are known as phonetic complements.
ref: 2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Sumerian cuneiform symbol used as a logogram in another language, such as Akkadian or Hittite.
Hypernyms: logogram
Coordinate terms: Arameogram
heterogram
sinogram
Related terms: Akkadogram
Sumerograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sumerogram
Akkadogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Akkadograms
Etymology: From Akkado- + -gram.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An Akkadian word used as a logogram in another language, such as Hittite.
Hypernyms: logogram
Related terms: Sumerogram
Akkadograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Akkadogram
khoya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khoa.
sporonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporont
splenisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of splenization.
stearyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stearyl
stephanial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stephanion + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the stephanion.
archosauriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Archosauriformes, a clade of diapsid reptiles.
archosauriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archosauriforms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Archosauriformes.
apelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide that is the endogenous ligand for the G-protein-coupled APJ receptor
Derived terms: apelinergic
preproapelin
apterin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual aptera + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A furanocoumarin, the glucoside of vaginol, found in Zizia aptera and other plants.
psoralene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psoralenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psoralen.
psoralenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psoralene
phellopterin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A coumarin found in the plant Angelica archangelica.
oxypeucedanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A coumarin found in the plant Angelica archangelica.
ostruthol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A coumarin found in the plant Angelica archangelica.
isopimpinellin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + pimpinellin.
Senses: glosses: A furocoumarin found in celery, parsnips, and various other plants.
osthol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An O-methylated coumarin and calcium channel blocker found in plants such as Cnidium monnieri, Angelica archangelica, and Angelica pubescens.
bauxitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bauxite + -ic.
Senses: examples: bauxitic clay
glosses: Containing or relating to bauxite.
bernissartiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bernissartiids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct crocodile-like reptile in the family Bernissartiidae.
bernissartiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bernissartiid
bihelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + helical.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to two helices.
coappear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coappears
form: coappearing
form: coappeared
form: coappeared
Etymology: From co- + appear.
Senses: examples: text: As shown in Figure 2, the area with more red color means that the corresponding two relative solvent accessibilities on two aligned proteins have more chance to coappear in the structure alignments […]
ref: 2015 August 3, Jianzhu Ma, Sheng Wang, “AcconPred: Predicting Solvent Accessibility and Contact Number Simultaneously by a Multitask Learning Framework under the Conditional Neural Fields Model”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: To appear together.
coappeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coappear
coappears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coappear
coappearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coappear
Moffatt oxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moffatt oxidations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation.
synonyms: word: Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
Moffatt oxidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moffatt oxidation
Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidations
Etymology: First reported by J. Moffatt and his student K. Pfitzner in 1963.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols by dimethyl sulfoxide activated with a carbodiimide such as dicyclohexylcarbodiimide.
Synonyms: Moffatt oxidation
Related terms: Corey-Kim oxidation
Swern oxidation
dysmetabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + metabolism.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: metabolic dysfunction
dysmetabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + metabolic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dysmetabolism.
ectomesenchymoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Generally speaking, the main malignant part in most cases of malignant ectomesenchymoma (MEM) is the mesenchymal component.
ref: 2015 July 1, Yao Kun et al., “A rare case of malignant pediatric ectomesenchymoma arising from the cerebrum”, in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, volume 8:
glosses: A rare, fast-growing tumor of the nervous system or soft tissue that occurs mainly in children.
hyperactivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperactivity
hyperlaxity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + laxity.
Senses: examples: text: The so-called Danlos or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome consists of three symptoms: (1) pronounced fragility of the skin and its blood vessels, with breaking, splitting and the formation of hematomas and pseudotumors subsequent to the slightest trauma (dermatorrhexis-fragilitas cutis), (2) a more or less pronounced hyperlaxity and hyperelasticity of the skin (dermatochalasis-laxitas cutis) and (3) more or less pronounced hyperlaxity or hyperflexibility of the joints (arthrochalasis-laxitas articularis).
ref: 1936 June 24, F Ronchese, “Dermatorrhexis with dermatochalasis and arthrochalasis (the so-called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)”, in American Journal of Diseases of Children, volume 51, number 6, page 1403:
text: Other unique phenotypic features in our case were strabismus, severe oral apraxia, and joint hyperlaxity, which are all supposedly part of the phenotype of this de novo KCND3 mutation.
ref: 2015 July 21, Katrien Smets et al., “First de novo KCND3 mutation causes severe Kv4.3 channel dysfunction leading to early onset cerebellar ataxia, intellectual disability, oral apraxia and epilepsy”, in BMC Medical Genetics, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: Extreme laxity.
interdenticle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + denticle.
