cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
archeophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeophones
Etymology: From archeo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A modern, electric version of a phonograph or Ediphone from the early 20th century
spiderwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spider + wood.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neinei.
synonyms: word: neinei
quantum indeterminacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum indeterminacies
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The indeterminacy associated with being in a mixed quantum state.
Related terms: quantum measurement problem
quantum tomography
quantum entanglement
abthain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abthains
Senses: examples: text: Charter by David II. to John Drummond, of the office of Baillierie, of the Abthain of Dull, in Athol 1 ; and Charter by the same king to Donald Macnayre, terre de Ester Fossache, in Abthania de Dull, in vic de Perth
ref: 1837, William Forbes Skene, The Highlanders of Scotland - Volume 2:
text: Confirms to Matthew, archdeacon of St Andrews, the grant made to him by King David I in the abthain of Rossie (in the Carse of Gowrie); the grant which he has from Bishop Robert of St Andrews in the same abthain;
ref: 1960, Regesta regum Scottorum, 1153-1424, page 186:
glosses: Alternative form of abthane.
his and hers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They even have matching his and hers slippers and dressing gowns.
glosses: Describes a pair of items designed for use by a couple – one by the man and the other by the woman.
acyesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Permanent acyesis ensued, but general health of subject remained good.
ref: 1884, The Journal of the American Medical Association - Volume 3, page 110:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The inability to conceive; sterility.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The state of not being pregnant.
cosmic infrared background
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CIB
Senses: glosses: low-level infrared radiation originating from all directions in space
CIB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of cosmic infrared background.
glosses: Initialism of certificate of Indian blood, a document signifying Native American ancestry, also known as a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood.
CIB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Criminal Investigation Branch.
CIB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: classified ads
glosses: Initialism of complete, in box.
meltability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meltabilities
Etymology: By surface analysis, melt + ability, or, by surface analysis, meltable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Several methods have been developed to measure meltability of cheese.
antonyms: unmeltability
glosses: The state or quality of being meltable.
meltabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meltability
does it tough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do it tough
doing it tough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do it tough
did it tough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do it tough
done it tough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do it tough
legal positivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal positivism
care-givers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of care-giver
raceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raceless
form: most raceless
Etymology: From race + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking race; aracial.
Derived terms: racelessness
metalbillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalbilly
neinei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori neinei.
Senses: glosses: The plant Dracophyllum latifolium from New Zealand.
Synonyms: spiderwood
anticyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cyclic.
Senses: glosses: Varying in the opposite manner to an underlying (typically economic) cycle
examples: text: For those with a history of 5 or more joints, the features are the same except for the second one, which is positive rheumatoid factor or presence of anticyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies [29 ].
ref: 2015 September 11, “A Systematic Critical Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guidelines in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE II) Instrument”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That is associated with a cyclic peptide
raw_tags: of an antibody
betablocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betablockers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beta blocker.
betablockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ARB usage did not influence success rates, whereas betablockers, antidepressants, and central antihypertensives did (Table 23 ).
ref: 2015 September 11, “Sleep Related Breathing Disorders and Inflammation — The Missing Link? A Cohort Study Evaluating the Interaction of Inflammation and Sleep Related Breathing Disorders and Effects of Treatment”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of betablocker
bioactivating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + activating.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we have demonstrated that the two naturally occurring human CYP4B1 isoforms, with/without insSer207, have no 4-IPO bioactivating ability.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Characterization of an Additional Splice Acceptor Site Introduced into CYP4B1 in Hominoidae during Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That leads to bioactivation
clevosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clevosaurids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct reptile in the family Clevosauridae; a clevosaur
clevosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The posterovental process of the jugal is well-developed (character 21) in most clevosaurids, except for C.
ref: 2015 September 11, “New Data on the Clevosaurus (Sphenodontia: Clevosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of clevosaurid
detritylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detritylations
Etymology: From de- + tritylation.
