cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
derationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derationalizes
form: derationalizing
form: derationalized
form: derationalized
Etymology: From de- + rational + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: And, inasmuch as the soul is influenced, to an indefinite degree, by the body, atavism seems to derationalize the Christian theory of morality.
ref: 1880, The Church Quarterly Review - Volume 9, page 310:
text: Thus, by the self-subversive logic of evolution in legal ideas, we derationalize procedure the better to vindicate the rationalization of substantive law.
ref: 1997, Richard Rawlings, Law, Society, and Economy: Centenary Essays for the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995, →ISBN:
text: This achieves the purpose of expanding the framework inside which performers are compelled to work, and also — as the intellectual must do — it elaborates an alternative argument to the prevailing conventions that so deaden and dehumanize and derationalize the human spirit.
ref: 2008, Edward W. Said, Music at the Limits, →ISBN, page 277:
text: Thus far, I have been arguing that Ginsberg's poetry represents an attempt to demasculinize and derationalize American poetry; however, Ginsberg's poetic project also has an aggressively masculine side as well.
ref: 2011, James Penner, Pinks, Pansies, and Punks, →ISBN:
glosses: To make irrational.
derationalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derationalize
derationalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derationalize
derationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derationalize
orthochoanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + choanite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the obsolete cephalopod suborder Orthochoanites.
glosses: Having a straight, short septal neck.
raw_tags: of a nautiloid cephalopod
Related terms: cyrtochoanitic
subcyrtochoanitic
hemichoanitic
holochoanitic
subholochoanitic
intrachoanitic
macrochoanitic
mixochoanitic
orthochoanite
prochoanitic
retrochoanitic
suborthochoanitic
cyrtochoanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyrto- + choanite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the obsolete cephalopod suborder Cyrtochoanites.
glosses: Having an outwardly curved septal neck.
raw_tags: of a nautiloid cephalopod
Related terms: list in orthochoanitic
derationalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derationalises
form: derationalising
form: derationalised
form: derationalised
Senses: examples: text: As a moral member of society, I ask on what ground of right, human or divine, the publican is to be allowed to turn men upon society whom he has first contributed to derationalise, and convert for the time into mutinous beasts?
ref: 1859, The Temperance Pulpit:
text: We might urge that reason is none the less reason when it is not conscious inference, and that it is a fallacy to derationalise political society because it is not an explicit organisation of conscious reason.
ref: 1915, Sir Ernest Barker, Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the Present Day:
text: Probation officers at different prisons all seemed to deal with this 'rationalising of crime' in similar ways: "We have a debate and derationalise the crime.
ref: 1998, Angela Devlin, Invisible Women: What's Wrong With Women's Prisons?, →ISBN, page 291:
text: First, he may derationalise, or remove as far as possible from commonplace experience, the general surroundings amidst which the supernatural is to appear.
ref: 2011, Richard Green Moulton, Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of derationalize.
derationalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derationalise
derationalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derationalise
derationalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derationalise
choanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choanites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χοάνη (khoánē, “funnel”).
Senses: glosses: A spongiform fossil of the historical genus Choanites, thought to resemble a petrified sea-anemone.
glosses: Any of genus Choanites Mantell, 1822 sensu Laubenfels, 1936, accepted as Suberites Nardo, 1833, certain demosponges.
Derived terms: cyrtochoanite
cyrtochoanitic
Related terms: word: choana
word: choano-
english: see there for more
translation: see there for more
word: orthochoanitic
choanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choanite
heap coals of fire on someone's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heaps coals of fire on someone's head
form: heaping coals of fire on someone's head
form: heaped coals of fire on someone's head
form: heaped coals of fire on someone's head
form: heap coals of fire upon someone's head
Etymology: An allusion to Romans 12:20 in the Bible.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:20:
glosses: To excite remorse in someone by returning good for evil.
bacteriocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bacterio- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Overly concerned with bacteria
Related terms: bacteriocentrism
rhagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhagons
Etymology: New Latin, from ῥᾱγ-, stem of Ancient Greek ῥάξ (rháx, “grape, berry”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A form of sponge with clustered spherical flagellated endodermal chambers.
glosses: leucon
rhagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhagon
bacteriovores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriovore
baculosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baculosomes
Senses: glosses: A bacterial microsome
baculosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baculosome
basidiomycetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to basidiomycetes
benzonuclease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular nuclease
bicausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + causal.
Senses: glosses: Having two, independent causes
Related terms: bicausality
bicausality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + causality.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being bicausal
bilophodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being bilophodont
biodetector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodetectors
Etymology: From bio- + detector.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of biosensor.
synonyms: word: biosensor
biodetectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biodetector
bioelectrocatalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + electrocatalytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bioelectrocatalysis
Related terms: bioelectrocatalyst
bioresorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + resorption.
Senses: glosses: biochemical or biophysical resorption
buccalwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From buccal + -wards.
Senses: glosses: In a buccal direction
bushrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushrats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bush rat.
bushrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushrat
unnervous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnervous
form: most unnervous
Etymology: From un- + nervous.
Senses: glosses: Not nervous.
haemal arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemal arches
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The position of a vertebra enclosing and protecting the heart and other viscera.
haemal cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemal cavities
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The thoracic-abdominal cavity, containing the heart, etc.
haemal arches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemal arch
haemal cavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemal cavity
suay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suay
form: most suay
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 衰 (soe).
Senses: examples: text: You want to seem like you've actually read all 3 books, but — damn suay — even The New Paper is too 'cheem' for you. Neh'mine!
ref: 2003 December 12, jay, “tolkien would turn over in his grave.......”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
glosses: unlucky, unfortunate
Related terms: sia suay
floating bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floating bridges
Senses: glosses: A bridge of rafts or beams of timber lying on the surface of the water.
floating bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floating bridge
cambialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin cambialis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That contains either of two or more different metal atoms
raw_tags: of a metalloenzyme
cancerogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cancerogen
cardioceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cardioception
cardioception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cardiac interoception
Related terms: cardioceptive
glottography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glottographies
Etymology: From glotto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the modulation of a sound by the vibration of the glottis.
examples: text: It would be necessary for the decoder to have some understanding of the specific oral language and cultural codes used by the tlacuilo; this is especially true for understanding combinations of semasiographies and glottographies.
ref: 2008, Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen, Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas Jansen, Laura N. K. van Broekhoven, Escritura de Nuu Dzaui, page 74:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A writing system where written symbols correspond to speech.
Derived terms: electroglottography
photoglottography
Related terms: glottogram
glottographic
Alita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alitas
Etymology: From Spanish Alita.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
Related terms: Alito
caribfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caribflies
Senses: glosses: The Caribbean fruit fly Anastrepha suspensa
caribflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caribfly
cavernolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpenoid lactone present in the sponge Fasciospongia cavernosa
centraparietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of centroparietal.
cerebromicrovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebro- + microvascular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to small blood vessels in the brain
chasmolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That grows in crevices on a rock surface
chemoecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoecologists
Etymology: From chemo- + ecologist.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ecologist whose speciality is chemoecology
chemoecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoecologist
chlorolichen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorolichens
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any lichen that has a green alga as its photobiont
chlorolichens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorolichen
chlorophenical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chloramphenicol.
choleperitonitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choleperitonitides
form: choleperitonites
Etymology: From chole- + peritonitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: peritonitis caused by the presence of bile in the peritoneum
Synonyms: bileperitonitis
cineangiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cineangiograms
Etymology: From cine- + angiogram.
Senses: glosses: An angiogram produced using cineangiography
cineangiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cineangiogram
cineangiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cine- + angiographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cineangiography
columbiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of columbiform
croop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of croup.
cryobath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryobaths
Etymology: From cryo- + bath.
Senses: glosses: A bath used in cryotherapy.
cryobaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryobath
curativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being curative
curtovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtoviruses
Etymology: From the syllabic abbreviation of curly top + virus. Named after the plant disease associated with members of the genus.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A member of the genus Curtovirus of ssDNA viruses.
Derived terms: turncurtovirus
curtoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtovirus
cuttage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuttages
Etymology: From cut + -age.
Senses: glosses: The propagation of plants via cuttings.
cuttages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuttage
mutsje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dutch mutsje.
