cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forelive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forelives
form: foreliving
form: forelived
form: forelived
Etymology: From fore- + live.
Senses: examples: text: […] Or if I seek the visitation, then He fills me, and my foul is carried on, And then do I forelive the race of men, So that the things that will be, are to me […]
ref: 1806, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal:
text: Considering in how small a room do lie, And yet lie safe (as fresh as if alive), All those great worthies of antiquity, Which long forelived thee, and shall long survive; Who stronger tombs found for eternity, […]
ref: 1876, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems of Places Oceana 1 V:
text: When the wind is moaning a dreary dirge, And the curtain of night is blackly drawn; When the swirling breakers higher surge, And never a star forelives the dawn,— 'Tis then that the Lighthouse Man keeps watch, And stands by his lamps like a hero true […]
ref: 1883, Truth, volume 13:
text: But where, in those scant days we task'd ourselves,— As we were wont in that anterior time,— To forelive future being to excess, To scale youth's daring, sublimated heights, […]
ref: 1897, Elwin Vyne, Gather'd Fragments:
text: Patterson, the guiding spirit of the many fruitless expeditions which were launched with such high hopes, forelived his time.
ref: 1912, Bulletin of the Pan American Union, volume 34:
glosses: To live or come before; precede
game-play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game-plays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gameplay.
game-plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game-play
pen in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pens in
form: penning in
form: penned in
form: penned in
Senses: glosses: To enclose (animals) in a pen.
glosses: To enclose (animals) in a pen.
To cause to be stuck in a situation; to be forced into a situation by circumstances.
examples: text: She wanted to say regardless of who got the contract, they should get out a calendar and pen it in.
ref: 2012, Robin Bielman, Worth the Risk, →ISBN:
text: That's what I encourage you to do, too: pick a time with your partner that will generally work for both of you and pen it in to your calendars, bearing in mind that you will probably need to adjust it every now and then.
ref: 2012, Susan Downing, The Heart of Reiki, →ISBN, page 31:
text: So check this out, take out your planner, pen it in, and pass it on!
ref: 2013, Tammy Lynn Robinson, Thoughts of the Heart: POEMS, PRAYERS AND PASSIONS, →ISBN, page 22:
text: In fact, Peters had to pen in the date himself to mark the visit to the murderous mother in the hospital since he misentered it under March 16 instead of the fourteenth.
ref: 2013, Molly A. McCarthy, The Accidental Diarist: A History of the Daily Planner in America, →ISBN:
glosses: To schedule; fix a date for.
Related terms: pencil in
carved in stone
written in stone
pen up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pens up
form: penning up
form: penned up
form: penned up
form: pent up
form: pent up
Senses: glosses: To enclose (animals) in a pen.
examples: text: Pent up in Utica he vainly forms
A poor Epitome of Roman Greatneſs,
And, cover’d with Numidian Guards, directs
A feeble Army, and an empty Senate,
Remnants of mighty Battels fought in vain.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:
glosses: To enclose as if in a pen.
Allardyce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Allardyces
Etymology: Variant of Allardice.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pokemon Goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pokemon Goers
Etymology: From Pokémon Go + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pokémon Goer.
wikipedia: Pokémon Go
Pokémon Goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pokémon Goers
Etymology: From Pokémon Go + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Pokémon Goers were invited to enter the museum at a discounted rate and search for Pokémon characters.
ref: 2016 July 19, Kora Chrzan, “Pokémon Go takes off in the Ozarks”, in Branson Tri-Lakes News:
text: A Pokémon Goer is on the app for an average of 26 minutes,
ref: 2016 August 29, Ricardo Casas, “Catching Customers: Pokémon Go and the Future of Local Advertising”, in Business:
text: Getting into the theme of love, perhaps the most exciting thing for Pokémon Goers is a huge increase in the duration of lures: the Pokémon-attracting devices will now last a whole six hours, 12 times longer than their standard 30-minute duration.
ref: 2017 February 8, Alex Hern, “Pokémon Go launches Valentine's event hoping to lure loving players”, in The Guardian:
text: Pokémon Goers explore White Sands National Monument
ref: 2017 April 7, Tara Melton, “White Sands celebrates historic visitation numbers”, in Alamogordo Daily News:
text: Brace yourselves, Pokémon Goers - Legendary Pokémon Raikou, Entei, and Suicune are coming your way!
