cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ontographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the still further reaches of geography, the ontographic relations between man and physiography, the subject becomes at the same time more interesting and more difficult.
ref: 1905, The Geographical Journal (volume 23-25? page 157)
text: In the same way the people of the Alps have various terms by which to name mountain summits of different shapes; this is another ontographic response to a peculiar physiographic environment.
ref: 1909, William Morris Davis, Douglas Wilson Johnson, Geographical Essays, page 20:
text: Each of the compartments created represented types, which allowed ontographic examples to be classified.
ref: 2015, Geoffrey J. Martin, American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical Science:
glosses: Relating to ontography.
ontography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of how living creatures react to the physiographic environment.
Related terms: ontographic
ontographical
ontology
ontographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ontography.
geocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + -cratic.
Senses: examples: text: This is its minimal area, since we live in a geocratic epoch characterized by sea regression from elevated continents. Geocratic epochs have also occurred in the past and were associated with the final stages of geotectonic cycles (Fig. 6).
ref: 1987, Michael I. Budyko, Alexander B. Ronov, Alexander L. Yanshin, History of the Earth’s Atmosphere, page 45:
text: The contemporary epoch should be identified as geocratic, characterized by regression from elevated continents. Ancient geocratic epochs correspond to the final stages of tectonic cycles: […]
ref: 1994, American Journal of Science, volume 294, page 779:
text: The healing of alienated, self-destructive humans and the creation of an integrated, survivable community requires a geocratic approach to policymaking.
ref: 2000, David Kowalewski, Deep Power: The Political Ecology of Wilderness and Civilization:
glosses: Characterized by increase in land masses relative to areas covered by oceans.
palaeodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeodonts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleodont.
palaeodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeodont
paleodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleodonts
form: palaeodont
Etymology: From paleo- + -odont.
Senses: examples: text: Artiodactyls first appear in the fossil record in the Eocene as small generalized creatures scarcely distinguishable from primitive insectivores or early carnivores. These were the paleodonts […]
ref: 1960, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology:
text: Another family, the Entelodontidae, flourished during the Oligocene and Miocene; they also were pig-like but somewhat larger than the paleodonts, with strong canine teeth and two toes on each foot. They disappeared during the Pliocene.
ref: 1972, John Gilbert, Africa: Hunters and Hunted of the Savannah, page 119:
text: The paleodonts had intermediate types of teeth. Primitive suines appeared in the Eocene.
ref: 1983, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 7, page 574:
text: Wild and domesticated pigs are members of the paleodont artiodactyl family called Suidae, which is presumably the source of the popular hog-calling term "sooey."
ref: 2003, Robert E. Krebs, Carolyn A. Krebs, Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and, page 19:
glosses: An artiodactyl belonging to the suborder Paleodonta.
paleodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleodont
suines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suine
partnerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more partnerly
form: most partnerly
Etymology: From partner + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a partner.
heellessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heelless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Spiked heels collapse to heellessness or stretch into knee boots. Nylon stockings become leotard encasements.
ref: 1971, James Playsted Wood, This little pig: the story of marketing, page 128:
text: Even co-eds like to pad around in sneakers, if they are accustomed to low heels, or heellessness. But that's quite a big "if." Remember, your heel tendon shortens with the wearing of higher heels […]
ref: 1963, Science Digest, volumes 53-54, page 21:
glosses: Absence of a heel or heels.
porchlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From porchless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a porch.
blendy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blendy
form: most blendy
Etymology: From blend + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For some strange and elusive reason, the staid, prosaic herringbones have angled themselves into a position of fashion prominence. Most have a rather "blendy" look in soft tans, olive-tans and grays.
ref: 1963, Men's Wear, volume 147, page 39:
glosses: Tending to blend together or blend in.
blendzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blendzyme
unparalleledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unparalleled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unparalleled.
unparalleledly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unparalleledly
form: most unparalleledly
Etymology: From unparalleled + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unparalleled manner.
terrorlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From terrorless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of terror.
statuslessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From statusless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of status.
spider graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider graph
glitchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glitch + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Their melodic glitchery has also kept them busy in other ways lately, […]
ref: 2006, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 140, page 21:
text: The disadvantage is that determining whether a request got lost or, because of network glitchery, got handled twice is difficult.
ref: 2011, John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, UNIX For Dummies, page 238:
glosses: Glitches generally; glitchy or erratic behaviour.
