cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
posterocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From postero- + cortical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior and cortical
bark mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bark mills
Senses: glosses: A mill that grinds bark and roots into a fine powder for use in tanning.
kicks up the butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kick up the butt
kicks up the bum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kick up the bum
kicks up the bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kick up the bottom
kicks up the backside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kick up the backside
kicks up the ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kick up the ass
unsociables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsociable
Powellism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Powell + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The conservative and nationalist political views of John Enoch Powell (1912–1998), British politician.
Powellist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Powellists
Etymology: From Powell + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Powellism.
Powellists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Powellist
Powellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Powellites
Etymology: From Powell + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Powellism.
Powellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Powellite
muguka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The leaves of Catha edulis, chewed as a stimulant; khat.
daggerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daggering
rainsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainsuits
Etymology: From rain + suit.
Senses: glosses: A waterproof suit.
rainsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainsuit
torrent-bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torrent-bows
Senses: glosses: A bow of prismatic colors formed above the spray of a torrent.
Related terms: rainbow
torrent-bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torrent-bow
postgastrulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + gastrulation.
Senses: glosses: After gastrulation
Beguine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /beɪˈɡiːn/
Forms: form: Beguines
Etymology: From Old French béguine.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Beghard
glosses: A member of a semimonastic Christian lay religious order active in Northern Europe, particularly in the Low Countries in the 13th–16th centuries.
Related terms: beguinage
Beguines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beguine
postprocedurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌpoʊst.prəˈsiː.d͡ʒər.ə.li/
Etymology: From post- + procedurally.
Senses: glosses: In a postprocedural manner; after a procedure.
Coordinate terms: intraprocedurally
periprocedurally
preprocedurally
remutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remutations
Etymology: From re- + mutation.
Senses: glosses: mutation again, or back to a previous form
remutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remutation
predenatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + denatured.
Senses: glosses: denatured prior to some other procedure
preinterventionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + interventionally.
Senses: glosses: Prior to intervention.
prevascularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prevascularizes
form: prevascularizing
form: prevascularized
form: prevascularized
Etymology: From pre- + vascularize.
Senses: glosses: To vascularize prior to some other operation
Related terms: prevascularization
prevascularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + vascularization.
Senses: glosses: vascularization prior to some other operation
Related terms: prevascularize
microsomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsoma
prevascularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prevascularize
prevascularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: vascularized prior to some other procedure
proamyloidogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + amyloidogenic.
Senses: glosses: That promotes amyloidogenesis
Parilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palilia
Senses: glosses: An annual rural festival held on 21 April in Ancient Rome, thought to cleanse sheep and shepherds.
Palilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Parilia.
procercoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procercoids
Senses: glosses: The first larval stage of some tapeworms
smouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smout
smouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smout
smouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smout
smouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smout
procercoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procercoid
prochondrogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + chondrogenic.
Senses: glosses: That promotes chondrogenesis
repercolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repercolations
Etymology: From re- + percolation.
Senses: qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: The successive application of the same menstruum to fresh parts of the substance to be percolated.
repercolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repercolation
hashlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒk
Forms: form: hashlocks
Etymology: From hash + lock.
Senses: examples: text: By encumbering the Bitcoin transaction outputs with a hashlock and timelock, the channel counterparty will be unable to outright steal funds and Bitcoins can be exchanged without outright counterparty theft.
ref: 2016 January 14, Joseph Poon, Thaddeus Dryja, “The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments”, in Lightning Network:
glosses: A Bitcoin feature that restricts the spending of an output or multiple outputs until a specified piece of data is publicly revealed.
prodepressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From pro- + depressive.
