cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
melioidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meliodosis
Senses: examples: text: 2005, Mark A. Suckov, Alexander Valisenko, Nikolai Tokarevich, Chapter 3: Animals Models in Biodefense Research, Jann Hau, Steven J. Schapiro, Gerald L. Van Hoosier, Jr. (editors), Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, Volume 3: Animal Models, 2nd Edition, 40,
A close relative of the agent of glanders, B. pseudomallei causes a disease (melioidosis) with clinical manifestations including asymptomatic pneumonitis, acute or chronic pneumonia, and overwhelming septicemia.
text: Twenty-seven proteins distinctively reacted with human plasma following environmental exposure or clinical melioidosis.
ref: 2012, Melioidosis: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional, page 7:
text: Melioidosis is the etiological designation of a spectrum of clinical manifestations caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei.
ref: 2013, Prakash S. Bisen, Ruchika Raghuvanshi, Emerging Epidemics: Management and Control, unnumbered page:
text: Burkholderia pseudomallei is the cause of meliodosis, which is a multiorgan infection seen mainly in South East Asia and Northern Australia. Meliodosis often first presents with lung disease, which may be an acute pneumonia or more chronic lung disease, sometimes resembling TB.
ref: 2015, Jeremy Hull, Julian Forton, Anne Thomson, Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, 2nd edition, page 159:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, endemic to some areas of Southeast Asia and northern Australia.
Synonyms: sense: infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei
word: Nightcliff gardener's disease
sense: infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei
word: Vietnamese time bomb
sense: infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei
word: Whitmore disease
sense: infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei
word: Whitmore's disease
apomyoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + myoglobin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of myoglobin that lacks a heme unit
Related terms: holomyoglobin
autoradiographed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autoradiographed
form: most autoradiographed
Senses: glosses: Treated by being placed in contact with a radioactive material
Related terms: autoradiograph
avertin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Trademark.
Senses: examples: text: It may be useful to re-emphasize a few factors most essential for a valid and safe catheterization: […] 4. Avertin, drug of choice, for anaesthesia of children under the age of nine.
ref: 1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 171:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of tribromoethanol.
synonyms: word: tribromoethanol
Mee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mees
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer.
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadh (“honor”). Compare Meehan, McNamee.
* As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus.
* (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A crater in LQ28 quandrangle, Nearside, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System.
unexhibitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexhibitable
form: most unexhibitable
Etymology: From un- + exhibitable.
Senses: examples: text: By the conventions of the time, Constable's picture was entirely unexhibitable and could only be regarded as a sketch.
ref: 1999, Andrew Graham-Dixon, A history of British art:
glosses: That cannot be exhibited.
Persea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Unhappie Perſea, that in former age
Haſt bene the ſeat of mightie Conquerors,
That in their proweſſe and their pollicies,
Have triumpht ouer Affrike, and the bounds
Of Europe, where the Sun dares ſcarce appeare, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
glosses: Obsolete form of Persia.
carousel fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carousel frauds
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
government
sciences
taxation
synonyms: carousel trade
missing trader fraud
glosses: The theft of value-added tax from a government by exploiting the way VAT is treated within multijurisdictional trading where the movement of goods between jurisdictions is VAT-free.
Hyponyms: contra-trading
multijurisdictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multijurisdictional
form: most multijurisdictional
Etymology: From multi- + jurisdictional.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: cross-jurisdictional
synonyms: multijurisdiction
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one jurisdiction.
Related terms: cross-jurisdictionally
netlabels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netlabel
netiquettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netiquette
perscrutate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəːˈskruː.teɪt/
ipa: /pɚˈskruˌteɪt/
rhymes: -uːteɪt
Forms: form: perscrutates
form: perscrutating
form: perscrutated
form: perscrutated
Etymology: Either a back-formation from perscrutation, or directly from Latin perscrūtātus, perfect passive participle of perscrūtor (“to search”). Earliest known use is from 1663 (see quotations).
