cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phosphomethylpyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The candidate genes encoding GGPS, (-)-alpha/beta-pinene, tricyclene synthase, ABC transporters, non-specific lipid-transfer protein-like protein, phosphomethylpyrimidine synthase, ERFs and pathogen responses may play important roles in regulating the yield of oleoresin.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with the High Yielding of Oleoresin in Secondary Xylem of Masson Pine ( Pinus massoniana Lamb) by Transcriptomic Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The biochemically-active compound (4-amino-2-methylpyrimidin-5-yl)methyl phosphate
plegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plegias
Etymology: From -plegia.
Senses: examples: text: Diagnoses such as drug abuse, congestive heart failure, cirrhosis, depression/anxiety/psychosis, dementia, diabetes, malignancy or tumor, plegia, and renal disease increased the risk of not being treated.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Correlates of Initiation of Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection in United States Veterans, 2004–2009”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: paralysis
pneumotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more pneumotropic
form: most pneumotropic
Etymology: From pneumo- + -tropic.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, the apical infection of differentiated primary human bronchial epithelial cells with the pneumotropic and virulent type HAdV-B14p1 was investigated in comparison to the less pneumotropic HAdV-C5 as a control.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Effective Apical Infection of Differentiated Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells and Induction of Proinflammatory Chemokines by the Highly Pneumotropic Human Adenovirus Type 14p1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having an affinity for (or moving towards) the tissues of the lungs
Related terms: pneumotropism
prebreeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prebreeders
Etymology: From pre- + breeder.
Senses: glosses: An immature animal (that has not yet produced offspring)
prebreeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There was also a possible cost of reproduction detected, with breeders having the lowest survival and prebreeders the highest (Fig 2B ).
ref: 2015 July 14, “Shifting Effects of Ocean Conditions on Survival and Breeding Probability of a Long-Lived Seabird”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of prebreeder
protodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + dermal or protoderm + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Among these, Late elongated hypocotyl (LHY), Ethylene Response Factor (ERF), W box containing TF (WRKY), and protodermal factor (PDF) proteins were abundantly represented in the dataset and differentially expressed between the time points (0, 12 and 84 hai).
ref: 2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Profiling of Histone Modifications (H3K9 me2 and H4K12 ac ) and Gene Expression in Rust ( Uromyces appendiculatus ) Inoculated Common Bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the protoderm
pupariate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pupariates
form: pupariating
form: pupariated
form: pupariated
Senses: glosses: To undergo pupariation
pupariated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Mutant ccha flies, where the ccha2 gene was reintroduced (green line in Fig 5 ), pupariated at about 150 hrs, meaning that they had been rescued by about 75%, which is the same number seen in the feeding assays (green bars in Fig 2 and Fig 4 ).
ref: 2015 July 14, “CCHamide-2 Is an Orexigenic Brain-Gut Peptide in Drosophila”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of pupariate
secretagogin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secretagogue + -in.
Senses: examples: text: A third protein, secretagogin shares significant homology to these buffers, but has only been characterized as a calcium sensor.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Drosophila Cbp53E Regulates Axon Growth at the Neuromuscular Junction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A secreted calcium-binding protein found in the cytoplasm
standability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stand + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Lodging was determined as standability of plants in plot at maturity using a scale of 1 to 5 (1, erect plants; 5, prostrate plants).
ref: 2015 July 14, “Genome Regions Associated with Functional Performance of Soybean Stem Fibers in Polypropylene Thermoplastic Composites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The ability of a plant to stand unsupported.
examples: text: You know how it is with some candidates? No matter what they say, you can't stand them. Mark them from zero to ten on standability.
ref: 1990, Andrew A. Rooney, The Most of Andy Rooney, page 125:
glosses: The degree to which something can be tolerated.
stereomicrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereomicrographs
Etymology: From stereo- + micrograph.
