cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oxazolinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxazoliniums
Senses: examples: text: GH3 GlcNAcases catalyse the hydrolytic reaction through a standard ‘retaining’ mechanism involving a covalent glycosyl-enzyme intermediate [14 ,15 ], while GH20 and GH84 GlcNAcases hydrolyse chitooligosaccharides through a ‘substrate-assisted’ mechanism involving the transient formation of an oxazolinium ion intermediate [16 –18 ].
ref: 2016 February 13, “Probing the Catalytic Mechanism of Vibrio harveyi GH20 ?-N -Acetylglucosaminidase by Chemical Rescue”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation derived from an oxazole
alod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allod.
pharmacoenhancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacoenhancers
Etymology: From pharmaco- + enhancer.
Senses: examples: text: However, as EVG is co-administered with other antiretroviral drugs and pharmacoenhancer such as COBI or RTV, it is expected that these combination therapies may alter the inhibitory effects of EVG on the CYP3A4 enzyme [1 ] at least during the acute phase of drug exposure.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Effect of Ethanol on the Metabolic Characteristics of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitor Elvitegravir and Elvitegravir/Cobicistat with CYP3A: An Analysis Using a Newly Developed LC-MS/MS Method”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any substance that enhances the efficacy of a drug
protypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Here we showed significant positive correlation between the serum level of LILRA3 and one of the most potent anti-inflammatory cytokines, IL-10 but negative correlation to the protypical pro-inflammatory cytokine TNFα, albeit weakly.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Serum Leukocyte Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor A3 (LILRA3) Is Increased in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Is a Strong Independent Indicator of Disease Severity; 6.7kbp LILRA3 Gene Deletion Is Not Associated with Diseases Susceptibility”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of prototypical.
resistogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resistograms
Etymology: From resist + -o- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: For inoculation of bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus Rosenbach 1884 was used, which was tested sensitive to gentamicin (for complete resistogram, please see S1 Table in the supporting information).
ref: 2016 February 13, “Surgical Debridement Is Superior to Sole Antibiotic Therapy in a Novel Murine Posttraumatic Osteomyelitis Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A graphical display of the bacterial resistance to a group of antibiotics
semilabeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + labeled.
Senses: examples: text: KEMA is as accurate as the state of the art, but with the advantage of handling naturally domains of different dimensionality, and not requiring semilabeled examples ( in the Table) to align the domains as JDA. The results obtained when using the deep DeCAF features are reported in Table 4 : a strong improvement in performance is observed for all methods.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Kernel Manifold Alignment for Domain Adaptation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Partially or incompletely labeled
semiquantification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiquantifications
Etymology: From semi- + quantification.
Senses: examples: text: Since the semiquantification of HMGB-1 in endometrium by immunohistochemistry remains as another limitation, further separated study is required.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Pathophysiology of Endometriosis: Role of High Mobility Group Box-1 and Toll-Like Receptor 4 Developing Inflammation in Endometrium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Partial or incomplete quantification
subsepta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + septa.
Senses: examples: text: The optical intensity ratio of the supra-septa space (1.14 ± 0.12), but not subsepta space (1.05 ± 0.05) in VKH, was significantly higher compared to that of the subretinal space in VKH without the subretinal septa (1.07 ± 0.08), and the subretinal fluid in CSCR (1.08 ± 0.09).
ref: 2016 February 13, “Optical Intensities of Different Compartments of Subretinal Fluid in Acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beneath septa
thiolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thio- + -lytic.
Senses: examples: text: Beta oxidation involves a repeating sequence of four enzymatic steps in which an acyl-coenzyme A ester (acyl-CoA) undergoes subsequent steps of dehydrogenation, hydration, another dehydrogenation and finally thiolytic cleavage [27 ].
ref: 2016 February 13, “Effect of Dietary Restriction and Subsequent Re-Alimentation on the Transcriptional Profile of Bovine Skeletal Muscle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to thiolysis
thrombogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombograms
Etymology: From thrombo- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: From the resulting thrombogram the following parameters were calculated: lag time (min), peak (nM, maximal thrombin concentration), peak-endogenous thrombin potential (ETP, nM.min, area under the thrombin curve until the peak is reached), time to peak (min) and velocity (nM/min, maximal rate of thrombin generation).
ref: 2016 February 13, “Thrombin Generation in Zebrafish Blood”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A graphical representation of thrombin levels over time
Related terms: thrombography
transpolyisoprene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transpolyisoprenes
Etymology: From trans- + polyisoprene.
