cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
isoledene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + ledene.
Senses: examples: text: All the major terpenes (pinene, limonene, caryophyllene, chamigrene, gurjunene, selinene, and isoledene) produced from the functional TPSs were detected in the VOC profiles of the four endophytes grown on potato dextrose.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Rapid Discovery and Functional Characterization of Terpene Synthases from Four Endophytic Xylariaceae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sesquiterpene (1aR,4R,7R,7bS)-1,1,4,7-tetramethyl-1a,2,3,4,5,6,7,7b-octahydrocyclopropa[e]azulene
macrostomatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrostomatans
Etymology: Macrostomata + -an
Senses: examples: text: The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any snake of the clade Macrostomata
let's plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of let's play
multidivergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + divergent.
Senses: examples: text: In the previous study, the phylogeny based on the partial SSU rDNA sequences, corresponding with the helices 34–44 [36 ], showed that the Type IIb clade nested within a multidivergent clade of Type IIa [5 ].
ref: 2016 February 18, “Evolution of a Planktonic Foraminifer during Environmental Changes in the Tropical Oceans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: multiply divergent
mycodiesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycodiesels
Etymology: From myco- + diesel.
Senses: examples: text: Many of these mycodiesel hydrocarbons are terpenes, a chemically diverse class of compounds produced by many plants, fungi, and bacteria.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Rapid Discovery and Functional Characterization of Terpene Synthases from Four Endophytic Xylariaceae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An alternative diesel fuel produced by fungi.
retroperitoneoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + peritoneo- + -scopic.
Senses: examples: text: The retroperitoneoscopic technique was performed as described by the same team previously[20 ].
ref: 2016 February 18, “Retroperitoneal Laparoscopic Management of Paraganglioma: A Single Institute Experience”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Describing posterior (rather than the normal anterior) transperitoneal laparoscopic techniques
rhyodacite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhyodacites
Senses: examples: text: Vent facies on the north and eastern sides of Fish Lake are mostly flows and breccias of andesite and rhyodacite.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Three Millennia of Southwestern North American Dustiness and Future Implications”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An extrusive volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite
sophorotriose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The opposite side of subsite +1 from Arg572 is connected to a large empty space appearing to be subsite +2 for the binding of sophorotriose (Glc-β-1,2-Glc-β-1,2-Glc) in spite of the higher K m value for sophorotriose than that for sophorose.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Functional and Structural Analysis of a ?-Glucosidase Involved in ?-1,2-Glucan Metabolism in Listeria innocua”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trisaccharide present in sophorolipid
spectraplakin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectraplakins
Senses: examples: text: Thus it is possible that in Schwann cells, Dst is involved in any or all of intermediate filament organization, basement membrane formation and mediation of signaling of specific integrin complexes—none of which are present in OLs. Further explanation may exist for the seemingly disposable nature of neuronal Dst in OLs. In mammals, a second member of the spectraplakin exists: microtubule-actin crosslinking factor 1 (Macf1; variantly actin crosslinking family 7/Acf7).
ref: 2016 February 18, “Cytoskeletal Linker Protein Dystonin Is Not Critical to Terminal Oligodendrocyte Differentiation or CNS Myelination”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of exceptionally long, intracellular proteins that have the rare ability to bind to all three cytoskeletal elements: actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments
subtrapezoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + trapezoid.
Senses: examples: text: When the female antennae are examined closely, the flagellomere is ovoid, more pilose in Neohermes but subtrapezoid and less pilose in Protochauliodes.
ref: 2016 February 18, “A New Fishfly Species (Megaloptera: Corydalidae: Neohermes Banks) Discovered from North America by a Systematic Revision, with Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Implications”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of subtrapezoidal.
transvacuolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + vacuolar.
