cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
step out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps out
form: stepping out
form: stepped out
form: stepped out
Senses: examples: text: She opened the car door and stepped out of the car.
glosses: To exit a place on foot, often for a short time.
examples: text: They've been stepping out since he told her he was interested in a family.
glosses: To date, to be in a romantic relationship.
examples: text: […] they had marched past Poincaré at Peterhof, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich stepping it out on the right flank with his perfect martial bearing and an air of desperate bravery about him, saluting and giving this honored guest eyes right.
ref: 1989, H[arry] T[aylor], transl. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translation of original by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, →ISBN, page 225:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step.
examples: text: "Look here, Bunter, step out," exclaimed Harry Wharton, impatiently. "Do you want lines from Quelch, you fat chump?" Billy Bunter did not step out. He remained where he was, and jerked a fat thumb up the woodland footpath.
ref: 1952, Charles Hamilton, Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius:
synonyms: step lively
glosses: Hurry up; get a move on.
Synonyms: sense: to be in a romantic relationship
word: go out
word: date
Derived terms: step out on someone
crusta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌstə/
Forms: form: crustae
Etymology: From Latin crusta (“shell, crust, inlaid work”).
Senses: glosses: A crust or shell.
glosses: A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
Related terms: crusta lactea
crusta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌstə/
Forms: form: crustas
Senses: examples: text: Crusta is made the same as a fancy cocktail, with a little lemon juice and a small lump of ice added.
ref: 1862, Jerry Thomas, How to Mix Drinks, Or The Bon-vivant's Companion, Dick & Fitzgerald, page 52:
glosses: A cocktail (typically of brandy, orange liqueur, bitters, and lemon juice and peel) distinguished by a sugared crust on the rim of the glass.
mutualistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mutualistic
form: most mutualistic
Etymology: From mutual + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Mutualistic relationships, such as those that give rise to lichens, or plants' relationships with mycorrhizal fungi, were curious exceptions to the rule—where they were acknowledged to exist at all.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 234:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: mutually beneficial
Derived terms: mutualistically
nonmutualistic
Related terms: mutualism
nucleoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleoplasm
besat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of besit
cross-dressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɔsˌdɹɛ.sɚz/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒsˌdɹɛ.sɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-dresser
fuþorc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuþorcs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of futhorc.
leftosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the leftosphere
Etymology: From left + -o- + -sphere, perhaps by analogy with blogosphere.
Senses: examples: text: I know quite a few [marines in the] USMC, my kid was in Iraq. To the man, none of them fit the "clueless" stereotype that is propogated by the leftosphere.
ref: 2006 March 30, "SteveR" (username), "Re: Rumsfeld - Pre-9/11 Thinking", in tx.politics and other newgroups, Usenet
text: Sure, you mention some of the good things to come out of the leftosphere - what's the most recent "good" thing they have done? Hmm? All you mention is ancient history.
ref: 2008 March 4, O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - SWEEPEAT!!!, “Re: I. . . I just couldn't do it!!! :_(”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox (Usenet):
text: I've read complaints from the leftosphere complaining that there's no soundbite to play in retaliation to the noisebots on Fox.
ref: 2008 March 19, Sam Hutcheson, “Re: How to ensure Obama coasts to the Democratic nomination”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves.coffeeshop (Usenet):
text: When kos sneezes, the rest of the nutroots catch a cold, so [James] Webb should be an acceptable nominee to the entire leftosphere.
ref: 2008 December 5, Josh Painter, Team Obama needs your help:
glosses: Blogs on the political left, taken collectively.
Related terms: wingnutosphere
peninsulares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peninsular
energy mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy mixes
Senses: glosses: The range of energy sources of a region, either renewable or non-renewable.
beavertail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beavertails
form: beaver tail
form: beaver-tail
Etymology: From beaver + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any object like a beaver's tail, oval or tear-drop in plan, usually broad and flat; usually beaver-tail.
coordinate_terms: elephant ear
glosses: A fried-dough pastry of such shape; usually beaver tail or Beaver Tail.
glosses: A species of prickly pear cactus, Opuntia basilaris.
glosses: A gun grip of such shape.
glosses: The tail of a beaver.
