cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
octalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octalogues
Senses: examples: text: Theophilus proceeds to divide what he will shortly call the "Ten Chapters" […], or more precisely an octalogue plus a selection of other appropriate materials, into three parts
ref: 2000, Rick Rogers, Theophilus of Antioch: The Life and Thought of a Second-century Bishop, page 128:
text: Thus Tertullian has turned, as it were, the Decalogue into his own octalogue, which he brings into close line with natural precepts.
ref: 2010 page 114
glosses: A series of eight statements.
Coordinate terms: pentalogue
hexalogue
septalogue
nonalogue
Decalogue
duodecalogue
nonalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: these Christians who have their head away off at Rome, subtract one from the ten commandments; and you know if you take one from ten, only nine remain. So they have but nine commandments. Theirs is not a Decalogue, but a Nonalogue.
ref: 1836, William Nevins, Thoughts on Poetry, page 21:
text: In view of the utter disregard for the Code with which new taxa are being described even in modern times, and in view of the inaccuracies in some of the features reported, I am tempted to extend the above into a nonalogue, if only to stress the need for good sense.
ref: 2012, Gary T. Cole, Biology of Conidial Fungi, Volume 1, Volume 1, page 74:
glosses: A series of nine statements.
Related terms: pentalogue
hexalogue
septalogue
octalogue
Decalogue
duodecalogue
chi-by-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alluding to the χ² test ("chi squared test") used to formally test a statistical hypothesis.
Senses: examples: text: They deem a fit acceptable if a graph of data and model "looks good." This approach is known as chi-by-eye. Luckily, its practitioners get what they deserve.
ref: 2007, William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, Brian P. Flannery, Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, page 774:
text: Their business prospects and earnings are correlated, and this can be observed by visually plotting their stock prices. Statisticians often call this "chi by eye."
ref: 2011, Steven P. Greiner, Ben Graham Was a Quant : Raising the IQ of the Intelligent Investor, page 16:
glosses: the practice of deciding between statistical models based on a plot, rather than a formal procedure.
Related terms: guesstimate
octalogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octalogue
duodecalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duodecalogues
Senses: examples: text: For use by the new man, the revolutionary spirit is set by Angkar's 12 commandments. God gave only 10 of them (see below). On reading this duodecalogue, it seems that a Cambodian citizen must (on pain of death) observe the three vows of religious communities: poverty, chastity, obedience
ref: 1976 Translations on South and East Asia, Volumes 637-653 page 7
text: The first duodecalogue, partely exciting partely directing a man in spirituall batail, explains how one must go about the strenuous acquisition of vertue (103) .. The second duodecalogue, "the .xii. wepenis of spiritual bataile" (109-13) gives practical help for the Christian pursuing the holy life
ref: 2009, A Companion to Thomas More, page 107:
glosses: A series of twelve works or statements.
Related terms: pentalogue
hexalogue
septalogue
octalogue
nonalogue
Decalogue
Kirkby-in-Furness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Kirkby Ireleth parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD2282).
oversensationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: excessive sensationalism
Related terms: oversensationalize
Edale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːdeɪl/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1285).
biballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bib + overalls
Senses: examples: text: There was a naked, uncomplicated honesty in what he said as he stood there talking with his hands jammed deep into the pockets of his biballs that was impossible not to believe.
ref: 1996, Stephen King, The Green Mile:
glosses: Loose-fitting pants (trousers) with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.
I'sia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Indonesia.
I'nesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Indonesia.
Ottomanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ottomanic
form: most Ottomanic
form: Ottomanick
Etymology: From Ottoman + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Jordan followed the Ottomanic state politically, scientifically, military and economically which meant that the scientific movement lost its originality and was restricted on following the heritage of previous Islamic product.
ref: 1987, Middle East journal of anaesthesiology - Volume 9, page 144:
text: Depending on the sultan and the local pasha, the times would be more Ottomanic or more Islamic.
ref: 2008, Marko Miljanov Popovich, Honor and Heroism, page 12:
text: Recently, there have been several books which attempt an overview of Islamic and Ottomanic theories in early modern British literary studies.
ref: 2017, Önder Çakirtaş, “Mustapha and Greville: Constructing Anglo-Ottoman Displomacy and Machiavellian Identities in Early Modern English Drama”, in Önder Çakirtaş, editor, Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature, page 146:
glosses: Synonym of Ottoman.
synonyms: word: Ottoman
outbelch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbelches
form: outbelching
form: outbelched
form: outbelched
Etymology: From out- + belch.
