cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
triosephosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triosephosphates
form: triose phosphate
Etymology: From triose + phosphate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phosphate of a triose, but especially glycerophosphate.
uncambered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cambered.
Senses: glosses: Not cambered
unquenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unquench
unquench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unquenches
form: unquenching
form: unquenched
form: unquenched
Etymology: From un- + quench.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To reverse the effects of a previous quenching operation
upwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upwashes
Etymology: From up- + wash.
Senses: glosses: upward air turbulence caused by a propeller or jet
examples: text: There is significant upwash ahead of the wing and even more downwash behind the wing.
ref: 2008, John S. Denker, How It Flies:
glosses: The upward motion of air as a result of eddies behind a wing or chimney, etc.
Related terms: backwash
uropathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uropathogenic
form: most uropathogenic
Etymology: From uro- + patho- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: That causes uropathy.
wagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagtail
acidergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acidergic
form: most acidergic
Etymology: From acid + -ergic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: activated or produced by a (specific) acid
adipimidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adipimidates
Etymology: From adipimidic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of adipimidic acid (hexanediimidic acid)
aneural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aneural
form: most aneural
Etymology: From a- + neural.
Senses: glosses: Not neural
glosses: Having no nervous tissue
archosauromorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archosauromorph
archosauromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archosauromorphs
Senses: glosses: Any lizard of the extinct infraclass †Archosauromorpha.
asphericity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asphericities
Etymology: From a- + sphericity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being aspherical.
glosses: The degree to which something is aspherical.
aspherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aspherical
form: most aspherical
Etymology: From a- + spherical.
Senses: glosses: Not spherical or nearly spherical.
Derived terms: aspherize
bourgeoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bourgeon
bourgeoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourgeonings
Senses: glosses: sprouting or blossoming
bourgeoning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bourgeoning
form: most bourgeoning
Senses: glosses: That bourgeons
calmative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calmative
form: most calmative
Etymology: From French calmatif.
Senses: glosses: Calming.
calmative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calmatives
Etymology: From French calmatif.
Senses: glosses: A drug with calming effects.
cassiopeium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊpiəm
Etymology: From Cassiopeia + -ium.
Senses: glosses: The original name of the element lutetium.
chemoradiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + radiation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a combination of chemotherapy and radiation
cineole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cineoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monoterpenoid ether eucalyptol.
eucalyptol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucalyptols
Etymology: Borrowed from French eucalyptol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic monoterpenoid ether, obtained from eucalyptus oil, used in perfumery and in the production of pharmaceuticals etc.
circumbinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + binary.
Senses: examples: text: The effect of a reduced collision rate at large orbital radii on the formation timescale of planets is possibly explained by Alexander (2012) who suggests that circumbinary planets have more time to form than planets around single stars.
ref: 2014 Jan. 15, Stefan Lines et al., "Forming Circumbinary Planets: N-body Simulations of Kepler-34," The Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 782, L11 (retrieved 11 Feb 2014)
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an orbit around both stars in a binary star system, or relating to such an orbit.
cisgenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cis- + genic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a genetic modification in which genes from other species are not involved
condensable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more condensable
form: most condensable
Etymology: From condense + -able.
Senses: glosses: That is able to be condensed; that can undergo condensation
Derived terms: incondensable
noncondensable
uncondensable
diborides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diboride
crosses one's fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross one's fingers
crossing one's fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross one's fingers
crossed one's fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross one's fingers
diboride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diborides
Etymology: From di- + boride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any boride containing two atoms of boron
Derived terms: hafnium diboride
magnesium diboride
rhenium diboride
titanium diboride
zirconium diboride
dispase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protease that cleaves fibronectin and collagen
dysautonomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysautonomias
Etymology: From dys- + autonomic + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a range of dysfunctions of the autonomic nervous system
Derived terms: dysautonomic
pandysautonomia
electrocoalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + coalescence.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The coalescence of droplets under the influence of a variable electric field
Related terms: electrocoalesce
electrowetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + wetting.
