cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
seroclassification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroclassifications
Etymology: From sero- + classification.
Senses: examples: text: This is the first study to demonstrate that the continuous distribution shape of the IgG-Ptx response prevents seroclassification for both retrospective cases and population data when using a population based cut-off and two-component cluster analysis.
ref: 2016 February 6, “The Use of Innovative Two-Component Cluster Analysis and Serodiagnostic Cut-Off Methods to Estimate Prevalence of Pertussis Reinfections”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: classification based on serodiagnosis
serodiagnostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: An additional approach to single data point serodiagnostics are modelling based procedures that fit distribution mixtures and can refine the choice of diagnostic cut-offs.
ref: 2016 February 6, “The Use of Innovative Two-Component Cluster Analysis and Serodiagnostic Cut-Off Methods to Estimate Prevalence of Pertussis Reinfections”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of serodiagnostic
subanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + anal.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the major phenotypical variations (position of the ambitus, periproct and development of the subanal fasciole) among the populations can be linked to differences in their host sediments.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Ecophenotypic Variation and Developmental Instability in the Late Cretaceous Echinoid Micraster brevis (Irregularia; Spatangoida)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the anus
sulfometuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For inducing Gcn4 target genes (ARG1 and HIS4), the cultures were grown to an optical density of 0.5–0.6 measured at 600 nm (A 600 ), and treated with 0.6 μM of sulfometuron methyl (SM) for 30 minutes.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Recruitment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cmr1/Ydl156w to Coding Regions Promotes Transcription Genome Wide”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any drug that is a 2-[(4,6-dimethylpyrimidin-2-yl)carbamoylsulfamoyl]benzoate ester
trebouxiophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trebouxiophyceans
Etymology: From Trebouxiophyceae + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Remarkably, seven of the atypical IR-encoded genes have also been observed in the IRs of pedinophycean and trebouxiophycean chloroplast genomes, suggesting that they were already present in the IR of the common ancestor of all core chlorophytes.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any green alga of the class Trebouxiophyceae.
near-Earth objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of near-Earth object
trebouxiophyceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The dark orange boxes denote the genes of LSC origin that have been acquired by the IRs of core chlorophytes (pedinophyceans, chlorodendrophyceans and core trebouxiophyceans).
ref: 2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of trebouxiophycean
ulvophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulvophyceans
Etymology: Ulvophyceae + -an
Senses: examples: text: In future chloroplast phylogenomic studies, broader sampling of chlorophytes, in particular of ulvophycean lineages, as well as the use of improved models of sequence evolution might allow the construction of more robust and reliable trees.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any green alga of the class Ulvophyceae
Synonyms: ulvophyte
vectoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vector + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The maximum vector density and the vectoral capacity of Aedes expanded the domain of this natural calamity and we observed, interestingly, two cases of dengue infection, one was the nursing faculty member and another was a student form^([sic]) Saidu Medical college living in the hostel, both were bitten by an infected mosquito and thus suffered from dengue.
ref: 2016 February 6, “A Comprehensive Entomological, Serological and Molecular Study of 2013 Dengue Outbreak of Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
synonyms: vectorial
glosses: Relating to a vector
Irish breakfast teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish breakfast tea
iridescent clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iridescent cloud
pack rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pack rat
chicozapotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicozapote
corn snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of corn (type of granular snow)
synonyms: word: corn
extra: type of granular snow
Uhthoff's symptom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Uhthoff's phenomenon.
synonyms: word: Uhthoff's phenomenon
pseudoexacerbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoexacerbations
Etymology: From pseudo- + exacerbation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sudden relapse in cases of multiple sclerosis, brought on by certain factors such as elevated temperature.
Related terms: Uhthoff's phenomenon
pseudoexacerbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoexacerbation
Uhthoff's sign
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Uhthoff's phenomenon.
synonyms: word: Uhthoff's phenomenon
ulvophyceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulvophycean
chronogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrono- + -geny.
