cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fluidous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfluːɪdəs/
Forms: form: more fluidous
form: most fluidous
Etymology: From fluid + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: In such machines the paper travels from a supply roll to a coating roller, usually made hollow for holding steam or hot water, which revolves in a bath of coating material to keep it in a fluidous condition, so that when the paper comes in contact[...]
ref: 1917, The Federal Reporter, volume 237, page 665:
text: While all that is creaturely is by nature continually changeable, all that is physical (even mountains) is really molecular energy and therefore fluidous, the Eternal is solid in the sense of being real in the glorious sense of being dependably immutable.
ref: 2010, Samuel Whittemore Fowler, Meditations on the Glory of God, page 165:
text: What better symbol of progress than an object making its way through a “resistor”—a near-living organism that succeeded in progressing by “pilotage, astronomical navigation, 'dead reckoning,' and deep-sea sounding” (724) within a fluidous medium?
ref: 2010 December 15, A. David Napier, The Age of Immunology: Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World, page 119:
glosses: Like or relating to fluid or liquid; fluidic.
King of the Romans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Ferdinand's IV's coronation as king of the Romans in 1653 made liturgical concessions to Protestantism, and merely required the monarch to respect rather than obey the pope.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 75:
glosses: The monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, originally specifically prior to their formal coronation as emperor by the Pope.
on the horizon
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The goals and entertainment dried up after the break as Wales made a raft of substitutions but, with more meaningful challenges to come, a capacity crowd at the Stok Racecourse appreciated the bigger picture with Croatia on the horizon.
ref: 2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Imminent.
good sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good sorts
Senses: synonyms: good egg
glosses: Someone who is likeable and dependable.
glosses: A desirable woman.
acinetoferrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The siderophore 2-hydroxy-4-[(3-{hydroxy[(2E)-2-octenoyl]amino}propyl)amino]-2-{2-[(3-{hydroxy[(2E)-2-octenoyl]amino}propyl)amino]-2-oxoethyl}-4-oxobutanoic acid
acrolepiine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrolepiines
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the subfamily Acrolepiinae
acrolepiines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrolepiine
adenocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adeno- + cystic, from Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn, “gland”) and Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to adenocystomas
agiotensin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of angiotensin.
aliphaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of being aliphatic
Related terms: aromaticity
allosensitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + sensitized.
Senses: glosses: sensitized by allosensitization
anguilliforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anguilliform
book number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book numbers
form: book-number
Senses: glosses: A unique number which identifies a published book, for example, an ISBN.
book numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book number
bronzened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bronzen
icened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of icen
icening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of icen
boobying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of booby
hamstringings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamstringing
reducing scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reducing scales
Senses: glosses: A scale used by surveyors for reducing chains and links to acres and rods.
reducing scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reducing scale
gangsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangsaws
Etymology: From gang + saw.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of saws set in a single frame.
gangsaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangsaw
afterdated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more afterdated
form: most afterdated
form: after-dated
Etymology: From after- + dated.
Senses: examples: text: The result is, that the shares of Elizabeth and William Arthur, who died in the testator's lifetime, lapsed and fell into the residue, the will being brought within the operation of the Wills Act by force of the afterdated codicil.
ref: 1858, The Weekly Reporter, volume 7, page 368:
text: His afterdated Commission as Lieutenant, signed by Sir George Arthur on June lst, 1838, hangs in the hall at Colborne Lodge and on the 7th of December he had led the right wing of the scouting party up Yonge Street to Montgomery's Tavern to attack the rebels; […]
ref: 1911, Annual Report and Transaction of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto:
text: The board of elections found that 10 names had been stricken out, one name was stricken out as afterdated and 139 names were stricken out as predated.
ref: 1954, District and County Reports:
text: At a hearing before the Register of Wills of Delaware County, appellant sought to establish that the date on the second page of the appellant sought to establish that the date on the second page of the after-dated will had been altered and that the dispositive provisions on the first page of that will had been prepared after the execution of decedent's signature on page two.
ref: 1970, Pennsylvania state reports, volume 440, page 251:
glosses: postdated
sphenoturbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spheno- + turbinal.