Senses: glosses: The modification of the wetting properties of a (typically hydrophobic) surface by means of an applied electric field.
encephalomyopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephalomyopathies
Etymology: From encephalo- + myo- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: encephalomyelopathy
Derived terms: cardioencephalomyopathy
Related terms: encephalomyopathic
encephalomyelopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˌsɛfələˌmaɪəˈlɒpəθi/
Forms: form: encephalomyelopathies
Etymology: From encephalo- + myelo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease that affects both the brain and the spinal cord
Synonyms: encephalomyopathy
Derived terms: leukoencephalomyelopathy
expressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expresser
expresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expressers
Etymology: From express + -er.
Senses: examples: an expresser of ideas
glosses: One who expresses.
glosses: That which expresses (a particular material)
Derived terms: nonexpresser
overexpresser
gigatonne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigatonnes
Etymology: From giga- + tonne.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gigaton.
gigatonnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigatonne
glycinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glycinergic
form: most glycinergic
Etymology: From glycine + -ergic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: activated by glycine
Related terms: amino acidergic
helitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛl.ɪˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈhɛl.ɪˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: helitrons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A tunable form of microwave oscillator.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A transposon found in eukaryotes.
helitrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helitron
hemagglutinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That causes hemagglutination.
hemagglutination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemagglutinations
form: haemagglutination
Etymology: From hem- + agglutination.
Senses: glosses: The agglutination of red blood cells, especially as a test for the presence of antibodies
Derived terms: autohemagglutination
microhemagglutination
heteroplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Forms: form: more heteroplasmic
form: most heteroplasmic
Etymology: From heteroplasmy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to heteroplasmy
Related terms: heteroplasia
heteroplasm
heteroplasmicity
heteroplasmid
homoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Forms: form: more homoplasmic
form: most homoplasmic
Etymology: From homoplasmy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to homoplasmy
Derived terms: homoplasmicity
heteroplasmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroplasmies
Etymology: From hetero- + -plasmy.
Senses: glosses: the presence of multiple kinds of mitochondrial or plastid DNA within a single cell or individual
Derived terms: heteroplasmic
microheteroplasmy
Related terms: heteroplasmatic
homoplasmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoplasmies
Etymology: From homo- + -plasmy.
Senses: glosses: the presence of the same mutation in all copies of mitochondrial or plastid DNA within a single cell or individual
Derived terms: homoplasmic
hydroperoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical H-O-O- derived from hydrogen peroxide
Derived terms: hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid
perfosfamide
arcadia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcadias
Senses: examples: text: He had read of the wonderful success which attended the efforts of some of his countrymen who had emigrated to Australia, that arcadia of the agriculturist, and burning with a desire to seek his fortune in the new land of promise, he began to make inquiries of the place, its products, and of the possibilities of successful operations while there.
ref: 1880, Allan Pinkerton, Bucholz and the Detectives:
text: No other development is visible, and the road is free of traffic--a path to freedom through a perfect arcadia.
ref: 1999 December 17, Fred Camper, “The Kitsch Pitch”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Arcadia.
hydroxypropyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxypropyls
Etymology: From hydroxy + propyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a propyl radical is replaced with a hydroxy group.
Derived terms: hydroxypropyl cellulose
hydroxypropyl methylcellulose
hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose
hydroxypropylmethylcellulose
hydroxypropyl starch
hydroxypropyl starch glycerine
hydroxypropyl starch phosphate
immunolabelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of immunolabeled.
immunophilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunophilins
Etymology: From immuno- + -phile + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of isomerases active in the immune system.
immunoreactivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoreactivity
interobserver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + observer.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: interrater, intertester, intercoder
text: interobserver reliability
coordinate_terms: intraobserver
;
intrarater
intratester
intracoder
glosses: Between observers.
