cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
photoactivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoactivates
form: photoactivating
form: photoactivated
form: photoactivated
Etymology: From photo- + activate.
Senses: glosses: To activate by means of photoactivation
butanilicaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From but(yl) + anili(ne) + -caine (“local anesthetic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anesthetic.
bucillamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antirheumatic agent developed from tiopronin.
buthalital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A barbiturate derivative which was under development as a short-acting anesthetic.
plumules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumule
brolamfetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dimethoxybromoamphetamine
loxoprofen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug derived from propionic acid.
premigratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + migratory.
Senses: glosses: prior to migration
primibrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From primibrach + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a primibrach.
primibrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primibrachials
Etymology: From primibrach + -ial.
Senses: glosses: A primibrach.
primibrach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primibrachs
Senses: glosses: A brachial on the unbranched arm of a crinoid
Derived terms: primibrachial
Related terms: secundibrach
primibrachials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primibrachial
proparacaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A topical ophthalmic anesthetic 2-(diethylamino)ethyl 3-amino-4-propoxybenzoate
Synonyms: paracaine
proxymetacaine
psychrosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychrospheres
Etymology: From psychro- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The deep, relatively cold layer of the ocean.
cut a figure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts a figure
form: cutting a figure
form: cut a figure
form: cut a figure
Senses: examples: text: To cut a fine/sorry figure.
text: Your desire was to cut a figure in the Fashionable World. Well, to-day you have your wish—to-day you are famous.
ref: 1913, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 57, in The Amateur Gentleman:
text: Dirk Stroeve cut such an absurd figure that I felt inclined to laugh.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 27”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: As a leader of the free world the United States cuts an unconvincing figure with its racial segregation.
ref: 1950, The Crisis, page 647:
text: Composed and genial, the Corries cut an impressive figure in the sun-drenched Haifa courthouse.
ref: 2010 September 9, Karl Vick, “Israel's Military on the Spot Over Activist's Death”, in Time:
text: Standing in a field at an army barracks in Poznan, Poland, and wearing the black Stetson that is customary for the 2nd Cavalry, Colonel McChrystal cut a figure both commanding and incongruous.
ref: 2024 April 24, Helene Cooper, “NATO Puts on a Show of Force in the Shadow of Russia’s War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To present an image; to make an impression.
vice-chancellors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vice-chancellor
androgynocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From androgyny + -o- + -centric.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:androgynocentric.
glosses: Having androgyny as its focus.
knock-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knock-off
break one's balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks one's balls
form: breaking one's balls
form: broke one's balls
form: broken one's balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bust one's balls.
Related terms: break someone's balls
bust someone's balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts someone's balls
form: busting someone's balls
form: busted someone's balls
form: busted someone's balls
Senses: examples: text: Henry: All day long I thought the guys in the helicopter were just local cops busting my balls over Lufthansa. But they turned out to be narcs.
ref: 1990, Goodfellas:
glosses: To give someone a hard time, whether by playfully teasing or sincerely harassing them.
Synonyms: break someone's balls
Related terms: bust one's balls
break someone's balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks someone's balls
form: breaking someone's balls
form: broke someone's balls
form: broken someone's balls
Senses: examples: text: Morrie Kessler: Sorry, did I catch ya in the eye?
Frankie Carbone: Morrie, stop breakin’ my balls, alright?
ref: 1990, Goodfellas:
text: What's got into you? I'm breaking your balls a little, that's all. I'm only kidding with you.
ref: 1990, Goodfellas (film)
glosses: Synonym of bust someone's balls.
synonyms: word: bust someone's balls
Related terms: break one's balls
meride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merides
Etymology: From French méride. Compare meridian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval of pitch equal to 1/43 of an octave.
Derived terms: decameride
eptameride
heptameride
meride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merides
Etymology: From French méride from Ancient Greek μερίς (merís, “a part”).
Senses: examples: text: The living matter which goes to make up elementary cells , the plastids and merides whose combination constitutes living beings , already assumes , in nucleated cells , a peculiar form giving it distinct specific characteristics[…]
ref: 1906, Louis-Lucien Baclé, Future Life in the Light of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A colony of plastids.
decameride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decamerides
Etymology: From deca- + meride.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval of pitch equal to 1/10 of a heptameride, or 1/3010 of an octave.
Related terms: meride
heptameride
eptameride
rue the day
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rues the day
form: ruing the day
form: rued the day
form: rued the day
Senses: examples: text: I: I think there may be something living in there. I think there may be something alive.
Withnail: What d'you mean? A rat?
I: It's possible. It's possible.
Withnail: Then the fucker will rue the day!
ref: 1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I:
text: As far as they were concerned, he must be ruing the day he ever met Sally.
ref: 2009, Erica James, It's The Little Things:
text: Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark
ref: 2017, Lorde, “Writer in the Dark”, in Melodrama:
glosses: To seriously regret one's actions.
Related terms: live to regret
eptameride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eptamerides
Etymology: From epta- + meride.
Senses: examples: text: 1963, Scripta Mathematica, vol. 1, page 296, ISSN 0036-9713.
Later he spoke of "subdividing each Eptameride into ten parts, called Decamerides." But he did not use this more subtle division in practice.
text: The second contribution of Sauveur is the development of a more exact method of computing intervals based upon logarithmic numbers which he terms merides, eptamerides and decamerides.
ref: 1964, James Woodrow Krehbiel, “Harmonic Principles of Jean-Philippe Rameau and his Contemporaries”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), →OCLC, page 9:
text: 1991, Theoria, vol. 5-6, page 26, ISSN 1554-1312.
The interval of the fifth, it will be recalled, contains 176 eptamerides or 25 merides (plus 1 eptameride).
text: The Merides were divided into seven parts called Eptamerides. For more subtle distinctions, Sauveur suggested using Decamerides, 10 of which comprised one Eptameride.
ref: 2004, J. Murray Barbour, Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey, →ISBN, page 122:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative spelling of heptameride.
spiculite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiculites
Etymology: From spicule + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A belonite shaped like a spindle
spiculites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiculite
savart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savarts
Etymology: Named after Félix Savart
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval of pitch equal to 1/1000 of a decade, practically identical to a heptameride.
subphenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subphenotypes
Etymology: from sub- + phenotype
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
glosses: A subset of a phenotype that is characteristic of a subset of a population
Related terms: subphenotypic
subphenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subphenotypes
form: subphenotyping
form: subphenotyped
form: subphenotyped
Etymology: from sub- + phenotype
Senses: glosses: To analyse or describe such subphenotypes
subphenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subphenotype
superanoxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + anoxia.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A period during which there was very little free oxygen in the environment, and many organisms became extinct
Related terms: superanoxic
supracoracoideus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin; see supra-, coracoid, and -eus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A pair of muscles that raise the wings of birds in flapping flight.
Related terms: pectoralis
thermopriming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + priming.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The warming of seed prior to sowing.
thyrotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyrotropes
Etymology: From thyro- + -trope.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An endocrine cell in the anterior pituitary which produces thyroid-stimulating hormone in response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone.
thyrotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyrotrope
what you saying
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Dushane: What you sayin'? Wagwan.
ref: 2011, Top Boy:
glosses: what's up, what's happening (a greeting)
thyrotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyrotropins
form: thyrotrophin
Etymology: From thyro- + tropin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A thyroid-stimulating glycoprotein hormone secreted by the pituitary gland.
Synonyms: thyroid-stimulating hormone
TSH
thyrotropic hormone
Derived terms: preprothyrotropin
thyrotropin-releasing hormone
yamabushi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yamabushi
Etymology: From Japanese 山伏.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese ascetic hermit who dwells on a mountain.
bairdi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bairdis
Senses: examples: text: The big surprise was how well bairdis, the larger and more expensive of the two snow crab species, moved in the U.S. market.
ref: 1991, Seafood Leader, volume 11, page 12:
text: A bairdi fishery with 375,000 pounds of quota was also resurrected on the South Peninsula, where crab fishing had been closed since 1989.
ref: 2002, Pacific Fishing, volume 23, numbers 1-6, page 76:
synonyms: bairdi crab
tanner crab
glosses: Chionoecetes bairdi, a species of snow crab.
day lark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day larks
Senses: glosses: One who gets up early in the morning or goes to bed early.