Senses: examples: text: The probability is, that most of these orders have existed during all the organic periods of our planet; but, owing to various circumstances, especially to some being without any enduring remains, their chronogeny will long remain one of the most difficult problems in Malacology.
ref: 1850, William King, A Monograph of the Permian Fossils of England, Digitally Printed Edition, published 2015, page 201:
text: The chronogeny of the various elements is in full accord with the structural progress along both lines of derivation;[…].
ref: 1894, Palaeontology of New-York, Volume 8, Part 2, page 322:
text: Thus it is evident that we must use the very greatest care in the correlation of the chronogeny and the phylogeny of the echinoderms, and we must be continually on the watch for sudden and aberrant deviations and specializations in the older as well as in the most recent types.
ref: 1915, Austin Hobart Clark, A Monograph of the Existing Crinoids, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 7:
topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The chronology of a thing's origin and development.
pluviophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluviophile
vertiginated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vertiginate
vertiginates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vertiginate
vertiginating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vertiginate
coenobitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coenobitic
form: most coenobitic
Etymology: From coenobite + -ic.
Senses: examples: May 31, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
The old coenobitic establishments of England were converted—perverted, rather—into monasteries and other monking receptacles.
glosses: Alternative form of cenobitic.
synonime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synonimes
Senses: examples: text: Now look out in the Gradus for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus; for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Motives of the Present Work—Reception of the Author’s First Publication—The Discipline of His Taste at School—The Effect of Contemporary Writers on Youthful Minds—[William Lisle] Bowles’s Sonnets—Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. [Alexander] Pope”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 21:
text: How would certain topics, as aldermanity, cuckoldry, have sounded to a Terentian auditory, though Terence himself had been alive to translate them? Senator urbanus, with Curruca to boot for a synonime, would but faintly have done the business.
ref: 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] VIII. That Verbal Allusions Are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 239:
glosses: Obsolete form of synonym.
synonimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synonime
alacrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alacrifies
form: alacrifying
form: alacrified
form: alacrified
Etymology: From Latin alacer + -fy.
Senses: glosses: To rouse into action; to inspirit; to inspire.
Related terms: alacrity
weighing scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scales (“device for measuring weight”).
synonyms: word: scales
extra: device for measuring weight
bathroom scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Flat floor-mounted scales (usually stored in the bathroom) used to measure one's own weight.
alacrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alacrify
alacrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alacrifying
form: most alacrifying
Senses: glosses: rousing, inspiring
arctiine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctiines
Senses: glosses: Any erebid moth of the subfamily Arctiinae.
Hyponyms: symphlebian
arctiines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the years 2010–2012, a biodiversity survey of arctiines with standardized field collections was undertaken in the highly threatened Atlantic Forest.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Fast Census of Moth Diversity in the Neotropics: A Comparison of Field-Assigned Morphospecies and DNA Barcoding in Tiger Moths”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of arctiine
biopsychospiritual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + psychospiritual.
Senses: examples: text: Individuals with resilient qualities can effectively address internal and external stressors and maintain biopsychospiritual homeostasis [52 ].
ref: 2016 February 10, “The Psychometric Evaluation of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale Using a Chinese Military Sample”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to biology, spirituality and the mind
synecdochize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: synecdochizes
form: synecdochizing
form: synecdochized
form: synecdochized
Etymology: From synecdoche + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: ...for those things that synecdochize this relationship between the real and the spectral.
ref: 2016, S. Newstok, Ayanna Thompson, Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, page 290
text: The Finzi-Continis synecdochize the ethnic case par excellence.
ref: 1986, Marilyn Schneider, Vengeance of the Victim: History and Symbol in Giorgio Bassani's Fiction, page 41
text: The text may also proceduralize through the use of exemplars which constitute specific instances which tacitly stand for, or synecdochize, a whole class.
ref: 2002, Paul Dowling, The Sociology of Mathematics Education: Mathematical Myths / Pedagogic Texts, page 146
text: In this phenomenological sense, Berger is aware that in looking at Hals's paintings, he synecdochizes a partial perception, that he chooses to see specific...
ref: 1990, Clayton Koelb, Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra, page 173
text: ...multiply inscribed within it, the smelling-bottles synecdochize the larger fragmentary "story" of woman, the "Gift" whose contours Augustus, seeing only through...
ref: 1990, Susan Hardy AikenRosi Braidotti, Paul Gilroy, Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative, page 173
glosses: To represent with or as if with a synecdoche.