Related terms: intertest
intratest
test-retest method
karyoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyoplast
arkful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arkfuls
Etymology: From ark + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: And there they lived all together, Noah and his arkful of pets, for many weary days, while the waters raged and the winds howled outside, and all the earth was covered fathoms deep out of sight below the waves.
ref: 1903, Abbie Farwell Brown, The Curious Book of Birds:
text: "An arkful of nonnative animals and plants have been introduced into the [upper Des Plaines River] basin, often with unintended ecological effects," according to the state Department of Natural Resources publication "Critical Trends in Illinois Ecosystems"(dnr.state.il.us/orep/ctap2/toc1.htm). "
ref: 2002 March 1, Harold Henderson, “City File”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Enough to fill an ark
raw_tags: of animals
arkfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arkful
kinetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic heterocyclic plant hormone that promotes cell division
lepidosauromorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidosauromorph
lepidosauromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepidosauromorphs
Senses: glosses: Any reptile of the infraclass Lepidosauromorpha.
awfulest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It's the awfulest city that ever I saw.
ref: 1872, Sophia May (Rebecca Sophia Clarke), Little Folks Astray:
text: The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
ref: 1896, Samuel Clemens, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc:
glosses: superlative form of awful: most awful
leukemogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukemogeneses
Etymology: From leukemia + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The induction and development of leukemia in bone marrow.
Related terms: erythroleukemogenesis
liveborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From live + born.
Senses: glosses: born alive
macrometastases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrometastasis
macrometastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrometastases
Etymology: From macro- + metastasis.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large metastasis
Related terms: macrometastatic
micrometastasis
methionyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈθaɪ.ə.nɪl/
Forms: form: methionyls
Etymology: From methionine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from methionine.
Derived terms: methionyl-lysyl-bradykinin
microcapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcapillaries
Etymology: From micro- + capillary.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic capillary
microcapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + capillary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a microscopic capillary
Related terms: microcapilarity
micrometastatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + metastatic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a micrometastasis
mosasauroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosasauroid
aways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Seein' a platter of ice cream down the table aways, I got up onto my feet, and havin' a good long arm, reached for it.
ref: 1870 October 8, Various, Punchinello Vol. 2 No. 28:
text: "And just down the hill aways another big man is buried.
ref: 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14:
glosses: Alternative form of a ways.
aways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of away
mosasauroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosasauroids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct aquatic reptile of the superfamily Mosasauroidea, variously interpreted as related to or belonging to the lizards or the snakes.
apposites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apposite
aquaintance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And you must consider that this auctoritie, is gotten either by nature, or by accidente: and as to nature, it behoveth to provide, that he which is boren in one place, be not apoincted to the men billed in the same, but be made hedde of those places, where he hath not any naturall aquaintance.
ref: 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:
text: He entereth young men into aquaintance with debt-books.
ref: 1614, Sir Thomas Overbury, “Characters”, in Character Writings of the 17th Century, published 1891:
text: Yet in the Ignatian letters there is not the faintest aquaintance with the man or his teaching.
ref: 1886, The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886:
glosses: Misspelling of acquaintance.
nice to meet you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Nice to meet you! — You too, Bye.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: A polite expression used when the speaker is first introduced to someone.
Synonyms: pleased to meet you
arrangment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You know that your arrangments for the fight are actually made; that already the British army is commanded by a Franco-British Council of War; that there is no possible honourable retreat for you.
ref: 1915, Bernard Shaw, New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1:
text: Under present social arrangments accumulated property is handed on to heirs.
ref: 1922, J. G. H. Barry, Our Lady Saint Mary:
text: Lykke Li, a Swedish singer who delivered pop love songs with a cutting voice and wily acoustic arrangments, performed in four places on Friday alone.
ref: 2008 March 17, Jon Pareles, “Southwest Festival Wraps Up Its 2,000-Course Feast”, in New York Times:
glosses: Misspelling of arrangement.
autodestructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autodestructive
form: most autodestructive
Etymology: From auto- + destructive.
Senses: examples: text: […] until 1957 he was a painter. However, as he told Bomberg, he was searching for something 'extremely fast and intense' and in 1960 he began 'painting' with acid on nylon, thus becoming a pioneer of autodestructive art, for which he has remained the chief spokesman.
ref: 1993, Jonathan Law, European culture: a contemporary companion, page 247:
text: Collectively they conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins.
ref: 1996 June 28, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Acid Western”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In contrast to what might be expected, MHC class I-deficient mice are not autodestructive.
ref: 2000 June 16, Per-Arne Oldenborg et al., “Role of CD47 as a Marker of Self on Red Blood Cells”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 2051–2054:
glosses: Self-destroying; self-destructive.
defendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈfɛndəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more defendable
form: most defendable
Etymology: From Old French deffendable (French défendable), from défendre + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being defended.