Krasnodar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Краснода́р (Krasnodár).
Senses: synonyms: Krasnodar Krai
glosses: A krai of Russia, unofficially called Kuban.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, called Yekaterinodar before December 1920.
Synonyms: english: before 1920
translation: before 1920
word: Yekaterinodar
Related terms: Kuban
Cossack
beavertails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beavertail
revisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: revisors
Etymology: From revise + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reviser.
revisors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revisor
Belgorod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛl.ɡəˌɹɑd/
ipa: /ˈbɛl.ɡəˌɹɒd/
Forms: form: Bilhorod
Etymology: From Russian Бе́лгород (Bélgorod, literally “white city”), from бе́лый (bélyj, “white, light”) + го́род (górod, “town, city”). Doublet of Belgrade, Beograd, and Berat.
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Belgorod Oblast, Russia.
Related terms: Belgrade
godet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəʊˈdeɪ/
/ɡəʊˈdɛt/
Forms: form: godets
Etymology: From Middle French godet, from Dutch kodde (“piece of cylindrical wood”).
Senses: glosses: A drinking cup.
examples: text: A pie-shaped godet (the most common one), is usually cut with straight grain down the center of the piece of fabric, leaving bias edges on the sides.
ref: 1975, The Vogue Sewing Book, page 240:
text: Designs with godets, gussets, square or pointed yokes and shawl collars have seams with reverse corners, that is, an inward corner on one edge and an outward corner on the adjoining edge.
ref: 1993, Claire B. Shaeffer, Couture Sewing Techniques, page 51:
text: You can sew a godet into a slit cut perpendicular to a hem edge, but it's more common—and much easier—to insert it into a vertical panel seam, as shown here. Because godets are shaped pieces, often with a pronounced curve at the hem edge, they can be tricky to hem.
ref: 2011, Carol Jean Fresia, Threads Sewing Guide, page 135:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset.
examples: text: 1991, Textile Asia, Volume 22, Issues 1-6, page 54,
Primary air entanglement is applied to give the yarn better cohesion and thus achieve a smoother, quieter thread path over the godets.
After the yarn guiding block a heated godet with idler roll acts as a spinning godet and thus defines spinning […] .
text: In contrast to conventional spinning, wind-up in high speed spinning is often carried out without godets, as shown earlier in Fig. 4.2(a). The absence of godets reduces capital costs and makes thread string-up simpler.
ref: 1997, V. B. Gupta, V. K. Kothari, editors, Manufactured Fibre Technology, page 80:
text: Drawing is accomplished between godets 3 and 4 by the different speeds of the two godet groups.
ref: 2004, Bhuvenesh C. Goswami, Rajesh D. Anandjiwala, David Hall, Textile Sizing, page 259:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing.
Related terms: flare
ruthenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruthenate
covarion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covarions
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: concomitantly variable codon
coverslipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coverslip + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered by a coverslip.
cinemagoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinemagoers
Etymology: From cinema + goer.
Senses: glosses: One who visits a cinema in order to watch a film.
cinemagoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinemagoer
farmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farmable
form: most farmable
Etymology: From farm + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for farming.
raw_tags: of land
examples: text: This week's raid battle is especially farmable.
topics: games
gaming
video-games
glosses: Capable of being farmed (used to produce an item or money in large quantities by grinding).
Synonyms: arable
Derived terms: nonfarmable
unfarmable
gynaecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gynaecology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gynecological.
