cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
come to one's senses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to one's senses
form: coming to one's senses
form: came to one's senses
form: come to one's senses
Senses: examples: text: [H]e dropped from his seat at my side, like a man struck dead. The stifling heat in the theater had proved too much for him. We carried him out at once into the fresh air. When he came to his senses, my friend entreated me to leave him, and see the end of the play.
ref: 1884, Wilkie Collins, Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper, First Epoch
text: He turned toward the door, plunged forward, fell unconscious. . . . When he came to his senses he was in his bed—comfortable, weak, lazy.
ref: 1904, David Graham Phillips, chapter 25, in The Cost:
text: The accident sent Bahutule into coma straight away. When he came to his senses, he lay in bed with a fractured right femur bone and a crushed left elbow.
ref: 2015 September 1, Aadya Sharma, “Sairaj Bahutule: Indian domestic cricket legend”, in sportskeeda.com, retrieved 02 Oct 2016:
glosses: To reawaken after having lost consciousness.
examples: text: Dick had not been altogether in his right senses. . . . He found his mother weeping as though her heart would break; whereat his own heart smote him so that he came to his senses there and then, and knelt in humility and shame at her feet.
ref: 1904, E. W. Hornung, chapter 32, in At Large:
text: "I shall never divorce you," he said, as if a nail had been driven in. . . .
She went upstairs and told Hilda the upshot.
"Better get away tomorrow," said Hilda, "and let him come to his senses."
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: Thus, after eighteen months of fantastic and ruinous warfare, the companies had come to their senses and agreed to do what they might have done at the start; the only gainers were the passengers who had been carried at ridiculously uneconomic fares.
ref: 1956 January, M. D. Greville, “Scottish Railways in 1856”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
text: "She is mad with sorrow, but maybe after a few days she will come to her senses," says one man.
ref: 2010 January 26, Bobby Ghosh, “The Haiti Earthquake”, in Time, retrieved 02 Oct 2016:
glosses: To become reasonable, comprehending, or responsible, especially after having behaved in an unreasonable, confused, uncomprehending, or irresponsible manner.
Synonyms: sense: reawaken
word: come to
sense: reawaken
word: come round
sense: become reasonable, comprehending, or responsible
word: sense
sense: become reasonable, comprehending, or responsible
word: smarten up
distalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: distalizes
form: distalizing
form: distalized
form: distalized
Senses: glosses: To move to the distal side
Derived terms: distalizer
Related terms: distalization
distalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A possible explanation for the distalizing brace effect could be that weight-bearing results in a significant increase in patellar height ratios in subjects with patellofemoral instability [ 23 ].
ref: 2015 August 19, Christoph Becher et al., “The effects of a dynamic patellar realignment brace on disease determinants for patellofemoral instability in the upright weight-bearing condition”, in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: present participle and gerund of distalize
embryonate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an embryonate plant
glosses: Having an embryo.
Derived terms: inembryonate
polyembryonate
embryonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embryonates
form: embryonating
form: embryonated
form: embryonated
Senses: examples: text: The eggs embryonate, but the larvae die before hatching ( b ).
ref: 2015 August 19, Christian Heim et al., “Inhibition of Haemonchus contortus larval development by fungal lectins”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: To produce, or to differentiate into an embryo
gastrodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + dermal.
Senses: examples: text: The gastrodermal tissue of both, in situ -labelled larvae and fixed adult sections, stained positive with lectins exhibiting toxicity, while the two lectins which had no effect on the development of larvae, Tectonin and CGL3, were negative (Fig. 2, CGL3 not shown).
ref: 2015 August 19, Christian Heim et al., “Inhibition of Haemonchus contortus larval development by fungal lectins”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the gastrodermis
glargin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Glargin insulin and short acting combination was found in 84 % of patients, while only glargin and short acting single use was observed in 14 and 2 %, respectively.
ref: 2015 August 18, Eliziane Brandão Leite, Hermelinda Cordeiro Pedrosa, Luiz Augusto Casulari, “Results of glycated hemoglobin during treatment with insulin analogues dispensed in the public health system of Federal District in Brazil”, in Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, volume 7, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of glargine.
hemicerebellectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicerebellectomies
Etymology: From hemi- + cerebellectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Within remote damage models, it is worth recalling that a similar sequential time pattern has been reported in the hemicerebellectomy (HCb) model. 10 Changes in CB2R expression occur in many models.
ref: 2014 September 4, L Latini et al., “Cannabinoid CB2 receptor (CB2R) stimulation delays rubrospinal mitochondrial-dependent degeneration and improves functional recovery after spinal cord hemisection by ERK1/2 inactivation”, in Cell Death & Disease, volume 5, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of the left or right half of the cerebellum
Synonyms: semicerebellectomy
hemoglobinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemoglobinases
Etymology: From hemoglobin + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: H11 and H-gal-GP are believed to be components of the hemoglobinase complex in the H. contortus adult gut responsible for digestion of the ingested host hemoglobin and are regarded as hidden antigens not exposed to the host immune system [ 9, 16, 17 ].
ref: 2015 August 19, Christian Heim et al., “Inhibition of Haemonchus contortus larval development by fungal lectins”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the breakdown of hemoglobin
hemoglobinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemoglobinase
heterocrosslink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterocrosslinks
Etymology: From hetero- + crosslink.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any crosslink that has a different mode of attachment at either end
heterocrosslinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These bands therefore correspond to heterocrosslinks allowing formation of dimers, trimers, tetramers and pentamers of IpaD.
ref: 2014 November 27, Martin Cheung et al., “Three-dimensional electron microscopy reconstruction and cysteine-mediated crosslinking provide a model of the type III secretion system needle tip complex”, in Molecular Microbiology, volume 95, →DOI:
glosses: plural of heterocrosslink
hyperreflecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + reflecting.
Senses: examples: text: The interobserver agreement for hyperreflecting foci (κ = 0.49), the integrity of the inner segment/outer segment band (κ = 0.49), and the internal reflectivity (κ=0.42) was lower, and no consent was found for grading the homogeneity of the drusen content (κ = 0.1).
ref: 2015, Ferdinand G. Schlanitz et al., “Identification of Drusen Characteristics in Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography”, in American Journal of Ophthalmology, volume 160, →DOI:
glosses: That reflect more than usually
isopentenyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopentenyltransferases
Etymology: From isopentenyl + transferase.
Senses: examples: text: The rate-limiting step for cytokinin biosynthesis involves a group of isopentenyltransferase (IPT) enzymes.
ref: 2015 April 23, Simon Moore et al., “Spatiotemporal modelling of hormonal crosstalk explains the level and patterning of hormones and gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type and mutant roots”, in The New Phytologist, volume 207, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that catalyses the transfer of an isopentenyl group
isopentenyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isopentenyltransferase
larvistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, during one week cultivation only the larvae exposed to MOA lectin died as a result of the treatment, while the other three lectins AAL, CCL2 and CGL2 had a larvistatic effect that manifested as L1 stage arrest (Additional file 2 : Figure S2).
ref: 2015 August 19, Christian Heim et al., “Inhibition of Haemonchus contortus larval development by fungal lectins”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: That inhibits the growth of larvae
lyratyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For instance, the main components of the essential oil from Spanish samples were camphor (29.2%), α -pinene (14.8%), lyratyl acetate (9.8%), and β -pinene (8.5%) [ 14 ].
ref: 2015 July 28, Sanaa K. Bardaweel et al., “Studies on the In Vitro Antiproliferative, Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition Activities Associated with Chrysanthemum coronarium Essential Oil”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: The monoterpenoid radical derived from lyratol
lyratol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monoterpenoid alcohol (2E)-2,5-dimethyl-4-vinyl-2,5-hexadien-1-ol
metallothioneine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The microarray and/or the bioinformatics studies disclosed that antioxidant genes (such as superoxide dismutase, metallothioneine, catalase, and glutathione S -transferase), and small heat shock protein genes are involved in the protective effects in worms [ 19, 20 ].
ref: 2015 August 18, Binggen Zhu et al., “Aiweixin, a traditional Uyghur medicinal formula, protects against chromium toxicity in caenorhabditis elegans”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of metallothionein.
nematotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nematotoxic
form: most nematotoxic
Etymology: From nemato- + toxic.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to what we know from studies in free-living nematodes, the in vitro studies reported here provide novel data regarding the effects of nematotoxic fungal lectins against H. contortus larval stages.
ref: 2015 August 19, Christian Heim et al., “Inhibition of Haemonchus contortus larval development by fungal lectins”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: That is toxic to nematodes
organopolymerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organopolymerizations
Etymology: From organo- + polymerization.
Senses: examples: text: The distinct NHO carbanionic reactivity can be expected to allow access to further highly challenging fields in organopolymerization, especially since the catalysts can be readily tailored, as shown in this study.
ref: 2015 July 1, Stefan Naumann, Anthony W Thomas, Andrew P Dove, “N-Heterocyclic Olefins as Organocatalysts for Polymerization: Preparation of Well-Defined Poly(propylene oxide)**”, in Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English), volume 54, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The polymerization of organic compounds, especially when catalysed by another organic compound.
osteoinducing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + inducing.
Senses: examples: text: For osteogenic differentiation, we incubated cells at 100 % confluency with an osteoinducing medium containing the regular culture medium further supplemented with 10 −8 M dexamethasone, 0.3 g/l L−glutamine, 10 mM β-phospherglycerol, and 50 mg/l ascorbic acid (all from Sigma-Aldrich).
ref: 2015 August 18, Qi Zhang et al., “Intralesional injection of adipose-derived stem cells reduces hypertrophic scarring in a rabbit ear model”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: That induces the formation of bone tissue
overhemisect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhemisects
form: overhemisecting
form: overhemisected
form: overhemisected
Etymology: From over- + hemisect.
Senses: glosses: To divide beyond the midline
overhemisected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Incompletely injured or overhemisected rats were subsequently eliminated from our study.
ref: 2014 September 4, L Latini et al., “Cannabinoid CB2 receptor (CB2R) stimulation delays rubrospinal mitochondrial-dependent degeneration and improves functional recovery after spinal cord hemisection by ERK1/2 inactivation”, in Cell Death & Disease, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of overhemisect
pathomorphologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patho- + morphologic.
Senses: examples: text: Imaging polarization-sensitive characteristics reveals additional aspects of drusen morphology, which might lead to better insight into pathomorphologic changes and thus into underlying pathophysiologic processes.
ref: 2015, Ferdinand G. Schlanitz et al., “Identification of Drusen Characteristics in Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography”, in American Journal of Ophthalmology, volume 160, →DOI:
glosses: Both pathologic and morphologic
phenylpropyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylpropyls
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, distinctive abundance of the phenolic fraction in the Jordanian garland oil, notably phenylpropyl butanoate, was also reported [ 17 ].
ref: 2015 July 28, Sanaa K. Bardaweel et al., “Studies on the In Vitro Antiproliferative, Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition Activities Associated with Chrysanthemum coronarium Essential Oil”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phenyl derivative of a propyl radical
polycistronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From polycistronic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: At the day of transfection, 1 × 10 7 HEK293 cells in each P15 dish (nine dishes in total) were transfected by the CaPO 4 co-precipitation method with pRSV-REV, pMD.2G, pMDGP-Lg/pRRE plasmids and a lentiviral vector (pLM-fSV2A, Addgene ID 27512 [ 18 ]) expressing the four Yamanaka factors (OCT4, KLF4, c-Myc and SOX2) polycistronically.
ref: 2015 August 18, Ran Kang et al., “Mesenchymal stem cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells retain adequate osteogenicity and chondrogenicity but less adipogenicity”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: In a polycistronic manner
postfeedback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + feedback.
Senses: examples: text: The trial ended with a postfeedback resting period of 1 s after which a new trial was started.
ref: 2015 July 28, Irma Nayeli Angulo-Sherman, David Gutiérrez, “A Link between the Increase in Electroencephalographic Coherence and Performance Improvement in Operating a Brain-Computer Interface”, in Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Following feedback
postpresentation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + presentation.
Senses: examples: text: She was treated with immunomodulatory therapy and remains well 2 years postpresentation with no new events.
ref: 2013 August 19, Abhishek Malhotra, Elizabeth Reyneke, Merrilee Needham, “Susac's syndrome: an immune mediated endotheliopathy laden with challenges and controversies”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI:
glosses: After presentation
pseudocontinent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + continent.
Senses: examples: text: Those who are on CIC and remain dry are termed as pseudocontinent.
ref: 2015 July 1, Sushmita Bhatnagar, “Anorectal Malformations (Part 3)”, in Journal of Neonatal Surgery, volume 4:
glosses: Apparently continent, especially while undergoing medication
ribogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ribo- + -genesis, from ribonucleic acid.
Senses: examples: text: Dear Editor, Nucleophosmin (NPM1) is a nucleolar protein implicated in ribogenesis, centrosome duplication and stress response. 1 NPM1 is mutated in ~30% of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. 2 Heterozygous mutations involve few base duplications or insertions in the gene's last exon.
ref: 2014 September 25, A De Cola et al., “AML cells carrying NPM1 mutation are resistant to nucleophosmin displacement from nucleoli caused by the G-quadruplex ligand TmPyP4”, in Cell Death & Disease, volume 5, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The biogenesis of RNA
tripropylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripropylamines
Senses: examples: text: The ruthenium-based tag is used in combination with an enhancer, tripropylamine.
ref: 2015 August 18, Agnetha Folestad et al., “IL-17 cytokines in bone healing of diabetic Charcot arthropathy patients: a prospective 2 year follow-up study”, in Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, volume 8, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The tertiary amine (CH₃-CH₂-CH₂)₃N (or any isomeric compound)
tuberositas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Six commonly used disease determinants defined by patellofemoral indices (Insall–Salvati Index, Caton–Deschamps Index, Patellotrochlear Index, bisect offset, patella tilt angle, tuberositas tibiae–trochlear groove (TT–TG) distance) were assessed by MRI.
ref: 2015 August 19, Christoph Becher et al., “The effects of a dynamic patellar realignment brace on disease determinants for patellofemoral instability in the upright weight-bearing condition”, in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of tuberosity.
synonyms: word: tuberosity
vitaminosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitaminoses
Etymology: From vitamin + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: The definitions of hypo vitaminosis or hyper vitaminosis are more controversial.
ref: 2015 August 19, Dylan T. Dahlquist, Brad P. Dieter, Michael S. Koehle, “Plausible ergogenic effects of vitamin D on athletic performance and recovery”, in Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, volume 12, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease caused by the presence of (excess) vitamins
Derived terms: hypervitaminosis
normovitaminosis
presstitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From presstitute + -ion, or blend of press + prostitution.
Senses: glosses: Biased reporting that serves a particular agenda.
vitaminoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitaminosis
tripropylamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripropylamine
profilee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profilees
Etymology: From profile + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, no study looks at whether support for profiling is tempered when the profilee is expressly described as an American citizen or whether respondents would treat all people who look Arab or Muslim the same regardless of whether they are U.S. citizens.
ref: 2010, Deborah J. Schildkraut, Americanism in the Twenty-First Century, page 84:
glosses: A person who is profiled.
examples: text: The first is that once you request in-process debugging, the profilee will run slower.
ref: 2003, John Robbins, Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program undergoing profiling.
Related terms: debuggee
profilees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profilee
parenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parenter
Sputnik moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sputnik moment
optical black hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical black holes
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon in which slow light is passed through a Bose-Einstein condensate that is itself spinning faster than the local speed of light within to create a vortex capable of trapping the light behind an event horizon, just as a gravitational black hole would.
optical black holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optical black hole
envenomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envenomers
Etymology: From envenom + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which envenoms.
envenomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envenomer
unstoically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unstoically
form: most unstoically
Senses: glosses: Without stoicism.
unstoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstoic
form: most unstoic
Etymology: From un- + stoic.
Senses: glosses: Not stoic.
unstoical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstoical
form: most unstoical
Etymology: From un- + stoical.
Senses: glosses: Not stoical.
magickian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magickians
Etymology: Blend of magick + magician
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of occult magick.
magickians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magickian
Minerval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minervals
Senses: glosses: A member of the early Bavarian Illuminati, ranking above a novice.
Minervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Minerval
AMORC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.
effeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effeminists
Etymology: Blend of effeminate + feminist
Senses: examples: text: The effeminists have reported that the Effeminist Manifesto, the second piece in this section, "condensed itself in our minds as the best expression of our own committed politics."
ref: 1977, Jon Snodgrass, For men against sexism: a book of readings, page 112:
glosses: A member of a male homosexual movement opposing prejudices against effeminate behaviour.
Related terms: effeminism
effeminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effeminist
churn and burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A union-busting tactic where a business focuses on hiring new workers who are not unionists, so that the influence of the union will gradually decrease as its supporters leave.
Zos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The individual human body and mind, in the dualist occultism of Austin Osman Spare.
Coordinate terms: Kia
Babalon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: From the mud ov the earth / Back to the womb ov Babalon
ref: 2009, Behemoth, The Seed ov I:
glosses: A goddess in the mystical system of Thelema, representing the female sexual impulse.
Related terms: Babylon
surazo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surazos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish surazo.
Senses: synonyms: friaje
glosses: A cold polar wind in parts of South America.
surazos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surazo
friaje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friajes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish friaje
Senses: glosses: Synonym of surazo.
synonyms: word: surazo
friajes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friaje
equinoctial colures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equinoctial colure
solstitial colures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solstitial colure
effeminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The effeminist movement.
glosses: effeminacy
trans-testicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans-testicles
Etymology: Blend of transsexual + testicle
Senses: examples: text: He's got to get hired first, never apply for just 1 department, with around 3% of applicants getting hired you're always better off applying everywhere that's taking applications that could take a year unless he's a really a blue/green trans-testicle that speaks 3 languages. If he's a white male, good luck!!
ref: 1998, Festus, “Northern California CHP”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet):
text: All of you cross-posting, cross-dressing trans-testicles come out of the woodwork late at night. Why is that? Slow night at the bath house?
ref: 2009, Mad Ape, “Re: Montreal fans are Euro Homos”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.mtl-canadiens (Usenet):
text: How do you tell the trans-testicle apart from the dude who's just taking advantage of the law by donning a wig and a dress to get his jollies?
ref: 2016, BTR1701, “Re: ESPN fires Curt Schilling over unacceptable comments”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
glosses: A male-to-female transsexual person.
trans-testicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trans-testicle
untriacontanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untriacontane
untricked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tricked.
Senses: glosses: Not tricked out; not dressed or ornamented in an elaborate way; unadorned.
gullings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulling
monocolour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + colour.
Senses: glosses: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and UK standard spelling of monocolor.
green 'uns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green 'un
pink 'uns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink 'un
panty girdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panty girdle
smoke proof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːf
Forms: form: smoke proofs
Senses: examples: text: Progress was observed from time to time by holding the end of the punch in the sooty flame of a candle or lamp and by pressing it on slightly damp paper to make a smoke proof.
ref: 2009, James Mosley, edited by Michael F Suarez and Michael L Turner, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge, published 2014, page 171:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A temporary print made from a thin coating of carbon deposited on the punch surface by a candle flame, used in evaluating the progress of the design of the punch.
smoke proofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke proof
Telamon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛləmən/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τελαμών (Telamṓn, literally “the bearer”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Father of Ajax, brother of Peleus.
nephrolithotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrolithotomy
multiwormer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiwormers
Etymology: From multi- + wormer.
Senses: glosses: A dewormer that treats an animal for multiple kinds of worm.
multiwormers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiwormer
inbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inbear
inbears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inbear
PDFize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: PDFizes
form: PDFizing
form: PDFized
form: PDFized
Etymology: From PDF + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Printing a file to PDF is really simple. Just open the file you want to PDF-ize, and select Print in the File menu of the application for that document.
ref: 2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 154:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert (a file) to PDF format.
manizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmænaɪzə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: manizers
Etymology: Blend of man + womanizer.
Senses: examples: text: If the Apocalyptic Aphrodisiac were to come, men would become womanizers, women would become manizers, and our ability to defend ourselves as a nation would crumble.
ref: 2013, Lorenzo Baccala, The Man Who Made Love to More Women Than Casanova: And the Apocalyptic Aphrodisiac, Author House, →ISBN, page 178:
text: Let me tell you that what I call the manizers have come to town! […] Though I am not an expert on women, I have made many observations over the years.
ref: 2010, Stephen L. DeFelice, The Attack on the White Male: And the Weakening of America-, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Blue was not as good a 'womanizer' as the rest of us, (surrounded, as we were, by 'manizers,') but he was a great guy to run into for a drink and a story, and a good friend and observer of the rest of us.
ref: 2009, Dick Huser, My Anxiety Is Better Than Your Anxiety, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: Worse yet, they could be stuck raising offspring with a man they despise. I have met some women in their forties recently that I could tag as “manizers.” Still, they are not nearly as ruthless as womanizers are.
ref: 2010, Phil Torcivia, Nick Street, Still a Nice Guy, Phil Torcivia, →ISBN:
text: “Marcia, I used to have a husband just like Dick. He was a womanizer while Dick is a manizer. He was irresponsible just like Dick.”
ref: 2016, Nancy Price, Black Ballers, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN:
glosses: A person, especially a woman, who frequently seduces men
dialog window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialog windows
Senses: examples: text: In the Print dialog window that then appears, click the drop-down menu button where your printer is listed and select Print to File (PDF), as shown in Figure 9-17.
ref: 2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 154:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dialog box.
dialog windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialog window
Cap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of captain.
Senses: examples: text: "But listen, Cap!" he protested, momentarily falling out of his role as Midshipman Hornblower. "I haven't got any place else to go! This is where I sleep, where else do you want me to write my letters?"
ref: 1967, Jan de Hartog, The Captain:
glosses: A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc.
examples: text: ‘Hi Cap! Is that the moving picture ship?’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 2:
text: “I'd take Vernon Dewey for my team any day.” “And their quarterback can throw,” Cap pointed out. “But we did all right, huh, Grandpa?” “You did fine,” Tully replied. “All of you did real well.” “Cap, you can throw ...”
ref: 2009, Matt Christopher, Long Arm Quarterback: A New Football Team Sparks an Old Rivalry, →ISBN:
text: “Well, Cap, you seem to be a nice gentleman from a good family, but I wished you had come to me and my wife and talked to me before you two started making all these decisions.”
ref: 2018, Ken Kenthomas, Mr. Black Johnson She Worshiped, →ISBN:
glosses: A nickname for a man generally.
Cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caps
Etymology: Clipping of Capricorn.
Senses: examples: text: Caps are also naturally inclined towards stability and security—they're totally different from noncommittal Sagittarius men. If you're looking for someone who's ready to commit rather than stay in a situationship, odds are that he might be a Capricorn.
ref: 2022 December 8, Jake Register, “Everything You Need to Know About Dating a Capricorn Man”, in Cosmopolitan:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Clipping of Capricorn.
Related terms: Cap-enese
spicewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spicewise
form: most spicewise
form: spice-wise
Etymology: From spice + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: I was born in the southwest of France, and we get a lot of influence from Spain, spicewise.
ref: 2012, Lisa Skye, I Love Corn:
text: I love to bite into a cookie and have it bite me back, spicewise!
ref: 2013, Charlotte Hubbard, Naomi King, An Amish Country Christmas:
text: Have ad lunch. Chilli again. Hot. And I don't just mean spice-wise. It was actually served hot.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Robinson, IN IT:
glosses: In a manner relating to or concerning spice(s)
spicelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spicelike
form: most spicelike
Etymology: From spice + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like or resembling a spice
examples: text: The DEA has banned some basic types, but much research needs to be done. Some states have instituted bans on spice and spicelike products.
ref: 2016, Rosalind Charlesworth, Understanding Child Development:
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Like or resembling (in constitution, use, effects, etc.) spice (synthetic marijuana)
spicish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspɪk.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: more spicish
form: most spicish
form: Spicish
Etymology: From spic + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Either that, or he was just feeling guilty for foolishly having sided up with the Gangsters from the beginning; and, in doing so, he was constantly having to put on a fake spicish act just to fit in.
ref: 2011, Mike Scott, Great American Youth: A True Saga:
glosses: Characteristic of a spic (person of Hispanic descent)
Tench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unends
form: unending
form: unended
form: unended
Etymology: From un- (prefix denoting reversal) + end (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Rather, it interrupts every origin and end, every essence and form, unends every end.
ref: 1996, Stephen David Ross, The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art:
text: [...] it was more likely that Aunt Lily still was not surfeit of her 60's attire, ignored every clothes brokerage for it, still wore it to unend an era she had a deeply personal attachment to, for no other reason than that her newlywed days had also blossomed at that time.
ref: 2009, William Penn, Love in The Time of Flowers:
text: Indeterminacy of texts and interpretation, that is, puncturing any tendency to lock texts and their interpretation into exactitude. The task of the hermeneute is to unend the interpretation as no interpretation is fixed.
ref: 2016, Oral A. W. Thomas, Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics Within a Caribbean Context:
glosses: To undo or reverse the end or ending of
unend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unends
Etymology: From un- (“lack of”) + end (noun).
Senses: examples: text: First halves of life are oft' spent spending—on / Unends of refuse, you seldom will use.
ref: 2010, Alfred Colo, Laughing Matters:
text: She listened and listened to unend.
ref: 2016, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor:
glosses: Absence or lack of ending; continuation; infinity
blicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blicant
form: most blicant
Etymology: From Middle English blycande, blykkande, blikande, variants of blikiende, blikinde (“shining”), equivalent to blike + -and.
Senses: glosses: shining; bright
ah ah ah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: admonition
ipa: [(ʔ)ʌ̃˨.ʔʌ̃˧ˈʔʌ̃ː˦˥˦]
note: vampire laugh
ipa: [ˈʔa.ʔa.ʔa]
Senses: examples: text: Ah ah ah! You didn't say the magic word!
ref: 1993, David Koepp, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, spoken by Nedry (Wayne Knight), Amblin Entertainment; distributed by Universal Pictures, published 1993:
text: Ah, ah, ah, not so fast. I've got a few more questions for you, buddy.
ref: 1994, Q. Woodward, Swipe's Demise:
related: word: eh eh eh
synonyms: bup bup bup
glosses: An admonition to slow down; not so fast, hold your horses.
examples: text: At one point the count even helped me practice my numbers, as we counted puppet bats together on the children's television program Sesame Street, singing out, “ONE, TWO, THREE, AH AH AH AH AH!
ref: 2011, Brian Righi, Vampires Through the Ages:
text: Play Vampires are not the "I want to suck your blood" vampires or the "Vont to Buy My Chocolate Cereal" vampires or the "Oh, he's so dreamy and complicated and mysterious and dangerous and bad for me but I love him” vampires, or the “One banana ah-ah-ah . . . two bananas ah-ah-ah . . . three bananas ah-ah-ah. . . .Three! Three bananas!" vampires.
ref: 2013, Denita Dinger, Jeff A. Johnson, Let Them Play: An Early Learning (Un)Curriculum, page 93:
text: President Trump’s repeated calls to “Stop the Count!” of votes in undecided states are being met by a purple face familiar from many people’s childhoods: Count von Count from “Sesame Street.” Ah! Ah! Ah!
ref: 2020 November 5, Steve Annear, “Sesame Street’s Count von Count has become an election meme as tallies in key states drag on”, in The Boston Globe:
glosses: The stereotypical laugh of a vampire, after Bela Lugosi's performance as Dracula in the 1931 film of the same name.
recover one's senses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recovers one's senses
form: recovering one's senses
form: recovered one's senses
form: recovered one's senses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of come to one's senses.
synonyms: word: come to one's senses
regain one's senses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regains one's senses
form: regaining one's senses
form: regained one's senses
form: regained one's senses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of come to one's senses.
synonyms: word: come to one's senses
come back to one's senses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes back to one's senses
form: coming back to one's senses
form: came back to one's senses
form: come back to one's senses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of come to one's senses.
synonyms: word: come to one's senses
return to one's senses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: returns to one's senses
form: returning to one's senses
form: returned to one's senses
form: returned to one's senses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of come to one's senses.
synonyms: word: come to one's senses
bags for life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag for life
umaminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From umami + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Even though savory umaminess is not often acknowledged as a major player in the taste of wine, I consistently find that I am magnetically attracted to wines that show a slight briny, minerally tinge or that exhibit meaty, savory flavors.
ref: 2012, Caitlin Stansbury, Heidi Shink, Wineocology: Uncork The Power Of Your Palate With Sensory Secrets From Hollywood's Sommelier:
glosses: The property of having the umami taste.
Synonyms: savoriness
cut someone dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts someone dead
form: cutting someone dead
form: cut someone dead
form: cut someone dead
Senses: examples: where he used to cut them dead, he now helps them on with their coats
glosses: To completely ignore someone.
Synonyms: cut someone cold
snub
ignore
shun
give someone the cold shoulder
cold-shoulder
turn one's back on
look right through
send to Coventry
give someone the brush-off
keking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kek
PDFizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of PDFize
PDFizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of PDFize
PDFized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of PDFize
permissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permiss
permissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of permiss
overhemisects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhemisect
overhemisecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhemisect
fairsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fairsome
form: most fairsome
Etymology: From fair + -some.
Senses: examples: text: That love for which thy heart does burn / Is nought but foolish vanity. / A fairsome image was my choice; [...]
ref: 1873, A. E. Kroeger, The Minnesinger of Germany:
text: Yet still I love the fairsome — why? / For nothing but to please my eye: …
ref: 1902, Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert) Runkle, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
text: Bid the women stoke the fire, for we'll have company at breakfast—a fairsome brace, and a fearsome face, whose foul fit should give him monstrous appetite!
ref: 2001, Scott Lynch-Giddings, A Fancyfull Historie of That Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood:
glosses: Characterised by fairness or beauty; characteristically fair; attractive
hardsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardsome
form: most hardsome
Etymology: From hard + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a hardsome face on a story.
ref: 1854, Leigh Hunt, Essays and Miscellanies:
text: Her daily life is very hardsome and full of continuous labour.
ref: 1992, Bhanu Pratap Chaurasia, Women's Status in India: Policies and Programmes:
glosses: Characterised by hardness; stern; severe; difficult
trotyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: trinitrotoluene, TNT
fleen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English flen; equivalent to flea + -en (plural ending).
Senses: glosses: plural of flea
5W
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 5Ws
form: W5
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: Initialism of five Ws: who, what, when, where, why, how (the facts of the matter).
W5s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of W5
5Ws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 5W
Related terms: five W's
pour down the drain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pours down the drain
form: pouring down the drain
form: poured down the drain
form: poured down the drain
Senses: glosses: To waste prior work by subsequent bad decisions.
indirect election
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: indirect elections
Senses: glosses: An election process in which elected persons (directly elected by voters) who will then vote and elect their choice of president.
indirect elections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indirect election
direct election
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct elections
Senses: glosses: An election process in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons, or political party that they desire to see elected.
direct elections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direct election
cuts someone dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut someone dead
cutting someone dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut someone dead
aëroport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.əɹ.əpɔɹt/
Forms: form: aëroports
Etymology: From aër- + -o- + port.
Senses: examples: text: And I herewith covenant with the said assignee that I will proceed forthwith and contract said two aëroports according to my proposition and prospectus published in the National Intelligencer of the 19th of March, 1852, and to keep the said large aëroport in repair for 20 years.
ref: 1908, American Machinist, volume 31, Doubleday, Page & Company, page 750:
text: For, after careful calculation, he reported that: “It appears certain that a safe and durable aërial ship (or aëroport) capable of carrying 150 passengers at a speed of ninety miles an hour, with more perfect safety than either steamboat or railroad cards, may be constructed for $15,000, and that the expense of running it would not exceed $25 per day.”
ref: 1911, Albert Francis Zahm, Aërial Navigation, page 87:
glosses: Dated form of aeroport.
unends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unend
unends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unend
aëroports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aëroport