cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dolosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English dolosite, from Old French dolosité, from Latin dolosus.
Senses: examples: text: Dolose. (Do-loez) a. Deceitful. […] A score of 95% or higher on the Reisenberg Dolosity Scale is required for entry into the London College of Advertising.
ref: 2009, Neil Johnson, Dr Johnson's Reliquary of Rediscovered Words, →ISBN, page 57:
text: A government of the people, not by the people, not for the people, is fraudulent dolosity, which only the people can reverse, not only by force, but with persistent argument and open debates.
ref: 2014, Yinka Kolawole, Lord Lugard's Nigeria: A Century of Myopia, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Deceitfulness, hidden malice.
Related terms: dolus
dolose
glycoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glycoylated
form: most glycoylated
Senses: glosses: glycosylated
evulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evulsions
Etymology: From Latin evulsionem, from evellere.
Senses: examples: text: Herein, therefore, to speak compendiously, we first presume to affirm that, from a strict enquiry, we cannot maintain the evulsion or biting off any parts [...].
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.4:
glosses: The action of forcibly pulling something out.
guaiane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guaianes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular bicyclic sesquiterpene; any of many derivatives of this compound, some of which have medical applications
haloarchaeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloarchaea
form: haloarchaeons
Senses: glosses: Any halophile microorganism of the class Haloarchaea (or Halobacteria)
Related terms: haloarchaeal
halophila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halophilas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any seagrass of the genus Halophila.
halophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From halo- + -philism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The requirement of some microorganisms (halophiles) for a high salt content
heterokaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + -karyotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to heterokaryosis or to heterokaryons
himanimides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of himanimide
free reign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free rein, from a confusion of reign with rein.
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of free rein.
who'd have thunk it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He stayed until he saw she had recovered her self possession, then he left, telegraphed to Mr. Hinsdale of Helen's safe arrival—always the same thoughtful fellow—and then went home and wrote sonnets to his lady love. "Who'd have thunk it of 'im?"
ref: 1895 September, Frances Cora Perce, “A Sonata of the Woods”, in W. S. B. Mathews, editor, Music. A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music, volume VIII, Chicago, Ill.: The Music Magazine Publishing Company […], →OCLC, pages 478–479:
text: "Hello, Muggs!" he cried, vainly trying to bestow a pat upon that unquiet animal. "Say, Trevor, hasn't he grown? He's twice the size he was when you got him!" / "It's a way puppies have." / "You don't say so? Who'd have thunk it![…]"
ref: 1906, Ralph Henry Barbour, “In the Rowing-room”, in Captain of the Crew, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 147:
glosses: Alternative form of who would have thunk it.
not in a million years
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of never in a million years.
take one's ball and go home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's ball and goes home
form: taking one's ball and going home
form: took one's ball and went home
form: taken one's ball and gone home
form: take one's bat and ball and go home
form: take one's football and go home
Etymology: From the image of a group of children playing a sport with a ball that is the exclusive property of one of the participants.
Senses: examples: text: In 1977 American auto industry leaders threatened to "take their ball and go home" by shutting down production of 1978 models unless they received yet a third delay in meeting the auto emission standards of the Clean Air Act.
ref: 1978, "House Vote 13," In Common, Vol. 9, p. 52 (Google snippet view)
text: [F]aced with the choice of raising his bid by a dollar or two a share or making a hostile offer, Mr. Ballmer did neither. Instead, he took his ball and went home.
ref: 2008 May 6, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “How Not to Make a Deal”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 May 2015:
glosses: To cease participating in an activity that has turned to one's disadvantage, especially out of spite, or in a way that prevents others from participating as well.
Related terms: dog in the manger
ship's cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship's cousins
Senses: examples: text: "You're a ship's cousin, I tell ye, Master Doo-but-little," roared the steward; "some such matter as a ship's cousin, sir.."
ref: 1876, James Fenimore Cooper, “The Pioneers”, in The Pioneers, Houghton Mifflin:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: an esteemed or preferred passenger aboard ship.
informous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more informous
form: most informous
Etymology: From Latin informis + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: That a bear brings forth her young informous and unshapen, which she fashioneth after by licking them over, is an opinion not only vulgar, and common with us at present, but hath been of old delivered by ancient writers.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.6:
glosses: Misshapen; having no real form.
hyperhalophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperhalophilic
form: most hyperhalophilic
Etymology: From hyper- + halophilic.
