cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
with one hand tied behind one's back
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: with one arm tied behind one's back
Senses: synonyms: hands down
one-handed
with one's eyes closed
standing on one's head
glosses: Easily, without much effort.
examples: text: The boss won’t let us follow our normal procedures because he thinks it will take too long, so we’re effectively working with one hand tied behind our backs.
glosses: Hampered by factors outside one’s control.
with one arm tied behind one's back
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of with one hand tied behind one's back.
with one's eyes shut
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of with one's eyes closed.
biooptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + optic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biooptical.
biooptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + optical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biooptics
bleocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A commercial form of bleomycin
bolbitioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of mushrooms of the genus Bolbitius.
body and soul
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: You still think she's immune? She's joined herself to me, body and soul!
ref: 1956, Cyril Hume, Forbidden Planet, spoken by Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen):
glosses: Wholeheartedly.
Related terms: keep body and soul together
bulawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulawas
form: bulava
form: buława
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish buława.
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial mace or baton, used by the military of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
boselliid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boselliids
Senses: glosses: Any sea slug of the family Boselliidae
boselliids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boselliid
booid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Booidea
Senses: glosses: Any snake of the superfamily Booidea
booids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booid
borderzone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borderzones
form: border zone
Senses: glosses: The zone surrounding a border
borderzones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borderzone
Joie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Joseph.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
glosses: A surname.
nephropyosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephropyoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyonephrosis.
synonyms: word: pyonephrosis
calcospherites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcospherite
carotenoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carotenoprotein
cecotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cecotrophs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caecotroph.
cecotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cecotroph
cellulosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cellulosomes or to cellulosomics
JUSE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It became apparent to the JUSE organization that Dr. Deming was the catalyst Japan needed to rekindle the national quest to revive Japanese industry.
ref: 1993, Bruce M. Sheridan, Policy Deployment: The TQM Approach to Long-range Planning:
text: According to Jungi Noguchi, a longtime JUSE member, Deming talked about the importance of the practical application of statistical methods, and how quality control is the best method for producing — economically — what customers want.
ref: 1997, John Butman, Juran: A Lifetime of Influence, →ISBN, page 121:
text: The JUSE organization proper is chiefly involved in arranging logistics for its activities rather than being the source of quality knowledge.
ref: 2007, Four Practical Revolutions in Management, →ISBN:
glosses: Acronym of Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers.
wylie-coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wylie-coats
Senses: glosses: A flannel undervest or petticoat.
wylie-coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wylie-coat
justicar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌst.ɪ.kɑɹ/
Forms: form: justicars
form: Justicar
Etymology: Possibly derived from justiciar.
Senses: examples: text: Spaceport Official: I wanted to be a justicar when I was young. Every asari does I guess.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Illium:
text: Until the justicars got there, she was the only thing standing between the Black Sun gangsters and the relatively innocent residents of Gnawer's Roost.
ref: 2011, Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance, →ISBN:
text: As the justicar strode over to the knights, he saw Deothen shaking his head.
ref: 2013, Matt Forbeck, Marked for Death: The Lost Mark, →ISBN:
text: At the edge of the square fifty justicars marched around a lone towering figure.
ref: 2015, Shane Michael Murray, The Orc of Many Answers, page 179:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A representative and enforcer of the king or ruler's justice.
justicars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justicar
Justicar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Justicars
Senses: examples: text: If the Nosferatu's demesnes are indeed as vast as reports claim, the Justicars reason, any sort of lawbreaking could take place down there.
ref: 1995, Robert Hatch, Clanbook, Nosferatu: here there be monsters, page 36:
text: The Justicars had been used by the Magi Guild of Academia to oversee the actions of Magi for thousands of years. The Catholic church had recognized them in 1220 A.D. creating the Holy Order of Justicars after Pope Honorius III was attacked by a Purifier Death Squad. Pope Honorius III knew that open support was not possible so he secretly created the Order of Justicars as a cover for the Guild and signed documents proclaiming the Svalbard Islands the headquarters for the Magi Guild Triad for thousands of years, as their headquarters.
ref: 2007, Auroroa Dvora, Jacketed Obsession, →ISBN, pages 47–48:
text: The creature cursed and grunted as the Justicar hacked his sword into its armored hide. The thing's flesh jarred like teak, almost denting the Justicar's blade.
ref: 2013, Paul Kidd, White Plume Mountain, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of justicar.