Synonyms: defensible
Derived terms: defendability
defendably
undefendable
attorny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attornies
Senses: examples: text: The attornies, who are numerous and powerful, very hostile.
ref: 1829, Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough), A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II, published 1881:
text: That "most wonderful woman in the world," Aunt Betsey, for example; or that most laconic of carriers, Mr. Barkis; or, to name yet one other, Uriah Heep, that reddest and most writhing of rascally attornies.
ref: 1872, Charles Kent, Charles Dickens as a Reader:
text: The hand-stenciled sign over the center door reads, "No attornies [sic] allowed in assembly."
ref: 1988 April 22, Bill Burck, “Local Color: A Night in Court”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of attorney.
apartmentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apartmentlike
form: most apartmentlike
Etymology: From apartment + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But as Bronstein points out, students who want an apartmentlike experience won't find anything comparable to Loft-Right for the price in Lincoln Park.
ref: 2006 June 23, Heather Kenny, “Please Don't Puke on the Eames”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The shelter, in the Longwood section of the Bronx, has small apartmentlike units with kitchenettes and tile floors.
ref: 2007 December 4, Lori Moore, “Getting Help When Fire Destroys Everything”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an apartment
arrangments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrangment
attila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈtɪlə/
Forms: form: attilas
Senses: examples: text: In the Magyar costume, his heart beating more proudly under the national attila, he passed before the eyes of the peasants who had known him when a child, and had fought under his orders; and he spoke to them by name, recognizing many of his old companions in these poor people with cheeks tanned by the sun, and heads whitened by age.
ref: 1888, Jules Claretie, Prince Zilah:
text: As I gazed at myself in the looking-glass, I found that I should be a handsome boy when I had put on my silver-buttoned attila.
ref: 1898, Maurus Jokai, Debts of Honor:
glosses: A short, fringed cape worn as part of traditional Hungarian costume.
examples: text: In the scrubby woods that cover most of the Yucatan, suboscines such as the masked tityra, the bright-rumped attila, and the boat-billed flycatcher are all common.
ref: 1988 February 26, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Any of the tropical flycatchers of the genus Attila.
Derived terms: bright-rumped attila
cinnamon attila
grey-hooded attila
ochraceous attila
white-eyed attila
antipoaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + poaching.
Senses: examples: text: The play, about a Rolling Stone reporter who travels to Africa to write a story about antipoaching research, had been in development at the Goodman Theatre for almost two years; shortly before leaving town Cleveland learned from Goodman artistic director Robert Falls that the Goodman would not be giving the play a fully staged production next season.
ref: 1991 April 19, Lewis Lazare, “Life in the Laney Lane/Ardis Loves Lucy/Cleveland's Play to Land at Northlight; Local Boy Makes Goodman”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Leakey cleaned house, built a crack force of antipoaching rangers, and brought in new managers and researchers.
ref: 1998 April 24, Michael McRae, “ECOLOGY: Survival Test for Kenya's Wildlife”, in Science, volume 280, number 5363, →DOI:
text: A German zoological society financed antipoaching units to patrol the park, and helped establish the North Luangwa Conservation Project, which offered medical care, schooling, job training and loans to start farming.
ref: 2007 June 30, Michael Wines, “Saving Wildlife in Zambia, and Raising Human Prospects”, in New York Times:
glosses: Seeking to prevent or prohibit poaching
atole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atoles
Etymology: From Spanish atole, from Classical Nahuatl ātōlli.
