cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sinthomosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinthomosexual
dereifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dereification
dereification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dereifications
Etymology: From de- + reification.
Senses: glosses: A process of dereifying.
dereify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dereifies
form: dereifying
form: dereified
form: dereified
Etymology: From de- + reify.
Senses: examples: text: That is, although the insurrectionary consciousness of Antiguan workers is not identical with its African counterpart, it, too, is unable to dereify the social totality and reveal society as a collectively manageable entity.
ref: 1996, Paget Henry, Paul Buhle, C. L. R. James’s Caribbean, page 247:
text: [Hayek] seeks to dereify society as nothing more than individuals and seeks the dethronement of society so that markets and morals may resume their pure and rightful place. However, the state is neither the source nor the enforcer of morality-…
ref: 2019, Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, page 103:
glosses: To cause no longer to be a single coherent entity; to cease to treat as a recognisable "thing".
Related terms: dereification
dereifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dereify
dereifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dereify
dereified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dereify
Massumian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Massumian
form: most Massumian
Etymology: From Massumi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Brian Massumi (born 1956), Canadian social theorist, writer and philosopher.
beginnerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beginnerish
form: most beginnerish
Etymology: From beginner + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It is one of the simple rules of beginnerish pictorial photography.
ref: 1922, The Amateur Photographer & Photography, volume 54, page 120:
text: It isn't something I would go back to today — it is something old and very beginnerish. But it was very strong and intense.
ref: 2003, Danny Kaplan, Brothers and Others in Arms:
glosses: Characteristic of a beginner or novice.
directorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more directorish
form: most directorish
Etymology: From director + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Trumbull moved chairs about to indicate exits and stage furniture, and read from the 'book' the scenes in which the stenographer appeared, giving instructions in a directorish manner.
ref: 1925, Charles Collins, The sins of Saint Anthony: tales of the theatre, page 75:
text: "How come there are never any parts for overweight, over 40-ish white women?" I would whine whenever I saw Larry looking writerly or directorish. "I'll write something into the next one," he would promise.
ref: 2001, Ian Gaskell, Beyond Ceremony: An Anthology of Drama from Fiji, page 330:
glosses: Characteristic of a director.
directorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more directorly
form: most directorly
Etymology: From director + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a director.
instructorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more instructorish
form: most instructorish
Etymology: From instructor + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: My Rabinovich energetically dragged on the English cigarette, once again straightened the broken earpiece of his eyeglasses with those instructorish two fingers, wiped his chin and, moving over to me in earnest, confidingly informed me […]
ref: 1996, Zinovy Zinik, One-Way Ticket: Stories, page 27:
text: Jefi Zell is a former ski instructor from Jackson Hole. In powder-8 competitions, he makes beautifully round ski-instructorish turns. On his own, he doesn't mind showing why he's one of the hottest extreme skiers at Jackson.
ref: 1994, Skiing, volume 46, number 7, page 53:
text: “Your mind can only be on one thing when you're going flying,” he said in a very instructorish tone, “and that's not what's happening in Washington.”
ref: 2012, Michael Sloan, Cone of Silence:
glosses: Characteristic of an instructor; didactic.
radicalish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radicalish
form: most radicalish
Etymology: From radical + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat radical or revolutionary.
localish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From local + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat local; not far.
missyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more missyish
form: most missyish
Etymology: From missy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a young woman, especially in a negative sense; foolish, sentimental, inclined to give oneself airs, etc.
woollyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From woolly + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The calyx, too, instead of being woollyish, is merely fringed with rather stiff hairs.
ref: 1930, Reginald John Farrer, The English Rock-garden, volume 1, page 169:
glosses: Somewhat woolly.
sandyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sandy + -ish.