Senses: glosses: That promotes depression
vociferize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vociferizes
form: vociferizing
form: vociferized
form: vociferized
Senses: glosses: To vociferate.
vociferise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vociferises
form: vociferising
form: vociferised
form: vociferised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vociferize.
vociferized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vociferize
vociferizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vociferize
vociferizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vociferize
vociferises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vociferise
vociferised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vociferise
vociferising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vociferise
salad plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salad plates
Senses: glosses: A small plate for serving salad.
salad plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salad plate
small plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small plates
Senses: examples: text: This unassuming south-Ponce tapas restaurant offers some of the most creative and sophisticated small plates in the metropolitan area.
ref: 2007, Atlanta Magazine, volume 47, number 3, page 156:
glosses: A dish in a restaurant that is prepared and served as soon as possible, rather than being served as a specific course of a meal.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see small, plate.
small plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small plate
protohypericin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proto- + hypericin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic derivative of hypericin
stop motions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stop motion
stop-motions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stop-motion
make one's manners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes one's manners
form: making one's manners
form: made one's manners
form: made one's manners
Senses: glosses: To greet a person with a respectful bow or curtsey.
pruriceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pruriceptors
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A nerve ending that acts as a receptor of itching sensations
pruriceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pruriceptor
hitherside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hither + side.
Senses: coordinate_terms: thitherside
glosses: The nearer side; this side.
hitherside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hither + side.
Senses: coordinate_terms: thitherside
glosses: On the nearer side; this side.
microcoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My microcoustic friend Daedalus has been relating the sizes of animals to the sounds they make and hear. Whereas humans use sounds in the 01 to 10 kHz range, dogs can hear somewhat higher, […]
ref: 1974, New Scientist, volume 64, number 928, page 904:
glosses: Alternative form of microacoustic.
microacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + acoustics.
Senses: glosses: The study of very weak or minor sounds.
disillusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disillusive
form: most disillusive
Senses: glosses: Freeing from illusion.
disillusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disillusory
form: most disillusory
Senses: glosses: Freeing from illusion.
condiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: condiddles
form: condiddling
form: condiddled
form: condiddled
form: kindiddle
Senses: glosses: To steal.
condiddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of condiddle
condiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of condiddle
condiddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of condiddle
iododestannylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iododestannylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction that adds iodine and removes a stannyl group (typically involving stannatrane compounds)
Derived terms: radioiododestannylation
radioiododestannylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioiododestannylations
Etymology: From radio- + iododestannylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An iododestannylation reaction using radioiodine
reticulocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to reticulocytes
rheostatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rheostatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of a rheostat or of rheostasis
rubylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RUBylation
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with the protein "RUB" related to ubiquitin
Related terms: derubylation
rubylate
scraunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scraunches
form: scraunching
form: scraunched
form: scraunched
Senses: examples: text: ‘Joe,’ said Mrs. Milford, scratching her head, and throwing her beaver upon the sofa; ‘go and fetch me three or four cabbage-stumps, and tell cook to pare them, and send them raw to me, I could scraunch a peck, I’m so dry—we had such a lot of nasty outlandish dishes.’
ref: 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXI, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 6–7:
glosses: Alternative form of scranch.
scraunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scraunch
scraunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scraunch
scraunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scraunch
scansoriopterigid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scansoriopterigids
Senses: glosses: Any of the family †Scansoriopterygidae of dinosaurs.
see service
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees service
form: seeing service
form: saw service
form: seen service
Senses: examples: text: The military and the fire service are probably the two roughest environments in which such a device will see service.
ref: 2005, John Norman, Fire Officer's Handbook of Tactics, page 243:
glosses: To be put to use; to be employed for a purpose.
scansoriopterigids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scansoriopterigid
fireground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firegrounds
Etymology: From fire + ground.
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: The site where a fire occurs or has recently occurred.
firegrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireground
symbolology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of symbology.
secretosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretosomes
Etymology: From secrete + -o- + -some.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A complex, containing syntaxin and synaptotagmin, within a varicosity, that controls secretion
sapi-utan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapi-outan
Etymology: From Malay [Term?], meaning "cow of the woods".
