cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
motlopi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊˈtləʊpi/
ipa: [məʊt̚ˈləʊpi]
ipa: /moʊˈtloʊpi/
ipa: [moʊʔˈloʊpi]
Forms: form: motlopi
form: motlopis
Etymology: Borrowed from Tswana motlopi. The word is cognate with Afrikaans matoppie, Northern Sotho mohlopi, Sotho mohlopi, Venda muṱhobi.
Senses: examples: text: The first mile or two was a grassy open plain of grey sandy soil consolidated by the grass roots and the late rains. Then came groves of mimosas, oomahaama, and motlopies, growing as usual from ant-hills, and these again alternated with patches of low bush of brittle wood, with smooth spear-shaped leaves (for a wonder destitute of thorns).
ref: 1862 January 9, Thomas Baines, chapter XI, in Explorations in South-west Africa. […], London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, published 1864, →OCLC, pages 302–303:
text: In times of scarcity the women and children spend hours every day in digging up, drying in the sun, and grinding into coarse flour the root of the motlopi-tree, of which they make porridge. This root is also extensively used by the frontier colonists as coffee.
ref: 1871, John Mackenzie, “Kuruman, formerly Lattakoo, Mission”, in Ten Years North of the Orange River: A Story of Everyday Life and Work among the South African Tribes from 1859 to 1869, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 70:
text: According to Ferreira (1927–29, p. 352, 356) the Tlhaping are forbidden to cut mokgalo for fear of drought and also motlopi (Boscia albitrunca), the latter because of fear that their cattle will only produce male calves.
ref: 1976, Louis Grivetti, Dietary Resources and Social Aspects of Food Use in a Tswana Tribe (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Davis, Calif.: University of California, Davis, →OCLC:
text: The most common indigenous trees include the mophane, the camel-thorn, the motlopi (sheperd's^([sic – meaning shepherd's]) tree) and the baobab.
ref: 1984, Mishingo Mpaphadzi, editor, Botswana ’84: An Official Handbook, Gaborone, Botswana: Publicity Unit, Department of Information and Broadcasting, →OCLC, page 4:
text: Mpipidi took his provisions and the goat's milk and drove the cattle deep into the bush. Carefully he approached the tall motlopi tree.
ref: 2002, Nelson Mandela, edited by Marguerite Gordon, Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales, New York, N.Y.: Norton, →ISBN, page 199:
text: A newer product in the beverage category is motlopi coffee, made from motlopi root. This coffee is produced by a group of women in the Kgalgadi district who sell it to improve their livelihoods.
ref: 2011, Segametsi Ditshebo Maruapula, Karen Chapman-Novakofski, “Botswana”, in Sari Edelstein, editor, Food, Cuisine, and Cultural Competency for Culinary, Hospitality, and Nutrition Professionals, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishing, →ISBN, section 5 (Africa), page 357, column 1:
synonyms: matoppie
witgat
glosses: The shepherd tree or shepherd's tree (Boscia albitrunca), an evergreen tree native to southern and tropical Africa which is one of the most important forage trees of the Kalahari.
wikipedia: Polokwane
Scotticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Scotticises
form: Scotticising
form: Scotticised
form: Scotticised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Scotticize.
Scotticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Scotticise
Scotticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Scotticise
Scotticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Scotticise
Pramnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin Pramnium, from Ancient Greek Πράμνιος (Prámnios).
Senses: examples: text: She stirred up a mixture of oats, barley, cheese, and Pramnian wine.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a type of Ancient Greek wine.
outpassion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpassions
form: outpassioning
form: outpassioned
form: outpassioned
Etymology: From out- + passion.
Senses: examples: text: […] He fain had calcined all Northumbria / To one black ash, but that they patriot passion / Siding with our great Council against Tostig, / Out-passion'd his!
ref: 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 74:
glosses: To be more passionate than; to surpass in passion.
outpassioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpassion
outpassions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpassion
outpassioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpassion
avisandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avisandums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of avizandum.
Dobzhanskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dobzhanskyan
form: most Dobzhanskyan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dobzhanskian.
Dobzhanskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dobzhanskian
form: most Dobzhanskian
form: Dobzhanskyan
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
Schwabach test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variant of the Rinne test: a hearing test made with the opposite ear masked placing the stems of the vibrating tuning forks on the mastoid process of the patient first and then of the examiner. If heard longer by the patient it indicates conductive hearing loss and if heard longer by the examiner it indicates sensorineural hearing loss in the patient.
Rinne test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after German otologist Heinrich Adolf Rinne (1819–1868).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: otolaryngology
glosses: A hearing test, used primarily for evaluating the loss of hearing in one ear, by comparing the perception of sounds transmitted by air conduction to those transmitted by bone conduction through the mastoid.
Related terms: Weber test
Weber test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weber tests
Etymology: Named after Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: otolaryngology
glosses: A screening test for hearing performed with a tuning fork.
Related terms: Rinne test
TKA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Initialism of total knee arthroplasty.
reviveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: revive + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revive
clairschach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clairschachs
Etymology: From Irish cláirseach (“harp”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of clarsach.
clairschachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clairschach
Cloquet's node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cloquet's nodes
Etymology: Named after French surgeon Jules Germain Cloquet (1790–1883).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: Rosenmüller's node
glosses: The uppermost of the deep inguinal lymph nodes located in the femoral canal.
wikipedia: Jules Germain Cloquet
Scarpa's triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scarpa's triangles
Etymology: Named after Italian anatomist Antonio Scarpa (1752–1832).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The femoral triangle.
wikipedia: Antonio Scarpa
outfielded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfield
T-shirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From T-shirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Voters were registered and other t-shirted volunteers sold bumper stickers and buttons.
ref: 1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Run, Jane, Run”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: Wearing a T-shirt.
antibasketball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibasketball
form: most antibasketball
Etymology: From anti- + basketball.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the sport of basketball.
antitennis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitennis
form: most antitennis
Senses: examples: text: The tennis coach, Allie Ritzenberg, was sent to Port au Prince, Haiti, by the State Department, and he came in for considerable congressional attention. / Rep. John J. Rooney (D-NY) led the antitennis bloc.
ref: 1957 April 22, Arthur Edson, “Probing Congressmen Cover Much Territory”, in The Cumberland News, volume 19, number 163, Cumberland, Md., page 3:
text: Nancy, the next important woman in Martina's life, would say irately that Rita Mae wanted Martina to give up tennis and become an architect or a lawyer. Although Rita Mae denies that she suggested any specific career, she does admit there was an antitennis impetus.
ref: 1995, Adrianne Blue, “An Affair to Remember”, in Martina: The Lives and Times of Martina Navratilova, New York, NY: Carol Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Rare form of anti-tennis.
antibee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bee.
Senses: glosses: Countering bees.
Satyagraha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Satyagrahas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of satyagraha.
mouthrinse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthrinses
Etymology: From mouth + rinse.
Senses: glosses: A liquid used to rinse out the mouth.
mouthrinses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouthrinse
overdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdrops
form: overdropping
form: overdropped
form: overdropped
Etymology: From over- + drop.
Senses: glosses: To drop over; to overhang.
overdropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdrop
overdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdrop
overdropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdrop
actinistians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinistian
orientator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orientators
Etymology: From orientate + -or.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for orientating.
orientators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orientator
interosculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interosculations
Etymology: From inter- + osculation.
Senses: glosses: Interconnection by, or as if by, osculation.
Related terms: interosculant
interosculate
interosculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interosculation
tetanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetanisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetanization.
tetanisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetanisation
haranguings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haranguing
scoldable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scoldable
form: most scoldable
Etymology: From scold + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able or fit to be scolded.
unstackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stackable.
Senses: examples: text: Where rectangular storage containers make a mess of mismatched lids and sometimes unstackable shapes, the ordinary cylindrical deli cups used for food delivery are far superior.
ref: 2019 March 4, Janelle Zara, “How to Organize Your Kitchen Like a Professional Chef”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Not stackable.
gnathitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gnatho- + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the cheek or upper jaw
gnathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gnatho- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The classification of mankind based on measurements of the jaw.
sollared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sollar
sollaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sollar
stummel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stummels
Senses: glosses: The bowl and stem of a smoker's pipe.
stummels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stummel
modalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modalistic
form: most modalistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to modalism.
stimulatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stimulatress
hieroglyphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hieroglyph
diandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: diandrous
potworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potworms
Etymology: From pot + worm.