Senses: examples: text: With option (iii) one may run into the problem of partial detritylation of trimer building blocks due to their longer exposure to the mildly acidic coupling agent.
ref: 2015 September 11, “A Robust and Versatile Method of Combinatorial Chemical Synthesis of Gene Libraries via Hierarchical Assembly of Partially Randomized Modules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of a trityl protecting group
Related terms: detritylate
tritylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritylations
Etymology: From trityl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition of a trityl protecting group
triphenylmethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triphenylmethyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical (C₆H₅)₃C- that is used as a protecting group
fumicycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, these changes did not affect cell wall biosynthesis genes (e.g. genes involved in chitin or glucan biosynthesis), but were generally related to primary metabolism (e.g. sugar metabolism) and secondary metabolism (e.g. genes related to fumicycline biosynthesis) [35 ].
ref: 2015 September 11, “Network Modeling Reveals Cross Talk of MAP Kinases during Adaptation to Caspofungin Stress in Aspergillus fumigatus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A meroterpenoid anthrafuran 2,3,11,11a-tetrahydroanthra[2,3-b]furan produced by Aspergillus fumigatus when treated with the actinomycete Streptomyces rapamycinicus
anthrafuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthrafurans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of heterocycles composed of a furan ring fused to an anthracene
meroterpenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meroterpenoids
Etymology: From mero- + terpenoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any terpenoid derived from a meroterpene
hypogranulosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypogranuloses
Senses: examples: text: The hypogranulosis formed in human psoriasis was absent in the mouse model tested in the present work.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Using Imiquimod-Induced Psoriasis-Like Skin as a Model to Measure the Skin Penetration of Anti-Psoriatic Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A decrease in the thickness of the stratum granulosum
nanogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanogels
Etymology: From nano- + gel.
Senses: examples: text: Electropherogram generated by capillary gel electrophoresis with phospholipid nanogel matrix shows separation of amplicons over time.
ref: 2015 September 11, “A Unique Set of the Burkholderia Collagen-Like Proteins Provides Insight into Pathogenesis, Genome Evolution and Niche Adaptation, and Infection Detection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A gel (especially a hydrogel) composed of nanoparticles
oligochaetotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Oligochaeta + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Overall, this character diversification reflects the polychaetotic or oligochaetotic evolutionary tendencies within this group of F.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Intraspecific Phenotypic Variation and Morphological Divergence of Strains of Folsomia candida (Willem) (Collembola: Isotomidae), the”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to worms of the class Oligochaeta
polychaetotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Overall, this character diversification reflects the polychaetotic or oligochaetotic evolutionary tendencies within this group of F.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Intraspecific Phenotypic Variation and Morphological Divergence of Strains of Folsomia candida (Willem) (Collembola: Isotomidae), the”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to worms of the class Polychaeta
osmobalancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osmo- + balancing.
Senses: examples: text: All together, we can conclude that osmobalancing plays a crucial role in caspofungin adaptation.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Network Modeling Reveals Cross Talk of MAP Kinases during Adaptation to Caspofungin Stress in Aspergillus fumigatus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The balancing of osmotic pressure
postcoronoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + coronoid.
Senses: examples: text: The tooth-bearing portion of the lower jaws are short so that the postcoronoid portion is longer than the precoronoid one.
ref: 2015 September 11, “New Data on the Clevosaurus (Sphenodontia: Clevosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Behind the coronoid
precoronoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + coronoid.
Senses: examples: text: The tooth-bearing portion of the lower jaws are short so that the postcoronoid portion is longer than the precoronoid one.
ref: 2015 September 11, “New Data on the Clevosaurus (Sphenodontia: Clevosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In front of the coronoid
proteinogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteinograms
Etymology: From protein + -o- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Only hemogram, platelets, urinalysis, proteinogram, and echocardiogram were underestimated.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Portuguese Family Physicians’ Awareness of Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Costs: A Cross-Sectional Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A graphical representation of the proteins present in a sample
pruriceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps one reason is that the central pruriceptive or nociceptive effects of SA in cutaneous C-nociceptors were blocked by central inhibitory neurons activated by simultaneous SA known to be generated from the compressed DRG in large diameter mechanosensitive neurons.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Chronic Compression of the Dorsal Root Ganglion Enhances Mechanically Evoked Pain Behavior and the Activity of Cutaneous Nociceptors in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or causing itching
Related terms: pruriception
pseudogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudogels
Etymology: From pseudo- + gel.
Senses: examples: text: The phospholipid pseudogel was prepared at a molar ratio of [DMPC]/[DHPC] = 2.5 at 10% wt/vol in an aqueous solution of 100 mM MOPS buffer (pH 7) in order to generate the nanogel separation matrix.
ref: 2015 September 11, “A Unique Set of the Burkholderia Collagen-Like Proteins Provides Insight into Pathogenesis, Genome Evolution and Niche Adaptation, and Infection Detection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A material that has some characteristics of a gel
pseurotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseurotins
Senses: examples: text: It is interesting to note that genes belonging to the biosynthesis gene cluster of the secondary metabolite pseurotin A [36 ] (grouped in the ID 01.20) were specifically induced by caspofungin (Fig 2F and 2G ).
ref: 2015 September 11, “Network Modeling Reveals Cross Talk of MAP Kinases during Adaptation to Caspofungin Stress in Aspergillus fumigatus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of heterospirocyclic metabolites produced by Pseudeurotium ovalis
Derived terms: pseurotin A
heterospirocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + spirocyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Both heterocyclic and spirocyclic
seronegatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The criterion for positivity was determined for each antigen of each species applying a mixture model to the PP data which assumed two inherent Gaussian distributions: a narrow distribution or seronegatives, and a broader distribution of seropositives.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Hotspots of Malaria Transmission in the Peruvian Amazon: Rapid Assessment through a Parasitological and Serological Survey”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of seronegative
seropositives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The criterion for positivity was determined for each antigen of each species applying a mixture model to the PP data which assumed two inherent Gaussian distributions: a narrow distribution or seronegatives, and a broader distribution of seropositives.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Hotspots of Malaria Transmission in the Peruvian Amazon: Rapid Assessment through a Parasitological and Serological Survey”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of seropositive
subcoxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcoxae
Etymology: From sub- + coxa.
Senses: glosses: The proximal part of an arthropod coxa.
subcoxae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For instance, about 95% of the observed springtails had either 3 or 4 setae on upper subcoxae of leg 2 (n°6) whereas only 4% had two and one individual had five setae.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Intraspecific Phenotypic Variation and Morphological Divergence of Strains of Folsomia candida (Willem) (Collembola: Isotomidae), the”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of subcoxa
subpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpacks
Etymology: From sub- + pack.
Senses: glosses: A pack making up part of a larger pack.
subpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of note, a regulation that would make 10-packs the only size available or requiring subpacks of five within a pack of twenty would be considered soft paternalism, as smokers would be still free to purchase cigarettes in any quantities.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Smaller Cigarette Pack as a Commitment to Smoke Less? Insights from Behavioral Economics”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of subpack
taphoflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taphofloras
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “grave”), + flora.
Senses: examples: text: Records that indicate a Jurassic age includes a taphoflora composed of derived Bennettitales (Williamsonia potyporanae), conchostracans similar to the genus Carapacestheria, and footprints attributed to a large tridactyl theropod (Eubrontes isp).
ref: 2015 September 11, “New Data on the Clevosaurus (Sphenodontia: Clevosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The remains of dead plants.
thiocolchicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiocolchicines
Etymology: From thio- + colchicine.
Senses: examples: text: However, owing to their high toxicities, colchicine and thiocolchicine are still in preclinical trials to determine their potential anti-tumor activity.
ref: 2015 September 11, “A Novel Microtubule-Disrupting Agent Induces Endoplasmic Reticular Stress-Mediated Cell Death in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any thio derivative of colchicine, but especially the tubulin synthesis inhibitor 10-thiocolchicine
wash-balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wash-ball.
Ramon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Isabela, Philippines.
Related terms: Ramon Magsaysay
San Ramon
capelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capelle
Bernat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bernats
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Bernat.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Rambam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew רַמְבַּ״ם (rambam), acronym of רַבִּי מֹשֶׁה בֶּן מַיְמוֹן (rabí moshé ben maymón, “Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon”).