Senses: glosses: sphenoidal and turbinated or whorled
coihues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coihue
drop-ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drop-ripe
form: most drop-ripe
Senses: glosses: Ripe enough to be ready to fall from the tree.
suffioni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian soffioni.
Senses: glosses: Exhalations of hot sulfurous vapours, common in volcanic regions.
Related terms: fumarole
solfatara
perkened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perken
perkening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perken
perkens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perken
mommier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mommy: more mommy
mommiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑ.mi.ɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mommy: most mommy
sposhy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspɒʃi/
Forms: form: more sposhy
form: most sposhy
Etymology: From sposh + -y.
Senses: examples: sposhy ground
glosses: Soft and wet; marshy; muddy.
sposh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sposhes
Senses: examples: text: The action of water during winter sposhes and ice comes in, water backs up and freezes. Have lived in 188 Cook's Falls all my life. I do not consider it practicable nor feasible from bridge 155 to highway unless raised […]
ref: 1912, Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Dept. Vol. 697, page 47:
glosses: Soft wet ground; mud or slush.
Derived terms: sposhy
spermatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spermatises
form: spermatising
form: spermatised
form: spermatised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spermatize.
spermatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spermatise
spermatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spermatise
spermatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spermatise
taraquitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taraquito
metacercarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacercaria
with one's eyes closed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: with one's eyes shut
Senses: examples: text: Is she good on the piano? Brother, she can play Beethoven with her eyes closed.
synonyms: hands down
one-handed
standing on one's head
with one hand tied behind one's back
glosses: With very little effort.
Related terms: with one's eyes open
standing on one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Difficult? Hah! I can do it standing on my head!
synonyms: hands down
one-handed
with one's eyes closed
glosses: Very easily.
standing on one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stand on one's head
with one's eyes open
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: with one's eyes wide open
form: with both eyes open
Senses: examples: text: Those banks, they're big boys. They went into this deal with their eyes open. That's what reserve requirements are for.
glosses: Cognizant of any risks involved.
Related terms: clear-eyed
keep one's eyes open
open-eyed
with one's eyes closed
scheroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of xeroma.
do someone brown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does someone brown
form: doing someone brown
form: did someone brown
form: done someone brown
Etymology: A play on two senses of do: to cheat, and to cook food, which may be brown when cooked thoroughly.
Senses: examples: text: How could he be safe against Master Dickey doing him brown?
ref: 1848, William Hamilton Maxwell, Brian O'Linn: Or, Luck is Everything, page 164:
text: His only defeats were sustained in the Caulfield Guineas, when Malt King put him down, and the same horse “did him brown”– over a mile only each time, mark you—in the All Aged Stakes at Flemington.
ref: 1919, Pastoral Review, volume 29, page 723:
text: James Howden dropped into an upholstered wing chair. “They certainly did us brown last night,” he remarked. “You’d think if they are making a switch, being considerate and so on, they’d be a bit more subtle.”
ref: 1961, Arthur Hailey, “Chapter Eleven: The White House”, in In High Places (fiction; e-book, hardcover, paperback):
glosses: To deceive someone thoroughly; to take in completely.
Related terms: done brown
do it up brown
as one man
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: In a unified manner.
milkstache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkstaches
form: milktache
Etymology: Blend of milk + moustache.
Senses: synonyms: milk moustache
glosses: The residue left upon the upper lip area after drinking milk, a milkshake, foamy coffee, etc.
milkstaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkstache
milktache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milktaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milkstache.
declivant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ultimately related to Latin dēclīvis.