Derived terms: gynaecologically
nongynaecological
gynaecologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gynaecological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gynecologically.
gynecologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gynecological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gynecological context.
quangocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quangocrats
Etymology: From quango + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: Right now, FCA is what the British call a 'quango,' for Quasi-Autonomous National Governmental Organization, and Popejoy is a quangocrat playing chicken.
ref: 1990, Martin Mayer, The Greatest-ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry:
text: In many parts of Britain a new class of quangocrat has emerged, and nowhere more so than in Wales.
ref: 1994, The Economist:
text: As Nolan moved in to stop payments for sitting on such boards, The Guardian identified the main 'quangocrat' as Sir Brian Shaw, who received £4000 per day...
ref: 1999, Bill Jones, Political Issues in Britain Today:
text: In the hands of a genuinely well-meaning Arts Council, it also means 'power', exercised by some genuinely well-meaning quangocrat.
ref: 2002, Sarah Ferris, Poet John Hewitt, 1907-1987 and Criticism of Northern Irish Protestant Writing:
glosses: A powerful high-ranking official in a quango; a proponent of quangocracy.
quangocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quangocrat
vomitoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You’re comparing piano lessons to the apocryphal vomitoriums into which decadent Romans supposedly regurgitated their dinner?
ref: 2009 February 1, “Dr. Feel It”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of vomitorium
sinecurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinecurists
Etymology: sinecure + -ist
Senses: glosses: The beneficiary of a sinecure.
sinecurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinecurist
bindingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bindingly
form: most bindingly
Etymology: From binding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a binding manner.
disintegrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disintegrators
Etymology: From disintegrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, disintegrates.
A machine for crushing or pulverising oil cake, mineral ores, etc.
examples: text: 'Well, gentlemen,' said he, in a velvety voice with only the least trace of a foreign accent, 'you have come, as I understand from our short chat over the wires, in order to learn more of the Nemor Disintegrator.'
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: One who, or that which, disintegrates.
A laser or similar weapon or device that can disintegrate matter.
disintegrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disintegrator
misidentification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misidentifications
Etymology: From mis- + identification.
Senses: glosses: An instance of misidentifying; an erroneous identification.
Related terms: misidentify
misidentity
misidentifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misidentification
monochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a single colour; monochromatic.
Derived terms: monochromically
sadnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] you can become overwhelmed by deep-seated stresses, anxieties and sadnesses.
ref: 2011, Mark Williams, Danny Penman, Mindfulness: a Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: plural of sadness
sparklingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sparklingly
form: most sparklingly
Etymology: From sparkling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sparkling way.
Synonyms: coruscatingly
dazzlingly
twinklingly
twinklingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more twinklingly
form: most twinklingly
Etymology: From twinkling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a twinkling way.
Synonyms: coruscatingly
dazzlingly
sparklingly
unmoored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + moored.
Senses: examples: text: Left unmoored, the boat gradually drifted out to sea.
glosses: Not moored.
examples: text: The sequel checks in with the unmoored but largely lovable characters from the first movie as they face middle age.
ref: 2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Time:
glosses: Mentally immature, unstable, or lacking in emotional connections.
unmoored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmoor
ballboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballboys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ball boy.
ballboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballboy
crewmember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːˈmɛmbə/
ipa: /kɹuːˈmɛmbɚ/
rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crewmembers
form: crew member
Etymology: From crew + member.
Senses: examples: text: The crewmembers held an emergency meeting in their cabin.
synonyms: crewperson
glosses: A member of a crew.
crewmembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crewmember
prosciuttos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosciutto
toughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tough
gladiatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gladiatorially
form: most gladiatorially
Etymology: From gladiatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gladiatorial manner.
mujahedeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The teenager then fled to the mountains to join the mujahedeen.
ref: 2009 February 1, Carlotta Gall, “An Afghan Secret Revealed Brings End of an Era”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mujahideen.
cryptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptic
localisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of localism
overdubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdub
overdubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdubbings
Senses: glosses: An instance of audio material being overdubbed.
overdubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdub
overdubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdub
sovereignists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovereignist
tough out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toughs out
form: toughing out
form: toughed out
form: toughed out
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: face it out, stick it out
text: When their main crop failed because of drought, they had no choice but to tough it out: they lived in poverty that winter.
text: He toughed out his parents' divorce.
synonyms: tough it out
glosses: To endure (a hardship or challenge) by being tough: relying on one's toughness.
utterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uttering
capicola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capicoli
form: capicolas
form: capicollo
form: capicolla
form: cappicola
Etymology: From Italian capocollo or capicollo, from capo (“head”) + collo (“neck”), with pronunciation likely influenced by Neapolitan. Doublet of gabagool.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Neapolitan-Italian cold cut made from pork shoulder or neck and dry-cured whole.