Senses: examples: text: PBA has been shown to specifically disrupt or prevent borate dependent crosslinks that are important for the structural integrity of the cell, including the organization of transvacuolar cytoplasmic strands of tobacco cells, making it a useful tool for rapidly and reversibly inducing boron deficiency-like responses.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Addition of Phenylboronic Acid to Malus domestica Pollen Tubes Alters Calcium Dynamics, Disrupts Actin Filaments and Affects Cell Wall Architecture”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Across or through a vacuole
bioreduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioreduces
form: bioreducing
form: bioreduced
form: bioreduced
Etymology: From bio- + reduce.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To biologically or biochemically reduce
Related terms: bioreduction
bioreduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The MTS tetrazolium compound (Owen’s reagent) is bioreduced by cells into a colored formazan product that is soluble in tissue culture medium.
ref: 2016 February 19, “Cryopreservation of Endothelial Cells in Various Cryoprotective Agents and Media – Vitrification versus Slow Freezing Methods”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bioreduce
epiclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + -clinal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an epicline.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower.
Heinola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Päijänne Tavastia, Finland.
Kramp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kramps
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kramp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
DRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DR
beautility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bjuːˈtɪləti/
Forms: form: beautilities
Etymology: Blend of beauty + utility.
Senses: examples: text: Beautility, like economy, was in the eye of the beholder, and when homeowners along the proposed Lake Washington Boulevard suggested shrinking the avenue to retain more of their private property for sale, Olmsted lambasted Edward C. Cheasty, the park board president, for bowing to the pressure.
ref: 2007, Matthew Klingle, Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: Combination of beauty and utility.
beautilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beautility
nonstardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-stardom
Etymology: From non- + stardom.
Senses: examples: text: […] she had been to drama school herself before deciding she really couldn't hack the long, long slog into nonstardom and that she rather liked the idea of agenting.
ref: 2009, Penny Vincenzi, The Best of Times: A Novel:
glosses: Lack of stardom or fame.
non-stardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonstardom.
intraindividually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intraindividual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After reporting to the laboratory at a standardized time (between 8 and 10 a.m., intraindividually same hour for all tests) subjects rested in the supine position for 10 min prior to blood collection.
ref: 2016 February 19, “Blood-Borne Markers of Fatigue in Competitive Athletes – Results from Simulated Training Camps”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within an individual.
intralumenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + lumenal.
Senses: examples: text: MIG-14::GFP localized to the apparent limiting membrane and intralumenal structures of late endosomes/lysosomes (most likely MVBs) labeled by tagRFP::RAB-7 in rab-6.
ref: 2016 February 19, “RAB-6.1 and RAB-6.2 Promote Retrograde Transport in C . elegans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a lumen
Derived terms: intralumenally
laminaritetraose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Between the N and C-terminal domains, the model contains an electronegatively charged wide groove comprising several conserved residues that include the above catalytic residues and four amino acid residues; Thr156, Asn158, Trp163 and Thr167 involved in sugar binding that accommodate the laminaritetraose molecule.
ref: 2016 February 19, “Prediction of Certain Well-Characterized Domains of Known Functions within the PE and PPE Proteins of Mycobacteria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligosaccharide composed of two laminaribiose moieties
metastaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metastatic + -ity.
Senses: examples: ref: 1990, L Lligona, A Magistrelli, MT Tacconi, “Relationship among cytotoxicity by synthetic ether-lipids, cholesterol content and metastaticity in murine melanoma cell lines”, in Pharmacological Research, volume 22, title:
text: In CRC, we could trace the only path from metastaticity to lymph node metastasis.
ref: 2016 February 19, “Malignant Potential of Gastrointestinal Cancers Assessed by Structural Equation Modeling”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being metastatic.
phosphohistidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphohistidines
Etymology: From phospho- + histidine.
Senses: examples: text: Unambiguous electron density for a vanadate ion covalently bound to His11 (numbering according to PDB_ID: 4PZ9) mimicking the phosphohistidine intermediate and acetate ion was observed.
ref: 2016 February 19, “Prediction of Certain Well-Characterized Domains of Known Functions within the PE and PPE Proteins of Mycobacteria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two N-phosphate derivatives of histidine (in which N-H is replaced by N-PO₃H)
Derived terms: monophosphohistidine
postfreezing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + freezing.
