cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paracuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracutas
Senses: examples: text: We saw, during our visit, a quantity of dried salmon, rock cod, blue dolphins, mackerel, blackfish, skate, conger eels, elephant-fish, mullets, soles, parrotfish, leather-jackets, gurnards, hake, flounders, paracutas, and innumerable other varieties.
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of barracuda.
shruggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shruggie
kañiwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kaniwa.
tsingala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malagasy.
Senses: examples: text: In the last century, one Rev. H. T. Johnson described a tsingala assault on one of his palanquin-bearers, who minutes before had drunk from a dirty pool while traveling near the town of Fianarantsoa.
ref: 2000, Peter Tyson, The Eighth Continent, page 81:
glosses: A poisonous insect of Madagascar.
tangena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malagasy.
Senses: glosses: A shrub of Madagascar.
glosses: A poison made from this shrub.
Proto-Czech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Proto-Czech can be differentiated from Proto-Polish and Proto-Slovak from the end of the 10th century.
ref: 2014, Sebastian Kempgen, “Abstract”, in Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 1384:
glosses: ancestor language of the Czech language, descendant of Proto-Slavic, spoken between the 10th and the mid 12th century
Related terms: Czech
Old Czech
transabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transabled
form: most transabled
Etymology: Derived from disabled by changing the prefix: trans- + abled.
Senses: glosses: Of a person with body integrity identity disorder: having had an amputation or other surgery performed to remove or alter the healthy organ or part.
Derived terms: transability
transableism
Related terms: BIID
xenomelia
disabled
British teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: > Man oh man, does Marcus Flint need to get his teeth fixed! I think
> that is the W*O*R*S*T case of British teeth I have E*V*E*R
> seen in my life! Get thee to an orthodontist, child!!!
ref: 2002 November 19, Fish Eye no Miko [username] (quoting Frenchy), “Re: Bad teeth: Spoiler, if you've never actually seen British teeth...”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: LOL! I just noticed this comment. Austin Powers comes to mind. It's true though. Some people have "British teeth" and god help those people.
ref: 2005 March 6, Fett, “Re: The Visitation DVD R1”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):
text: Today, it seems that nearly all the women under about 30 are doing this mouth-hiding thing. And it's not because they're chewing with their mouths open, or that they have British teeth, or anything.
ref: 2006 February 10, Tim May, “Why do so many young women eat with one hand in front of their mouth?”, in ba.food (Usenet):
glosses: Imperfect or unattractive teeth.
raw_tags: of humans
lithophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithophone
percussion instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percussion instrument
treap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: treaps
Etymology: Blend of tree + heap.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A type of randomized binary search tree where nodes are labelled with randomly chosen priority values and which is simultaneously a heap on those priorities
gut check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut checks
form: gut-check
Senses: examples: text: "I told them what we needed was a gut check to see whether we had the stomach to go ahead."
ref: 1996 June 9, Paul Rodgers, “Two born-again brands: one yells, one whispers”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 23 Aug 2015:
text: There's an old parlor game, a kind of gut check for the heart and head. Would you rather be rich or pretty? Happy or famous? Is it better to be good or to be smart?
ref: 2000 October 7, Nancy Gibbs, “Gore: Where Is The Love?”, in Time, retrieved 23 Aug 2015:
text: But for investors looking for long-term winners at the start of the year, it’s best to give yourself a gut check before you buy.
ref: 2013 January 18, Stephen J. Ciccone, “January’s Stock Temptation”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Aug 2015:
text: For President Obama, this is gut-check time on Iraq. He is moving the nation back onto a pitiless battlefield, with a war plan that is long on good intentions and short on clarity about the ultimate mission.
ref: 2014 September 9, David Ignatius, “Stepping warily onto the battlefield”, in Washington Post, retrieved 23 Aug 2015:
qualifier: sometimes hyphenated (especially when used attributively)
glosses: An honest, reflective appraisal of one's true feelings concerning a matter of concern.
gut-check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut-checks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gut check.
laterward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more laterward
form: most laterward
Etymology: From later + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: […] I name the primitive Church, and the other Churches throughout the world professing the faith of Christ, and affirme that they were of our religion, though some corruptions, especially laterward, came in withall.
ref: 1612, John White, The Way of the True Church:
glosses: later on
Synonyms: laterwards
laterwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more laterwards
form: most laterwards
Etymology: From later + -wards.