Senses: examples: text: "Pan fino, pan bianco!" screams the baker; and other cries from the vendors of atole, huevos, and leche, are uttered in shrill, discordant voices.
ref: 1851, Mayne Reid, The Scalp Hunters:
text: Since the days of the Tarascans, the corn-loving folks of Michoacan have enjoyed atole, a maize-based gruel flavored with chocolate, fruit, tamarind, or herbs.
ref: 2006 January 13, David Hammond, “Beyond the Burrito, Part 2: Michoacan”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Visitors can learn to make their own tortillas or sample the traditional cornmeal drink atole.
ref: 2007 April 13, S. Kirk Walsh, “Festivals With a Mexican Flair”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sweetened thick drink or thin gruel made from cornmeal, served hot.
attornies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attorney
glosses: plural of attorny
arni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arnis
Senses: examples: text: Besides these three species and the zebu, the yak, the gayal, and the arni (not to mention the buffalo or genus Bubalus) have been domesticated; making altogether seven species of Bos.
ref: 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.:
text: In the arni of India they are enormously long.
ref: 1904, Arthur Erwin Brown, “The Zoology of North American Big Game”, in American Big Game in Its Haunts:
synonyms: Asian buffalo
Asiatic buffalo
wild Asian buffalo
glosses: The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
antiurban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + urban.
Senses: examples: text: When I ask why so much of the humor on National Public Radio is antiurban, Kessler responds with one of Ian Shoales's most quoted lines: "If the city were a nice place to live, nobody would want to live there.
ref: 1988 July 15, Lawrence Rand, “Funny Business: an entire evening with Ian Shoales”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The District One headquarters of the Illinois Department of Transportation is about as antiurban as a building can get.
ref: 1996 September 6, Harold Henderson, “Up Against the Sprawl”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Showing a negative view of cities or city life
antitheatricality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + theatricality.
Senses: examples: text: Like Sanchez's piece, Wash delights in its own banality, its antitheatricality.
ref: 1994 April 15, Justin Hayford, “The Terror of Being Present”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The quality or state of being antitheatrical
antiinflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antinflammatory
form: anti-inflammatory
Etymology: From anti- + inflammatory.
Senses: examples: text: About 20 drugs on the market treat symptoms of multiple sclerosis, among them immunosuppressants to slow the progression of the disease, antiinflammatory drugs to shorten the duration of attacks, and interferon to reduce the frequency of attacks.
ref: 1997 August 22, Tori Marlan, “Can Bee Stings Cure MS?”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Development of glucocorticoid receptor agonists with sufficient antiinflammatory action but without detrimental effects on bone that often lead to osteoporosis, would indeed be a major advance.
ref: 2000 September 1, Gideon A. Rodan, T. John Martin, “Therapeutic Approaches to Bone Diseases”, in Science, volume 289, number 5484, →DOI, pages 1508–1514:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of anti-inflammatory.
antiinflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiinflammatories
form: antinflammatory
form: anti-inflammatory
Etymology: From anti- + inflammatory.
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of anti-inflammatory.
antiintellectual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiintellectual
form: most antiintellectual
Etymology: From anti- + intellectual.
Senses: examples: text: This is a traditionally philistine and antiintellectual country.
ref: 1990 February 2, John Stevenson, “Reading: After the Bloom Boom”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Not to encourage antiintellectual behavior, but if she can't avoid being valedictorian any other way, tell her to take a dive on that last physics quiz.
ref: 1993 July 23, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of anti-intellectual.
Derived terms: antiintellectualism
antitechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + technology.
Senses: examples: text: The reporter told Fear & Favor, "I came to the realization that the effect of the editing was to make the local residents around Ward Valley look like complete kooks, complete antitechnology nuts.
ref: 1997 October 31, Michael Miner, “Putting Censorship to Good Use/ Sun-Times's Kick in the Face/ A Series of Errors?”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Furthermore, Ms. Barenholtz and Mr. Markus said, the ads are not antitechnology, but rather reminders of other forms of connection.
ref: 2008 September 25, Claire Cain Miller, “Get Off the Internet, and Chew Some Gum”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposed to technology
antisodomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sodomy.