Justicars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Justicar
justicoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justicoats
Senses: examples: text: I asked him for the justicoat which you had given me when I came down here and I had left with him to take care of, as with the best of my friends.
ref: 1904, Michigan Historical Commission, Michigan Historical Collections - Volume 33, page 320:
text: Ordered that what pairt of that pirne is putt either in coat justicoat or breeches be taken back and sent to David Maxwell and placed to his accompt or to allow half dollar for the said pirne and charged to said David Maxwell's accompt.
ref: 1905, William Robert Scott, The Records of a Scottish Cloth Manufactory at New Mills, page 300:
text: He neither hid it up in the folds of his justicoat nor sewed it up in his rags, but safely stowed it away in his pack, in the crown of one of the bonnets, as the least likely place for a careful man to have trusted to.
ref: 1905, Hugh Gilzean Reid, Old Oscar and other sketches, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of justacorps.
justicoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justicoat
Jinzhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒu/
Forms: form: Chin-chu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金珠 (Jīnzhū).
Senses: examples: text: IN MID-AFTERNOON on March 8 a stone meteor flamed across Kirin, province and at 15:01:59 hours exploded over Chinchu commune outside the city of Kirin, shaking the earth.[…]Most fragments fell in Tatun commune outside Kirin and Chiangmifeng commune in Yungchi county. Larger ones fell in Chinchu commune.
ref: [1976 August, “Huge Meteorite Shower in Kirin”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 1:
glosses: A town in Longtan district, Jilin, Jilin, China.
examples: text: The Dromi Tsang House (kro me chong) is located in the region of Dabpa (,dab pa), in the village of Sumdu (gsum 'du, chin. Sangdui).[...]Another major town is Dapba (chin. Jinzhu), located some 28 km in the south.
ref: 2017, Peter Herrle, “Dromi Tsang House in Dabpa”, in Tibetan Houses: Vernacular Architecture of the Himalayas and Environs, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 104:
glosses: A town in Daocheng, Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
zinc carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinc carbonates
Senses: glosses: ZnCO3 - a mineral ore of zinc.
lead chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead chlorides
Senses: glosses: One of two lead compounds; plumbous chloride (PbCl2), or plumbic chloride (PbCl4)
okruga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian округа́ (okrugá)
Senses: glosses: plural of okrug
Twenty-Six Counties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The twenty-six counties that form the Republic of Ireland.
Related terms: Six Counties
32-county
cerebroencephalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebroencephalitides
Etymology: From cerebro- + encephalitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: cerebral encephalitis
cerebroventricle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪkəl
Forms: form: cerebroventricles
Etymology: From cerebro- + ventricle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: cerebral ventricle
Related terms: cerebroventricular
cerebroventricles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebroventricle
charcharhinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of carcharhinid.
chemokinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemokinases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemokine.
chemokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemokinase
chemomodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + modulation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: modulation of a biochemical pathway, typically by a drug
chemopotentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + potentiation.
Senses: glosses: enhancement of the potency of a drug by means of another chemical (typically another drug)
chemoradiosensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + radiosensitive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chemoradiosensitivity
chlamydaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of chlamydia in the blood
chloroplastidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chloroplastidial.
Derived terms: kleptochloroplastidic
chronodisruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpʃən
Etymology: From chrono- + disruption.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: disruption to the circadian rhythm
Related terms: chronodisruptive
chronodisruptor
circumstriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + striate.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the striate cortex of the brain
coinfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinfusions
Etymology: From co- + infusion.
Senses: glosses: An infusion of two or more materials
coinfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinfusion
colocolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of colocalization.
colubroidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colubroideans
Senses: glosses: Any snake of the superfamily Colubroidea
colubroideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colubroidean
comboscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comboscores
Etymology: From combo + score.