Senses: examples: a sandyish soil
a man with sandyish brown hair
glosses: Somewhat sandy.
ruddyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ruddy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat ruddy in colour.
mistyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From misty + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat misty.
boomerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boomerish
form: most boomerish
Etymology: From boomer + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He identifies a lot with the Buster attitude, but when it comes to management style, he tends to be very performance-oriented, very Boomerish. He fixes his eyes on the goal, and sometimes he's hurt his relationships with people in that process.
ref: 1996, Tim Celek, Dieter Zander, Patrick Kampert, Inside the Soul of a New Generation, page 143:
text: Where “1999” proposed an apathetic solution to the problem of the oncoming apocalypse—dance!—in “America” Prince sees dystopia and offers nothing but what he sees: No solutions, no boomerish optimism, he's just a camera.
ref: 2013, Touré, I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon, page 66:
text: A Howard Beale for the Instagram era, he’s here lashing out on behalf of boomerish power lunchers who believe in a woman’s right to a safe abortion and oppose police brutality but are too scared to admit how enraged they are by a generation of absolutist woke whiners.
ref: 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of a baby boomer.
writerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more writerish
form: most writerish
Etymology: From writer + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a writer; writerly.
farmerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farmerish
form: most farmerish
Etymology: From farmer + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a farmer.
robberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more robberish
form: most robberish
Etymology: From robber + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a robber.
gloomyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gloomy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat gloomy.
rustyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rusty + -ish.
Senses: examples: March 3, 1850, James Fenimore Cooper letter to Mrs. Cooper, Cooperstown
She looked pretty well; her dress was a rustyish black, but not very bad.
glosses: Somewhat rusty.
muddyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muddy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Which in my fountain was, is muddyish, scant, and low.
ref: 1823, Henry Pellatt, Sprees of the Hall: Of Casualty, a Poem:
text: If the ashes which remain are red, mix ed with particles of charcoal, and especially if they form a muddyish water, and the earth does not readily fall down, the soil, whence it was taken, may be advantageously burned.
ref: 1840, William Hamilton, Memoir on the Cultivation of Wheat within the Tropics, page 70:
glosses: Somewhat muddy.
saltyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salty + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat salty.
bloodyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bloody + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] he found a great Uneasiness in that Part of his Arm where his Issue was, and his Issue, soon after he had taken the Infection, emitted a thin, crude, and bloodyish Humour, with a lancing and pricking Pain […]
ref: 1745, Theophilus Lobb, Letters relating to the plague, and other contagious distempers (part 1, page 241)
glosses: Somewhat bloody.
wavyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wavy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: My hair is super thick so the most a half hour with a curling iron can do is give me loose wavyish curls, but that's enough.
ref: 2013, Beverley Kendall, All Over You:
glosses: Somewhat wavy.
handyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From handy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He's a handyish chap with a screwdriver.
glosses: Somewhat handy.
skinnyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From skinny + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat skinny.
wealthyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wealthy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat wealthy.
guesseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: guess + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of guess
guessest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: guess + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of guess
muckerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muckerish
form: most muckerish
Etymology: From mucker + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Hence when we soberly review the situation and find that Yale men have not only been in the habit of throwing food, but of throwing it at their visitors and guests, we must admit their action to be muckerish.
ref: 1906, Yale Sheffield Monthly, volumes 13-14, page 200:
glosses: Characteristic of a mucker; low and vulgar.
criminalish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more criminalish
form: most criminalish
Etymology: From criminal + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a criminal.
formalish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more formalish
form: most formalish
Etymology: From formal + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat formal.
intellectualish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intellectual + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Helen's father was an intellectualish advertising executive; a graduate of the Ethical Culture School, she was delighted that Rabi wanted to be a physicist.
ref: 2013, Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists:
glosses: Somewhat intellectual.
professionalish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From professional + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: That was the master plan, after all: to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet.
ref: c. 2008, Joss Whedon, quoted in: 2013, David Lavery, Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait (page 164)
glosses: Somewhat professional; having a professional air.
surrealish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From surreal + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat surreal.
centralish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From central + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: We head over to Mo's place and I get a bit of a surprise; she's renting a flat in a centralish part of Putney, all wine bars and bistros.
ref: 2004, Lucius Shepard, Charles Stross, Two Trains Running, page 82:
text: Once we had an old man who came to school to show us slides he took of dinosaurs in the inky jungle of somewhere in centralish Africa.
