cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
LoQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LoQs
Senses: examples: text: Values above the limit of quantification (LoQ) were only obtained in the 'fish' and 'alcoholic beverages' groups, but mean concentration levels in the latter group were very low (4/<gkg~1)4 in comparison to those obtained for the fish group.
ref: 2001, L. Ebdon, Trace Element Speciation for Environment, Food and Health, →ISBN, page 244:
text: If the reproducibility (CV <15%25) and accuracy (>80%) meet a prespecified value, the LoQ is validated.
ref: 2014, Steven L. Spitalnik, Suzanne Arinsburg, Jeffrey Jhang, Clinical Pathology Board Review, →ISBN, page 36:
text: The empirical method is the same procedure as above for determination of LoQ but defined as the concentration at which all acceptance criteria are met and the quantitative value is within +-20% of the target concentration (i.e., CV criteria that was earlier discussed).
ref: 2015, Alfred Bartolucci, Karan P. Singh, Sejong Bae, Introduction to Statistical Analysis of Laboratory Data, →ISBN, page 147:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of LOQ.
LoQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LoQ
loq.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: As You Like It, I. 2[Celia loq.] . " If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should down."
ref: 1884, Arthur Parnell, “On Thunderbolts”, in The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufatures, and Technology, volume 6, page 721:
text: Art. 41 [Earl of East Friesland loq.] I pray you, what be the commodities that come out of England, and by what means be they so profitable?
ref: 1979, George Nedham, George Daniel Ramsay, The Politics of a Tudor Merchant Adventurer, →ISBN:
text: C. D. loq. 'case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at 'starting.
ref: 2011, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens - Volume 1; Volumes 1812-1842, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: Loquitur; Used to identify the character who is speaking in a quotation
nondecomposability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + decomposability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being decomposable.
noncyclotomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cyclotomic.
Senses: examples: text: We prove that there are no ideal families with embedding degree 3, 4, or 6 and that many complete families with embedding degree 8 or 12 are nonideal, even if we chose noncyclotomic families.
ref: 2016, Keiji Okano, “Note on families of pairing-friendly elliptic curves with small embedding degree”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not cyclotomic.
Gaddafian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gaddafian
form: most Gaddafian
Etymology: From Gaddafi + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: No one in Faya forgets that French air force raids drove the Libyans out of Faya, prompting them to abandon their tanks with less than Gaddafian revolutionary zeal and hightail it back home on foot.
ref: 2005, Jeffrey Tayler, Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel:
glosses: Of or relating to Muammar Gaddafi (c. 1942–2011), revolutionary and leader of Libya.
power vacuums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power vacuum
power vacua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power vacuum
infrayellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infra- + yellow, based on infrared.
Senses: examples: text: >Assume for the moment that you are trying to explain "red" to someone who has
>been blind from birth. You want to convey the idea as clearly as possible.
>Would you use metaphor, or just tell them the wavelength?
I would use my omnipotence to make them no longer blind, and then I would will them to understand every color including infrayellow and bleen.
ref: 2004 December 9, Kevin J. Maroney, “Re: My head just exploded”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <pi6ir0lblboagfhft66fbcci7oat2a101t@4ax.com>:
glosses: Electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than yellow, including orange and red. Used by colorblind people, who can't see orange and red.
cooking show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooking shows
Etymology: From cooking + show.
Senses: examples: text: Harris admitted that it had taken her months following her defeat before she had the strength to tune into the news again. “You know, I’m just not into self-mutilation,” she said. Instead there had been “lots of cooking shows”, her top choice being The Kitchen.
ref: 2025 August 1, Ed Pilkington, quoting Kamala Harris, “Kamala Harris says she doesn’t plan to return to ‘broken’ system of US politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A television genre that presents food preparation in a kitchen, restaurant or studio set.
examples: text: Keywords related to this year’s Miss Universe pageant dominated X Philippine trends, including “Top 10” and “COOKING SHOW,” among others.
ref: 2023 November 19, “Fans praise Michelle Dee for Miss Universe 2023 run, saying she was ‘robbed’”, in Rappler, retrieved 30 Nov 2023:
glosses: A competition that is perceived to be rigged in favor of a certain participant or group of participants.