ref: 2017 September 4, Vikki Blake, “Here's How To Catch Pokemon Go's Three New Legendary Pokemon”, in MTV UK:
glosses: Someone who plays Pokémon Go.
wikipedia: Pokémon Go
Pokemon Goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pokemon Goer
Pokémon Goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pokémon Goer
loadouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loadout
encincturement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From encincture + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of encincturing or girding.
examples: text: ...city itself, though not properly a fortress, was sufficiently strong, in its encincturement of 'wall and towers and river, to be able to make a stubborn resistance.
ref: 1814, John Marius Wilson, The Duke of Wellington, page 306
text: ...abounds in mild and soft pictures of rural beauty ; it derives picturesqueness from its encincturement with intricate bands of sea, overhung by the lofty and hard...
ref: 1842, Chambers William, The Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland, page 668
text: ...wood, its beautiful mansion, its semi-encincturement, with joyous natural lakes, and its extent and vruiety of undulating surface, it ranks high among the...
ref: 1867, Randall McCollum, The Highlands of Cavan, page 285
glosses: The state or quality of being encinctured or girded.
pukewad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pukewads
Etymology: From puke + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: Yawn... i'm so tired of dumbasses looking for grammar mistakes in posts. BLOW IT OUT YOUR FESTERING BUNGHOLE, PUKEWAD!
ref: 1997 November 26, Col . Sphinx Drummond, “You guys gotta....”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):
text: False data, pukewad. That is all you seem to spew.
ref: 2001 September 20, Phil Chitester, “Another foot bullet comming”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: I don't know why they keep doing that because we have come to put such sleazeballs into politics and accept their deplorable behavior, behavior that we would not accept from doctors, preachers, lawyers, etc. I think it's reprehensible but as long as the system is the way it is and the public allows these pukewads to get away these things and, in fact, at times applaudes this behavior, it's not going to change.
ref: 2004 February 12, Jim Chandler, “Anyone notice?”, in alt.fifty-plus.friends (Usenet):
text: > Democrats Also Got Tribal Donations
Does this make your right-wing butt-buddies any less guilty you ignorant pukewad?
ref: 2006 January 3, Joseph Welch, “If anyone wants to see the lengthy Abramoff-'Puke slime trail for 2 decades catch MSNBC's Countdown later tonight...”, in alt.asshole.george.w.bush (Usenet):
text: > World White Population Set to Drop from 17% to 7% by 2050
Then get a tan if yer upset, you pasty white pukewad.
ref: 2009 October 2, Abraham Laboriel, “World White Population Set to Drop from 17% to 7% by 2050”, in misc.survivalism (Usenet):
text: "Those lascivious slimeballs."
"Reptilian dirtbags."
"Pukewads."
ref: 2011, Jean Erhardt, She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not, Minneapolis: Mill City Press, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Term of abuse
encincturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encincture
encinctured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encincture
hyperbranching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + branching.
Senses: examples: text: An earlier aspect of the phenotype, hyperbranching of intersegmental vessels, however, was rescued by Pten that retained lipid phosphatase activity, independent of protein phosphatase activity.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Differential Requirement for Pten Lipid and Protein Phosphatase Activity during Zebrafish Embryonic Development”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: More than the usual extent of branching
hypomeron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypomera
Senses: examples: text: This candidate new taxon at the genus level is morphologically similar to the genus Actenicerus but can be easily distinguished by shorter hind angles of the pronotum, not laterally divergent with a vestige carina, and a nearly straight posterior margin of the hypomeron near the apex of the hind angle in ventral view.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Reassessment of Species Diversity of the Subfamily Denticollinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) through DNA Barcoding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of hypomere.
hyposialylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + sialylation.
Senses: examples: text: We also propose that hyposialylation would dampen the phosphorylation level of the MET receptor and, therefore, result in the disengagement of its downstream pathways.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Stable Ectopic Expression of ST6GALNAC5 Induces Autocrine MET Activation and Anchorage-Independence in MDCK Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Less than the normal amount of sialylation
hypovascularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + vascularized.
Senses: examples: text: For example, PaSC responses may vary regionally in the tumor depending on their proximity to well vascularized areas or hypovascularized, hypoxic areas.
ref: 2016 February 6, “The Unfolded Protein Response Plays a Predominant Homeostatic Role in Response to Mitochondrial Stress in Pancreatic Stellate Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Less than normally vascularized
intrasaccular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ækjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From intra- + saccular.