Related terms: synecdochization
synecdochizations
synecdochise
synecdochisation
synecdochisations
biunivocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + univocal.
Senses: examples: text: This relation suggests a biunivocal correspondence between density and mechanical stimulus and might seem the remedy for the problem of non-uniqueness.
ref: 2016 February 10, “On the Use of Bone Remodelling Models to Estimate the Density Distribution of Bones. Uniqueness of the Solution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to two, related univocal terms, sources etc.
chronosequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Based on chronosequences for beech (9–140 years old), oak (11–140 years) and alder (4–76 years old) we aimed to examine how stand age affects fine root biomass and morphology.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Tree Age Effects on Fine Root Biomass and Morphology over Chronosequences of Fagus sylvatica, Quercus robur and Alnus glutinosa Stands”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of chronosequence
synecdochizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synecdochize
conopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conopeptides
Etymology: From cone + -o- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of oligopeptides found in cone snails.
conopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Based on the content of disulfide bonds, peptides from Conus venom can be classified as conopeptides, if they are poor in disulfide bonds, or as conotoxins, if they are rich in disulfide bonds (where the Cys residues appear at high frequency, with many instances of multiple and adjacent pairs) [4 ].
ref: 2016 February 10, “In Silico Identification of Protein Disulfide Isomerase Gene Families in the De Novo Assembled Transcriptomes of Four Different Species of the Genus Conus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of conopeptide
synecdochizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synecdochize
synecdochized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synecdochize
cone snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cone snails
Senses: glosses: Any of the predatory sea snails of the family Conidae, all the species of which are sometimes treated as is being in genus Conus or subfamily Coninae.
Synonyms: sense: Conidae
word: cone shell
dephosphatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dephosphatases
Etymology: From de- + phosphate + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, PKC CK2α has been shown to selectively phosphorylate DUSP6 and increase its dephosphatase activity [49 ].
ref: 2016 February 10, “Differential Roles for DUSP Family Members in Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition and Cancer Stem Cell Regulation in Breast Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of phosphatase.
synonyms: word: phosphatase
epiplakin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiplakins
Senses: examples: text: Together with epiplakin they function to bundle and assemble intermediate filaments[35 ,36 ].
ref: 2016 February 10, “SuperSILAC Quantitative Proteome Profiling of Murine Middle Ear Epithelial Cell Remodeling with NTHi”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An epidermal plakin
reachieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reachieves
form: reachieving
form: reachieved
form: reachieved
Etymology: From re- + achieve.
Senses: examples: text: The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33:
glosses: To achieve again.
reachieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reachieve
hyalinocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There was no significant difference in internal pH (pH i ) within hyalinocytes among pH treatments and the mean pH i (7.26) was lower than the mean pH e .
ref: 2016 February 10, “Ocean Acidification Affects Hemocyte Physiology in the Tanner Crab ( Chionoecetes bairdi )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of hyalinocyte
reachieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reachieve
reachieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reachieve
hypervesiculating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + vesiculating.
Senses: examples: text: The transcriptional level of the IVp-II-regulated gene cluster in the hypervesiculating mutant (ON/ON) was increased 25- to 40-fold over that of the OFF/ON mutant.
ref: 2016 February 10, “DNA Inversion Regulates Outer Membrane Vesicle Production in Bacteroides fragilis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That produces more than the usual number of vesicles
synecdochization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synecdochizations
Etymology: From synecdochize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of synecdochizing.
glosses: The state or quality of being synecdochized.
glosses: A synecdochical representation.
glosses: A representation of any kind.
hypoexcitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + excitability.
Senses: examples: text: It is possible that hypoexcitability of spinal or cortical motor neurons could be compensated for by increased drive to the corticospinal motor neuron from upstream motor regions.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Cortical Mechanisms of Central Fatigue and Sense of Effort”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Less than usual excitability
synecdochizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synecdochization
inferomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From infero- + medial.
