cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chicken bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken bits
Etymology: From chicken, in the sense of chicken out.
Senses: examples: text: As an example, modules such as branch predictors and speculative execution units can be turned off with a variant of the “chicken bits”, control bits common to many design developments to control the activation of specific features.
ref: 2010, Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco, Post-Silicon and Runtime Verification for Modern Processors, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Validation of a chicken bit can be challenging, because disabling a feature is often as intrusive in the code as the feature itself.
ref: 2015, Erik Seligman, Tom Schubert, M V Achutha, Kiran Kumar, Formal Verification, →ISBN, page 237:
text: As a matter of fact, most of these chicken bits will never be documented, and a small portion of the chicken bits will be documented only when they are needed to work around a chip problem.
ref: 2015, Vincent Zimmer, Jiming Sun, Marc Jones, Embedded Firmware Solutions: Development Best Practices, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance.
chicken bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken bit
Exumas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Exuma + -s.
Senses: glosses: The Exuma Islands.
phobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phobia + -ic. Modelled on maniac.
Senses: examples: text: With phobiac writer's cramp, they will re-educate to write with blackboard exercises[.]
ref: 1926, Studies in Psychology and Psychiatry from the Catholic University of America, volume 1 & 2, page 146:
text: These fears are replaced to the phobiac object.
ref: 1949, Edward Glover, Psycho-analysis: A Handbook for Medical Practitioners and Students of Comparative Psychology, page 291:
glosses: Relating to a phobia; phobic.
phobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phobiacs
Etymology: From phobia + -ic. Modelled on maniac.
Senses: examples: text: Defective types of psychoses are the most interesting kinds, like the maniacs, the melancholiacs, the phobiacs, the paranoiacs, the neurasthenics, the hysterical, etc.
ref: 1913, Charles Ellewyn George, The Lawyer & Banker and Bench & Bar Review, volume 6, page 161:
glosses: A person with a phobia.
Synonyms: phobic
copyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copylines
Etymology: From copy + line.
Senses: examples: text: The British Cable Authority, for its part, in its special Code of Practice on Programme Sponsorship, issued on an experimental basis in 1985, permits the use of a short advertising copyline in addition to acknowledgement of the sponsor.
ref: 1991, Programme Sponsorship and New Forms of Commercial Promotion on Television, →ISBN, page 39:
text: The ad featured a reclining model wearing only underwear and the copyline, 'Last year we ran an ad for Swedish lingerie. 78 women complained. No men.'
ref: 2003, Jonathan Salisbury, Challenging Macho Values, →ISBN, page 154:
text: In principle, the copyline (the descriptive tagline for the film) that is evolved for the campaign should work as a cohesive unit with the art.
ref: 2005, Paul N. Lazarus, Produced By--: Balancing Art and Business in the Movie Industry, page 179:
glosses: A slogan produced by a copywriter; a brief quote used in advertising or on posters.
Synonyms: tagline
copylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copyline
minigarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minigarchs
form: mini-garch
Etymology: Blend of mini- + oligarch.
Senses: examples: text: Financial and economic groups, which emerged as a result of the Yushchenko-inspired boom with an average growth rate in the gross national income of 9 percent since the year 2000, had created a new generation of “minigarchs.” They resented rampant corruption in tax administration and government and were angry at the plunder of the country by a narrow group of oligarchic billionaires backing the incumbent power elite and its candidate, Yanukovych.
ref: 2006, Adrian Karatnycky, “The Fall and Rise of Ukraine’s Political Opposition: From Kuchmagate to the Orange Revolution,” in Anders Åslund, Michael McFaul, eds., Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine’s Democratic Breakthrough, Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, p 37
text: One person familiar with the Moscow business world said of Povarenkin: “He’s a typical ‘minigarch’ guy who managed to cobble together a bunch of assets, deploying the typical Russian means of doing it.”
ref: 2018 June 15, Luke Harding, Dina Nagapetyants, “UK visa of Russian oligarch who met Arron Banks under review”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: chiefly concerning the former Soviet Union
glosses: A petty oligarch, one with somewhat less money or power.
minigarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minigarch
wubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wub
wubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wub
wubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wub
wubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wub
wraparound mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wraparound mortgages
Senses: glosses: A form of mortgage in which the seller of a property extends to the buyer a junior mortgage which exists in addition to any superior mortgages already secured on the property. The seller accepts a secured promissory note from the buyer for the amount due on the underlying mortgage plus an amount up to the remaining purchase-money balance.