Synonyms: coppa
gabagool
parasexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + sexual.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to parasexuality.
examples: text: Cognizant of but careful not to lend credence to other fans' eroticization of John and Paul's collaboration, this poster echoes the first in valuing the feminine bond between male personae, thereby conceiving them as one unit and implicitly placing others outside this parasocial (or parasexual) relationship, and the relationship between fan and idols, as interlopers.
ref: 2007, Christine Scodari, “Yoko in Cyberspace with Beatles Fans: Gender and the Re-Creation of Popular Mythology”, in Jonathan Gray, C. Lee Harrington, Cornel Sandvoss, editors, Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, New York, NY: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
coordinate_terms: parasocial
glosses: Both parasocial and sexual; being or relating to a one-sided sexual relationship.
examples: text: These were not the "real" gay ads - the ones that appear in The Advocate, Blue Boy, and Mandate. These markets had already been targeted y the ad agencies: disco records, see-through underwear, body building equipment and a host of para-sexual paraphernalia were being manufactured and sold to the smart consumer queen.
ref: 1982 April 17, Michael Bronsky, “What Are These Men Really Selling and Whom Are They Trying to Fool”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: The parasexual object is more likely to appeal than the pornographic, especially in a culture with highly ambivalent attitudes to female sexuality.
ref: 2004, P. J. P. Goldberg, Felicity Riddy, Youth in the Middle Ages, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Related indirectly to sex; pertaining to sexuality but not sex itself.
Derived terms: parasexually
parasexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From parasexual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a parasexual way.
parasexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + sexuality.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A phenomenon, involving a complex form of mitosis, whereby two cell nuclei merge without any sexual process and the chromosome count is doubled.
dendrochronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dendro- + chronological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to dendrochronology.
Derived terms: dendrochronologically
spycraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spy + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The skills and techniques employed by spies.
Related terms: espionage
toughs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tough out
toughing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tough out
toughed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tough out
as fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It was hot as fuck outside today.
text: I'm over here stroking my dick. I got lotion on my dick right now. I'm just stroking my shit. I'm horny as fuck man I'm a freak man like for real.
ref: 2020, AisStunna, 0:18 from the start, in TOP Stunna Boy Instagram (pedo) Moments:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To a great extent or degree; very, extremely, incredibly.
Synonyms: AF
asf
very
extremely
incredibly
as all hell
as balls
as a motherfucker
as hell
as anything
as what
tetrapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrapeptides
Etymology: From tetra- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound formed from four amino acids joined by peptide bonds.
Hypernyms: peptide
Coordinate terms: dipeptide
tripeptide
tetrapeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrapeptide
underdose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdoses
form: under-dose
Etymology: From under- + dose, by analogy with overdose.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] I put laudanum in his coffee last night. I was afraid to put in too much for fear of killing him, so I suppose I didn’t put in enough, for he laid wide awake all night.”
“Ah, yes! that would be the effect of an under-dose of laudanum.”
ref: 1871, E. D. E. N. Southworth, chapter 31, in Cruel as the Grave, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros, page 333:
text: If Patrick were to add a little sugar to her urine specimen so that she would take a hefty dose of insulin, and then to make her take a good walk without her little tin of glucose […] she would probably pass out on the mountainside. Or suppose he substituted his own urine in the test tube so that she would take an under-dose?
ref: 1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 7, in The Bachelors, London: Macmillan:
glosses: An inadequate dose (of a medication).
examples: text: “Seems as though sometimes I get an overdose of feeling, and an underdose of sense.”
ref: 1955, Jim Kjelgaard, chapter 8, in The Lost Wagon, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co:
text: It seems the kid suffers from an underdose of mother love, so he kills pretty girls—exactly the problem of Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”
ref: 1979 September 21, Tom Shales, “‘Eischied’ Walks Tall”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: An inadequate amount of something.
underdose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdoses
form: underdosing
form: underdosed
form: underdosed
form: under-dose
Etymology: From under- + dose, by analogy with overdose.