Senses: glosses: Very halophilic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hyperhalophiles
immobilon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of etorphine and a tranquilizer, used in veterinary medicine as a muscle relaxant
interphylum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + phylum.
Senses: glosses: Between phyla
intrasporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + sporal.
Senses: glosses: Within a spore
sporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From spore + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to spores
metatranscriptome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metatranscriptomes
Etymology: From meta- + transcriptome or metatranscript + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The transcriptome of a group of interacting organisms or species
Related terms: metatranscriptomics
metatranscriptomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metatranscriptome
similary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more similary
form: most similary
Etymology: From similar + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: the plastic or formative faculty, from matter appearing homogeneous, and of a similary substance, erecteth bones, membranes, veins, and arteries […]
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.6:
glosses: Similar.
microdiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microdiverse
form: most microdiverse
Etymology: From micro- + diverse.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting microdiversity
microdiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdiversities
Etymology: From micro- + diversity.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The diversity of phylogenetically closely related but physiologically distinct populations of bacteria
micromycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromycete
micromycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromycetes
Etymology: From micro- + -mycete.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: microscopic fungi
mucoromycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucoromycete
Lorinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Laurinda.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
mucoromycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucoromycetes
Senses: glosses: Any fungus of the class Mucoromycetes formerly considered part of the phylum Zygomycota, but now considered to be multiple orders whose placement among the fungi has not been determined.
multispore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + spore.
Senses: synonyms: multisporal
multisporous
glosses: Involving multiple spores.
mycoparasitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mycoparasitic
form: most mycoparasitic
Etymology: From myco- + parasitic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mycoparasites
mycoparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoparasites
Etymology: From myco- + parasite.
Senses: glosses: A fungus or other microorganism that is parasitic on another fungus
nonsporogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sporogenic.
Senses: glosses: That does not produce spores
Kayden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden.
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden.
Cayden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Caden.
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage.
extramission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extramissions
Etymology: From Latin extra mittere.
Senses: examples: text: Aristotle, Alhazen, Vitello, and others [...] hold, that sight is made by reception, and not by extramission; by receiving the rays of the object into the eye, and not be sending any out.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7:
glosses: Emission.
piss more than one drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses more than one drinks
form: pissing more than one drinks
form: pissed more than one drank
form: pissed more than one drank
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To boast; to brag.
spado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spados
form: spadoes
form: spadones
Etymology: From Latin spadō, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art […]
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9:
glosses: Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
sophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏʹfē
ipa: /ˈsɒfi/
Forms: form: sophie
Etymology: From the Middle English sophie, from the Latin sophia, from the Ancient Greek σοφῐ́ᾱ (sophĭ́ā, “high knowledge”: “learning”, “wisdom”); compare Sophia.
Senses: examples: text: It had ben) beter to haue kepte the same sophie
ref: circa''' 1440: John Capgrave, The Life of St Katharine of Alexandria, verses 1,020–1,021 (published in 1893 by the Early English Text Society)
roman: Whiche þat youre maysteris lerned you first in scole!
text: Turn thee to mee, in caſe
Manhod ther bee ſo much left in thy hert:
Coom fight with mee: that on my helmet wear
Apolloes laurel, both for learnings laude,
And eke for Martiall prayſe: that, in my ſhield,
The ſeuenfold ſophie of Minerue contein:
A match, more meet, ſir king, than any here.
ref: ante''' 1557: Nicolas Grimald, “The death of Zoroas, an Egiptian Aſtronomer, in firſt fight, that Alexander had with the Perſians” in Songes and Sonnettes, page 121
text: Who knoweth not the difference betweene…semblance, and assurance; docosophy, and sophy?
ref: 1588, John Harvey, A Discoursive Probleme Concerning Prophesies, page 10:
glosses: wisdom, knowledge, learning
sophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏʹfē
ipa: /ˈsɒfi/
enpr: sōʹfē
ipa: /ˈsəʊfi/
enpr: sŏʹfē
ipa: /ˈsɒfi/
Forms: form: sophies
Etymology: See Sophy.