Synonyms: wrap
wraparound
wraparound mortgages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wraparound mortgage
yugen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 幽玄 (yūgen).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese ideal of grace and subtlety
antispying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + spying.
Senses: glosses: Countering or opposing spying; antiespionage.
antisnooping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + snooping.
Senses: glosses: Countering or opposing snooping.
antisnoop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + snoop.
Senses: glosses: Countering or opposing snooping.
antisniping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sniping.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Countering or opposing sniping.
transboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transboys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trans boy.
transboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transboy
snoopingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From snooping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: PARSON enters from L., goes to door of clubhouse and knocks. No answer. Knocks again. No answer. Knocks a third time. No answer. Tries door, but it is locked. Looks around snoopingly and listens for sounds of rolling dice, but hears none.
ref: 1921, Jeff Branen, The African Golf Club: A Blackface Farce, page 12:
text: I hid my own purchases for several days, no mean trick in a school where every drawer and cupboard was inspected, openly and snoopingly too, at least twice a week.
ref: 1983, M. F. K. Fisher, As They Were, page 34:
text: […] I saunter snoopingly into his summer lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
ref: 2001, Vivien Marx, The Semen Book, page 89:
glosses: In a snooping manner.
finds oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of find oneself
retainership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retainerships
Etymology: From retainer + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: In the fourteenth century, the old English tie of retainership, similar to, but more liberal than that which had connected the thane and churl in earlier days, had replaced whatever of feudal relation the Norman Conquest had introduced […]
ref: 1842 January, “Pictorial History of England”, in The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 74, page 454:
glosses: The practice of charging a retainer fee, or a client relationship based on such a fee.
retainerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retainership
phobiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phobiac
Yehovah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jehovah.
desk caddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ædi
Forms: form: desk caddies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of desk organizer.
synonyms: word: desk organizer
Minskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Minskian
form: most Minskian
Senses: examples: text: This paper argues, from a Minskian viewpoint, that the “new consensus” in macroeconomics cannot be the basis for fruitful research on the behavior of the financial model of capitalism in which we live and for drawing useful economic policies to stabilize it.
ref: 2013, Giorgos Argitis, The illusions of the “new consensus” in macroeconomics: a Minskian analysis, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 35(3), 483--505, p. 483
glosses: Alternative form of Minskyan.
Minskian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minskians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Minskyan.
Minskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Minskyan
form: most Minskyan
form: Minskian
Etymology: From Minsky + -an.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Hyman Minsky (1919–1996), American economist.
Minskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minskyans
form: Minskian
Etymology: From Minsky + -an.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A proponent of the economic theories of Hyman Minsky.
transgal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transgals
Etymology: From trans- + gal.
Senses: glosses: A young transwoman.
Ree group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ree groups
Etymology: Introduced by Rimhak Ree in the 1960s.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A group of Lie type over a finite field constructed from an exceptional automorphism of a Dynkin diagram that reverses the direction of the multiple bonds, generalizing the Suzuki group.
Ree groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ree group
Fitting subgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fitting subgroups
Etymology: Named after Hans Fitting.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For a finite group G: the unique largest normal nilpotent subgroup of G, which intuitively represents the smallest subgroup that "controls" the structure of G when G is solvable.
Fitting subgroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fitting subgroup
Tschirnhaus transformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tschirnhaus transformations
form: Tschirnhausen transformation
Etymology: Developed by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in 1683.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of mapping on polynomials that may be defined by means of field theory as the transformation on minimal polynomials implied by a different choice of primitive element.
Tschirnhausen transformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tschirnhausen transformations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tschirnhaus transformation.
wikipedia: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
Tschirnhaus transformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tschirnhaus transformation
Tschirnhausen transformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tschirnhausen transformation
wikipedia: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
Grand Turk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹænd ˈtɜː(ɹ)k/
Etymology: From a species of cactus on the island, the Turk's Cap Cactus (Melocactus intortus), which has a distinctive cap reminiscent of an Ottoman fez.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Grand Turk Island, the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Grand Turk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹænd ˈtɜː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: Grand Turks
Etymology: Borrowed from French Grand Turc.
