cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
harmomegathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The closing of the pores in pollen grains to avoid loss of water
Related terms: harmomegathic
heliciid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliciids
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the subtribe Heliciinae
heliciids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliciid
hemocytin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemocytins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An insect lectin in silkworms
hemoglobinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of free (unbound) hemoglobin in the blood (which is always true to a low degree); especially, more than normal amounts of it (hyperhemoglobinemia), in contrast with the usual situation wherein almost all hemoglobin is carried inside erythrocytes; it is a sign of hemolysis.
Coordinate terms: hemoglobinuria
myoglobinemia
myoglobinuria
Presence of oxygen-carrying globins in blood
urine
Derived terms: dyshemoglobinemia
hyperhemoglobinemia
hypohemoglobinemia
Wushan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹshänʹ
Forms: form: Wu-shan
Etymology: From Mandarin 巫山 (Wūshān).
Senses: examples: text: On the cliffs opposite Kui Spiræa Thunbergii occurs. It is quite common in the Wushan gorge, but I did not find it nearer Ichang than here.
ref: 1905 June 17, E. H. Wilson, “LEAVES FROM MY CHINESE NOTE-BOOK”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle, number 964, page 384:
text: The "Chengkuang" No 7 is a short-distance passenger-cargo ship built by staff members and workers of the navigation departments of Wushan County, Szechwan. The ship sails in the noted Wuhsia Gorge of the Yangtze River from Wushan County, Szechwan, in the west to Wanliu commune in Patung County, Hupeh, in the east--a total distance of 45 kms.
ref: 1976 January 26 [1976 January 22], “Szechwan County Navigation”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 17, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 4:
text: According to Gu and Fang (1991a), two human fossils were unearthed from this site situated in Wushan County in the eastern part of Sichuan Province in central China.
ref: 1995, Xinzhi Wu, Frank E. Poirier, “Homo erectus”, in Human Evolution in China: A Metric Description of Fossils and a Review of the Sites, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:
text: Yan Dabin, a former director of transport for Wushan County near the southwestern city of Chongqing, was sentenced on Friday for taking bribes totaling 22.3 million yuan ($3.3 million) from road building companies, Xinhua said.
ref: 2008 August 2, Andrew Torchia, “Corrupt China official betrayed by leaky toilet”, in Andrew Roche, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2022, Technology, Media and Telecommunications:
glosses: A county of Chongqing, China.
glosses: A town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
glosses: A village in Wushan, Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
hemolyzation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemolyzations
form: haemolysation
form: hemolysation
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process, or the result of hemolysis
hepatoectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatoectomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hepatectomy.
hepatoesplenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hepatosplenic.
heptocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hepatocyte.
heterochirality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterochiralities
Etymology: From hetero- + chirality.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being heterochiral.
heterochromosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊməl
Etymology: From hetero- + chromosomal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to heterochromosomes
heteroporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of heterosporous.
hexacosene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexacosenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has twenty-six carbon atoms and one double bond, but especially 1-hexacosene or 9-hexacosene
hexaoleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaoleates
Etymology: From hexa- + oleate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has six oleate groups or ions
histometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From histo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement (or counting) of cells
Related terms: histometric
holocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + -cephalous.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holocephalic.
holocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + cephalic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having a normal, complete head
raw_tags: of a teratoid fetus
Montreal procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Montreal procedure
Etymology: Developed in Montreal, Canada.
Senses: glosses: The surgical treatment of severe epilepsy by destroying nerve cells in the brain where the seizures originate.
Filipinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Filipinizes
form: Filipinizing
form: Filipinized
form: Filipinized
Etymology: From Filipino + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Filipino.
Related terms: Filipinization
Tagalize
Filipinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Filipinize
Filipinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Filipinize
Filipinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Filipinize
tête montée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tête montée
form: most tête montée
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: Worked-up, overexcited.
tête montée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: Overexcitement, agitation.
examples: text: Victor was the younger son and brother—a tête montée, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: Someone prone to overexcitement; a hothead.
slingstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slingstone
mosquito bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosquito bars
Senses: examples: text: The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: A wooden frame covered with netting designed to keep out mosquitoes.
