cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unwindingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unwinding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All along her unwindingly pallid body, this tidal index to a madness spaced with art, were further traces of this beaten life of hers, bruises here, broken skin, indentations.
ref: 2012, Don Delillo, Ratner's Star:
glosses: So as to unwind.
solar battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar batteries
Senses: glosses: A rechargeable battery that integrates a solar cell with battery power storage.
glosses: An assembly of solar cells, interconnected for higher voltage or current. (Analogy to cell and battery.)
little boys room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little boys rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of little boys' room: a men's room, a public lavatory intended for men.
Coordinate terms: little girls room
little boys rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little boys room
little girls room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little girls rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of little girls' room: a ladies' room, a public lavatory intended for women.
Coordinate terms: little boys room
spring ephemeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring ephemerals
Senses: examples: text: Every year on Earth Day, I try to go for a hike in the woods near my house. I look for tadpoles and admire the spring ephemerals.
ref: 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that grows in the spring and goes dormant in summer.
phlöem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of phloëm, an alternative spelling of phloem.
phloëm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of phloem.
allantochorion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allantochorions
form: allantochoria
Etymology: From allanto- + chorion.
Senses: examples: text: Over the mouths of uterine glands, pig allantochorion is not directly attached to the endometrial epithelium but forms areolae, where uterine gland secretions are absorbed by trophoblast cells.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Proteome Differences in Placenta and Endometrium between Normal and Intrauterine Growth Restricted Pig Fetuses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: the allantochorion is a fusion of the chorion with the allantois and ensures gas exchange of the fetus.
allantochorions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allantochorion
allantochoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allantochorion
choria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorion
anilinohydroquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anilinohydroquinones
Etymology: From aniline + -o- + hydroquinone.
Senses: examples: text: Nitrogen-15 NMR detection of ketones via their oxime derivatives and quinones via their anilinohydroquinone adducts overcomes this problem.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Probing the Carbonyl Functionality of a Petroleum Resin and Asphaltene through Oximation and Schiff Base Formation in Conjunction with N-15 NMR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An adduct of aniline and a hydroquinone
anilinohydroquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anilinohydroquinone
antihyperlipidaemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The odds ratios were 1.21 (95% CI 1.17–1.28) for adverse drug reactions and common drug classes associated with adverse drug reactions included antihypertensives, antiplatelet agents, hypoglycemic agents, antihyperlipidaemics.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Incidence and Effects of Polypharmacy on Clinical Outcome among Patients Aged 80 + : A Five-Year Follow-Up Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of antihyperlipidaemic
bioaccumulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioaccumulators
Etymology: From bio- + accumulator.
Senses: glosses: A biological or biochemical accumulator
Related terms: bioaccumulation
bioaccumulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Stomach and intestinal nematodes were the poorest bioaccumulators of metals, yet stomach nematodes showed their ability to concentrate Pb at orders of magnitude higher in comparison to other parasites.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Biomonitoring Heavy Metal Pollution Using an Aquatic Apex Predator, the American Alligator, and Its Parasites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of bioaccumulator
women's rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of women's room
biohumoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + humoral.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, we have measured several standard as well as advanced cardio-renal biohumoral markers. although we have reported few statistically significant differences between donors and non-donors, the “multiple-comparisons” issue is a real concern in this preliminary report, so that interpreting clinical relevance of such highly variable markers (as demonstrated by the great IQR observed) should be done with caution, and definitely confirmed in bigger populations with longer follow-up.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Long-Term Structural and Functional Myocardial Adaptations in Healthy Living Kidney Donors: A Pilot Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to biological fluids
biomagnifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomagnifiers
Etymology: From bio- + magnifier.