Senses: glosses: Maimonides, a 12th-century Jewish philosopher.
house slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house slaves
form: houseslave
Senses: glosses: A slave who works in a home, performing domestic duties rather than fieldwork or other hard labor.
house slaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house slave
microdeposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdeposits
Etymology: From micro- + deposit.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic deposit
microexplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microexplants
Etymology: From micro- + explant.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic explant
field slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field slaves
form: field-slave
form: fieldslave
Senses: glosses: A slave whose duties primarily entail working in a field, such as in agriculture, as opposed to a house slave.
field slaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field slave
fieldslave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldslaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of field slave.
field-slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field-slaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of field slave.
field-slaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field-slave
fieldslaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldslave
houseslave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houseslaves
Etymology: From house + slave.
Senses: examples: text: A Sense of Humor Is the Houseslave's Salvation (section title)
ref: 1957, John Albert Schindler, Woman's Guide to Better Living 52 Weeks a Year, page 47:
text: As a houseslave, he was exposed to (or could overhear) prodigious sermons...
ref: 1991, Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Slave's Narrative, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205:
text: The usual laundry soap commercial portrays only the idiotic houseslave, not how she got that way, or how uninteresting and unchallenging her life ultimately is.
ref: 2012, Fred R. Berger, edited by Bruce Russell, Freedom, Rights And Pornography: A Collection of Papers, page 118
glosses: Alternative spelling of house slave.
some kinda
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of some kind of.
some kinda
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of some kind of.
gun furniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The trigger, trigger plate, its guard, and (when present) the heel plate to the stock.
Synonyms: pistol furniture
pistol furniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gun furniture.
synonyms: word: gun furniture
bras d'honneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brä' dŏ-nûrʹ
ipa: /ˌbɹɑː dɒˈnɜː/
ipa: /ˌbɹɑ dɑˈnɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: bras d'honneur
form: bras d’honneur
Etymology: Borrowed from French bras d’honneur (literally “arm of honor”).
Senses: synonyms: Iberian slap
Italian salute
forearm jerk
glosses: An obscene gesture in which an arm is bent into an L-shape, with the closed palm pointing upwards, while the other hand then grips the biceps of the bent arm, and the bent forearm is then raised vertically; it conveys the sense of “up yours!”.
Related terms: give someone the arm
break-dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of breakdancing.
break-dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break-dance
ain'
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of ain't, representing African-American Vernacular English.
sumwhere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of somewhere.
beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Alludes to the ancient story of the Trojan horse, a gift for the Trojans which secretly contained Greeks. The prototype of the phrase is found in a Latin phrase in the Aeneid, book 2, lines 48–49: equō nē crēdite, Teucrī. / Quidquid id est, timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs. (“Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts.”)
Senses: glosses: One should not trust one's enemies.
wikipedia: Aeneid
ahuh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uh-huh.
presentation box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presentation boxes
Senses: glosses: A small container that holds an item intended to appear high-class, such as jewelry, usually with a sleek and ritzy design to complement the product.
presentation boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presentation box
nossuh
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of no, sir, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Coordinate terms: yessuh
Related terms: yessum
yessuh
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Why yessuh I knows how to treat a mule too.
ref: 2013, Robert Ostertag, Cold Trail in the Bitterroots, page 64:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yessir, representing African-American Vernacular English.
e'rythin'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everything.
for-real
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more for-real
form: most for-real
Senses: examples: text: Jake has more for-real combat skills and less bluster than anyone else around.
text: Kelly's memoir has the most in-your-face and for-real style I've ever read.
glosses: Alternative form of for real.
on the
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: We go to school on the daily.
text: My sister gets in trouble on the regular.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:on the.
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Every; on such a basis.
raw_tags: used with adjectives describing frequency
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the.
Related terms: english: on the
translation: on the
word: phrases starting with
wash balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wash ball (Alternative form of wash-balls.)
washball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washballs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wash-ball.
washballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washball (Alternative form of wash-balls.)
all righty
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From all right + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “All righty, then,” he said. He put his hand on the door handle, but made no other move to leave.
ref: 2000, Theresa Donovan Brown, “Sentinel”, in Summitville, Lincoln, Neb.: Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: Alternative form of alrighty.
handleably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more handleably
form: most handleably
Etymology: From handleable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The parts are welded together at points of mutual contact to form a handleably integrated structure.
text: "Once they're at that point (you may have to gently cook and gently flip them one more time before they get to the handleably delicate stage), you can […]"
ref: 2010, David Chang, Peter Meehan, Momofuku:
glosses: in a way or manner that can be handled
pocket-dial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket-dials
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pocket dial.
pocket-dial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pocket-dials
form: pocket-dialing
form: pocket-dialling
form: pocket-dialed
form: pocket-dialed
form: pocket-dialled
form: pocket-dialled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pocket dial.
all-cargo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Some well-known airlines also operate scheduled all-cargo flights.
text: Just as there are all-cargo aircraft, there are all-cargo airports.
glosses: that only carries cargo, and no passengers
hecks no
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heck no.
synonyms: word: heck no
heck no
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hecks no
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hell no.
synonyms: word: hell no
sheeit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːˌɪt/
Forms: form: shee-it
form: sheit
form: shiet
Senses: examples: text: "Aw, shee-it, Grandpap!" Travis postulated.
ref: 1995, Edward Lee, Header:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of shit, representing African-American Vernacular and Southern US English.
Derived terms: we wuz kangz n sheeit
step to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps to
form: stepping to
form: stepped to
form: stepped to
Senses: examples: text: Walter was angry, so he stepped to Bill.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To challenge, confront or fight (with someone).
examples: text: I couldn't let that insult go unchallenged, so I stepped to him.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To meet a challenge or confront (someone).
examples: text: We got permission, so you had better step to it.
glosses: To begin (a project or plan) quickly or urgently.
stepped to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of step to
steps to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of step to
stepping to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of step to
Merikkka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Amerikkka.
'Murikkka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Amerikkka.
first floors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first floor
fuckstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuckstruck
form: most fuckstruck
form: fuck-struck
Etymology: From fuck + struck, formed along the lines of love-struck or star-struck.
Senses: glosses: (of a person) infatuated or obsessed with someone because of the desire to have sex with them.
fuck-struck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuck-struck
form: most fuck-struck
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fuckstruck.
fucksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fucksome
form: most fucksome
Etymology: From fuck + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Just how long are you willing to wait before you admit she's more than a fucksome woman to you?
ref: 1988, Elaine Coffman, My Enemy, My Love, page 319:
text: The fucksome frolickers by the pool had shocked the girl, just as Rose had hoped they might, but they had done more than make her quit spying and pull back.
ref: 2014, Stephen King, Doctor Sleep:
text: “She's a fucksome piece. I like the way she walks.”
ref: 2019, Kimberley Jordan Reeman, Coronach, page 225:
glosses: Characterised or marked by sexual activity.
raw_tags: of a person
ordinarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinarity
Soviet Bloc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Soviet Bloc
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Second World < world, World
Meronym: Eastern Bloc (sometimes loosely synonymous)
related: word: Western Bloc
word: <
word: First World#Proper noun
glosses: The largely Communist countries of the eastern world, usually those in Eastern Europe and Asia aligned with the Soviet Union in the Cold War era. Precisely, the term's referent excludes the Soviet Union itself; broadly, it sometimes includes it.
Related terms: Russia
Russian Federation
short tag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short tags
form: short tagging
form: short tagged
form: short tagged
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: to check a bag through to an intermediate point on an itinerary rather than the destination.
Kurp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kurps
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kurp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
fuckster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucksters
Etymology: From fuck + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: The wards had jammed, I had not cut true after all: now it would not turn, either forwards or backwards. 'Fuck! You fuckster! Oh!' I gripped it harder, and tried again—still nothing—at last I let it go.
ref: 2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 15, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 3, page 460:
synonyms: fucker
glosses: An undesirable person.
examples: text: She got on to the bed, and opened her thighs wide like a well-trained fuckster to help me.
ref: 1888, My Secret Life, volume 3, page 304:
glosses: A person, usually a man, who is an eager and energetic participant in sexual intercourse.
Related terms: fuckstress
fucksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckster
agnoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agnoproteins
Etymology: From a- + Latin gnōscō (“know”) + protein, in reference to agnogene, the gene from which polyomavirus family of agnoprotein emerges.
Senses: examples: text: Expression of the viral proteins VP1 and agnoprotein was measured in whole cell protein extracts by Western blot.
ref: 2015 September 12, “CRISPR/Cas9 System as an Agent for Eliminating Polyomavirus JC Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of viral proteins that play indirect roles in the biological processes and activities of viruses
anticancerogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cancerogenic.
Senses: examples: text: Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids suppress HMG-CoA reductase and have anticancerogenic properties through the induction of cell necrosis or apoptosis [19 ,20 ].
ref: 2015 September 12, “Highly Selective Anti-Cancer Activity of Cholesterol-Interacting Agents Methyl-β-Cyclodextrin and Ostreolysin A/Pleurotolysin B Protein Complex on Urothelial Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: anticarcinogenic
bicistronicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bicistronic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Further, both genes were separated by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) for bicistronicity.
ref: 2015 September 12, “AQUA Cloning: A Versatile and Simple Enzyme-Free Cloning Approach”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being bicistronic
cataractogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cataractogenous
form: most cataractogenous
Etymology: From cataract + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: Also, it has been suggested that the incident angle of light rays determines their cataractogenous effect.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Evaluation of a 345 nm Femtosecond Laser for Corneal Surgery with Respect to Intraocular Radiation Hazard”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That leads to the formation of cataracts
centrencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centro- + encephalic.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, we observed that compared with wake state, paralimbic-limbic cortex had less connectivity with neocortical system and centrencephalic structure in sleep.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Graph Theoretical Analysis of BOLD Functional Connectivity during Human Sleep without EEG Monitoring”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the centre of the encephalon
cofeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːd
Forms: form: cofeeds
form: cofeeding
form: cofed
form: cofed
Etymology: From co- + feed.
Senses: glosses: To feed along with another food or medication etc
cofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: More specifically, GABA(B) agonists baclofen and the allosteric agonists CG 7930 and GS 39783 could also ameliorate locomotive defects, which diminished when flies are cofed with the GABA(B) receptor antagonist 2-hydroxysaclofen.
ref: 2015 September 12, “High Throughput Sequencing Identifies MicroRNAs Mediating α-Synuclein Toxicity by Targeting Neuroactive-Ligand Receptor Interaction Pathway in Early Stage of Drosophila Parkinson's Disease Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of cofeed
crocoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Monadoxanthin, losing one hydroxyl group, turns into crocoxanthin (one hydroxyl and acetylene bond). The product of reduction of crocoxanthin was not found, and it is a problem for further research […]
ref: 2012, Vladimir S. Saakov, Valery Z. Drapkin, Alexander I. Krivchenko, Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions (page 266)
text: Some pigments were not present as both GP spectra and HPLC standards, such as α-carotene, 19’-butanoyloxyfucoxanthin, crocoxanthin, and lycopene, which were present as HPLC standards, but not as GP spectra.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Spectrophotometric Analysis of Pigments: A Critical Assessment of a High-Throughput Method for Analysis of Algal Pigment Mixtures by Spectral Deconvolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acetylenic carotenoid (3R,6'R)-7,8-didehydro-β,ε-caroten-3-ol
hemocultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although not all animals were found positive for hemocultures, it was possible to isolate parasites at all three sampling times, over a year of infection.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Host-Parasite Interactions in Chagas Disease: Genetically Unidentical Isolates of a Single Trypanosoma cruzi Strain Identified In Vitro via LSSP-PCR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of hemoculture
histotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more histotoxic
form: most histotoxic
Etymology: From histo- + toxic.
Senses: examples: text: Although neutrophils play a crucial role in fighting acute infections and clearing pathogens, these cells also contribute to tissue immunopathology due to their histotoxic capacity.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Anti-Inflammatory Effects of IL-27 in Zymosan-Induced Peritonitis: Inhibition of Neutrophil Recruitment Partially Explained by Impaired Mobilization from Bone Marrow and Reduced Chemokine Levels”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: toxic to tissue
hyperexcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperexcretes
form: hyperexcreting
form: hyperexcreted
form: hyperexcreted
Etymology: From hyper- + excrete.
Senses: examples: text: However, because not all combinations of these amino acids have been carefully tested in kinetic studies, some of the amino acids may be hyperexcreted because their (intact) absorption system is inhibited by other amino acids whose transport system is defective.
ref: 2012, R. Greger, Renal Transport of Organic Substances, page 107:
text: Double heterozygous mice, which showed calculi formation in 4% of the cases, show slight differences in dibasic amino acids urine excretion compared with singles heterozygotes animals (Fig 3A, 3B and 3C ) and hyperexcrete 5- and 2-fold cystine in urine compared with single heterozygous mice (Fig 3D ).
ref: 2015 September 12, “Digenic Inheritance in Cystinuria Mouse Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To excrete excessively.
hyperexcreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperexcrete
hyperexcreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Cystine crystals are formed when several conditions are met besides levels of hyperexcreted cystine.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Digenic Inheritance in Cystinuria Mouse Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessively excreted
hypostomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypostome + -al.
Senses: examples: text: At the hypostomal boundary these stripes are aligned with the positions of tentacle insertion (Fig 18B ), hence are positioned between the hypostomal taeniolae.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Nutrient Distribution and Absorption in the Colonial Hydroid Podocoryna carnea Is Sequentially Diffusive and Directional”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a hypostome
Synonyms: hypostomial
Derived terms: posthypostomal
subhypostomal
immunogerontological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + gerontological.
Senses: examples: text: Healthy young and old were recruited via advertisements and contacting the elderly association and were selected for healthiness based on the Senieur health admission criteria for immunogerontological studies [17 ].
ref: 2015 September 12, “Age-Associated Differences in MiRNA Signatures Are Restricted to CD45RO Negative T Cells and Are Associated with Changes in the Cellular Composition, Activation and Cellular Ageing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: immunological and gerontological
initiatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From initiative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: During the scanning process, subjects were asked to lie still with eyes open and not think initiatively.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Graph Theoretical Analysis of BOLD Functional Connectivity during Human Sleep without EEG Monitoring”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: On one's own initiative; without being prompted
Baden-Baden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːdn̩ ˈbɑːdn̩/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Baden-Baden, a contraction of Baden im Baden (“Baden-in-Baden”) in reference to the former Grand Duchy of Baden.
Senses: glosses: A spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Synonyms: word: Baden
intertaeniolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + taeniolar.
Senses: examples: text: The gastric cavity of the medusae-bearing reproductive polyp lacks the radially symmetric intertaeniolar stripes of the feeding polyp (Fig 18D ).
ref: 2015 September 12, “Nutrient Distribution and Absorption in the Colonial Hydroid Podocoryna carnea Is Sequentially Diffusive and Directional”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between taeniolae
taeniolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From taeniola + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to taeniolae.
luminacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luminacins
Senses: examples: text: The structure of migracin is related to that of luminacin C. Luminacin C was isolated from Streptomyces sp. as an inhibitor of capillary tube formation in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC).
ref: 2015 September 12, “Inhibition of IGF-1-Mediated Cellular Migration and Invasion by Migracin A in Ovarian Clear Cell Carcinoma Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a particular group of angiogenesis inhibitors isolated from an actinomycete.
monodictyphenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monodictyphenones
Senses: examples: text: Genes within the monodictyphenone cluster were in the top 20 up-regulated genes […]
ref: 2015 September 12, “The WOPR Domain Protein OsaA Orchestrates Development in Aspergillus nidulans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of phenolic benzophenones isolated from a fungus of the genus Monodictys
monoplotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + plotting.
Senses: examples: text: Barista is a software package designed for extracting 3D information from high resolution satellite imagery via visual interpretation [28 ], and both RPC bundle adjustment and monoplotting functions have been included in the package.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Spatiotemporal Features of the Three-Dimensional Architectural Landscape in Qingdao, China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The production of the map of terrain from a digital aerial image
Herculina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by German astronomer Max Wolf in 1904.
