cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kulinkovich reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kulinkovich reactions
Etymology: Discovered by Oleg Kulinkovich and coworkers in 1989.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic synthesis of cyclopropanols via reaction of esters with dialkyldialkoxytitanium reagents, generated in situ from Grignard reagents bearing hydrogen in beta-position and titanium(IV) alkoxides such as titanium isopropoxide.
kulturkampfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kulturkampf
cyclopropanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopropanols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound with the chemical formula C₃H₆O, containing a cyclopropyl group with a hydroxyl group attached to it.
cyclopropanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopropanol
carveols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carveol
nonenantiomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + enantiomeric.
Senses: glosses: Not enantiomeric.
aludels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæl.jʊ.dɛlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of aludel
Dickensians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dickensian
zoophytological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + phytological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zoophytology.
gothy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gothier
form: gothiest
Etymology: From goth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The gothy new wave employees were obviously tired of the endless brown leather penny loafers that walked in and out of the store, mocking their patent black platforms and Mary Janes.
ref: 2007, Michelle Tea, It's so you, page 235:
text: In the tents at Nathan Philips Square for LG Fashion Week, the Toronto designer sent out a powerful army of gothy rock chicks – their pouty lips licorice-black, sharp painted talons and high ponytails swinging with insouciance.
ref: 2009 March 23, Derick Chetty, “Dressing for a harsh climate”, in Toronto Star:
text: Aren't you urban gothy types supposed to be immune to public opinion?
ref: 2010, Lori Weber, If You Live Like Me, page 32:
glosses: Somewhat goth.
Derived terms: gothiness
reliquefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + liquefaction.
Senses: glosses: Liquefaction again or anew.
reliquification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + liquification.
Senses: glosses: Liquification again or anew.
reliquefication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + liquefication.
Senses: glosses: Liquefication again or anew.
reliquify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reliquifies
form: reliquifying
form: reliquified
form: reliquified
Etymology: From re- + liquify.
Senses: glosses: To liquify again.
reliquefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reliquefies
form: reliquefying
form: reliquefied
form: reliquefied
Etymology: From re- + liquefy.
Senses: glosses: To liquefy again.
reliquefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reliquefy
reliquified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reliquify
reliquifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reliquify
reliquefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reliquefy
reliquifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reliquify
reliquefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reliquefy
relishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more relishingly
form: most relishingly
Etymology: From relishing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With relish.
uplevel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From up- + level.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Having greater capabilities or a higher version number.
examples: text: Every now and then we have to smoke some of them out when they get too close to the uplevel neighborhoods.
ref: 1991, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Space Cops: Mindblast, page 67:
text: We hit another dead end, the uplevel ladder far to our right this time.”
ref: 2005, Linnea Sinclair, Gabriel's Ghost:
text: His chrono told him that it was 0342, but that was uplevel time,...
ref: 2012, Michael Reaves, Star Wars: Coruscant Nights I - Jedi Twilight, page 27:
text: Regular Army didn't have much use for private military, but fuck 'em—he had enough of that organization when they had set his unit up for a snafu not their fault. The uplevel dicks had pissed on a bunch of good officers to make sure nobody came after their guilty asses.
ref: 2013, Steve Perry, The Vastalimi Gambit, page 43:
glosses: From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
uplevel
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From up- + level.
Senses: examples: text: You're to be allowed uplevel."
ref: 1999, Kathy Tyers, Firebird, page 91:
text: We found the first ladder, went uplevel.
ref: 2005, Linnea Sinclair, Gabriel's Ghost:
text: A flash of bright yellow and blue hurtled quickly uplevel through the atrium's center.
ref: 2005, Linnea Sinclair, An Accidental Goddess:
glosses: From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
uplevel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uplevels
form: upleveling
form: uplevelling
form: upleveled
form: upleveled
form: uplevelled
form: uplevelled
Etymology: From up- + level.
Senses: examples: text: The human alternative is to use this emotional energy to uplevel addictions to preferences.
ref: 1986, Ken Keyes, A conscious person's guide to relationships, page 59:
text: This is to help spread Buddhism and uplevel comic book readers to put down the comic books and reach upwards towards the meditation cushion.
ref: 2005, Brian Ruhe, Freeing the Buddha:
text: When I begin planning something new or desire to uplevel my game, I eschew unworkable ideas and unproven theories.
ref: 2009, M. Diane Vogt, Preparing for Reentry:
glosses: To raise the level of.
downlevel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From down- + level.