Senses: glosses: A stereoscopic micrograph
Related terms: stereomicrography
stereomicrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The left lower panel shows representative stereomicrographs of heart sections double-stained with Evans blue and TTC: the MI area (TTC negative, white), non-MI area within AAR (TTC positive/Evans blue negative, red), non-ischemic area (TTC positive/Evans blue positive, purple) and AAR (Evans blue negative).
ref: 2015 July 14, “A New Therapeutic Modality for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of Pitavastatin Induces Cardioprotection from Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury via Activation of PI3K/Akt Pathway and Anti-Inflammation in a Rat Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of stereomicrograph
strepzotocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hepatic Timp1 expression is also elevated in a mouse model that resembles type 2 diabetes, elicited by HFD combined with low doses of strepzotocin treatment in order to induce beta cell dysfunction.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Tissue Inhibitor Of Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 Is Required for High-Fat Diet-Induced Glucose Intolerance and Hepatic Steatosis in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of streptozotocin.
subsynaptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + synaptic.
Senses: examples: text: Dorsal is expressed in the larval neuromuscular junction (NMJ) and, more specifically, at the subsynaptic reticulum (SSR), a highly convoluted muscle membrane structure that surrounds synaptic boutons [12 –15 ].
ref: 2015 July 14, “Alternative NF-κB Isoforms in the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction and Brain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Underneath a synapse
superoxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superoxidases
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, wedelolactone also increased the activities of superoxidase dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and decreased the level of the lipid peroxidation product malondialdehyde (MDA) in the liver, therefore decreasing the activity of alanine aminotransferase (ALT).
ref: 2015 July 14, “Wedelolactone Regulates Lipid Metabolism and Improves Hepatic Steatosis Partly by AMPK Activation and Up-Regulation of Expression of PPARα/LPL and LDLR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of superoxide dismutase.
synonyms: word: superoxide dismutase
tempol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: PF-mediated inhibition of EGFR phosphorylation as well as SF or PF-mediated apoptosis in HEK 293 cells could be significantly reversed by co-treatment with antioxidants such as tempol implying that both these effects involved an oxidative stress-dependent mechanism.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Cationic Polyamidoamine Dendrimers as Modulators of EGFR Signaling In Vitro and In Vivo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The free radical 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-oxyl
tocophenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The stress hormones, abscisic acid (ABA) and salicylic acid (SA) induces tocophenol cyclase and we identified increased expression of tocophenol cyclase at 84 hai.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Profiling of Histone Modifications (H3K9 me2 and H4K12 ac ) and Gene Expression in Rust ( Uromyces appendiculatus ) Inoculated Common Bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of tocopherol.
tricyclene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Among them, the candidate genes encoding geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (GGPS) and (-)-alpha/beta-pinene synthase were up-regulated in the high oleoresin-yielding genotype, while tricyclene synthase revealed lower expression level, which was in good agreement with the GC/MS result.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with the High Yielding of Oleoresin in Secondary Xylem of Masson Pine ( Pinus massoniana Lamb) by Transcriptomic Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The tricyclic hydrocarbon 1,7,7-trimethyltricyclo[2.2.1.0(2,6)]heptane
triglyceridemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From triglyceridemia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: It has been reported that the hypo- triglyceridemic action of PPARα agonists results (at least in part) from induction of the expression and activity of LPL [24 ,28 ].
ref: 2015 July 14, “Wedelolactone Regulates Lipid Metabolism and Improves Hepatic Steatosis Partly by AMPK Activation and Up-Regulation of Expression of PPARα/LPL and LDLR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to triglyceridemia
Related terms: hypertriglyceridemic
hypotriglyceridemic
trophobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophobionts
Etymology: From trophobiosis + -ont or tropho- + -biont.