Senses: glosses: The wild ox of Celebes.
secretosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretosome
secretolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secrete + -o- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: The breaking up of secretions.
selenomolybdoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenomolybdoenzymes
Etymology: From seleno- + molybdoenzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metalloenzyme containing both selenium and molybdenum
selenomolybdoenzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selenomolybdoenzyme
culvertage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French culvert (“serf”).
Senses: glosses: The degradation of a vassal to the position of a serf.
semihomology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + homology.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A partial homology
Related terms: semihomologous
semihomologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + homologous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a semihomology
pudendous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pudenda + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the pudenda.
serodetermination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serodeterminations
Etymology: From sero- + determination.
Senses: glosses: The determination of serostatus
serodeterminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serodetermination
Jucheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Juche + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Support for the political philosophy of Juche.
serranochromine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serranochromines
Senses: glosses: Any cichlid of the genus Serranochromis
serranochromines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serranochromine
spongicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sponge + -colous.
Senses: glosses: Inhabiting sponges.
setation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setations
Senses: glosses: A growth or covering of setae
bottle imp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle imps
Senses: glosses: A Cartesian diver.
bottle imps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle imp
Blenheims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blenheim
blenks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blenk
blenking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blenk
blenked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blenk
September thorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: September thorns
Senses: topics: biology
lepidopterology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The geometrid moth Ennomos erosaria.
September thorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of September thorn
Cynwyd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Denbighshire, Wales.
Derived terms: Bala Cynwyd
Bala-Cynwyd
siphonozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siphonozooids
Senses: glosses: A polyp, in some soft coral colonies, that supplies water to the colony
siphonozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siphonozooid
siphosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siphosomes
Senses: glosses: The part of a siphonophore colony that contains the feeding, reproductive, and defensive zooids
Related terms: siphosomal
siphosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to siphosomes
sirodesmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirodesmins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a certain group of fungal phytotoxins
sorocarpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a sorocarp
paradoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paradoxic
form: most paradoxic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paradoxical.
Derived terms: paradoxician
spectrophotofluorometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectrophotofluorometers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spectrofluorophotometer.
synonyms: word: spectrofluorophotometer
spinosauroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinosauroids
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the superfamily Spinosauroidea
spinosauroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinosauroid
Jeffie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jeffi
Etymology: From Jeff, Jeffrey or other similar names, + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: It was true. Especially for Jeffie, her baby. He'd had enough hurt and she had to protect him. [...] Her cousin Mimi's husband the psychiatrist said, "Everyone has his own mourning time. Jeffie will go to school when he's ready."
ref: 2009, Iris Rainer Dart, Til the Real Thing Comes Along, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name.
examples: text: [...] her young friend Jeffersonia Davis Lucket. The name was a survival of war-time Confederate zeal, now nearly always mercifully shortened into "Jeffie," as being better suited for the owner. When Jeffie entered, Miss Stacy gave a little start, [...]
ref: 1898, Alice Maude Ewell, “Miss Stacy's Buryin'-Money”, in The Century, page 456:
text: [...] getting close enough to him to please Joey's wife, Jeffie, and yet staying at a sufficient distance to avoid compromising himself and his family.
ref: 1974 March 18, Donald Goddard, “An Incredible Evening With Joey Gallo”, in New York Magazine:
text: "Of course, honey," said Jeffie. Her words were slurred [...]
ref: 2007, J. Larry Jacobson, A Nest in the Storm, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: A female given name.
Jeffi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Jeffie.
Senses: examples: text: This happened in Dayton, Ohio: "Jeffi and I were parked in the woods one night. We had been going together for about three years. She was still a virgin, but we were pretty free with one another's bodies by then..."
ref: 1976, someone quoted by Sally Banes and Tem Horwitz in Our National Passion: 200 Years of Sex in America
text: "I think Jeffi's right. And I admire her for saying it." "What?" "If Mike used her that way, he is a jerk." "But, Jeffi," Bethany said as she turned her back on Sara, "you finally made it into that crowd, and you're throwing it all away. You'll be left out ..."
ref: 1985, Gail Jarrow, That Special Someone, Ace Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name.
shoulder to shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: synonyms: cheek by jowl
glosses: In close physical proximity.
glosses: With hearty and united action or effort.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoulder, to.
slattery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slattery
form: most slattery
Etymology: From slatter (“to spill, splash, slop”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: rainy; wet; sloppy
comburgess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comburgesses
Etymology: From com- + burgess.