Senses: examples: 1945, Alexander Fleming, Nobel acceptance speech, cited in Jenny Rohn, “The hunt is on for new antibiotics—but we have to start looking outside the lab,” The Guardian, 19 February, 2015,
The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.
2016, Kelly Close, letter to the editor, The New York Times, 29 February, 2016,
It is true that insulin costs are high; as a result some patients may underdose. We need better reimbursement to address that.
glosses: To administer an inadequate dose (to someone or to oneself).
examples: text: […] a Child new-born may take an eighth or tenth part of a paper, a Child of a year old a quarter of a paper or a sixth part, 2, 3, or 4 years old a third 5, 6, 7, half a paper, &c. for you cannot hurt if you over or under dose it a little; the Medicine being safe.
ref: 1679, Richard Fletcher, “Directions for the Use of that Excellent Medicine Fletcher’s Powder”, in The Vertues of that Well-Known and Often Experienced Medicine Fletcher’s Powder, London, page 6:
text: An intern underdosed her heparin (blood thinner), and she suffered a large blood clot in a lung.
ref: 2013 July 26, Judy Mandell, “‘Critically Ill’ author Frederick Southwick on what ails our healthcare system”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: One such drug class can solve uncontrolled hypertension in perhaps half of cases yet is widely under-prescribed and/or under-dosed, with tragic consequences.
ref: 2016 August 21, Samuel J. Mann, “The Scandal of Uncontrolled Hypertension: A Widely-Overlooked Remedy”, in HuffPost:
glosses: To administer an inadequate dose of (a medication).
examples: text: My advice is to slightly under-dose on the whiskey in Delia’s recipe, who I imagine went for a rather better bottle than I did.
ref: 2016 November 4, Stephen Bush, “Delia’s Christmas cake recipe takes a little bit of practice”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To use a scant or inadequate amount of an ingredient or product.
underdoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdose
underdoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdose
underdosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdose
underdosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underdose
subantarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + Antarctic.
Senses: synonyms: notalian
glosses: Pertaining to a region in the Southern Hemisphere immediately north of Antarctica and covering the many islands of the southern parts of the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, which are north of the Antarctic Convergence.
sulphadoxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfadoxine.
sulfadoxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sulfa- (“sulfonamide”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A long-lasting sulfonamide often used to treat or prevent malaria and certain infections of livestock.
radixin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of RDX gene Ellipsis of radixin gene (“a human gene, for a cytoskeletal protein resembling ezrin and moesin that may be important in linking actin to the plasma membrane”).
synonyms: word: RDX gene Ellipsis of radixin gene
extra: a human gene, for a cytoskeletal protein resembling ezrin and moesin that may be important in linking actin to the plasma membrane
glosses: A protein coded for by the gene.
Hypernyms: protein
ERM protein family
Derived terms: ERM protein family
merlin
ezrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of EZR gene Ellipsis of ezrin gene (“a human gene that encodes a cytoplasmic peripheral membrane protein serving as an intermediate between the plasma membrane and the actin cytoskeleton”).
synonyms: word: EZR gene Ellipsis of ezrin gene
extra: a human gene that encodes a cytoplasmic peripheral membrane protein serving as an intermediate between the plasma membrane and the actin cytoskeleton
glosses: A protein coded for by the gene
Hypernyms: protein
ERM protein family
Derived terms: ERM protein family
merlin
moesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Acronym of membrane-organizing extension spike protein + -in (“protein”)
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of MSN gene Ellipsis of moesin gene (“a human gene, localized to filopodia and other membranous protrusions”).
synonyms: word: MSN gene Ellipsis of moesin gene
extra: a human gene, localized to filopodia and other membranous protrusions
glosses: A protein coded for by the gene.