Senses: examples: text: Head but slightly tumid above; front regularly arcuate and slightly declivant, the frontal costa broadening constantly in width toward the labrum, acuminate above; vertex narrow, the eyes being separated by a space less than equal to the diameter of one of the eyes, the fastigum scarcely declivant; […]
ref: 1875, Samuel H. Scudder, Entomological Notes, page 86:
text: Fastigium of the vertex declivant or sloping.
ref: 1909, Frederick Du Cane Godman, Osbert Salvin, Biologia Centrali-americana: Zoology, Botany and Archaeology, page 210:
text: Head but little tumid above; front vertical above, roundly declivant below the costa, nearly equal, but broadening and fading on approaching the labrum, a little constricted above the antennæ; vertex moderately broad, the eyes[…]
ref: 1917, University of Kansas. Department of Entomology, Studies in Kansas Insects: A Treatise Descriptive of the More Common Species, page 90:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Sloping.
rosinwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rosin + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Silphium.
bitten the bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bite the bullet
supermonogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)upɚməˈnɑɡəmi/
Etymology: Coined in 2004 by Elizabeth Emens from super- + monogamy.
Senses: examples: text: The notion of soulmates reinforces the myth of supermonogamy.
text: Plato's tale colorfully captures the potent fantasy of absolute monogamy, of supermonogamy, the vision of a unique and permanent bond between two individuals.
ref: 2004, Elizabeth F. Emens, “Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence”, in New York University Review of Law & Social Change, volume 29, →DOI, page 294:
text: Indeed, whether the mainstream idealizes "supermonogamy" and practices "serial monogamy," there is a parallel system of "pretend monogamy" based on secret affairs outside the official monogamous union that are occurring concurrently.
ref: 2010, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Going back to our theory about happiness, it might be fair to say that supermonogamy has made "perfect the enemy of the good." If people are not happy they feel comfortable or entitled to look elsewhere; they no longer feel constrained by an initial choice.
ref: 2017, Mark Goldfeder, Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier in Family Law, Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: The ideal that a person should or will only have one sexual/romantic partner in their lifetime.
Related terms: soulmate
true love
Oneika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of African-American usage, variant of Annika.
Pogo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Alaminos, Pangasinan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Bautista, Pangasinan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Mangaldan, Pangasinan, Philippines.
like sin
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Compare as sin and like hell.
Senses: glosses: Very much, or very hard; strongly.
badnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badniks
Etymology: From bad + -nik. Heavily popularized by the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise as an in-game enemy.
Senses: examples: text: Well, he turned out to be not such a badnik, but yes, I was doing well at school, although because I was enjoying it so much it didn't seem as if I was working particularly hard.
ref: 2006, Brian Tesler, Before I Forget: A Family Memoir, page 56:
text: Policemen know this method very well. Just because a guy holds an AK-47 does not necessarily make him a badnik.
ref: 2001, The Army Lawyer, page 9:
glosses: A bad or wicked person.
Related terms: nogoodnik
badniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badnik
coachstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachstands
Etymology: From coach + stand.
Senses: glosses: A place where (horse-drawn) coaches wait to be hired for a journey.
coachstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachstand
orders of precedence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of order of precedence
familiocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Etymology: From family + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: A system where people are ruled by a family or by their own family groupings.
gulami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 牛腩麵 /牛腩面 (gû-lám mī, “beef belly noodles”).
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Davao
glosses: beef belly (either ox tripe, tenderloin, or offal) and noodles soup (usually tangy/savory and spicy) with beef shanks or flanks
Related terms: pancit
pancit canton
mami
batchoy
misreform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɹəfɔː(ɹ)m/
ipa: /mɪsɹəˈfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: misreforms
Etymology: From mis- + reform.