Senses: glosses: A fellow burgess.
comburgesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comburgess
headswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headswomen
Etymology: From head + -s- + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: No candid person will wholly dismiss the proposition that the idea of having a Lord Chancellor but not a Lady Chancellor may at least be connected with the idea of having a headsman but not a headswoman, a hangman but not a hangwoman.
ref: 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3 part 9:
glosses: A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation.
examples: text: HEADSWOMAN, s. a midwife. It would be presumptuous to pry into obstetric mysteries, to discover the origin or propriety of this denomination.
ref: 1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia, volume II, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, page 154:
glosses: (obsolete) A midwife.
headswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headswoman
pentegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentegraphs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pantograph.
pentegraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentegraph
keep one's countenance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's countenance
form: keeping one's countenance
form: kept one's countenance
form: kept one's countenance
Senses: glosses: To preserve a calm appearance, hiding one's emotions.
up to the hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: first-rate; excellent
under the hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: For sale by auction.
Related terms: bring to the hammer
takes the plunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the plunge
taking the plunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the plunge
took the plunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the plunge
taken the plunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the plunge
trolloped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trollop
trolloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trollop
retex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retexes
form: retexing
form: retexed
form: retexed
Senses: glosses: To annul.
retexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retex
retexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retex
spinothalamocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spino- + thalamocortical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the spine, thalamus and cerebral cortex
splenovenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splenovenographies
Etymology: From spleno- + venography.
Senses: glosses: An expanded form of venography to include the spleen
self-insert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-inserts
Etymology: From self- + insert.
Senses: examples: text: [Joss Whedon] loves sexualizing her, like […] making her fall for his self-insert Bruce Banner.
ref: 2018 July 13, Kate Gardner, “HBO Greenlights a New Joss Whedon Show, Critics Immediately Groan”, in The Mary Sue:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A character in a story who represents the author's own person.
examples: text: The female character has to be likable. She's a self-insert for the female viewers so she probably won't be unique, but watching her interact with other characters can't be frustrating.
ref: 2015 October 7, Lynzee Loveridge, “The Fall 2015 Anime Preview Guide: Dance with Devils”, in Anime News Network:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A character in a story who the reader/viewer is meant to identify with.
self-insert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-inserts
form: self-inserting
form: self-inserted
form: self-inserted
Etymology: From self- + insert.
Senses: examples: text: For centuries, the commonest forms of implant had either been grown in situ or were designed to self-insert painlessly via existing orifices […]
ref: 2000, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space:
glosses: To insert oneself.
examples: text: In Oregon, a group called Ceek Women's Health has begun clinical trials for a series of new devices—including […] a speculum that patients can self-insert.
ref: 2018 October 5, Arielle Pardes, “The Speculum Finally Gets a Modern Redesign”, in Wired:
glosses: To insert something into one's own body.
examples: text: The character looks like Goldman and is voiced by him, so critics said he was self-inserting himself into a romantic situation with an underage character.
ref: 2017 June 1, Beth Elderkin, “This Creepy Powerpuff Girls Theory Isn't True, Thank God”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2018:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To insert one's own person into a story as a character.
shayak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shayaks
Senses: glosses: A coarse woollen cloth from Tripoli.
shayaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shayak
diluvialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diluvial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The explaining of geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.
Related terms: diluvialist
stathmins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stathmin
stenotopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being stenotopic
stereodissecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stereo- + dissecting.