Hypernyms: television show
cooking shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooking show
late night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌleɪt ˈnaɪt/
topics: television
broadcasting
media
ipa: /ˈleɪt ˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: late nights
Senses: examples: text: I’ve had too many late nights this week, I'm exhausted.
text: A worry that nags into the late night hours.
antonyms: early night
glosses: A night when someone goes to bed later than usual.
examples: text: Fallon is known for being late night’s most lighthearted personality, but still, there was an unmistakable undertone of avoidance in his performance on Thursday.
ref: 2025 September 19, Judy Berman, “Jimmy Fallon Is Playing It Safe. He Might Be Cooked Anyway”, in TIME, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2025:
glosses: Late-night television programming.
Related terms: late-night
tie break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie breaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tiebreak.
railway spine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nineteenth-century diagnosis for the post-traumatic symptoms of passengers involved in railroad accidents.
Boxer Rebellion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Boxer + rebellion. Boxer refers to 義和拳 /义和拳 (Yìhéquán, literally “Righteous and Harmonious Fists”), the martial arts practiced by the rebels.
Senses: examples: text: Young Major Leonard, with only one arm (the other lost during the Boxer rebellion in China), Mr. John Lodge and a charming young Italian named Gherardesca, and many others, made these visits stand out in my memory.
ref: 1937, Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, pages 113–114:
text: According to one published account, said to be based on information provided by foreign missionaries in Chungking, whose reaction may have been influenced by the excesses of the Boxer Rebellion just a few years earlier, Tuan-fang was killed by his own soldiers at Tzu-chou, Shensi province.
ref: 1991, Thomas Lawton, A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:
glosses: A violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1899 and 1901.
Seidel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seidels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Seidel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
crawl before one walks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crawls before one walks
form: crawling before one walks
form: crawled before one walked
form: crawled before one walked
Senses: glosses: To learn the basics before doing something at a more advanced level.
Related terms: baby steps
first of never
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the first of never
Etymology: Based on a date of the month and day, as in first of February.
Senses: examples: text: since the first of never
text: on the first of never
glosses: A nonexistent day; a day that will never come.
Related terms: a cold day in Hell
snowball's chance in hell
when Hell freezes over
when pigs fly
dipfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipfucks
Etymology: From dip + fuck.
Senses: glosses: A term of abuse.
fucknose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucknoses
Etymology: From fuck + nose.
Senses: glosses: A term of abuse.
fucknose
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From fuck + nose.
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of fuck knows.
streams of consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stream of consciousness
like a moth to the flame
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: like a moth to a flame
form: like a moth to flame
Etymology: From the behavior of moths, that are instinctively attracted to light and are sometimes observed to go directly into flames, seemingly committing suicide.
Senses: examples: text: I came back and back to the same bad relationship, like a moth to the flame.
glosses: Inescapably allured by something harmful.
p'tater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p'taters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of potato.
hebephobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hebe- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hebephobia.
glosses: Fear, hate, or dislike of youths.
noctuoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noctuoids
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the superfamily Noctuoidea
Related terms: noctuid
monoagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoagents
Etymology: From mono- + agent.
Senses: examples: text: ONC201 is a stable, orally active, blood brain barrier-penetrable compound that has demonstrated p53-independent anti-cancer activity as a monoagent and a combination in several preclinical models that include glioblastoma, breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, and other tumors [1, 10, 11 ].
ref: 2015 November 19, “First-In-Class Small Molecule ONC201 Induces DR5 and Cell Death in Tumor but Not Normal Cells to Provide a Wide Therapeutic Index as an Anti-Cancer Agent”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any chemotherapeutic agent that works alone
multinucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + nucleotide.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, RNA contains many structural motifs disrupting its helical structure, such as various types of single and multinucleotide mismatches, internal loops, hairpins, bulge loops, terminal unpaired regions and multibranch [1 ].
ref: 2015 November 19, “Structural Aspects of the Antiparallel and Parallel Duplexes Formed by DNA, 2’-O-Methyl RNA and RNA Oligonucleotides”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to multiple nucleotides
mycobacteriocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myco- + bacteriocidal.
Senses: examples: text: As our AgNP suppression studies were done at 4-hr time points, these data strongly indicate that the observed AgNP-mediated suppression of M.tb-induced MDM responses resulted from interferences of AgNP with M.tb-induced host cell signaling pathways and not from direct mycobacteriocidal effects of the AgNP. AgNO 3 used as a positive control for M.tb killing (see Material and Methods ) completely abrogated M.tb growth.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Modulation of Human Macrophage Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Silver Nanoparticles of Different Size and Surface Modification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of mycobactericidal.
nondifferentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + differentially.