Senses: examples: text: Hang him, whose verse cannot outbelch the wind, That cannot beard and brave Dan Æolus ; That, when the cloud of his invention breaks, Cannot outcrack the scarecrow thunderbolt.
ref: c. 1600, The Return From Parnassus:
text: He could outeat, outdrink, and outbelch any monk from Tashilhunpo to Kumbum.
ref: 1935, Gordon Bandy Enders, Edward Anthony, Nowhere Else in the World, page 102:
text: I don't mean he goes off to his club and says proudly, " Do you know, old man, my little woman can outbelch any cab driver in London."
ref: 1950, Benn Wolfe Levy, Clutterbuck: comedy in three acts, page 10:
text: Why, the way they tried to outbelch each other was downright disgusting.
ref: 2011, Julie Garwood, Saving Grace:
glosses: To belch more or louder than.
outbelches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbelch
outbelching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbelch
outbelched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbelch
out-argue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-argues
form: out-arguing
form: out-argued
form: out-argued
Senses: examples: text: You have to out-drink, out-boast, out-fight, out-argue the horde of people who float around the pub (The Royal George, Lorenzini's bistro, etc. for downtown Sydney; the Sydney University Union café for “uptown”).
ref: 2009, Richard Warren Strong, The Legacy of Moondyne Joe, page 22:
text: Galileo was very good in debate: he could, his admirers believed and his opponents acknowledged, out-argue anyone.
ref: 2010, David Wootton, Galileo: Watcher of the Skies:
text: They may try to out-argue and out-evidence those who would dispossess them, but they need money to do so.
ref: 2012, Deirdre McKay, Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of outargue.
out-argues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of out-argue
out-arguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of out-argue
out-argued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of out-argue
out argue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out argues
form: out arguing
form: out argued
form: out argued
Senses: examples: text: I was too smart for my own good. I was able to rationalize and out argue anyone who told me I had a problem.
ref: 2002, Thomas J. Day, I Took the Easy Way Out, page 188:
text: You cannot out argue him. He is a gifted conversationalist, thinks quickly, and has thought through what it is that he wants.
ref: 2011, Janice Witt Smith, Leadership GPS: Roadmap to Become a Leader for Life:
text: She was smart, creative, and you weren't going to out argue someone named Ms. Argue.
ref: 2015, J. Ivy, Dear Father: Breaking the Cycle of Pain, page 79:
glosses: Misspelling of outargue.
out argues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of out argue
out arguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of out argue
out argued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of out argue
Americanizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Americanizable
form: most Americanizable
Etymology: From Americanize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be Americanized.
outbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outbirths
Etymology: From out- + birth.
Senses: examples: text: There is no music produced which is not the outbirth of inward feeling.
ref: 1858, The Divine Word Opened: Sermons, page 218:
text: The universe is an outbirth from God; the natural world is an outbirth from the spiritual world; and there is nothing that exists in the natural world but which has its cause and essence in the world of spirit.
ref: 1874, Woodbury M. Fernald, The True Christian Life: And how to Attain it ; Essays, page 4:
text: Again, the head or brain is a cause, to which the breast and shoulders stand as means, and the arms form the effect or outbirth.
ref: 1877, J. D. Hawken, Upa-sastrā: Comments, Linguistic and Doctrinal, on Sacred and Mythic Literature, page 112:
text: That it must be so, will be seen from this: Every physical form that we see in nature is the outbirth of some spiritual and invisible cause; and the peculiarity of its form and quality depends solely upon the peculiarity of its cause.
ref: 2013, John R. Hayes, The Complete Problem Solver:
glosses: A result or consequence.
outbirths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outbirth
trichotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tricho- + -otic.
