cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
postneoadjuvant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + neo- + adjuvant.
Senses: examples: text: It is conceivable that an internationally uniform procedure for handling and reporting on postneoadjuvant systemic therapy specimens would eventually resolve this issue.
ref: 2015, Provenzano, E., Bossuyt, V., Viale, G., et al., “Standardization of pathologic evaluation and reporting of postneoadjuvant specimens in clinical trials of breast cancer: recommendations from an international working group”, in Modern Pathology, volume 28, →DOI, pages 1185–1201:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After neoadjuvant therapy as a sort of second-line complement or supplement to it, but still before the primary therapy.
Coordinate terms: neoadjuvant
postplatinum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + platinum.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: phase of therapy
glosses: After platinum-based therapy, that is, after treatment with a platin.
chronocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronocytes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical ancestor to eucaryotes, which is a cell that engulfed an archaea and a bacteria.
pseudoachalasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + achalasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An esophageal condition involving the same obstructive character as achalasia but not of a primary (idiopathic) nature (cause); it is called pseudoachalasia when the term achalasia is intended to mean only the type of such obstruction that is of primary nature, whereas in other terminological schemas it is classified as a type of achalasia, called secondary achalasia in coordinate rank with primary achalasia (true achalasia).
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate when not viewed as hypernymous
translation: coordinate when not viewed as hypernymous
word: achalasia
glorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemoattractant used by some amoeba N-propionyl-γ-L-glutamyl-L-ornithin-δ-lactam-ethylester.
Muvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Muvian
form: most Muvian
Etymology: From Mu + -vian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the mythical continent of Mu.
Muvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muvians
Etymology: From Mu + -vian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the mythical continent of Mu.
examples: text: "Naacal" and "Ra" are words from Muvian that mean "king" and "the sun".
glosses: The alleged language used by the inhabitants of Mu.
Coordinate terms: Atlantean
Lemurian
Hyperborean
Hyperborean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hyperboreans
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hyperborean.
Happy Merchant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Happy Merchant
Etymology: Originated in a cartoon by A. Wyatt Mann (Nick Bougas) in 2001.
Senses: glosses: An anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew, often featuring in far-right memes and propaganda.
wikipedia: Nick Bougas
composite sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composite sentences
Senses: examples: text: A composite sentence is the union of two or more sentences which from their contents, the way in which they are arranged or joined together, and the manner in whih they are uttered, form a whole. The relation between the different members of a composite sentence is that of: a) Co-ordination (parataxis), when they are of equal rank. […] b) Subordination (hypotaxis), when one memebr represents an element (subject, nominal part of the predicate, object, etc.) of the other.
ref: 1904, Hendrik Poutsma, A Grammar of Late Modern English, Part I: The Sentence, page 351
text: When, however, we come to composite sentences (that is, sentences consisting of two or more clauses), we have to deal with the notions of main clause, head clause, and subordinate clause.
ref: 1971, Boris Aleksandrovich Ilyish, Строй современного английского языка, second edition, page 189
text: The composite sentence, in its two forms compound and complex, is relatively straightforward, though rather different from the simple sentence.
ref: 1986, Ian Press, A Grammar of Modern Breton, second edition, page 204
text: Composite sentences can be categorized into two types: (1) coordinate sentence, in which the included sentence forms are of equal statuses and (2) subordinate sentence, in which the included sentence forms include major ones and subordinate ones.
ref: 2022, Wang Li, translated by Bo Wang, Modern Chinese Grammar I: Syntax:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); compound or complex sentence
Coordinate terms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: simple sentence
engrailled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of engrailed.
odontopterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontopterygians
Senses: examples: text: Bone of a presumed Odontopterygian bird from the Miocene of New Zealand.
ref: 1972, RJ Scarlett, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, article title:
text: Riding on the edge of the wind on long, narrow wings are the masters of the ocean sky, small, tube-nosed albatrosses and petrels, and the huge, false-toothed odontopterygians.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 84:
glosses: An extinct pelican-like pelagornithid seabird of the suborder Odontopterygia.
odontopterygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontopterygian
Liabeuf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liabeufs
Etymology: Borrowed from French Liabeuf.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
disemvowelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of disembowelment + vowel.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Hayden has been credited with one of the more creative online responses to nasty commentators – disemvowelment, the removal of all the vowels from a post. Not quite censorship, but not exactly unfettered commentary, either.
ref: 2008 July 7, Noam Cohen, “Poof! You’re Unpublished.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The act of disemvoweling.
woolflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolflower
woolflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolflowers
Senses: glosses: A flower of genus Celosia.
enshittification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌʃɪ.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ɛn-/
Etymology: From en- + shittification (“becoming shitty”). Coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2022 as a designation for a particular phenomenon affecting online platforms.
Senses: examples: text: Ultimately, it doesn't matter if Amazon's enshittification is because [Jeff] Bezos was a cynic or because he sold out. Once Amazon could make more money by screwing its customers, that screw-job became a fait accompli.
ref: 2022 November 28, Cory Doctorow, “How monopoly enshittified Amazon”, in Pluralistic, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023:
text: Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification
ref: 2023 January 28, Cory Doctorow, “The 'Enshittification' of TikTok”, in Wired, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2024:
text: Both switching costs and network effects tend to lead to enshittification because platform providers see early adopters as an investment in future profits.
ref: 2023 March 3, Tim Harford, “The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad?”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2023:
text: But it's not just users who are effectively incarcerated by enshittification. The advertisers and vendors who are the real customers of tech platforms are also prisoners.
ref: 2023 March 11, John Naughton, “Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the 'enshittification' of the internet”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023:
text: Musk perceived instantly that he had one of the perfect conditions for enshittification. Twitter had a multi-million-strong user base, who had built up relationships and reputations among themselves over years.
ref: 2023 November 25, Jane Cassidy, “Matheson might just be the latest victim of ongoing ‘platform decay’”, in The National, Glasgow, page 20:
antonyms: deshittification
glosses: The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements, recurring payments, and sponsored content, in order to increase profits.
Related terms: enshittify
shittification
shittiness
AIpocalypse
Black Mirror
Muskification
you will own nothing and be happy
Concelman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Concelmans
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: BNC
BNC connector
NC
NC connector
TNC
TNC connector
demipansexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demipansexual
form: most demipansexual
Etymology: Blend of demisexual + pansexual.
Senses: examples: text: When asked how they would describe their sexual orientation, Reese stated: “I kind of have an idea. I’m pansexual, but I prefer women … cisgender women. I prefer cisgender women. I should say that because you should specify. … My romantic orientation is more, I don’t know, it’s demipansexual I guess. It’s just all encompassing.” With this passage Reese specified that, although they are demipansexual—may become attracted to people of any gender after they develop a strong emotional and romantic bond with them—they prefer cisgender women.
ref: 2016, Alicia Lapointe, “Postgay”, in Nelson M. Rodriguez, Wayne J. Martino, Jennifer C. Ingrey, Edward Brockenbrough, editors, Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education: An International Guide for the Twenty-First Century (William F. Pinar, Nelson M. Rodriguez, and Reta Ugena Whitlock, editors, Queer Studies and Education), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 213:
text: AMANDA | 24, DEMIPANSEXUAL, PLUS SIZED, ATHEIST
ref: 2016 December, Contrawoman:
text: [Maxfield] Sparrow, a white Generation Xer who identifies as metagender and demipansexual, holds an MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University and continues their education in Colorado, with the goal of becoming a Certified Poetry Therapist.
ref: 2021, “Contributors”, in Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, editors, Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 203:
text: For her own part she [Quinn Simon] identifies as demipansexual, the term used to describe those capable of feeling sexually attracted to anyone regardless of gender, provided there is a deep emotional connection.
ref: 2021 September 10, Gemma Handy, “‘It took me a long time to accept who I was’”, in Antigua Observer, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2021:
text: Without such labels, explains demipansexual Aggie (29), she couldn’t explore sexuality, her gender, or even polyamory itself.