Senses: glosses: Describing a stereomicroscope that is used in dissection
stromally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stromal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stromal manner
subassembling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subassemble
subcallosum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcallosa
Etymology: From sub- + callosum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The subcallosal region of the corpus callosum
subcuspidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cuspidal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a cusp
subdetectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + detectable.
Senses: glosses: less (in amount) than can be detected
subnucleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + nucleolar.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a nucleolus
supraclinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + clinoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the clinoid bone / process
suprapopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suprapopulations
Etymology: From supra- + population.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: All the individuals of a species at all stages in their life cycle (in all hosts) in an ecosystem
suprapopulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suprapopulation
swimbladderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From swimbladder + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a swimbladder
synonymisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synonymisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of synonymization.
temporofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From temporo- + frontal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: temporal and frontal
thaumatopsyllioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaumatopsyllioids
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the order Thaumatopsylloida
thaumatopsyllioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thaumatopsyllioid
thermodimorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + dimorphic.
Senses: glosses: thermally dimorphic
thermoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoenzymes
Etymology: From thermo- + enzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that is not inhibited by elevated temperatures (typically used as laundry aids)
Cyd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Often short for Cydney, a variant of Sydney/Sidney.
Senses: examples: text: "It's all about getting laid," Cyd explained. It was easier for the young Were, because if he ever got out of his moon craze, he could mate.
ref: 2012, Stephanie Tyler, Dire Warning, →ISBN:
text: And with that, Otto began dancing in front of Cyd. His gyrations were absolutely comical. Cyd wanted to laugh but at the same time, he was aggravated with Otto for not listening. Cyd finally had had enough. He tried a few more times ...
ref: 2017, Phil Wigfall, A Sol in the Life of Otto Fink, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name
examples: text: Frank crawled into the bed with Cyd, his eyes puffy, no more tears in him to cry anymore. Cyd stared at the painted portrait of Mercades that she painted on her first birthday. Frank put him arm around her and rubbed his face into her arm.
ref: 2010, Alexis Allee, I Don't Love You, →ISBN:
text: "It just blew my mind," Cyd said as she continued to dial. [...] Cyd rushed home that evening, [...] and completed her other tasks [...]
ref: 2012, Dixie Webb, The Trucker, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name
junk time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of garbage time.
synonyms: word: garbage time
Pud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably short for pudding, a term of affection.
Senses: examples: text: My dearest Pud, …
ref: 1791 October 27th, a letter from E. T. to Pud, publi#* shed in Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late [Mary] Wells … written by herself, volume 1 (1811)
text: "Now take me to Pud Stoneham," said the sheriff to Jerry. "I've been lookin' for him for 'most a month. He's wanted for a dozen crimes."
ref: 1906, Clarence Young, The Motor Boys Overland:
glosses: A unisex nickname.
Dotty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: If you really believed and if you waited ever so quietly, you would see Dotty the witch pottering around in her kitchen or picking herbs to put in her potato stew.
ref: 2013, D. Vanstone, Dotty and the Fix-it-Cats, →ISBN, page 7:
text: “It's Dotty!” As if there were only one Dotty in the world. “Dotty who?” a voice asked from behind the door. “Why, Dotty Fickett!” she replied. The door opened and a woman stood there, her face gaunt and filled with sadness. “Mrs. Doherty?”
ref: 2015, Constance C. Greene, Dotty's Suitcase, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dottie.
swallow the dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swallows the dictionary
form: swallowing the dictionary
form: swallowed the dictionary
form: swallowed the dictionary
Senses: examples: text: I swear, I don't know where you get all this swallowing the dictionary business!” - He himself never read anything but the ticker and the sporting news.
ref: 1918, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 190, page 5:
text: Knowledge is deposited in (virtual and real) libraries. People who “swallow” the dictionary are articulate, eloquent and verbally dextrous. They have a greater store of words. Knowledge is captured in books, which is why the number of books in a household contains an excellent index of the social class of that house.
