cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autoantibody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoantibodies
Etymology: From auto- + antibody.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to having a relative with Type 1, people in that subgroup had insulin autoantibody levels equal to or greater than 80 milliunits per milliliter.
ref: 2007 November 20, Aliyah Baruchin, “Twins on a Medical Odyssey After a Diagnosis of Diabetes”, in The New York Times:
text: The current study investigates autoantibodies against steroid synthesis enzymes in dogs with spontaneous hypoadrenocorticism.
ref: 2015 December 1, “Autoantibodies against Cytochrome P450 Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme in Dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ) Affected with Hypoadrenocorticism (Addison’s Disease)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An antibody formed in response to an agent (autoantigen) produced by the organism itself.
Related terms: autoimmune
nyssa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nyssas
Senses: examples: text: Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.
ref: 1975, Peter N. Barber, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, The Trees Around Us, page 101:
glosses: A tree of the genus Nyssa.
auxotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxotrophs
form: auxotrophe
Etymology: From auxo- + -troph.
Senses: glosses: Any microorganism that has lost the ability to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, usually as a result of mutation
Derived terms: auxotrophic
auxotrophy
auxotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxotrophies
Etymology: From auxo- + -trophy.
Senses: examples: text: There are reasons for believing that the mutation rates to auxotrophy are in general higher than the rates to prototrophy.
ref: 1951 March, K. C. Atwood, “Periodic Selection in Escherichia Coli”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 37, number 3, page 146:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation.
Coordinate terms: prototrophy
Related terms: auxotroph
auxotrophic
auxotrophically
autotrophy
bagassosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagassoses
Etymology: From bagasse + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of dust from sugarcane processing
Related terms: bagasse
torten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torte
bioaccessibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioaccessibilities
form: bio-accessibility
Etymology: From bio- + accessibility.
Senses: glosses: The potential for a substance to interact with (and be absorbed by) an organism
Related terms: bioaccessible
bioavailability
bioaccessible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioaccessible
form: most bioaccessible
form: bio-accessible
Etymology: From bio- + accessible.
Senses: glosses: Able to come into contact with an organism (and be absorbed by it).
raw_tags: of a substance
Related terms: bioaccessibility
bioaccumulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioaccumulative
form: most bioaccumulative
form: bio-accumulative
Etymology: From bio- + accumulative.
Senses: examples: text: Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) received a flurry of attention around 2000, when studies of its effects on animal and human health showed that it was bioaccumulative (meaning that it accumulates in body tissue, especially in fat where it can linger for years), persistent, and toxic to mammals.
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Island Press, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: That tends to accumulate in an organism when the organism's ability to remove it is insufficient.
raw_tags: of a substance
Derived terms: nonbioaccumulative
Related terms: bioaccumulation
King's Lynn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and port in Norfolk, England.
Derived terms: King's Lynn and West Norfolk
will-less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: willless
Etymology: From will + -less.
Senses: synonyms: irresolute
antonyms: determined
resolute
willful
glosses: Of a person, lacking volition, not exercising one's will.
glosses: Of an action, involuntary.
examples: text: He died will-less.
glosses: Intestate; without a legal will governing one's property or estate.
Derived terms: will-lessly
will-lessness
Related terms: sense: lacking volition
word: certain
belly laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly laughs
Senses: examples: text: The consistency of characterization that allows Fredricks to move from belly laughs to really serious moments within a matter of a few moments.
ref: 1979 December 22, Michael Bronski, “Small Lives in a Small Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 17:
text: The classic episode “Mr. Plow” has more than its share of belly laughs and unforgettable moments but my favorite moment in it is so small and subtle that it’s easy to miss.
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
synonyms: guffaw
glosses: A deep, hearty laugh
belly laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belly laughs
form: belly laughing
form: belly laughed
form: belly laughed
Senses: synonyms: guffaw
glosses: To laugh a belly laugh.
bibelot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bib(ə)loʊ/
ipa: /bib(ə)ləʊ/
Forms: form: bibelots
Etymology: Borrowed from French bibelot.
