cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonpermeating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + permeating.
Senses: glosses: Not permeating
nonrecycled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recycled.
Senses: glosses: Not recycled
Related terms: nonrecycling
set down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets down
form: setting down
form: set down
form: set down
Senses: examples: text: I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.
text: Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: To write.
examples: text: This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To fix; to establish; to ordain.
examples: text: They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out as Captain of a Ship. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 159:
glosses: To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
examples: text: The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To land.
examples: text: To snub people! to set them down! to be rude to them! to make them feel small! Surely that’s the lifework of a hero?
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XI [Uniform ed., p. 120]
glosses: To humiliate.
examples: text: I set him down as an idiot.
glosses: To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as.
Synonyms: sense: deposit
word: drop off
nonrival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Etymology: From non- + rival.
Senses: glosses: Not rival.
nonrival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: nonrivals
Etymology: From non- + rival.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a rival.
nonruminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ruminant.
Senses: glosses: Not ruminant.
nonruminant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonruminants
Etymology: From non- + ruminant.
Senses: glosses: Any animal that is not a ruminant.
nontumorigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tumorigenic.
Senses: glosses: Not tumorigenic
nonprimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonprimate
nonprimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonprimates
Etymology: From non- + primate.
Senses: glosses: Any animal that is not a primate.
organocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organocations
Etymology: From organo- + cation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation formed from an organic compound
orogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oro- + gastric.
Senses: hypernyms: orodigestive
coordinate_terms: nasogastric
glosses: Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; usually with reference to an enteral feeding tube passing through the mouth and into the stomach.
Derived terms: orogastrically
osmoprotectant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmoprotectants
Etymology: From osmo- + protectant.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: osmoprotector
glosses: Any osmolyte that helps an organism to survive osmotic stress.
soothly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soothly
form: most soothly
Etymology: From Middle English sothly, soþliche, from Old English sōþlīċe; equivalent to sooth + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: word: in fact
word: soothfast
word: actually
word: all things considered
word: as a matter of fact
word: by right
word: come to think of it
word: fact is
word: forsooth
word: frankly
word: honestly
word: in actuality
word: in fact
word: in faith
word: in point of fact
word: in reality
word: in truth
word: indeed
word: literally
word: properly
word: really
word: right
word: simply
word: soothfast
word: soothly
word: to tell the truth
word: truly
word: truthfully
word: verily
word: wis
glosses: Truly, verily.
osmosensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osmo- + sensing.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The regulation of cell turgor in response to changes in the osmolarity of the external environment.
Related terms: osmosensor
osmosensory
begirdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begirdles
form: begirdling
form: begirdled
form: begirdled
Etymology: From be- + girdle.
Senses: examples: text: The vine begirdled the tree, wrapping around its trunk as though trying to hug it.
glosses: To encircle or surround, as with a girdle.
begirdles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begirdle
scrumpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrumpy
overinterpretation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overinterpretations
Etymology: From over- + interpretation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive interpretation.
begirdling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begirdle
overinvest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overinvests
form: overinvesting
form: overinvested
form: overinvested
Etymology: From over- + invest.
Senses: examples: text: Amazon may have overinvested in making new kinds of hardware, like now-discontinued alarm clocks and microwaves that worked with Alexa, which sold at or below cost, the former executive said.
ref: 2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: underinvest
glosses: To invest an excessive amount.
begirdled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begirdle
patentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patentlike
form: most patentlike
form: patent-like
Etymology: From patent + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having some characteristics of a patent.
perdeuterated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From per- + deuterated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perdeuterate
perdeuterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perdeuterated
form: most perdeuterated
Etymology: From per- + deuterated.
Senses: glosses: deuterated to the extent that all (or all significant) hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium
Related terms: perdeuteration
predeuterated
periplasmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more periplasmically
form: most periplasmically
Etymology: From periplasmic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a periplasmic manner
perovskites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perovskite
petagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petagram
replicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replicon
pheomelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pheomelanins
form: phaeomelanin
Etymology: From pheo- + melanin.
