cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
utopianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of utopianize
utopianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utopianizations
Etymology: From utopianize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of utopianizing.
Derived terms: deutopianization
utopianizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utopianization
'bortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'bortions
Etymology: Possibly resulting from a rebracketing of abortion, interpreting a- as the indefinite article.
Senses: examples: text: She woulda had a 'bortion, if she hadn't lost it. She was talkin' 'bout a 'bortion.
ref: 1988, T. J. MacGregor, Death Sweet, →ISBN, page 156:
text: "What's a 'bortion, Mama?" she asked again. Mama let out a long breath. "Well . . . it's a way to keep a baby from being born."
ref: 2003, Linda M. Wall, You and Me, Mom: Because Two Are Better Than One, →ISBN:
text: "The 'bortion bosses killed you, Paul, They poisoned you," says I.
ref: 2008, Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, In the Wake of Violence: Image & Social Reform, page 228:
glosses: Informal form of abortion.
gunowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunowners
form: gun owner
Etymology: From gun + owner.
Senses: glosses: A person who owns a gun.
gunowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunowner
deutopianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deutopianizations
Etymology: From de- + utopianization.
Senses: examples: text: "In the atmosphere of demystification and deutopianization, in the impetus towards repentance and recollection, we break with a tradition of Utopian thinking which has held us in thrall for 300 years."
ref: 1991, Susan Richards, Epics of Everyday Life: 2encounters in a Changing Russia:
glosses: making something less of a utopia, or not a utopia; making something more real, and less ideal
deutopianizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deutopianization
episodic wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: episodic waves
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rogue wave.
synonyms: word: rogue wave
rogue waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rogue wave
e'en so
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of even so.
closed-circuit televisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closed-circuit television
icpal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icpals
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish icpal, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl icpalli.
Senses: examples: text: Spanish royalty sat arrogantly in an elaborate Fourth-of-July pavillion; the Moorish kings sat glumly on native leather icpal chairs.
ref: 1931, Carleton Beals, Mexican Maize, page 114:
glosses: A kind of indigenous Mexican seat or bench.
non-rigid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonrigid.
degrees of frost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degree of frost
utopianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: utopianises
form: utopianising
form: utopianised
form: utopianised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of utopianize.
utopianised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of utopianise
utopianises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of utopianise
utopianising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of utopianise
giganticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gigantic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gigantic.
put the heart across one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the heart across one
form: putting the heart across one
form: put the heart across one
form: put the heart across one
Senses: examples: text: The cat put the heart across me when it jumped out from under the bed.
glosses: To give one a sudden fright.
gruntspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grunt + -speak.
Senses: glosses: The slang used by infantry soldiers.
Susie Rottencrotch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Suzy Rottencrotch
form: Suzie Rottencrotch
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any woman or girlfriend.
Synonyms: Mary Jane Rottencrotch
Rosie Rottencrotch
Rosie Rottencrotch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Susie Rottencrotch.
synonyms: word: Susie Rottencrotch
Mary Jane Rottencrotch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Susie Rottencrotch.
synonyms: word: Susie Rottencrotch
ikeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ikey
coactualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + actualization.
Senses: glosses: joint actualization
crestline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crestlines
Etymology: From crest + line.
Senses: glosses: A line of dune crests.
crestlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crestline
embue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embues
form: embuing
form: embued
form: embued
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of imbue.
embues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embue
doctorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doctorable
form: most doctorable
Etymology: From doctor + -able.