Senses: examples: text: 1886, F. Marion Crawford, A Tale of a Lonely Parish, 2012, Project Gutenberg (Tredition Classics), unnumbered page,
In her own eyes she was indeed living in a state approaching to penury, but the spectacle of her pictures, her furniture and her bibelots had impressed John with a very different idea.
text: Barbara's glance now falls on the bibelot, which she picks up. She catches sight of the curtain and, bibelot in hand, goes to align it. She suddenly becomes aware of the bibelot in her hand.
ref: 1960, Arthur Kober, George Oppenheimer, A Mighty Man is He, Dramatists Play Service, page 31:
text: Excluded from the world of 'true,' high culture, women, it was claimed, loved books primarily as bibelots, like silks, lace, sconces, fans, or porcelain.
ref: 2008, Willa Z. Silverman, The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914, University of Toronto Press, page 191:
glosses: A bauble, knickknack or trinket.
glosses: A miniature book of an elegant design.
blood feud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood feuds
Senses: examples: text: "I should have remembered that these people have long memories for blood-feuds, and have been more upon my guard."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A protracted and bitter violent feud between clans, families, factions, etc.; a vendetta.
Ambonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ambon + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A Malay-based Creole language used for trade by some 250,000 speakers principally in Indonesia (central Maluku, Ambon).
Synonyms: Ambonese Malay
Ambong
Malayu Ambon
Ambonese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ambonese
form: most Ambonese
Etymology: From Ambon + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ambon Island in Indonesia.
Ambonese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ambon + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The natives or inhabitants of Ambon Island in Indonesia.
breakpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakpoints
Etymology: From break + point.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A location referred to when issuing watches, warnings, or advisories for specific areas.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The point where surface water waves are breaking in, e.g., oceans or lakes.
examples: text: If a device's screen width is equal to, or less than, the screen width defined at the breakpoint, it will have the related CSS applied to it. You sometimes want to set breakpoints to match particular device screen widths, but I have found that what is most important is simply that the layout remains usable as it gets smaller.
ref: 2012, Charles Wyke-Smith, Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide:
qualifier: web development
glosses: A viewport width at which a web page is programmed to adjust the properties (such as position, size, or visibility) of certain elements within the page.
breakpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breakpoints
form: breakpointing
form: breakpointed
form: breakpointed
Etymology: From break + point.
Senses: examples: text: If the microprogrammer wishes to continue execution at a breakpointed location, it is desirable to execute the breakpointed microinstruction, replace the microinstruction with a branch microinstruction to restore the breakpoint, and continue microinstruction execution.
ref: 1981, Ben E. Cline, Microprogramming Concepts and Techniques, page 134:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To flag with a breakpoint.
Related terms: break point
circumcenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumcenters
form: circumcentre
Etymology: From circum- + center.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The center of a circumcircle (the circle that passes through every vertex of a given triangle or other cyclic polygon).
Related terms: circumcircle
circumradius
coelioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelioscopies
form: cœlioscopy
Etymology: By surface analysis, coel- + -i- + -o- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Endoscopy of the abdomen.
Related terms: coeliac
coeliotomy
yeast infection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeast infections
Senses: examples: text: Ah, the itchy flakes, it is inflaming / To the gels and creams, it is pertaining / To a fungus mold is my injection / Hope it's only a, a yeast infection / Only hurts when I / Hurts when I pee / Oh well, it hurts when I / Hurts when I sing
ref: 1989, “Mexican Seafood”, in Kurt Cobain (lyrics), Teriyaki Asthma Volume 1, performed by Nirvana:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any infection by a fungus of the genus Candida; candidiasis
kick up the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kicks up the arse
Senses: glosses: A severe reprimand, especially one to motivate someone into doing something.