Senses: glosses: later on
Synonyms: laterward
ginger minger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)ˈmɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: ginger mingers
Etymology: ginger minge + -er
Senses: glosses: A person who has red hair.
examples: text: His hair's a bit thinner and slightly receding: baldness is a curse for a lot of ginger mingers.
ref: 2002, Irvine Welsh, Porno, Vintage, published 2013, →ISBN, page 168:
text: 'Is the girl really a ginger minger?' Dannie asked Deirdre.
'She is anything but,' Deirdre told her.
ref: 2008, Kate Thompson, Love Lies Bleeding, New Island, →ISBN, page 175:
text: He knocks back the last of his beer and goes, 'Better text Kathleen,' who's the ginger minger I'm talking about. He's seeing her, when he's not trying to worm his way into my bird, that is.
ref: 2012, Paul Howard, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, PS, I Scored The Bridesmaids, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: fire-crotch
glosses: A person who has red pubic hair.
bowl lute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowl lutes
Senses: glosses: A lute with a body shaped like a bowl.
bowl lutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowl lute
thumb piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumb pianos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any type of lamellophone having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs; a mbira.
Synonyms: akalimba
finger piano
mbira
sanza
thumb pianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumb piano
finger piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger pianos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thumb piano.
synonyms: word: thumb piano
finger pianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger piano
cheesylicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheesylicious
form: most cheesylicious
Etymology: From cheesy + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: Sounds cheesylicious. I'll bring my lactase.
ref: 2001 September 4, Kenji, “Re: Gladys' on Tuesday 9/4/01”, in chi.general (Usenet):
text: YouthQuake had the opportunity to taste these new cheesylicious offerings at the launch and the result was a full tummy and glowing smile.
ref: 2003 August 8, Siva Darshan, “Say cheese or rather cheeses!”, in New Straits Times:
text: Plus, I use basic equipment and easy techniques that are geared toward the everyday home cook, whether a beginner or pro, so you can whip up a cheesylicious feast anytime you want.
ref: 2013, John Schlimm, The Cheesy Vegan: More Than 125 Plant-Based Recipes for Indulging in the World's Ultimate Comfort Food, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Delicious in a way that involves cheese.
Synonyms: cheeselicious
bowl wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A soft wax gasket inserted between the outlet horn of a floor-mounted toilet and the flange to which it is bolted, to seal the connection.
cheeselicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheeselicious
form: most cheeselicious
Etymology: From cheese + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: So, let's quickly embark on this cheeselicious journey!
ref: 2009, Tarla Dalal, Paneer Snacks, Sanjay & Co., →ISBN, page 6:
text: Cheeselicious Chowder
ref: 2013, Nancy Tuminelly, Let's Cook with Cheese!: Delicious & Fun Cheese Dishes Kids Can Make, ABDO Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The items for sale were popcorn balls, cheeselicious popcorn, caramelicious popcorn, […]
ref: 2014, Alexis Fredericks, "Team 7-1 Popcorn Fundraiser", Urban Legend (Urban Middle School, Sheboygan, Wisconsin), Volume 14, Number 2, 18 December 2014, page 2
glosses: Delicious in a way that involves cheese.
Synonyms: cheesylicious
Marvelverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Marvelverse
Etymology: From Marvel + -verse. From Marvel Comics, from marvel.
Senses: examples: text: In the Marvelverse, mutants are potential victims of hate crimes and of state-sponsored pogroms, and of the sort of bureaucratic prying that is often a prelude to the latter.
ref: 2008, Roz Kaveney, Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films, I. B. Tauris Co. Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Marvelverse characters Araña Corazon and Elektra Natchios were raised by single fathers after the deaths of their mothers.
ref: 2010, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology, I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, →ISBN:
text: Licensed crossovers often appear between characters in the Marvelverse or the Buffyverse.
ref: 2015, “Glossary”, in Valerie Estelle Frankel, editor, The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 224:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe depicted in the Marvel comics, films, and television series.
wikipedia: en:Marvel Comics
Hyponyms: MCU
Ultimateverse
Coordinate terms: Amalgamverse
DCverse
plutogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluto- + -genic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: originating from plutons
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: originating from radioactive decay or fission of plutonium
glosses: generating plutonium e.g. from uranium
belongingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more belongingly
form: most belongingly
Etymology: From belonging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To the man who stands belongingly in this continuum, no event that may be predicated of him is inappropriate.
