cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
camborthid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camborthids
Etymology: Blend of cambic + orthid.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of orthid that has a type of cambic horizon
carbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to rudosols or podzols that contains organic material
chromosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromosols
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A type of alfisol that has a strong texture contrast between horizons.
shoujo ai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a calque of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (Japanese 少年愛(しょうねんあい) (shōnen'ai)) using Japanese vocabulary.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A genre of manga, anime, or hentai featuring lesbian sex and romance; yuri.
glosses: Lolicon.
Related terms: lolicon
shounen ai
yaoi
yuri
cryic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -aɪɪk
Etymology: From cryo- + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Perennially frozen.
raw_tags: of a subsurface horizon
cutanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cutan + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or containing cutan
Derived terms: pedocutanic
prismacutanic
dermosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermosols
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A type of mollisol, alfisol or ultisol found in Australia
durargid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durargids
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of argid that has a duripan horizon
durixeroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durixerolls
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A type of xeroll that has a duripan
Derived terms: durixerollic
durustoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durustolls
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A ustoll that has a duripan
dystric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: Having a base saturation less than 50%
dystropept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dystropepts
Etymology: From dys- + tropept.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A dystric tropept.
Derived terms: dystropeptic
tropept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropepts
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A type of inceptisol rich in organic matter
Derived terms: dystropept
mesozone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesozones
Etymology: From meso- + zone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An intermediate zone of the lithosphere characterised by metamorphic rock
shounen ai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shounen ai
form: shōnen-ai
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 少年愛 (shōnen ai).
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more males.
Related terms: yaoi
shoujo ai
yuri
detonatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more detonatable
form: most detonatable
Etymology: From detonate + -able.
Senses: qualifier: or ordnance
glosses: That can be detonated or is liable to detonate; detonable.
raw_tags: of an explosive
slice of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slices of life
Etymology: Calque of French tranche de vie.
Senses: glosses: A work in a genre (of theater, cinema, literature, manga, etc.) that presents day-to-day happenings with no clear central plot and takes place in a world that mirrors our own.
examples: text: […] in the culturally constituted world, but it needs advertising to link it to certain social representations, certain slices of life.
ref: 2003, Thomas C. O'Guinn, Chris T. Allen, Richard J. Semenik, Advertising and Integrated Brand Promotion, page 201:
glosses: An ordinary social occurrence or sequence of events.
school life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: A genre which has the majority of the storyline taking place in a school.
examples: text: His dyslexia made school life difficult.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see school, life.
marzpanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marzpanate
Marzpanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marzpanates
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of marzpanate.
marzbanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marzbanates
Etymology: From marzban + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marzpanate.
marzbanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marzbanate
Arshakunis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arshakuni
Arshakuni
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Aršakuni
Etymology: From Armenian Արշակունի (Aršakuni).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arsacid.
synonyms: word: Arsacid
Arshakuni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arshakuni
form: Arshakunis
form: Aršakuni
Etymology: From Armenian Արշակունի (Aršakuni).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arsacid.
synonyms: word: Arsacid
trans-fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans-fats
Senses: examples: text: He's got machine guns and hatchets and swords / And some missiles and foods with trans-fats / He will unleash mass destruction, you're dead / You just got smashed... by the ¶ Attack of the Wrath of the / War of the Death of the / Strike of the Sword of the / Blood... of the Beast
ref: 2008, Lich King, “Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught:
glosses: Alternative form of trans fat.
Asatryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Asatryans
form: Asatrian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Ասատրյան (Asatryan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
pseudo-cereal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-cereals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudocereal.
transformational rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transformational rule
web color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web colors
form: Web color
Senses: glosses: Any color, typically specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format, that can be displayed on a web page
billow maiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billow maidens
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the nine daughters of the sea-god Ran in Norse mythology.
number game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number games
Senses: glosses: Any of many games based upon numbers.
Related terms: numbers game
driving schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driving school
marryin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of marrying.
quattuorvigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Etymology: From Latin quattuor (“four”) + vigintillion.