Related terms: mosquito net
cubic kilometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubic kilometres
form: cubic kilometer
Senses: glosses: a unit of volume, km³, equal to 1,000,000,000 cubic metres
Synonyms: teralitre
cubic kilometres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubic kilometre
click one's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clicks one's tongue
form: clicking one's tongue
form: clicked one's tongue
form: clicked one's tongue
Senses: examples: text: The driver clambered into his seat, clicked his tongue, and we went downhill.
ref: 1896, Joseph Conrad, “The Idiots”, in Tales of Unrest, published 1898:
text: Elizabeth raised her gun, which had begun trembling as usual. The beaters halted in a group to watch, and some of them could not refrain from clicking their tongues; they thought it queer and rather shocking to see a woman handle a gun.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 14”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: Radha Aunty clicked her tongue against her teeth impatiently. “Oh, I’m so tired of that,” she said. “Why can’t we just put it behind us.”
ref: 1994, Shyam Selvadurai, chapter 2, in Funny Boy, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, page 59:
glosses: To make a clicking noise with a sucking action of the tongue, to express disapproval or impatience, urge on a horse, etc.
Synonyms: cluck one's tongue
ithyphallics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ithyphallic
hopperburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopper burn
Senses: glosses: damage to plants as a result of infestation by planthoppers
hucklebone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hucklebones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of huckle bone.
hydroecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroecium
hydroeletrolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hydroelectrolytic.
hyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyloids
Senses: glosses: Any frog of the superfamily Hyloidea
hyloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyloid
hymenochirin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymenochirins
Senses: glosses: Any frog of the genus Hymenochirus
hymenochirins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hymenochirin
hyperossification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperossifications
Etymology: From hyper- + ossification.
Senses: glosses: Excessive ossification
hyperthermostabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperthermostability
hypertoxigenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + toxigenicity.
Senses: glosses: Extreme toxigenicity
hyperwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperwrappings
Etymology: From hyper- + wrapping.
Senses: glosses: Excessive wrapping, especially the formation of multi-layered tissue around nerve cells
hyperwrappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperwrapping
hypocaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + captation.
Senses: glosses: A reduced amount of captation
hypercaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercaptations
Etymology: From hyper- + captation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive captation
hypocortisoluria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + cortisoluria.
Senses: glosses: A reduced amount of cortisol in the urine
hypercortisoluria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + cortisoluria.
Senses: glosses: Excessive cortisol in the urine
in a huff
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Tom Bower’s 2024 book, The House of Beckham, painted a rather snide portrait of the marriage, in which Beckham is constantly surrounded by lovelies, and Victoria is in a constant huff about it.
ref: 2025 May 2, Zoe Williams, Sarah Gilbert, “David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In an angry or annoyed state, feeling angry or upset.
low-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-bells
Etymology: From low + bell; see low (“a flame”).
Senses: glosses: A bell used in hunting birds at night, in connection with a light, to frighten them into a net.
low-bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low-bell
immunoclearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + clearance.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disappearance of an immunological condition
immunoenhancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoenhancers
Etymology: From immuno- + enhancer.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Anything that enhances the immune system
Related terms: immunoenhancement
immunofactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunofactors
Etymology: From immuno- + factor.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any immunological factor
immunofactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunofactor
immunometabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + metabolic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to immunometabolism
immunomodulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunomodulation
parasympathetic nervous systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasympathetic nervous system
reencouragement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reencouragements
Etymology: From re- + encouragement.
Senses: glosses: Renewed or repeated encouragement.
reencouragements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reencouragement
weather ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather ships
Senses: synonyms: ocean station vessel
glosses: A ship, usually permanently on station, tasked with reporting meteorological data.
examples: text: If the weather ship be of inferior force, it enables her to keep out of action much longer, and, though a poorer sailer, she may do so until the intervention of night increases the chances of escape.
ref: 1832, Francis Lieber, editor, A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, volume 9, Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, page 178:
qualifier: Age of Sail
glosses: A ship to the windward of another; considered an advantage in naval warfare.
vanity item
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanity items
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An item in a game that is purely cosmetic, not affecting the player's abilities in any way.
vanity items
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanity item
pulvillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more pulvillar
form: most pulvillar
Senses: glosses: Like a cushion or pad.
snithing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snithe
snod up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snods up
form: snodding up
form: snodded up
form: snodded up
Etymology: Related to Old English snǣdan (“to cut, prune”). See snead, snithe.
Senses: glosses: To trim; to set in order.
reconfer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconfers
form: reconferring
form: reconferred
form: reconferred
Etymology: From re- + confer.
Senses: examples: text: The bank comes forward, and asks us to reconfer on it these extravagant, alarming, and, I fear, ultimately ruinous privileges;
ref: 1831, Register of Debates in Congress:
text: The main object and principle of the settlement was to reconfer proprietary rights on persons possessing the strongest prescriptive title, and to impose a moderate assessment.
ref: 1882, Rajkumar Sarvadhikari, The Taluqdari Settlement in Oudh, page 28:
text: Pierre Bourdieu has described how the late holders of a title that confers less status than it once did – less than it once promised – are forced to represent its significance in a way that will reconfer value.
ref: 2000, Robert Matz, Defending Literature in Early Modern England, →ISBN:
text: Second, it opposes the fragmentary character of the understanding and of the treatment of philosophical issues characteristic of the majority of analytic philosophers in that it strives to reconfer upon philosophy its traditional systematic status.
ref: 2010, Lorenz B. Puntel, Structure and Being: A Theoretical Framework for a Systematic Philosophy, →ISBN:
glosses: To confer again.
To grant or transfer ownership again.
examples: text: Mr. Cina moved that the House refuse to adopt the conference committee report on S.F. No. 196, that the present House conference committee be continued, and that the House conference committee be instructed to reinsert the House language in Sec. 8, Subd. 2, relating to wage earners who earn $1500 or more in less than 20 weeks and reinsert the House language in Sec. 13, Subd. 1, clause (1), relating to disqualifications for voluntary quits, that the Senate be advised of the House action and be requested to reconfer on the differences between the Senate and the House On S. F. No. 196.
ref: 1963, Minnesota State Legislature, Journal of the House of Representatives:
text: I would like to say that we have been conferring, and plede today is that I will go back and reconfer.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, Hearings, page 215:
text: Sanguily protested that the army wanted an impartial civilian to replace Machado, but finally agreed to reconfer with the officer corps on the subject.
ref: 1977, Jules Robert Benjamin, The United States and Cuba, →ISBN:
glosses: To confer again.
To consult or deliberate again.
reconfers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconfer
reconferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconfer
reconferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconfer
shawl waistcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shawl waistcoats
Senses: glosses: A vest or waistcoat with a large garish pattern like that of a shawl.
shawl waistcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawl waistcoat
reconfide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconfides
form: reconfiding
form: reconfided
form: reconfided
Etymology: From re- + confide.
Senses: examples: text: After this confidence, of which Muriel was very proud, and only condescended, upon gaining express permission, to reconfide it to me, she talked incessantly of the sister that was coming, until “little Maud”—the name she chose for her—became an absolute entity in the household.
ref: 1857, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman, page 86:
text: '“I do not think,” Christine confided afterwards to a friend, who reconfided it to Bertie van Tahn, “that I shall ever be able to touch pâté de foie gras again.
ref: 1911, Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, →ISBN:
text: For Mrs Blythe had confided once to Ann, and Ann had ultimately reconfided to Halloran, the story of how her husband had walked disorderly with a domestic in Portsmouth.
ref: 2016, Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes, →ISBN:
glosses: To confide to someone new.