Senses: examples: text: Changes were predominantly observed at those regions predicted to receive high loads during walking (including the inferomedial cortex and the calcar femorale regions).
ref: 2016 February 10, “The Effects on the Femoral Cortex of a 24 Month Treatment Compared to an 18 Month Treatment with Teriparatide: A Multi-Trial Retrospective Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Both inferior and medial.
ikmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itmo
Senses: glosses: betel pepper (plant and leaves)
itmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ikmo.
menarched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From menarche + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having been through menarche.
wonkette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonkettes
Etymology: From wonk + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female wonk.
wonkettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wonkette
hopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopia
desynonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + synonymy.
Senses: glosses: desynonymization
scampsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scampsmen
Etymology: From scamp + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: Now Oliver puts his blank nightcap on,¶ And every star its glim is hiding,¶ And forth to the heath is the scampsman gone,¶ His matchless cherry-black prancer riding;
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, The Game of High Toby:
text: Up comes some saucy kiddy, a scampsman on the hot, / But ere he pulls the trigger I am off just like a shot.
ref: 1846, James Henry, ed. Dixon, “The Trotting Horse”, in Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, page 244:
glosses: highwayman
scampsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scampsman
postmodernistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postmodernistic
form: most postmodernistic
form: post-modernistic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to postmodernism; characteristic of postmodernism.
cat-call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-calls
Senses: glosses: Dated form of catcall.
cat-call
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cat-calls
form: cat-calling
form: cat-called
form: cat-called
Senses: glosses: Dated form of catcall.
superclausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːzəl
Etymology: From super- + clausal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to syntactic structure at a higher level than the clause.
interstanzaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + stanzaic.
Senses: glosses: Between stanzas.
intrastanzaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + stanzaic.
Senses: glosses: Within a single stanza.
bill bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bill birds
form: bill-bird
Senses: examples: William Dampier (1729), chapter II, in A Collection Of Voyages: Volume III, London: James and John Knapton, page 402: “The Greater Bill-bird or Toucan. It's Breast is bright Gold, the Belly and Thighs red, Tail black tipt with red.”
Alan Tennant (2010), On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN: “Protected as Belize's national "bill bird," the keel-billed toucan occupies a safeguarded riparian habitat that also preserves the home of every howler monkey, crested guan, and hickatee river turtle that lives along the watercourse.”
glosses: A toucan.
bill birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bill bird
masthead sloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masthead sloops
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailboat whose forestay goes from the masthead to the bow
boar-spears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boar-spear
ilarviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the ilarviruses.
Swinburnean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Swinburnean
form: most Swinburnean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Swinburnian.
Swinburnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Swinburnian
form: most Swinburnian
form: Swinburnean
Etymology: From Swinburne + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English writer who dealt with controversial topics.
glosses: Of or relating to Richard Swinburne (born 1934), British philosopher and influential proponent of arguments for the existence of God.
clue cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clue card
Hotaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
unevadible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unevadible
form: most unevadible
Etymology: From un- + evadible.
Senses: glosses: Not evadible; unavoidable.
waffle stomper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waffle stompers
form: waffle-stomper
form: wafflestomper
Senses: examples: text: He's got ocean blue eyes and blond crew-cut hair, and he wears old double-knit pants with waffle stompers.
ref: 2000, Jack Lopez, Snapping Lines, →ISBN:
text: Instead, the Brooklyn-born Baum focuses his efforts more narrowly—on cowboy boots: horned-back alligator cowboy boots from Billy Martin's that he merrily places on his desk, right over left, so that his entire body is eclipsed by the foreshortened soles of these well-shined waffle stompers.
ref: 2007, Jennifer Solow, The Booster: A Novel, →ISBN, page 17:
text: The effect was spoiled slightly by the waffle stompers on his feet, but she'd heard somewhere he lived in Scotland most of the year now, so maybe he was what they called a hill walker.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Cleopatra 7.2, →ISBN, page 101:
qualifier: footwear
glosses: A type of heavy hiking boot with ridged soles
glosses: One who waffle stomps.