ref: 2022 May 20, Elizabeth Reid Boyd, “Hook-ups, pansexuals and holy connection: love in the time of millennials and Generation Z”, in Philippine Canadian Inquirer, volume 8, number 490:
glosses: Demisexual and pansexual.
bugcheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugchecks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bug check.
new reality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new realities
Senses: examples: text: As we all face our new reality in a world of “social distancing,” please know that we are holding you and your family close in our prayers.
ref: 2020 March 17, Ellen Weaver, “Common Sense Public Policy Critical To Meet COVID-19 Crisis”, in Palmetto Promise:
text: Two years [after Hurricane Matthew], and the evidence is persuasive: Tropical weather patterns really have changed and coastal communities — especially across the South — need to confront a new reality.
ref: 2018 September 30, Ellen Weaver, “New storm reality requires new protections”, in Fay Observer:
glosses: An unfavorable change or adjustment that affects one's daily life.
bit shifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bit shift
bit shifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bit shift
bitshifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bitshift
bitshifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bitshift
bit-shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit-shifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bit shift.
bit-shift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bit-shifts
form: bit-shifting
form: bit-shifted
form: bit-shifted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bit shift.
bit-shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit-shift
bit-shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bit-shift
bit-shifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bit-shift
bit-shifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bit-shift
King's speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: King's speeches
Senses: glosses: An address to the people of the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth broadcast on radio and television by the King on Christmas Day
examples: text: This will probably be set out in the King's Speech for the final session of this Parliament, which is likely to start in the autumn.
ref: 2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 35:
glosses: An annual statement made by the King in the House of Lords to the assembled members of both houses of parliament outlining the government's proposed legislation programme for the next twelve months.
Related terms: Queen's speech
left shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left shifts
form: left-shift
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bit shift to the left, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the left.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The left shift operator; often given as << or <<<.
left shift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: left shifts
form: left shifting
form: left shifted
form: left shifted
form: left-shift
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform a left shift bitwise operation.
Related terms: logical shift
arithmetic shift
left shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left shift
left shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of left shift
left shifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of left shift
left shifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of left shift
sleveen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleveens
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish slíbhín.
Senses: glosses: An untrustworthy or cunning person.
right shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right shifts
form: right-shift
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bit shift to the right, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the right.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The right shift operator; often given as >> or >>>
right shift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: right shifts
form: right shifting
form: right shifted
form: right shifted
form: right-shift
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform a right shift bitwise operation.
Related terms: logical shift
arithmetic shift
right shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right shift
right shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of right shift
right shifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of right shift
right shifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of right shift
kashk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of dairy products used in the cuisines of various Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Eurasian cultures:
A thick, whitish liquid (sometimes dried) made from whey, used in Iranian and Kurdish cuisine.
glosses: Any of a range of dairy products used in the cuisines of various Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Eurasian cultures:
Dried, fermented yoghurt, buttermilk, or cheese, especially when shaped into small balls, consumed in Kyrgyz and Uzbek cuisine.
synonyms: qurut
gurt
khuruud
Synonyms: chortan
aaruul
Related terms: doogh
gondwanathere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gondwanatheres
Senses: examples: text: The gondwanathere, along with oppossums, monitos and birds, is after the Nothofagus nuts that have not yet been eaten, a crop of little pursed cups containing seven or eight seeds still littering the ground.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 91:
glosses: A gondwanatherian.
chortan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kashk.
synonyms: word: kashk
aaruul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kashk.
synonyms: word: kashk
khuruud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qurut (“kashk”).
eye-ringed flatbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-ringed flatbills
Senses: glosses: A bird native to Central America, of species Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
eye-ringed flatbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye-ringed flatbill
His Majesty's Opposition
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The job of His Majesty's Opposition - especially as election time looms - is to provide well-worked-out alternatives to government plans, not to acquiesce in what could prove to be a disastrous policy for rail passengers.
ref: 2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 35:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: Her Majesty's Opposition
glosses: A more formal title for the Official Opposition (the largest opposition party) in the House of Parliament, used when there is a king on the throne.