Senses: synonyms: enchytraeid
glosses: Any worm in the family Enchytraeidae.
knapskull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knapskulls
Etymology: A variant of knapscall; the first element is possibly knape (“(UK, dialectal, obsolete) lad”), while the second element is unknown.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of knapscall (“a type of helmet generally worn by a low-ranking person, possibly a servant of a cavalryman”).
synonyms: word: knapscall
extra: a type of helmet generally worn by a low-ranking person, possibly a servant of a cavalryman
knapskulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knapskull
Redknapp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Redknapps
Senses: glosses: A surname.
habit and repute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: marriage by habit and repute
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The condition of being notorious enough to afford strong and generally conclusive evidence of something.
Grindal worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grindal worms
Etymology: After the Swedish aquarist who first cultured them.
Senses: glosses: A species of enchytraeid worm used as feed for fish, Enchytraeus buchholzi.
grindal worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grindal worms
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Grindal worm.
whiteworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiteworms
Etymology: From white + worm.
Senses: glosses: A species of enchytraeid worm commonly used as feed for fish or birds, Enchytraeus albidus.
untetherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tetherable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be tethered.
sublect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublects
Etymology: From sub- + lect.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A lect forming part of a larger lect.
sublects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublect
minor canon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor canons
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A cleric in orders, attached to a cathedral and having the duty of assisting the canons in singing divine service.
minor canons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor canon
singeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singeing
cottage piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottage pianos
Senses: examples: text: He walked across the room to the shabby old cottage piano.
ref: 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 8:
glosses: A small upright piano.
cottage pianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottage piano
sebundee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sebundees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sebundy.
sebundees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sebundee
sebundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sebundies
form: sebundee
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A native soldier or local militiaman in India.
sebundies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sebundy
POFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of POF
caustic lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: quicklime
common caustic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: potash
whiteworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiteworm
ungrouchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungrouchy
form: most ungrouchy
Etymology: From un- + grouchy.
Senses: glosses: Not grouchy.
grouchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grouchy + -ies.
Senses: glosses: A case of grouchiness; a state of being grouchy, irritable, easily angered.
witgat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witgats
Etymology: From Afrikaans witgat.
Senses: examples: text: The witgats, Boscia albitrunca and Boscia oleoides, are sometimes called shepherd's trees because their neat evergreen crowns cast a small but deep shadow in which for centuries shepherds and their flocks have rested.
ref: 1972, Eve Palmer, Norah Pitman, Trees of Southern Africa:
glosses: Synonym of motlopi.
synonyms: word: motlopi
snowflakeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snowflake + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Another position takes refuge in idiosyncacy—"every child is a unique individual!" True enough. So is very^([sic]) snowflake, yet we possess a theory of snowflakeness.
ref: 1982, R. N. Malatesha, P. G. Aaron, Reading Disorders: Varieties and Treatments, page 153:
text: She is convinced that one particular snowflake that she names Harry—and why not Harry?—is unique, and yet he belongs to a larger family of snowflakes. Harry and his “relatives” share many characteristics of "snowflakeness,” yet he is different from all the rest—a point that even her older brother Dennis does not dispute.
ref: 1994, Steven R. Rosman, Spiritual Parenting: A Sourcebook for Parents and Teachers, unnumbered page:
text: There's an aspect to each maple leaf and snowflake that remains from leaf to leaf and from snowflake to snowflake. It retains each leaf's "maple-leafness" and each snowflake's "snowflakeness."
ref: 1995, Steve Hagen, Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense: An Inquiry Into Science, Philosophy, and Perception, page 166:
glosses: The essence or qualities of a snowflake.
examples: text: To help you discover your own beauty as a flower. Your own identity as a snowflake - your snowflakeness. You are the only 'you' you will ever know .
ref: 1996, Tim Smith, The Relaxed Parent: Helping Your Kids Do More As You Do Less, page 73:
text: We want to feel ownership over artists before anyone else even knows who they are, and we have a soft spot for atypical music with lyrics that relate to our life experiences (see: Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Björk). I, for one, will admit it: I am very concerned with my unique snowflake-ness.
ref: 2011, Courtney E. Smith, Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time, page 72:
text: […] He'd call this humane, a 'low impact' way of 'bringing me around' to sanity, which, in his world, is the ability to bullshit yourself into believing you deserve to have more of everything that everyone else has less of, because of your special snowflakeness."
ref: 2017, Cory Doctorow, Walkaway, page 178:
glosses: The state or quality of believing oneself to be special or exceptional.
blast processing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in advertisements in 1991.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The processing capabilities of the Sega Genesis video game console.
wikipedia: Super Nintendo Entertainment System
matoppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans matoppie, from Tswana motlopi.
Senses: examples: text: At Waterpoort in South Africa, a worker (left, below) chain-saws branches from a matoppie tree for fodder.
ref: 1984, National Geographic, volume 165, page 179:
text: Willem snatched a bundle wrapped in a cloth that he'd hung on a branch of a matoppie tree and threw it on the ground.
ref: 1990, Pieter Pieterse, The Way to the Sea, page 104:
glosses: Synonym of motlopi.
synonyms: word: motlopi
shepherd tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherd trees
Senses: examples: text: Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.
ref: 2013, Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell From the Sky:
glosses: Synonym of motlopi.
synonyms: word: motlopi
shepherd's tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherd's trees
Senses: examples: text: Down the stony canyon, we pass Commiphora saxicola (related to Arabian myrrh – the balm of Gilead – or in Afrikaans, the Kanniedood) trees, rocks whitened over centuries by the viscous piss of dassies, portly phantom trees (Moringa ovalifolia), rocky hills with granite domes, sparrow-weaver nests, zebra-hoof tracks on the narrow paths, old bones in dry riverbeds, white-trunked and thickly leaved shepherd's trees, views over the petrified red dunes to the east.
ref: 2006, Chris Marais, Julienne Du Toit, Namibia Space, page 74:
glosses: Synonym of motlopi.
synonyms: word: motlopi
unheinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheinous
form: most unheinous
Etymology: From un- + heinous.
Senses: glosses: Not heinous; not totally reprehensible.
witgats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witgat
shepherd trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shepherd tree
shepherd's trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shepherd's tree
transing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trans
transed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Trans men are rarely even described as actively transitioning; instead, they’re “being transed,” in the parlance of extreme transphobia.
ref: 2021, Eva Urquhart, “Elliot Page Is a Grown-Up”, in Slate:
glosses: simple past and past participle of trans
mickeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mickey
mickeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mickey
ragdolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ragdoll
ragdolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ragdoll
cold allergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cold + allergy. From being an allergy to cold temperatures.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of cold urticaria.
synonyms: word: cold urticaria
cold urticaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cold + urticaria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition that occurs in cold temperatures, where the victim suffers from hives caused by the cold.
Synonyms: cold allergy
cold hives
amyostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or suffering from amyostasia
amyostasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: muscle tremors; a difficulty in standing because of this condition
Related terms: amyostatic
amyotrophia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amyotrophy.
Related terms: amyotrophic
amyotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amyotrophic.
amytal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amytals
Etymology: From the trade name Amytal.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of amobarbital.
synonyms: word: amobarbital
Derived terms: sodium amytal
anabiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or recovering from, anabiosis.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Serving to resuscitate; restorative.
anabiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anabiotics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A restorative remedy; a powerful stimulant.
anadicrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anacrotic.
synonyms: word: anacrotic
anadidymus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormality in which conjoined twins have a single head and upper body
Synonyms: duplicatus anterior
ileadelphus
iliadelphus
anaerogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + aerogenic.
Senses: glosses: That does not produce (or suppresses the production of) air or gas
anakhré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of goundou.
synonyms: word: goundou
goundou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease, endemic to parts of West Africa, characterised by swellings each side of the nose
anakusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anacusis.
anancasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anancasms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάγκασμα (anánkasma, “compulsion”).