Synonyms: early bird
lark
morning person
one and a half
Language: English
Part of speech: num
one and a half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one and a halves
Senses: glosses: One and a half parts of anything that may be divided, or considered as divided.
Derived terms: one and a half syndrome
Related terms: sesqui-
one and a halves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one and a half
mullarkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Look, the quare fellow’s got to be buried in the morning, whether we like it or not, so cut the mullarkey and get back to work.
ref: 1956, Brendan Behan, The Quare Fellow, page 60:
text: Hey, he's a really nice guy. Really nice. And on top of it all he's getting away with this writing mullarkey.
ref: 2003, Rohan Candappa, “About the Author (And Why You should Buy More of His Books)”, in University Challenged: The Unofficial Student Guide, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN; republished London: Ebury Digital, 2010, →ISBN:
text: This book isn't about the application process itself – how best to complete your UCAS form, what the codes are for exam awarding bodies, what to say in interviews and all that mullarkey.
ref: 2004, Johnny Rich, “The Application Process”, in Ruth Bushi, editor, The Push Guide to Choosing a University, 2nd edition, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Nelson Thornes, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative spelling of malarkey.
planimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planimals
Etymology: Blend of plant + animal
Senses: examples: text: Such a 'planimal' could move itself over the ground only at a rate considerably slower than that of a terrestrial slug but if other plants could not move at all, this would be sufficient.
ref: 1968, Alta: University of Birmingham Review - Issues 7-11, page 136:
text: This week my planimal friend Daedalus continues his exploration of human symbiosis with useful organisms. Those green flatworms, permeated with photosynthesizing algae, represent a distinct advance on his plumbed-in photosynthetic sandwich-boards of last weak.
ref: 1970, New Scientist - Volume 47, page 649:
text: Overseas scientists have taken an animal cell and crossed it with a cell from a tobacco plant to produce a half-animal, half-plant creature known as a planimal.
ref: 1979, Christiaan Barnard, The best medicine, page 58:
text: That is our Syncytial Planimal, genetically engineered to give us both plant and animal proteins.
ref: 2014, T. J. Bass, The Godwhale:
text: The planimal was the first post-plant, followed by the versatile, Octopamine-blessed animant, and only then came the animals.
ref: 2015, Anand Madhu, Brain Function and Dysfunction, page 26:
glosses: Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.
xiphodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xiphodons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: An extinct camel-like animal of the genus Xiphodon.
Viorst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vi.oɹst/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
vermiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more vermiferous
form: most vermiferous
Senses: glosses: Producing worms
antidyslipidaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidyslipidaemic
form: most antidyslipidaemic
Etymology: From anti- + dyslipidaemic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antidyslipidemic.
antidyslipidaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidyslipidaemics
Etymology: From anti- + dyslipidaemic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antidyslipidemic.
antidyslipidemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidyslipidemic
form: most antidyslipidemic
Etymology: From anti- + dyslipidemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: That counters dyslipidemia.
antidyslipidemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidyslipidemics
Etymology: From anti- + dyslipidemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any drug that counters dyslipidemia.
dyslipidemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to dyslipidemia
Derived terms: antidyslipidemic
nondyslipidemic
channelopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of channelopathy
electrocardiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrocardiographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of electrocardiography
Related terms: electrocardiographic
genitalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From genital + -ic.
Senses: glosses: relating to the genitals
momilactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momilactones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of steroidal lactones, isolated from rice, that have some anticancer activity.
polycystin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycystins
Etymology: From polycystic + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of glycoproteins, mutation of which is implicated in polycystic kidney disease.
preosteoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preosteoblast
telepathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + pathology.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: telehealth, telemedicine
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pathology services provided remotely via telecommunications: cytopathology and histopathology image interpretation delivered digitally.