Senses: examples: text: Testing trials also differed from training trials in that they were nondifferentially reinforced, as follows: On training trials, only the correct response was reinforced; incorrect responses were followed by correction trials (differential reinforcement).
ref: 2015 November 19, “Pigeons ( Columba livia ) as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not differentially
obturatorius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: For example, the comparatively reduced femoral trochanter and patella of UNSM 20030 would limit the area available for the attachment of several muscles (i.e., the lateral and medial obturatorius, medial and cranial iliotrochantericus, medial femorotibialis, and medial gastrocnemius) crucial to orienting the hindlimb for the power stroke and providing propulsive force during diving [12 ], thus possibly limiting the speed of Fumicollis hoffmani.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Identification of a New Hesperornithiform from the Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk and Implications for Ecologic Diversity among Early Diving Birds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The obturator nerve
occlusally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From occlusal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only distinct grooves were counted; specimens with faint grooves/furrows or occlusally situated short grooves were recorded as absent to include slightly worn teeth.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Unique Dental Morphology of Homo floresiensis and Its Evolutionary Implications”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within, or associated with an occlusion
periodontopathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From periodonto- + pathogenic.
Senses: examples: text: Among the periodontopathogenic bacteria tested, Porphyromonas gingivalis was found to be highly susceptible to the black tea extract and theaflavins.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Black Tea Extract and Its Theaflavin Derivatives Inhibit the Growth of Periodontopathogens and Modulate Interleukin-8 and β-Defensin Secretion in Oral Epithelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: pathogenic to the supporting structures of teeth
phytomolecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytomolecules
Etymology: From phyto- + molecule.
Senses: examples: text: The finding that the natural phytomolecule luteolin can act as a SphK2 inhibitor may have implications in this field, and in developing this class of inhibitors.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Sphingosine Kinase 2 and Ceramide Transport as Key Targets of the Natural Flavonoid Luteolin to Induce Apoptosis in Colon Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any molecule of a phytocompound; the phytocompound itself
plantarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plantar + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Abbreviations: II–IV, trochlea of metatarsals II–IV. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141690.g023 Like all hesperornithiforms, the trochlea of metatarsal II is wedge-shaped and more narrow medio-laterally than trochlea III or IV in dorsal view, and is shifted plantarly behind the trochlea of metatarsal III. In B.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Identification of a New Hesperornithiform from the Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk and Implications for Ecologic Diversity among Early Diving Birds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Towards the sole of the foot
Derived terms: distoplantarly
dorsoplantarly
medioplantarly
posteroplantarly
subplantarly
polydrupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydrupes
Etymology: From poly- + drupe.
Senses: examples: text: Fruit type included four categories (1: berry; 2: drupe; 3: polydrupe and pseudo-polydrupe; 4: other fruit with complex structures: pseudo-fruit, complex fruit, multilocular capsule, aril); fruit colour at maturity included six categories (1: black; 2: red; 3: pink; 4: orange/light brown; 5: white; 6: blue); fruit shape included two categories (1: spherical; 2: oval) and fruit skin texture, three categories (1: smooth and waxy, glossy, shiny; 2: smooth and pruinose; 3: rough, irregular).
ref: 2015 November 19, “The Wide Potential Trophic Niche of the Asiatic Fruit Fly Drosophila suzukii : The Key of Its Invasion Success in Temperate Europe?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fruit that is an aggregate of multiple drupes
polydrupes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The number of larvae and emerging adults was higher in polydrupes than in the other types of fruit and was also higher in drupes and berries than in fruits with a complex structure.
ref: 2015 November 19, “The Wide Potential Trophic Niche of the Asiatic Fruit Fly Drosophila suzukii : The Key of Its Invasion Success in Temperate Europe?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of polydrupe
prefactual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + factual.