Senses: examples: text: The downlevel Gillette Good News subbrand works in part because the rest of the razor line is positioned (and thus elevated) by the Gillette Sensor.
ref: 2012, David A. Aaker, Building Strong Brands:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Having lesser capabilities or a lower version number.
examples: text: Provision is made for causing the switching threshold to vary directly with changes in downlevel voltage, whereby the line is recharged independent of variations in downlevel line voltage.
ref: 1975, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin - Volume 18, Issue 2:
text: Ever deeper, ever darker, farther and farther below even the memory of light— Jacen staggered out from a downlevel stairwell onto some forgotten catwalk, gasping.
ref: 2002, Matthew Woodring Stover, Traitor, page 171:
glosses: To, from, or at a lower level.
downlevel
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From down- + level.
Senses: examples: text: Gillie had gone downlevel to check on Izaak, brought back a short holovid of the child playing a tune he'd written for the parrots.
ref: 2005, Linnea Sinclair, An Accidental Goddess:
text: Relatively young for his species—only about four hundred standard years, Jax had heard—the big gastropod had nevertheless managed to carve out a profitable niche downlevel.
ref: 2008, Michael Reaves, Jedi Twilight, page 129:
text: He strode purposely to the conduit, stepped inside, and willed himself downlevel.
ref: 2010, Steve Stanton, Reconciliation:
glosses: To, from, or at a lower level.
downlevel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downlevels
form: downleveling
form: downlevelling
form: downleveled
form: downleveled
form: downlevelled
form: downlevelled
Etymology: From down- + level.
Senses: examples: text: This downleveling of the low-intensity signals is done electronically but in the process the noise is downleveled an equal amount, as shown in Figure 14.136.
ref: 1985, John S. Rigden, Physics and the sound of music, page 278:
text: We downleveled and hit 28-Green.
ref: 2005, Linnea Sinclair, Gabriel's Ghost:
text: The minus “-” indicates that the high tone is downleveled in a sequence of high tones.
ref: 2011, Thomas Pechmann, Christopher Habel, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Production, page 127:
glosses: To go to a lower level.
downlevel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downlevels
Etymology: From down- + level.
Senses: examples: text: T3 must have a width-to-length ratio to achieve a downlevel very quickly.
ref: 1975, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin - Volume 18, Issue 2, page 459:
text: Then, considering what we had been thinking about storage areas in the downlevels— "
ref: 1991, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Space Cops: Mindblast, page 235:
text: This deep in Coruscant's downlevels, the sun never shone; the only illumination came from antiquated glow globes, their faded light yellow as ancient parchment, that only darkened the shadows around.
ref: 2005, Matthew Stover, Revenge of the Sith, page 396:
glosses: A lower level.
webathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webathons
Etymology: From Web + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: The fundraising Webathons — think Jerry Lewis online — popularized by Dean are becoming standard fare, as have^([sic]) e-mail alerts.
ref: 2003, Government Research Corporation, National Journal: Volume 35:
text: Perhaps I should stage some sort of webathon or something.
ref: 2006, Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT: 2002-2005, page 280:
text: Even some of Palin's critics question the validity of some of the complaints, and her supporters have waged a weeklong Webathon to raise money for a legal defense fund set up for the governor, ringing up more than $109,000 by day seven, Sunday.
ref: 2009, HK, “It's important to keep her busy...”, in rec.boats (Usenet):
text: At the end of January, we ran a five-hour-plus webathon to raise funds for a local orphanage with which we were heavily involved. We had one camera going live and another crew picking up interviews at the back of the webcast area.
ref: 2010, Priscilla Nelson, Ed Cohen, Riding the Tiger: Leading Through Learning in Turbulent Times, page 86:
glosses: A fundraising event carried out by means of the World Wide Web.
webathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webathon
zoophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoophor(us) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a zoophoric column
topics: architecture
glosses: Bearing or supporting the figure of an animal.
ziment water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German, related to Zement (“cement”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of water infused with copper, found in copper mines.
zoophytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoophytoid
form: most zoophytoid
Etymology: From zoophyte + -oid.
