cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mampus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌmpos/
Forms: form: mampos
Etymology: From Malay mampus (“to die, to perish, to be wiped out”).
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, my wife is such a shrew. No wonder I can't stay with her!" Mampus, you're finished!
ref: 1985, The Straits Times [newspaper]
text: Luckily, there were not in US dollars. If they were, mampus.
ref: 1998, unknown author, Singapore Business, page 123:
text: Advertlets? 2 months still haven’t received?!?!?! OMG. I just cashed out mine like last week. MAMPUS. Like this December then get?
ref: 2008 June 29, Khairul Neezam, “khaaaa-zaaam!”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 07 Feb 2013:
text: Don't be [surprise] if I am using "Sure mampus", [s]o lembap or etc in this blog..
ref: 2009, Muhammad Norsina Zalin, My Name is Sina: Hi…, [blog]
text: Mampus! The recipe was in my family for seven generations! Now my unborn grandchildren will never get to enjoy this sedap dish with their multi-racial friends.
ref: 2010, Dream Academy, [advertisement]
text: Mampus lah. How can immature females be allowed to choose their own life partner?
ref: 2013, William Gwee Thian Hock, A Baba Boyhood: Growing Up During World War 2, page 205 [book]
glosses: finished, wiped out, kaput.
Mam'selle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Shortened form of Mademoiselle
Related terms: M'sieur
mamsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamsies
Senses: glosses: mother, mum
mamudi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamudis
form: mamudi
Senses: glosses: A subunit of Persian currency, one hundredth of a toman.
transcranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəl
Etymology: From trans- + cranial.
Senses: examples: text: transcranial magnetic stimulation
text: transcranial brain stimulation
text: transcranial radiography
text: The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation are modified when combined with medication and other neurostimulation techniques, such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
ref: 2014, Mark I Johnson, Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation:
text: The field of brain stimulation is in its infancy, though preliminary studies have shown that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), which uses direct electrical currents to stimulate specific parts of the brain, can help with depression, anxiety and chronic pain but can also cause burns on the skin.
ref: 2016 November 25, Olivia Solon, The Guardian:
glosses: Passing through the cranium.
Derived terms: transcranial direct current stimulation
transcranial Doppler
mamuque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamuques
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: bird of paradise
winglesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wingless.
mamzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamzer
managee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: managees
Etymology: From manage + -ee.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is managed; a subordinate of a manager.
shchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schchi
form: schtschi
form: shchee
form: shtchee
form: shtchi
form: stchi
Etymology: From Russian щи (šči).
Senses: glosses: A type of soup from Russia made from cabbage.
Derived terms: sour shchi
hoaxee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoaxees
Etymology: From hoax + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is hoaxed.
oxalocrotonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxalocrotonates
Etymology: From oxalo- + crotonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of oxalocrotonic acid
laryngectomee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngectomees
Etymology: From laryngectomy + -ee.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has undergone laryngectomy.
oxalocrotonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxalo- + crotonic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several oxalo- derivatives of crotonic acid, but especially 4-oxalocrotonic acid, COOH-CO-CH₂-CH=CH-COOH, which has a biochemical function.
managementese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From management + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Even phrased as they are in Higher Managementese, these comments touch the heart of the matter.
ref: 1971 November 14, Kenneth Lamott, “The Chancellor the State Colleges”, in Los Angeles Times, page U16:
text: The uniqueness of Perotspeak is its mixture of rustic metaphor with modern managementese.
ref: 1992 June 14, William Safire, “On Language: Perotspeak”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Apr 2009:
text: Since February, we have been calling for the ridiculously named Consignia to change back to the good old Post Office. . . . [T]he chief executive, John Roberts, said of Consignia that it was a "modern, meaningful and entirely appropriate" name that "describes the full scope of the Post Office in a way that the words ‘post’ and ‘office’ cannot". That was clearly hogwash managementese of the worst variety.
ref: 2002 June 10, “Silly names for failure”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 14 Apr 2009:
synonyms: managementspeak
glosses: The jargon used by management.
armpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armpiece
armpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armpieces
form: arm-piece
Etymology: From arm + piece.