Senses: examples: text: For though in the Laws of nature ard men, there is myſterious abſtruſity, which toils and troubles the Learners brain, in perſcrutating and underſtanding them; the effects whereof are viſible in the moroſity and ſeparation of their Students, from the pleaſures of converſation and diverſion; yet are the events and iſſues in comprehenſion of them to ſuch degrees,as are conſectaries and rewards of double diligence, very grateful, and perceptively congenial to the expectation of thoſe excellent minds, who after buſie diſquiſition into them, reap dulcedinem conſolationis ſanctæ.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e. Edward Waterhouse], chapter III, in Forteſcutus Illuſtratus, or A Commentary On that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, London: […] Tho. Roycroft for Thomas Dicas, page 54:
text: But if you pleaſe, with your perſpicuous Luminaries to contemplate and perſcrutate theſe Teſtifications, you ſhall be animadverted of my Deportment in the Oxfordian Society, in my modification for Literature.
ref: 1689, R.W. D.D. [i.e., Robert Wild], “Act the Fourth”, in The Benefice. A Comedy., London: […] R. Janeway, page 40:
text: But as long as he held that myth was a by-product of language, Mr. Max Müller seemed to think that, till we had all savage languages perscrutated by new Bopps and Kuhns, we could not move.
ref: 1900 December 24, Andrew Lang, “Max Mueller”, in The Contemporary Review, volume 78, page 791:
text: Prominent utility head perscrutates four important factors bearing on our economic health and, in cautioning against the entry of business, per se, into politics, suggests four things business can do in realm of public affairs and understanding.
ref: 1958 December 11, Frederick R. Kappel, “What Should Be Role of Industry in Public Affairs?”, in The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, volume 188, number 5802, page 14:
text: I perscrutated the engine, awaiting a celestial voice to chip in and guide me through the problems. It was off duty.
ref: 1994, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, United States: The New Press, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: To scrutinize, peruse, inspect (something).
chain complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain complex
cochain complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cochain complex
demarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demarchs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “deme”) + ἄρχειν (árkhein, “to rule”).
Senses: glosses: The chief magistrate of a deme.
demarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French démarche. See march.
Senses: glosses: walk; gait
demophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛməfaɪɫ/
Forms: form: demophiles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + φίλος (phílos, “loving”).
Senses: synonyms: demophil
glosses: A friend of the people.
glosses: A person who likes people, especially crowds of people.
Derived terms: demophilism
subspecialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subspecialists
Etymology: From sub- + specialist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist who is primarily concerned with a subspecialty within a larger specialty.
subspecialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subspecialist
Luisiana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Meronyms: De La Paz, San Antonio, San Buenaventura, San Diego, San Isidro, San Jose, San Juan, San Luis, San Pablo, San Pedro, San Rafael, San Roque, San Salvador, Santo Domingo, Santo Tomas — barangays of Luisiana (excluding barangay zones I to VIII)
glosses: A municipality of Laguna, Philippines.
snub cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snub cubes
Etymology: From cubus simus, Kepler's name for this solid.
Senses: examples: text: 1995, R. H. Hardin, N. J. A. Sloane, Codes (Spherical) and Designs (Experimental), Robert Calderbank (editor), Different Aspects of Coding Theory: American Mathematical Society Short Course, Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Volume 50, page 183,
Robinson [67] showed in 1961 that the best packing of 24 points is achieved by the vertices of a regular snub cube, one of the Archimedean solids (cf. [20]).
text: 1996, William P. Schaefer, The Snub Cube in the Glanville Courtyard of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology, The Chemical Intelligencer, reprinted in 2015, Balazs Hargittai, István Hargittai (editors), Culture of Chemistry: The Best Articles on the Human Side of 20th-Century Chemistry from the Archives of the Chemical Intelligencer, page 55,
A wooden model, though, showed that with a sufficiently strong flow, the entire surface of the solid could be wet; we were given the go-ahead to install a five-foot-tall, granite snub cube in the fountain.
text: Two of these are chiral pairs, the dextro snub cube and its chiral partner, the laevo snub cube; the third is the regular orbit of T_d point symmetry, while the fourth is the regular orbit of Tₕ symmetry.
ref: 2005, Charles M. Quinn, Patrick Fowler, David Redmond, Computational Quantum Chemistry II: The Group Theory Calculator, page 44:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An Archimedean solid with thirty-eight faces, of which six are squares (no two of which share a vertex) and thirty-two are equilateral triangles.