ref: 1961, John Berry, Flight of White Crows: Stories, Tales, and Paradoxes, Macmillan, page 183:
text: For there is nothing, in a free society, to prevent those who wish from going off in separate communities and living primitively and “belongingly.”
ref: 1970, Murray N. Rothbard, Power & Market: Government and the Economy, Ludwig von Mises Institute, published 2006, →ISBN, page 272:
text: "And not over yet" he said, putting his arm around her waist as they strolled back to the car, which brought Bob back to her mind. His arm had been there belongingly thousands of times.
ref: 2010, John Barnshaw, White's Corner, Matador, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: In a manner characteristic of belonging.
one can't live with them, one can't live without them
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of can't live with them, can't live without them.
Mustang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈmʌsˌtæŋ]
Forms: form: Mustangs
Etymology: From mustang (“a horse of the North American west”).
Senses: glosses: An American sports car, manufactured by Ford Motor Company from 1964 till present, a cultural icon and the longest-produced Ford nameplate.
glosses: The P-51 Mustang was a single-seat fighter plane designed by North American Aviation in 1940.
Mustang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈmʌsˌtæŋ]
Senses: glosses: A district of Nepal.
Related terms: Mustang Island
Mustangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mustang
paradactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradactyls
Etymology: para- + Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
synonyms: paradactylum
glosses: The side of a bird's toe
paraedrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of rutile.
synonyms: word: rutile
sluice gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sluice gate
C86
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after C86, a compilation cassette released in 1986 by NME magazine on which independent rock featured heavily. The album title itself was a play on the labelling and length of blank compact cassettes—commonly C60, C90 and C120—combined with the year 1986.
Senses: examples: text: Ralske, who studied jazz trumpet at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, moved to London around the time the whole C86 scene (with bands like the Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine) was thriving.
ref: 1990, SPIN, page 20:
text: From the latest new releases to rare collectables, including indie, punk, grunge, C86 etc.
ref: 1999, advertisement for, “www.indiemusic.co.uk”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, page 72:
text: The same papers that had championed C86 in the middle of the decade then spent years writing off small, pop-oriented bands such as Belle and Sebastian — particularly if they had an air of mimsy or femininity.
ref: 2007, Scott Plagenhoef, Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of British rock music most prominent in the late eighties and early nineties, with a lo-fi aesthetic, unconventional instrumentation and romantic lyrics.
Related terms: indie rock
twee pop
tweecore
wunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌntʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: wunches
Etymology: Spoonerism by transposing the first letters of bunch of wankers to produce the phrase wunch of bankers.
Senses: examples: text: Today, we learn that Douglas Hurd, in a couple of months' time, is set to join those providers of financial services, collectively known as a "wunch of bankers", NatWest, from a bunch of MPs.
ref: 1995, Trades Union Congress, Report of Annual Trades Union Congress:
text: That particular wunch of bankers may be mortified to know that Hamm had no connection any company called Dow, and was rather one of a group of anti-capitalist pranksters accidentally invited to the conference.
ref: 2005 August 17, “Feedback”, in New Scientist:
text: Apparently, I also removed my shirt as if performing a malcoordinated strip routine and then introduced bemused spectators to a dance move that was out of place when first revealed at university and was certainly not appropriate at a reasonably formal party surrounded by a wunch of bankers.
ref: 2010, Geraint Anderson, Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Meanwhile in the more conventional 'Men Seeking Women' column [of the Financial Times], the guys go to great lengths to make themselves sound utterly loathsome. They're tall and muscular, exceptionally handsome and attractive, loyal, sincere, genuine, sensitive, educated, rich and modest. What a wunch!
ref: 2011, Andrew Hicks, My Thai Girl and I: How I found a new life in Thailand, Monsoon Books, →ISBN:
text: Well fuck me sideways with a wooden stake, I realize dismally, I've fallen in a wunch of vampires.
ref: 2014, Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A group of unpleasant people, especially bankers; a supposed collective noun for bankers.
fokontany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fokontany
form: fokontanies
Etymology: From Malagasy.
Senses: qualifier: Madagascar
glosses: A village.
shit-stirrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit-stirrers
form: shit stirrer
Etymology: From shit + stirrer. Compare the verb stir shit.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: shitmonger; troublemaker
synonyms: shit disturber
glosses: One who enjoys creating trouble for others by provoking controversy, for example by revealing facts that others would prefer to keep secret.