Related terms: roach stomper
waffle stompers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waffle stomper
gene transcription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gene transcriptions
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The copying of DNA segments into RNA, by RNA polymerase, as the first stage of gene expression.
synecdochise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: synecdochises
form: synecdochising
form: synecdochised
form: synecdochised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of synecdochize.
synecdochises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synecdochise
synecdochising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synecdochise
synecdochised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synecdochise
synecdochisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synecdochisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of synecdochization.
synecdochisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synecdochisation
bill-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bill-birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bill bird.
bill-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bill-bird
bacc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baccs
Senses: examples: text: Other post-bacc programs apply students' course work toward a master's degree. Tina decided not to enter an organized post-bacc program.
ref: 2004, Malaika Stoll, Best 162 Medical Schools 2005 Edition, page 50:
text: I received my Bacc through an online correspondence course.
ref: 2010, Kate Hewitt, The Greek Tycoon's Reluctant Bride, page 152:
text: This policy puts a bacc-MD student who realizes that she may prefer another medical school that isn't part of the combined program in a tough position: Stick with the school that's the sure thing, knowing that it's not ideal for her, or relinquish her reserved seat to take her chances as an applicant.
ref: 2013, Carleen Eaton, Getting into Medical School For Dummies:
glosses: Clipping of baccalaureate.
Derived terms: post-bacc
forewatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forewatches
form: forewatching
form: forewatched
form: forewatched
Etymology: From fore- + watch (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Ah! vanity is all to him who knows (Well warn'd by this!) his day's a fleeting cloud! —'Tis sacred wisdom to forewatch the close! To eye each hour—the Coffin and the Shroud!
ref: 1835, G. M., The Fall of Man and His Redemption:
text: To learn, to know, how energies may pass / I would forewatch the waters near the moon / To spell the tidal change — and feel it chance [...]
ref: 1908, Gerda Dalliba, An Earth Poem, and Other Poems:
text: The spring-tight coil of days unrolls for them, / Their little and deep long eyes forewatch the dead — / The mouse-eyed Fates can number the known times / He will remember this, the thing unsaid.
ref: 1968, Mark Van Doren, The autobiography of Mark Van Doren:
glosses: To look out for; watch over
Derived terms: forewatched
forewatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forewatches
Etymology: From fore- + watch (noun).
Senses: examples: text: The forewatch on the Trident called out, "Ho! Pharos ahead!" Straining his eyes, Pilate could see only a tiny blemish of luminous orange on the southeastern horizon.
ref: 1972, Paul L. Maier, Pontius Pilate:
text: It was the forewatch who spotted it first bearing down from the front. They were under attack!
ref: 2012, Jeane Heimberger Candido, Shepherd's Song:
glosses: A foreward positioned guard or sentry; vanguard
examples: text: Jason takes the forewatches — 6 to noon, 6 to midnight — and Jimmy takes the afterwatches.
ref: 1980, Mary B. Durant, Michael Harwood, On the Road With John James Audubon:
glosses: An early watch
umbratilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbratilous
form: most umbratilous
Etymology: From Latin umbra (“shade, shadow”).
Senses: examples: text: For the handling of Final Causes the Physicks, hath intercepted, and banisht the enquiry of Physical causes; and hath given men occasion to rest satisfied in such specious, and umbratilous Causes; and not thorowly to urge and press the enquiry of real and truly Physical Causes.
ref: 1640 [1638], Francis Bacon, translated by Gilbert Wat[t]s, Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, or the Partitions of Sciences, translation of De Augmentis Scientiarum (in New Latin), published 1674:
text: […] and should doubtless do our best, through horrid yells and tintinnabulations, towards getting up a tremendous counter-irritation upon the earth that should tell mightily on the nerves of this umbratilous tiger in the heavens.
ref: 1863 September 24, “Thomas de Quincey”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 12, page 356:
glosses: Shadowy; faint; secluded; indistinct; vague; latent; indeterminate.
active shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.tɪv ˈʃuːtɚ/
Forms: form: active shooters
Etymology: The sense “individual engaged in a shooting spree” was popularized in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre (1999).