Senses: examples: text: In the flow model participants had to embolize a three-dimensional reproduction of an Medial Cerebral Artery (MCA) aneurysm using an intrasaccular flow disrupter (WEB™ Aneurysm Embolization System, Sequent, California) under fluoroscopy.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Quantitative Evaluation of Performance in Interventional Neuroradiology: An Integrated Curriculum Featuring Theoretical and Practical Challenges”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a saccule
labiomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From labio- + medial.
Senses: examples: text: In the y-dimension, the lower edge was at a similar position relative to bottom edge of the lip that tended to land about the labiomedial crease, when it was visible.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Differences in Looking at Own- and Other-Race Faces Are Subtle and Analysis-Dependent: An Account of Discrepant Reports”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In the middle of a lip
megakaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: K562 cells also can differentiate into megakaryotic lineages when treated with megakaryotic differentiation-inducing reagents, such as phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate [24, 25 ].
ref: 2016 February 6, “Voltage-Gated K + Channel, K v 3.3 Is Involved in Hemin-Induced K562 Differentiation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of megakaryocytic.
metallochelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metallo- + chelation.
Senses: examples: text: Previously we reported that recombinant histidine tagged (His-tag) OspC (rOspC) could be attached onto liposome surfaces by metallochelation.
ref: 2016 February 6, “The Position of His-Tag in Recombinant OspC and Application of Various Adjuvants Affects the Intensity and Quality of Specific Antibody Response after Immunization of Experimental Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: chelation of a metal
microbroth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + broth.
Senses: examples: text: This discrepancy may be related to methodological differences in the assays performed: E-test and microbroth dilution used in the earlier investigation versus the modified Kirby-Bauer method employed in the current study.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Potent Inhibition of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome in Bats, by Cold-Pressed, Terpeneless, Valencia Orange Oil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Broth microdilution
micromechanicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Reductions on cochlear micromechanicals may reduce the primary afferent neurons firing [29 ], which could reflect on longer P300 latencies due to a delay on signal transmission throughout the entire ascending pathway [38, 57 ].
ref: 2016 February 6, “Contralateral Noise Stimulation Delays P300 Latency in School-Aged Children”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of micromechanical
monoalgal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + algal.
Senses: examples: text: The diet during the maintenance period consisted of a monoalgal suspension of Rhodomonas lens supplied in a continuous flow to each aquarium by a peristaltic pump (ISMATEC MPC Process) to maintain a concentration of 10,000 cells ml −1 with 99% organic content.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Flexibility of Physiological Traits Underlying Inter-Individual Growth Differences in Intertidal and Subtidal Mussels Mytilusgalloprovincialis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Containing a single species of alga
monopolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopolymers
Etymology: From mono- + polymer.
Senses: examples: text: Total phenols, mainly occurring as secondary metabolites, accounts for approximately 25% of the leaf dry mass [3 ] and includes monopolymer flavonoids, phenolic acids and polymer tannins [4 ].
ref: 2016 February 6, “Forest Gaps Alter the Total Phenol Dynamics in Decomposing Litter in an Alpine Fir Forest”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of homopolymer.
synonyms: word: homopolymer
neurointerventionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurointerventionalists
Etymology: From neuro- + interventionalist.
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, it might give a good return to invest in the improvement as well as maintenance of performance of a neurointerventionalist.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Quantitative Evaluation of Performance in Interventional Neuroradiology: An Integrated Curriculum Featuring Theoretical and Practical Challenges”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A neurological interventionalist
oligospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + spermic.
Senses: examples: text: Shorter tracts have been associated with idiopathic precocious pubarche, increased severity and earlier age onset of prostate cancer, whereas longer CAG tracts have been associated with oligospermic infertility [19 –22 ].
ref: 2016 February 6, “The Presence of Clitoromegaly in the Nonclassical Form of 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency Could Be Partially Modulated by the CAG Polymorphic Tract of the Androgen Receptor Gene”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having or relating to oligospermia.
glosses: Having or relating to oligospermy.
ophistotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophistotics
Senses: examples: text: Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of opisthotic.
magnetochronologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + chronologic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to magnetochronology.
