cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kilogirl-hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilogirl-hour
kangaroo dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangaroo dogs
Senses: examples: text: A good dog of this kind is valuable; but we meet with so many cross-bred mongrels, that half the dogs which are called kangaroo-hounds are hardly worth their keep; and I do think a lazy, half-starved, good-for-nothing kangaroo-dog is the biggest loafer one can see about a tent.
ref: 1861, Horace William Wheelwright, Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist:
text: He was as concerned as a rabbit when it is cornered by a kangaroo dog.
ref: 1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 103:
glosses: A dog used to hunt kangaroos; (specifically), a breed of dog for this purpose, developed in Australia from the Scottish deerhound and the greyhound.
Synonyms: Australian greyhound
scrimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrim
scrimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrim
skrims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skrim
aero club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aero clubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aeroclub
aero clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aero club
dreaming site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪt
Forms: form: dreaming sites
Senses: examples: text: In mid-September Pemulwuy left his group and walked to his secret place. A dreaming site of his father's.
ref: 1987, Eric Willmot, “Pemulwuy”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 111:
glosses: A site of significance for dreaming in traditional Aboriginal culture.
dreaming sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreaming site
Cinderella story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cinderella stories
Senses: glosses: A story, real or fictional, in which a deserving but maltreated person eventually attains happiness and success.
Related terms: rags to riches
hemisegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a hemisegment.
heteromorphoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteromorphosis
heteromorphotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to heteromorphosis.
shamefulest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of shameful: most shameful
shamefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of shameful: most shameful
stringable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stringable
form: most stringable
Etymology: From string + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The shells are strung today with nylon fishing line. Out of a gallon of shells, only about one third will be stringable.
ref: 1982, Hawaiian Shell News, volumes 30-31, page 16:
glosses: Suitable to be strung.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Able to be converted to a string of text characters.
phonational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phonation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phonation.
Ulam spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ulam spirals
Etymology: Devised by mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1963.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graphical depiction of the set of prime numbers, constructed by writing the positive integers in a square spiral and specially marking the primes.
Ulam spirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ulam spiral
folding-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folding-bones
Senses: examples: text: On the opposite side of the spacious hall, however, sat approximately a dozen Indians with their legs crossed, busily folding the printed sheets that had been delivered with the folding-bone, by hand.
ref: 1996, Heinz Götze, translated by Mary Schäfer, Springer-Verlag: History of a Scientific Publishing House, volume 2, Springer, page 233:
glosses: Synonym of bone folder.
synonyms: word: bone folder
folding-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folding-bone
folding-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folding-sticks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bone folder.
synonyms: word: bone folder
folding-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folding-stick
folding bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folding bones
Senses: examples: text: Without looking Lav knows she’s been given Saul's folding bone, the little stick he used for bookbinding. She rubs the worn ivory across her cheek. “Have a cup of tea before you go,” her mother says. Lav takes a cup and they sit, one on either side of the table that resembles a roughly hacked block of ice. She sips the tea slowly, holding the folding bone and the letter, muttering awkward thankyous.
ref: 1994, Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time, Breakwater, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Synonym of bone folder.
synonyms: word: bone folder
folding bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folding bone
folding stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folding sticks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bone folder.
synonyms: word: bone folder
folding sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folding stick
foldingstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldingsticks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bone folder.
synonyms: word: bone folder
foldingsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foldingstick
bone folders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone folder
sex-linked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a mutation or other genetic feature, carried on the chromosome shared by both the male and female of the species (e.g. the X-chromosome in mammals or the Z-chromosome in birds).
Related terms: sex-link
sex-linkage
shell steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell steaks
Senses: glosses: A strip steak with the bone left in and no tenderloin attached.
shell steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shell steak
whistle register
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle registers
Senses: synonyms: bell register
flageolet register
flute register
whistle tone
glosses: The highest register of the human voice, lying above the modal register and falsetto.
whistle registers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistle register
mad hatter disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: "During the 18th to 20th centuries, hat makers used mercury to stiffen felt for hats. They used a type of mercury called mercuric nitrate and worked in poorly ventilated rooms. Over time, the hatters inhaled mercury vapors. Many developed symptoms of chronic mercury poisoning, including psychosis, excitability, and tremors. These symptoms became so common in hatters that the phrase “mad as a hatter” was born."