Related terms: telepathologist
teleradiologist
teleradiology
westernisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: westernisations
Etymology: From westernise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of westernization.
leptocurare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptocurares
Etymology: From lepto- + curare.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of depolarising blockers, such as succinyl-choline, that have a long, thin, flexible structure.
Related terms: pachycurare
bad books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I’m afraid I’m in my boss’s bad books after showing up late for work four times last week.
antonyms: good books
glosses: Disfavor.
raw_tags: used with a possessive
Montecristo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Monte Cristo
form: Monte-Cristo
Etymology: From Italian Montecristo.
Senses: glosses: An island of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, a small Italian island between Corsica and the Italian Peninsula.
glosses: An island of Usulután department, El Salvador.
Derived terms: Monte-Cristo
Monte Cristo
Monte Cristo sandwich
Montecristo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montecristos
form: Monte Cristo
form: Monte-Cristo
Etymology: From Italian Montecristo.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Monte Cristo sandwich
sejarah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malay sejarah (“history”).
Senses: glosses: history (as a school subject)
tall poppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tall poppy
uranious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪnɪəs
Forms: form: more uranious
form: most uranious
Etymology: From uranium + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: This differs from the previous process in that the gallic acid, in the one case, reduces the silver solution to the state of metallic silver ; and, in the other case, the uranious image itself reduces it to the state of silver oxide.
ref: 1883 January, Captain Abney, “Recent Advances in Photography”, in Popular Science, volume 22, number 19, →ISSN, page 398:
text: Our action's spontaneous in atoms uranious / Or radious, actinious or thorious : / But for others, the gleam of a heaven-sent beam / Must encourage their efforts laborious.
ref: 1905 December 7, W. R., “The Death-Knell of the Atom”, in Nature, volume 73, number 1884, →ISSN, page 132:
text: When the air becomes uranious / We will all go simultaneous
ref: 1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:
glosses: Of or containing uranium.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: uranous.
foot-pace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-paces
Senses: examples: text: Barnaby was so intent upon his favourite, that he was not at first aware of the approach of two persons on horseback, who were riding at a foot-pace, and coming straight towards his post.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 57.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 266:
text: On the hither side of the bridge Colonel Karl Bogdanitch Schoubert came up with Denissow’s division but did not go beyond a foot-pace, riding almost by the side of Rostow; […]
ref: 1886, Léon Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter XV, in Clara Bell, transl., War and Peace: A Historical Novel: […]: Before Tilsit: 1805–1807: Two Volumes, revised and corrected edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: William S. Gottsberger, publisher […], →OCLC, pages 229–230:
text: We went at a foot-pace, but on the way back we trotted, and there was something to my mind singularly horrible in the way the driver of the hearse whipped up his horses.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 185:
glosses: Alternative form of footpace.
manna ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manna ashes
Senses: glosses: An ash tree, Fraxinus ornus, native to southern Europe.
huey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hueys
Etymology: Derived from Huey, applied by extension to all helicopters, during the Vietnam War.
Senses: glosses: A helicopter.
huey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hueys
Senses: qualifier: tramps' slang
glosses: A town or village.
acarological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acaro- + -logical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to acarology
agroinfiltrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agro- + infiltrated.
Senses: glosses: Produced via agroinfiltration
Derived terms: coagroinfiltrated
agroinfiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroinfiltrations
Etymology: From agro- + infiltration.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The introduction of a suspension of Agrobacterium into a plant in order to add a specific gene
Derived terms: coagroinfiltrate
coagroinfiltration
Related terms: agroinfiltrate
agropatch
cardially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cardial + -ly.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: (administered) via the heart
uxorilocally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uxorilocal + -ly.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: In an uxorilocal (matrilocal) manner.
virilocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of virile + local. From Latin vir+locus.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Patrilocal.
Related terms: virilocality
ROYGBIV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Roy G. Biv (“acronym for rainbow colors in order”).
Teutonicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Teutonicizes
form: Teutonicizing
form: Teutonicized
form: Teutonicized
form: Teutonicise
Etymology: From Teutonic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Teutonic.
Teutonicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Teutonicises
form: Teutonicising
form: Teutonicised
form: Teutonicised
Etymology: From Teutonic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Teutonicize.
Teutonicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Teutonicise
Teutonicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Teutonicise
Teutonicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Teutonicise
Teutonicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Teutonicize
Teutonicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Teutonicize
Teutonicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Teutonicize
Almería
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌælməˈɹi.ə/
/ˌɑːlməˈɹi.ə/
Forms: form: Almeria
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Almería, from Arabic المرية (al-Mariyya), from مَرَايَا (marāyā, “mirrors”) in reference to the settlement's initial role in the 9th century as a watchtower for Bajjana, now Pechina.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality, the capital of the province of Almería, Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: A province of Andalusia, Spain, around the city.
Derived terms: Almerian
a Roland for an Oliver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rolands for Olivers
Etymology: From the stories of Roland and Oliver, legendary knights of equal might.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Godwin has lately attempted an answer to the Essay (thus giving Mr. Malthus a Roland for his Oliver) but we think he has judged ill in endeavouring to invalidate the principle, instead of confining himself to point out the misapplication of it.
ref: 1825, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Malthus”, in The Spirit of the Age […] , London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: It was rather a ticklish matter to go into politics, but he [Hart] might speak on them generally, knowing that if he overstepped the mark he would be brought up standing. His friend on the right had a respected relative in the Ministry, and if he trod on his corns, or did what he should not, he would, as he had often done before, give him a Roland for an Oliver.
ref: 1870 May 21, “Complimentary Dinner to Captain [John] Hart, M.P., C.M.G.”, in The South Australian Register, volume XXXIV, number 7339, Adelaide, S.A., →OCLC, page 5, column 5:
text: It is held to be a good taunt, and somehow or other to clinch the question logically, when an old gentleman waggles his head and says: "Ah, so I thought when I was your age." It is not thought an answer at all, if the young man retorts: "My venerable sir, so I shall most probably think when I am yours." And yet the one is as good as the other: pass for pass, tit for tat, a Roland for an Oliver.
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth”, in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1881, →OCLC, pages 91–92:
text: I had to bite my lip to prevent myself from laughing. What he said had a hateful truth in it, and another defect of my character is that I enjoy the company of those, however depraved, who can give me a Roland for my Oliver.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XL, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 201:
glosses: Equal measure; measure for measure; adequate response.
Synonyms: eye for an eye
tit for tat
a Roland for an Oliver
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the stories of Roland and Oliver, legendary knights of equal might.
Senses: examples: text: He responded to the insult a Roland for an Oliver, striking back just as hard.
glosses: So as to respond to an action with an equivalent action; tit for tat.
Mweru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake on the border between Zambia and Congo.
Derived terms: mweruensis
corbiculid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbiculids
Senses: glosses: Any basket clam of the family Corbiculidae
basket clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket clams
Senses: glosses: Any of many bivalve molluscs of the family Corbiculidae.
farforth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English ferforth, from fer + forth. By surface analysis, far + forth.
Senses: examples: text: As for their cities, he that knoweth one of them, knoweth them all: they be all so like one to another, as farforth as the nature of the place permitteth.
ref: 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:
text: So long these knights discoursed diversly / Of straunge affaires, and noble hardiment, / Which they had past with mickle jeopardy, / That now the humid night was farforth spent […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To a great extent; far.
examples: text: Pro. Know thus far forth,
By accident most strange, bountifull Fortune
(Now my deere Lady) hath mine enemies
Brought to this shore
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3, column 2, lines 178-180:
glosses: To a specific extent and no farther.