Senses: examples: text: CCC can increase the relative content of ABA by inhibiting the biosynthesis of GA. DCPTA induces carotenoid accumulation and both cis-polyisoprene in guayule and transpolyisoprene in Eucommia ulmoides, Oliv.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Mixed Compound of DCPTA and CCC Increases Maize Yield by Improving Plant Morphology and Up-Regulating Photosynthetic Capacity and Antioxidants”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A trans isomer of polyisoprene
urografin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urografins
Senses: examples: text: Finally, the material was purified on discontinuous urografin gradients with RBs banding at the 34/44% interface and EBs banded at 44/54% interface.
ref: 2016 February 13, “Quantitative Proteomics of the Infectious and Replicative Forms of Chlamydia trachomatis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a family of contrast media containing derivatives of diatrizoic acid
regiolectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regiolectal
form: most regiolectal
Etymology: From regiolect + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a regiolect
Derived terms: regiolectally
regiolectally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more regiolectally
form: most regiolectally
Etymology: From regiolectal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a regiolectal way.
postpetiolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From postpetiole + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the postpetiole
Derived terms: subpostpetiolar
knurd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knurds
Etymology: Backwards spelling of drunk.
Senses: examples: text: Richard A. Petke announces formation of Beta lota Tau, a new fraternity for campus computer freaks, knurds, hackers and assorted hangers on.
ref: 1975, Byte:
text: The computer knurds managed to identify all the bad chips and replace them -- except for the microcode rom.
ref: 1986 March 11, Ed Falk, “Horror Stories”, in net.rumor (Usenet):
text: “How much do I want to bet the young man will be a straightlaced knurd?” Isabel chimed as she thought about the prospective house guest she’ll be waiting on this summer. She used the derogatory term “knurd” she’d learned back in England from Lady Chatterly’s friends who attended the school of Eton. It was “drunk” spelled backward to refer to someone who was more interested in his studies and grades than partying and enjoying alcohol after classes.
ref: 2015, Ken Knight, Senator Joseph McCarthy and Lady Chatterley, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of nerd; especially used to refer to one of several folk etymologies of the word.
knurds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knurd
macrophallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmækɹoʊˈfæləs/
ipa: /ˌmækɹəʊˈfæləs/
Forms: form: macrophalluses
Etymology: From macro- + phallus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormally large penis; macropenis
Synonyms: macropenis
megalophallus
megalopenis
megaphallus
megapenis
megalophallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalophalluses
Etymology: From megalo- + phallus.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having an abnormally large penis; macropenis
Synonyms: macropenis
macrophallus
megalopenis
megaphallus
megapenis
megalopenis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalopenises
Etymology: From megalo- + penis.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having an abnormally large penis; macropenis
Synonyms: macropenis
macrophallus
megalophallus
megaphallus
megapenis
if my uncle had tits, he'd be my aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
synonyms: word: if my aunt had balls
word: she'd be my uncle
if my grandmother had balls, she'd be my granddad
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
synonyms: word: if my aunt had balls
word: she'd be my uncle
if my sister had balls, she'd be my brother
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
synonyms: word: if my aunt had balls
word: she'd be my uncle
pis-en-deux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French [Term?].
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
urology
glosses: Urinary urgency shortly after voiding.
gandharva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gandharvas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit गन्धर्व (gandharva).
Senses: qualifier: Indian mythology
glosses: A spirit, usually depicted as a singer or musician.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A being in the intermediate state between death and rebirth.
gandharvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gandharva
skeng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛŋ
Forms: form: skengs
Etymology: Derived from Jamaican Creole.
Senses: examples: text: Man still money dance in the bando / L1 in the cut two rambos / I love skengs and peds, violence no meds / They say one-fifty but it's one-four-six, true there friend dem dead
ref: 2016 June 28, “Hazards”, Loski (lyrics)performed by Loski:
glosses: A weapon, especially a gun or a knife.
kaching
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kerching.
skengs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeng
progg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Swedish, a contraction of progressiv musik (“progressive music”).
Senses: glosses: A left-wing, anticommercial musical movement in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s.
trailcam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailcams
Etymology: From trail + cam.
Senses: glosses: trail camera
trailcams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trailcam
trail camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trail cameras
Senses: glosses: An outdoor camera that can be left unattended to take photographs or video footage at regular intervals, or whenever motion is detected, used for game surveillance by hunters.