Senses: examples: text: The interdenticle grooves of the serrated carinae are quite shallow and slightly curve ventrally towards the central region of crown […]
ref: 2015, Attila Ősi et al., “An enigmatic crocodyliform tooth from the bauxites of western Hungary suggests hidden mesoeucrocodylian diversity in the Early Cretaceous European archipelago”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:
glosses: Between denticles.
labiolingually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From labiolingual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Among peirosaurids, the hypertrophied, labiolingually slightly flattened teeth of the North African Albian Hamadasuchus are the most similar to the specimen described here in having labial fluting and serrated carinae.
ref: 2015, Attila Ősi et al., “An enigmatic crocodyliform tooth from the bauxites of western Hungary suggests hidden mesoeucrocodylian diversity in the Early Cretaceous European archipelago”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:
glosses: In a labiolingual orientation.
logopedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to logopedics.
logopaedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of logopedic.
logopaedics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of logopedics.
re-marked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːˈmɑɹkt/
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈmɑːkt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-mark
multiclassification
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + classification.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, an adaptation of the context similarity-based selection method to multiclassification problems remains an interesting future task.
ref: 2015 August 3, Yifei Chen, Yuxing Sun, Bing-Qing Han, “Improving Classification of Protein Interaction Articles Using Context Similarity-Based Feature Selection”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to more than one classification.
multiquadric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + quadric.
Senses: examples: text: To avoid this disadvantage of spatial distance measurement, we herein describe each object (e.g. cell nucleus) by a scalar field on the basis of an inverse multiquadric radial basis function.
ref: 2015 September 2, Cleo-Aron Weis et al., “On the representation of cells in bone marrow pathology by a scalar field: propagation through serial sections, co-localization and spatial interaction analysis”, in Diagnostic Pathology, volume 10, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being a Radial basis function of the form ϕ(r)=√.
multiquadric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiquadrics
Etymology: From multi- + quadric.
Senses: glosses: A multiquadric function.
meshfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesh + -free.
Senses: qualifier: numerical simulation methods
glosses: Not requiring a mesh connecting data points of the simulation domain.
nonadipocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadipocytes
Etymology: From non- + adipocyte.
Senses: glosses: Any cell that is not an adipocyte.
nonadipocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonadipocyte
nonblinding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + blinding.
Senses: glosses: Not causing blindness.
nonmetabolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + metabolizing.
Senses: glosses: Not metabolizing.
paralligatorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralligatorids
Senses: examples: text: If the Hungarian specimen is from a paralligatorid, then it would be the first occurrence of the group in the European archipelago.
ref: 2015, Attila Ősi et al., “An enigmatic crocodyliform tooth from the bauxites of western Hungary suggests hidden mesoeucrocodylian diversity in the Early Cretaceous European archipelago”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct neosuchian crocodyliform in the family Paralligatoridae
paralligatorids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralligatorid
pinocembrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A flavanone found in damiana, honey, fingerroot, and propolis.
pinobanksin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antioxidant bioflavonoid found in sunflower honey.
dioxopiperazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dioxopiperazine
promigratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + migratory.
Senses: examples: text: The MET tyrosine kinase receptor (known also as the HGF receptor) promotes, among others, cancer growth and metastasis by conveying proliferative, antiapoptotic, and promigratory signals […]
ref: 2015 August 3, Chiara Urani et al., “Impact of Cadmium on Intracellular Zinc Levels in HepG2 Cells: Quantitative Evaluations and Molecular Effects”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Promoting migration.
sebecosuchian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sebecosuchians
Etymology: Sebecosuchia + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Sebecosuchia, an extinct group of mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliforms.
sebecosuchians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sebecosuchian
spectrofluorimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spectrofluorometric.
tachypnoeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tachypnoeic
form: most tachypnoeic
Etymology: From tachypnoea + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: She was pale, tachypnoeic and required CPAP ventilation with up to 60% oxygen.
ref: 2015 July 30, Sarah C. Grünert et al., “Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency associated with a novel splice mutation in the ACADM gene missed by newborn screening”, in BMC Medical Genetics, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: Exhibiting tachypnoea; hyperventilating.
tachypneic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tachypneic
form: most tachypneic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tachypnoeic.
urocortin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urocortins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A potent anorexigenic peptide of 40 amino acids.
ziphodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ziphodont
karambit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karambits
form: kerambit
Etymology: Borrowed from Minangkabau kurambik, karambiak.
Senses: glosses: A small, curved Southeast Asian knife resembling a Sumatran tiger's claw.
unrationalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rationalised.
Senses: examples: text: But, of course, “ugly” is a judgment of taste, and taste is just a strange old hobby, marginal and unrationalised, like Murphy, who, if he was staggering down Philpot Lane would probably rather die on his feet than take his ease on one of those granite anti-terrorist benches surrounding the most malignant proliferation of urban tissue that London has ever seen.
ref: 2015 September 5, Ned Beauman, “The Walkie Talkie is a sty in London's eye – and proves we can't say no to money”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not rationalised
pseudomodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + modernist.
Senses: examples: text: More than ever, architecture seems to be where the contemporary moment is dramatised: the oligarchs in their new penthouses, the bondholders in their new office towers, and the rest of us, competing for pseudomodernist new-builds designed on the understanding that we will be grateful to find anywhere at all to live.
ref: 2015 September 5, Ned Beauman, “The Walkie Talkie is a sty in London's eye – and proves we can't say no to money”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having a modernist or postmodernist appearance but not having the associated qualities
déjà vuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of déjà vu
déjà vued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of déjà vu
armoured train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armoured trains
form: armored train
Senses: glosses: a railway train protected with armour
armored train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armored trains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of armoured train.
bass fiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass fiddlers
Senses: glosses: A double bassist; someone who plays the bass fiddle (double bass).
bass fiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bass fiddle
booty bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Miami bass.
synonyms: word: Miami bass
bass violist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass violists
form: bass-violist
Etymology: From bass viol + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Someone who plays the bass viol (double bass).
bass-violist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass-violists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bass violist.
bass-violists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bass-violist
bull fiddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull fiddler
bass violinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass violinists
Senses: glosses: A double bassist; someone who plays the bass violin (double bass).
bass violins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bass violin
bass violinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bass violinist
Irish bouzouki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish bouzoukis
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bouzouki adapted for use in Irish traditional music with a short neck, and a flat back and sides.
Irish bouzoukis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish bouzouki
acoustic-electric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Modified with the addition of pickups or a microphone, in order to make the sound louder and more noticeable.
raw_tags: of an acoustic instrument
Synonyms: electro-acoustic
semi-acoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + acoustic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Modified with a wholly or partially hollow soundbox, producing a sound similar to but different than a normal acoustic version of the same instrument.
raw_tags: of an electric instrument
glosses: Somewhat acoustic.
Synonyms: hollow-body electric
chitarronist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitarronists
Etymology: From chitarrone + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Someone who plays the chitarrone.
chitarronists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitarronist
chitarrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitarrone
bandolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandolists
Etymology: From bandola + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the bandola.
bandolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandolist
bitser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitsers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bitzer.
banjolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjolin
banjolinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjolinist
kontras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kontra
bouzouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouzouks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buzuq.
bouzouks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouzouk
braguinha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braguinhas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cavaquinho.
synonyms: word: cavaquinho
braguinhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braguinha
braguinho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braguinhos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cavaquinho.
synonyms: word: cavaquinho
braguinhos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braguinho
aloe veras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aloe vera
charangoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charangoists
Etymology: From charango + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of charanguista.
synonyms: word: charanguista
charangoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charangoist
cuatrista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuatristas
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Someone who plays the cuatro.
cuatristas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuatrista
Central Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʒən
Forms: form: more Central Asian
form: most Central Asian
Senses: glosses: Of, from or pertaining to Central Asia.
Central Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʒən
Forms: form: Central Asians
Senses: glosses: A person from Central Asia.
Synonyms: Central Asiatic
Hypernyms: Asian
Coordinate terms: East Asian
South Asian
Southeast Asian
West Asian
West Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to West Asia.
West Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West Asians
Senses: glosses: A person from West Asia.
Synonyms: Western Asian
Hypernyms: Asian
Coordinate terms: Central Asian
East Asian
South Asian
Southeast Asian
Western Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Western-Asian
Senses: glosses: Synonym of West Asian.
synonyms: word: West Asian