Synonyms: sense: polyhedron with 6 square and 32 triangular faces
word: cubus sinus
sense: polyhedron with 6 square and 32 triangular faces
word: snub cuboctahedron
Derived terms: dextro snub cube
laevo snub cube
snub cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snub cube
saints' days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saint's day
demotist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demotists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”).
Senses: examples: text: Egyptologists, linguists, and papyrologists specializing in the study of the Demotic script […] are known as Demotists.
ref: Decipherment of Demotic Script
glosses: One versed in the ancient Egyptian demotic writing.
Synonyms: demoticist
barrel race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel races
Senses: glosses: A race (contest) in which a horse must be ridden around standing barrels.
barrel race
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barrel races
form: barrel racing
form: barrel raced
form: barrel raced
Senses: glosses: To ride a horse around standing barrels in a race.
barrel races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrel race
barrel races
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barrel race
barrel raced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barrel race
barrel racing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barrel race
opiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opiparous
form: most opiparous
Etymology: From Latin opiparus, from (plural of) ops + parāre.
Senses: examples: text: a fair-built and sumptuous edifice, as that of the Persian kings so much renowned by Diodorus and Curtius, in which all was almost beaten gold […], with sweet odours and perfumes, generous wines, opiparous fare, etc.
ref: , II.ii.4
glosses: Sumptuous, luxurious.
noologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noologists
Etymology: From noology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in noology
noologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noologist
protervity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protervities
Etymology: Latin protervitas, from protervus (“violent, wanton”).
Senses: examples: text: A vain and frail protervity, an envious prattling.
ref: Samson Lennard: Of Wisdom, bk.I,ch.XXXV, 1651
glosses: wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness
nooser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnusɚ/
Forms: form: noosers
Etymology: From noose + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Siribeddi followed with the same laggard step, and drew herself close up in his rear, enabling the native who acted as nooser, and who had followed stealthily behind, to slip the noose over the hind foot of the wild elephant.
ref: 1868, Alfred Elliott, The Forest, the Jungle, and the Prairie; or, Scenes with the Trapper and the Hunter in Many Lands, page 321:
text: 1912, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, Volume 59, W. B. Holland, page 269,
A nooser, lithe and active as an eel, slid down the pad-rope of his decoy and, waiting until the attention of the captive had been momentarily distracted, slipped a thick noose of rawhide around the hind ankle of his prize.
text: It is the ambition of each and every nooser to capture the first elephant; for he to whom falls this honor is considered the hero of the day, and in recognition of his skill and bravery is rewarded by His Excellency the Governor with an elephant book of Kandyan lacquer with brass and silver overlay.
ref: 1931, The Literary Digest, volume 108, Funk & Wagnalls, page 37:
glosses: Someone who uses a noose.
Norseland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Norse + -land.
Senses: glosses: The land where the Norsemen lived.
Derived terms: Norselander
noser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosers
Etymology: From nose + -er.
Senses: glosses: A nosy person.
examples: text: You got your grade back already? Let's have a noser!
glosses: An indulgence in nosiness or other curiosity.
examples: text: […] the blow was veritably a noser
ref: 1851, Harper's Magazine, volume 2, page 645:
glosses: A punch to the nose.