Senses: examples: text: ... whether the party's determination to say that it is going to " abolish the eleven-plus " examination is merely to be a slogan about gradual changes in selection methods, or whether it will herald a serious attempt at educational misreform.
ref: 1958, The Economist - Volume 187, page 583:
text: I give you this hint that you may work up the concluding scene of her life as seraphicly as you can cast over it that sunshine that may be able to dispell all the misreforms that the foregoing had made upon minds really & not pretendly tender for as these last only pride themselves in what they have not they will never be brought to own that an author's address can ravish from them what they think it an honour to pretend to.
ref: 1992, William Warburton, John Knapton, Donald W. Nichol, Pope's literary legacy:
text: The authors had little to say about the complete absence of institutional transformations in the economy and emphasise sabotage on the part of the nomenklatura as the principal cause for the "misreform".
ref: 1997, Nikolai Biryukov, Victor Sergeyev, Russian Politics in Transition, →ISBN:
glosses: A reform that ends up making things worse.
misreform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɹəfɔː(ɹ)m/
ipa: /mɪsɹəˈfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: misreforms
form: misreforming
form: misreformed
form: misreformed
Etymology: From mis- + reform.
Senses: examples: text: And more then this he foysteth in to his translation the worde necessarie in steed of flagitare videntur, And thus like a bungling botcher he patcheth togither those vncertainties of Cassander to make himselfe and others a deceitfull safegarde of greater comfort and benefit for the soule which he erroneously supposeth rather to be in his misreformed faith them in the Romish.
ref: 1632, T. T., An Appendix To The Whetstone:
text: And I do still believe that, as all the errors of your life have proceeded from too great an excess of charity and therefore they may the rather be called the errors of other men than your's, it is posfible you may exercise more of that Christian virtue, towards those misreformed Churches, than their constitution deserves.
ref: 1773, State Papers: Commencing From The Year MDCXXI, page 402:
text: First, it will be soon manifest to them who know what wise men should know, that the constitution and reformation of a commonwealth, if Ezra and Nehemiah did not misreform, is, like a building, to begin orderly from the foundation thereof, which is marriage and the family, to set arigth first whatever is amiss therein.
ref: 1848, John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner, The prose works of John Milton, page 279:
glosses: To make a misreform; to reform badly or in error.
misreforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misreform
misreforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misreform
misreforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misreform
misreformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misreform
misscans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misscan
misscans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misscan
misscanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misscan
misreplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misreplication
sunset crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunset crops
Senses: examples: text: It would seem therefore that the rubber tree need no longer be considered as a "sunset crop"
ref: 1995, The Planter - Volume 71, Issues 826-837, page 297:
text: Negros Oriental is also more diversified economically than its Western cousin, Negros Occidental, which is overly dependent on the sunset crop sugar.
ref: 2001, Bernardo M. Villegas, The Philippine Advantage, →ISBN, page 319:
text: The health-promoting properties of coconut are increasingly being recognised. Yet coconut is too often seen as a sunset crop, with little future, unable to compete in export markets with palm kernel oil and, more recently, with generally modified rapeseed oil.
ref: 2003, Mike Foale, The Coconut Odyssey: The Bounteous Possibilities of the Tree of Life, →ISBN:
text: Cocoa is "a sunset" crop. We should diversify our production.
ref: 2003, K. B. Asante, Voice from Afar: A Ghanaian Experience, page 96:
glosses: A type of agricultural crop that is not expected to be commercially viable much longer.
sunset crops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunset crop
sunset industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunset industries
Senses: examples: text: Yet, the negative image one hears at present is not of a "sweatshop industry" but of a "sunset industry."
ref: 1986, Morton Schoolman, Alvin Magid, Reindustrializing New York State: Strategies, Implications, Challenges, →ISBN, page 53:
text: It may be mature but it's not a sunset industry, and arguably not one sector.
ref: 2007, Philip Jenks, Stephen Eckett, The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules, →ISBN, page 50:
text: But a traditional industry is not a sunset industry. The textile industry is both an old industry and an evergreen industry.
ref: 2013, Robert Ash, Christopher Howe, Y Y Kueh, China's Economic Reform: A Study with Documents, →ISBN:
text: But where others saw a sunset industry, David Alliance saw opportunity, and for a glorious period in the 1970s and1980s he seemed to have turned back the tide, basically through his ingenuity, hard work and sheer determination.
ref: 2015, David Alliance, A Bazaar Life: The Autobiography of David Alliance, →ISBN:
antonyms: sunrise industry
glosses: A type of business that is obsolescent.
sunset industries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunset industry
evergreen industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evergreen industries
Senses: examples: text: Parking is an evergreen industry with plenty of projects projected and underway.
ref: 1998, ENR - Volume 240, Issues 21-26, page 3:
text: Granted, it is a small, young industry that is still undergoing a maturation process, but this is an evergreen industry that has a big impact on the market and investors.
ref: 2012, Anthony Scaramucci, The Little Book of Hedge Funds, →ISBN, page 3:
text: But a traditional industry is not a sunset industry. The textile industry is both an old industry and an evergreen industry.
ref: 2013, Robert Ash, Christopher Howe, Y Y Kueh, China's Economic Reform: A Study with Documents, →ISBN:
topics: business
glosses: A business in a market that is always viable.
evergreen industries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evergreen industry
care a button
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cares a button
form: caring a button
form: cared a button
form: cared a button
Senses: examples: text: […] the filthy and foule desire of gaine preuailed with one of the garrison, a most wretched and desperate villaine of all men liuing to be abhorred: who being corrupted by the large and perilous offers of Ottoman, did not care a button for the safetie of his citizens, of his countrey, nor of his frendes or kinsfolkes […]
ref: 1596, Marin Barleti, translated by Zachary Jones, The Historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albanie, London: William Ponsonby, Book 5, p. 180:
text: If you are treated ill and put on,
’Tis natural to make a Fuss;
To see it and not care a Button,
Is just as natural for us.
ref: 1763, John Hall-Stevenson, A Pastoral Cordial, London: J. Hinxman, page 19:
text: Half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip. ¶ Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: You’re the only chap I care a button for […]
ref: 1922, Walter de la Mare, “Seaton’s Aunt”, in Best Stories of Walter de la Mare, London: Faber & Faber, published 1942, page 86:
text: Twenty years since we sat on top
Of the world, amusing ourselves and sneering
At other manners and customs, jeering
At other nations, living in clover—
Not any more. That’s done and over.
No one nowadays cares a button
For the upper classes—they’re dead as mutton.
ref: 1940, Alice Duer Miller, The White Cliffs, New York: Coward-McCann, page 60:
synonyms: word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
glosses: To care (at all).
raw_tags: in the negative
anisopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anisopterans
Senses: glosses: Any dragonfly of the infraorder Anisoptera
anisopterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anisopteran
bachelor's thesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thesis for bachelor's degree.
Related terms: master's thesis
anthratectone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anthraquinone dimer present in the leaves of teak (Tectona grandis)
antineuroinflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + neuroinflammatory.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That counters inflammation of the central nervous system
aphidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphidines
Senses: glosses: Any of the subfamily Aphidinae of aphids.
aphidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphidine
apochromate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apochromatic.
I don't have all day
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to say that you want someone to do something faster because you do not have enough time to wait for them to finish
shabbosim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shabbos
have no idea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has no idea
form: having no idea
form: had no idea
form: had no idea
Senses: glosses: To not know at all.
examples: text: For both Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the US, what was to blame for the slump in the late-1970s^([sic]) was clear (though we now know they really had no idea).
ref: 2019, Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, page 236:
glosses: To be mistaken; to not have a correct idea.
Related terms: I have no idea
arterioocclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arterio- + occlusive.
Senses: glosses: arterial and occlusive
astrexine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of chlorhexidine.
synonyms: word: chlorhexidine
aurelione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of cyclohexadecenone (cyclohexadec-8-en-1-one) used in perfumes to give a musk fragrance
cyclohexadecenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclohexadecenones
Etymology: From cyclo- + hexadecanone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alicyclic ketone that has sixteen carbon atoms and one double bond
basificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: basificates
form: basificating
form: basificated
form: basificated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make something more basic (less acidic)
Related terms: basification
basificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of basificate
basificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of basificate
bazouanthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anthrone present in roots of the Harungana tree
biarcuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + arcuate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two arcuate curves
bicosoecids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicosoecid
bicycloheptane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicycloheptanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound cycloheptylcycloheptane
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any bicyclic alicyclic hydrocarbon that has seven carbon atoms
Derived terms: heptaverine
bilosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilosomes
Senses: glosses: A niosome composed of bile salts
bilosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilosome
kalpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalpa
aisle seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aisle seats
Etymology: From aisle + seat.