Pocalyko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pocalykos
Senses: glosses: A surname
snow pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hobbes: Super heroes wear snow pants?
Stupendous Man: When there's snow out, they do!
ref: 1990 February 13, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
glosses: Pants made of waterproof material to help keep the wearer dry, often flexible to accommodate thick winter clothing underneath, such as thermal underwear.
swim diaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swim diapers
Senses: glosses: A swimsuit incorporating a thick moisture-absorbent layer and a tight seal to stop waste from leaking out, eliminating the need for a diaper within the swimsuit.
Synonyms: word: pool diaper
word: swimming diaper
word: water diaper
word: swim nappy
word: pool nappy
word: swimming nappy
word: water nappy
white-crested spadebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-crested spadebills
Senses: glosses: A bird native to South America, Platyrinchus platyrhynchos
white-crested spadebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-crested spadebill
bad cholesterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad cholesterols
Senses: glosses: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
Coordinate terms: good cholesterol
good cholesterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good cholesterols
Senses: glosses: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol
Coordinate terms: bad cholesterol
zoosemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + sem- (from Ancient Greek σῆμα "token, sign") + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It must be emphasised that in this case the working of the mechanism of zoosemy was so intense that already in the first half of the 16th century — in disparaging use — mongrel started to be used in the sense 'the offspring of parents of different nationalities or of high and low birth' (1542>1898).
ref: 2010, Robert Kiełtyka, “Selected aspects of zoosemy: the conceptual dimension origin/social status at work”, in Philologia Hispalensis, page 174:
text: Migration is another aspect of social relations wherein zoosemy seems to have a notable presence, since animal metaphors can be an effective discursive strategy of othering, denigration and, in extreme cases, even dehumanization.
ref: 2022, Alisa Egorova, Hunting Down Animal Verbs: An Investigation into the Mechanisms of Meaning Transfer Underlying English Verbal Zoosemy, page 24:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: The metaphorical use of animal names or animal-related terms to denote human qualities, e.g. chicken, sly fox, mother hen etc. as epithets for human individuals.
Amurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amurian
amyloglycosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amyloglycosidase
amylographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amylograph
amylohydrolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amylohydrolase
amylospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amylosphere
anacolouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacolouth
anacoluths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacoluth
analgesimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analgesimeter
Anamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anamite
anatelophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anatelophase
Andaman crakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andaman crake
anemosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anemoside
aneurysmectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aneurysmectomy
aneurysmorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aneurysmorrhaphy
PHCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PHC
PHASRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PHASR
pgACCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pgACC
peVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peV
petty knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petty knife
pewas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pewa
PFDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PFD
PFICs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PFIC
PFIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PFI
PDKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PDK
Pedra Branca skinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pedra Branca skink
OVVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OVV
cross-subsidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-subsidies
Etymology: From cross- + subsidy.
Senses: examples: text: The grouping into the Big Four (the Great Western Railway, the London Midland & Scottish Railway, the London & North Eastern Railway, and Southern Railway) came into effect in 1923, and created the largest businesses in Britain. It effectively formalised the concept of cross-subsidy, whereby each of the four would subsidise loss-making routes from those that were profitable, without financial support from the government.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 36:
glosses: A subsidy from profit-making operations of a business to support loss-making operations of the same business.