Senses: examples: text: Many felt it was the first positive news at the federal level since 1986, when the court affirmed a state's interest in restricting sexual behavior by upholding Georgia's antisodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick.
ref: 1996 August 30, Jeffrey Felshman, “How to Win Enemies and Influence People”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Doesn't it violate the Texas antisodomy law once backed by President Bush--to say nothing of the FCC's new antismut regulations--for so many U.S. senators to have their heads up their butts on C-SPAN?
ref: 2004 July 23, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: law
glosses: Seeking to prevent or prohibit sodomy
antireform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antireform
form: most antireform
Etymology: From anti- + reform.
Senses: examples: text: It was top-down, antireform politics.
ref: 1990 October 5, Ben Joravsky, “Annals of school reform: the security guard snafu”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Russia made good progress on privatization in 1993 despite active opposition from key cabinet members, hard-line legislators, and antireform regional leaders.
ref: 1994, United States Central Intelligence Agency, “Russia”, in 1994 CIA World Factbook:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing reform
Derived terms: antireformism
antireformist
antiperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiperformance
form: most antiperformance
Etymology: From anti- + performance.
Senses: examples: text: I always thought this antiperformance prejudice was a shame.
ref: 1991 June 14, Jack Helbig, “Among All This You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposing or taking a negative view of the performing arts
antipatronage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + patronage.
Senses: examples: text: A series of antipatronage court rulings had loosened his hold over city workers; demographically, his ward was becoming more like a north lakefront district.
ref: 1999 December 24, Ben Joravsky, “Looking Out For Number Two”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing or seeking to prohibit political patronage
antiadministration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiadministration
form: most antiadministration
Etymology: From anti- + administration.
Senses: examples: text: Alderman Joseph Moore is that rarest of Chicago political creatures, a white antiadministration alderman.
ref: 1996 March 15, Cate Plys, “City Council Follies”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing a particular administration
antibusing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibusing
form: most antibusing
Etymology: From anti- + busing.
Senses: examples: text: In years following, local schools were shaken by angry antibusing protests.
ref: 1990 April 6, Ben Joravsky, “The next hot neighborhood is . . . the southwest side?”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
antonyms: probusing
glosses: Opposing the use of busing to achieve racial integration in schools.
antiincinerator
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + incinerator.
Senses: examples: text: By the time the new combined task force met July 16, Greene had attended three different gatherings of grass-roots antilandfill and antiincinerator groups--in southwest Chicago, south-suburban University Park, and downstate Bloomington--and they had given him his marching orders: No megadeal.
ref: 1990 September 28, Harold Henderson, “What a Waste!”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing an incinerator; usually opposing the siting of a particular incinerator in a particular community
antidisco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidisco
form: most antidisco
Etymology: From anti- + disco.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe suburban Sunbelt teens--the shock troops of the antidisco movement--couldn't relate to the disco milieu because they balked at rubbing shoulders with urban blacks or Hispanics in crowded clubs.
ref: 1991 September 13, Bill Wyman, “Disco without shame”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Gordon argues that antidisco attitudes had a negative impact on black and gay communities.
ref: 2005 June 10, Laura Kopen, “A day-by-day guide to what's happening”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposing or taking a negative view of disco
antiholiday
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiholiday
form: most antiholiday
Etymology: From anti- + holiday.
Senses: examples: text: Originally entitled Hellcab Does Christmas and marketed as a hip antiholiday holiday show, Will Kern's incredibly black comedy about a day in the life of a poor beleaguered cab driver was never, strictly speaking, a holiday show.
ref: 1993 February 12, Jack Helbig, “Hellcab”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.
antiholiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiholidays
Etymology: From anti- + holiday.
Senses: examples: text: The idea was to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an antiholiday invented by the Vancouver-based Media Foundation in the early 90s that takes place on what's traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. "
ref: 2002 December 20, Douglas Wolk, “What's Left?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal or regular holidays.
antihuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antihuman
form: most antihuman
form: anti-human
Etymology: From anti- + human.
Senses: examples: text: What more fierce than the scorn and more violent than the abuse poured on the member of a trades-union whose sound moral feeling rebels against the iniquities sanctioned by its collective conscience, albeit that conscience be essentially antisocial, if not antihuman?
ref: 1836, Henry Maudsley, Life in Mind & Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human Nature, Macmillan and Company, Limited, page 135:
text: I would like this antihuman woman to know that she has played right into the hands of abusers everywhere by making this claim.
ref: 1991 April 26, Name withheld, “Our Abusive Critics”, in Chicago Reader:
text: I've rarely seen a sculptural object express contradictions so well: they're both human and antihuman, squat and vertical (because of the drapery folds), heavy and light.
ref: 1999 February 19, Fred Camper, “Form Follows Dysfunction”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
ref: 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:
glosses: Opposed to humanity.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: antimouse
antirabbit
glosses: Describing an antibody that reacts with any antigen found in (and with some relevant degree of specificity to) humans.
antihuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihumans
form: anti-human
Etymology: From anti- + human.
Senses: examples: text: The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans. Wild beasts, addicts, and Orientals are alike feared as antihumans, negations of humans.
ref: 2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190:
text: These witches, the human antihumans, are the most prevalent and present evil in the world.
ref: 2011, Magnus Course, Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile, page 41:
glosses: A being that opposes, or typifies the opposite of, the human race.
Related terms: antehuman
antiserum
inhuman
nonhuman
unhuman
antihumanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihumanisms
form: anti-humanism
Etymology: From anti- + humanism.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the field moved beyond its early antihumanism, upgrading drivers from unthinking particles to individuals with agendas (and car phones, and tempers, and fast food banquets spread out on the dashboard).
ref: 1994 November 11, David Kestenbaum, “Highway to Hell”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In his frigid antihumanism, Sorokin parts company with Russian satirists like Gogol, Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha and, more recently, Viktor Pelevin.
ref: 2007 April 15, Ken Kalfus, “They Had a Hammer”, in New York Times:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposition to humanism.
Related terms: inhumanism
antihumanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + humanist.
Senses: examples: text: But as in the overrated and similarly antihumanist Memento, every sequence proceeds forward; it's only the order of the sequences that's backward.
ref: 2003 March 14, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “All and Nothing”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposing humanism
Related terms: antihuman
antihumanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihumanists
Etymology: From anti- + humanist.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who opposes humanism.
anesthetizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anesthetizers
form: anaesthetizer
form: anaesthetiser
Etymology: From anesthetize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Buller's the best anesthetizer in the state and a splendid fellow besides.
ref: 1913, Grace S. Richmond, Mrs. Red Pepper:
glosses: A person that administers anesthesia
examples: text: Aunt Ruth has an "electronic anesthetizer" that controls her chronic back pain but also activates the garage door.
ref: 1991 May 17, Anthony Adler, “Tabloid Truth”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A device with an anesthetic effect
anesthetizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anesthetizer
anthro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænθɹoʊ/
Forms: form: anthros
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: I gather the phrase is used in lieu of some more practical benefit, e.g., a "job," which, as holders of English lit and anthro degrees can tell you, isn't necessarily part of the program.
ref: 1988 September 9, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Unlikely as it seemed, he might somehow return to the Empire, and if that happened, any information he could bring back would be valuable to the socio and anthro specialists.
ref: 1992, Ann Wilson, Fearful Symmetry:
glosses: Anthropology.
examples: text: Workshop anthros often ask Indians of tender age to give their authoritative answers to problems which an entire generation of Indians is just now beginning to solve.
ref: 1969, Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for your Sins:
text: While Deloria may have hoped to move anthropologists to be more appreciative, Erdoes simply sets scholars up as straw men for the average non-Indian academic reader to self-servingly scorn. Anthros are responsible for believing reservation Indians are “warriors without weapons” (1972:36-37)
ref: 1994, Julian Rice, “A ventriloquy of anthros”, in American Indian Quarterly, page 176:
glosses: An anthropologist.
examples: text: Today I cycled down to Westboro Beach and watched the boats on the river/lake for a while. This led me to wonder if anthros would like sailing and why ... I finally decided that it would be something that otters would love to do.
ref: 2001 May 22, Jeff Novotny, “Anthros and Sports”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: Extra animals add complexity, but the benefit is that you're more likely to create a unique new character. There's hundreds of wolf anthros, but how many zebra-striped pig-tigers are there?