Senses: glosses: A seat beside an aisle in public transport, as in a bus, train or passenger aircraft.
glosses: A seat beside an aisle in a theater, auditorium, or stadium.
Synonyms: sense: seat beside an aisle
word: aisle
rope tornado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rope tornadoes
Etymology: From rope + tornado, from the thin, ropelike appearance of the funnel cloud.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tornado that is much longer than it is wide, and often sinuous, often opposed to a wedge tornado.
Related terms: wedge tornado
aisle seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aisle seat
tornadic waterspout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tornadic waterspouts
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A true tornado (associated with a thunderstorm) forming over a body of water.
biomimical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + mimical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biomimic.
bioneutralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioneutralizes
form: bioneutralizing
form: bioneutralized
form: bioneutralized
Etymology: From bio- + neutralize.
Senses: glosses: To neutralize biologically or biochemically
Related terms: bioneutralization
bioneutralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bioneutralize
bioneutralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bioneutralize
borophagine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borophagines
Senses: examples: text: 1989, Kathleen Munthe, The Skeleton of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae): Morphology and Function, Publications in Geological Sciences, Volume 133, University of California Press, page 66,
Except in Borophagus and late Hemphillian Osteoborus, there is an entepicondylar foramen in borophagines, found in no living canid or hyaenid, but characteristic of felid humeri. In C. lupus and borophagines the lateral epicondyle bears two or more facets for the origin of the carpal and digital extensors and the supinator muscle.
text: The arctoids and early borophagine canids are the hallmark of the North American Mid-Miocene epoch.
ref: 1993, Frederick S. Szalay, Michael J. Novacek, Malcolm C. McKenna, Mammal Phylogeny: Placentals, Springer-Verlag, page 69:
text: The history of the borophagines also begins with a small fox-like form, Archaeocyon, in the late Oligocene.
ref: 2007, X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, “1: Evolutionary History of Canids”, in Per Jensen, editor, The Behavioural Biology of Dogs, CABI, page 10:
glosses: Any extinct canid of the subfamily Borophaginae; a bone-crushing dog.
borophagines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borophagine
borophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to borophagines
bronchospasmogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broncho- + spasmogenic.
Senses: glosses: That induces bronchospasm
calcequestrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of calsequestrin.
carboxanilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxanilides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anilide of a carboxylic acid
carboxanilides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxanilide
cerebrovenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːnəs
Etymology: From cerebro- + venous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a cerebral venous sinus
chemonociception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + nociception.
Senses: examples: text: The complete insensitivity of the superficial chemonociception contrasts sharply with the finding that the nervous elements subserving nociception in some subcutaneous, visceral and periarterial tissues remain chemically excitable.
ref: 1970, GB Makara, “Superficial and deep chemonociception: differential inhibition by pretreatment with capsaicin.”, in Acta Physiologica Academiae Scientiarum, volume 38, number 4, page 393:
text: In all reported studies the blockade of chemonociception to large scale of agents was clearly shown, but antinociceptive effect against noxious heat or mechanical stimuli resulted in controversial results.
ref: 2014, Omar M. E. Abdel-Salam, Capsaicin as a Therapeutic Molecule, page 13:
glosses: Chemical nociception.
Related terms: chemonociceptive
chemonociceptor
chimerolectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimerolectins
Etymology: From chimero- + lectin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chimeric lectin
chimerolectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimerolectin
charging station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charging stations
Senses: glosses: An establishment which sells electric energy for the recharging of electric vehicles.