Guy Fawkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guy Fawkeses
Etymology: From Guy Fawkes, who took part in a failed plot to blow up the English parliament in 1605 and who was sentenced to being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Senses: examples: text: Guy Fawkeses of great pretension were paraded in various towns of the kingdom, and the exhibitors realized contributions far exceeding the usual donations.
ref: 1851, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year:
text: When, however, the monster Guy Fawkeses came into fashion, considerably greater expense was gone to in " getting up " the figures.
ref: 1861, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London poor - Volume 3, page 65:
text: Millions of little Guy Fawkeses are burned in England every year.
ref: 1892, Oliver E. Murray, The Black Pope:
synonyms: guy
glosses: An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned as part of the Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.
Derived terms: Guy Fawkes Day
Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Guy Fawkeses
form: Guy Fawkesing
form: Guy Fawkesed
form: Guy Fawkesed
Etymology: From Guy Fawkes, who took part in a failed plot to blow up the English parliament in 1605 and who was sentenced to being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Senses: examples: text: ... had been “Guy Fawkesing" since early in the morning.
ref: 189?, The Boy's Own Annual, page 73:
text: As soon as I reached home in the evening, W. V. had her lantern ready to go out Guy-Fawkesing.
ref: 1897, The Child-study Monthly - Volume 3, page 180:
glosses: To celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.
examples: text: The burning of a few heretics would be in principle no more repugnant to us than gagging; neither would a little Guy Fawkesing about Westminster, though the latter diversion might come home to honourable members disagreeably.
ref: 1873, “The Late Attempt at Suicide”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 113, page 496:
text: "Ay, and I shall take it away from 'em, sir ; for if the worst comes to the worst, I shall have made all my plans before, and I'll do a bit o' Guy Fawkesing." " What do you mean ?" " Why, I should ha' thought you'd ha' understood that, sir." " Of course I do ; but how could you blow up the castle?"
ref: 1900, George Manville Fenn, The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War, page 86:
text: They'd try some Guy-Fawkesing on the British officials and their families. It was the only way they had to make the British government realize that they did not intend to pay taxes they hadn't voted on.
ref: 1950, Paul Revere and the minute Men, page 85:
text: I could be at least a messenger to the higher-ups who'd be busy Guy-Fawkesing the Drake Hotel or the Palmer House – because it was that to Eddie Dawson, hauling up gunpowder in the tunnels.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To blow up a building as an act of political sabotage.
examples: text: The barber being sure that all were on his side, now dropped his voice into tones sepulchral and solemn, and said slowly and deliberately; “If things don't mend, he must be Guy Fawkesed; Farmer Slade's barn was burnt by accident last Guy Fawkes' day; and no one ever found out who did it; and there's often a fire on Guy Fawkes' day; 'tis quite natural there should be when so many squibs are flying about."
ref: 1866, Philip Bennett Power, The Ill-used Postman:
text: With Jackson and Stuart alive, and with Davis and his cabinet, Hood, Daniel and the Pollards, all Guy Fawkesed at an early period of the conflict, what might not have been the result ?
ref: 1869, The Old Guard:
text: 'tis the Fifth of November, And, being at leisure, I write To say that my club owns a member Who ought to be Guy-Fawkesed at sight.
ref: 1907, The Grand magazine - Volume 6, page 517:
synonyms: word: string up
word: forhang
word: Guy Fawkes
word: hang
word: ketch
word: send to the scaffold
word: scrag
word: stretch
word: string up
word: truss
word: tuck up
glosses: To execute by hanging.
Guy Fawkeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkeses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Guy Fawkes
ritelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From riteless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of rites.
Guy Fawkesing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkesed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Guy Fawkes
pelicanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pelicanish
form: most pelicanish
Etymology: From pelican + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: And with a grace that's also pelicanish / Hand them your bill.
ref: 1954, Max Eastman, Poems of five decades, page 136:
text: We were seated over a bottle of moselle when Tommy Earp entered and stood, rather pelicanish, looking dumbfounded with shyness as only Tommy can look.
ref: 1970, Robert McAlmon, Kay Boyle, Being geniuses together, 1920-1930, Michael Joseph, page 77:
text: There was something pelicanish about his head and the foreign object of his larynx.
ref: 1986, Thomas Williams, The Moon Pinnace, Doubleday Books, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pelican.
plucklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluckless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of pluck or courage; timidity.
brieflessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From briefless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a legal brief.
lacklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lackless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Driven by a narcissistic fantasy of sacrifice, Kahedin ends up embodying lack in an attempt to achieve lacklessness.
ref: 2010, Luke Sunderland, Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism Between Ethics and Morality:
glosses: The lack of a lack of something; presence or abundance.
religiousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more religiousy
form: most religiousy
Etymology: From religious + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The song the Birds were singing was "Home in That Rock" and they were doing it in Uncle Ron's native south sea accent backed up by Chastity's speedy little guitar so it was rock and rolly and primitive religiousy all at once.
ref: 1978, Ken Kesey, Spit in the Ocean - Volume 4, page 124:
text: It should be pointed out that as there were in Vidin many guilds composed of Muslim or Christian craftsmen, the harassment of the Christians may have been the result of guild rivalry as well as religiousy animosity.
ref: 1987, International Journal of Turkish Studies - Volumes 4-5, page 260:
text: The golden rule not to get all religiousy states to love one another as you love God.
ref: 2012, Troy Abraham, A Champion Born, a Champion Made:
glosses: Having a strongly religious aspect.
sanctionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sanctionless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sanctionless.
hitchlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hitchless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hitchless, of going smoothly, without problems.
soillessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From soilless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of soil.
speakerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speakerless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of the speakerlessness of sentences with a third person SELF, what is espoused is the idea that in such sentences there is a blending of two points of view or 'voices,' […]
ref: 2014, Ann Banfield, Unspeakable Sentences:
text: In each, however, the ritualistic quality of the prosody (following from the genres of invocation and epitaph) conspires with other elements to push the poem toward the condition of speakerlessness.
ref: 1993, Jay Parini, The Columbia History of American Poetry, page 106:
glosses: Absence of a speaker.
hindcrown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindcrowns
Etymology: From hind + crown.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The rear part of a crown (the top of a bird's head).
homeplanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeplanets
Etymology: From home + planet.
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of home planet.
specklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speckless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Freedom from specks; complete cleanness; spotlessness.
furtaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fur + taking.
Senses: glosses: hunting for pelts
superpowerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superpowerless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of superpowers.
wretchlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wretchless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: recklessness
chinlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinlocks
Etymology: From chin + lock.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A position in which one wrestler grabs the other's chin, particularly with the attacker's knees on the opponent's upper back.
furtaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furtakers
Etymology: From fur + taker.
Senses: glosses: A hunter who goes in search of pelts.
Related terms: furtaking
furtakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furtaker
miniscenarios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniscenario
miniscenario
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniscenarios
Etymology: From mini- + scenario.