Senses: examples: text: Because they are styled "the executive," "executive officers," &c., by their Jenkinses, and are declared by the same authorities to possess unbounded knowledge, and transcendent "executive ability," they sometimes fancy themselves the Czar, the Shah, or the Grand Turk […]
ref: 1868 March, “[Review of] Annual Reports of Insurance Companies, Good, Bad, and Indifferent […]”, in The National Quarterly Review, volume 16, number 32, page 404:
glosses: A sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Related terms: Great Mogul
Providenciales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Provo
glosses: An island and district of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
disenjoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenjoys
form: disenjoying
form: disenjoyed
form: disenjoyed
Etymology: From dis- + enjoy.
Senses: examples: text: "A person who can play both chess and checkers but regards all board-game playing as a waste of time will disenjoy chess because it wastes more time."
ref: 1991, David L. Norton, Democracy and Moral Development:
glosses: To fail to enjoy; to take no pleasure in.
disenjoys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenjoy
disenjoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenjoy
disenjoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenjoy
disenjoyment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disenjoyments
Etymology: From dis- + enjoyment.
Senses: examples: text: "Money is power ; money commands a certain kind of enjoyment ; the excessive want of it is palpable disenjoyment."
ref: 2004, James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume 3:
glosses: lack of enjoyment
disenjoyments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disenjoyment
hallucinogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hallucinogenically
form: most hallucinogenically
Etymology: From hallucinogenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a hallucinogenic manner
hallucinatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hallucinatingly
form: most hallucinatingly
Etymology: From hallucinating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a hallucinating manner
Dantonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dantonists
Etymology: From Danton + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Georges Danton during the French Revolution.
keeps to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep to
keeping to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep to
kept to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep to
desk tidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desk tidies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of desk organizer.
synonyms: word: desk organizer
fishing vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishing vessels
Senses: glosses: A fishing boat, usually a relatively large one.
Synonyms: F/V
F.V.
FV
F. V.
Coordinate terms: english: His/Her Majesty's Trawler
translation: His/Her Majesty's Trawler
word: HMT
alt: MT
word: motor trawler
alt: ST
word: steam trawler
word: trawler
Derived terms: F/V
F.V.
FV
F. V.
Related terms: word: fish
word: fisher
word: fisherman
word: fisherperson
word: fisherwoman
word: fishery
word: fishing
word: fishing boat
alt: FS
word: fishing ship
alt: MV
word: motor vessel
alt: RV
word: research vessel
alt: SV
word: sailing vessel
alt: SV
word: steam vessel
word: vessel
have eyes on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has eyes on
form: having eyes on
form: had eyes on
form: had eyes on
Senses: glosses: To observe.
examples: text: That's something CIA hasn't managed to do in five years.” “We've had eyes on him,” Carmichael countered.
ref: 2013, Mark Greaney, Dead Eye:
text: “Jeremy, I thought you guys had eyes on this room. You didn't see this guy at the door?” “It seems someone has peeped our hold card and fed a continuous loop of the hall being empty through our equipment.[…]"
ref: 2011, S. D. Arnold, Forever This Time, page 66:
glosses: To have under observation through others.
glosses: To have one's eye on.
Related terms: eyes on the ground
eyes on the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We need to have eyes on the ground in Iraq.
glosses: One or more observers in an area of interest.
Related terms: boots on the ground
nigger-lover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger-lovers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nigger lover.
nigger-lovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger-lover
civil partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil partners
Senses: glosses: A member of a civil partnership
boobilicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boobilicious
form: most boobilicious
form: boobalicious
Etymology: From boob + -licious.
Senses: glosses: Featuring highly attractive breasts.
Synonyms: racktacular
racktastic
Related terms: busty
ELI5
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /ˌiɛlaɪˈfaɪv/
/ˌɛliˈfaɪv/
Etymology: Acronym of explain like I'm five [years old].
