cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
civet cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civet cats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of civet.
synonyms: word: civet
examples: text: So far as they may now be distinguished, the Civet Cats belonging to the astuta group are characterized: […]
ref: 1894 [1893], Samuel N. Rhoads, “Geographic Variation in Bassariscus Astutus, with Description of a New Subspecies”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 416:
text: Another name for the ringtail is, though it is neither, civet cat, because when frightened ringtails exude a musky secretion from an anal gland.
ref: [2004, Bil Gilbert, Natural Coincidence: The Trip from Kalamazoo, University of Michigan Press, page 104:
glosses: Synonym of ringtail (“Bassariscus astutus”).
synonyms: word: ringtail
extra: Bassariscus astutus
civet cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civet cat
bronchitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bronchitically
form: most bronchitically
Etymology: From bronchitic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The harmonium quavered bronchitically as Mrs Lackersteen struggled to pump sufficient air into it with the sole pedal that worked.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 24, in Burmese Days:
text: Waiting, too, were other people, shabby grey men and women, children holding on to their mothers' skirts, small Puerto Ricans, whites who wheezed bronchitically, others whose lips were lined in blue.
ref: 1967, Cynthia Nolan, Open Negative: An American Memoir, Macmillan, page 108:
glosses: With coughing and wheezing caused by bronchitis; (figuratively) with noises reminiscent of such coughing and wheezing.
Lexit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛksɪt
Etymology: Blend of left + exit, after Brexit.
Senses: examples: text: And that is why – if indeed much of the left decides on Lexit – it must run its own separate campaign and try and win ownership of the issue.
ref: 2015 July 14, Owen Jones, “The left must put Britain's EU withdrawal on the agenda”, in The Guardian:
text: Others on the left call for a populist campaign for a “Lexit” – a leftwing exit from the EU.
ref: 2015 October 5, Mark Leonard, “What would a UK outside the EU look like?”, in The Guardian:
text: There is a push from the left in the UK for a ‘Lexit’ – a move away from the neo-liberal EU which stomped on an anti-austerity peoples’ movement in Greece and failed to respond to the refugee crisis.
ref: 2016 June 22, Ewa Jasiewicz, “Why I’m in: Pushing for Lexit won’t help migrants or the working class”, in The Independent:
text: Exasperated by the EU’s mixture of authoritarianism and economic failure, a segment of Europe’s left is now calling for a “break with the EU,” which would mobilize left-wing support for exit referenda across the continent. Their analysis has come to be known simply as “Lexit.”
ref: 2016 September 5, Yanis Varoufakis, “Europe’s Left after Brexit”, in Jacobin:
text: Popular Unity contested the general election that followed in September on a programme for a left exit – Lexit – from the euro but, falling 7,600 votes short of the 3% threshold to win representation, ended up with no seats.
ref: 2019 February 24, Clive Heemskerk, “Lexit is not enough”, in Socialism Today:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A leftist exit from the European Union.
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: Brexit
Czexit
Frexit
Grexit
Polexit
Roexit
glosses: The hypothetical withdrawal of Luxembourg from the European Union.
Derived terms: Lexiteer
Lexiter
eastern spotted skunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern spotted skunks
Senses: glosses: A species of spotted skunk native to the eastern US, Spilogale putorius
eastern spotted skunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern spotted skunk
western spotted skunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western spotted skunks
Senses: glosses: A spotted skunk of species Spilogale gracilis, native to southern British Columbia, western US, and northern Mexico.
western spotted skunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western spotted skunk
butter muslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter muslins
form: butter-muslin
Senses: examples: text: 1916, Dairy Produce, Volume 23, Issue 1, Chicago Produce Company, https://books.google.ca/books?id=EkM6AQAAMAAJ&q=%22butter+muslin%22&dq=%22butter+muslin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOhOCX18HNAhVJ7WMKHe0NAdAQ6AEIqQMwSA
Always strain the cream into the churn through a fine piece of butter muslin, and never fill it more than one-third full; otherwise there will not be sufficient agitation when the cream is churned.
text: They had a way of treating certain wounds which I suppose was in accordance with the latest medical practice, but which was peculiarly horrible to look at. This was to leave the wound completely open and unbandaged, but protected from flies by a net of butter-muslin, stretched over wires.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
glosses: A cotton fabric similar to cheesecloth but with a tighter weave, used for draining and wrapping butter and cheeses.
butter-muslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter-muslins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butter muslin.
hydrophobia cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophobia cats
Senses: glosses: The western spotted skunk, Spilogale gracilis, at one time thought always to carry rabies.
Synonyms: hydrophobia skunk
hydrophobia cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrophobia cat
hydrophobia skunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophobia skunks
Senses: glosses: A western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis), at one time thought to be invariable carriers of rabies.
Synonyms: hydrophobia cat
hydrophobia skunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrophobia skunk
otonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otonalities
Senses: examples: text: Multiples up from otonalities, whereas divisors change the harmonic center and introduce new tonal sense (utonality).
ref: 1966, Jonas Mekas, Film Culture - Issues 40-42, page 6:
text: A similar correlation is evident in the physical layout of the Kithara II, which consists of twelve banks of six strings, each bank tuned to a specific, although incomplete, otonality or utonality.
ref: 1982, Percussive Notes - Volume 21, page 71:
text: So an otonality based on the 1-limit would have a 1-Identity (its first pitch), a 3-Identity (its second pitch), a 5-Identity (its third pitch), and so on.
ref: 2014, S. Andrew Granade, Harry Partch, Hobo Composer, →ISBN, page 214:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same denominator.
Related terms: otonal
otonalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otonality
utonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utonalities
Senses: examples: text: Fixed tonal systems find utonalities disturbing. There are four utonalities prominent in the chromatic gamut.
ref: 1966, Jonas Mekas, Film Culture - Issues 40-42, page 6:
text: A similar correlation is evident in the physical layout of the Kithara II, which consists of twelve banks of six strings, each bank tuned to a specific, although incomplete, otonality or utonality.
ref: 1982, Percussive Notes - Volume 21, page 71:
text: Contrasting otonality and utonality allows Johnston to mark distinctions between a melody and its inversion.
ref: 1995, 1/1: The Quarterly Journal of the Just Intonation Network:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same numerator; a subharmonic series.
Related terms: utonal
utonalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utonality
hydrostatic locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrostatic lock
hydrostatic locks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hydrostatic lock
cafeterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafeteries
Senses: examples: text: There is no "diner," so we get off the train for breakfast, and have some more cafeterie experience. A plate, knife and fork are provided, the rest you are expected to do for yourself, pay your bill and depart.
ref: 1907, Laura A. Taylor, Three Westerners Abroad, page 46:
text: 1909, Harvester World, International Harvester Company of America, Vol. 1, p. 28, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kzs2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22cafeterie%22&dq=%22cafeterie%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkq5uJ5cHNAhVGHGMKHZDXBL44ZBDoAQiXAzBF
A central kitchen serves a cafeterie, seating two hundred; a café, seating seventy; and a lunch counter with stools for forty.
text: In front of a cafeterie in San Francisco I saw a donkey carrying sandwich-boards upon which was lettered the legend, “This Cafeterie employs non-union labor. Do not patronize it!”
ref: 1911, The Philistine, a Periodical of Protest, volume 33, page 10:
glosses: Cafeteria.
examples: text: It appeared that the cafeterie was the very lowest post in the hotel, and a dreadful come-down for a waiter […]
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pantry, stillroom.
Palaiologan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palaiologans
form: Palaeologan
form: Palaeologian
Senses: examples: text: Scholars have also posited renaissances after the tenth century during the reign of the Komnenes in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and under the Palaiologans in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
ref: 2010, Liz James, A Companion to Byzantium, →ISBN, page 345:
glosses: A member of the last ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, which reigned from AD 1261 to AD 1453.
Palaiologan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Palaeologan
form: Palaeologian
Senses: examples: text: Palaiologan art favoured tall, robust figures wrapped in garments that revealed the body underneath.
ref: 2007, Carol M. Richardson, Locating Renaissance Art, →ISBN, page 198:
text: Regardless of style, there is no doubt that Palaiologan hagiography was written by urban authors addressing urban audiences whether in Constantinople or Thessalonike.
ref: 2014, Stephanos Efthymiadis, The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, →ISBN:
text: The imagery of the Virgin of the Walls and the imperial scene of supplication and presentation celebrate the restored Byzantine city and its centrality in the early Palaiologan conception of empire.
ref: 2014, Cecily J. Hilsdale, Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Pertaining to the reign of the Palaiologans.
Palaiologans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palaiologan
Palaeologan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palaeologans
Senses: examples: text: During the dynasty of the Palaeologans it went through a critically long and desperate period.
ref: 2003, Vasileios N. Tatakēs, Nicholas J. Moutafakis, Byzantine Philosophy, →ISBN, page 188:
text: The Palaeologans ruled one of these, the kingdom of Nicaea.
ref: 2015, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Global History, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Palaiologan.