ǂHoan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ǂHõã
Senses: examples: text: Some languages are able to morphologically express plurality of events. For instance, in ǂHoan (a moribund Khoisan language spoken in southeastern Botswana), kí- is attached to a verb to express plurality related to events (Collins 2001).
ref: 2007, Kimiko Nakanishi, Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions, page 251:
text: Map 14 shows that the minority type of SVO&GenN languages are primarily found in two areas, among Gur, Kru, and Kwa languages in west Africa and among various Khoisan groups in southern Africa (Ju, ǂHoan, ǃUi and Taa).
ref: 2011, Matthew S. Dryer, Noun-Modifier Order in Africa, in Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas (Osamu Hieda, Christa König, Hiroshi Nakagawa), page 304
glosses: A Khoisan language of Botswana, also called ǂHõã.
crassamenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crassamentum
crassamentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crassamenta
Etymology: From Latin crassus (“solid”).
Senses: examples: text: Though air is excluded from venous blood the instant it is drawn, as by receiving it in fresh white of egg, milk or serum, in which it immediately sinks, nevertheless on coagulation the surface of the crassamentum will be of a comparatively light florid hue.
ref: 1830, John Davy, Observations to endeavour to ascertain if Dead Animal Matter absorbs Air on exposure to the atmosphere: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 34, page 247:
text: If healthy blood be allowed to remain at rest, it separates into two parts, a red solid portion called crassamentum, and a thin watery part or serum.[…]This shows that the proportion of fibrin in the crassamentum does not vary rapidly.
ref: 1831, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery, page 91:
text: Such as are the volumes, such are the crassamenta belonging to the volumes, and such also are the masses ; that is to say, if the volumes are pure, mixed homogeneous, or mixed heterogeneous, such respectively are the crassamenta and the masses.
ref: 1845, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Economy of the Animal Kingdom, volume 1, page 71:
glosses: The solid component of blood, blood from which serum has been removed; a mass of coagulated blood; a blood clot.
plangently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plangently
form: most plangently
Etymology: From plangent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a plangent manner: with a loud reverberating sound, or plaintively.
Related terms: plangent
plangency
regurgitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regurgitate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the act of regurgitating.
Related terms: regurgitate
regurgitation
coverglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coverglasses
Etymology: From cover + glass.
Senses: synonyms: coverslip
glosses: A thin glass plate used to cover samples mounted on a microscope slide.
curculionid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curculionids
Senses: examples: text: At first, I swept the lowest-growing plants, collecting a variety of mostly chrysomelids and curculionids and even one Agrilus sp., before moving to beating along the sunny edges of the patches of taller shrubs and collecting similar species (but no Agrilus sp.).
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
glosses: Any weevil of the family Curculionidae
monkey suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey suits
Senses: glosses: A man's formal suit worn in the evening; a tuxedo.
glosses: A uniform.
monkey suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey suit
glowlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glowlights
Etymology: From glow + light.
Senses: glosses: A fish, the glowlight danio (Danio choprae).
glosses: A fish, the glowlight rasbora (Trigonostigma hengeli).
glowlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glowlight
danio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danios
Etymology: From Bengali ধানি (dhani, “relating to paddy”).
Senses: examples: text: 1995, Mary Bailey, The Ultimate Aquarium, Smithmark, page 158,
Danios are very similar to barbs but are much slimmer-bodied.
text: To me, however, they are more reminiscent of leopard danios than livebearers.
ref: 2007, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 56, numbers 1-4, TFH Publications, page 51:
text: 2019, Madelaine Francis Heleine, Freshwater Aquariums For Dummies, Wiley (For Dummies), page 155,
For example, danios need to be fed often because they have high metabolism rates.
glosses: Any of various fish of the genera Danio or Devario.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Devario pathirana
word: barred danio
taxonomic: Devario devario
alt: = Sind danio
word: Bengal danio
taxonomic: Danio absconditus
word: black barred danio
taxonomic: Danio kerri
word: blue danio
taxonomic: Danio pulcher
word: blue-redstripe danio
taxonomic: Devario aequipinnatus
word: giant danio
taxonomic: Danio choprae
word: glowlight danio
taxonomic: Danio tinwini
word: gold-ring danio
taxonomic: Devario shanensis
word: Hora danio
taxonomic: Danio tweediei
word: Kedah danio
taxonomic: Devario malabaricus
word: Malabar danio
taxonomic: Danio meghalayensis
word: Meghalaya danio
taxonomic: Danio dangila
word: moustached danio
taxonomic: Danio aesculapii
word: panther danio
taxonomic: Danio albolineatus
word: pearl danio
taxonomic: Danio roseus
word: rose danio
taxonomic: Devario devario
word: Sind danio
taxonomic: Danio nigrofasciatus
word: spotted danio
taxonomic: Danio feegradei
word: Yoma danio
taxonomic: Danio rerio
word: zebra danio
Related terms: danionin
cyprinid
Cyprinidae
Danio
Danioninae
Devario
rasbora
zebrafish
danios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danio
danionin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danionins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of small minnow-like cyprinid fish
Related terms: danionine
danionins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danionin
environmental audit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: environmental audits
Senses: topics: biology
business
ecology
natural-sciences
synonyms: green audit
glosses: A set of evaluations conducted to measure the compliance of a legal entity with the environmental legislation and provide its management with recommendations on improving the environmental indicators.
faropenem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An orally active beta-lactam antibiotic belonging to the penem group.
fadrozole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -rozole (“imidazole-triazole derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An aromatase inhibitor used in the treatment of breast cancer.
febuxostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈbʌk.səˌstæt/
Etymology: From phe(nyl) + (iso)bu(tyl) + x(anthine) o(xidase) + -stat (“enzyme inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A urate-lowering drug (trademark Uloric), an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase that is indicated for use in the treatment of hyperuricemia and chronic gout.
felbinac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: biphenylylacetic acid, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug of the arylacetic acid class, used to treat muscle inflammation and arthritis
fenobam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An imidazole drug with anxiolytic effects.
fenoterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pheno- + -terol (“phenethylamine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A beta 2 adrenergic agonist designed to open up the airways to the lungs.
felypressin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A non-catecholamine vasoconstrictor, chemically related to vasopressin.
femoxetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -oxetine (“fluoxetine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An SSRI related to paroxetine.
fenadiazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hypnotic drug with an oxadiazole-based structure.
fenoverine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pheno(thiazine) + -verine (“spasmolytic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antispasmodic drug.
farampator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ampakine drug.
fenmetozole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An α2-adrenergic receptor antagonist similarly to other imidazoles such as idazoxan.
fenbufen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Principle Plasma and internal standard are treated with hydrochloric acid to dissociate fenbufen and its ...
ref: 1975, Irving Sunshine, Peter I. Jatlow, Methodology for Analt Toxicology, CRC PressI Llc:
glosses: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug used primarily to treat inflammation in osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and tendinitis.
fedotozine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An opioid drug of the arylacetamide series.
fenclonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: parachlorophenylalanine
parachlorophenylalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + chlorophenylalanine.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic amino acid that acts as a selective and irreversible inhibitor of tryptophan hydroxylase.
Synonyms: fenclonine
PCPA
fenozolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A psychoactive drug and stimulant related to pemoline.
fenbutrazate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenbutrazate
Senses: glosses: A psychostimulant derived from phenmetrazine, used as an appetite suppressant.
fenclofenac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug formerly used in rheumatism.
falipamil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A calcium channel blocker.
fendiline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -dil- (“vasodilator”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A calcium channel blocker.
fantofarone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -arone (“antiarrhythmic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A calcium channel blocker.
fengabine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phen(yl) + -gab- (“gabamimetic agent”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug investigated as an antidepressant but never marketed.
fenoprofen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feno + (ibu)profen.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
fenoxazoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nasal preparation.
fenspiride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A spiro compound used as a drug in the treatment of certain respiratory diseases.
fenretinide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phen- + -retin- (“retinol derivative”) + (am)ide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic retinoid derivative.
fenquizone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A diuretic used primarily in the treatment of oedema and hypertension.
dauerlarva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dauerlarvae
form: dauer larva
Senses: examples: text: […] suggests the dauerlarva is resistant because of non-feeding and a more resistant cuticle. Examination of the dauerlarva cuticle by thin sectioning and electron micro[…]
ref: 1975, Daniel McMahon, C. Fred Fox, Developmental Biology: Pattern Formation, Gene Regulation, Addison Wesley Longman:
glosses: A morphologically recognizable, nongrowing stage in the postembryological development of the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
dauerlarvae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dauerlarva
dermanyssoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermanyssoids
Senses: glosses: Any of many, mostly parasitic, mites of the superfamily Dermanyssoidea
deutonymph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deutonymphs
Etymology: From deuto- + nymph.