Senses: examples: text: Please ELI5 the whole thing.
text: Develop techniques to share complex ideas in a scalable way (going from ELI5 to rocket science).
ref: 2016, “SASE National Conference & STEM Career Fair 2016: Schedule”, in SASE Magazine, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, section “10:45 am - 12:00 pm: Engineering The Art of Storytelling”, page 82:
text: Periscope: ELI5 Family History / Wednesday, May 31, 3:30-4:30 pm / Why can’t I find my great-great grandmother’s death record in 1880?
ref: 2017 May, “Online Classes”, in Kenton County Public Library Calendar, page 12:
text: To see how potential partners might interpret and/or communicate key verification challenges, we created Can You Verify?, a website and poster competition. We posted thirteen of the clearest responses from the ELI5 challenge, in which experts explain what they do and where they need help, asking information designers to depict the challenges visually.
ref: 2019, “Verification”, in Erika Gregory, Tim Maly, editors, Signals for the Future: New Ways to Tackle Nuclear Risk, N Square, page 68:
glosses: Provide an explanation that is very easy to understand.
Related terms: TIL
groovey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːvi
Senses: glosses: Dated form of groovy.
man enough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Are you man enough to look death in the face; or shall I run the risk of the hounds raising an outcry, and go in myself?
ref: 1854, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie: A Tale; in Three Volumes, page 245:
text: But the troll seldom came out in the open air, and the mountain was well closed, so the youngster was not man enough to get inside.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101:
text: When I'm broken down and I can't stand / Would you be man enough to be my man?
ref: 1993, “Strong Enough”, in Tuesday Night Music Club, performed by Sheryl Crow:
glosses: sufficiently courageous
Coordinate terms: woman enough
problem-reaction-solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A theory postulated by David Icke in which the government (or another higher power) manipulates the population by introducing a problem and then using their own means to solve that problem.
Lamethist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lameth + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the French general and revolutionary politician Théodore de Lameth or to his two sons
alegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /eɪˈliːɡəl/
Etymology: From a- + legal.
Senses: glosses: Not within the framework or concept of the law; unrelated to concerns of legality.
cardware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From card + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Two of the programs are "cardware" — the authors would be pleased to receive just a postcard.
ref: 1994, Peter M. Ridge, Sound Blaster: The Official Book:
text: Other forms of freeware/shareware are cardware/postcardware/emailware - instead of paying, you send the programmer a card or an email saying thanks.
ref: 2005, James Moran, Victoria Hull, Brilliant ECDL, page 29:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of postcardware.
synonyms: word: postcardware
examples: text: Detailed experience from other economic sectors as well as some partial data for the health sector allows us to calculate a factor the cardware costs have to be multiplied with to get total costs […]
ref: 1997, Laurens van den Broek, Annet J. Sikkel, Health Cards '97, page 95:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The software and hardware supporting a smart card system.
antiglioma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + glioma.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or countering gliomata.
antioxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antioxidase
moderantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French modérantisme.
Senses: glosses: The moderate policies of the Girondists and Dantonists during the French Revolution
arteriolohyalinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: arteriolar hyalinosis
bioremediator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioremediators
Etymology: From bio- + remediator.
Senses: examples: text: Such abilities were demonstrated by several fungal taxa (e.g. Penicillium, Cladosporium, Alternaria) in data set two, suggesting that their potential as radionuclide bioremediators may need to be evaluated further.
ref: 2016 January 26, “Quantitative Modeling of Microbial Population Responses to Chronic Irradiation Combined with Other Stressors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any organism used in bioremediation.
bioremediators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioremediator
Dantonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dantonist
chloroaromatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloroaromatic
conchostracans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conchostracan
cruciately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cruciate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Class 3 Ulvophyceae: flagella attached at anterior end of cell; motile cells have near-radial symmetry externally; flagella roots consist of four cruciately arranged microtubular roots and sometimes a rhizoplast […]
ref: 2008, Robert Edward Lee, Phycology, page 145:
glosses: In a cruciate manner.
subglutinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subglutinols
Etymology: From subglutinans + -ol.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of immunosuppressants isolated from Fusarium subglutinans.
subglutinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subglutinol
hypertriacylglycerolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypertriacylglycerolemia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Our previous studies showed that hypertriacylglycerolemic very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) are functionally abnormal. Hypertriacylglycerolemic VLDL, but not normal VLDL, suppress 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase in fibroblasts cultured from normal human subjects.
ref: 1980 April 18, Sandra H. Gianturco, “Abnormal effects of hypertriacylglycerolemic very low-density lipoproteins on 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase activity and viability of cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells”, in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, volume 618, number 1, abstract, page 143:
text: In addition, marine-derived n-3 PUFA did not result in significantly decreased formation of plasma PGE 2 in mildly hypertriacylglycerolemic subjects.