Related terms: word: shitshow
word: shitstorm
word: stir shit
shit-stirrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit-stirrer
shit stirrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit stirrers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shit-stirrer.
shit stirrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit stirrer
stir shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stirs shit
form: stirring shit
form: stirred shit
form: stirred shit
Senses: examples: text: Mal could tell too, just looking at those goons, that they stirred shit day in and day out.
text: The King has stirred shit up and caused the people to fight amongst themselves instead of organizing properly to fight against him.
synonyms: stir the pot
glosses: To deliberately cause trouble.
Derived terms: shit-stirrer
stirs shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stir shit
stirring shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stir shit
stirred shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stir shit
give out stink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives out stink
form: giving out stink
form: gave out stink
form: given out stink
Etymology: * give out + stink. Compare give stick, create a stink
Senses: glosses: give out strongly; scold or chide severely
Synonyms: give out yards
net incomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of net income
polios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polio
AJDT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of AspectJ Development Tools.
Siófok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Hungary.
actorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality associated with being an actor.
undroppable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpəbəl
Etymology: From un- + droppable.
Senses: examples: text: He will react in the way he generally does, training feverishly over the weeks ahead and attempting to make himself undroppable for the game on Merseyside.
ref: 2015 August 24, Guardian sport, “Premier League: 10 talking points from this weekend’s action”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Unable to be dropped (from a team selection)
undroppable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒpəbəl
Forms: form: undroppables
Etymology: From un- + droppable.
Senses: examples: text: United have two midfield undroppables vs RB Leipzig
ref: 2020 December 7, Elliott Jackson, “Gary Neville names Bruno Fernandes concern at Manchester United”, in Manchester Evening News:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who is unable to be dropped (from a team selection)
acidocalcisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidocalcisomes
Senses: glosses: An organelle, rich in both calcium and pyrophosphate, that appears to have a function in osmoregulation.
Derived terms: acidocalcisomal
acidocalcisomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ac, acidocalcisomes; K, kinetoplast; N, nucleus.
ref: 2015 July 21, Noelia Lander et al., “CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Disruption of Paraflagellar Rod Protein 1 and 2 Genes in Trypanosoma cruzi Reveals Their Role in Flagellar Attachment”, in mBio, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: plural of acidocalcisome
autophosphorylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autophosphorylate
autophosphorylating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Binding a repellent at these receptors is believed to cause increased autophosphorylating activity of the CheA kinase.
ref: 2015 July 10, Lixing Huang et al., “Identification and characterization of three Vibrio alginolyticus non-coding RNAs involved in adhesion, chemotaxis, and motility processes”, in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: That promotes autophosphorylation
calcarina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Further, nodes from occipital regions in the anatomical network, indicated by the blue circles (including calcarina, cuneus, precuneus, …), are distantly located from the group of frontal brain areas indicated by the red marks.
ref: 2015 July 6, Tiago Simas et al., “An algebraic topological method for multimodal brain networks comparisons”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 6, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The calcarine sulcus / calcarine fissure
chromameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromameters
form: chroma meter
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that is used to evaluate the colour of surfaces
chromameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To improve the objectivity of the study, measuring equipment such as cutometers, durometers, and chromameters could have been used, but time and cost needed to be taken into account [ 9 ].
ref: 2015 July 14, Hyunjoo Kim et al., “The Usefulness of Leukosan SkinLink for Simple Facial Laceration Repair in the Emergency Department”, in Archives of Plastic Surgery, volume 42, →DOI:
glosses: plural of chromameter
coecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coeca
Senses: examples: text: Taken together, AKI in CLP models is the result of an ischemic coecum and a faecal peritonitis of an unpredictable degree [ 15 ].
ref: 2014 December 9, Martin A Schick et al., “Sepsis-induced acute kidney injury by standardized colon ascendens stent peritonitis in rats - a simple, reproducible animal model”, in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, volume 2, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of caecum.
cooximeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooximeters
Senses: examples: text: Arterial, mixed venous, and mesenteric venous PO 2, PCO 2, and pH were measured with an ABL5 blood gas analyzer (Radiometer, Copenhagen, Denmark), and hemoglobin and oxygen saturation with an OSM3 cooximeter calibrated for sheep blood (Radiometer).
ref: 2015 March 31, Gonzalo Ferrara et al., “Effects of norepinephrine on tissue perfusion in a sheep model of intra-abdominal hypertension”, in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, volume 3, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of CO-oximeter.