Senses: examples: text: DMSO is the most commonly used CPA. It provides a high rate of postfreezing cell survival but presents chemical cytotoxicity at room temperature and can damage the cells osmotically [12 ].
ref: 2016 February 19, “Cryopreservation of Endothelial Cells in Various Cryoprotective Agents and Media – Vitrification versus Slow Freezing Methods”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following freezing
skyllamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyllamycins
Senses: examples: text: The cytochrome P450 encoded (sky32) is associated with the skyllamycin biosynthesis gene cluster.
ref: 2016 February 19, “Prediction of Certain Well-Characterized Domains of Known Functions within the PE and PPE Proteins of Mycobacteria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of cyclodepsipeptides that are produced by bacteria and fungi and are pharmaceutically used as antibacterials, immunosuppressives, cytostatics and antihelmintics.
thermocompression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + compression.
Senses: examples: text: This wiring was covered with another PMMA plate bonded to the first PMMA plate by thermocompression bonding for 20 min at 120°C with an applied force of approximately 5 × 10 5 N m −2 .
ref: 2016 February 19, “Logic Gate Operation by DNA Translocation through Biological Nanopores”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: heating and compression combined
sleepy heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleepy head
Hamina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Kymenlaakso, Finland, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland near the Russian border.
EY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ernst & Young.
Riihimäki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Tavastia Proper, in southern Finland.
Kajaani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Kainuu, Finland.
Synonyms: word: Cajanaburg
Playstations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Playstation
pseudo-problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-problem
multirepository
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + repository.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one repository.
Purchase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Harrison, New York.
search parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of search party
kikwembe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kikwembe
Senses: examples: text: Another younger woman, well-dressed in a full Zairian woman's kikwembe suit, came in with a smiling face, eager to see the child.
ref: 1999, Nancy Rose Hunt, A Colonial Lexicon, page 292:
text: Beatrice had only one light blanket and a few kikwembe that she used for clothes, swaddling children, and lying on.
ref: 2011, Jason K Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Public Affairs, published 2012, page 37:
text: "They were wearing kikwembe (a shawl worn by Congolese women) over their uniforms, and women's headscarves."
ref: 2013 July 15, David Smith, The Guardian:
glosses: A type of wraparound cloth worn by women in the Congo.
mercy killings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercy killing
rehomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehoming
FinCEN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
light music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Light music was especially popular during the formative years of radio broadcasting.
glosses: A mainly British style of orchestral music, less solemn and usually shorter than other Western classical compositions.
move mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves mountains
form: moving mountains
form: moved mountains
form: moved mountains
Senses: synonyms: move heaven and earth
glosses: To make every possible effort in order to achieve something.
examples: text: faith will move mountains
text: If I could move a mountain
If I could make the sky turn black
If I could turn the clock back
To when I heard your neck go snap
ref: 2005, J. G. Thirlwell, “(not adam)”, in Love, performed by Foetus:
glosses: To do seemingly impossible things, to achieve incredible results.
retromammary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + mammary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the mammary gland.
water bailage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A toll paid for the transportation of goods in or out of London by water.
capnogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capnograms
Etymology: From capno- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic image produced by capnography.
capnograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capnogram
oxygraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxygraphy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to oxygraphy.
atoxigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + toxigenic.
Senses: glosses: Not toxicogenic.
atoxicogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + toxicogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not toxicogenic.
moved mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of move mountains
moving mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move mountains
moves mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move mountains
polyspastons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyspaston
oxygraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxy- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The monitoring of the concentration or partial pressure of oxygen in the respiratory gases.
Derived terms: oxygraphic
Related terms: capnography
morning-noon-and-night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Brunfelsia pauciflora.
kiss-me-quick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiss-me-quicks
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Brunfelsia pauciflora.
glosses: A bump in a road.
glosses: A kind of bonnet for women, fashionable in the 19th century.
Synonyms: sense: flowering plant
word: morning-noon-and-night
sense: flowering plant
word: yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yesterday-today-and-tomorrows
Etymology: See yesterday-today-tomorrow.
Senses: examples: text: Then there are coppertone plants blooming pale pink, and wonderful yesterday-today-and tomorrows^([sic]) which are super hardy to the South unless a rare cold wind gets them.
ref: 2003, Katherine Casbeer, A Philosophy of Gardening, iUniverse:
glosses: The flowering plant Brunfelsia pauciflora, of Brazil.