Synonyms: kick up the ass
kick up the backside
kick up the bottom
kick up the bum
kick up the butt
kick in the butt
kick in the pants
kick in the rear
commissarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmɪˈsɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌkɑmɪˈsɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From commissary + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a commissary
counterscarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterscarps
Etymology: From counter- + scarp.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The outer slope of a defensive or fortified ditch
wikipedia: counterscarp
Czechoslovak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Czechoslovaks
Etymology: From Czech + -o- + Slovak.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Czechoslovak
form: most Czechoslovak
Etymology: From Czech + -o- + Slovak.
Senses: examples: text: The thieves got away with very little money, however—about 10 German marks, a few Czechoslovak crowns, and some 10 Belgian francs—so the share-out between four of them would be very small and disappointing.
ref: 1943 September and October, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1934)—IV”, in Railway Magazine, page 288:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Czechoslovakia or its people.
Synonyms: Czecho-Slovak
Czechoslovakian
Related terms: Czech
Slovak
sweet shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet shops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweetshop.
antimonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimonins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organometallic heterocyclic compound formally derived from benzene by substituting one carbon and hydrogen atom with antimony.
Synonyms: stibabenzene
stibinin
stibinine
closen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: klōʹsən
ipa: /ˈkləʊsən/
ipa: /ˈkloʊsən/
Forms: form: closens
form: closening
form: closened
form: closened
Etymology: From close (adjective) + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Warner Bros. was unusual in not closening its ties with Wall Street during the early 1930s.
ref: 2004, James Chapman, Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present:
text: As for George I, the failure of his effort to closen with the Czar through Norris's intermediation brought the king-elector, at least in Genzel's view, to think in terms of ‘ein grossen europäischen Abwehrfront’, which would have owed more than a little to Bernstorff's own ‘Project’.
ref: 2009, David Denis Aldridge, Admiral Sir John Norris and the British Naval Expeditions to the Baltic Sea 1715-1727:
text: Since her mother had moved their relationship with each other had closened, as if they had become the side of the family that was flawed and her father and Dara were Mr and Miss Perfect.
ref: 2010, Peter James, Twilight:
glosses: To make or become close.
apple leaf midge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple leaf midges
Senses: glosses: A pest of apple trees (Dasineura mali, syns. Sciara mali, Malobrus mali, Perrisia mali)
Synonyms: apple midge
apple leaf curling midge
appetency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appetencies
Senses: examples: text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
glosses: Strong desire; craving; powerful instinct.
Synonyms: appetite
compulsion
craving
florilegium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflɔɹəˈliːdʒi.əm/
Forms: form: florilegia
form: florilegiums
Etymology: Borrowed from Renaissance Latin flōrilēgium, calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”) (compare English anthology), so called because flowers were used as symbols of the finer sensibility of literature.
Senses: examples: text: Rich owners of private gardens commissioned large-format florilegiums to immortalize their personal taste and power of acquisition, and the drawn pages burned with the urgency and excitement of explaining every plant’s form, color, and beauty.
ref: 2004, Sarah Simblet, “Plants and Gardens”, in Sketchbook for the Artist: An Innovative, Practical Approach to Drawing the World Around You, New York, N.Y.: DK Publishing, Inc., published 2005, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Two centuries of German poetry lived in this old German flower garden, from the crude florilegiums of Baroque lyric to Eichendorff, who in its after-life, while looking back on so much by-gone glory, became its truest expression, as formulated by a new spirit, since poetry is the first and final need of the human soul, for which reality does not suffice.
ref: 2006, Rudolf Borchardt, translated by Henry Martin, “The Garden and the Human Being”, in The Passionate Gardener, Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson & Company, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 50–51:
text: There was a considerable overlap between florilegiums, with their wealth of botanical illustration and exotic collections, and embroiderers’ source books. Crispin van de Passe’s A Garden of Flowers or Hortus Floridus (1614) contained engravings and descriptions of all types of garden flowers, and proved as invaluable to the embroiderer as to the gardener.
ref: 2006, Twigs Way, “Inspiration and Perspiration: Artists and Needlewomen”, in Virgins, Weeders and Queens: A History of Women in the Garden, Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: A collection of flowers.
glosses: An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A patristic anthology.
high-sticking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A penalized action in the sport of ice hockey where a player knowingly or inadvertently raises (the hand-grip part of) his stick above shoulder level.
high-sticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of high-stick
synchronized swimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronized swimmers
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: Someone who practices synchronized swimming.
shot putter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot putters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shot-putter.
square knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square knots
Senses: glosses: A common binding knot in which the terminal and standing parts are parallel to each other.