Senses: glosses: A combination of two or more scores
comboscores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comboscore
conchotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conchotomes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A device used to take small samples of muscle for biopsy
Related terms: conchotomy
confocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confocal
coprinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprinoids
Senses: glosses: Any fungus of the genus Coprinus or any mushroom produced by such a fungus
Related terms: coprinoidization
coprinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coprinoid
coprinoidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coprinoid + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The evolution of fungi to form fruiting bodies (mushrooms)
corylifolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The phytoestrogen phenol 4-[(1E)-3,3-dimethylpenta-1,4-dienyl]phenol present in Psoralea corylifolia
Related terms: corylifolinin
costamerogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From costamere + -o- + genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of costameres
cryoprecipitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryoprecipitate
cryoprecipitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoprecipitation
cuticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cuticulate.
cuticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a cuticle
Derived terms: acuticulate
cyanobactericidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyano- + bactericidal.
Senses: glosses: That kills cyanobacteria
cyclopaedically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cyclopaedic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyclopedically.
cyclopedically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cyclopedic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cyclopedic manner
cystogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cysto- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cystogenesis
deferrochelatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deferrochelatases
Etymology: From de- + ferrochelatase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that reverses to action of ferrochelatase
depictively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From depictive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of depiction
depictivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to depictives
glosses: Relating to depictivism
depotentiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depotentiate
dermatophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The eating of one's shed skin
Related terms: dermatophagia
dermatophagic
dermatophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to dermatophagia
glosses: Relating to dermatophagy
desoxyhemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deoxyhemoglobin.
desoxyhexose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desoxyhexoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deoxyhexose.
desoxyhexoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desoxyhexose
destratify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destratifies
form: destratifying
form: destratified
form: destratified
Etymology: From de- + stratify.
Senses: glosses: To remove strata from
Related terms: destratification
dimerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dimeric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: As a dimer
Derived terms: homodimerically
dorsoretrolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dorso- + retrolateral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dorsal and retrolateral
dyscohesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + cohesive.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That disrupts cohesion between cells
Related terms: dyscohesion
dyscohesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + cohesion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The disruption of cohesion between cells
Related terms: dyscohesive
dysrhythmicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + rhythmicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being dysrhythmic
earclipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has an earclip
echodense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From echo- + dense.
Senses: glosses: hyperechoic
Related terms: echodensity
Vlie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The low lands along the Vlie, often threatened, at last sank in the waves.
ref: 1909, J. L. Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, volume 1, page 42:
glosses: A seaway between Vlieland and Terschelling belonging to the province Frisia, the Netherlands, connecting the North Sea and the Wadden Sea
echographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From echographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of echography
ecodormancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + dormancy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Dormancy due to adverse environmental conditions (typically low temperature).
Related terms: ecodormant
ecodormant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + dormant.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecodormancy.
efferocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to efferocytosis
Synonyms: efferocytose
elaiophylin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A macrolide antibiotic present in various soil actinomycetes
electrocardium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrocardiums
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electrocardiogram.
synonyms: word: electrocardiogram
electrokeratome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrokeratomes
Etymology: From electro- + keratome.
Senses: glosses: An electrically-operated keratome
electrokeratomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrokeratome
endartery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)təɹi
Forms: form: endarteries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of end artery.
endarteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endartery
end artery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end arteries
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An artery that is the only supply of oxygenated blood to a tissue or organ
end arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end artery
scrivan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrivans
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivano, scrivener, and escribano.
Senses: examples: text: They told me their husbands were scrivans to the sultan, and that on their arrival in Cairo they should go to the house of the Khalil Bey till they proceeded to Alexandria; […]
ref: 1822, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, volume 2, page 314:
glosses: A clerk or writer.
endophenotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + phenotypical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of endophenotypic.
endothermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of endothermy.
erlenmeyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erlenmeyer
exogeneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exogenously.
exopectinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exopectinases
Etymology: From exo- + pectinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An exocytic pectinase
extrafloccular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + floccular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside of a flocculus
midnight horrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midnight horror
antpittas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antpitta
American aspens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American aspen
fibrilliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fibrillary.
fibroelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibro- + elastic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Fibrous and elastic
Related terms: fibroelasticity
fibroelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fibro- + elasticity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being fibroelastic
flavinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flavinates
form: flavinating
form: flavinated
form: flavinated
Etymology: From flavin + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with a flavin.
flavinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flavinate
flavinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flavinate
fleeceflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleeceflowers
form: fleece flower
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants of the genera Fallopia, Persicaria or Polygonum.