Related terms: cooximetry
CO-oximeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CO-oximeters
Senses: glosses: A form of spectrophotometer that is used to measure the relative amounts of oxyhemoglobin and carboxyhemoglobin in blood
Montysko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
counteradaptations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Infants may be limited in their counteradaptations to maternally influenced microbial manipulation, especially at younger ages.
ref: 2015 April 2, Cary R. Allen-Blevins, David A. Sela, Katie Hinde, “Milk bioactives may manipulate microbes to mediate parent–offspring conflict”, in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: plural of counteradaptation
crossmodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From crossmodal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Such task-based relationships characterized previous studies where the crossmodally enhanced visual object was also the target of the search task ( Iordanescu et al., 2008, 2010 ) or shared some task-relevant feature with the search target ( Matusz et al., 2015 ).
ref: 2015 July 10, Serena Mastroberardino, Valerio Santangelo, Emiliano Macaluso, “Crossmodal semantic congruence can affect visuo-spatial processing and activity of the fronto-parietal attention networks”, in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Across or between modes
cutometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutometers
Etymology: From Latin cutis (“skin”) + -ometer.
Senses: glosses: Any of various instruments that measure physical properties of the skin (typically elasticity).
cutometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To improve the objectivity of the study, measuring equipment such as cutometers, durometers, and chromameters could have been used, but time and cost needed to be taken into account [ 9 ].
ref: 2015 July 14, Hyunjoo Kim et al., “The Usefulness of Leukosan SkinLink for Simple Facial Laceration Repair in the Emergency Department”, in Archives of Plastic Surgery, volume 42, →DOI:
glosses: plural of cutometer
deletant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deletants
Etymology: From delete + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The resulting vector containing the SnTox1-Bar knockout construct was PCR-amplified with 5_Tox1Fbar and 3_Tox1Fbar for transformation in toxa3 -10 to result in SnToxA, SnTox1, and SnTox3 deletant mutants.
ref: 2015 July 8, Kar-Chun Tan et al., “Functional redundancy of necrotrophic effectors – consequences for exploitation for breeding”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mutant caused by the deletion of a gene.
digestome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digestomes
Etymology: From digest + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: Shao et al. [ 54 ] have screened the caspase-1 digestome to identify caspase target proteins.
ref: 2008 September 13, Antero Salminen et al., “Amyloid-β oligomers set fire to inflammasomes and induce Alzheimer's pathology”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 12, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: All the genes (and derived proteins) that relate to digestion (especially of complex carbohydrates)
genesets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Four-way Venn diagram to show the intersection of ESP variants with GENCODE Comprehensive, GENCODE Basic, RefSeq NXR and RefSeq NR genesets.
ref: 2015 June 18, Adam Frankish et al., “Comparison of GENCODE and RefSeq gene annotation and the impact of reference geneset on variant effect prediction”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: plural of geneset
hyperinflammation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + inflammation.
Senses: examples: text: Injection of LPS, which is more likely a hyperinflammation storm rather than sepsis, and the CLP method are both the most commonly used animal models for septic AKI research.
ref: 2014 December 9, Martin A Schick et al., “Sepsis-induced acute kidney injury by standardized colon ascendens stent peritonitis in rats - a simple, reproducible animal model”, in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, volume 2, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Severe inflammation
hypoattenuating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + attenuating.
Senses: examples: text: Triple-phase imaging will reveal a hypoattenuating lesion on the early phase, while the delayed phases show peripheral isoattenuation (with the rest of the liver parenchyma) with a persistently hypoattenuating central portion that gradually fills.
ref: 2015 July 24, Michael Kueht et al., “Concurrent hepatic hemangioma and solitary fibrous tumor: diagnosis and management”, in Journal of Surgical Case Reports, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: That causes hypoattenuation
hypoattenuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoattenuations
Etymology: From hypo- + attenuation.
Senses: glosses: Less than normal attenuation (in medical imaging)
immunocapturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Also, due to the nature of the KIRA assay, which involves immunocapturing the receptor with an anti-IR monoclonal antibody and detection with PY20, it is also possible that other tyrosine phosphorylated proteins associated with the IR-A are being detected.
ref: 2015 July 7, Harinda Rajapaksha, Briony E. Forbes, “Ligand-Binding Affinity at the Insulin Receptor Isoform-A and Subsequent IR-A Tyrosine Phosphorylation Kinetics are Important Determinants of Mitogenic Biological Outcomes”, in Frontiers in Endocrinology, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: present participle and gerund of immunocapture
immunocontent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocontents
Etymology: From immuno- + content.