Senses: qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10⁷⁵.
qualifier: dated British & Australian; long scale; dated British & Australian; long scale
glosses: 10¹⁴⁴.
Related terms: Previous: trevigintillion: short scale 1072
long scale 10138
Next: quinvigintillion: short scale 1078
long scale 10150
e-cig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-cigs
Etymology: From e- + cig.
Senses: examples: text: The tobacco industry is pushing a new kind of smoking device — the e-cig or vape pen — that it says is far healthier than traditional cigarettes: no tobacco, no tar, just nicotine and flavored vapor.
ref: 2019 March 8, Jeneen Interlandi, “Vaping Is Big Tobacco’s Bait and Switch”, in The New York Times:
text: Laranya Caslin [...] told the health and social care committee e-cigs are “a much bigger issue” than smoking - estimating one in four kids uses them.
ref: 2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 15, column 3:
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of electronic cigarette.
e-cigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-cig
zooish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zooish
form: most zooish
Etymology: From zoo + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Or was it that the years had shaped these things to make them inseparable from her growing memory of them? The trunk was lined with cedar, yet everything smelled zooish, the very opposite of Hygeia.
ref: 1995, Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy, page 574:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a zoo.
glosses: crowded with people.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French. The Louis mentioned in the name may be Louis Marquis (one of the first colonists of the region), Louis-Antoine Proulx (vicar of Rivière-du-Loup), or Louis-Nicolas Bernier (an abbot). Ha! Ha! (see ha-ha (“obstacle which suddenly interrupts a path”)) is said by the Commission de toponymie to refer to nearby Lake Témiscouata.
Senses: glosses: A small parish municipality in Témiscouata regional county municipality, Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Quebec, Canada, founded in the 1800s.
wikipedia: Commission de toponymie
Related terms: Westward Ho!
another village with an exclamation mark in its name
underwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underwit
sleeve tattoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeve tattoos
Senses: glosses: A tattoo that covers most or all of the arm.
Duckworth-Lewis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Duckworth-Lewis method
Ietsism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dutch ietsisme, from iets (“something”) + -isme.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: An unspecified belief in an undetermined transcendent force.
Synonyms: Somethingism
gaum-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaum-like
form: most gaum-like
form: gaumlike
Etymology: From gaum + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She had been farm-servant to my mother's brother--James Hepburn, thy great-uncle as was; she were a poor, friendless wench, a parish 'prentice, but honest and gaum-like, till a lad, as nobody knowed, come o'er the hills one sheep-shearing fra' Whitehaven; [...]
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers:
glosses: Sensible; understanding.
Sabbateanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabbatianism.
rubber cement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber cements
Senses: synonyms: cow gum
glosses: An adhesive made from elastic polymers (typically latex) mixed in a solvent to keep them fluid enough to be used.
Vorarlberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːɹˌɑː(ɹ)lbɜː(ɹ)ɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Vorarlberg (literally, "before the Arlberg"), from vor (“before; in front of”) + Arlberg (“massif shared between Vorarlberg and Tyrol”).
Senses: glosses: The westernmost federal state of Austria.
volume shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volume shooters
Senses: examples: text: When the 76ers drafted Iguodala ninth overall in 2004, many wanted him to be a me-first scorer and volume shooter just like the player who previously held the team's spotlight and bared [sic] the same initials: Allen Iverson.
ref: 2015, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who takes a lot of shots.
woulda, coulda, shoulda
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: shoulda, coulda, woulda
form: shoulda, woulda, coulda
form: woulda, shoulda, coulda
form: coulda, shoulda, woulda
form: coulda, woulda, shoulda
Etymology: Derisively mimics the frequent perfect conditional forms (I would have done this and that) which are used when discussing events that may have occurred in the past.