Senses: examples: text: “Go, my good St. John,—in an arm-piece of the Milanese armor that hangs on the wall, thou’lt find the Seal!”
ref: 1881, Mark Twain, chapter 32, in The Prince and the Pauper, New York: Charles L. Webster, page 267:
coordinate_terms: legpiece
glosses: A piece of armour that protects the arm.
examples: text: He'd decided to take her because she was the best looking armpiece of all, and as long as she kept her mouth shut, he'd be the envy of every man there.
ref: 2000, Jackie Collins, Dangerous Kiss, page 251:
text: Years of being his armpiece have taught her exactly how to handle this situation; she is suddenly sure of it.
ref: 2004, Rique Johnson, Whispers from a Troubled Heart, page 120:
text: Madeline was in on the routine, and shortly after Louise exited, the swain and his armpiece departed for their outing to Little's Music Shop.
ref: 2007, Jane Hamilton, When Madeline Was Young, page 116:
synonyms: arm candy
glosses: A decorative companion.
belltower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belltowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bell tower.
asset-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Having assets as collateral.
Synonyms: collateralised
Hypernyms: backed
Related terms: asset-backed commercial paper
asset-backed security
mortgage-backed
mortgage
bell tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell towers
form: belltower
Etymology: From bell + tower.
Senses: glosses: A tower in which a bell (or set of bells) is hung; a belfry.
Synonyms: bellhouse
bloodthirst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood-thirst
Etymology: From blood + thirst.
Senses: examples: text: The other surprise is the lack of bloodthirst. The Hound doesn’t lift a finger against his brother, and everyone walks away from the Dragon Pit alive except the wight, but he wasn’t alive to begin with.
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: An eagerness for bloodshed.
Related terms: bloodthirsty
bovvered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bovvered
form: most bovvered
Etymology: Imitating a working-class or uneducated pronunciation with th-fronting. Popularised as the catchphrase of the fictional Lauren Cooper in The Catherine Tate Show in the mid-2000s.
Senses: glosses: bothered; caring about something
Derived terms: unbovvered
bovvered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Imitating a working-class or uneducated pronunciation with th-fronting. Popularised as the catchphrase of the fictional Lauren Cooper in The Catherine Tate Show in the mid-2000s.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bovver
cabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkæbɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cab
cabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæbɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: The profession of a cabbie, especially one who drives a black cab.
clocktower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clocktowers
Senses: examples: text: This delightful four-platform station [Bognor Regis] is still controlled by semaphore signals and boasts a lovely red-brick Edwardian building with steel canopies, crowned with a clocktower which dates from 1902.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: Alternative spelling of clock tower.
clock tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clock towers
Senses: examples: text: An astronomical clock tower, built at K'ai-feng in the eleventh century under imperial orders, relied on a highly sophisticated combination of water-driven gears (seen at right center in the cutaway diagram above) to rotate an armillary sphere (under the thatched roof) and a celestial globe (located within the tower on the second floor).
ref: 1969, C. P. Fitzgerald, “The Spirit of Invention”, in The Horizon History of China, New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:
text: This one is surmounted by a clock-tower with a bent weather-vane - the latter being the only disorderly object in sight.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
text: However, the Victorian platform buildings all survive, and the station's iconic clock tower (built in 1899) was dismantled and rebuilt alongside the current frontage.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Stephen, “Stations earn a deserved NRA ovation: Medium: Bolton”, in RAIL, number 970, page 48:
topics: architecture
glosses: A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.
deprioritised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deprioritise
deprioritise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deprioritises
form: deprioritising
form: deprioritised
form: deprioritised
Etymology: From de- + prioritise.
Senses: examples: text: However, TfL's draft business plan notes: "Investment in additional rail capacity has been deprioritised to align with our latest demand forecasts, which show we will have excess public transport capacity in the medium term."
ref: 2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Recovering passenger numbers is TfL's top priority”, in RAIL, number 974, page 44:
glosses: Alternative spelling of deprioritize.
grandmammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandmammies
Etymology: From grand- + mammy.
Senses: glosses: Grandmother.
examples: text: […] and his orchestra as enchanting to dance to as it is, even if all this wasn't so superb, you'd want to go just to hear and see that grandmammy of all blues-singers who can still out-blue all of the younger ones, none other than Sophie Tucker.
ref: 1938, Stadium concerts review, volume 21:
text: […] that these administration signals took us students by surprise would be the grandmammy of all understatements. Folks were, depending on their inclinations, in turn suspicious, flattered, surprised, confused, or all of the above simultaneously […]
ref: 2003, Stokely Carmichael, Michael Thelwell, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: Synonym of granddaddy (“something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind”).
synonyms: word: granddaddy
extra: something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind
headrushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdˌɹʌʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: more headrushing
form: most headrushing
Senses: glosses: That produces a headrush; dizzying
incarcerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incarcerators
Etymology: From incarcerate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who incarcerates.
krautrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Krautrock
Etymology: From Kraut (“German”) + rock (“rock music”).
Senses: examples: text: Many krautrock bands arose out of the West German student counterculture and connected leftist political activism with experimental rock music and, later, electronic sounds.
ref: 2016, Ulrich Adelt, Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 2:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: kosmische
kosmische musik
hypernyms: rock
glosses: A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
ladyfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladyfriend
ladyfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladyfriends
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lady friend.
livelyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of livelihood.
minicabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicab
offcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offcut
offcut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfkʌt/
Forms: form: offcuts
form: offcutting
form: offcut
form: offcut
Etymology: From Middle English ofcutten, of-kitten, equivalent to off- + cut.
Senses: examples: text: Many stockholders operate in a restricted space and it is thus difficult to allocate much room to offcut storage.
ref: 1971, Arthur Robert Brown, Optimum packing and depletion:
text: We may observe a tool mark (slice made in hot metal), showing that the smith tried to offcut a small piece of metal 30 mm long and 6 by 7 mm in section, and it is possible, given its size, that it was intended for producing a nail [...]
ref: 2004, Hamady Bocoum, The origins of iron metallurgy in Africa:
glosses: To cut off.
offcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfkʌt/
Forms: form: offcuts
Etymology: From Middle English ofcutten, of-kitten, equivalent to off- + cut.
Senses: glosses: A piece that has been cut off of a larger piece when not needed; surplus.
offcut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfkʌt/
Forms: form: more offcut
form: most offcut
Etymology: From Middle English ofcutten, of-kitten, equivalent to off- + cut.
Senses: glosses: Cut off.
examples: text: The PPITB's Education Service of the Plastics Industry (ESPI) believes that if there is to be sustained use of plastics in schools, there must be some support by industry to give schools access to offcut or surplus material for project [...]
ref: 1986, Plastics and Rubber Institute, Plastics and rubber international:
glosses: Excess; surplus.
rioja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riojas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Rioja.
shoefiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuːˈfiːti/
rhymes: -iːti
Etymology: Blend of shoe + graffiti.
Senses: glosses: Shoe tossing.
COCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Corpus of Contemporary American English.
Related terms: COHA
shoe tossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of throwing a pair of laced shoes over a power line or telephone line, etc.
Synonyms: shoefiti
starchwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starchworts
Etymology: From starch + wort (“herb; plant”).
Senses: glosses: The plant cuckoopint, the tubers of which were once used to make starch
cuckoopint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈku.kuˌpɪnt/
other: /paɪnt/
ipa: /ˈkʊk.uːˌpɪnt/
other: /paɪnt/
Forms: form: cuckoopints
form: cuckoo pint
form: cuckoo-pint
form: cuckoopintle
Etymology: From earlier cuckoopintle, from Middle English cokkoupintel from cokkou (“cuckoo”) + pintel (“penis”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Jack-in-the-pulpit
word: snake's head
word: lords and ladies
word: Adam and Eve
word: adder's meat
word: adder's root
word: arum
word: arum lily
word: bobbins
word: cows and bulls
word: cuckoopint
word: cuckoo-plant
word: devils and angels
word: friar's cowl
word: Jack-in-the-pulpit
word: lamb-in-a-pulpit
word: lord-and-lady
word: lords-and-ladies
word: naked boys
word: snake's head
word: starch-root
word: wakerobin
word: wild arum
glosses: A flowering plant with arrow-shaped leaves and a cluster of scarlet berries, of species Arum maculatum.
glosses: A flowering plant of species Arum italicum.
trawlerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trawlermen
Etymology: From trawler + -man.
Senses: glosses: A fisherman on a trawler.
streetfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetfighters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of street fighter.
municipals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of municipal
lichees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lichee
streetfighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streetfighter
bill of laden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bill of lading.
British Longhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: British Longhairs
Senses: glosses: A medium-size, long-haired domestic cat breed, originating in Great Britain.
Related terms: British Semi-Longhair
British Shorthair
British Longhairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of British Longhair
downcore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downcore
form: most downcore
form: down-core
Etymology: From down- + core.
Senses: glosses: Describing a sample taken from further down a core
tams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tam
downsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downstep
tamboura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: tambouras
Senses: examples: text: There was a musician on tabla and tamboura, Ed Feldman, a reminder that Ms. Coltrane made music for Vedic meditation for about half her life, eventually founding an ashram in Southern California.
ref: 2008 June 19, Ben Ratliff, “Hymns and Blues in the Name of Family”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tambura.
equatorward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more equatorward
form: most equatorward
form: equator-ward
Etymology: From equator + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward the equator
equatorward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more equatorward
form: most equatorward
form: equator-ward
Etymology: From equator + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: During the high-sun season the intertropical convergence zone with its thundershowery precipitation affects the areas much as it does in the Ar areas year-round; during the low-sun season the subtropical high pressure cells shift equatorward over the areas much as they occupy the subtropical desert areas on the poleward side of Aw areas year-round.
ref: 1985, Paul E. Lydolph, The Climate of the Earth, page 196:
glosses: toward the equator
magnetostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + stratigraphy.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: That branch of stratigraphy that studies the magnetization of rocks
Derived terms: paleomagnetostratigraphy
microforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microforces
Etymology: From micro- + force.
Senses: glosses: A very small force.
midcontinent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-continent
Etymology: From mid- + continent.
Senses: examples: text: Union trainmen stopped traffic on six midcontinent railroads with an unheralded strike yesterday, but some railroads said they expected to resume service by early today.
ref: 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:
glosses: In or near the middle of a continent.
minable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minable
form: most minable
Etymology: From mine + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be mined.
glosses: Worth mining.
Derived terms: unminable
synchro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchros
Etymology: Abbreviation of synchronization or synchronized.
Senses: examples: text: Patrick Borkowski develops strength and conditioning programs for acrobatic and combat sports, including synchro, at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
ref: 2007 August 21, Aimee Berg, “In Unsteady Waters, a Solid Foundation”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any synchronized event, such as synchronized swimming.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of rotary electrical transformer that is used for measuring the angle of a rotating machine such as an antenna platform. In its general physical construction, it is much like an electric motor.
synchro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchros
Etymology: Clipping of synchromesh.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of synchromesh.
Related terms: sync
synced
synchro-
synchronization
synchronize
synchronized
synchronous
misincentive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misincentives
Etymology: From mis- + incentive.
Senses: glosses: Something that is meant to be an incentive but has no (or the opposite) effect
Related terms: disincentive
multivesicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + vesicular.
Senses: glosses: Having, or involving multiple vesicles
myristoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myristoylations
Etymology: From myristoyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The attachment of a myristoyl group to a protein or polypeptide
Related terms: palmitoylation
three true outcomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.
ref: 2002 April 18, Perry, “Re: To all you Oakland A's fans...”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The three results of a plate appearance that do not involve the fielders: home runs, walks, and strikeouts.
plate appearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate appearances
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A batter's completed turn in the batter's box. It usually results in an at-bat or walk, but may also result in a hit-by-pitch, sacrifice fly, sacrifice hit, or catcher's interference. If the third out of an inning is recorded prior to completion of the batter's turn, no plate appearance is credited to the batter, and he will lead off his team's next turn at bat.