Senses: examples: text: When parents offer a symptoms-only presentation, physicians treat them as embodying a stance that their child has a doctorable condition for which they are seeking medical evaluation.
ref: 2007, Tanya Stivers, Prescribing under Pressure:
glosses: Of a symptom or medical problem, worth taking to a doctor.
massageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more massageable
form: most massageable
Etymology: From massage + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being massaged.
cow chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow chips
form: cowchip
form: cow-chip
Senses: examples: text: Eleodes obsoleta: Common on the plains, beneath cow-chips and rubbish, everywhere from Denver to Colorado Springs.
ref: 1877, Philip Reese Uhler, "ART. XXXI - Report upon the insects collected by P. R. Uhler during the explorations of 1875," U. S. Department of the Interior, p. 778 (Google preview)
text: He unhitched and unharnessed the team, turned it loose with the horse herd, remuda, and helped the cook gather cow chips for fuel.
ref: 1995, Laban Samuel Records, Cherokee Outlet Cowboy, →ISBN, page 90:
text: When cattle replaced buffalo on the plains, cow chips in turn replaced buffalo chips as a ready source of British thermal units.
ref: 2012, Mike Cox, Texas Panhandle Tales, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers.
Related terms: buffalo chip
cow pat
cow patty
cowpie
cowchip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowchips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cow chip.
cow-chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow-chips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cow chip.
Seattleite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /siˈætəlaɪt/
Forms: form: Seattleites
Etymology: From Seattle + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: I go all the way down to First Avenue and turn left, leaving the shoppers and the Seattleites behind, and lo! here’s all humanity hep and weird wandering on the evening sidewalk amazing me outa my eyeballs[…]
ref: 1965, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels, page 101:
text: It makes me happy that Seattleites rallied around their schools in such resounding fashion. I have one big theory as to why, and it’s a simple one: Seattle schools are actually pretty good.
ref: 2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times:
glosses: A native or citizen of the city of Seattle.
Seattleites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seattleite
inextant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + extant.
Senses: glosses: Not extant.
Synonyms: inexistant
inexistent
nonexistent
unexistent
chicklin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicklins
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of chickling.
cross bearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross bearers
form: crossbearer
form: cross-bearer
Senses: examples: text: He was at the head of a splendid train of religious, civil and military men, mingled together, or, as the old ballad maker expresses it,
"With many a cross bearer before,
And many a spear behind."
ref: 1823, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 18, in Quentin Durward:
text: Behind the verger walked a cross-bearer, the Canterbury choristers and seven decrepit beadsmen. Behind the decrepit beadsmen came a long array of Canterbury canons, chaplains and dignitaries in all their robes, followed by pages carrying the maces of Canterbury and York and the cross of Canterbury.
ref: 1942 May 4, “Religion: Canterbury Pilgrim”, in Time, retrieved 28 Oct 2015:
text: There were three main processions which were led by a cross bearer.
ref: 2014 April 18, Andrew Bloss, “Crucifixion re-enacted in Croydon on Good Friday”, in Your Local Guardian, UK, retrieved 28 Oct 2015:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A person who carries a cross in a Christian religious procession.
Synonyms: crucifer
Related terms: book-bearer
cross-bearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-bearers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross bearer.
NGEO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NGEOs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of non-geostationary orbit.
glosses: Abbreviation of non-geostationary Earth orbit.
Synonyms: english: non-geostationary orbit
translation: non-geostationary orbit
word: NGSO
Coordinate terms: english: low Earth orbit
translation: low Earth orbit
word: LEO
english: medium Earth orbit
translation: medium Earth orbit
word: MEO
english: high Earth orbit
translation: high Earth orbit
word: HEO
Related terms: english: geostationary orbit
translation: geostationary orbit
word: GEO
english: geosynchronous orbit
translation: geosynchronous orbit
word: GSO
english: geostationary transfer orbit
translation: geostationary transfer orbit
word: GTO
NGSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NGSOs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of non-geostationary orbit.
Synonyms: english: non-geostationary orbit
translation: non-geostationary orbit
word: NGEO
Coordinate terms: english: geosynchronous orbit
translation: geosynchronous orbit
word: GSO
english: geostationary orbit
translation: geostationary orbit
word: GEO
english: geostationary transfer orbit
translation: geostationary transfer orbit
word: GTO
english: low Earth orbit
translation: low Earth orbit
word: LEO
english: medium Earth orbit
translation: medium Earth orbit
word: MEO
english: highly elliptical orbit
translation: highly elliptical orbit
word: HEO
GSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GSOs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of geosynchronous orbit.