Senses: examples: text: In the first place truly neoplastic melanomas are uncommon before puberty; anomalously, such lesions may be trichotic, whereas hair-bearing melanotic lesions in adults rarely become malignant.
ref: 1955, The New England Journal of Medicine, page 21:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to trichosis; hairy.
Related terms: hypertrichotic
hypotrichotic
trichotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Interpreting this in light of Paul's trichotic description of man in 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Origen concluded that Scripture, too, had a trichotic structure. The "body, soul, and spirit" of a man correspond respectively to the literal, moral and allegorical-mystical senses of Scripture.
ref: 1991, Robert W. Herron, Mark's account of Peter's denial of Jesus, page 21:
glosses: Trichotomous; divided into three.
pushability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From push + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pushable.
gymnostomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gymnostom + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking a peristome.
Related terms: gymnostom
cheilostoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheilostom
cheilostomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheilostomatous.
outblot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outblots
form: outblotting
form: outblotted
form: outblotted
Etymology: From out- + blot.
Senses: examples: text: For who shall stay The first blind motions of the May? Who shall outblot the morning glow: Or stem the full heart's overflow: Who?
ref: 1882, Austin Dobson, “More Poets Yet!”, in Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé, editor, The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, page 722:
text: As she hastened onward, his recollected voice made music in her ears, while his face remembered came ever between her and the sunlight, even as a past joy will outblot a present gladness; and she though how grand he was, and of what noble bearing, and of the pride in his calm face;
ref: 1888, Amélie Rives, The Man of the Golden Fillet:
text: Each object in our humble cot Reminds me of those happy days, And time itself can ne'er outblot The memory of thy winning ways.
ref: 1902, William Cryer, Lays After Labour: Or, Evening Songs, page 243:
text: Descend, O darkness, and outblot this scene of ignominy and shame.
ref: 1958, Dvijendralāla Rāya, Mevar Patan; Or, Fall of Mevar: A Play in Five Acts, page 124:
text: These spurious intensity distributions tend to outblot faint stains or to enhance the interference between stains belonging to the same cluster.
ref: 1983, Hans Wilhelm Schüssler, Signal processing II, page 292:
glosses: To blot out.
outblots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outblot
outblotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outblot
outblotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outblot
toe bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe beans
Etymology: From the resemblance to beans.
Senses: synonyms: digital pad
pawpad
glosses: Any of the digital pads on an animal's paw; typically that of a cat or dog.
toe beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toe bean
smolest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smol: most smol
chonky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɒŋki/
ipa: /ˈtʃɑŋki/
ipa: /ˈtʃɔŋki/
Forms: form: chonkier
form: chonkiest
Etymology: Modification of chunky, equivalent to chonk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Every October for the past five years, Fat Bear Week has showcased some of the healthiest, hungriest, and chonkiest bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve, a four-million-acre expanse of wilderness in southern Alaska.
ref: 2019 October 8, Melody Schreiber, “The Bittersweet Joy of Fat Bear Week”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2019:
glosses: Alternative form of chonk (“adorably chunky or large”).
raw_tags: of an animal
Related terms: chonker
chonkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chonky: most chonky
chonkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of chonky: more chonky
subcucullate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subcucullated.
subcucullated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cucullated.
Senses: glosses: Almost or imperfectly cucullated.
stegostom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Stoma tubular or funnel-shaped, with small cheilo- and gymnostom and developed stegostom, the latter with distinct or minute dorsal denticle and often with additional smaller denticles.
ref: 2006, E. Abebe, István Andrássy, W. Truanspurger, Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy, page 731:
text: Free-living nematodes, especially of the order Rhabditida, have a stoma composed of three circular, ring-like cuticularized structures: cheilostom, gymnostom, and stegostom.
ref: 2017, Qi Li, Wenju Liang, Xiaoke Zhang, Soil Nematodes of Grasslands in Northern China, page 53:
glosses: The posterior (innermost) portion of the stoma (oral cavity) of a nematode.
