cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
archaeobatrachian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeobatrachians
form: archeobatrachian
Etymology: Archaeobatrachia + -n
Senses: examples: text: We selected 12 genes for 144 neobatrachian genera and four archaeobatrachian outgroups and performed a phylogenetic analysis using a maximum likelihood algorithm with the rapid bootstrap test.
ref: 2015 December 1, “The Gondwana Breakup and the History of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Unveils Two New Clades for Early Neobatrachian Diversification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any primitive frog or toad of the suborder Archaeobatrachia.
archeobatrachian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeobatrachians
Senses: examples: text: For instance, this feature is found not only among neobatrachians, a currently well-established clade, but also in some archeobatrachian lineages such as discoglossideans and pelobatideans [46 ].
ref: 2015 December 1, “The Gondwana Breakup and the History of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Unveils Two New Clades for Early Neobatrachian Diversification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of archaeobatrachian.
anyroads
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I drive beside him at Clyde. Or anyroads I did.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 418:
glosses: Synonym of anyroad.
synonyms: word: anyroad
Anuak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anuaks
form: Anuak
Etymology: From Anuak àŋwáa (self-designation).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Luo Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of East Africa.
Anuak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Anuak àŋwáa (self-designation).
Senses: glosses: The Nilotic language of these people.
Anuaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anuak
discoglossidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoglossideans
Etymology: Discoglossidae + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Discoglossidae of primitive frogs.
discoglossideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For instance, this feature is found not only among neobatrachians, a currently well-established clade, but also in some archeobatrachian lineages such as discoglossideans and pelobatideans [46 ].
ref: 2015 December 1, “The Gondwana Breakup and the History of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Unveils Two New Clades for Early Neobatrachian Diversification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of discoglossidean
Anusara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit अनुसर (anusara, “act of following; pursuit, conformity”). The Sanskrit term is often translated by practitioners as meaning ‘flowing with grace’, apparently following the reading of creator John Friend.
Senses: qualifier: yoga
glosses: A modern form of Hatha yoga that emphasizes a set of universal principles of alignment.
generic type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generic types
Senses: examples: text: We call generic type a parametrized specification defining a family of types. Each member of that family is characterized, in a defining occurrence, by its generic name and its actual parameters.
ref: 1977, Jacques André, Implementation and Design of Algorithmic Languages:
text: A generic type is a type that is parameterized by one or several other types.
ref: 2006, Patrick Smacchia, Practical .NET2 and C#2, Paradoxal Press:
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A type which can be instantiated with any other type.
dodecamerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dodecamerizes
form: dodecamerizing
form: dodecamerized
form: dodecamerized
Etymology: From dodecamer + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To form a dodecamer
Related terms: oligomerize
polymerize
hemocateretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemocateretic
form: most hemocateretic
Senses: examples: text: They were analyzed using flow cytometry for oxidative stress and membrane disruption, optical microscopy for erythrocytic nuclear alteration, graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry for cadmium content in aquaria water, blood and cytochemical and analytical electron microscopy techniques for the hemocateretic aspects.
ref: 2015 December 1, “What the Erythrocytic Nuclear Alteration Frequencies Could Tell Us about Genotoxicity and Macrophage Iron Storage?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to hemocateresis
generic function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generic functions
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Entity made up of all methods having the same name.
hemocateresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eryptosis.
synonyms: word: eryptosis
Related terms: hemocateretic
anucleolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + nucleolate.
Senses: glosses: Without a nucleolus.
dodecamerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dodecamerize
dodecamerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dodecamerize
dodecamerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dodecamerize
anthropomorphistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropomorphistic
form: most anthropomorphistic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anthropomorphic.
synonyms: word: anthropomorphic
feynmanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Feynman + -ium. After Richard Feynman, who used a back-of-the-envelope calculation using classical physics to determine that element 137 is the last stably neutrally charged element, as larger elements would need electrons traveling faster than light to become neutral. (This problem goes away when relativity is considered.)
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical chemical element with atomic number 137.
wikipedia: Richard Feynman
Synonyms: sense: element 137
word: Fy
sense: element 137
english: systematic element name
translation: systematic element name
word: untriseptium
sense: element 137
word: Uts
anthracosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthracosaurs
Senses: glosses: A member of the extinct genus †Anthracosaurus of embolomeres.
anthracosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthracosaur
embolomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embolomeres
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Embolomeri, a suborder in the clade Reptiliomorpha, consisting of long aquatic fish-eating creatures.
embolomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embolomere
fatherkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatherkins
Etymology: From father + -kins.