ref: 2011, Adrian Furnham, Managing People in a Downturn, →ISBN:
text: “You swallowed the dictionary?” said Mrs. Black, with an ingratiating smile.
ref: 2014, Doris Lessing, African Stories, →ISBN, page 293:
text: When I used a couple of words that an Uncle from the Boston States considered beyond my years, he asked me if I had swallowed the dictionary.
ref: 2014, Ray Simm, Hants Hills To Arctic Tundra, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: To speak using long or obscure words.
swallows the dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swallow the dictionary
swallowing the dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swallow the dictionary
swallowed the dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swallow the dictionary
throneworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more throneworthy
form: most throneworthy
Senses: examples: text: [Edgar] was given the designation of "Aetheling"—that is, throneworthy—which might indicate that the king considered him a potential successor.
ref: 2012, Tracy Joanne Borman, Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I:
glosses: In the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman eras, eligible for royal succession by virtue of kinship.
throneworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From throneworthy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In this period, only sons of kings who had actually reigned bore the title ætheling, signifying throneworthiness.
ref: 2016, Ann Lyon, Constitutional History of the UK:
glosses: The state of being more or less throneworthy.
time on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒn
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: The period of time added on at the end of each quarter to compensate for time being stopped during regular time.
Synonyms: word: red time
red time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: slang for time on.
airponics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From air + Ancient Greek πονος (ponos, “work, labour”) + -ics. Coined in analogy to hydroponics.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aeroponics.
synonyms: word: aeroponics
Related terms: airponic
airponic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Back-formation from airponics.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to airponics. Synonym of aeroponic.
Coordinate terms: hydroponic
side hustles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side hustle
weight-bear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weight-bears
form: weight-bearing
form: weight-beared
form: weight-bore
form: weight-beared
form: weight-bore
form: weight-borne
form: weight bear
form: weightbear
Etymology: Back-formation from weight-bearing.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To bear weight; to support or withstand the weight of the body.
Related terms: weight-bearing
weight bear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weight bears
form: weight bearing
form: weight bore
form: weight borne
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of weight-bear.
tinnitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tinnitic
form: most tinnitic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or affected by tinnitus.
Kennie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably related to Kenny.
Senses: examples: text: But Mr Kennie, who clearly had power to dispense with the condition, drew two bills on the pursuer, of the date of the sale, one for £300, at two months, and the other for £495, at three months, making £795, which sum included the price ...
ref: 1832, Scotland. Court of Session, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, page 783:
text: 1985, T. J. M. Kennie, M. C. Matthews, Remote sensing in civil engineering
text: 1998, Tom Kennie, A Guide to the Recruitment and Selection of Graduate Trainees (→ISBN)
text: She inspected the man while Mrs. Kennie spoke with him. He was old, with wisps of white hair barely covering the top of his head. His skin was wrinkled and his eyes were watery. He stood with a slight stoop, too.
ref: 2014, Lynda Behling, Claire, →ISBN:
text: 2017, Ryshia Kennie, Sheik's Defense
glosses: A surname.
examples: text: 1951, Kennie Macpherson, Mothercraft in the tropics
text: 1970, Kennie L. Howard, Yesterday in Florida
text: 1996, Kennie Benner, The Volunteer Blueprint for Success: The Reference Manual and Workbook for Long Term Care Volunteers
text: 2008, Kennie H. Jones, Biology-inspired Approach for Communal Behavior in Massively Deployed Sensor Networks
text: But Kennie robbed me even of that. As I came out of the back door, he came out of the front, smoothly covering me the whole way. Then he surprised me.
ref: 2014, Ted Wood, Live Bait, →ISBN:
text: 2015, Kennie Ting, The Romance of the Grand Tour: 100 Years of Travel in South East Asia (→ISBN)
glosses: A unisex given name.