Senses: examples: text: Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act as both predator and prey.
ref: 2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 1:
glosses: The provider of food in trophobiosis.
trophobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Plants with extrafloral nectaries or with herbivorous trophobionts in the Cerrado are commonly visited by ants that effectively reduce their leaf area loss [27, 28 ].
ref: 2015 July 14, “Beneficial Effects of Ants and Spiders on the Reproductive Value of Eriotheca gracilipes (Malvaceae) in a Tropical Savanna”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of trophobiont
vastatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vastatins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a specific type of statins
vastatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dissociation constants (K i ) for drugs typically lie in the same range as K i for natural ligands; in most instances (different proteins and docking conditions), vastatins are the strongest interactors, with atorvastatin ranking top in half of the cases.
ref: 2015 July 14, “All-Purpose Containers? Lipid-Binding Protein – Drug Interactions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of vastatin
software life cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: software life cycles
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: development
glosses: Alternative spelling of software lifecycle.
software lifecycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: software lifecycles
form: software life cycle
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
hypernyms: lifecycle
qualifier: development
glosses: Ellipsis of software development lifecycle.
software lifecycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of software lifecycle
bonbonniere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɔn.bəˈnɪɹ/
ipa: /ˌbɔn.bɔnˈjɛɚ/
Forms: form: bonbonnieres
form: bonboniere
Etymology: From French bonbonnière.
Senses: examples: text: Her wedding shoes, place cards and bonbonniere are among all her lost possessions, but luckily she still has her groom.
ref: 2009 February 12, Catherine Best, “Firestorm puts paid to wedding plans in Flowerdale”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2009:
glosses: A box of chocolates or similar confectionary
software life cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: software lifecycles
Senses: glosses: plural of software life cycle
Garuda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Hindu name for the constellation Aquila.
synonyms: Tarkshya
Vainateya
glosses: A Hindu deity, half-bird, half-man, that serves as the vahana of Vishnu.
sawmilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Once a sawmilling town that was a gateway to forests of mountain ash and waterfalls, it has also come to embrace tourist lurks, such as arts and crafts.
ref: 2009 February 14, Patrick Carlyon, “Where the hell is everyone?”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: The business of a sawmill
mysogynist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Of course violence against women is not limited to Islamic countries but Islamic countries have become stigmatised as being mysogynist societies which are inherently anti-women."
ref: 2009 February 15, By correspondents in Kuala Lumpur, “Muslim women 'face crisis over violence'”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2009:
glosses: Misspelling of misogynist.
adfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ad + folk.
Senses: examples: text: The Mamas and Papas hit is the latest in a string of old tracks which have been reissued by record companies, a trend which owes a lot to the consideration paid by adfolk to the choice of music for commercials.
ref: 2015 July 21, Belinda Archer, “Blame it on the grapevine: from the archive, 21 July 1997”, in The Guardian:
glosses: people in the advertising industry
espadrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From espadrille + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In London, he is loved – largely thanks to his ability to bumble around like a third-hand teddy bear that’s been flushed down the toilet immediately before being packed off for a job interview – because London at this point is solely inhabited by millions of braying, espadrilled berks who communicate exclusively in emojis and haven’t had a single sincere thought since they momentarily got a bit sad about Darfur in 2003.
ref: 2015 July 21, Stuart Heritage, “Boris Johnson has become the tall poppy that his own party is gleefully hacking down”, in The Guardian:
glosses: wearing espadrilles
reprivatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprivatisations
Etymology: From re- + privatisation.
Senses: examples: text: You can’t win an election here calling for reprivatisation and liberal economic reforms.”
ref: 2015 July 21, Nick Miroff, “‘Kirchnerismo’ politics set to outlast Argentina’s outgoing president”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of reprivatization.
swaraj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swarajes
form: svaraj
Etymology: Hindi स्वराज (svarāj)
Senses: examples: text: Are the brown Indians to share equally in the ruling of the British Empire or are they an inferior race? And curiously enough, the battle on this point is impending not simply in the unchecked movement toward "swaraj" in India but in Africa—in the Union of South Africa and in Kenya.
ref: 1925, W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Negro Mind Reaches Out”, in Alain LeRoy Locke, editor, The New Negro: An Interpretation, page 404:
text: This includes buen vivir (or sumak kawsay or suma qamaña), a culture of life with different names and varieties emerging from indigenous peoples in various regions of South America; ubuntu, with its emphasis on human mutuality (“I am because we are”) in South Africa; radical ecological democracy or ecological swaraj, with a focus on self-reliance and self-governance, in India; and degrowth, the hypothesis that we can live better with less and in common, in western countries.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Sustainable development is failing but there are alternatives to capitalism”, in The Guardian:
glosses: self-rule
Derived terms: swarajism
swarajist
monolinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + linguistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a single language.
Derived terms: monolinguistically
monolinguism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Monolingualism.
sci fi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sci-fi.
dog rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog ropes
Senses: glosses: A few feet of rawhide rope which Cheyenne dog soldiers used to attach themselves to the ground with a picket pin when a last-ditch defence was called for
picket pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪn
Forms: form: picket pins
Senses: glosses: A pin used to fix the picket rope for a horse to the ground.
picket rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picket ropes
Senses: glosses: A rope used to tether a horse when not in use.
practopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”) and ποίησις (poíēsis, “making”).
Senses: glosses: The theory concerning the hierarchic structure of mind and how it relates to processes in the brain
Related terms: anapoiesis
autopoiesis
poiesis
three-second rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-second rules
form: three seconds rule
Senses: glosses: Any rule that prescribes or proscribes behavior in a three-second interval, especially
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any rule that prescribes or proscribes behavior in a three-second interval, especially
A rule stating that no offensive player may remain in the free-throw lane, with or without the ball, for more than three seconds.
ten-second rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-second rules
Senses: glosses: Any rule that prescribes or proscribes behavior during a ten-second interval, especially
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any rule that prescribes or proscribes behavior during a ten-second interval, especially:
The rule that a team must advance the ball over the center line within ten seconds of gaining possession. The 10-second interval is used in U.S. high school and college basketball; professional leagues use an 8-second limit.
Hit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heet
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish هیت (Hit) and Arabic هيت (Hit).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iraq.
expectatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expectative
monumentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monument + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a monument.
drosha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most miRNAs arise from very long transcripts known as primary miRNA (pri-miRNA) by drosha and its cofactor DGCR8 (DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 8) in nucleus converting it to ~70-100 bp precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA).
ref: 2015 July 8, Hamid Ali Khan et al., “Identification of miRNAs during mouse postnatal ovarian development and superovulation”, in Journal of Ovarian Research, volume 8, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An RNA-specific endoribonuclease
ileopsoas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition, he had multiple neurofibromas distributed within the ileopsoas and gluteus muscles and subcutaneous tissues.
ref: 2013 July 13, David O Onu, Andrew W Hunn, Jens Peters-Willke, “Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome and neurofibromatosis type 1 with multiple neurofibromas of the entire spinal nerve roots”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of iliopsoas.
occipitomastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɔɪd
Etymology: From occipito- + mastoid.
Senses: examples: text: The practitioner sits behind the participant’s head, contacts participant’s lateral protuberances of the squama occipitalis (medially to the occipitomastoid suture) with the thenar eminence of both hands.
ref: 2015 July 13, Wagner Rodrigues Martins et al., “Immediate changes in electroencephalography activity in individuals with nonspecific chronic low back pain after cranial osteopathic manipulative treatment: study protocol of a randomized, controlled crossover trial”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the occipital and mastoid bones
stolperstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃtɒlpə(ɹ)ˌʃtaɪn/
/ˈstɒlpə(ɹ)ˌstaɪn/
Forms: form: stolpersteins
form: stolpersteine
form: Stolperstein
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stolperstein (literally “stumbling block”), from stolpern (“to stumble”) + Stein (“stone”).
Senses: examples: text: A "stolperstein" was put in front of the house, and the scattered diaspora of Bertam's family reunited there.
ref: 2014 February 7, Evertjan. [username], “One son, Bertram, missed that boat ...”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: BTW what happened to all those people whose stolpersteins I saw last time in Koln and Berlin and where did the all those Jews,gypsies,^([sic]) mentally/physically retarded people who were there in 1932 go to?
ref: 2014 April 28, Dechucka [username], “Re: Another World-Wide Holohoax Promo”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: In 2023, Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones” for the 16 lost members will be laid in the sidewalk in front of their former homes in the Austrian capital.
ref: 2022 December 23, Rebecca Schmid, “An Orchestra Reflects on War and Its Aftermath”, in The New York Times:
text: Seen this way, eponyms might be compared to the modern German tradition of Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones”— brass plaques, embedded in cobblestone streets across Europe, that commemorate Holocaust victims by listing their names and the date they were seized from their homes.
ref: 2023 June 19, Rachel E. Gross, “Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A small, cobblestone-sized memorial for an individual victim of Nazism.
venusquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venusquakes
Etymology: From Venus + quake, after the pattern of earthquake.
Senses: glosses: A quake on the planet Venus, perhaps caused by land tides or volcanic eruptions.
Hypernyms: planetquake
planetquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetquakes
Etymology: From planet + quake, after the pattern of earthquake.
Senses: examples: text: But why should Jupiter and Saturn exercise such a particular influence on the earth when they attain these longitudes? M. Delauney answers that when in those longitudes the planets encounter meteor swarms, and just as earthquakes are rather numerous in November, when the earth passes through a meteor stream, so they reach a maximum when either of the planets undergoes the same experience. By strict parity of reasoning, it is planet-quakes that ought to ensue upon these conditions, not earthquakes; but to a bold theorist like M. Delauney that is a trifle.
ref: 1887 June, John A. Westwood Oliver, “Earthquake Warnings”, in Murray's Magazine, page 817:
text: There are devices that can determine the distribution of radioactivity over another planet from orbit; that can feel from the surface the faint rumble of a distant planetquake deep below; […]
ref: 1979, Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, Ballantine, published 1980, →ISBN, page 243:
text: Recurrent planetquakes would have made mining too hazardous, which could account for the Romulans' departure, but so could many things on this inhospitable world.
ref: 1990, Carolyn Clowes, The Pandora Principle, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: A seismic event occurring on a planet (especially one other than Earth).
Hyponyms: earthquake
marsquake
moonquake
venusquake
hot dang
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: hot damn.
small Solar System body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small Solar System bodies
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A body in the Solar System other than a planet, dwarf planet or natural satellite.
anticycling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cycling.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to cycling or cyclists
examples: text: Additionally, both profiles of Chl a and POC concentrations at S7 depth of 120 m was still higher than 0.3 mg m −3 and 60 mg-C m −3, which were not close to background level (Chl a −3 ), respectively, suggesting that the anticycling eddy can carry particle down to depth.
ref: 2015 July 15, “Enhanced Particulate Organic Carbon Export at Eddy Edges in the Oligotrophic Western North Pacific Ocean”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That counters a cycling motion
heretogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heretoga
vacillative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vacillative
form: most vacillative
Etymology: From vacillate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to vacillate.
pinkletink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinkletinks
Senses: glosses: Pseudacris crucifer, the spring peeper.
businesscrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: businesscrats
Etymology: Blend of business + bureaucrat
Senses: examples: text: The ideal CIO must be both "a technocrat and a businesscrat at the same time," says Jerre Stead, chief executive officer at Square D Co., an electronics manufacturer in Palatine, Ill.
ref: 1991 April 29, Joseph Maglitta, “How can you make your boss happy?”, in Computerworld:
text: Citizens are just as frustrated by corporate bureaucrats — or "businesscrats" — in their daily dealings with banks, department stores, and credit card companies.
ref: 1997, James Garnett, Handbook of Administrative Communication, →ISBN, page 208:
text: In the 1930s, the government and the private sector had switched stereotypical roles, with the entrepreneurial impulse coming from the executive branch and resistance to change coming from Main Street “businesscrats.”
ref: 2000, Stephen B. Adams, Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur, →ISBN:
text: James Scrimgeour, whose family firm resigned in protest as brokers to MEPC, warned in a letter to The Times that the City's separate and individual activities would be submerged in vast corporations generally controlled at the top by a diminishing number of "businesscrats".
ref: 2015, David Kynaston, The City Of London - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 429:
glosses: A corporate bureaucrat.
businesscrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: businesscrats
Etymology: Blend of business + Democrat coined by Gerald D. Nash and popularized by Louis Galambos in Competition and Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association (1966)
Senses: examples: text: "Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict.
ref: 1986, Frank Dobbin, The institutionalization of the state:
text: Existing federal bureaucracies were not prepared to mobilize human resources and coordinate the industrial economy for war, so emergency agencies were thrown together for the occasion, mostly staffed by professional experts and "businesscrats" temporarily recruited from the corporate capitalist sector.
ref: 1995, Kenneth Finegold, Theda Skocpol, State and Party in America's New Deal, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Put a business executive up for senator as a Democrat, and you've got a Businesscrat. Maybe also an endangered species.
ref: 1996, Lee Walczak, Gail DeGeorge, “PRATFALLS DREAM CANDIDATES' RUDE AWAKENING”, in Business Week:
text: Second, multiple variants of a “businesscrat” — “a twentieth- century breed of businessman who spends a significant part of his life working as a government bureaucrat (Galambos, 1966, 205, fn 3)”
ref: 2013 July, Maria N Ivanova, “The Great Recession and the state of American Capitalism”, in Science & Society, volume 77, number 3:
glosses: A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States.
businesscrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of businesscrat
actiony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more actiony
form: most actiony
Etymology: From action + -y.
Senses: glosses: Full of, or related to, action.
envigourated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envigourate
suicide vests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicide vest
jihadisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jihadism
patientless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patient + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a patient; having no patients.
pebbleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pebble + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without any pebbles.
pedigreeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedigree + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pedigree.
puffless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From puff + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without any puff.
punless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pun + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pun.
scrimmager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrimmagers
Etymology: From scrimmage + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scrimmages.
scrimmagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrimmager
scrutators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrutator
scruzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scruze
scugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scug
scugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scug
scugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scug
scugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scug
sculpturesquely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sculpturesquely
form: most sculpturesquely
Etymology: From sculpturesque + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sculpturesque manner.
scumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scumber
scurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scur
scurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scared (“frightened”).
scurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scur
scutages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutage
seafowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seafowl
seahawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seahawk
seamanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seamanship
seaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sean
seamaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamaids
form: sea-maid
Etymology: From sea + maid.
Senses: glosses: A mermaid.
seamaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seamaid
seasicker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of seasick: more seasick
seborrheas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seborrhea
sebums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sebum
secerned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of secern
secerns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of secern
secerning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of secern
seceshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secesh
seclusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seclusively
form: most seclusively
Etymology: From seclusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a seclusive manner.
secessionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secessionism
secobarbitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secobarbital
sectionalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sectionalism
sectorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sectorise
planetquakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetquake
KTV bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KTV bars
Senses: glosses: A bar where KTV takes place.
KTV lounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KTV lounges
Senses: glosses: A lounge where KTV takes place.
securements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of securement
sedations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedation
sedimentologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedimentology
adnomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adnominations
Etymology: From Latin ad nōmen + -tion.
Senses: examples: text: The flurry of adnomination (varying a "root" term with prefixes and suffixes, as "luminous," by a kind of home etymology, is turned into "voluminous") — this flurry of punning settles into a joke out of a farce...
ref: 1994, Mary Kinzie, The judge is fury: dislocation and form in poetry, page 138:
text: Characteristically, a rhetorical figure called “adnomination” is used, which repeats noun root in verb root or vice versa (for ex . “passing without passport” or “Slaves of the bourgeois class, daily and hourly enslaved”) .
ref: 2013, Darko Suvin, In Leviathan's Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time, →ISBN:
text: In strophe D, the repetition of the stem אבל produces alliteration and can be described as adnomination (the repetition of words with the same root).
ref: 2013, PJ Botha, “Psalm 53 in canonical perspective”, in Old Testament Essays:
glosses: A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.
sedimentologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sedimentological.
synonyms: word: sedimentological
sedulities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedulity
seedinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seediness
seducings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seducing
segnos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of segno
seignorages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seignorage
seignories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seignory
seinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seining
selahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selah
selectees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selectee
selectivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selectiveness
seleniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selenium
selenologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selenology
sembled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of semble
scullery maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scullery maid
semiclassics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiclassic
semicivilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + civilized.
Senses: synonyms: demicivilized
glosses: Somewhat or partially civilized.
semiliterates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiliterate
semioticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semioticists
Etymology: From semiotic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies semiotics.
semioticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semioticist
semipolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + political.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly political
semiporcelains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiporcelain
semipostals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semipostal
semiretirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiretirement
muisak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muisaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Shuar muisak.
Senses: glosses: The soul of a victim of a tsantsa, often regarded as vengeful.
semisacred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + sacred.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partially sacred.
semisedentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + sedentary.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partially sedentary.
tosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈsɒl/
Etymology: From to- + sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with today.
Senses: examples: text: Tosol is the beginning of the week, and tourists will start pouring in from all over Mars and maybe even very rich people from Earth.
ref: 2001, Mary Turzillo, “Mars is No Place for Children”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Nebula Awards Showcase 2001: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 75:
text: This self-awareness is not merely an ability to recite and logically combine facts (“I am a robot on Mars; here is tosol's plan”), […]
ref: 2012, William J. Clancey, Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers, The MIT Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Tosol was the day Opportunity shook the miniature thermal emission spectrometer in an effort to remove dust from one of its mirrors.
ref: 2013, Dave Lane, Mars Exploration Rover "Opportunity" Vol 3 2007-2008, Lulu.com, published 2013, →ISBN:
glosses: The current sol (Martian day).
Related terms: yestersol
semitonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semitonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a semitonal manner.
semitonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semitonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a semitonic manner.
Seinfeldish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Seinfeldish
form: most Seinfeldish
Etymology: From Seinfeld + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Washington's health clubs serve the gamut of American yupppiedom, from torture chambers of grunting macho macho men, to Seinfeldish singles scenes, to high-tech palaces for political trophy wives and their over-the-Hill hubbies.
ref: 1997, Nicole Arthur, Will Tizard, Frommer's Washington, D. C., by Night, John Wiley & Sons, published 1997, →ISBN, page 119:
text: In TV the winks range from the casual and occasional (network newswomen appearing as themselves on Murphy Brown) to the deadpan crypto-real (on Seinfeld, comedian Jerry Seinfeld plays a comedian named Jerry, and in one episode he makes a Seinfeldish TV pilot) to the relentlessly ironic (David Letterman satirizing his program, his genre, the entire medium).
ref: 2001 June 23, Kurt Anderson, “Spectator: Are Beavis and Butt-head Arty?”, in Time:
text: I tried to look beyond that, but my Seinfeldish self reared its ugly head and all I could see were myriads and myriads of germs settling in all the little folds of the chewed gum.
ref: 2005, Nancy Kelly, Ginny Blue's Boyfriends, Kensington Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 44:
synonyms: Seinfeldian
glosses: Characteristic of the American sitcom Seinfeld, or its main character/star, Jerry Seinfeld.
semiworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiworks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semi-works.
semunciae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semuncia
those that have, get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: You may have heard the old adage about "those that have, get," and it is true. . . . The getting started on money-making is the hardest part.
ref: 1917, Alice Walton, “Fortuna's Daughters”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 65, number 3, page 90:
text: In the great capitalist tradition of "those who have, get," Vanderbilt's investment today returns rich dividends to his grandsons.
ref: 1978 January 1, Sarah Booth Conroy, “Of Kingdoms, Principalities and Carolina Castles”, in Washington Post, retrieved 21 Jul 2015:
text: Those that have, get. For lending their status to Fashion Week events, the rich and the famous scored, among other things, $225 jeans and coupons for $200 PuchiBags for their pets.
ref: 2005 September 17, Carol E. Lee, “In Lieu of a Gift Bag, Send Donations to...”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jul 2015:
text: In other words, “the rich get richer” or “those that have, get” (indeed, distribution of wealth in America follows a scale-free organization).
ref: 2008, Andrew P. Smith, The Dimensions Of Experience, →ISBN, page 279:
glosses: People who already have wealth and status are the most likely to acquire additional wealth and status (usually with the implication that the distribution of life's benefits and opportunities is unfair).