Senses: examples: text: However, pentastomids also employed the role as a good biomagnifier of As. Interestingly, parasitic abundance decreased as levels of As increased.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Biomonitoring Heavy Metal Pollution Using an Aquatic Apex Predator, the American Alligator, and Its Parasites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An organism that is involved in biomagnification
biomagnifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Conclusively, we suggest that parasites, particularly intestinal trematodes, are superior biomagnifiers of As, Cu, Se, and Zn, whereas alligators are likely good biological indicators of Fe, Cd, and Pb levels within the environment.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Biomonitoring Heavy Metal Pollution Using an Aquatic Apex Predator, the American Alligator, and Its Parasites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of biomagnifier
bipeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipeptides
Etymology: From bi- + peptide.
Senses: examples: text: The R residues were introduced as a protease-sensitive linker, such that once the vaccine was internalized by DCs, intracellular proteases would cleave at the RR bipeptide and separate P 5 from P 435, thus enhancing processing and presentation of the epitopes [45, 46 ].
ref: 2015 November 11, “Improving Multi-Epitope Long Peptide Vaccine Potency by Using a Strategy that Enhances CD4+ T Help in BALB/c Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: dipeptide
man's rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man's room
brenzcatechin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In general, compounds having a brenzcatechin moiety were found to be active, but also cytotoxic against host cells due to oxidation and formation of a highly reactive Michael system, whereas analogue compounds without the 3,4-dihydroxy substitution at the phenyl ring (e.g. compound 1 ) were still active but less toxic.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Cinnamic Acid Bornyl Ester Derivatives from Valeriana wallichii Exhibit Antileishmanial In Vivo Activity in Leishmania major -Infected BALB/c Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: catechol
Mantoux tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mantoux test
illiquidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illiquidly
form: most illiquidly
Etymology: From illiquid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively, if the asset 5 is traded, but only illiquidly, it is possible to imagine that the agent can make a one-off hedge in 5 at the start of the option.
ref: 2002, Risk Magazine, volume 15:
glosses: In an illiquid way.
evening gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evening glove
opera gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opera glove
biclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + closed.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a monoidal category: both left-closed and right-closed.
greymuzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greymuzzles
form: graymuzzle
Etymology: From grey + muzzle, presumably as a play on greybeard (“old-timer”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
antonyms: newfur
glosses: An older member of the furry subculture.
graymuzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graymuzzles
Etymology: From gray + muzzle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greymuzzle.
greymuzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greymuzzle
graymuzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graymuzzle
bimonads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bimonad
multicounter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + counter.
Senses: examples: text: Surprisingly, the complexity of the problem explodes when we add one binary symbol more: C2 with one linear order and in the presence of other binary predicate symbols is equivalent, under elementary reductions, to the emptiness problem for multicounter automata.
ref: 2016, Witold Charatonik, Piotr Witkowski, “Two-variable Logic with Counting and a Linear Order”, in arXiv:
glosses: Involving more than one counter.
nondiscrete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + discrete.
Senses: examples: text: If X is a discrete space, this is literally the smash power of A with itself indexed over X, and we keep this language also in the nondiscrete case.
ref: 2016, Morten Brun, Bjørn Ian Dundas, Martin Stolz, “Equivariant Structure on Smash Powers”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not discrete mathematically.
glosses: Not divided into discrete parts.
Synonyms: indiscrete
smash powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smash power
zooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zooters
Etymology: From zoot (“rush, scoot”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The leg-spinner had talked about new mystery balls, giving them names like shooters and zooters.
ref: 1994 December 25, The Canberra Times, Canberra, page 14, column 4:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of ball bowled by a leg break bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
zooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zooters
Etymology: From zoot (“fur suit”) + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursuiter.
zooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zooter
tithead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titheads
Etymology: From tit + head, in the police-officer sense referring to the helmets they wear.