dative absolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datives absolute
form: dative absolutes
Etymology: Calque of Latin dativus absolutus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Germanic:
in Old English
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Germanic:
in Old English
it has been continued by Modern English but at some point became the nominative absolute
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Germanic:
in Old High German
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Germanic:
in Middle Dutch less frequently than the genitive absolute
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Germanic:
in Old Norse
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Germanic:
in Gothic
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Old Church Slavonic
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Old Church Slavonic
in Old East Slavic and due to Old Church Slavonic influence in Russian as late as the 18th century
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
in Lithuanian and Latvian
genitive absolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genitives absolute
form: genitive absolutes
Etymology: Calque of Latin genitivus absolutus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Sanskrit later to the locative absolute
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Avestan
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Armenian
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Tocharian, not so common
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Middle Dutch, early modern Dutch and (vestigially) modern Dutch
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
rarely in Middle High German
accusative absolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accusatives absolute
form: accusative absolutes
Etymology: Calque of Latin accūsātīvus absolūtus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the accusative case; present:
in Ancient Greek, less frequent than the genitive absolute but more than the nominative absolute
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the accusative case; present:
rarely in Middle High German
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the accusative case; present:
in Late Latin
locative absolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locatives absolute
form: locative absolutes
Etymology: Calque of Latin locativus absolutus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the locative case; present:
in Sanskrit
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the locative case; present:
in Pali
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the locative case; present:
in Avestan
turns the corner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn the corner
turns a corner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn a corner
turning a corner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn a corner
turning the corner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn the corner
turned the corner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn the corner
hold it together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds it together
form: holding it together
form: held it together
form: held it together
Etymology: Variant of hold together.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cope: to remain calm in adversity, to successfully manage one's difficulties.
synonyms: word: cope
extra: to remain calm in adversity, to successfully manage one's difficulties
turned a corner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn a corner
endoproct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoprocts
Senses: examples: text: Nickerson (1898) added a single species of endoproct (Loxosoma davenporti) to our local fauna, this being first described from specimens taken by him at Cotuit Harbor.
ref: 1913, United States. Bureau of Fisheries, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries - Volume 31, Issue 1, page 103:
text: The three families of endoproct (Pedicellinidae, Urnatellidae and Loxosomatidae) can be distinguished by the form of the zooids and the growth habit.
ref: 1987, Aquatic invertebrates, page 49:
text: Leidy (1870) noted that he found the hydroid when searching in the Schuylkill River at Fairmount, Philadelphia, for Urnatella and seems to suggest that Cordylophora was living where experience had shown the endoproct in the past had been likely to occur.
ref: 1993, George Evelyn Hutchinson, A Treatise on Limnology: Zoobenthos, page 74:
glosses: Synonym of entoproct.
synonyms: word: entoproct
endoprocts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoproct
siltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In some areas it was serious, and it caused siltage. The effect of siltage on reservoirs was to reduce their efficiency. The authority estimated, in 1936, that about one third of the storage capacity of the Hales Bar Reservoir had been lost to siltage in twenty-three years.
ref: 1992, Donald Davidson, The Tennessee: The New River: Civil War to TVA, page 290:
glosses: A mass of silt.
anatomicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anatomic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The goal of surgical intervention is to restore the articular surface to anatomicity when and if possible, so that hip joint function may be preserved and ensuing arthrosis may be prevented.
ref: 2012, Daniel J. Berry, Jay Lieberman, Surgery of the Hip E-Book:
glosses: The state or condition of being anatomic or anatomical.
chimerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimerids
Senses: examples: text: Chimerid fishes are the primitive creatures that even the ichthyologists rarely see alive in their lifetime.
ref: 1961, The Skipper - Volume 21, page 62:
text: The association of primitive parasites with primitive hosts is often exemplified by Gyrocotyle and its chimerid host.
ref: 1973, Biological bulletin - Volume 144, page 500:
text: It occurs also on chimerid fishes (Holocephala).
ref: 1979, Z. Kabata, Parasitic copepoda of British fishes, page 372:
glosses: Alternative form of chimaerid.