Synonyms: kiss-me-quick
morning-noon-and-night
Related terms: yesterday-today-tomorrow
give one's right arm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives one's right arm
form: giving one's right arm
form: gave one's right arm
form: gave one's right arm
Senses: glosses: Synonym of give one's eye-teeth.
synonyms: word: give one's eye-teeth
Related terms: arm and a leg
minniebush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minniebushes
Senses: glosses: The shrub Rhododendron pilosum.
minniebushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minniebush
miracling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miracle
miracled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miracle
milefortlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milefortlets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mile-fortlet.
milefortlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milefortlet
mile-fortlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mile-fortlets
form: milefortlet
Senses: glosses: A milecastle.
mile-fortlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mile-fortlet
milecastle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mīlʹ-käs'-əl
ipa: /ˈmaɪlˌkɑːsl̩/
enpr: mīlʹ-kăs'-əl
ipa: /ˈmaɪlˌkæs(ə)l/
Forms: form: milecastles
Etymology: From mile + castle.
Senses: synonyms: milefortlet
mile-fortlet
glosses: One of a series of small rectangular fortifications, spaced roughly one Roman mile apart, built during the period of the Roman Empire.
wikipedia: Milecastle 39
milecastles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milecastle
minikin gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fine catgut.
ministrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ministrate
ministrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ministrate
ministrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ministrate
miesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miesies
Senses: glosses: madam; miss
spousely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spousely
form: most spousely
Etymology: From spouse + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When the time came, the husband would build a new house to which the old wife would retire with her children, while the new wife assumed the spousely role of homemaker.
ref: 2009, Marc Rangel, Memories of Mosquitia, page 64:
text: If the decretalists were concerned that prospective spouses be able to carry out their moral obligations, they were no less interested in preserving spousely rights after the conjugal knot was tied.
ref: 1990, Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, Joan Bechtold, Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages, page 135:
glosses: Befitting a spouse.
Hyponyms: husbandly
wifely
Related terms: spousal
spousally
spousally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spousal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Most widows do not require professional help. Beyond grieving and loss of the partner, the spousally bereaved are faced with a set of challenges and alternative paths.
ref: 1996, Vern L. Bengtson, Adulthood and Aging: Research on Continuities and Discontinuities:
glosses: As, or in terms of, a spouse.
decretalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decretalist
decretalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decretalists
Etymology: From decretal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If the decretalists were concerned that prospective spouses be able to carry out their moral obligations, they were no less interested in preserving spousely rights after the conjugal knot was tied.
ref: 1990, Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, Joan Bechtold, Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages, page 135:
glosses: A member of a 13th-century school of interpretation of canon law that emphasized the decretals (letters issued by the Popes on matters of church discipline) in preference to the Decretum Gratiani (1141), which their rivals, the decretists, favoured.
Related terms: decretalism
decretalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From decretal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: A glance at the articles of the statute of Clarendon will show that they contained as direct a contradiction to the decretalism of the canon law as could be expressed in words.
ref: 1865, Thomas Greenwood, Cathedra Petri. A political history of the great Latin Patriarchate:
glosses: The beliefs of the decretalists.
leisure centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leisure centres
form: leisure center
Senses: glosses: A building or site open to the public for fitness and sporting activities.
leisure centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leisure centre
left-wingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more left-wingy
form: most left-wingy
Etymology: From left-wing + -y.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat left-wing.
longitude clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longitude clocks
Senses: glosses: A marine chronometer.
longitude clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longitude clock
marine chronometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine chronometers
Senses: glosses: A timepiece used as a portable time standard at sea so as to enable the determining of longitude by means of celestial navigation.
Synonyms: longitude clock
time standards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time standard
marine chronometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marine chronometer
pantropical spotted dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantropical spotted dolphins
Senses: glosses: Stenella attenuata, a dolphin found in temperate and tropical oceans.
pantropical spotted dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantropical spotted dolphin
spray tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spray tans
Senses: glosses: A tan produced on the skin for cosmetic purposes by applying a chemical mixture.
glosses: The mixture itself.