Senses: glosses: A fool; an idiot.
glosses: A police officer.
titheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tithead
birrova
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: So I cringe when they are regarded as kitsch and retro, a birrova laff. It's obviously not true.
ref: 2014, Jason Winstanley, Media Unfriendly:
glosses: bit of a
Related terms: birra
abuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abun
Spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: We took up the recommendation of the Pheasant in Brill, which is a lovely pub but which sadly only did food until 2 which we'd missed, so went to Spoons in Bicester for a late lunch instead, via a quick inspection of the charming little church in Ludgershall.
ref: 2007, Sir Benjamin Nunn, “Re: good pubs near brill / verney jct lines?”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
text: We went to Spoons but it was too busy so went across to The Punch House which I'm glad we did as the food was delicious. I had wild rice, nut and honey bake.
ref: 2014, Naomi Rettig, One More Year On Facebook, page 205:
glosses: Any pub belonging to the Wetherspoons chain.
dedented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dedent
dedenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dedent
dedents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dedent
dedents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedent
Ledaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ledaean
form: most Ledaean
Etymology: From Leda + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire, a tale that she
Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event
That changed some childish day to tragedy […]
ref: 1928, William Butler Yeats, “Among School Children”, in The Tower:
glosses: Of or relating to the mythological Leda.
MeFi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: MetaFilter, a general-interest community weblog featuring links to content that users have discovered on the World Wide Web.
Derived terms: MeFite
Padgampora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Pulwama district of Jammu-Kashmir state, India.
BBAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Best All-Rounder: an annual British cycle-racing competition.
radioquiet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: radio-quiet
Etymology: From radio- + quiet.
Senses: examples: a radioquiet neutron star
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
antonyms: radioloud
glosses: Not producing radio emissions.
bottom brackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottom bracket
berlinetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berlinettas
Etymology: From Italian berlinetta, itself berlina + -etta.
Senses: glosses: An especially sporty form of coupé car.
berlinettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berlinetta
2FA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As of 2021, only 2.6% of Twitter users had a 2FA method enabled – and of those, 74.4% used SMS authentication, a Twitter account security report said.
ref: 2023 February 18, Ramishah Maruf, “Twitter to charge for SMS two-factor authentication”, in CNN Business:
hypernyms: MFA
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of two-factor authentication.
Related terms: U2F
crossectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: crossectomies
Etymology: From cross- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A procedure that ligates the great saphenous vein at its termination into the femoral vein.
Synonyms: exairesis
crossectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossectomy
Ramos gin fizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramos gin fizz
Lobbygate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From lobby + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A political scandal of 1998 in which lobbyists Derek Draper and Jonathan Mendelsohn were secretly recorded boasting that they could sell access to government ministers and create tax breaks for their clients.
Smeargate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From smear + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A political scandal of 2009 in which Derek Draper and Damian McBride plotted to post false rumours on the Internet about the private lives of prominent members of the Conservative Party and their spouses.
Lolitaesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lolitaesque
form: most Lolitaesque
Etymology: From Lolita + -esque, from the title character, Dolores "Lolita" Haze, of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.
Senses: glosses: Precociously sexually alluring.
wikipedia: Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolitaish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lolitaish
form: most Lolitaish
Etymology: From Lolita + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lolitaesque.
synonyms: word: Lolitaesque
celestian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more celestian
form: most celestian
Senses: examples: text: […] he is put to death by Typhon or the evil principle, descends into Hell, rises again, and ascends triumphant to the celestian regions.
ref: 1827, George Houston, The Correspondent, volume 1, page 150:
glosses: celestial
paracyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracyclists
Etymology: From para- + cyclist.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cyclist with a disability.
Related terms: paracycling
paracyclists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracyclist
handcyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcyclists
Etymology: From handcycle + -ist.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who rides a handcycle or who competes in handcycling.
Related terms: paracyclist
handcyclists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handcyclist
handcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handcycle
handcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The sport of riding and racing handcycles.
Related terms: paracycling
bandlimiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From band + limiting.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The limiting of a signal's Fourier transform or power spectral density to zero above a certain finite frequency.
Related terms: bandlimited
LEMSIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates.
chimpanzoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chimpanzoid
form: most chimpanzoid
Etymology: From chimpanzee + -oid.
Senses: examples: a chimpanzoid nasal bone
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling (that of) a chimpanzee.
orangoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orangoid
form: most orangoid
Etymology: From orangutan + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling (that of) an orangutan.
gorilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gorilloid
form: most gorilloid
Etymology: From gorilla + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling (that of) a gorilla.
hand to God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Hand to God, I was planning on paying by Tuesday.
glosses: Used when admitting something which might not be believed.