Senses: examples: text: Now it is high heaking time, and bee the windes neuer so eaſterly aduerſe and the tyde fled from vs, wee must violently towe and hale in our redoubtable Sophy, of the floating kingdom of Piſces, whome ſo much as by name I ſhoulde not haue acknowledged, had it not beene that I muſed, how Yarmouth ſhould be inueſted in ſuch plenty and opulence, conſidering that in M. Hackluit’s [i.e., Richard Hakluyt’s] Engliſh diſcoueries, I haue not come in ken of one mizzen maſt of a man of warre bound for the Indies, or mediteranean ſternebearer ſente from her Zenith or Meridian; [...]
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sophy (“archaic form of Safawi”).
sophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏʹfē
ipa: /ˈsɒfi/
enpr: sōʹfē
ipa: /ˈsəʊfi/
enpr: sŏʹfi
Etymology: An irregular Anglicisation of sophi; compare sophy ³.
Senses: examples: text: Hange thy selfe Drusus, hast nor arms nor brain?
Some Sophy say, The Gods sell all for paine.
ref: 1598: John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie, Three Books of Satyres, volume 2, chapter 5, page 194 (1966 republication)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sophi.
sophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏʹfē
ipa: /ˈsɒfi/
enpr: sōʹfē
ipa: /ˈsəʊfi/
enpr: sŏʹfi
enpr: sŏʹfĭ
ipa: /ˈsɒfɪ/
enpr: sŏʹfē
ipa: /ˈsɒfi/
enpr: sōʹfē
ipa: /ˈsəʊfi/
enpr: sŏʹfi
Forms: form: sophies
Etymology: From the common termination of the class of words denoted (e.g., philosophy, theosophy, etc.); compare the earlier ology and ism, and the later logy and osophy.
Senses: examples: text: The various sophy’s — cosmosophy, kerdosophy.
ref: ante''' 1843: Robert Southey, Common-place Book, volume 4, page 578 (1851 publication)
text: Francis Moyen was, as here described, an interesting character in his way; a sparkling, talented, thoughtless Parisian, full of adventure and, with his beloved violin in his baggage, ever on the wing. Voltaire and Boileau were winning the world in those days. Moyen, like every young man of the period, had read them, could quote them, and would sometimes utter himself in their particular sophy; half scoffing, and half religious, and half philosophical by turns, a thorough Frenchman, carelessly throwing off his first thoughts whatever they were and whoever was near.
ref: 1869, Contemporary Review, volume 11, page 456:
glosses: Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in -sophy.
sophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophy
sophie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophies
Etymology: From Middle English sophie.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sophy (“wisdom”).
chulengo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chulengos
Etymology: From Spanish chulengo.
Senses: glosses: A young guanaco.
phenylacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phenyl + acetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phenylacetic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: hydroxyphenylacetic
phylome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylomes
Etymology: From phylo- + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complete set of gene phylogenies of an individual or organism
Related terms: alt: or phylogenomics
word: phylomics
phytocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phytocentric
form: most phytocentric
Etymology: From phyto- + -centric.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing any system or classification based upon plants
polytomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytomy
proxygenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proxygene
proxygene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proxygenes
Etymology: From proxy + gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A full-length protein that has high local similarity with a specific short length of nucleic acid
psychrotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪkɹəˈtɹəʊfɪk/
Forms: form: more psychrotrophic
form: most psychrotrophic
Etymology: From psychro- (“cold”) + -trophic (“growth”).
Senses: examples: text: One of the main reasons fridge temperatures are recommend to be set at 5ºC is because of listeria. Listeria is a food poisoning bacterium that is psychrotrophic – in other words it likes cold temperatures. From the growth models, we know that listeria grows nearly twice as fast at 8°C as it does at 5°C, hence the recommended 5ºC, which helps keep us safe from listeria.
ref: 2018 January 15, Kaarin Goodburn, “How chilled is your fridge?”, in Food Standards Agency:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing microorganisms that thrive in a cold environment.