Related terms: brown-noser
nosher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noshers
Etymology: From nosh + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who noshes; an eater.
nosographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nosography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to nosography
Derived terms: nosographically
nosographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosographers
Senses: glosses: an expert in nosography
Neanderthals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neanderthal
noticer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noticers
Etymology: From notice + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The 81-year-old Saul Bellow’s slim novella “The Actual,”published^([sic]) three years before the heftier “Ravelstein,” distills his abiding attraction to “first-class noticers” into a Chicago romance with fairy-tale elements, in which a lifelong noticer is sought out and rewarded for his gift.
ref: 2010 December 10, Gail Godwin, “Working on the Ending”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
text: “He’s a great noticer of things, a great listener. His dialogue still sounds like real speech.”
ref: 2016 September 23, John Williams, “A Timeless Observer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022:
glosses: Someone who notices.
nouniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nouny + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the state, of a word or lexical item, of being a noun
Novembery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Novembery
form: most Novembery
form: Novembry
Etymology: From November + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was Novembery like yesterday & the air was clean & sharp.
ref: 2004, Juliette Starr Dana, A Fashionable Tour Through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi, page 35:
glosses: Characteristic of the month of November.
Decembery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Decembery
form: most Decembery
form: Decembry
Etymology: From December + -y.
Senses: glosses: characteristic of the month of December
Synonyms: Decemberish
Decemberly
Octobery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Octobery
form: most Octobery
Etymology: From October + -y.
Senses: examples: L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
There was such a nice frosty, Octobery smell in the air, blent with the delightful odor of newly plowed fields.
glosses: characteristic of the month of October
Septembery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Septembery
form: most Septembery
Etymology: From September + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There was a grey, Septembery dampness in the air.
glosses: Characteristic of the month of September.
Augusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Augusty
form: most Augusty
Etymology: From August + -y.
Senses: glosses: characteristic of the month of August
noticers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noticer
Marchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marchy
form: most Marchy
Etymology: From March + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Not now, but soon, and in a very few weeks, the Marchy winds already blowing, Mr. Eldredge of Mystic will be putting fatherlily his matchless peas in the frost-rid ground—after smoothing over the old ground-mole holes—and our friends in far, fair Florida, may safely move them to return.
ref: 1926 February 17, Frederick P. Latimer, “To Our Absent Friends”, in The New London Evening Day, New London, Conn., page six, column 4:
glosses: Characteristic of the month of March.
Aprilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aprilly
form: most Aprilly
Etymology: From April + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was a summer such as had not often been seen in Kirktown. Day after day, instead of the usual Aprilly weather variegated by thunderstorms which usually passes for summer in Scotland...
ref: 1907, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The iron lord:
text: It's turned Aprilly to-day — sharp showers and sunshine.
ref: 1917, Robert Ernest Vernède, Letters to his wife:
text: Aprilly and rainy here, but it will improve the crop of weeds on the front lawn.
ref: 2000, Anne of the Thousand Penguins, “KIDS!!!”, in alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup (Usenet):
glosses: Characteristic of the month of April.
noshers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosher
eat in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats in
form: eating in
form: ate in
form: eaten in
Senses: glosses: To eat a meal at home.
synonyms: word: to stay
word: for here
word: have here
english: as an instruction
translation: as an instruction
glosses: To eat a purchased meal on the premises where one bought it, rather than taking it away.
glosses: To etch or erode a substance. (of acid)
wreckreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wreck + recreation
Senses: examples: text: Wreckreation in Our National Forests
ref: 1973, David E. Gray, Donald A. Pelegrino, Reflections on the recreation and park movement: a book of readings:
text: ...critiques of motorized wreckreation...
ref: 2001, Wild Earth Association, Cenozoic Society, Wild earth, Volume 11, page 80:
text: Time will tell whether the small town surrounded by agribusinesses, booming residential populations, and sand dunes to drive on for high-speed wreckreation will preserve its maternal purity.
ref: 2008, Craig Chalquist, Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword on El Camino Real:
text: https://web.archive.org/web/20080509133709/http://www.peer.org/campaigns/publiclands/orv/index.php
Off-Road “Wreckreation” Plagues Public Lands
text: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2009/11/11/Wreckreation/index.html - By Jim Cooperman, 11 Nov 2009, TheTyee.ca
BC's Shameful Backcountry Wreckreation
glosses: Recreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in areas where raptors nest, or simply hiking in areas that disturb existing flora, fauna and archaeological resources.
congelifract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congelifracts
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fragment of rock broken off by the action of frost
congemination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: doubling, twinning
congenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + generate.
Senses: glosses: Having the same origin.
congenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: congenerates
form: congenerating
form: congenerated
form: congenerated
Etymology: From con- + generate.
Senses: glosses: To generate together.
congeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From con- + generation.
Senses: glosses: Simultaneous generation (as of heat and light from the same action)
congenerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the same (kind of) origin or action
glosses: Belonging to the same taxonomic genus; congeneric
Derived terms: congenerousness
congestant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more congestant
form: most congestant
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That causes congestion
Derived terms: decongestant
congestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more congestible
form: most congestible
Etymology: From congest + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Liable to become congested
congestiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more congestiparous
form: most congestiparous
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That causes congestion
Livornian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Livornian
form: most Livornian
Etymology: From Livorno + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Livorno.
Livornian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Livornians
Etymology: From Livorno + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Livorno.
Livornians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Livornian
Romandy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Romandie.
Senses: synonyms: Suisse romande
glosses: The French-speaking part of Switzerland.
feather-bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feather-beds
form: feather-bedding
form: feather-bedded
form: feather-bedded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of featherbed.
Ardennes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Arduenna silva (“the forest”). The initial portion is likely ultimately from a Celtic term meaning “dark; obscure”.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
forest, geographic region and low mountain range in France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg; in full, Ardennes Forest, Ardenne Forest, or Forest of Ardennes.
glosses: A placename:
A department of Grand Est, France. Capital: Charleville-Mézières (INSEE code 08).
glosses: Ellipsis of Battle of Ardennes and Battle of the Ardennes.
conglobation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conglobations
Etymology: From conglobate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
Related terms: conglobate
multeity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multeities
Etymology: From Latin multus (“much, many”).
Senses: examples: text: When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness—forma formosa.
ref: 1821 May 4, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [Letter beginning "Mr. and Mrs. Gillman's kind love […] "]; republished in Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, volume 1, as 'Letter 17', London: Edward Moxon, 1836, page 197:
glosses: manifoldness; multiplicity; the quality of being many.
Synonyms: sense: state or condition of being many
word: manyhood
word: multipleness
word: manyness
benzohydroquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzohydroquinones
Etymology: From benzo + hydroquinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic diphenol, having a structure of hydroquinone with a fused benzene ring, obtained by the reduction of naphthoquinone
bestatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the protease inhibitor ubenimex
ubenimex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: bestatin
glosses: A particular protease inhibitor used in the treatment of some leukemias
carboxymethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carboxymethylated
form: most carboxymethylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by carboxymethylation
carcinomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carcinomal
form: most carcinomal
Etymology: From carcinoma + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to carcinomas
caveolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caveolins
Etymology: From caveola + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins associated with caveolae membranes
Derived terms: caveolinopathy
chromomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromomycins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of glycoside antibiotics produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus
colipase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colipases
Etymology: From co- + lipase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein coenzyme secreted by the pancreas
Derived terms: procolipase
colonocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonocytes
Etymology: From colon + -o- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: An epithelial cell of the colon
colonocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonocyte
comediator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comediators
Etymology: From co- + mediator.
Senses: glosses: A joint or partner mediator (in various senses)
multifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin multifidus, from multi- (“many”) + -fidus, from findere (“to split”). Equivalent of multi- + -fid. Doublet of multifidus and multifidous.
Senses: examples: text: Helicidae: Land-snails...genital organs generally with a dart and multifid vesicles.
ref: 1898, Adam Sedgwick et al., A Student's Text-book of Zoology:
glosses: Cleft into many parts or lobes.
Coordinate terms: bifid
trifid
quadrifid
quinquefid
sexfid
sexifid
octofid
novemfid
decemfid
duodecimfid
centifidous
Derived terms: multifidly
multifidus muscle
anguinine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anguinine
form: most anguinine
Senses: examples: text: Asian dragons, unlike their European counterparts, are anguinine in appearance.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of serpents.
Synonyms: sinuous
serpentine
lady of leisure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies of leisure
Senses: glosses: A lady who is of independent means and so does not need employment; one who is free from duties and responsibilities.
glosses: An unemployed woman or one who has retired from work.
synonyms: lady of pleasure
glosses: A female prostitute.
Related terms: woman of leisure
man of leisure
ladies of leisure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady of leisure
I'm looking for a job
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is looking for a job.
Synonyms: I'm looking for work
SMH
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of shaking my head (used to convey disapproval).
examples: text: Hamlet: SMH. Who is going to be BURIED here?
ref: 2015, William Shakespeare, Courtney Carbone, srsly Hamlet, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of scratching my head (used to convey confusion or incredulity).
glosses: Initialism of so much hate.
SMH
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: SMHes
form: SMHing
form: SMHed
form: SMHed
form: smh
form: smh one's head
Senses: glosses: to shake one's head.
Related terms: shake one's head
SMH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Society for Military History.
glosses: Initialism of The Sydney Morning Herald.
Comox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈkʰoʊˌmɒks]
Etymology: From Lik'wala, the southern dialect of Kwak'wala kw’umuxws (“plentiful”).
Senses: glosses: A town on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A Salishan language historically spoken in Comox and the surrounding areas, including the Sunshine Coast.
glosses: A dialect of that language, spoken in Comox.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Comox-Sliammon
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: ʔayʔaǰuθəm
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: ʔayʔajuθəm
Hypernyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Homalco
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Klahoose
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Sliammon
Derived terms: Comox Valley
webform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webforms
form: web form
form: Web form
Etymology: From web + form.
Senses: examples: text: While this is longer it is both clearer to understand and to implement as a webform where the user will select an instrument.
ref: 2008, R Wright, “A Semantic Data Grid for Satellite Mission Quality Analysis”, in The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008:
glosses: A collection of user interface components on a website designed to solicit information from a user.
Synonyms: HTML form
online form
Hypernyms: form
webforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webform
orphan medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphan medicines
Senses: glosses: orphan drug
acierate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪsiəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: acierates
form: acierating
form: acierated
form: acierated
Etymology: From French aciérage, from acier (“steel”).
Senses: examples: text: The success of an attempt to acierate iron will depend on the amount of nitrogen contained by the iron during carburation.
text: As an economy measure, the manufacturer decided to use iron rather than steel, but to acierate the surface to limit oxidation.
text: The effect of manganese, whose influence on acieration is known to all manufacturers, is probably due to its rapid oxidation, thus producing a metallic oxide capable of completing the fining of the iron, and this, by eliminating any foreign body, facilitates the acierating process.
ref: 1861 June 22, M. Fremy, “On the Chemical Composition of Cast Iron and Steel”, in The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, volume 3, page 375:
text: It was noted by Biringuccio in 1540, and described by Agricola in "De Re Metallica" 1561 — that a bar of wrought iron, kept immersed long in molten cast iron, became acierated by taking up the carbon of the cast iron.
ref: 1906, Edgcumbe Staley, The guilds of Florence, page 306:
text: Activities: Production of stone crushers (capacity from 0.3 to 2.5 metric tonnes a batch), blasting machines (compression capacity of 160 tonnes), and steel-acierating machines.
ref: 1992, Vietnam Opportunities: The Official Vietnamese Business Guide, page 334:
glosses: To convert (iron) into steel, or to coat with a layer of steel by converting only the surface of the iron.
Related terms: acieration
acierage
madapolam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madapolams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of madapollam.
pale clouded yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pale clouded yellows
form: Pale Clouded Yellow
Senses: glosses: A small butterfly (Colias hyale) of the family Pieridae found in most of Europe and large parts of Asia.
redology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From red + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the four classic Chinese literary works.
horror story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horror stories
Senses: examples: text: The film is based on a horror story by Edgar Allan Poe.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A fictional narrative of horrifying and often supernatural events.
examples: text: We've heard horror stories about people being attacked in the elevator.
text: Nevertheless, the batarians have colonized the world, forcing slaves to work in their mines and agri-habitats. The labor is hot, endless, and backbreaking, even in the low-G environment. Every horror story told by slaves elsewhere in the cluster seems to be topped by one from Logasiri. The most famous is that of the slaver Silparon, who worked to death 420 slaves over the course of a galactic standard year and ground up their bodies for compost in his greenhouses.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Logasiri:
glosses: A disturbing rumour.
examples: text: It was more of a horror story than a vacation.
text: The French election is straying from the script. It was meant to be a predictable remake. It has turned into a thriller. It could end up as a horror story.
ref: 2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An unpleasant experience.
Related terms: horror show
complexometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From complex + -o- + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of titration in which the titrant forms a complex (usually coloured) with the analyte.
Related terms: complexometric
cyclopiazonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the specific epithet of the species name Penicillium cyclopium.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cyclopiazonic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: cyclopiazonate
cyclopiazonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A polycyclic metabolite of the fungus Penicillium cyclopium that interferes with calcium metabolism
Rising Sun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pope County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in White County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana, also located in Randolph Township.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cecil County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Utica, Crawford County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A hamlet in Calstock parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX3970).
Rising Sun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rising Sun
Senses: glosses: The flag of Japan.
examples: text: Sixty years after the end of World War II, the thinning ranks of American ex-POWs have received neither compensation for their slave labor under the Rising Sun nor an apology from Japan.
ref: 2006, John Glusman, chapter 26, in Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941–1945, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, pages 464–5:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Imperial Japanese rule.
Related terms: Land of the Rising Sun
desklamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desklamps
form: desk lamp
Etymology: From desk + lamp.
Senses: glosses: A lamp which sits on and is used to illuminate a desk.
Hyponyms: banker's lamp
Coordinate terms: table lamp
floor lamp
ceiling lamp
desklamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desklamp
fuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusers
Etymology: From fuse + -er.
Senses: glosses: The part of a laser printer that melts the toner onto the medium.
multijurisdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multijurisdiction
form: most multijurisdiction
Etymology: From multi- + jurisdiction.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of multijurisdictional.
synonyms: word: multijurisdictional
multijudge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + judge.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the study said female judges might exert their influence in cases that were decided by multijudge federal appeals panels.
ref: 2009 June 4, Neil A. Lewis, “Debate on Whether Female Judges Decide Differently Arises Anew”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having or pertaining to more than one judge.
multikilojoule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + kilojoule.
Senses: glosses: Of more than one kilojoule.
multikilowatt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + kilowatt.
Senses: glosses: Of more than one kilowatt.
axigluon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axigluons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposed class of gluon that has chiral color
elliptization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elliptizations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: transformation into a spherical 3-manifold
photoionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoionizes
form: photoionizing
form: photoionized
form: photoionized
Etymology: From photo- + ionize.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To cause, or to undergo photoionization
revenue raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The alleged practice of using traffic fines as a means of gathering taxes, rather than for road safety.
anthropise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anthropises
form: anthropising
form: anthropised
form: anthropised
Etymology: From anthrop- + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anthropize.
ROKS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of Republic Of Korea Ship, a warship of South Korea.
Coordinate terms: USS
HMS
IJN
JS
Related terms: ROK
RoK
RK
DPROK
DPRoK
DPRK
PRK
PRoK
PROK
ROCS
dentinogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dentine + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The process of the formation of dentine within odontoblasts
dicaprin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicaprins
Etymology: From di- + caprin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric diglycerides of capric acid
Related terms: monocaprin
tricaprin
monocaprin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocaprins
Etymology: From mono- + caprin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric monoglycerides of capric acid
Related terms: dicaprin
tricaprin
tricaprin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + caprin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triglyceride of capric acid
Related terms: monocaprin
dicaprin
dithioacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithioacetates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of dithioacetic acid
dithioacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dithiocarboxylic acid formally derived from acetic acid by replacing two oxygen atoms by those of sulfur - CH₃-C(=S)-SH
Related terms: dithioacetate
ectomesenchyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecto- + mesenchyme.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of mesenchyme, in the embryo, consisting of neural crest cells; forms the tissues of the neck and cranium
electroblotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + blotting.