Kingdom Halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kingdom Hall
Princesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Princesque
form: most Princesque
Etymology: From Prince + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Trump Dawgs could be big with its Princesque vocals and its metal/rock/funk guitar riffs done in odd time signatures. A perfect band for the 21st century.
ref: 2002 March 20, Whatdaumm [username], “OTP:Trump Dawgs-Art Of Crushin(Review)”, in alt.music.prince (Usenet):
glosses: Reminiscent of Prince (1958–2016), American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
kazillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kazillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number kazillion.
low-keyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From low-key + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The very low-keyness of his delivery made her feel it hid much deeper emotion.
ref: 2010, Cate Dermody, The Cardinal Rule:
glosses: The state or quality of being low-key.
kajillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kajillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number kajillion.
Ekoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.
Synonyms: Ejagham
Derived terms: Ekoid
hyperphorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperphoric
orthophorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthophoric
endophorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endophoric
wirescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wirescapes
Etymology: From wire + -scape.
Senses: glosses: The arrangement of electrical wires, pylons, etc. within a landscape.
wirescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wirescape
tourscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourscape
frivolousity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frivolous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Rob says there really isn't money for “frivolousity”.
ref: 2015, Edna Curry, Lori Ness, Denise Meinstad, Luann Nies Diane Pearson, Shirley Olson, Nancy Pirri, Romance and Mystery Under the Northern Lights:
text: That employee got charged with perjury for starters, frivolousity amongst legal grounds and harassment.
ref: 2016, Michael Morgan, Pornographic academy:
glosses: Nonstandard form of frivolosity.
gentlemen's rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentlemen's room
hackfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackfests
Etymology: From hack + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Do you have specific questions after seeing the earlier sound and animation sessions? This is the time to get the answers. This late evening session will be held in the computer lab for hands on explanations and will lead into the all-night HackFest.
ref: 1990 July 3, Grant Delaney, “What's Going to Happen in Kansas City (Long)”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID <284*delaneyg@wnre.aecl.ca>:
glosses: Synonym of hackathon.
synonyms: word: hackathon
hackfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackfest
purging place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purging places
Etymology: Originally as a calque or translation of various Latin or Spanish terms.
Senses: examples: text: An aposteme gendred in þe purgynge places [sc. Latin tribus emunctoriis], þat is to say, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares.
ref: c. 1425, translating Guy de Chauliac as The Grande Chirurgie, p. 154
glosses: A place where purging occurs
A body part where excess humors are expelled.
qualifier: premodern medicine
examples: text: He buylt in all streetes in Rome publique purging places [sc. Spanish latrinas publicas].
ref: 1577, Antonio de Guevara, translated by Edward Hellowes, Chronicles, page 29:
glosses: A place where purging occurs
A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
examples: text: Is this, said I, the Papists purging place?
ref: 1603, Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame, l. 262:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A place where purging occurs
The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.
Synonyms: sense: toilet facilities
word: bathroom
Hypernyms: place
bathroom
arm hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arm holes
Senses: examples: text: Put these ragges and cloutes vnder thine arme holes.
ref: 1535, Bible (Coverdale Bible), Jer. 38:12
text: He... violently pull'd off her Riding-Hood, and tore it at the Arm Holes in pulling it off.
ref: 1731 January 15, Proceedings of the Old Bailey, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of armhole.
arm holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arm hole
riding-hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riding-hoods
Senses: examples: text: He […] violently pull'd off her Riding-Hood, and tore it at the Arm Holes in pulling it off.
ref: 1731 January 15, Proceedings of the Old Bailey, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of riding hood: a hood or hooded cape intended for use while horseriding.
riding-hoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riding-hood
riding hoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riding hood
purging places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purging place
Purgatory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: purgatory
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.