Related terms: spray-tan
spray-tanner
spray-tanning
spray tan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spray tans
form: spray tanning
form: spray tanned
form: spray tanned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spray-tan.
spray tans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spray tan
starbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starbirths
Etymology: From star + birth.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of a star.
starbirths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starbirth
starseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starseeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of star seed.
starseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starseed
star magnolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star magnolias
Etymology: Calque of translingual Magnolia stellata.
Senses: glosses: Magnolia stellata, a slow-growing shrub or small tree native to Japan, with large, showy white or pink flowers.
star magnolias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star magnolia
star projector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star projectors
Senses: glosses: The device used to project images of celestial objects onto the dome in a planetarium.
star projectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star projector
SYS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of see you soon.
SYS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of systolic blood pressure, found on blood pressure monitors.
spotted pardalote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted pardalotes
Senses: glosses: Pardalotus punctatus, a very small Australian bird.
spotted pardalotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted pardalote
diamond bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond birds
Senses: glosses: A spotted pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus).
diamond birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamond bird
foul trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The situation of a player who has committed enough fouls to be almost at the point of fouling out and disqualification.
Alpha Centaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Alpha Centaurian
form: most Alpha Centaurian
Etymology: From Alpha Centauri + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alpha Centauri.
Alpha Centaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alpha Centaurians
Etymology: From Alpha Centauri + -an.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Alpha Centauri.
Alpha Centaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alpha Centaurian
un-PC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-PC
form: most un-PC
form: un-pc
form: un-p.c.
Etymology: From un- + PC.
Senses: examples: text: As an old time cowboy from the Madeline Plains, I am exempt from being politically correct. I have an official permit to be un-pc, and make no apologies for not using "he or she" all the time.
ref: 2007, Jon Garate, Stories from the Living Room: A Golden Heritage from the Old West, page ii:
text: "I don't mean to be un-p.c.," Tiny says... "But I liked Little Black Sambo... It's a cute story underneath." / "You were undisturbed by the eyeholes cut out of the pillow you lay your little head on." / "They were different times, J."
ref: 2009, Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days, page 49:
text: Thanks to its brilliant ad-libs and totally un-PC treatment of African Americans, religious people and the mentally handicapped, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is actually acceptable to quote in hipster circles.
ref: 2010, Brenna Ehrlich, Andrea Bartz, Stuff Hipsters Hate: A Field Guide to the Passionate Opinions of the Indifferent, page 220:
text: Yale psychologist Irving Janis showed that just about every group develops an agreed-upon view of things–a consensus reality, the "PC" or politically correct view. Any evidence on the contrary is automatically rejected without consideration, often ridiculed, and may lead to ostracism of the person presenting the un-PC data.
ref: 2012, Beverly A. Potter, Mark James Estren, Question Authority; Think for Yourself, page 157:
glosses: Politically incorrect.
Esperantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Esperantic
form: most Esperantic
Etymology: From Esperanto + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: Esperantist
glosses: In, relating to, or resembling Esperanto.
Laak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Davao de Oro, Philippines.
pleromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But the pleromatic split is in its turn a symptom of a much deeper split in the divine will: the father wants to become the son, God wants to become man, the amoral wants to become exclusively good, the unconscious wants to become consciously responsible...in the same measure as God sets out to become man, man is immersed in the pleromatic process.
ref: 2008, Lucy Huskinson, Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought, →ISBN:
text: Like PSY, the Tractate articulates a pleromatic system in the sense of a configuration of the divine sphere.
ref: 2014, Cyril O'Regan, Gnostic Return in Modernity, →ISBN, page 119:
text: The simplest, earliest, and crudest form of the Atman project is that of the pleromatic state. We saw that the self at this stage was autistic, adual, largely devoid of differentiation. Further, the pleromatic self was one with the environment.
ref: 2014, Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to pleroma.
pleromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleroma
plerematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: With regard to the segregation of plerematic words into classes, Professor Dobson says: It is a feature of this description that "content or plerematic words" are not segregated into word-classes; rather, analysis is made of the types of distribution and environment in which they occur, such types of distribution being classified.
ref: 1961, Journal of the American Oriental Society - Volume 81, page 306:
text: The delimitative devices or 'punctuation marks' here have the same type of structure as the other plerematic signs.
ref: 1983, Florian Coulmas, Konrad Ehlich, Writing in Focus, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Thus in languages two strata are established, one plerematic and the other cenematic, which—in terms of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships—are organised entirely analogously.
ref: 1998, Mark Janse, Productivity and Creativity, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.
calls a spade a spade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call a spade a spade
calling a spade a spade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of call a spade a spade
called a spade a spade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call a spade a spade
resandings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resanding
Ilomantsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and village in North Karelia, Finland.
Outokumpu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of North Karelia, Finland.
Himmaleh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit हिमालयः (himālayaḥ, literally “abode of snow”).
Senses: examples: text: 1862, Emily Dickinson, The Himmaleh was known to stoop
glosses: Synonym of Himalayas: the Central Asian mountain range.
synonyms: word: Himalayas
extra: the Central Asian mountain range
Valkeakoski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland.
Kitee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of North Karelia, Finland.
Nurmes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of North Karelia, Finland.
disk rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: CDs and DVDs can also degrade, called “disk rot,” due to the oxidation of the reflective layer or exposure to ultraviolet light (present in sunlight or indoor lighting), which damages and decomposes the adhesives holding the layers together.
ref: 2015, Max M. Houck, Jay A. Siegel, Fundamentals of Forensic Science:
glosses: Alternative form of disc rot.
Related terms: data rot
data rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The gradual decay of storage media.
Related terms: disc rot
bit rot
unfinish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪʃ
Etymology: From un- (“lack of”) + finish (“completion”).
Senses: examples: text: But, in Simmel's view, it also relates specifically to a distinctive feature of Rodin's work, its state of unfinish.
ref: 2000, Alex Potts, The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist:
text: The movie raised quite real and diverse questions of unfinish. As it opened widely in late 2007, the producers stressed that the two sequels would be filmed if and only if the box office figures for this first venture were sufficiently astonishing.
ref: 2009, David Wallace Booth, Shelley Peterson, Carol Jupiter, Books, Media & the Internet:
text: One way to increase stickiness is to use the culture machine to add a quality of unfinish to its production.
ref: 2011, Peter Lunenfeld, The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading:
text: Peter Lunenfeld explores the idea of “unfinish” in a deliberately “unfinished” essay, first published in 1999 as the full scope of the digital revolution was becoming apparent: […]
ref: 2014, M. Reimer, N. Ali, D. England, Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat:
glosses: A state of incompletion; lack of finish; unfinishedness
uncompletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“lack of”) + completion.
Senses: examples: text: The key move, though, is to open the boundaries of the field as Bourdieu describes it, to tolerate the coexistence of structure and contingency; of borderness on one hand, and porousness and uncompletion on the other.
ref: 2010, Simon Marginson, Peter Murphy, Michael A. Peters, Global Creation:
text: She had felt a distinct sense of uncompletion and frustration but could recall nothing more than this.
ref: 2012, Tracy Saunders, St. James' Rooster:
text: Finally, the third issue is the uncompletion of testing because, in general, we cannot explore all possibilities.
ref: 2014, Alessandro Aldini, Javier Lopez, Fabio Martinelli, Foundations of Security Analysis and Design VII:
glosses: Lack or absence of completion
Synonyms: uncompletedness
Related terms: incompletion
unofficial farthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unofficial farthings
Senses: glosses: A token, similar in appearance to a real farthing, used for marketing and small change during the latter 19th century.
uncompletedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncompleted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being uncompleted
unproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“lack of”) + production.
Senses: examples: text: Capital itself demands the abolition of national boundaries, involves a system of production in which what traditionally was considered reproduction or unproduction is equally a part of production itself [...]
ref: 2012, A. Kiarina Kordela, Surplus:
text: That such a market of carbon unproduction will ultimately have virtually no impact upon the trajectory of global carbon emissions is almost beside the point.
ref: 2014, Michael Heinlein, Cordula Kropp, Judith Neumer, Futures of Modernity: Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice:
glosses: Lack or absence of production
Synonyms: productionlessness
hypoammonemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoammonaemia
Etymology: From hypo- + ammonemia.