Derived terms: tuber fleeceflower
fleeceflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleeceflower
flocculectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: flocculectomies
Etymology: From floccule + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: excision of a floccule of the brain
flocculectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flocculectomy
fluorobenzoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorobenzoyls
Etymology: From fluoro- + benzoyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluoro derivative of a benzoyl radical
Derived terms: fluorobenzoylation
fluorobenzoylate
fluorobenzoylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fluorobenzoylates
form: fluorobenzoylating
form: fluorobenzoylated
form: fluorobenzoylated
Etymology: From fluoro- + benzoylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with a fluorobenzoyl radical
Related terms: fluorobenzoylation
fluorobenzoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fluorobenzoylate
benzoylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: benzoylates
form: benzoylating
form: benzoylated
form: benzoylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with a benzoyl radical
Derived terms: fluorobenzoylate
Related terms: benzoylation
fructuronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructuronates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of fructuronic acid
fructuronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fructuronate
calumnying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calumny
calumnied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calumny
fucoidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucoidins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of fucosan sulfates present in brown algae of the genus Fucus.
fucosan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucosans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide (of fucose) present in brown algae of the genus Fucus
fucosans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fucosan
Proust
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹuːst/
ipa: /pɹust/
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: Marcel Proust
Derived terms: Proustian
half-orphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-orphans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half orphan.
half-orphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-orphan
kick-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick-downs
Senses: examples: text: In general upward changes are bumpy; downward changes, including kick-downs, are O.K.
ref: 1969, The Motor - Volume 135, page 73:
text: Add this up and you will stick to the freeways where even the automatic is fine. Not the most modern system around, it takes its time about kick-downs and shows.
ref: 1973, Road Test - Volume 9, page 280:
text: This is especially useful for release element slip control on upshifts and release element hold-speed control on kick-downs; this logic is still used for those functions.
ref: 1991, Automotive Design Engineering:
glosses: Alternative form of kickdown.
kick-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kick-down
gadiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadiform
quadracycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadracycles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quadricycle (“four-wheeled pedal cycle”).
synonyms: word: quadricycle
extra: four-wheeled pedal cycle
quadracycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadracycle
pedal cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedal cycle
kneebuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneebuckles
Etymology: From knee + buckle.
Senses: examples: text: By the bye a droll accident happened here on Thursday, Wadd and Plumley got quarrelling about a kneebuckle of Hyde's which the latter affirmed not to be standard; Wadd was nettled at this, and said something reflecting on tradesmen and shopkeepers, and Plumley struck him.
ref: 1888, Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, The Letters of Charles Lamb - Volume 2, page 18:
text: On an indictment on the 12 Geo. 2, c. 26, s. 8, 31 Geo. 2, 32, s. 14, and 24 Geo. 3, c 53, s. 16, for removing from one silver kneebuckle to another silver kneebuckle certain stamps, marks, and impressions, to wit, the King's head and the lion rampant, with intent to defraud the King, against the statute, &c. ; on producing the silver kneebuckle in evidence, it appeared that the mark was a lion passant, instead of a lion rampant; and the Court held the variance fatal.
ref: 1896, Sir William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep, A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors - Volume 2, page 723:
text: Pass the hook & tape through it, & down between the breeches & drawers, & fix the hook on the edge of your kneeband, an inch from the kneebuckle.
ref: 1991, James Madison, William Thomas Hutchinson, William Munford Ellis Rachal, The Papers of James Madison, page 36:
glosses: A buckle that fastens the kneeband on a leg of a pair of knee breeches.
kneebuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneebuckle
kneeband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneebands
form: knee-band
Etymology: From knee + band.