Senses: examples: text: A number of decision making theories also posit a prominent role for anticipated emotions, especially in terms of anticipated regret which might arise from prefactual comparisons before making a decision […]
ref: 2015 November 19, “Regulatory Mode and Risk-Taking: The Mediating Role of Anticipated Regret”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: prior to facts being established
pseudogenizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This strategy showed that 15 duplications, 11 losses and 4 pseudogenizations may have occurred during the evolution of 10 ancestral genes (LIP2, LIP4, LIP5, LIP8, LIP9, LIP10, LIP13, LIP16, LIP18 and LIP18b).
ref: 2015 November 19, “Comprehensive Analysis of a Yeast Lipase Family in the Yarrowia Clade”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pseudogenization
rangewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From range + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we found significant genetic structuring of a common, resident riparian species which was not observed at the rangewide scale, as well as a significant effect of landscape variables on patterns of genetic differentiation.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Gene Flow of a Forest-Dependent Bird across a Fragmented Landscape”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Across an entire range
ribospecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribospecies
Etymology: From ribo- + species.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, Oceanospirillales endosymbionts occurring in shallow-water Osedax comprise now a polyphyletic assemblage of ribospecies including Rs1, Rs3, and Rs7 [32 ], which suggests that there is no segregation between shallow- and deep-water Oceanospirillales ribospecies in Osedax.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Bone-Eating Worms Spread: Insights into Shallow-Water Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) from Antarctic, Subantarctic, and Mediterranean Waters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A species identified or characterized by ribotyping
sightability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sightabilities
Etymology: From sight + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Primary search effort (searching carried out in acceptable conditions, i.e., with Beaufort ≤3 and good visibility) and altitude were recorded directly onto a laptop through data-logging software connected to the GPS. Additional information that may affect sightability (e.g., sea state, glare, cloud cover) was entered at the beginning of each transect and/or whenever changes occurred along the trackline.
ref: 2015 November 19, “The Devil We Don't Know: Investigating Habitat and Abundance of Endangered Giant Devil Rays in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition or extent of being sightable
submicrograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As a high molecular weight carrier substance, PEG20000 improved the identification of peptides and proteins; however, such an advantage is limited to tissues containing submicrograms to micrograms of protein.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Comparison of Different Buffers for Protein Extraction from Formalin-Fixed and Paraffin-Embedded Tissue Specimens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of submicrogram
surstylus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surstyli
Etymology: From sur- + stylus.
Senses: examples: text: Legend: ah, aedeagal hood; ce, cercus; sa, surstylar apodeme; sl, superior lobe; su, surstylus.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Neotropical Copestylum Macquart (Diptera: Syrphidae) Breeding in Fruits and Flowers, Including 7 New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The ventral, lobelike part of an inverted U-shaped structure located ventral to the apex of the abdomen of some flies
Derived terms: surstylar
surstyli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The male genitalia of these two species are also similar in having L-shaped surstyli in lateral view but the cerci are triangular in lateral view, not L-shaped as in C.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Neotropical Copestylum Macquart (Diptera: Syrphidae) Breeding in Fruits and Flowers, Including 7 New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of surstylus
surstylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sur- + stylar.
Senses: examples: text: Legend: ah, aedeagal hood; ce, cercus; sa, surstylar apodeme; sl, superior lobe; su, surstylus.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Neotropical Copestylum Macquart (Diptera: Syrphidae) Breeding in Fruits and Flowers, Including 7 New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a surstylus
tetraallelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + allelic.
Senses: examples: text: However, we did not get embryos that have a tetraallelic knock-out of the exon by zygote injection […]
ref: 2015 November 19, “The Expression of TALEN before Fertilization Provides a Rapid Knock-Out Phenotype in Xenopus laevis Founder Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or composed of four alleles
trispecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trī′spĭ-sĭf′ĭk
ipa: /ˌtɹaɪ.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌtɹɑɪ.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌtɹaɪ.spəˈsəf.ək/
ipa: /ˌʈɾaj.spiˈsif.ik/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Etymology: From tri- + specific.
Senses: glosses: An artificial antibody that targets three different biological molecules or pathways. Some have been developed.
examples: text: Even STRUCTURE identified a cluster within the trispecific hybrid zone.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Gene Flow of a Forest-Dependent Bird across a Fragmented Landscape”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of three species
undercanopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + canopy.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, the observed patterns suggest that some undercanopy species appear mainly close to a specific canopy species, and vice versa.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Nature and Age of Neighbours Matter: Interspecific Associations among Tree Species Exist and Vary across Life Stages in Tropical Forests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That live under a canopy
undercanopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercanopies
Etymology: From under- + canopy.
Senses: glosses: The region beneath a canopy
Chic Murray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chic Murrays
Etymology: After Charles Thomas McKinnon "Chic" Murray (1919–1985), Scottish comedian and actor.
Senses: examples: text: I've had a Chinky, a Chic Murray and, afore ye came tae collect me, I had some fuckin' fancy Italian pasta dish. It was pure dead brilliant, by the way!
ref: 2013, Harry Morris, Yer Never Gonnae Believe It:
glosses: A (meal of) curry.
wikipedia: Chic Murray
Synonyms: Ruby
Ruby Murray
Cheskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cheskian
form: most Cheskian
Senses: glosses: Czech
Cheskian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cheskians
Senses: glosses: Czech
Cheskians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cheskian
undercanopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercanopy
wedlease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedleases
Etymology: From wed + lease, introduced by a 2013 opinion piece in The Washington Post.
Senses: examples: See Citations:wedlease
glosses: A temporary marriage based on a contract, agreed to by both spouses, with renewal options.
Synonyms: word: misyar
word: wedlease
Hyponyms: word: mut'ah
word: halala
word: sigheh
wedlease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wedleases
form: wedleasing
form: wedleased
form: wedleased
Etymology: From wed + lease, introduced by a 2013 opinion piece in The Washington Post.
Senses: glosses: To marry impermanently.
Related terms: mut'ah
antibiotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibiotherapies
Senses: examples: text: Combination of an active-targeted immunotherapy, such as provided by the multiphasic MVATG18377, with antibiotherapy is an attractive approach that should also be considered in particular as MVA-based immunotherapeutics have already shown encouraging clinical results in oncology and chronic viral infections [17 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “A Novel MVA-Based Multiphasic Vaccine for Prevention or Treatment of Tuberculosis Induces Broad and Multifunctional Cell-Mediated Immunity in Mice and Primates”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: therapy that uses antibiotics
counterscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterscreens
form: counter-screen
Etymology: From counter- + screen.
Senses: examples: text: During large-scale HTS campaigns, it is necessary to utilize counterscreen assays in order to remove false-positives and prioritize hit-compounds.
ref: 2015 November 25, “High-Throughput Screening of Myometrial Calcium-Mobilization to Identify Modulators of Uterine Contractility”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A screen (or screening), carried out in parallel to a primary screen, in which compounds that could interfere with the primary screen may be identified
counterscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterscreens
form: counterscreening
form: counterscreened
form: counterscreened
form: counter-screen
Etymology: From counter- + screen.
Senses: glosses: To separate components using such a device
dehydrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehydrants
Etymology: From de- + hydrant.
Senses: examples: text: Slides were fixed in Hematoxylin (Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) for 5 min at room temperature, and then rinsed in running water for 2 minutes; after decolorizing in acid alcohol for 2 seconds, rinsed again in sodium bicarbonate for 5 dips; rinsed out container with Dehydrant after 95% iso for 30 seconds, and then fixed in Eosin (Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) for 2 minutes, and then washed in dehydrant 100% (Richard-Allan Scientific, MI, USA) and Xylnene (VWR, PA, USA) for 3 times.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Rapid and Efficient Production of Coronary Artery Ligation and Myocardial Infarction in Mice Using Surgical Clips”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any material that produces dehydration
dequench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dequenches
form: dequenching
form: dequenched
form: dequenched
Etymology: From de- + quench.
Senses: glosses: To reestablish a previously quenched fluorescence
dequenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We measured the steady-state mean FRET efficiency (E m ) utilizing the acceptor photobleaching method, which dequenches the donor (CFP).
ref: 2015 November 25, “Mutant SOD1 Increases APP Expression and Phosphorylation in Cellular and Animal Models of ALS”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dequench
endophyticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endophytic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In this system, the RNS is composed of renal mass diameter, endophyticity or exophyticity, proximity to the collecting system, location relative to the polar line and hilar structure, and anteriority or posteriority of the mass location [11 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Trends in the Use of Nephron-Sparing Surgery over 7 Years: An Analysis Using the R.E.N.A.L. Nephrometry Scoring System”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being endophytic
exophyticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exophytic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In this system, the RNS is composed of renal mass diameter, endophyticity or exophyticity, proximity to the collecting system, location relative to the polar line and hilar structure, and anteriority or posteriority of the mass location [11 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Trends in the Use of Nephron-Sparing Surgery over 7 Years: An Analysis Using the R.E.N.A.L. Nephrometry Scoring System”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being exophytic
femoroacetabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From femoro- + acetabular.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, this program has been validated to be a reliable and accurate tool to estimate FHC from a plain X-ray radiograph in patients with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) [19 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Comparison of 2.5D and 3D Quantification of Femoral Head Coverage in Normal Control Subjects and Patients with Hip Dysplasia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the femur and the acetabulum
galacturonosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galacturonosyls
Senses: examples: text: One gene was annotated as the galacturonosyl transferase-like 10 gene, which was down-regulated at 1 DPA and 3 DPA and has been located to position 8.13–8.14 Mb of chromosome 22 (S13 Table ).
ref: 2015 November 25, “Transcriptome Analysis of Short Fiber Mutant Ligon lintless-1 (Li 1 ) Reveals Critical Genes and Key Pathways in Cotton Fiber Elongation and Leaf Development”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A radical derived from galacturonic acid
Derived terms: galacturonosyltransferase
glycogenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glycogenated
form: most glycogenated
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the presence of glycogenated nuclei positively correlated with the HV-IL6 (r = 0.35; p = 0.3).
ref: 2015 November 25, “Peripheral and Hepatic Vein Cytokine Levels in Correlation with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)-Related Metabolic, Histological, and Haemodynamic Features”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Associated with glycogen (used especially of hepatocyte nuclei)
immunodefensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunodefensive
form: most immunodefensive
Etymology: From immuno- + defensive.
Senses: examples: text: It is conceivable that impairment of surfactant proteins is due to rheological and immunodefensive disorders of testis and epididymis or prostate.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Expression and Localization of Lung Surfactant Proteins in Human Testis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Related to immunodefense
immunoprecipitatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, we were surprised to find that mature caspase-1 released outside the monocyte exists in two forms, an active, non-immunodepleteable form, and an inactive, immunoprecipitatable form.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Monocyte Caspase-1 Is Released in a Stable, Active High Molecular Weight Complex Distinct from the Unstable Cell Lysate-Activated Caspase-1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of immunoprecipitable.
immunoprecipitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + precipitable.
Senses: glosses: precipitable via immunoprecipitation
intraluteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + luteal.
Senses: examples: text: In both scenarios, elevated serum and intraluteal progesterone concentrations decrease towards the end of the luteal phase, allowing initiation of a subsequent ovarian cycle [23, 24 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Apoptosis-Related Factors in the Luteal Phase of the Domestic Cat and Their Involvement in the Persistence of Corpora Lutea in Lynx”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the corpus luteum
juxtaparanodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxta- + paranodal.
Senses: examples: text: Kv1.2 channels encoded by Kcna2 gene are widely expressed in the brain and mainly localize in the axon initial segment, the juxtaparanodal region of myelinated axons and axon terminals [10 –12 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Positive Allosteric Modulation of Kv Channels by Sevoflurane: Insights into the Structural Basis of Inhaled Anesthetic Action”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alongside a paranode
ligustilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ligustilides
Senses: examples: text: This might explain why chronic administration of ligustilide prevents (via klotho upregulation) the development of AD-like neuropathologies and memory impairment [14 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Secreted and Transmembrane αKlotho Isoforms Have Different Spatio-Temporal Profiles in the Brain during Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Progression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The lactone (3Z)-3-butylidene-4,5-dihydro-2-benzofuran-1-one, isolated from plants of the genus Ligusticum, used as a cardiovascular therapy
monoestrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + oestrous.
Senses: examples: text: Eurasian, Canada and Iberian lynx are monoestrous, i.e., mate only once in a year, with breeding seasons in January–April, February–April and January–February, respectively [1 –4 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Apoptosis-Related Factors in the Luteal Phase of the Domestic Cat and Their Involvement in the Persistence of Corpora Lutea in Lynx”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That comes into oestrus, and thus mates, only once per year
monoovulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ovulatory.
Senses: examples: text: Previous studies show that BMP15 enhances oocyte development and regulates oocyte developmental programming, and BMP15 mutation causes monoovulatory cycles in humans and reduces ovulation rate in mice [58 –59 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Analysis of Pigeon ( Columba ) Ovary Transcriptomes to Identify Genes Involved in Blue Light Regulation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In which a single ovum (egg) is produced
monotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From mono- + temporal.
Senses: examples: text: Sunlit tree crowns (5 deciduous species groups) were classified using a Random Forest approach for monotemporal, two-date and three-date combinations.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Discrimination of Deciduous Tree Species from Time Series of Unmanned Aerial System Imagery”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Only a single time (each day)
patentometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patent + -o- + metrics.
Senses: examples: text: The purpose was to identify the key fields of oncology and their key technical points by quantitative analysis including patentometrics, regression analysis and two-dimensional quadrant analysis, combined with qualitative analysis by oncology experts.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Identification of the Key Fields and Their Key Technical Points of Oncology by Patent Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The statistical analysis of patents
perisurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + surgical.
Senses: examples: text: First, during the perisurgical period, which is the time from the beginning of the surgery until 4 hours after surgery, only 8 of 31 mice in the CMI group died, while 18 of 37 perisurgical deaths were seen in the SMI group (Fig 3C ).
ref: 2015 November 25, “Rapid and Efficient Production of Coronary Artery Ligation and Myocardial Infarction in Mice Using Surgical Clips”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Around the time of surgery.
postrictal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + rictal.
Senses: examples: text: Tympanic annulus and membrane not visible, covered by muscle beneath skin; lacking postrictal tubercles; choana small, rounded, not concealed by the palatal shelf of maxillary arc; dentigerous processes transverse, angled postero-medially and closely separated; bearing four small teeth, visible; tongue elliptical, posterior border not notched, not adherent to the floor of the mouth for about 40% of its length; vocal slits, vocal sac and nuptial excrescences absent.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Insights from Integrative Systematics Reveal Cryptic Diversity in Pristimantis Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Upper Amazon Basin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Behind the rictus (especially of an amphibian)
rhizotrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizotrones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhizotron.
rhizotrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This would not be possible with conventional experimental designs including rhizotrones, which only collect bacteria in the sediment porewater and also affect the sediment depth.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Microbial Response to Experimentally Controlled Redox Transitions at the Sediment Water Interface”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of rhizotrone
saproxylics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Beetles of most fungus-beetle associations identified were saproxylics or mycetophages.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Diversity and Interactions of Wood-Inhabiting Fungi and Beetles after Deadwood Enrichment”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of saproxylic
statosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: NASH was diagnosed if some degree of statosis, lobular inflammation and ballooning were simultaneously present [3, 36, 37 ].
ref: 2015 November 25, “Peripheral and Hepatic Vein Cytokine Levels in Correlation with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)-Related Metabolic, Histological, and Haemodynamic Features”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of steatosis.
subacuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + acuminate.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, adult females present a well-defined acuminate shape in snout, compared with the subacuminate snout in males.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Insights from Integrative Systematics Reveal Cryptic Diversity in Pristimantis Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Upper Amazon Basin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Somewhat acuminate
PEBCAC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Problem Exists Between Chair And Computer. Used by technical support helpdesk staff to indicate that the problem with a user’s computer or experience is due to user error.
Synonyms: PEBCAK
sulphidisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfidization
Etymology: From sulphide + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: Vivianite formation was favoured by an elevated iron availability through a lower degree of sulphidisation and was present at a molar ratio of total sulphur to reactive iron smaller than 1.1, only.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Sedimentary Sulphur:Iron Ratio Indicates Vivianite Occurrence: A Study from Two Contrasting Freshwater Systems”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modification by the addition of, or reaction with sulphides
reconsiderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconsiderers
Etymology: From reconsider + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reconsiders.
transparietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + parietal.
Senses: examples: text: Patients were proposed for transjugular liver venous catheterization and biopsy, as the transparietal route is technically less feasible in obese patients for anatomical reasons.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Peripheral and Hepatic Vein Cytokine Levels in Correlation with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)-Related Metabolic, Histological, and Haemodynamic Features”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Through or across the wall of a body part.
underallocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underallocations
Etymology: From under- + allocation.
Senses: examples: text: Combining data from males from this experiment (plus females in the underallocation treatment) and females from the Creighton et al.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Differences in Patterns of Reproductive Allocation between the Sexes in Nicrophorus orbicollis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A less than normal, or insufficient, allocation.
vitivinicultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, the current existing commercial yeasts present some constrains, namely reducing the uniqueness of wine bouquet, characteristic of the different vitivinicultural regions throughout the world.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Exploring the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Volatile Metabolome: Indigenous versus Commercial Strains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the cultivation of grapes and other vines.
despects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despect
despecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despect.
despected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of despect.
triggerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triggerers
Etymology: From trigger + -er. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Applied to a human being this would for instance mean that to say that someone is influenced by someone else, only refers to the fact that the last person is acting as a triggerer of structural change with regard to the first one, but that the triggerer isn't sure that he can be a triggerer, nor what will be the result of being the triggerer.
ref: 1992, G. Vijver, New Perspectives on Cybernetics:
glosses: One who or that which triggers.
Synonyms: trigger
miscegenator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscegenators
Etymology: From miscegenate + -or. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The anti-Chinaman mob complain that “John” will not intermarry with our race and settle down to spend his earnings in this country, but when he shows a disposition to accommodate them in this respect they appeal to the courts or threaten to mob him as a miscegenator.
ref: 1881, Educational Weekly, volume 9, page 382:
glosses: Somebody who breeds with a person of another race.
collector's item
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collectors' items
Senses: glosses: Anything that a collector finds desirable and worth collecting.
Synonyms: collectable
collectible
curio
curiosity
teeny-tiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teeny-tiny
form: most teeny-tiny
form: teensy-tinsy
Senses: glosses: Very small; tiny.
Brahim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Ibrahim.
shitfire
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: shit fire
form: shit-fire
Etymology: From shit + fire, possibly a calque of Spanish cacafuego (“braggart”, literally “fireshitter”).
Senses: examples: text: Shitfire! I never thought he'd get the nomination.
glosses: Used as an oath
jealouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of jealous: more jealous
jealousest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jealous: most jealous
Yuina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Ayumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese あゆみ (Ayumi).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Sakurako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
keep it in one's pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps it in one's pants
form: keeping it in one's pants
form: kept it in one's pants
form: kept it in one's pants
Senses: glosses: To refrain from trying to have sex with someone.
examples: text: Bro pls keep it in your pants with the furry stuff we're in a public Discord server with minors in it
glosses: To keep or stop oneself from further lusting over something (usually something not inherently sexual or lewd, like a fictional character), especially at a time and place that would be inappropriate for it.
Related terms: keep one's pants on
little old me
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Me.
languagism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From language + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The reactionary elements in the country have had their days in poisoning the minds of most of the city people. It is in the shape of communalism, communism and languagism.
ref: 1954, G. K. Puranik, Rural India - Volume 17, page 291:
text: The question may be raised whether we will win the battle against racism, sexism, and agism only to lose the fight against languagism.
ref: 1982, Z. Anthony Kruszewski, Richard L. Hough, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, Politics and Society in the Southwest: Ethnicity and Chicano Pluralism, page 38:
text: America has the potential within the schools and with the educators, but it must keep the pedecrat of modern languagism out of the field of bilingualism.
ref: 2001, Adolph Caso, Issues In Bilingual and Foreign Language Education, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Linguicism; discrimination or chauvinism based on features of language such as accent, syntax, or vocabulary.
languagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: languagists
Etymology: From language + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh dear, dear!" said Miss Crocky, admiringly, " he is such a languagist ; isn't he, Miss Norah? I tell him he's thrown away here. His place is at courts, I'm sure."
ref: 1871, Victoria Rybot, Half a dozen daughters, page 124:
text: 'French ain't a hurtin' me,' says I, 'it's my English, I guess their French is mostly like that Pasadena woman's Herman's wife was a tellin' me about. Herself an' all her friends thought she was a fine French languagist, an' when she went into a restaurant in Paris the only way she could make the French waiter understand she wanted bread an' butter was a pintin' to it, an' then pintin' to her mouth.'
ref: 1912, Sara White Isaman, Sophisticating Uncle Hiram, page 223:
text: "Now you just get ahold of yourself, lady, and tell me what's going on. In English. I ain't no languagist, you hear?”
ref: 2012, Frank O'Neill, Georgia Bound, →ISBN:
glosses: A linguist; one who is proficient in languages.
examples: text: They can do with these all that the languagists claim to do, and more — save English for our children for, by the way they teach English the lifeblood has escaped, only the skeleton remains.
ref: 1966, The Literary Criterion - Volume 7, Issue 3, page 76:
text: Identifying and curbing the activity of such ethnocentric languagist functionaries ought to rank high among Chicano political priorities .
ref: 1982, Z. Anthony Kruszewski, Richard L. Hough, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, Politics and Society in the Southwest: Ethnicity and Chicano Pluralism:
glosses: One who discriminates on the basis of language use.
languagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of languagist
Bettencourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bettencourts
Etymology: Borrowed from French Bettencourt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Lapointe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lapointes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Lapointe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
heavy as a dead donkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very heavy.
parallel parkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallel parking
vetsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Tien Chu Ve-Tsin food company. The Ve-Tsin (味精) trademark itself comes from Shanghainese 味精 (⁶vi-cin₁), which is ultimately from Japanese 味(み)精(せい) (misei).
Senses: glosses: MSG; monosodium glutamate