ref: 2012, Lindsay Cibos, Jared Hodges, Draw More Furries: How to Create Anthropomorphic Fantasy Creatures:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An anthropomorphic character, typically used to refer to characters with humanoid forms in contrast with feral characters.
anthro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænθɹoʊ/
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: They are to anthro cartoonists what Trekkies are to Star Trek, gathering for special conventions that feature anthro cartoons and cartoonists.
ref: 2004, Brad Guigar, The everything cartooning book, page 146:
glosses: anthropomorphic
antidefamation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + defamation.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps, in future, you should regard any reference to nonhumans in his writing as a red light and alert the appropriate antidefamation societies.
ref: 1999 March 12, Mabel Orona, “Bulls, Dogs, and Cox”, in Chicago Reader:
text: You almost needed an antidefamation league for mathematicians.
ref: 2008 June 17, Claudia Dreifus, “Professor Finds the Art in Both Numbers and Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing the defamation of a particular group. Chiefly in direct or oblique reference to the Anti-Defamation League.
interoception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interoceptions
Senses: glosses: Any of the senses that detect conditions within the body.
Coordinate terms: proprioception
kinesthesia
Related terms: interoceptive
uncollectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌn.kəˈlɛktɪbl̩/
Forms: form: uncollectable
Etymology: From un- + collectible.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be collected.
uncollectible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌn.kəˈlɛktɪbl̩/
Forms: form: uncollectibles
form: uncollectable
Etymology: From un- + collectible.
Senses: glosses: Something, such as a bad debt, that cannot be collected.
amusical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amusical
form: most amusical
Etymology: From a- + musical.
Senses: examples: text: The band alternates male and female lead vocals; when Emily Elizabeth sings she often punctuates whatever needs punctuating with an amusical screech, which gets annoying quick[…
ref: 2006 February 24, Liz Armstrong, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Brian Nemtusak, J. Niimi, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not musical.
examples: text: At the meeting, Isabelle Peretz of the University of Montreal reported preliminary results with amusical subjects that may support the hypothesis that the brain contains specific neural pathways for music.
ref: 2001 June 1, Michael Balter, “What Makes the Mind Dance and Count”, in Science, volume 292, number 5522, →DOI, pages 1636–1637:
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting amusia.
antiholidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiholiday
anticar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticar
form: most anticar
Etymology: From anti- + car.
Senses: examples: text: But in the anticar movement, it is axiomatic that the urban model should be imposed everywhere.
ref: 1998 February 20, Harold Henderson, “Car Trouble”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But I don't think Eliot expected the kind of anticar sentiment that we're about.
ref: 2003 March 28, Cara Jepsen, “Car and Rider”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles
anticar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticars
Etymology: From anti- + car.
Senses: examples: text: He considered the Falcon an anticar. He thought it served the puritan bias of the man who made it more than the needs of the customers or the company.
ref: 1986, David Halberstam, The Reckoning, page 362:
text: It was a virtual anticar.
ref: 2007 June 17, Phil Patton, “Mad Scionists: Young, Hip and a Bit Less Square”, in New York Times:
glosses: An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car
anticars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticar
mujahidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Soviets also distributed flyers pointing out the mujahidin resistance was financed by the U.S.
ref: 2009 June 15, Rick Westhead, “Toronto woman behind Afghan ads”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: plural of mujahid
sensory receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensory receptors
Senses: glosses: A sensory nerve ending that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism.
Synonyms: word: sensory receptor
Hyponyms: word: electroreceptor
word: baroreceptor
word: chemoreceptor
word: hydroreceptor
word: mechanoreceptor
word: nociceptor
word: osmoreceptor
word: photoreceptor
word: proprioceptor
word: thermoreceptor
holiday season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holiday seasons
Senses: examples: text: What are your plans for the holiday season?
glosses: The period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur, such as Halloween, American Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
examples: text: Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:
glosses: A period in the summer when people go on holiday (vacation).
Synonyms: word: advent
word: Christmas season
word: Christmastide
word: Thanksgivingtide
word: holidays
word: yuletide
Related terms: happy holidays
jossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of josser
josses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joss