Palaeologan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As an example of the diffusion of Byzantine culture, especially of the influences of Palaeologan painting, we might cite the remarkable Byzantine painter Theophanes "the Greek" (Feofan Grek in Russian.)
ref: 1984, Deno John Geanakoplos, Byzantium, →ISBN:
text: Its bold, experimental, and yet sophisticated solutions are a step beyond the other Palaeologan monuments of the capital.
ref: 1987, Robert G. Ousterhout, The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Byzantine art of the Palaeologan period is just as formal as in any preceding period, but the figures are treated semi-naturalistically and a restrained emotion is allowed to break through.
ref: 2004, Rowena Loverance, Byzantium, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Palaiologan.
Palaeologans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palaeologan
womantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊˈmæn.tɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Forms: form: more womantic
form: most womantic
Etymology: Blend of woman + romantic.
Senses: examples: text: “You say 'womantic comedy' [people] smile because they recognise that kind of relationship - they've been in one or they're mothers have or they know a womantic couple.” Alston says.
ref: 2010 October 23, Katherine Feeney, The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: It’s helped by a pair of delightful womantic leads, each lovable in their own way.
ref: 2012 August 30, “Review: For a Good Time, Call…”, in Crave Online:
text: The pair were spotted on a womantic dinner date at, errrrm, McDonalds^([sic]) following the GQ Men of The Year Awards on Tuesday night.
ref: 2013 September 4, Ashley Percival, “Rita Ora And Cara Delevingne Confirm They Are Very Much Still Wifeys With McDonalds^([sic]) Date After GQ Awards”, in HuffPost Entertainment United Kingdom:
text: This girlfriend talk is produced through a combination of womantic lexicon, therapy talk, and feminine consumption.
ref: 2013, A. Winch, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood:
text: The comedies in the exhibition showcased Australian films as part of major international traditions, for example Jucy, Louise Alston's 2010 'womantic' comedy, has at its heart friendship between women in the tradition of Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1990) […]
ref: 2014, “The international reception of Australian women film-makers”, in Continuum, volume 28, number 5:
glosses: Of or relating to womance.
Synonyms: sismantic
Coordinate terms: bromantic
Related terms: womance
womantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊˈmæn.tɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Forms: form: more womantic
form: most womantic
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of romantic, suggesting a speech defect.
bramberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bramberries
Etymology: From Middle English bramber, brember, from Old English brēmber, from Proto-West Germanic *brāmabaʀi. Doublet of frambesia and framboise. Cognate with German Brombeere. Related with bramble, brambleberry.
Senses: examples: text: Ellagic acid is the most abundant phenolic compound in cloudberry and red bramberry (Häkkinen et al. 1999). In red berries the major flavonol group present is the anthocyanins.
ref: 2010, Kjell Nilsson, Marcus Sangster, Christos Gallis, Forests, Trees and Human Health:
glosses: brambleberry
bramberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bramberry
serimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serimeters
Etymology: Borrowed from French sérimètre.
Senses: examples: text: The elasticity and the tenacity of raw silk are determined by the use of the serimeter.
ref: 1883, United States Bureau of Entomology, “Physical properties of reeled silk”, in Bulletin, number 9, page 54:
text: The serimeters (Fig. 7) are of both the Henry Baer and Milan Conditioning House type and are mounted in a laboratory having humidity control.
ref: 1922, The American Silk Journal, volume 41, page 70:
text: A serimeter is a machine used for breaking yarn in order to determine its strength and elongation.
ref: 1955, Industrial Quality Control, volume 11, page 16:
glosses: A device used for testing the strength of thread or yarn, especially of silk.
Synonyms: serigraph
serimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serimeter
EGFR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of epidermal growth factor receptor.
EMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMRs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: EHR
glosses: Initialism of electronic medical record.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of electromagnetic radiation.
coordinate_terms: EMT
glosses: Initialism of emergency medical responder.
Related terms: sense: emergency medical responder
english: emergency medical services
translation: emergency medical services
word: EMS
word: CIS
word: DICOM
word: HIS
word: HL7
word: PACS
word: RIS
word: EM
word: EMC
word: EMF
word: EMI
wet rag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet rags
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wet blanket.
synonyms: word: wet blanket
ankle biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ankle biters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ankle-biter.
catlap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæt.læp/
Forms: form: cat-lap
Etymology: From cat + lap.
Senses: examples: text: 'I will leave you to yourselves, gentlemen,' said the provost, rising; 'when you have done with your crack, you will find me at my wife's tea-table.' ¶ 'And a more accomplished old woman never drank catlap,' said Maxwell, as he shut the door […]
ref: 1824, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Redgauntlet:
text: "[…] You mustn't gobble, nor drink your beer too fast." ¶ "You are wrong, doctor; I never drink no beer: it costs." ¶ "Your catlap, then. […]"
ref: 1864, Charles Reade, chapter XIV, in Very Hard Cash, page 75:
text: I suppose you think I come here to beg from you, like this damaged lot here. Not me. I don't want your bread and scrape and catlap.
ref: 1907, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, act II:
text: All European food in Burma is more or less disgusting—the bread is spongy stuff leavened with palm-toddy and tasting like a penny bun gone wrong, the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days:
text: Identifying tea as 'catlap' had a prevailing satirical currency in the mid-1780s.
ref: 2015, Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World, London: Reaktion Books:
glosses: A watery or thin drink (especially tea or milk); a non-alcoholic drink.
razz someone's berries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: razzes someone's berries
form: razzing someone's berries
form: razzed someone's berries
form: razzed someone's berries
Senses: glosses: To impress somebody.
Related terms: raspberry
bicomposite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + composite.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: composite in two different ways
bicomposite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicomposites
Etymology: From bi- + composite.
Senses: examples: text: The presented bicomposite material managed to provide an microenvironment that altered the default healing response towards regeneration.
ref: 2016 January 15, “New Amniotic Membrane Based Biocomposite for Future Application in Reconstructive Urology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A composite formed from two different materials
11 Downing Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The address of the residence in London of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The title or office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
topics: government
politics
glosses: HM Treasury of the United Kingdom.
Synonyms: Number Eleven
Number 11
No 11
Related terms: 10 Downing Street
cercosporine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: MFS transporters are involved in the transport of mycotoxins, such as trichothecene and cercosporine, in several fungal species (e.g., [43]) and the otatraPN gene of P.
ref: 2016 January 15, “RNA-Seq Reveals OTA-Related Gene Transcriptional Changes in Aspergillus carbonarius”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of cercosporin.
Number Eleven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: No 11
form: Number 11
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of 11 Downing Street.
synonyms: word: 11 Downing Street
Related terms: Number Ten
Number 10
No. 10
Number 11
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: No 11
form: Number Eleven
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of 11 Downing Street.
synonyms: word: 11 Downing Street
Related terms: Number Ten
Number 10
No. 10
hemicystectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicystectomies
Etymology: From hemi- + cystectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Wistar rats underwent hemicystectomy and bladder augmentation with the biocomposite material.
ref: 2016 January 15, “New Amniotic Membrane Based Biocomposite for Future Application in Reconstructive Urology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of a significant part of the bladder, normally as part of reconstruction.
hyperthickening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + thickening.
Senses: examples: text: The choroid is characterized by Dilated and Attenuated (DA) type (arrowheads), choroidal vascular dilation, and choroidal hyperthickening.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Morphologic Characteristics of Choroid in the Major Choroidal Thickening Diseases, Studied by Optical Coherence Tomography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive thickening
neurodamaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + damaging.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to their combined known neurodamaging effects in the nigral tissue, stress and neurotoxin exposure has beenshown to exert theirdeleterious effect in extra-nigral neurons, which is a new finding.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Influences of Chronic Mild Stress Exposure on Motor, Non-Motor Impairments and Neurochemical Variables in Specific Brain Areas of MPTP/Probenecid Induced Neurotoxicity in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: neurologically damaging
pachychoroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pachy- + choroidal.
Senses: examples: text: Other pachychoroidal diseases such as a variety of inflammatory diseases may also show choroidal morphologic alterations.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Morphologic Characteristics of Choroid in the Major Choroidal Thickening Diseases, Studied by Optical Coherence Tomography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That involves excessive choroid thickening
pachychoroidopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, as far as we are aware, this is the first report to develop a novel morphologic classification system of the choroid and apply it to the major pachychoroidopathies.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Morphologic Characteristics of Choroid in the Major Choroidal Thickening Diseases, Studied by Optical Coherence Tomography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pachychoroidopathy
pachychoroidopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachychoroidopathies
Etymology: From pachy- + choroid + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Excessive choroid thickening
postinhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + inhibitory.
Senses: examples: text: In the lateral pyloric motor neuron of the crustacean STG, I h is among the subthreshold ionic currents regulating burst generation, participating in the postinhibitory rebound that leads up to the next burst [14, 17 ].
ref: 2016 January 15, “Electrophysiological Evidence for Intrinsic Pacemaker Currents in Crayfish Parasol Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following inhibition
regenotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + genotyping.