ref: 2011, Becky De Oliveira, Keeping It Real in the Real World, page 135:
glosses: Somewhat central; close to the center.
femalish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪlɪʃ
Etymology: From female + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: And the fattish, handsome professor has come up carrying the little girl-child, while the femalish elder brother leads the rabbit-fluffy small boy by the hand. So en famille: so terribly en famille.
ref: 1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Sea”, in Sea and Sardinia, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 96:
glosses: Somewhat female or feminine.
rockerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rocker + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I can't decide if she's trying to look rockerish or slightly goth.
ref: 2012, Jillian Dodd, Kiss Me:
glosses: Characteristic of a rocker (fan of rock music).
consumerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consumerish
form: most consumerish
Etymology: From consumer + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of consumers or of consumerism.
archaeoacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to archaeoacoustics.
stripperish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stripperish
form: most stripperish
Etymology: From stripper + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It's no secret that Cyrus has been publicly testing the waters of adulthood for the last few years—making dramatic displays like the bed-head Vanity Fair photos or the vaguely stripperish dance moves at Nickelodeon's Teen Choice Awards […]
ref: 2010, Billboard, volume 122, number 13, page 18:
glosses: Characteristic of a stripper (strip-tease artist).
toddlerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toddlerish
form: most toddlerish
Etymology: From toddler + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Clive ran out of the room laughing a toddlerish giggle, which was somewhat cute on an 11-year-old.
ref: 2007, Norah S. Bernard, Clive & Brie, page 9:
glosses: Characteristic of a toddler.
professorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more professorish
form: most professorish
Etymology: From professor + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a professor.
raptorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raptorish
form: most raptorish
Etymology: From raptor + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a raptor.
playerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more playerish
form: most playerish
Etymology: From player + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] It's not every girl who can be both a brainbox and pretty.” It was a totally playerish thing to say. But he called me a journalist. And he said it so sweetly, and I basked in the compliment […]
ref: 2010, Sandra Byrd, Don't Kiss Him Good-Bye:
text: A few scornful, sarcastic comebacks came to mind, but I kept it playerish.
ref: 2015, Oasis, White Heat, page 30:
glosses: Characteristic of a player (one who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship).
authorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more authorish
form: most authorish
Etymology: From author + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of an author.
trisomy X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of triple X syndrome.
synonyms: word: triple X syndrome
yuppieish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yuppieish
form: most yuppieish
Etymology: From yuppie + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yuppyish.
yuppyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yuppyish
form: most yuppyish
form: yuppieish
Etymology: From yuppie + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a yuppie.
grannyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grannyish
form: most grannyish
Etymology: From granny + -ish.
Senses: glosses: grandmotherly
mommyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mommyish
form: most mommyish
Etymology: From mommy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: motherly; maternal
mummyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mummyish
form: most mummyish
Etymology: From mummy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: motherly; maternal
auntyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auntyish
form: most auntyish
Etymology: From aunty + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of an aunt.
bunnyball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunnyballs
Etymology: From bunny + ball, because of its twin "ears" of butylpyridine when viewed under microscopy; modelled on buckyball.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An osmylated C₆₀ molecule.
bunnyballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunnyball
Harvey Nicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Got my shoes from Harvey Nicks last month.’
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 164:
glosses: Harvey Nichols, a British luxury department store selling fashionable clothing and other products.
plasmatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæz.məˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈplæz.məˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: plasmatrons
Etymology: From plasma + -tron.
Senses: glosses: A hot-cathode tube with controlled anode current.
plasmatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmatron
trigatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigatrons
Etymology: From trigger and -tron.
Senses: glosses: A kind of triggerable spark gap switch designed for high current and high voltage.
trigatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trigatron
strobotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹəʊ.bəˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈstɹoʊ.bəˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: strobotrons
Etymology: From strobe + -tron.