Related terms: charging point
pee-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpi.ɑn/
homophone: peon
Forms: form: pee-ons
Etymology: Constructed from pee + on, as a play on peon (“lowly person”).
Senses: glosses: A peon; a lowly person, especially in the workplace.
pee-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pee-on
rāgam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rāgams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raga (“melodic form in Indian music”).
rāgams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rāgam
ragams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragam
nuclear fuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear fuels
Senses: examples: text: For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
ref: 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:
glosses: A radioactive material, such as uranium, used to power a nuclear reactor.
Related terms: fuel rod
split wine bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split wine bottles
Senses: glosses: A wine bottle that has a capacity of 187.5 ml (a quarter of a bottle), typically used for a single serving of champagne
prancercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prancercises
Senses: glosses: A form of aerobic exercise similar to the gait of a horse
pool at the crook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pools at the crook
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: An acupoint in the hollow of the elbow.
spider skimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider skimmers
Senses: synonyms: Chinese spider
spider
spider strainer
glosses: A kitchen utensil, in the form of a wide shallow wire-mesh basket with a long handle, used for removing food from a hot liquid.
yeargroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeargroups
form: year-group
Etymology: From year + group.
Senses: examples: text: Social units intermediate in size between the individual and the whole school are discussed. These units are the year-groups, seen as developing collective perspectives which follow from the interaction between students' initial perspectives and their shared experiences, and the fraternities which were seen to structure daily social interaction.
ref: 1992, Charles C. Ragin, Howard Saul Becker, What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry:
text: Some yeargroups broke down into cliques, usually dividing between the two primary training groups: hand-to-hand combat versus the marksmen.
ref: 2016, J. Kathleen Cheney, Dreaming Death, page 255:
topics: education
glosses: The body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.
Related terms: age group
yeargroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeargroup
year-group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: year-groups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yeargroup.
year-groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of year-group
cyrtoconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyrto- + conic.
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or being a (mollusc) shell which is conical (wider on the open end) and curved, but not enough to complete a whorl.
Related terms: cyrtocone
orthoconic
gyroconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyro- + conic.
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell which is conic (wider on the open end) and in which the whorls do not touch.
Related terms: gyrocone
cyrtoconic
orthoconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + conic.
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or being a (mollusc) shell which is conical and straight (not curved or spiraled).
Related terms: orthocone
cyrtoconic
gyrocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrocones
Etymology: From gyro- + cone.
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: (An organism with) a gyroconic shell.
Related terms: gyroconic
gyrocone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyro- + cone.
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Gyroconic.
Related terms: cyrtocone
orthocone
gyrocones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrocone
cyrtocones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyrtocone
paraballism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + ballism.
Senses: examples: text: The book deals with cerebral injuries impeding the clinical appearance of ballism, particularly stressing interrelations of ballism and chorea. Based on personal experiments, the author discusses paraballism too.
ref: 1965, Books from Hungary - Volumes 7-9, page 26:
text: Ballism is a dramatic proximal ballistic flinging movement (see Chapter 21) that most commonly affects the limbs on one side of the body (hemiballism), but involvement in both legs (paraballism) or both sides of the body (biballism) has been reported.
ref: 2012, Robert B. Daroff, Gerald M Fenichel, Joseph Jankovic, Neurology in Clinical Practice, →ISBN:
text: Rarely, it can occur bilaterally (biballism) or affect both legs (paraballism).
ref: 2017, Deborah A. Hall, Brandon R. Barton, Non-Parkinsonian Movement Disorders, →ISBN, page 55:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ballism that affects both legs.
biballism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + ballism.
