cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
boric acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boric acid
joggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jogging
hoity-toitily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɔɪ.tiˈtɔɪ.tɪ.li/
Forms: form: more hoity-toitily
form: most hoity-toitily
Etymology: From hoity-toity + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "It's none of your business," I said hoity-toitily.
ref: 2001, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel, page 36:
glosses: In a pompous or snobbish manner.
Related terms: hoity-toity
jogging bottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tracksuit bottoms, (US) sweatpants
ventresca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian
Senses: examples: text: The choice part of the tunny fish is the stomach (ventresca), which is very tender and of an appetizing creamy-pink color. […] For a salad one must always ask for ventresca.
ref: c. 1954-1987, Elizabeth David, Italian Food, Penguin Classics, published 1999, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Anatra ripiena is a Venetian recipe for duck, sometimes boned, stuffed with a rich mixture of breadcrumbs […], sometimes some tunny ventresca, and nutmeg, […]
ref: 2007, Gillian Riley, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163:
text: Ventresca, tuna’s succulent belly, is another of my favorites. […] If I have some cooked cannellini or borlotti beans in the refrigerator, I warm them up with some of the liquid they have been cooked in, then drain them and add them to a can of ventresca together with several thin slices of raw onion.
ref: 2007, Marcella Hazan, “Eating Alone”, in Jenni Ferrari-Adler, editor, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Flesh from the belly of a tuna, which is prepared in oil and served as food.
tracksuit bottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of soft, lightweight trousers used for sports or informal occasions, (US) sweatpants.
Synonyms: jogging bottoms
scienticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭĕnʹtĭsīd
ipa: /sɪˈɛntɪsaɪd/
Etymology: scient- (stem of science) + -i- + -cide (“killing”)
Senses: examples: text: In the AVNOJ-Yugoslav period, a significant network of educational-scientific and scientific-research institutions was developed. In the period of the Chetnik, tiral-fascist aggression, Sarajevo has experienced an actual scienticide.
ref: 1997: Dževad Juzbašić [ed.], Prilozi Historiji Sarajeva, page 523 (Institut za Istoriju, Orijentalni Institut)
text: Their myths neglected the heredity, while their “research” activities were full of primitive mistakes and falsifications, and followed by the massive administrative terror that was supported by the government. It led to the broad “scienticide” in fSU.
ref: 2000: Alexander E. Sedov, New Russian myths around genetic research in mass-media and in common mind, §3: “Negation and ignorance of heredity in fSU and in modern Russia”, page 5
glosses: Destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.
ransomware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ransom + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: The amount of money generated by ransomware schemes would appear to be quite small given their lack of popularity and the asking price in ransom notes […]
ref: 2008, Markus Jakobsson, Zulfikar Ramzan, Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses, page 375:
text: Garmin has been forced to shut down its call centres, website and some other online services after a ransomware attack encrypted the smartwatch maker’s internal network and some production systems.
ref: 2020 July 24, Mark Sweney, “Smartwatch maker Garmin hit by outages after ransomware attack”, in The Guardian:
text: Last March, Trenitalia, the Italian state-owned railway, suffered a major ransomware attack on its ticketing system, which disrupted sales at stations as well as passenger information screens.
ref: 2023 March 22, Christian Wolmar, “Cybersecurity concerns highlight a range of potential risks”, in RAIL, number 979, page 33:
text: Cybersecurity firm Semperis found that 86% of surveyed organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany that faced ransomware attacks were targeted on a holiday or weekend.
ref: 2024 November 25, Sean Lyngaas, “Starbucks forced to pay its baristas manually because of a ransomware attack on third-party software”, in CNN Business:
hypernyms: malware
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Malware that holds the data of a computer user for ransom, usually requiring or claiming to require payment to restore access.
examples: text: [I]n some situations, the source code of COTS may be escrowed and released under a free software or open source license when the original developer (or supplier) no longer continues to develop that software or if stipulated fundraising conditions are met. This model is referred to as the ransom model of software publishing and the software is known as ransomware.
ref: 2013, Mano Paul, Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CSSLP CBK, Second Edition, page 622:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Software that is released as open source only in exchange for payment.
Related terms: cyberextortion
casement windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casement window
play both ends against the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays both ends against the middle
form: playing both ends against the middle
form: played both ends against the middle
form: played both ends against the middle
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of play both sides against the middle.
elevatorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elevatorlike
form: most elevatorlike
Etymology: From elevator + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Cooking surfaces could be raised and lowered, elevatorlike, to adjust to the heights of tall and short cooks.
ref: 1967 February, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 21, number 2:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an elevator.
acornlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acornlike
form: most acornlike
Etymology: From acorn + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an acorn.
multiparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being multiparous
Derived terms: great grand multiparity
right-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪtˈhændɪd/
Forms: form: more right-handed
form: most right-handed
form: righthanded
Etymology: From Middle English riȝt honded, equivalent to right + handed.
Senses: glosses: Using one's right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's left.
glosses: Intended to be worn on, or used by, the right hand.
glosses: Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.
glosses: Of a coordinate system: following the right-hand rule.
right-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪtˈhændɪd/
Forms: form: righthanded
Etymology: From Middle English riȝt honded, equivalent to right + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.
ref: 1992, Antonio E. Puente, Robert J. McCaffrey, Handbook of Neuropsychological Assessment, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Right-handed people, taken as a whole.
Derived terms: right-handedly
right-handedness
right-handed neutrino
right-handed path
rightie
righty
Related terms: chirality
multiplanarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multiplanar + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being multiplanar
myelomeningocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelomeningoceles
Etymology: From myelo- + meninges + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of spina bifida characterized by protrusion of the spinal meninges.
Related terms: meningocele
myelocele
neuropathologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + pathologic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neuropathology
Synonyms: neuropathological
Derived terms: neuropathologically
neuroradiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neuroradiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to, or by means of, neuroradiology.
neurotoxicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotoxicant
neurotoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotoxicants
Etymology: From neuro- + toxicant.
Senses: glosses: neurotoxin
myelomeningoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myelomeningocele
oculomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒk.jʊl.ə(ʊ)ˌməʊ.tə/
ipa: /ˌɑk.jəl.əˈmoʊ.tɚ/
rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From oculo- (“relating to the eye”) + motor.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to movement of the eyeball.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the oculomotor nerve.
Derived terms: oculomotor cap
oculomotor nerve
oculomotor nucleus
preoculomotor
supraoculomotor
Related terms: oculomotion
outpouching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outpouchings
Etymology: From out- + pouching.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: evagination
sexdigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sex- + digital.
Senses: glosses: Having six fingers on each hand or six toes on each foot
Synonyms: sexdigitate
outpouchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outpouching
double-glazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It almost goes without saying that the train is fully soundproofed, with double-glazed windows and highly efficient air-conditioning by the British firm of J. Stone.
ref: 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
text: Windows are double-glazed, with two in each saloon which can be opened for additional ventilation.
ref: 1964 August, “New Finnish State Railways diesel units”, in Modern Railways, page 126:
glosses: Having double glazing.
double-glazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double-glaze
proctography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From procto- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: diagnostic imaging of the colon, rectum and anus
Related terms: proctographic
puborectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pubo- + rectal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pubis and the rectum
radioscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + -scopic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to radioscopy
rectilinearization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectilinearizations
Etymology: From rectilinear + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Conversion to rectilinear form.
cancelbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cancelbot
miscoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscolored
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscolour
miscoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miscoloured
form: most miscoloured
form: miscolored
Senses: glosses: Incorrectly coloured.
miscolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miscolored
form: most miscolored
Etymology: From mis- + colored.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of miscoloured.
annoybots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annoybot
crapplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapplets
form: craplet
Etymology: Blend of crap + applet
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An unwanted or poor-quality applet.
crapplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapplet
datagloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dataglove
œillades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of œillade
headshells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headshell
civil engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil engineer
hypersthenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersthene
spamblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spamblock
spamblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spamblock
adjustable spanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjustable spanners
Senses: glosses: An adjustable hand tool for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.
Synonyms: word: adjustable
word: adjustable wrench
word: Crescent wrench
word: crescent wrench
word: crescent spanner
word: shifting spanner
word: shifter
adjustable spanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjustable spanner
toolsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toolsmith
troublefree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trouble + -free.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trouble-free.
hasslefree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hassle-free
Etymology: From hassle + -free.
Senses: glosses: trouble-free
troubleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trouble + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a troubleless sleep
glosses: Without trouble; untroubled.
upserting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upsert
upserted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upsert
upserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upsert
origamilike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more origamilike
form: most origamilike
Etymology: From origami + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She shot him an impudent smile before gripping the metal with the pliers and twisting it into a star with origamilike precision.
ref: 2009, Nicola Marsh, The Boss's Bedroom Agenda:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of origami.
buy-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buy-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from buy out.
Senses: examples: text: In the event, higher sale proceeds were achieved by allowing EWS Railway to acquire all but Freightliner, which was sold as a management buy-out.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
glosses: Alternative spelling of buyout.
eudicotyledon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudicotyledons
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of eudicot.
Related terms: eudicotyledoneous
eudicotyledons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of eudicots.
paleodicots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeodicots
Etymology: From paleo- + dicot.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of dicotyledons that evolved prior to the divergence between the monocots and the eudicots.
Synonyms: basal dicot
palaeodicots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + dicot.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of paleodicots.
basal dicot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basal dicots
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A dicotyledon that is not part of the monocots.
Synonyms: paleodicot
palaeodicot
phylogenetic tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylogenetic trees
Senses: examples: text: However, phylogenetic trees describe the relatedness between living organisms (and their classification) rather than ancestry. They measure the genetic distance between organisms, and identify the nearest relatives.
ref: 2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A branching diagram illustrating the potential evolutionary relationships among biological organisms or other entities in which the tree-maker hypothesizes share a common ancestor.
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: tree
basalmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basal + -most.
Senses: qualifier: systematics
glosses: Which is most basal.
establishment growth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A special form of seedling growth in arboraceous monocotyledons, during which the longitudinal axis of the stem expands to reach its final girth. After achieving the definitive basal diameter, the stem elongates, maintaining a nearly cylindrical form.
lateral meristem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateral meristems
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Meristem forming a cylinder within some plants' organs (primarily stems, branches and roots) and allowing them to increase in girth (lateral growth).
intercalary meristem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercalary meristems
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A meristem found as a "slice" within an organ and allowing lengthening in a middle position.
men's studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The academic field which examines topics concerning men, masculinity, and the relationship of gender and politics.
Related terms: feminism
gender studies
women's studies
hemarthroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemarthrosis
auricled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auricle + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: auriculate
hemarthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemarthroses
Etymology: From hemo- + arthrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: bleeding in the joints
rectocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectoceles
Etymology: From recto- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A hernia of the rectum into the vagina.
rectogenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recto- + genital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the rectum and the genitals.
sigmoidocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigmoidoceles
Etymology: From sigmoid + -o- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A hernia of the sigmoid colon.
sigmoidoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigmoidocele
stypsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στῦψις (stûpsis).
Senses: glosses: astringency
glosses: The use or the action of a styptic
supratentorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + tentorial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the tentorium of the brain.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: All in the patient's head; psychogenic.
Derived terms: supratentorially
tractography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: tractographies
Etymology: From tract + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: imaging of the neural tracts
glosses: The use of a tractograph
Related terms: tractographic
tractogram
tractometry
visuospatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more visuospatial
form: most visuospatial
Etymology: From visuo- + spatial.
Senses: examples: text: Most often, persons who first present with language, comportmental, and visuospatial difficulties are under the age of 65, in contrast to the older age at onset of individuals with amnestic dementia.
ref: 2007, Carole B. Cox, Dementia and Social Work Practice: Research and Interventions:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the visual perception of spatial relationships.
asparaginyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæs.pəˈɹæ.d͡ʒə.nɪl/
rhymes: -ædʒənɪl
Etymology: From asparagine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from asparagine
Derived terms: aspoxicillin
costimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costimulations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
deacetyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌdiːəsiːtaɪɫˈtɹɑːnsfəɹeɪz]
Forms: form: deacetyltransferases
Etymology: From de- + acetyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of enzymes that remove acetyl groups, especially from a lysine residue of a histone
the world is one's lobster
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Originally a malapropism spoken by character Arthur Daley in the British TV comedy-drama Minder.
Senses: glosses: Intentional misrendering of the proverb "the world is one's oyster".
Related terms: her indoors
Tardis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːdɪs/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹdɪs/
Forms: form: Tardises
form: TARDIS
form: tardis
Etymology: From TARDIS, the designation of the bigger-on-the-inside time machine used in the British science-fiction TV series Doctor Who, said in the 1963 story "An Unearthly Child" to be an abbreviation for "Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space"..
Senses: examples: text: […] in a cubicle on the top floor which, because of its 21st century appearance, is known to everybody as the 'Tardis'.
ref: 1977 September 15, The Engineer, 245, 61:
text: "Yeah, just blew in on the Tardis," Bowie said, unwinding a length of scarf from his throat.
ref: 1998, Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home, page 180:
text: The Tardis required neither expensive special effects nor a complex plot to imagine a British space programme. The Tardis looked like a police box, the audience eventually learned, because it had a 'chameleon circuit' allowing its shape to change to blend in with each new environment, and this circuit had broken when the Doctor first arrived in London.
ref: 2001, Nicholas Cull, “‘Bigger on the inside...’: Doctor Who as British cultural history”, in Graham Roberts, Philip M. Taylor, editors, The Historian, Television and Television History, page 99:
text: HENRY: Rae, how will you get home?
RAE: I thought I'd use the Tardis.
ref: 2009, Lisa Lutz, Curse of the Spellmans, page 299:
glosses: Alternative form of TARDIS (time machine from the series Doctor Who which is larger on the inside than the outside).
Tardis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːdɪs/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹdɪs/
Forms: form: Tardises
form: TARDIS
form: tardis
Etymology: From TARDIS, the designation of the bigger-on-the-inside time machine used in the British science-fiction TV series Doctor Who, said in the 1963 story "An Unearthly Child" to be an abbreviation for "Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space"..
Senses: examples: text: What the designers of the Campanian programmes aim for is something like a 'Tardis effect', the dissolving of actual boundaries into a limitless space[…]
ref: 1990, Norman Bryson, Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting:
text: There was that little person, in the image of the future she had conjured up; there was something that it was like to be that little person; and it would be the same as what it was like to be this little person. A self is a Tardis, a time-machine: […]
ref: 2008, Charles Fernyhough, The Baby in the Mirror: A Child's World from Birth to Three, page 129:
text: British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) […] BAAF's website is a veritable Tardis of information and I would recommend you go there first.
ref: 2009, Ian Palmer, What to Expect When You're Adopting: a practical guide, →ISBN, page 248:
text: As impossible as it seemed, all the prizes had come from the cracker, but Sally had no idea how. When the old woman had said the cracker was unusual, Sally hadn't thought she meant that it was bigger on the inside than it appeared on the outside! A veritable Tardis in fact.
ref: 2012, Jessica L. Jackson, When I First Met You, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Something which resembles such a machine, either in that it travels through time or in that its interior is or appears to be larger (or more full of information or things) than its exterior suggested.
Derived terms: Tardis-like
Tardises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tardis
heterotolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + tolerance.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Subsequent unresponsiveness to a different agonist
Related terms: heterotolerant
homotolerance
homotolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + tolerance.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Subsequent unresponsiveness to the same agonist.
glosses: Tolerance toward homosexuality.
Related terms: heterotolerance
hyporesponsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyporesponsive
form: most hyporesponsive
Etymology: From hypo- + responsive.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Less than usually responsive
Related terms: hyporesponse
ketoglutarate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoglutarates
Etymology: From keto- + glutarate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a ketoglutaric acid
myelocytomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelocytomatoses
Senses: glosses: A disease of chickens (and other fowl) characterized by tumours of the skull and other bones
Related terms: myelocytoma
oxalylglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxalyl + glycine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amide formed from condensation of oxalic acid and the amino group of glycine; it is an inhibitor of some classes of enzymes
oxalyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxalic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either the univalent or the divalent radicals derived from oxalic acid by removal of one or two hydrogen atoms
Derived terms: oxalyl chloride
oxalylglycine
oxoglutarate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxoglutarates
Etymology: From oxoglutaric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of oxoglutaric acid.
Synonyms: ketoglutarate
man in the street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men in the street
Senses: glosses: Synonym of man on the street.
synonyms: word: man on the street
phosphoribosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoribosyls
Etymology: From phospho- + ribosyl.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the univalent radical derived from phosphoribose (ribose phosphate)
Derived terms: phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate
phosphoribosyltransferase
men in the street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man in the street
preabsorbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preabsorbed
form: most preabsorbed
Etymology: From pre- + absorbed.
Senses: glosses: absorbed in advance
tolerizeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tolerizeable
form: most tolerizeable
Etymology: From tolerize + -able.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Able to be tolerized
IFA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IFAs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of independent financial adviser.
oleograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleographs
Etymology: From oleo- + -graph.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A type of chromolithograph, using oil paint on canvas, that attempts to imitate oil painting
anthophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antho- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: The love of flowers.
phyllotactic arrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllotactic arrangements
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: phyllotaxis
oleographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oleograph
coexister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coexisters
Etymology: From coexist + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The anti-Babylonian autonomists equated national survival with the full independence of Judah under its present leadership, whereas the pro-Babylonian coexisters equated national survival with the socioeconomic and religiocultural preservation of the people of Judah.
ref: 2008, Norman K. Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible: A Brief Socio-Literary Introduction, page 229:
glosses: One who coexists.
peptid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peptids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of peptide.
esophoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophorias
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
Synonyms: endophoria
Derived terms: esophoric
cyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyan
vivandiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivandieres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vivandière.
albicanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene aldehyde related to drimane
Related terms: albicanol
albicanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene alcohol related to drimane
Related terms: albicanal
drimane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drimanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular bicyclic sesquiterpene, (4aR,5S,6S,8aS)-1,1,4a,5,6-pentamethyldecahydronaphthalene.
arteriogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arteriograms
Etymology: From arterio- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: An X-ray of an artery after injection with a radiopaque material
Related terms: arteriography
binaphthyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binaphthyls
Etymology: From bi- + naphthyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, analogous to biphenyl, formed from two naphthalene residues linked by a single bond
Related terms: dinaphthyl
awrathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Telka arounded and awrathed be like unto a thunder-storm, […]
ref: 1916, Casper Salathiel Yost, Pearl Lenore Pollard Curran, Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery, H. Holt and Company, page 157:
glosses: past participle of awrath
hæmochromatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmochromatoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
aer-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: aër-
Senses: glosses: prevocalic form of aero-
hæmochromatoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hæmochromatosis
haemochromatoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemochromatosis
regrets only
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Written on an invitation to request that the invited person reply only if they will not attend.
Coordinate terms: RSVP
alteriority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sense of difference
Rajkot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati રાજકોટ (rājkoṭ).
Senses: glosses: A large city in Gujarat, India.
excitingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exciting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being exciting.
phenanthrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenanthrols
Etymology: From phenanthrene + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of five isomeric phenols derived from phenanthrene
Meerut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hindi मेरठ (meraṭh).
Senses: glosses: A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Derived terms: Meerut Division
biphenanthrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biphenanthrols
Etymology: From biphenanthryl + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric phenols derived from biphenanthryl
biphenanthryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biphenanthryls
Etymology: From bi- + phenanthryl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, analogous to biphenyl, composed of two linked phenanthrene residues.
Derived terms: biphenanthrol
phenanthryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenanthryls
Etymology: From phenanthrene + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from phenanthrene
Derived terms: biphenanthryl
phenanthrylene
dihydroxybenzoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydroxybenzoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a dihydroxybenzoic acid
dihydroxybenzoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydroxybenzoic acids
Etymology: From dihydroxy + benzoic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of six isomeric dihydroxy derivatives of benzoic acid.
Related terms: dihydroxybenzoate
monohydroxybenzoic acid
trihydroxybenzoic acid
gentisic acid
protocatechuic acid
resorcylic acid
dithiocarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithiocarbonates
Etymology: From di- + thio- + carbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion COS₂²⁻ formally derived from carbonate by the replacement of two oxygen atoms by sulfur
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt containing this anion
enantiocontrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enantio- + control.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: control (normally partial) over the enantiomeric composition of a reaction product
Related terms: diastereocontrol
enantioselectivity
endovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Within a blood vessel
Derived terms: endoleak
endovascularly
neuroendovascular
Related terms: endovasculature
pneumatiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumatique
what-not
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.
ref: 2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of whatnot.
rule the school
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rules the school
form: ruling the school
form: ruled the school
form: ruled the school
Senses: examples: text: After Page, Dr. E. Goodenough ruled the school from 1819 to 1828. On his retirement he obtained the deanery of Wells ...
ref: 1884, George Augustus Sala with Edmund Hodgson Yates, “Westminster School”, in Temple bar, volume 71, page 504:
glosses: To substantially control a school administratively, financially, or in terms of its curriculum.
examples: text: But as Shelley was by far the cleverest of the three head boys who were there, he ruled the school.
ref: 1847, William Edward Heygate, Godfrey Davenant, page 123:
glosses: (of one or a group of students) To socially dominate a school's student population, or a major part of it (such as the girls or the boys).
nexûs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕkʹso͞os
ipa: /ˈnɛksuːs/
Etymology: From the Latin nexūs, nominative plural form of nexus; the circumflex exists to distinguish the long vowel of the plural (/uː/ in both English and in Latin) from the short vowel of the singular (/ə/ in English and /u/ in Latin), avoiding homography; compare nexūs.
Senses: examples: text: Such a particular fact of togetherness is called a ‘nexus’ (plural form is nexûs). The distinction between a nexus and a prehension is not made very clear, but in the list of the eight Categories of Existence prehensions are said to be Concrete Facts of Relatedness, and nexûs are said to be Public Matters of Fact.
ref: 2009, Alan Van Wyk, Michel Weber, Creativity and Its Discontents: The Response to Whitehead’s Process and Reality, kaufen, →ISBN, page 61:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: plural of nexus
queerdo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queerdos
Etymology: Blend of queer + weirdo
Senses: examples: text: I don't look like Indhira Ghandi yet. / Dummy-heado, stupid queerdo. / Holden, Howard and No Hands.
ref: 1985, “[Untitled]”, in Lake Forest College Yearbook, page 143:
text: A club for queerdos and weirdos featuring electro, indie, R&B, '80s, hip-hop, punk, and more.
ref: 2005 October 19, Laurie Koh [complier], “Events Listings”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, page 81:
text: […] and a burning urge to write something. Anything — it just needed to be queer. Why? Because this l'il queerdo had been a longtime Gay Place reader […]
ref: 2020 February 14, Beth Sullivan, “Qmmunity”, in The Austin Chronicle, page 60:
glosses: A particularly strange LGBTQ+ person.
Hyponyms: homosexual person
homography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hōmŏʹgrəfĭ
ipa: /həʊˈmɒɡɹəfɪ/
ipa: /hoʊˈmɒɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: homographies
Etymology: From homo- + -graphy.
Senses: hypernyms: homonymy
coordinate_terms: homophony
glosses: The state or quality of being written in the same way, especially when spelled with the same letters (as with a pair of homonyms), or also as represented with similar or identical glyphs (as with homoglyphs); the state or quality of existing as homographs.
examples: text: A homography on a real projective plane can be specified by a mapping from one set of four non-collinear points to another set of four non-collinear points. Given such a specification, then the 3-by-3 homography matrix may be computed by means of the DLT (Direct Linear Transformation) algorithm.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: projectivity
projective transformation
projective collineation
hypernyms: collineation
hyponyms: linear fractional transformation
Möbius transformation
glosses: An isomorphism between projective spaces that maps straight lines to straight lines.
Related terms: heterography
homeography
sedentism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sedēns + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Where sedentism does occur amongst hunters and gatherers it seems generally to be related to a number of recurrent features.
ref: 1982, Eric S. Higgs, M. R. Jarman, Early European Agriculture: Its Foundation and Development, page 46:
text: The implicit correlations between mobility, sedentism, complexity, and progressive evolutionary change are so interwoven and all pervasive as to be all but impossible to disentangle in adaptationist theory.
ref: 2012, Thomas E. Emerson, Dale L. McElrath, Andrew C. Fortier, Archaic Societies, page 30:
text: Assuming sedentism made children less costly, as is often said to be true, our theory predicts a shift toward increased fertility, increased child mortality, decreased food per capita, and increased regional population.
ref: 2023, Gregory K. Dow, Clyde G. Reed, Economic Prehistory: Six Transitions That Shaped The World, page 116:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: nomadism
glosses: The practice of living in one place for a long time.
Related terms: sedentary
sedentarization
sedentariness
sedentarism
sedentarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sedentarises
form: sedentarising
form: sedentarised
form: sedentarised
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sedentarize.
Related terms: sedentism
sedentarisation
sedentarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sedentarizes
form: sedentarizing
form: sedentarized
form: sedentarized
form: sedentarise
Etymology: Back-formation from sedentarization
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: to settle a nomadic population through sedentism
Related terms: sedentism
sedentarization
unpassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpassionate
form: most unpassionate
Etymology: From un- + passionate.
Senses: synonyms: word: dispassionate
word: nonpassionate
word: alexithymic
word: apathistical
word: clinical
word: dull
word: cold-blooded
word: cold-hearted
word: dead inside
word: dispassionate
word: emotionless
word: immovable
word: impassible
word: impassive
word: insensible
word: nonemotional
word: nonfeeling
word: nonpassionate
word: nonsentimental
word: stolid
word: unemotional
word: unfeeling
word: unmovable
word: unpassionate
word: unsentimental
antonyms: passionate
glosses: not passionate
Derived terms: unpassionately
sedentarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sedentarize
sedentarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sedentarize
sedentarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sedentarize
sedentarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sedentarise
sedentarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sedentarise
sedentarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sedentarise
sedentarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedentarisation
Etymology: From sedentarize + -ation or sedentary + -ization.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: nomadization
glosses: The settling of a nomadic population; the transition from a nomadic lifestyle to a sedentary one.
Related terms: sedentism
sedentariness
sedentarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sedentarization.
showrun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: showruns
form: showrunning
form: showran
form: showrun
form: show-run
Etymology: Back-formation from showrunner.
Senses: examples: text: But she dreams of having, and show-running, her own television program. In May, she’ll perform two nights as her character at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn — a neighborhood that character would probably struggle to find.
ref: 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To act as a showrunner for (a television show).
dignosce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dignosces
form: dignoscing
form: dignosced
form: dignosced
Senses: examples: text: […]
And make Christ's people by peculiar choice
Dignosce the shepherds from the hyrelings voice.
ref: 1638, Henry Adamson, The Muses' Threnodie:
text: For truth being in indivisibili, as is the essence of what ever is, who is most versed in the nature and properties of a thing is alwayes best able to dignosce of its value.
ref: 1652, Sir Thomas Urquart, The Epistle Liminary:
text: Meanwhile there is a committeee appointed to dignosce upon the supplication and how field conventicles shall be suppressed
ref: 1676, William Row, Supplement to the History of Mr Blair's Life:
glosses: to discern
galeiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From galea + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a galea.
galeate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: galeated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin galeātus (“helmeted”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a galea.
examples: text: […]it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Helmet-shaped.
galeated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: galeate
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a galea.
glosses: Shaped like or resembling a helmet.
aspergillum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăs′pər-jĭl′əm
ipa: /ˌas.pəˈd͡ʒɪl.əm/
ipa: /ˌæs.pəˈd͡ʒɪl.əm/
ipa: /ˌæs.pəɹˈd͡ʒɪl.əm/
ipa: /ˌɛs.pɐˈd͡ʒəl.əm/
ipa: /ˌas.pəɹˈd͡ʒɪl.əm/
ipa: /ˌæs.pɜʳˈd͡ʒil.um/
rhymes: -ɪləm
Forms: form: aspergilla
form: aspergillums
form: aspergil
form: aspergill
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin aspergillum, from aspergō (“to sprinkle”).
Senses: examples: text: The king’s authority held sway not only over the knight’s mighty sword, but also over the episcopal cross and aspergillum: for the bishops plied back and forth between court and province like all the other lords.
ref: 1994, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, “Introduction: Classic Monarchy”, in Juliet Vale, transl., The Royal French State, 1460-1610, page 6:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: holy water sprinkler
rantistirion
glosses: An implement, in the form of a brush or of a rod with a perforated container, for sprinkling holy water; a holy-water sprinkle.
Derived terms: aspergilliform
Aspergillus
Related terms: aspergillus
font
stoup
aspergilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Senses: glosses: plural of aspergillum
aspergillums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspergillum
aspersorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspersoria
form: aspersoriums
Etymology: From Latin aspergere (“to sprinkle”).
Senses: glosses: A basin that holds holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves.
glosses: An aspergillum.
aspersoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspersorium
aspersoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspersorium
Nantong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nänʹto͝ongʹ
Forms: form: Nan-t'ung
form: Nantung
Etymology: From Mandarin 南通 (Nántōng).
Senses: examples: text: The eastern Chinese city of Nantong, with a population of more than 7 million, has introduced a new rule to ban near-term resale of certain cheap homes in the latest step by authorities in the country to curb property market speculation.
On Wednesday the government of Nantong, near Shanghai and a number of other port cities, said property buyers who have bought new homes at prices much lower than the market average are not allowed to resell their properties for five years.
ref: 2019 December 25, Lusha Zhang, Ryan Woo, “China's Nantong city imposes five-year ban on resale of cheap homes to curb speculation”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2019, Business News:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, China.