cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eco-apartheid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-apartheids
Senses: examples: text: For example, a nine-page entry on "Lifestyle" examines the connection between pollution and a consumer lifestyle and "eco-apartheid," the costs of material growth paid by the urban poor.
ref: 2004, School Library Journal - Volume 50, Issues 4-6:
text: Using empirical evidence from the published literature, as well as the author's own practical experience conducting community-based participatory research in Berkeley, the author applies the eco-apartheid conceptual framework to the city of Berkely.
ref: 2012, Advances in Environment Research and Application:
text: Humanity stands at a crossroad. One road continues on the path of eco-apartheid and eco-imperialism, of commodification of the earth, her resources and processes.
ref: 2013, Jack Appleton, Values in Sustainable Development:
text: It is a call to arms to the readers, to take action in order to stop socio-environmental degradation and related eco-apartheids before it is too late and drastic measures (such as sabotaging dams) need to be taken.
ref: 2016, M. Pérez Ramos, The Water Apocalypse: Utopian Desert Venice Cities and Arcologies in Southwestern Dystopian Fiction:
glosses: Alternative form of ecoapartheid.
ecoapartheid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecoapartheids
Etymology: From eco- + apartheid.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, the growing ecological sacrifice and segregation (“ecoapartheid”) of the world's people along economic and racial lines have led to charges of environmental racism and calls for environmental justice in countries as economically and socially disparate as South Africa and the United States.
ref: 2008, Daniel Faber, Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice, page 210:
text: If these practices are not directed by and toward principles of equity, then they will almost certainly end up reinforcing patterns of ecoapartheid.
ref: 2011, Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City:
text: The conflict and contest between the two systems—one based on ecoimperalism, bioimperialism, and ecoapartheid, the other based on earth democracy and biodemocracy, will intensify over the next decade.
ref: 2015, Vandana Shiva, The Vandana Shiva Reader:
text: Ecoapartheid is just a speed bump on the road to ecoapocalypse.
ref: 2016, Van Jones, “Making the Green Economy Work for Everyone”, in Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change:
glosses: A pattern in which poor and minority populations suffer more from environmental degradation than wealthy people.
ecoapartheids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoapartheid
eco-apartheids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-apartheid
ecoapocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecoapocalypses
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, through the study of cautionary tales of ecoapocalypses, a more beneficial conceptualization of the relationship between humankind and the natural environment can be envisioned.
ref: 2008, Miguel López-Lozano, Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares, page 231:
text: Although The Road certainly addresses ecological issues, I would argue that it does so on a subliminal level, since it does so without relapsing to a straightforward use of ecoapocalypse.
ref: 2016, Sebastian Huber, Subject of the Event: Reagency in the American Novel after 2000:
text: Ecoapartheid is just a speed bump on the road to ecoapocalypse.
ref: 2016, Van Jones, “Making the Green Economy Work for Everyone”, in Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change:
glosses: Alternative form of eco-apocalypse.
ecoapocalypses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoapocalypse
eco-apocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-apocalypses
Senses: examples: text: Many scenarios are possible, some of them ghastly—including the eco-apocalypses imagined in Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road or the 2006 film Children of Men.
ref: 2009 -, Best Australian Political Writing 2009, page 296:
text: They talked about war, poverty, music, films, property prices, and eco-apocalypse (especially that).
ref: 2012, Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk:
text: If strategic realism is largely a discourse of the Right, its Left complement is located largely in eco-apocalypse discourse.
ref: 2017, Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer, Energy Humanities: An Anthology:
glosses: An apocalyptic destruction of the Earth's environment.
eco-apocalypses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-apocalypse
boyfriend-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boyfriend-ish
form: most boyfriend-ish
Senses: examples: text: She sounded so forlorn I knew something boyfriend-ish had happened.
ref: 2007, Carol Shenold, Privy to Murder:
text: “Although she knows I adore her,” he added, giving me a boyfriend-ish squeeze.
ref: 2008, Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince:
glosses: Alternative spelling of boyfriendish.
ecoimperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After producing countries' initial resentment of what was perceived as "developed countries' ecoimperialism" and/or an attempt to restrict timber market access, several timber producing countries have recognized that certification is a market reality and might even offer competitive advantages to those that pursue it.
ref: 1995, Panayotis N. Varangis, Rachel Crossley, Carlos A. Primo Braga, Is there a commercial case for tropical timber certification?, page 4:
text: The South charges the North with 'ecoimperialism', arguing that Northern colonial attitudes are nowadays expressed in ecotourist visits to human zoos and (perhaps worse still) to wildlife reserves that exclude those people who previously made their livings there.