Senses: glosses: An old Dutch liquid measure, equivalent to 0.1516 litres.
gas field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas fields
form: gasfield
Senses: glosses: An area of land or seabed where natural gas can be extracted in commercially viable quantities.
Related terms: oilfield
gas fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas field
cyanomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The form of a specific lichen that has a cyanobacterium as its photobiont
Related terms: chloromorph
chloromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloromorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The form of a specific lichen that has a green alga as its photobiont
Related terms: cyanomorph
cystogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being cystogenic
Odeon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of several ancient Greek and Roman buildings built for musical activities
glosses: Any chain of British cinemas, or other cinemas or theatres
cytohistochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + histochemistry.
Senses: glosses: The histochemistry of cells
Related terms: cytohistochemical
cytotoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytotoxicants
Etymology: From cyto- + toxicant.
Senses: glosses: Any cytotoxic material.
cytotoxicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytotoxicant
dayblindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day blindness.
decalactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decalactones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lactone derived from decanoic acid
phlegmish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛmɪʃ/
homophone: Flemish
homophone: flemish
rhymes: -ɛmɪʃ
Forms: form: more phlegmish
form: most phlegmish
Etymology: From phlegm + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: His front legs doubled under him, and he lay down, his nose in his own water, biting the phlegmish froth and dust around his mouth and gaping like a stuffed animal in a taxidermist's window.
ref: 1976, Edward Dahlberg, Bottom Dogs, From Flushing to Calvary, Those who Perish, and Hitherto Unpublished and Uncollected Works:
text: This was plainly apparent with solo piano recordings; it seemed as if a layer of phlegmish tubercular congestion had been removed from between the strings.
ref: 2001, Stereophile, volume 24, numbers 7-12, page 123:
synonyms: phlegmy
glosses: Laden with phlegm, as a cough.
examples: text: His concern soothed her and she breathed heavily, densely, with a thick phlegmish pity for herself.
ref: 1966, The American Writer and the Great Depression, page 292:
text: I was raised among them, though I fled their phlegmish company decades ago to join the chattering classes.
ref: 2002, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time, volume 160, page 72:
text: […]'the Lady Pusillanimous' is a mild echo of his invective against his first wife Pamela Lane whom he was just splitting up from: 'That bitch, that pusillanimous, sycophantic, snivelling, phlegmish yokel, that cow — fortunately I've ceased to care what happens to her' — which didn't stop him sleeping with her now and then after he had remarried, nor from supporting her financially
ref: 2006, The Spectator, volume 301, page 33:
text: The example (for the third kind) when the (principal proposition) is separative is: 'Either this fever is either yellowish or scarlet, or this fever is either phlegmish or melancholic'.
ref: 2012, Nabil Shehaby, The Propositional Logic of Avicenna: A Translation from al-Shifāʾ: al-Qiyās, translation of original by Avicenna:
synonyms: phlegmatic
glosses: Characterized by the humor phlegm; apathetic or composed.
decalactones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decalactone
demetalated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of demetallated.
dendricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being dendric
dendritopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendrite + -poiesis.
Senses: glosses: The creation of dendrites
Related terms: dendritopoietic
detoxificant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detoxificants
Etymology: From de- + toxificant.
Senses: glosses: Any material that brings about detoxification
detoxificants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detoxificant
dibenzanthracene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibenzanthracenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon composed of two benzene rings fused to anthracene
diphyllobothriidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphyllobothriideans
Senses: glosses: Any of the order Diphyllobothriidea of tapeworms
Synonyms: diphyllobothriid
diphyllobothriideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphyllobothriidean
discontiguously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dis- + contiguously.
Senses: glosses: In a discontiguous manner
dishomogeneities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishomogeneity
disialoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disialosides
Etymology: From di- + sialoside.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycoside that has two sialic acid residues
disialosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disialoside
dodecahistidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dodeca- + histidine.