Senses: glosses: A minor planet (or asteroid) in the Main Asteroid Belt (Minor Planet Number 532)
Synonyms: 1904 NY
532 Herculina
Derived terms: Herculinan
monotreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Irving et al [5 ] recently applied this principle to test the non-ATP competitive Mek1/2 inhibitor selumetinib (AZD6244, ARRY-142886) as monotreatment for childhood ALL in preclinical studies and concluded that clinical evaluation of selumetinib is warranted.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Phosphoflow-Based Evaluation of Mek Inhibitors as Small-Molecule Therapeutics for B-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: treatment of mononucleosis
nephropathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephropathologists
Etymology: From nephro- + pathologist.
Senses: examples: text: Glomerular, tubular, interstitial and vascular lesions were scored by a nephropathologist based on a 4-tier system (0: absent, 1: mild, 2: moderate, 3: severe) similar to the one normally used to ascertain human kidney allograft lesions.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Digenic Inheritance in Cystinuria Mouse Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A pathologist whose speciality is nephropathology
Related terms: nephropathogenic
nonabstainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonabstainers
Etymology: From non- + abstainer.
Senses: examples: text: People consuming more volume of tea were more likely to be men, minority, smoker, nonabstainer, get passive smoking, eat vegetable, red meat, eggs and beans, with better education, higher SBP, DBP,WHR, and lower BMI, were less likely to have conditions of hypertension, diabetes or CHD, and eat fruit and fish.
ref: 2015 September 12, “Tea Consumption and Cognitive Impairment: A Cross-Sectional Study among Chinese Elderly”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A person who does not abstain (from drinking alcohol)
nonrepayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrepayments
Etymology: From non- + repayment.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of default rates, the department calculated nonrepayment rates, which include both defaulters and borrowers who have never paid a single dollar of principal on their loans.
ref: 2015 October 7, Kevin Carey, “Student Debt Is Worse Than You Think”, in New York Times:
glosses: Failure to repay.
nonrepayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrepayment
nonswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + switch.
Senses: examples: text: A nonswitch trial means that the bilingual responded in the same language twice in a row.
ref: 2011, Jeanette Altarriba, Roberto R. Heredia, An Introduction to Bilingualism: Principles and Processes, page 87:
glosses: Not involving a switch or substitution.
huntee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huntees
Etymology: From hunt + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.
ref: 1924, Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game:
text: If I had learned anything that summer, other than Boy Scout stuff, it was that I needed to be the sexual hunter rather than the huntee.
ref: 2004, R. G. Andersen-Wyckoff, Musings: About Growing Up, an Anecdotal Autobiography, page 287:
glosses: One who is hunted.
huntees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huntee
detainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detaining
knopper gall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knopper galls
Senses: glosses: A gall that develops on the pedunculate oak, induced by the wasp Andricus quercuscalicis.
knopper galls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knopper gall
pedunculate oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedunculate oak
musicmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: music-making
Etymology: From music + making.
Senses: glosses: The composition or the playing of music.
megacollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacollections
Etymology: From mega- + collection.
Senses: glosses: A collection with the size of the collection of all sets.
megacollections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacollection
semichild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semichildren
Etymology: From semi- + child.
Senses: examples: text: It may seem paradoxical that in a culture that considers women to be cultural outsiders, perennial semichildren, the task of enculturating the young is entrusted to women.
ref: 1994, Per Schelde, Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters, page 75:
text: They often seemed two sizes too big for the concave-chested semichildren within (hopefully that was a styling trick, if a distressing one, as opposed to just lazy tailoring).
ref: 2015 October 6, Vanessa Friedman, “At Paris Fashion Week, Flight Risk at Chanel and Saint Laurent”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who is partly a child, or somewhat childlike.
semichildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semichild
pheophorbides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: HPLC can resolve most chlorophylls and carotenoids, including their degradation products such as pheophytins and pheophorbides, as long as relevant pigment standards are available [5 ].
ref: 2015 September 12, “Spectrophotometric Analysis of Pigments: A Critical Assessment of a High-Throughput Method for Analysis of Algal Pigment Mixtures by Spectral Deconvolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pheophorbide