Senses: glosses: A brown pigment produced by melanocytes
Related terms: eumelanin
phytophageous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phytophageous
form: most phytophageous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phytophagous.
unplayably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unplayably
form: most unplayably
Etymology: From unplayable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unplayable way.
unplayability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unplayabilities
Etymology: From un- + playability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unplayable.
unplayabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unplayability
picocyanobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picocyanobacterium
picocyanobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picocyanobacteria
Etymology: From pico- + cyanobacterium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any cyanobacterium having dimensions less than about 2 micrometres
Related terms: picoplankton
platencin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A natural antibiotic, related to platensimycin, occurring in strains of Streptomyces platensis.
organocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organocation
osmoprotectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmoprotectant
platensimycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: platensis + -mycin
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A natural antibiotic occurring in strains of Streptomyces platensis.
polarizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polarizable
form: most polarizable
Etymology: From polarize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be polarized
Derived terms: depolarizable
impolarizable
nonpolarizable
unpolarizable
poroelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poro- + elastic.
Senses: glosses: Describing a material whose solid matrix is elastic and whose fluid is viscous.
Derived terms: poroelasticity
poroviscoelastic
Related terms: poromechanics
postdisaster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-disaster
Etymology: From post- + disaster.
Senses: examples: text: As a vehicle towards reconstruction, disaster tourism allows rapid recovery and further financially-aid programs for affected communities. Hence post-disaster marketing offers a fertile ground to the exploration of new horizons of research, which made pain its main commodity.
ref: 2023, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Hugues Séraphin, Vanessa G. B. Gowreesunkar, editors, Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Occurring after a disaster.
postintegration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-integration
Etymology: From post- + integration.
Senses: glosses: Occurring after integration
postintegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-integration
Etymology: From post- + integration.
Senses: glosses: integration following another process
dizzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪzəɹd/
Forms: form: dizzards
form: dizard
form: disard
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from dizzy + -ard. Compare dotard.
Senses: glosses: A jester or fool.
examples: text: Lactantius, in his book of Wisdom, proves them to be dizzards, fools, asses, madmen, so full of absurd and ridiculous tenets and brain-sick positions, that to his thinking never any old woman doted worse.
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.43
text: "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head;[…]you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.
ref: 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights:
glosses: An idiot.
Derived terms: dizzardly
dizzards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dizzard
Italianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italianisms
Etymology: From Italian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A loanword from the Italian language.
glosses: A characteristic of Italy or the Italian people.
glosses: A tendency to assimilate or imitate the culture or customs of Italy.
Synonyms: Italicism
Derived terms: anti-Italianism
opinative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒpɪnətɪv/
ipa: /əˈpɪnədɪv/
Forms: form: more opinative
form: most opinative
Etymology: From Middle French opinatif, and its source, Late Latin opinativus, from the participle stem of Latin opīnārī.
Senses: glosses: Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
examples: text: [Socrates] was an illiterate idiot […] , to philosophers and travellers, an opinative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant […]
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.44
glosses: Opinionated, maintaining one's position stubbornly.
Derived terms: opinatively
postsynapses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postsynapse
pot-companion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-companions
Senses: glosses: A drinking companion, especially one who is habitually drunk.
pot-companions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot-companion
postsynapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postsynapses
Etymology: From post- + synapse.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The cell to which a synapse sends a signal
IGO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IGOs
Senses: examples: text: The Union of International Associations, a coordinating body, differentiates between the more than 250 international governmental organizations (IGOs), which have been established by intergovernmental agreements and whose members are states, and the approximately 6,000 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), whose members are associations or individuals.
ref: Encyclopedia Britannicahttps://www.britannica.com/topic/international-organization
text: The congressmen said in a January press release that the change "targets harmful and inherently antisemitic" boycott efforts undertaken at IGOs while also "extending protections already in place for boycotts instigated by foreign countries." […] "AIPAC strongly supports the IGO Anti-Boycott Act which makes clear the U.S. will not countenance U.N. instigated boycotts of our ally Israel."
ref: 2025 May 4, Jason Lemon, “MAGA Leaders Defend Americans' Right to Boycott Israel”, in Newsweek:
hypernyms: organization
glosses: Initialism of intergovernmental organization /international governmental organization.
Coordinate terms: NGO
MNC
momentany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more momentany
form: most momentany
Etymology: From Middle French momentané, from Late Latin momentaneus.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hynges sensibly perceiued: as of a momentanye sounde iterated […].
ref: 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
text: Some were brawling, some fighting, riding, running, solicite ambientes, callide litiganes, for toys and trifles, and such momentany things […]
ref: 1620, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, published 2001, page 47:
text: War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentary as a sound,
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Momentary, transient.
ksi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: Abbreviation of kilopound per square inch.
urban myths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urban myth
urban legends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urban legend
shrieval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹiːvəl/
Senses: examples: text: A case of shrieval corruption eventually led to the sheriff facing criminal charges.
text: The Word, pronounc'd aloud by Shrieval voice, / Latamur which, in Poliſh, is rejoice, [...]
ref: 1682, [John Dryden], The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. […], Edinburgh: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Relating to a sheriff.
Related terms: shrieve
speluncar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Underground, as if in a cave.
Related terms: spelunk
hikikomori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hikikomori
form: hikikomoris
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 引きこもり (literally “pulling inward, being confined”) and is often translated as “acute social withdrawal” or shut-in.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese phenomenon whereby a person becomes a recluse from society, typically remaining isolated in a single room at home for a very long period.
examples: text: The new taxonomy of Japanese sexlessness also includes terms for groups such as hikikomori (“shut-ins”), parasaito shinguru (“parasite singles,” people who live with their parents beyond their 20s), and otaku (“obsessive fans,” especially of anime and manga)—all of whom are said to contribute to sekkusu shinai shokogun (“celibacy syndrome”).
ref: [2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2019:
text: Many prefectural governments operate support centers for families of hikikomori, but they are staffed by nonspecialists. The priority is to help prise hikikomori out of their rooms and get them back to work, a solution that may leave psychological issues unaddressed.
ref: 2019 June 6, Motoko Rich, “Japan’s Extreme Recluses Already Faced Stigma. Now, After Knifings, They’re Feared.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2019:
glosses: A reclusive person of this kind.
Related terms: NEET
celibacy syndrome
claustrophile
freeter
herbivore man
lying flat
sporicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sporicidal
form: most sporicidal
Etymology: From sporicide + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a sporicide or having the activity of a sporicide.
sporicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporicides
form: sporocide
Etymology: From spore + -icide.
Senses: glosses: A substance that kills spores.
sporicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporicide
erythroblastosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythroblastoses
Etymology: From erythroblast + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood
Derived terms: erythroblastosis neonatorum
Related terms: erythroblastoid
erythroblastosis fetalis
reductivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reductivisms
Etymology: From reductive + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: minimalism
glosses: Extreme simplification; reduction to a minimum; use of the fewest essentials
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The view that mental states can be reduced to physical phenomena.
raw_tags: of mind
topics: art
arts
glosses: A minimalist movement in abstract painting and sculpture from the 1950s onwards.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A minimalist school of music with similar aims.
Related terms: reductionism
reductivist
erythroblastosis fetalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medical condition where an Rh negative mother's antibodies attack the red blood cells of an Rh positive fetus.
Related terms: erythroblastosis
erythroblastosis neonatorum
hemolytic disease
erythroblastosis neonatorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: neonatorum: neo- + natorum: new born.
Senses: glosses: A medical condition where an rh negative mother's antibodies attack the red blood cells of an rh positive baby.
Related terms: erythroblastosis
erythroblastosis fetalis
hemolytic disease
hemolytic disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemolytic diseases
Senses: glosses: A hemolytic disease (one that destroys red blood cells releasing hemoglobin)
glosses: especially erythroblastosis fetalis
hemolytic diseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemolytic disease
erythroblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythroblasts
Etymology: From erythro- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell in the bone marrow from which red blood cells develop
Derived terms: erythroblastic
erythroblastoid
erythroblastopenia
erythroblastosis
proerythroblast
erythroblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erythroblast
reductivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reductivists
Etymology: From reductive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who follows the methods of reductivism; a minimalist.
Related terms: reductionism
reductionist
reductivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reductivist
form: most reductivist
Etymology: From reductive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Tending to reduce to a minimum or to simplify in an extreme way.
glosses: Belonging to the reductivism movement in art or music.
predrought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-drought
Etymology: From pre- + drought.
Senses: glosses: Prior to a drought
preexposure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-exposure
Etymology: From pre- + exposure.
Senses: glosses: Prior to exposure
preimmunization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preimmunizations
form: pre-immunization
Etymology: From pre- + immunization.