Senses: examples: text: In general, there have been three methods of approach to the treatment of anancasms: (1) analysis of the symptoms to discover their meaning to the patient, (2) study of the personality, particularly of the fundamental insecurities, fears, dissatisfactions, dependencies and hostilities, (3) regulation of the daily regime with direct attempts to control the anancasms.
ref: 1941, George Blumer, The Therapeutics of Internal Diseases, volume 5, page 144:
glosses: Obsessive-compulsive behaviour.
examples: text: If the development of ideas under the influence of the study of external facts be considered as external anancasm, — it is on the border between the external and the internal forms, — it is, of course, the principal thing in modern learning.
ref: 1923, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chance, Love and Logic: Philosophical Essays, page 294:
text: Far from being exclusive of one another, tychasm, anancasm, and agapasm share the same general elements; that said, these elements emerge most clearly in agapastic evolution.
ref: 2005, Susan Petrilli, Semiotics Unbounded: Interpretive Routes through the Open Network of Signs:
text: Anancasm is one of three modes of evolution identified by Charles Peirce, who distinguished anancasm, or evolution by mechanical necessity, from evolution by fortuitous variation (tychasm) and evolution by creative love (agapasm).
ref: 2008, John Laches, American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, page 42:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In the philosophy of Charles Peirce, a mode of evolution occurring by mechanical necessity.
Coordinate terms: tychasm
agapasm
Related terms: anancastia
anancastic
anancasticism
anancastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anancastic
form: most anancastic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anankastic.
anancastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anancastics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anankastic.
Related terms: anancasm
anancastia
anancastia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anankastia
Senses: glosses: Synonym of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
synonyms: word: obsessive-compulsive disorder
Related terms: anancasm
anancastic
anandria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A lack of male virility
anarthritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + arthritic.
Senses: glosses: Not arthritic; not associated with arthritis
Derived terms: anarthritic rheumatoid disease
anarithmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pathological inability to count
anastole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: retraction of the edges of a wound
anastral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + astral.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking asters
glosses: Lacking an astrosphere
fathen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Botanical name: Chenopodium album. Fathen is one of the most competitive cropping weeds in New Zealand.
ref: 2016, “Fathen”, in Massey University:
glosses: Alternative form of fat hen.
grabs some Zs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grab some Zs
grabbing some Zs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grab some Zs
grabbed some Zs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grab some Zs
anatrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + atrophic.
Senses: glosses: That does not lead to atrophy
anchorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchorins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of collagen-binding proteins related to annexin
sarvangasana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Sanskrit सर्वाङ्गासन (sarvāṅgāsana), from सर्व (sarva, “every”) + अङ्ग (aṅga, “limb”) + आसन (āsana, “asana”).
Senses: qualifier: yoga
glosses: A yoga pose in which the legs and pointed upwards and the lower body is lifted so that the weight of the body is supported on the head, neck, shoulders and upper arms.
androblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androblastomas
form: androblastomata
Etymology: From andro- + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A type of ovarian tumor in which the tumor cells secrete a male sex hormone
androgenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From andro- + genital.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Caused by an excess of androgens
Derived terms: androgenital syndrome
androgynoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androgynoids
Etymology: From andro- + gyn- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A pseudohermaphrodite
Coordinate terms: gynandroid
anergasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anergasias
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neurasthenia.
synonyms: word: neurasthenia
anergastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to anergasia
anergize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anergizes
form: anergizing
form: anergized
form: anergized
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To have (or to cause to have) no response to an antigen or antibody
anestrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anestra
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anestrus.
synonyms: word: anestrus
anethopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anethopaths
Etymology: Coined by American psychiatrist Benjamin Karpman.
Senses: glosses: psychopath, sociopath
centroanterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From centro- + anterior.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: central and anterior
Related terms: centroposterior
dorsoanterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From dorso- + anterior.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dorsal and anterior
Related terms: dorsoposterior
phytoforensics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + forensics.
Senses: examples: text: This form of phytoforensics is important for quality control especially in vegetatively propagated crops such as turfgrass (Caetano-Anollés et al. 1995).
ref: 1998, Ajit Varma, Mycorrhiza Manual, page 503:
glosses: The analysis of plants in order to gather information of the pollutants they have been exposed to.