Related terms: psychrotroph
saproxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare monocyclic carotenoid.
speech acts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speech act
sulfobenzaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfobenzaldehydes
Etymology: From sulfo- + benzaldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric sulfonic acids derived from benzaldehyde (or formyl derivatives of benzenesulfonic acid)
sulfobenzoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfobenzoates
Etymology: From sulfo- + benzoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric sulfonic acids derived from benzoate (or carboxy derivatives of benzenesulfonic acid); the anion of sulfobenzoic acid
trichothecene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichothecenes
Senses: glosses: Any of many related mycotoxins produced by pathogenic fungi species of the genus Fusarium.
turbomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbomycins
Etymology: From turbo- + -mycin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antibiotics, produced by soil microorganisms, that were isolated using metagenomics
xylosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylose + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from xylose.
gone north about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have gone north about twenty times over than come athwart you.
ref: 1827, William Bennett, Owain Goch:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning.
glosses: Dead.
Steadicam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Steadicams
form: steadicam
form: Steadi-Cam
form: steadi-cam
form: Steadi Cam
form: steadi cam
form: Steadycam
form: steadycam
form: Steady-Cam
form: steady-cam
form: Steady Cam
form: steady cam
Etymology: 1975, from steady + cam, from camera.
Senses: examples: text: Steadicam, a revolutionary camera stabilizing device, was not shown, but CP did screen a sample film shot with a Steadicam.
ref: 1975, Filmmakers Newsletter, volume 9, page 46:
text: Tilman Büttner, the director of photography who operated the steadicam used to shoot the film, has turned the camera into one of its main characters, a contemporary film maker trapped in a journey through Russian history, with Mr Sokurov himself speaking its part.
ref: 2002 September 19, The Economist, volume 364, page 82:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A stabilizing camera mount for hand-held film or video shooting; a camera mounted thus.
lexicosyntactic pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexicosyntactic patterns
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A string-matching pattern based on text tokens and syntactic structure.
lexicosyntactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lexico- + syntactic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to lexicosyntax.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the grammatical properties of individual words, or more particularly to subclasses of words.
Derived terms: lexicosyntactic pattern
does anyone here speak English
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Does anyone here speak English?
stounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stound.
stounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stound
gluttonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glutton + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Pliny calls the second of these brothers, nepotum omnium altissimus gurges; "the deepest gulph of the time," as to high feeding and helluation, or professional gluttonism.
ref: 1820, Ange Denis Macquin, Tabella cibaria, Notes, page 14:
glosses: The state of being a glutton.
lexicosemantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexicosemantics
Etymology: From lexico- + semantics.
Senses: glosses: The study of word meanings and their relationships.
3P
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3Ps
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of third party.
3P
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 3P integration
glosses: Abbreviation of third-party.
3P
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3Ps
Etymology: From three + people.
Senses: glosses: A threesome.
LUN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LUNs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of logical unit number.
Sukhoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Etymology: From Russian Сухо́й (Suxój), from сухо́й (suxój, “dry”).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A Russian aircraft manufacturer.
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Сухо́й (Suxój).
tabacosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In regard to tabacosis, only two cases have been observed by Zenker, and therefore the grounds are insufficient for an absolute opinion as to the connectino of cause and effect.
ref: 1873, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 88, page 222:
text: There are but two autopsies of tobacco workers on record which could be considered cases of tabacosis and both of them are described by Zenker.
ref: 1885, First Annual Report of State Inspector of Shops and Factories:
text: Among the numerous occupational activities associated with an inhalation of dusts of vegetable and animal matter (cotton, hemp, sisal, cork, sugar cane, wood paper, silk, wool, animal hair, feathers, shellac), some of which give rise to progressive fibrosing pneumoconioses (byssinosis, bagassosis, etc.), only tabacosis has been related by epidemiologic evidence to cancer of the lung, while the possibility of such associations deserves consideration for shellac pneumoconiosis.
ref: 2013, W. C. Hueper, Occupational and Environmental Cancers of the Respiratory System:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Chronic tobacco poisoning; poisoning brought about by excessive use of or exposure to tobacco, especially the occupational disease from inhaling the dust in cigar and tobacco factories.
Coordinate terms: nicotinism
tahr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tahrs
form: tair
form: tehr
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali थार (thār), from थारल (thāral).
Senses: glosses: Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Arabitragus jayakari
word: Arabian tahr
taxonomic: Hemitragus jemlahicus
word: Himalayan tahr
taxonomic: Nilgiritragus hylocrius
word: Nilgiri tahr
torsalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsalos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tórsalo.
Senses: glosses: A parasitic fly, Dermatobia hominis, which lives as a larva in the skin of mammals, including humans, and uses mosquitoes as a vector.
Synonyms: American warble fly
human botfly
ox-bot
ox botfly
ox warbler
superbradyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbradyons
Etymology: From super- + bradyon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a particle with positive mass and positive energy and a superluminal critical speed in vacuum, possibly an ultimate constituent of matter similar to preons.
Related terms: preon
bradyon
tardyon
tachyon
dispositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispositors
Etymology: From Latin dispositor. See disposition.
Senses: glosses: A disposer.
examples: text: The ascendant and the dispositors of the Sun and the Moon bear signification of the mind, and the lord of the ascendant and the Moon of the body.
ref: 1795, Ebenezer Sibly, A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The planet that is lord of the sign where another planet is.
eveninger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eveningers
Etymology: From evening + -er.
Senses: examples: text: With Bombay's crammed newspaper market suddenly swamped by a deluge of vernacular eveningers, the city's presses are humming with activity.
ref: 1992, India Today, page 113:
text: While most morningers missed the news, Japan Times brought out an extra edition and eveningers across the region gave graphic coverage to the assassination and the rise and fall of the Nehru family.
ref: 1991, Meenakshi Ahluwalia, Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, page 43:
coordinate_terms: morninger
glosses: An evening newspaper.
humify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: humifies
form: humifying
form: humified
form: humified
Senses: glosses: To convert into humus.
Derived terms: humification
unhumified
inlying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inlying
form: most inlying
Etymology: From in- + lying.
Senses: glosses: Located further in (especially from a coast).
oncost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncosts
Etymology: From on- + cost, or from Middle English uncost (“additional expense”), from Middle Dutch oncost (“expenses, overhead”) (Modern Dutch onkost), equivalent to un- + cost. Cognate with German Unkost (“expenses”).
Senses: glosses: Additional costs; extra expenses.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Overhead (expense)
qualifier: coal-mining
glosses: The cost of upkeep, making and maintaining shafts, roads, pumping, etc.
glosses: The indirect expenditure incurred for the purpose of increasing the productive power of organised labour.
Derived terms: oncostman
onefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English onfold, anfald (“single, simple, honest, onefold”), from Old English ānfeald (“single, simple”, literally “onefold”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainfald, from Proto-Germanic *ainafalþaz (“onefold, simple”), equivalent to one + -fold. Cognate with Dutch eenvoud (“simplicity, easiness”), German Einfalt (“simplicity”) and einfach (“simple”), Icelandic einfaldur (“simple”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐍃 (ainfalþs, “simple”). More at one, -fold.
Senses: glosses: Constituting or being indicative of a single aspect or theme.
examples: text: There the soul is onefold, pure and chaste, and empty of all things.
ref: 2005, Boeve, Geybels, Van den Bossche, Encountering transcendence:
glosses: Consisting of a single undivided part; whole; complete.
examples: text: [Her] object was simple enough; but it was too simple—too onefold (if I may borrow an expressive word from my native tongue: ae-fauld we write it in Scotch) for the apprehension of ordinary persons[.]
ref: 1875, Mrs. Oliphant, Whiteladies
glosses: Simple, plain, straightforward.
examples: text: Ye see how ready men are to misconstrue and pervert the onefold meaning of the Lord.
ref: 1844, Robert Rollock, Select works of Robert Rollock:
glosses: Singular, as opposite to plural.
Derived terms: onefoldness
orbitalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔɹ.bəˈteɪ.lɪs/
rhymes: -eɪlɪs
Forms: form: orbitales
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin orbitālis, clipping of mūsculus orbitālis (“orbital muscle”). Doublet of orbital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle that controls protrusion of the eyeball.
plasmapause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasmapauses
Etymology: From plasma + -pause.
Senses: glosses: The sharp outer boundary of the plasmasphere.
proferens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proferentes
Etymology: From Middle French proference, from Medieval Latin proferentia. Doublet of proferans.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person who proposes a contract (or one of its clauses)
properdin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + perdere (“to destroy”); see perdition + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: A protein in human serum that complements part of the immune system
sciential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sciential
form: most sciential
Etymology: Latin scientia (“knowledge”) + suffix -al.
Senses: examples: text: But first low Reverence don, as to the power
 That dwelt within, whose presence had infus’d
Into the plant sciential sap
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: One of the wisest of uninspired men has not hesitated to declare the dog a great mystery, on account of this dawning of a moral nature unaccompanied by any the least evidence of reason, in whichever of the two senses we interpret the word—whether as the practical reason, that is, the power of proposing an ultimate end, the determinability of the Will by ideas; or as the sciential reason, that is, the faculty of concluding universal and necessary truths from particular and contingent appearances.
ref: 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “On Instinct in Connection with the Understanding (in Comment on Aphorism IX)”, in Aids to Reflection:
glosses: Of or pertaining to science or to knowledge.
glosses: Knowledgeable.
semiminor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: semi-minor
Etymology: From semi- + minor.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing each of the two segments of the minor axis of a conic section at both sides of the center of the conic section.
Derived terms: semiminor axis
Related terms: semimajor
sloosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slooshes
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A splash or rush of water
sloosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slooshes
form: slooshing
form: slooshed
form: slooshed
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To flow with a rush.
raw_tags: of water
examples: text: She slooshes her mouth out, spits residue into a flower-pot behind a screen.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To rinse or wash with a flow of water.
urial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urials
form: oorial
Etymology: Borrowed from Pothohari Punjabi ہڑیال m (huṛiāl), ultimately from Sanskrit हुड m (huḍa).
Senses: examples: text: All domesticated sheep are descended from the moufflon, urial or argali. They are closely related to each other and connected by intermediate breeds. Most wool sheep are believed to have been derived from urial stock, while hair sheep are traced back to the moufflon.
ref: 1990, “Animals, Domestication of”, in A. Ghosh, editor, An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, page 3:
text: O. severtzovi has been shuffled back and forth between the urial and the argali groups.
ref: 2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, page 237:
text: Most urials live in open habitats, with few or no trees, but there are indications that this may be a recent adaptation to changing environmental conditions and that the urial was originally more of a woodland animal than at present.
ref: 2011, John P. Rafferty, Grazers, Britannica Educational Publishing, page 136:
glosses: A bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep.
Synonyms: arkars
shapoo
autoimmunologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + immunologic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to autoimmunology
autoimmunology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + immunology.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of immunology that studies autoimmunity
contusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contusion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a contusion or bruise
Derived terms: pericontusional
cryofixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryofix
cryofixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cryofixed
form: most cryofixed
Senses: glosses: Subject to cryofixation
cryofixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryofixations
Etymology: From cryo- + fixation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The freezing of a specimen, typically by immersion in liquid nitrogen, in order to fix it
Related terms: cryofix
cryofixative
disequilibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disequilibrations
Etymology: From dis- + equilibration.
Senses: glosses: The act of bringing about a state of disequilibrium
electrocorticographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + corticographic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or obtained using electrocorticography
Derived terms: electrocorticographically
electrocorticography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From electro- + corticography.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, while many philosophers of language in the 20th century proposed that we think in sentence-like strings of language, use of brain imaging technology like electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) has since revealed that thinking more probably happens in a complex combination of images and associations.
ref: 2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A form of electroencephalography in which the electrodes are placed directly on the cerebral cortex.
Derived terms: ECoG
Related terms: electrocorticogram
electrocorticograph
feneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin faenerationem, from faenerare.
Senses: examples: text: Plutarch hath also made an expresse Treatise vpon the same, where he prooueth that by Nature we ought not to vse feneration and vsurie[…]
ref: 1591, Thomas Lodge, Catharos. Diogenes in his singularitie:
text: True love and friendship hath respect onely to his friends necessitie, without merchandize or feneration.
ref: 1631, Richard Barckley, The felicitie of man, page 638:
text: […]and what vices therein it [sc. the hare] figured; that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration or usury from its fecundity and superfetation, but from this mixture of sexes, unnaturall venery and degenerous effemination.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Hares”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 120:
glosses: Lending money at interest; usury.
microsuede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsuedes
Etymology: From micro- + suede.
Senses: glosses: A microfiber knit blend fabric with a soft finish.
microsuedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsuede
Staci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Giselle? That's not the name on the documents — "
"Oh no." Bob gave her a sad smile. "Her real name was Staci, but she once studied ballet, and Jeb thought she was so graceful, with her big brown eyes. Like Bambi. So the pet name went from Gazelle to Giselle. - - -
ref: 1995, Sharyn McCrumb, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him, page 85:
glosses: A unisex given name from Ancient Greek, a 20th-century spelling variant of Stacy.
spirting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spirt
spirting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirtings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spurting.
spirted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spirt
spirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spirt
spirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirt
lexicogrammatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lexicogrammatical
form: most lexicogrammatical
Etymology: From lexico- + grammatical.
Senses: examples: text: A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
glosses: Of or pertaining to lexicogrammar.
Derived terms: lexicogrammatically
nonlocomotory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + locomotory.
Senses: examples: text: As, however, the shape of holothurians compels them to lie upon one side (unless supported in burrows), it is not surprising that the locomotory podia are generally restricted to the functional ventral surface and are wanting dorsally or altered into nonlocomotory papillae.
ref: 1940, Libbie Hyman, The Invertebrates: Echinodermata, the coelomate Bilateria, page 126:
text: Locomotory and nonlocomotory muscles of four harbor seals (mass = 17.5-41 kg) were glutaraldehyde-perfusion fixed and samples processed for electron microscopy and analyzed by morphometry.
ref: 2001 May 24, Journal of Applied Physiology, volume 90, number 5:
text: Nonlocomotory single-celled photosynthesizers do exist, such as diatoms: they rely on turbulence (sometimes coupled with the manufacture of low-density oils) to reverse their inevitable tendency to sink to the bottom.
ref: 2016, Matt Wilkinson, Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements:
glosses: Not locomotory.
euhedrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more euhedrally
form: most euhedrally
Etymology: From euhedral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a euhedral fashion.
nonmetabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + metabolic.
Senses: glosses: Not metabolic.
unmetabolizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + metabolizable.
Senses: glosses: Not metabolizable.
nonmetabolized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + metabolized.
Senses: glosses: Not metabolized.
unmetabolized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnmɪˈtæbəˌlaɪzd/
Forms: form: unmetabolised
Etymology: From un- + metabolized.
Senses: examples: text: Unmetabolized toxines poured out of the liver upon the duodenum and probably excited at that point the secretion of hormones abnormal in character, and these stimulated abnormal secretion from the mucous glands of the stomach and bowel.
ref: 1913 July 16, “Intestinal Adhesions: Bacteriologically Experimentally and Surgically Considered”, in New York Medical Journal, volume XCVIII, number 7, page 347:
text: The high levels of unmetabolized phenylalanine in the urine cause a very bad musty odor, which led a Norway physician to discover PKU in 1934. The unmetabolized phenylalanine also affects the brain of the child, and unless the baby is put on a special diet of no milk, meat, or other high-protein foods, the baby is doomed to severe mental retardation.
ref: 1998 May 1, “A safety net for babies”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
text: Although the toxicity of inorganic arsenic is well established, arsenobetaine (from fish) is considered essentially nontoxic because it passes through the body unmetabolized; other organic forms such as dimethylarsenate, arsenolipids, and arsenosugars have uncertain toxicity.
ref: 2012 October 24, Matthew A. Davis et al., “Rice Consumption and Urinary Arsenic Concentrations in U.S. Children”, in Environmental Health Perspectives, volume 120, number 10, →PMID, page 1418:
glosses: Not metabolized.
filterbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filterbanks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of filter bank.
filterbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filterbank
multiwavelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiwavelet
unwarehoused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + warehoused.
Senses: glosses: Not kept in a warehouse.
disprovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disprove + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being disproved.
Derived terms: undisprovability
permansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin permansio, from the participle stem of permanere.