Senses: examples: text: President Clinton . . . had his clear shot at health-care reform, if we need it, he and his wife, but they blew it. As Mrs. Clinton might say, woulda coulda shoulda.
ref: 1995 November 17, A. M. Rosenthal, “The Great Botch-Up”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jun 2015:
text: Rahlves described the team's overall skiing performance here as, "woulda, shoulda, coulda—all that stuff. It sucks—we definitely came up very short."
ref: 2006 February 21, Mike Rowbottom, “Retirement talk works wonders for Dorfmeister”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 16 Jun 2015:
text: [S]uch a contentious reading of the 87-line tablet depends on creative interpretation of a smudged passage, making it the latest entry in the woulda/coulda/shoulda category of possible New Testament artifacts.
ref: 2008 July 7, David Van Biema, Tim McGirk, “Was Jesus' Resurrection a Sequel?”, in Time, retrieved 16 Jun 2015:
text: [H]e was talking about last night’s game and what it would have meant to have this roster last spring. . . .
“Shoulda, coulda, woulda” he started. “If ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas, right?”
ref: 2014 December 18, Doug Smith, “Three things to ponder from easy Raptors win”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 18 Jun 2015:
glosses: An expression of dismissiveness or disappointment concerning a statement, question, explanation, course of action, or occurrence involving hypothetical possibilities, uncertain facts, or missed opportunities.'New York Times, May 15, 1994): "The order of words in this delicious morsel of dialect varies with the user. . . . In this rhyming compound, a triple elision does the hat trick: although each elision expresses something different, when taken together, the trio conveys a unified meaning. Shoulda, short for should have (and not should of, which lexies call a variant but I call a mistake), carries a sense of correctness or obligation; coulda implies a possibility, and woulda denotes conditional certainty, an oxymoron: the stated intent to have taken an action if only something had not intervened. . . . Taken together, the term means 'Spare me the useless excuses.'"
Related terms: could have, would have, should have
the road to hell is paved with good intentions
too little, too late
shoulda, coulda, woulda
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woulda, coulda, shoulda.
shoulda, woulda, coulda
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woulda, coulda, shoulda.
woulda, shoulda, coulda
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woulda, coulda, shoulda.
coulda, shoulda, woulda
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woulda, coulda, shoulda.
coulda, woulda, shoulda
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woulda, coulda, shoulda.
pighood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pig + -hood. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The people had become readers; the swinish multitude fashioned into a sort of sapient pighood.
ref: 1837, Capel Lofft, Self-formation, volume 1, page 72:
glosses: The state of being a pig.
bidars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidar
spearplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spear + play.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer or the potter or the merchant takes down his father's old spear, puts the old armor on, practices the spearplay, takes his place in the ranks, and goes through the drill as is expected of him.
ref: 1955, George Rippey Stewart, The Years of the City, page 187:
text: What this spear-play reveals is something central to Homer, and to many of the arguments about Homer which have raged over the past two centuries.
ref: 2015, Colin Burrow, ‘The Empty Bath’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
glosses: Fighting (or practice exercises) with spears.
buzz cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzz cut
walking shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walking sharks
Senses: examples: text: Given the nickname the walking shark, it is about a metre long and stands up on its pectoral and pelvic fins to walk around on the seabed with a sinuous motion, rather like a lizard, hunting molluscs and crustaceans.
ref: 2007, Alex Mustard, Reefs Revealed, page 125:
text: "This is the third walking shark species to be described from eastern Indonesia in the past six years, which highlights our tremendous shark and ray biodiversity," said Fahmi, a shark expert at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
ref: 2013 August 30, Suzanne Goldenberg, “'Walking shark' discovered in Indonesia”, in The Guardian:
text: One of the recent PR successes of the shark conservationists is the ‘walking shark’, which crawls along the sea bottom on its fins and has an appealing little face.
ref: 2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15:
glosses: Any of various species of shark that move by ‘walking’ their fins across the sea bed, especially Hemiscyllium ocellatum (epaulette shark) or Hemiscyllium halmahera.
walking sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walking shark
Xerces blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xerces blues
Senses: examples: text: Last seen at the Presidio, the Xerces blue finally passed from existence in 1943.