To communicate information that was told in confidence to a third person.
examples: text: If you confide it to the Secretary of the Treasury, then why go on and reconfide the same power in the President?
ref: 1893, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Fifty-Second Congress, Second Session:
text: Is there any simple way by which the Speaker may be relieved of his now dangerous authority and the power reconfided to the representatives of the people ?
ref: 1898, Cosmopolitan - Volume 24, page 635:
text: The insurrection in Milan in favor of war, the strong feelings of the same flavor in Rome, Padua, Genoa and Naples, decided His Majesty Victor Emmanuel III to exclude Giovanni Giolitti and to reconfide to Salandra, who had tendered his resignation, the task of reconstituting a new ministry.
ref: 1928, Benito Mussolini, My Autobiography, page 41:
glosses: To confide to someone new.
To entrust responsibility or authority to someone else.
reconfides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconfide
reconfiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconfide
reconfided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconfide
reconfiscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconfiscates
form: reconfiscating
form: reconfiscated
form: reconfiscated
Etymology: From re- + confiscate.
Senses: examples: text: The laity of England had refused to apostatise; the fautor of his schemes was dead; and then, then, as a last miserable alternative, he dropped from his ambitious height back into the foul slough of avarice, and plied all the arts of threat and of falsehood to reconfiscate the revenues of the see of Canterbury, and figured once more not as head of the Church, not as source of jurisdiction, not as lord of all, but merely as a croned robber.
ref: 1883, Martin Rule, The Life and Times of St. Anselm:
text: The hooker was pretty well plastered by the time I got to the bar and it was a simple favor to reconfiscate your purse.
ref: 2001, Robert S. Stone, Dark Waters, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Having just elected to return the arms in question to their Catholic owners, Maryland's assemblymen were not about to authorize Nicholson's order to reconfiscate the arms and risk stirring up the anger of the colony's Catholics.
ref: 2012, Maura Jane Farrelly, Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity, →ISBN:
glosses: To confiscate again.
reconfiscates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconfiscate
reconfiscating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconfiscate
reconfiscated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconfiscate
rhombogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhombogens
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The infusoriform embryo of a nematoid worm.
Related terms: rhombogenic
rhombogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhombogen
infusoriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infusoriform
form: most infusoriform
Etymology: From infusoria + -form.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like an infusorium.
drift sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drift sails
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sail immersed in the water, used for lessening the drift of a vessel during a storm.
drift sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drift sail
drift mining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mining for gold by means of drifts in the gravel and detritus of old riverbeds.
Coordinate terms: pitch mining
Related terms: drift mine
unflip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unflips
form: unflipping
form: unflipped
form: unflipped
Etymology: From un- + flip.
Senses: examples: text: how to unflip a canoe in the water
glosses: To right or restore from a flipped or inverted state.
reindoctrinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reindoctrinates
form: reindoctrinating
form: reindoctrinated
form: reindoctrinated
Etymology: From re- + indoctrinate.
Senses: examples: text: Reindoctrinate these men in the use of personal protective devices on the assumption that the temporary elevation of hearing level above the monitor limit may have been due to imperfect protection.
ref: 1958, A.M.A. Archives of Industrial Health, page 13:
text: Counseling should help clients to confront their value systems and reindoctrinate themselves with different values, beliefs, and ideas.
ref: 1993, Edward H. Scissons, Counseling for Results: Principles and Practices of Helping, page 10:
text: She wanted to reindoctrinate me and get me back on the right path, to again become the American I should have been all along.
ref: 2017, Larry B. Stell, The People Hitler Left Behind:
glosses: To indoctrinate again.
unflipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unflip
reindoctrinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reindoctrinate
unflips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unflip
reindoctrinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reindoctrinate
reindoctrinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reindoctrinate
antitip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tip.
Senses: examples: text: Install antitip brackets on any large furniture or appliance that a child might attempt to climb. A falling bookcase, wardrobe, entertainment center, or even big-screen television could kill a child.
ref: 2009, Jeff Bredenberg, How to Cheat at Home Repair:
glosses: Preventing something from tipping over.
reliberate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reliberates
form: reliberating
form: reliberated
form: reliberated
Etymology: From re- + liberate.
Senses: examples: text: So Scooter came to visit, and one night, with nothing better to do, he, Dell, Captain Eugene Snedeker (CO of H Company), a couple of other guys, and I decided to reliberate recently liberated Seoul.
ref: 1993, David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman, Brave Men, →ISBN, page 88:
text: In September 1842, Mexican forces crossed the border at the Rio Grande, took possession of San Antonio, and slaughtered a band of Texans seeking to reliberate the city.
ref: 2008 -, Martin Dugard, The Training Ground, →ISBN:
text: In the case of beryllium, they reliberate it little by little to the detriment of the hepatocytes (Aldridge et al., 1949, Cheng, 1956).
ref: 2013, Ch. Rouiller, The Liver: Morphology, Biochemistry, Physiology, →ISBN, page 419:
hypernyms: free
liberate
glosses: To liberate again.
Derived terms: reliberation
reliberates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reliberate
reliberating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reliberate
reliberated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reliberate
out of the ark
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: out of the Ark
Etymology: A reference to Noah's ark.
Senses: examples: text: to be out of the ark, to come out of the ark
synonyms: antediluvian
glosses: old-fashioned; obsolete.
Related terms: go out with the ark
Bizerte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɪˈzɝtə/
/bɪˈzɝt/
/bɪˈzɝti/
Forms: form: Bizerta
Senses: glosses: A city in Tunisia.
Bizerta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bizerte.
compound pendulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound pendulums
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any swinging rigid body free to rotate about a fixed horizontal axis, distinguished from the ideal simple pendulum.
compound pendulums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound pendulum
landfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From land + fast.
Senses: examples: text: landfast sea ice
text: There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
ref: 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar:
glosses: Connected or anchored to the land.
block coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: splent coal
nonstandardization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstandardizations
Etymology: From non- + standardization.
Senses: examples: text: This nonstandardization can be quite dangerous, however, and completely undermines shared SA in these systems.
ref: 2003, Mica R. Endsley, Betty Bolte, Debra G. Jones, Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design, →ISBN:
text: The lack of lens interchangeability among camera manufacturers is probably the hardest felt of all the nonstandardizations.
ref: 2004, Anton Wilson, Anton Wilson's Cinema Workshop, →ISBN, page 103:
text: The waste of nonstandardization occurs when resources are needed to compensate and correct for processes that are completed in an arbitrary and unpredictable way because standards are ignored.
ref: 2010, William K. Balzer, Lean Higher Education, →ISBN:
text: Where information is hardest to come by for social, political, or cultural reasons, and where shortage, nonstandardization, and hence uncertainty and unpredictability are greatest, one would expect relational contracting, with its reassuring recurrence and its catering to idiosyncrasy, to be the solution of chice. Thus, in economies where shortage, nonstandardization, and weak information channels are pronounced, we would expect to find a prevalence of relational contracting.
ref: 2016, Dorothy J. Solinger, China's Transition from Socialism?, →ISBN:
glosses: A lack of standardization.
nonstandardizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstandardization
Geneveses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Genevese
begin at the wrong end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begins at the wrong end
form: beginning at the wrong end
form: began at the wrong end
form: begun at the wrong end
Senses: glosses: To manage something badly.
tricksey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tricksey
form: most tricksey
Etymology: From tricks + -ey.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tricksy.
seek-no-farther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seek-no-farthers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seek-no-further (“kind of apple”).
seek-no-farthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seek-no-farther
taliswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taliswomen
Etymology: Blend of talisman + woman
Senses: examples: text: We stare into the bottomless laminated eyes of the Virgen de Guadalupe, Hector's taliswoman against Katrina and his own dead family, and now ours against the silencing of Gloria.
ref: 2012, Matthew Gavin Frank, Pot Farm, →ISBN, page 206:
text: When Beverly Allen left the Geary Street apartment for her family home in Oakland later that night, she gave Brautigan the painted Mexican doll (her “taliswoman”) as a keepsake.
ref: 2012, William Hjortsberg, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, →ISBN:
text: She then scattered these taliswomen throughout The Birth of Venus, putting some in boxes, using others to line walls.
ref: 2017, Amy Sara Carroll, REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era, →ISBN, page 188:
text: 'She's been with me through a lot,' he smiled. 'She's my taliswoman. Anyway. Cheers.'
ref: 2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:
glosses: A talisman in the form of a female figure.
taliswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taliswoman
doorleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔɹlif/
ipa: /ˈdɔːliːf/
Forms: form: doorleaves
form: doorleafs
Etymology: From door + leaf.
Senses: examples: text: e) Three doorleafs with connections for the fans.[…]The doorleafs are mounted and the fans are connected.
ref: 1982, Building Design for Minimum Air Infiltration: Proceedings: Held at Royal Institute of Technology, 21-23 Sept. 1981, →ISBN, pages 188 and 190:
text: In new construction or alterations to existing doorways an alternative may be for doorleafs to be offset, as shown in 5.15.
ref: 2000, Selwyn Goldsmith, Universal Design: A Manual of Practical Guidance for Architects, Architectural Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Apart from the arabesque motifs, geometric motifs are also applied by Malay craftsmen doorleafs, ventilation panels, wall panels, railing and partitions.
ref: 2002, Vernacular Settlement in the New Millennium: Resistance and Resilience of Local Knowledge in Built Environment, February 16-17, 2002: Proceedings, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Maximum total glazed area in doorleafs with access to a single stairway / Maximum total glazed area in doorleafs with access to more than one stairway
ref: 2018, Ray Tricker, Samantha Alford, Building Regulations in Brief, 9th edition, Routledge:
glosses: An individual door panel, particularly in the context of double or sliding doors.
cluck one's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clucks one's tongue
form: clucking one's tongue
form: clucked one's tongue
form: clucked one's tongue
Senses: examples: text: The spring had got into his blood, too; he felt the need for letting steam escape, and clucked his tongue, flourishing his whip, wheeling his horses […]
ref: 1906, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, Volume I, Chapter:
text: I went out and had a chat with the foreman of the men; he clucked his tongue when he heard what had happened, and opined that I was lucky to have come off so lightly with nobody there to help me out of the machine.
ref: 1926, Nevil Shute, chapter 1, in Marazan:
text: “To think a man like Mr. Tucker would do something like that!”" She went out, clucking her tongue in exaggerated dismay.
ref: 1958, Raymond F. Jones, chapter 9, in The Year When Stardust Fell, Philadelphia: John C. Winston:
text: “But newspapers have a duty to truth,” Van said.
Lev clucked his tongue. “They tell the truth only as the exception. […]”
ref: 2009, Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna, New York: HarperCollins, Part 3, p. 236:
glosses: To click one's tongue.
Kahnawake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɑːnəˈwɑːɡeɪ/
other: /ɡ/
Forms: form: Caughnawaga
Etymology: From Mohawk Kahnawà꞉ke.
Senses: glosses: a large Mohawk community on the South Shore region of Montreal
Caughnawaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mohawk Kahnawà꞉ke.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kahnawake.
belash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belashes
form: belashing
form: belashed
form: belashed
Etymology: From Middle English bilasshen, bylaschen, bilaisshen, equivalent to be- + lash.
Senses: examples: text: The same mother, Agnes Paston, enters among her errands in London a commission to her son's tutor, Greenfield, to "belash" his charge till he amend, he being then fifteen and having been some time at Cambridge.
ref: 1869, William M. Cooper, Flagellation and the Flagellants, page 386:
text: […] begging him "to belash" her son, as his last master had done […]
ref: 1882, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 5, page 734:
text: […] the men pulling them up with a jerk to alight and chastise some flagrant offender; and finally a babel of dismal howls and angry ascrying^([sic]), as the long rods are shortened to a convenient length and the process of belashing begins.
ref: 1896, MacMillan's Magazine, volume 73, page 295:
glosses: To strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to
Related terms: belashed
belashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English bylasshed, bylasched, equivalent to belash + -ed.
Senses: glosses: past of belash
belashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From belash + -ed or be- + lash + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: With her huge belashed eyes, prominent cheekbones, and pale face, Imogen was the perfect Existentialist.
ref: 2008, Simon Doonan, Eccentric Glamour, page 115:
text: An evil look came into Jessie Belle's belashed eyes.
ref: 2012, Grace Livingston Hill, Blue Ruin:
text: But, once we are settled on the plane, Brigid (or the Brigid goddess who has the clever, belashed eyes of a giraffe) sees something I don't.
ref: 2014, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 30:
glosses: Covered or adorned with eyelashes
belashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From belash + -ed or be- + lash + -ed.
Senses: glosses: past of belash
impunitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + punitive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to impunity
inferobasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infero- + basal.
Senses: glosses: inferior and basal
infoveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: surveillance of online media in order to obtain information concerning public health issues
inhalatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inhalative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of inhalation
intercheliceral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cheliceral.
Senses: glosses: Between chelicera
interdeltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + deltaic.
Senses: examples: Tidal-dominated, coastal plain deposit: tidal channels (estuaries), tidal flats, marsh or swamp; deposits are generally on delta margin or in interdeltaic areas.
glosses: The intertidal portion of a coastal river delta.
interthecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + thecal.
Senses: glosses: Between thecas
intrabone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + bone.
Senses: glosses: Within a bone
Synonyms: intraosseous
intraependymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + ependymal.
Senses: glosses: Within an ependyma
intraleukocytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intraleukocytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an intraleukocytic manner
intraluminar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + luminar.
Senses: glosses: Within a lumen
intrascalene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + scalene.
Senses: glosses: Within a scalene muscle
intrataxon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + taxon.
Senses: glosses: Within (organisms of a) particular taxon
intravaricosity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + varicosity.
Senses: glosses: Within a varicosity
isochratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of isocratically.
isoelliptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + elliptic.
Senses: examples: text: The presence of isoelliptic points in the spectra is indicative of the two-state nature of the transition.
ref: 2012, Nina Berova, Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy:
glosses: Relating to the same ellipse, or the same elliptic function.
isopolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + polar.
Senses: glosses: Having the same poles or apices
isotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of isotropic.
underhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underhooks
Etymology: From under- + hook.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A clinch hold performed by putting an arm under the opponent's arm, and holding the opponent's midsection or upper body.
underhook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underhooks
form: underhooking
form: underhooked
form: underhooked
Etymology: From under- + hook.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To use such a hold upon.
Related terms: overhook
kenozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kenozooids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small bryozoan heterozooid
Derived terms: kenozooidal
match safe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match safes
Senses: examples: text: The car ride was long, and it was late when they reached Esplanade Street. Arobin asked permission to enter for a second to light his cigarette—his match safe was empty.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: A small container for matches.
match safes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of match safe
heterozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterozooids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specialized non-feeding bryozoan zooid
kenozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kenozooid
heterozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterozooid
kirromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic that inhibits protein biosynthesis
labiomesial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From labio- + mesial.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: labial and mesial
labiomesially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From labio- + mesially.
Senses: glosses: In a labiomesial manner or direction
labiosternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From labio- + sternal.
Senses: glosses: labial and sternal
lamniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamniform
lankanectid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lankanectids
Senses: glosses: Any frog of the genus Lankanectes, Sri Lanka wart frogs.
lankanectids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lankanectid
lapillopsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapillopsids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct temnospondyl amphibian of the family †Lapillopsidae
lapillopsids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lapillopsid
laterocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laterocones
Senses: glosses: A small pointed cusp on the lateral side of the incisors of some plesiadapiforms
laterocones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laterocone
leptothecate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptothecates
Senses: glosses: Any hydrozoan of the order Leptothecata
leptothecates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptothecate
sesquizygotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sesquizygotic
form: most sesquizygotic
Etymology: From sesqui- + zygotic.
Senses: examples: text: Gabbett said that while there might be other, unreported, cases of sesquizygotic twins, it remains a very unusual phenomenon.
ref: 2019 February 27, Nicolas Davis, The Guardian:
glosses: Describing twins which are semi-identical, formed from one egg that is fertilized by two separate sperm.
Synonyms: sesquizygous
Coordinate terms: semi-identical
half-identical
Related terms: monozygotic
dizygotic
lignitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lignitizes
form: lignitizing
form: lignitized
form: lignitized
Senses: glosses: To convert to lignite
lignitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lignitize
lignitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Converted to lignite
lingulid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingulids
Senses: glosses: Any brachiopod of the order Lingulida
lingulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingulid
lipoaspirated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lipoaspirate
lipoaspirated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Removed by lipoaspiration
lipoated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lipoate
lobularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being lobular
Derived terms: hyperlobularity
lysophopholipase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lysophospholipase.
shabby chic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First use appears c. 1901 in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, she wasn't stylish--one would hardly look for that at Madame's--nor was there anything about her costume that suggested even the shabby chic.
ref: 1901, John Albert Sleicher (editor), Frank Leslie (contributor), Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper - Volume 92, page 139:
text: Are they shabby chic or just shabby? Are there places for people to sit and chat, to read, watch the sun set, or enjoy the views?
ref: 2007, Entrepreneur Press, Start Your Own Bed and Breakfast: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Some furniture is described as shabby chic. I am just shabby. A person would not be concerned about spilling wine on me, much less my rug.
ref: 2009, Charles A. Shoemake, Apotheosis of My Butterfly, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 162:
text: Can the rumpled elegance and mismatched opulence of shabby chic find happiness with cutting edge digital tools and techniques? We say yes, it can — even though shabby chic is perhaps the most difficult style to do well digitally because […]
ref: 2011, Jeanne Wines-Reed, Joan Wines, Digital Scrapbooking For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Pros: quirky character; beautiful setting. Cons: sometimes shabby rather than shabby chic; not much to do in vicinity; minimum stay required.
ref: 2012, Fodor's, Fodor's England 2013: with the Best of Wales, Fodor's Travel
glosses: A form of interior design where furnishings are either chosen for their appearance of age and signs of wear and tear or where new items are distressed to achieve the appearance of an antique.
glosses: A similar form of fashion in which clothing is made to appear aged or damaged.
macroalbumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of macroalbuminuria.
magnetocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + cardiac.
Senses: glosses: Relating to magnetic properties of the heart (as a result of electrocardiac activity)
malcavernin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A signalling protein associated with cerebral cavernous malformations
maxilloincisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maxillo- + incisive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the maxilla and the incisors
mechanoceptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to mechanoreception
mechanoceptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a mechanoceptic manner
mediocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediocones
Senses: glosses: A small cusp on the front of the incisors of some plesiadapiforms
medullospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From medullo- + spinal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medullispinal.
megavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaviruses
Etymology: From mega- + virus.
Senses: glosses: Certain viruses significantly larger than other known viruses
Any virus of the family Mimiviridae
glosses: Certain viruses significantly larger than other known viruses
Any virus of the proposed family Mimiviridae, genus Megavirus, represented by the newly discovered species Megavirus chilensis
Derived terms: megaviral
mesaconine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpenoid alkaloid present in the roots of Aconitum carmichaelii
meshedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meshed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being meshed
Derived terms: meshedness coefficient
metatarsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metatars- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metatarsal.
methanotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of methanotrophic.
microcollimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcollimators
Etymology: From micro- + collimator.
Senses: glosses: A very small collimator
microcollimators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcollimator
microserological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + serological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microserology
microserology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + serology.
Senses: glosses: serology using very small sample sizes
Related terms: microserological
microtaphonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + taphonomic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microtaphonomy
microtaphonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + taphonomy.
Senses: glosses: taphonomy using very small samples
Related terms: microtaphonomic
midfemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + femoral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located at the middle of the femur