Related terms: cross-subsidise
cross-subsidize
cross-subsidisation
cross-subsidization
cross-subsidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-subsidy.
storage lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storage life
CHSLDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CHSLD
NULXs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NULX
PTXs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PTX
PuGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PuG
PUJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PUJ
pugnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pugnose
ptRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptRNA
ptrnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptrna
PTHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PTH
ptDNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptDNA
PSSDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSSD
PSNSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSNS
PSISes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSIS
PSISs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSIS
PS3s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PS3
PS4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PS4
PS5s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PS5
PPBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PPB
PoWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PoW
PRAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PRAM
PPFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PPF
PNLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PNL
POBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of POB
PoCCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PoCC
POCCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of POCC
PNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PN
PMNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PMN
plcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plc
PIISs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIIS
PIIRSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIIRS
PILs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIL
Qwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Qwans
form: Kuan
form: Kwan
form: Kwon
form: Kuon
form: Quan
form: Quon
form: Qwon
Etymology: From Chinese; more commonly spelled as Kwan or Kuan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese
hand breathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand breathings
Senses: glosses: A calming breathing technique in which one traces along the outside of one's hand, inhaling as one traces towards the fingertip and exhaling as one traces towards the palm.
hell has no fury like a woman scorned
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
unslappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unslappable
form: most unslappable
Etymology: From un- + slappable.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the family's attempts to rebuff her, Rosie kept popping up, buzzing at the margins of the family's life like an unslappable mosquito.
ref: 2020, Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, New York, NY: Scribner, →ISBN, page 76:
text: But the Oscars host, Jimmy Kimmel, doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. His commercial promoting the Oscars includes several references to Rock, a former host himself. And the spot, a spoof of “Top Gun: Maverick,” explains that ABC was intent on finding an M.C. “who’s unflappable — and unslappable.”
ref: 2023 March 12, Stephanie Goodman, “How the Slap Has Changed the Oscars”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not slappable.
M.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But the Oscars host, Jimmy Kimmel, doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. His commercial promoting the Oscars includes several references to Rock, a former host himself. And the spot, a spoof of “Top Gun: Maverick,” explains that ABC was intent on finding an M.C. “who’s unflappable — and unslappable.”
ref: 2023 March 12, Stephanie Goodman, “How the Slap Has Changed the Oscars”, in The New York Times:
related: word: MC
glosses: Initialism of master of ceremonies.
akshauhini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akshauhinis
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit अक्षौहिणी (akṣauhiṇī).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: an army consisting of ten anikinis, or 21,870 elephants, 21,870 chariots, 65,610 horses, and 109,350 foot
MGIF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of must get in front.
must get in front
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: word: MGIF
glosses: The perceived attitude of a motorist who drives poorly in order to stay in front of other road users.
Kueichow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In bringing the above to the notice of the Throne, the Governor-General of Yünnan and Kueichow states that the bridge thus erected on the upper waters of the Tsuli or Chinshachiang is constructed of iron chains slung across the river and planked over, provided with a parapet and roofed in overhead.
ref: 1890 October 10, “Suspension Bridge in Yunnan”, in North-China Herald, volume XLV, number 1210, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 434, column 3:
text: I saw a dust-storm at Kueichow which lasted for seven hours, burying some hovels and much agricultural country, and even producing a metamorphosis of the rocky bed of the Yangtze. Such storms have been observed as far east as Shanghai, but their occurrence at Kueichow shows that their area is not limited to the Great Plain or even to the region east of the mountain barrier between HUPEH and SZE CHUAN.
ref: 1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, volume 1, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
text: One of those deeds, Liu’s petition to the throne that he be allowed to take Liu Yü-hsi’s place in exile in the distant Po-chou (in modern Kueichow), inspires Han Yü to sermonize at length on the rareness of such generosity.
ref: 1984, Ronald C. Egan, “Prose”, in The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of Guizhou.
Sinauer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sinauers
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
DINB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪnbiː/
Forms: form: DINBs
Etymology: From deposit insurance + national + bank. Coined in 1933 with the passing of the 1933 Banking Act.