ref: 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road:
text: In fact, the xerces blue survived that first wave of habita destruction, only to succumb in the 1940s to continuing development especially of sand dune habitats.
ref: 2012, Peggy L Fiedler, Conservation Biology, page 180:
text: The Brown Satyr butterfly, endemic to San Francisco, where I live, became extinct sometime in the 19th century, and the Xerxes Blue vanished during World War Two when its Golden Gate habitat was overtaken by military expansion.
ref: 2015, Rebecca Solnit, “Middle-Aged and Dishevelled”, in London Review of Books, volume 28, number 6:
glosses: A recently extinct species of gossamer-winged butterfly (Lycaenidae), Glaucopsyche xerces.
ornithophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ornithophilic
form: most ornithophilic
Etymology: From ornitho- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: In countries such as the US, bird-feeding, birdwatching, and other types of ornithophilic behaviour form the basis of huge conservation efforts, in tandem with science.
ref: 2010, Mark Bonta, “Ethno-ornithology and Biological Conservation”, in Sonia Tidemann, Andrew Gosler, editors, Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society, London: Earthscan, →ISBN, pages 21–22:
synonyms: aviphilic
bird-loving
glosses: Fond of birds.
examples: text: When the birds leave their breeding sites in the autumn the mosquito turns to humans. The London Underground molestus are not ornithophilic. We have nothing to fear from them.
ref: 2007, Hugh Pennington, ‘The Problem with Biodiversity’, London Review of Books, volume 29, number 9:
text: Unlike the alphaviruses that produce arthritis, human cases occur in an epizootic from an enzootic cycle involving passerine birds and ornithophilic mosquitoes.
ref: 2009, Encyclopedia of Microbioology, page 316:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: aviphilic
glosses: That feeds on birds.
artificial respirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificial respiration
brickette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickettes
Etymology: From brick + -ette.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of briquet (block of compressed combustible material used as fuel)
acylpiperidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acylpiperidines
Etymology: From acyl + piperidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acyl derivative of piperidine
aftercontraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercontractions
Etymology: From after- + contraction.
Senses: glosses: A contraction of a muscle some time after a stimulus has ceased.
aftermovement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftermovements
Etymology: From after- + movement.
Senses: glosses: The movement of a limb following contraction of a muscle.
alkanesulfonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkanesulfonates
Etymology: From alkane + sulfonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The salt or ester of an alkyl sulfonic acid
alkylglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkylglycerols
Etymology: From alkyl + glycerol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkyl ether of glycerol
aminomutase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminomutases
Etymology: From amino- + mutase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any mutase that moves an amino group.
aminopurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminopurines
Etymology: From amino- + purine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino derivative of a purine
ammoniochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammoniochlorides
form: ammonio-chloride
Etymology: From ammonio- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any double salt of ammonium chloride.
amphoacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphoacetates
Etymology: From ampho- + acetate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amphoteric acetate, especially a salt of an acetic acid that has a basic substituent.
amphopropionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphopropionates
Etymology: Blend of amphoteric + propionate
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amphoteric propionate, especially a salt of a propionic acid that has a basic substituent.
amylinomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amylinomimetics
Etymology: From amylin + -o- + mimetic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any drug that mimics the action of amylin; they are used to counter diabetes
anachronist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anachronists
Senses: glosses: A person who has anachronistic views or habits
Related terms: chronist
androstadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androstadienes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of androstane that has two double bonds
Related terms: androstene
androstanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androstanols
Etymology: From androstane + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alcohol derived from androstane, but especially 5a-androstane3a-ol.
anholonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anholonomies
Etymology: From an- + holonomy.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An anholonomic system
anthrapyrazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthrapyrazoles
Etymology: Blend of anthracene + pyrazole
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of compounds that have a pyrazole ring formed adjacent to two of the rings of an anthracene; many of them are cytotoxic, or have anticancer activity
Derived terms: bisanthrapyrazole
anthraquinonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthraquinonoids
Etymology: From anthraquinone + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that is structurally related to an anthraquinone, typically having a C=N- group replacing one of the C=O groups
Kerkorian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Western Armenian pronunciation of Armenian Գրիգորյան (Grigoryan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
wikipedia: Western Armenian
antialgebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antialgebras
Etymology: From anti- + algebra.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The algebra of antisets, antigroups, antirings etc.
Muslimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʊzlɪməz/
/ˈmʌzlɪməz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Muslima
anti-algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-algebra
form: most anti-algebra
Etymology: From anti- + algebra.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to the teaching or learning of algebra, especially to or by non-mathematical students
antiamboceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiamboceptors
Etymology: From anti- + amboceptor.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that counters an amboceptor
antidextran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidextrans
Etymology: From anti- + dextran.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any antibody that targets dextran
antisympathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sympathetic.
Senses: glosses: That affects the sympathetic nervous system
antisympathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisympathetics
Etymology: From anti- + sympathetic.
Senses: glosses: Any agent that affects the sympathetic nervous system
ESnet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
glosses: Abbreviation of Energy Sciences Network, a high-speed computer network serving DOE scientists and their collaborators worldwide.
e-ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-ballots
Etymology: From e- + ballot.
Senses: glosses: A computerized ballot in e-voting.
e-ballots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-ballot
workie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːki/
ipa: /ˈwɜɹki/
homophone: worky
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: workies
form: worky
form: Workie
Etymology: From work (noun) + -ie (suffix forming colloquial nouns denoting persons associated with the words to which they are affixed). Sense 1 (“intern”) alludes to work experience.
Senses: examples: text: Other interns are another good source of advice and support. Melody Small, a 20-year-old student from Canterbury who did a two-week editorial placement at Grazia, said: 'Make friends with other workies […]
ref: 2014, Julie Bradford, Fashion Journalism, page 22:
glosses: An intern.
glosses: A worker, especially a manual labourer.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Chiefly in the form Workie: a member or supporter of a Working Men's (or Workingmen's) Party, one of a number of political parties established in the United States in the early 19th century to further working class interests.
workies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workie or worky
ascent vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascent vehicles
Senses: glosses: A means of transportation able to carry people or cargo into outer space from the surface of a planet or a moon.
descent vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descent vehicles
Senses: glosses: A means of transportation able to carry people or cargo from outer space to the surface of a planet or a moon.
ascent vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascent vehicle
descent vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of descent vehicle
Jurek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jureks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Jurek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Mission grapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mission grape
CTAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: Initialism of Certified Tester Advanced Level.
Related terms: CTFL
ISTQB
CTFL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: Initialism of Certified Tester Foundation Level.
Related terms: CTAL
ISTQB
frighten the life out of someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frightens the life out of someone
form: frightening the life out of someone
form: frightened the life out of someone
form: frightened the life out of someone
Senses: glosses: To frighten someone very much.
graecicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: graecicizes
form: graecicizing
form: graecicized
form: graecicized
Senses: examples: text: 1883, F. Warrington Eastlake, "Equine Deities", in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. XI, R. Meiklejohn & Co., Yokohama.
For not only was Yauk a sun-god of the Sabaeans, but Set, under the title of Tebha, graecicized Typhon, was a personification of the destructive energy of the great orb.
text: ...Philipp Melanchthon, who, in honour of classical learning graecicized his German name of Schwarzerd.
ref: 1935, Michael Huxley, editor, The Geographical Magazine, volume I:
text: 1984, Antoine Berman, The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany (L'Épreuve de l'étranger), State University of New York Press, Albany (S. Heyvaert, trans., 1992).
If Hölderlin had merely "dialectized" or "graecicized" his poetic language, its balancing double dimension and its differentiating power would disappear...
text: "Arimanios" seems to be a graecicized form of "Ahriman," the evil cosmic principle in Zoroastrian teaching.
ref: 1989, Chaim Rabin, “Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew”, in Florian Coulmas, editor, Language Adaptation, Cambridge University Press:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Graecicize.
sts.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: V. General List of Abbreviations … sts. = sometimes
ref: 1940, Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott & Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon. Seventh Edition. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie (LSJ), Oxford, Clarendon Press, New York
roman: σύ … The pl. is sts. used in addressing one person …
text: The following list provides some of the more common abbreviations [...] sts. sometimes
ref: 2001, Matthew S. DeMoss, “Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek”, in Abbreviations, Expressions & Sigla, InterVarsity Press, page 131 & 137:
text: To call upon, invoke a person or thing as witness: testatus sts. pass., as collat. testo, is sts. found.
ref: 2003, LeaAnn A. Osburn, Horace Fully Parsed, page 127:
text: … the pl. is sts. used in token of greater respect …
ref: 2004, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (First Indian Edition), Delhi, p.202
text: εἰ μή is sts. used with the sense of ἀλλά (cf. Gal 2:16).
ref: 2014, B. H. McLean, Hellenistic and Biblical Greek, page 156:
glosses: Abbreviation of sometimes.
sts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of st.
formalinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: formalinises
form: formalinising
form: formalinised
form: formalinised
Etymology: From formalin + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To preserve by treatment with formalin
formalinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of formalinise
formalinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of formalinise
formalinised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: preserved by treatment with formalin
formalinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of formalinise
corbina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbinas
Senses: examples: text: As a result, although corbinas commonly utilize mollusks, they are limited to the siphons, foot, or other soft parts that either extend from the shell or can be picked from it.
ref: 1962, Fish Bulletin, numbers 118-130, Department of Fish and Game, page 48:
glosses: A marine fish, Menticirrhus undulatus.
Derived terms: California corbina
roentgenkymogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roentgenkymograms
Senses: glosses: An image produced by roentgenkymography.
roentgenkymographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roentgenkymography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to roentgenkymography.
roentgenkymograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roentgenkymogram
pileworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilewort
radarkymographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radarkymography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to radarkymography.
radiocinematographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + cinematographic.
Senses: examples: text: Judging by radiocinematographic data, these portions are only about half of the time filled by air to some degree, and their dynamics may depend on changes of the frequency contours of the whistles.
ref: 2012, Ronald A. Kastelein, Marine Mammal Sensory Systems, page 169:
glosses: Relating to radiocinematography.
rheocardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rheocardiography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to rheocardiography.
rheocardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheocardiograms
Etymology: From rheo- + cardiogram.
Senses: glosses: An image produced by rheocardiography.
rheocardiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rheocardiogram
off-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From off-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offhandedness.
Amaltheia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Amalthea (Greek goddess)
off-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more off-handedly
form: most off-handedly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offhandedly.
Sakura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese さくら (Sakura).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
semiseparate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + separate.
Senses: glosses: Partly separate.
spinographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spinography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to spinography.
polyglycerols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyglycerol
no quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: No mercy; no sparing the life of a captured opponent.
Related terms: take no prisoners
cloud-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaʊdˌhɛdɪd/
ipa: /ˈklaʊdˌhɛdəd/
Forms: form: more cloud-headed
form: most cloud-headed
Etymology: From the phrase head in the clouds.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, you can stand in awe of yet another book, that despite being written by men, depicts women as cerebral creatures with slim builds and Barsoomian breasts instead of the typical cloud-headed, cassava-chested cranks of carnage.
ref: 1997 June 3, Rayctate, “{REVIEW} PICK OF THE BROWN BAG: May 28, 1997”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet), message-ID <19970603030600.XAA03336@ladder02.news.aol.com>:
text: And in the cloud-headed days that followed, he struggled to make sense of this. Perhaps he was dreaming.
ref: 1999, Darren Gluckman, The Weight of the World and Other Stories, Toronto, Ont.: Exile Editions, →ISBN, page 56:
text: […] but when they tell ya to get "your tough skin on" before you enter, they may be thinking of a wet suit, 'cause it's a "down 'n' dirty" "dive"; are the "cloud-headed waiters" suffering from oxygen deprivation?
ref: 2002, Betsy Andrews, editor, 2002/03: Philadelphia Restaurants: […], New York, N.Y.: Zagat Survey, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:
text: If I had the time and money I would counter-sue those cloud-head advocates for violating my rights of safety, harassment, and passage. Railroad stations are not homeless shelters. / The cloud-headed advocates don't even ride the trains, and their organizations are funded by rich people who don't ride either.
ref: 2007 April 23, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com, “Re: Grand Central Terminal open all night?”, in misc.transport.rail.americas (Usenet), message-ID <1177336223.537602.301600@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
text: A cloud-headed child, he likes rainbows and reading.
ref: 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Michael”, in Pulphead: Essays, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 110:
synonyms: daydreamy
glosses: Having one's head in the clouds: prone to daydreaming, or thinking impractically.
Gonio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian გონიო (gonio).
Senses: glosses: A Roman fortress in Adjara, Georgia.
wellful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellfuls
Etymology: From well + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The amount that fills a well.
wellfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellful
wardrobeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardrobefuls
form: wardrobesful
Etymology: From wardrobe + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: She and Martha went over the great wardrobesful of clothes which had been Teddy Loring’s, sorting, selecting, choosing what garments she would take with her into exile.
ref: 1932 February 12, Vera Brown, “The Million-Dollar Girl”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume CIV, number 43, Montgomery, Ala., page nine:
glosses: The amount that fills a wardrobe.
wardrobefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wardrobeful
onehanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A month earlier, we would have been shocked if a onehanded, fifty-four-year-old Norwegian fisherman had hailed us boisterously from the end of his wharf, but as we'd traveled north, we'd found the country less developed and less populated, and its people more outgoing.
ref: 2002, Jill Fredston, Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of one-handed.
onehanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He lit a cigar onehanded. It was clearly his trick.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Gash, The Vatican Rip, →ISBN:
text: Wallace lifted the halfinch Browning off Doris and lumped after them in leagueboot paces, hefting the big weapon onehanded as if it were a toy.
ref: 2010, Michael Asher, Death or Glory II: The Flaming Sword, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of one-handed.
DIPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DIP
buzzwordy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buzzwordy
form: most buzzwordy
Etymology: From buzzword + -y.
Senses: glosses: Involving or characteristic of buzzwords.
Related terms: soundbitey
plurisignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plurisignifying
form: most plurisignifying
Etymology: From pluri- + signifying.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple meanings.
plurisignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pluri- + signifying.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plurisignify
metaphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metaphony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metaphony.
Derived terms: metaphonically
metaphonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metaphonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, metaphony.
Ball's Pyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, who discovered it in 1788.
Senses: glosses: An erosional remnant of a shield volcano and caldera, near Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean.
supersheer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersheer
form: most supersheer
Etymology: From super- + sheer.
Senses: glosses: Very sheer.
Irukandji syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in 1952 by Hugo Flecker, after the Aboriginal Irukandji people who live in Palm Cove, north of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, where stings are common.
Senses: glosses: A condition induced by venomization by the sting of Carukia barnesi and certain other box jellyfish. It can lead to cardiac arrest.
Obecalp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From placebo spelled backwards.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any medicine that is a placebo.
favism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fava + -ism, after the fava bean.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency: an X-linked recessive genetic condition that predisposes a person to hemolysis and resultant jaundice in response to certain triggers.
Synonyms: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
G6PD deficiency
Related terms: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
G6PD
overresponsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overresponsive
form: most overresponsive
Etymology: From over- + responsive.
Senses: glosses: Excessively responsive.
konzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yaka [Term?], via French konzo.
Senses: glosses: An epidemic paralytic disease associated with excessive consumption of cassava, which contains cyanide.
euthanases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of euthanase
furious rabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The commonest form of rabies, characterised by hyperactivity and hydrophobia, and contrasted with the paralytic form.
rabdomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhabdomancy.
lepro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From leprosy, q.v.
Senses: glosses: leprosy
Winterbottom's sign
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From descriptions made by Dr. Thomas Masterman Winterbottom (1766-1859) in 1803.
Senses: glosses: A swelling of lymph nodes along the back of the neck, characteristic of the early phase of African trypanosomiasis, and suggestive of cerebral infection.
African trypanosomiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: African sleeping sickness, a sleeping sickness caused by protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei.
sitting-rising test
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A test predicting mortality risk in older people, based on whether and how easily they can sit on the floor and then rise back to a standing position.
rhabdomancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdomancers
Etymology: From rhabdomancy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the Middle Ages Rhabdomancers were employed to discover mines, and the whereabouts of precious stones.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 145:
synonyms: dowser
glosses: One who carries out rhabdomancy; the user of a divining rod.
rhabdomancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhabdomancer
adversativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adversative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: adversativeness
sharp s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharp s's
form: sharp S
Etymology: Calque of German scharfes S
Senses: examples: text: A minor but convenient feature is the ability to include words with accent marks (Umlauts, sharp s’s) (ß) into the text. The accent entry utility provides a quick and useful way of adding diacritical marks or sharp s’s in German) (ß) into the text.
ref: 1991, TEXT Technology, page 13:
text: That there are sudden and unexplained changes of typeface (on p. 121) or that Greek betas appear in lieu of German sharp s’s could be construed as small oversights.
ref: 2000, African Philosophy, page 186:
text: The beginning of each chapter has been silently regularized (e.g., “REligion” becomes “Religion”), as have words with tildes (e.g., “burthe^~” becomes “burthen” and “woma^~” becomes “woman”) and sharp s’s (e.g., “amißa” becomes “amissa”).
ref: 2004, ““Women, their mindes are crystall”: Christopher Newstead’s Arguments for the Superiority of Women”, in Susan Gushee O’Malley, editor, “Custome Is an Idiot”: Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women, Urbana, Ill.; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, pages 116–117:
synonyms: eszett
double S
hypernyms: s
coordinate_terms: long s
descending s
medial s
;
short s
round s
terminal s
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter ẞ/ß.
takes the liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the liberty
taking the liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the liberty
took the liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the liberty
taken the liberty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the liberty
Turanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turan + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Turanianism
Panturanianism
Panturanism
glosses: A movement aiming at close cooperation or political unification of various supposedly related ethnic groups, claimed to have all originated from Turan.
Related terms: Turanist
takes liberties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take liberties
taking liberties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take liberties
took liberties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take liberties
taken liberties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take liberties
tubal ligations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubal ligation
Gymnesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gymnesian + -s.
Senses: glosses: Gymnesian Islands
Young Irelander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Young Irelanders
Etymology: From Young Ireland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the Young Ireland movement of the mid-19th century, which led changes in Irish nationalism, including an abortive rebellion in 1848.
Young Irelanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Young Irelander
limmu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limmus
Senses: glosses: A royal official who presided over the New Year festival at the start of the reign of an Assyrian king.
limmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limmu
tumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumens
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish tümen.
Senses: examples: text: The largest unit was the tumen, equivalent to a division: 10,000 men in principle (and sometimes less). An army was made up of two to four tumen, each composed of ten times a thousand men (the equivalent of a regiment), and each regiment of ten times a hundred men (the equivalent of a squadron), ten times ten men.
ref: 2004, Gerard Chaliand, Nomadic Empires: From Mongolia to the Danube, page 65:
glosses: Alternative form of toman (“army unit”).
New Granada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Spanish Nueva Granada.
Senses: examples: text: In South America the major centre was Quito, where flocks of sheep and Indian labour were plentiful; its markets were in central Peru to the south and the gold-mining regions of New Granada to the north.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: A historical province in colonial South America corresponding to present-day Colombia and Ecuador.
glosses: Ellipsis of United Provinces of New Granada, a short-lived predecessor of present-day Colombia (1810–1816).