Senses: examples: text: The regenotyping and SNaPshot results were in complete accordance with original results.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Association of Ulcerative Colitis with FUT2 and FUT3 Polymorphisms in Patients from Southeast China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A second or subsequent genotyping.
tribochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tribo- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: If that being the case, blasting particles adhere to sandblasted material surface could be instrumental to increasing adhesive strength like underlying bonding mechanism between luting material and silanized particles of tribochemical silica coating-treated surface.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Various Effects of Sandblasting of Dental Restorative Materials”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to lubrication by chemical means.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Caused by rubbing together mechanically.
raw_tags: of a reaction
vitreoretinochoroidopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Additional single cases had final diagnoses of retinitis punctata albescens, autosomal dominant vitreoretinochoroidopathy, atrophy of the choroid and retina resembling gyrate atrophy but without hyperornithinemia, exudative vitreoretinopathy, optic atrophy, Alström syndrome, Bardet Biedl syndrome and Stargardt disease.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Mutation Detection in Patients with Retinal Dystrophies Using Targeted Next Generation Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: choroidal vitreoretinopathy
mindgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindgasms
Etymology: From mind + -gasm.
Senses: examples: text: So, if you're in need of a legal, au naturel way of improving your meat-beating, have you considered gooning or mindgasms?
ref: 2021 September 8, Ian Lecklitner, “Reddit's Quest for the Perfect Fap Drug”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2022:
glosses: An orgasmic-like sensation derived from thoughts.
assgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsˌɡæzəm/
Forms: form: assgasms
Etymology: From ass + -gasm.
Senses: examples: text: Many people are able to reach orgasm through anal penetration, called an “assgasm.” A female assgasm is a vaginal orgasm caused by stimulation or penetration of the anus, sometimes in combination with vaginal or clitoral stimulation.
ref: 2003 October 29, Christina Huff, “A Backdoor to Sexual Delight? Butt of Course!”, in The Daily Nexus:
glosses: An orgasm derived from the penetration of the anus.
coregasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coregasms
Etymology: From core + -gasm.
Senses: examples: text: Combine this with tension in the legs and a coregasm is born.
ref: 2014, Dr. Joanne Messenger, How to Balance Your Hormones, page 42:
text: The barista was saying how wonderful it was that the issue was receiving attention, coregasms being something a lot of women experienced and were frightened to talk about.
ref: 2014, N+1 Foundation Inc, Happiness: Ten Years of N+1:
text: We do know this much: there doesn't appear to be one single “spot” or muscle that is the key to sexual orgasms; similarly, there's no one path to coregasms.
ref: 2015, Debby Herbenick, The Coregasm Workout:
text: Indiana University researchers found that about 40 percent of women who reported having an exercise-induced orgasm (better known as “coregasms”) said their experience was during abdominal exercises like leg raises.
ref: 2015, Gillian Francella, Women's Health Easy Orgasms:
glosses: A pleasurable sensation during contractions of the muscles after or during exercise.
antianaplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + anaplastic.
Senses: glosses: That counters the effect of anaplastic tumours
antianaplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antianaplastics
Etymology: From anti- + anaplastic.
Senses: glosses: A drug that acts against anaplastic tumours
antianaplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, the majority of non-antibiotic agents belonging to different therapeutic groups, such as antianaplastics, antiarrhythmics, antihypertensives, antidepressives, anticonvulsatives, spasmolytics, and anti-inflammatory drugs, show only marginal direct antibacterial activity (MIC ≥3000 mg/L) [30 ,31 ].
ref: 2016 January 16, “The Influence of Efflux Pump Inhibitors on the Activity of Non-Antibiotic NSAIDS against Gram-Negative Rods”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of antianaplastic
decomposited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + composited.
Senses: examples: text: Overall, the decomposited XPS result of S 3 is similar to that of S 2, but different from S 1 .
ref: 2016 January 16, “A Practical Anodic and Cathodic Curve Intersection Model to Understand Multiple Corrosion Potentials of Fe-Based Glassy Alloys in OH - Contained Solutions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: resolved into its constituent components
enantioseparate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enantioseparates
form: enantioseparating
form: enantioseparated
form: enantioseparated
Etymology: From enantio- + separate.
Senses: examples: text: However, OT-CEC column accompanying with a BGE containing β-CD could enantioseparate the ten chiral drugs very well.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Preparation of a β -Cyclodextrin-Based Open-Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography Column and Application for Enantioseparations of Ten Basic Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To cause, or to undergo enantioseparation
enantioseparated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Under our opitimized separation conditons, nine pairs of drug enantiomers were partially enantioseparated, with the Rs values of 0.78, 1.16, 1.30, 1.28, 1.12, 1.21, 0.76, 0.92, 1.10 for zopiclone, chlorphenamine maleate, brompheniramine maleate, dioxopromethazine hydrochloride, carvedilol, homatropine hydrobromide, venlafaxine, sibutramine hydrochloride and terbutaline sulfate, respectively.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Preparation of a β -Cyclodextrin-Based Open-Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography Column and Application for Enantioseparations of Ten Basic Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of enantioseparate
Vardarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vardarian
form: most Vardarian
Etymology: From Vardar + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Vardar river in south-eastern Europe.
Synonyms: word: Vardaric
Vardar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Βαρδάριος (Bardários), possibly of Thracian origin, from an earlier *Vardários, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)wordo- *wori- (“black water”). More at Vardar.
Senses: examples: text: Departure from Salonica is at 7.10 a.m., and the train heads west over the dreary plain and crosses the Vardar, called in modern Greek the Axios, near the station of that name.
ref: 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
glosses: A river in Southeast Europe, which arises in North Macedonia and flows to the Aegean Sea in Greece.
Synonyms: english: in Greece
translation: in Greece
word: Axios
Derived terms: Vardarian
Vardaric
Vardaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vardaric
form: most Vardaric
Etymology: From Vardar + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Vardar river in south-eastern Europe.
Synonyms: word: Vardarian
leave to the imagination
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves to the imagination
form: leaving to the imagination
form: left to the imagination
form: left to the imagination
Senses: examples: text: The new members of the crime organization got the most dangerous jobs. I'll leave the specifics to your imagination.
glosses: Not to reveal.
To omit, to leave out, to leave unstated.
raw_tags: of information
examples: text: He stripped down to a pair of see-through briefs that left nothing to the imagination.
glosses: Not to reveal.
To cover.
raw_tags: of clothes
reverse rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse rapes
Etymology: So called because it is the opposite of the more common case of a man raping a woman.
Senses: examples: text: Minutes later it was over and the victim, Doug, an advertising executive in Connecticut, had been raped by a woman. Occurrences of reverse rape have increased dramatically in recent years.
ref: 1986, Bob Larson, Larson's Book of Family Issues, page 149:
text: To understand why she reacted in that way to both the social climate of rape and the rape of the woman reader in Les Liaisons, it is instructive to remember how every rape in Laclos is a staged event — simultaneously high-spirited and cruel as with Cecile, paradoxical as with Merteuil's reverse-rape of Prevan, and both theatrical and repugnantly sentimental as with Madame de Tourvel, who is permitted short-lived bliss before consigning herself to near-madness and death.
ref: 2006, Suellen Diaconoff, Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment:
text: […] female invasive orality (and King's metaphors for the process of lifesaving revolve around a kind of reverse rape, the male author 'being raped back into life by the woman's stinking breath' (M, 7), as the text misogynistically expresses it).
ref: 2011, John Sears, Stephen King's Gothic:
text: Judith's decapitation of Holofernes is often interpreted as a kind of reverse rape, in which a woman penetrates the male body rather than allowing a man to penetrate her own.
ref: 2012, Jacqueline Stodnick, Renée Trilling, A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies:
glosses: The act of a female raping a male.
Related terms: rape
reverse racism
reverse sexism
reverse rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse rape
could go all day
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Senses: examples: text: I could all go day about how they messed up, but you get the point.
glosses: One has much to say about something, but chooses to say only a fraction of it.
national average
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national averages
Senses: examples: text: House prices in London are higher than the national average.
glosses: The average value for something across a particular nation.
act of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acts of war
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An action that would justify the initiation of hostilities against the perpetrator; an action that by its nature comprises a cessation of peace.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An action taken by military forces as part of a war.
Related terms: casus belli
declaration of war
state of war
shifty-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shifty-eyed
form: most shifty-eyed
Senses: glosses: Giving the impression of being dishonest, especially signified by avoiding eye contact.
Cyzicus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪzɪkəs/
Forms: form: Kyzikos
Etymology: From Latin Cȳzicus, from Ancient Greek Κύζικος (Kúzikos).
Senses: glosses: A former city in Balikesir Province, Turkey, formerly part of the ancient region of Mysia.
genipocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition, in the presence of an equimolar amount of glycine, GNP can dimerize to generate genipocyanin G1, which is a blue-pigmented, highly conjugated dimeric adduct with the ability to cross-link proteins.
ref: 2016 January 16, “The Hydroxyl at Position C1 of Genipin Is the Active Inhibitory Group that Affects Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protein 2 in Panc-1 Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A blue pigment formed by the reaction of genipin and glycine
intrasomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + somatic.
Senses: examples: text: The location and morphological features of the recorded cells were confirmed further in some instances by intrasomatic injection of biocytin after obtaining synaptic responses.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Direct Effect of Remifentanil and Glycine Contained in Ultiva® on Nociceptive Transmission in the Spinal Cord: In Vivo and Slice Patch Clamp Analyses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the wall of a body part
mechanoresponse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanoresponses
Etymology: From mechano- + response.
Senses: examples: text: In these cells, much is still unknown about the cytoskeletal network, which governs the mechanoresponse.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Cytoskeletal Expression and Remodeling in Pluripotent Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A response to a mechanical stimulus
mechanoresponses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The exact intracellular mechanisms that govern these observed mechanoresponses in stem cells, however, have yet to be fully characterized.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Cytoskeletal Expression and Remodeling in Pluripotent Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of mechanoresponse
nerineoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerineoideans
Etymology: †Nerineoidea + -an
Senses: examples: text: The Late Mesozoic (Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous) could represent a peak in planktic productivity as indicated by the evolution of very large deposit-feeding nerineoidean gastropods which reached lengths of 50 cm beginning in the Late Jurassic [70], and by a size maximum in suspension-feeding bivalves in the Late Cretaceous (Table 1) and of suspension-feeding gastropods (Gigantocapulus schmitti, length 400mm) [71, 72].
ref: 2016 January 16, “Gigantism and Its Implications for the History of Life”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of the superfamily †Nerineoidea of extinct sea snails.
onconeuronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From onco- + neuronal.
Senses: examples: text: Because the majority of patients had either anti-NMDAR or -VGKC antibodies, autoantibody type was categorized into the following three groups: anti-NMDAR, anti-VGKC (LGI1 or Capsr2), and others (anti-GABAb or onconeuronal antibody).
ref: 2016 January 16, “Effect of Immunotherapy on Seizure Outcome in Patients with Autoimmune Encephalitis: A Prospective Observational Registry Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Related to cancer and to neurological syndromes
preautophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + autophagic.
Senses: examples: text: As preautophagic mitochondria reduce their membrane potential and OPA1 levels, these results suggest that fission events induce recycling processes.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Quality Saving Mechanisms of Mitochondria during Aging in a Fully Time-Dependent Computational Biophysical Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Present prior to autophagy
prederivatised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + derivatised.
Senses: examples: text: O’mahony et al prepared OT-CEC by immobilisation of dodecanethiol gold nanoparticles on prederivatised fused-silica capillaries and applied the columns to separate pyrethroid pesticides [21 ].
ref: 2016 January 16, “Preparation of a β -Cyclodextrin-Based Open-Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography Column and Application for Enantioseparations of Ten Basic Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: derivatised prior to some other process
transmember
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + member.
Senses: examples: text: The mitochondrial transmember potential disruption was significantly increased to 27% of cells in FD treatment as compared with the FC and MFD treatments which were less than 7% (Fig 6B ).
ref: 2016 January 16, “Folate Deficiency Triggered Apoptosis of Synoviocytes: Role of Overproduction of Reactive Oxygen Species Generated via NADPH Oxidase/Mitochondrial Complex II and Calcium Perturbation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Through or across a member
forestroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestrokes
Etymology: From fore- + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: The endopods of the second maxilla and of the trunk limbs flick medially at the termination of the forestroke and the posterior setae of the endopod are pointed medially.
ref: 1963, Howard L. Sanders, The Cephalocarida:
text: Forward motion can also be produced by the figure-8 stroke, by increasing the angle of attack on the backstroke and decreasing it on the forestroke, and by moving the whole limb from 'forward and down' to 'back and up' (Fig. 10c,d).
ref: 1985, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth sciences
text: Around 1500, beyaerders also applied their chiming technique on the smaller bells of the forestroke.
ref: 2014, Luc Rombouts, Singing Bronze: A History of Carillon Music:
glosses: A forward stroke or movement.
examples: text: Yes, and we call it a waving forestroke. It sometimes waves upward, sometimes downward.
ref: 1882, Harmony Simplified: Text-book of the Harmony Circle
text: The particular kind of forestroke was also indicated by double letters.
ref: 1901, The Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-fa Reporter:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ornament in which one or more notes are added before the principal note, such as an appoggiatura or acciaccatura
forestrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestroke
double aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double aunts
Senses: examples: text: The youngest son of Frikkie's sister had been betrothed to the girl who had measles in my house ; she was my sister's child, and thus I was double aunt.
ref: 1923, Mrs. Alida M. de Wet Badenhorst, Tant' Alie of Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902, page 235:
text: Aunt Mary was Uncle Burney 's double aunt. Now figure that out. She was Uncle Burney 's father's sister and also his mother's sister.
ref: 1971, Irwin Anderson Watson, The pioneers were our ancestors - Volumes 1-2, page 100:
text: It's difficult to determine which aunt Patience may be referring to here, but Patience had a double aunt and uncle: Patience's mother's sister Elizabeth married Patience's father's brother Daniel.
ref: 2006, Sandra Ailey Petree, Recollections of Past Days, →ISBN:
text: "Of course she's your aunt Callie. She's married to your uncle Rod." Kelsey threw her head back and laughed. “Then she's a double aunt.” Dana coughed. "Do you want some pie?" "What's a double aunt?" Callie tilted her head, a half smile curving her lips. "You're married to my Uncle Rod, Dad's brother, and you're also Mom's sister."
ref: 2011, Carol Ericson, B.J. Daniels, The McClintock Proposal/High-Caliber Christmas, →ISBN:
text: A dominant influence on NIghtingale was her Aunt Mai (Mary Shore Smith, eventually a double aunt as she was her father's sister who married her mother's brother).
ref: 2011, Timothy Larsen, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: A woman who is one's aunt in two ways, e.g. being a sister of one parent and the wife of a sibling of the other.
examples: text: I've just paid one to my double aunt.' Phelan ventured to ask what relationship that might be. ' She's my father's aunt first, and then she's mine next, and so she is really two aunts,' he explained. '
ref: 1894, Neil Christison, Wedded to a Genius: A Novel - Volume 1, page 201:
text: Proving that when good things come they come in pairs, Moss Kelly (9) was the twice proud father or twin boys last Thursday . . . this makes Louise Splane (3) a double aunt or something.
ref: 1944, The Tucson Liberator - Volume 2:
text: "If everything goes well, then you'll become a double aunt." "When is the baby. . . I guess I should say when are the babies due?" Selena asked.
ref: 2013, Rochelle Alers, Sweet Persuasions, →ISBN:
glosses: A woman who is the aunt of exactly two people, especially when those two people are twins.
Related terms: double uncle
double cousin
bendels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bendel
laughing kookaburras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughing kookaburra
double uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double uncles
form: double-uncle
Senses: examples: text: You can be a father as well as a double-uncle.
ref: 2008, Carl Djerassi, Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction:
text: Sigmund Freud, was an uncle (actually a double uncle) of the founder of modern public relations, Edward Bernays.
ref: 2011, Jeffrey Sachs, The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity:
text: Paul muttered, shaking his head in annoyance. “I don't approve of this!” Bonnie guiltily lowered her head and trotted out of the room, while Jack just grinned broadly at his stepfather. “But I had to tell him he's a double-uncle,” he defended his actions. “And I have a couuuuuuuuusin!”
ref: 2012, Ina Linger, Three-Night-Stand: Love is Simple:
text: Fenn announced that he reckoned he would be a double uncle if Harriet would let him.
ref: 2013, Philippa Carr, Lament for a Lost Lover:
glosses: A man who is one's uncle in two different ways, e.g. a brother of one parent and a brother-in-law of the other.
Related terms: double aunt
double uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double uncle
double-uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-uncles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double uncle.
double-uncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-uncle
double aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double aunt
acts of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of act of war
blue-winged kookaburras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-winged kookaburra
rufous-bellied kookaburras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rufous-bellied kookaburra
ROMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ROM
swing check valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swing check valves
Senses: glosses: A type of check valve using a disc on a hinge for its function.
blackity-black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blackity-black
form: most blackity-black
form: blackity black
form: blackedy black
form: blackedy-black
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from blackedy (“characteristically black”) + black, with reduplication serving to intensify or stress the focus on being black (i.e. African-American); blackedy being equivalent to blacked + -y; or alternatively a corruption of blackedly black. Compare blacked up. For the spelling with -ity, see -ety, -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Like my dad would say, he was "blackity black black." My parents would freak.
ref: 2006, Carol Taylor, Wanderlust: Erotic Travel Tales:
text: And yeah, the second track, "Black Is Back," was quite possibly a major inspiration behind the "I'm Black, Y'all" (aka "I'm blackedy black black b-black black, yo, 'cause I'm black and I'm back") spoof in CB4.
ref: 2008, Chris Woodstra, John Bush, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Old School Rap and Hip-hop, page 78:
text: I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all And I'm blackity black and I'm black y'all [...]
ref: 2014, Teresa Wiltz, The Real America: The tangled roots of race and identity:
text: “I'm black. You're black. African American, Bilalian, Negro, Colored folk, blackity-black, black. Those Oreos up there, they're black too, although I'm sure they'd cry if you told them.
ref: 2015, Mat Johnson, Loving Day: A Novel:
text: The ceremony and reception were opulent, lavish, over the top, Blackedy-Black (they gave each other dap after the kiss), and not unlike what I imagine the fictional Mary Jane's wedding to a millionaire might look like.
ref: 2016, Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn, The Crunk Feminist Collection:
glosses: Typifying characteristic traits (e.g. physical, cultural, linguistic, etc.) of African-American blacks, especially in defiant contrast to those of whites or white-favouring blacks; quintessentially or characteristically black
raw_tags: of persons
Derived terms: blackity-black black
pro-blackity-black
sex flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex flushes
Senses: glosses: The flushed appearance, redness, or blush that appears after sex or an orgasm; afterglow.
sex flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex flush