Senses: glosses: A miniature scenario.
countrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countrates
Etymology: From count + rate.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The rate at which something is counted, measured as how many times it is observed in a unit of time.
stomachlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stomachless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of a stomach.
back announce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back announces
Senses: examples: text: A tertiary tone on the theme cart directly fires a sub-source cart loaded with a daily synchronized voice track, running the back announce over the theme.
ref: 1973, FM radio station operations handbook, page 140:
text: Often, there are no front or back announces on the AM either, so if the listener didn't know who did the song, we aren't about to tell them.
ref: 1986, Michael C. Keith, Joseph M. Krause, The Radio Station, page 243:
text: But the intro was easy compared to the back announce.
ref: 2010, Elisabeth Soep, Lissa Soep, Vivian Chavez, Drop that Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories, page 135:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A brief statement or synopsis identifying a piece of music or story when it completes; outro.
back announce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back announces
form: back announcing
form: back announced
form: back announced
Senses: examples: text: On the outro back announce the artist and year (also highest chart position if desired)
ref: 1980, David See, How to be a disc jockey, page 76:
text: Unlike nowadays when you hear things on the radio and they never back announce, you don't know who it was half the time.
ref: 1997, Jazz Journal International, page 10:
text: Have a go yourself: choose a favourite piece of music and think of six different ways you could introduce and back announce it.
ref: 2006, Jim Beaman, Programme Making for Radio, page 79:
glosses: Alternative form of back-announce.
back announces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back announce
back announces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of back announce
back announcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back announce
back announced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of back announce
back-announce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-announces
form: back-announcing
form: back-announced
form: back-announced
Senses: examples: text: It helps after long interviews, to back-announce the interviewee and the subject.
ref: 1978, Barrie Redfern, Local radio, page 78:
text: You back-announce the music just played, making a few appropriate comments about the music or the performers.
ref: 1991, Stuart Wallace Hyde, Television and radio announcing, page 335:
text: Two further examples will illustrate the functions of cue material – that is, to obtain the listener's interest, provide context, explain background noise, clarify technicalities and to 'back-announce'.
ref: 2005, Robert McLeish, Radio Production, page 112:
text: Z100, the Top-40 station in freestyle epicenter New Yor City, would plug many holes in its playlists with freestyle tracks, usually neglecting to back-announce them so that to the non-clubgoer, the songs would only be identifiable by lyrics or synth sounds.
ref: 2012, Maura Johnston, The Season Came To An End:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: To briefly identify the music or story that has just aired.
back-announce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-announces
Senses: examples: text: He also gave the time at three out of five back-announces.
ref: 1987, Michael C. Keith, Radio Programming: Consultancy and Formatics, page 162:
text: We had stopped at a coastal town to find a location to at least record an introduction and a back-announce for my story, when around 50 emergency vehicles went screaming past us.
ref: 2011, Mike McRoberts, Beyond the Firing Line:
text: The back-announce told us we had just heard the Passacaglia.
ref: 2014, Donald Vroon, Classical Music in a Changing Culture:
glosses: Alternative form of back announce.
back-announces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of back-announce
back-announces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-announce
back-announcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back-announce
back-announced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of back-announce
corpse reviver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpse revivers
Senses: examples: text: The ghost of Mr. Woodhouse himself may stare and gasp at being told that this awful preparation, this culinary corpse-reviver, apparently suited only to chalcenterous persons or those at the point of death, is a very simple mutton broth with sippets in it.
ref: 1889 November 9, The Saturday Review, London, page 538, column 1:
glosses: Any of various strong cocktails supposed to cure a hangover.
corpse revivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpse reviver
back announcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back announcements
form: back-announcement
Senses: examples: text: Every programme needs a "front announcement" introducing it and a "back announcement" telling the listener who took part, what publications accompany the course and so on.
ref: 1979, The Incorporated Linguist:
text: Listeners will want to know title and artist, but vary the way and place you give this information. Sometimes in the pre-announcement, Sometimes in the back announcement.
ref: 1982, Howard Gough, The Radio programme: planning, producing, presenting, page 28:
text: Somehow only the back announcement was handed to those responsible for transmission, so off it went, on air, throughout the land, twelve seconds of meaningless piffle, faithfully transmitted to all corners of Australia again and again and again.
ref: 1985, Overland - Volumes 98-101, page 28:
glosses: Synonym of back announce; outro.
synonyms: word: back announce
extra: outro
back announcements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back announcement
back-announcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-announcements
Senses: examples: text: A morning shift was crowned with the back-announcement of ' Jesu, Man of Joy's Desiring', though finding himself up against the eight o'clock News, the offender was unable to enjoy the luxury of an apology.
ref: 1976, The Listener - Volume 95, page 119:
text: This paragon is not heard at all (as indeed living presenters are not heard because the doorbell rings or someone toots a horn during the back-announcement).
ref: 1992, Classic CD. - Issues 22-31, page 16:
text: However, the argument in favour of a back-announcement puts listener information above programme pace.
ref: 2012, Robert McLeish, Radio Production, page 112:
glosses: Alternative form of back announcement.
back-announcements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-announcement
videostroboscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videostroboscopy
put on frills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on frills
form: putting on frills
form: put on frills
form: put on frills
Senses: examples: text: […] he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone, he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn’t drop that.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 5”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: “She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know.”
“I shouldn’t have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills.”
ref: 1921, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 7, in The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, New York: George H. Doran, page 242:
text: […] your sneers against Doctor Hardy are lies! He doesn’t put on frills, or have an office in a fashionable location, or drive around in an expensive automobile.
ref: 1956, Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 2001, act 1, page 31:
synonyms: give oneself airs
put on airs
show off
glosses: To act in a pretentious or snobbish way.
Related terms: affectation
air fryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air fryers
form: airfryer
Etymology: A genericized trademark of Airfryer, a brand name introduced by Philips in 2010.
Senses: glosses: A small countertop convection oven.
Derived terms: air-fry
wooden nickels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooden nickel
drag bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag bolts
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: A strong bolt passing through the drawbar of railway carriages, and serving to fasten the coupling.
drag bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag bolt
put the last hand to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the last hand to
form: putting the last hand to
form: put the last hand to
form: put the last hand to
Senses: glosses: To complete; to put the finishing touch to.
sublimational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sublimation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sublimation.
parageusic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːzɪk
Etymology: From parageusia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to parageusia.
thrombomodulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombomodulin
besteps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bestep
bestepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bestep
bestepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bestep
Cristescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cristescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Cristescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
pheo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: phaeo-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φαιός (phaiós).
Senses: glosses: Grey in colour.
leimma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of limma.
Draganov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Draganovs
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian Драганов (Draganov).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Драганов (Draganov).
Draganoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Draganoffs
Etymology: Derived from Bulgarian Драганов (Draganov).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Bulgarian.
governably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more governably
form: most governably
Etymology: From governable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a governable manner.
LPHL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin's lymphoma.
glove up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gloves up
form: gloving up
form: gloved up
form: gloved up
Senses: glosses: To don a pair of (e.g. surgical) gloves.
Coordinate terms: suit up
Nelson's sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nelson's sparrows
Etymology: Named after Edward William Nelson, American naturalist.
Senses: glosses: Ammospiza nelsoni, a small American sparrow.
Related terms: sharp-tailed sparrow
like whiteheads
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more like whiteheads
form: most like whiteheads
form: like a whitehead
Senses: examples: text: So many things of interest have happened since you people heard from us we hardly know where to “begin to commence at," but really, we're here and working like whiteheads.
ref: 1920, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, The Monitor, page 34:
text: Edward Blamey and some of his friends had stuffed a toy cannon with powder and wadded newspapers, and they touched it off right in the middle of Judge J. T. Day's speech, and then they ran like whiteheads when they saw the constable coming . ran long and lightly and youthfully with their pockets filled with torpedoes and Chinese crackers and squibs . . . three cheers for the Red, White and Blue!
ref: 1976, MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville, page 226:
text: Don't piffle to the children, Al. Those hens ran like whiteheads.
ref: 2014, Katherine Dunn, Geek Love:
glosses: With all of one's energy; vigorously.
like a whitehead
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more like a whitehead
form: most like a whitehead
Senses: examples: text: I told you a year ago that when the occasion required he ran at the enemy like a “Whitehead,” and I told you that like the rest of us, when occasion required, he ran the other way like a “Whitehead ;” but he was not like the King of France, who, with thirty thousand men marched up to the top of the hill, and then marched down again.
ref: 1893, Roster and Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Encampment of the Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, pages 187–188:
text: Holy Smokes! I was scairt. Then the train hit a curve so fast I had to fight like a whitehead to keep her from pitchin' me out.
ref: 2015, B.A. Botkin, Alvin F. Harlow, A Treasury of Railroad Folklore:
glosses: Alternative form of like whiteheads.
pimaranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimarane
pinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein kinase that regulates auxin.
pinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinoid
form: most pinoid
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pine or a pine needle.
plastoglobulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastoglobulins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of lipoproteins present in the plastids of many plants
plastoglobulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastoglobulin
pleosporalean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleosporaleans
Senses: glosses: Any fungus of the order Pleosporales
pleosporaleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleosporalean
pleotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pleiotropy.
plicaballin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plicaballins
Senses: glosses: A particular plication in the molars of some Neogene mammals
plicaballinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plicaballinids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plicaballin.
pluriannually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pluri- + annually.
Senses: glosses: In a pluriannual manner
polysegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + segmental.
Senses: glosses: Composed of many segments
polysensitise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polysensitises
form: polysensitising
form: polysensitised
form: polysensitised
Etymology: From poly- + sensitise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polysensitize.
polysensitised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polysensitise
postablative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ablative.
Senses: glosses: Following ablation
postoptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒptɪk
Etymology: From post- + optic.
Senses: glosses: posterior to the optic nerve
precricoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cricoid.
Senses: glosses: anterior of the cricoid cartilage
presystemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + systemically.
Senses: glosses: In a presystemic manner
procamerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + camerate.
Senses: glosses: Having deep chambers that are not enclosed by bone
profibrogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a profibrogenic manner
proovogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + ovogenic.
Senses: glosses: That promotes ovogenesis
proprioreceptory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of proprioceptory.
Related terms: proprioreceptor
provasodilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + vasodilatory.
Senses: glosses: Thar promotes vasodilation
pullthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pullthroughs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull through.
pullthroughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pullthrough
pyridomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic that acts against mycobacteria
quadrilateralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrilateralizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quadrangulation.
quadrilateralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrilateralization
radioelectrochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + electrochemical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: radiochemical and electrochemical
recolonizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recolonizers
Senses: glosses: An animal or plant that recolonizes a particular environment
recolonizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recolonizer
reketonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + ketonization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A second or subsequent ketonization
resonication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resonications
Etymology: From re- + sonication.
Senses: glosses: The process, or the result of resonicating
resonications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resonication
resternotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resternotomies
Etymology: From re- + sternotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A second or subsequent sternotomy
resternotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resternotomy
rhinolaryngoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinolaryngoscopes
Etymology: From rhino- + laryngoscope.
Senses: glosses: A form of laryngoscope that can also view the passages of the nose
rhinolaryngoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinolaryngoscope
rhododendrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The phenol 4-[(3R)-3-hydroxybutyl]phenol used in some skin-lightening products
rhyncophylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rhynchophylline.
rhynchophylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid present in Uncaria rhynchophylla
romboencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rhomboencephalic.
rubesanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubesanolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of diterpenoid lactones present in Isodon rubescens
rubesanolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubesanolide
rugosimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of surface roughness
Related terms: rugosimeter
rugosimetric
rugosimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to rugosimetry; by means of a rugosimeter
speak too soon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks too soon
form: speaking too soon
form: spoke too soon
form: spoken too soon
Senses: examples: text: Uh-oh, it's started raining again. I spoke too soon when I said the weather was brightening up.
glosses: To say something that is then contradicted by events, normally in an unwelcome way.
sartorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sartorial.
sceffoleoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pentacyclic triterpenoid saponin present in Centella asiatica
semimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semimetrics
Etymology: From semi- + metric.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A metric that does not satisfy the triangle inequality
nembie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nembies
Etymology: From nemb(utal) + -ie.
Senses: examples: example
glosses: The barbiturate nembutal.
nembies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nembie
container port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: container ports
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: A port which specialises in handling the loading and unloading of shipping containers onto and from container ships.
container ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of container port
aircraft movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircraft movements
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The take-off or landing of an aircraft at an airport.
exclay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkskleɪ/
Etymology: Clipping of expanded clay.
Senses: glosses: lightweight aggregate made by heating clay
palmamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] also from almond and castor oils, after solidification by nitrous acid, we obtain elaidamide and palmamide, these amides being isomeric with oleamide and ricinolamide.
ref: 1857, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 21, page 308:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of palmic acid
lyxohexosamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyxohexosamines
Senses: examples: text: The author brings forward conclusive evidence of the identity of natural chondrosamine and synthetic lyxohexosamine.
ref: 1917, Chemical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Chemical Society (volume 112, part 1, page 633)
text: Chondrosamine is now thought to have the structure of a lyxohexosamine […]
ref: 1964, Chemical Abstracts, volume 10, page 2712:
glosses: A hexosamine that is a lyxose.
Related terms: lyxohexosamic acid
lyxohexosamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyxohexosamine
mereletinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drug osimertinib.
osimertinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: mereletinib
glosses: A drug used to treat non-small-cell lung carcinomas with a specific mutation.
interaction picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interaction pictures
Senses: synonyms: Dirac picture
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: An intermediate representation between the Schrödinger picture and the Heisenberg picture, useful in dealing with changes to the wave functions and observables due to interactions.
interaction pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interaction picture
Dirac picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dirac pictures
Etymology: After Paul Dirac.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Synonym of interaction picture.
synonyms: word: interaction picture
wikipedia: Paul Dirac
Dirac pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dirac picture
Heisenberg picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heisenberg pictures
Etymology: Largely due to Werner Heisenberg in 1925.
Senses: synonyms: Heisenberg representation
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A formulation of quantum mechanics in which the operators (observables and others) incorporate a dependency on time, but the state vectors are time-independent, an arbitrary fixed basis rigidly underlying the theory. It stands in contrast to the Schrödinger picture in which the operators are constant, and further serves to define a third, hybrid picture, the interaction picture.
wikipedia: Werner Heisenberg
Heisenberg pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heisenberg picture
parahypnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊsɪs
Etymology: From para- + hypnosis.
Senses: examples: text: For example, we know that TV has the effect on us of triggering (among many other processes) an alpha-response, a brainwave summation that, in its relaxation, often leads into parahypnosis.
ref: 1988, Semiotic Society of America, Semiotics, page 317:
glosses: Any of various forms of disordered sleep.
parahormonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + hormonal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a parahormone.
ricinolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Its preparation from ricinolamide would require too much time, as this takes from two to three months to be well formed.
ref: 1851, The Chemical Gazette, Or, Journal of Practical Chemistry:
text: […] also from almond and castor oils, after solidification by nitrous acid, we obtain elaidamide and palmamide, these amides being isomeric with oleamide and ricinolamide.
ref: 1857, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 21, page 308:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide or ricinoleic acid, C₃₆H₃₅NO₄
steepener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steepeners
Etymology: From steepen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Steepeners are one example where cashflows are computed as difference between two swap rates, e.g. the 10 years and the 5 years. As the name of instrument suggests, this gives a view on the steepness of the swap curve.
ref: 2009, Giovanni Cesari, John Aquilina, Niels Charpillon, Modelling, Pricing, and Hedging Counterparty Credit Exposure, page 155:
text: Provided that the curve doesn't ever flatten too much and the option remains out-of-the-money, then we will put on flatteners when the curve steepens and put on steepeners when the curve flattens.
ref: 2012, Howard Corb, Interest Rate Swaps and Other Derivatives, page 451:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A trade whose terms are based on the assumption that the rate of return will increase.
steepeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steepener
flattenability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flatten + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being flattenable.
hillshades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillshade
hillshades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hillshade
aircraft movements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aircraft movement
PLK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of Perfect Liberty Kyodan.
'allo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo! What's goin' on 'ere, then?
qualifier: representing Cockney or other accent
glosses: Hello.
monotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monotype
monotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monotype
DCEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DCE
or it didn't happen
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Derived from pics or it didn't happen, replacing pics with something else that is demanded as proof like links or video.
Senses: examples: text: To paraphrase a popular Internet meme, share your movie or it didn't happen.
ref: 2014, Jeff Carlson, iPad and iPhone Video: Film, Edit, and Share the Apple Way, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Unless one can provide the proof that one is requesting, that person has no credibility in the matter.
primal therapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primal therapists
Senses: glosses: A therapist who carries out primal therapy.
primal therapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primal therapist
neroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neros
neros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neroses
form: neroi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νῆρος (nêros), from Akkadian 𒐞 (nēr).
Senses: examples: text: the progressive subdivisions of the saroses of 3,600 years, of the neroses of 600 years, and of the sosses [sic] of 60 years have the same progression as the divisions and subdivisions of the zodiac
ref: 1872, Arthur Dyot Thomson, On Mankind: Their Origin and Destiny, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 648:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Babylon
glosses: A period of 600 years.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One sixth of a saros, or about three years.
Related terms: saros
sossos
deghan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deghans
form: dehgan
form: dehkan
form: dehqan
Etymology: From Persian دهقان (dehqân, “landowner”) From Middle Persian 𐭣𐭧𐭩𐭥𐭪𐭠𐭭 (dahigān, “countryman, farmer”), originally meaning “pertaining to the Deh”, from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭲𐭠 (deh, “country, land, village”).
Senses: glosses: A small-land-owning citizen of the Sassanian Empire.
KREC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kingston Race and Equalities Council.
glosses: Initialism of Kentucky Real Estate Commission.
Wyles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname, a variant of Wiles
Wyly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wylys
Etymology: Variant of Wiley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zloch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zlochs
Etymology: From Polish Złoch or Czech Zloch.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
moulaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When the ambulance doors opened, doctors were confronted with six moulaged clowns, each writhing in pain from impressive fake acid burns.
glosses: Dressed with mock wounds or injuries, generally for the purpose of medical or military training.
moulaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moulage
moulaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moulage
take the studs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the studs
form: taking the studs
form: took the studs
form: taken the studs
Etymology: From an Old English dialect phrase "take the sturdies".
Senses: examples: text: Pap has taken the studs, and I have made up my mind to leave here for good and all.
ref: 1891, Joel Chandler Harris, Balaam and His Master:
text: When I was eight years old my mother started me to an old water mill with two bushels of corn to get meal and put me on an old mule named "John," put a spur on my right heel to make the old mule go if he took the studs.
ref: 1918, History of Corporal Fess Whitaker, pages 10–11:
text: She said, "When I was passing Wily B. Smiths," who was the hoot'n‑toot'n lad "Tanner" adopted, "the mule I was riding took the studs and began going backwards. Try as I did, it wouldn't budge forward."
ref: 1997, Arlena Collins Francis, Knott, My Beloved:
glosses: To act in a balky and uncooperative manner.
takes the studs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the studs
taking the studs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the studs
took the studs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the studs