Derived terms: mesostegostom
metastegostom
prostegostom
telostegostom
cephalobid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalobids
Senses: synonyms: cephalob
glosses: Any member of the Cephalobidae.
cephalobids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalobid
telostegostom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From telo- + stegostom.
Senses: glosses: The posteriormost section of the stegostom.
metastegostom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + stegostom.
Senses: glosses: The second-posteriormost section of the stegostom.
prostegostom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + stegostom.
Senses: glosses: The anteriormost section of the stegostom, sometimes fused with the mesostegostom.
mesostegostom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + stegostom.
Senses: glosses: The second-anteriormost section of the stegostom, sometimes fused with the prostegostom.
clay court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clay courts
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Alternative form of claycourt.
clay courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clay court
clay courter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clay courters
form: clay-courter
form: claycourter
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A tennis player who plays on a claycourt
specsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From specs + -manship.
Senses: examples: text: Specsmanship is the art of writing and interpreting specifications.
ref: 1972, Charlie Harrison, Handbook of Industrial Control Computers, page 791:
glosses: The use of specifications and quantitative measurements to establish the putative superiority of one product over another
shaving soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaving soaps
Senses: glosses: A type of hard soap used with water and a shaving brush to create a lather that provides lubrication and avoids razor burn during shaving.
Synonyms: shave soap
Related terms: shaving oil
shaving stick
shaving stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaving sticks
Senses: synonyms: shave stick
glosses: Shaving soap in the shape of a stick, mostly for applying soap directly to the area to be shaved.
spinning off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spin off
spun off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spin off
kungwi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kungwis
form: makungwi
Etymology: From Swahili kungwi.
Senses: glosses: A teacher of sexual topics in the Swahili unyago ritual.
kungwis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kungwi
makungwi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kungwi
outbranch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbranches
form: outbranching
form: outbranched
form: outbranched
Senses: examples: text: This wise little book has an illustration, after the pattern of a family tree, showing that love to man has its root in love to God, and that the virtues naturally outbranch in a tree thus planted.
ref: 1898, Woman's Missionary Friend - Volume 30, page 417:
text: From Udine two lines outbranch—one to Cormons south-easterly and the other north-easterly to Cividale, where it touches the fringe of the mountains, and both lines end close to the frontier.
ref: 1915, The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home:
text: they will lose the benefit of a science course, which being undifferentiated (Chapter IV), forms the natural source of study from which the special sciences outbranch and through which they are correlated.
ref: 1916, Harry Amoss, Elementary Science in the Secondary Schools of Ontario, page 60:
text: Gradually, the whole organization will outbranch the service from one place to another, in accordance with a prefixed schedule.
ref: 1939, Leonidio Ribeiro, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To form an outbranch; to branch out or spin off.
examples: text: In the quest for market share, institutions tried to outbranch each other, and major lenders tried to establish nationwide markets.
ref: 1987, Outlook of the Federal Home Loan Bank System:
glosses: To form more branches than.
outbranches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outbranch
outbranches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbranch
outbranching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbranch
outbranching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outbranchings
Senses: examples: text: The 3a dichotomizes into branchings marked 4a and 4b, of which 4b has not been followed any further, but 4a again divides dichotomously into 5a and 5b, whose walls show alveolar outbranchings, so that they are to be regarded as respiratory bronchioles.
ref: 1922, The American Journal of Anatomy - Volume 30, page 274:
glosses: An outbranch.
outbranchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outbranching
outbranched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbranch
Ambemohar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: from Marathi अंबेमोहोर (ambemohor)
Senses: glosses: A fragrant variety of rice grown in Maharashtra, India.
I-lan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 宜蘭 (I²-lan²).