Senses: glosses: A form of electrophoresis in which the separated materials are transferred onto a membrane.
Related terms: electroblotted
electroblotter
enamelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enamelins
Etymology: From enamel + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins associated with the formation of dental enamel.
nondutiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dutiable.
Senses: glosses: Not dutiable.
enamelysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enamelysins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A matrix metalloproteinase that is associated with the formation of dental enamel
endocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + cellular.
Senses: glosses: intracellular
Derived terms: endocellularly
endoprotease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoproteases
Etymology: From endo- + protease.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: endopeptidase
Derived terms: metalloendoprotease
Related terms: exoprotease
epidermoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: epidermo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Similar to epidermal tissue but not histologically identical, or not yet confirmed to be so.
epidermoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epidermoids
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: epidermo- + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An epidermoid cyst
Derived terms: mucoepidermoid
estrogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estrogenicities
Etymology: From estrogenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being estrogenic.
Derived terms: antiestrogenicity
hypoestrogenicity
xenoestrogenicity
exoglycosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoglycosidase
exoproteolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + proteolytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to exoproteolysis
Blackwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækwɛl/
Forms: form: Blackwells
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in England:
A village in St Cuthbert Without parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, previously in Carlisle district (OS grid ref NY4053).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Bolsover district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4358).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Blackwell in the Peak parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1272).
glosses: A place in England:
An outer suburb in Darlington borough, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ2712).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Lickey and Blackwell civil parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO9972).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County and St. Francois County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Kay County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small city in Coke County and Nolan County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Virginia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Forest County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Blackwellian
Blackwell in the Peak
Lickey and Blackwell
ampalaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampalayas
Etymology: From Tagalog ampalaya.
Senses: examples: text: As we can all guess correctly, bitterness was obtained from plants like the ampalaya.
ref: 2016, Micky Fenix, “What the early Filipinos ate at the time of the Spaniards”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:
glosses: bitter melon
Aostan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aostan
form: most Aostan
Etymology: From Aosta + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Aosta in Italy.
Aostan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aostans
Etymology: From Aosta + -n.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Aosta.
Aostans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aostan
radiotelegrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiotelegraphers
Etymology: From radio- + telegrapher or radiotelegraph + -er.
Senses: glosses: A radiotelegraph operator.
radiotelegraphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiotelegrapher
mumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mumpy
form: most mumpy
Senses: examples: text: An awful struggle for Primrose. Her chin stretched up above a mumpy neck. Sister Raymond put a wet cloth on her forehead, dribbled some water across her mouth.
ref: 1995, Thomas Keneally, A river town:
glosses: suffering from mumps
glosses: swelling; resembling mumps
LGTM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Said to have originated within Google, early 2000s, originally to give positive feedback on other people's work in a code review.
Senses: examples: text: The primary end goal of a code review is to get another engineer to consent to the change, which we denote by tagging the change as “looks good to me” (LGTM). We use this LGTM as a necessary permissions “bit” (combined with the other bits noted below) to allow the change to be committed.
ref: 2020, Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright, “Code Review”, in Software Engineering at Google […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of looks good to me.
prehydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prehydrates
form: prehydrating
form: prehydrated
form: prehydrated
Etymology: From pre- + hydrate.
Senses: glosses: to hydrate in advance (of e.g. exercise, a drought)
terrible twos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The terrible twos can begin at 18 months and last until about age five.
ref: 1988 February, Working Mother, volume 11, number 2:
text: The terrible twos came early. Almost a year early. When Ryan learned to walk it was the end of our peace of mind!
ref: 1990, Susan Hughes, Ryan: a mother's story of her hyperactive/Tourette syndrome child:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A developmental stage in toddlers, normally occurring around the age of two, involving refusals and temper tantrums.