Synonyms: reef knot
square knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square knot
reef knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reef knot
binding knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binding knots
Senses: glosses: A knot that may be used to keep an object or multiple loose objects together, using a string or a rope that passes at least once around them.
binding knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binding knot
snowboard cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowboardcross
Etymology: From snowboard + -cross.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
synonyms: boardercross
boarder-X
coordinate_terms: word: ski cross
english: analogous skiing discipline
translation: analogous skiing discipline
word: ice cross downhill
english: analogous ice skating disciple
translation: analogous ice skating disciple
word: BMX racing
english: analogous bicycle disciple
translation: analogous bicycle disciple
word: motocross
english: analogous outdoor motorcycle disciple
translation: analogous outdoor motorcycle disciple
word: supercross
english: analogous indoor motorcycle disciple
translation: analogous indoor motorcycle disciple
glosses: A downhill snowboard race over obstacles with many simultaneous racers.
boardercross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarder cross
form: boarder-cross
form: boarder-X
form: boarder X
Etymology: From boarder + -cross.
Senses: examples: text: I knew Jamie went in for boardercross racing sometimes, but that wasn't really my thing. Boardercross is like motocross on a snowboard; riders race down the hill, and it's more about speed than style.
ref: 2010, Erin Thomas, Boarder Patrol, page 3:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Synonym of snowboard cross.
synonyms: word: snowboard cross
triangular prism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triangular prisms
Senses: glosses: A prism with a triangular base.
antiprisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiprism
paucispiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pauci- + spiral.
Senses: examples: a paucispiral operculum or shell
topics: biology
conchology
malacology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having few spirals or whorls.
food crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food crops
Senses: examples: 2008 April 15, Terry Wade, “As other staples soar, potatoes break new ground” (news article), Reuters,
The potato is already the world's third most-important food crop after wheat and rice. Corn, which is widely planted, is mainly used for animal feed.
glosses: A crop raised for human consumption, such as wheat or rice.
Related terms: cash crop
food tree
specialty crop
datedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datednesses
Etymology: From dated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dated; being out-of-date.
Synonyms: agedness
decrepitude
hoariness
oldness
unships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unship
unshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unship
unshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unship + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unship
unshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shipped.
Senses: examples: text: With the exception of deals, the quantity of goods left unshipped is very trifling.
ref: 1862, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 220:
text: If the invoice didn't match the sales order, the unshipped goods remain on the sales order.
ref: 2006, Kathy Ivens, Running QuickBooks 2007 Premier Editions, page 207:
text: If you can't get consent, you must, without being asked, refund the money the customer paid you for the unshipped merchandise.
ref: 2009, Richard Stim, Running a Side Business: How to Create a Second Income, page 52:
glosses: Not having been shipped.
datednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datedness
yuruk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Yörük people, from Ottoman Turkish یوروك (yüruk, yörük, “active, fast; nomadic”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of Turkish rug from Konya and Karaman regions.
wikipedia: Yörük
schlimazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃləˈmɑːzəl/
Forms: form: schlimazels
form: schlemazel
form: schlemozzle
form: schlimazl
form: shlimazel
form: shlimazl
form: shlemozzle
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מזל (mazzāl, “luck”)
Senses: examples: text: I must have pressed two buttons at once, he decided; jammed the works and got this schlimazl’s eye view of reality.