Senses: examples: text: The animals were submitted to sepsis or sham-operated, and 3 h (A), 6 h (B), and 12 h (C) after surgery, the immunocontent of iNOS was evaluated in the lung and in the pulmonary artery (3 h (D), 6 h (E), 12 h (F) ).
ref: 2014 May 23, Larissa Constantino et al., “Regulation of lung oxidative damage by endogenous superoxide dismutase in sepsis”, in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, volume 2, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The amount and range of antibodies in a material
inflammasomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inflammasome + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This connection between inflammasomal activation and metabolic impairment seems to represent a novel mechanism as a way of inducing cell death, either via apoptosis or pyroptosis (see above).
ref: 2008 September 13, Antero Salminen et al., “Amyloid-β oligomers set fire to inflammasomes and induce Alzheimer's pathology”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 12, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to an inflammasome
invertasome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invertasomes
Etymology: From invert + -a- + -some.
Senses: examples: text: A single rotation will be favored in the Fis/enhancer-associated invertasome complex in part because the DNA segment between hixL-1 and the enhancer is only 155 bp.
ref: 2015 June 8, Yong Chang, Reid C. Johnson, “Controlling tetramer formation, subunit rotation and DNA ligation during Hin-catalyzed DNA inversion”, in Nucleic Acids Research, volume 43, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nucleoprotein complex that causes inversion of a DNA sequence
isoattenuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + attenuation.
Senses: examples: text: Triple-phase imaging will reveal a hypoattenuating lesion on the early phase, while the delayed phases show peripheral isoattenuation (with the rest of the liver parenchyma) with a persistently hypoattenuating central portion that gradually fills [ 6 ].
ref: 2015 July 24, Michael Kueht et al., “Concurrent hepatic hemangioma and solitary fibrous tumor: diagnosis and management”, in Journal of Surgical Case Reports, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: attenuation of an object of interest to the same extent as the background tissue (such that it does not show up on an X-ray image)
Related terms: isoattenuate
vice-chairman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice-chairmen
Etymology: From vice- + chairman.
Senses: examples: text: Lin's power finally became so great that Mao, much against his will and better judgment, agreed in the revised party constituition of April, 1969, to name Lin as the sole Vice-Chairman and, therefore, his successor.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Dropping the First Shoe”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: Alternative form of vice chairman.
hand drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A drum (membranophone) played with the hand, as opposed to being struck with a drumstick, mallet or other object.
Related terms: hand percussion
hand drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand drum
req
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reqs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of request.
req
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of request.
keyboard instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyboard instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical instrument which features a keyboard, such as a piano, synthesizer or celesta.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical instrument that produces sound directly from the manipulation of a keyboard by the performer, including a piano and a celesta.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical instrument (a chordophone) that uses a keyboard to manipulate strings which produce sound, including a piano.
keyboard instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyboard instrument
theaterette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theaterettes
Etymology: From theater + -ette.
Senses: glosses: US spelling of theatrette.
theatrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatrettes
form: theaterette
Etymology: From theatre + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small theatre.
theaterettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theaterette
theatrettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theatrette
oxygen tents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxygen tent
DX-pedition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: DX-peditions
Etymology: Blend of DX + expedition
Senses: glosses: An amateur radio operators' expedition to a remote or unusual place.
DX-peditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DX-pedition
moon unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon units
Senses: examples: text: He stares at her like she's a total moon unit. Which she probably is.
ref: 2012, Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird:
glosses: A stupid person; an idiot
glosses: The average distance between the centres of the Earth and the Moon; lunar distance
moon units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon unit
parasitic gaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasitic gap
vertical farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The cultivation of plants within a skyscraper greenhouse or on vertically inclined surfaces.
Related terms: skyfarming
nonboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonboarders
Etymology: From non- + boarder.
Senses: examples: text: The school fees are higher for boarders than for nonboarders.
glosses: One who does not board, or lodge.
nonboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonboarder
poopload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooploads
Etymology: From poop + load, as a euphemism for shitload.