Senses: glosses: erethism (neurological disorder from mercury poisoning)
mad hatter syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: erethism (neurological disorder from mercury poisoning)
Ruisui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jui-sui
form: Juisui
form: Rueisuei
form: Juihui
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瑞穗 (Ruìsuì).
Senses: examples: text: “For Hualien, about 70 percent [of locally grown pomelos] would usually be sold overseas to mainland China. Now they don’t know what to do with that 70 percent, so most will be auctioned,” he said, referring to the Taiwanese county that includes Ruisui township.
ref: 2022 August 29, Christian Shepherd, Pei-Lin Wu, “Their fruit forbidden in China, Taiwan’s pomelo growers feel squeeze”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2022, Asia:
text: The "presidential train" will run between Hualien City and Fuli Township in Hualien County in October and between Ruisui Township in Hualien County and Taitung City in November, TR said in a statement.
ref: 2024 September 15, Wang Shu-fen, Evelyn Kao, “Public to get chance to experience Taiwan 'presidential train' trip”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024, Business:
glosses: A rural township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
sectish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛktɪʃ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈsɛktəʃ/
Forms: form: more sectish
form: most sectish
Etymology: From sect + -ish; perhaps after obsolete German sektisch, sektierisch or German sektiererisch.
Senses: examples: text: The only sect among Christians that is spoken of in terms— the Nicolaitan — is severely condemned. There are indications of sectish belief, against which John is supposed to labor in the first chapter of his Gospel, and Paul withstood in the Judaizing tendencies, even in a brother Apostle.
ref: 1880, David S. Warner, Bible proofs of the second work of grace […] , page 419:
text: One reason there are sects is that it is easy to be sectish. It is easier to be than not to be. This applies to everybody. To believe in one true church does not of itself insure one against a party spirit.
ref: 1920, D.S. Warner, J.C. Fisher, The Gospel Trumpet, volume 40, page 5:
text: If Menno, D. Philip and the many servants and congregations had pure teachings in their times, you, who carry the name Old Mennonites, certainly have a sectish teaching which devours like gnawing cancer, and all true children of God are[…]
ref: 1973, Clarence Hiebert, The Holdeman people: the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, 1859-1969, William Carey Library, page 184:
text: The 'sectish' Marxism expounded by Hyndman and the SDF, and later by Morris and the Socialist League, was too narrow and dogmatic to allow the development of a workable strategy of engagement with the working class.
ref: 1997, Fintan Lane, The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism, 1881-1896, Cork University Press, →ISBN, page 226:
text: In previous centuries, both the sectish and churchish styles of evangelicalism had been evident, but in different movements (like the Salvation Army versus evangelical Anglicans) or in the same movement at different times (like Methodism in the eighteenth century versus Methodism in the late nineteenth).
ref: 1998, John Gordon Stackhouse, Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character, Regent College Publishing, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: Sectarian; adherent to a sect, often to the degree of being dogmatic, insular and non-ecumenical.
raw_tags: in Mennonitism
Sectish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪʃ
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cam out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cams out
form: camming out
form: cammed out
form: cammed out
Senses: glosses: To slip out of the head of the screw being driven once the torque required to turn the screw exceeds a certain amount.
raw_tags: of a bit or a screwdriver
stargrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stargrasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of star grass.
stargrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stargrass
brown-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brown + haired.
Senses: glosses: having hair of a brown color.
Eight Legions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Sanskrit अष्टसेना (aṣṭasenā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: group of eight Buddhist deities protecting the Dharma
overpulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overpulses
Etymology: From over- + pulse.
Senses: examples: text: The algorithm then requires that you multiply the interval by 3 to yield a single overpulse.
ref: 1985, EDN, Electrical Design News - Volume 30, page 165:
text: In an electromagnetic launcher such as a railgun for propelling a projectile at high velocity, an overpulse energy recovery circuit is employed to transfer stored inductive energy from a source inductor to the railgun inductance to propel the projectile down the railgun.
ref: 1986, Catalog of Government Patents, page 75:
text: For example, Intel's earlier Intelligent programming algorithm, which is still required for cerdip parts, uses a one millisecond pulse and an overpulse scheme.
ref: 1987, Electronic Packaging and Production:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electric pulse that spikes above normal operating levels.
overpulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpulses
form: overpulsing
form: overpulsed
form: overpulsed
Etymology: From over- + pulse.
Senses: examples: text: Another problem is that they might have "overpulsed". It's not clear that the high numbers for data rate go with the low numbers for drive voltage.
ref: 1987, Mark A. Mentzer, S. Sriram, Integrated optical circuit engineering IV:
text: Do not overpulse, as this will make the patties crumbly and wet.
ref: 2010, David Stowell, George Black, The Veganopolis Cookbook: A Manual for Great Vegan Cooking, →ISBN:
text: Make sure you don't overpulse, as you want to leave some texture.
ref: 2016, Einat Mazor, Chickpeas: Sweet and Savory Recipes from Hummus to Dessert, →ISBN:
glosses: To pulse too much.
overpulses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overpulse
overpulses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpulse
overpulsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpulse
overpulsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpulse
Hariti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit हारीती (hārītī).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: goddess and yakshini in certain Buddhist traditions
temper foam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Memory foam.
bhavacakra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhavacakras
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit भवचक्र (bhavacakra).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: symbolic representation of saṃsāra (or cyclic existence)
underpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + point.
Senses: examples: text: The wheat farmer, the corn farmer, the livestock farmer, all are receiving high prices for their produce. Until October 1917, the dairyman was distinctly underpoint.
ref: 1917, Holstein-Friesian World - Volume 14, page 2834:
text: The Johnstone Fourteen is similar to the Twelve except that boards up to Bearings of sealed slitters and underpoint springs of the tool steel slitter lever.
ref: 1941, Printing Equipment Engineer - Volumes 61-63, page 56:
text: The plow bottom is led into the ground and held to its work by the underpoint suction of the share.
ref: 1951, Deere & Company, The Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery:
glosses: Below the point (any sense)
underpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpoint
underpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpoint
underpointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpoint
underpointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpoint
scratch wig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratch wigs
Senses: examples: text: He was himself in a most odious scratch Wig, which Nobody but himself could dare be seen in […].
ref: 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 26 March
glosses: A short wig that covers only part of the head.
scratch wigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scratch wig
underpulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpulses
Etymology: From under- + pulse.
Senses: examples: text: He did nothing, as yet, which was really the reverse ; he did not make her his evident object, —it seems to me that this is always a high and delicate test of gentlemanhood, — and yet, to me, who felt an underpulse in all these things, there was a plain perception, that as it had been she from whom he went away, it was to her now that he was come back.
ref: 1883, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 18:
text: He began lightly, but her unforeseen surrender gave to the next words an underpulse of feeling that quite spoiled his response as comedy.
ref: 1894, Edgar Fawcett, Outrageous Fortune, page 126:
text: What was missing from the experience, though, was the driving, knife-sharp underpulse of fear.
ref: 2011, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, The Stars Asunder: A New Novel of the Mageworlds, →ISBN:
text: The music seems to have no particular sense of beginning or end: it doesn't drive toward a cadence; it simply elaborates the big waves with little waves, underpulses, in the way that the surge of surf on a beach falls into long rhythms of tide and medium rhythms of regular wave fall and short rhythms of little splashes at the end of the regular wave fall.
ref: 2015, Daniel Albright, Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: An underlying pulse, flow, or impulse.
underpulses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpulse
orchitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchitis
hyperuricemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperuricemic
hypoacylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + acylated.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: acylated to an abnormally small extent
immunocalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocalins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of immunomodulatory lipocalins
immunocalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunocalin
immunohystochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of immunohistochemical.
hopvine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopvines
Etymology: From hop + vine.
Senses: glosses: The stock or stem of the hop.
hopvines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopvine
incudomalleal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From incudo- + malleal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the incus and the malleus
incudostapedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From incudo- + stapedial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the incus and the stapes
incudotympanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænɪk
Etymology: From incudo- + tympanic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the incus and the tympanum
incudo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Relating to the incus
intential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to intent
Related terms: intentional
interhepatocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + hepatocellular.
Senses: glosses: Between cells of the liver
Related terms: intrahepatocellular
intermanual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + manual.
Senses: glosses: Between the hands
intermicrotubule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + microtubule.
Senses: glosses: Between microtubules
interupted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of interrupted.
intracatheter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intracatheters
Etymology: From intra- + catheter.
Senses: glosses: A thin catheter for use within a blood vessel
intracatheters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intracatheter
ash blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ash blonde
form: most ash blonde
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ash blond.
ash blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash blondes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ash blond.
iontophoresed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subjected to, or produced by iontophoresis
isoflavonone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoflavonones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any isoflavonoid ketone
isoflavonones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoflavonone
isolobologram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of isobologram.
isomir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isomiR.
isomirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isomir
isonicotinamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + nicotinamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of isonicotinic acid
isopentenylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with an isopentenyl radical
isovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Equally (or normally) vascular
isozeaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪ.səʊ.ziː.əˈzæn.θɪn/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.soʊ.ziː.əˈzæn.θɪn/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.sə.ziː.əˈzæn.θɪn/
Forms: form: isozeaxanthins
Etymology: From iso- + zeaxanthin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cis-trans isomer of zeaxanthin
juxtaparaventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxta- + paraventricular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Adjacent to and alongside a ventricle.
kanadaptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular human nuclear protein
doodz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of dudes; plural of dood.
wymmyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of women.
lampropeltine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampropeltines
Senses: glosses: Any colubrid snake of the tribe Lampropeltini
lampropeltines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampropeltine
lanceolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanceolate
laryngotracheoesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laryngo- + tracheoesophageal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the larynx, the esophagus and the trachea
lasiandrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular phenolic glycoside present in Salix lasiandra
lemniscuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemniscus
leukoattractant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukoattractants
Etymology: From leuko- + attractant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A leukocyte attractant
leukoattractants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukoattractant
linagliptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of linagliptin.
liposomalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From liposomal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The formation of liposomes
lumbalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbalizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lumbarization.
lymphadenectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lymphadenectomizes
form: lymphadenectomizing
form: lymphadenectomized
form: lymphadenectomized
Etymology: From lymphadenectomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform, or be subjected to, a lymphadenectomy
lymphadenectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lymphadenectomize
lysinylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction (typically of a phospholipid) with lysine
Related terms: lysinylate
lysosphingolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lysosphingolipid
Government House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The official residence of the Governor of a British dependency.
glosses: The official residence of a Governor-General.
glosses: The official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of certain Canadian provinces.
glosses: The official residence of the Governor of an Australian state.
glosses: The title or office of any of the above.
Hypernyms: house
churchish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɜːtʃɪʃ/
ipa: /-əʃ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɚt͡ʃɪʃ/
ipa: /-əʃ/
Forms: form: more churchish
form: most churchish
Etymology: From church + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He does not embrace with the same churchish charity all of the poor, white as well as black, as Dr. King docs in demanding a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" — a federal government effort to compensate for deprivation and discrimination.
ref: 1964, New South, volumes 19-20, Southern Regional Council, page 202:
text: Two children, a boy and a girl in naught but their shirts and barefoot, walked behind the churchish crowd and watched with studious intent the behaviour of their children,[…]
ref: 1983, Fierce, Fine World, Raduga Publishers, page 16:
text: Characters drift against a churchish background; the central women like the novel do not possess Pym's usual exuberance and irony. Cooley analyzes a passage to show how Pym here subordinates comedy to realism.
ref: 1998, Four British Women Novelists: Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym: An Annotated and Critical Secondary Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, page 501:
synonyms: churchical
churchlike
churchy
glosses: Like a church; (solidly or piously) Christian.
examples: text: Simplistically put, churchish British national revivals compare to semi-churchish Australian revivals, to semi-churchish regional Canadian revivals, and un-churchish American national revivals.
ref: 1997 February 17, Mark Hutchinson, “‘Up from Downunder’: An Australian View of Canadian Evangelicanism”, in Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 24:
text: In previous centuries, both the sectish and churchish styles of evangelicalism had been evident, but in different movements (like the Salvation Army versus evangelical Anglicans) or in the same movement at different times (like Methodism in the eighteenth century versus Methodism in the late nineteenth).
ref: 1998, John Gordon Stackhouse, Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character, Regent College Publishing, →ISBN, page 197:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Participating in the world at large; ecumenical, mainstream, non-insular.
blepharedemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blepharedema
blepharocorythids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blepharocorythid
blepharostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blepharostat
blews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blew
blewes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blewe
blind-sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind-side
blister cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blister cell
blitzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blitzer
block walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block wall
concrete masonry unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrete masonry units
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: concrete block
glosses: A rectangular concrete block of a standard size used in construction.
Related terms: CMU
concrete masonry units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concrete masonry unit
CMUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CMU
blood volumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood volume
blood wursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood wurst
blooders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blooder
bloodflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodflow
blossomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blossome
blóts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blót
blown pupils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blown pupil
Blue Shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blue Shirt
blue-eyed Marys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-eyed Mary
bluntslides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluntslide
body jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body jacket
boerhavinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boerhavinone
bogolons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogolon
boil ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boil up
bolaforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolaform
bold films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bold film
bold movies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bold movie
bold stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bold star
bombycoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombycoid
bone ages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone age
gametocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gametocyst
whore's-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whore's-bird
wifflebats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wifflebat
microviscoamylographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microviscoamylograph
midslices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midslice
microventilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microventilator
micromutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromutation
microphotodiodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microphotodiode
macroembolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroembolizations
Etymology: From macro- + embolization.
Senses: glosses: The formation of macroemboli
macroembolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroemboli
Etymology: From macro- + embolus.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large embolus
macroprocesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroprocess
macroptyrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of macropterous.
magnetochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetochromes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein domain specific to magnetotactic bacteria
mammogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mammo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mammogenesis
mechanostructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechano- + structural.
Senses: glosses: mechanical and structural
mengenillid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mengenillids
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the family Mengenillidae
mengenillids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mengenillid
mercaptoalbumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptoalbumins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mercaptalbumin.
mercaptosilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptosilanes
Etymology: From mercapto- + silane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any silane that also has a thiol group
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any silanethiol
silanethiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silanethiols
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The simple silane SiH₃SH; any organic derivative of this compound
mercaptosilanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercaptosilane
metallotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallotherapeutic
microperfusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microperfuser
metaphylatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of metaphylactic.
metastasizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ability to metastasize
methanamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of methylamine.
synonyms: word: methylamine
glosses: Misspelling of methenamine.
microexudate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microexudates
Etymology: From micro- + exudate.
Senses: glosses: An exudate produced in very small amounts
microexudates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microexudate
micropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropod
microprecipitates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microprecipitate
microfouler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfoulers
Etymology: From micro- + fouler.
Senses: glosses: Any very small marine fouler, typically a bacterium or alga
Derived terms: macrofouler
microfoulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfouler
microhemostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhemostats
Etymology: From micro- + hemostat.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A very small hemostat
Derived terms: microhemostatic
microhemostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microhemostat
microscanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microscanner
microporators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microporator
microoptode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microoptodes
Etymology: From micro- + optode.
Senses: glosses: A very small optode
microoptodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microoptode
microscripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microscript
microplacentome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microplacentomes
Etymology: From micro- + placentome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The placentome of microtissue
microplacentomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microplacentome
microwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microwalks
form: microwalking
form: microwalked
form: microwalked
Etymology: From micro- + walk.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: To walk using very small steps
microwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microwalk
microwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: walking using very short steps
mitsugumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitsugumins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins involved in cellular membrane repair
mitsugumins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitsugumin
multiassay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + assay.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple assays
multicontrast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + contrast.
Senses: glosses: Using multiple (types of) contrast
multimericity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being multimeric
myofibrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + fibrotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to myofibrosis
myotactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypodermal protein involved in myocyte adhesion
broad-billed sandpiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad-billed sandpipers
Senses: glosses: A type of sandpiper, (Calidris falcinellus)
rolls coal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roll coal
rolling coal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roll coal
rolled coal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roll coal
bone grafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone graft
boner-shrinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boner-shrinker
boneseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boneseed
boobheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boobhead
book tours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book tour
Boolean derivatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boolean derivative
booster bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booster bag
stomp pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomp pads
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A snowboard component for use removing snow from the bottoms of boots. Typically a metal or plastic plate, attached to the top of the snowboard between the bindings.
stomp pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomp pad
Boston buns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boston bun
bouffant gowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouffant gown
awkward age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Early adolescence.
nanoproteomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + proteomic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nanoproteomics
nanoproteomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + proteomics.
Senses: glosses: The use of nanotechnology in the study of proteomics.
Related terms: nanoproteome
nanoproteomic
trueful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trueful
form: most trueful
Etymology: From Middle English truful, trewful, trewfull, from Old English ġetrēowfull (“faithful, holding the faith”), equivalent to true + -ful.
Senses: glosses: loyal, faithful
Derived terms: truefully
truefulness
truefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more truefully
form: most truefully
Etymology: From Middle English trufully, treufulli, from Old English ġetrēowfullīċe, equivalent to trueful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: loyally, faithfully, with devotion
truefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trueful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being trueful; loyalty, faithfulness
Synonyms: devotion
jukeboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jukebox
key light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key lights
form: keylight
Senses: examples: text: Age lines were drawn on McCarthy's face in red makeup, and when key lights with red filters were used, the lines were not visible.
ref: 2015, Don Presnell, Marty McGee, A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964, page 57:
topics: arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
glosses: The most important light, used to highlight the form and dimension of the subject.
key lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key light
jukeboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jukebox
jukeboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jukeboxed
form: most jukeboxed
Senses: examples: text: Together they ducked out of the cold and into its dim jukeboxed interior.
ref: 2002, Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: To Rockford, Illinois, in my case, where a clean bed in a family-run motel and a few beers at a raucously jukeboxed tavern blended comfortably into nine thirty the next morning, the Illinois border, and Wisconsin—flat and dull and paved gray past Madison to Eau Claire, but turning quickly backwoods and twisty through the Chipewa Falls, Rice Lake, Spooner territory with nothing on the radio all day but polka music and local obituary reports.
ref: 2008, Toby Thompson, Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota, →ISBN, page 15:
text: It's dark, dingy, and jukeboxed, with a mixed bag of gays, MBTA motormen, nursing students from Mass General, and law students from Suffolk University.
ref: 2012, Jeremiah Healy, Blunt Darts, →ISBN:
glosses: Filled with jukebox music.
examples: text: His brother was the lead of a respected uptown, frequently jukeboxed Rhythm and Blues group, The Vocaleers.
ref: 1983, Philip Groia, They all sang on the corner: a second look at New York City's rhythm and blues vocal groups:
text: permit no music—live, taped or jukeboxed-—to intrude on the conversation
ref: 1992, Food & Wine: The Guide to Good Taste - Volume 15, page 60:
text: Jukeboxed music segued easily from lightly bleached, textured jazz to soulful yet not too naughty rhythm and blues, and its cuisine was both tasty and tastefully overpriced.
ref: 1996, Doris Jean Austin, Martin Simmons, Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience:
glosses: Played on a jukebox.
Kapitalistate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kapitalistate
Etymology: From Das Kapital, a text by Karl Marx, and state.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: According to certain Marxist beliefs, the modern capitalist state when regarded as controlled or influenced by government, rather than being a true free market.
wikipedia: Das Kapital
Karl Marx
keyhole wound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyhole wounds
Senses: glosses: A ragged wound caused by a bullet that enters the body at a shallow angle.
keyhole wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyhole wound
rounden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roundens
form: roundening
form: roundened
form: roundened
Etymology: From round + -en.
Senses: glosses: To make round or rounded
examples: text: This specimen shows a wide, concave and smooth fossula with a clear-cut thread tying the first tooth to the first denticle; there are still four other irregular denticles after which the inside part of the fossula sinks and roundens.
ref: 1974, La Conchiglia, volume 6, page 9:
glosses: To become round or rounded
roundens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rounden
roundening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From rounden + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rounden
roundening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rounden + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making or becoming rounded
roundened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rounden
kickouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kickout
kill fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kill fees
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: The reduced fee paid to a writer whose commissioned work does not get published.
kill fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kill fee
orbical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orbical
form: most orbical
Etymology: From orb + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: And there are questions respecting this stellar universe which still puzzle the most profound: gravitation, chemical affinity, polarity, the number and distances of some of the celestial bodies; why they are just so orbical, elliptical, or erratic; how many are inhabited, and by what forms of life and what degrees of intelligence?
ref: 1870 October, James Manning Sherwood, “Chance”, in Hours at Home: a Popular Monthly of Instruction and Recreation, volume 11, page 523:
text: This superimposed argon exerted throughout an unimaginable rigorous pressure over the whole orbical nebula, translative to a sphere of petrified ice and sundry ice ages following relentlessly one another.
ref: 1953, Philip Warsaw, Genesis, Mother of Sciences: An Exposition, page 37:
text: To achieve an occult or orbical balance, an asymmetrical composition must take into account the visual weight or force of each of its elements and employ the principle of leverage in their arrangement.
ref: 1987, Frank Ching, Interior Design Illustrated, page 144:
text: His features were orbical — round eyes, round nose, round cheekbones.
ref: 2009, James Scott Bell, No Legal Grounds, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Synonym of orbicular.
synonyms: word: orbicular
sunbunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbunnies
Senses: examples: text: The 462-room former host of the Hotlanta River Expo is ideally suited to all kinds of homosexuals: for nightlife, the restaurants and bars of gay-dense Midtown are mere steps away; for culture mavens, the Woodruff Arts Center and its High Museum of Art are also near at hand; and for joggers and sunbunnies, Piedmont Park is at their doorstep.
ref: 1998, Access: Gay USA, page 15:
text: The Old Coast Guard Station, 24th St. and oceanfront, offers historic exhibits and a Tower Cam for voyeuristic peeks of sunbunnies.
ref: 1998, Let's Go: USA, page 317:
text: Washington Depot, located in the lush northwestern part of Connecticut's hills, has no beach to attract sunbunnies ("No, no, no beach," the realtor said, dismissively) — it was not a teenager's fantasy.
ref: 2000, Marjorie B. Garber, Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses, page 182:
glosses: Alternative form of sun bunny.
sunbunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunbunny
sun bunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun bunnies
form: sunbunny
form: sun-bunny
Senses: examples: text: To be quite frank when we first heard about her, we wondered if this gal was going to be another sun bunny, but as soon as we met her we realized we were dealing with a very professional young women and a very determined person.
ref: 1989, Bahamian review: the national monthly news magazine of the Bahamas:
text: If you're a true sun bunny — sunbathing almost year-round — by age 25 your skin could be 50!
ref: 1999, Glamour - Volume 97, Issues 5-8, page 254:
text: Everything about him looked like a true Irish leprechaun except his skin, which was as smooth and unblemished as a baby's bottom and as tan as a sun bunny basking on the beach.
ref: 2013, Kathy L. Ishcomer, That O' Pastel Magic, →ISBN:
glosses: An attractive person who is an avid sunbather; sun worshipper.
sun bunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun bunny