cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wide-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wide-handed
form: most wide-handed
Etymology: From wide + handed.
Senses: examples: text: The two masters have fundamentally different ideals of the human form : Fra Filippo's figures are short and thick, round-headed, and wide-handed ; Botticelli's, on the contrary, are tall and slender, with long oval faces and narrow bony hands
ref: 1898, Jean Paul Richter, Lectures on the National Gallery, page 50:
text: But wide-handed, beef-shouldered Jack Nicklaus, present U.S. Open champ, commonly drives the ball 260 yards, sometimes tops 325.
ref: 1963 May, Robert Gannon, “Why Sports Records are Being Broken: Science or Supermen?”, in Popular Science, page 60:
text: Marie makes a distinction between the long-handed and the wide-handed forms.
ref: 1904, Hermann Oppenheim, Diseases of the nervous system, page 922:
text: Handy was a brown-faced man with crisply curling brown hair and blue eyes; a wide-handed, capable Philadelphia seaman.
ref: 2000, John Clagett, Captain Whitecap, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Having hands that are wide.
examples: text: It was a strange kind of clapping; a sort of wide-handed upward clap, compounded by the exaggerated nasal voice the hijras used in speech.
ref: 2007, Veronique Renard, Pholomolo: No Man No Woman, →ISBN:
text: He gave Swainer a wide-handed wave.
ref: 2009, Joe Pernice, It Feels So Good When I Stop, →ISBN:
text: Governments did not dispatch their most elite units, men who are truly not replaceable, unless the situation warranted a razor-sharp slice and not a wide-handed slap.
ref: 2014, Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz, Under Fire, →ISBN:
glosses: Characterized by hands held open and splayed fingers.
examples: text: I like doing 100 by doing 40 normal, 30 wide-handed position, and then 30 in the close-handed position.
ref: 2011, Gary Steven Gautier, Heal Thyself, Optimum Health Forever, →ISBN, page 90:
text: He gave a wide-handed gesture, puzzled as to why she was at his flat and picking up from the way she clenched her mouth so tightly that she was very tense.
ref: 2014, Lynda La Plante, Twisted, →ISBN:
glosses: Characterized by hands held away from the torso.
examples: text: His songwriting success brought Yvain to the notice of wide-handed theatre magnate Gustave Quinson, who had produced Henri Christin6's Phi-Phi three years earlier and, in spite of the fact that the composer had not a full score to his name, Quinson signed him up to write three musicals.
ref: 2001, Kurt Gänzl, Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, →ISBN, page 2247:
text: May God, through the wide-handed grace of His pity grant some kind of amnesty.
ref: 2012, Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle, →ISBN:
text: The men and women of my time were big-hearted and wide-handed people.
ref: 2014, Janet Dailey, Aspen Gold, →ISBN:
glosses: Generous
wide-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wide-handed
form: most wide-handed
Etymology: From wide + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Not such are the beings that earth now breeds : No more the vast god nor the demon : her seeds Wide-handed she scatters, wide-handed feeds
ref: 1889, William Larminie, Glanlua and Other Poems, page 53:
text: Wide-handed he struck and with open palm on the portion of the bargee's anatomy which, in that position, presented the largest and, in all respects, the most convenient ...
ref: 1914, Albert Payson Terhune, Dad, page 82:
glosses: In a wide-handed manner.
bulk viscosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulk viscosities
Senses: glosses: resistance to expansion and contraction by a fluid
glosses: the measure of such
Hyponyms: cosmological viscosity
Related terms: shear viscosity
microviscosity
shear viscosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shear viscosities
Senses: glosses: Resistance to flowing.
glosses: The measure of resistance to flowing.
Related terms: bulk viscosity
microviscosity
wide-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wide-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being wide-handed.
the bogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I get to know some other girls while waiting to use the bogs.
ref: 2005, Valerie Mason-John, Borrowed Body, page 225:
text: It's a bit like urinal etiquette in which, upon entering the bogs you are obliged to choose the Urinal of Conspicuous Heterosexuality.
ref: 2011, Sam Holden, Diary of a Hapless Househusband, →ISBN, page 198:
text: Dave walks over to the urinal and unzips his fly. 'Remember the bogs in the Captain Marlow?'
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: A public bathroom; lavatory.
alopurinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of allopurinol.
constructive dismissal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructive dismissals
Senses: examples: text: Gingerism in the workplace could form the basis of formal grievances or constructive dismissal cases, an employment lawyer has warned.
ref: 2007 June 14, “Red hair bullying cases could end up in court”, in The Register:
text: After a series of warnings regarding his administrative errors and failings, the employee left and claimed constructive dismissal.
ref: 2008, Arthur Brown, The Practice Manager's Law Handbook, →ISBN:
text: In fact, if she were an employer and I her employee, I would have strong grounds for suing her for constructive dismissal.
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 300:
text: It is a common assumption that a constructive dismissal is automatically unfair. This view is wrong. All that a finding of constructive dismissal does is to show that the employee (despite having resigned) was in fact dismissed.
ref: 2014, James A.. Holland, Stuart Burnett, Employment Law, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: The act or practice of forcing an employee to resign by creating a hostile work environment.
constructive dismissals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constructive dismissal
alphacoronavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphacoronaviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: The nsp1 protein of transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), an alphacoronavirus, efficiently suppressed protein synthesis in mammalian cells.
ref: 2011 January, Cheng Huang, “Alphacoronavirus Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus nsp1 Protein Suppresses Protein Translation in Mammalian Cells and in Cell-Free HeLa Cell Extracts but Not in Rabbit Reticulocyte Lysate”, in Journal of Virology, volume 85, number 1, page 638:
text: The recent discovery of novel alphacoronaviruses (alpha-CoVs) in European and Asian rodents revealed that rodent coronaviruses (CoVs) sampled worldwide formed a discrete phylogenetic group within this genus.
ref: 2019, T Tsoleridis, “Shared common ancestry of rodent alphacoronaviruses sampled globally”, in Viruses, volume 11, page 125:
glosses: Any coronavirus of the genus Alphacoronavirus.
Derived terms: alphacoronaviral
bisulfited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bisulfite + -ed.
Senses: glosses: That has been reacted or treated with bisulfite
Derived terms: unbisulfited
paraffinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paraffinate
paraffinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: treated with paraffin
glosses: embedded in paraffin wax
Derived terms: deparaffinated
deparaffinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deparaffinate
deparaffinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: cleansed of paraffin
glosses: removed from a paraffin wax embedding
endotenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “tendon”).
Senses: examples: text: In the later cases, the transplanted tendon showed a slight hypertrophy of the endotenon and of the blood-vessels (Fig. 2) and was slightly softer than the normal; otherwise no changes were noted.
ref: 1916, Leo Mayer, “The physiological method of tendon transplantation”, in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 22, page 475:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The fine connective tissue between the strands of a tendon.
Coordinate terms: epitenon
paratenon
gevokizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -ki- (“interleukin”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular monoclonal antibody.
hydroclorotiazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hydrochlorothiazide.
hypocitraturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + citraturia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A lower than normal level of citrate in the urine
Related terms: hypocitraturic
citraturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From citrate + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of citrate (or citric acid) in the urine
Derived terms: hypercitraturia
hypocitraturia
hypercitraturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + citraturia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A higher than normal level of citrate in the urine
navitoclax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A particular anticancer drug
Related terms: obatoclax
normocarbia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of normocapnia.
synonyms: word: normocapnia
normomagnesemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + magnesemia or normo- + magnes(ium) + -emia.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The normal level of magnesium ions in the blood.
Synonyms: eumagnesemia
Coordinate terms: alt: eucalcemia
word: normocalcemia
alt: eukalemia
word: normokalemia
alt: eunatremia
word: normonatremia
Derived terms: normomagnesemic
pancreaticogastrostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancreaticogastrostomies
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: pancreatico- + gastro- + -stomy = pancreatico- + gastr- + -ostomy = pancreatico- + gastrostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The formation of a connection between the pancreas and the stomach.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
pseudopapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + papillary.
Senses: glosses: Having the outward appearance of a papilla
subintima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subintimas
form: subintimae
Etymology: From sub- + intima.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The area beneath an intima
Related terms: subintimal
subintimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + intimal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath an intima; relating to a subintima
Derived terms: subintimally
supraumbilical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: supra-umbilical
Etymology: From supra- + umbilical.
Senses: glosses: Situated above the navel
undecalcified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decalcified.
Senses: examples: text: Dynamic histomorphometry must be performed on undecalcified sections in order to retain fluorochromes that had been deposited into the mineralizing bone matrix.
ref: 2008, Laura E. Nagy, Alcohol: Methods and Protocols, page 333:
glosses: From which calcareous matter has not been removed.
gay-straight alliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gay-straight alliances
Senses: glosses: A school- or community-based organization intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth, as well as their straight supporters.
gay-straight alliances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gay-straight alliance
vesicourethral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vesico- + urethral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting, the urinary bladder and the urethra.
wikipedia: vesicoureteral reflux
safe word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe words
Etymology: From safe + word.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of safeword.
safe words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safe word
safeworded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of safeword
safewording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of safeword
sex swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex swings
Etymology: From sex + swing.
Senses: examples: text: Love hotels differ in terms of price (from about $30 per hour and up), decoration (some may offer features such as sex swings, hot tubs, or round beds, and many are themed), and architecture […].
ref: 2021, Margo DeMello, On the Job: An Encyclopedia of Unique Occupations around the World, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 137:
synonyms: love swing
glosses: A swing, used in sexual activity, designed to restrain one person while one or more others are able to move freely.
sex swings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex swing
Southeast Asians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Southeast Asian
chocolate crackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate crackles
Senses: examples: text: They do something to me, chocolate crackles, mainly put weight on but I adore them.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 115:
text: Meanwhile, I'm catering for Verity's fifth birthday party on the same day at 2 p.m. – am up to my armpits tonight in honey joys and chocolate crackles! I also have to bake a mermaid cake!
ref: 2011, Jacqueline Pascarl, Abducted: The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children:
synonyms: bubble cake
glosses: A snack made from a mixture of Rice Bubbles, desiccated coconut and hydrogenated coconut oil left to set in patty cake cases.
chocolate crackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate crackle
coconut oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊ.kə.nʌt ˈɔɪ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˌkəʊ.kə.nʌt ˈɔɪ(ə)l/
Forms: form: coconut oils
Senses: glosses: A type of cooking oil extracted from the kernel or meat of matured coconuts harvested from the coconut palm.
Related terms: poonac
bubble cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble cakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chocolate crackle.
synonyms: word: chocolate crackle
coconut oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coconut oil
bubble cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble cake
Japanese slippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese slipper
job fairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of job fair
selective schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selective school
dynasticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynasticisms
Etymology: From dynastic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A form of government in which the rulers all belong to the same dynastic family
bootcut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boot cut.
lurex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lurex.
Lurex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lurex
Etymology: Marketing coinage; lure + -ex.
Senses: examples: text: As someone who can shoot on target, keep watch while you sleep and look smoking in a leather jacket or a sparkly, silver lurex sweater, [Pedro Pascal is] the poster boy for what the zaddy's all about.
ref: 2023 March 18, Jo Ellison, “Have you got zaddy issues?”, in FT Weekend, page 21:
glosses: A form of yarn (or fabric made from it) that incorporates a glittering metallic thread.
turnbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnback
earballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earball
earballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of earball
unfavourited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfavourite
unfavourited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of unfavorited (“not marked as a favourite”).
unfavourite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfavourites
form: unfavouriting
form: unfavourited
form: unfavourited
Etymology: From un- + favourite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unfavorite.
malformatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mal- + formatted.
Senses: examples: text: SpamAssassin works by assigning scores to characteristics of suspected spam mail. These range from malformatted headers to the use of embedded code meant to identify the recipient.
ref: 2004, PC Mag:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Poorly or incorrectly formatted.
internal refugee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internal refugees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of internally displaced person.
synonyms: word: internally displaced person
internal refugees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internal refugee
palm cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palm card
aubretia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aubretias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Aubrieta.
aubretias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aubretia
palm oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palm oil
guiding lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guiding light
earthtongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthtongues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earth tongue.
bullet points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullet point
bullet lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullet list
habeas corpora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habeas corpus
habeas corpuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of habeas corpus
habeas corpuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habeas corpus
habeas corpusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of habeas corpus
earth tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth tongues
Etymology: Calque of translingual Geoglossum.
Senses: glosses: Any ascomycete fungus (more exactly its fruiting body) of the genus Geoglossum.
mehrieh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mahr.
shoah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoahs
Senses: glosses: A mass murder.
shoah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoahs
form: shoahing
form: shoahed
form: shoahed
Senses: examples: text: I had to create a new account, because my old one was shoahed.
qualifier: chiefly alt-right slang
glosses: To destroy; to remove; to take down, especially from an Internet platform.
trackwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackwheels
Etymology: From track + wheel.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small wheel, incorporated into a mouse or smartphone, that controls scrolling.
trackwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackwheel
Exxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of the originally proposed Exon (in keeping with the four-letter format of Enco and Esso), to avoid having the name of J. James Exon, governor of Nebraska, which might have suggested a conflict of interest.
Senses: glosses: A trade name of ExxonMobil, primarily used in the United States of America.
glosses: A former petrochemical company, now part of ExxonMobil.
back pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back pains
form: backpain
Senses: glosses: Pain felt in the back.
backpain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back pain.
backpains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backpain
arbakai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbakais
form: arbakai
Senses: glosses: A Pashtun tribal militia in Afghanistan.
candles in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candle in the wind
breaks it down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break it down
breaking it down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break it down
broke it down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break it down
chicozapote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicozapotes
Etymology: From Spanish chicozapote.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sapodilla.
synonyms: word: sapodilla
phalangist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phalangists
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Phalangist.
phalangists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalangist
blindered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blinder + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blinkered.
synonyms: word: blinkered
Derived terms: unblindered
fair gos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fair go
social cohesions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social cohesion
commandante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of comandante.
teaches someone a lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teach someone a lesson
teaching someone a lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teach someone a lesson
taught someone a lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teach someone a lesson
piss slit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss slits
form: piss-slit
Etymology: From piss + slit.
Senses: glosses: The external urethral orifice; the opening on the tip of a penis from which urine and semen are excreted.
Synonyms: urinary meatus
external urethral orifice
cockhole
pisshole
dickhole
piss slits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piss slit
thoracic cavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracic cavity
cuspidalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cuspidal + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, we apply this result to obtain results concerning certain cuspidalization problems for fundamental groups of (not necessarily proper) hyperbolic curves over finite fields..
ref: 2015, Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, “On the cuspidalization problem for hyperbolic curves over finite fields”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of making an object cuspidal.
modular form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modular forms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A complex analytic function satisfying a certain kind of functional equation with respect to the group action of the modular group, and also satisfying a growth condition.
eigenform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenforms
Etymology: From eigen- + form.
Senses: examples: text: We establish lower bounds for (i) the numbers of positive and negative terms and (ii) the number of sign changes in the sequence of Fourier coefficients at squarefree integers of a half-integral weight modular Hecke eigenform.
ref: 2015, Yuk-Kam Lau, Emmanuel Royer, Jie Wu, “Sign of Fourier coefficients of modular forms of half integral weight”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A modular form which is an eigenvector for all Hecke operators T_m,m=1,2,3,...
pancreaticogastrostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreaticogastrostomy
Aspieness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Aspie + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Stimming is another component of my Aspieness.
ref: 2006, Jeff, "The Salesman", in Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-verbal Learning Disability: Stories and Strategies, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2004), page 120
text: However, if you can fully accept your “Aspieness” and embrace both your gifts as well as your social limitations, you can then strive for excellence using your strengths rather than covering up your weaknesses.
ref: 2009, Nick Dubin, Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety: A Guide to Successful Stress Management, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 25:
text: While I never shunned my Aspieness, I tried to be clever about how and when to let my AS out and about.
ref: 2014, Lianne Holliday Willey, Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder): Expanded Edition, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: The condition or quality of being an Aspie.
neomedieval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neo-medieval
Etymology: From neo- + medieval.
Senses: glosses: Describing the modern revival of medieval themes, or their use in music and popular culture
postprandially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.ə.li/
ipa: /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.ə.li/
Etymology: From postprandial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This dose resulted in a TAZ of 11 mg when administered to healthy adults as an aqueous solution postprandially with little being achieved by administering greater amounts[…].
ref: 2015 June, Cuong D. Tran, Geetha L. Gopalsamy, Elissa K. Mortimer, Graeme P. Young, “The Potential for Zinc Stable Isotope Techniques and Modelling to Determine Optimal Zinc Supplementation”, in Nutrients, volume 7, number 6, →DOI, pages 4271–4295:
glosses: In a postprandial manner; after a meal; especially, after dinner.
Synonyms: postcibally
Related terms: preprandial
postprandial
prandial
regurgitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Flowing backward or against the normal direction.
regurgitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regurgitants
Senses: examples: text: The virus particle formation is also important for vector transmission due to the high RNase activities in regurgitant of leaf-feeding beetles who can transmit sobemoviruses in a semipersistent manner.
ref: 2015, Merike Sõmera et al., “Overview on Sobemoviruses and a Proposal for the Creation of the Family Sobemoviridae”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 7, →DOI:
glosses: That which has been regurgitated; vomit.
Shiitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːaɪˌtɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: Shi'itism
Etymology: From Shiite + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Shi'ism.
synonyms: word: Shi'ism
inextendibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The investigation of low-regularity inextendibility criteria is motivated by the strong cosmic censorship conjecture.
ref: 2015, Jan Sbierski, “The $C^0$-inextendibility of the Schwarzschild spacetime and the spacelike diameter in Lorentzian Geometry”, in Journal of Differential Geometry, volume 108, number 2, →DOI, pages 319–378:
glosses: The quality or state of being inextendible.
ultraspherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + spherical.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, an estimate for 0 < v < 1, can be derived from theorem 6.6.1, by noting that v is an ultraspherical weight function, whose exponent is negative.
ref: 2008, Daniele Funaro, Polynomial Approximation of Differential Equations, →ISBN, page 116:
text: We develop a spectral method for solving univariate singular integral equations over unions of intervals by utilizing Chebyshev and ultraspherical polynomials to reformulate the equations as almost-banded infinite-dimensional systems.
ref: 2015, Richard Mikael Slevinsky, Sheehan Olver, “A fast and well-conditioned spectral method for singular integral equations”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Related to or involving a Gegenbauer polynomial.
Derived terms: ultraspherical polynomial
hypercaloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercaloric
form: most hypercaloric
Etymology: From hyper- + caloric.
Senses: examples: text: Metabolically-normal (n = 12) and metabolically-abnormal (n = 8) obese people, defined as having low or high intrahepatic triglyceride (IHTG) content, respectively, but matched on body mass index (BMI) and fat mass, were prescribed a hypercaloric diet for 7–8 weeks, until they gained ~6% of their initial body weight.
ref: 2015, Elisa Fabbrini, Faidon Magkos, “Hepatic Steatosis as a Marker of Metabolic Dysfunction”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 7, →DOI:
glosses: Extremely dense or abundant in calories.
mononucleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + nucleolar.
Senses: examples: text: The karyotype was mononucleolar: one obligatory nucleolus (N) was well developed in sec. 3, near the centromere and the telomere in arm G.
ref: 2015, Ninel A. Petrova et al., “Karyotypical characteristics of two allopatric African populations of anhydrobiotic Polypedilum Kieffer, 1912 (Diptera, Chironomidae) originating from Nigeria and Malawi”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 9, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: With a single nucleolus.
Related terms: multinucleolar
multinucleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + nucleolar.
Senses: examples: text: The karyotype of the population is multinucleolar, with two nucleoli (N).
ref: 2015, Ninel A. Petrova et al., “Karyotypical characteristics of two allopatric African populations of anhydrobiotic Polypedilum Kieffer, 1912 (Diptera, Chironomidae) originating from Nigeria and Malawi”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 9, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: With multiple nucleoli.
Related terms: mononucleolar
stiff porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiff porridges
Senses: glosses: A porridge made with a greater proportion of meal or flour so as to achieve a thicker consistency, similar to dough (common in many African cuisines).
Synonyms: word: stywe pap
Related terms: word: bogobe
word: sadza
word: to
word: ugali
roman: ga'at
word: ጋኣት
jizbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jizbags
Etymology: From jizz, meaning semen.
Senses: examples: text: Sorta. He's plugged in. Not some jizbag who has you do truckers by the freeway.
ref: 2011, Bill Guttentag, Boulevard, →ISBN:
text: OK, you're a giant jizbag ho. That better?
ref: 2011, Sarah Bird, The Gap Year, →ISBN:
text: 'Dónal Boyce is a jizbag.' I open my mouth to say, 'Language,' but don't.
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 553:
glosses: A jerk or asshole; a mean or rude person; someone seen as being arrogant, snobby or obnoxious.
jizbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jizbag
is that the time
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -aɪm
Forms: form: Is that the time
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate surprise at how late in time it is.
skin group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin groups
form: skin-group
Senses: examples: text: A person is born into their skin group and thus, in addition to a personal name, shares with other relatives who are similarly classified, a skin name.
ref: 2002, Diane Bell, Daughters of the Dreaming, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Until very recently the penalties for marrying someone from another skin group were very harsh, and included death.
ref: 2004, Claire Smith, Country, Kin and Culture, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Our skin group tells us who we can marry and who we should not talk to.
ref: 2006, Chris Wilson, Macmillan Educational Company, Trisha Sertori, Jane Pelusey, Michael Pelusey, Chris Wilson, Huddleston Bruce, & Marilyn Huddleston, Life in Indigenous Australian Communities, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: An Australian Aborigine social division, which is inherited from the mother and which determines who one can marry and how one relates to others.
Related terms: skin name
skin groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skin group
skin-group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin-groups
Senses: examples: text: The skin-group, or “yiminga” of a Tiwi is matrilineal; it is inherited from the mother and determines the marriage line.
ref: 2008, Heide Smith, Brian Oram Smith, Portrait of a People: The Tiwi of Northern Australia, →ISBN:
text: In Walbiri society you belong to one of these eight skin-groups. They dominate your social life; they determine who you can marry, and they determine how you relate to everybody else in Walbiri society.
ref: 2009, Rob Ranzijn, Keith R. McConnochie, Wendy Nolan, Psychology and Indigenous Australians, →ISBN, page 50:
text: She moved from skin-group to skin-group at the start of each of the six Noongar seasons, helping each family as best she could, and circulating the idea that violent resistance to the Europeans would result in more dead Noongar.
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 414:
glosses: Alternative form of skin group.
skin-groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skin-group
ontologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ontologizes
form: ontologizing
form: ontologized
form: ontologized
form: ontologise
Etymology: From ontology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: H. Richard's refusal to ontologize evil is theologically correct.
ref: 2007, D. Stephen Long, Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism: The Ethics of Paul Ramsey, →ISBN, page 47:
text: To use Carol Adams's language, to shoot an elk in a “hunting” preserve is to ontologize it as a trophy.
ref: 2012, J. Claude Evans, With Respect for Nature: Living as Part of the Natural World, →ISBN, page 156:
text: The second option, to ontologize the definition of politics, is an alluring choice, particularly if one finds the “normative grounds” complaints plausible and meaningful.
ref: 2012, Samuel A. Chambers, The Lessons of Ranciere, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: To convert into ontological entities or express in ontological terms.
ontologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ontologize
ontologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ontologize
ontologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ontologize
ontologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ontologises
form: ontologising
form: ontologised
form: ontologised
Senses: examples: text: According to Robert Gimello, 'Buddhists do not ontologise the contents of their mystical experiences.'
ref: 1981, William J. Wainwright, Mysticism, page 122:
text: But in doing so we will try to expose some of the false analogies which attempt to ontologise the cyberworld as a parallel universe to our own—as a space apart with its own terms and conditions into which we are inserted as nodes of communication and as identities constituted as a function of the meanings internal to the virtual realm.
ref: 2003, Sallie Westwood, John Williams, Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories, →ISBN, page 250:
text: The natural sciences were only able to ontologise their statements traditionally because the object of their research – nature – normally did not contradict this.
ref: 2009, Gotthard Bechmann, The Social Integration of Science, →ISBN, page 109:
text: There, in the 1210s, a figure known as the Blind Cathar ontologised into being a conduit into the Dusk.
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 432:
glosses: Alternative form of ontologize.
ontologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ontologise
ontologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ontologise
ontologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ontologise
no plan survives contact with the enemy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: no battle plan survives contact with the enemy
form: no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy
form: no plan survives first contact with the enemy
Senses: glosses: After a plan against an enemy is drafted, there will be unexpected elements from the opposition that will call for improvisation.
examples: text: ‹"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." Or with a pretty girl in a sundress.›
ref: 2015, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 2933: Game Over Man, Game Over:
glosses: Even with a preexisting plan, unexpected circumstances will require one to think on one's feet.
bushidō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Given bushidō’s close ties to warrior training and attendant ideals, it somewhat surprisingly does not contain any discussion of combat exercises or anything of the sort.
ref: 2021, Per Faxneld, “Martial Arts Spirituality in Sweden: The Occult Connection”, in Lukas Pokorny, Franz Winter, editors, The Occult Nineteenth Century: Roots, Developments, and Impact on the Modern World (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part II (Occultism in America and Europe), page 231:
text: Any and all forms of budō afford budōka the training and character traits of bushidō to live an exemplary and extraordinary life.
ref: 2022, Masayuki Shimabukuro, Leonard J. Pellman, “Karate-dō no Mokuteki: The Purpose of Karate-dō”, in Karate as the Art of Killing: A Study of Its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shitō-Ryū, Berkeley, Calif.: Blue Snake Books, →ISBN, page 24:
text: From that point on, the concept of bushidō was developed in popular discourse and most of the texts that historians rely on nowadays to understand the samurai were written in the Tokugawa period and onward. This is problematical, in that the authors of these texts that propounded bushidō discourse tended to romanticise it and the samurai class.
ref: 2022, Anna Kretowicz, “Japanese Laws of War”, in Samuel White, editor, The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 2: From Ancient India to East Africa (International Humanitarian Law Series; 64), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: Alternative form of bushido.
Guardiol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Occitan spoken in Guardia Piemontese, Italy.
wind at one's back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And the Tulsa symphony credits the station with reversing a decline in ticket sales among younger patrons. "We've got the wind at our back," Mr. Cohn said.
ref: 1997 April 7, Andrea Adelson, “Broadening the Appeal of Classical Music Radio”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Jul 2015:
text: Most of the rational world . . . foresaw a smooth ride to victory for Democrats. They had, after all, the wind at their backs from the 2006 midterm elections.
ref: 2008 April 23, Amy Sullivan, “A Primary with No End”, in Time, retrieved 03 Jul 2015:
text: Like the cowboys, cavalry men and settlers of old, the new-model nerd has the wind at his back and a kingdom to claim.
ref: 2010 December 16, Xan Brooks, “Film: When the alpha nerds kicked ass”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 03 Jul 2015:
glosses: Forward momentum; a boost in one's prospects for success due to favorable events or circumstances.
acrosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is known that 1,25[OH]2D is responsible for increasing intracellular Ca+2 concentration and the activity of acrosine, which is accountable for acrosome reactions that are essential for the fertilization process.
ref: 2015, Filip A. Dabrowski, Barbara Grzechocinska, Miroslaw Wielgos, “The Role of Vitamin D in Reproductive Health—A Trojan Horse or the Golden Fleece?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 7, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of acrosin.
synonyms: word: acrosin
asynapsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asynapses
Etymology: From a- + synapsis.
Senses: examples: text: For example in the AB chromosome (Fig. 6a, b), homologous sections near the centromere were often situated nearby each other, due to asynapsis, and thus the area near the centromere appeared as a thickening.
ref: 2015, Ninel A. Petrova et al., “Karyotypical characteristics of two allopatric African populations of anhydrobiotic Polypedilum Kieffer, 1912 (Diptera, Chironomidae) originating from Nigeria and Malawi”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 9, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The failure of synapsis during meiosis.
Related terms: asynaptic
frames per second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frame per second
FPSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FPS
Indian almond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian almonds
Senses: glosses: A tropical tree grown for its edible fruit, almondlike nuts, and as an ornamental shade tree, Terminalia catappa.
Synonyms: sense: Terminalia catappa
word: almendro
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: beach almond
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: Bengal almond
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: broadleaf
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: ebelebo
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: Malabar almond
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: sea almond
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: Singapore almond
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: talisay
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: tropical almond
sense: Terminalia catappa
word: umbrella tree
Indian almonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian almond
white mangrove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white mangroves
Senses: glosses: A tropical tree native to coastal mangrove habitats on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Laguncularia racemosa.
glosses: Avicennia marina, principally native to the shores of the Indian Ocean.
white mangroves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white mangrove
tropical almond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical almonds
Senses: glosses: The Indian almond, Terminalia catappa.
tropical almonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropical almond
Rangoon creeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rangoon creepers
Senses: glosses: A large tropical vine with red flowers (Combretum indicum), native to India and Southeast Asia, where it has been widely used in traditional medicine.
Synonyms: sense: Combretum indicum
word: Chinese honeysuckle
Rangoon creepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rangoon creeper
Chinese honeysuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese honeysuckles
Senses: glosses: A tropical vine used in traditional medicine (Combretum indicum).
Synonyms: sense: Combretum indicum
word: Rangoon creeper
Chinese honeysuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese honeysuckle
venireperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venirepersons
form: venirepeople
Etymology: From venire + person.
Senses: examples: text: The court did not know whether personal voir dire would entail the same dangers of inducing bias as to the current procedures for voir dire, which is usually conducted in open court with the entire jury panel present and each juror given the opportunity to observe the examination of other venirepersons.
ref: 1981 January, “What's New in the Law”, in ABA Journal, volume 67, page 101:
topics: law
glosses: A potential juror who appears in court for jury selection.
venirepersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venireperson
combretum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combretums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Combretum, from Latin combrētum.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of tropical trees and shrubs in the genus Combretum.
combretums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combretum
bushwillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushwillows
Etymology: From bush + willow.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of tropical trees and shrubs in the genus Combretum, many of which superficially resemble willows.
bushwillows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushwillow
leadwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leadwoods
Etymology: From lead + wood.
Senses: examples: text: And then the nights in the camp, the meat strung up in the trees and the heavy leadwood logs burning as high as a house.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 353:
glosses: A southern African tree with exceptionally hard and dense wood, Combretum imberbe
arjuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arjunas
form: arjun tree
Etymology: From Sanskrit अर्जुन (arjuna).
Senses: synonyms: kumbuk
glosses: A tree native to India and used in ayurvedic medicine, Terminalia arjuna.
beleric myrobalan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beleric myrobalans
Senses: synonyms: bastard myrobalan
glosses: A tree native to India and used in ayurvedic medicine of species Terminalia bellirica
chebulic myrobalan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chebulic myrobalans
Senses: glosses: A tree native to southern Asia with edible fruit and which is used in traditional medicine, Terminalia chebula.
trendbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trend-busting.
trend-busting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trend + busting.
Senses: glosses: That is counter to a current trend
khanaqah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khanaqahs
form: khanegah
form: khaneqa
form: khaneqah
form: khangah
form: khanka
form: khankah
form: khanqah
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic خَانَقَاه (ḵānaqāh), from Classical Persian خَانَگَاه (xānagāh), from خَانَه (xāna, “house”) + ـگَاه (-gāh).
Senses: glosses: A hostel for Sufis, often in the form of cells around a courtyard.
khanaqahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khanaqah
Morbier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morbiers
Senses: glosses: A French semisoft cow's-milk cheese, traditionally in two layers (from morning and evening milk).
onstream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: on stream
Senses: glosses: Being produced
glosses: available for use
bicommunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + communal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to two distinct communities that may have conflicting interests
Derived terms: bicommunalism
schadenfreudian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schadenfreudian
form: most schadenfreudian
Etymology: From schadenfreude + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characterised by schadenfreude.
blackbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackbelts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black belt.
counterhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterhands
form: counter hand
Etymology: From counter + hand.
Senses: glosses: A shop assistant (who works behind a counter).
counterhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterhand
fastmoving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fastmoving
form: most fastmoving
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fast-moving.