ref: 1999, Peter Calvert, Susan Calvert, The South, the North, and the Environment, page 188:
text: However, since the mandarins have articulated whaling as an issue involving preservation of cultural diversity and a nationalistic rebuff to US ecoimperialism, the prospects for reconciliation and compromise are remote.
ref: 2004, Jeff Kingston, Japan's Quiet Transformation:
text: In practical terms, too, the fact that such suggestions often come from developed countries that have previously all but destroyed their own forests in the course of their development can quickly be interpreted as 'ecoimperialism'.
ref: 2013, Nick Middleton, The Global Casino:
text: Fundamentally, ecoimperialism undermines the capacity of people to escape poverty.
ref: 2017, Fred E. Jandt, An Introduction to Intercultural Communication:
glosses: Alternative form of eco-imperialism.
eco-imperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Such types of transnational regulation may in themselves be controversial in the sense that the EU in reality seeks to regulate potential negative effects of biomass production not only within their own jurisdiction but also in other countries which may raise the issue of 'eco-imperialism' (Lin, 2012).
ref: 2012, Thomas Potthast, Simon Meisch, Climate change and sustainable development, page 230:
text: Humanity stands at a crossroad. One road continues on the path of eco-apartheid and eco-imperialism, of commodification of the earth, her resources and processes.
ref: 2013, Jack Appleton, Values in Sustainable Development:
text: However, eco-imperialism is negatively affecting people in developed as well as underdeveloped nations.
ref: 2016, Immanuel Ness, Zak Cope, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism:
glosses: The imposition of ecological policies on developing countries by wealthy developed countries.
muogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muogenic
form: most muogenic
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Formed by muons.
yoho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: See yo-ho-ho.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yo-ho-ho.
synonyms: word: yo-ho-ho
the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Jamaican Creole cow neva know di use a 'im tail till 'im lose it.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of you never miss the water till the well runs dry.
synonyms: word: you never miss the water till the well runs dry
attack is the best form of defense
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of attack is the best form of defence.
Wolv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Wolverhampton taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: University of Wolverhampton, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
ecoimperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecoimperialist
form: most ecoimperialist
Etymology: From eco- + imperialist.
Senses: examples: text: Given the potential differences in norms, an appeal to moral obligation regarding GHG emissions limits could even backfire, if it were seen in China as patronizing and ecoimperialist.
ref: 2007, Jonathan B Wiener, “Climate change policy and policy change in China”, in UCLA Law Review:
text: Many ecodependent organizations started out with a focus on conservation but have shifted their agendas over time as ecoimperialist organizations moved toward “sustainable development.”
ref: 2016, Tammy L. Lewis, Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions:
text: Outlines of a systemic relation between society and ecology are evident with the theoretical innovations underlying the ecoimperialist and colonialist critiques.
ref: 2017, Paul Thompson, Environmental Justice:
glosses: Alternative form of eco-imperialist.
ecoimperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecoimperialists
Etymology: From eco- + imperialist.
Senses: examples: text: Countries of the South, as a result of years of intense criticism of their forestry, have accused Greenpeace and many of the more visible European and North American activists. as ecoimperialists.
ref: 1993, The Forestry Chronicle - Volume 69, page 132:
text: The urge to ignore the views of other countries or to be “ecoimperialists” is strong, especially considering that the United States is currently the only so-called superpower on Earth.
ref: 1998, William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, page 338:
text: Some have suggested that environmentalists (conservationists in particular) from the global North are “ecoimperialists,” who have ignored the needs of indigenous people in favor of protecting the environment (Guha and Martinez-Alier 1997).
ref: 2011, Tammy L. Lewis, “Global Civil Society and the distribution of environmental goods: Funding for environmental NGOs in Ecuador”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Alternative form of eco-imperialist.
ecoimperialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoimperialist
eco-imperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eco-imperialist
form: most eco-imperialist
Senses: examples: text: On the one hand, the types of technical regulations discussed above are not eco-imperialist, since they specify the nature of the product itself - it must be packaged a certain way, or must be recyclable - rather than how the product is produced.
ref: 2002, Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Trade and Environment: Difficult Policy Choices at the Interface:
text: The position of Malaysia was fervently defended by then Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, defining the discourse on “environmental justice”, and upholding the right to development of the countries in the South, against the “eco-imperialist” position of wealthy countries of the North.
ref: 2010, Lye Liang Fook, Chen Gang, Towards A Liveable And Sustainable Urban Environment, page 164:
text: This eco-imperialist logic was expounded by Larry Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, in his 1991 memo to a senior World Bank official.
ref: 2014, Toyin Falola, Emmanuel M. Mbah, Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor, page 142:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to eco-imperialism.
eco-imperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-imperialists
Senses: examples: text: International environmental activists are condemned as racist "eco-imperialists" and domestic activists are Malaysia's "Number 1 traitors."
ref: 1992, Defending the Earth: Abuses of Human Rights and the Environment:
text: Like the European imperialists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Driessen claims, today's eco-imperialists keep developing countries destitute for the benefit of the developed world.
ref: 2007, U.C. Mandal, Dictionary Of Public Administration, page 147:
text: In his book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, Paul Driessen (2005) argues that present-day eco-imperialists are similar to European imperialists of the seventeenth century in that they attempt to keep developing countries poor for the benefit of the developed world.
ref: 2013, Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld, Dana R. Fisher, Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change, page 60:
glosses: A person or country that engages in eco-imperialism.
eco-imperialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-imperialist
ahnentafel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ahnentafel (literally “ancestors table”).
Senses: examples: text: To avoid the difficulties caused by this inventive numbering, three basic numbering formats are widely accepted in genealogical circles: the ahnentafel system for ascending genealogies, and the Register and NGS Quarterly systems for […]
ref: 2006, Kimberly Powell, The Everything Family Tree Book: Research And Preserve Your Family History, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: One well-known numbering system is called ahnentafel, which means “ancestor” (ahnen) and “table” (tafel) in German. You may also hear the ahnentafel system referred to as the Sosa-Stradonitz system (the names get easier, trust us) […]
ref: 2008, Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm, Genealogy Online For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: A genealogical numbering system for listing a person's direct ancestors.
wikipedia: Michaël Eytzinger
monoalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From mono- + alveolar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a single alveolus, or to only one of the two lungs
monodialectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + dialectal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or speaking, a single dialect
motiligram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motiligrams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kymogram.
synonyms: word: kymogram
motiligrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motiligram
mucotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muco- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: That affects mucus (or its production)
multianalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + analytical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or using, multiple methods of analysis
multifucosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + fucosylated.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: fucosylated in multiple locations
Related terms: multifucosylation
multiparasitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + parasitized.
Senses: glosses: infested with multiple types of parasite
mycalamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycalamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of antiviral amides present in sponges of the genus Mycale.
mycorrhizally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a mycorrhizal manner
myoactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + activity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being myoactive
myoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + active.
Senses: glosses: That is active in muscle tissue
myocytoskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + cytoskeletal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cytoskeleton of muscle tissue
myopiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of myopiagenic.
myrmecofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myrmeco- + fauna.
Senses: glosses: ant fauna
TCON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈti.kən/
Forms: form: TCONs
form: Tcon
form: T-con
Etymology: From timing controller.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: display timing controller circuit (ASIC or FPGA)
WHR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WHRs
Senses: examples: text: Women described as the most attractive in studies had a WHR of 0.7, and women with 0.7 WHR were found to conceive more easily.
ref: 2019, Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money:
glosses: Initialism of waist-hip ratio.
glosses: Initialism of waist-height ratio.
pubelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pubeless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Even Kenny Hodgman—Jack's last ally in eighth-grade pubelessness—seemed to have betrayed him.
ref: 2018, Chris Miles, Spurt, page 29:
text: Why would men find pubelessness sexy?
ref: 2019, Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money:
glosses: Lack of pubic hair.
nanocompartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocompartments
Etymology: From nano- + compartment.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale compartment.
nanocompartments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocompartment
nanocrystallize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nanocrystallizes
form: nanocrystallizing
form: nanocrystallized
form: nanocrystallized
Etymology: From nano- + crystallize.
Senses: glosses: To crystallize and form nanocrystals
Related terms: nanocrystallization
nanocrystallized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nanocrystallize
nefelometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nephelometric.
nematophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematophores
Senses: glosses: A polyp, in some hydrozoans, that contains nematocysts
Derived terms: nematophorous
nematophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nematophore
nematotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematothecas
form: nematothecae
Senses: glosses: A stem, in some hydroids, from which nematophores develop
Related terms: nematothecal
nematothecate
nematothecae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nematotheca
nematothecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nematothecae
nematothecate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of, or having nematothecae
neobergamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of linalyl acetate (“3,7-dimethylocta-1,6-dien-3-yl acetate”).
synonyms: word: linalyl acetate
extra: 3,7-dimethylocta-1,6-dien-3-yl acetate
neoteleostian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of neoteleostean.
nephropathogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nephro- + pathogenicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nephropathogenic
neurohomeostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + homeostasis.
Senses: glosses: The homeostasis of neurons
neuroinductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroinductors
Etymology: From neuro- + inductor.
Senses: glosses: Anything that induces the production and development of neurons
neuroinductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroinductor
neuroketal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroketals
Etymology: From neuro- + ketal.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of ketals, produced via the biosynthesis of neuroprostane, that induce crosslinking in proteins
neuroketals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroketal
neuromechanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + mechanic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuromechanical.
freakhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freak + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: His assertion infuriates my mother, who denies Cymry's freakhood and calls her a gift from God.
ref: 2003, Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas:
text: While this hypersexual signalling gains much interest from people, it does not lead to a more satisfying sex life, more a kind of freakhood.
ref: 2019, Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money:
glosses: The fact or state of being a freak.
Marnese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marnese
form: most Marnese
Senses: examples: text: [...] a Marnese boat is 37 metres long [...]
ref: 1825, The History of Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, page 463:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Marne.
Wyrd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Wyrd (“Fate”).
Senses: examples: text: Both Wyrd (2574, 2526) and the Mighty Maker (979) measure out dooms, though God is said to control fate (1056).
ref: 1925, Caroline Harris Stevens, The Treatment of Death in Anglo-Saxon Poetry, page 18:
text: No one spoke of where he had gone, or of how he had ended his days. Wyrd had doomed him to die.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 31:
text: At last she spoke, “My name is Anawin. I am the valla. I am the keeper of secrets. I am the teller of truths. I speak for the Wyrd, the three goddesses of fate. I speak for past, for present, for future. What is it that you wish to know?”
ref: 2007, Holly Taylor, Crimson Fire: Book Two in the Dreamer's Cycle Series:
text: He recognises these women, and with dawning realization so do I. The Queen within, is the Wyrd, Goddess of chance, destiny and death.
ref: 2015, CJ Moseley, Chronoclysm: The Paradox War:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Old English deity, goddess of fate.
semi-equally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: semiequally
Senses: glosses: Almost equally.
semiequally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of semi-equally.
Lazarescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lazarescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Lăzărescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Stefanescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stefanescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Ștefănescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Simionescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Simionescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Simionescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
noctophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nocto- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nyctophobia.
synonyms: word: nyctophobia
Iacobescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iacobescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Iacobescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Florescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Florescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Florescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
sociophonological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to sociophonology.
monolingualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monolingual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being monolingual.
bilingualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bilingual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being bilingual.
Negrescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Negrescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Negrescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Radulescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Radulescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Rădulescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Grigorescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grigorescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Grigorescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
water fear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water fears
form: water-fear
Etymology: From water + fear.
Senses: examples: text: Both men and animals afflicted with rabies dread the appearance of water or any other liquid; hence the term, hydrophobia, or water-fear.
ref: 1921, Harold Melvin Stanford, The Standard Reference Work:
text: Those colloids which absorb considerable water are hydrophyllic colloids, that is, water-fond colloids; while those which absorb but little or none are hydrophobic colloids, that is, water-fear colloids.
ref: 1926, Principles of General Pharmacy and Chemistry:
text: This symptom which gave rise to the term hydrophobia or water-fear is the foundation of the cold water "cure."
ref: 1958, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany - Volume 1, Issues 3-4, page 54:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lack of affinity for water; hydrophobia.
examples: text: One type of water fear harbored by many youngsters is directly traceable to an unfortunate childhood experience.
ref: 1947, The Journal of Health and Physical Education, volume 18, page 304:
text: […] flick of hair a silly song waving
out of the waterfear.
ref: 1969, Nimrod - Volume 7, Issue 1, page 19:
text: This latter possibility seems particularly plausible from the perspective of the nonassociative model of water fear described previously.
ref: 2001, Michael W. Vasey, Mark R. Dadds, The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety, page 195:
text: The Lewis (1974) study of water fears also tested another variant of the modeling approach, participant modeling, in which the model carries out the feared activity with the fearful person.
ref: 2004, John R. Weisz, Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents:
text: We are not aware of any careful cross-cultural or developmental work showing that water fear is innate, however.
ref: 2006, Michelle Genevieve Craske, Dirk Hermans, Debora Vansteenwegen, Fear and Learning: From Basic Processes to Clinical Implications:
text: Although the modeling-plus-participation treatment was the most effective in the reduction of water fears, both modeling alone and participation alone were more effective than a no-treatment control condition.
ref: 2013, Benjamin B. Lahey, Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, volume 1, page 310:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, fear.
Related terms: water-fearing
water fears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water fear
water-fear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-fears
Etymology: From water + fear.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water fear.
night fear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night fears
form: nightfear
form: night-fear
Etymology: From night + fear.
Senses: examples: text: […] just as Rainer complained he never had a childhood — what luck! — never to have suffered birthpang, nightfear, cradlecap, cold lake in your lung; never to have practiced scales or sat numbly before the dentist's hum or picked your mother up from the floor she's bled and wept and puked on; […]
ref: 1983, Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions:
text: At night, the sounds were different, no less pitiful. Screams from nightmare and nightfear.
ref: 2004, Gail Sidonie Sobat, A Winter's Tale, page 101:
text: All this time, O thanks to worldcasts on the gloopy TV and, more, lewdies' night-fear through lack of night-police, dead lay the street.
ref: 1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2012, →ISBN, page 66:
text: As the twenty-first century dawns, humanity is beginning to recover from its night-fear.
ref: 2013, Greogory L. Matloff, Deep-Space Probes, page 25:
glosses: The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
examples: text: It has required much British resolution to overcome the night-fear of going out into the unhallowed ground of matter-of-fact, where the farthest earlier excursions of the governmental agencies had taken them no farther than such financial transactions as are incident to the accomplishment of anything whatever in a commercial nation.
ref: 1917, Thorstein Veblen, An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation, page 251:
text: A new form of fear within me—the real night-fear of the unknown, my honest doubt as to whether we would survive.
ref: 2014, Barry Blanchard, The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains:
qualifier: literal
glosses: A fear or terror that one typically has at night.
Synonyms: sense: fear of the night
word: nightfright
sense: fear of the night
word: noctophobia
sense: fear of the night
word: nyctophobia
night-fear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-fears
Etymology: From night + fear.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of night fear.
nightfear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightfears
Etymology: From night + fear.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of night fear.
night fears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night fear
neutroclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutroclusions
form: neutrocclusion
Etymology: From neutro- + occlusion.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the anteroposterior occlusion of the teeth are normal
nicosulfuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular N-sulfonylurea used as a herbicide
nicotiflorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A rutinoside of kaempferol present in the rhizomes of some ferns
nidatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nidation
Related terms: word: nidation
word: nidate
sense: and see
word: nidifugous
nonazotemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + azotemia.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonazotemic
nonhepatotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hepatotoxic.
Senses: glosses: Not hepatotoxic
nonnumeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + numeric.
Senses: examples: text: It showed that Mr. Bush, who graduated in 1968, had a cumulative grade average of 77 in his first three years at Yale and a similar average under a nonnumeric rating system in his senior year.
ref: 2005 August 6, The Associated Press, “Kerry Grades Near Bush's While at Yale”, in The New York Times:
text: The band played most of “Give Me a Wall” along with a new song with a nonnumeric title: “Don’t Be a Doctor.”
ref: 2006 November 30, Jon Pareles, “Postpunk Resurrected Anew”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not numeric.
asopao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asopaos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish asopao, a pronunciation spelling that represents the Caribbean pronunciation of asopado (“stewed; stew”), from sopa (“soup”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of stew from Puerto Rico.
asopaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asopao
holocranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəl
Etymology: From holo- + cranial.
Senses: examples: text: The headache was holocranial in nature and not associated with vomiting, aura or any other neurological complaints.
ref: 2013, Oman Medical Journal, volume 28:
glosses: Encompassing the entire cranium or, often (by metonymic extension), the entire head, cerebrum, or brain.
tetrahedral number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrahedral numbers
Senses: examples: text: The nᵗʰ tetrahedral number can be calculated with the formula #123;(n#43;1)³-(n#43;1)#92;over 6#125;.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A number which results from the summation of consecutive triangular numbers, starting from 1. If the triangular numbers in such a summation are depicted as horizontal triangular arrays of units then these arrays can be stacked vertically to yield a tetrahedral array.
not at home to
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To put it in the social jargon, I was merely not at home to Slatter. A loud and prolonged ringing of the door-bell proclaimed that he had found the right number.
ref: 1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, published 1980, page 85:
glosses: Not being received as a guest at someone's house.
hellbilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of hell + hillbilly
Senses: glosses: A style of music and fashion influenced by punk, goth and country.
odontocomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontocomplexes
Etymology: From odonto- + complex.
Senses: glosses: A complex of teeth or toothlike features
odontocomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontocomplex
oleolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oleo- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing oleolysis
oleolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oleo- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: The separation of a layer of oil from a mixture
Related terms: oleolytic
oligoguluronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoguluronates
Etymology: From oligo- + guluronate.
Senses: glosses: An oligomer of guluronates
oligoguluronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligoguluronate
oligosulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligosulphides
Etymology: From oligo- + sulphide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oligosulfide.
oligosulphides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligosulphide
oligosulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligosulfides
Etymology: From oligo- + sulfide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester containing a chain of several sulfur atoms
oligosulfides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligosulfide
unmoistenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + moistenable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be moistened.
lordlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lordless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a lord.
melodylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From melodyless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a melody.
pigmentlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pigmentless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of pigment.
policelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From policeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of police.
proportionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proportionless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of proportion.
rightslessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rightsless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of rights.
scalelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scaleless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of scale.
servantlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From servantless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of servants.
organolithotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organolithotrophs
Etymology: From organo- + lithotroph.
Senses: glosses: A chemoautotroph that derives its energy from both organic and inorganic sources
Related terms: organolithotrophic
organolithotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organolithotroph
organolithotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organo- + lithotrophic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to organolithotrophs
orthoceratoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoceratoids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct cephalopod of the subclass †Orthoceratoidea
orthoceratoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoceratoid
orthopyroxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of orthopyroxene.
osteochondromatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + chondromatous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteochondromata
osteomorphometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + morphometry.
Senses: glosses: The morphometry of bone
Related terms: osteomorphometric
osteomorphometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + morphometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteomorphometry
osteospheroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteospheroids
Etymology: From osteo- + spheroid.
Senses: glosses: A spheroidal cluster of stem cells grown on an osteoconductive scaffold
osteospheroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteospheroid
osteostimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + stimulation.
Senses: glosses: The stimulation of the growth of bone tissue, typically after a fracture
Related terms: osteostimulatory
osteostimulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + stimulatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteostimulation
osteotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: osteotomizes
form: osteotomizing
form: osteotomized
form: osteotomized
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To perform an osteotomy
outclinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outclinics
Senses: glosses: An outpatient clinic
outclinics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outclinic
overaggregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overaggregations
Etymology: From over- + aggregation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive aggregation
overevaluate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overevaluates
form: overevaluating
form: overevaluated
form: overevaluated
Etymology: From over- + evaluate.
Senses: glosses: To evaluate and rank too highly; overvalue.
Related terms: overevaluation
overaggregations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overaggregation
corporation tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporation taxes
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Synonym of corporate tax.
synonyms: word: corporate tax
VHSICs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VHSIC
RROD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RRODs
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:RRoD.
topics: video-games
related: word: RRoD
glosses: Initialism of red ring of death.
YLOD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YLODs
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of yellow light of death.
dereg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deregs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of deregulation.
Tecpatán
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tecpatán, from a Nahuan language.
Senses: glosses: A town in Chiapas, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Chiapas, whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
Ocotepec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ocotepec, from Classical Nahuatl Ocotepēc (or an equivalent in another Nahuan language), from ocotl (“pine tree”) + tepētl (“mountain”) + -c (locative suffix).
Senses: glosses: A town in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
glosses: A town in Chiapas, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Chiapas whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
glosses: A town in Almoloya, Hidalgo, Mexico.
synonyms: San Pedro Ocotepec
glosses: A town in Mixe district, Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: San Pedro Ocotepec
glosses: A municipality of Mixe district, Oaxaca, whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
synonyms: San Dionisio Ocotepec
glosses: A town in Tlacolula district, Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: San Dionisio Ocotepec
glosses: A municipality of Tlacolula district, Oaxaca, whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
glosses: A city in Puebla, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Puebla whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
Ocotepec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ocotepec, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Ocotepēc), calqued from a Mixtec language.
Senses: synonyms: Santo Tomás Ocotepec
glosses: A town in Tlaxiaco district, Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: Santo Tomás Ocotepec
glosses: A municipality of Tlaxiaco district, Oaxaca, whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
pachyrhizodontoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachyrhizodontoids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct teleost of the suborder †Pachyrhizodontoidei
pachyrhizodontoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachyrhizodontoid
paleoglacier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoglaciers
Etymology: From paleo- + glacier.
Senses: glosses: An ancient glacier
paleoglaciers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoglacier
Santo Tomás Ocotepec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Santo Tomás Ocotepec.
Senses: synonyms: Ocotepec
glosses: A town in Tlaxiaco district, Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: Ocotepec
glosses: A municipality of Tlaxiaco district, Oaxaca, whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
paleonursery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleonurseries
Etymology: From paleo- + nursery.
Senses: glosses: An ancient nursery (for extinct juvenile animals)
paleonurseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleonursery
pallidoseptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛptəl
Etymology: From pallido- + septal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: pallidal and septal
pancreatogastrostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancreatogastrostomies
Etymology: From pancreato- + gastrostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: anastomosis of a pancreatic fistula to the stomach
pancreatogastrostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreatogastrostomy
flash test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash tests
Senses: qualifier: occupational health and safety
glosses: Test of the integrity of the electrical insulation of an appliance or other electrical equipment, by measurement of resistance when a high voltage is applied.
Synonyms: dielectric withstand test
hipot test
support sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: support socks
Senses: glosses: compression sock
support socks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of support sock
supersampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersamplers
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or algorithm that supersamples.
supersamplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersampler
quarter-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-eaters
Etymology: From quarter (“25-cent coin”); the machine would be repeatedly "fed" with these coins to continue a game.
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: coin-op
glosses: A coin-operated arcade game.
quarter-eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter-eater
panoptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pan- + optically.
Senses: glosses: In a panoptic manner
parabronchitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + bronchitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the parabronchium
paraglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From para- + glottic.
Senses: glosses: Beyond the glottis
Derived terms: paraglottic space
paramutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramutants
Etymology: From para- + mutant.
Senses: glosses: An organism that has a paramutation
paramutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramutant
paraphysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + physiological.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing movement of a joint that is greater than normal physiological movement, but is less than that which would cause damage
pentamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The quaternary ammonium compound [(methylimino)diethylene]bis[ethyldimethylammonium] bromide that blocks the activity of ganglions
periepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + epithelial.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the epithelium
photointerrupter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photointerrupters
Etymology: From photo- + interrupter.
Senses: glosses: An optical device that acts as a switch when a beam of light is blocked by a foreign object
photointerrupters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photointerrupter
photoorganotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + organotrophic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photoorganotrophs
photoorganotrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photo- + organotrophically.
Senses: glosses: In a photoorganotrophic manner
picoalgae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picoalga
picoalgal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pico- + algal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to picoalgae
picoprasinophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picoprasinophytes
Etymology: From pico- + prasinophyte.
Senses: glosses: Any green alga of the class Picoprasinophyceae, of which Picocystis salinarum is the sole accepted species in 2019.
picoprasinophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picoprasinophyte
plecotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plecotins
Senses: glosses: Any of the tribe Plecotini of long-eared bats.
plecotins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plecotin
plurialgal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluri- + algal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of multiple types of alga
Related terms: monoalgal
poikilocapnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poikilo- + -capnic.
Senses: glosses: Having a variable concentration of carbon dioxide
unharassable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unharassable
form: most unharassable
Etymology: From un- + harassable.
Senses: glosses: Not harassable.
half boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half board
give a knee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a knee
form: giving a knee
form: gave a knee
form: given a knee
Senses: synonyms: offer a knee
glosses: To act as second or bottleholder in a fight, the principal resting on the second's knee during the pauses between the rounds.
polyaspartate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyaspartates
Etymology: From poly- + aspartate.
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of polyaspartic acid
polychroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + -chroic.
Senses: glosses: Having many colours
polydirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + directional.
Senses: glosses: In many directions; effectively omnidirectional
polythioester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polythioesters
Etymology: From poly- + thioester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer composed of thioester monomers
polythioesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polythioester
polytoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to many different toxins / poisons
postcollicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + collicular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to a colliculus