Synonyms: trailcam
trail cameras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trail camera
game cameras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game camera
flatchestedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flat-chestedness.
acidogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acid + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: Investigating the functional effects of dentifrices (for example, the inhibition of acidogenesis or proteolysis) at sub-lethal concentrations is normally achieved (for acidogenesis inhibition) by exposing oral bacteria to diluted formulations and assessing changes in pH with a microelectrode, or by the chemical analyses of fermentation acids.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Simultaneous Assessment of Acidogenesis-Mitigation and Specific Bacterial Growth-Inhibition by Dentifrices”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The biochemical formation of acids
anisomyopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + isomyopia or aniso- + myopia.
Senses: examples: text: The relative peripheral refraction of the more myopic eye of anisomyopia was shifted hyperopically, as occurs in isomyopia with similar central subjective SE values.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Interocular Difference of Peripheral Refraction in Anisomyopic Eyes of Schoolchildren”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of different degrees of myopia in the two eyes
Derived terms: anisomyopic
Related terms: anisomyope
isomyopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + myopia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of the same degree of myopia in the two eyes
Derived terms: anisomyopia
isomyopic
chromosomology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromosome + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: In this study, morphology, growth rate, chromosomology, cytochemistry and molecular biology analysis of hiPSCs cultured on hUC-MSCs feeder in comparison to those on MEF feeder confirmed the characteristics of hiPSCs were of pluripotent stem cell properties.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Development of a Xeno-Free Feeder-Layer System from Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Prolonged Expansion of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Culture”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of chromosomes
pseudo-problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-problems
Etymology: From pseudo- + problem.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A problem that arises solely as a result of a misuse of language
hits on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit on
hitting on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit on
vibracious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more vibracious
form: most vibracious
Etymology: Blend of vibrant + vivacious
Senses: examples: text: “Good one, Rascal,” said Austin. “Did you scan the vibracious lady?”
ref: 2008, Austin P. Torney, Butterflies at the Edge of Forever:
text: I was thinking that this squeezing through the vibracious bodies was the most action I had seen in six months.
ref: 2015, Alex Almeida, Los Lesbian Love Angeles and Other Tales:
glosses: vibrant and vivacious
Tharangambadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A panchayat town in the Nagapattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Synonyms: Tranquebar
Tranquebar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Tharangambadi.
Coulthard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coulthards
Etymology: From Middle English colthard (“someone who looks after horses”), from colt (“colt”) + herde (“herdsman”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
hunch over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hunches over
form: hunching over
form: hunched over
form: hunched over
Senses: glosses: To slouch, stoop, curl, or lean.
glosses: To bend or stoop to issues that may not warrant such attention.
fly by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies by
form: flying by
form: flew by
form: flown by
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fly, by.
examples: text: I like to sit and watch the world fly by.
text: The rest of the day flew by quickly.
synonyms: word: go by
word: pass by
word: go by
word: fly by
word: forpass
word: forthglide
word: overgo
word: pass
word: pass by
word: roll on
word: slip by
word: transpass
glosses: To pass or go past quickly, often without much interaction
duritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durito
Assad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /æˈsɑːd/
/ˈæsæd/
Forms: form: Assads
form: Asad
form: Al-Assad
form: al-Assad
form: El-Assad
form: el-Assad
Etymology: From Arabic الأسد (al-ʔasad, literally “the lion”).
Senses: examples: text: In an exclusive interview with CNN, Jolani left no doubt that the ambitions of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) – a group that was formed out of a former al Qaeda affiliate – are nothing less than bringing an end to the Assad regime.
ref: 2024 December 6, Jomana Karadsheh, Gul Tuysuz, Brice Laine, Lauren Kent and Eyad Kourdi, “Syrian rebel leader says goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regime”, in CNN:
glosses: An Arab surname, notably borne by Syrian presidents Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad.
Derived terms: Assad curse
downdate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downdates
form: downdating
form: downdated
form: downdated
Etymology: From down- + date.
Senses: glosses: To alter, degrade or downgrade to an earlier or worse version, especially when it was intended to update.
examples: text: I downdated the database to undo the most recent update.
glosses: To undo an update.
examples: text: These excavations should be downdated.
glosses: To date earlier.
forereckon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forereckons
form: forereckoning
form: forereckoned
form: forereckoned
Etymology: From fore- + reckon.