Senses: glosses: A cold cathode tube designed for high-current narrow pulses, used in high-speed photography.
strobotrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strobotron
crossatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒs.əˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔs.əˌtɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑs.əˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: crossatrons
Etymology: From cross- + -tron, from being a cross or hybrid of the other kinds.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A high-power pulsed modulator device, a cold cathode gas-filled tube that combines useful features of thyratrons, vacuum tubes, and power semiconductor switches.
crossatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossatron
tacitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tacitrons
Senses: glosses: A low-noise thyratron with interruptible current flow.
tacitrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tacitron
alphatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.fəˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈæl.fəˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: alphatrons
Etymology: From alpha + -tron.
Senses: glosses: A kind of ionization tube for measuring vacuum.
alphatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alphatron
corotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corotrons
Etymology: Blend of corona + -tron; originally a trade name.
Senses: glosses: A gas-filled shunt regulator, usually containing small quantities of radioactive materials to ease ignition, the regulated voltage depending upon the gas or gases used and their proportions and pressure.
corotrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corotron
permatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.məˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈpɜɹ.məˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: permatrons
Etymology: From a trade name. Blend of perma(nent) + -tron.
Senses: glosses: A hot-cathode rectifier with anode current controlled by magnetic field.
permatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permatron
phanotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phanotrons
Senses: glosses: A kind of rectifier consisting of a thermionic gas tube.
phanotrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phanotron
capacitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈpæ.sɪˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /kəˈpæ.səˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: capacitrons
Senses: glosses: A kind of mercury pool tube.
capacitrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capacitron
excitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɪˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sɪˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: excitrons
Etymology: From excite + -tron.
Senses: examples: text: The two traction motors of Nos. BB-30003/4, one on each bogie, were supplied by eight single-anode, mercury-arc, air-cooled rectifiers of the excitron type, in which the arc is maintained continuously, […].
ref: 1960 March, “Silicon Rectifiers for a French dual-frequency Bo-Bo locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 166:
glosses: A kind of mercury pool tube.
excitrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excitron
limiting adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limiting adjective
see past the end of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees past the end of one's nose
form: seeing past the end of one's nose
form: saw past the end of one's nose
form: seen past the end of one's nose
Senses: examples: text: “If you could find a curator somewhere—I admit this is difficult—who can see beyond the end of his nose, he would be glad to be a true innovator and get out of the international rut.”
ref: 1964 September 13, John Canaday, “Hello Sr. Brest”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Dec 2015:
text: If my mother got on your case for being thoughtless or lacking in prudence or foresight, she likely would declare that you could not "see past the end of your nose".
ref: 1988 December 7, Robert Maynard, “Bush better not ignore Mexico”, in Spartanburg Herald-Journal, US, retrieved 15 Dec 2015, page A10:
text: “Why didn't you tell me that you couldn't see past the end of your nose?” she demanded. “Do you realize the trouble you've caused?”
ref: 2007, Sharan Newman, Heresy: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery, →ISBN:
text: It turned out that the BBC and its panel of newspaper experts couldn't see past the end of their own noses, let alone get a glimpse of the stars. The shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year was an absolute scandal of omission.
ref: 2009 December 26, Mark Reason, “Huge shadow of Tiger Woods dominates the decade of sport”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 15 Dec 2015:
text: He probably thought she was an overprotective, neurotic mother who couldn't see past the end of her nose where her son was concerned.
ref: 2011, Carrie Turansky, chapter 14, in Along Came Love, →ISBN:
glosses: To have insight into underlying facts or consequences; to possess common sense or a vision for the future.
raw_tags: in the negative
look beyond the end of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks beyond the end of one's nose
form: looking beyond the end of one's nose
form: looked beyond the end of one's nose
form: looked beyond the end of one's nose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see past the end of one's nose.
look beyond the tip of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks beyond the tip of one's nose
form: looking beyond the tip of one's nose
form: looked beyond the tip of one's nose
form: looked beyond the tip of one's nose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see past the end of one's nose.
look past the end of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks past the end of one's nose
form: looking past the end of one's nose
form: looked past the end of one's nose
form: looked past the end of one's nose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see past the end of one's nose.
look past the tip of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks past the tip of one's nose
form: looking past the tip of one's nose
form: looked past the tip of one's nose
form: looked past the tip of one's nose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see past the end of one's nose.
see beyond the end of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees beyond the end of one's nose
form: seeing beyond the end of one's nose
form: saw beyond the end of one's nose
form: seen beyond the end of one's nose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see past the end of one's nose.
see beyond the tip of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees beyond the tip of one's nose
form: seeing beyond the tip of one's nose
form: saw beyond the tip of one's nose
form: seen beyond the tip of one's nose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see past the end of one's nose.
see past the tip of one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees past the tip of one's nose
form: seeing past the tip of one's nose
form: saw past the tip of one's nose
form: seen past the tip of one's nose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see past the end of one's nose.
suspensoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspensoids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A system of colloid where solid particles are dispersed
suspensoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suspensoid
scrapy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrapy
form: most scrapy
form: scrapey
Etymology: From scrape + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Frequent thirst, with a scrapy dryness in the throat, as if after making a night of it.
ref: 1939, J. W. Ward, Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If:
glosses: Characteristic of a scraping sound or motion.
make a night of it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a night of it
form: making a night of it
form: made a night of it
form: made a night of it
Senses: glosses: To continue a pleasurable social activity for the whole evening or night.
unforeseens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unforeseen
delustrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delustrants
Etymology: From de- + lustre + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: In the past, Monsanto made nylon carpet fibres containing a paraffin wax delustrant. Fibre companies are experimenting with new products all the time, so it should not be assumed that delustrant particles are all titanium dioxide.
ref: 2002, James R. Robertson, Claude Roux, Ken Wiggins, Forensic Examination of Fibres, Second Edition, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: A chemical agent which removes the sheen from something, especially one that removes the sheen from yarn or fabric.
delustrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delustrant
dance to someone's tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances to someone's tune
form: dancing to someone's tune
form: danced to someone's tune
form: danced to someone's tune
Senses: examples: text: You simply become a puppet in the hands of others who will make you dance to their tune. In other words, you reduce yourself to a slave or beggar by mortgaging your happiness on the mercy of others.
ref: 1995, M.K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy, →ISBN:
text: Satan doesn't care whether they carry the bible; he doesn't care whether they say Jesus is Lord. That's not his problem; he has successfully used them to create a counterfeit church to confuse the populace. He knows they are already his and they dance to his tune ... their destiny is sealed.
ref: 2011, God'spower E O Udjor, The Dance of Herodias Daughter: Revealing Satan’s Last Deception in the Church, →ISBN, page 51:
text: If the other traders followed our example, relations between Britain and China would improve dramatically. Think about it the next time you go off in a huff because the Chinese won't dance to your tune.'
ref: 2012, E.V. Thompson, Dream Traders, →ISBN:
text: We are on earth to dance to our own tune! We have to know who I the individual is.
ref: 2014, Bernadette Reynolds, Dance to Your Own Tune, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: To do what someone demands or expects, do as told, defer to someone's wishes or demands, do someone's bidding.
dances to someone's tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dance to someone's tune
dancing to someone's tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dance to someone's tune
danced to someone's tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dance to someone's tune
dance to a new tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances to a new tune
form: dancing to a new tune
form: danced to a new tune
form: danced to a new tune
Senses: examples: text: Policy was to be bold, not timid; campaign promises were to be carried out, not cynically shelved; and the public service would dance to a new tune, one where the ministers called the tune.
ref: 1991, J. L. Granatstein, Robert Bothwell, Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy, →ISBN, page 207:
text: We must ask God to give us strength to dance to a new tune.
ref: 2005, Louis Adams, Diary of a Shattered Spirit, →ISBN, page 46:
text: As a result, the Japanese found themselves having to dance to a new tune and it was one they were scarcely familiar with.
ref: 2008, Ian Nish, The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment, →ISBN:
text: I can make neutrons dance to a new tune, but I shrink from telling a human tick to fasten onto someone else.
ref: 2011, Bob Shaw, The Peace Machine, →ISBN:
glosses: To significantly change one's opinion, attitude, or behavior.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dance, new, tune.
dances to a new tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dance to a new tune
dancing to a new tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dance to a new tune
danced to a new tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dance to a new tune
affineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affine + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being affine.
dance to a different tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances to a different tune
form: dancing to a different tune
form: danced to a different tune
form: danced to a different tune
Senses: examples: text: You can choose to override these laws, you can change the game, you can dance to a different tune.
ref: 2004, Rolf A. F. Witzsche, Flight Without Limits, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The single event that forced Christianity to dance to a different tune was Darwin's great 1859 book called On the Origin of Species.
ref: 2007, Cornelius J. Troost, Apes Or Angels?: Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race, →ISBN, page ix:
text: 'We'll all be dancing to a different tune before long.' Killian somehow managed to produce the semblance of a smile. 'When trading in opium becomes legal I doubt if Gemmell Company will be lagging behind.'
ref: 2012, E.V. Thompson, Dream Traders, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of dance to a new tune.
examples: text: In one way the book is a straightforward defence of eccentricity, a plea for the importance of valuing individuals who choose to dance to a different tune.
ref: 2011, Scott Lyall, Margery Palmer McCulloch, The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Whether they walk or take a cab, they arrive at exactly the right time to bag a window seat and settle themselves down in comfort for their trip. Alas, I dance to a different tune. I have been catching trains all my life and throughout this time I have always been afraid of missing them.
ref: 2012, anonymous author, The Erotic Memoirs of a Lusty Victorian Rake: Volume 2, →ISBN:
text: Is it a crime to work like that? Is it so hard to accept that some people dance to a different tune?!
ref: 2014, Jen Minkman, The Space In Between: A YA Paranormal Romance, page 29:
glosses: To behave differently; to march to the beat of a different drummer.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dance, different, tune.
biseparability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + separability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being biseparable.
dances to a different tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dance to a different tune
W state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: W states
Etymology: From the first initial of Wolfgang Dür, one of the first people to report this state.
Senses: glosses: A quantum state of three qubits which has the following shape: |W⟩=1/√(|001⟩+|010⟩+|100⟩). It is remarkable for representing a specific type of multipartite entanglement and for occurring in several applications in quantum information theory.
dancing to a different tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dance to a different tune
W states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of W state
danced to a different tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dance to a different tune
equicharacteristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + characteristic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a ring: such that the ring and its residue field have the same characteristic.
Desarguesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Desargues + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Girard Desargues (1591–1661), French mathematician and engineer, one of the founders of projective geometry.
Related terms: Desargues' theorem
Desargues graph
projective planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of projective plane
hyperovals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperoval
regrasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regrasps
form: regrasping
form: regrasped
form: regrasped
Etymology: From re- + grasp.
Senses: glosses: To grasp again.
regrasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regrasp
regrasps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regrasp
regrasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regrasp
semisimply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semisimple + -ly.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a semisimple manner.
tetrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetration
triconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + connected.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a connected graph: needing three vertices removed for it to become disconnected.
connected graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connected graph
hypotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypotrophy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or exhibiting hypotrophy.
implementability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implementabilities
Etymology: From implement + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: We show that the requirement of neuronal implementability of the inverse generative function strongly constrains the neuronal transfer function, essentially only allowing threshold-linear neurons.
ref: 2015 December 16, “Hierarchical Novelty-Familiarity Representation in the Visual System by Modular Predictive Coding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: This leads to an additional constraint on the government's choices and can be summarized in terms of an implementability condition.
ref: 2018, Carl E. Walsh, Monetary Theory and Policy, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 184:
glosses: The quality of being implementable.
implementabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implementability
laparotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laparotomizes
form: laparotomizing
form: laparotomized
form: laparotomized
Etymology: From laparotomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To perform laparotomy upon.
laparotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laparotomize
laparotomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laparotomize
laparotomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laparotomize
frontolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frontolyze
frontolyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frontolyze
frontolyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frontolyze
oncosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onco- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: ischemic cell death: a process characterized by mitochondrial swelling, cytoplasm vacuolization, and swelling of the nucleus and cytoplasm
Derived terms: polyoncosis
perivaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From peri- + vaginal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: paravaginal
extravaginal
intravaginal
glosses: Around the vagina.
perivulval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + vulval.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the vulva.
peritesticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + testicular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the testicles.
Maxims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maxim
transrepress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transrepresses
form: transrepressing
form: transrepressed
form: transrepressed
Etymology: From trans- + repress.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To repress by means of transrepression.
transrepressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transrepress
transrepresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transrepress
transrepressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transrepress
Talairach space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Talairach spaces
Senses: glosses: The coordinate system that uses Talairach coordinates.
Talairach spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Talairach space
thrombodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrombo- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: A method of blood coagulation monitoring and anticoagulant control, based on imitation of coagulation processes occurring in vivo
Related terms: thrombodynamic
ephydriad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈfɪdɹɪad/
Forms: form: ephydriads
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐφυδριάς (ephudriás), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis there the Ephydriads haunt;—there, where a gap / Betwixt a heap of tree-tops, hollow and dun, / Shews where the waters run, / And whence the fountain's tongue begins to lap.
ref: 1832, Leigh Hunt, The Ephydriads:
text: in the golden dusty summer [we] tramped down into the verdant valley, even then a haunt of every leafy spirit and the blue-eyed ephydriads, now Nature's slimy wound with spikes of blackened bone […].
ref: 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 107:
glosses: A dryad, a water nymph.
business trips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of business trip
gnathosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnathosomes
Etymology: From gnatho- + -some.
Senses: glosses: A structure, in mites, composed of the fused, sclerotised remnants of dorsal and ventral tergites and sternites
Related terms: gnathosomal
gnathosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnathosome
psychiatrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: psychiatrises
form: psychiatrising
form: psychiatrised
form: psychiatrised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychiatrize.
psychiatrises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of psychiatrise
Lufty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͝ofʹti
ipa: /ˈlʊf.ti/
rhymes: -ʊfti
Etymology: From Luft(hansa) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Lufthansa (a German national airline).
glosses: Any of its fares, particularly a round-the-world special.
mama's boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mama's boy
street value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street values
Senses: glosses: The price of an illicit drug sold on the black market.
street values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street value
on someone's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She had been on his mind since they met at the bar late last night.
glosses: Preoccupying someone; present in someone's thoughts.
inthronizate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: intronizate
Etymology: From Late Latin int(h)ronizātus, perfect participle participle of int(h)ronizō (“to inthronize”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Maryus, his soonne, was then intronizate, / And sette on high in trone of maiestie, / With croune of golde full royally coronate, / As worthy was vnto his royalte; […]
ref: c. 1470, John Hardyng, chapter xlix, Chronicle, page i; reprinted in John Hardyng; Richard Grafton, Henry Ellis, editor, The Chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an Account of Public Transactions from the Earliest Period of English History to the Beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth. Together with the Continuation by Richard Grafton, to the Thirty Fourth Year of King Henry the Eighth. The Former Part Collated with Two Manuscripts of the Author's own Time; the Last, with Grafton's Duplicate Edition. To which are Added a Biographical and Literary Preface, and an Index, London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; T[homas] Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Mawman; and R. H. Evans, 1812, OCLC 931251127, page 85
text: In the feast of all Saintes, the Archbishop Bonifacius was inthronizate at Canterburie.
ref: 1577, Raphael Holinshed, The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Irelande, with their Descriptions. Conteyning, the Chronicles of Englande from William Conquerour vntill this Present Time, volume II, signature V, London: Imprinted for Lucas Harison, →OCLC, page 5, col. 2:
text: Inthronizate, part. adj. Enthroned.
ref: 1822, Robert Nares, A Glossary; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, &c. which have been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare, and his Contemporaries, London: Printed for Robert Triphook, Old Bond Street; Messrs. Rivington and Co., Waterloo Place and St. Paul's Churchyard; W[illiam] and C[harles] Tait, Prince's Street, Edinburgh; and Geoge Mullen, Nassau Street, Dublin, →OCLC, page 261, col. 1:
glosses: Placed upon a throne; enthroned.