Senses: glosses: Twelve contiguous histidine amino acids, typically in a terminal position of some enzymes
dorsiflexive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to dorsiflexion
duotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duotherapies
Etymology: From duo- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: A regime involving two therapies
dysendocrinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysendocrinisms
Etymology: From dys- + endocrine + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disorder of an endocrine function
dystropathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The pathology of dystrophy
three sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of three sheets to the wind.
echinostomid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echinostomids
Senses: glosses: Any trematode of the order Echinostomida
echinostomids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinostomid
ecodomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecodomains
Etymology: From eco- + domain.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ecoregion.
synonyms: word: ecoregion
ecodomains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecodomain
electrodessication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of electrodesiccation.
electroejaculator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroejaculators
Senses: glosses: A device used in electroejaculation
electroneutralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electroneutralizes
form: electroneutralizing
form: electroneutralized
form: electroneutralized
Etymology: From electro- + neutralize.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To render electroneutral.
electroneutralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electroneutralize
endochondrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of endochondral.
endophagosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endophagosomes
Etymology: From endo- + phagosome.
Senses: glosses: An endosomal phagosome
endophagosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endophagosome
epicurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicurve
epilancin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epilancins
Senses: glosses: An antimicrobial peptide lantibiotic produced by Staphylococcus epidermidis.
epiphases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiphase
epizoically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an epizoic manner
erythemogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythema + -genic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That generates erythema
Coordinate terms: erythematous
newbz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːbz/
ipa: /njuːbz/
rhymes: -uːbz
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of newbs; plural of newb
esophagojejunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From esophago- + jejunal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: relating to the esophagus and the jejunum
euungulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euungulates
Senses: glosses: Any mammal of the order Euungulata (= Ungulata).
euungulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euungulate
extracaveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + caveolar.
Senses: glosses: outside of a caveola
extrasynaptosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + synaptosomal.
Senses: glosses: Outside of a synaptosome
Flanders poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flanders poppies
Senses: glosses: The common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), widespread in western Eurasia and North Africa, formerly a common agricultural weed, now often used in gardens.
Synonyms: sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: corn poppy
sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: corn rose
sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: field poppy
sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: common poppy
sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: red poppy
turbo chooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbo chook
proselyte of the gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proselytes of the gate
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A convert who was not compelled to submit to the regulations of the Mosaic law.
proselytes of the gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proselyte of the gate
in someone's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in someone's shoes.
synonyms: word: in someone's shoes
Gallaecians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallaecian
Jeddart axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jeddart axes
Senses: glosses: A stout steel-headed pole, several feet long, used as a weapon.
Jeddart axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jeddart axe
Jeddart justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Jedburgh justice
Jedwood justice
glosses: Hanging a person first and trying them afterwards.
Related terms: kangaroo court
show trial
rough justice
Jedburgh justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jeddart justice.
synonyms: word: Jeddart justice
Jedwood justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jeddart justice.
synonyms: word: Jeddart justice
be at the plague
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is at the plague
form: being at the plague
form: was at the plague
form: been at the plague
Senses: examples: text: One of a hundred a year, or so, is all I wish:—I would not be at the plague of paying land-tax for a larger.
ref: 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random:
text: I am a man of few word but I am laird at hame, as weel as in the field; deil a brute or body about my house but I can manage when I like, except Rory Bean, my powny; but I can seldom be at the plague, an it binna when my bluid's up.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To be bothered; to make the effort to do something.
hidden champion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidden champions
Etymology: Coined by German businessman Hermann Simon in 1996.
Senses: examples: text: Omnipresent but obscure, family owned but by no means puny, Beckhoff is among thousands of “hidden champions” that account for much of Germany's prowess as a manufacturer and exporter.
ref: 2012 April 14, “What Germany offers the world”, in The Economist:
text: Since one of the disadvantages of being a hidden champion is that by striving to remain understated and hidden from the public and, more importantly, large global competitors, the champion also remains somewhat hidden from highly skilled employees and university graduates as a potential employer.
ref: 2016, David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann, The Seven Secrets of Germany: Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 32:
text: That adaptability is what sets Germany apart from many other economies, argues Schmieding, and can be attributed to its large number of small and medium-sized businesses — its Mittelstand — which are able to react “nimbly to a shifting competitive landscape.” “Germany is the undisputed global champion of ‘hidden champions’,” he said.
ref: 2023 August 24, Anna Cooban, quoting Holger Schmieding, “Why some are calling Germany 'the sick man of Europe' once again”, in CNN:
topics: business
glosses: A relatively small and little-known but highly successful company.
Related terms: big fish in a small pond
hidden champions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hidden champion
shawl material
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shawl materials
Senses: glosses: A textile of silk and wool, soft and flexible, usually with oriental designs, used for women's dresses.
shawl materials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawl material
shawl pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shawl patterns
Senses: glosses: A colorful pattern, supposed to resemble an oriental shawl, but applied to materials of a plainer design.
shawl patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawl pattern
shawl strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shawl straps
Senses: glosses: A pair of leather straps fitted to a handle, used for carrying shawls, rugs, etc.
shawl straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawl strap
cracked as an egg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Utterly crazy or insane.
'vert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'verts
Senses: examples: text: But, in point of talent, it is the only publication that I know of professing to emanate from Roman Catholics in this country that can be named in the same breath with the leading Protestant reviews or journals. I own frankly, I cannot say this of the Dublin, notwithstanding that its editor is a 'vert, and that some big 'verts write in it.
ref: 1865, Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes, Experiences of a 'Vert:
glosses: A religious convert.
'verts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'vert
Aramite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aramites
Senses: glosses: An Aramaean.
Aramites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aramite
swing tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swing tools
Senses: glosses: A holder swinging on horizontal centres, on which work is fastened so as to hold flat against the face of a file.
swing tools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swing tool
brotherdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brother + -dom.
Senses: glosses: brotherhood; the quality of being a brother
register grate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: register grates
Senses: glosses: A grate with a shutter behind it.
register grates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of register grate
oesophagismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oesophagus + -ismus.
Senses: glosses: oesophageal spasm
esophagismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oesophagismus.
homesigners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homesigner
cushion for the pushin'
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Serendipitous alignment of rhyme with semantics.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: junk in the trunk; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
related: word: more cushion for the pushin'
glosses: Excess body fat or musculature on the buttocks area, seen as making someone (usually a woman) more buoyant and allowing more comfort, "cushion," during intercourse than bony hips would, and also providing more bounce.
Related terms: push it
albuminizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albuminizers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of albumenizer.
albumenizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albumenizers
Etymology: From albumenize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who albumenizes.
albuminizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albuminizer
albumenizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albumenizer
Haugh unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haugh units
Etymology: Introduced by Raymond Haugh in 1937.
Senses: examples: text: The effectiveness of spray oiling one, six, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours after lay was compared with no oiling with respect to albumen pH and Haugh units after seven, 14, and 21 days storage of the eggs at a temperature of about 10°C (50°F).
ref: 2017, William J Stadelman, Egg Science and Technology:
glosses: A unit of measure of egg protein quality, based on the egg's weight and the height of the albumen immediately around the yolk.
Haugh units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haugh unit
wax someone's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waxes someone's tail
form: waxing someone's tail
form: waxed someone's tail
form: waxed someone's tail
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To lock one's weapons onto the tail of an enemy aircraft.
nirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nirles
Senses: glosses: herpes
nirles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nirls (“herpes”).
everbusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The everbusy wife is generally less resentful to intercourse some time after menstruation and before pre-menstrual tension.
ref: 1966, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Proceedings of the Conference of the Region for Europe, Near East and Africa:
text: The Barclay's Bank was to open for business at 8:30 A.M. And the people of Ibadan, the everbusy capital of the Western Region of Nigeria were going about their business as usual.
ref: 1979, Chidi Onyekwelu, The Sawabas--black Africa's Mafia, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of ever-busy.
ever-busy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ever-busy
form: most ever-busy
Senses: examples: text: The Country is one huge Block of Sandstone, so many square miles of that material; ribbed, channelled, torn and quarried, in this manner, — by the everbusy elements, for a million of Ages past!
ref: 1864, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, page 260:
text: Of all the blessings which the study of nature brings to the patient observer, let none, perhaps, be classed higher than this; that the further he enters into those fairy gardens of life and birth, the more he learns the awful and yet most comfortable truth, that they do not belong to him, but to One greater, wiser, lovelier than he ; and as he stands, silent with awe, amid the pomp of Nature's everbusy rest, hears, as of old, ' the Word of the Lord God walking among the trees of the garden in the cool of the day.
ref: 1885, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Ponds and Ditches, page 233:
glosses: Always busy; never at rest.
vice-admiralty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice-admiralties
Senses: glosses: The rank or role of vice admiral.
succubustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more succubustic
form: most succubustic
Etymology: succubus + -ic
Senses: examples: text: The ruling's succubustic adoption of the defense position, and resulting validation of the defendant's pseudohermaphroditic misconduct, prompt one to entertain reverse peristalsis unto its four corners.
ref: 2019, Benjamin Pavone, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE Martinez v. Stratton, 2019 BL 68434 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Feb. 28, 2019):
glosses: Of or pertaining to a succubus.
ATVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ATV
ATD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATDs
Senses: qualifier: instrumentation
glosses: Initialism of anthropomorphic test device.
qualifier: instrumentation
glosses: Initialism of anthropomorphic test device.
Initialism of anthropomorphic test dummy.
Hypernyms: device
dummy
mannequin
Hyponyms: crash test dummy
ATDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ATD
low-skilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From low + skilled.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: semiskilled
text: Robots may threaten low-skilled workers’ jobs, and AI may threaten high-skilled workers’ jobs, so I guess we'll all have a merry Christmas then!
coordinate_terms: word: unskilled
word: ;
word: skilled
word: low-skilled
word: semiskilled
word: semi-skilled
qualifier: jobs; or the people who do them; jobs; or the people who do them
glosses: Not associated with, or not having, a higher level of skill.
raw_tags: of tasks
merries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merry
jus mariti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin jus mariti.
Senses: glosses: A husband's legal rights over his wife.
pen gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pen guns
Senses: glosses: A pop gun (kind of toy gun)
pen guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pen gun
hour circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hour circles
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The great circle through an object whose location is to be determined and the two celestial poles.
hour circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hour circle
meat biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat biscuits
Senses: glosses: A preparation of meat, made with meal into a biscuit.
meat biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat biscuit
egers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eger
even-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ... that heaviest rain, in even-down drench, An' scarce a sea itsel', cou'd quench : […]
ref: 1813, Ebenezer Picken, Miscellaneous Poems, Songs, &c., Partly in the Scottish Dialect: With a Glossary, page 78:
text: ... he returned with the intelligence that it was "an even-down pour!" Old Riddel, somewhat dubious, was led to the door to satisfy himself of the fact.
ref: 1846, James Paterson, The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire:
text: THERE had been an even-down-pour of rain in the night, and the school-master's mission looked even less kindly in the drowie day.
ref: 1897, Grace Leslie Keith Johnston, 'My bonnie lady', by Leslie Keith, page 46:
glosses: Of rain: pouring straight down.
glosses: Of a person: forthright; honest.
even-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Thoroughly.
vicar-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicars-general
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An official performing the work of an archdeacon under the bishop.
topics: Christianity
glosses: In the English Church, an officer assisting the bishop, the chancellor of the diocese.
Derived terms: vicar-generalship
vicars-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicar-general
vicar-choral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: vicars-choral
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An assistant, whether cleric or lay, at an English cathedral, especially in connection with the music.
vicars-choral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicar-choral
pretherapeutically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pretherapeutic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Prior to therapy.
subtherapeutically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subtherapeutic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: At a subtherapeutic level.
threshel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threshels
form: thrashel
form: dreshel
Etymology: From thresh + -el.
Senses: glosses: A flail for threshing corn.
threshels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threshel
fiddle-faddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddle-faddlers
Etymology: From fiddle-faddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who trifles or dallies.
fiddle-faddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiddle-faddler
fiddlefucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fiddlefuck
alderman lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alderman lizards
Senses: glosses: A fat-bodied chuckwalla.
alderman lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alderman lizard
pattern box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattern boxes
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: A box at each side of a loom containing the various shuttles that may be used.
pattern boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattern box
peership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peerships
Etymology: From peer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank, status, or title of a peer
glosses: Equality
Synonyms: peerage
peerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peership
cinchonisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cinchonization.
cinchonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of cinchonizing.
lactophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactophiles
Etymology: From lacto- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Schottmuller also reports a case associated with urticaria in which he suspected a common etiological factor. He found lactophile bacteria in the urine.
ref: 1928, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Practice of Surgery; Clinical, Diagnostic, Operative, Post-operative:
text: 'I decline to live any longer in the same house with them,' declares the wife of an inveterate lactophile in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889).
ref: 2001, Matthew Sweet, Inventing the Victorians: What We Think We Know About Them and Why:
glosses: A person or animal that has an attraction to milk, dairy products or lactic acid.
Related terms: lactophilia
postmedially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a postmedial direction or location.
dry lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lightning strikes that occur when there is no rain, thus a common cause of bushfires or forest fires.
Coordinate terms: heat lightning
fatbody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatbodies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fat body.
fatbodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatbody
fat body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat bodies
Senses: glosses: An organ, in some arthropods, composed of lipid storage cells
glosses: An obese person.
fat bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat body
ferribactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A complex siderophore present in Pseudomonas chlororaphis
ferrioxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrioxidases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ferroxidase.
ferripyochelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferri- + pyochelin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An iron-binding protein present in Pyrococcus horikoshii
fibromyocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibromyocytes
Etymology: From fibro- + myocyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of myofibroblast.
synonyms: word: myofibroblast
fibromyocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibromyocyte
fluorospectrophotometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluoro- + spectrophotometry.
Senses: glosses: The use of spectrophotometry to analyze fluorescence
Related terms: fluorospectrophotometer
fluorospectrophotometric
frontoterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fronto- + terminal.
Senses: glosses: frontal and terminal
furaxolidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of furazolidone.
fusaproliferin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mycotoxin, [(2S)-2-[(1S,3E,7E,11S,12E,15R)-11,17-dihydroxy-1,4,8,12-tetramethyl-18-oxo-16-bicyclo[13.3.0]octadeca-3,7,12,16-tetraenyl]propyl] acetate, present in Fusarium
galloylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galloylation
gametocitaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gametocytaemia.
geniposidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a geniposide
Derived terms: geniposidic acid
geocodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geocodifies
form: geocodifying
form: geocodified
form: geocodified
Etymology: From geo- + codify.
Senses: glosses: To generate geocodes for locations
geocodifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geocodify
geocodified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geocodify
geovisual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + visual.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the visual presentation of geographic or geological data
geroconversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gero- + conversion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: gerogenic conversion (of cells)
gerogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gero- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the production of a senescent form
glyptal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyptals
Senses: glosses: A resin, made from glycerol and phthalic anhydride (or similar), used in paints
goniothalamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The lactone (2R)-2-[(E)-2-phenylethenyl]-2,3-dihydropyran-6-one present in Goniothalamus plants
granulometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a granulometric manner
hamatoxylin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hematoxylin.
handcorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcorers
form: hand corer
Senses: glosses: A hand-held corer
handcorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handcorer
hematodialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemato- + dialysis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemodialysis.
hemiepiphytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + epiphytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hemiepiphytes
hemiepiphyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiepiphytes
Etymology: From hemi- + epiphyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that spends part of its life cycle as an epiphyte
Related terms: hemiepiphytic
semiepiphyte
hemiepiphytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiepiphyte
hemikryptophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemikryptophytes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemicryptophyte.
hemikryptophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemikryptophyte
hemotube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemotubes
Etymology: From hemo- + tube.
Senses: glosses: A tubular container for blood samples
hemotubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemotube
hepatoerythropoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + erythropoietic.
Senses: glosses: That creates hepatic erythrocytes
heteropartner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropartners
Etymology: From hetero- + partner.
Senses: glosses: A heterosexual partner
heteropartners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteropartner
histoanatomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From histo- + anatomy.
Senses: glosses: histological anatomy
Related terms: histoanatomist
histoanatomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histoanatomists
Etymology: From histo- + anatomist.
Senses: glosses: An anatomist whose speciality is histoanatomy.
histoanatomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histoanatomist
holosteian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holosteians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holostean.
holosteians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holosteian