cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Klaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -eɪn
Etymology: Blend of Kurt + Blaine.
Senses: examples: text: With the recent death of Glee's Cory Monteith, there wasn't much creators could do to make viewers feel better. Yet they found it: a reunion of gay couple "Klaine."
ref: 2013, "Tragedy Brings People Together After All, Doesn't It?", Watermark, 29 August 2013 - 11 September 2013, page 29
text: However Ryan Murphy gives fans a few rewards in Series 5 for sticking with the show (happy news for Klaine supporters), […]
ref: 2013, Heather Boyles, "The final curtain draws near", Seren (Bangor University), Issue 235, October 2013, page 25
text: Klaine fans and writers have lived in a culture where homosexuality has been mainstreamed, if not always accepted.
ref: 2014, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, “Glee Literally Means Glee: The Queer Art of Community's Parody”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 267:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson from the television series Glee.
Brittana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Brittany + Santana.
Senses: examples: text: Never mind Finn and Rachel – I'm on Team Brittana now.
ref: 2009, Dorothy Snarker of AfterEllen.com, quoted in Amy Rickman, Gleeful!: A Totally Unofficial Guide to the Hit TV Series GLEE, Villard (2010), page 136
text: […] there'd been such a fuss over the original Brittana kiss, & with Kurt kissing Blaine, […]
ref: 2012, Bruce Wagner, Dead Stars, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: However, the taste of happiness many viewers felt at Brittana's queer relationship quickly turned bitter when the label of homosexual continued to be thrust upon Santana by many of the show's straight characters as well as her own girlfriend.
ref: 2014, Taylor Cole Miller, “Forced out of the 'flannel closet': The Coming-Out-Gay Imperative”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 34:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez from the television series Glee.
secondhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: second-handed
Etymology: From second + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Finding that I could not get an answer to my request from the trustees of the British Museum, I have come to the conclusion that these gentlemen did a great injustice in selling my collection at public auction, which was done for no other purpose than that of throwing my valuable specimens into the hands of some of their friends, in order to purchase it secondhanded from them.
ref: 1855, William P. Smith, A Naturalist's Chapter of Difficulties, pages 25–26:
text: If I got it from Mr. Rauh, I would get it secondhanded, or if I got it from you I would get it secondhanded.
ref: 1957, United States Congress Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings - Volume 6, page 9097:
text: In point of fact it was over fifteen, and even then she had bought it secondhanded, and almost unfit for use.
ref: 2013, Emile Gaboriau, Other People's Money, →ISBN:
glosses: Secondhand.
In a used condition.
examples: text: What I have learned outside of what is written in this secret history regarding town and village government, we shall not here mention as it would be recorded from hearsay or secondhanded.
ref: 1905, John Piter Anderson, Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Opening of the First of the Seven Seals and the Constitution and Marriage Statutes of the Most Ancient Appagejans 650,000 Years Ago, page 589:
text: A man in the country does his own thinking. Get him into town and he will be thinking secondhanded.
ref: 2007 July-August, Will Rogers, “Ponderables”, in American Cowboy, volume 4, number 2, page 32:
text: Frank told me that you seemed upset because of my wire to Leo Morrison which, I understand, reached you secondhanded.
ref: 2011, James Curtis, Spencer Tracy, →ISBN:
glosses: Secondhand.
Indirectly
examples: text: The well-springs of scientific truth are not so far exhausted that there is nothing left for the engineering teacher, in the way of research, but to work at it secondhanded, perhaps going no further than to corroborate the earlier work undertaken by manufacturers.
ref: 1901, American Society for Engineering Education, Society for the Promotion of Engineering, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting - Volume 9, page 254:
text: Of course, I think we go secondhanded into most of these conferences anyway, but in this case we would have a definite assurance we would be going in secondhanded.
ref: 1960, United States Congress Senate Committee on Commerce, Hearings, page 32:
text: But I suppose I am giving you all this second-handed, as you have probably seen the substance of it in the papers.
ref: 2012, Samuel Longfellow, Life Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume 1, →ISBN:
glosses: In second place, repeating another.
second-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of secondhanded.
second-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of secondhanded.
secondhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-handedness
Etymology: From secondhanded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being secondhand.
second-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From second-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of secondhandedness.
secondhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From secondhanded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of secondhand.
second-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of secondhand.
shugga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sugar.
xuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xun
strait and narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of straight and narrow.
window screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window screens
form: windowscreen
Senses: glosses: A mesh, made of metal wire, fibreglass, or other synthetic fibre, set in a frame and covering the opening of a window to keep leaves, debris, insects, birds, etc. from entering a building without blocking fresh airflow.
Synonyms: bug screen
fly screen
flyscreen
insect screen
Coordinate terms: screen window
screen door
window screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window screen
bug screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug screens
Etymology: So called because it keeps off bugs (insects); compare fly screen.
Senses: glosses: A window screen.
fly screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly screens
Etymology: So called because it serves to keep out flies.
Senses: glosses: A window screen.
insect screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insect screens
Senses: glosses: A window screen.
bug screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bug screen
fly screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly screen
insect screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insect screen
koniocortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koniocortices
Etymology: From konio- + cortex.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several granular regions of the cerebral cortex associated with visual, somatic and auditory senses.
Derived terms: prokoniocortex
kurosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurosols
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: An ultisol or alfisol.
latosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latosols
Etymology: From Latin later (“brick”) + -o- + -sol.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A lateritic soil of forested temperate or tropical regions.
Derived terms: latosolic
leucomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucomycins
Etymology: From leuco- + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kitasamycin.
synonyms: word: kitasamycin
lexicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexicalities
Etymology: From lexical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being lexical.
examples: text: A case in point is precisely Rorty's own taxonomic propensities, schematizing thinkers (not texts) according to common lexicalities and conceptualities.
ref: 2006, Steve Martinot, Forms in the Abyss: A Philosophical Bridge Between Sartre and Derrida:
glosses: The degree to which something is lexical.
shorthandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-handedness
Etymology: From shorthanded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being shorthanded.
short-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From short-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shorthandedness.
short-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more short-handedly
form: most short-handedly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shorthandedly.
shovel-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shovel-handed
form: most shovel-handed
Etymology: From shovel + handed.
Senses: examples: text: I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni at all.
ref: 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II, page 449:
text: There was his cousin, Sivan, the once shy boy who had grown as bulky as his shovel-handed father and then some more, and had learned to use his body efficiently with the help of the local kick-boxing club.
ref: 2011, Sophie Hardach, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages, →ISBN:
text: “Foaming moonstruck octopus! Shovel-handed ape!” The blood-laced eyes of Ruthlen Beauson bagged gibbously behind their horn-rimmed lenses.
ref: 2011, Richard Matheson, Steel: And Other Stories, →ISBN, page 153:
text: They belonged to the shovel-handed goalkeeper whose size the first time he'd seen him had made him bolt for home, the Ulsterman and Munich survivor Harry Gregg.
ref: 2011, Gordon Burn, Best and Edwards, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: brawny and large, with connotations of being unintelligent, as one who is fit for digging ditches.
box-fresh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Two years after Katherine Jenkins wore a flower garland, denim cut offs and box-fresh Hunters to Glastonbury 2013, the look refuses to die.
ref: 2015 June 23, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian:
glosses: Chiefly of shoes or other clothing: fresh from the box in which they were purchased; brand-new, ostentatiously new.
cool hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cool hunters
form: cool-hunter
form: coolhunter
Senses: examples: text: When Converse's cool-hunter DeeDee Gordon was in Los Angeles, she saw white teenage girls dressing like cholos, or Mexican gangsters, wearing tight white tank tops known as "wife beaters," a bra strap hanging out, long shorts, tube socks, and shower sandals.
ref: 1999, Dorothy Leonard-Barton, Walter C. Swap, When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups, page 87:
text: Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials. Google Cayce and you will find “coolhunter,” and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a “sensitive” of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing.
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition:
text: Seventeen-year-old Hunter is a cool hunter employed by an advertising and marketing agency which has a transnational sporting goods corporation, thinly disguised as Nike, as a major client.
ref: 2011, Kerry Mallan, Clare Bradford, Contemporary Children's Literature and Film, page 66:
text: This is where the edgiest fashion happens (and where the major brands send their researchers and cool-hunters to sniff out the coming looks).
ref: 2015 June 23, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Someone employed to find the newest trends, especially by the fashion or media industry.
cool hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cool hunter
larvaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larvarium
naturalistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naturalista
carbo-load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbo-loads
form: carbo-loading
form: carbo-loaded
form: carbo-loaded
form: carbo load
form: carboload
form: carb-load
form: carb load
form: carbload
Senses: examples: text: In addition to carbo-loading, many runners increase their fluid intake in the final days preceding a longer race to maximize their water stores and minimize dehydration during the race.
ref: 2006, Matt Fitzgerald, Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners:
glosses: To load up on carbohydrate-rich foods before exercise.
Synonyms: carb up
Related terms: carbohydrate loading
subdirector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdirectors
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: deputy director
glosses: A director who reports to another director.
jhalfrezi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jalfrezi.
neurotheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neurotheological
form: most neurotheological
Etymology: From neuro- + theological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neurotheology.
tricephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + cephalic.
Senses: synonyms: three-headed
triple-headed
tricephalous
glosses: Having three heads.
dicephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + cephalic.
Senses: glosses: Having two heads.
pyogranulomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characterised by, pyogranuloma.
pyogranulomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyogranuloma
pyogranulomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyogranuloma
flyaway cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyaway costs
Senses: glosses: The marginal cost of an aircraft, including production costs but excluding R&D, supplementary equipment, and future costs such as spare parts and maintenance.
flyaway costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyaway cost
Union Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Union Islands
Senses: glosses: Former name of Tokelau.
hydraulic ram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydraulic rams
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hydraulic, ram.
glosses: A water pump in which a flow of water is intermittently halted by a valve so that the flow is forced upward through an open pipe, usually into a reservoir.
examples: text: The lifts are operated by means of a hydraulic ram with wire ropes, which derives its pressure from a small pump driven by an electric motor.
ref: 1961 October, “Car carriage by rail - at home and abroad: 1. New B.R. "covered wagons"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 596:
glosses: A hydraulic cylinder with a piston activated by pumping hydraulic fluid into the cylinder.
Synonyms: sense: water pump
word: hydram
Related terms: water hammer
lignosulfonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lignosulfonates
Etymology: From ligno- + sulfonate.
Senses: glosses: Any sulfonated derivative of a lignin
non-dom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-doms
form: nondom
Etymology: Clipping of non-domiciled.
Senses: examples: text: Without that non-dom status she could have been liable for more than £20m of UK taxes on these windfalls, it was reported. After a public outcry, her spokesperson announced she would start paying UK taxes on her overseas earnings to relieve political pressure on her husband.
ref: 2022 October 24, Caroline Davies, “Spotlight on Rishi Sunak’s family as they prepare to enter No 10”, in The Guardian:
text: Many of the non-doms who left after changes to the UK tax regime have kept their houses but no longer have full-time staff, says Caroline Baker, who provides management services for luxury properties.
ref: 2025 July 12, Josh Spero, “Butlers seek work as UK tax-led exodus of non-doms leads to house downsizing”, in FT Weekend, page 1:
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
antonyms: dom
glosses: One who has their domicile in another country, allowing them to avoid paying UK tax on non-UK earnings.
limbline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limblines
form: limb line
Etymology: From limb + line.
Senses: glosses: A fishing line that dangles from the limb of an overhanging tree.
macroconidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroconidia
Etymology: From macro- + conidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively large conidium, but especially the larger of a pair of conidia in the same organism
Related terms: macroconidial
macroconidiogenesis
mannosylphosphoryltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannosylphosphoryltransferases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that transfers mannosyl phosphate residues
marcfortine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marcfortines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of anthelmintic indole alkaloids that are fungal metabolites
melanotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanotropins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
endocrinology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of melanocyte-stimulating hormone.
synonyms: word: melanocyte-stimulating hormone
mesocompound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesocompounds
form: meso compound
Etymology: From meso- + compound.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any achiral compound that has two or more chiral centres
metabasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabasins
Etymology: From meta- + basin.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of multiple regions whose spatial energy distribution has the form of a basin
metaprocess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaprocesses
form: meta-process
Etymology: From meta- + process.
Senses: glosses: Any process used to describe or define another
youkai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youkai
form: youkais
Senses: examples: text: COME TO THINK OF IT…I WAS TOLD THAT YOUKAIS’ POWER HAS WEAKENED OVER THE YEARS.
ref: 2016, Cocoa Fujiwara, translated by Sheldon Drzka, “Final Chapter: The Tale Continues”, in Inu × Boku SS, volume 11, New York, N.Y.: Yen Press, →ISBN, page 232:
glosses: Alternative form of yokai.
metaxylohydroquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaxylohydroquinones
Etymology: From meta- + xylo- + hydroquinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of hydroquinone derived from metaxylene, but especially 2,6-dimethylbenzene-1,4-diol.
queen mum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queen mums
Senses: glosses: queen mother
methoxydimethyltryptamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methoxydimethyltryptamines
Etymology: From methoxy + dimethyltryptamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric methoxy derivatives of dimethyltryptamine; any compound derived from any of these
methylhistamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylhistamines
Etymology: From methyl + histamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N- or C- methyl derivative of histamine
methylphenethylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylphenethylamines
Etymology: From methyl + phenethylamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric C- or N- methyl derivatives of phenethylamine
Derived terms: alpha-methylphenethylamine
methylpurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylpurines
Etymology: From methyl + purine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric methyl derivatives of purine, but especially 6-methylpurine which is an anticancer agent
methyltyrosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methyltyrosines
Etymology: From methyl + tyrosine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric methyl derivatives of tyrosine, but especially α-methyltyrosine which is the antihypertensive drug metirosine
half-expect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: half-expects
form: half-expecting
form: half-expected
form: half-expected
Etymology: From half- + expect.
Senses: examples: text: - I'm afraid we have no appointments available until next week.
- Oh, that's all right; I half-expected that.
glosses: Almost to expect; to think that something may happen, without being entirely sure.
microconidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microconidia
Etymology: From micro- + conidium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively small conidium, but especially the smaller of a pair of conidia in the same organism
Related terms: microconidial
microconidiogenesis
microinfarction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinfarctions
Etymology: From micro- + infarction.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of microinfarct.
synonyms: word: microinfarct
micromixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromixers
Etymology: From micro- + mixer.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic (or at least miniaturized) device for mixing fluids.
micropenitente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropenitentes
Etymology: From micro- + penitente.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic penitente (that grows into a full-size one)
microtrajectory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtrajectories
Etymology: From micro- + trajectory.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A microscopic trajectory (one of a series used in calculating a real trajectory)
microtrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtraps
Etymology: From micro- + trap.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic trap
molliturbel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molliturbels
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A turbel that has a mollic epipedon
epipedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epipedons
Etymology: From epi- + pedon.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A horizon that forms near the soil surface
weapons inspector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weapons inspectors
Senses: examples: text: The UN security council is edging towards a compromise resolution on Iraq demanding unfettered access for weapons inspectors to Saddam Hussein's eight presidential palaces.
ref: 2002 October 10, The Guardian:
text: As a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, I worked closely with the IAEA to investigate Iraq’s past nuclear weapons programme, and I have confidence in the IAEA’s ability to implement the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
ref: 2015, Scott Ritter, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 13:
glosses: An official (originally and chiefly one working for the United Nations) whose job is to examine the potential military research sites or equipment of a given state, as a means of ensuring disarmament or assessing compliance with arms treaties etc.
weapons inspectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weapons inspector
mollorthel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollorthels
Senses: examples: text: 5187 Mollorthel (S.Clas., ST) A great soil group with Orthels, with soils having a mollic epipedon.
ref: 2006, A. Canarache, Elsevier's Dictionary of Soil Science:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An orthel that has a mollic epipedon
molybdoflavoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molybdoflavoproteins
Etymology: From molybdo- + flavoprotein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any flavoprotein containing molybdenum
molybdoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molybdoproteins
Etymology: From molybdo- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metalloprotein containing molybdenum
monoalkylglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoalkylglycerols
Etymology: From monoalkyl + glycerol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any monoalkyl ether of glycerol
monodigitoxoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monodigitoxosides
Etymology: From mono- + digitoxoside.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing a single digitoxoside residue
digitoxoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitoxosides
Etymology: From digitoxose + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of digitoxose
Derived terms: bisdigitoxoside
monodigitoxoside
monoethanolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoethanolamides
Etymology: From mono- + ethanolamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A simple ethanolamide that has a single ethanol residue
Related terms: diethanolamide
monophosphokinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophosphokinases
Etymology: From mono- + phosphokinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any kinase that transfers a single phosphate group
multiwavelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiwavelets
Etymology: From multi- + wavelet.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A system of multiple wavelets
myelotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelotomies
Etymology: From myelo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision into the spinal cord
myelotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelotoxicities
Etymology: From myelo- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition or degree of being myelotoxic.
mythologeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythologemes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mythologem.
myxamoeba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myxamoebas
form: myxamoebae
Etymology: By surface analysis, myx(o)- + amoeba.
Senses: glosses: A cell, having characteristics similar to a simple amoeba, that is produced by a spore of some slime molds etc.
Derived terms: myxamoebal
nanosubstance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanosubstances
Etymology: From nano- + substance.
Senses: glosses: Any nanoengineered substance, or any substance in the form of nanoparticles
dianthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dianthrones
Etymology: From di- + anthrone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A quinone related to anthrone
Derived terms: naphthodianthrone
naphthodianthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthodianthrones
Etymology: From naphtho- + dianthrone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of anthraquinone related to dianthrone.
neohippy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neohippies
Etymology: From neo- + hippy.
Senses: glosses: A new age hippy.
neohippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neohippies
Etymology: From neo- + hippie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neohippy.
neuroadaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroadaptations
Etymology: From neuro- + adaptation.
Senses: glosses: neural adaptation to external factors, leading to tolerance and sometimes dependency
neuroeffector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroeffectors
Etymology: From neuro- + effector.
Senses: glosses: The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector
gunny sacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunny sack
nicotinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkətɪˌnɔɪd/
Forms: form: nicotinoids
Etymology: From nicotine + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a large group of compounds related to nicotine
Derived terms: chloronicotinoid
neonicotinoid
nitisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitisols
Etymology: From nit(idus) + -i- + sol.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A nitic soil.
nitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: According to the FAO, it comes from Latin nitidus (“shiny”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a reasonable amount of clay, but that falls apart into flat-edged geometrical forms that have shiny faces
raw_tags: of a soil
nitroferricyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitroferricyanides
Etymology: From nitro- + ferricyanide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion Fe(CN)₅NO²⁻; any salt containing this anion
immunotargets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunotarget
nitrophenylgalactoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrophenylgalactosides
Etymology: From nitrophenyl + galactoside.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any galactoside of nitrophenol
nitrophenylphosphatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrophenylphosphatases
Etymology: From nitrophenyl + phosphatase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phosphatase that hydrolyses nitrophenyl phosphate
nitropropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitropropanes
Etymology: From nitro- + propane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two nitro derivatives of propane
go hungry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes hungry
form: going hungry
form: went hungry
form: gone hungry
Senses: examples: text: Don't let him go hungry - that's child abuse, isn't it?
glosses: To miss a meal.
goes hungry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go hungry
going hungry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go hungry
went hungry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go hungry
gone hungry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go hungry
nitropyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitropyrenes
Etymology: From nitro- + pyrene.
Senses: glosses: Any of three isomeric nitro derivatives of pyrene
nonion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonions
Senses: glosses: Any foraminifer of the family Nonionidae.
norandrostane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norandrostanes
Etymology: From nor- + androstane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several compounds derived from androstane by removal of a methylene or methyl group
notaulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notauli
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of grooves on a mesoscutum
Related terms: notaular
notaulix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notaulices
Senses: glosses: A furrow in the anterior part of the mesonotum of some insects
nucleofilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleofilaments
Etymology: From nucleo- + filament.
Senses: glosses: A filamentous form of a chromosome made from nucleosome subunits.
nucleophosphatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleophosphatases
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nucleotidase.
synonyms: word: nucleotidase
nucleosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleosidases
Etymology: From nucleoside + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a nucleoside, separating the base and the sugar
Derived terms: ectonucleosidase
action word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action words
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word that indicates an action, event or state.
Synonyms: verb
upboost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upboosts
form: upboosting
form: upboosted
form: upboosted
Etymology: From up- + boost.
Senses: examples: text: A few boostings are percieved^([sic]) as upboostings, but are realized in such a way that the auditively upboosted syllable is placed below the surrounding stressed syllables, and acoustically looks more like a downboosting, see fig. 11.
ref: 1995, Jørgen Rischel, Hans Basbøll, Aspects of Danish prosody:
text: On the other hand, for the application of electrodynamic tethers to upboost spacecraft, and, in particular, the International Space Station (ISS), we in general need to have currents much above 1 A (for example of the order of 10 A) to …
ref: 2002, Geophysics and space physics, Volume 25, Part 3
text: An engineer who has to be always cost conscious and should all through look towards ways and means to upboost finances of the industry through profit enhancement, must be more receptive to the idea of proper energy management.
ref: 2004, Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress
text: A passing red rooster Tried to upboost her, But simply reduced her To roaring, And then became worried When she got flurried, So off he hurried, And snapped, “That duck is boring. I'm rather glad it's pouring.”
ref: 2012, Ephriam Sando, Odd Fables and Other Poems:
glosses: to boost up
Related terms: upboosting
SAA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SAAs
Senses: glosses: Single Action Army. The US Army's classification for the Colt M1873 "Peacemaker" revolver, their standard revolver from 1873 to 1892.
glosses: Small Arms Ammunition. The British armed forces term for ammunition used in sidearms and rifles. The acronym was used in 20th century manuals as an abbreviation.
SAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Syrian Arab Army.
glosses: Initialism of South Atlantic Anomaly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Systems Application Architecture (“an IBM technology”).
oikocryst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oikocrysts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -cryst, or directly from the Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: chadacryst
glosses: An enclosing crystal in a poikilitic fabric.
olistolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olistoliths
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀλισθάνω (olisthánō, “to slide”) + -lith.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a mass of blocks of rock or mud that make up an olistostrome.
Related terms: listhesis
olistostrome
olivomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olivomycins
Etymology: From translingual olivo(reticuli) + -mycin (“antibiotic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of glycosidic antibiotics obtained from Actinomyces olivoreticuli.
side-hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: side-hands
form: side-handing
form: side-handed
form: side-handed
Etymology: From side + hand.
Senses: examples: text: The conspirators grabbed up the candy-cup wrappings that had been carefreely strewn about, took turns tearing off pieces of the box, and side-handed them into the storm sewer across the street.
ref: 1956, UVM: V. 4- - Volume 1, page 27:
text: He side-handed the wafer back across the desk into Remy's lap.
ref: 1990, James Luceno, Illegal Alien, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Mitzi side-handed a pile of prints off the table and set a plate down on his side of it.
ref: 2014, Ron Goulart, Too Sweet to Die, →ISBN:
glosses: To move by placing the palm of the hand on top and sliding sideways.
side-hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of side-hand
side-handing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of side-hand
side-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From side + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Wading upstream, it was obvious I would have to cast side-handed and under-handed, with an occasional bow-and-arrow "shot."
ref: 1972, Colorado Game, Fish Department, Colorado Outdoors - Volumes 21-22, page 36:
text: I could see Tom in the Bisto mirror on the wall as he took a bottle off the shelf side-handed without breaking stride, and placed it on the counter.
ref: 2013, Sean O'Connor, Growing Up So High: A Liberties Boyhood, →ISBN:
text: I pull the pin and lob the explosive side-handed into the room.
ref: 2014, Rob Volver, Guns 'n Money, →ISBN:
glosses: Sideways.
raw_tags: of an action executed with the hand
examples: text: As the gunman spluttered, Towler continued the momentum of his hand to catch the man side-handed in the windpipe and, with his other hand, struck him hard in the crotch.
ref: 1992, Kenneth Royce, Exchange of Doves, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: Using the side of the hand.
side-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From side + handed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of side-hand
side-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more side-handedly
form: most side-handedly
Etymology: From side-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: While Kiko seemed to understand my intention to use this task to side-handedly ask him questions about himself, he played along, indicating that he would like to have the power of a ninja who could control his chakra, that he worried about losing power, and at times wanted to be invisible, particularly at the ninja academy (the equivalent of his school).
ref: 2008, Lawrence C. Rubin, Popular Culture in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Play-Based Interventions, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Also, it's right-sized in terms of its overall dimensions, especially in contrast with its larger brother, the previously and side-handedly derided X3, which is based on the new, larger 3-Series.
ref: 2013 April 21, Brett Berk, “Reviewing, Relenting, and Recommending a Crossover”, in Vanity Fair:
text: All right, now this will settle some longstanding beefs about the apparently competing markets of the Toronto Argonauts and the Buffalo Bills – and perhaps even side-handedly address the NFL's reported designs on the big Canadian market.
ref: 2015 April 1, “Toronto Argonauts vs Buffalo Bills game announced (not)”, in CFL Pass:
glosses: Indirectly
braggatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more braggatory
form: most braggatory
Etymology: From brag + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: Not to be using this in a braggatory way or anything, but I'm a little more equipped to handle these things than Dixon.
ref: 1980, Living Blues, numbers 45-49, page 40:
text: God forbid he use a name that is not braggatory... had to be something like "richboy", "sexmachine", "tootoughforyou" or "godofeverything" […]
ref: 1999 February 21, Mike B., “Re: Fill Me In on This Flame War”, in alt.autos.corvette (Usenet):
text: Feeling particularly good-natured, Thera gave Alannah a sporting chance before out-distancing her, following that up with a braggatory lap around the cabin before Alannah reached it.
ref: 2012, Katie Appenheimer, Crownless: Tales of the Banished, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: Exhibiting or characteristic of hubris; boastful.
reblot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reblots
form: reblotting
form: reblotted
form: reblotted
Etymology: From re- + blot.
Senses: examples: text: Remoisten and reblot two or three times until what you're blotting up is colorless or the faint color of Red or Blue juice, but definitely not the color of wine.
ref: 1997, Jeff Campbell, Talking Dirt: America's Speed Cleaning Expert Answers the 157 Most Asked Cleaning Questions, Dell Publishing, published 1997, →ISBN, page 131:
text: Stipple several times on your surface until the swab is too dry, then reload and reblot.
ref: 2006, Maureen McNaughton, The Brushstroke Handbook, North Light Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Reblot the gel and remove the template.
ref: 2007, Joseph P. Chandler, “Purification and Characterization of Antibodies”, in Gary C. Howard, Matthew R. Kaser, editors, Making and Using Antibodies: A Practical Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: To blot something again.
singlehandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From singlehanded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of single-handedness.
victim-blamey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more victim-blamey
form: most victim-blamey
Etymology: From victim-blame + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “I think any sort of advice on how to have a safer Halloween based only on the costume is very victim-blamey,” Wozniak said.
ref: 2013, Annika Wolters, "What Makes A Costume Offensive?", The AS Review (Western Washington University), Volume 29, Number 7, 30 October 2013, page 8
text: They tell me you can never let your guard down. Not for a single second. That you should expect every fellow citizen to be a sociopath. It isn’t exactly victim-blamey, but it feels gross.
ref: 2014, Timaree Schmit, "Bad Karma", Philadelphia Weekly, 24 September 2014 - 1 October 2014, page 19
text: And that whole distinctly victim-blamey sentiment of "if you didn't want this to happen, you shouldn't have taken photos" is hard-wired into mainstream culture.
ref: 2015, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Online harassment and revenge porn”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 18, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: Engaging in, promoting, or characteristic of victim-blaming.
victim-blaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victim blaming
Etymology: From victim + blaming.
Senses: glosses: The practice of holding the victim of a crime or other wrongful act wholly or partially responsible for what befell them.
Related terms: victim-blame
victim-blamey
victim-blaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: victim blaming
Etymology: From victim + blaming.
Senses: glosses: present participle of victim-blame
Related terms: secondary victimization
victim blaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of victim-blaming.
reslant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reslants
form: reslanting
form: reslanted
form: reslanted
Etymology: From re- + slant.
Senses: glosses: To give a new slant to.
bollocks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bollockses up
form: bollocksing up
form: bollocksed up
form: bollocksed up
Senses: examples: text: The webpage didn't display properly because I bollocksed up the formatting.
glosses: To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
resalt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resalts
form: resalting
form: resalted
form: resalted
Etymology: From re- + salt.
Senses: glosses: To salt again or anew.
slack-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slack-handed
form: most slack-handed
form: slackhanded
Etymology: From slack + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Their warmth stirred her up to be so busy and laudably benevolent; perhaps if he had been away she might have been idle and slack-handed; but I do not know.
ref: 1867, Rhoda Broughton, Not wisely, but too well: A Novel, page 155:
text: It was the fate of the Creoles—possibly a climatic result—to be slack-handed and dilatory.
ref: 2000, George Washington Cable, Creoles of Louisiana, →ISBN:
text: His autocracy had been transformed into a system of feudal baronies, with president Fitzsimmons as the slack-handed overseer.
ref: 2015, James Neff, Mobbed Up, →ISBN:
glosses: Careless and inactive; lacking focus or initiative.
examples: text: Solomon had a thorough contempt for slothful, slack-handed farming, and lost no opportunity of giving drowsy ignorance a view of its own deformity, and its own certain fate.
ref: 1854, The Valley Farmer: A Monthly Journal of Agriculture, Volumes 6-7:
text: On the whole a great deal of slack-handed service was put up with.
ref: 1913, Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, The South in the Building of the Nation, page 206:
text: I blame the shoddy quality of Portuguese sea-charts for this, though doubtless the Portuguese would blame the compass, or the wind, or the water, or the Ceylonese, or the shape of the world, or the Moon, or anything else that might absolve their own slack-handed workmanship.
ref: 2007, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan, Second Person: Role-playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, page 372:
glosses: Done carelessly; slapdash.
examples: text: She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock.
ref: 1999, Caroline Adderson, A History of Forgetting, page 353:
text: The gun jiggled in a slack-handed grip, but the trigger finger looked tight.
ref: 2001, Simon Bucher-Jones, Kelly Hale, Grimm Reality, →ISBN:
text: Edna gave us a slack-handed wave as I agitated the road gravel.
ref: 2007, Ed Lynskey, The Blue Cheer, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Having or done with hands that are slack.
Derived terms: slack-handedly
slack-handedness
slack-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slack-handed
form: most slack-handed
form: slackhanded
Etymology: From slack + handed.
Senses: examples: text: No less stunned, I stood there, too, slack-handed, empty of thought.
ref: 2011, Geraldine McCaughrean, Not the End of the World, →ISBN:
text: Gallyon took his glass and held it slack-handed, elbow resting on the arm of his chair.
ref: 2013, Jeff Gulvin, The Aden Vanner Novels, →ISBN:
text: Ninja offered the phone, slack-handed. The Wasp took it from him.
ref: 2013, Jeff Gulvin, Sleep No More, →ISBN:
text: Upon its remains Miles danced slack-handed and slack-footed, a comic imitation of a marionette, and John saw that in Miles there was no real danger, that his object had been simply to gain Loretta's attention.
ref: 2013, Thomas Williams, The Moon Pinnace, →ISBN:
glosses: Done with hands or wrists that are slack.
examples: text: Yet they sit slack-handed, doing nothing about it, unable to agree even among themselves.
ref: 1940, Bob Brown, Can we co-operate?, page 127:
text: If I told her the same thing she only giggled and said, "Yessum," and then, slack-handed, went right ahead and ironed a dozen wrinkles into the simplest piece.
ref: 1957, Janice Holt Giles, The Believers, page 15:
text: The rest of the world stood by, slack-handed, while the Abyssinians fought our battle with spears and even bows-and- arrows, and shook their fists against the metal falling from the sky, and died for a promise which had been a lie from the very beginning.
ref: 1966, Nicholas Monsarrat, Life is a Four-letter Word, page 463:
text: Accounts still exist of sailors watching slack-handed from the gunwhales while one of their colleagues drowned.
ref: 2010, Bella Bathurst, The Lighthouse Stevensons, →ISBN:
glosses: Idly or carelessly.