Senses: glosses: Fond term of address for one's father.
fatherkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatherkins
Etymology: From father + -kin.
Senses: glosses: Fond term of address for one's father.
motherkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherkins
Etymology: From mother + -kin.
Senses: glosses: Fond term of address for one's mother.
examples: text: "Motherkin," I answered, "what I mean is that I would sleep until I wake, for I have come a prodigious distance and have last slept in the woods […]"
ref: 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:
glosses: Fond term of address for a woman older than the speaker
technical areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technical area
empty constructors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empty constructor
in full flow
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Clattenburg pulled play back and infuriated Pardew a second time when Joel Ward carried on in a promising position despite being fouled by Marcos Rojo, only to be stopped in full flow by the official.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:
topics: communications
talking
qualifier: acting or moving
glosses: rapidly, with no sign of stopping
conceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptors
Etymology: From concept + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who comes up with the idea for something.
glosses: A class of words that represent the same concept.
conceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceptor
bluestar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluestars
Etymology: From blue + star, from the colour and shape of the flowers.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Amsonia of flowering plants in the dogbane family, found mainly in North America.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Amsonia hubrichtii
word: Hubricht's bluestar
Tinderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tinderers
Etymology: From Tinder + -er.
Senses: synonyms: Tinderite
glosses: A user of Tinder, a dating application.
bluestars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluestar
Tinderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tinderer
e-skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-skins
Etymology: From e- + skin.
Senses: glosses: A thin electronic material that mimics human skin, for example by sensing pressure and temperature or by healing itself when damaged.
goey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goey
form: most goey
Etymology: From go + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: It is all very well to keep a stylish steed, but many a horse is "a good 'on to look at" which is not "a good 'un to go," and I for one would rather have a goey one than a showy one.
ref: C. H. Spurgeon (editor), The Sword and the Trowel (page 544)
text: I slowed her down, but she was goey and irritable. In fact, Rune always felt like a revving engine under me, an engine that wanted to shift into a higher gear.
ref: 2007, Austin Andrews, Mistress of the Runes:
glosses: Of a horse: inclined to go; restive.
POO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POOs
Senses: examples: text: Thank Papa very much for the P.O.O. which I got cashed without difficulty.
ref: 1856 June 28, John Addington Symonds, letter in Letters, Vol. I, p. 75
text: A Coupon will be found below, which will be redeemed if accompanied by P.O.O. for 1s. 6d or 20 stamps.
ref: 1877, Army and Navy Gazette - Volume 18, page 192:
text: ... it is customary after the bargain is made for the purchaser to send a P.O.O. for the amount before the birds are sent off.
ref: 2013, R. L. Wallace, The Canary Book, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of post-office order.
har de har har
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardy har har.
Geopolitik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Geopolitik.
Senses: glosses: A branch of 19th-century German statecraft, foreign policy, and geostrategy, developed from the writings of various German thinkers.
kuyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kuya
town camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town camps
Senses: glosses: A suburban shanty town inhabited by Aboriginal people.
town camps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town camp
cardiopathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiopathologists
Etymology: From cardio- + pathologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies heart disease.
cardiopathologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiopathologist
halycon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ...Upupa, the hoopoe ; Halycon and Ceryle among kingfishers; Turnix and Caccabis among Gallinae, and...
ref: 1876, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Part I, Harper & Brothers:
glosses: Misspelling of halcyon.
halycon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of halcyon.
Fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.t͡ʃuːn/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃən
Etymology: The name of the town in Newfoundland is derived from Portuguese fortuna (“luck, fortune”). The name may refer to a fortuitous event that occurred in the nearby bay.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas, United States.
Related terms: East Fortune
non-drinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-drinkers
Etymology: From non- + drinker.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the persons listed as non-drinkers of milk actually consumed some of the raw article on cereals, puddings, etc. Many took it only in coffee, but in that case the heat of the coffee would be sufficient to destroy the organism.
ref: 1907, Boston (Massachusetts) Health Dept Annual Report, page 136
text: […] A non-drinker of milk, she must […]
ref: 1987, Carlton Fredericks, Low blood sugar and you, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of nondrinker (“one who does not drink any specified beverage, especially alcohol”).
stone-cold fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone-cold foxes
Senses: examples: text: Crystal is a gorgeous child: perfect skin, bright black eyes, cheekbones to die for. Tall and limber already, her figure is filling out in ways that peg her a stone-cold fox in a year’s time.
ref: 2016, Kim Savage, After the Woods, page 248:
synonyms: superfox
glosses: A very sexually attractive person.
stone-cold foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stone-cold fox
tighties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tight + -ies.
Senses: examples: text: I've worn these in town and on long trail rides, and I'm awed by how such simple pants work so well in the saddle. I wouldn't choose the Shins for a multiday stage race but somehow, even among the megaexpensive Euro tighties I own, these understated, made-in-San Francisco knickers have become a favorite.
ref: 2008, Bicycling Vol. 49 No. 1 ”The Long and Short of It”, page 96:
text: Cycle the workout tighties into your daily attire by balancing them with longer blazers or, another new trend, updated safari jackets.
ref: 2019, Stacey Makiya, Brie Thalmann, HonoluluMagazine.com, “New Year, New Gear: Where to Shop in Honolulu Right Now”:
glosses: Form-fitting cycling shorts.
tighties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of tighty whities.
Senses: examples: text: A padded knee shattered my balls. I doubled over in the hallway, coughing up blood and yellow stuff I thought might be bile. Though wracked with pain, I was glad I wore briefs. My tighties kept those precious little orbs in place.
ref: 2005, Mike Philbin, CHIMERAWORLD #1, page 113:
text: In addition, nowhere in the article did I sense that anyone is angry at Serrano or blaming the school for lax security or getting their tighties in a twiddle about this or that.
ref: 2010, Matt Soper, Raising Up a Testimony, →ISBN, page 64:
text: “You wearing tighties or boxers, big boy?” Liv says to Marcus.
ref: 2014, Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly, page ?:
text: A pack of teenage boys gathers at the bottom of the stairway, wearing their tough gangsta pusses and pants hanging below their tighties. Joe will never comprehend what's so tough about underwear.
ref: 2015, Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens, page 220:
text: Without being asked, Data put his backpack down. Sam wanded him and then his backpack. He opened the backpack and rifled through it with the aggressiveness and efficiency of a disgruntled TSA agent. "You know the routine, down to your tighties," Sam said. Data stripped down to his underwear and spun around slowly.
ref: 2020, Bryan W. Conway, Sandusky Burning:
glosses: Men's or boys' briefs.
Synonyms: underwear
Y-fronts
jockeys
jocks
BVDs
bibidees
ginch
butt-huggers
copresheaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copresheaves
Etymology: From co- + presheaf.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The dual of a presheaf.
copresheaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copresheaf
tracklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracklets
Etymology: From track + -let.
Senses: glosses: A fragment of the track followed by a moving object, as constructed by an image recognition system.
tracklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracklet
nanothin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + thin.
Senses: glosses: Extremely thin, on the nanoscale level.
Riker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rikers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Riker mount
Dreyfus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹeɪfəs/
/ˈdɹaɪfəs/
Forms: form: Dreyfuss
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Dreyfusard
Dreyfusism
Dreyfusist
Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
philosophess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophesses
Etymology: From philosophe + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female philosopher.
Synonyms: philosopheress
philosophress
patriotess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patriotesses
Etymology: From patriot + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female patriot.
priestress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priestresses
Etymology: From Middle English preesteresse, from prestre (“priest”; from Middle French prestre) + -esse (“-ess”), and Middle French prestresse; later reinterpreted as priest + -ress.
Senses: glosses: A priestess.
presidentress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presidentresses
Etymology: From president + -ress.
Senses: glosses: A female president.
Synonyms: presidentess
presidentresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presidentress
patriotesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patriotess
philosophesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philosophess
marble cake federalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marble-cake federalism
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cooperative federalism.
synonyms: word: cooperative federalism
Coordinate terms: layer cake federalism
layer cake federalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: layer-cake federalism
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dual federalism.
synonyms: word: dual federalism
Coordinate terms: marble cake federalism
governeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governeresses
Etymology: From Middle English governeresse, from Old French governeresse; equivalent to governer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Hee wrote likewiſe to yͤ L. Iohn the infante, yͤ L. of Biſkey, and to yͤ Lady Mary of Biſkey, gouernereſſe of yͤ K. of Caſtile and Leon, and to Iames K. of Aragon, requeſting them to aid him with men of warre, as well horſemẽ as footemen againſt his aduerſarie yͤ Frẽch K. that moſt vniuſtly went about to depriue him of his inheritãce.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “Edward the second”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 875, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of governoress.
A governess (woman employed to educate children).
examples: text: 5. If i died wᵗout issu, and ther were none heire masle, then the L Fraunces to be (gouuernres) regẽt. For lakke of her, the her eldest daughters, and for lakke of them the L Marget to be gouuernres after as is aforsaid, til sume heire masle be borne, and then the mother of that child to be gouuernres. 6. And if during the rule of the gouuernres ther die 4 of the counsel, then shal she by her letters cal an assẽble of the counsel wᵗin on month folowing and chose 4 more, wherin she shal haue thre uoices.
ref: 1553, Edward VI, “King Edward’s devise, entirely autograph. (MS. Petyt 47, f. 317.) My deuise for the succession.”, in John Gough Nichols, editor, The Chronicle of Queen Jane, and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat, London: […] [T]he Camden Society, published 1850, page 89:
text: To Iupiter alſo thei Sacrificed, & did honour as to yᵉ principall of life. To Vulcan for fire, to Pallas, as Lady of the ſkie, to Ceres as gouernereſſe of the arth, and to ſondry other for other ſondry conſiderations.
ref: 1555, William Watreman, The Fardle of Facions Conteining the Aunciente Maners, Customes, and Lawes, of the Peoples Enhabiting the Two Partes of the Earth, Called Affrike and Asie, London: […] Ihon Kingstone, and Henry Sutton:
text: Alſo ye ſhall receive the flax provided by the Governours of this houſe, and the ſame being ſpun by the Siſters, ye ſhall commit to the ſaid Governours, that they may both put order for the weighing of the ſame to the Weaver, and for the meaſuring of it at the returning thereof. You ſhall alſo as the chiefe Governereſſe, and worthy Matron of this houſe, have ſpeciall regard to the good ordering and keeping of all the Sheets, Coverlets, Blankets, Beds, and other implements committed to your charge, that now do or hereafter ſhall appertain unto the poor.
ref: 1652, Orders and Ordinances, for the Better Government of the Hospitall of Bartholomew the Lesse. […], London: […] James Flesher, […], page 21:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of governoress.
A woman who rules or governs.
Mydas fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mydas flies
form: Midas fly
Senses: examples: text: Descending the scale of hymenopterous life we come to the Pompilus (Fig. 61), which is mimicked by the large black Mydas fly, whose antennae are unusually long and hymenopterous-like.
ref: 1881, Half Hours with Insects:
glosses: Any fly of the family Mydidae, generally large in size.
Synonyms: mydaid
mydid
justice-involved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Histories of trauma and suicide attempts compound the already complex behavioral health problems experienced by youth involved in the juvenile justice system. It is estimated that between 25 and 31 percent of justice-involved youth have been victims of abuse […]
ref: 2011, David W. Springer, Albert R. Roberts, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, page 349:
text: DDMI has not been tested with a justice-involved population, but its emphasis on incorporating psychiatric conditions and its functionality make it potentially useful for this population.
ref: 2015, Robert L. Trestman, Kenneth L. Appelbaum, Jeffrey L. Metzner, Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry, page 255:
glosses: Having had interactions with the criminal justice system as a defendant.
hygropetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hygro- + -petric from Ancient Greek πέτρος (pétros, “stone”).
Senses: examples: text: In Europe, Dicranomyia trinotata (Meig.) is a characteristic member of the hygropetric association, the insects living on rocks in streams, where they are covered with a thin sheet of water and are usually associated with such insect forms as Beraea, Tinodes, Stactobia (Trichoptera), Orphnephila testacea (Ruthe), Pericoma nubila (Meig.), Dixa maculata Meig., Oxycera pulchella Meig., and other Diptera.
ref: 1919, Charles Paul Alexander, The Crane-flies of New York:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Requiring a habitat of a thin layer of water covering a rock surface.
vowess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vowesses
Etymology: From vow + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman who has taken religious vows, especially a vow of chastity.
physicianess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physicianesses
Etymology: From physician + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female physician.
vowesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vowess
ruleress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruleresses
Etymology: From ruler + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female ruler.
pilgrimess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilgrimesses
Etymology: From pilgrim + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female pilgrim.
playeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playeresses
Etymology: From player + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female player; an actress, especially one who performs on the stage.
playeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playeress
administress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: administresses
Etymology: From administer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female administrator.
Synonyms: administratress
administratrix
knightresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knightress
Broden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brodens
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Brodén.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Bollen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bollens
Etymology: Either a variant of Bullen or borrowed from Dutch and North German Bollen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
reformeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reformeresses
Etymology: From reformer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female reformer.
operatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operatresses
Etymology: From operator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female operator.
Synonyms: operatrix
kabuki brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabuki brushes
Etymology: Actors in kabuki theatre wear heavy makeup that may be applied with such a brush.
Senses: synonyms: mushroom brush
glosses: A makeup brush with a short stem, dense bristles, and typically a rounded head.
kabuki brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabuki brush
mushroom brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mushroom brushes
Etymology: From its shape.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kabuki brush.
synonyms: word: kabuki brush
mushroom brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mushroom brush
reformeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reformeress
kixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kix
get one's shit together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's shit together
form: getting one's shit together
form: got one's shit together
form: got one's shit together
form: gotten one's shit together
Senses: examples: text: Nothing says “getting my sh*t together” like a shelf filled with self-improvement books. Get their collection started with this best-selling book on making the most of the new decade they’re navigating.
ref: 2024 May 10, Hannah Oh, Daisy Maldonado, “50 College Graduation Gifts That Say, “I’m So Effing Proud of You!””, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To organize oneself in order to be able to deal with or achieve something; to mature.
Synonyms: get one's act together
get one's crap together
get one's poop together
Hyponyms: sober up
unreadied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreadied
form: most unreadied
Etymology: From un- + readied. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: Not readied.
Synonyms: imprepared
off guard
unprepared
unready
I spy with my little eye
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The phrase used in the guessing game I spy.
greentech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From green + tech.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: environmentally friendly technology
Synonyms: ecotechnology
Related terms: cleantech
temple name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temple names
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 廟號 /庙号 (miàohào). The temple (廟 /庙 (miào)) refers to the grand temples (太廟 /太庙 (tàimiào)) built by each dynasty for ancestor worship where each deceased monarch's temple name was recorded on their ancestral tablet in the grand temple.
Senses: examples: text: The posthumous names of early Chinese rulers were often variations of a few words like "the martial one" (武), "the literary one" (文), and "the filial one" (孝), but by the Tang they had become so long that people began using rulers' temple names or era names instead.
synonyms: temple title
glosses: A variant posthumous name used in China and occasionally other East Asian cultures for ritual worship at a dynasty's ancestral temple.
temple names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temple name
dogecoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogecoin
Englishized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Englishize
Englishizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Englishize
Englishizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Englishize
radial button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of radio button.
hypoadrenocorticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + adrenocortical + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The current study investigates autoantibodies against steroid synthesis enzymes in dogs with spontaneous hypoadrenocorticism.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Autoantibodies against Cytochrome P450 Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme in Dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ) Affected with Hypoadrenocorticism (Addison’s Disease)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: adrenocortical insufficiency; Addison's disease
hypoadrenocorticoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was therefore anticipated that a proportion of the hypoadrenocorticoid dogs selected for screening would demonstrate immunoreactivity to 21-OH. However, none of the 20 sera from the dogs affected with hypoadrenocorticism assessed showed any reactivity above that seen with the control dog samples.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Autoantibodies against Cytochrome P450 Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme in Dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ) Affected with Hypoadrenocorticism (Addison’s Disease)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or afflicted with, hypoadrenocorticism.
immunodepressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunodepressed
form: most immunodepressed
Etymology: From immuno- + depressed.
Senses: examples: text: This clinical form is rare, with chronic development, where the immunodepressed patient shows frequent relapses and insufficient responses to available therapies.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Ecological Niche Modelling Predicts Southward Expansion of Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) flaviscutellata (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), Vector of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis in South America, under Climate Change”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Afflicted with immunodepression
immunoneutralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is also an accumulating belief that the role of IL-10 could be key in developing MAP vaccines through immunoneutralisation of IL-10 to enhance IFN-γ production.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Predicting the Role of IL-10 in the Regulation of the Adaptive Immune Responses in Mycobacterium avium Subsp. paratuberculosis Infections Using Mathematical Models”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of immunoneutralization.
inquilinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sponges influence macrofaunal community composition by providing habitat for inquilines (e.g., among the inquilinous amphipods, a diversity of sebids, stenothoids, thaumatelsonids, colomastigids and leucothoids were found with the sponges).
ref: 2015 December 1, “Macrofaunal Patterns in and around du Couedic and Bonney Submarine Canyons, South Australia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That lives in the dwelling place of another species
Related terms: inquiline
inquilinism
intrabony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + bony.
Senses: examples: text: Intrabony defect was measured as either present or absent on the palatal and buccal sides of all three molar teeth, and the % of defect was determined by dividing the number of intrabony defects by the total number of sites measured.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Polymicrobial Oral Infection with Four Periodontal Bacteria Orchestrates a Distinct Inflammatory Response and Atherosclerosis in ApoE null Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within bony tissue
intrapsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + psychological.
Senses: examples: text: Our results align with Allport and Ross’s [14 ] distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, and provide the first empirical evidence concerning the intrapsychological consequences of intrinsic religiosity.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Achieving Harmony among Different Social Identities within the Self-Concept: The Consequences of Internalising a Group-Based Philosophy of Life”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the mind of an individual
public-private partnerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public-private partnership
macroisochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroisochores
Etymology: From macro- + isochore.
Senses: examples: text: This involves tighter contacts within sets of contiguous prometaphase bands that correspond to macroisochore blocks, the megaisochores (another new term).
ref: 2015 December 1, “Chromosome Architecture and Genome Organization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A block of isochores
macroisochores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fig 4A’, 4B’ and 4C’ display the compositional profiles of isochores, macroisochores and megaisochores of chromosome 21.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Chromosome Architecture and Genome Organization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of macroisochore
megaisochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaisochores
Etymology: From mega- + isochore.
Senses: glosses: A large macroisochore
megaisochores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fig 4A’, 4B’ and 4C’ display the compositional profiles of isochores, macroisochores and megaisochores of chromosome 21.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Chromosome Architecture and Genome Organization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of megaisochore
maldanid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maldanids
Senses: examples: text: Those that were found were mostly deep species not present shallower (e.g. loveniid heart urchins and species of lysianassid amphipods and among the polychaetes, the amphinomid Linopherus sp., the maldanid Axiothella sp., the opheliid Antiobactrum sp. and the spionid Aurospio sp.)
ref: 2015 December 1, “Macrofaunal Patterns in and around du Couedic and Bonney Submarine Canyons, South Australia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any polychete worm of the family Maldanidae.
problem of evil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The argument that an omnipotent and truly benevolent deity would not permit evil.
I can't find my ...
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I can't find my baggage!
glosses: Said after losing something.
what is the Wi-Fi password
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Asks someone for the Wi-Fi password.
Related terms: do you have Wi-Fi
do you have Wi-Fi
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Asks if there is any available Wi-Fi connection.
Related terms: what is the Wi-Fi password
1-propanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One of the two isometric forms of propanol; a primary alcohol with the formula CH₃CH₂CH₂OH, formed naturally in small amounts during many fermentation processes and used as a solvent in the pharmaceutical industry mainly for resins and cellulose esters.
Synonyms: n-propanol
propyl alcohol
propyl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of 1-propanol.
synonyms: word: 1-propanol
row-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊbak/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊbæk/
Forms: form: row-backs
form: row back
Etymology: From row back.
Senses: examples: text: There was, however, a row back on the question of the use of force which, while not totally rejected as a course of action, will only be resorted to when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
ref: 2011 February 7, Elissa Jobson, The Guardian:
text: After this piece appeared, Garton Ash's liberal credentials seemed genuinely to be on the table, and in London that afternoon his hands visibly shook as he began with an admirable and apparently sincere row-back (an act that this book reconfirms).
ref: 2016 May, Douglas Murray, Literary Review, page 34:
glosses: A backtrack or reversal of position; a U-turn.
n-propanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From n- (“normal”) + propanol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of 1-propanol.
synonyms: word: 1-propanol
melanofilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanofilaments
Etymology: From melano- + filament.
Senses: glosses: A coil of melanin that develops into a melanotubule and finally a melanosome
melanofilaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To differentiate between Stage III and Stage IV melanosomes, stage III melanosomes were characterized as having some melanin deposition and observable melanofilaments, while stage IV melanosomes were categorized as having dark melanin and no observable melanofilaments aberrant or not in morphology.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Tyrosinase Depletion Prevents the Maturation of Melanosomes in the Mouse Hair Follicle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of melanofilament
melanotubule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanotubules
Etymology: Etymology tree
English melano-
Latin tuba
Latin tubus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin tubuluslbor.
English tubule
English melanotubule
From melano- + tubule.
Senses: glosses: A tubule, formed from thickened melanofilaments, that develops into a melanosome.
monoinfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoinfections
form: monofection
Etymology: From mono- + infection.
Senses: examples: text: Transcriptional profiling of calvarial bone and soft tissue in response to polybacterial infection [8 ] reveals differences in gene expression in bone and soft tissue compared to monoinfection with P.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Polymicrobial Oral Infection with Four Periodontal Bacteria Orchestrates a Distinct Inflammatory Response and Atherosclerosis in ApoE null Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infection with a single type of microorganism
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: mononucleosis
monoinfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Similar to the differences between monoinfections and polybacterial infection in gene expression analysis, the cytokine response to polybacterial infection shares very little overlap with the other groups, with only MCP-1 up-regulated in P.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Polymicrobial Oral Infection with Four Periodontal Bacteria Orchestrates a Distinct Inflammatory Response and Atherosclerosis in ApoE null Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of monoinfection
neobatrachian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neobatrachians
Etymology: Neobatrachia + -an
Senses: glosses: Any frog or toad of the suborder Neobatrachia.
nobleobatrachians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, it is absent in Atlanticanuran (e.g., the Australobatrachia and in some nobleobatrachians) and in Indianura lineages (e.g., Ranoides), suggesting a multiple origin for this trait.
ref: 2015 December 1, “The Gondwana Breakup and the History of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Unveils Two New Clades for Early Neobatrachian Diversification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of nobleobatrachian
Hetero sapiens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From hetero (short for heterosexual) + translingual Homo sapiens, as if Homo (“the name of the taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae people are placed in”) were short for homosexual, while in truth it derives from Latin homō (“human being, man”).
Senses: examples: text: Man and woman, I said? In this day and age, forget gender! The problem is even more poignant if we consider any combination of Homo and Hetero sapiens getting married. Which name do they take?
ref: 2005, Jim Wegryn, Funny Thing about Names: An Entertaining Look at Naming in America, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Collectively, straight people.
optophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opto- + physiology.
Senses: examples: text: They were using optical coherence tomography for this purpose and named the method optophysiology.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Investigating Tissue Optical Properties and Texture Descriptors of the Retina in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The physiology of the action of light
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The physiology of vision
Related terms: optophysiological
phosphoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoforms
Etymology: From phospho- + form.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The phosphorylated form of a protein
phosphoforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Phosphatase assays using Calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase and Lambda protein phosphatase followed by nanofluidic proteomic immunoassay (NIA) show that in rat, GP 4.96, GP 4.94 and GP 4.85 are the three phosphoforms in mature (caudal) sperm as against two phosphoforms GP 4.96 and GP 4.94 in immature (testicular) sperm.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Glucose Regulated Protein 78 Phosphorylation in Sperm Undergoes Dynamic Changes during Maturation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of phosphoform
plasmotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Likely from Ancient Greek πλᾰ́σμᾰ n (plắsmă, “something formed, a creation or formation”) + -otomy (“an incision”).
Senses: examples: text: We did not find evidence to support alternative modes of reproduction such as plasmotomy and budding in Blastocystis as suggested by others since we did not observe multinucleation in irregularly-shaped viable cells.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Seeing the Whole Elephant: Imaging Flow Cytometry Reveals Extensive Morphological Diversity within Blastocystis Isolates”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of asexual reproduction, in protozoa, in which a multinucleate cell divides into similar daughter cells without mitosis.
posttetanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + tetanic.
Senses: examples: text: This EF phenomenon is frequently associated with central mechanisms such as posttetanic potentiation at the Ia synapse, temporal summation of subthreshold excitatory postsynaptic potentials of Ia fibers to the motoneurons and activation of persistent inward currents in spinal motoneurons [4, 17, 18, 20 ].
ref: 2015 December 1, “Responders to Wide-Pulse, High-Frequency Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Show Reduced Metabolic Demand: A 31 P-MRS Study in Humans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following tetany
prodelta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prodeltas
Etymology: From pro- + delta.
Senses: examples: text: The sediments are mainly of terrigenous origin, and on the prodelta of the Orange River they are laminated and have a dominant fluvial input [27 ].
ref: 2015 December 1, “Infaunal Benthic Communities from the Inner Shelf off Southwestern Africa Are Characterised by Generalist Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The part of a river delta that is furthest offshore and in which deposition is slowest
prodeltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + deltaic.
Senses: examples: text: The gravels, initially deposited by surf-zone processes during the Pleistocene low stands in this area were drowned by quartzose sands, and then the prodeltaic silts and clays deposited by the seaward prograding-feather edge of the Holocene Orange Delta were subsequently integrated into the delta-front by bioturbation.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Infaunal Benthic Communities from the Inner Shelf off Southwestern Africa Are Characterised by Generalist Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a prodelta
reaccommodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaccommodates
form: reaccommodating
form: reaccommodated
form: reaccommodated
Etymology: From re- + accommodate.
Senses: glosses: To accommodate again, or following disruption
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: to rebook a passenger on a flight when the original flight is cancelled.
reaccommodates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The fact that a mutation of a mutation of residue 45 generates high mobility of a region of loop 3 located at ~ 20 Å of distance is explained because of a rearrangement of residue V77 that reaccommodates to allow the packing of Y45 and thus distorted loop 3 or because the loop 3 is intrinsically disorder in a monomeric enzyme and cannot fit the neighbor molecule that presents higher B-factors in α-helices 4 and 5.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Substrate-Induced Dimerization of Engineered Monomeric Variants of Triosephosphate Isomerase from Trichomonas vaginalis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaccommodate
subyearling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subyearlings
Etymology: From sub- + yearling.
Senses: examples: text: Smaller fishes and subyearling fish are at great risk of predation by larger piscivorous fishes [87 ,88 ].
ref: 2015 December 1, “Predation on the Invasive Copepod, Pseudodiaptomus forbesi, and Native Zooplankton in the Lower Columbia River: An Experimental Approach to Quantify Differences in Prey-Specific Feeding Rates”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An animal that is less than a year old
symbiotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbiotypes
Senses: examples: text: Aphid type was defined as a combination of aphid colour and symbiotype.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Conditional Reduction of Predation Risk Associated with a Facultative Symbiont in an Insect”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The type of symbiont.
symbiotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: symbiotypes
form: symbiotyping
form: symbiotyped
form: symbiotyped
Senses: examples: text: When the experiment considered only green aphids with different symbiotic status, their distinction was allowed by symbiotyping the surviving individuals (diagnostic PCR).
ref: 2015 December 1, “Conditional Reduction of Predation Risk Associated with a Facultative Symbiont in an Insect”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To determine the type of a symbiont.
symbiotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of symbiotype
symbiotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The characterization of symbiotypes.
thioacidolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioacidolyses
Etymology: From thio- + acidolysis.
Senses: examples: text: Procyanidins were characterized by thioacidolysis to determine subunit composition, average molecular mass and the average degree of polymerization (mDP).
ref: 2015 December 1, “Cultivar and Year Rather than Agricultural Practices Affect Primary and Secondary Metabolites in Apple Fruit”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: acidolysis using a thioacid
unsynchronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + synchronization.
Senses: examples: text: Compared to back-projection, parallelization efficiency in projection is highly limited by racing condition and thread unsynchronization.
ref: 2015 December 1, “An Effective CUDA Parallelization of Projection in Iterative Tomography Reconstruction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The disruption of synchronization
huuuge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of huge.
holy catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Expressing terror, awe, surprise, astonishment, etc.
Related terms: suffering catfish