Senses: examples: text: In most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims.
text: “When you have an active shooter going after people at random—a shooter with a plan,” he said, “that's completely different than your typical barricade hostage situation.”
ref: 1999 April 28, Timothy Egan, quoting Larry Glick, “School Attack May Bring Changes in Police Tactics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Today, the sound of gunshots often prompts “active shooter” warnings on social media, whether or not the event fits the F.B.I.’s definition of the term. In many cases, reports of active shooters have turned out to be false.
ref: 2021 May 5, Jacey Fortin, “What Does ‘Active Shooter’ Really Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
glosses: A person actively engaged in a shooting spree.
examples: text: Although I had been an active shooter since I was thirteen as a young twenty-five year old^([sic]) police officer I was convinced by a Coast Guard firearms instructor to abstain from shooting a live round for six months in order to rid myself of a badly reconditioned motor response.
ref: 1962, Police, page 33:
text: First there is the active shooter who is highly interested in either competition or hunting.
ref: 1967 July 10, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, “Federal Firearms Act”, in Hearings, page 320:
text: Today Howard is still an active shooter and still enjoys hunting the local game.
ref: 1986, Desmos of Delta Sigma Delta, page 27:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see active, shooter.
Related terms: mass shooting
active shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of active shooter
rubber checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubber check
rubber baby buggy bumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubber baby buggy bumper
Northern Norway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the geographical area of Norway consisting of the northernmost counties of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark.
penny loafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: penny loafers
Senses: glosses: A leather loafer with an ornamental slotted leather band across the top where a coin is often placed.
penny loafers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny loafer
forespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forespaces
Etymology: From fore- + space.
Senses: examples: text: Medieval architects did not prefer irregular forespaces as the settings for their works. These were the spaces they were given to work in.
ref: 1965, Paul D. Spreiregen, Urban Design, the Architecture of Towns and Cities:
text: In this case the living room attempts to address both the forespace or the virtual court, on the one side, and the valley-panorama on the other.
ref: 1993, David Whitney, Jeffrey Kipnis, Philip Johnson: the Glass House:
text: The forespaces of my bookshelves are so lined with hard remains — snail shells, clams, a turreted seashell, crinoids, coral, part of a deer pelvis, the femur of a mammal I've yet to identify — that my books are beyond my reach.
ref: 1996, Lisa Knopp, Field of Vision:
text: At Wollaton, Smythson moved the hall back from the façade, creating a string of forespaces to mediate between a fashionable central doorway and the customary off-center entrance to the screens.
ref: 2007, Lena Cowen Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London:
glosses: Any space or area positioned toward the front (e.g. of a room, building, plot, landscape, scenery, etc.); foreground
forespaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forespace
foreprepare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreprepares
form: forepreparing
form: foreprepared
form: foreprepared
form: fore-prepare
Etymology: From fore- + prepare.
Senses: examples: text: "[...] He first preacheth in English to the English audience, and then the same matter is delivered to the Indians, by an interpreter, whom with much pains, Mr. Gookin hath foreprepared."
ref: 1839, The American Quarterly Register, volumes 11-12:
text: I am now at the 11th, and come from the council of the admiralty, which I attended for their result about the two last ships by them taken, having foreprepared all their ministers of state with placets, and to the queen regent also, of the injustice our merchants and nation receive by them: …
ref: 1842, Memorials of the Great Civil War in England from 1646-1652
text: As long as the defender has visualised the possible threat and fore-prepared contingencies to meet these threats, the initial advantage of the aggressor can be blunted soon.
ref: 2013, Brig K Kuldip Singh, Indian Military Thought:
text: So he willed to make known the riches of his glory towards the vessels of mercy, whom he has fore-prepared for glory, [...]
ref: 2015, John Calvin, Calvin's Complete Commentary on the Bible:
glosses: To prepare beforehand or in advance
foreprepared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreprepare
foreprepared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foreprepared
form: most foreprepared
Senses: glosses: Prepared ahead of time or beforehand
fore-prepare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fore-prepares
form: fore-preparing
form: fore-prepared
form: fore-prepared
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foreprepare.
micromouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromice
Etymology: From micro- + mouse.