Senses: glosses: A metabolic disturbance characterized by an abnormally low concentration of ammonia in the blood.
hypoammonaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypoammonemia.
productionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From productionless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Then, the Lord, for the sake of those involved in the Universal Vehicle, turned a second wheel of Dharma, even more wondrous and amazing, by proclaiming emptiness, starting from the fact of the unreality, productionlessness, ceaselessness, primordial peace, and natural liberation of all things.
ref: 2014, Robert A.F. Thurman, Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence:
glosses: The state or condition of being productionless; unproduction
productionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more productionless
form: most productionless
Etymology: From production + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without or lacking production
Derived terms: productionlessness
earworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earworthy
form: most earworthy
Etymology: From ear + -worthy.
Senses: examples: an earworthy melody
glosses: Worthy of being listened to or heard
through the floor
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: “I was being paid in stock options, not salary increases, and my stock went through the floor,” she says.
ref: 2009, Jerry Oppenheimer, Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel, page 69:
antonyms: through the roof
through the ceiling
glosses: Having fallen to a very low level or amount.
eyeworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eyeworthy
form: most eyeworthy
form: eye-worthy
Etymology: From eye + -worthy. Compare earworthy.
Senses: examples: text: And the best part is that after you have completed your boat, you will know it is seaworthy as well as eyeworthy.
ref: 1957 Apr, Popular Mechanics:
text: It's always the way that somebody who's eyeworthy, who has stage presence, will go down better with the audience than someone who doesn't know how to sell themselves.
ref: 1984, Brian Priestley, Mingus, a Critical Biography:
text: Anyway, this friend of hers, Beryl, works for Sotterton's, and she says the designer who's actually doing the penthouse is someone called Charlotte Anstruther. Sloaney-type, ex-public school. Tall, blonde, fairly eye-worthy, apparently.
ref: 2012, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Country Plot:
text: Next to him was a sleek, thin man in a black turtleneck sweater and dark pants; he had a GQ look going on, and under other circumstances I might have thought he was eye-worthy, but not now.
ref: 2016, Rachel Caine, Midnight Bites: Stories of the Morganville Vampires:
glosses: Worthy to be looked at or seen.
eye-worthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eye-worthy
form: most eye-worthy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyeworthy.
noseworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noseworthy
form: most noseworthy
Etymology: From nose + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as my mother-in-law smelled the first sideboard she said, “You must buy this one, Tozac. I am from Limburg, ... I am, unfortunately a man who likes my smells strong and noseworthy, and gentle smells mean nothing to me.
ref: 1929, Printers' Ink, volume 149:
text: Sometimes the smell of a bruised twig is a noseworthy feature. Spicebush, sassafras, and tulip tree twigs have an extremely spicy odor. Both black birch and yellow birch smell and taste like Wintergreen.
ref: 1999, Robert Barkman, Science through multiple intelligences: patterns that inspire inquiry:
text: Look for a noseworthy improvement after a week to 10 days of daily dips.
ref: 2008, Women's Health Vol. 5, No. 3
glosses: Worthy to be smelled.
wets oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wet oneself
wetting oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wet oneself
Reuters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Reuter + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Reuter
Reuters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Paul Julius Reuter, the founder.
Senses: examples: text: The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
ref: 2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An international news agency headquartered in London, UK.
Coordinate terms: english: United Press International
translation: United Press International
word: UPI
english: Associated Press
translation: Associated Press
word: AP
english: Canadian Press
translation: Canadian Press
word: CP
alt: Presse Canadienne
word: PC
alt: Agence France-Presse
word: AFP
alt: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
word: AGI
Derived terms: Reutersgate
mk.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mk.
fat arrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat arrows
Etymology: From fat + arrow, because of its thickness compared to ->.
