cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
microfarmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfarmer
microfarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfarms
Etymology: From micro- + farm.
Senses: glosses: A very small-scale farm.
Related terms: microfarmer
microfarming
microfarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfarm
pencil pleats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencil pleat
booklegger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookleggers
Etymology: Blend of book + bootlegger
Senses: glosses: An illicit publisher or distributor of banned publications.
bookleggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booklegger
booklegging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊk.lɛɡ.ɪŋ/
Etymology: Blend of book + bootlegging, by analogy with bootlegging.
Senses: examples: text: I should like to suggest another term–booklegging.
ref: 1926, Hearings Held before the Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 10434, a Bill to Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, and to Permit the United States to Enter the International Copyright Union. April 15, 16, 29, and 30, 1926, United States Congress, House Committee on Patents, page 125:
text: But the problem is more difficult in the case of booklegging, because you can only drink liquor once, but a book can be read by a hundred college boys, and will be, if it gets enough police-advertising.
ref: 1927, The American Parade, volume 2, page 42:
text: But nothing could have prepared me for the range of emotions that came over me when I found myself actually sitting in Tina's living room surrounded by all Celeste's papers, journals, pictures, clippings, files, stickers, artwork, magical items, booklegging tools, and cats.
ref: 2010, Toni Samek, She was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West:
text: When controversial books did manage to reach readers in the United States, they often did so without an American copyright, through underground channels of piracy or booklegging, disseminative practices that deprived authors of financial rewards and the power to control the quality and placement of their texts.
ref: 2016, Robert Spoo, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain, page 154:
glosses: The illicit publication and distribution of banned books.
wikipedia: Fanny Hill
John Cleland
Related terms: booklegger
samizdat
kjelsasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kjelsasites
Etymology: From Kjelsås (a suburb of Oslo, Norway) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of monzonite, similar to larvikite.
Arab Winter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Daniel Byman in The Washington Post in December 2011, in reference to the Arab Spring.
Senses: examples: text: The Arab Winter Is Coming [title]
ref: 2018 November 3, Hassan Hassan, “The Arab Winter Is Coming”, in The Atlantic:
text: The second argument of the book is that Arab nationalism looks very different during today’s Arab winter than it did before the Arab spring.
ref: 2020 May 12, Noah Feldman, “‘The Arab Winter,’ by Noah Feldman: An Excerpt”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: Arab Spring
glosses: The antidemocratic aftermath of the Arab Spring, involving more authoritarian governments and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
wikipedia: The Washington Post
Related terms: Winter of Discontent
Nanami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Natsue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Hatsuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese はつこ (Hatsuko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Nobuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese のぶこ (Nobuko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Fusako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Muneko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Mutsuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Mutsumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Tatsuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese たつこ (Tatsuko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
variable squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variable squirrels
Etymology: The fur colour of these animals is extremely variable.
Senses: glosses: Finlayson's squirrel
variable squirrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variable squirrel
Finlayson's squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Finlayson's squirrels
Etymology: Named after George Finlayson, a Scottish surgeon and naturalist.
Senses: glosses: Callosciurus finlaysonii, an Asian squirrel.
wikipedia: George Finlayson
Synonyms: variable squirrel
Finlayson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪnlisən/
/ˈfɪnleɪsən/
Forms: form: Finlinson
Etymology: From Finlay + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Finlayson's squirrel
voyde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of void.
adinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɪnɪti/
Forms: form: adinities
Senses: glosses: arity
adinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adinity
unpeculiarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + peculiarity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being peculiar.
contrarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrarities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being contrary.
contrarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrarity
censorability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From censor + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Regardless of the particulars of such a pedagogy, however, it may be an important strategy for reaching the territory of censorability itself.
ref: 1994, Richard Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the ...:
text: A court lacking any other firm basis for resolving the issue of state censorability of racist speech might be moved by the difficulty of distinguishing this case from that of, say, flag burnings, in a way likely to be convincing to large sections of the public.
ref: 1994, Philip Bryden, Steven Davis, John Russell, Protecting Rights and Freedoms:
glosses: The state or condition of being censorable.
fierce snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fierce snakes
Senses: synonyms: inland taipan
glosses: A highly venomous snake, Oxyuranus microlepidotus.
fierce snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fierce snake
monocled cobra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocled cobras
Senses: glosses: Naja kaouthia, a cobra of south and south-east Asia.
monocled cobras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocled cobra
hydrophiine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophiines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sea snake of the subfamily Hydrophiinae
juane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juanes
Etymology: From Spanish juane.
Senses: glosses: A dish from Peru, usually including rice, meat, olives, hard-boiled egg, and spices, wrapped in bijao (macaw-flower) leaves and then boiled.
juanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juane
praxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæksɪk/
Etymology: From praxis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to praxis.
changeable lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changeable lizards
Senses: synonyms: bloodsucker
glosses: Calotes versicolor, an Asian agamid that can camouflage itself by changing colour.
changeable lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of changeable lizard
unextirpated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + extirpated.
Senses: glosses: Not extirpated.
biporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + porate.
Senses: glosses: Having two pores.
triporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + porate.
Senses: glosses: Having three pores.
monoporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + porate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single pore.
monocellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ocellate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single ocellus.
binocellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bin- + ocellate.
Senses: glosses: Having two ocelli.
Cliffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /klɪfs/
Senses: glosses: Cliff notes
cliff notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cliff notes.
cacciatores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacciatore
bullpucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlˌpʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Etymology: From bull + pucky.
Senses: glosses: Bullshit.
nonextrapolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + extrapolated.
Senses: glosses: Not extrapolated.
unextrapolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + extrapolated.
Senses: glosses: Not extrapolated.
May Week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May Weeks
Senses: glosses: The celebratory week at the end of the academic year at Cambridge University, originally in May but now taking place in June.
May Weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May Week
shitscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitscapes
Etymology: From shit + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: The industrial shitscape of Los Angeles gave way to something even bleaker as I passed out of lonely Riverside into the wide-open range of horse stables and twisted trees and spinning giant wind turbines outside of Indio.
ref: 2011, Jesse James, American Outlaw, page 331:
glosses: An ugly or unpleasant landscape.
shitscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitscape
microspark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsparks
Etymology: From micro- + spark.
Senses: examples: the microsparks caused by a static charge
glosses: A tiny electrical spark.
microsparks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microspark
domained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From domain + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of 90°-domained platelets, opposite domains are in the same orientation and are twin-related to the remaining two, with two of the four boundaries being atomically coherent.
ref: 2013, Steven T. Case, Structure, Cellular Synthesis and Assembly of Biopolymers, page 18:
glosses: Having a specified kind or number of domains.
heart-splitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart-splitting
form: most heart-splitting
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heart-rending.
synonyms: word: heart-rending
bronchostenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broncho- + stenotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bronchostenosis.
bronchostenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broncho- + stenosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The abnormal contraction of a bronchus.
bronchium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchia
Etymology: From New Latin bronchium, singular of Latin bronchia, from Ancient Greek βρογχία (bronkhía)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bronchial tube; a subdivision of the bronchus.
Related terms: dorsobronchium
ectobronchium
entobronchium
mesobronchium
parabronchium
bronchia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronchium
betterfies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betterfy
betterfied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betterfy
betterfying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betterfy
Westrobothnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Westrobothnian
form: most Westrobothnian
Etymology: From Westrobothnia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Westrobothnia.
Westrobothnian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Westrobothnians
Etymology: From Westrobothnia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Westrobothnia.
Westrobothnian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Westrobothnia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The dialects of Swedish spoken in the historical province of Westrobothnia.
Westrobothnians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Westrobothnian
Scanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scanian
ska punks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ska punk
Palmach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The elite fighting force of the Haganah during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine.
Derived terms: Palmachnik
bolivinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolivinids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any foram in the family Bolivinidae.
buliminid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buliminids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any snail in the family Buliminidae.
uvigerinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uvigerinids
Senses: glosses: Any foraminifer of the family Uvigerinidae.
lagenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagenids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any foraminifer in the family Lagenidae.
lagenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagenid
uvigerinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uvigerinid
buliminids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buliminid
bolivinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolivinid
unikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unike
riths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rith
refunction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refunctions
form: refunctioning
form: refunctioned
form: refunctioned
Etymology: From re- + function, as a calque of German Umfunktionierung.
Senses: examples: text: A global corporate power, Del Rio Inc., attempts to refunction a Mexican peasant culture of small-holders for biopolitical exploitation by commodifying the water that sustains their way of life.
ref: 2016, Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper, Approaches to American Cultural Studies, page 143:
glosses: To transform (a culture or institution, etc.) in order to promote social change.
refunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refunction
refunctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refunction
refunctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refunctionings
Senses: glosses: A transformation that refunctions something.
refunctioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refunction
refunctionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refunctioning
in public
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Don't you know it's rude to pick your nose in public?
glosses: In view of other people, who may be strangers.
Derived terms: air one's dirty laundry in public
air one's dirty linen in public
wash one's dirty laundry in public
wash one's dirty linen in public
lingueme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linguemes
Etymology: From linguo- + -eme.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any unit of linguistic structure, such as a phoneme, a morpheme, or a whole phrase.
linguemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingueme
microspheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of a foraminifer: large in size, but having a small initial chamber.
megalospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to megalospheres
cassette culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practices surrounding amateur production and distribution of music recorded on cassette tape, which emerged in the late 1970s.
multiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicultures
Etymology: From multi- + culture.
Senses: glosses: A culture made up of many heterogeneous elements; a multicultural society or collective.
Coordinate terms: monoculture
polyculture
multicultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiculture
mail art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Small-scale artworks sent through the postal service as part of a populist artistic movement.
Fluxus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Lithuanian American artist George Maciunas in 1961 as the title of a proposed magazine, from Latin flūxus (“flow”).
Senses: examples: text: Other attractions include a documentation center for the activities of Fluxus, the wildcat group of art anarchists who have fluxed around Canal Street since the 1960's; […]
ref: 1976 June 25, Grace Glueck, “Art People”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.
ice cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice cupboards
Senses: examples: text: The activity of the yeast extract does not last long; it had vanished after being kept five days in an ice cupboard, but lasted for two weeks when mixed with cane-sugar solution.
ref: 1897, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume 16, page 157:
text: At one end were five service lifts, and at the other an ice cupboard where we stored milk and butter. When you went into the ice cupboard you dropped a hundred degrees of temperature at a single step; it used to remind me of the hymn about Greenland's icy mountains and India's coral strand.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: A large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long-term, stable storage of perishable foods.
Synonyms: coolroom
impendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From impending + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impending manner; forthcomingly; soon to come.
ice cupboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice cupboard
unenlagiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unenlagiid
internexins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internexin
procoagulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procoagulation
succinylomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succinylome
amphicoronate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + coronate.
Senses: examples: text: The conical hypostome was encircled by 4–14 filiform amphicoronate tentacles with nematocysts.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Green Fluorescence of Cytaeis Hydroids Living in Association with Nassarius Gastropods in the Red Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Arranged alternately up and down
raw_tags: of the oral tentacles of cnidaria
autoimmunogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + immunogenic.
Senses: examples: text: We therefore assume that MDA may not appear as the primary autoimmunogenic factor in small LDL-IgG-IC formation.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Simvastatin Efficiently Lowers Small LDL-IgG Immune Complex Levels: A Therapeutic Quality beyond the Lipid-Lowering Effect”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of autoantigenic.
synonyms: word: autoantigenic
centrifugalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /sɛnˈtɹɪfjəɡəlaɪz/
Forms: form: centrifugalizes
form: centrifugalizing
form: centrifugalized
form: centrifugalized
Etymology: From centrifugal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: […] and if one then centrifugalizes and then draws off the liquid; if one washes the remaining spirochaetes again in a mixture of serum and again centrifugalizes it; then one obtains in both tubes a deposit of spirochaetes which on microscopic examination shows the same properties, i. e. equally good mobility of the spirochaetes.
ref: 1914, Paul Ehrlich, “General Address on Chemio-Therapy”, in Pacific Medical Journal, volume 57, page 355:
glosses: Synonym of centrifugate.
synonyms: word: centrifugate
centrifugalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Therefore HEK-293 cells were transduced (60min, 5x10 9 pfu/ml) and cell supernatant was centrifugalized after standard protocols for protein isolation.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Loss of Endothelial Barrier in Marfan Mice (mgR/mgR) Results in Severe Inflammation after Adenoviral Gene Therapy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of centrifugalize
centrivenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centri- + venal.
