cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stackback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stackbacks
Etymology: From stack + back.
Senses: examples: text: A larger stackback allows more light into the room during the day.
topics: architecture
glosses: The amount of wall space at either side of a window where the curtains are drawn back when fully open.
stackbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stackback
impressionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impressionism
stackably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stackable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stackable manner; so as to permit stacking.
take one's chances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's chances
form: taking one's chances
form: took one's chances
form: taken one's chances
Senses: examples: text: If you had offered Eddie Jones a 24-point margin of victory against his homeland prior to the start he would have snatched your arm off above the elbow. The fact it was achieved with 36% of the ball and similar territory stats underlines the reality of modern-day rugby: possession is all very well but taking your chances when they arise is what really counts.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
glosses: Alternative form of take one's chance.
servee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servees
Etymology: From serve + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The servee must return the service above the play line.
ref: 1891, Chambers's Encyclopaedia: Volume 8:
text: Meantime the server of the bouillon and the servee are developing their latent notions, if they be latent, of grace and ease and savoir faire, which go so far to distinguish the American or any other lady from the Hottentot.
ref: 1895, Everyday Housekeeping: Volume 3, Issues 1-5:
glosses: One who is served, or served to; the recipient of a service.
servees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servee
whippee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whippees
form: whipee
Etymology: From whip + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: I found myself wondering perversely whether Ross was the whipper or the whippee. Or maybe they took turns.
ref: 2002, James I. Kruger, Stranger in the Mirror, page 128:
glosses: The recipient of a whipping.
whippees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whippee
tabularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tabularizes
form: tabularizing
form: tabularized
form: tabularized
Etymology: From tabular + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make tabular, or format as a table; to tabulate.
tabularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tabularize
tabularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tabularize
tabularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tabularize
Blyton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪtən/
Forms: form: Blytons
Etymology: From the Old Norse personal name Blígr + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8594).
glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: Blytonesque
Blytonian
chelerythrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek celandine + red; see erythro-.
Senses: glosses: A benzophenanthridine alkaloid extracted from the greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)
sanguinarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Sanguinaria (“genus of bloodroot”) + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic benzylisoquinoline alkaloid found in the bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) and certain other plants.
Derived terms: dihydrosanguinarine
oxysanguinarine
benzophenanthridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzophenanthridines
Etymology: From benzo- + phenanthridine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetracyclic aromatic heterocycle composed of a benzene ring fused with a phenanthridine residue
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a large class of alkaloids based on this structure
dihydrosanguinarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dihydro + sanguinarine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in the herb Corydalis adunca, related to sanguinarine.
benzophenanthridines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzophenanthridine
chemoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chemoprotective
form: most chemoprotective
Etymology: From chemo- + protective.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That protects patients from the toxic effects of anticancer drugs
Derived terms: photochemoprotective
Related terms: chemoprotection
cubebin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cubeb + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, tetrahydro-3,4-dipiperonylfuran-2-ol, obtained from the cubeb or tailed pepper (Piper cubeba), that has anti-inflammatory activity.
cybertrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + trash.
Senses: examples: text: Even Miss Dorcas here possesses information quite detrimental to my endeavors, and though you, Leland Dillard, are responsible for her sifting through cybertrash, that responsibility isn't enough[…]
ref: 1998, Bret Lott, The Hunt Club:
text: Cybertrash in the form of SPAM^([sic]) (unsolicited email advertisements), fraudulent get-rich-quick schemes, pornography, and other Internet "pollution" continues to trouble legislators.
ref: 2003, David L. Baumer, Julius Carl Poindexter, Legal environment of business in the information age:
text: A zine can't help your practice if it ends up in the cybertrash unopened.
ref: 2011, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael W. McLaughlin, Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants:
glosses: trash on the Internet or in cyberspace
cyanobactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanobactins
Etymology: From cyanobacteria + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of small, cyclic peptides produced by cyanobacteria, many of which show antimalarial or antitumor activity.
cyanobactins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanobactin
cyclodipeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclodipeptides
Etymology: From cyclo- + dipeptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclopeptide composed of two amino acid residues
cyclodipeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclodipeptide
cyclopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopeptide
cyclotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclotides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of oligopeptides, of plant origin, that have a cyclopeptide backbone bridged with multiple disulfide bonds
cyclotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclotide
dATP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of deoxyadenosine triphosphate.
Related terms: ATP
deoxyadenosine triphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nucleoside triphosphate used in cells for DNA synthesis
Synonyms: dATP
macaroni and gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A savory dish made from cooked macaroni and tomato sauce.
ragtimy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ragtimy
form: most ragtimy
Etymology: From ragtime + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ragtimey.
Kilmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kilmerian
form: most Kilmerian
Etymology: From Kilmer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), American writer and critic.
multialarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-alarm
Etymology: From multi- + alarm.
Senses: examples: text: Fires which have heretofore been one‐alarm skirmishes are now multialarm small wars.
ref: 1977 February 14, Joseph E. Galvin, “Under Fire”, in The New York Times:
text: Two multialarm fires burned out of control for several hours in New York City last night, one racing through seven frame dwellings and leaving more than 100 people homeless in the Morrisania section of the Bronx and another, reportedly set by arsinists^([sic]), destroying a series of stores and residences in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.
ref: 1977 July 25, “Fires Burn in Bronx and Brooklyn”, in The New York Times:
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: Requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.
raw_tags: of a fire
plumb crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plumb crazy
form: most plumb crazy
Senses: glosses: Thoroughly crazy; quite mad.
tresayle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tresayles
Etymology: From Middle French trisayeul, from Latin tris, tres (“three”) + French aïeul (“grandfather”). Compare besaiel, and see ayle.
Senses: examples: text: If the abatement happened on the death of one's grandfather or grandmother, then an assise of mort d'ancestor no longer lies, but a writ of ayle or de avo: if on the death of the great-grandfather or great-grandmother, then a writ of be sayle, or de proavo: but if it mounts one degree higher, to the tresayle, or grandfather's grandfather, of if the abatement happened upon the death of any collateral relation, other than those before-mentioned, the write is called a writ of cosinage, or de consanguineo.
ref: 1853, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, page 148:
text: If any one wishes to speak of a great-great-grandfather (tresayle) through some side line, as his grandmother’s mother’s father, he has to use an explanatory mode like the above.
ref: 1874 February 4, W. H. Whitmore, “A New System of Denoting Relationship”, in The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XXVIII, Boston, Mass.: […] the Society’s House, […], published October 1874, page 403:
text: Thomas Boston Clarkson, whose genealogy is given in the third pamphlet, was born in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 4, 1809. His maternal grandmother was Christiana, daughter of Thomas Boston, V.D.M., whose ancestry is traced back five generations to her tresayle, Andrew Boston, born in Ayre, Scotland, about 1597.
ref: 1877 July, John Ward Dean, Notices of Recent Publications from the Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1877, page 12:
text: […]in 1834, he prefixes to his diary a record of his ancestors, running back four generations to his tresayle, or great-great-grandfather, Joseph Towne, living in Topsfield, 1684.
ref: 1878, John Ward Dean, Sketch of the Life of William Blanchard Towne, A.M., Founder of the Towne Memorial Fund of the New-England Historic, Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.: […] the N. E. Historic, Genealogical Society, […], page 9:
text: In April 1600 Delahay protested to Sir Robert that on a Sunday in March 'I was assaulted and violently pulled […] , and where men see Richard Cecil your tresayle [actually his great-grand brother] use'-by the procurement of John Arnold.
ref: 1960 January, A.L. Rowse, “Alltyrynys and the Cecils”, in English Historical Review:
text: However, two individuals a and b whose most recent common ancestor c is the quatrayle of the former and the tresayle (great-great-grandfather) of the latter may belong to the same lineage, because the genealogical chain connecting them consists of nine degrees of kinship.
ref: 2012, Jérémie Delorme, “The Double System of Descent Groups and Surname Adaptations in a Francoprovençal/French Diglossic Situation”, in Oliviu Felecan, editor, Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 80:
glosses: A grandfather's grandfather; a great-great-grandfather.
Derived terms: writ of tresayle
Related terms: ayle
besaiel
quatrayle
holethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin holethnos + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: the holethnic history of the Arians
ref: 1879, London Academy:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.
viscerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: viscerates
form: viscerating
form: viscerated
form: viscerated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eviscerate.
viscerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of viscerate
viscerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of viscerate
viscerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of viscerate
electrooculograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrooculogram
centrefire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrefires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centerfire.
puggries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puggry
pugilisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pugilism
bat mitzvah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑt ˈmɪtsvə/
Forms: form: bat mitzvahs
form: b'not mitzvah
form: bat-mitzvah
form: bas mitzvah
form: bath mitzvah
Etymology: From Hebrew בַּת מִצְוָה (bát mitsvá, “bat mitzvah, someone who has come of age”).
Senses: synonyms: sweet thirteen
glosses: A Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl.
glosses: A girl who has come of age.
Related terms: bar mitzvah
bat mitzvah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑt ˈmɪtsvə/
Forms: form: bat mitzvahs
form: bat mitzvahing
form: bat mitzvahed
form: bat mitzvahed
form: bat-mitzvah
form: bas mitzvah
form: bath mitzvah
Etymology: From Hebrew בַּת מִצְוָה (bát mitsvá, “bat mitzvah, someone who has come of age”).
Senses: examples: text: Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West[…], Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, waiting knife in hand for the ceremony of the blessing of the bread.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Though I was bat mitzvah’d, my parents always made it clear that they weren’t big proponents of organized religion either. But being Jewish was still woven into the fabric of my upbringing with rituals, family history and core values.
ref: 2022 October 1, Jessica Grose, “Teaching My Kids How to Be Jewish, One Plate of Apples at a Time”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To initiate (someone) in a bat mitzvah ceremony.
Trans-Siberian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of trans-Siberian.
Trans-Siberian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Trans-Siberian
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Trans-Siberian Railway.
occupational disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occupational diseases
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity.
Hypernyms: occupational hazard
Hyponyms: acrodynia
asbestosis
berylliosis
black lung
byssinosis
chalicosis
chimney sweep's carcinoma
coalworker's pneumoconiosis
farmer's lung
fiddler's neck
flock worker's lung
glassblower's cataracts
golfer's elbow
indium lung
mesothelioma
miner's cough
miner's disease
miner's lung
mule spinner's cancer
occupational cancer
phossy jaw
pneumoconiosis
silicosis
Related terms: occupational health and safety
RLL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: run-length limited
KGV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of King George V.
dendric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a dendrite
Derived terms: adendric
Related terms: dendricity
dendritogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendrite + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation of neural dendrites
Related terms: dendritogenic
dorsalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorsalizations
Etymology: From dorsal + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of dorsal cell types, and the organization of tissue along the dorsoventral axis.
Derived terms: hyperdorsalization
Related terms: dorsalize
electroeluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From electro- + eluted.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electroelute
electrophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrophores
Etymology: From electro- + -phore.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: electrode
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any electrophilic compound, often used as a tracer, that can be detected in very small amounts by electron-capture mass spectrometry
electrophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrophore
ethylnitrosourea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethyl + nitrosourea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: ENU
glosses: The compound 1-ethyl-1-nitrosourea that is used in organic synthesis as an alkylating agent and is a potent mutagen
extein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The product formed by the excision of an intein from a protein
exteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extein
frilled shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frilled sharks
form: frill shark
Etymology: Referring to the frilled appearance of the gill slits.
Senses: glosses: Any member of two extant species of shark in genus Chlamydoselachus or their extinct close relatives,
Chlamydoselachus anguineus, of wide distribution in mostly in outer continental shelves
glosses: Any member of two extant species of shark in genus Chlamydoselachus or their extinct close relatives,
Chlamydoselachus africana (southern African frilled shark)
Coordinate terms: taxonomic: Hexanchidae spp.
word: cow shark
Nordic walking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pole walking
glosses: The sport of walking assisted with poles that resemble ski poles.
galactosaminidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactosaminidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyzes certain glycoproteins to produce galactosamine
germin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germins
Etymology: From germination (or related word) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins, resistant to proteases, associated with the germination of cereals
germins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germin
globulomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globulomers
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of globular amyloid beta-peptide oligomers that are implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease
Related terms: globulomeric
preglobulomer
globulomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globulomer
haploidentical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haplo- + identical.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having the same haplotype
heterophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + -philic.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having an affinity for antigens or antibodies other than the one for which it is specific.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That is stained by more than one class of stain.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
antonyms: homophilic
glosses: Tending to maintain relationships with people who are different from oneself in age, race, gender, etc.
Derived terms: heterophilically
hexon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexons
Etymology: From hex- + -on.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any small biological structure that has hexagonal symmetry.
homogenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: homogenized
hyperactivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperactivate
hypodiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + diploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having fewer than the diploid number of chromosomes
Related terms: diploid
euploid
haploid
hyperdiploid
hyperhaploid
hypohaploid
hypodiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypodiploids
Etymology: From hypo- + diploid.
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
immunocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunocyte
immunocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocytes
Etymology: From immuno- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A leukocyte that is able to induce an immune response by creating antibodies.
Derived terms: immunocytic
immunocytoma
inteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intein
isomaltase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomaltases
Etymology: From iso- + maltase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of isomaltose and related dextrins
lipectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: lipectomies
Etymology: From lip- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of fat from the body
Derived terms: dermolipectomy
lipectomize
Related terms: lipoplasty
liposuction
lipocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipocyte
lipocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipocytes
Etymology: From lipo- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An adipocyte in connective tissue that stores and metabolizes fat
luminogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luminogenic
form: most luminogenic
Senses: glosses: That generates light
Derived terms: chemiluminogenic
Related terms: luminogen
bioluminescent
mercaptopropionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mercapto- + propionic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mercaptopropionic acid or its derivatives
mercaptopropionic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The thiol-substituted carboxylic acid HS-CH₂-CH₂-CO₂H which is used to produce hydrophilic monolayers and stabilize PVC
metabolizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabolizabilities
Etymology: From metabolize + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability to metabolize or to be metabolized
microphthalmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microphthalmias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: microphthalmos
microphthalmy
coordinate_terms: nanophthalmia
nanophthalmos
glosses: The presence of abnormally small eyes.
Related terms: Lenz microphthalmia syndrome
microphthalmous
nanophthalmia
microviridin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microviridins
Etymology: Shortened form of Microcystis viridis with -in suffix.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic depsipeptide isolated from the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis viridis
morphoregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + regulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The regulation of morphogenesis
motilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motility
neovasculogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + vasculogenesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of new blood vessels in the adult organism.
Related terms: neovascular
neovascularity
neovascularization
neovascularize
neovasculature
neovasculogenic
neurocoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurocoeles
form: neurocoel
Etymology: From neuro- + -coele.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The neural canal.
nitroanilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitroanilides
Etymology: From nitro- + anilide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amide of nitroaniline
oligomannose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligomannoses
Etymology: From oligo- + mannose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycan that is an oligomer composed of mannose units
oligomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligomycins
Etymology: From oligo- + -mycin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of toxic macrolides, produced by Streptomyces bacteria, that are used as antibiotics
patellamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patellamides
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of lipophilic cytotoxic cyclic peptides that were originally isolated from the marine tunicate Lissoclinum patella
whole tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole tones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to a frequency ratio of 8/7, 9/8, or 10/9, depending on the tuning system used. In meantone tunings (including twelve-tone equal temperament), there is only one whole tone, though tuning systems that are not meantone have a "major tone" of 9/8 and a "minor tone" of 10/9.
Synonyms: tone
whole step
Related terms: semitone
tonal center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonal centers
form: tonal centre
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The final, resolving note of a scale.
Related terms: tonic
odontolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontolites
Etymology: From odonto- + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fossil tooth coloured a bright blue by iron phosphate, used as an imitation turquoise.
Synonyms: bone turquoise
odontolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontolite
septennate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septennates
Etymology: French septennat.
Senses: examples: text: the septennate during which the President of the French Republic held office
glosses: A period of seven years.
septennates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septennate
Socratist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Socratists
Etymology: From Socrates + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A disciple or follower of Socrates.
Socratists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Socratist
merd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Etymology: Borrowed from French merde and Latin merda. Doublet of mierda.
Senses: examples: text: discuss the original of a merd.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Ordure; dung, shit, excrement.
Derived terms: bemerd
phagokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phago- + kinetic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the tracks left as a motile cell moves across a surface, engulfing and absorbing nanoparticles or quantum dots as it moves
photocarcinogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + carcinogenesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: The creation of cancer cells by the action of light
brokage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹoʊkɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: brokages
Senses: examples: text: From brokage is become so bold a thief, / As we, the robbed, leave rage, and pity it.
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, “On Poet Ape”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson:
glosses: The act of a broker; brokerage.
circinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circinal
form: most circinal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κίρκινος (kírkinos, “pair of compasses”). Compare circinus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: circinate; coiled from the apex towards the base
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: circinate; round of ring-shaped
invalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin invalescens, present participle of invalescere (“to become strong”). See in- and convalesce.
Senses: glosses: strength; health
vagabondries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagabondry
vagabondry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagabondries
Etymology: From vagabond + -ry.
Senses: glosses: vagabondage (vagabond behavior)
phytobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phytobacteria
phytobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytobacteria
Etymology: From phyto- + bacterium.
Senses: glosses: A bacterium that lives in or on a plant.
Derived terms: phytobacterial
phytobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytobacterium
hamated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hamated
form: most hamated
Senses: examples: text: hamated lines
text: Farther, that nothing less than a violent Heat, can disentangle these Creatures [animal spirits] from their hamated station of Life, or give them Vigor and Humor, to imprint the Marks of their little Teeth.
ref: 1704, Jonathan Swift, The Mechanical Operation of Spirit:
text: The jaws were furnished with hooks or hamated teeth, in the manner common to snakes.
ref: 1802, Samuel Latham Mitchill, The Medical Repository:
synonyms: hamate
glosses: Hooked, or with hooks
incavation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incavations
Etymology: From in- + cave + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: For, the chief Difference betwixt a Fluid, and a Soft body, accepted in a Philosophical or præcise, not a Poetical or random sense, consisteth only in this; that the Fluid, when prest upon, doth yield to the body pressing, not by indentment or incavation of it superfice, i.e. the retrocession of its superficial particles, which are immediately urged by the depriment, toward its middle or profound ones, which are farther from it; but by rising upwards in round and equally on all sides, as much as it is deprest in the superfice;
ref: 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, page 326:
text: Thus it was urged that since a glacier can be shown to have produced a number of mountain tarns, there is no reason why in sufficient time it should not accomplish the incavation of a lake or an inland sea, such as Lake Geneva, or Superior, or the Caspian.
ref: 1901, Henry Woodward, Geological Magazine, page 391:
glosses: The act of making hollow.
examples: text: A case or curb to be used to prevent incavation in sinking wells and boring into loose ground
ref: 1834, American state papers: documents, legislative and executive of the Congress of the United States, page 136:
text: In addition, may be mentioned a great variety of miscellaneous casualties, from incavations, burnings, crushings, shootings, cuttings, and particularly explosions, from which latter cause an enumeration of only 5 cases gives a list of killed and wounded, reaching nearly 2000.
ref: 1866, C.C., “Perils of the Last Days”, in The Prophetic Times, volume 4, page 14:
text: If a court ( through the incavation of its walls) is laid open to public ground, whosoever brings anything from private ground into such a court, or from the court into private ground, is culpable.
ref: 1918, Michael Levi Rodkinson, Tract Erubin. Tracts Shekalim and Rosh hashana, Hebrew and English, page 223:
glosses: The act of caving in.
examples: text: This lip is in fact not a separate part of the pipe, but merely an incavation on the foot, having at its lower end the form of a tongue, as we see on fig. 1.-4
ref: 1855, Johann Julius Seidel, The Organ and Its Construction, page 78:
text: the two portions meet at a pretty sharp angle, or I might express the condition by saying that the incavation of the waist is greatly deepened, and this not merely at the side outline, for running inward from that angle towards the spine is a pretty considerable depression which lies in well marked shadow.
ref: 1903, Thomas Stretch Dowse, Lectures on Massage & Electricity in the Treatment of Disease, page 248:
text: Inside a more or less narrow debouchement the incavation often widens to a cross-section which greatly exceeds that of the debouchement.
ref: 1952, Géotechnique - Volume 3, page 189:
text: Along the east wall there is rectangular 20 cm. wide and 2,23 m. deep incavation with one lateral side inclined.
ref: 1980, Lavoslav Kadelburg, Jevrejski Istorijski Muzej, Exhibition Menoroth from Čelarevo, page 40:
glosses: A hollow; a physical depression; a concavity.
incavation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incavations
Etymology: By analogy to excavation.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, what is incavated is archaeological evidence in itself, and incavations are thus about the very possibility of archaeology.
ref: 2004, Neil Brodie, Catherine Hills, Material Engagements: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew, page 48:
text: During this incavation, eight contemporary and mundane domestic assemblages were buried in the garden of a Berlin townhouse. In undertaking this 'incavation', Holtorf made a powerful statement about archaeology as a performance and a particular form of material engagement with the past.
ref: 2010, Rodney Harrison, John Schofield, After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past, page 116:
text: To revert to my earlier imagery, while conventional archaeological excavations aim to methodically purify what its practitioners conceive of as a target signal from a specific past, by amplifying it over and above the temporal pile-up of object noise that surrounds it, Afro-Cuban ritual 'incavations', if I may call them that, proceed no less methodically in scrambling the frequencies of space and time upon which disciplined historicist archaeological praxis depends.
ref: 2013 April, Stephan Palmié, “Signal and Noise: Digging up the Dead in Archaeology and Afro-Cuban Palo Monte”, in Archaeological Review from Cambridge, volume 28, number 1, page 127:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An act of earthing artifacts; the burial or entombment of archaeologically interesting items.
incavations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incavation
tinnen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tin + -en.
Senses: glosses: Made or consisting of tin.
chloasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æzmə
Forms: form: chloasmas
form: chloasmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”)
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: melasma; a cutaneous condition with yellow or yellowish-brown pigmented spot
Related terms: schloasma faciei
chloasmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloasma
melanterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanterite
pifithrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pifithrins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of compounds that inhibit signalling and transcription activity in tumor suppression proteins
sarcoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcosis
sarcosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcoses
Etymology: By surface analysis, sarc- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The abnormal formation of flesh.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: sarcoma.
Related terms: sarcitis
sarcoid
sarcotic
platinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of platinate
zymurgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zymurgy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: You can't go a hundred yards without a pick-up point for zymurgic solutions: off-licences, pubs, supermarkets, restaurants. Civilisation is a careful construction for the production and distribution of alcohol.
ref: 1994, Tibor Fischer, The thought gang:
text: There are a few Belgian beers which lie outside the designations afforded that beer-rich country's many hefty zymurgic offerings, and that, if sneaked into a barley wine tasting, might stand proud, stylistically speaking.
ref: 1998, Fal Allen, Dick Cantwell, Barley wine: history, brewing techniques, recipes:
synonyms: zymurgical
glosses: Relating to zymurgy.
floorwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From floor + walking.
Senses: glosses: The work of a floorwalker; retail supervision.
anapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anapophysis
anapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anapophyses
Etymology: From ana- (“distal”) + apophysis (“natural outgrowth”).
Senses: qualifier: animal anatomy
glosses: A backward-pointing process in the lumbar vertebrae of some mammals.
custumaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of custumary
custumary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more custumary
form: most custumary
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of customary.
custumary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custumaries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of customary.
recoveror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoverors
Etymology: From recover + -or.
Senses: examples: text: For either it remained in the recoveree after the recovery suffered , or was destroyed by it , or was conveyed to the recoveror
ref: 1800, Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Court of Common Pleas:
topics: law
glosses: The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.
Related terms: recoverer
recoverors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoveror
heterocarpism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + -carp + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heterocarpy.
synonyms: word: heterocarpy
prevascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + vascular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In front of the chest, between the lungs
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Prior to vascularization
Derived terms: word: prevascular hernia
word: prevascular space
english: of a cancer
translation: of a cancer
word: prevascular phase
Related terms: provascular
alluvious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin alluvius.
Senses: examples: text: In the second place , in the mountain districts we find no extensive alluvious formations , as in the plains ; no extensive beds or banks of sand or gravel
ref: 1832, John Howdon, A Rational Investigation of the Principles of Natural Philosophy:
glosses: alluvial
potashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potash
potashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potash
sensuism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: sensualism
proinflammation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + inflammation.
Senses: glosses: proinflammatory
decurt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decurts
form: decurting
form: decurted
form: decurted
Etymology: From Latin decurtare, from de- + curtare.
Senses: examples: text: Your decurted or headlesse clause, Angelorum enim, et cet.
ref: 1550, John Bale, The Apology […] :
glosses: To cut short; to truncate; to curtail.
Related terms: decurtate
decurtation
decurted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decurt
decurting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decurt
decurts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decurt
exacuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzækjueɪt/
Forms: form: exacuates
form: exacuating
form: exacuated
form: exacuated
Etymology: From Latin exacure, from ex (“out (intensive)”) + acuere (“to make sharp”). See acuate, acute.
Senses: examples: text: He hath done you wrong in a moſt high degree: And ſenſe of ſuch an injury receiv'd Should so exacuate, and whet your choler.
ref: 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: To whet or sharpen.
Related terms: exacuation
exacuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exacuate
exacuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exacuate
exacuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exacuate
propeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propeptide
pseudostellarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudostellarins
Etymology: From translingual Pseudostellaria + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several cyclic peptides obtained from plants of the genus Pseudostellaria, many of which have biological activity
asonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ā-sōnʹənt
ipa: /eɪ̯ˈsoʊ̯n.ənt/
rhymes: -əʊnənt
Etymology: From a- + sonant.
Senses: examples: text: The first d in "Wednesday" and the s in "aisle" are asonant.
text: Thus reponens is an asonant rhyme to deprœlian in the following stanza.
ref: 1829, Rhyme the Leading Principle of Latin Versification, page 15:
glosses: Not sounding or sounded; silent.
coloner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coloners
Etymology: From colony + -er.
Senses: examples: text: That multitude[…]withdrew from the Romanes the allegeance of the Coloners and inhabitants there.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book III.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A colonist.
coloners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coloner
assoilzies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assoilzie
assoilzied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assoilzie
assoilzying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assoilzie
sapindaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Sapindaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sapindaceae, an order of trees and shrubs.
pseudostratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.doʊˌstɹætəfɑɪd/
Etymology: From pseudo- + stratified.
Senses: glosses: Having the outward appearance of being arranged in layers
pharisaisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharisaism
leucomaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucomaines
form: leukomaine
Etymology: From leuco- + (pto)maine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.
haematocrystallin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
signalings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signaling
innodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: innodates
form: innodating
form: innodated
form: innodated
Etymology: First attested in 1630; adapted from Medieval Latin vinculis anathematis innodare (“to bind (someone) with/in the bounds of anathema”), borrowed from Latin innōdātus, perfect passive participle of innōdō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + nodus (“knot”).
Senses: examples: text: we do innodate with the like sentence of anathema
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: (with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict; to anathemize or interdict.
innodated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of innodate
innodates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of innodate
innodating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of innodate
drearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪəɹɪŋ/
Etymology: From drear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: All were my selfe, through grief, in deadly drearing.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: sorrow
photoglyphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”) + -y.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A kind of engraving caused by the action of light, used in the mid 19th century
Derived terms: photoglyphic
spondyloarthritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondyloarthritis
spondylarthritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spondylarthritides
Etymology: From spondyl- + arthritis or spondyl- + arthr- + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spondyloarthritis.
eparchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eparchy + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an eparchy.
spondyloarthropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spondyloarthropathies
form: spondylarthropathy
Etymology: From spondylo- + arthropathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any joint disease of the vertebral column
Hyponyms: alt: spondyloarthritis
word: spondylarthritis
spondylarthritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondylarthritis
spondylarthritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with, or relating to, spondylarthritis.
ssDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ssDNAs
form: ssdna
Senses: glosses: Single-stranded DNA.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A group of viruses with such DNA.
Related terms: dsDNA
sstDNA