Senses: glosses: immunization in advance of an expected threat
prizelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prizelike
form: most prizelike
Etymology: From prize + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having characteristics of a prize.
prostratin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phorbol that acts as an activator for a protein kinase.
proviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + viral.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a provirus
pyramiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyramid + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The practice of an athlete progressively increasing the dosage of an illicit drug to a maximum, and then progressively lowering it, between competitions so as to reduce the chances of being caught.
glosses: A shell deformity in captive turtles, leading to a pyramid shape underlying each scute.
glosses: A form of tax evasion in which an employer that withholds payroll taxes from employees intentionally fails to remit those withholdings to the taxing authority, often then filing for bankruptcy to repeat the fraud under a new name.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Synonym of pyramid trading.
synonyms: word: pyramid trading
pyramiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pyramid + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pyramid
ratiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ratio + -metric.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any system in which an output is directly proportional to an input
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to the measurement of the ratio between two or more factors
Related terms: ratiometrics
organoclay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organoclays
Etymology: From organo- + clay.
Senses: glosses: An organically modified phyllosilicate, derived from a naturally occurring clay mineral.
organoclays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organoclay
nanoprobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoprobes
Etymology: From nano- + probe.
Senses: glosses: An optical device for viewing extremely small objects.
nanoprobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoprobe
tai chi chuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: tīʹ jēʹ chüǎnʹ
Forms: form: tai chi chuans
form: taijiquan
Etymology: From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 太極拳／太极拳 (tàijíquán).
Senses: examples: text: All contemporary practioners of Hatha yoga, Tai Chi Chuan, Shiatsu, or acupunture are familiar with this subtle body that the ancient Egyptians called the Ba.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 220:
glosses: Tai chi.
tai chis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tai chi
Danelaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪnˌlɔ/
Forms: form: Danelagh
Etymology: From Middle English Dene lawe, from Old English Dena lagu, from Dene (“Dane”) and lagu (“law”).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The part of Great Britain in which the laws of the Scandinavians dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between the English Alfred the Great and the Danish Guthrum the Old.
hematin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːməˌtɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɛm-/
Forms: form: hematins
form: haematin
form: hæmatin
form: hematine
form: haematine
form: hæmatine
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἷμᾰ (haîmă, “blood”) + -in. By surface analysis, hemat- + -in.
Senses: examples: text: When the stain is of recent date, or supposed to be so, the red corpuscles should be particularly examined, and every care should be taken to preserve them without change. The stains must not be washed with water, so that the hæmatin may not be altered.
ref: 1873 December 5, “The Examination of Blood-Stains”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, volume XXVIII, number 732, page 291:
text: A urinary pH of 5.6 or less causes myoglobin to dissociate into globin and hematin (Reilly & Salluzzo, 1990).
ref: 2005, Sharon G. Childs, “Rhabdomyolysis”, in Orthopaedic Nursing, volume 24, number 6, →PMID, page 445:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hemoglobin with iron in ferric state.
examples: text: This study was a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in premenopausal women between 18 and 50 years old with cyclic (22 to 35 days) abnormal uterine bleeding in ≥4 of the last 6 menstrual cycles, menstrual blood loss ≥80 mL as measured by the alkaline hematin method over the first 8 days of menses, ≥1 discrete uterine fibroid of any size and location observable by transvaginal ultrasound, follicle-stimulating hormone ≤20 mIU/mL, and uterine volume ≤20 weeks by exam.
ref: 2016 May 9, “Allergan and Richter Announce Positive Phase III Results for Ulipristal Acetate 5 and 10 mg in the Treatment of Uterine Fibroids”, in PR Newswire:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hemin.
Derived terms: hematinic
hematinometer
xanthematin
Related terms: carboxyhemoglobin
ferritin
methemoglobin
oxyhemoglobin
hematins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematin
spectroradiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectroradiometers
Etymology: From spectro- + radiometer.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the spectral power distributions of illuminants, used to evaluate and categorize lighting or to calibrate display technology.
spectroradiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectroradiometer
tai chi chuans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tai chi chuan
reductivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reductivist
pressure washers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressure washer
schort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schort
form: most schort
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of short.
polariser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polarisers
Etymology: From polarise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarizer.
polarisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polariser
anticipants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticipant
attr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of attributive.
examples: text: Fun, virile, attr MWM sks [seeks] F or Cpl for daytime fun.
ref: 1993 December 3, “Variations”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume 22, number 49, Boston, Mass.: The Phoenix Media Communications Group, Adult Services, page 2:
glosses: Abbreviation of attractive.
raw_tags: in personal ads
plasmodiocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæzˈmoʊdioʊˌkɑɹp/
Forms: form: plasmodiocarps
Etymology: From plasmodio- + -carp.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fruiting body of certain myxomycetes
myxomycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myxomycetes
Etymology: From translingual Myxomycetes; by surface analysis, myx(o)- + -mycete. Regarding New Latin -cetes to English -cete, compare also spirochete from Spirochaeta.
Senses: glosses: Any protozoan of the phylum Myxomycota; the slime molds.
general practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general practices
Senses: glosses: The conduct of a profession, especially medicine or law, as a general practitioner, without a specialty.
glosses: A place where a general practitioner works.
general manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general managers
Senses: topics: management
coordinate_terms: duty manager
glosses: A manager with overall responsibility for an organisation or a distinct unit of an organisation.
general managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general manager
werebear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪəbɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɛəbɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɛɹbɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈwɪɹbɛɹ/
Forms: form: werebears
Etymology: From were- + bear.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can change between bear and human form
Related terms: werewolf
adjunctivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adjunctive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being adjunctive, or of forming or constituting an adjunct
symbrachydactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Angus was born with symbrachydactyly, a condition believed to be caused when blood flow is limited to the hand in the womb, restricting its development and often causing short, malformed fingers.
ref: 2009 March 7, Georgie Pilcher, “Little Angus Rhodes swapped a couple of toes for fingers”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2009:
glosses: A congenital abnormality of the hand, characterized by missing or malformed fingers.
Related terms: brachydactyly
syndactyly
papad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papads
form: pappad
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पापड़ (pāpaṛ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀧𑁆𑀧𑀟 (pappaḍa), from Sanskrit पर्पट (parpaṭa). Doublet of poppadom.
Senses: examples: text: As I attempted to hit a six with a half-full bottle of mineral water, a papad vendor approached us to laugh at our cricketing abilities.
ref: 2009 March 6, Lucy Corne, “Grand trunks: Celebrating the elephants of Jaipur”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A poppadom.
unpledged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pledged.
Senses: examples: text: That has provided Mr. Obama with the opportunity, which he plans to seize in a more full-throated way starting on Wednesday, to argue that voters across a wide cross-section of the country have embraced his candidacy, and that the time has come for the group that could hold the balance of power, those 796 unpledged superdelegates — party leaders and elected officials who have an automatic seat at the national convention — to follow suit.
ref: 2008 February 13, Adam Nagourney, “With Surge in Momentum, Obama Makes His Case”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pledged; not committed.
examples: text: With no unpledged assets and low profitability, the business could get no further financing.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Not used as collateral.
couturière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kuˈtʊɹ.i.əɹ/
/-iˌɛɹ/
Forms: form: couturières
form: couturiere
Etymology: From French couturière.
Senses: examples: text: Considering the enormous cost of the gowns, which the countess had insisted Leah needed, she imagined the couturière’s fees for such work would be equally as hefty.
ref: 1994, Charlene Cross, Almost a Whisper, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Many of Chanel’s biographers give the impression that she became a couturière by chance or whim, whereas in fact she had strong business sense and the backing of an intelligent, influential partner in Boy Capel.
ref: 1994, Amy De la Haye, Shelley Tobin, Chanel: The Couturiere at Work, →ISBN, page 26:
text: A positive note today was a visit by Aunt Emily’s couturière to measure me for some ‘appropriately fashionable gowns’ as if we Americans have no idea of fashion or style.
ref: 2012, Robert Warr, The Barker’s Dozen, Bellorum, →ISBN, page 56:
text: In just moments a skirt is conceived, designed and crafted as the couturière constructs the garment “in any way that might strike her fancy.”
ref: 2020, Patricia Zakreski, “The Writer and the Couturière: Authorship and Creative Industry in the 1870s”, in Gerald Egan, editor, Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 213:
text: In her early years she [Coco Chanel] wanted to sing on stage, rather than to become a couturière.
ref: 2021, Michelle Brandstrup, “Entrepreneurs in the fashion industry”, in Léo-Paul Dana, editor, World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, 2nd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: A woman who runs a business in custom-made fashion.
couturières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couturière
bostanji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bostanjis
form: bostangi
form: bustangee
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish بوستانجی (bostancı), from بوستان (bostân, “market garden”) (from Persian بوستان (bôstân)), and ـجی (-ci, “maker, dealer”).
Senses: glosses: One of the imperial guards of the Ottoman Empire.
bostangi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bostangis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bostanji.
bostangis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bostangi
bostanjis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bostanji
Sheilagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Rare spelling variant of Sheila, anglicization of Irish Síle.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
babyboomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyboomers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baby boomer.
babine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sparkling alcoholic drink from Zaire, made from avocado leaves.
babyboomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babyboomer
bevvying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bevvy
bevvying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: drinking (alcohol)
clawhammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clawhammers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of claw hammer.
haircutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haircutters
Etymology: From hair + cutter.
Senses: glosses: One who cuts hair; a barber or hairdresser.
glosses: Any of various mechanical or electrical devices used to cut hair.
TAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Tamaulipas: a state of Mexico.
glosses: Initialism of Transantarctic Mountains: a mountain range in Antarctica.
TAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TAMs
Senses: examples: text: […] then it would make sense to view Australian past irrealises as TAM forms combining a modal stative predicate (conveying e.g. a capacity, expectation, or desire state) with a past imperfective content.
ref: 2023, Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Understanding Human Time, page 170:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: TMA
glosses: Initialism of tense, aspect, and mood.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of total addressable/available market.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Initialism of technology acceptance model.
indictees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indictee
indictee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indictees
Etymology: From indict + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is indicted.
unnegotiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: un-negotiable
Etymology: From un- + negotiable.
Senses: glosses: Not negotiable
unsleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsleeping
form: most unsleeping
Etymology: From un- + sleeping.
Senses: examples: text: All that night Saxon lay, unsleeping, without taking off her clothes, and when she arose in the morning and washed her face and dressed her hair she was aware of a strange numbness, of a feeling of constriction about her head as if it were bound by a heavy band of iron.
ref: 1913 October, Jack London, chapter XV, in The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book II, page 246:
glosses: Not sleeping.
examples: text: Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger foot-prints—the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Quarter-deck”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 177:
text: Captain Kennedy, who is the Commodore of the fleet, and so always commands the newest and best ship of the line, is an admirable seaman, with a quick eye for everything, always on deck at critical moments, watching with unsleeping vigilance over the safety of all on board.
ref: 1887, Henry Martyn Field, From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn, page 9:
text: An unsleeping eye watches the steam pressure and steadily regulates the firing much more economically and patiently than the most experienced fireman.
ref: 1930, Building for the Future:
glosses: Remaining constantly alert.
examples: text: Five hundred miles of moonlit fields and sleeping villages; of black towns and unsleeping furnaces; rain, fog, and frost; snow flurry and flood; tunnel and viaduct.
ref: 1996, Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands, page 9:
text: A shiver of cool air wafted over her and passed; and she remembered her debt, and why she had come out. She looked down at the unsleeping river.
ref: 2011, Tim Bowler, River Boy:
glosses: Remaining constantly active.
unsleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + sleeping.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unsleep
troosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just got in from the Isle of Skye / I'm not very big and I'm awfully shy / The ladies shout as I go by / Donald where's your troosers?
glosses: Trousers.
reassociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reassociations
Etymology: From re- + association.
Senses: glosses: A repeat association.
glosses: A return to a close relationship.
Related terms: reassociate
resalute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːsəˈluːt/
Forms: form: resalutes
form: resaluting
form: resaluted
form: resaluted
Etymology: From Latin resalutare; or formed from re- + salute.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the Priestes she found full busily / About their holy things for morrow Mas; / Whom she saluting faire, faire resaluted was […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Hippocrates, after a little pause, saluted him by his name, whom he resaluted, ashamed almost that he could not call him likewise by his, or that he had forgot it.
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.48
glosses: To greet in return.
glosses: To salute again.
recapitulationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recapitulation + -ism.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that during embryonic development various structures develop that appeared during the evolutionary history of the species.
Related terms: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
recensus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recensuses
Etymology: From re- + census.
Senses: glosses: A repeat census
recensus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recensuses
form: recensusing
form: recensused
form: recensused
Etymology: From re- + census.
Senses: glosses: To repeat a census
receptosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receptosome
receptosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receptosomes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cytoplasmic vesicle formed when a clathrin coating is removed
recombinationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From recombinational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to recombination
ruinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːɪneɪt/
Forms: form: ruinates
form: ruinating
form: ruinated
form: ruinated
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin ruino.
Senses: examples: text: Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate, / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: […] as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51
glosses: To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
glosses: To fall; to tumble.
ruinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːɪneɪt/
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin ruino.
Senses: glosses: Falling into ruin; decrepit.
proletary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊlɪtəɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊlɪˌtɛɹi/
Forms: form: proletaries
Etymology: From Latin prōlētārius, from prōlēs.
Senses: examples: text: Of fifteen thousand proletaries slain in a battle, scarce fifteen are recorded in history, or one alone, the general perhaps, and after a while his and their names are likewise blotted out, the whole battle itself is forgotten.
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.60
glosses: A proletarian.
proletaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proletary
Vatinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈtɪnɪən/
Forms: form: more Vatinian
form: most Vatinian
Etymology: From Latin Vatinianus (in odium Vatinium, in Catullus), from personal name Vatīnius, reportedly the name of a Roman who was universally hated.
Senses: examples: text: they that erst were willing to do all mutual offices of love and kindness, now revile and persecute one another to death, with more than Vatinian hatred, and will not be reconciled.
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, pp.62-3
glosses: Of hatred: extremely strong, bitter, intense.
tedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tedium; alternative form of tediums
tripudia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripudium
tripudiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /traɪˈpjuːdieɪt/
Forms: form: tripudiates
form: tripudiating
form: tripudiated
form: tripudiated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tripudiō.
Senses: glosses: To dance with joy or exultation.
tumultuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /təˈmʌltju.eɪt/
Forms: form: tumultuates
form: tumultuating
form: tumultuated
form: tumultuated
Etymology: From Latin tumultuātus, past participle of tumultuor (“make a tumult”).
Senses: examples: text: He will murmur and tumultuate.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To make a tumult.
subashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subashis
Etymology: From Turkish subaşı.
Senses: glosses: An Ottoman provincial prefect.
subashis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subashi
Bryansk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Брянск (Brjansk).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia.
wax and wane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waxes and wanes
form: waxing and waning
form: waxed and waned
form: waxed and waned
Etymology: Referring to the phases of the Moon (about 14th century). (Compare wax with the German cognate wachsen (“grow”).) By folk etymology, this verb phrase has occasionally been mistakenly presumed to be a reference to candles, under the notion that waxing of a wick (applying wax) produces a candle that, once lit, immediately begins to wane away until complete darkness.
Senses: glosses: To progress cyclically through various phases, such as growth and senescence.
examples: text: The manifestation of such philosophy seemed to wax and wane, being the most common one time, but virtually without followers at another, apparently disappearing.
glosses: To alternate; to increase and diminish in turn.
Synonyms: english: especially when used figuratively
translation: especially when used figuratively
word: ebb and flow
Stavropol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A krai of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Stavropol Krai, Russia.
spinouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinout
spinout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinouts
Etymology: From spin + out.
Senses: examples: text: Sulayman al-Shulukhi, left, races his modified Subaru Impreza every weekend night and delights in describing wrecks and spinouts.
ref: 2009 March 8, Robert F. Worth, “Saudis Race All Night, Fueled by Boredom”, in New York Times:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A skid that results in a vehicle rotating such that its longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion.
topics: business
glosses: The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
Synonyms: sense: formation of a subsidiary company
word: spin-off
VoSIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Voice over Secure IP.
Related terms: VoIP
SVoSIP
SVoSIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Secure Voice over Secure IP.
Related terms: VoIP
SVoIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Secure Voice over IP.
Related terms: VoIP
malimbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malimbes
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds in the Malimbus genus, found across Africa.
malimbes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malimbe
malingery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Malingering; feigning illness.
Related terms: malinger
malingering
bush telegraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bush telegraph
jungle telegraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jungle telegraph
malist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malists
Etymology: From mal- + -ist.
Senses: antonyms: bonist
glosses: One who subscribes to the theory of malism; someone who thinks the world is inherently evil.
malists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malist
malistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪk
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, malism.