Coordinate terms: english: low Earth orbit
translation: low Earth orbit
word: LEO
english: medium Earth orbit
translation: medium Earth orbit
word: MEO
english: high Earth orbit
translation: high Earth orbit
word: HEO
english: non-geostationary orbit
translation: non-geostationary orbit
word: NGSO
english: non-geostationary Earth orbit
translation: non-geostationary Earth orbit
word: NGEO
Related terms: english: geostationary transfer orbit
translation: geostationary transfer orbit
word: GTO
english: geostationary orbit
translation: geostationary orbit
word: GEO
Colome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in South Dakota.
BHB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BHBs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of blue horizontal branch.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of beta-hydroxybutyrate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of branch history buffer.
Related terms: english: zero-age horizontal branch
translation: zero-age horizontal branch
word: ZAHB
english: horizontal branch
translation: horizontal branch
word: HB
english: asymptotic giant branch
translation: asymptotic giant branch
word: AGB
english: tip of the red giant branch
translation: tip of the red giant branch
word: TRGB
ZAHB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: stars
glosses: Abbreviation of zero-age horizontal branch.
Related terms: english: blue horizontal branch
translation: blue horizontal branch
word: BHB
english: horizontal branch
translation: horizontal branch
word: HB
english: asymptotic giant branch
translation: asymptotic giant branch
word: AGB
english: tip of the red giant branch
translation: tip of the red giant branch
word: TRGB
clbuttic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clbuttic
form: most clbuttic
Etymology: A modification of the word classic by automated string substitution of ass for butt.
Senses: glosses: Erroneous, computer-generated form of classic.
examples: text: That's a clbuttic idea!
ref: 2008 December 28, Bill Marcum, “Happy Boxing Day! Group”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet):
text: And sometimes such changes are done automatically, with no chance for review -- either for "security" reasons, when Yahoo Mail started replacing 'eval' in *emails* with 'review' (The Hindu carried an article about "the world of medireview Indian history", others on 'reviewuate'), or for "profanity" reasons ("fixing" 'ass' and 'tit'), of which "consbreastitution"^([sic]) is a clbuttic embarbutting example.
ref: 2009 April 10, shreevatsa, “Spellcheck is your fiend”, in pun-ctilious (Usenet):
text: I think you mean this clbuttic post: > http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides
ref: 2009 May 21, Steve Ferg, “Seeking old post on developers who like IDEs vs developers who like simple languages”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet):
text: This is one of the clbuttic (spelling intentional) reasons why simple find/replace doesn't always work and regular expressions are often used instead.
ref: 2011 March 21, Prayag, “substring string replace problem”, in comp.soft-sys.matlab (Usenet):
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of classic.
clbuttic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clbuttics
Etymology: A modification of the word classic by automated string substitution of ass for butt.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, the error is similar to the “clbuttic effect” described above—an errant text filter attempting to “clean up” text by replacing offensive terms with theoretically more appropriate ones.
ref: 2010, Benjamin Mako Hill, “Revealing errors”, in Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures:
text: This last phenomenon is sometimes referred to as ‘the clbuttic effect’, named in honour of the mangling of the word ‘classic’ by over-zealous obscenity filters.
ref: 2013, Tom Chatfield, Netymology, →ISBN, page 21:
text: For the mistake to occur, the letters ass are transformed into the (presumably less offensive) word butt, leaving you with a text full of clbuttics—not to mention the potential for mbuttive (massive) quantities, someone pbutting (passing) a football, and so on.
ref: 2013, Tom Chatfield, Netymology, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Profanity can also be found in-between a name. My solution will not detect the profanity in the name “ArAssvin” and that’s because of the clbuttic mistake.
ref: 2013, Arvin Moradi, Smart Clustering System for Filtering and Cleaning User Generated Content: Creating a profanity filter for Truecaller (Thesis, KTH School of Information and Communication Technology):
coordinate_terms: Cupertino
glosses: A type of error in which some bowdlerizing software garbles words by using tamer alternatives to replace objectionable words occurring within a word.