ref: 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 46:
text: On Jewish Heritage Day, there was ample time to debate whether the Mets are schlemiels or schlimazels with the home team down 8-1 after five. Fans were given shirts that read “Let’s Go Mets” in Hebrew, but “Oy vey!” was more appropriate.
ref: 2004 August 30, Michael Morrissey, “METS GET SLAMMED AGAIN – VENTURA GRANNY KEYS DODGER ROUT”, in New York Post:
text: Hertz is an early contender for Wall Street’s schlimazel of the decade, the big unlucky lemon that just can’t seem to get anything right.
ref: 2024 May 16, “Who Wants 30,000 Used Teslas?”, in Intelligencer, retrieved 16 May 2024:
glosses: A chronically unlucky person.
Related terms: schlemiel
shemozzle
schlimazels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schlimazel
deliverability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌlɪvɹəˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: From deliver + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being deliverable; allowing the possibility of being delivered.
dearworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dearworthy
form: most dearworthy
Senses: glosses: Dearly loved; honourable; highly valued.
Derived terms: dearworthiness
deathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deathy
form: most deathy
Etymology: From death + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1829, Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay, Canto IV, XXXVIII, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 569,
The sunny hue that tinged her cheek was gone, / A deathy paleness settled in its stead;
text: The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildins,^([sic]) look melancholy.
ref: 1836, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, First Series, published 1840, page 83:
text: I heard a lady near whom I happened to sit one evening in a river-steamer describe it to a companion, when its swampy flats came into sight, as "a deathy place." The phrase was picturesque, effective and very appropriate. It did look a deathy place; but it had the advantages — to me supreme — of being very cheap, and of having easy access to the river, and therefore to town.
ref: 1869 February, Justin McCarthy, “My Enemy's Daughter”, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon, editor, Belgravia, volume 7, page 186:
glosses: Relating to death.
glosses: Misspelling of deathly.
Derived terms: deathiness
snafus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snafu
common denominator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common denominators
Senses: examples: text: least common denominator
text: lowest common denominator
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any integer that is a common multiple of the denominators of two or more fractions.
examples: text: It is a story that chimes with Davies’s down-to-earth and uber-professional character, the common denominator in conversations when those who know him best discuss the Wales defender poised to win his 100th cap in Monday’s World Cup qualifier against Belgium.
ref: 2025 October 13, Ben Fisher, “Unflappable, indispensable: centurion Ben Davies is the glue that holds Wales together”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A trait or attribute that is shared by all members of some category.
hypodermoclysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypodermoclyses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-, “below, beneath”) + δερμα (derma, “skin”) + κλυσις (klusis, “introduction of fluids”).
Senses: glosses: Infusion of fluid into the subcutaneous space.
heir apparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heirs apparent
form: heir apparents
Etymology: From Middle English heier apparaunt, a calque translation of Middle French héritier apparent, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.
Senses: examples: text: […] for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20,000l. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 345:
text: LeBron James, heir apparent to MJ’s throne, seems on paper like a dream trade—he stole plenty of laughs in Trainwreck a few summers ago.
ref: 2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros. properties”, in The A.V. Club:
topics: government
monarchy
politics
coordinate_terms: heiress apparent
glosses: Someone who will definitely inherit if surviving the one whose property is to be inherited.
heir presumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heirs presumptive
Etymology: A calque of French héritier présomptif, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.
Senses: coordinate_terms: heiress presumptive
glosses: Someone who will become an heir (usually to a monarchy) only if no-one with a higher-ranking claim is born.
instrumentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instrumental
instrumentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The backing track of a song. The audio of a song without the vocal track.
incompatibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incompatibility
insecticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insecticide
intenser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of intense: more intense
inputting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of input
inputted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of input
Bronwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Bronwen.