Senses: glosses: A large amount.
pooploads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poopload
John Frum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is often depicted as an American World War II serviceman who will bring wealth and prosperity to the people if they follow him.
Travunija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Travunia
Senses: glosses: A region in medieval Serbia.
glosses: A South Slavic medieval principality that was part of Medieval Serbia (850–1371) and later the Medieval Bosnia (1373–1482).
Duklja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doclea
form: Diocleia
Senses: glosses: A medieval state with hereditary lands roughly encompassing present-day southeastern Montenegro.
innerestin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innerestin'
form: most innerestin'
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of interesting.
inneresting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inneresting
form: most inneresting
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of interesting.
Monty Hall problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monty Hall problems
form: Monty Hall paradox
form: Monty's dilemma
Etymology: Coined by American statistician Steve Selvin in 1975, named after Monty Hall, former host of the American television game show Let's Make a Deal.
Senses: examples: text: A few mathematicians were familiar with the puzzle long before Ms. vos Savant's column. They called it the Monty Hall Problem—the title of an analysis in the journal American Statistician in 1976—or sometimes Monty's Dilemma or the Monty Hall Paradox.
ref: 1991 July 21, John Tierney, “Behind Monty Hall's Doors: Puzzle, Debate and Answer?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In the Monty Hall problem, it is one thing if your initial choice is incorrect and you lose the game by failing to switch. It is quite another to be sitting on the correct door and then lose the game by moving away from it.
ref: 2009, Jason Rosenhouse, The Monty Hall Problem […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: A brainteaser regarding probability, in which a game show contestant picks a door to win a prize. One door conceals a car; the other two conceal goats. After the contestant picks a door, the host opens one of the two remaining doors which reveals a goat. Counterintuitively, it is then in the contestant's interests to switch to the remaining door.
wikipedia: Let's Make a Deal
Monty Hall
leaderish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leaderish
form: most leaderish
form: leader-ish
Etymology: From leader + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Beautiful Zel, of a rare rabbit-eared race like Fhi, magenta humanoid alien pony-tail flopping about with her leaderish gestures, her head shaking and bopping away like a whinnying horse, claimed she didn't have that ability, though she did.
ref: 2013, Rheo Palaeo, UNRECOGNIZER 2:
text: The likeness on the wall-hanging was good enough for me to quickly spot the Legion's leader as he stood on a second-tier catwalk looking very square-jawed and leaderish while holding a teacup and saucer.
ref: 2015, Tales of New Babbage, Lulu Press, Inc:
glosses: Like a leader; leaderlike.
leaderlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leaderlike
form: most leaderlike
form: leader-like
Etymology: From leader + -like.
Senses: glosses: Indicating or characteristic of a leader
hotely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotelys
Etymology: Borrowing from Malagasy.
Senses: qualifier: Madagascar
glosses: A small restaurant.
hotely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hotely
form: most hotely
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hotly.
hotelys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotely
innerestin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innerestin
form: most innerestin
Senses: examples: text: Well, ain't this a innerestin sitchation?
ref: 2011, Moira Young, Blood Red Road, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of interesting.
lipidized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lipid + -ize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The epidermis itself is covered with a cuticle, a layer which may be interpreted as a lipidized area of the epidermal cell wall (Guzmán et al., 2014 ).
ref: 2015 July 7, Victoria Fernández, Mohamed Khayet, “Evaluation of the surface free energy of plant surfaces: toward standardizing the procedure”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by the addition of lipid
liposphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipospheres
Etymology: From lipo- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: A droplet of lipid, stabilized by a layer of phospholipid, used as a drug-delivery system.
Derived terms: nanoliposphere
lipospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition to lipospheres, ARFs can push circulating microbubbles toward the endothelial wall, thereby improving microbubble–cell contact, which might enhance cavitation-mediated extravasation of intravascular compounds ( Rychak et al., 2005 ; Wang et al., 2014 ).
ref: 2015 July 10, Bart H. A. Lammertink et al., “Sonochemotherapy: from bench to bedside”, in Frontiers in Pharmacology, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: plural of liposphere
macroconstituent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroconstituents
Etymology: From macro- + constituent.
Senses: glosses: macroscopic constituent
macroconstituents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the calories from macroconstituents, mother’s milk also provides the infant with immunoglobulins, minerals, hormones and oligosaccharides [ 11 ].
ref: 2015 April 2, Cary R. Allen-Blevins, David A. Sela, Katie Hinde, “Milk bioactives may manipulate microbes to mediate parent–offspring conflict”, in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: plural of macroconstituent
stowp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stowps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stoup.
macrohemodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + hemodynamics.