Related terms: buttbuttin
medireview
retrireview
reviewuate
Scunthorpe problem
aggiornamentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggiornamento
crusader complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crusader complexes
Etymology: From crusader + complex.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: A delusional state where the subject believes that he or she is struggling for a just and noble cause.
football pitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of football pitch
bark at the wrong tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barks at the wrong tree
form: barking at the wrong tree
form: barked at the wrong tree
form: barked at the wrong tree
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of bark up the wrong tree
Lemmon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
north-easterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more north-easterly
form: most north-easterly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of northeasterly.
north-easterly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: north-easterlies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of northeasterly.
chemestry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chemistry.
fee fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fee-fees.
Delphos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and village in Iowa.
glosses: A city and town in Kansas.
glosses: A city in Ohio.
Hollenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city and village in Kansas.
McLouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, possibly a variant of McLeod.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city and town in Kansas.
Admire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for one of its founders, Jacob Admire.
Senses: glosses: A city and town in Kansas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in York County, Pennsylvania.
outspook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outspooks
form: outspooking
form: outspooked
form: outspooked
Etymology: From out- + spook.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in spookiness.
outspooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outspook
outspooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outspook
outspooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outspook
nonfern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonferns
Etymology: From non- + fern.
Senses: examples: text: If you knew what you were looking for in DeMouy's office, you could spot the eight-inch-high nonfern easily. I'll say this for marijuana: Given plenty of light, nutrient-primed soil, and consistent watering, it will shoot up like, well . . . a weed.
ref: 2013, Rob Thomas, Rats Saw God, page 42:
glosses: That which is not a fern.
nonferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfern
wonkishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wonkishly
form: most wonkishly
Etymology: From wonkish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: While Mr. Bush spoke wonkishly of “the code” and “regulatory cost,” Mr. Rubio cast the issue in personal terms, talking about how a tax overhaul would affect “the guy that does my dry cleaning.”
ref: 2015 October 28, Patrick Healy, “G.O.P. Candidates Take Sharp Tone in Third Debate”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a wonkish manner.
alabastrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alabastrum
alcyonacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcyonaceans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Alcyonacea; a soft coral.
alcyonaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcyonacean
colligatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From colligative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These cryoprotectants act colligatively by replacing the water and thus decreasing the amount of ice formed in the body.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Infective Juveniles of the Entomopathogenic Nematode, Steinernema feltiae Produce Cryoprotectants in Response to Freezing and Cold Acclimation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a colligative manner.
Derived terms: noncolligatively
dacinostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A 4-aminomethylcinnamic hydroxamic acid derivative that inhibits histone deacetylases.
dentoskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dento- + skeletal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the teeth and skeleton.
diatoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Standards for methanol extracted pigments chlorophyll a, c 2 . peridinin, β carotene, diatoxanthin and diadinoxanthin were used for quantifying pigments which were normalized per cell.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Transcriptomic Changes in Coral Holobionts Provide Insights into Physiological Challenges of Future Climate and Ocean Change”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A type of xanthophyll found in phytoplankton and diatoms.
exemplificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exemplificative
form: most exemplificative
Senses: examples: text: From this point of view, street-boys’ life conditions represent an exemplificative and extreme case of concurring conditions of abuse and neglect, which come under the more extensive concept of child maltreatment.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on the Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Serving as an example; illustrative.
gastropareses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroparesis
gastroparetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gastroparetic
form: most gastroparetic
Etymology: From gastro- + paretic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to gastroparesis.
gastroparetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastroparetics
Etymology: From gastro- + paretic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has gastroparesis.
gastroparetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroparetic
glomerulosclerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glomerulosclerotic
form: most glomerulosclerotic
Etymology: From glomerulo- + sclerotic.
Senses: examples: text: No reduction in albuminuria, glomerulosclerotic index or cortical collagen deposition was observed.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Linagliptin Limits High Glucose Induced Conversion of Latent to Active TGFß through Interaction with CIM6PR and Limits Renal Tubulointerstitial Fibronectin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, glomerulosclerosis.
haemoglobinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haemoglobin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemoglobinization.
intrabrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + brachial.