Derived terms: paleomagnetochronologic
paleomagnetochronologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Etymology: From paleo- + magnetochronologic.
Senses: examples: text: The available paleomagnetochronologic studies date the Los Colorados Formation at 227–213 Ma, corresponding to a Norian age.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to paleomagnetic chronology
Nudie suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nudie suits
Senses: glosses: A decorative rhinestone-covered suit of the kind made by Nudie Cohn (Nuta Kotlyarenko; 1902–1984), Ukrainian-born American tailor.
Related terms: birthday suit
Nudie suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nudie suit
meet-cutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meet-cute
parafasciole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parafascioles
Etymology: From para- + fasciole.
Senses: examples: text: In both populations, specimens having a parafasciole were only found in the Grimberg material; orthofascioles are completely missing.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Ecophenotypic Variation and Developmental Instability in the Late Cretaceous Echinoid Micraster brevis (Irregularia; Spatangoida)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A broad zone next to the fasciole
paramedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From para- + medial.
Senses: examples: text: The skeleton comprises 26 partially articulated vertebrae (19 presacral, 3 sacral, and 4 caudal), with articulated paramedial osteoderms in some cervical and dorsal regions; incomplete scapulocoracoids, incomplete humeri, a distal portion of left radius and ulna articulating with carpus; left ilium and pubis, left femur, left tibiae and fibulae articulating with complete pes.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Near or next to the middle.
Related terms: paramesial
Fedwire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The Federal Reserve Wire Network, a real-time gross settlement funds transfer system operated by the US Federal Reserve Banks.
FedACH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Federal Reserve Banks' Automated Clearing House.
filled milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filled milks
Senses: glosses: Any milk or cream that has been reconstituted with fats, usually vegetable oils, from sources other than dairy cows, typically used in cooking and baking.
job interview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job interviews
Senses: examples: text: Ewan McGregor is back as the lead character, Renton, perhaps best remembered for his visit in the first film to the “Worst Toilet in Scotland.” Robert Carlyle appears as Begbie, who starts brawls with almost anyone who crosses his path; Ewen Bremner returns as the dimwitted Spud, who, in the first movie, has a memorable job interview while high on speed; and Jonny Lee Miller is back as Sick Boy, now known as Simon.
ref: 2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Time:
glosses: A formal interview in which a job applicant must answer questions, especially in a professional manner, to determine whether they are suitable for the job applied for.
dinkuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinkus
namepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namepieces
form: name piece
Etymology: From name + piece.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The artwork after which an otherwise unnamed artist is named.
glosses: The specific article or story after which the containing book is named.
Hyponyms: title track
wharve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /woɹv/
ipa: /wɔːv/
note: without the wine–whine merger, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ʍɔː(ɹ)v/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: wharves
form: wharving
form: wharved
form: whorf
form: wharved
form: whorf
form: whorven
Etymology: From Middle English wharven (“to turn”), from Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwerban (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”). Cognate with Dutch werven (“to recruit”), Icelandic hverfa (“to turn”), Faroese hvørva (“to disappear”), German werben (“to recruit, advertise”).
Senses: examples: “Junda” Klingrahool (1898)ː
It wharves the wair and stirs the sand.
glosses: To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
wharve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /woɹv/
ipa: /wɔːv/
note: without the wine–whine merger, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ʍɔː(ɹ)v/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: wharves
form: wherve
Etymology: From Middle English wherve, from Old English hweorfa, related to the verb.
Senses: examples: text: a wherue, whyche is a rounde thyne of stone, or wodde, or leadde, put on a spyndell to make it runne rounde.
ref: 1538, Elyot, Spondilus
text: He did lay […] a thick round peece of lead like vnto a wherue.
ref: 1590, Barrough, Meth. Phisick, volume xxiv, published 1596, page 339:
text: So fine […] a thread she [a spider] spinnes, hanging thereunto her self, and using the weight of her owne bodie in stead of a wherve.
ref: 1601, Pliny, Holland, xi. xxiv, I. page 323:
text: The Warve or small Pullas.
ref: 1688, Holme, Armoury III, xxi, page 266
text: Wouldst thou […] joynt the Wherves, slander the Spinning Quills, […]
ref: 1693, Urquhart's Rabelais, III. xxviii, page 237:
text: The wharve, B, together with sliding tube, C, runs loosely on the spindle and carries the bobbin.
ref: 1884, W. S. B. McLaren, Spinning, second edition, page 171:
glosses: The whorl of a spindle.
Lag B'Omer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɑːɡ bəˈoʊmɚ/
Forms: form: Lag b'Omer
form: Lag Ba-Omer
form: Lag ba-Omer
form: Lag Ba'Omer
form: Lag Ba'omer
form: Lag BaOmer
form: Lag La'Omer
form: Lag LaʿOmer
Etymology: From Hebrew לַ״ג בָּעֹמֶר (la"g ba'ómer, literally “the 33rd of the Omer”).
Senses: glosses: The 33rd day of the Omer, celebrated as a holiday
Penin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department.
work life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work lives
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: life; daily life, real life, waking life
text: the travails of work life
antonyms: personal life
private life
nightlife
love life
sex life
glosses: The part of a person's daily life spent at work; the experiences encountered during that time.
Related terms: working life
work-life
yoleven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: /ˌjoʊˈlɛvən/
Forms: form: yo-leven
Etymology: Coined to avoid confusion with seven in the loud casino environment.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
synonyms: yo
qualifier: chiefly craps
glosses: The number eleven.
uselessest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You couldn't expect to do anything decently, for you're only a man, and men are the uselessest, good-for-nothingest, clumsiest animals in the world.
ref: 2012, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career:
glosses: superlative form of useless: most useless
working life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: working lives
Senses: examples: text: Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
ref: 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
text: To an exceptional degree the duties on these inclines have been passed on from father to son; many a boy has begun his working life in oiling the sheaves and, after passing through every grade, has reached the age of retirement in the responsible position of brakesman.
ref: 1942 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “The Stanhope & Tyne Railway: II–Self-Acting Inclines”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
coordinate_terms: career#Noun
glosses: The period of one's life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Cheaper tires typically have a shorter working life than the pricier alternatives, which means that the total cost of ownership (per mile) is closer to equal although the upfront cost is more affordable.
synonyms: service life
useful life
glosses: The lifespan of something, especially a durable good: how long it is expected to last; how long it does in fact last.
raw_tags: of an object
Related terms: work life
previsional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more previsional
form: most previsional
Senses: glosses: Relating to prevision or foresight; prophetic.
Rubik's Cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rubik's Cube
perintegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perintegrations
Etymology: From per- + integration.
Senses: examples: text: Morphemics is in the foreground, but the author had to touch upon morphonological issues as well, especially the boundaries between morphemes and the so-called" morphemic knots" (overlappings), perintegration (shift of a morpheme boundary).
ref: 1994, Miroslav Komárek, “Prague School Morphonology”, in The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics: A Short Introduction, page 61:
text: Depending upon the measure, semantic or formal decorrelation between two units leads to the existence of radix polysemy, delimitation of potential morphematic boundaries or perintegration in primary word formation structure.
ref: 2009, M Ivanova, “Dynamic Aspect of the Word Formation in Motivation and it's Reflection in the Dictionary of Slovak Radix Morphemes”, in Slovenská reč (Slovak Language), volume 74, number 2:
text: It is also due to the fact that the integrated meaning of the VNA is not only a simple sum of meanings of its constituent elements, according to the rule 'more words equals more content', but results as well from a peculiar perintegration of meanings brought by all these elements.
ref: 2011, Ewa Jędrzejko, “The problematics of describing periphrastic predication Between word and image”, in Studies in Polish Linguistics, volume 6, number 1:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.
perintegrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perintegrates
form: perintegrating
form: perintegrated
form: perintegrated
Etymology: Back-formation from perintegration.
Senses: examples: text: las-anek has been modelled upon sasanek, -nka, 'anemone' or 'pulsatilla' (D.), for which D. has quotations from Konopnicka, Lenartowicz, and Sienkiewicz (the fem. sasanka, though not attested by any examples in D., seems to be the normal form now); sasanek has been falsely perintegrated, cf. Sas, 'a Saxon', and the suffix -an-ek/-an-k- derived therefrom;
ref: 1956, Stanisław Westfal, A Study in Polish Morphology: The Genitive Singular Masculine:
text: Another perintegrated morph of adjective in Present-Day Russian is -ONN-.
ref: 1985, Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae, page 204:
text: As will be remembered, combinatroy sound change is guaranteed by the 'static law of sound combinations', i.e. by the fact that neighbouring souncs (complex entities, made up of various articulatory activities) influence each other (their articulatory and acoustic features 'perintegrate'); morphological and semantic change proceed in accordance with the psychological laws of association, whose operation, due to the human factor is less regular and less predictable.
ref: 1996, Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak, Language Change in the Works of Kruszewski, Baudouin de Courtenay, and Rozwadowski, page 108:
text: Occasionally, Slavic languages become incorporated or “perintegrated” with neighboring Slavic languages by sharing the innovations of the latter, see e.g. (1) the Kajkavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian, which is of Slovene origin, or (g) Kashubian which has become attached to Polish; such languages are also multilayered.
ref: 2002, Paul Wexler, Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To undergo perintegration.
scatophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatophiliacs
Etymology: From scato- + -philiac.
Senses: examples: text: Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's from Dublin, clergyman, was a great, shall we say, combined scatophobe and scatophiliac. He both hated and was fascinated by faeces.
ref: 1973, Anthony Burgess, Obscenity and the Arts:
text: Joseph Mallard Turner had a profound, if scatophiliac, attraction to fire at sea.
ref: 1985, Michael Tobias, After Eden: History, Ecology, and Conscience, page 236:
text: Like the exhibitionist, the scatophiliac wants his victim, the person on the other end of the phone line, to be shocked, disgusted, or horrified by his demeanor or words.
ref: 2008, Stephen T. Holmes, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior, page 82:
synonyms: scatophile
glosses: One who exhibits scatophilia.
scatophiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatophiliac
villanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From villanize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: He effectively balanced his dichotomous view between the extreme of naive idealization of Americans and their culture and villanization of the United States.
ref: 1994, Mary M. Hirthe, Memories are made of this: R.W. Fassbinder's BRD-Trilogy as decadent history:
glosses: The act, or an instance, of villanizing.
molestee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molestees
Etymology: From molest + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who has been molested.
perintegrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perintegrate
perintegrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perintegrate
perintegrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perintegrate
perintegrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perintegration
molestees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molestee
IVAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IVA
roll hoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roll hoops
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A roll bar behind the headrest of a seat in a vehicle.
roll hoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roll hoop
rejetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejet
rejetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rejet
lovie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌvi/
rhymes: -ʌvi
homophone: luvvy
homophone: lovey
homophone: luvvie
Forms: form: lovies
Etymology: From love + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: 'Yeah, lovie,' Dermot winked, 'a free flight is exactly what you won.'
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of lovey (“term of address”).
lovies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovie
backflash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backflashes
Etymology: From back + flash.
Senses: glosses: The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.
examples: text: As an experienced editor I disapprove of backflashes, foreshadowings and tricksy devices […]
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”).
synonyms: word: flashback
extra: dramatic device
backflashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backflash
antiflashback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + flashback.
Senses: glosses: Preventing flashback (flame propagation scenario).
grampop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grampops
Etymology: Alteration of grandpop.
Senses: glosses: grandfather
grampops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grampop
intrameal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + meal.
Senses: glosses: Of or during a single meal.
nameboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nameboards
form: name board
Etymology: From name + board.
Senses: examples: text: The former Metropolitan station was situated about five minutes' walk from the main street, and was always designated Uxbridge (Belmont Road) by Bradshaw, although there was no official sanction for this name; nothing of the sort ever appeared either on the station nameboards or the Metropolitan maps and timebills.
ref: 1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
text: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
text: Finally the couplings whimpered and the train limped off at a slow haul to another country station whose flaky nameboard read 'Adlestrop'.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: A signboard bearing a name.
nameboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nameboard
massive palindromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massive palindrome
dinery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dineries
Etymology: From dine + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Country Folks […] is the dinery of choice for satisfying regional specialties, as well as steaks and seafoods.
ref: 1992, Jeanne Harman, Harry E. Harman, Georgia at its Best, page 103:
glosses: A dining establishment; a restaurant.
dineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinery
Nefertiti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Egyptian nfrt-jj.tj (literally “The Beautiful One has Come”).
Senses: glosses: A queen of Ancient Egypt, the chief consort of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
glosses: A female given name from Egyptian.
Derived terms: Nefertitian
rooftile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rooftiles
form: roof tile
Etymology: From roof + tile.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roof tile.
rooftiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rooftile
mevrouws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mevrouw
put it about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts it about
form: putting it about
form: put it about
form: put it about
Senses: examples: text: He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
glosses: To disseminate, for example through gossip.
examples: text: Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was ¹⁄₂ as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To be sexually promiscuous.
Related terms: put about
put oneself about
piffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pifflers
Etymology: From piffle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: A blathering fool.
pifflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piffler
scalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪlɪk
Etymology: From scale + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Took a long soak in the tub and wrote a well-knotted set of scalic bass lines.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Relating to a musical scale.
Synonyms: scalar
scalarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From scalar + -ly.
Senses: examples: a scalarly measurable quantity
glosses: In a scalar fashion.
dissuadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissuading
dribblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dribblesome
form: most dribblesome
Etymology: From dribble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: After supper — which is a lengthy, spoon-fed, dribblesome business — he likes to play Schubert or Brahms on the Steinway in the conservatory.
ref: 1992, Chris Wilson, Fou, page 177:
text: Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Characterised or marked by dribbling; dribbly
unjustices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unjustice
spot effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot effects
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A sound effect representing a single discrete event, such as breaking glass, as opposed to ongoing background sounds.
spot effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot effect
wholth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whole + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of health.
Senses: examples: text: To know the nature of the diseases, or more correctly to speak, the disorders of the body, we must first be well acquainted with the theory of its order in its health, or wholth.
ref: 1863, Samuel Dickson (M.D., Glasgow.), Memorable Events in the Life of a London Physician
text: As both Heaven and Hell objectify themselves by or through motive or purpose, in thinking, speaking, and act or deed, we should study the process by which hellth perpetuates itself in hellish words and deeds, and contrast with it wholth does not worship at the altar of the false god Mars, hellish thoughts and deeds, nor his cohorts.
ref: 1916, Health Culture - Volume 22
text: If it takes place, I see a state of wholth or health in the future based on such an unprecedented self-awareness of the individual and of societies as wholes, that the kind of instinctive conflicts which shatter wholth at the present time, [...]
ref: 1935, Alfred Adler, Alexandra Adler, International Journal of Individual Psychology:
text: The concept "wholth" is very important to me and it's one of the things I'm constantly seeking to achieve.
ref: 1991, Ruth Edmonds Hill, The Black Women Oral History Project:
text: The locus of health is food, which, taken together with air, light, sunshine, and “more or less obscure sources of electro-magnetic, cosmic energy,” provides for “wholth or wholeness,” the “primary, positive principle” that the Nearings referred to when trying to define health.
ref: 2005, Rebecca Kneale Gould, At Home in Nature:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being whole; wholeness; health
homophobophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homophobe + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: It's funny what your homophobophobia does to you.
ref: 1999 September 26, CJ Watson, “Re: The Bible and Homosexuality”, in alt.teens.gay (Usenet):
text: I note that some certainly do seem to be homophobophobes. I.e. they have an irrational fear of irrational fear. This "homophobophobia" seems to cause some social scientists to hide various facts and the like. Also, it's exploited to the point of becoming passe by homophiles in just such a way, to hide facts and the like.
ref: 2000 June 22, C.J.W., “Re: Why Heterosexuals should not be in scouting”, in rec.scouting.issues (Usenet):
text: Futhermore, Oleg resented the fact that, when the Rutgers University administration was planning to extend marital benefits to the "domestic partners" of homosexual and lesbian faculty and staff, I was part of a group that attended an "open forum" on the issue, where we raised our objections and announced the formation of "RUHA", the Rutgers University Heterosexual Alliance, a counter to RULGA, the Rutgers University Lesbian/Gay Alliance -- the vociferous lobby behind this move. We also held a press conference where we introduced a victim of homophobophobia.
ref: 2002 March 30, Theodore A. Kaldis, “Re: Making John's Day”, in alt.religion.christian.calvary-chapel (Usenet):
glosses: Fear or dislike of those who oppose homosexuality.
Synonyms: homophobiaphobia
pedinophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedinophyceans
Etymology: From translingual Pedinophyceae + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Remarkably, seven of the atypical IR-encoded genes have also been observed in the IRs of pedinophycean and trebouxiophycean chloroplast genomes, suggesting that they were already present in the IR of the common ancestor of all core chlorophytes.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any green alga of the class Pedinophyceae.
pedinophyceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Prior to our study, the SSC regions of the pedinophyceans Pedinomonas minor, Pedinomonas tubercula and Marsupiomonas sp., which range from 6,225 to 7,927 bp and encode eight or nine conserved genes, were known to have the smallest sizes [18, 20 ].
ref: 2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pedinophycean
pericaval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + caval.
Senses: examples: text: With a pooled prevalence of 47.1% (95%CI:36.0–55.5), the retrocaval course of the SANa was the most common course of the artery, followed by the precaval and pericaval courses with a pooled prevalence of 38.9% (95%CI:28.5–47.6) and 14.0% (95%CI:7.5–21.1), respectively.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Anatomical Variations in the Sinoatrial Nodal Artery: A Meta-Analysis and Clinical Considerations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Surrounding the vena cava
periplastronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + plastronal.
Senses: examples: text: The landmark configuration included the shape of the periplastronal ambulacrals and paired petals.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Ecophenotypic Variation and Developmental Instability in the Late Cretaceous Echinoid Micraster brevis (Irregularia; Spatangoida)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Surrounding a plastron
plastronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plastron + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a plastron
Derived terms: periplastronal
perithyroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + thyroidal.
Senses: examples: text: Risk factors of SMLN metastasis as identified in previous studies are contralateral lateral neck LN metastasis, central lymph node (CLN) metastasis, extensive CLN metastasis, contralateral CLN metastasis, direct extension to SMLN, grossly perithyroidal extension (PTE), medullary or poorly differentiated carcinoma, distant metastasis, and Hurtle cell carcinoma[5 –10 ].
ref: 2016 February 6, “Predictive Factors of Superior Mediastinal Nodal Metastasis from Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma—A Prospective Observational Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Surrounding a thyroid gland
pneumonologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumonologists
Senses: examples: text: This is underlined by FDM-S survey showing a similar number of annual routine visits to the cardiologist and pneumonologist for both genders, despite male have more cardiac and respiratory involvement, which should prompt more regular medical care.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Gender as a Modifying Factor Influencing Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Phenotype Severity and Mortality: A Nationwide Multiple Databases Cross-Sectional Observational Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of pneumologist.
Related terms: pneumonology
pneumonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pneumology.
Derived terms: pneumonologic
pneumonological
pneumonologist
polyepitope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyepitopes
Etymology: From poly- + epitope.
Senses: glosses: Any biomolecule that has multiple epitopes
polyepitopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Studies with these polyepitopes demonstrated that the immunogenicity of individual epitopes depends on individual epitope positions in sequence as well as the inclusion of the highly conserved C'-terminal OspC fragment [37 ].
ref: 2016 February 6, “The Position of His-Tag in Recombinant OspC and Application of Various Adjuvants Affects the Intensity and Quality of Specific Antibody Response after Immunization of Experimental Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of polyepitope
postestimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postestimations
Etymology: From post- + estimation.
Senses: examples: text: We can now calculate each subject’s cumulative odds by filling in the variables and the coefficient into the model equation or we can use postestimation in STATA to calculate the category probability for the reference population.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Health Impact Index. Development and Validation of a Method for Classifying Comorbid Disease Measured against Self-Reported Health”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: estimation following some other process
prasinophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prasinophyceans
Etymology: Prasinophyceae + -an
Senses: examples: text: Like other chlorophyte genomes with a low proportion of non-coding sequences, notably their prasinophycean and pedinophycean homologs [15, 18, 20 ], both chlorodendrophycean cpDNAs are very poor in small repeats (Table 1 ).
ref: 2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.
Synonyms: prasinophyte
preoxygenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preoxygenates
form: preoxygenating
form: preoxygenated
form: preoxygenated
Etymology: From pre- + oxygenate.
Senses: glosses: To oxygenate prior to some other process
Related terms: preoxygenation
preoxygenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The animals were preoxygenated with a FiO 2 of 1.0 (fresh gas flow of 3–5 l/min), before the administration of propofol 1% (3mg/kg), after which they were intubated and mechanically ventilated.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction in a Porcine Model: Effects of Intra-Abdominal Hypertension. A Preliminary Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of preoxygenate