ref: 2016 January 26, “Effect of Marine-Derived n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Major Eicosanoids: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis from 18 Randomized Controlled Trials”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: After the consumption of high-fat meals, the neuroendocrine mechanism, responsible for the clearance of TRLs, cannot cope with the heavy hypertriacylglycerolemic load, and an appreciable amount of TRLs remain in the circulation, serving as a substrate for several lipases, the action of which yields free fatty acids, lyso-phospholipids, and TRL remnants.
ref: 2014, Victor R. Preedy, The Mediterranean Diet: An Evidence-Based Approach, page 380:
glosses: Having an abnormally high level of triacylglycerols in the bloodstream.
Related terms: hypertriacylglycerolemia
inquilinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inquiline + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Among such traits, propensity to inquilinism in termites is known to relate positively to colony size.
ref: 2016 January 26, “Allometric Scaling of Patrolling Rate and Nest Volume in Constrictotermes cyphergaster Termites: Hints on the Settlement of Inquilines”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The situation where one animal lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
muscadin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscadins
Etymology: From French muscadin.
Senses: glosses: dandy, coxcomb
intratrabecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + trabecular.
Senses: examples: text: Two main hypotheses aim to explain the mechanism of facilitation of the aqueous outflow by ALT: one hypothesis postulates that mechanical contraction of the trabecular meshwork by thermal energy opens the intratrabecular space, whereas the other one assumes that cellular activation of the trabecular meshwork causes remodeling of the extracellular matrix.
ref: 2016 January 26, “The Effect of Laser Trabeculoplasty on Posture-Induced Intraocular Pressure Changes in Patients with Open Angle Glaucoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the trabecula.
GPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPCs
Senses: examples: text: GPC is short for ‘grapheme-phoneme correspondence,’ meaning the relationship between a phoneme and its graphemes. Learning grapheme-phonemes correspondences helps children decode and blend words more easily, making them more fluent readers. […] GPCs fit into the phonics framework and allow children to blend written and oral words.
ref: 2023 February 1, Mattew Lynch, “Grapheme-phoneme Correspondence (GPC)”, in Pedagogue, United States, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2025:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of grapheme-phoneme correspondence.
GPCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GPC
lactadherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A secreted protein found in vertebrates; it may function as a cell adhesion protein to connect smooth muscle to elastic fibre in arteries.
macroarrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroarray
multicapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + capillary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or involving, more than one capillary.
mycobactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycobactins
Etymology: From mycobacterium + -in.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of iron-chelating growth factors from mycobacteria.
mycobactins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycobactin
neoeriocitrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A flavanone-7-O-glycoside between the flavanone eriodictyol and the disaccharide neohesperidose.
eriodictyol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Eriodictyon + -ol
Senses: glosses: A flavanone, found in yerba santa (Eriodictyon californicum) and other plants, that masks bitter tastes.
Derived terms: homoeriodictyol
neurointerventional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + interventional.
Senses: examples: text: In 2014, only 56% of the US population had access within 60 minutes to a hospital with neurointerventional capabilities.
ref: 2016 January 26, “Endovascular Treatment with Stent-Retriever Devices for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to neurointervention.
nomenclaturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nomenclatural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Toward clarification of the systematics of this nomenclaturally and veterinarily important species, we map its polytene chromosomes and then use the macrogenomic information to prospect for hidden diversity, interpret the taxonomy, resolve evolutionary relationships, and gain insights into the drivers of its historic pest status and the pest status of black flies more generally.
ref: 2016 January 26, “Cryptic Biodiversity and the Origins of Pest Status Revealed in the Macrogenome of Simulium colombaschense (Diptera: Simuliidae), History’s Most Destructive Black Fly”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In terms of nomenclature.
odontostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontostyles
Etymology: From odonto- + -style.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A protrusible, hollow, needle-like tooth found in nematodes, used to puncture and empty food items.
odontostyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontostyle
placeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placeabilities
Etymology: From place + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Higher polypropylene content specimens up to 4% and 5% tend to keep their mold shape with very low workability, placeability and compaction.
ref: 2016 January 26, “A Comprehensive Study of the Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced Fly Ash Based Geopolymer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality or degree of being placeable.
placeabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placeability
plakophilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plakophilin
primability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prime + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: A central pathway is primability and actual activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and subsequent release of mature interleukin-1β.
ref: 2016 January 26, “The Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR4) Variant rs2149356 and Risk of Gout in European and Polynesian Sample Sets”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The property of being primable.
rusticyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rusticyanins
Senses: glosses: A copper-containing protein involved in electron transfer, being a strong oxidant.
Hypernyms: cupredoxin
rusticyanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rusticyanin
cupredoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupredoxins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any blue copper protein
Synonyms: pseudoazurin
cupredoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupredoxin
serosurveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serosurveillances
Etymology: From sero- + surveillance.
Senses: examples: text: In the future, serosurveillance should be conducted periodically using more representative samples to better understand the population-level immunity to JE in South Korea.
ref: 2016 January 26, “Prevalence of Neutralizing Antibodies to Japanese Encephalitis Virus among High-Risk Age Groups in South Korea, 2010”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The monitoring of the presence or absence of specific substances in the blood serum of a population.
tenotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tenotomizes
form: tenotomizing
form: tenotomized
form: tenotomized
Etymology: From tenotomy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Adipocytes, intramuscular fat globules, and intramyocellular fat droplets were observed in the tenotomized and/or neurotomized muscles, which were associated with an increased expression of adipogenic and myogenic factors.
ref: 2016 January 26, “Development of an Arthroscopic Joint Capsule Injury Model in the Canine Shoulder”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To perform a tenotomy upon.
tenotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tenotomize
tenotomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tenotomize
tenotomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tenotomize
threonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threonates
Etymology: From threonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of threonic acid.
threonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threonate
threonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sugar acid, derived from threose, whose L-isomer is a metabolite of ascorbic acid.
unsilicified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + silicified.
Senses: examples: text: The black chert facies is unconformably overlain by cobble to boulder conglomerates of Member IV that include clasts of the black chert facies, in addition to boulder-size clasts of unsilicified carbonates.
ref: 2016 January 26, “A Rare Glimpse of Paleoarchean Life: Geobiology of an Exceptionally Preserved Microbial Mat Facies from the 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not silicified.
nonsilicified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + silicified.
Senses: glosses: Not silicified.
urocortins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urocortin
hypertriacylglycerolemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + triacylglycerol + -emia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of an abnormally high level of triacylglycerols in the bloodstream.
Derived terms: antihypertriacylglycerolemia
antihypertriacylglycerolemic
Related terms: hypertriacylglycerolemic
esogetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by the German naturopath and acupuncturist Peter Mandel.
Senses: glosses: Applied to treatments, such as colorpuncture, supposed to merge esoteric wisdom with the manipulation of energy.
chaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaur
antipacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipackets
Etymology: From anti- + packet.
Senses: examples: text: For lossless data delivery, we show that the buffer occupancy can be significantly reduced via fully antipacket dissemination.
ref: 2016, Pin-Yu Chen, Meng-Hsuan Sung, Shin-Ming Cheng, “Buffer Occupancy and Delivery Reliability Tradeoffs for Epidemic Routing”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A record indicating that a previously transmitted packet of data was successfully received, and preventing it from being sent again to the same recipient.
antipackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipacket
conjugacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjugacy
cosmogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cosmogenic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Low background experiments need a suppression of cosmogenically induced events.
ref: 2016, K. Freund, R. Falkenstein, P. Grabmayr, A.Hegai, J.Jochum, M. Knapp, B. Lubsandorzhiev, F. Ritter, C. Schmitt, A.-K. Schütz, I. Jitnikov, E. Shevchik, M. Shirchenko, D. Zinatulina, “The Performance of the Muon Veto of the GERDA Experiment”, in arXiv:
glosses: By means of cosmic rays.
discriminantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From discriminant + -al.
Senses: examples: text: As applications we discuss connection of these results with properties of Gale transform, the study of the fundamental groups of the complements to discriminantal arrangements and study of the space of generic arrangements of lines in projective plane.
ref: 2016, A. Libgober, S. Settepanella, “Strata of discriminantal arrangements”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a discriminant.
ignorability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ignore + -ability.
Senses: hyponyms: negligibility
glosses: The quality of being ignorable.
kinodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined in a 1993 Journal of the ACM paper (40(5): 1048-1066) by Bruce Donald, Pat Xavier, John Canny, and John Reif. Presumably from kinematic and dynamic.
Senses: examples: text: Kinodynamic planning attempts to solve a robot motion problem subject to simultaneous kinematic and dynamics constraints. In the general problem, given a robot system, we must find a minimal-time trajectory that goes from a start position and velocity to a goal position and velocity. While exact solutions to this problem are not known, we provide the first provably-good approximation algorithm. and show that it runs in polynomial time.
ref: 1993, Bruce R. Donald, Pat Xavier, John Canny, John Reif, “Kinodynamic Motion Planning”, in Journal of the ACM, volume 40, number 5, →DOI, pages 1048–1066:
text: Currently, state-of-the-art methods evolve around kinodynamic variants of popular sampling-based algorithms, such as Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs).
ref: 2016, Oktay Arslan, Karl Berntorp, Panagiotis Tsiotras, “Sampling-based Algorithms for Optimal Motion Planning Using Closed-loop Prediction”, in arXiv:
glosses: Of or relating to a class of problems, in robotics and motion planning, for which velocity, acceleration, and force/torque bounds must be satisfied, together with kinematic constraints such as avoiding obstacles.
Related terms: kinodynamically
kinodynamics
overdiffuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdiffuse
form: most overdiffuse
Etymology: From over- + diffuse.
Senses: glosses: Excessively diffuse.
photoblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + blogging.
Senses: examples: text: One common trend in image tagging research is to focus on visually relevant tags, and this tends to ignore the personal and social aspect of tags, especially on photoblogging websites such as Flickr.
ref: 2016, Amandianeze O. Nwana, Tsuhan Chen, “QUOTE: "Querying" Users as Oracles in Tag Engines - A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Personalized Image Tagging”, in arXiv:
glosses: The use of a blog to showcase photographs.
postmeasurement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + measurement.
Senses: examples: text: The key ingredient of the proof, which might be of independent interest, is an explicit (and tight) relation between the violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality observed by Alice and Bob and uncertainty generated by Alice against Bob who is forced to measure his system before finding out Alice's setting (guessing with postmeasurement information).
ref: 2016, Jędrzej Kaniewski, Stephanie Wehner, “Device-independent two-party cryptography secure against sequential attacks”, in arXiv:
glosses: After measurement
postmeasurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmeasurements
Etymology: From post- + measurement.
Senses: glosses: A measurement made afterwards
subcovering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcoverings
Etymology: From sub- + covering.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Synonym of subcover.
synonyms: word: subcover
subcoverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcovering
subcurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcurves
Etymology: From sub- + curve.
Senses: examples: text: We show that an analytic curve is either exponential or splits into countably many analytic immersive curves; each of them decomposing naturally into symmetry free subcurves mutually and uniquely related by the group action.
ref: 2016, Maximilian Hanusch, “Symmetries of Analytic Curves”, in arXiv:
glosses: A curve forming part of another curve.
subcurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcurve
curveballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curveball
curveballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of curveball
transferrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: No forces or finite temperature properties are included in the fit, so this demonstrates a surprisingly high level of intrinsic transferrability in the simple potentials.
ref: 2016, Alan Nichol, Graeme J. Ackland, “Relating melting trends and elasticity in simple metals: an empirical potential approach”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of transferability.
transferabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transferability
Inagua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɑɡwə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Inagua, ultimately from Taíno *Inawa.
Senses: glosses: the southernmost district of the Bahamas, comprising the islands of Great and Little Inagua.
regressious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regressious
form: most regressious
Senses: examples: text: Such exhibitionistic attacks are essentially regressious in every sense of the word; […]
ref: 1926, W.A. White, S.E. Jelliffe, The Psychoanalytic Review, page 95:
glosses: that is characterized by, or indicative of a regression
Robespierrist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Robespierre + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of Maximilien de Robespierre
Related terms: Robespierrism
Robespierrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Robespierrists
Etymology: From Robespierre + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Robespierrism.
Robespierrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Robespierre + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The revolutionary politics of Maximilien de Robespierre.
Related terms: Robespierrist
game on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Former high school sweethearts Dawson and Amanda (James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan) say "game on!" after returning to their small town for the funeral of a friend.
ref: 2014 August 29, Dann Gire, “Autumn movies get serious and scary with dramas and more”, in Chicago Daily Herald:
text: “We need others to see this and say, 'Game on,' ” he added. “We need places like Los Angeles, like San Francisco and New York, to step up.”
ref: 2015 12/15/2015, Matt Richtel, “San Diego Vows to Move Entirely to Renewable Energy in 20 Years”, in New York Times:
text: "My response is: game on," he said in an email. "I look forward to deposing all the CEOs, medical directors, and their co-conspirators who participated in Planned Parenthood's illegal baby body parts racket."
ref: 2016 January 15, “'Game On' after Planned Parenthood Sues CMP over Undercover Videos”, in Christian Broadcasting Network:
text: It is game on for the Feb. 13-14 Rotary Derby.
ref: 2016 January 24, Bob Washburn, “Hunter's Corner: Chilling out in time to do some ice fishing”, in Concord Monitor:
glosses: Expressing eager anticipation of an event or undertaking, especially a competition of some sort.
game on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Like I said, China is game on if India wants to up the ante.
ref: 2014 September 9, Ankit Panda, “New Delhi Will Recognize 'One China' When Beijing Recognizes 'One India'”, in The Diplomat:
text: BHP Billiton chief executive Andrew Mackenzie has declared the Olympic Dam expansion is “game on” but admits there are technical and manufacturing hurdles that must be worked out before final approval is given to the giant project.
ref: 2015 June 12, Scott Murdoch, “BHP says Olympic Dam expansion is 'game on'”, in The Australian:
glosses: Ready for the beginning or escalation of a project or competition.
game on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: games on
form: gaming on
form: gamed on
form: gamed on
Senses: examples: text: Be careful of him, he'll game on you in a heartbeat.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To take advantage of (someone) through manipulation and deceit.
re-electability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being re-electable
re-electable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more re-electable
form: most re-electable
Senses: glosses: Able to be re-elected
muscadins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscadin
Mayaguana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Lucayan name (meaning "Lesser Midwestern Land") for the island.
Senses: glosses: The most easterly island and district of the Bahamas.
gentle or simple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gentle and simple
Etymology: From gentle in the sense of "noble, well-born".
Senses: examples: text: She is the sweetest-tempered, honestest, worthiest, young creature ; indeed, as to her beauty, I do not commend her on that account, though all men allow she is the handsomest woman, gentle or simple, that ever appeared in the parish.
ref: 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews:
text: Reader, gentle or simple, or whatever you be, how impatiently by this time must you expect this Preface, supposing it to be nothing but revengeful Invectives against the Author of the second Don Quixote.
ref: 1743, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha:
text: When a maiden, gentle or simple, intendeth marriage against her kinsmen's wishes, it is the way to wed first, and to write the letter and ask the blessing when the evil is done."
ref: 1840, James Fenimore Cooper, Mercedes of Castile: or, The voyage to Cathay - Volume 1, pages 38–39:
text: They did well, too, and moved with the times, and kept their heads high for more generations than I can call home; and then they comed to what all families, whether gentle or simple, always come to soon or late.
ref: 2011, Dorothy Scarborough, Humorous Ghost Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: Of any social standing.
gentle or simple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
form: gentle and simple
Etymology: From gentle in the sense of "noble, well-born".
Senses: examples: text: And who is there amongst the gentle or simple that ever heard my name, that would bring me a cup of butter-milk, though they knew that I was parched with thirst ; or a morsel of bread if I were dying of hunger?
ref: 1846, Llewelyn's heir; or North Wales, its manners, customs and superstitions, page 76:
text: Gentle or simple, man or woman, never came in for flattery at his hand, and hence his criticism of Lady Charlotte's work is worth pages of eulogistic comment.
ref: 2011, Charles Wilkins, History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and Other Trades of Wales, →ISBN, page 129:
text: Also, the man glaringly destitute of integrity or capacity, but noticed as having a bullet-head, a square jaw, countersunk eyes, and the rest in proportion, is suspected of having the other kind of force in reserve; and we know how he escapes anything like wanton personal indignity in his intercourse with gentle or simple.
ref: 2013, Joseph Furphy, Such is Life: Text Classics, →ISBN, page 299:
glosses: All people, of any social standing.
consumably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consumably
form: most consumably
Etymology: From consumable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] the results of this study indicate that the material could be used non-consumably or consumably with the expectation of equally good results.
ref: 1976, {unattributed}, The Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, Volumes 47-49
glosses: in a consumable manner