Related terms: phytoforensic
phytoforensic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + forensic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phytoforensics
thoracetron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracetra
Senses: glosses: A plate formed by the fusion of opisthosomal tergites in horseshoe crabs
tritomerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritomerites
Etymology: From trito- + -merite, from -mere.
Senses: glosses: A moveable arm that functions, with the fixed deutomerite, to grip and manipulate food in horseshoe crabs.
Related terms: protomerite
deutomerite
return value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return values
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The output of a program or subroutine, passed back to the context where it was called; a retval.
Nietzscheanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Nietzschean + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a Nietzschean way.
flaneured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flaneur
flaneuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flaneur
buckhoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckhoists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buck hoist.
buckhoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buckhoist
buck-hoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck-hoists
Senses: examples: text: “Awright! That'll make getting these frames up there a lot easier than using the high-reach” Art happily states. “Let's move this operation down to the buck-hoist and get the frames up over there” Jeff commands.
ref: 2010, Paul Husker, Invasion of the Hardhats, →ISBN:
text: When the shift was over, we would stack our tools in the gang-box and line up at the buck-hoist, …
ref: 2014, M. David Hornbuckle, editor, Steel Toe Review, volume 3, page 130
glosses: Alternative form of buck hoist.
buck-hoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buck-hoist
buck hoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck hoists
form: buckhoist
form: buck-hoist
Etymology: From Buck, the surname of American inventor Steward T. Buck, president of Buck Equipment Corp. Buck filed a patent for a "portable hoisting tower" in 1950 (approved in 1953), and the device was produced under the trademark "Buck hoist tower" or "HoisTower" from at least 1952 to 1975, when the company was acquired by Bil-Jax.
Senses: glosses: An external elevator, especially a temporary one up the side of a building that is under construction or repair.
buck hoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buck hoist
put stock in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts stock in
form: putting stock in
form: put stock in
form: put stock in
Senses: glosses: To have faith in; to believe; to give credence to.
raw_tags: in the negative
HCFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HCF
eunatremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.nəˈtɹiː.mi.ə/
ipa: /ˌjuː.nəˈtɹiː.mi.ə/
Etymology: From eu- + natremia or eu- + natr- + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: Children with eunatremia but a high renin level often do not grow well.
ref: 2003, Sally Radovick, Pediatric Endocrinology: A Practical Clinical Guide, page 267:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A healthy/normal concentration of sodium in blood plasma.
Synonyms: normonatremia
Derived terms: eunatremic
eunatremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.nəˈtɹiː.mɪk/
ipa: /ˌjuː.nəˈtɹiː.mɪk/
Forms: form: more eunatremic
form: most eunatremic
Etymology: From eunatremia + -ic or eu- + natremia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Hospitalized children who became hyponatremic received on average three-times the volume of electrolyte free water than their hospitalized colleagues who remained eunatremic and were also three-times more likely to receive fluids at a rate that exceeded recommended maintenance rates.
ref: 2009, Ellis D. Avner, Pediatric Nephrology, page 331:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to eunatremia (normal amount of sodium in blood).
Synonyms: normonatremic
run barefoot through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs barefoot through
form: running barefoot through
form: ran barefoot through
form: run barefoot through
Senses: examples: text: The impasto surfaces — skittering, superimposed grids and crosshatchings with highly sophisticated interplays of color and rhythm — are so lush and richly textured that you want to run barefoot through them.
ref: 1994, The New Yorker, page 16:
text: At last I obtained a copy of The Artist's Way and set to --- I almost said work, but thinking better of it, I set to running barefoot through my inner resources.
ref: 1995, A View from the Loft - Volumes 18-19:
text: My thanks to Colonel Tom Anderson, retired, of the Alaska State Troopers and the Alaska State Trooper Museum, for letting me run barefoot through his files and back issues of the Banner, greatly aiding the plot of this novel.
ref: 2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN:
text: I can just about smell the weekend, gloriously -- so let's not plan anymore directions but a rip-roaring, sunlit day: just go laughing and free run barefoot through all the dot-points. . . I can just about smell the weekend, gloriously.
ref: 2010, Ivan Rehorek, Rare & Vacant Hour, →ISBN, pages 24–25:
glosses: To explore or experience freely and with enjoyment.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, barefoot, through.
runs barefoot through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run barefoot through
running barefoot through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run barefoot through
ran barefoot through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run barefoot through
cuckold-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckold-makers
Etymology: From cuckold + maker.
Senses: examples: text: but if I spared any / That had a head to hit, either young or old, / He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker, / Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again
ref: c. 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, act 5, scene 4, lines 23–26:
glosses: One who cuckolds; a man who seduces another's wife.
examples: text: Would I had had the circumcising of thee, Jew, ide ha' cut short your cuckold-maker; I would i'faith, I would ifaith!
ref: 1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess, act 3:
glosses: The penis.
Synonyms: sense: adulterer, horner
word: one who cuckolds
cuckold-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckold-maker
disjustive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disjustive
form: most disjustive
Senses: examples: text: Both the Hebrew and the Greek say, " I am black and comely, while the Vulgate changes the copulative " and " to the disjustive " but."
ref: 1893, Rufus Lewis Perry, The Cushite, Or, The Descendants of Ham:
text: The milder case, where sex and sensory impressions exert a disjustive pressure, are viewed as natural traits.
ref: 1913 August, S.N. Patten, “The Genesis of Personal Traits”, in Popular Science, page 157:
text: An organ useful to our ancestors may in its present action be disjustive, yet vestiges of it are existent, which may be aroused by a superabundant supply of energy.
ref: 1915, Mind and Body - Volume 21, page 411:
glosses: Tending to create or emphasize a difference, contrast, or lack of adjustment.
GDPR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of General Data Protection Regulation, a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).
Related terms: english: California Consumer Privacy Act; another set of data protection rules
translation: California Consumer Privacy Act; another set of data protection rules
word: CCPA
word: cybersecurity
word: privacy policy
Naxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɑːˈʃiː/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 納西／纳西 (nàxī).
Senses: glosses: A Sino-Tibetan people living in the city of Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
Naxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nɑːˈʃiː/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 納西／纳西 (nàxī).
Senses: glosses: A Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the city of Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
Derived terms: Naxi Dongba
Naxi Geba
titiwi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titiwis
form: titiri
form: tritri
form: tri-tri
Senses: examples: text: At certain times of the year a delicious and diminutive fry of clear gray color, known as "titiri," is taken in sheets at the river mouths.
ref: 1938, Douglas Taylor, “Bulletin 119: The Caribs of Dominica”, in Anthropological Papers, number 3, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology:
text: In addition to these staples, the villagers are supplied animal proteins from wild animals and creatures such as manique (tree kangaroo), agoutis (Dasyprocta spp.) ciwiks (land crab), viyos (stream snail), cuibishes (cray fish), titiwis (sea fish), etc.
ref: 1987, Masao Yamaguchi, Masao Naitō, Social and festive space in the Caribbean:
text: Recent additions to the calendar of celebrations include the community-based Titiwi Festival held in Layou village and Cochrane's Rabbit Festival. At these events, against a backdrop of music and other entertainment, residents and visitors get to sample titiwi (a tiny translucent fish) or rabbit cooked in a variety of different ways.
ref: 2011, Ken Albala, Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 116:
text: We used to go and get watercress and titiwi - walking through the bushes, going to the garden.
ref: 2012, Celia Sorhaindo, Polly Pattullo, Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return, →ISBN:
text: Ackra is a kind of seasoned and fried fritter, often made from codfish, breadfruit, tannia and, from September to November, in the days after the moon's last quarter, titiwi, which is a juvenile goby caught in fine nets at the mouths of rivers.
ref: 2016, Paul Crask, Dominica, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: A juvenile goby.
titiwis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titiwi
ensatina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensatinas
Etymology: From New Latin Ensatina.
Senses: glosses: A salamander native to western North America in the genus Ensatina.
AISP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AISPs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of account information service provider.
AISPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AISP
brown shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown shirts
Senses: examples: text: "Don't look back right now, but I think some brown shirts are following us," Franz whispered.
ref: 1985, Lannon D. Reed, Behold a pale horse: a novel of homosexuals in the Nazi holocaust:
text: Known by the Germans as the SA but more commonly called storm troopers or brown shirts by Westerners, the SA were considered Hitler's own private army.
ref: 2011, Gregory A. Freeman, The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys, →ISBN:
text: In fact, during the very hours Hitler spoke, and while his train got up steam for the journey to his East Prussian headquarters, and while his loyal brown shirts strutted and swayed under a thick haze of cigarette smoke on reached the beer-drenched flood tide.
ref: 2015, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Brownshirt.
examples: text: Aircraft maintenance brown shirts crawled over the plane, checking fasteners and the landing carriage.
ref: 1992, Richard Parry, Venom Virus, page 206:
text: Two "brown shirts" remove the chains tying the Greyhound to the flight deck pad eyes.
ref: 1999, United States. Naval Air Systems Command, Naval aviation news, page 23:
text: In addition to the constant inspections, brown shirts check fluid levels, prepare the cockpit for flight and ensure there is no foreign object debris that could damage the "bird".
ref: 2014, Bishop Aaron Williams, My Father’s Business: A Memoir of Purpose and Revelation, →ISBN, pages 12–13:
glosses: A worker whose role is identified by a uniform with a brown or khaki shirt.
A member of the squadron personnel on an aircraft carrier.
examples: text: We really could use a brown shirt in the Park. I don't have time to be screwing around with critter problems.
ref: 2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 36:
text: The divisions overlap at some points, like Soldotna and Anchor Point -- blue shirts handling criminal and traffic complaints, brown shirts sticking to more mission-related issues -- but in Cordova the wildlife troopers cover all law enforcement that falls under the state's jurisdiction. Cloward oversees a few brown shirts, and the motherly Dixie Lambert, who runs the office, handles dispatch and generally keeps the rest of the staff in line.
ref: 2013, C. B. Bernard, Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now, →ISBN, page 233:
text: “Frankly, I never thought of the brown shirts when I asked the blue shirts to attend this meeting,” Commissioner Burton admitted, “but you're right. If we are going to get a hint of something bad going on in the back country, these are the guys most likely to sniff it out..."
ref: 2015, Ron Dalby, Pipeline, →ISBN:
glosses: A worker whose role is identified by a uniform with a brown or khaki shirt.
A member of the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Protection Services.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, shirt.
brown shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown shirt
blue shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue shirts
Senses: examples: text: The divisions overlap at some points, like Soldotna and Anchor Point -- blue shirts handling criminal and traffic complaints, brown shirts sticking to more mission-related issues -- but in Cordova the wildlife troopers cover all law enforcement that falls under the state's jurisdiction.
ref: 2013, C. B. Bernard, Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now, →ISBN, page 233:
text: “Frankly, I never thought of the brown shirts when I asked the blue shirts to attend this meeting,” Commissioner Burton admitted, “but you're right. If we are going to get a hint of something bad going on in the back country, these are the guys most likely to sniff it out..."
ref: 2015, Ron Dalby, Pipeline, →ISBN:
glosses: An Alaska State Trooper.
examples: text: Blue shirts are responsible for handling and securing squadron aircraft with chocks and chains. Although their work is mostly manual and considered the low end of the totem pole, the success of flight operations depends on it.
ref: 1988, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center, Naval aviation news, page 21:
text: Then, out of the comer of my eye, I saw a blue shirt get blown down the flight deck.
ref: 1992, Approach - Volume 37, Issue 7:
text: Just give me Georgie, Bartman and a couple blue shirts and we'll lock it down.
ref: 2014, Mark Piggott, The Dark Tides, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A sailor who works on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, securing aircraft to the deck.
examples: text: If a prosecutor argues a case in which a blue-shirt was murdered on the job, attacks on a rescuer may be a factor in seeking the death penalty.
ref: 2002, J. A. Karam, Into the Breach: A Year of Life and Death with EMS, New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 61:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An emergency medical service worker; a paramedic.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, shirt.
blue shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue shirt
anaphrodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaphrodite
Degar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Degars
form: Dega
Etymology: Borrowed from Rade anak ede gar (“children of the mountains”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam; Montagnard; highlander.
raw_tags: in political contexts