Senses: examples: text: The fat arrow is a new shorter way to write functions using '=>' instead of 'function() {}', and will look familiar to anyone who has used CoffeeScript.
ref: 2013, Mark E. Daggett, Expert JavaScript, →ISBN, page 39:
text: A constant can't be used on the left-hand side of a fat arrow (=>) because that turns it into a string.
ref: 2013, Peter Scott, Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code, →ISBN, page 78:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The => symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
Orivesi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland.
Banyamulenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Banyamulenge
Senses: examples: text: The controversy surrounding the Banyamulenge focuses on when they arrived in the Congo.
ref: 2011, Jason K Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Public Affairs, published 2012, page 60:
text: The government's current guidance on the DRC states that if an applicant is of Banyamulenge origin, a grant of asylum is likely to be appropriate because they are in a vulnerable and insecure position and face persecution throughout DRC.
ref: 2013 February 26, Marishka Van Steenbergen, The Guardian:
glosses: A member of an ethnically Tutsi ethno-cultural group in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Lempäälä
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland.
Pirkkala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland.
Kontiolahti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Karelia, Finland.
dumbcluck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbclucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dumb cluck.
virializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virialization
Pettyjohn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pettyjohns
Etymology: From French Petitjean (Little John).
Senses: glosses: A surname. of French origin
Related terms: petty
john
Petitjean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Petitjeans
Etymology: Borrowed from French Petitjean.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: Former name of Sidi Kacem, Morocco, during the French era.
Derived terms: petitjeanite
eastern wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern wolves
Etymology: The wolf is found in the eastern United States.
Senses: synonyms: eastern timber wolf
Algonquin wolf
deer wolf
glosses: Canis lycaon, a fertile hybrid pseudo-species of wolf resulting from the crossbreeding of gray wolves with coyotes, whose contributions to the eastern wolf genome is roughly 75% to 25%, respectively; which is found on the East Coast and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Coordinate terms: red wolf
gray wolf
hush puppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hush puppies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hushpuppy: a small deep-fried cornmeal cake.
examples: text: When we used it in our “hush puppy” against a sentry, the target was almost always hit only once, in the head.
ref: 2009, Thomas H. Keith, SEAL Warrior:
text: Normally, they would have used the silenced .22 ‘Hush Puppy’ pistol to dispatch both the dog and the sentry, but this was an exercise.
ref: 2021, Christophe Downes, War Crimes for the Political Elite:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A semiautomatic handgun fitted with a suppressor, used by special forces personnel to quietly take out guard dogs and sentries.
hush puppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hush puppy
power struggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power struggles
Senses: glosses: A situation where two or more people or groups fight to gain dominance over each other.
Related terms: tug of war
showdown
insane in the membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insane in the membrane
form: most insane in the membrane
Etymology: From a rhyming lyric in the single "Insane in the Brain" (1993) by the American hip hop group Cypress Hill. The phrase is a jocular extension of "insane in the brain".
Senses: glosses: Insane; crazy.
lowen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊɪn
Forms: form: lowens
form: lowening
form: lowened
form: lowened
Etymology: From low + -en.
Senses: examples: text: […] and a wide ware or float can be put down in lieu thereof, of the same height as the said water gates or floats when lowened, and of the exact width and other dimensions as the present float at Wangford mill, and in the same manner as the float at Wangford mill; […]
ref: 1815, In the King's Bench, page 28:
text: Must I be lowened from the clouds dazzling
Olympus' heights unto the apex point
Which man nor scales, Joveward, save when we fill
His soul on wing with swiftly-thinning air,
Wherein gross mortal parts retard the rise?
ref: 1894, David Simpson Graham, The New Werther, Or The Wealsman's Wrath, page 196:
text: And in the morning it will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowening.
ref: 1898, The Far East: An Exponent of Japanese Thoughts and Affairs, page 272:
glosses: To make or become low.
autocategorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocategorisation
Etymology: From auto- + categorization.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Automatic categorization.
Synonyms: autoclassification
Related terms: autocategorize
autocategorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autocategorizes
form: autocategorizing
form: autocategorized
form: autocategorized
Etymology: From auto- + categorize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To automatically categorize.
Synonyms: word: autoclassify
Related terms: autocategorization
autocategorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autocategorize