Synonyms: enthroned
Derived terms: inthronization
Related terms: enthrone
enthronization
enthronize
inthrone
inthronize
at a venture
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From earlier at adventure, with the same meaning, from Anglo-Norman and Old French a l'aventure (“at random”).
Senses: examples: text: For when the Mind is once re-pleniſh’d with ſound and good Principles, not taken up at a Venture, but upon the most mature Deliberation, what can we reaſonably expect, but that it ſhould exert it ſelf in a ſuitable Manner upon all proper Occaſions.
ref: 1713, George Oldham, A Sermon Preach’d at Bishop’s-Stortford in Hertfordshire, Aug. 25. 1713. at the Anniversary Solemnity of the School-Feast.:
text: For my own part, I never in my life began a letter more at a venture than the present.
ref: 1780, William Cowper, letter, 5 June
text: He had nothing better to do than to take chance for his guide, and to go at a venture through the streets of the city.
ref: 1911, Jules Verne, translated by Charles F. Horne, Round the World in Eighty Days:
glosses: at random, without application of due thought, haphazardly or recklessly
at adventure
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Middle English at aventure, a calque of Anglo-Norman and Old French a l'aventure (“at random”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of at a venture.
automethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + methylation.
Senses: examples: text: The Metnase SET domain is not only responsible for dimethylation of H3K36 [3, 6 ] but also crucial for automethylation at K485 within the catalytic pocket [8 ].
ref: 2015 October 6, “The SET Domain Is Essential for Metnase Functions in Replication Restart and the 5’ End of SS-Overhang Cleavage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: methylation of a protein catalysed by the protein itself
coadhesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + adhesion.
Senses: examples: text: It was also reported that Mfa1 fimbriae are essential for coadhesion and community formation with oral commensal bacteria such as Streptococcus gordonii [11 ] and for survival within human myeloid dendritic cells [15 ].
ref: 2015 October 6, “Mfa4, an Accessory Protein of Mfa1 Fimbriae, Modulates Fimbrial Biogenesis, Cell Auto-Aggregation, and Biofilm Formation in Porphyromonas gingivalis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: adhesion along with another material
decahistidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deca- + histidine.
Senses: glosses: An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties
examples: text: We also explored using a vector (pNIC-Bio2) appending a decahistidine tag because, in theory, this tag would offer higher affinity immobilization to an NTA chip in surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which could facilitate acquiring more accurate kinetic binding data for the Fabs.
ref: 2015 October 6, “Optimizing Production of Antigens and Fabs in the Context of Generating Recombinant Antibodies to Human Proteins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A section of ten histidine amino acids added to a protein (such a section does not exist in nature)
executionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From execution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Uncoupling of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is caused by excessive free cytosolic Ca 2+ which is instrumental in directing the cells to follow the executionary part of apoptosis.
ref: 2015 October 6, “Andrographolide Analogue Induces Apoptosis and Autophagy Mediated Cell Death in U937 Cells by Inhibition of PI3K/Akt/mTOR Pathway”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to execution
extraorganismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + organismal.
Senses: examples: text: In fact eDNA, as commonly referred to in the literature, is a continuum from DNA contained in whole living organisms to extraorganismal DNA in tissue remains or free, extramembranous DNA in the environment [28 ].
ref: 2015 October 6, “Deep-Sea, Deep-Sequencing: Metabarcoding Extracellular DNA from Sediments of Marine Canyons”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That exists outside of an organism
frontolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: From fronto- + lateral.
Senses: examples: text: Through a frontolateral hole in the skull, a no. 4 Fogarty catheter (Edwards Lifesciences Co, Irvine, USA) was placed in the epidural space and slowly inflated (0.16 ml/min) with saline using a syringe pump (Terufusion, Termo Co, Tokyo, Japan).
ref: 2015 October 6, “Anti-Apoptotic Effects of 3,3’,5-Triiodo-L-Thyronine in the Liver of Brain-Dead Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To the front and the side