Senses: examples: text: Stable development of septic AKI, monitoring and stabilisation of macrohemodynamics and gas exchange, low mortality rate and the opportunity to observe kidney function with clinically relevant methods are the advantages of this new model.
ref: 2014 December 9, Martin A Schick et al., “Sepsis-induced acute kidney injury by standardized colon ascendens stent peritonitis in rats - a simple, reproducible animal model”, in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, volume 2, →DOI:
glosses: Relatively large-scale hemodynamics
microalbumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microalbumins
Etymology: From micro- + albumin.
Senses: examples: text: It is generally known that several indicators are associated with CKD in the clinical laboratory such as microalbumin, urine protein, and serum creatinine.
ref: 2015 July 10, You-Fan Peng et al., “Association between Serum Fructosamine and Kidney Function in Nondiabetic Individuals without Chronic Kidney Disease”, in Medical Science Monitor : International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research, volume 21, →DOI:
glosses: A test for microalbuminuria
selfnames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Finding that referent inappropriate, American Arctic peoples initiated the use of their selfnames during the 1960s.
ref: 2010, Britannica Educational Publishing, Luebering, J.E, Native American History:
glosses: plural of selfname
dragonkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹˈæɡənkˈɪn/
ipa: /ˈdɹæɡənˈkɪn/
Forms: form: dragonkin
Etymology: From dragon + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: Dragonkin have the innate ability to detect magic at will, as a free action. They have an overpowering desire to acquire magic items, and target characters who possess these items in preference to others. If possible, a dragonkin will grab a magic item from its opponent and flee with it, taking the item back to its cave.
ref: 2000, “Appendix 4: New Monsters”, in Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor (Forgotten Realms), Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 84, column 1:
text: Half and quarter blood dragonkin have very obvious physical differences, as well as many abilities and attributes of their dragon ancestors. Eighth blood dragonkin will have some physical traits of the dragon as well as some attributes.
ref: 2015, Heather Gunn, Aspect Core Rulebook, FC 2015 SC (page 30):
topics: fantasy
coordinate_terms: dragonewt
dragonoid
dragonborn
lizardfolk
lizardman
glosses: A person who is partly descended from dragon(s).
examples: text: In October 2003, a dragonkin by the calling Starblade created a thread on otherkin in a Livejournal community for debates. The thread began with Starblade giving his personal views of being a “dragon spiritually” and so thus would fit under the term otherkin which then spawned a large debate over otherkin.
ref: 2014, House of Chimeras, “History of the Draconic Community - 2001 - present”, in The Chimeras Library, published 2015:
glosses: A dragon otherkin.
stowps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stowp
invertasomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invertasome
digestomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digestome
deletants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deletant
lefter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of left: more left
lefter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lefters
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: leftist
antonyms: rightist
glosses: One aligned with left.
Derived terms: far-lefter
bottomhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bottom + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: [...] of Brandon Lee as a desirable West Hollywood twink in contradistinction to his less-than-appealing Asian costars with their working-class status, Chinatown address, bad accent, bad hair, flat face, small dick, and propensity for bottomhood.
ref: 2004, Linda Williams, Porn Studies:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of a bottom (non-penetrative sexual role)
rabbiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbiters
Etymology: From rabbit + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hunts rabbits.
rabbiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbiter
rabidest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rabid: most rabid
rabider
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rabid: more rabid
racetracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racetrackers
Etymology: From racetrack + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any person employed at a racetrack for horses.
Related terms: trackside
racetrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racetracker
radialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radialises
form: radialising
form: radialised
form: radialised
Etymology: From radial + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of radialize.
radialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radialise
radialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radialise
radialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of radialise
radiometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiometry
raftman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raftmen
Etymology: From raft + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who steers a raft.
raftmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raftman
motheaten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more motheaten
form: most motheaten
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moth-eaten.
railroadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railroading
melanocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melanocratic
form: most melanocratic
Etymology: From melano- + -cratic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Dark in color, containing at least 50-60% mafic minerals.
raw_tags: of igneous rock
Synonyms: sense: dark-colored
word: chromocratic
sense: dark-colored
word: melanic
Related terms: leucocratic