Senses: glosses: zoophytic
zygodactyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zygodactyl.
zygodactyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygodactyles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zygodactyl.
zygodactyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygodactyle
zeuglodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeuglodons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζεύγλη (zeúglē) + translingual -odon.
Senses: glosses: A basilosaurus.
Related terms: zeuglodont
Zeuglodonta
zeuglodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeuglodon
bridlepath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridlepaths
Etymology: From bridle + path.
Senses: glosses: A bridleway.
bridlepaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridlepath
zenik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zenick
Etymology: Unknown, likely from a native African name.
Senses: examples: text: The enormous elephant, the tall giraffe, and the stately ostrich, being found in the same spot with a species of mouse, called the black-streaked, weighing only a quarter of an ounce; the zenik, an animal only three inches in height; and the creeper, a bird not much larger than a cherry.
ref: 1857, J. Bezant, William Cooke Stafford, Key to the Geographical questions, page 107:
glosses: The meerkat or suricate.
suffering catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Sweet suffering catfish!" said Mickey. "All you have to do is give me the darned stick, not throw it at me. When I want to play hockey. I'll let you know.
ref: 1946 May, Boys' Life, page 13:
text: "Suffering catfish! Why did I ever let you write this piece?"
ref: 1961, Louis Zara, Dark rider:
text: "But, suffering catfish, Mr. Woolwine," I protested. "You can't do that! What would be left?"
ref: 1966, Sidney Joseph Perelman, Chicken Inspector, number 23:
synonyms: suffering cats
glosses: An exclamation of disgusted dismay.
suffering cats
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Suffering cats!! My shoes became full of carpet tacks and I leapt so high that me head nearly hit the ceiling.
ref: 1917 July 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 181, column 3:
text: "By the Harvest of Souls, hurry! Hurry! Here's the boy saying he's been eating, the stuff we don't mention. Suffering cats! I'll go mad!"
ref: 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist:
text: "Oh, suffering cats, they've started already," said Becker under his breath.
ref: 1952, Manning Coles, The exploits of Tommy Hambledon:
glosses: Alternative form of suffering catfish.
ivoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ivory + -ide?
Senses: examples: text: The ivoride, to which we have referred, and which presents a scarcely distinguishable substitute for ivory, gives superior handles, which will not break or crack, nor absorb grease and stains.
ref: 1872, Horace Greeley, The great industries of the United States:
glosses: A celluloid compound used as a substitute for ivory.
ivorytype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ivorytypes
Etymology: From ivory + -type.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A picture produced by superposing a tinted translucent print upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colours.
Related terms: ivorytyping
ivorytypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ivorytype
ixia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ixias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Ixia.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Ixia of cormous plants native to South Africa.
ixias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ixia
bylanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bylane
cormous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corm + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing from a corm.
noncontractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + contractile.
Senses: glosses: Not contractile.
bulbotuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulbotubers
Senses: glosses: A corm.
bulbotubers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulbotuber
chronologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chronologises
form: chronologising
form: chronologised
form: chronologised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chronologize.
climatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climature
colonnettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonnette
itchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From itch + -less.
Senses: examples: text: When it's too warm for a hat, try an ear jock (technically, ear band), preferably one made of itchless fiber like Turtle Fur. Another heat-loss area is your neck. An itchless neck gaiter will vastly increase your comfort there.
ref: 1998, Jules Older, Cross-Country Skiing for Everyone, page 33:
glosses: Not causing itching.
Derived terms: itchlessness
ziphioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ziphiid.
ziphioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziphioids
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ziphiid.
ziphioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ziphioid
zamindaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zamindari
zemindary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zemindaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zamindari.
zemindari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zemindaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zamindari.
zamindary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zamindaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zamindari.
zemindaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zemindari
zemindaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zemindary
zamindaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zamindary
zincographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zincography.
Yakoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yakoots
form: Yakoot
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Yakut.
Yakoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Yakut.
Yakoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yakoot
Yakuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yakut
moodinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moodiness
yojana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yojanas
form: yojan
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit योजन (yojana).
Senses: glosses: A Vedic unit of distance used in ancient India, believed to be approximately 6 to 15 kilometers (4 to 9 miles).
yojanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yojana
yojan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yojans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yojana.
yojans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yojan
multivalves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multivalve
hoverbike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoverbikes
Etymology: From hover + bike.
Senses: examples: text: “Do you know that you were doing 15 on a 65-mile-per-hour highway?” “We did not, officer. But if you call our father, he should be able to clear all this up.” “Dean! We don't have a father anymore.” “All right, what's going on here? And what are those?” “Hover-bikes.” “Where do kids like you get hover-bikes, selling weed to classmates, huh? Get 'em hooked early, right? Nothing like a steady customer. Which reminds me, shouldn't you boys be in school right now?” “We don't go to school. We have a bed that teaches us everything.” “Oh, I get it now... Dust head. Let's get off the floating chopper.” “He's not a dusty head. We really do have beds equipped with audio-suggestive learning aids.” “Dabbling in super-science, eh? All right, you two, I know just the place for boys like you.”
ref: 2004 October 30, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer, “Return to Spider-Skull Island” (13:17 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 1, episode 14, spoken by Dean Venture (Michael Sinterniklaas):
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A motorbike capable of levitation.
hoverbikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoverbike
minishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of minish
minishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of minish
minished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of minish
microskirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microskirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Witnessing their arrival are village idiot Henry Niles (David Warner) – who has been taking an unwholesome interest in the local children, particularly the microskirted teenage temptress Janice Hedden (Sally Thomsett) – and Amy's old boyfriend Charlie Venner (Del Henney).
ref: 2014, Neil Fulwood, Films of Sam Peckinpah:
glosses: Wearing a microskirt.
minibusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibus
milliwebers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliweber
melanogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanogeneses
Etymology: From melano- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The production of melanin in human skin
Derived terms: antimelanogenesis
Related terms: eumelanogenesis
melanogenetic
pheomelanogenesis
phaeomelanogenesis
melanogasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanogaster
dopamelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of melanin that is a mixed copolymer of polyacetylene, polyaniline, and polypyrrole.
dopaquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound involved in melanin production.
leukodopachrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leucodopachrome.
radiotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + -trophic.
Senses: qualifier: according to a proposed theory
glosses: Using melanin to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy for growth
raw_tags: of fungi
Related terms: radiotrophism
amenorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amenorrhœæ
form: amenorrhœas
Senses: examples: text: Indeed it has proved very successful in certain amenorrhœæ, and affections dependent upon the presence of worms.
ref: 1829, Henri Milne-Edwards, A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, page 304:
text: In one case there had been a period of amenorrhœa of nearly two months, while in the other there had been no absence of the ordinary menstrual period. In one case hæmorrhage followed upon the period of amenorrhœa, while in the other the hæmorrhage had started at what was thought to be a normal menstrual period.
ref: 1902, Archibald Donald, The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynæcology of the British Empire, volume I, Baillière, Tindall & Cox, page 363:
glosses: Obsolete form of amenorrhoea.
defedation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defedations
form: defoedation
form: defœdation
Etymology: From Latin defoedatio, from Late Latin defoedare (“to defile”), from de- with foedare, present tense verb of foedo, from foedus (“foul”).
Senses: glosses: The process of polluting or making filthy; pollution.
defœdation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defœdations
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of defedation.
defœdations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mercury produces directly the same defœdations of the skin.
ref: 1869, Samuel Hahnemann, Constantine Hering, Organon of Homœopathic Medicine, William Radde, fourth edition, page #6:
glosses: plural of defœdation
live and learn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives and learns
form: living and learning
form: lived and learned
form: lived and learned
form: lived and learnt
form: lived and learnt
Senses: glosses: An exhortation to gain knowledge from lived experiences. Commonly used after a misfortune to indicate a moral lesson.
Related terms: english: lifelong learning
translation: lifelong learning
word: LLL
word: learn the hard way
word: no one is born a master
word: you're never too old to learn
double planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double planet
præstigious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præstigious
form: most præstigious
Senses: examples: text: Only operative about some prodigious or præstigious things, and that only by vertue of a superstitious compact made with the divell, without or against all rules and orders of nature, art, or grace.
ref: 1695, Balthasar Bekker quoted in Collected Work of W. J. Fox, Charles Fox, Trübner & Co.; Volume VI, page #52
glosses: Archaic form of prestigious.
coprophagous grins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coprophagous grin
periœcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periœci
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of perioecus.
coprophagous grin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprophagous grins
Senses: glosses: A shit-eating grin.
ichthyotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ichthyo- + therapy.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of fish for therapeutic treatment, especially for cleaning wounds.
gemmotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemmotherapies
Etymology: From Latin gemma (“bud”) + therapy.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of remedies made from the embryonic tissue of various trees and shrubs, or other meristematic parts
apitherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːtɪk
Senses: glosses: relating to apitherapy
lymphœdema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphœdemata
Etymology: From lymph + œdema.
Senses: examples: text: Lymphœdema, owing to obstruction of the lymph circulation, is a very rare occurrence.
ref: 1901, William Roger Williams, chapter XV, in Uterine Tumours, William Wood & Company, page 225:
glosses: Archaic form of lymphedema.
lymphœdemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphœdema
amtrac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.tɹæk/
Forms: form: amtracs
Etymology: Blend of amphibious + tractor
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An amphibious vehicle of a class introduced in World War II.
Synonyms: amtrack
amtrak
amphtrack
landing vehicle tracked
landing vehicle tracked
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing vehicles tracked
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of amtrac.
synonyms: word: amtrac
amtrak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amtraks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amtrac (“amphibious vehicle”).
amphtrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphtracks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amtrac (“amphibious vehicle”).
LVT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LVTs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of landing vehicle tracked.
glosses: Initialism of licensed veterinary technician.
glosses: Initialism of land value tax.
Atlanticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Atlantic + -ism, from the name of the Atlantic Ocean between the two continents.
Senses: examples: text: Dugin’s main argument in Foundations came straight from Haushofer’s pages: the need to thwart the conspiracy of “Atlanticism” led by the United States and NATO and aimed at containing Russia within successive geographic rings of newly independent states.
ref: 2016 July 27, Charles Clover, “The Unlikely Origins of Russia's Manifest Destiny”, in Foreign Policy:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A philosophy of cooperation among Western European and North American nations.
Synonyms: Fultonism
Related terms: Atlantist
Atlanticist
landing vehicles tracked
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landing vehicle tracked
amtracs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amtrac
amtraks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amtrak
amphtracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphtrack
Atlantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantists
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Atlanticism
Atlanticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlanticists
Etymology: From Atlantic + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The 'Pivot to Asia' in 2011 has possibly been misinterpreted by oversensitive Atlanticists and pessimistic Europeans who were stuck in a deep Euro recession (Marschall 2013).
ref: 2014, Daniel Cardoso, Philani Mthembu, Marc Venhaus, Miguelángel Verde Garrido, The Transatlantic Colossus:
glosses: A supporter of Atlanticism.
œsypum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of oesypum.
oesypum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œsypum
Etymology: From Latin oesypum.
Senses: glosses: Refuse from wool.
snogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snoggers
Etymology: From snog + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who snogs.
examples: text: They're nearly as pathetic as those snoggers (sad, deluded morons who believe DD and GA should be together!).
ref: 2001 July 12, Caffeine Cal, “Re: *Nasty* Doggett-Haters Website :(”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: It's a bit sad when snoggers write in to the IMDB to pass on the false information that DD has "filed for divorce" from TL: […]
ref: 2002 August 27, pam, “Re: Doggett to come back to Fox”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: While I'm not a snogger (don't look at me like that!), I do think, from what little I know of them, that David and Gillian had a kind of working relationship that in some weird cosmic way must have reflected what we saw on the screen between them.
ref: 2005 June 17, Robert Cook, “Re: Speaking of "Lost"”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
qualifier: The X-Files fandom slang
glosses: A fan who believed Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny were romantically involved or shipped them together.
Related terms: kisser
French kisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French kissers
Etymology: From French kiss + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who French kisses.
normalish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normal + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat normal; fairly normal.
glochid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glochids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb of an arrow”).
Senses: examples: text: [The bunny-ears cactus is] a particularly unpleasant cactus with thousands of nearly invisible, glochid [...] spines.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear.
Synonyms: glochidium
baselard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsɪlɑː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: baselards
form: basilard
form: baslard
Etymology: From Old French baselard, basilard (early 14th century), in English from the later 14th century. Occurs in many spelling variants, including badelaire, baudelaire, Latinized badelare, bazelare, basalardus, balafardus, balasardus, etc.
Probably in origin a corruption of German Basler (as pasler also attested from the early 14th century), probably short for Basler messer "knife of (made in, typical of) Basel".
Senses: examples: text: 1380s: "Sir John and Sir Geoffrey hath a girdle of silver, a baselard or a ballok knyf with buttons overgilt." (Piers Plowman)
ref: 1519, “a hoked Baslarde is a perelse wepon with the Turkes.”, in Horman's Vulgaria:
glosses: A type of heavy dagger popular in the 14th and 15th centuries.
jibberish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gibberish.
jibberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jibberish
form: most jibberish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gibberish.
light verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light verbs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: vector verb
delexical verb
explicator verb
thin verb
empty verb
coordinate_terms: auxiliary verb
helping verb
full verb
lexical verb
main verb
glosses: A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun.
wabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: a DVD of the noxious, abominably brilliant 1983 teen sex-comedy Screwballs. That's right, the one about a foxy cheerleader named Purity Bush and the six nerds who'll move heaven and earth to catch an eyeful of her tanktop-straining wabs.
ref: 1999 December 17, John Patterson, The Guardian:
text: But what of your wabs? After all, it's not like it's any easier to think of something to call your breasts. They sit on your ribcage, from the age of 13 onwards, and yet there's scarcely a word you can refer to them with that isn't going to make either you, or someone else, uncomfortable.
ref: 2011, Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman:
glosses: Breasts.
game-time decision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game-time decisions
Senses: examples: text: A topographical presentation of these contours was used as a game-time decision aid by the UCLA 1972-73 Football Coaching Staff.
ref: 1976, Engel Machol, Shaul P. Ladany, Management Science in Sports, p. 57
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A decision about the conduct of a sporting event, usually one made by the coach regarding which players will start or will play, or which strategy will be employed, which is put off until the start of the game itself.
examples: text: I ended up staying out partying until 4 AM at which time I had an important game time decision: : go back to my apartment in Hoboken [New Jersey] to catch an hour of sleep or go straight to the office.
ref: 2010, Chris Howard, Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business, page 36:
text: But when the day finally comes that you spend a sleepless night with a crying baby who has a 103-degree fever, you'll still need to make a game-time decision. Who stays home from work?
ref: 2009, Paula Peters, Working Mom's Survival Guide, page 116:
text: There was also true courtroom suspense — a Perry Mason moment that could have cost me the whole trial. I made a game-time decision to ask Earle Caldwell's girlfriend a question nobody had ever asked her before: Did she believe that Caldwell and Blake were responsible for Bonny's murder?
ref: 2007, Eric Dubin, The Star Chamber: How Celebrities Go Free and Their Lawyers Become, page 179:
text: Fortunately I made a game-time decision to take off my Hilfiger jeans and put on some khakis right before I left.
ref: 2004, Phillip Allen, Play Money, page 17:
glosses: By extension, any decision that is put off until a point where it can no longer be delayed.
game-time decisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game-time decision
costus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒstəs/
Forms: form: costuses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin costus, from Ancient Greek κόστος (kóstos), from Sanskrit कुष्ठ (kuṣṭha).
Senses: glosses: A perennial tropical herbaceous plant of the genus Costus (family Costaceae).
glosses: Saussurea costus, a composite growing on the Himalayas in the vicinity of Kashmir, or its root.
Derived terms: costusroot
open season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open seasons
Senses: examples: text: "But there weren't many crabs in those days," the old man wandered on. "They were fished out, and they were great delicacies. The open season was only a month long, too."
ref: 1912, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Scarlet Plague (fiction):
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A period of time during the calendar year when authorities within a jurisdiction permit the unrestricted hunting of one or more kinds of animal wildlife.
raw_tags: followed by on or for to designate the kind of animal hunted
examples: text: In the country of the Clantons there was always an open season on any one of his name.
ref: 1919, William MacLeod Raine, “Prologue”, in A Man Four-Square (fiction):
text: The court thus overruled all the states' protective laws, except against outright fraud, and declared open season on any products not protected by patents.
ref: 1964 March 20, “Patents: Knocking Down the Pole”, in Time, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2016:
text: The paparazzi and gossip hounds have declared open season on celebrities.
ref: 2009, Tawny Weber, Coming on Strong (fiction), →ISBN, page 37:
text: On aviation, the Chancellor seemed to suggest it was open season for expanding airports across the UK, irrespective of the fact that flying is a major source of CO² in the atmosphere.
ref: 2025 February 19, Christian Wolmar, “Reeves talks of 'growth' but pays lip service to the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 35:
glosses: A situation in which someone is endangered, blamed, harassed, or opposed in a sustained manner by a number of others; a situation in which something is endangered or otherwise opposed.
raw_tags: followed by on or for
examples: text: "My dear Miss Parker, this is the open season on terrible practical jokes."
ref: 1921, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 15, in The Pride of Palomar (fiction), page 155:
text: The open season on culture in Manhattan used to begin with the first stroke of a Metropolitan Opera baton.
ref: 1959 October 26, “Music: Curtains Up!”, in Time, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2014:
glosses: A situation or period in which some activity is routinely carried on.
raw_tags: followed by on or for
Related terms: open field
wide open
phantom limbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantom limb
fakelaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fakelakia
form: fakellaki
Etymology: From Greek φακελάκι (fakeláki, “little envelope”).
Senses: examples: text: Various forms of corruption permeated the system, where cash gifts in fakelaki or ‘little envelopes’ were a fact of life, and where, crucially, the rich regarded paying tax as something that only the poor and stupid would ever choose to do.
ref: 2011, John Lanchester, Once Greece goes…:
text: But Greek tax officials are rumored to be notoriously easy to bribe with a fakelaki (small envelope) of cash.
ref: 2013, Michael G. Pento, The Coming Bond Market Collapse:
text: Specific cases have been rumored to demand up to $4,000 as a fakelaki.
ref: 2018, Panos Minogiannis, European Integration and Health Policy:
glosses: An envelope containing cash, offered as a bribe in Greece.
democratic deficit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democratic deficits
Etymology: First used by the Young European Federalists in their Manifesto in 1977.
Senses: examples: text: The euro was launched with a fundamental democratic deficit, which didn’t trouble the European elite behind it because they had come to believe in a version of manifest destiny.
ref: 2011, John Lanchester, Once Greece goes…:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A situation when ostensibly democratic organizations or institutions (particularly governments) are seen to be falling short of fulfilling the principles of the parliamentary democracy in their practices or operation where representative and linked parliamentary integrity becomes widely discussed.
allatectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: allatectomies
Etymology: From Latin allatum + + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: The surgical removal of the corpus allatum from an insect.
Related terms: allatectomize
allatectomized
corpus allatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpora allata
Etymology: From Latin, meaning "applied body".
Senses: glosses: A structure, near the brain of young arthropods, that secretes the hormone neotenin.
neotenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neoteny + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, as we shall see, evidence has accumulated to show that this hormone brings about suppression of adult characters by favouring the differentiation of larval characters. It has therefore been called fore preference the 'juvenile hormone'. If a Greek term is preferred it might be called 'neotenin'.
ref: 1954, F. W. Wrigglesworth, The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis:
text: Neotenin, also known as the juvenile hormone, is secreted by the corpora allata.
ref: 1974, Dennis William Wood, Principles of Animal Physiology, page 318:
text: “Bound” neotenin should be readily “given up” to “acceptor” molecules, but the authors found evidence that it was to a considerable degree protected from attack by neotenin-specific esterases in the haemolymph; it was surmised that such proteins might play an important part in regulating the action of the hormone.
ref: 2013, R. A. Crowson, The Biology of the Coleoptera, page 201:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A juvenile hormone, present in insects, which ensures growth of the larva while preventing metamorphosis.
juvenile hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juvenile hormones
form: JH
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of sesquiterpene hormones that regulate insect physiology by preventing metamorphosis during moults.
Related terms: juvenoid
juvenomimetic
præternatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præternatural
form: most præternatural
Senses: examples: text: In a research of great interest which he performed with the aid of a patient with a præternatural anus communicating with the cæcum, Marckwald, besides shewing that the secretion of the colon possesses neither diastatic nor proteolytic power, determined that the whole large intestine is only capable of absorbing about 250 grammes of water in the course of 12 hours.
ref: 1893, Arthur Gamgee, A Text‐Book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body, Macmillan and Co., Volume II, Chapter XII, § 3, page 453:
glosses: Obsolete form of preternatural.
præterite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Prof. Stuart argues from the expression, “ I—was king,” &c, that Solomon was not the writer, because he thinks the præterite tense implies that he had ceased to be king; and Solomon continued to be king while he lived.
ref: 1865, Loyal Young, A Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes, Presbyterian Board of Publication, page 56:
glosses: Obsolete form of preterite.
fruit bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit bat
grease up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: greases up
form: greasing up
form: greased up
form: greased up
Senses: examples: text: On the evening of our second day Mr. Bliss said he thought we ought to grease up our shoes a little so that they would turn water better.
ref: 1898, Charles Hallock, William A. Bruette, Forest and stream: Volume 51:
text: I saw my old Daddy grease his pistol and rub it up and grease it up and work it and put cartridges in it. And say, 'I'm going into town today.'
ref: 1992, Patrick B. Mullen, Listening to old voices: folklore, life stories, and the elderly, page 86:
text: Grease up the cookie sheet, 'cause I hate when my balls stick. Then preheat the oven to threefifty. And give that spoon a lick.
ref: 1998, Chef, Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You):
text: “Grease it up. Put that big fucking dildo up my hole,” Greg gasped, his breathing growing rapid. He wanted it bad! I stared at the image in the mirror as I took the dildo in both hands and rubbed grease up and down it.
ref: 2004, Paul Willis, Ron Jackson, Kink, page 84:
glosses: To smear or otherwise lubricate with oil or grease; especially, to grease (something, such as a machine or a baking pan) thoroughly.
examples: text: But I take the view that the statue is a cheap and cynical stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history, whose only interest lies in greasing up to modern Indian politicians. With little or no dignity, they shamelessly prostrate themselves in the most craven way.
ref: 2014 July 10, Stephen Glover, “Sorry, but Gandhi statue in Westminster is a cheap stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history greasing up to India”, in Daily Mail:
text: Amazing, given the gravity of those, that noises-off to the main event continue to be bleatings by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries […] who have now put five times more effort into greasing up to Boris Johnson than they ever did into public service.
ref: 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To flatter (someone) excessively; to suck up.
Related terms: grease gun
grease nipple
grease fitting
greasiness
greasy
moortop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moortops
Etymology: From moor + top.
Senses: glosses: The summit of a moor.
jellybelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jellybellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jelly belly.
sillabication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I sweare unto thee by the crisse-crosse row, by the whole Alphabet, and Sillabication of the letters.
ref: 1631, James Mabbe, translating Fernando de Rojas’s 1499 The Spanish Bawd, represented in Celestina: or, The Tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea, chapter 18, page 180
glosses: Obsolete spelling of syllabication.
Father Sky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The personification of the Sky and its biosphere.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of the sky in various cultures.
Brun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bruns
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian, notably held by Viggo Brun.
Derived terms: Brun sieve
Bruun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bruuns
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Bruun, a variant of Brun, from the adjective brun (“brown”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish.
Fenway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after The Fenway, a thoroughfare in Boston, from fen (“type of wetland”) + way. The road goes by the Back Bay Fens, a marshy public park.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Fenway Park (“home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team”).
coordinate_terms: Kenmore
glosses: A neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
ever-more
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of evermore.
wolf pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf packs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wolfpack.
wolf-pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf-packs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wolfpack.
knock someone off their perch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks someone off their perch
form: knocking someone off their perch
form: knocked someone off their perch
form: knocked someone off their perch
Senses: examples: text: Tiger Woods has been knocked off his perch as the No1 player in the world after Vijay Singh beat him in the Deutsche Bank Open last night.
ref: 2004 September 7, “Singh on top of the world”, in The Guardian:
text: He was the third qualifier of the day and posted a 4-lap, 10-mile qualifying average of 227.566 miles an hour on the two-and-a-half-mile oval, then had to wait through nearly six hours while other drivers tried to knock him off his perch.
ref: 2005 May 16, The Associated Press, “Kanaan Wins Indy Pole; Patrick Settles for Fourth”, in New York Times:
text: "It would be nice to knock the Germans off their perch, with them winning the last European Championship and the World Cup."
ref: 2011 July 4, Alistair Magowan quoting Kelly Smith, “Women's World Cup: England out to dethrone Germany”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To defeat or overcome someone who was in a dominant position.
Related terms: knock someone's block off
knock someone's socks off