Senses: examples: text: The past is leaving us, the untried and unknown future is before us, and we can none of us forecast or forereckon what Seventynine, another twelve months, will bring to us and ours. What 1878 has been 1879 may not be, or vice versa ; …
ref: 1878, The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated
text: Nay, who that hath lent unto Time may forereckon the fruit of his loan ? As the need of their day was they did, and their morrow hath cared for its own. What rose of our spring shall we gather this morn for the grave of a sire ?
ref: 1884, John Huntley Skrine, Under Two Queens:
text: In his bower, Coverdale onanistically counts “the innumerable clusters of my vine,” and forereckons “the abundance of my vintage.”
ref: 2005, D. Greven, Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature:
text: Does it not belong to the secret black-art of truly grand politics of vengeance, of a vengeance far-seeing, underground, slowly-gripping and forereckoning, that Israel itself should deny and crucify before all the world the proper tool of its vengeance, [...]
ref: 2008, Kelly James Clark, Readings in the Philosophy of Religion - Second Edition:
glosses: To reckon beforehand or in advance; prefigure
Derived terms: forereckoning
forereckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From forereckon.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forereckon
forereckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forereckon + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] had to have sleep, but decided that since I could not afford to be wrong in my forereckoning, I would at those times guard against surprise by leaning a heavy stick against the bar so that the latter's displacement would cause it to fall and wake […]
ref: 1948, The Restless Voyage
text: We of the Power have a certain measure of control over the natural elements, though like all else that is subject to failure or success beyond our forereckoning.
ref: 2003, Andre Norton, The Gates to Witch World:
glosses: Precalculation; foreplanning
smoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: smōk'ən
ipa: /ˈsməʊ.kən/
ipa: /ˈsmoʊ.kɪn/
ipa: /ˈsmoʊ.kən/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Forms: form: smokens
form: smokening
form: smokened
form: smokened
Etymology: From smoke + -en (inchoative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: She chewed on a knuckle bone and was silent, looking into the dying fire, till she raised her smokened face, looked at him steadily and said, 'You were born an old soul indeed, as I recall, but I'll thank you to remember that this boy, whom I have come to think of as my own bairn too, is one of the innocents of the world.'
ref: 2011, Allan Massie, Arthur the King:
text: Steals a large jacket someone left on a chair; steals gulps of O2 from the smokening air; clutches a lost apple and flashlight and gauze; […]
ref: 2012, Joseph Harry Silber, Bum:
glosses: To make or become smoked or smoky.
Mattina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mattinas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Mattina.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
stat padder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stat padders
Senses: glosses: Someone who practices stat padding.
stat padders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stat padder.
dactylethrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dactylethra
destabilase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destabilases
Senses: examples: text: Amino acid residues contributing to substrate binding are indicated by empty circles, those contributing to destabilase activity are indicated by black diamonds and those contributing to a potential dimerization are indicated by empty squares.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Multiple I-Type Lysozymes in the Hydrothermal Vent Mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus and Their Role in Symbiotic Plasticity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of lysozyme (isopeptidase) found in the secretions from the salivary glands of medicinal leeches
elgonica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We found that the major compounds in the solution were aloin A and aloin B. In addition, 10-hydroxy aloin and elgonica dimers were detected in smaller amounts.
ref: 2016 February 17, “The Inhibitory Effect of Natural Products on Protein Fibrillation May Be Caused by Degradation Products – A Study Using Aloin and Insulin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular anthraquinone found in certain aloes, normally as a dimer.
metabololipidomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Products were extracted using C18 SPE and profiled using lipid mediator metabololipidomics.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Identification and Actions of a Novel Third Maresin Conjugate in Tissue Regeneration: MCTR3”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The lipidomics of metabolites
nanoeukaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + eukaryotic.
Senses: examples: text: Three 1.5-ml aliquots were dispensed into 2.0-ml cryogenic tubes and fixed with 1% paraformaldehyde and 0.5% glutaraldehyde for the bacterial count [14 ], 0.5% glutaraldehyde for the viral count [15 ], and 1% paraformaldehyde for the nanoeukaryotic phytoplankton (NEUK), picoeukaryote (PEUK), and Synechococcus spp. analyses [16 ].
ref: 2016 February 17, “Microbial Community Profile and Water Quality in a Protected Area of the Caatinga Biome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to nanoeukaryotes
oversensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + sensing.
Senses: examples: text: This duration threshold was selected because previous results have shown it to exclude most episodes of atrial oversensing that can lead to false-positive recordings of AF [20 ].
ref: 2016 February 17, “Simulation of Daily Snapshot Rhythm Monitoring to Identify Atrial Fibrillation in Continuously Monitored Patients with Stroke Risk Factors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The sensing of signals, by a pacemaker, that come from muscle activity other than that of the heart
paroxonase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In mammals, one possible route for the metabolism of DHC upon absorption may involve PON glycoproteins encoded by the human paroxonase gene family, PON1, PON2 and PON3.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Impacts on Sirtuin Function and Bioavailability of the Dietary Bioactive Compound Dihydrocoumarin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of paraoxonase.
polimyelities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This working distance can keep the children relaxed and is convenient for those with disabilities such as polimyelities and autism.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Performance of Spot Photoscreener in Detecting Amblyopia Risk Factors in Chinese Pre-school and School Age Children Attending an Eye Clinic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of poliomyelitis.
posttranscription
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + transcription.
Senses: examples: text: Many studies had demonstrated that circRNAs could regulate the splicing, transcription, posttranscription, and activation of protein.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Characterization of a Decapentapletic Gene ( AccDpp ) from Apis cerana cerana and Its Possible Involvement in Development and Response to Oxidative Stress”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of posttranscriptional.
prebiotinylation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + biotinylation.
Senses: examples: text: Input of the prebiotinylation cell lysates was also detected by Western blot.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Release of Matrix Metalloproteinases-2 and 9 by S-Nitrosylated Caveolin-1 Contributes to Degradation of Extracellular Matrix in tPA-Treated Hypoxic Endothelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to biotinylation
vacufuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacufuges
Etymology: Blend of vacuum + centrifuge
Senses: examples: text: Samples were dried using a vacufuge, and the metabolites were redissolved in 50% methanol.
ref: 2016 February 17, “Impacts on Sirtuin Function and Bioavailability of the Dietary Bioactive Compound Dihydrocoumarin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A centrifuge that operates in a vacuum; especially one used to concentrate or dehydrate biological samples
vacufuge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vacufuges
form: vacufuging
form: vacufuged
form: vacufuged
Etymology: Blend of vacuum + centrifuge
Senses: glosses: To operate such a centrifuge
Synonyms: vacucentrifuge
wellwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛlwɔːtə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English welle-water, from Old English wiellewæter (“springwater”), equivalent to well + water.
Senses: glosses: Water taken from a well, i.e. a hole in the ground which acts as a source of water.
sideyways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sideyways
form: most sideyways
Senses: examples: text: With the mirrored shades on I zipped up the tent then ran sideyways down the brae to pop the milk back in the pool.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 73:
text: I like to stand there making the rope loop sideyways and back again and looking across at the women in their turbans leaning out the windows blethering to each other or shouting down to their weans in the street […]
ref: 2011, John Boyle, Galloway Street:
glosses: Sideways.
egalitarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egalitarianists
Etymology: From egalitarian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who is a proponent of egalitarianism
bud out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buds out
form: budding out
form: budded out
form: budded out
Etymology: A phrasal verb from bud + out.
Senses: examples: text: For three years we put out pear trees; they have budded out and that is all they have done since.
ref: 1887, Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture, Sacramento: State Office, page 171:
glosses: To develop buds.
raw_tags: of a flowering plant
examples: text: Maples of the Japanese kinds are now budding out, and they make beautiful greenhouse foliage plants.
ref: 1892 March 21, “Cool greenhouse plants”, in Gardening Illustrated, page 29:
text: Sometimes the budding is so rapid, that, before a fresh pair of leaves have become free they have already budded out a second pair, which we may call the grand-daughters of the parent leaf.
ref: 1892 July 23, L.C. Miall, “The surface-film of water and its relation to the life of plants and animals”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, page 79:
glosses: To erupt or to push out, as or in the manner of a bud.
examples: text: It is not hard to maintain a flourishing marine aquarium even in an inland town, and a scyphistoma may be kept alive in an aquarium for years, budding out its strobila every spring.
ref: 1897 August 26, L.C. Miall, “Section D. Zoology”, in Nature, page 406:
glosses: To produce in the manner of a bud or as though by budding.
donjuanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more donjuanist
form: most donjuanist
Etymology: After the 14th-century Spanish womanizer Don Juan, + -ist.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:donjuanist.
synonyms: Don Juanesque
glosses: Exhibiting compulsive sexual behavior.
raw_tags: of a man
wikipedia: Don Juan
swee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swees
Etymology: Onomatopoeia, from its call.
Senses: glosses: A finch of species Coccopygia melanotis, found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Synonyms: swee waxbill
swee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swi˦˨/
ipa: /swi˧ swi˦˨/
ipa: /swi˨˦ -/
Forms: form: more swee
form: most swee
form: swee swee
Etymology: From Hokkien 媠 (súi, “pretty”). Compare Tagalog yasuwi.
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to charity, Irene will make sure everything is ‘swee swee’ (Hokkien for perfect).
ref: 2011 April 3, Yeoh Wee Teck, quoting Harry Yew, The New Paper, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, pages 10–11:
text: “Sweee!” and “Gooaaal!” That’s the familiar cry heard throughout the neighbourhood. It’s English Premier League and there’s no greater equaliser ground than the kampung coffeeshop in uniting Singapore’s football fans and followers.
ref: 2014 January 26, Sylvia Toh Paik Choo, The Sunday Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page 3:
glosses: Great, neat, nice, excellent (often used as an interjection when something has gone smoothly).
glosses: Neat and tidy.
glosses: Pretty, good-looking.
ssps.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ssp.
Arlo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɹ.loʊ/
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
trulleum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the dorsal surface of the mandible is the trulleum, a basin-shaped depression, and the mandalus, a small unpigmented area at the base.
ref: 2005, Laurel Dianne Hansen, Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada, page 38:
text: Trulleum A basin-shaped depression near the dorsal base of the mandible, close to its articulation.
ref: 2016, Brian L. Fisher, Barry Bolton, Ants of Africa and Madagascar: A Guide to the Genera:
glosses: A basin-shaped depression near the base of the mandible in certain ants.
egalitarianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egalitarianist
jokish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊkɪʃ
Forms: form: more jokish
form: most jokish
Etymology: From joke + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, dear, how jokish these gentlemen are !
ref: 1824, Mrs. Inchbald, The British Theatre:
text: But Carême's creations, rather than proving the inherent artiness of food, seem rather to bespeak a jokish spectacularism in an orgy of conspicuous waste.
ref: 2012, Steven Poole, You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture:
glosses: Inclined to joke; jocular
alethinophidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alethinophidians
Etymology: Alethinophidia + -n
Senses: glosses: Any snake of the infraorder Alethinophidia
alethinophidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Genomic phylogenies suggest that this capacity have evolved twice, in tropidophiids, basal alethinophidians, and the families Bolyeriidae, Tropidophiidae, Boidae, and Pythonidae, plus the "advanced snakes" that include Acrochordidae and Colubroidea grouped as Caenophidia [16 ].
ref: 2016 February 18, “Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of alethinophidian
autobiotinylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + biotinylation.
Senses: examples: text: However, the degree of glutamine labelling was obviously low, and controls without rp39 showed autobiotinylation of the enzyme.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Involvement of a Novel Class C Beta-Lactamase in the Transglutaminase Mediated Cross-Linking Cascade of Streptomyces mobaraensis DSM 40847”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: enzymatic biotinylation of an enzyme itself
Related terms: autobiotinylate
basitibia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basitibiae
Etymology: From basi- + tibia.
Senses: examples: text: Leg I: Tibia with 23 articles and tarsus (basitarsus+distitarsus) with 41 articles. Leg IV (Fig. 13): Basitibia with 4 pseudoarticles and 1 medial trichobothrium on the last article. Distitibia with 3 basal and 15 distal trichobothria; frontal and caudal series with 6 trichobothria each.
ref: 2014 August 1, Ana Caroline O. Vasconcelos, Alessandro P. L. Giupponi, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, “A new species of Charinus from Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with comments on its sexual dimorphism (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae)”, in The Journal of Arachnology, volume 42, number 2, →DOI, page 159:
text: All new species can be differentiated from the other species of the genus by the number of pseudo-articles in basitibia IV, the presence/absence of median eyes, and the shape of the female gonopod.
ref: 2016 February 17, Alessandro Ponce de Leão Giupponi, Gustavo Silva de Miranda, “Eight New Species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) Endemic for the Brazilian Amazon, with Notes on Their Conservational Status”, in PLOS One, volume 11, number 2, →DOI, page 1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: distitibia
glosses: The portion of the tibia of an arachnid that is closest to the body.
Related terms: basitibial
caducifolious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin caducus (“that easily falls”) + folium (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: With a^([sic]) 8,514,877 km² territory size and six biomes (Amazon Forest (humid broad leaf forest), Caatinga (small woody and herbaceous deciduous, caducifolious, spiny species), Cerrado (open tree and shrub woodland [19 ]), Atlantic Forest (costal forest), Pantanal (tropical swampland) and Pampa (grasslands)) Brazil has records of just 17 species of these arachnids in all biomes, except in the Pampa where amblypygids are not found.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Eight New Species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) Endemic for the Brazilian Amazon, with Notes on Their Conservational Status”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having deciduous leaves
chamigrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamigrenes
Senses: examples: text: There are no reports of a TPS producing chamigrene as the sole sesquiterpene.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Rapid Discovery and Functional Characterization of Terpene Synthases from Four Endophytic Xylariaceae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sesquiterpene (R)-11-methylene-3,7,7-trimethylspiro[5.5]undec-2-ene
Derived terms: chamigrenyl
chamigrenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chamigrene + -yl.
Senses: examples: text: A subsequent methylene migration would yield the chamigrenyl cation which could undergo a direct proton abstraction to form β-chamigrene.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Rapid Discovery and Functional Characterization of Terpene Synthases from Four Endophytic Xylariaceae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical or cation derived from chamigrene
cuprenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cuprene + -yl.
Senses: examples: text: Reionization of the ciscoid conformation of NPP and subsequent intramolecular electrophilic attack would form a bisabolyl cation, which followed by a secondary intramolecular electrophilic attack and 1,4-hydride shift, would create a cuprenyl cation.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Rapid Discovery and Functional Characterization of Terpene Synthases from Four Endophytic Xylariaceae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical or cation derived from cuprene
cuprene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuprenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poorly characterised polymer of acetylene
Derived terms: cuprenyl
jokeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jokeful
form: most jokeful
Etymology: From joke + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: “He was always talkin' about leavin' and gettin' up; he was just a jokeful guy. [...]”
ref: 2001, Sebastian Danchin, Earl Hooker, Blues Master:
text: Gertrude Stein called it a “jokeful amusement.”
ref: 2010, Matthew Jacob, Mark Jacob, What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame:
text: I am very jokeful and have an enthusiastic and outgoing attitude and just full of life. One thing I enjoy doing is giving back to others and volunteering at hospitals and nursing homes.
ref: 2016, Monique McKenzie, Arthritis and Me:
glosses: Characterised by joking and jocularity; jocular; light-hearted
Derived terms: jokefully
jokefulness
jokefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jokeful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition or quality of being jokeful; jocularity
Lous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lou
jokesomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jokesome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But with a kind of perverse jokesomeness (the hodgepodge of words and symbols on the coffin recollects Addison's examples of "false wit"), she leaves behind a mystifying substitute for the self — [...]
ref: 1982, Terry Castle, Clarissa's Ciphers:
text: It is even a ghastlier notion that the jokesomeness of a philosopher, the unessential fringe of a subject, often becomes the soul-destroying weary, worrying study of a schoolboy.
ref: 1900, John Perry, England's Neglect of Science:
text: "We mought be; and yet again we mought not," Master Popplewell returned, with a glance at Mrs. Deborah, who had just been describing to the company how much her husband excelled in jokesomeness.
ref: 2008, R. D. Blackmore, Marry Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale:
glosses: The condition or quality of being jokesome; jest
jokely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jokely
form: most jokely
Etymology: From joke + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As Raymond and his family were leaving he turned to Rev. Kirby and jokely said, "When you find the time, come over to my place. I have a barn you can help me paint."
ref: 2007, Josie Sturgeon, My Father's Land:
text: A flatmate let me and jokely asked was the flowers for him so I asked jokely back did I look gay?
ref: 2012, Christian Simpson, LOST YOUTH: LONDON - Volume 2:
text: Well enough Ricky, have you even seen an our sister Nariam, who?, he said jokely Nah! Sis she is MIA, missing in action and don't wanna be found.
ref: 2014, Lolanda W. Green, So Familiar:
text: She confess that I am her youngest daughter. They jokely say mother look youthful. Nancy blush!!
ref: 2014, Cheryl Richardson, Big Revealed Encounters:
glosses: jokingly
boot tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot trees
Senses: glosses: A foot-shaped piece of wood (or plastic) that fits inside a boot in order for it to keep its shape.
Related terms: shoe tree
Boston Tea Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A political protest that took place in Boston Harbour in 1773, in which demonstrators, in defiance of the Tea Act, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company
bottle party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: bottle parties
Senses: glosses: A party where guests bring and consume their own bottles of drink.
bottle store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle stores
Senses: glosses: A liquor store
unresign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: unresigns
form: unresigning
form: unresigned
form: unresigned
Etymology: From un- + resign.
Senses: examples: text: I spoke to the station controller of Radio Norwich, quickly unresigned and set about returning the items to my desk. There were a few snide remarks from colleagues but I was unperturbed, glad even, that I’d made the error, as the process of clearing and then restocking my workspace was an absolute pleasure.
ref: 2011, I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan:
glosses: To withdraw a resignation.
bottle stopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle stoppers
Senses: glosses: An object such as a bung or cork that is used to close or cap the top of a bottle, typically to preserve the contents or prevent spillage.
Related terms: closure
wine stopper
wine stopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine stoppers
Senses: glosses: A removable cork that can be inserted into and extracted from the neck of a wine bottle
bottle tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle trees
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of trees that have a swollen base to the trunk giving a bottle-like appearance, including:
Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum
glosses: Any of a number of trees that have a swollen base to the trunk giving a bottle-like appearance, including:
Adansonia gregorii
glosses: Any of a number of trees that have a swollen base to the trunk giving a bottle-like appearance, including:
Pachypodium lealii
glosses: Any of a number of trees that have a swollen base to the trunk giving a bottle-like appearance, including:
Moringa
glosses: Any of a number of trees that have a swollen base to the trunk giving a bottle-like appearance, including:
Brachychiton
glosses: Any of a number of trees that have a swollen base to the trunk giving a bottle-like appearance, including:
Ceiba
glosses: Any of a number of trees that have a swollen base to the trunk giving a bottle-like appearance, including:
Caricaceae
glosses: An artificial tree decorated with bottles, believed in hoodoo to entrap evil spirits.
bottle collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bottle collars
Senses: glosses: wine collar
wine collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine collars
Senses: glosses: An accessory that fits around the neck of a wine bottle, designed to absorb drips that run down the bottle after pouring.
Synonyms: bottle collar
bottle hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle hangers
Senses: glosses: A label placed on the neck of a wine bottle
wine grower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine growers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of winegrower.
wonder drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonder drugs
Senses: glosses: A panacea.
glosses: A medication that gives remarkable benefits.
work in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works in
form: working in
form: worked in
form: worked in
Senses: examples: text: It'll be a tight schedule, but we can work you in.
glosses: To find time or space for, amid other things.
examples: text: Is it okay if I work in while you rest?
glosses: To work out using a machine in between the sets of someone who is already using that machine.
examples: text: Next, you have to work the eggs in the batter.
text: He works in cybersecurity.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, in.
gross up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌp
Forms: form: grosses up
form: grossing up
form: grossed up
form: grossed up
Senses: topics: business
finance
financial
glosses: To convert into a gross figure; to total (up).
lead up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leads up to
form: leading up to
form: led up to
form: led up to
Senses: examples: text: If it is a new constitution, the historico-legal method is probably the most appropriate, since the events leading up to the introduction of the constitution are still so recent and relevant that they must be used for guidance when the constitution is interpreted.
ref: 1978, H. Th. J. F. van Maarseveen, Ger F. M. van der Tang, Written Constitutions: A Computerized Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 242:
text: North not only makes Hoover primary in the FBI's complicity in the cover-up, a fairly common mistake, but also attempts to implicate Hoover in events leading up to the assassination.
ref: 2000, Donald Gibson, The Kennedy Assassination Cover-up, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Sometimes one feels that Ramus is about to apply his notion of genesis to the abstractive process itself so as to include the steps which lead up to, or can lead up to, scientific knowledge, instead of restricting it to the abstractionist approach of his invention and disposition.
ref: 2005, Walter J. Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue, →ISBN:
glosses: To set in motion; to act as a causal or preparatory event or sequence of events.
examples: text: With these objectives we examine developments in the years leading up to and including 43 episodes of financial sector distress or crisis (including episodes of repeat crisis) in a total sample of 50 countries.
ref: 1998, International Monetary Fund, Leading Indicators of Banking Crises: Was Asia Different?, →ISBN:
text: Before the event, the players sometimes attempt to integrate certain equipment or shots into their repertoire in events that lead up to the major.
ref: 2009, Gary Gilchrist, Susan Hill, Jeff Troesch, Going for the Green: Prepare Your Body, Mind, and Swing for Winning Golf, →ISBN:
text: While you imagined the white sand beaches, the sun warming your skin, and the sound of the waves crashing, your workdays leading up to your departure went by faster, you worked harder, and you were happier.
ref: 2015, Laurie Joslin, Laurie Sudbrink, Leading with GRIT, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: To precede in time.
examples: text: The old larder gate now serves as the common way to the church, for those who live on the north side, where eighteen or nineteen stone steps lead up to a paved alley, once a gallery of the dormitories, dorture, or lodging rooms of the monks, now for the most part in ruins, or converted to gardens, which we shall next proceed to describe.
ref: 1828, William Henry Ireland, England's topographer:
text: A keen sportsman, he had draped half the walls of his palace with tiger skins, while several more skins were laid end to end to lead up to the throne.
ref: 2011, Vithal Rajan, Holmes of the Raj, →ISBN:
text: More Georgia red clay brick lead up to a screened sun porch, even the brick work was bulging upward at the base.
ref: 2012, Carolyn O'Brien, Legacy of Chariton House, →ISBN:
glosses: To follow or mark a path toward.
Derived terms: word: lead-up
word: leadup
bottle stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle store