cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
microulcerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mucosal damage, microulcerations, and consequent epithelial proliferation mediated by some microorganisms and inflammatory cytokines create an ideal environment for initial HPV infection and its persistence, which leads to increased risk of HPV transmission and oropharyngeal carcinogenesis[56 –58 ].
ref: 2015 July 21, “Chronic Inflammation-Related HPV: A Driving Force Speeds Oropharyngeal Carcinogenesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microulceration
multinormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + normal.
Senses: examples: text: This was done for each population separately by randomizing the simulated values from a multinormal distribution with the following parameters: the 14 observed means characteristic of the given population, and as variance the average of the 7 geometric means of the 14 variances per population.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Once upon Multivariate Analyses: When They Tell Several Stories about Biological Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: multivariate and normal
raw_tags: of a distribution
Derived terms: multinormality
nefrotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In this study, the nefrotoxicity of a main component of B.
ref: 2015 July 21, “L-Aminoacid Oxidase from Bothrops leucurus Venom Induces Nephrotoxicity via Apoptosis and Necrosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of nephrotoxicity.
paramacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + macular.
Senses: examples: text: The ocular fundus samples were taken from a paramacular region and placed into a sample holder filled with DMEM, which was placed onto the object mount of the microscope with the retina facing towards the excitation laser.
ref: 2015 July 21, “FLIMX: A Software Package to Determine and Analyze the Fluorescence Lifetime in Time-Resolved Fluorescence Data from the Human Eye”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Near or alongside the macula
pneumotach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumotachs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Ruttimann et al added a second pneumotach on the inspiratory tubing and tested this in animals [11 ].
ref: 2015 July 21, “Imposed Work of Breathing for Flow Meters with In-Line versus Flow-Through Technique during Simulated Neonatal Breathing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: pneumotachograph
pneumotachograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumotachographs
Etymology: From pneumo- + tachograph.
Senses: glosses: A form of spirometer that measures and displays the velocity of airflow
Related terms: pneumotachography
polyallylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyallylamines
Etymology: From poly- + allylamine.
Senses: examples: text: In one study, amphiphilic polyallylamine polymeric micelles were shown to facilitate moderate levels of siRNA delivery to intestinal cells in vitro[21 ].
ref: 2015 July 21, “Lipidoid Nanoparticles for siRNA Delivery to the Intestinal Epithelium: In Vitro Investigations in a Caco-2 Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer of allylamine
precolumn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + column.
Senses: examples: text: The stationary phase included precolumn and column Sherisorb ODS1 5μm (4.6 x 250 mm; Waters Barcelona, Spain), and a mobile phase consisting in 1.5 mmol/L potassium hydrogen phosphate at pH 4.6 with 10% methanol, at a flow rate of 1 mL/min at room temperature.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Roflumilast Prevents the Metabolic Effects of Bleomycin-Induced Fibrosis in a Murine Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Situated before the column of a chromatograph
precolumn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precolumns
Etymology: From pre- + column.
Senses: glosses: A chromatographic column used as an initial filter
promyelotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This toxin was also shown to increase cellular calcium concentration in the human promyelotic line HL-60 [57 ].
ref: 2015 July 21, “The Food Contaminant Mycotoxin Deoxynivalenol Inhibits the Swallowing Reflex in Anaesthetized Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of promyelocytic.
pyrimidinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyrimidine + -ergic.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, our data point out for the relevance of pyrimidinergic signaling contribution for innate immune system response against infection and include the P2Y receptors as a new target for development of drugs against T.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Pyrimidinergic Receptor Activation Controls Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Macrophages”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Containing or releasing pyrimidine
rhamnosylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhamnosylates
form: rhamnosylating
form: rhamnosylated
form: rhamnosylated
Etymology: From rhamnosyl + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To attach a rhamnosyl moiety to a molecule.
rhamnosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: SV is then glucosylated, rhamnosylated, or xylosylated through the action of UDP-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs), to form the various SVglys [18 ] (Fig 1 ).
ref: 2015 July 21, “Nitrogen Limitation Alters Biomass Production but Enhances Steviol Glycoside Concentration in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of rhamnosylate
xylosylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: xylosylates
form: xylosylating
form: xylosylated
form: xylosylated
Etymology: From xylosyl + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To attach a xylosyl moiety to a molecule.
Derived terms: xylosylated
xylosylating
xylosylation
stevioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steviosides
Senses: examples: text: However, increased SVgly content was correlated with a decreased ratio of rebaudioside A over stevioside.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Nitrogen Limitation Alters Biomass Production but Enhances Steviol Glycoside Concentration in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A glycoside, derived from the stevia plant, which can be used as a sweetener
triheteromeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + heteromeric.
Senses: examples: text: These receptors are predominantly diheteromeric GluN1-N2B receptors [8 ,31 ,32 ] whereas those located postsynaptically at the same sites may be largely triheteromeric GluN1-N2A-N2B receptors [8 ].
ref: 2015 July 21, “Differential Effects of D-Cycloserine and ACBC at NMDA Receptors in the Rat Entorhinal Cortex Are Related to Efficacy at the Co-Agonist Binding Site”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having, or relating to, three different types of subunit
glosses: Relating to a triheteromer
tubuloglomerular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tubulo- + glomerular.
Senses: examples: text: Myogenic constriction and tubuloglomerular feedback mechanisms mediate renal autoregulation; however, intrinsic factors including nitric oxide and agonists for guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptors (GPCRs), particularly angiotensin II via the renin-angiotensin system, regulate RBF by modulating renal vascular resistance (RVR) in pre- and post-glomerular arterioles.
ref: 2015 July 21, “Regulation of Renal Hemodynamics and Function by RGS2”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the tubules and glomeruli of the kidney
creepshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːpʃɒt/
Forms: form: creepshots
form: creep shot
Etymology: Etymology tree
English creep
English shot
English creepshot
From creep + shot.
Senses: examples: text: "What unites creepshots, the Middleton photographs, the revenge porn websites," says Franks, "is that they all feature the same fetishisation of non-consensual sexual activity with women who either you don't have any access to, or have been denied future access to. And it's really this product of rage and entitlement."
ref: 2012 September 22, Kira Cochrane, “Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women”, in The Guardian:
text: The guy on the subway who took a creepshot of my cleavage of his phone, making nausea spill over my insides. That was rape culture.
ref: 2015, Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
text: 'Thais in tights, I tell you,' he sniggers, his mind doing such an obscene variation of the creepshot he's just surreptitiously taken on his cell phone that I want to gag.
ref: 2015, Amrita Tripathi, The Sibius Knot, Fourth Estate, →ISBN:
glosses: A surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks.
examples: text: Her speculation was set against a backdrop of rearview creepshots, with a few barely there scribbles added to blot out actual facial features. Even as an entire privacy invading narrative was being spun unknowingly around them.
ref: 2018 July 14, Natasha Lomas, “Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds”, in TechCrunch:
glosses: Any photograph of a person taken without having acquired permission.
Derived terms: creepshotter
creepshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːpʃɒt/
Forms: form: creepshots
form: creepshotting
form: creepshotted
form: creepshotted
form: creep shot
Etymology: Etymology tree
English creep
English shot
English creepshot
From creep + shot.
Senses: glosses: To take a creepshot of (an individual).
borrowed scenery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calque translation of Chinese 借景 (jièjǐng), or Japanese 借景 (shakkei).
Senses: glosses: The principle of incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden found in traditional East Asian garden design.
flower garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower gardens
Senses: examples: text: A mile or so further on is the intermediate station of Ryhall, smothered with primroses in the season, and at all times a veritable flower garden.
ref: 1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
glosses: A garden where flowers are grown for decorative purposes.
flower gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower garden
writo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writos
Etymology: From write + -o, after the pattern of typo.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ; miswriting
text: He moved on to discuss errors beyond the typo -- the speako, the writo, and ultimately the conceivo (walking up to the combination-locked door on our computer lab, I reach into my pocket and pull my keys out).
ref: 1993 May 15, Russ Hunt, “going with the typo”, in bit.listserv.mbu-l (Usenet):
text: I am much quicker at writing than typing and I make many more typos than I do "writos."
ref: 2008 October 12, dee.cee.vee [username], “Vista vs Tablet [ Vista the Winner ]”, in microsoft.public.windows.tabletp (Usenet):
text: After individual styles, hapax legomena and writos (slips of writers' pens, as typos are accidental but patterned slips of typists' fingers) have been identified and isolated, the structures of the language of all writers can be researched.
ref: 2015, Tony Fairman, “Language in print and handwriting”, in Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier, Richard J. Watts, editors, Letter Writing and Language Change, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 69:
coordinate_terms: typo
;
misprint
;
clicko
copy-pasto
printo
hearo
scanno
speako
spello
thinko
glosses: An error made when writing by hand.
writos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writo
incestualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incestualist
pole vaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pole vault
corporate taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporate tax
mutualisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutualisation
relocalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relocalisation
classness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From class + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Times said she “shrugged off... sneers” about her working classness.
ref: 2015 August 3, Roy Greenslade, “Cilla Black: a lorra lorra love in the national newspaper coverage”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The condition of being a member of a (specified) class
Related terms: middle-classness
photopolymerizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photopolymerizable
form: most photopolymerizable
Etymology: From photo- + polymerizable.
Senses: examples: text: Douglas C. Neckers, who specializes in the synthesis of what are called photopolymerizable compounds, first thought about Roundup decades ago when he served as a consultant in a patent infringement case involving the chemical.
ref: 2007 March 27, Henry Fountain, “One Solid Herbicide”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to undergo photopolymerization
Bostoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bostoners
Etymology: From Boston + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Edmund took the field himself and had brought the Indians to great distress when the Bostoners seized him, surprised his officers, seized the ships, embezzled the stores, supplied the enemy with ammunition and left us a prey to them.
ref: 1901, Calendar of State Papers
text: The original idea was to erect several large buildings to serve as the nucleus of a Bostoner community, and to convert one of the apartments into a shul.
ref: 1990, Hanoch Teller, Leṿi Yitsḥaḳ Horoṿits (ha-Leṿi.), The Bostoner
text: As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise.
ref: 2011, Owen Stanwood, The Empire Reformed:
text: Some viewed the Yankees as monopolizing the sport with all that money they had to offer. Well, that's the way many Bostoners viewed it.
ref: 2015, James G. Houston, Growth of a Man:
glosses: A person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Synonyms: Bostonian
Bostoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bostoner
Terek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river that flows in Georgia and Russia.
Terek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tereks
Senses: glosses: A Terek sandpiper.
Inguri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian ენგური, derived from Old Georgian ეგური (eguri), the exact origin of which is disputed. According to one theory, the hydronym is from Mingrelian გური (guri, “heart”), however, other sources derive it from Proto-Georgian-Zan *egr- (> *egur-), whence also ეგრისი (egrisi, “Egrisi”), მეგრელი (megreli, “Mingrelian”). It has also been connected with Mingrelian გერი (geri, “wolf”).
Senses: glosses: A river in Georgia.
angiocath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiocaths
Etymology: From angio- + cath, originally from brand name Angiocath.
Senses: examples: text: Trainees will be required to gain proficiency in venipunctures, angiocaths and medicut in our laboratory.
ref: 1970, Drug Intelligence & Clinical Pharmacy, page 184:
text: There are two basic types of IV apparatus: butterflies and angiocaths.
ref: 1988, Robert A. Harrell, Gary S. Firestein, Mark W. Woodruff, The effective scutboy: the principles and practice of scut, page 85:
text: This technique may be performed with any style catheter and an 18 (or larger) gauge angiocath
ref: 2015, Joel E. Abbott et al., “A clever technique for placement of a urinary catheter over a wire”, in Urology Annals, volume 7, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A shielded intravenous catheter.
angiocaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiocath
pelagic trawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelagic trawls
Senses: qualifier: fishing gear
glosses: A trawl that goes through the water column rather than on the bottom.
Manna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mannas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Manna. Possible etymologies include the feminine form of Manno, or a nickname or metonym based on manna (sense 1).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Manna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mannas
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali [script needed] (Manna), a name used by the Mahishya agrarian caste.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Bengali.
lahara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laharas
Etymology: Anglicized form of Hindi लहरा (lahrā)
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a repetitive instrumental melody used to accompany a tabla or pakhawaj solo in Hindustani classical music of North India; it is also used to accompany kathak dance performances
bodeguero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodegueros
Etymology: From Spanish bodeguero.
Senses: glosses: The owner of a bodega (shop that sells alcohol).
bodegueros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodeguero
mirdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirdles
Etymology: Blend of man + girdle.
Senses: examples: text: The Wall Street Journal has reported on the burgeoning market for "support boxers" to lift and firm the backside and "waist eliminators" to tame the gut. If your man wears a mirdle, then surely you should, too?
ref: 2009, Mimi Spencer, 101 Things to Do Before You Diet: Because Looking Great Isn't Just about Losing Weight, Rodale, →ISBN, page 57:
text: She knows about bras, body slimmers, boy shorts, and the new contraption: a mirdle for the guys!
ref: 2011, Sasha Charnin Morrison, Secrets of Stylists: An Insider's Guide to Styling the Stars, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 138:
text: In the early 2010s, shape underwear for men—modeled after the success of shape underwear for women—provided males with the opportunity to reshape their body using a variety of products, including mirdles or male girdles, compression shorts, waist eliminators, "bubble butt" enhancers, […]
ref: 2014, José Blanco F., “Underwear,”, in Michael Kimmel, Christine Milrod, Amanda Kennedy, editors, Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: An abdominal support garment (girdle) designed for and/or marketed to men.
mirdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirdle
Saxena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname used by the Kayastha community of Hindus from India.
soup de jour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soups de jour
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of soup du jour.
grid-lined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grid-lined
form: most grid-lined
Senses: examples: text: 2013, Fodor's, Fodor's Pacific Northwest: with Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver, Fodor's Travel Publications
Hemmed in by mountains, hills, and multiple bodies of water, Seattle is anything but a linear, grid-lined city.
text: To convince the Frenchman it was a good idea, he sketched a potential month's activity on a page of a grid-lined workbook showing Gentzbourger getting 50 percent of the profits, minus operating expenses, while Feeney got the other 50 percent.
ref: 2013, Conor O'Clery, The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune, Perseus Books Group:
glosses: Covered with a grid of lines.
Stroh violins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stroh violin
acoustic bass guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoustic bass guitars
Senses: glosses: A bass guitar meant to be played without electric amplification and as an accompaniment to the acoustic guitar.
Synonyms: acoustic bass
ABG
Related terms: acoustic bassist
pick at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks at
form: picking at
form: picked at
form: picked at
Senses: examples: text: Mr Vholes remained immovable, except that he secretly picked at one of the red pimples on his yellow face with his black glove.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 45, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: He began to pick at the fussy fringe on the arm of his chair.
ref: 1919, Henry B. Fuller, chapter 4, in Bertram Cope's Year:
synonyms: fiddle with
toy with
glosses: To touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers.
examples: text: Picking at a salad in a conference room at Google’s headquarters here, Ms. Mayer says she is vexed by how some perceive her.
ref: 2009 February 28, Laura M. Holson, “Putting a Bolder Face on Google”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2015:
synonyms: word: fiddle with
word: toy with
word: peck at
glosses: To touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers.
Synonym of peck at.
raw_tags: of food
examples: text: "[N]oise and disrespect of no kind ain't pleasin' to him. His own folks behave becomin', but strangers go and act as they like. . . . Then we are picked at for their doin's."
ref: 1872, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 9, in Work: A Story of Experience:
text: "And I know she's my aunt, but she needn't pick at me all the time," she added defiantly.
ref: 1904, Margaret Sidney, chapter 15, in Five Little Peppers and their Friends:
text: "I get crabby and pick at him about stupid things that wouldn’t normally bother me."
ref: 2011 October 14, Richard Barber, “Carol McGiffin: I've got a problem in the bedroom... Insomnia!”, in Daily Mail, UK, retrieved 03 Aug 2015:
synonyms: word: nitpick#Verb
word: badger#Verb
word: bully#Verb
word: find fault#Verb
word: pester#Verb
word: badger
word: bait
word: bedevil
word: beleaguer
word: persecute
word: bug
word: beset
word: chevy
word: give someone grief
word: harass
word: harry
word: hound
word: pester
word: pick at
word: plague
word: vex
glosses: To pick on or repeatedly criticize (someone).
Lalita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit ललित (lalita).
Senses: glosses: A Hindu goddess.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Maze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Mays.
* As an English and Irish surname, variant of Maye, from Irish Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), see miadh (“esteem, respect”). Compare May.
* As a Breton surname Mazé, shortened from Mazéo, Breton form of Matthew.
* As a French surname Mazé, from a place in Maine-et-Loire, from Latin Masiacum (“estate of Masius”).
* Also as a French surname, shortened pet form of Thomas.
* Also as a French surname, variant of Mas, from the noun mas (“farmhouse”).
* As a Slovene surname, shortened from Tomaž, a form of Thomas. Or, from the verb mazati (“to grease”).
* As an Ashkenazic Jewish surname, from Hebrew מאז״ה (Mazeh), an acronym of מִזֶּרַע אַהֲרֹן הַכֹּהֵן (mi-zéra' Aharón ha-Kohén, “from the seed of Aaron the priest”), compare Cohen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A former prison in Northern Ireland; in full, HM Prison Maze.
glosses: A townland in County Down, Northern Ireland, the site of the former prison (Irish grid ref J 2261).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Delaware Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Hemingway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛmɪŋ.weɪ/
Forms: form: Hemmingway
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: […] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield.
ref: 1962, Arthur Miller, “The Bored and the Violent”, in Herbert Gold, editor, First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties, New York: Dial, published 1963, page 181:
glosses: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.
glosses: A town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States.
Hemingway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛmɪŋ.weɪ/
Forms: form: Hemingways
form: Hemingwaying
form: Hemingwayed
form: Hemingwayed
form: Hemmingway
Senses: examples: text: But there is no literary law that says thai — to set forth these beauties — the writers must first excel in the art of Hemingwaying.
ref: 1979, The New York Times Book Review - Volume 1; Volume 84, page iii:
text: Ivens concluded his account with a remark that out-Hemingwayed Hemingway: 'I know that money is hard to make but dying is not easy either.
ref: 2000, Hans Schoots, Living Dangerously: A Biography of Joris Ivens, page 131:
text: That just-a-moment had hardly died away before Father turned and Hemingwayed Bogoljub so forcefully that the tobacconist was sent flying against the bookshelves.
ref: 2010, Sasa Stanisic, How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone:
text: And as it turned out, he'd Hemingwayed his so-called past. Those tales he told about backpacking the two-thousand-mile-long Appalachian Trail while fighting off bears and wolves? The time at Pismo Beach when he punched out a shark to rescue a lifeguard? The stories were interesting the first few times I heard them but they paled with the retelling.
ref: 2018, Betty Webb, The Otter of Death:
glosses: To speak, write or behave in a Hemingwayesque manner.
examples: text: After Hemingway's death in 1961, he was bombarded with questions about the author and finally asked a reporter to let it be known that he was “Hemingwayed out!”
ref: 2012, Paula McLain, The Paris Wife:
text: Lena knew more about the missing stories than 98 percent of the people who Hemingwayed for a living.
ref: 2012, Joe Haldeman, The Hemingway Hoax:
text: I said, “I'm a little Hemingwayed out, but we can go to Floridita after dinner if you'd like.”
ref: 2017, Nelson DeMille, The Cuban Affair:
glosses: To study, or talk about, Ernest Hemingway.
Derived terms: Hemingwayan
Hemingway daiquiri
Hemingwayesque
Hemingway special
photoirradiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + irradiation.
Senses: examples: text: Materials that can be deformed by photoirradiation are not unknown, but generally consist of polymer films and gels and are rather slow-acting.
ref: 2007 April 17, Henry Fountain, “In Arctic Foxes, Clues to Effects of Shrinking Habitat”, in New York Times:
glosses: irradiation with light
lehua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈhuːə/
ipa: /leɪˈhuːə/
rhymes: -uːə
Forms: form: lehuas
Etymology: From Hawaiian lehua.
Senses: examples: text: Here were the three tents overshadowed by the great lehuas, still brilliant with their cardinal blossoms.
ref: 1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, page 165:
text: The outlandishness of the capers in this first season might surprise viewers who remember “Hawaii Five-0” as “Dragnet” with lehua blossoms.
ref: 2007 April 29, Greg Evans, “‘Dragnet’ With Leis, and the Occasional Ghost”, in New York Times:
text: After breakfast, she looked forward to the bouquet of red lehua blossoms and other flowers brought to her every day.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 222:
glosses: The flower or wood of a Polynesian tree (Metrosideros collina); the tree itself.
aceruloplasminemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + ceruloplasmin + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover MCOs play critical roles in Fe, Cu and O 2 metabolism and are directly related to a range of genetic diseases (oculocutaneous albinism, aceruloplasminemia, etc.) and health issues (atherosclerosis, control of neurotransmitters, etc.)
ref: 2015 July 22, “Bilirubin Oxidase from Myrothecium verrucaria Physically Absorbed on Graphite Electrodes. Insights into the Alternative Resting Form and the Sources of Activity Loss”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The lack of ceruloplasmin in the blood; the disorder associated with it
aldynoglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition, a spectrum of unique CNS glia, collectively introduced under the term aldynoglia share the expression of p75 NTR [62, 63, 64, 65 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “Contribution of Schwann Cells to Remyelination in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model of CNS Neuroinflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Specialised glia that are able to survive and proliferate when cultured from adult tissue
aliquotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The homogenate was centrifuged at 5000 rpm for 5 min at 4°C and the resulting supernatants were kept in aliquotes and stored at -80°C till the determination of gastric parameters.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Mangiferin Mitigates Gastric Ulcer in Ischemia/ Reperfused Rats: Involvement of PPAR-γ, NF-κB and Nrf2/HO-1 Signaling Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of aliquote
aneupolyploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + eupolyploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a mutation in a few chromosomes of a genome
Related terms: aneupolyploidy
aneupolyploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aneupolyploids
Etymology: From an- + eupolyploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An organism having a mutation in a few chromosomes of a genome
aneupolyploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Modern sugarcane cultivars are highly complex aneupolyploids, and most are primarily derived from interspecific hybridization between S.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Characterization of Chromosome Inheritance of the Intergeneric BC 2 and BC 3 Progeny between Saccharum spp. and Erianthus arundinaceus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of aneupolyploid
antiperoxidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiperoxidative
form: most antiperoxidative
Etymology: From anti- + peroxidative.
Senses: examples: text: Similar observations in vivo are also known, where it has been seen that a plant extract exhibits antiperoxidative and pro-oxidative effect for cardiac and liver tissues respectively.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Comparative Phytochemical Analysis of Essential Oils from Different Biological Parts of Artemisia herba alba and Their Cytotoxic Effect on Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That counters peroxidation
Synonyms: antiperoxidant
arthrofibrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrofibroses
Etymology: From arthro- + fibrosis.
Senses: examples: text: Diagnosis of arthrofibrosis and frozen shoulder remains difficult and the self-reported data included pain, as well as stiffness.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Joint Stiffness Is Heritable and Associated with Fibrotic Conditions and Joint Replacement”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The formation of fibrous tissue within a joint
asialobiantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + sialo- + biantennary.
Senses: examples: text: Both Endo-CC1 and Endo-CC2 exhibited the hydrolase activity for high-mannose type and biantennary complex type oligosaccharides like Endo-M. Although Endo-M hydrolyzed asialobiantennary oligosaccharide containing bisecting GlcNAc, neither Endo-CC1 nor Endo-CC2 did.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Transglycosylation Activity of Glycosynthase Mutants of Endo-β- N -Acetylglucosaminidase from Coprinopsis cinerea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a biantennary oligosaccharide that has no sialic acid component
asialotetraantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + sialo- + tetraantennary.
Senses: examples: text: None of these enzymes could hydrolyze asialotriantennary nor asialotetraantennary oligosaccharides.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Transglycosylation Activity of Glycosynthase Mutants of Endo-β- N -Acetylglucosaminidase from Coprinopsis cinerea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a tetraantennary oligosaccharide that has no sialic acid component
asialotriantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + sialo- + triantennary.
Senses: examples: text: None of these enzymes could hydrolyze asialotriantennary nor asialotetraantennary oligosaccharides.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Transglycosylation Activity of Glycosynthase Mutants of Endo-β- N -Acetylglucosaminidase from Coprinopsis cinerea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a triantennary oligosaccharide that has no sialic acid component
triantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + antennary.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of three antennae
tetraantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + antennary.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of four antennae
autoinducing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + inducing.
Senses: examples: text: The Sender cell contains the entire agr operon (P2-agrBDCA) and can thus both secrete and sense AIP, the autoinducing peptide.
ref: 2015 July 22, “A Synthetic Quorum Sensing System Reveals a Potential Private Benefit for Public Good Production in a Biofilm”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That promotes autoinduction.
bicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A fresh aliquot of this Rubisco was subsequently dissolved in binding buffer (50 mM bicine, 15 mM MgCl 2, 20 mM NaCl, pH 7.9) and placed on ice.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Identification of Interactions between Abscisic Acid and Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)glycine, a derivative of glycine that is used as a buffer.
biocathode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocathodes
Etymology: From bio- + cathode.
Senses: glosses: A biochemical (typically microbial) cathode
biocathodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To consider the existence of an AR non-catalytically active form of the enzyme and to know how to avoid its formation is of great importance when designing biocathodes, which need to be constantly active.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Bilirubin Oxidase from Myrothecium verrucaria Physically Absorbed on Graphite Electrodes. Insights into the Alternative Resting Form and the Sources of Activity Loss”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of biocathode
executive officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executive officer
fish-traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish-trap
fish trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish traps
form: fishing trap
form: fish-trap
Etymology: From fish + trap.
Senses: glosses: A contraption made of wires, rods, fishing-net or other suitable materials with the purpose of catching fish alive.
fish traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish trap
decategorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decategorises
form: decategorising
form: decategorised
form: decategorised
Etymology: From de- + categorise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decategorize.
dictionary-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictionary-mongers
Etymology: From dictionary + monger.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lexicographer, a person who produces or sells dictionaries.
synonyms: word: lexicographer
extra: a person who produces or sells dictionaries
dictionary-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictionary-monger
dictionarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictionarists
Etymology: From dictionary + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lexicographer.
synonyms: word: lexicographer
dictionarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictionarist
Corn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the nouns crane, corn, and quern.
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Korn, meaning "grain."
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
over-unity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + unity (“the number "1"”), referring to the fact that an over-unity device should produce more kinetic energy than whatever potential it receives as input. Coined to avoid patent rules that prevent impossible technologies such as perpetual motion machines being patented.
Senses: examples: text: Look for the "over-unity" ratio when calculating energy output versus input as a proof of free energy.
ref: 1994, David Hatcher Childress, The Free-energy Device Handbook: A Compilation of Patents & Reports, Adventures Unlimited Press, →ISBN, page 90:
text: The system behaves as an over-unity device producing energy from atomic hydrogen by a repeated dissociation and recombination of hydrogen atoms. MAHG tube contains a vacuum tube filled with hydrogen at 0.1 atm and cooled by water.
ref: 2007, Florentin Smarandache, V. Christianto, Hadron models and related New Energy issues, Infinite Study, →ISBN, page 96:
text: "The Potapov device," the experimenters reported ruefully, "did not show any evidence of over-unity performance in our tests. We can find no explanation for the failure of this Potapov device to perform as reported (300% over-unity)."
ref: 2008, Mark P. Silverman, A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Free-energy; supposedly capable of perpetual motion
Baring
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barings
Etymology: Possibly related to Bering.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A minor city in Knox County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in King County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A community in south-east Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A locality near Patchewollock, Rural City of Mildura, north-west Victoria, Australia.
Sentinel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.
Cement
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for its early cement industry.
Senses: glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
Fallis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
Meeker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: The flock spent most of the next day about Chasm Lake, just under the northern crags of Meeker.
ref: 1915 April 24, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Rio Blanco County, Colorado.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, Ohio.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A former hamlet in the village of Germantown, Washington County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Meeker County
Dassel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
Pease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for a seller or grower of peas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Belmont County, Ohio.
Isle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ile
Senses: glosses: A city in Minnesota.
glosses: A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.
glosses: A river in southwestern France, which flows into the Dordogne.
Derived terms: english: Somerset
translation: Somerset
word: Ilminster
Foreston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Minnesota.
biocorrosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + corrosion.
Senses: examples: text: Biofilms can also lead to biocorrosion of drinking water pipes or industrial facilities [5 ] and contamination in food processing plants, causing food spoilage [6, 7 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “A Mathematical Model of Quorum Sensing Induced Biofilm Detachment”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: biological or biochemical corrosion (typically by microorganisms)
Related terms: biocorrosive
bisbenzimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nuclear counterstaining (blue) with bisbenzimide.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Contribution of Schwann Cells to Remyelination in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model of CNS Neuroinflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluorescent stain (2’-(4-ethoxyphenyl)-6-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-1H,3’H-2,5’-bibenzimidazole) for DNA
carbamylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbamylates
form: carbamylating
form: carbamylated
form: carbamylated
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo, carbamylation
Derived terms: decarbamylate
recarbamylate
Hallock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.
carbamylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because the enzyme was not activated prior to crystallization, the active site lysine is not carbamylated and Mg 2+ is not present.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Identification of Interactions between Abscisic Acid and Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of carbamylate
carbamylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by carbamylation
chondroprogenitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondroprogenitors
Etymology: From chondro- + progenitor.
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively it has been proposed that these cells may be representative of a chondroprogenitor or MSC like cell type present within cartilage[73 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “Immortalisation with hTERT Impacts on Sulphated Glycosaminoglycan Secretion and Immunophenotype in a Variable and Cell Specific Manner”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any cell that develops into a chondrocyte
Derived terms: osteochondroprogenitor
colibactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Within CG258, we found several instances of colibactin genes, which encode a genotoxin that induces host DNA damage, and conjugation machinery of type IV secretion systems (T4SS), which is not surprising given CG258’s plethora of plasmids.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Genomic Analysis of the Emergence and Rapid Global Dissemination of the Clonal Group 258 Klebsiella pneumoniae Pandemic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A bacterial genotoxin of uncertain structure
coxsackie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coxsackies
Senses: examples: text: ApoL6 was reported to have antiviral activity against two picornaviruses, coxsackie B virus and poliovirus.
ref: 2015 July 22, “The Interferon-Inducible Mouse Apolipoprotein L9 and Prohibitins Cooperate to Restrict Theiler’s Virus Replication”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of several viruses of the genus Enterovirus similar to poliovirus
Coxsackie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in New York, and a village within that town.
Derived terms: coxsackievirus
equivalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivalisations
Senses: examples: text: The equivalisation of household income furthermore does not account adequately for the opportunity costs in income experienced by other household members due to care-giving responsibilities, similar to methods which attempt to estimate the income loss attributable to productivity gaps between disabled and non-disabled people [28 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “The Economic Lives of People with Disabilities in Vietnam”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The estimation of a representative income of a household from a weighted average of those of its members.
euryarchaeotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Euryarchaeota + -ic
Senses: examples: text: These exceptional euryarchaeotic species were mixed within the crenarchaeotic zone, together with Nanoarchaeum equitans [40 ] and “Ca.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Functional Classification of Uncultured “ Candidatus Caldiarchaeum subterraneum” Using the Maple System”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to extremophile microorganisms of the phylum Euryarchaeota
gonyautoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: PST toxins, gonyautoxins 1 and 4 (GTX1&4-c), N-sulfocarbamoyl-gonyautoxin 2 and 3 (C1&C2-b) and saxitoxin (STX-f) (National Research Council Canada), were tested at varying concentrations.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Progress in Understanding Algal Bloom-Mediated Fish Kills: The Role of Superoxide Radicals, Phycotoxins and Fatty Acids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of gonyautoxin
gonyautoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonyautoxins
Etymology: Blend of Gonyaulax + toxin, Gonyaulax being the genus name of dinoflagellate plankton.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of paralytic shellfish poisons used in the treatment of anal fissures
hemizygously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hemizygous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Both CNV assays with pre-designed TaqMan and UPL probes confirmed that the coding sequence of PRPF31 from chr19:54,618,875 to chr19:54,634,248 (exons 1 to 13) was hemizygously deleted in the two affected and present at two copies in the six unaffected members of the family.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Application of Whole Exome Sequencing in Six Families with an Initial Diagnosis of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa: Lessons Learned”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a hemizygous manner
hexadecanedioate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dicarboxylic acids such as hexadecanedioate, produced by ω-oxidation in the endoplasmic reticulum and peroxisome and then degraded via β-oxidation, were also enriched in the plasma of postnatally CD piglets.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Moderate Perinatal Choline Deficiency Elicits Altered Physiology and Metabolomic Profiles in the Piglet”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a hexadecanedioic acid
hexadecanedioic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 16 carbon atoms, but especially 1,16-hexadecanedioic acid
Related terms: hexadecanedioate
hexaheteromeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + heteromeric.
Senses: examples: text: The MCM2–7 proteins can be arranged in a hexaheteromeric complex working as a eukaryotic DNA helicase.
ref: 2015 July 22, “Whole Exome Sequencing Identified MCM2 as a Novel Causative Gene for Autosomal Dominant Nonsyndromic Deafness in a Chinese Family”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a heteromer having six subunits
hypercortisolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercortisolemic
form: most hypercortisolemic
Etymology: From hyper- + cortisolemic.
Senses: examples: text: Early studies suggested a rewarding effect of starvation itself through an hypercortisolemic and hyperdopaminergic state [23 ], and, in the same line, the animal model of self-starvation/activity-based anorexia (ABA) has implicated imbalances in the brain reward system in AN, driven merely by modifications in food consumption and starvation [24 ].
ref: 2015 July 22, “Abnormal Social Reward Responses in Anorexia Nervosa: An fMRI Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to hypercortisolemia
resonants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resonant