cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ultrapoor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrapoor
form: most ultrapoor
Etymology: From ultra- + poor.
Senses: examples: text: The authors' research -- which included data analysis and interviews with ultrapoor families in four regions -- found that many families weren't even aware of TANF.
ref: 2015 January 9, Aimee Picchi, “The surging ranks of America's ultrapoor”, in CBS News:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Exceptionally poor; in a state of dire poverty.
outsilence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsilences
form: outsilencing
form: outsilenced
form: outsilenced
Etymology: From out- + silence.
Senses: examples: text: Arthur stood. Silent. He was used to his own silence. He could outsilence anyone.
ref: 2014, Rachel Louise Snyder, What We've Lost Is Nothing, page 282:
glosses: To surpass in being silent.
Müllerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Mullerian
form: müllerian
form: mullerian
Etymology: From Müller + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or discovered by, the German physiologist Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858).
Derived terms: anti-Müllerian
Müllerian agenesis
Müllerian aplasia
Müllerian body
Müllerian duct
Müllerian fiber
Müllerian mimicry
pearl body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl bodies
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small, lustrous, pearl-like food body produced from the epidermis of leaves, petioles and shoots of certain plants, sought after by various arthropods and ants.
pearl bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearl body
Steiner's spiral nematode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Steiner's spiral nematodes
Senses: glosses: Helicotylenchus dihystera, a nematode that is a plant pathogen.
percussives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percussive
mediumic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediumic
form: most mediumic
form: mediunic
Etymology: From medium + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Descarrego, literally a “discharge” or “unloading,” signals a world of spiritual affliction and intervention connected with Brazil's mediumic religions.
ref: 2008, Anna L. Peterson, Latin American Religions: Histories and Documents in Context:
glosses: Relating to spiritual mediums.
examples: text: It is intralingual translation which is most likely to train us out of instrumental attitudes to language and into mediumic ones.
ref: 2000, Clive Scott, Translating Baudelaire, page 78:
text: While some may be willing to grant that the determinative forces noted in the preceding text―hardware, operating systems, programming languages, industry watchdogs, and so on―are key to computer game development, others may argue that, despite this fact, such forces are only peripheral and mediumic, and not authorial.
ref: 2013, Cynthia Chris, Media Authorship, page 144:
glosses: Relating to a medium of communication.
mediunic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediunic
form: most mediunic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mediumic.
hydrobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrobots
Etymology: From hydro- + -bot.
Senses: glosses: An autonomous underwater vehicle for use in space exploration.
hydrobots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrobot
life list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life lists
form: lifelist
Senses: examples: text: I added twenty species for the year, fourteen of which I couldn't hope to see anywhere else but Mike forked out a lot of money to come a long way with not a single addition to his life list to show for it.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 112:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
hypernyms: checklist
glosses: A cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.
synonyms: bucket list
glosses: A wishlist of things to accomplish during one's lifetime.
Related terms: lifer
life bird
life lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life list
life bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life birds
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A bird species seen for the first time by a birder who is keeping a list of all the species he or she has ever seen.
Synonyms: lifer
Related terms: life list
life birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life bird
Genovese syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Kitty Genovese (1935–1964), who was murdered in New York while numerous witnesses allegedly took no action.
Senses: glosses: The bystander effect.
wikipedia: Kitty Genovese
psychic surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychic surgeries
Senses: glosses: A medical fraud in which a practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery with his/her bare hands, using fake blood and other trickery.
psychic surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychic surgery
psychic surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychic surgeons
Senses: glosses: One who carries out psychic surgery.
psychic surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychic surgeon
rapper sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapper swords
Senses: glosses: A flexible steel baton used in a traditional dance from Tyneside in northeast England.
rapper swords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapper sword
rodmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rodmeters
Etymology: From rod + meter.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A blade that extends into the water under the hull of a vessel, used in measuring the vessel's speed.
Related terms: pitometer
rodmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodmeter
pitometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitometers
Etymology: From pitot + -meter?
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A log (speed measuring device) somewhat similar to a pitot tube.
cyclone separators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclone separator
hydrocyclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocyclones
Etymology: From hydro- + cyclone.
Senses: glosses: A cyclone separator used to remove particles from a liquid.
hydrocyclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrocyclone
pitometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitometer
pitometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Involving or relating to a pitometer.
bow wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow waves
Senses: examples: text: But in the half light of dawn, at about half past four, a destroyer came towards them from the west, throwing a deep, feathery bow wave of white foam aside as she cut through the water, bearing down on them.
ref: 1942, Neville Shute, chapter 11, in Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co:
text: "They are not able to service every railway contract going to the market at the same time. It creates an artificial bow-wave of work and in some cases, like TransPennine, the nature of the infrastructure work means we want some continuity," he said.
ref: 2022 April 20, “Network News: MPs pursue updates on progress of National Rail Contracts”, in RAIL, number 955, page 17:
glosses: The wave that forms at the bow of a ship as it moves through the water, and defines the outer limits of the ship's wake.
bow waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow wave
fire ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire rings
Senses: glosses: A ring of stones, etc., used to prevent a campfire from spreading.
fire rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire ring
machine elves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machine elf
flash mobbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash mobber
monocellularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monocellular + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: […] the most important being: prokaryote and eukaryote cell, monocellularity and multicellularity.
ref: 1986, International review of scientific synthesis, Volume 121
glosses: The condition of being monocellular.
tempestarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛm.pəsˈtɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌtɛm.pəsˈtɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: tempestarii
Senses: glosses: A medieval magician thought to have power over storms.
tempestarii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tempestarius
YWAMer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YWAMers
Etymology: From YWAM + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of Youth With A Mission, an interdenominational Christian missionary organization.
YWAMers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YWAMer
YWAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪwæm/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Youth With A Mission, an interdenominational Christian missionary organization.
Derived terms: YWAMer
cherry birches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry birch
black birches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black birch
sweet birches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet birch
eutelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The limitations of eutelic organisms illustrate the merits of the normal plan of reproduction by cell division.
ref: 2014, Jean Brachet, Alfred E. Mirsky, Meiosis and Mitosis: Biochemistry, Physiology, Morphology:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Characterized by eutely.
archaellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaella
Senses: glosses: A unique whip-like structure on the cell surface of many archaea
Related terms: archaellar
archaella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaellum
pleathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleather
price war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: price wars
Senses: examples: text: BYD, Xpeng, Changan and Dongfeng showed electric vehicles (EVs) with advanced technology and prices that undercut Western models, or announced expansions making it clear that Europe is the main target in their worldwide export blitz. Yet Chinese ebullience in Europe contrasts sharply with troubles at home, where a long-running price war, caused by chronic overcapacity, is raging. Its origins lie in the Chinese government’s success in first nurturing its carmakers and then propelling them to the fore of the global industry. […] Around 130 domestic firms now battle for sales, though few make cars in significant numbers. If their factories ran at full tilt for a year they could churn out twice as many cars as there are buyers. The consequence of overcapacity has been a savage price war. The average car price has fallen by 19% over the past two years, to around 165,000 yuan ($23,000), calculates Nomura, a Japanese bank. Some models have seen one-off cuts of around 35%. Although sales are still growing—at a forecast 7% this year, to around 24m vehicles—firms’ profits have dwindled or losses mounted (see chart 1).
ref: 2025 September 15, “The brutal fight to dominate Chinese carmaking”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2025:
antonyms: non-price competition
glosses: A situation where commercial competitors repeatedly undercut each other's prices in order to attract buyers.
Related terms: word: bidding war
word: underprice
word: underpriced
word: involution
word: overcapacity
word: oversupply
word: perfect competition
price wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of price war
cryosurvival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + survival.
Senses: examples: text: Whether morphological abnormalities of the oocyte influence cryosurvival and further development of derived embryos is not well known.
ref: 2012, Zsolt Peter Nagy, Alex C. Varghese, Ashok Agarwal, Practical Manual of In Vitro Fertilization: Advanced Methods and Novel Devices:
glosses: Survival in a cryogenic environment
Related terms: cryosurvive
Cranborne money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Lord Cranborne, who was leader of the House of Lords when it was introduced on 27 November 1996.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Lords, to help them with their costs.
Related terms: Short money
Short money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Edward Short (later Lord Glenamara), the leader of the House of Commons who first proposed the payments.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Commons, to help them with their costs.
Related terms: Cranborne money
uniflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + flagellated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having one flagellum.
sabbath of the land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabbaths of the land
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The period, occurring every seventh year, when fields were traditionally left fallow.
sabbaths of the land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabbath of the land
syncytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more syncytical
form: most syncytical
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: syncytial
multiflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + flagellated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having multiple flagella.
diflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + flagellated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two flagella.
triflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + flagellated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three flagella.
nonflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + flagellated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no flagella.
unflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flagellated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no flagella.
ginger group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːp
Forms: form: ginger groups
Etymology: From the idea of gingering a horse to make it seem more lively, or adding ginger to spice up a food or beverage.
Senses: examples: text: The first local ginger group came into existence in 1796, when typhus among cotton-mill employees led public-spirited Manchester physicians to organise an ad hoc health board.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 394:
glosses: A group adding impetus or spirit on a particular topic, especially within a political party or other organization.
ginger groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ginger group
woodnote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodnotes
Etymology: From wood + note.
Senses: examples: text: If Jonsons learned sock be on, / Or sweetest Shakespear fancies childe, / Warble his native Wood-notes wilde, ...
ref: 1632, John Milton, L'Allegro:
glosses: A natural musical sound, like birdsong in a forest.
downhill creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: The slow downward progression of rock and soil down a low-grade slope.
Related terms: terracette
soil creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soil creeps
Senses: topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: downhill creep
crab stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crabstick.
soil creeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soil creep
ethopoeiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethopoeia
ethopoeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethopoeia
kymoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kymoscopes
Etymology: From kymo- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: It was during this same visit to Europe that he contributed to the Journal of Physiology three papers on various aspects of the operations of the kymograph, and of his own kymoscopes.
ref: 1922, William Epps, Anderson Stuart, M.D.: Physiologist, Teacher, Builder, Organizer, Citizen, page 132:
text: As a complement to the kymograph, STUMPF has constructed a kymoscope, by means of which one can visualize the movements registered on a kymogram.
ref: 1934, Acta Radiologica, page 110:
text: In an original effort to show at reduced speed the movement here recorded, the films were viewed in a kymoscope […]
ref: 1943, The British Journal of Radiology, page 271:
text: In the early years after the development of plane kymography, Stumpf (1931) had already stressed the optical reproducibility of moving processes and described a kymoscope which is still manufactured today.
ref: 1968, Hans Rudolf Schinz, Leo George Rigler, Roentgen Diagnosis: General principles and methods, page 184:
glosses: A device for viewing and measuring wave motion, such as that recorded by a kymograph.
kymoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kymoscope
pairs of pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pair of pants
cherpumple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherpumples
Etymology: Blend of cherry + pumpkin + apple
Senses: glosses: A novelty dessert consisting of cherry pie, pumpkin pie and apple pie stacked inside various flavors of cake.
cherpumples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherpumple
provacuole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provacuoles
Etymology: From pro- + vacuole.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A vesicle in a cell's cytoplasm that develops into a vacuole.
provacuoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provacuole
chocolicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chocolicious
form: most chocolicious
Etymology: Blend of chocolate + delicious
Senses: glosses: Delicious and chocolaty.
applelicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more applelicious
form: most applelicious
Etymology: From apple + -licious.
Senses: glosses: Delicious.
raw_tags: said of food or beverages involving apples
keratorhexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kerato- + rhexis.
Senses: examples: text: This area then was flattened out near the sclera. It was not cone-shaped as in keratoconus, but cylindrical. In differential diagnosis Jauernig considered keratoconus, keratectasia and keratorhexis.
ref: 1955, Charles I. Thomas, The cornea, page 249:
text: One patient experienced conjunctivitis-induced keratorhexis after multiple administrations of EMD72000 at DL 3 (1,200 mg), which resolved within 1 week after symptomatic treatment.
ref: 2004 October, Udo Vanhoefer, Mitra Tewes, Federico Rojo, Olaf Dirsch, Norbert Schleucher, Oliver Rosen, Joachim Tillner, Andreas Kovar, Ada H. Braun, Tanja Trarbach, Siegfried Seeber, Andreas Harstrick, José Baselga, “Phase I study of the humanized antiepidermal growth factor receptor monoclonal antibody EMD72000 in patients with advanced solid tumors that express the epidermal growth factor receptor”, in Journal of Clinical Oncology:
text: Treatment-related grade 3-5 adverse events (AEs; cut-off date 11/23/10) included 1 sudden death, unknown etiology, at Day 7 in Arm A (36 mg/kg), neutropenia (n=4, all Arm B), proteinuria (n=3), thrombocytopenia (n=2), hypertension (n=2), and one each of fatigue, keratorhexis, and peripheral edema.
ref: 2011 May, C. D. Weekes, P. LoRusso, V. Ramakrishnan, L. M. Shih, W. C. Darbonne, P. Hegde, Y. Xin, R. Yu, H. Xiang, R. K. Brachmann, A. Patnaik, “A phase Ib study for MNRP1685A (anti-NRP1) administered intravenously with bevacizumab with or without paclitaxel to patients with advanced solid tumors”, in Journal of Clinical Oncology, volume 29, number 15:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Rupture of the cornea.
girlfriendish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more girlfriendish
form: most girlfriendish
form: girlfriend-ish
Etymology: From girlfriend + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a girlfriend.
Coordinate terms: boyfriendish
boyfriendish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boyfriendish
form: most boyfriendish
form: boyfriend-ish
Etymology: From boyfriend + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing here that looks very boyfriendish.
ref: 2004, Jerry H. Friedland, Deadly Personal:
text: To help her out, I try to put on a very sincere face, a very caring face, a boyfriendish sort of face.
ref: 2007, Lisa Yee, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 2):
text: So all I had to do was to be a nice boy and eat all that he served me and make sure not to act boyfriendish while he was around... and I would be safe.
ref: 2011, Abhimanyu Jha, A Dilli - Mumbai Love Story:
text: He was teasing me, not being flirty or boyfriendish.
ref: 2014, Melissa Foster, Seaside Secrets (Love in Bloom: Seaside Summers, Book 4):
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a boyfriend.
Coordinate terms: girlfriendish
Danielish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Danielish
form: most Danielish
Etymology: From Daniel + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Usually the people who use [Times New Roman] are what I would call old-fashioned people (nice and proper). In another word, Danielish ;-)
ref: 2001 January 24, Ashikaga, “Re: Which font do you use for your mail/NG program”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure (Usenet), message-ID <ZkHb6.8482$cN.523027@bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>:
text: [Daniel] used his own voice to call her from one room to another, swept her up on to his shoulders, swore at the vacuum cleaner in a Danielish fashion[.]
ref: 2003, Anne Fine, Madame Doubtfire, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 55:
text: I write Danielish English and Danielish Portuguese! [...] The way I think has no Language or Culture; it's independent in its structure.
ref: 2013, Daniel Marques, How I Wrote, Published and Promoted 100 Books: in as fast as 5 years with 15 simple principles and without having to sell my soul to the devil, 22 Lions, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Characteristic of someone named Daniel.
Related terms: word: Danielness
english: third sense
translation: third sense
word: Danish
KTV parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KTV parlours
Senses: examples: text: A Hong Kong newspaper reported on Wednesday that Lai Ming-yih, a vice manager of a Taiwan-owned shoe factory in Dongwan, Guangdong Province, was killed on Sunday by four men from Taiwan at a downtown KTV parlour as a result of a quarrel over a waitress serving there.
ref: 1998, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific:
text: What are entertainment limitations – is a round of golf or a night at the KTV parlour acceptable or not?
ref: 2011, Jonathan Reuvid, Business Insights: China, →ISBN, page 247:
text: In the mid 1990s there were government campaigns against KTV parlours.
ref: 2011, Unn Målfrid Rolandsen, Leisure and Power in Urban China, →ISBN:
text: However, the number of cases like the Kampong Cham monks arrested at a KTV parlour was “very few”.
ref: 2015 May 2, Sean Teehan, Khouth Sophak Chakrya, “Monks behaving badly”, in The Phnom Penh Post:
qualifier: chiefly Asia
glosses: A karaoke bar.
KTV parlours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KTV parlour
whataboutism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwə.təˈbaʊ.tɪ.zəm/
rhymes: -aʊtɪzəm
Forms: form: whataboutisms
Etymology: From what about + -ism. First use appears c. 1978 in The Guardian.
Senses: examples: text: And I'd no time at all for 'What aboutism' - you know, people who said 'Yes, but what about what's been done to us? ... That had nothing to do with it, and if you got into it you were defending the indefensible.
ref: 1994, Joe Austin, “The obdurate and the obstinate”, in Tony Parker, editors, May the Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast, Henry Holt & Co, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Soviet propagandists during the cold war were trained in a tactic that their western interlocutors nicknamed 'whataboutism'.
ref: 2008 January 31, Edward Lucas, “Whataboutism - Come again, Comrade?”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: 'Whataboutism' was a favourite tactic of Soviet propagandists during the old Cold War. Any criticism of the Soviet Union’s internal aggression or external repression was met with a 'what about?' some crime of the West, from slavery to the Monroe doctrine.
ref: 2008 December 11, Staff writer, “The West is in danger of losing its moral authority”, in European Voice, retrieved 03 Jul 2017:
text: There's another attitude ... that many Russians seem to share, what used to be called in the Soviet Union 'whataboutism,' in other words, 'who are you to call the kettle black?'
ref: 2016 August 24, Jill Dougherty, “Olympic doping ban unleashes fury in Moscow”, in CNN:
text: what was known during Soviet times, as 'whataboutism'
ref: 2017, Andreas Umland, “The Ukrainian Government's Memory Institute Against the West”, in IndraStra Global, volume 3, number 3, →ISSN, retrieved 04 Jul 2017, page 7:
text: This particular brand of changing the subject is called 'whataboutism' — a simple rhetorical tactic heavily used by the Soviet Union and, later, Russia.
ref: 2017 March 17, Danielle Kurtzleben, “Trump Embraces One Of Russia's Favorite Propaganda Tactics — Whataboutism”, in NPR, retrieved 20 May 2017:
synonyms: tu quoque
whataboutery
glosses: A logical fallacy where criticisms are deflected by raising unrelated criticisms of the opposite side.
wikipedia: The Guardian
Derived terms: whataboutist
Related terms: bothsidesism
whataboutery
whateverism
KTV girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KTV girls
Senses: examples: text: The coffee shop had the usual post 2 a.m. crowd—some Indian cleaners having breakfast before going to work and a couple of KTV girls having supper with clients from the lounge across the road.
ref: 2010, Neil Humphreys, Match Fixer, →ISBN, page 131:
text: This giant establishment is one of Shanghai's most popular Karaoke TV (KTV) bars, and among the few that are dedicated to KTV instead of KTV girls.
ref: 2015, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's China, →ISBN:
text: I spoke to Zheng about whether visiting KTV girls, those who work at the vast network of karaoke joints across China which are known to offer far more than a friendly singalong, is more stigmatised amongst the post-1980s generation compared to earlier generations.
ref: 2015, Jemimah Steinfeld, Little Emperors and Material Girls: Youth and Sex in Modern China, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: An attractive young woman employed by a KTV bar to serve drinks and snacks and to sing along with male patrons.
KTV girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KTV girl
tweeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweek
neuropeptidomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropeptidome
ORFeomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ORFeome
plastidomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastidome
Kumbh Mela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kumbh Melas
form: Kumbha Mela
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani کُن٘بھ میلَہ (kuṉbh mela) / कुंभ मेला (kumbh melā). Related to kumbha and mela.
Senses: examples: text: Kumbh Mela (The Pot Fair) is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage and a religious festival where millions of sadhus, pilgrims, and devotees come for historical ritual bathing at four sites on the banks of Rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Godavari and Shipra, considered sacrad.
ref: 2005, Kartar Sing hBhalla, Let's Know Festivals of India, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Kumbh Mela is the single largest religious congregation or, in fact, human gathering of any kind on Earth.
ref: 2010, Badri Narain, Kedar Narain, Christopher N. Burchett, Kumbh Mela and the Sadhus: The Quest for Immortality, →ISBN:
text: Once every twelve years a great Kumbh Mela takes place, when the propitious timing is amplified many thousands of times over. And, in keeping with the lunar cycles, every twelfth great Kumbh Mela is the 'Maha' -- held ever 144 years.
ref: 2013, Tahir Shah, Three Essays: Cannibalism, The Kumbh Mela, The Legacy of Arab Science, →ISBN:
text: Kumbh Melas are held every 12 years. The last Haridwar Kumbh Mela was held in 2010.
ref: 2021 April 20, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, “Kumbh 2021: Astrology, Mortality and the Indifference to Life of Leaders and Stars”, in The Wire, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2021:
glosses: A Hindu festival, held every twelve years at four locations in India, at which pilgrims bathe in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers for purification from sin.
Kumbha Mela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A smaller Kumbha Mela celebration gathers at Nasik when Jupiter and the sun are in the Leo; at Haridwar when Jupiter and the sun are in Aries; and at Ujjain when Jupiter and the sun are in Scorpio.
ref: 2011, J. Gordon Melton, Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spritual Commemorations, →ISBN, page 506:
text: Since it is the Hindu belief that 1 day of the devatas is equal to 1 human year, the Kumbha Mela takes place every 12 years to celebrate the spilling of the nectar on earth.
ref: 2011, Mark Juergensmeyer, Wade Clark Roof, Encyclopedia of Global Religion, →ISBN, page 677:
text: To understand the significance of the Kumbha Mela and the important role that it plays in the spirituality of India, it is helpful to know something about the background of the sacred Ganges River.
ref: 2014, Mohit Sharma, The Aryanist Journal # 02:
glosses: Alternative form of Kumbh Mela.
agentess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agentesses
Etymology: From agent + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Never would Miss Coco of Transverse Airways have occurred to him in the course of the usual retrospective—actresses, agentesses, lawyeresses, writers, singers, painters, teachers, and Mrs. Retzers—the usual review of women tried, and untried but tryable.
ref: 1972, Richard P. Brickner, Bringing Down the House, page 103:
glosses: A female agent.
fagmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagmos
Etymology: Blend of fag + homo
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gay.
synonyms: word: gay
Sandhawalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
outsilences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsilence
outsilencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsilence
outsilenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsilence
outinsult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outinsults
form: outinsulting
form: outinsulted
form: outinsulted
Etymology: From out- + insult.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in insulting.
outinsults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outinsult
outinsulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outinsult
outinsulted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outinsult
veeery
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: You were sick for five days, and now you have a suntan? That's veeery interesting.
glosses: Elongated form of very.
nonunit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonunits
form: non-unit
Etymology: From non- + unit.
Senses: examples: text: The nonunit reflectivity introduces losses for the intracavity fields […]
ref: 2007, Howard J. Carmichael, Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 2: Non-Classical Fields:
glosses: Something that is not a unit.
nonunits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonunit
non-unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-units
Etymology: From non- + unit.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonunit.
non-units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-unit
micropoem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropoems
form: micro-poem
Etymology: From micro- + poem.
Senses: examples: text: As the book's final micropoem tells us: Unerzählt / bleibt die Geschichte / der abgewandten / Gesichter. “Unrecounted / remains the story / of the averted / faces.”
ref: 2010, Ruth Franklin, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: A very short poem.
micropoetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropoetries
Etymology: From micro- + poetry.
Senses: glosses: Very short poetry.
micropoems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropoem
factress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factresses
form: factoress
Etymology: From factor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female factor.
endosporulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endosporulates
form: endosporulating
form: endosporulated
form: endosporulated
Etymology: From endo- + sporulate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of a bacterium) To produce endospores.
Related terms: endosporulation
endosporulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of endosporulate
endosporulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endosporulate
endosporulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endosporulate
endosporulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: endosporulations
Etymology: From endo- + sporulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of a bacterium becoming an endospore.
Related terms: endosporulate
endosporulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endosporulation
nonpoliovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpolioviruses
form: non-poliovirus
Etymology: From non- + poliovirus.
Senses: glosses: Something that is not a poliovirus.
nonpolioviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpoliovirus
scared shirtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scared shirtless
form: most scared shirtless
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of scared shitless.
non-poliovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-polioviruses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonpoliovirus.
non-polioviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-poliovirus
live under a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives under a rock
form: living under a rock
form: lived under a rock
form: lived under a rock
Senses: examples: text: Of course I know about Looney Tunes, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Simpsons. I do not live under a rock.
text: Eventually their misanthropy got so bad that they built a ferroconcrete underground home in the farthest boondocks of North Dakota so that they could literally live under a rock.
glosses: To live in isolation: to live hermetically (especially, hermitically); thus, to be unaware of or be oblivious to common knowledge; to be isolated from knowledge of current events.
light-finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: light-fingers
form: light-fingering
form: light-fingered
form: light-fingered
Senses: glosses: To take; to steal; to pilfer.
light-fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of light-finger
light-fingering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of light-finger
monoderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoderm
diderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diderm
faggot voter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faggot voters
form: fagot voter
Senses: synonyms: faggot
glosses: A person who qualified to vote in an election with a restricted suffrage only by the exploitation of loopholes in the regulations, typically by holding the title to a subdivision of property.
faggot voters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faggot voter
war whoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war whoop
skip tracers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skip tracer
circumscriptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circumscription + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: That is not ruled by ICZN and is defined by the particular set of members included.
raw_tags: of a taxon name
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Of, or related to circumscription.
ultramicrobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramicrobacteria
Etymology: From ultra- + micro- + bacterium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bacterium that is considerably smaller than typical bacterial cells and is 0.2 to 0.3 micrometers (200-300 nm) in diameter.
Related terms: bacteria
bacterium
microbe
nanobacteria
nanobacterium
ultramicrobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramicrobacterium
ultramicrobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + microbacterial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ultramicrobacteria.
chemotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The synthesis of an organism's energy by the oxidation of electron-donating molecules in the environment.
Related terms: chemotroph
chemotrophic
phototrophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of phototropism.
fermenty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː.mən.ti/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.mən.ti/
homophone: furmenty
Forms: form: fermenties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frumenty.
fermenties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fermenty
scamware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæm.weə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From scam + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software that fraudulently fails to do what it is claimed to do.
radiopharmacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiopharmacists
Etymology: From radio- + pharmacist.
Senses: glosses: One who works in radiopharmacy.
radiopharmacists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiopharmacist
radiopharmaceutically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From radiopharmaceutical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of radiopharmaceuticals.
yox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yoxes
form: yoxing
form: yoxed
form: yoxed
Senses: examples: text: Yoxing (or hiccoughing) is the sound in the nose of violent moving of the stomach and comes of a crampy disposition of the stomach with two principal causes
ref: 1933, Medical Life, volume 40, page 544:
glosses: Alternative form of yex (“hiccup”).
Luhn algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Created by IBM scientist Hans Peter Luhn.
Senses: glosses: A modulus-10 checksum algorithm used to validate various identification numbers, such as those on credit cards.
farthole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fartholes
Etymology: From fart + hole.
Senses: examples: text: "I say - I bet - that these Danish fellows are talking out of their...out of their jolly fart-holes."
ref: 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 30:
glosses: The anus.
glosses: A dirty, ugly, or disgusting place.
fartholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farthole
casodex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name; more often capitalised.
Senses: examples: text: There was a consistent significant difference in sensitivity to casodex between T14 and T25 clones of early passages.
ref: 2015 November 12, “Topoisomerase 2 Alpha Cooperates with Androgen Receptor to Contribute to Prostate Cancer Progression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of bicalutamide.
synonyms: word: bicalutamide
cicloxilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Compounds that remain of potential interest because their scores were above either R-naproxen or R-ketorolac and include cilomilast, R-flunoxaprofen, tiagabine, levocabastine, methallenestril, mitiglinide, cicloxilic acid, ecabet, S-ibuprofen, R-ibuprofen and S-naproxen.
ref: 2015 November 12, “Novel Activities of Select NSAID R-Enantiomers against Rac1 and Cdc42 GTPases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to cicloxilic acid or its derivatives
cicloxilic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylic acid cis-2-hydroxy-2-phenylcyclohexanecarboxylic acid that is used to combat liver damage
cinalukast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -lukast (“leukotriene receptor antagonist”).
Senses: examples: text: Using low scores for both R-enantiomer queries, the LBVS counter-screen ruled out exatecan acid, S-flunoxaprofen, gemfibrozil, cinalukast, fexofenadine, and tanomastat.
ref: 2015 November 12, “Novel Activities of Select NSAID R-Enantiomers against Rac1 and Cdc42 GTPases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The compound (E)-4-[[3-(2-(4-cyclobutyl-2-thiazolyl)ethenyl)phenyl]amino]-2,2-diethyl-4-oxobutanoic acid that is used in the treatment of asthma
cladogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clado- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: The differing positions of Maiasaura relative to Probrachylophosaurus and Brachylophosaurus in each analysis leads to uncertainty regarding the timing of the cladogenic split between the Brachylophosaurus and Maiasaura lineages.
ref: 2015 November 12, “A New Brachylophosaurin Hadrosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) with an Intermediate Nasal Crest from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Northcentral Montana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or causing cladogenesis
Derived terms: cocladogenic
idololatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of idolatry.
Related terms: idololatrous
idololatrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idololatrous
form: most idololatrous
Etymology: From idololatry + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of idolatrous.
Related terms: idololatry
cliniconeurological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clinico- + neurological.
Senses: examples: text: Recordings of eye movements (for details of the protocols, see Recording of eye movements ) from 68 ALS-patients including 50 patients with spinal and 18 with bulbar disease onset and 31 age- and gender-matched healthy individuals in addition to neuropsychological and cliniconeurological assessments were obtained during routine clinical examination.
ref: 2015 November 12, “Eye Movement Deficits Are Consistent with a Staging Model of pTDP-43 Pathology in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: clinical and neurological
cnidicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Only 6',7'-dihydroxybergamottin, 8-geranyloxypsoralen, byakangelicin and cnidicin had higher limit values.
ref: 2015 November 12, “The Distribution of Coumarins and Furanocoumarins in Citrus Species Closely Matches Citrus Phylogeny and Reflects the Organization of Biosynthetic Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A coumarin, 4,9-bis[(3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl)oxy]-7H-furo[3,2-g]chromen-7-one, extracted from the root of Angelica koreana
cnidilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Group III also contains cnidilin, a double DMAPP-derivative of isopimpinellin, and 8-geranyloxypsoralen.
ref: 2015 November 12, “The Distribution of Coumarins and Furanocoumarins in Citrus Species Closely Matches Citrus Phylogeny and Reflects the Organization of Biosynthetic Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A coumarin, 9-methoxy-4-[(3-methyl-2-buten-1-yl)oxy]-7H-furo[3,2-g][1]benzopyran-7-one, that is a bioactive constituent of Angelicae dahuricae
colliculoretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From colliculo- + retinal.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, for its colliculoretinal transport, BDNF needs to bind to its receptor in order to be internalized into a transport vesicle.
ref: 2015 November 12, “Tackling Glaucoma from within the Brain: An Unfortunate Interplay of BDNF and TrkB”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: relating to the colliculus and the retina
cumacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjuˈmeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cumaceans
Etymology: From translingual Cumacea + -an, from the genus Cuma. Further from Ancient Greek κῦμᾰ (kûmă, “wave; fetus, embryo”), Proto-Hellenic *kūmə and Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
synonyms: hooded shrimp
comma shrimp
hyponyms: bodotriid
ceratocumatid
diastylid
gynodiastylid
lampropid
leuconid
nannastacid
pseudocumatid
glosses: Any small marine crustacean of the order Cumacea, closely related to tanaidaceans.
Related terms: english: by eggcorn with Cuma/Cumacea
translation: by eggcorn with Cuma/Cumacea
word: comma shrimp
cumacean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjuˈmeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: more cumacean
form: most cumacean
Etymology: From translingual Cumacea + -an, from the genus Cuma. Further from Ancient Greek κῦμᾰ (kûmă, “wave; fetus, embryo”), Proto-Hellenic *kūmə and Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”).
Senses: examples: text: From the second sampling campaign, two cumacean species collected at Isla D and polychaetes (suborder Terebellida, family Ampharetidae) were added to the dataset.
ref: 2015 November 12, “Benthic Trophic Interactions in an Antarctic Shallow Water Ecosystem Affected by Recent Glacier Retreat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
hyponyms: bodotriid
ceratocumatid
diastylid
gynodiastylid
lampropid
leuconid
nannastacid
pseudocumatid
glosses: Relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Cumacea.
Related terms: Cumacea
cumaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Initial dual stable isotope analyses of nematodes, copepods and cumaceans from the formalin (4%) samples did not provide reliable dual stable isotope values and were therefore excluded from the analysis; those of polychaetes and amphipods were therefore used during these analyses.
ref: 2015 November 12, “Benthic Trophic Interactions in an Antarctic Shallow Water Ecosystem Affected by Recent Glacier Retreat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of cumacean
doswellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doswellids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct archosauriform of the family †Doswelliidae
doswellids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Small size and absence of osteoderms exclude groups as phytosaurians, aetosaurians, bizarre basal archosauriforms as doswellids and Vancleavea, and possibly most pseudosuchians.
ref: 2015 November 12, “A Reappraisal of the Purported Gastric Pellet with Pterosaurian Bones from the Upper Triassic of Italy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of doswellid