Hypernyms: sense: protein
word: protein
sense: protein
word: ERM protein family
sense: protein
word: spike protein
Derived terms: ERM protein family
merlin
superocean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːpəɹˌəʊ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈsuːpɚˌoʊ.ʃən/
Forms: form: superoceans
Etymology: From super- + ocean.
Senses: examples: text: The energy involved is of a magnitude difficult to visualize; for each valve will then be releasing about 230,000 hp, the total for each group of six being equal to 1,380,000 hp, or the equivalent of seven superocean liners each of the same power capacity as that of the "Queen Mary.".
ref: 1952, Calvin Victor Davis, Handbook of Applied Hydraulics, McGraw-Hill, page 376:
text: Reduced to its simplest scenario the earth appears to have consisted essentially of a single ‘‘supercontinent’’, Pangaea, surrounded by “‘superocean”’ Panthalassa in the late Paleozoic.
ref: 1978, Introduction to Marine Micropaleontology, Elsevier, page 14:
text: To study the evolution of world ocean from a single supercontinent and superocean 200 million years ago to the fragmented system we have today.
ref: 1979, Ocean Science, Nautilus Press, page 2:
text: The main reason for interest in Jurassic sediments from the Pacific is that they chronicle the paleoenvironment of the Jurassic superocean, which covered two-thirds of the Earth at the time, but for which we have no direct record.
ref: 1990, Ocean Drilling Program, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Peport: Part A, The Program, page 92:
text: A single supercontinent, called Pangea, came into, existence, together with a single superocean called Panthalassa.
ref: 1992, Cesare Emiliani, Planet Earth: Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: An ocean surrounding a supercontinent.
superoceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superocean
SUMOylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: SUMOylates
form: SUMOylating
form: SUMOylated
form: SUMOylated
Etymology: From SUMO + -yl + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To attach to (a protein) via SUMOylation.
SUMOylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of SUMOylate
SUMOylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of SUMOylate
SUMOylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of SUMOylate
reiteratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reiterative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reiterative manner; by means of reiteration.
ion mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ion mirrors
Senses: glosses: A reflectron.
ion mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ion mirror
reflectron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈflɛkˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ɹɪˈflɛkˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: reflectrons
Etymology: From reflect + -tron.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A time-of-flight mass spectrometer that uses a static electric field to reverse the direction of travel of the ions entering it.
reflectrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflectron
superconduct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superconducts
form: superconducting
form: superconducted
form: superconducted
Etymology: From super- + conduct.
Senses: glosses: To exhibit superconductivity.
superconducted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superconduct
superconducts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of superconduct
pupation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pupations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of pupating.
pupations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupation
polymixin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymixins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polymyxin.
polymixins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymixin
Hamiltonian paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamiltonian path
Hamiltonian cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamiltonian cycle
ubiquitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ubiquitous.
cross compilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross compiler
cross-compilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-compiler
stewardships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stewardship
mitomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitomycins
Etymology: From mito- (“nucleotoxic agent”) + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.
mitomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitomycin
monosulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosulphides
Etymology: From mono- + sulphide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of monosulfide.
monosulphides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosulphide
hemisulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemisulphates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemisulfate.
hemisulphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemisulphate
lymphocryptovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphocryptoviruses
Etymology: From lympho- + crypto- + virus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Lymphocryptovirus of herpesviruses that includes the human Epstein-Barr virus (Human gammaherpesvirus 4).
lymphocryptoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphocryptovirus
archaeometallurgists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeometallurgist
aminonicotinamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminonicotinamide
cocrystallizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocrystallization
cocrystallisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocrystallisations
Etymology: From co- + crystallisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cocrystallization.
cocrystallisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocrystallisation
undirected graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undirected graph
bungarotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungarotoxin
brefeldins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brefeldin
chimaerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimaerism
chondrogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondrogenesis
clonalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clonality
biosignatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biosignature
autoactivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoactivation
bioclimosequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioclimosequence
autocatalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocatalyst
autoanalysers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoanalyser
biodistributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biodistribution
anthropomorphisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropomorphisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anthropomorphization.
anthropomorphisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropomorphisation
footsweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footsweeps
Etymology: From foot + sweep.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Alternative spelling of foot sweep.
footsweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: plural of footsweep
interzoo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + zoo.
Senses: examples: text: Glass or plastic cages may be used for short local trips, but wooden cages must be used for interzoo shipment.
ref: 1995, Murray E Fowler, Restraint and Handling of Wild and Domestic Animals:
text: SSP® programs also coordinated interzoo transfers of infants to establish peer groups...
ref: 2006, Gene P Sackett, Gerald C Ruppenthal, Kate Elias, Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century:
glosses: Between zoos (zoological gardens).
foot sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot sweeps
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Any of several moves used to trip an opponent by forcefully moving one's legs horizontally at the feet or ankles of one's opponent.
foot sweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot sweep
coexpressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coexpression
street food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street foods
form: streetfood
Senses: examples: text: All studies sought to distinguish between street food meals and snacks...
ref: 1997, Irene Tinker, Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries:
text: In fact, street food may well be fresher than that served in restaurants and cafes, as it is cooked at the point of sale. It's certainly much cheaper.
ref: 2000, Catherine Hanger, Morocco: World Food:
text: They specialize in all sorts of events, such as athletic competitions, fairs, and conventions, as well as receptions, banquets, and street food.
ref: 2002, Mary Deirdre Donovan, Careers for Gourmets and Others who Relish Food:
glosses: Ready-to-eat food obtainable from a streetside vendor, often from a makeshift or portable stall.
examples: text: Bustling with a lively crowd, this restaurant serves finger-licking Korean street food.
ref: 2019, DK Eyewitness Top 10 London: 2020 (Travel Guide):
glosses: Food of this kind served in other contexts such as dine-in restaurants.
street foods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street food
nuttily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nuttily
form: most nuttily
Etymology: From nutty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nutty way.
phospholamban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phospholambans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that regulates the Ca2+ pump in cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle cells.
phospholambans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phospholamban
Caló
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Caló caló.
Senses: glosses: a mixed language or dialect spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani.
glosses: an argot spoken by pachuco Chicanos in the United States in the early 20th century.
Related terms: alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/rmq
word: rmq
word: rmq ⁠
bashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæʃɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bashing
bellringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellringers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bell ringer.
bellringers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellringer
diarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diarises
form: diarising
form: diarised
form: diarised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of diarize.
diarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diarise
diarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diarise
diarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diarise
plain Jane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain Janes
Senses: examples: text: Charm school instructors […] can do something even for the plainest of plain Janes.
ref: 1954 November, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 8, number 11, page 46:
glosses: A young woman or girl of average or unremarkable appearance.
examples: text: Many of the early models had both a "plain Jane" model with open sights and a Deluxe (DL) version that had an aperture rear sight and a hooded target-type front sight-and, in some cases, sling swivels.
ref: 1989, William S. Brophy, Marlin Firearms, page 320:
glosses: Something basic and ordinary.
Related terms: Alibi Ike
Dapper Dan
doubting Thomas
Gentleman Jim
gloomy Gus
good-time Charlie
nervous Nellie
sad sack
Silent Sam
average Joe
regular Joe
plain Janes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plain Jane
unenviably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unenviably
form: most unenviably
Etymology: From unenviable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unenviable way.
chromoshadows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromoshadow
tephritid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tephritids
Senses: glosses: A member of the Tephritidae, a family of fruit flies.
tephritid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The long-term goal of the proposed research is to provide a range of tools that will facilitate management of invasive tephritid pests, thus decreasing control costs and environmental impact.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS:
glosses: Relating to this family.