Senses: examples: text: Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land surface in all.
ref: 1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus, volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 2:
text: Moreover, the anatomical and biophysical studies described in this paper have not only indicated the snail first described as "Tricula" to be a subspecies of Oncomelania hupensis, but to be most closely related to O. h. formosana, and, in particular, to a population of that subspecies from I-lan county, also located in the northern tip of Taiwan.
ref: 1968, George M. Davis, “A Systematic Study of Oncomelania hupensis chiui (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)”, in Malacologia, volume 7, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:
text: Elsewhere, on the east coast an auxiliary force composed of Ōsaka Fourth Division reserves staged landings in the I-lan district on June 21, and in only two days' time had peacefully entered the main towns of Lo-tung and I-lan in that area.
ref: 1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49:
text: I was told that the security agencies had determined that in the event of a public disturbance of any kind, three men would be destroyed at once. They were Henry Kao, the present mayor of Taipei, Kuo Yu-shin, an outspoken non-K.M.T. member of the Provincial Assembly elected by a solid constituency in I-lan, and me. The three of us were referred to in security documents by a coded sign, three concentric circles.
ref: 1972, Peng Ming-min, A Taste of Freedom, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 206:
glosses: Alternative form of Yilan.
I-lan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 依蘭 (I¹-lan²).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yilan.
do-er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-ers
Senses: examples: text: Contrary to what some may assume, Taurus women are do-ers. If there is something they desire or need, they don't hesitate to go out and get it.
ref: 2023 November 2, Monisha Holmes, Erika W. Smith, “Read This Before You Ask Out a Taurus Woman”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Alternative form of doer.
nikab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nikabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of niqab.
portender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portenders
Etymology: From portend + -er.
Senses: synonyms: harbinger
omen
sign
glosses: One who or that which portends.
portenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portender
nisbah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nisbahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nisba.
GSHPX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GSHPx
form: GSH-PX
form: GSH-Px
form: GPX
form: GPx
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of glutathione peroxidase.
GSH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of glutathione.
Derived terms: GSHPX
Thorley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thorleys
Etymology: From Old English þorn (“thornbush”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to thorn + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4719).
glosses: A village in Yarmouth parish, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ3788).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
actiniarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actiniarids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of actiniarian.
actiniarids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actiniarid
adriamycinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The quinone (7S,9S)-6,7,9,11-tetrahydroxy-9-(2-hydroxyacetyl)-4-methoxy-8,10-dihydro-7H-tetracene-5,12-dione which is the aglycone of doxorubicin
aesthenopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asthenopic.
allopathogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allopathogens
Etymology: From allo- + pathogen.
Senses: glosses: An allopathic pathogen
allopathogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allopathogen
O$P$
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: ref: 2024 March 18, “Teen arrested for locking Chai Chee flat, leaving O$P$ note”, in The New Paper:
glosses: Abbreviation of owe money, pay money: an admonition to debtors, especially by loansharks (Ah Longs).
alloplasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + plasmatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to alloplasm
aminoquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminoquinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino derivative of a quinone
aminoquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminoquinone
amylohydrolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amylohydrolases
Etymology: From amylo- + hydrolase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydrolase that hydrolyses starch
andragogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of andragogic.
angiotomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angio- + tomography.
Senses: glosses: tomography of blood vessels
anonymisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anonymise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anonymizable.
anonymizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anonymize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be anonymized
anteosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anteosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any extinct therapsid of the clade Anteosauria
anteosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anteosaur
walk the streets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks the streets
form: walking the streets
form: walked the streets
form: walked the streets
Senses: examples: text: The art of walking the streets, if it was ever known, is a lost art in America.
ref: 1874, Scribner's Monthly, May—October, page 127:
text: At first, I just spent most of the day walking the streets, pushing my baby around with me from one sister's house to another.
ref: 2012, Lily O'Brien, The Girl Nobody Wants, Troubador Publishing (Matador), page 194:
text: So after the Beatles bit we walked the streets of Hamburg for a while, amazed at the vibrancy of the place.
ref: 2012, Chris Brady, Life Begins at 49, Xlibris, page 329:
glosses: To walk about in a city or town, especially as an activity in itself.
examples: text: Doctor, you have stated that you assumed that there are many people walking the streets who are neurotic.
ref: 1951, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs, New York Court of Appeals, page 546:
text: 2007, Martha C. Reith, Highlights in History: 1900-1939, Remedia Publications, page 10,
His business was crime, yet he walked the streets of Chicago with no fear of punishment.
glosses: To be free to move about in a city or town.
examples: text: Probably at the age of eleven, when he should be at school, he is driven into the workshop and a journeyman is allowed to walk the streets, because a great deal that he does can be done by the apprentice.
ref: 1899, Documents of the City of Boston, Volume 3, Boston City Council, page 63:
text: Trade conditions in Waco are dull just now and we have a number of our union men walking the streets.
ref: 1913, Carpenter, Volumes 33-34, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, page 39:
text: I hold a letter from an Imperial Veteran telling me "returned men who fought to save the empire are walking the streets of the Pacific Coast cities starving,"[…].
ref: 1921, Agnes Christina Laut, Canada at the Cross Roads, Canada: Macmillan Company, page 59:
glosses: To be unemployed; to be looking for work.
glosses: To prostitute.
anthropopression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthropopressure.
walks the streets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of walk the streets
walking the streets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk the streets
walked the streets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of walk the streets
anticholinesterasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or functioning as anticholinesterase
Kalavati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit कलावती (kalāvatī).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
antimycogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimycograms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A laboratory procedure in which samples of a fungus are treated with a variety of antimycotics
aortoseptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛptəl
Etymology: From aorto- + septal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the aorticopulmonary septum
arachnivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arachnivores
Etymology: From arachni- + -vore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that eats spiders
Related terms: arachnivorous
arachnivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arachnivore
Siccawei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪːkəˈweɪ/
ipa: /sɪːkɑːˈweɪ/
enpr: sǐʹku̇wāʺ
Etymology: A romanization of the Shanghainese pronunciation of Chinese 徐家匯 /徐家汇 (xxi-ka-hhue).
Senses: examples: text: The factory we went to see was out in the Hsuchiahui (Siccawei, in Shanghai dialect) district, and was called the Deaf and Mute Workers' Electrical Appliance Factory No. 2.
ref: 1973, Rewi Alley, “Shanghai”, in 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 76:
english: Travels in China, 1966-71
translation: Travels in China, 1966-71
text: Early on the morning of the eighteenth the Taipings occupied the historic town of Hsu-chia-hui, or Siccawei, just west of the port, where Jesuit missionaries had long before established an important Catholic community.
ref: 1992, Caleb Carr, “"Not As Was Hoped, Dead..."”, in The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: Synonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
synonyms: word: Xujiahui
extra: an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
glosses: Synonym of Xuhui, the larger district of Shanghai, China, surrounding Xujiahui.
synonyms: word: Xuhui
extra: the larger district of Shanghai, China, surrounding Xujiahui
arbuscocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbuscocytes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An arbuscular (dendritic) cell
arbuscocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbuscocyte
arthrolithiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arthro- + lithiasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: articular gout
azoxybenzenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azoxybenzene
origos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of origo
Prudhoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ0963).
Derived terms: Prudhoe Bay
spread one's wings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spreads one's wings
form: spreading one's wings
form: spread one's wings
form: spread one's wings
Senses: examples: text: By this time, largely inspired by The Railway Magazine, I had begun to spread my wings, and had started on a long career of railway exploration.
ref: 1957 July 24, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:
text: It's time to spread our wings and fly. Don't let another day go by my love
ref: 1980, John Lennon, (Just Like) Starting Over:
synonyms: expand one's wings
stretch one's wings
try one's wings
glosses: To experiment in life; to find out what one is capable of; to try new things or activities.
Related terms: clip someone's wings
clip the wings of
under one's wing
wingspread
stretch one's wings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stretches one's wings
form: stretching one's wings
form: stretched one's wings
form: stretched one's wings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spread one's wings.
synonyms: word: spread one's wings
backazimuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backazimuths
form: back azimuth
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
topography
glosses: A projection of the azimuth from the origin to the opposite side of the azimuth circle.
benzaldoxime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aldoxime of benzaldehyde.
Derived terms: antibenzaldoxime
benzopiperidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzopiperidines
Etymology: From benzo- + piperidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic heterocycle consisting of a benzene ring fused to that of piperidine
biodesign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodesigns
Etymology: From bio- + design.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The design of biological systems
biogeomorphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biogeomorphic.
Walkden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Walkdens
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Walca + denu (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7303).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
bioglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioglyphs
Etymology: From bio- + glyph.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any structure of biological origin on a bedding plane
glosses: A biographical picture
bioglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioglyph
biophysiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bio- + physiologically.
Senses: glosses: In a biophysiological manner
bipuvicane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bupivacaine.
bipyridylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bipyridinium.
biungulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + ungulate.
Senses: glosses: Having a cloven hoof
biungulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biungulates
Etymology: From bi- + ungulate.
Senses: glosses: Any such animal
biungulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biungulate
blisterase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proprotein convertase, similar to subtilisin, present in nematodes
Wivelsfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪvəlzˌfiːld/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3420).
Derived terms: Wivelsfield Green
Ingatestone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ingatestone and Fryerning parish, Brentwood borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6499).
Fryerning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Ingatestone and Fryerning parish, Brentwood borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL6400).
Barassie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Troon, South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3232).
Newtown Unthank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Desford parish, Hinckley and Bosworth borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4904).
Gab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Gabriel.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.
Desford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4703).
Southminster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Southmestre; equivalent to south + minster.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ9699).
Coucher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Iain +
Jim +
John +
big enough and ugly enough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: big and ugly enough
Etymology: From the notion that youth, especially children, have a more beautiful and endearing appearance, thus maturity ought to make one not only bigger, but uglier too; though, in some cases, the opposite is true (see ugly duckling and its associated fairy tale, which illustrate such a case).
Senses: examples: text: Her aunt answered, 'You just go off my child. There are two young women here who are big enough and ugly enough to help me with the dishes.'
ref: 2002, Nokuthula Mazibuko, In the Fast Lane, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Don't worry – he'll come home. He's big enough and ugly enough to look after himself.
ref: 2014, Maggie Caldwell, Deceitful Desires, →ISBN, page 345:
glosses: Mature, grown-up, old enough (with the implication that one can look after oneself and make one's own decisions).
Related terms: big boy
big girl
Langman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Langmans
Etymology: Variant of German Langmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
warm storage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, operators including LNER, Chiltern Railways and East Midlands Railway have already indicated that some of their fleets will be temporarily placed into warm storage until the Coronavirus crisis is over.
What does warm storage mean?
Warm storage means that trains are maintained and kept powered at all times in order to keep all systems working.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: COVID-19: Questions and Answers”, in Rail, page 10:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The storage of a train taken out of service temporarily, which is kept powered and maintained.
Related terms: warm store
zaddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzædi/
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: zaddies
Etymology: The origin of the slang word zaddy, an assibilation of daddy, is unclear. Urban Dictionary has numerous, usually similar user definitions of zaddy with the earliest going back to June 17, 2008 by a user by the name of Josette as follows: "The slang term for a really "handsome" guy who is very appealing and looks really fashionable. He has to have swag and sex appeal and look sexy and attractive", this meaning is the most common. Other published instances of the word only become more frequent around 2018 but perhaps influenced by by American rapper Ty Dolla Sign's 2016 song by the same name.
Senses: examples: text: She keep on callin' me zaddy, that lil' baby got a fatty
ref: 2016, “Zaddy”, in Campaign, performed by Ty Dolla $ign:
text: As someone who can shoot on target, keep watch while you sleep and look smoking in a leather jacket or a sparkly, silver lurex sweater, [Pedro Pascal is] the poster boy for what the zaddy's all about.
ref: 2023 March 18, Jo Ellison, “Have you got zaddy issues?”, in FT Weekend, page 21:
text: “Wait a minute, Bradd said his dad could beat up a dad in this family. How do we know he wasn't talking about me? I'm a dad too.” [Korvo and replicants laugh] [laughter continues] “Okay, you're right. I'm more of a zaddy than a dad.” “It's true. That was good though, Terry. I really needed that. You've energized me for an ass-kicking. Well, off to hurt a stranger.”
ref: 2024 August 12, May Darmon, “The Sci-Fi Rollerblades” (2:45 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 6, spoken by Terry (Thomas Middleditch):
glosses: A handsome, fashionable man, especially an older man.
wikipedia: Ty Dolla Sign
Urban Dictionary
YouTube
Zaddy
aminocyclopropanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminocyclopropane
slackful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slackful
form: most slackful
Etymology: From slack + -ful (adjective).
Senses: glosses: Full of laxity; characterised by laxness; relaxed; (by extension) unmotivated, lazy.
plastify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plastifies
form: plastifying
form: plastified
form: plastified
Etymology: From plastic + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Mixer 4 may be any conventional single screw or twin-screw extruder equipped with heating means to plastify the thermoplastic resin mix therein.
ref: 1977, Maurice William Ranney, Reinforced plastics and elastomers: recent developments, page 144:
text: At a soft initial deformation response, all cross-sections or loaded layers within the gauge length of the specimen may not plastify due to the variation of the actual load-bearing area along the specimen.
ref: 1996, Metal Powder Industries Federation, APMI International, American Powder Metallurgy Institute, Advances in Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials:
text: Some materials have a distinctly defined yield point, e.g. most steels, whereas other materials start to plastify gradually at very low stresses.
ref: 2006, Karl U. Kainer, Magnesium:
text: Oh. Well, I can't identify the spell that was cast – other than that it required a large amount of magic – which would fit in with a shrink and plastify.
ref: 2010, Chris Dolley, Magical Crimes: Twenty-Four Inches From Tulsa:
glosses: To make or become plastic or malleable.
Derived terms: deplastify
plastifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plastify
plastified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plastify
leechbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leechbooks
Etymology: From Middle English leche (“doctor, physician”), from Old English lǣċe (“medical doctor”) + boc (“book”).
Senses: examples: text: This Saxon manuscript has a dignity which is unique, for it is the oldest existing leech book written in the vernacular.
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 5:
text: One of the old Leech Books gives the formula for a salve against the "elfin race and nocturnal goblin visitors." Fourteen herbs, including wormwood, viper's bugloss and fennel, were first gathered.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 257:
text: 2004, J. P. Griffin treacle and the foundation of medicines regulation
The first was directly from Byzantine or other eastern sources, for example a Saxon leechbook of the 11th century records that Abel the Patriarch of Jerusalem sent Mithridatium or theriac to King Alfred the Great, who died on 26 October 899
glosses: A medical text of the Anglo-Saxon era; a compilation of medicinal cures and remedies used by leeches.
deltate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From delta (a greek letter of triangular form) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a triangular leaf.
Derived terms: obdeltate
deltate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltates
Etymology: From deltic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of deltic acid.
deltic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The derivative of cyclopropenone dihydroxycyclopropenone
Related terms: deltate
bradygastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brady- + gastric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bradygastria
breathholding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breath-holding
Senses: glosses: The action of holding one's breath (a cessation of breathing).
bulbocavernous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the bulbocavernosus
caneberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caneberries
Senses: glosses: Any fruit (such as a raspberry or blackberry) that grows on thin, woody canes
capillovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capilloviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus, of the genus Capillovirus, associated with a range of plant diseases
capilloviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capillovirus
capsidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a capsid
cerebrovasculogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerebro- + vasculogenesis.
Senses: glosses: cerebral vasculogenesis
chartplotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chartplotters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chart plotter.
chionophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chionophobes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χιών (khiṓn, “snow”) + -phobe.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that does not thrive in snowy conditions.
Derived terms: chionophobous
chionophobous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chionophobe + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of chionophobes.
chlorophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chlorophyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chlorophytes
plasma protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma proteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein present in the blood plasma.
Synonyms: blood protein
plasma proteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma protein
Senses: glosses: plural of plasma protein
Padmavati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit पद्मावती (padmāvatī).
Senses: glosses: Hindu goddess and consort of Sri Venkateswara of Tirupati.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.