Senses: examples: text: Can the calmest face, can the best-plaited lawn-sleeves, can the highest-drawn pink stockings, can the comeliest thigh-cases, the most nicely puckered at the kneeband, or can the most virginal apron, do away with or cover this ?
ref: 1891, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations:
text: Pass the hook & tape through it, & down between the breeches & drawers, & fix the hook on the edge of your kneeband, an inch from the kneebuckle.
ref: 1991, James Madison, William Thomas Hutchinson, William Munford Ellis Rachal, The Papers of James Madison, page 36:
text: The kneeband started to be buckled around 1735; previous to this the kneeband was buttoned.
ref: 2005, Carolyn L. White, American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: The band at the bottom of a leg on a pair of breeches.
kneebands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneeband
knee-band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee-bands
Senses: examples: text: When you have got so far, cut your seat at the joining of the waistband, less by two inches double; and in making, let your knee-band be cut one inch longer than your measure, and back it on lining, and set it in with the knee-band to the breeches;
ref: 2013, Norah Waugh, The Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900, →ISBN, page xliv:
glosses: Alternative form of kneeband.
knee-bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knee-band
stack the deck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stacks the deck
form: stacking the deck
form: stacked the deck
form: stacked the deck
Senses: examples: text: Private equity can stack the deck in other ways, too. Firms can direct businesses they own to buy other companies and then act as broker on the deals, reaping transaction fees.
ref: 2018 June 13, Bryce Covert, “The Demise of Toys 'R' Us Is a Warning”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
synonyms: cheat
glosses: To give an unfair advantage to somebody.
alexipharmacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alexipharmacon
DVD-Rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DVD-R
prejudicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prejudicious
form: most prejudicious
Etymology: From prejudice + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: Seemingly, the reservoir of such thought and speculation could make an important resource for theorists committed to thinking about human lives otherwise than through the prejudicious gender reifications that are common in psychoanalysis as in other projects of modern philosophy and science.
ref: 2003, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank, Touching feeling: affect, pedagogy, performativity:
glosses: Acting with prejudice; having prejudice.
life-arrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life-arrows
Senses: examples: text: Colonel Delvigne, of the French army, invented a life-arrow, to be fired from an ordinary musket.
ref: 1885, Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopædia:
text: Numerous life-arrows, kites and similar devices have been invented to carry lines to wrecked vessels, but none has proved superior to the Lyle gun.
ref: 1897, Day Otis Kellogg, New American Supplement to the Latest Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:
text: There was a contrivance for rendering the rope visible to the crew, and another to assist those on shore to descry the exact position of the ship in distress. The life-arrow, a cue-shaped stick of mahogany, with the thinner end projecting beyond the end of the barrel, is fired from an ordinary musket, and can carry 80 yards with a mackerel line attached.
ref: 1912, Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, The Americana:
glosses: A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.
life-arrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life-arrow
lifecar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifecars
Senses: examples: text: Survivors then came ashore in either the lifecar or the breeches buoy.
ref: 1991, Mariners Weather Log:
text: It was a lifecar like this one that brought the survivors, except Lydia Dale, safely ashore.
ref: 2005, Frederick Stonehouse, Women and the Lakes II: More Untold Great Lakes Maritime Tales:
text: On October 22, 1853, volunteer rescuers using the government lifecar saved all seven hundred persons on board the ship Western World near Spring Lake, a few miles north of Manasquan Inlet.
ref: 2015, Captain Robert F. Bennett, Susan Leigh Bennett, Commander Timothy R. Dring, The Deadly Shipwrecks of the Powhattan & New Era on the Jersey Shore, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of life car.
lifecars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifecar
lateral scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateral scales
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the scales along the midside that spans from the rear edge of the gill cover to the base of the caudal fin of a fish, usually along a lateral line.
wulst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wulsts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wulst.
flittiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of flitty: most flitty
flittier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of flitty: more flitty
great white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪt
Forms: form: great whites
Senses: examples: text: McHenry had been pilloried as an enemy of sharkdom after he had caught four large great whites at the Farallons in a single day in 1982.
ref: 2001, Thomas B. Allen, Shark Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, page 5:
text: “Okay. Sharkslayer declares this is a shark-free zone. Patrol’s over. Back to the party!” Oscar was just about to swim away when a shadow passed overhead. He looked up. Above him were two great whites.
ref: 2004, Louise Gikow, chapter 8, in Shark Tale: The Movie Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Ellipsis of great white shark.
great whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great white
galactolipase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactolipases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a galactolipid
galactolipases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactolipase
ouma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oumas
Etymology: From Afrikaans ouma.
Senses: glosses: A grandmother.
geoprocess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geoprocesses
form: geoprocessing
form: geoprocessed
form: geoprocessed
Etymology: From geo- + process.
Senses: glosses: To process and manipulate geographical information
geoprocessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geoprocess
glenoacetabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gleno- + acetabular.
Senses: glosses: glenoid and acetabular
gliomagenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glioma + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, in order to construct an integrated picture of genetic alterations in GBMs, the unequivocal alterations were mapped onto known gliomagenic pathways.
ref: 2011, M.A. Hayat, Tumors of the Central Nervous System, volume 5:
glosses: Relating to gliomagenesis.
glucuronidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glucuronidate
glyceroporins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyceroporin
glycotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycotopes
Etymology: By surface analysis, glyco- (“sweet”) + -tope (“place”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: epitope
glosses: The epitope of a glycoprotein.
Related terms: agretope
allotope
desetope
histotope
idiotope
paratope
supertope
glycotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycotope
grainsize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grainsizes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grain size.
grainsizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grainsize
grain size
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grain sizes
Senses: topics: arts
geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
glosses: The size of a grain (particle) in a sediment or emulsion
haematochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haemato- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematochemical.
hemispindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemispindles
Etymology: From hemi- + spindle.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of structures formed from division of a centriole during mitosis that move apart to form a spindle
hemispindles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemispindle
heteroallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being heteroallelic
UHPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ultra-high-performance concrete (“a type of concrete with compressive strength that meets a specific standard”).
Derived terms: FR-UHPC
FRUPHC
mrUHPC
mr-UHPC
MRUHPC
MR-UHPC
R-UHPC
RUPHC
SFR-UPHC
SFRUHPC
suaviloquence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin suāviloquentia; equivalent to suaviloquent + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: When a professional man is called from his office, or a student from his books, deliver your message with all possible despatch. Have not the vanity to think that great novelty of thought, even though you can deliver it with great suaviloquence, will be gladly received by those whose minds are pre-occupied.
ref: 1860, George Winfred Hervey, Rhetoric of Conversation:
glosses: The quality of pleasantness or sweetness in speech or writing.
Related terms: suaviloquent
heterodispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + dispersed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heterodisperse.
heteroepitaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + epitaxic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heteroepitaxial.
heterofertilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterofertilizations
Etymology: From hetero- + fertilization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of double fertilization, typically in maize, that results in phenotypically different endosperm and embryo
heterotetramerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heterotetramerize
heterotetramerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heterotetramerize
heterotrimerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heterotrimerizes
form: heterotrimerizing
form: heterotrimerized
form: heterotrimerized
Etymology: From hetero- + trimerize.
Senses: glosses: To form, or be formed, into a heterotrimer
Related terms: heterotrimerization
heterotrimerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heterotrimerize
histocassette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histocassettes
Etymology: From histo- + cassette.
Senses: glosses: A cassette used to hold histological samples during processing
histocassettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histocassette
histomorphologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From histo- + morphologically.
Senses: examples: text: They are closely related to the lung damage that is histomorphologically observeable.
ref: 2012, Hans-Joachim Gabius, Lectins and Cancer, page 74:
glosses: In a histomorphological manner.
holoandric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holandric.
homeosynaptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of homosynaptic.
homomethylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homomethylates
form: homomethylating
form: homomethylated
form: homomethylated
Etymology: From homo- + methylate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To methylate both strands of DNA
Related terms: homomethylation
homomethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homomethylate
homothallics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homothallic
honorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honorifications
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Modification to use an honorific
hydromechanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydromechanical.
hyperaldosteronemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + aldosteronemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of an excess of aldosterone in the blood
aldosteronemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldosteronemias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of aldosterone in the blood
Derived terms: hyperaldosteronemia
hyperintensely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hyper- + intensely.