Senses: examples: text: The sample size calculation was based on the following assumptions: in previous studies from our own group, we found that the vasodilator response to the intrabrachial administration of adenosine averages 2.8±0.6, 4.4±1.0, 9.0±1.7 ml/min per dl of forearm volume for 0.5, 1.5, and 5.0 μg/min/dl, respectively (mean±SEM, n = 8).
ref: 2015 October 29, “Ticagrelor Does Not Inhibit Adenosine Transport at Relevant Concentrations: A Randomized Cross-Over Study in Healthy Subjects In Vivo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Into, or within, the arm.
multimembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Etymology: From multi- + membrane.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we observed multimembrane structures inside cytoplasmic lipid droplets, which suggests the formation of autolipophagossomes in thymic LLMC.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Lipid-Laden Multilocular Cells in the Aging Thymus Are Phenotypically Heterogeneous”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having or relating to more than one membrane.
microplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microplots
Etymology: From micro- + plot.
Senses: examples: text: In this study, we minimised the opportunity for lateral surface loss of biochar from the repacked soil by enclosing the microplot area with a ~3 cm raised edge.
ref: 2015 October 29, “In Situ Persistence and Migration of Biochar Carbon and Its Impact on Native Carbon Emission in Contrasting Soils under Managed Temperate Pastures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A very small plot of land.
microplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microplot
orolabial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪbiəl
Etymology: From oro- + labial.
Senses: examples: text: Overall, 50% (6/12) of symptomatic incident HSV-1 infections were associated with genital lesions; the remaining symptomatic individuals had either orolabial lesions or pharyngitis.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Global and Regional Estimates of Prevalent and Incident Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infections in 2012”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the mouth and lips.
pennatulacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pennatulaceans
Etymology: From translingual Pennatulacea + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the Pennatulacea; a sea pen.
pennatulaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pennatulacean
nonconverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconverters
Etymology: From non- + converter.
Senses: glosses: A patient with a certain condition that does not subsequently develop into another condition.
nonconverters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconverter
prebleach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + bleach.
Senses: examples: text: Right panels represent the time-course of a FRAP experiment: prebleach image (top), first image after bleach (middle), 100 s after start of acquisition (bottom).
ref: 2015 October 29, “Delineating the Tes Interaction Site in Zyxin and Studying Cellular Effects of Its Disruption”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Before a bleaching operation.
postbleach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + bleach.
Senses: glosses: After a bleaching operation.
sympathectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sympathectomizes
form: sympathectomizing
form: sympathectomized
form: sympathectomized
Etymology: From sympathectomy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Young adult rats were chemically sympathectomized or treated with Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide or Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide 10-28, a receptor antagonist.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Periosteum Metabolism and Nerve Fiber Positioning Depend on Interactions between Osteoblasts and Peripheral Innervation in Rat Mandible”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To perform sympathectomy upon
sympathectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sympathectomize
sympathectomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sympathectomize
sympathectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sympathectomize
zonadhesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is the case of zonadhesin, a protein from the family of agglutinins that was used as an anchor by Zhang et al.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Displaying Lipase B from Candida antarctica in Pichia pastoris Using the Yeast Surface Display Approach: Prospection of a New Anchor and Characterization of the Whole Cell Biocatalyst”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A male reproductive protein associated with cell adhesion.
Related terms: spermadhesin
reannihilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + annihilation.
Senses: examples: text: Engaging the IO initiated an instantaneous annihilation/ reannihilation of every particle of matter on the ship — effectively cancelling the passage of time outside the ship's frame of reference.
ref: 1989, David Stern, Nightmare World:
text: We discuss one by one the following various dark matter production regimes of this kind: freeze-in, reannihilation and dark freeze-out.
ref: 2015, Nicolas Bernal, Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia-Cely, Thomas Hambye, Bryan Zaldivar, “Production Regimes for Self-Interacting Dark Matter”, in arXiv:
glosses: A second or subsequent annihilation.
Baum-Welch algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Leonard E. Baum and Lloyd R. Welch.
Senses: glosses: An algorithm used to find the unknown parameters of a hidden Markov model.
Bufton Tufton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bufton Tuftons
Etymology: Coined by Private Eye, based on the former Conservative MP Tufton Beamish.
Senses: examples: text: A new generation is battling through, but there are still too many Sir Bufton Tuftons at the core of the Party organisation.
ref: 1998, Crossbow: A Quarterly Journal of Politics:
text: Many people see it is as the sole preserve of the Bufton Tuftons who sit in their gentleman's clubs complaining about the ills of the modern world while chomping away on a pheasant, mallard duck or partridge.
ref: 2004, Waitrose Food Illustrated:
text: An old school friend of mine, certainly not a Bufton Tufton, who was visiting London from his home in Italy, was mystified to see commuters standing on the railway station in just T-shirts or cardigans in the middle of a harsh winter.
ref: 2008, Peter Whittle, Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain:
text: He just replaced the Bufton Tuftons with a bunch of people whose only qualification is a hatred of meat and a chip on the shoulder.
ref: 2010, Jeremy Clarkson, How Hard Can It Be?: The World According to Clarkson, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A reactionary old conservative.
Related terms: Dave Spart
contextualiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contextualisers
Etymology: From contextualise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of contextualizer.
colloquialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colloquialises
form: colloquialising
form: colloquialised
form: colloquialised
Etymology: From colloquial + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colloquialize.
colloquialising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colloquialising
form: most colloquialising
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colloquializing.
colloquialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colloquialise
pasdaran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasdarans
Etymology: From Persian پاسداران, plural of پاسدار (“guard, sentinel, watchman”), from داشتن پاس 'to keep a watch', from Middle Persian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- and *dʰer-.
Senses: glosses: A Revolutionary Guard (member of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution)
pasdarans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasdaran
yinyang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yinyangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yin-yang.
yinyangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yinyang
hate-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate-ons
Etymology: Blend of hate + hard-on
Senses: examples: text: I remember the captain had the mother of all hate-ons for the guy.
ref: 2007, Illona Haus, Blue Justice:
glosses: An unappeasable hatred.
evo-psych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evopsych
form: evo psych
Senses: examples: text: Some in the ‘sphere seem to think a reliance on evo-psych is some form of blind faith at worst; some sort of creative, purpose-built guesswork at best.
ref: 2015 June 9, Rollo Tomassi, “In Defense of Evo-Psych”, in The Rational Male:
glosses: Abbreviation of evolutionary psychology.
evopsych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of evo-psych.
evo psych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I wonder what the evo psych people would say about homosexuality...
ref: 2009 June 26, Colin Rule, “Debunking evo psych”, in Stanford CIS:
glosses: Alternative form of evo-psych.
carnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnists
Senses: examples: text: All we got was carnists going, “But how would you live without bacon?”
ref: 2015 November 14, Catherine Bennett, “Modern tribes: the smug vegan”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A proponent of carnism; one who supports the practice of eating meat and using other animal products.
carnists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carnist
axoaxonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axo- + axonic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the synapse between the axon of one cell and that of another.
Related terms: axodendritic
axosomatic
rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock
Senses: glosses: An extension of the children's game of rock paper scissors, with two additional handshapes: lizard and Spock.
oppressee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oppressees
Etymology: From oppress + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A victim of oppression.
oppressees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oppressee
Malaise trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malaise traps
Etymology: Invented by René Malaise in 1934.
Senses: examples: text: I sincerely hope we’re the only research group to lose Malaise traps to fire, hail, and flood in the same season.
ref: 2020, Keith M Bayless, David K Yeates, “Australia Malaise trapping disaster update”, in Fly Times, volume 64:
glosses: A large tent-like structure used for trapping flying insects.
wikipedia: René Malaise
Malaise traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malaise trap
allatectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allatectomizes
form: allatectomizing
form: allatectomized
form: allatectomized
Etymology: From allatectomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform an allatectomy upon.
allatectomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of allatectomize
allatectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allatectomize
lyre snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyre snakes
Etymology: The distinctive V-shaped pattern on the snakes' heads is said to resemble a lyre.
Senses: glosses: Any snake of the genus Trimorphodon
lyre snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyre snake
azure jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azure jays
Senses: glosses: Cyanocorax caeruleus, a passeriform bird of the crow family.
azure jays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azure jay
Doug fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doug firs
Senses: glosses: A Douglas fir tree.
Doug firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Doug fir
banded tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banded tubes
Senses: glosses: A kind of phytoclast consisting of micrometre-scale tubes with a banded internal ornamentation, known from terrestrial/freshwater settings from the early Silurian onwards.
banded tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banded tube
warburganal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic sesquiterpenoid responsible for the pungent taste of the water pepper.
polygodial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: tadeonal
glosses: A bicyclic sesquiterpenoid found in the water pepper.
tadeonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polygodial.
synonyms: word: polygodial
botanicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botanick
botanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botanic
botanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We can't write or speak of the knowing or feeling of a plant in something other than the language we write or speak in. Botanics must ground itself in that inherent limitation.
ref: 2007, Marta Dvorak, W. H. New, Tropes and Territories, page 350:
glosses: The science of botany.
Derived terms: ethnobotanics
unblocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblocky
form: most unblocky
Etymology: From un- + blocky.
Senses: glosses: Not blocky.
unblotched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblotched
form: most unblotched
Etymology: From un- + blotched.
Senses: glosses: Not blotched.
stuffaroni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuff-a-roni
Etymology: Blend of stuff + macaroni
Senses: examples: text: "I couldn't imagine how he could know his roommate was messy, but then I could and told him my Marx Brothers idea of two blind roommates—shaving cream on the spaghetti, slipping on spilled stuffaroni, etc."
ref: 2015, Lucia Berlin, Homesick: new & selected stories:
glosses: manicotti stuffed mostly with meat
unblotchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblotchy
form: most unblotchy
Etymology: From un- + blotchy.
Senses: glosses: Not blotchy.
maple key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maple keys
Senses: glosses: The samara of the maple tree.
maple keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maple key
Gloger's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After the zoologist Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger, who first remarked upon this phenomenon in 1833.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A rule stating that, within a species of endotherms, more heavily pigmented forms tend to be found in more humid environments.
stuff-a-roni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stuffaroni.
pioneer species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pioneer species
Senses: glosses: A hardy species that is among the first to colonize a previously disrupted or damaged ecosystem.
formicivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formicivores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism that feeds on ants.
Synonyms: myrmecophage
Related terms: formicivorous
formicivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formicivore
stemflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stemflows
Etymology: From stem + flow.
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The flow of intercepted water down the trunk or stem of a plant.
stemflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stemflow
chestnut blight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of the American chestnut tree, mainly caused by pathogenic fungi of species Cryphonectria parasitica.
home directory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home directories
Senses: examples: text: On Unix-like operating systems, the home directory is usually /home/<user name>.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A directory that contains a user's files.
Coordinate terms: root
home directories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home directory
Alumic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a language family of central Nigeria, comprising Alumu, Toro, Sambe, and Hasha.
FreeBSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From free + BSD.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for having the largest following in the BSD community.
Hypernyms: BSD
Related terms: urls: http://www.freebsd.org
word: The FreeBSD Project
flight envelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight envelopes
Senses: glosses: An aircraft's design capabilities in terms of airspeed, altitude, etc.
flight envelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flight envelope
Engsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formed from a reorganisation of the word Sheng, in turn a blend of Swahili + English.
Senses: glosses: A cant that originated in Nairobi, Kenya in the 1980s, based on English mixed with Swahili and other local languages.
Related terms: Sheng
Sheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Swahili + English.
Senses: examples: text: English and Kiswahili might be Kenya’s official languages, but pupils tumbling out of school and students in the university canteens chatter to each other in Sheng, to their teachers’ despair. A witty, cheeky, freewheeling Clockwork Orange-style brew of Kiswahili, English and indigenous Kenyan languages, with added dollops of reggae jargon, American slang, French and Spanish, Sheng originated in Nairobi’s Eastlands slums in the 1980s.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
glosses: A Kenyan cant based on Swahili and English.
Related terms: Engsh
Chancery Standard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A London-based form of English that became widespread after the Middle English period, aided by the introduction of the printing press.
nondirectory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-directory
Etymology: From non- + directory.
Senses: glosses: That does not belong or refer to a directory.
non-directory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondirectory.
Jet Star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jet Stars
Senses: examples: text: She leaned back and pulled another tomato seedling from the flat. She set the plant in the newly dug hole and scooped soil over its thin white roots. She smiled. The Jet Stars were always the first to bloom and ripen.
ref: 1997, Mary McGarry Morris, Songs in Ordinary Time, page 104:
glosses: A variety of low-acidity, crack-resistant tomato.
generative grammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generative grammars
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A system of rules that can generate all and only those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The general theory dealing with grammar as constructed by such rules.
Derived terms: transformational generative grammar
generative grammars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generative grammar
rhotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhotic
protoword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protowords
Etymology: From proto- + word.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A wordlike utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.
Related terms: proto-language
ur-word
protowords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protoword
bidialectalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bidialectal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The use of two dialects of a language.
cognitive poetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science, particularly cognitive psychology, to the interpretation of texts.
nanoyarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoyarns
Etymology: From nano- + yarn.
Senses: glosses: yarn made from nanofiber
nanoyarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoyarn
dry distillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry distillations
Senses: glosses: The heating of solid materials to produce gaseous products (which may condense into liquids or solids).
Townsend avalanche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Townsend avalanches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Townsend discharge.
synonyms: word: Townsend discharge
Townsend avalanches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Townsend avalanche
blue ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue ant
blue bottle experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A chemical reaction in which an aqueous solution containing glucose, sodium hydroxide and methylene blue turns from colourless to blue upon shaking and then loses its colour after a while. With further shaking, the cycle can be repeated several times.
animalculistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From animalcule + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the theory of animalculism.
aorto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: aort-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from aorta + -o- (interconsonantal).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the aorta.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Synonyms: aortico-
manubriosternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the manubrium and sternum.
Franssen effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Nico Valentinus Franssen (1926–1979), a Dutch physicist and inventor.
Senses: glosses: An auditory illusion where the listener incorrectly localizes a sound.
DARC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Data Radio Channel.
glosses: Acronym of Dayton Area Rugby Club.
glosses: Acronym of Deutscher Amateur-Radio-Club.
glosses: Acronym of Duke Annual Robo-Climb Competition.
glosses: Acronym of Durham Amateur Rowing Club.
DARC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor.
Related terms: Duffy antigen system
Klippel-Feil syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First reported in 1912 by Maurice Klippel and André Feil.
Senses: synonyms: Klippel-Feil anomaly
glosses: A rare disease characterized by the congenital fusion of any two of the seven cervical vertebrae.
VACTERL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism (see below).
Senses: examples: text: Although a single pathogenetic mechanism has not been identified to tie all the manifestations of VACTERL together, recognition of this association is helpful in caring for the neonate and facilitating multidisciplinary care and follow-up.
ref: 2014, Richard J. Martin, Avroy A. Fanaroff, Michele C. Walsh, Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1213:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial anomalies, and Limb defects (A group of birth defects that tend to occur together).
marsh rice rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh rice rats
Senses: glosses: Oryzomys palustris, a semiaquatic North American rodent in the family Cricetidae, mostly found in wetland habitats.
marsh rice rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsh rice rat
Coombs test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coombs tests
Etymology: First described in 1945 by Cambridge immunologist Robin Coombs and colleagues.
Senses: glosses: Either of two clinical blood tests used in immunohematology and immunology. The direct Coombs test tests for autoimmune hemolytic anemia. The indirect Coombs test detects antibodies against red blood cells that are present unbound in the patient's serum.
Coombs tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coombs test