tephritids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tephritid
sysophood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sysop + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: In one section, Schuyler states that someone aspiring to Fido sysophood "can only expect so much help" from the sysops that have already linked up.
ref: 1993, William J Shefski, Free Electronic Networks:
text: I have already walked the path of sysophood. It sure beats being a humble user.
ref: 1995, S|ren Erichsen, “THIS IS PELEDA CALLING WUNDEE!”, in alt.1d (Usenet):
text: I am going to apply for sysophood soon but have not done so yet.
ref: 2000, Alex Cain, “Temporary Ban...”, in microsoft.public.games.zone (Usenet):
glosses: The state or period of being a sysop.
foretop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretops
Etymology: From Middle English fore-top, for-top, equivalent to fore- + top.
Senses: glosses: The top of the head; the top of the forehead.
glosses: The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig.
glosses: In the phrase, to take time (or occasion or opportunity) by the foretop, meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity".
synonyms: word: dandy
word: popinjay
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A fop; one who sports a foretop.
glosses: An erect tuft of hair.
glosses: The forelock of a horse.
examples: text: His station was in the fore-top, and often from there he looked down, with the contempt of a man destined to shine in the midst of dangers, at the peaceful multitude of roofs cut in two by the brown tide of the stream, while scattered on the outskirts of the surrounding plain the factory chimneys rose perpendicular against a grimy sky, each slender like a pencil, and belching out smoke like a volcano.
ref: 1903, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Lord Jim:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A platform at the top of the foremast, supported by the trestle trees.
glosses: The front seat at the top of a horse-drawn vehicle.
Derived terms: foretopman
foretopmast
visionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vision + -less.
Senses: glosses: blind
glosses: Lacking a vision, lacking vision; uninspired.
Miltonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Miltonic
form: most Miltonic
Etymology: From Milton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the literary works of John Milton.
glosses: Of a style comparable to that of Milton's writing.
tremolandos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tremolando
tempiettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tempietto
MBBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery.
dobros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dobro
MBBCh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin, initialism of medicinae baccalaureus et baccalaureus chirurgiae.
Senses: glosses: A Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery.
canzonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canzona
leukocidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukocidins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leucocidin.
Derived terms: antileukocidin
myrosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrosins
Senses: glosses: An enzyme found in mustard plants, which hydrolyzes sinigrin.
Related terms: myrosinase
cystoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystoblasts
Etymology: From cysto- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: A germ cell found in insects, which becomes the insect equivalent of a platelet (a cystocyte) instead of turning into a reproductive cell.
selective advantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selective advantages
Senses: examples: text: What is the selective advantage of height?
text: Better to see predators in tall grass my dear.
ref: 1998, Jerome Bixby, The Man From Earth (film):
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The characteristic of an organism that enables it to survive and reproduce better than other organisms in a population in a given environment; the basis for evolution by natural selection.
necrophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necro- + -philism.
Senses: glosses: Necrophilia.
nappy rash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nappy rashes
Senses: glosses: Any of various skin rashes in the diaper area.
Synonyms: diaper rash
diaper rash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaper rashes
Senses: glosses: Any of various skin rashes in the diaper area.
Synonyms: nappy rash
cardio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.dɪ.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/
Etymology: Clipping of cardiovascular.
Senses: glosses: Cardiovascular; pertaining to the health of the circulatory and respiratory systems.
cardio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.dɪ.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/
Forms: form: cardios
Etymology: Clipping of cardiovascular.
Senses: examples: text: I did some cardio today instead of lifting weights.
text: For decades, trainers and scientists have debated whether and how to mix cardio and resistance exercise. Some small studies suggest combining the two might up the likely gains from each, especially the resistance training.
ref: 2021 November 3, Gretchen Reynolds, “Cardio Before Weight Lifting May Help Boost Muscle”, in The New York Times:
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: endurance training
word: monostructural work
alt: out
word: metabolic conditioning
coordinate_terms: strength training
glosses: Exercise with the goal of raising the heart rate.
Derived terms: cardio day
biennales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biennale