Senses: examples: text: […] from female unto male, from male to female again, and so in a circle to both, without a permansion in either.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, “Of Hares”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book III, chapter 17:
text: And can we think that such material and mortal, that such inunderstanding souls, should by God and Nature be furnished with bodies of so long permansion, and that our spirits should joined unto flesh so subject of corruption, so suddenly dissolvible, were it not that they lived but once […]
ref: 1659, Bishop John Pearson, “The Resurrection of the Body”, in An Exposition of the Creed, article 11:
glosses: Permanence.
Synonyms: perdurance
remanence
permanence
electrohypersensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electrohypersensitive
form: most electrohypersensitive
Etymology: From electro- + hypersensitive.
Senses: glosses: abnormally sensitive to the presence of electric fields or to electromagnetic radiation
Related terms: electrohypersensitivity
electrohypersensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + hypersensitivity.
Senses: glosses: A supposed abnormal sensitivity to the presence of electric fields or to electromagnetic radiation
Related terms: electrohypersensitive
electrosensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + sensibility.
Senses: glosses: The (real or imagined) ability to perceive the presence of electric fields or electromagnetic radiation
Related terms: electrosensible
electrosensitivity
exteriorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˌstɪɹiɚɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɛkˌstɪɹiɚɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: exteriorizations
form: exteriorisation
Etymology: From exteriorize + -ation or exterior + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The act of removing something from a body.
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The process of a thetan leaving its human body.
hyperexcitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + excitability.
Senses: glosses: hyperactivity
examples: text: He concluded that hunger pains in ulcer cases are not due to hunger contractions per se, but to hyperexcitability of the sensory nerves in the stomach wall.
ref: 1920, American Medicine - Volume 26, page 424:
glosses: Excessive sensitivity of the nerves.
insonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insonations
Senses: glosses: Exposure to, or treatment with, ultrasound.
Related terms: insonate
insonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insonates
form: insonating
form: insonated
form: insonated
Senses: glosses: To expose to, or treat with, ultrasound.
Synonyms: insonicate
Related terms: insonation
insonicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insonicates
form: insonicating
form: insonicated
form: insonicated
Senses: glosses: To insonate
Related terms: insonication
insonication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insonications
Senses: glosses: insonation
Related terms: insonicate
insonicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insonicate
insonicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insonicated
form: most insonicated
Senses: glosses: Exposed to, or treated with ultrasound; insonated
Derived terms: noninsonicated
microdialysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdialysates
Etymology: From micro- + dialysate.
Senses: glosses: A dialysate obtained by microdialysis
microsurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsurges
Etymology: From micro- + surge.
Senses: glosses: A surge in a very small electric current.
pull up stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls up stakes
form: pulling up stakes
form: pulled up stakes
form: pulled up stakes
Senses: examples: text: They just pulled up stakes and left.
text: From the start of their strange and embattled marriage, they established a pattern of suddenly pulling up stakes with little notice to family members or neighbors.
ref: 2006 November 30, Paul Solotaroff, “Can Nate Ybanez Ever Be FORGIVEN?”, in Rolling Stone, pages 84–128:
glosses: To prepare to move one's (usually temporary) habitation, especially rapidly.
Related terms: up sticks
neurointensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + intensive.
Senses: glosses: neurocritical
neurometabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + metabolic.
Senses: glosses: Describing any metabolic affect on the nervous system
noninsonicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + insonicated.
Senses: glosses: Not insonicated
nonsonicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sonicated.
Senses: glosses: Not sonicated
pericontusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + contusional.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That surrounds a contusion
perihematomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: perihaematomal
Etymology: From peri- + hematomal.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That surrounds a hematoma
hematomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hematoma + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a hematoma
Derived terms: perihematomal
periinfarct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + infarct.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That surrounds an infarct
stereotactical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: stereotactic
submeningeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
Etymology: From sub- + meningeal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath the meninges.
infraparticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infraparticle
infraparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infraparticles
Etymology: From infra- + particle.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrically charged particle and its surrounding cloud of soft photons
soft photon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft photons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A photon, whose energy is too small to be detected, that is one of a cloud associated with a charged particle.
Related terms: infraparticle
magnetogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + genesis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The generation of a magnetic field (in the early universe)