Senses: examples: text: Liver: 0 = no noticeable inflammation; 1 = mild periportal inflammation with sinusoidal microgranulomas; 2 = moderate periportal and centrivenal inflammation with sinusoidal microgranulomas and 3 = marked periportal and centrivenal inflammation with sinusoidal microgranulomas.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Comparative Experimental Infection Study in Dogs with Ehrlichia canis, E . chaffeensis, Anaplasma platys and A . phagocytophilum”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In the centre of a vein
dirofilaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.ɹəʊ.fɪˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌdaɪ.ɹoʊ.fəˈlɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, control dogs were judged to be healthy on the basis of normal results on physical examination, hematological and serum biochemical analysis, urinalysis, multiple fecal examinations, and dirofilaria antigen assay.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Alterations of the Ileal and Colonic Mucosal Microbiota in Canine Chronic Enteropathies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any nematode of the genus Dirofilaria.
Related terms: dirofilariasis
galactoglycerolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactoglycerolipids
Etymology: From galacto- + glycerolipid.
Senses: examples: text: As the organism enters the TAG accumulation phase, transcripts representing the final biosynthesis steps for TAG and the galactoglycerolipid lipases are up-regulated.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Use of De Novo Transcriptome Libraries to Characterize a Novel Oleaginous Marine Chlorella Species during the Accumulation of Triacylglycerols”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycolipid having a glycerol and a galactose moiety
galactoglycerolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactoglycerolipid
centrifugalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of centrifugalize
centrifugalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of centrifugalize
hemisternotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemisternotomies
Etymology: From hemi- + sternotomy.
Senses: examples: text: Then a 1.5 cm median hemisternotomy was performed, the sternum halves were kept apart with 4–0 Vicryl sutures ® (Ethicon Inc., Somerville, NJ, USA) which were later-on used to close the sternum.
ref: 2016 February 4, “A New Animal Model for Investigation of Mechanical Unloading in Hypertrophic and Failing Hearts: Combination of Transverse Aortic Constriction and Heterotopic Heart Transplantation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into the left or right half of the sternum
hemoglobinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hemoglobinizes
form: hemoglobinizing
form: hemoglobinized
form: hemoglobinized
Etymology: From hemoglobin + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with hemoglobin.
hemoglobinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: DD8 cells are hemoglobinized, as evidenced by a red cell pellet and positive benzidine staining.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Krüppel-Like Transcription Factor KLF1 Is Required for Optimal γ- and β-Globin Expression in Human Fetal Erythroblasts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of hemoglobinize
hyperamylinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + amylin + -aemia.
Senses: examples: text: In circumstances of defective ProIAPP processing or hyperamylinaemia, the equilibrium between IAPP forming a heterodimer with insulin may shift towards IAPP homodimerization.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Identification of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide as a BACE2 Substrate”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of excess amylin in the blood
hypusination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypusine + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we suggest that such diverse post-translational modifications, including the β-lysylation/rhamnosylation of EF-P (and the hypusination of eIF5A) (Fig 8 ), are typical examples of “convergent evolution”.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Neisseria meningitidis Translation Elongation Factor P and Its Active-Site Arginine Residue Are Essential for Cell Viability”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with hypusine
Related terms: hypusinate
immunophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + physiology.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, our findings support IL17A (rs2275913) and IL6 (rs1800795) polymorphisms as promising markers for PTB risk and indicate the role of IL-6 and IL-17A cytokines in immunophysiology of TB. This novel information of host response to MTB infection can help design more effective vaccines, identify risk populations and new treatment strategies.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in IL17A and IL6 Are Associated with Decreased Risk for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Southern Brazilian Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The physiology of the immune system
intrabiliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + biliary.
Senses: examples: text: Since the cause of death in extrahepatic CC is commonly due to recurrent biliary obstruction and intrabiliary sepsis, key issues are controlling local disease and optimizing biliary drainage[1 ].
ref: 2016 February 4, “Novel Silicone-Coated 125 I Seeds for the Treatment of Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the bile duct
immunophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to immunophysiology.
lentivirion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentivirions
Etymology: Blend of lentivirus + virion
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: The virion of a lentivirus.
lentivirions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For super-resolution experiments, neurons were infected at DIV 1 with lentivirions driving the expression of dendra-SP. After transfection/infection procedures, neurons were maintained in the incubator until used for experiments at DIV 20–23.
ref: 2016 February 4, “The Role of Synaptopodin in Membrane Protein Diffusion in the Dendritic Spine Neck”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of lentivirion
macrobotanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + botanical or macrobotany + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Within these data, there were a total of 18,791 plant macro-remains in which 3,856 cereals (rice, millets, etc.) were identified, then the proportion of cereals in macrobotanical remains was 21% (3,856/18,791×100%) during 9~6 ka cal BP. There were 15 sites in which macro-remains or starch grains of common millet were found; Cishan, Tanghu, and Xihe sites had macro-botanical and/or starch data without common millet, which was found in phytolith data of each site.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Macro-Process of Past Plant Subsistence from the Upper Paleolithic to Middle Neolithic in China: A Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Archaeobotanical Data”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Related to macroplants.
coordinate_terms: microbotanical
glosses: Of or pertaining to macrobotany.
mesobuthid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, preliminary evidence was found for refugia in the MP for mesobuthid scorpions during the Quaternary climatic fluctuations [17 ], which suggest that the MP was a potential reserve centre during these climatic changes.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Continental Refugium in the Mongolian Plateau during Quaternary Glacial Oscillations: Phylogeography and Niche Modelling of the Endemic Desert Hamster, Phodopus roborovskii”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Of or relating to the scorpions of the genus Mesobuthus
mesosyntenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesosynteny + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Eight scaffolds were joined that exhibited mesosyntenic relationships (Table 2 ).
ref: 2016 February 4, “Comprehensive Annotation of the Parastagonospora nodorum Reference Genome Using Next-Generation Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteogenomics”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting mesosynteny
mesosynteny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + synteny.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The sharing of large chromosomal regions with the same genes without preservation of order across species
Derived terms: mesosyntenic
mevaldate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mevaldates
Etymology: From mevaldic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: For instance, EC 1.1.1.32 and 1.1.1.33 represent two mevaldate reductases, both catalyse the conversion of (R)-mevalonate to mevaldate but respectively use NAD + and NADP + as a cofactor [16 ].
ref: 2016 February 4, “Characterising Complex Enzyme Reaction Data”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of mevaldic acid.
mevaldic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydroxy acid 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-5-oxopentanoic acid
Related terms: mevaldate
microencapsulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microencapsulators
Etymology: From micro- + encapsulator.
Senses: examples: text: Briefly, 80 ml 2.0% sodium alginate solution (154 mM NaCl, 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.4) was sprayed at a flow rate of 9.5 mL/min through an electrostatic microencapsulator unit (NiscoEngineering, Zurich, Switzerland).
ref: 2016 February 4, “A New Fluidized Bed Bioreactor Based on Diversion-Type Microcapsule Suspension for Bioartificial Liver Systems”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any device that performs microencapsulation.
microencapsulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microencapsulator
microfluidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + fluidization.
Senses: examples: text: The fluorescent dye-rhodamine-123 encapsulating CREKA-peptide modified nanoemulsion system was prepared by microfluidization as described earlier.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Therapeutic Efficacy of an ω-3-Fatty Acid-Containing 17-β Estradiol Nano-Delivery System against Experimental Atherosclerosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: fluidization by means of microfluidics
mevaldates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mevaldate
mid-shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: midshelf
Etymology: From mid- + shelf.
Senses: examples: text: This region, located approximately 70 km off the coast of Townsville, is characterized by the presence of semi-isolated midshelf reefs (5–15 km apart) separated by relatively deep sandy channels (40–70 m).
ref: 2016 February 4, “Evidence of Partial Migration in a Large Coastal Predator: Opportunistic Foraging and Reproduction as Key Drivers?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In the middle of a shelf.
glosses: Of medium quality.
raw_tags: of an alcoholic beverage
microconsole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microconsoles
Etymology: From micro- + console; 21st century.
Senses: glosses: A basic video game console, typically designed to connect to a television and play video games downloaded from an online store.
microconsoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microconsole
SENCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SENCOs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Abbreviation of special educational needs coordinator.
SENCOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SENCO
sphragis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfræd͡ʒɪs/
Forms: form: sphragides
Senses: examples: text: The plastic mass begins to harden quite rapidly, probably within a few minutes but, as largely hollow sphragides have been dissected from pairs killed in copula, possibly more than one ejaculation may be required to complete the body of the sphragis.
ref: 1999, Roger Laurence Kitching, Biology of Australian Butterflies, page 129:
text: Mated females of many acraeine species bear an unusual structure around their genital opening. Such structures are called sphragides (singular: sphragis), or more rarely spermatophragma (Ehrlich & Ehrlich, 1978; Orr, 1995).
ref: 2008, Andrew F. E. Neild, The butterflies of Venezuela:
text: Bert first began studying sphragides in the Australian Big Greasy. The male, patterned in red, white, and black, is larger than the female and violent in his mating.
ref: 2009, Sharman Apt Russell, An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair With A Singular Insect:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mating plug in the genital opening of a female, formed from a waxy secretion deposited by a male during mating.
examples: text: This made Lenian earth the first sgillated medicinal earth and wherever in literature the term terra sigillata appears without a location suffix, it refers to Lemnian earth, sometimes called Lemnia sphragis which is Greek for terra sigillata from Lemnos.
ref: 2003, W. Rudolph Reinbacher, Healing Earths: The Third Leg of Medicine : a History of Minerals in Medicine with Rare Illustrations from 300 to 1000 Years Ago:
text: The best Siopic red ochre is found on the island of Lemnos, and is called sphragis.
ref: 2012, Nicholas Everett, The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, page 359:
glosses: Synonym of sphragide.
synonyms: word: sphragide
Synonyms: topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: copulation plug
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: copulatory plug
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: coitus plug
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: sperm plug
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: vaginal plug
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: sement
Related terms: sphragistic
e-briefing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-briefings
Etymology: From e- + briefing.
Senses: glosses: A briefing in electronic or computerized form.
e-briefings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-briefing
DARTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DART
List X
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛks
Senses: coordinate_terms: List N
glosses: A list of commercial (non-government) sites in United Kingdom territories that are approved to hold confidential information.
hydrochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrochores
Etymology: From hydro- + -chore.
Senses: glosses: A plant whose spores, seeds, or fruits are dispersed by water.
Related terms: hydrochory
tree fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree forks
Senses: glosses: A bifurcation in the trunk of a tree giving rise to two roughly equal diameter branches.
tree forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree fork
school buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school bus
school busses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school bus
hydrochores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrochore
fevres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fevre
anti-fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-facts
form: antifact
Etymology: From anti- + fact.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lie.
synonyms: word: lie
outcrazy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcrazies
form: outcrazying
form: outcrazied
form: outcrazied
Etymology: From out- + crazy.
Senses: examples: text: Trying to always outcrazy your opponent is a North Korean specialty. Now, Putin has adopted it, announcing with great fanfare that Russia is annexing four Ukrainian regions: […]
ref: 2022 September 30, Thomas L. Friedman, “What Putin’s ‘Outcrazy Your Opponent’ Strategy Means for the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: So now Israel believes it must restore its deterrence by proving that it can outcrazy Hamas’s latest craziness.
ref: 2023 October 14, Thomas L. Friedman, “Why Israel Is Acting This Way”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To surpass in craziness; to be more wild or erratic than.
outcrazied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcrazy
outcrazies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcrazy
outcrazying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcrazy
throws shade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw shade
threw shade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw shade
thrown shade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw shade
reverse mermaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse mermaids
Senses: topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mythical creature, woman from the waist down, fish from the waist up.
reverse mermaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse mermaid
Polynesian rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Polynesian rats
Senses: synonyms: kiore
Maori rat
Pacific rat
glosses: Rattus exulans, the third most numerous species of rat on Earth.
lead with one's chin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leads with one's chin
form: leading with one's chin
form: led with one's chin
form: led with one's chin
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To leave one's chin unprotected.
glosses: To behave without caution; to make oneself vulnerable.
Related terms: stick one's neck out
wazillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wazillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: I would like the FAQ list for this newsgroup. I just signed on and went through a wazillion articles.
ref: 1992 May 22, Michael G. McMahon, “high speed modem info request”, in comp.dcom.modems (Usenet):
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
killion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: You're better off waiting anyway, the pics I saw weren't that detailed as to what the darn thing did, but I got the idea and I wasn't about to download a killion pics to find out anymore.
ref: 2000 November 14, Dennis [username], “Re: Arrow Web Server is Down!”, in rec.roller-coaster (Usenet):
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
Fennicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Fennicize
zabillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zabillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: That could happen any time between September and a zabillion years from now, depending on my health and motivation level.
ref: 2006 August 14, Trichome [username], “Re: 168 Minutes... MD Pilot”, in alt.tv.twin-peaks (Usenet):
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
character map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: character maps
Senses: glosses: A software-based list of characters and sometimes their codepoints, for searching and copying.
Synonyms: charmap
character maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of character map
applies oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apply oneself
applying oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apply oneself
applied oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apply oneself
brightens up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brighten up
brightening up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In other words, what we can expect to see henceforward, provided that all Regions make the effort, is a welcome brightening-up of stations and improvement in the general standard of amenities.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 255:
glosses: present participle and gerund of brighten up
brightened up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brighten up
jajillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʒəˈdʒɪljən/
Forms: form: jajillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: There are a jajillion opinions on this. My perspective is that of a curious lay newbie.
ref: 1998 August 13, John King, “Re: Off topic: Java- What do people think?”, in alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ (Usenet):
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
bizillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bizillions
Senses: examples: text: I'm all over the fact that we can list up a bizillion charges for a guy to defend himself against in connection with any given crime.
ref: 2005 December 31, Jeff Strickland, “Re: Double Jeopardy???”, in alt.lawyers (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of bazillion.
babillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: My second method worked a thousand babillion times better. I turned a 5 gal paint pale upside down to trace the opening on top of the keg (it is the perfect sized opening).
ref: 2005 February 1, JL [username], “Re: Keg Cutting: The Mother of All Methods”, in rec.crafts.brewing (Usenet):
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
1-on-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1-on-1s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one-on-one.
sexpertise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sex + expertise.
Senses: glosses: Great knowledge in sexology.
overmasturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + masturbation.
Senses: examples: text: The first intervention, scheduled overmasturbation, requires that the client routinely masturbate on a progressively more frequent schedule throughout the week. This is intended to reduce sexual drive […]
ref: 2011, Shannon M. Barton-Bellessa, Robert D. Hanser, Community-Based Corrections: A Text/Reader, page 555:
glosses: excessive masturbation
forced bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forced bets
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The small blind, the big blind, or the ante.
forced bets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forced bet
spaces out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of space out
spacing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of space out
zones out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zone out
zoning out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zone out
zoned out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zone out
zoned out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoned out
form: most zoned out
Senses: examples: text: Things have changed in the Red Keep since we last visited. Viserys is at death’s door; his body is completely ravaged by the infection we’ve seen growing in him from episode one, and he’s effectively a living skeleton, spending his days in bed, zoned out on milk of the poppy.
ref: 2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:
glosses: Intoxicated by drugs.
monstricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnstɹɪsaɪd/
Forms: form: monstricides
Etymology: Blend of monster + homicide, or equivalent to monster + -icide. Compare insecticide.
Senses: glosses: The act of killing a monster.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The destruction of a deformed fetus.
hosticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒstɪsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɑstɪsaɪd/
Etymology: From Latin hostis (“enemy”) + English -cide or Latin caedere (“to kill”).
Senses: examples: text: VVith vinegar make ſpear the ſpoil divide,
And lancepreſado be to hoſticide:
ref: 1666, William Austin, Ἐπιλοιμια ἐπη. Or, the Anatomy of the Pestilence, page 92:
text: how can I be safe when so many are privy to our hosticide, as your Lordship terms the death of Overbury.
ref: 1822, Robert Carr, Blighted Ambition, page 352:
text: Oh let me in, or witness suicide,
Or see me turn on thee a hosticide!
ref: 1888, W. H. Bakewell, Vision of Faith in the Dream of Time, page 187:
text: For the argument that Milton advocated not regicide but tyrannicide and hosticide, see also Dzelzainis, 'Milton and the Regicide'.
ref: 2014, William Walker, Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton, page 12:
text: I was curious about the fate of Ras Mikael who came to the palace of lyoas as a guest and committed the hosticide.
ref: 2015, Alexander Raju, And Still Plays the Abyssinian Damsel on her Dulcimer, page 240:
glosses: The act of killing an enemy.