Senses: examples: text: Ballism is a dramatic proximal ballistic flinging movement (see Chapter 21) that most commonly affects the limbs on one side of the body (hemiballism), but involvement in both legs (paraballism) or both sides of the body (biballism) has been reported.
ref: 2012, Robert B. Daroff, Gerald M Fenichel, Joseph Jankovic, Neurology in Clinical Practice, →ISBN:
text: Rarely, it can occur bilaterally (biballism) or affect both legs (paraballism).
ref: 2017, Deborah A. Hall, Brandon R. Barton, Non-Parkinsonian Movement Disorders, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Ballism that affects both sides of the body.
basificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of basificate
hive up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hives up
form: hiving up
form: hived up
form: hived up
Senses: glosses: To stash or lay away for later use
hived up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hive up
hiving up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hive up
hives up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hive up
paraaortal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paraaortal
form: most paraaortal
Etymology: From para- + aortal.
Senses: examples: text: The malignomas of the paraaortal lymph nodes comply to all indications for three dimensional treatment planning.
ref: 1989, Heinz U. Lemke, Computer Assisted Radiology:
text: The first local recurrence in the paraaortal region occurred in April 1991.
ref: 1999, Anticancer Research - Volume 19, page 1598:
text: The patient underwent pelvic and paraaortal lymphadenectomy.
ref: 2008, Wolfgang Mohnike, Gustav Hör, Heinrich R. Schelbert, Oncologic and Cardiologic PET/CT-Diagnosis, →ISBN:
glosses: Beside the aorta.
laid away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay away
laying away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay away
paraballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We report the case of a 28-year-old patient who showed a paraballistic syndrome, which developed after she had taken oral contraceptives.
ref: 1986 November, J. J. M. Driesen, E. Ch. Wolters, “Bilateral ballism induced by oral contraceptives”, in Journal of Neurology, volume 233, number 6:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to paraballism.
parabanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On further oxidation yields parabanic oxide and carbon dioxide.
ref: 1898, Samuel Philip Sadtler, A Text-book of chemistry, page 652:
text: The incompletely transformed polymers contain both parabanic and urea groups on the samc chain.
ref: 1998, Revue roumaine de chimie - Volume 43, page 875:
text: A few decades ago Patton and coworkers have initiated the researches concerning parabanic polymers by publishing the first data about the synthesis and characteristics of this kind of polymers.
ref: 2012, Ye. Mamunya, M. Iurzhenko, Advances in progressive thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers, perspectives and applications, →ISBN, page 210:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to parabanic acid.
outstandingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outstanding + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The tendency of the awake ego to advert to and attend an outstandingness which stimulates it may be more or less inhibited. The ego may strive toward but be unable to attend the object, or once the ego is attending the object, its tendency to continue attending it may be inhibited, e.g. by the successful rivalry of some other outstandingness.
ref: 2012, Dorion Cairns, The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl:
glosses: The quality or condition of being outstanding.
Jochebed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjɒkɪbɛd/
Etymology: From Hebrew יוֹכֶבֶד (yokhéved).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The mother of Moses.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
gnathopoda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnathopod
black-bags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of black-bag
black-bagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of black-bag
black-bagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of black-bag
saddle oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle oysters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jingle shell.
synonyms: word: jingle shell
blackbag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Are there any internal proceedings at Justice against the FBI agents who broke the law with blackbag jobs and that kind of thing?
ref: 1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Nomination of Benjamin R. Civiletti to be Deputy Attorney General:
text: The Hoover directive referred only to "blackbag jobs" — the FBI term for warrantless surreptitious entries for purposes other than the installation of electronic listening equipment.
ref: 1984, Cornell Law School, Symposium, national securities and civil liberties, page 884:
text: In Portland, Oregon, an address book was removed from a kitchen table in the home of movement activists who were the victims of a series of admitted FBI blackbag jobs in the 1960's.
ref: 1988, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Break-ins at sanctuary churches and organizations opposed to administration policy in Central America:
text: The Soldier of Fortune was not directed toward the procurement of weapons: Rather, it was to provide chemical, explosive and "blackbag" data to the whacko right (as opposed to the whacko left, which wants to blow up nuclear plants to show how dangerous they are. You figure it-- I gave up trying).
ref: 1990, Robert Graysmith, Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate Bridge:
glosses: Alternative form of black-bag.