Senses: glosses: In a hyperintense manner
hyperintensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + intensive.
Senses: glosses: More than usually intensive
hypoautophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + autophagic.
Senses: glosses: Less than normally autophagic
immunoglobulinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoglobulinemias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of immunoglobulin in the blood
Related terms: hypoimmunoglobulinemia
hypoimmunoglobulinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoimmunoglobulinemias
Etymology: From hypo- + immunoglobulinemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A deficiency of immunoglobulin in the blood
hypointensely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hypo- + intensely.
Senses: glosses: In a hypointense manner
hypopalmitoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + palmitoylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Less than the normal amount of palmitoylation
immunoadjuvanticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + adjuvanticity.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of being an immunoadjuvant
immunoanalyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoanalyzers
Etymology: From immuno- + analyzer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of immunoanalyser.
Derived terms: autoimmunoanalyzer
microimmunoanalyzer
immunoanalyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoanalyzer
immunobarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunobarriers
Etymology: From immuno- + barrier.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any barrier to the functioning of the immune system
immunobarriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunobarrier
immunofluorohistochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + fluorohistochemistry.
Senses: topics: biology
histology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A combination of immunofluorometry and histochemistry
Related terms: immunofluorohistochemical
acribic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acribic
form: most acribic
Etymology: From German akribisch (“meticulous”) or its etymon Ancient Greek ἀκριβής (akribḗs, “exact, accurate, precise”).
Senses: examples: text: The plan of each card is as follows: … 5. An acribic description of the discovered objects with measurements in mm. and cm., and references to the illustrations.
ref: 1964 Jacques Nenquin, May–June "Note 99: Inventaria Archaeologica Africana" Man (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) Vol.64 p.89
text: The most acribic pantographic or computer-aided bite registration procedures of tooth-guided border movements do not necessarily result in a satisfactory occlusion.
ref: 2006 Louise Cyffka (tr. from German of Eugen End), Physiological Occlusion of Human Dentism: Diagnosis & Treatment (Neuer Merkur)
glosses: meticulous, painstaking, thorough
examples: text: Furthermore, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommended that chemists should stop using imprecise terms such as systematic and trivial. It was suggested that they be replaced by the more precise terms acribic and anacribic, but these terms have never taken hold.
ref: 1997 Lynne Bowker, "You say "flatbed colour scanner", I say "colour flatbed scanner": A descriptive study of the influence of multidimensionality on term formation and use with special reference to the subject field of optical scanning technology." Terminology. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication Vol.4 No.2 pp.275–302
text: Doubtless finding it troublesome to name their product from scratch, they hijacked the RTM and came up with 'Texanol benzyl phthalate'. ... More legitimate and altogether more 'acribic' would have been benzyl 3-isobutyryloxy-1-isopropyl-2 2-dimethylpropyl phthalate.
ref: 1998 E. W. Godly, "The need for good nomenclature" in Chemical Nomenclature, edited by K. J. Thurlow (Springer) p.24
glosses: (chemistry) (of a chemical name) systematic
immunopotentiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + potentiative.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to immunopotentiation
immunosteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunosteroids
Etymology: From immuno- + steroid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any steroid involved in immunoregulation
immunosteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunosteroid
indistensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + distensible.
Senses: glosses: Not distensible
interdecile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + decile.
Senses: glosses: Between deciles
interdenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + denticular.
Senses: glosses: Between denticules
interfluorophore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + fluorophore.
Senses: glosses: Between fluorophores
interleavedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interleaved + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an interleaved manner
intracellulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of intracellularly.
intradurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intradural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intradural manner
intrafloccular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + floccular.
Senses: glosses: Within a flocculus
prooemion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prooemia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion). Doublet of proem.
Senses: examples: c. 1862, Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Lucretius"
Forgetful how my rich prooemion makes / Thy glory fly along the Italian field
glosses: A preface, an introduction.
intraglial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + glial.
Senses: glosses: Within the glia
intraputaminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + putaminal.
Senses: glosses: Within the putamen
isohelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + helical.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: relating to the same helix (of a DNA molecule)
isohelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From iso- + helically.
Senses: glosses: In an isohelical manner