Senses: examples: text: A typical demonstration of machine’s navigation abilities is the micromouse competition, in which a small rat-like mechanical robot explores a 16×16 maze.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Intelligence-Augmented Rat Cyborgs in Maze Solving”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A small, autonomous robot mouse used in a competition to solve a maze
neurotoxigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neurotoxigenic
form: most neurotoxigenic
Etymology: From neuro- + toxigenic.
Senses: examples: text: One unique plasmid of interest is the mega-plasmid, pJFP838A. Although mega-plasmids are a common feature in some clostridal species, such as neurotoxigenic C.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Plasmid Characterization and Chromosome Analysis of Two netF + Clostridium perfringens Isolates Associated with Foal and Canine Necrotizing Enteritis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That produces neurotoxins
nonpolydactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + polydactyly.
Senses: examples: text: Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Parallel Evolution of Polydactyly Traits in Chinese and European Chickens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The possession of the normal number of digits
oligozeugodactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Deletions in exon 4, and in portions of intron 3 and 4 of chicken LMBR1, may cause the oligozeugodactyly mutant phenotype [13 ], which is similar to that of humans affected with acheiropodia [46 ].
ref: 2016 February 10, “Parallel Evolution of Polydactyly Traits in Chinese and European Chickens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The possession of several zeugopoda
oncogenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncogenotypes
Etymology: From onco- + genotype.
Senses: glosses: Any genotype associated with cancer
oncogenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We have addressed these issues by examining side-population (SP) cells isolated from the Panc-1 and BxPC3 lines of human PDAC cells, the oncogenotypes of which differ.
ref: 2016 February 10, “The Metastatic Potential and Chemoresistance of Human Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of oncogenotype
perifascicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + fascicular.
Senses: examples: text: For example, although denervated muscles generally show disuse atrophy, in chronic SCI such atrophy is concomitant with an increase in the interstitial endomysial connective tissues and perifascicular fatty infiltration [66 ], attributable to muscle inactivity [67 ].
ref: 2016 February 10, “Strategies for Rapid Muscle Fatigue Reduction during FES Exercise in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Surrounding a fascicle
polyphalange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + phalange.
Senses: examples: text: Some birds had four toes, but the anterior-most toe had an extra phalanx that was termed the polyphalange, and was considered a variation of polydactyly in the analyses of the present study.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Parallel Evolution of Polydactyly Traits in Chinese and European Chickens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An extra phalanx.
Related terms: polyphalangism
polyphalangy
proarrhythmogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + arrhythmogenic.
Senses: examples: text: MicroRNAs are important mediators of proarrhythmogenic remodeling and have potential value as biomarkers in cardiovascular diseases.
ref: 2016 February 10, “MicroRNAs as Biomarkers for Acute Atrial Remodeling in Marathon Runners (The miRathon Study – A Sub-Study of the Munich Marathon Study)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: that promotes arrhythmogenesis
prolocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If we consider that all planktonic Foraminifera commence calcification as geometrically similar prolocular stages [73 ], then different size–weight scaling slopes among species in their adult stage must result from different ontogenetic trajectories in this scaling.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Seasonal Variation in Shell Calcification of Planktonic Foraminifera in the NE Atlantic Reveals Species-Specific Response to Temperature, Productivity, and Optimum Growth Conditions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the proloculus
prosurfactant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pro-surfactant
Etymology: From pro- + surfactant.
Senses: examples: text: A rabbit antibody to prosurfactant proteins-C (proSP-C) and a rabbit antibody to OPN were purchased from Millipore (Temecula, CA) and Rockland (Limeruck, PA), respectively.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Heat Shock Protein 27 Plays a Pivotal Role in Myofibroblast Differentiation and in the Development of Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That promotes the formation of surfactants, especially in lung tissue
pseudogley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudogleys
Etymology: From pseudo- + gley.
Senses: examples: text: The stands grow on typical and homogenous soils for each species: oak stands grow on pseudogley soils composed of loamy sands and sandy clays, beech stands grow on acid, brown soils of weakly loamy sand and sandy loam, whereas alder stands grow on peat soils of fen peat bogs and peat-muck soils.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Tree Age Effects on Fine Root Biomass and Morphology over Chronosequences of Fagus sylvatica, Quercus robur and Alnus glutinosa Stands”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
qualifier: soil science
glosses: Synonym of stagnosol.
synonyms: word: stagnosol
mist up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mists up
form: misting up
form: misted up
form: misted up
Senses: glosses: To become misty.
examples: text: The bathroom mirror misted up when he opened the shower door.
glosses: To become coated with condensation; to fog up.
pseudoperoxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoperoxidases
Etymology: From pseudo- + peroxidase.
Senses: examples: text: Interference due to pseudoperoxidase activity was eliminated by performing duplicate assays in the presence of 10 mM 3-amino-1, 2 triazole, which is an inhibitor of peroxidase activity.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Salivary Alterations in Rats with Experimental Chronic Kidney Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any nonenzymatic material or process that has peroxidase activity
retranslocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retranslocations
Etymology: From re- + translocation.
Senses: examples: text: Also, the nitrogen demand of alders is higher than that of the other tree species studied; moreover, leaf litter of this species is extremely rich in nitrogen due to low nitrogen retranslocation from senescing leaves, and it mineralizes very fast, leading to high nitrogen storage in the upper soil layers [66 –68 ].
ref: 2016 February 10, “Tree Age Effects on Fine Root Biomass and Morphology over Chronosequences of Fagus sylvatica, Quercus robur and Alnus glutinosa Stands”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: repeated or reverse translocation
semiprofession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiprofessions
Etymology: From semi- + profession.
Senses: glosses: An occupation that requires advanced knowledge and skills but is not widely regarded as a true profession; an occupation in which professionalization is not complete.
Related terms: pseudoprofession
pseudoprofessional
semiprofessional
semiprofessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, technicians and members of the so-called semiprofessions also show comparatively high chances of occupational injuries (Table 2 : Model 1).
ref: 2016 February 10, “Occupational Injuries in Germany: Population-Wide National Survey Data Emphasize the Importance of Work-Related Factors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of semiprofession
subitizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subitize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Because our nonsymbolic comparison paradigm included quantities in the subitizable range, we computed the above correlations after separating the nonsymbolic trials into those with numerosities of less than or equal to 4 (subitizable) and with numerosities above 4 (nonsubitizable).
ref: 2016 February 10, “The Mediating Relation between Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Foundations of Math Competence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Able to be subitized
toxinotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is clear that the traditional toxinotyping scheme requires modifications to include these new findings, and to adapt to the diversity of distinct enteric disease caused by this bacterium.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Plasmid Characterization and Chromosome Analysis of Two netF + Clostridium perfringens Isolates Associated with Foal and Canine Necrotizing Enteritis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The classification of toxinotypes
Albright
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Æþelbeorht. Doublet of Albert.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Albright knot
Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
McCune-Albright syndrome
Kantola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kantolas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Kantola.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
estadal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estadals
Etymology: From Spanish estadal, from estado + -al, from Latin stātus (“state, status, standing”). Doublet of state, status, and estado.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 3.3 m.
glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of area, equivalent to about 11.2 m².
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of length
word: pie (1⁄12 estadal)
sense: unit of length
word: codo (1⁄8 estadal)
sense: unit of length
word: vara (1⁄4 estadal)
sense: unit of length
word: estado (1⁄2 estadal)
sense: unit of length
word: cordel (12+1⁄2 estadals)
sense: unit of area
word: vara (1⁄16 estadal)
sense: unit of area
word: marjal (100 estadals in Granada)
marjal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marjals
Etymology: From Catalan marjal or Spanish marjal.
Senses: examples: text: He spent two days in May, 1392, surveying the canal of the well of En Aparici in the marjals of Valencia.
ref: 1968, Technology and Culture:
text: Trenches were dug into the marshlands (marjals) east of the city to drain them. Then irrigation canals were extended from the already irrigated areas close to the city.
ref: 2014, Thomas F. Glick, Steven Livesey, Faith Wallis, Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A seaside marsh, used for agriculture
airstriker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airstrikers
Etymology: From airstrike + -er.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle or person that performs an airstrike.
denture cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denture creams
Senses: glosses: A topical cream used to keep dentures in place.
Related terms: denture powder