Senses: examples: Bronwyn Bishop, b. 1942
glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Related terms: Branwen
Bronwen
good and
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more good and
form: most good and
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, and.
examples: text: good and ready
text: I'll process his request when I'm good and ready, that's when!
text: As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 25, in Treasure Island:
text: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
ref: 1946, H. L. Mencken, American Mercury:
text: [S]he doesn't insist on the whole vegetable-meat-fish-eggs aspect of eating, saying I'll get around to that when I'm good and ready for it.
ref: 2008, Nancy Huston, Fault Lines, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: nice and
;
all too
glosses: Very; exceptionally; utterly.
raw_tags: used as an intensifier
monkey on one's back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Prine's balladeering also includes social comment, as in Sam Stone, a song about a veteran returning from "the conflict overseas with a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back."
ref: 1972 July 24, “The Blue-Collar Blues”, in Time:
text: "You got my monkey, Dealer? You take my nice old monkey away from me? Is that monkey ridin' your back these days, Dealer?"
ref: 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man With The Golden Arm:
glosses: An addiction, especially to narcotic drugs.
examples: text: "'E's got th' monkey on 'is back ower this letter job," said the father secretly to me.
ref: 1922, D. H. Lawrence, “Wintry Peacock,”, in England, My England:
text: "I moved, went through a lot of changes," she said, which was as much explanation as she would give him. "But I've still got this monkey on my back, you know, still looking for an explanation, and I hoped you might spare me a few minutes."
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 38:
glosses: A state of persistent distress or worry or the cause of such a state.
Synonyms: Chinaman on one's back
Related terms: albatross around one's neck
beetleskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetleskins
Etymology: From beetle + skin.
Senses: glosses: A condom.
blooden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌdən
Forms: form: bloodens
form: bloodening
form: bloodened
form: bloodened
Etymology: From blood + -en (verbal ending).
Senses: glosses: To make bloody.
glosses: To imbue with characteristics of blood, such as color, life, or fighting spirit.
Synonyms: sense: to make bloody
word: bloody
insinuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insinuate
impetuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impetus
pursestring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pursestrings
form: purse string
Etymology: From purse + string.
Senses: glosses: A cord or string, the middle of which is enclosed in the hem of the opening of a soft purse or sack, that, when pulled, closes the purse.
examples: text: those who hold the pursestrings
glosses: Budgetary control; authority over capital outlay or investment decisions.
Derived terms: purse string § Derived terms
pursestrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pursestring
examples: text: Parliament's power was derived from its control over the Kingdom's pursestrings.
glosses: The means of restricting access to the financial resources.
New Englandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more New Englandy
form: most New Englandy
Etymology: From New England + -y.
Senses: synonyms: New Englandish
New Englandly
glosses: Similar to or reminiscent of New England.
æons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æon
nephron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛ.fɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈnɛˌfɹɑn/
Forms: form: nephrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”) + -on.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The basic structural and functional unit of the kidney, which filters the blood in order to regulate chemical concentrations, and thereby produces urine.
Derived terms: nephronal
nephronic
nephronophthisis
oligomeganephronia
pronephron
nasogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naso- + gastric.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: aerodigestive
glosses: Pertaining both to the nose and to the stomach.
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: aerodigestive
glosses: Pertaining both to the nose and to the stomach.
Pertaining to nasogastric intubation, wherein a tube is inserted through the nostril, past the throat, and into the stomach.
synonyms: NG#Adjective
qualifier: usually and more specifically
Coordinate terms: endotracheal
nasoenteral
orogastric
rhumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhumb
smuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smut
pieces of clothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piece of clothing
phytolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoliths
Etymology: From phyto- + -lith.
Senses: examples: text: Environmental archaeologist Monica Ramsey, at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her colleagues studied phytoliths – microscopic silica crystals that form in plant tissues – from the site.
ref: 2016 October 29, “Sedges, not cereals, fed first settlers”, in New Scientist, number 3097, page 15:
glosses: A small particle of silica or mineral that occurs in many plants.
Derived terms: phytolithic
zoophytolith
cookie-cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookie-cutters
Senses: examples: text: Let Us Send You a Trial Package
Ten cents (stamps or coin) will bring you a One-Cake package, enough for a nice “company cake," and we will include a 10c Dromedary Cookie-Cutter and a Cook Book of Choice Cocoanut Recipes.
The Hills Brothers Co. Dept. B, 375 Washington Street New York
ref: 1916, ad in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 33, page 87
text: Cookie cutters and cake-decorating tools are boxed separately in plastic containers (with lids) so I can stack them up. If you have a large cookie-cutter collection, separate them by holiday or season and package in separate smaller boxes and don't forget to label them accordingly.
ref: 1986, Deniece Schofield, Escape from the Kitchen, →ISBN:
text: For platters of good-looking holiday tea sandwiches, look in your cookie-cutter drawer.
ref: 2002, Mary Engelbreit, Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: Here Comes Santa Claus, →ISBN, page 96:
text: In the passive condition the hand was held palm upwards and the cookie-cutters were pressed on to the sensitive skin of the palm. In the active condition it was the finger tips which were mainly in contact with the cookie-cutter.
ref: 2013, Rom Harre, Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments that Changed our View of the World, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of cookie cutter.
phytomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytomeres
Etymology: From phyto- + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A segment of the shoot of a grass; it includes the internode and leaf together with parts of the upper and lower nodes.
phytoncide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoncides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any volatile antimicrobial compound given off by a plant, especially one that prevents it from being eaten.
phytophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytophages
Etymology: From phyto- + -phage.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: herbivore
Related terms: phytophagy
gattine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French gattine
Senses: glosses: A disease of silkworms, caused by parasitic fungi.
phytopharmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + pharmaceutical.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Describing pharmaceutical agents of plant origin.
phytopharmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytopharmaceuticals
Etymology: From phyto- + pharmaceutical.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A pharmaceutical agent of plant origin.
phytoremediation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoremediations
Etymology: From phyto- + remediation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bioremediation by the use of plants
Related terms: phytoremedial
phytomining
phytosiderophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytosiderophores
Etymology: From phyto- + siderophore.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of chelate compounds, common in grasses, that sequester iron.
Related terms: siderophore
phytosociology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + sociology.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the ecology, classification and distribution of plant communities
Related terms: phytosociological
phytostabilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phytostabilization.
phytostimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytostimulations
Etymology: From phyto- + stimulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of phytoremediation in which microbial activity near the roots is increased
Related terms: phytostimulant
phytostimulator
phytostimulatory
phytotelma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytotelmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”) + τέλμα (télma, “pond”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small, water-filled cavity in a tree or any similar environment such as the axil of a bromeliad
Derived terms: phytotelmatic
phytotelmic
phytotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phytotoxic
form: most phytotoxic
Etymology: From phyto- + toxic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Characteristic of a phytotoxin.
Derived terms: nonphytotoxic
Related terms: phytotoxin
phytotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytotoxins
Etymology: From phyto- + toxin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any toxic substance produced by a plant.
Related terms: phytotoxic
phytotransformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytotransformations
Etymology: From phyto- + transformation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of phytoremediation in which plant's metabolism modifies its environment by inactivating, degrading or immobilizing substances
phytotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.tə(ʊ)ˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.təˌtɹɑn/
ipa: /-.toʊˌ-/
Forms: form: phytotrons
Etymology: From phyto- + -tron.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A laboratory in the form of a greenhouse or similar building in which plants can be grown and studied under individually controlled conditions.
Related terms: biotron
phytotronic
phytotronics
phytotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytotropins
Etymology: From phyto- + -trope + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of substances that inhibits auxin transport and therefore of root growth, gravitropism and phototropism.
phytovolatilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytovolatilizations
Etymology: From phyto- + volatilization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of phytoremediation in which substances from the soil are released into the air, sometimes after being broken down into volatile components
rubber baby buggy bumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber baby buggy bumpers
Etymology: From a well-known tongue twister.
Senses: synonyms: catcher's mitt
coordinate_terms: rubber
glosses: A contraceptive diaphragm.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rubber, baby buggy, bumper, (a rubber bumper for a baby buggy).
quoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quoys
Etymology: From the Norn reflex of Old Norse kví (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: An area of wasteland (or common land) now enclosed for farming.
raw_tags: in place names
wikipedia: Norn language
subject indexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary.
graphics card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphics cards
Senses: examples: text: Sitting down in front of her desktop, Veneza starts working, even though she hasn’t had a chance to install the new graphics card yet.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 175:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A circuit board that generates and controls the visual display on a computer screen.
Synonyms: dGPU
display adapter
graphics accelerator card
graphics adapter
video adapter
video board
video card
video display board
bolgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈboʊldʒə/
Forms: form: bolgias
form: bolge
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian bolgia (“ditch, trench”), from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”). Doublet of budge and bulge.
Senses: glosses: Any of the divisions of the eighth circle of Hell, Malebolge, in Dante's Divine Comedy.
library and information science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Library science.
synset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synsets
Etymology: Clipping of synonym set, coined in the context of the WordNet project.
Senses: examples: text: The basic object in WordNet is a set of strict synonyms, called a synset. By definition, each synset a word appears in is a different sense of that word.
ref: 1993, D. K. Harman, First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedingshttps://books.google.cz/books?id=A81RmnI0l5cC&pg=PA344
text: In some cases a synset that appears to be a logical choice for a query is nonetheless detrimental.
ref: 1994, Donna K. Harman, The Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2)
text: A synset is essentially what Sparck Jones (1964, 1986) calls a "run," which is the basic element in her theory of semantic classification.
ref: 1998, Christiane Fellbaum, WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
text: In general, based on concepts from NLP and information retrieval, synsets are defined as a collection of data entities that are considered semantically similar.
ref: 2019, Dipanjan Sarkar, Text Analytics with Python […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 522:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: synonym ring
glosses: A set of one or more synonyms that are interchangeable in some context without changing the truth value of the proposition in which they are embedded.
wikipedia: WordNet
bioactivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + activation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The metabolic activation of xenobiotic compounds into reactive, toxic compounds
bioavailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioavailable
form: most bioavailable
form: bio-available
Etymology: From bio- + available.
Senses: examples: text: I ask him why any brand would sell a B12 supplement that isnʼt bioavailable.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 173:
glosses: Able to be absorbed by a living organism.
Derived terms: bioavailability
nonbioavailable
Related terms: bio-unavailable
biocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biocidal
form: most biocidal
Senses: glosses: Able to kill living organisms, especially microorganisms
Derived terms: microbiocidal
nonbiocidal
Related terms: biocide
bioconcentration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioconcentrations
Etymology: From bio- + concentration.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any process that leads to a higher concentration of a substance in an organism than in its environment
Related terms: bioaccumulation
bioconjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioconjugates
Etymology: From bio- + conjugate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance formed by bioconjugation
Derived terms: nanobioconjugate
bioconjugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioconjugations
Etymology: From bio- + conjugation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that forms a stable covalent link between two biomolecules
biodegraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biodegrade
biodegraded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biodegraded
form: most biodegraded
Senses: glosses: Subject to biodegradation
bioelimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioeliminations
Etymology: From bio- + elimination.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of a substance, especially from aqueous solution, by biochemical activity.
bioequivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioequivalences
Etymology: From bio- + equivalence.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A measure of the equivalence of multiple formulations of a drug in terms of bioavailability
Related terms: bioequivalent
bioequivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + equivalent.
Senses: glosses: Describing the equivalence of multiple formulations of a drug in terms of bioavailability.
Related terms: bioequivalence
bioequivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioequivalents
Etymology: From bio- + equivalent.
Senses: glosses: A formulation of a drug that is equivalent, in terms of bioavailability, to some other formulation.
bioinactivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioinactivations
Etymology: From bio- + inactivation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The metabolic conversion of a xenobiotic substance to a less toxic derivative