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Initialism of deposit insurance national bank.
wikipedia: 1933 Banking Act
Mintrup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mintrups
Senses: glosses: A surname.
golden-crowned spadebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden-crowned spadebills
Senses: glosses: A bird native to The Americas, Platyrinchus coronatus
golden-crowned spadebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden-crowned spadebill
spadebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spadebill
kidsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kidsy
form: most kidsy
Etymology: From kids + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The elementary school has multiple opportunities for parents to do something tangible, for example “making materials, helping to put the activities together, the physical assistance, whereas in middle school they don't do all the charts and the bulletin boards and the kidsy activities” (Interview, teacher).
ref: 1996 February 1, Mary E. Henry, Mary E. Gardiner, Parent-School Collaboration: Feminist Organizational Structures and School Leadership, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 88:
text: On a pinboard filled with cute, kidsy designs, mine is dark, dangerous and downright scary. I have drawn a shipwrecked boat, with dark waves crashing around it. Pirates are swinging on to the wreck, waving their swords about.
ref: 2009 June 4, Cathy Cassidy, Shine On, Daizy Star, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: The pumpkins appeared cute in a kidsy way. I seemed suddenly too old for that. My feet skid-kissed loose gravel as I ran serpentine through wet alleys, certain I was headed first to jail, then to hell. Gill never got his chance.
ref: 2010 July, Kevin Stein, Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 66:
text: “[…]How about one of those kidsy adventure shorts?” Roddy rolled his eyes. Tossing the remote to a startled Esper, who juggled it before grabbing hold, he slipped down from the couch. “Knock yourselves out. I'll go find some work to do.”
ref: 2014 December 23, J.S. Morin, A Smuggler's Conscience: Mission 2, Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN:
text: And yet her interest in kidsy picture books hadn't abated either. Just looking at her read always put a spring in my step.
ref: 2021 September 13, Ameko Kaeruda, Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness Volume 1, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
glosses: Designed for or primarily aimed at children.
yellow-throated spadebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-throated spadebills
Senses: glosses: A bird native to South America, Platyrinchus flavigularis
yellow-throated spadebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow-throated spadebill
legacy Oscar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legacy Oscars
Senses: examples: text: Scanning the recent slates of winners, the legacy Oscar appears more and more frequently; even the most dedicated Jessica Chastain fans (also known as “Chastainiacs”) would have a hard time calling The Eyes of Tammy Faye her finest hour, but she’d accrued a reputation as an altogether deserving thespian by that point in her career, and that was enough.
ref: 2023, Charles Bramesco, A brief history of the “legacy Oscar” and its winners, Little White Lies:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An Academy Award perceived to have been given in recognition of the awardee's career and performances in prior films, rather than for the performance specifically nominated.
Ossé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ossés
Etymology: Borrowed from Haitian Creole or French. Originating from Haiti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Haitian Creole.
headmistressy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more headmistressy
form: most headmistressy
form: head-mistressy
Etymology: From headmistress + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The moment passed, and she packed him firmly off with cheerful, conventional, headmistressy remarks about being a good boy, and next term coming soon.
ref: 1956, Frances Martin, Summer Meridian, London: Cassell & Company Ltd, page 190:
text: So he would have to take her to some expensive Thames-side pub, and in this grand, headmistressy mood she would be sure to order smoked salmon.
ref: 1961, Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →LCCN, page 67:
text: Violet, who was British and sat through my classes with a headmistressy stare, did say she admired the Heidelberg school of painters.
ref: 2007, Margaret Sutherland, Leaving Gaza, Leicester: Ulverscroft, published 2009, →ISBN, page 215:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a headmistress.
Synonyms: headmistressly
mall-goths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mall-goth (alternative form of mallgoths)
mistressy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistressy
form: most mistressy
Etymology: From mistress + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Rubbish, I said I’ve no use for it,’ replied Charmian in her most mistressy voice.
ref: 1956, Anne Francis [pseudonym; Anne Wintle], Paulette, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, page 38:
text: Her mistressy voice, now urgent and straining, now clucking and scolding, now anxiously explaining, thinking in English, translating to itself first into Sepedi, begging, stressing, arguing, repeating, repeating, repeating – that restless voice tinkled into my consciousness, bringing me back.
ref: a. 1968, Can Themba, The Will to Die, Heinemann, published 1972, reprinted 1976, →ISBN, page 22:
text: She usually reports in her mistressy way that I steep my mind in violence–yes, steep–that my temper is fiendish, and that my bite is worse than my bark.
ref: 1969, Michael Ramsbotham, The Remains of a Father, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, pages 146–147:
text: When the parlourmaid came, she said in an altered, mistressy voice: ‘Find Miss Rhoda, Edith. She hasn’t been near me this morning. I’m afraid she may be over-exerting herself.’
ref: 1970, Patrick White, The Vivisector, London: Jonathan Cape, […], →ISBN, page 34:
text: Claudia Best. A mistressy kind of name.
ref: 1992, Judith Greber, As Good As It Gets, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 310:
text: And I’ll bet he and that Rachel woman—she needn’t think she’s off the hook, she’s got that sly, mistressy look about her—have invited people I’ve been carefully snubbing for years.
ref: 2003, Anna Maxted, Behaving Like Adults, ReganBooks, →ISBN, pages 360–361:
text: Claudia gave her an irritated mistressy look.
ref: 2006, Philip Boast, The Third Princess, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 130:
text: Thankfully the lingerie designer Janet Reger successfully brought romance back with her mistressy ranges of camisoles, basques, lacy French knickers, and bra sets, along with sexy negligees and suspender belts that made women feel like a million dollars and their husbands very happy.
ref: 2015, Tracy Martin, The Bare Essentials: A Passion for Lingerie, London; New York, N.Y.: CICO Books, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mistress.
meterstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metersticks
Etymology: From meter + stick.
Senses: examples: text: He must use his unit of length taken from his meterstick.
ref: 1977, Leonid Sokolow, A dual ether universe: introducing a new unified field theory, page 42:
text: Stand the meterstick upright on the table (or floor) so that the 0-centimeter end is against the tabletop (or floor).
ref: 2011, Kevin D. Finson, Christine K. Ormsbee, Mary M. Jensen, Differentiating Science Instruction and Assessment for Learners With Special Needs, K–8, page 80:
text: Check whether the meterstick edge intersects with the toe-end curve of the footprint at the furthest point, T, away from the heel point.
ref: 2013, F. Thomas Burke, What Pragmatism Was, page 104:
glosses: A measuring rod one hundred centimeters (one meter) long.
Related terms: yardstick
metersticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meterstick
komadai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: komadais
form: komadai
Etymology: From Japanese 駒台 (komadai).
Senses: topics: board-games
games
shogi
glosses: A stand for holding captured Shogi pieces.
bear hang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear hangs
Senses: qualifier: camping
glosses: The act of hanging one's food supplies from a rope slung over a tree branch to prevent bears from getting to them
glosses: the place where food is thus stored.
praetornal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prae- + tornal.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Located in front of the tornus
tasselflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasselflowers
Senses: glosses: A tropical flower of the genus Emilia.
tanninbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanninbushes
Senses: glosses: A South African bush of the genus Osyris
devil's club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: devil's walking stick
Alaskan ginseng
glosses: Oplopanax horridus (devil's walking stick) (large understory shrub native to the Pacific Northwest and the islands of Lake Superior)
take a rain check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a rain check
form: taking a rain check
form: took a rain check
form: taken a rain check
form: take a raincheck
Senses: glosses: To request or accept a rain check (an agreement from a merchant to honor a special offer, temporarily unavailable, after the expiration date).
examples: text: I can't go with you to the museum this Saturday, but can I take a rain check?
text: "Would you mind if we took a rain check on our trip to Boston today?" Her hair lay spread around the pillow, and he combed it with his fingers, smoothing it around her head.
ref: 1996, Joe Hutsko, Undo:
text: If you don't like the news then press eject / Baby Davis, getting older, can't take a rain check
ref: 2004, “It Takes Time to Build”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys:
synonyms: raincheck
glosses: In social interactions, to request a deferred invitation, as a polite way to turn down an engagement, usually with the implication that one is simply postponing it and another time might be acceptable.
Townie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Townies
Etymology: From (Charles)town + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Racial isolation is so strong that in the early 1970s there were only 388 blacks among the 38,488 residents of South Boston, and only 76 among the 15,353 “Townies” of Charlestown.
ref: 1981, Laurence R. Marcus, Benjamin D. Stickney, Race and Education: The Unending Controversy, page 110:
text: By fall 1974, however, new impulses broke through and on September 25, three hundred Townies organized the Charlestown branch of ROAR
ref: 2004, Ronald P. Formisano, Boston Against Bussing, page 123:
text: There were also a few black families in the projects and some Italians who spilled over from the North End, but otherwise Charlestown was a homogeneous hill of working-class Micks and their families living in tight rows of colonial and triple-decker houses. The Townies. And every Townie knew everyone in Town.
ref: 2015, Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens, page 12:
glosses: A person from Charlestown, Massachusetts, (especially) a working-class person of Irish American heritage.
cementoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cement + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
dentistry
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A matrix of collagen fibres that becomes mineralised to form cementum.
cementoclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cementoclasts
Etymology: From cement + -o- + -clast.
Senses: topics: biology
dentistry
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A multinucleated giant cell that consumes cementum.
Hypernyms: osteoclast
cemevis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cemevi
cemevi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cemevis
form: cem evi
form: djemevi
Etymology: From Turkish cemevi.
Senses: glosses: An Alevi place of worship or cultural center.
Reaganagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reaganagrams
Etymology: Blend of Reagan + anagram, after the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911–2004).
Senses: examples: text: I would like to thank the net for ... connecting me to Mike Morton of Dartmouth, who ... happens to have a collection of the best "Reaganagrams" around!
ref: 1984 April 24, James A. Woods, “The holoalphabetic "Jocks vend, fix, quartz BMW glyph."”, in net.puzzle (Usenet):
text: Several readers were inspired to construct Reaganagrams of their own. John Henrick felt NO, DARLINGS, NO ERA LAW was a "magnificent specimen destined to surpass all others ever"[.]
ref: 1984 August, “Colloquy”, in Word Ways, page 146:
text: [Pleased, Dmitri Borgmann pointed] out that ... insane Anglo warlord [was] a human-generated Reaganagram.
ref: 1986 October, Scot Morris, “Wordplay”, in Omni, page 183:
text: Some may prefer the Reaganagram 'insane Anglo warlord'.
ref: 1997 January 11, Ucalegon, “Richard Nixon anagram?”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):
glosses: An anagram of the name Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Reaganagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Reaganagram
nonrequisite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + requisite.
Senses: synonyms: word: discretionary
word: elective
word: facultative
word: free
word: noncompulsory
word: nonmandatory
word: nonobligate
word: nonobligatory
word: nonrequired
word: nonrequisite
word: optional
word: optionary
word: unrequired
word: volitional
word: voluntary
antonyms: word: dispensable
word: gratuitous
word: inessential
word: needless
word: optional
word: unnecessary
word: unneeded
glosses: Not requisite.
coenesthesiopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenesthesiopathies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “perception from the senses”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering, misery, condition”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Cenesthopathy
marlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marlots
Etymology: Blend of margay + ocelot
Senses: examples: text: Jean Townes’ cats produced cougar and chaus kittens and a rare and interesting margay/ocelot hybrid was born at Barbara Brocks. Both the ocelot mother and margay sire of this little “marlot” were captive bred.
ref: 2003, “FCF History”, in Feline Conservation Foundation, archived from the original on 09 May 2021:
text: […] while other samples include seven litters of one kitten each born to the same female at Marlot Breeding Farm, and two other litters of one kitten each.
ref: 2017 May 15, Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist, Wild Cats of the World, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 138:
text: marlot: (not capitalized) A cross between a margay and an ocelot.
ref: 2019 October 14, Giacomo Giammatteo, How to Capitalize Anything, Inferno Publishing Company, →ISBN:
glosses: A hybrid of a margay and an ocelot.
marlots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marlot
karyotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of having the same chromosomal characteristics.
pyrosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + sol.
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: A method to apply a thin coating by pyrolysis of an aerosol.