Synonyms: the rich get richer
Related terms: Matthew effect
nothing succeeds like success
to the victor go the spoils
people who have, get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
people who have, get more
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
them that has, gets
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
them that has, gets more
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
them what has, gets
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
them what has, gets more
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
those that have, get more
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
those who have, get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
those who have, get more
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
those that have get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
those that have get more
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
those who have get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
those who have get more
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
them that has gets
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
them what has gets
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of those that have, get.
spirilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Spirillum + -oid
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of bacteria of the genus Spirillum.
arrhythmogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The proband’s sister also carried this duplication, but had never presented signs of arrhythmogenesis.
ref: 2015 July 15, “Comprehensive Genetic Characterization of a Spanish Brugada Syndrome Cohort”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The development or onset of arrhythmia
arrhythmogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Almost half of the patients had experienced symptoms, including 2 SCD and 4 aborted SCD. Patients who had not previously experienced any signs of arrhythmogenicity despite having a BrS ECG were considered asymptomatic.
ref: 2015 July 15, “Comprehensive Genetic Characterization of a Spanish Brugada Syndrome Cohort”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of being arrhythmogenic
bioformulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioformulations
Etymology: From bio- + formulation.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, a formulation of dsRNA in bacteria can give dual benefits in terms of dsRNA synthesis and stability in a kind of bioformulation.
ref: 2015 July 15, “A Transformed Bacterium Expressing Double-Stranded RNA Specific to Integrin β1 Enhances Bt Toxin Efficacy against a Polyphagous Insect Pest, Spodoptera exigua”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A biopharmaceutical formulation
botyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from leukocytes which were purchased from the Memorial Blood Centers (St. Paul, MN) and New York Blood Center (New York, NY) or from 5–10 ml blood from 3 pediatric patients with OS, botyroid rhabdomyosarcoma (BRMS) and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS).
ref: 2015 July 15, “IGF1R- and ROR1-Specific CAR T Cells as a Potential Therapy for High Risk Sarcomas”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of botryoid.
catholyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæθ.əˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: catholytes
Etymology: Blend of cathode + electrolyte
Senses: examples: text: The cathode electrodes were only partly submerged in the catholyte to allow for an ‘air-wicking’ aerobic configuration.
ref: 2015 July 15, “Anditalea andensis ANESC-S T - An Alkaliphilic Halotolerant Bacterium Capable of Electricity Generation under Alkaline-Saline Conditions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The portion of an electrolyte near a cathode, especially in a cell in which the cathode and anode are in separate compartments
qualifier: flow batteries
glosses: The liquid cathode
Related terms: anolyte
anolyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæn.əˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: anolytes
Etymology: Blend of anode + electrolyte.
Senses: glosses: The portion of an electrolyte near an anode, especially in a cell in which the cathode and anode are in separate compartments
qualifier: flow batteries
glosses: The liquid anode
Related terms: catholyte
cytophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cytophilic
form: most cytophilic
Etymology: From cyto- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: IgG1 and IgG3 are cytophilic and T cell dependent, have high affinity for Fc receptors, and activate phagocytosis and activation of complement fixation [74 ].
ref: 2015 July 15, “Incidence of Severe Malaria Syndromes and Status of Immune Responses among Khat Chewer Malaria Patients in Ethiopia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having an affinity for cells
Derived terms: noncytophilic
mo-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Reports from the London shoot earlier this week suggest Waltz was sporting mo-cap style dots, usually used to allow designers to add CGI elements at a later stage.
ref: 2015, The Guardian, Film blog, 10 June
glosses: Alternative form of mocap.
mo-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mo-caps
form: mo-capping
form: mo-capped
form: mo-capped
Senses: glosses: to motion-capture