Senses: glosses: The third instar of a mite.
Derived terms: deutonymphal
Related terms: protonymph
tritonymph
deutonymphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deutonymph
deutonymphal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deutonymph + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to deutonymphs
haustorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a haustorium.
Derived terms: extrahaustorial
haustorially
posthaustorial
prehaustorial
holometabolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or undergoing, holometabolism; going through complete metamorphosis.
Derived terms: nonholometabolous
hyperprior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpriors
Etymology: From hyper- + prior.
Senses: examples: text: If we have a hyperprior for λ, the extension is quite easy: we can sample from this hyperprior, apply the procedure for each sample based on p(w; λ), and average over samples.
ref: 2007, Brian D. Ripley, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 166:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A prior distribution on a hyperparameter.
hyperpriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperprior
isochorismate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + chorismate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: an intermediate in the biosynthesis pathways of insect respiration
microaspiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microaspirations
Etymology: From micro- + aspiration.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The unintentional aspiration of very small amounts of reflux material, especially as a cause of laryngeal inflammation and bronchorrhea
mycangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mycangium
mycangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycangia
Senses: glosses: Any of several diverse structures on the body of an animal that are adapted for the transport of symbiotic fungi (usually as spores)
mycetophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myceto- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on fungi
Derived terms: copromycetophagous
sapromycetophagous
xylomycetophagous
zoomycetophagous
neuroelectromagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neuro-electromagnetic
Etymology: From neuro- + electromagnetic.
Senses: glosses: Describing the electromagnetic behaviour of the nervous system
glosses: Describing the effects of electromagnetic radiation on the nervous system
opisthogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opistho- + gastric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: behind the stomach
orthistichy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orthostichy.
paranal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + anal.
Senses: glosses: near the anus
pararetrovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pararetroviruses
Etymology: From para- + retrovirus.
Senses: glosses: Any of several reverse transcribing viruses that replicate through an RNA intermediate
Related terms: pararetroviral
pararetroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pararetrovirus
periapical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + apical.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding an apex (especially of a tooth).
periapical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periapicals
Etymology: From peri- + apical.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A radiograph of the area surrounding the apex of a tooth.
platypodine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ambrosia beetles of the subfamily Platypodinae
polyclonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From polyclonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a polyclonal manner
postcentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + central.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to the central sulcus
Derived terms: postcentrally
potyvirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potyviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of many plant viruses of the genus Potyvirus
procalcitonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + calcitonin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide precursor to the hormone calcitonin
proximoventral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proximo- + ventral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: close to the front or to the abdomen
reamplified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reamplify
reamplified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subjected to reamplification
retinotopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The mapping of the visual field to individual neurons
Derived terms: retinotopic
scolytine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolytines
Senses: examples: text: I didn’t, but what I did note inside the stems was evidence of boring by some insects and, eventually, the tiniest little scolytine bark beetles that I’ve ever seen.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
glosses: Any bark beetle of the subfamily Scolytinae
scolytines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolytine
semistrict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-strict
Etymology: From semi- + strict.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having some, but not all, characteristics of a strict system, category etc.
silphid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silphids
Senses: glosses: Any carrion beetle of the family Silphidae, now subfamily Silphinae.
subconfluency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subconfluence.
subgranule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgranules
Etymology: From sub- + granule.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell of the subgranular zone of the brain
subplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subplates
Etymology: From sub- + plate.
Senses: glosses: A layer of cells lying below the cortical plate of the cerebral cortex.
subsociality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being subsocial
subsocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + social.
Senses: glosses: Having a very limited social structure
trematurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trematurids
Senses: glosses: Any mite of the family Trematuridae
Müllers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Müller