Synonyms: afterlife
Coordinate terms: Heaven
Hell
limbo
afterlife
Derived terms: purgatorial
purgatorian
front-loads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of front-load
front-loading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of front-load
front-loading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of front-load (“designed to be loaded from the front”).
synonyms: word: front-load
extra: designed to be loaded from the front
front loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front load
dontopedalogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”) and pes (“foot”), + -logy. Purportedly coined in 1960 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Senses: glosses: The art of putting one's foot in one's mouth.
wikipedia: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
codenaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codenaturations
Etymology: From co- + denaturation.
Senses: examples: text: Freshly cut TMA sections (4 micrometer thick) were deparaffinized and proteolytically pretreated using a commercial kit (Zytolight FISH-Tissue Implementation Kit, Zytovision, Bremerhaven, Germany), followed by dehydration in 70%, 90% and 99% ethanol, air drying and codenaturation in a Thermobrite hybridization oven (Abbott, Chicago, USA) for 10 minutes at 75°Celsius.
ref: 2015 November 11, “FGFR1 Amplification Is Often Homogeneous and Strongly Linked to the Squamous Cell Carcinoma Subtype in Esophageal Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: denaturation coupled with another process
colorimetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Concentrations of these carbohydrates were determined as per the colorimetrical protocol described by Wu et al.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Effects of Common Mycorrhizal Network on Plant Carbohydrates and Soil Properties in Trifoliate Orange–White Clover Association”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of colourimetrical.
cytoarchitectonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + architectonical.
Senses: examples: text: The Cyto area column indicates the assigned cytoarchitectonical area as indicated by the SPM ANATOMY toolbox v1.8 if available (Eickhoff et al. 2005).
ref: 2015 November 11, “Journal Impact Factor Shapes Scientists’ Reward Signal in the Prospect of Publication”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to cytoarchitectonics
cytohesins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Analyses of mammalian cytohesins have identified a number of recruitment mechanisms for these multi-domain proteins, but the conservation and developmental roles for these mechanisms are unclear.
ref: 2015 November 11, “PH Domain-Arf G Protein Interactions Localize the Arf-GEF Steppke for Cleavage Furrow Regulation in Drosophila”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of cytohesin
echinocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From echinocyte + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: It is likely that the echinocytosis is the cause of the hemolytic anaemia as well [68 ].
ref: 2015 November 11, “Diminution of Oxidative Damage to Human Erythrocytes and Lymphocytes by Creatine: Possible Role of Creatine in Blood”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of echinocytes in the blood
epididymosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One mechanism by which sperm are modified during epididmal transit is by membranous vesicles called epididymosomes which are secreted by the epididymal epithelium (reviewed in [13 ]).
ref: 2015 November 11, “Sperm Proteome Maturation in the Mouse Epididymis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of epididymosome
exoface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exofaces
Etymology: From exo- + face.
Senses: examples: text: Guided by existing SAR and molecular modeling (Fig 2A ), a Lys, Nε-acetylated Lys (Lys-Ac), and LysPEG20L scan at several select positions was undertaken on the non-binding exoface of PN-2171, a close analog of PN-2519 (sequence shown in S1 Table ).
ref: 2015 November 11, “Discovery and Characterization of a Potent Interleukin-6 Binding Peptide with Neutralizing Activity In Vivo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The external surface of a coiled protein
Related terms: intraface
interface
glycosulfatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosulfatases
Etymology: From glyco- + sulfate + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the removal of sulfate from a glycoprotein
glycosulphatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosulphatases
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, Prevotella was the most discriminant feature of the microbiota of Diet 2 pigs and it has been previously demonstrated that this organism contains a glycosulphatase with activity on mucus glycoproteins [28 ].
ref: 2015 November 11, “Alterations in the Colonic Microbiota of Pigs Associated with Feeding Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of glycosulfatase.
grandidisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The neolignan grandidisin also reduced MNPCE frequency in mice treated with cyclophosphamide, a known genotoxic agent [33 ].
ref: 2015 November 11, “Genotoxicity and Cytotoxicity Evaluation of the Neolignan Analogue 2-(4-Nitrophenoxy)-1Phenylethanone and its Protective Effect Against DNA Damage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of grandisin.
grandisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tetrahydrofuran neolignan, isolated from Piper solmsianum, that has antinociceptive and antiinflammatory activity
histoimmunological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histo- + immunological.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, TUNEL positive cells measured by histoimmunological method was markedly increased in Aβ infused rats but was dose-dependently reduced to 45.4% and 63.6% with 25 and 50 mg of Sch B, respectively (Fig 6B and 6D ), indicating the inhibition of apoptotic cell death might be the major cause of the preventive effect of Sch B on neuronal cell death.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Schisandrin B Ameliorates ICV-Infused Amyloid β Induced Oxidative Stress and Neuronal Dysfunction through Inhibiting RAGE/NF-κB/MAPK and Up-Regulating HSP/Beclin Expression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: histological and immunological
homoligand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoligands
Etymology: From homo- + ligand.
Senses: examples: text: Stirling et al. do not provide any justification for the spacing of the features that we find on nanoparticles: ~1 nm for mixed ligand particles and ~ 0.5 nm for homoligand particles.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Response to “Critical Assessment of the Evidence for Striped Nanoparticles””, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of identical ligands in a complex
Related terms: heteroligand
tuberculous dactylitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skeletal manifestation of tuberculosis.
immunocytokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocytokines
Etymology: From immuno- + cytokine.
Senses: examples: text: Combining these techniques for enhancing NK cell activity with optimized immunocytokine regimen and ldbFUS induction would be a step towards successful multimodal immunotherapy.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Low Dose Focused Ultrasound Induces Enhanced Tumor Accumulation of Natural Killer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The fusion of an antibody and a cytokine used in cancer therapy
inulobiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The inulobiose produced was measured by HPLC assay method.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Identification of a Novel Di-D-Fructofuranose 1,2’:2,3’ Dianhydride (DFA III) Hydrolysis Enzyme from Arthrobacter aurescens SK8.001”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The disaccharide D-fructosyl-2,1-alpha-D-fructose
mesocoxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesocoxae
Etymology: From meso- + coxa.
Senses: examples: text: Briefly, dsNlRan (stock solution estimated at 4.000 mg/mL), dsGFP (estimated at 4.000 mg/mL, negative control), or double distilled water (blank control) was injected into the thorax between the mesocoxa and the hind coxa of third-instar nymphs (2-day old), fourth-instar nymphs (2-day old) or fifth-instar nymphs (3-day old) in volumes of 0.025 μL, 0.05 μL and 0.1 μL, respectively, with different doses.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Ran Involved in the Development and Reproduction Is a Potential Target for RNA-Interference-Based Pest Management in Nilaparvata lugens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The coxa of a midleg
microgastropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgastropods
Etymology: From micro- + gastropod.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any very small gastropod, typically less than 5 mm in size
microgastropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Post-settlement movement in microgastropods is generally limited to crawling or by passive advection through the water column [36 ] and there is evidence that small differences in patch-size can greatly influence the structure of benthic macroinvertebrates (e.g. gastropods, amphipods, etc.; Matias et al. 2010).
ref: 2015 November 11, “Macroalgal Composition Determines the Structure of Benthic Assemblages Colonizing Fragmented Habitats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microgastropod
monohydroxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + hydroxylated.
Senses: examples: text: PCBs potentially target the endocrine system, monohydroxylated PCB metabolites can act as oestrogen agonists or antagonists [16, 8 ].
ref: 2015 November 11, “Environmental Polychlorinated Biphenyl Exposure and Breast Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by the addition of a single hydroxyl group
monozygosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + zygosity.
Senses: examples: text: Of interest, a variety of viruses, including Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), parvovirus B19, and varicella zoster virus, that have been previously suggested to be related to the pathogenesis of SAID and were included in the viral array, were not found to be differentially expressed in individuals affected with SAID. Subgroup analyses selected for monozygosity, pediatric age, RA, and IIM demonstrated similar patterns of differential viral gene expression.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Gene Expression Profiles from Disease Discordant Twins Suggest Shared Antiviral Pathways and Viral Exposures among Multiple Systemic Autoimmune Diseases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The state of being monozygotic
multilinguals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They were classified into two groups: 11 multilinguals who could speak Japanese, Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese, and 10 bilinguals who only spoke Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese.
ref: 2015 November 11, “More Delusions May Be Observed in Low-Proficient Multilingual Alzheimer’s Disease Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of multilingual
multiomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is likely that genomic variation in the host, infecting microbe, and commensal microbiota are key determinants of infectious disease clinical outcomes. However, until recently, simultaneous, multiomic investigation of infecting microbe and holobiont components has rarely been explored.
ref: 2015 November 10, Samuel A. Shelburne, Nadim J. Ajami, Marcus C. Chibucos et al., “Implementation of a Pan-Genomic Approach to Investigate Holobiont-Infecting Microbe Interaction: A Case Report of a Leukemic Patient with Invasive Mucormycosis” (e0139851), in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 11, →DOI, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of multi-omic.
mycobiomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycobiome
neuroprogenitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroprogenitors
Etymology: From neuro- + progenitor.
Senses: examples: text: Changes in pluripotency and neuroprogenitor markers were measured (A-F).
ref: 2015 November 11, “Transcriptomic Analysis of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from Patients with Bipolar Disorder from an Old Order Amish Pedigree”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A neural progenitor cell
orthostichies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthostichy
orthostichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orthostichy + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Accumulation of the dye followed orthostichous patterns wherein the dye tended to accumulate in half of each leaf not vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 1, 2, and 4), and in the whole of each leaf vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 3 and 5).
ref: 2015 November 11, “Horizontal Transmission of”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having orthostichies.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in straight lines or ranks.
osteochondrogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + chondrogenesis.
Senses: examples: text: Osteochondrogenic markers such as BMP-2 and osteocalcin (Fig 2, BMP-2 and osteocalcin stain) could not be detected, indicating that osteochondrogenesis is not key in the early stage of calcification or atherogenesis.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Intra-Section Analysis of Human Coronary Arteries Reveals a Potential Role for Micro-Calcifications in Macrophage Recruitment in the Early Stage of Atherosclerosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The genesis of osteochondrosis
parahoxozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parahoxozoans
Etymology: From translingual ParaHoxozoa + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Thus bilaterian-like HCN channels were already present in the common parahoxozoan ancestor of bilaterians and cnidarians, at a time when the functional diversity of voltage-gated K + channels was rapidly expanding.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Functional Characterization of Cnidarian HCN Channels Points to an Early Evolution of I h”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any marine animal of the superphylum Parahoxozoa
parahoxozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We show that classic I h -encoding HCN channels are present in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Cnidaria), and thus I h was likely present in ancestral parahoxozoans.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Functional Characterization of Cnidarian HCN Channels Points to an Early Evolution of I h”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of parahoxozoan
preasphaltene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preasphaltenes
Etymology: From pre- + asphaltene.
Senses: glosses: Any compound similar to an asphaltene that is soluble in tetrahydrofuran.
preasphaltenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The values of 0.14 and 0.07 mmole/gram are comparable in magnitude to the range of 0.20 to 1.66 mmol/gram of carbonyl groups reported in the asphaltenes and preasphaltenes isolated from lignite coal liquefaction products, also calculated through increases in elemental nitrogen contents upon oximation [54 ].
ref: 2015 November 11, “Probing the Carbonyl Functionality of a Petroleum Resin and Asphaltene through Oximation and Schiff Base Formation in Conjunction with N-15 NMR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of preasphaltene
precoronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + coronal.
Senses: examples: text: For EVD placement in surgical environment, the catheter is introduced through a precoronal burr hole into the ventricle.
ref: 2015 November 11, “From the Skin to the Brain: Pathophysiology of Colonization and Infection of External Ventricular Drain, a Prospective Observational Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In the front of the coronal plane
procalcifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + calcifying.
Senses: examples: text: The model needs to be refined through controlled pH and the use of additional procalcifying agents other than Pi in order to reproduce calcium phosphate deposition in vivo.
ref: 2015 November 11, “Critical Parameters of the In Vitro Method of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Calcification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That leads to calcification
proctosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From procto- + surgical.
Senses: examples: text: HCV can be transmitted sexually, such as through anal mucosal lesions caused by sexual practices such as fisting or through ulcerative STIs such as syphilis; through sharing paraphernalia for nasal and intravenous use of recreational drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines, and ketamine; or by proctosurgical interventions, e.g., in the treatment of condylomata [50 –55 ].
ref: 2015 November 11, “High Prevalence and High Incidence of Coinfection with Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and Syphilis and Low Rate of Effective Vaccination against Hepatitis B in HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men with Known Date of HIV Seroconversion in Germany”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Relating to proctosurgery.
proctosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From procto- + surgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgery of the colon, rectum or anus.
Derived terms: proctosurgical
fractionalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractionalisations
Senses: examples: text: It is characterised by Wilson line that requires non-abelian Berry connections, and the interplay between the glide symmetry and interaction automatically leads to charge fractionalisation without jointing two lattice potentials at an interface.
ref: 2016, Shao-Liang Zhang, Qi Zhou, “A two-leg Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with glide reflection symmetry”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of fractionalization.
fractionalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractionalisation
sun spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun spiders
Senses: glosses: Synonym of camel spider.
synonyms: word: camel spider
sun spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun spider
fantasization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasizations
form: fantasisation
Etymology: From fantasize + -ation. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: To put it epigrammatically, fetishization of the commodity is accompanied by fantasization of the self.
ref: 1992, David Brett, C.R. Mackintosh: The Poetics of Workmanship, page 129:
glosses: The action of fantasizing.
nroff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnɹɒf/
Forms: form: nroffs
form: nroffing
form: nroffed
form: nroffed
Etymology: Name of the program, short for new roff; an earlier similar program was called roff, a shortening of runoff.
Senses: examples: text: The user either selects a new filename, edits the default file, nroffs it to the screen, or to a printer, or logs out.
ref: 1985, Eric Foxley, UNIX for super-users, page 158:
text: You could contrive macro sets that nroffed a document onto a printer […]
ref: 1991, Computer Language, volume 8, page 18:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To format (text) using the nroff program, which produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows.
wikipedia: roff (computer program)
nroffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nroff
nroffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nroff
nroffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nroff
BTO flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BTO flat
Chinese bellflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese bellflowers
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Platycodon grandiflorus, sole species of genus Platycodon, native to east Asia.
Synonyms: balloon flower
platycodon
breathholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breathhold
query string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: query strings
Senses: examples: text: The site works when we visit example.com/q, but fails when we visit example.com/q?name=Smith. There must be a problem processing the query string.
glosses: A sequence of data appended to a URL to supply input parameters in the form of name-value pairs.
query strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of query string
night sky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night skies
form: night-sky
form: nightsky
Senses: glosses: The sky as it is seen at night.
raveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravellers
Etymology: From ravel + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raveler.
ravellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raveller
pneumocystis pneumonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pneumocystis pneumonia
Senses: glosses: A form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii.
Synonyms: word: PCP
word: pneumocystosis
word: pneumocystiasis
word: interstitial plasma cell pneumonia
word: Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
word: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
mucks about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of muck about
mucking about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muck about
mucked about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muck about
silver screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver screen
big screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big screen
food street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food streets
Senses: glosses: A street lined with food stalls, restaurants and other food shops.
Related terms: street food
food streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food street
deprepositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + prepositional.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Derived from a preposition.
Related terms: deadjectival
deverbal
bitter oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitter orange
befreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befree
befrees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befree
Proto-Central Algonquian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: PCA
glosses: The formerly-hypothesized proto-language of the Central Algonquian languages, now recognized to be in effect Proto-Algonquian because Central Algonquian is not a genetic group.