Related terms: at bat
quotably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quotably
form: most quotably
Etymology: From quotable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Had she been too much of a naïf, unwise to the cameras, she would have been swept out to sea on “Laguna Beach”: passed-out drunk, abused by a boyfriend or (at least) caught in a quotably stupid soliloquy.
ref: 2007 January 22, Virginia Heffernan, “Learning From Lauren: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Looks Like Hard Work”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that is quotable
Related terms: quotability
nanoporosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoporosities
Etymology: From nano- + porosity.
Senses: glosses: The condition or degree of being nanoporous.
marginal utility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginal utilities
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The additional utility to a consumer from an additional unit of an economic good.
Derived terms: law of diminishing marginal utility
quiltmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quilt + making.
Senses: glosses: Involved in the production of quilts
quiltmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quilt + making.
Senses: examples: text: The place fosters regional art, far from the coastal cultural establishment, and its most thriving medium is quiltmaking.
ref: 2009 March 13, Evan Mcglinn, “Salvation Army”, in New York Times:
glosses: The production of quilts; especially the craft of quilt production
Related terms: quiltmaker
nanosiemens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanosiemens
Etymology: From nano- + siemens.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of electrical conductance equal to 10⁻⁹ siemens
quiltlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quiltlike
form: most quiltlike
Etymology: From quilt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Their quiltlike geometric abstractions, evoking Piet Mondrian and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, began to put a straight edge to the subway’s swoops and curlicues, its terra-cotta cornucopias and floral medallions.
ref: 2007 August 3, Randy Kennedy, “Underground Renaissance Man: Watch the Aesthetic Walls, Please”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a quilt
reclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reclusions
Etymology: From recluse + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Every few years, a fresh wave of urbanites head north for a restorative of wilderness reclusion and pioneer roughing it, only to be made fun of by their predecessors as despoilers and effete poseurs.
ref: 2008 May 18, Stephen Metcalf, “Provence Profound”, in New York Times:
glosses: Life as a recluse.
Related terms: seclusion
recusal
ratchety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ratchety
form: most ratchety
Etymology: From ratchet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The parking brake pivoted with well-calibrated resistance and no ratchety noise.
ref: 2007 August 26, Lawrence Ulrich, “Germans Land on Saturn and Things Shape Up”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a ratchet
glosses: Moving in jerks.
lead off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead offs
Senses: examples: text: Jones has been the team's lead off hitter for three years.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first batter in the batting order.
examples: text: The lead off hitter for the sixth inning is Jones.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first batter of an inning.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The short distance that a player stands away from their current base.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: The first item in a broadcast schedule.
lead off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leads off
form: leading off
form: led off
form: led off
Senses: examples: text: The kitchen and the lounge lead off from the hallway.
text: Hu, 79, Xi Jinping's immediate predecessor, was seated to the left of Xi. He was led off the stage of the main auditorium of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by two stewards, a Reuters witness at the congress said.
ref: 2022 October 22, Eduardo Baptista, Ryan Woo, “Former Chinese president Hu Jintao escorted out of party congress”, in Robert Birsel, Lincoln Feast, William Mallard, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lead, off.
examples: text: Jones led off the inning with a home run.
text: Jones is leading off an inning for the third time in the game.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be the first batter of an inning.
glosses: To be the first of any set, especially the first person in a group to speak; to launch or begin something by speaking.
nonamyloidogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amyloidogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not amyloidogenic
nonblank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + blank.
Senses: glosses: Not blank
nondemented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + demented.
Senses: glosses: Not demented
noninfected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + infected.
Senses: glosses: Not infected.
Synonyms: uninfected
nonmanipulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + manipulated.
Senses: glosses: Not manipulated
nontectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tectonic.
Senses: glosses: Not tectonic.
nongeologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongeologists
Etymology: From non- + geologist.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not a geologist
ballses up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balls up
ballsing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balls up
octadecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octadecanes
Etymology: From octadec- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomeric alkanes having the formula C₁₈H₃₈, but especially n-octadecane CH₃(CH₂)₁₆CH₃.
Derived terms: octadecanoic
octadecyl
ballsed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balls up
digitality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitalities
Etymology: From digital + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being digital.
leads off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lead off
reconsolidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconsolidations
Etymology: From reconsolidate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The industry he leaves is markedly changed from the one he joined, given the breakup of the Bell System, the reconsolidation of the industry and the now-powerful influence of cellphones and the Internet.
ref: 2007 April 28, Matt Richtel, “AT&T Chief Who Weathered a Sea Change Is Retiring in June”, in New York Times:
glosses: Consolidation again, after an intervening period of breakup or dispersal
Related terms: re-
-ion
reconsolidate
consolidation
leading off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lead off
led off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of lead off
overenergized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overenergized
form: most overenergized
Etymology: From over- + energized.
Senses: glosses: Excessively energized
overamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overamped
form: most overamped
Etymology: From over- + amped.
Senses: glosses: Very excited, especially as a result of ingesting amphetamines.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Excessively amplified; very loud and distorted.
peakists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peakist
reinvestigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinvestigations
form: re-investigation
Etymology: From re- + investigation.
Senses: examples: text: In 2002, in spectacular fashion, his office recommended dismissing the convictions of five men in the attack on a jogger in Central Park, after its reinvestigation showed that another man had acted alone.
ref: 2008 June 23, Benjamin Weiser, “Doubting Case, a Prosecutor Helped the Defense”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act or process of reinvestigating: a repeat of an earlier investigation
Related terms: re-
-tion
reinvestigate
investigation
peakist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peakists
Etymology: From peak + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If you mention this theory to a hard-core peakist like Mr. [Matthew] Simmons, you'd better be ready for an earful. "These economists are so smug," he said derisively. "All they talk about is the magic of the free market.[…]
ref: 2005 September 10, Joseph Nocera, “On Oil Supply, Opinions Aren't Scarce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: A pure 'peakist' view questions how much longer conventional (cheaper) supplies of fossil fuels will continue.
ref: 2012, H. Herring, Living in a Low-Carbon Society in 2050:
text: The nuclear industray has traditionally argued that there is little danger of the world 'running out' of nuclear fuel in the near future; but there is also a peakist perspective on the uranium resource.
ref: 2012, Bob Everett, Energy Systems and Sustainability, page 20:
text: A New York man in his fifites noted that "capitalism requires constant *growth*^([sic]) for it to remain viable as an economic system, but that continuous growth may well no longer be possible due to peak oil," while a peakist in her early forties observed that "capitalism as we know it has grown on the back of cheap energy, particularly oil."
ref: 2015, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture, page 124:
synonyms: peaknik
glosses: A supporter of the peak oil theory, or one who advocates policies that depend on this theory.
Related terms: peakism
portsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portsiders
Etymology: From portside + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Then came Henderson, already a high-scoring portsider in the NHL for a decade, with Detroit and then Toronto.
ref: 2003, Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler, Who's who in Hockey:
text: It would seem that a healthy stint of sparring with Manny Pacquiao, in readiness for the southpaw elusiveness of McCloskey, had still left Khan ill-equipped to conclusively deal with the plucky portsider.
ref: 2012, Steve Wellings, Irish Boxing Review, page 188:
text: The Giants' portsider pitched a beautiful game, going into the Dodgers' ninth with a 2–1 lead.
ref: 2014, Lowell L. Blaisdell, Carl Hubbell: A Biography of the Screwball King, page 46:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A left-handed pitcher, boxer, hockey player, etc.; a southpaw.
portsiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portsider
sacrifice flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrifice fly
supercenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercenter
perfluorocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfluorocarbons
Etymology: From per- + fluoro- + carbon.
Senses: examples: text: Then they backed the membrane with a gel matrix containing a perfluorocarbon (PFC) propellant and fluorescent "nanobullets" about a micron wide, and hit it with ultrasound.
ref: 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: PFC
fluorocarbon
glosses: Any compound formally derived from a hydrocarbon by replacing each hydrogen atom with one of fluorine; used as refrigerants, solvents, and anesthetics.
pinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinins
Etymology: Acronym of PNN.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein associated with desmosome
glosses: PNN, the pinin gene, which encodes for the pinin protein
pluteus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluteuses
form: plutei
Etymology: From Latin pluteus.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.
Derived terms: ophiopluteus
pluteal
polylysine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polylysines
Etymology: From poly- + lysine.
Senses: glosses: A polypeptide (or section of a protein) consisting only of lysine residues
no decision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no decisions
Senses: examples: text: Jones had three straight no decisions, but the bullpen eventually won all three games.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game for which the starting pitcher does not record a win or a loss.
no decisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no decision
starting pitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starting pitchers
Senses: examples: text: That team has the best starting pitchers in the league.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitcher who is usually used to start a game; a member of a team's rotation. Compare relief pitcher.
examples: text: The starting pitcher for today's game has not been announced yet.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitcher who is recorded to begin the game.
starting pitchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starting pitcher
relief pitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relief pitchers
Senses: examples: text: The team's relief pitchers have not allowed a run in the past six games.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, ejection from the game or fatigue.
Synonyms: reliever
Related terms: closer
set-up pitcher
middle relief pitcher
long reliever
mop-up man
relief pitchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relief pitcher
area rugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of area rug
bank on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: banks on
form: banking on
form: banked on
form: banked on
Senses: examples: text: I'm banking on you being there. I don't have your expertise.
text: Italy's potential opponents in Sunday's final might hope this game has taken a lot out of Mancini's men but you would not bank on it from a side who have simply got better and better, now adding Spain to Belgium as they claim victims of the highest class en route to the showpiece.
ref: 2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To rely on someone or something; to count on something; to depend on something.
Related terms: pin one's hopes on
take to the bank
postexocytotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + exocytotic.
Senses: glosses: Following exocytosis.
posttraining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + training.
Senses: glosses: After training
pretraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pre- + training.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pretrain
pretraining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + training.
Senses: glosses: Before training.
prestimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + stimulation.
Senses: glosses: Before stimulation
prestimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestimulations
Etymology: From pre- + stimulation.
Senses: glosses: stimulation prior to another operation
Related terms: prestimulatory
proembryo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proembryos
Etymology: From pro- + embryo.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: pseudocotyledon
glosses: A cluster of cells in the ovule of a fertilized flowering plant that has not yet formed into an embryo.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The protonema of mosses.
Related terms: proembryonic
protonema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːmə
Forms: form: protonemata
Etymology: From proto- + -nema.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A filament of cells that forms following the germination of the spores of mosses and liverworts
Derived terms: protonemal
bash about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bashes about
form: bashing about
form: bashed about
form: bashed about
Senses: examples: text: Deafening sounds drive out the words, and the performers leap violently about the stage, often bashing about their instruments and microphones.
ref: 1987, E. Ann Kaplan, Rocking Around the Clock, page 61:
glosses: To physically damage something or assault someone.
prometaphase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prometaphases
Etymology: From pro- + metaphase.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stage between prophase and metaphase in mitosis
Related terms: prometaphasic
hushabye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hushaby.
protofibrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protofibril
protofibril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protofibrils
Etymology: From proto- + fibril.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An elongated cluster of cells that grows into a fibril.
Related terms: protofibrillar
protofibrilic
protofibrillization
protofibrillogenesis
prestimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prestimulation
protonemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protonema
prometaphases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prometaphase
pseudoresponse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoresponses
Etymology: From pseudo- + response.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudo-response.
fill-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fill-in
bash in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bashes in
form: bashing in
form: bashed in
form: bashed in
Senses: examples: text: We got home to find that someone had bashed in the door.
glosses: To break or dent badly by hitting violently.
examples: text: Careful, or I'll bash your face in!
glosses: To injure (someone) with violent blows.
ratfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratfishes
form: ratfish
Etymology: From rat + fish.
Senses: glosses: A fish of any of the species in family Chimaeridae.
glosses: A fish of any of the species in family Chimaeridae.
A Pacific fish, Hydrolagus colliei, that has a long rat-like tail
glosses: A chimaera
Paulian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Paul + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pauline (related to the apostle Paul or his writings).
Paulian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paulians
Etymology: From Paul + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A supporter or follower of the apostle Paul.
glosses: A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Jesus.
Derived terms: Paulianist
Paulian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Pauli + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), Austrian theoretical physicist and pioneer of quantum physics.
Paulians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paulian
bash out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bashes out
form: bashing out
form: bashed out
form: bashed out
Senses: examples: text: I've got about an hour in which to bash something out for the morning edition.
glosses: To write or type something very quickly, without much thought.
examples: text: Well, by the mid-'70s Patti Smith really couldn't help it: she was bashing out guitar feedback, copping Keith Richards stances, and screaming out raw poetry laced with surreal images.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 348:
glosses: To play (a tune) clumsily on a piano or similar instrument.
pseudoresponses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoresponse
reacidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reacidifications
Etymology: From re- + acidification.
Senses: glosses: The process of reacidifying
reacidify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reacidifies
form: reacidifying
form: reacidified
form: reacidified
Etymology: From re- + acidify.
Senses: glosses: To make acidic once again
bash up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bashes up
form: bashing up
form: bashed up
form: bashed up
Senses: examples: text: He shouted at us, so we bashed him up.
glosses: To assault someone with the intention of causing physical injury; to beat up.
remendability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + mend + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being remendable.
glosses: The extent to which something is remendable.
remendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remendable
form: most remendable
Etymology: From re- + mend + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be mended again
salps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salp
salp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sælp/
Forms: form: salps
Etymology: From French salpe, from Ancient Greek σᾰ́λπη (sắlpē, “porgy”). Doublet of salpa.
Senses: examples: text: Salps are capable of self-propulsion, but for the most part, these translucent, gelatinous-looking animals float in mid-water going wherever the prevailing currents take them.[…]At times a number of buds are attached to one another in linked chains commonly called salp chains.
ref: 1996, Marty Snyderman, Clay Wiseman, Guide to Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, page 132:
text: Observations of some species suggest that salps form spawning aggregations near the surface in the early morning, and that spawning is synchronized with chain release to maximize fertilization success.
ref: 1997, L. P. Madin, “Sensory Ecology of Salps (Tunicata, Thaliacea): More Questions than Answers”, in Petra H. Lenz, Daniel K. Hartline, Jennifer E. Purcell, David L. Macmillan, editors, Zooplankton: Sensory Ecology and Physiology, Gordon and Breach Publishers, page 565:
text: Lampetia has a rather undifferentiated larval stage (called Gastrodes) that parasitizes salps (Mortensen 1912; Komai 1922).
ref: 2012, Claus Nielsen, Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla, Oxford University Press, page 55:
glosses: Any of the free-swimming tunicates of the order Salpida and its single family Salpidae.
Synonyms: salpa
fellow-me-lad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellow-me-lads
Senses: examples: text: "Well," said he, at last, "we've gone and done it, young fellah my lad." (This curious phrase he pronounced as if it were all one word - "young-fellah-me-lad.") "Yes, we've taken a jump, you an' me."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: 1917, Bartimeus (Lewis Anselm da Costa), The Long Trick
Lor'! it does me good to see all you young fellow-me-lads turning up here bright and early with the roses in your cheeks.
text: "Why did you leave Zakhar, my handsome fellow-me-lad?" he asked Fiodor, his grey eyebrows rising and falling on his forehead.
ref: 1983, Mikhail Sholokhov, H C Stevens, Tales from the Don:
text: Then the captain said, "And just what d'you know of Lord Rothbury, fellow-me-lad?" "I told you. I'm with his militia," Portia repeated doggedly.
ref: 1998, Jane Feather, The Hostage Bride:
glosses: A young man.
fellow-me-lads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellow-me-lad
tradeline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradelines
Etymology: From trade + line.
Senses: glosses: Any credit account as shown on a consumer credit report.
glosses: A line of credit.
reacidifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reacidification
reacidifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reacidify
reacidified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reacidify
fellow me lad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellow me lads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fellow-me-lad.
fellow me lads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellow me lad
tradelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradeline