cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slasher movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slasher movies
Senses: examples: text: Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death.
ref: 2011 April 15, Richard Corliss, “Movies: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel”, in Time:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A horror movie which depicts gory, murderous violence, often including scenes of torture.
Synonyms: slasher film
slasher flick
slasher
Related terms: splatter movie
slasher film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slasher films
Senses: glosses: Synonym of slasher movie.
synonyms: word: slasher movie
slasher flick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slasher flicks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of slasher movie.
synonyms: word: slasher movie
visuospatially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From visuospatial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In visuospatial terms.
cupelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cupel
cupelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cupel
triglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Etymology: From tri- + glyphic.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or relating to, triglyphs.
glosses: Containing three glyphs
kinetosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kineto- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: motion sickness
manihot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Guaraní; related to manioc.
Senses: glosses: manioc
flockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flocking
provend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provends
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of provand.
provends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provend
microbaroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbarom
for days
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: for days on end
text: The argument went on for days: they just couldn't agree.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see for, days.
examples: text: Her legs went on for days.
glosses: For a large amount or distance; a lot.
examples: text: She has legs for days.
text: That kid has charisma for days.
synonyms: all day
as the day is long
glosses: To a great degree; very much.
Related terms: dayslong § Related terms
microbarom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbaroms
Senses: examples: text: Microbaroms are a significant noise source that can potentially interfere with the detection of infrasound from nuclear explosions.
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: A kind of atmospheric infrasonic wave generated in marine storms by a non-linear interaction of ocean surface waves with the atmosphere.
Related terms: barometer
Cispadane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: On the near (south) side of the river Po with reference to Rome.
Derived terms: Cispadane Republic
prescratched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prescratched
form: most prescratched
Etymology: From pre- + scratched.
Senses: examples: text: Buy your furniture and appliances prescratched. Scratch-and-dent can save you plenty, especially when you bargain down the price even more.
ref: 2002, Stacy Johnson, Life or Debt: A One-Week Plan for a Lifetime of Financial Freedom, Ballantine Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Having an undesirable scratch or scratches at the time of acquisition.
raw_tags: of consumer goods
siliquose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siliquose
form: most siliquose
form: siliquous
Senses: examples: siliquose plants
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing siliques.
examples: siliquose capsules
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or resembling, siliques.
siliquous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siliquous
form: most siliquous
Senses: glosses: siliquose
secernents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secernent
whizzing stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whizzing sticks
form: whizzing-stick
Senses: glosses: A bullroarer.
sustentating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sustentate
sustentates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sustentate
sustentated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sustentate
sibbens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sivvens
form: sivens
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A contagious disease, once endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws and marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body.
maracuja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maracujas
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese maracujá, borrowed from Old Tupi murukuîá, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *murukuja.
Senses: glosses: A passion fruit.
Fraserian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Fraserian
form: most Fraserian
Etymology: From Fraser + -ian, after publisher James Fraser.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Fraser's Magazine.
chioppine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chioppines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chopine.
chioppines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chioppine
suborbitar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suborbitar
form: most suborbitar
Etymology: From sub- + orbitar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: suborbital
cymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cymous
form: most cymous
Senses: glosses: cymose
prechipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prechipped
form: most prechipped
Etymology: From pre- + chipped.
Senses: examples: text: Here are prechipped, prescratched treasures -- medicine chests, porcelain dishes, canisters -- as if we are too impatient today to wear out our belongings ourselves.
ref: 1994 March 6, Amy Spindler, “Seeing a City in the Windows of Its Shops”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a piece or pieces broken or flaked off at the time of acquisition.
raw_tags: of consumer goods
examples: text: Does anyone in here know of anyone^([sic]) i can buy a prechipped Playstation^([sic]) 2 (new and boxed, opened only for chipping) with the messiah modchip?
ref: 2001 December 13, -=Ox-E-Genated=- [username], “-=Messiah=-”, in uk.games.video.playstation.forsale (Usenet):
qualifier: DVD player
glosses: Coming with a modchip preinstalled.
raw_tags: of a video game console
gamgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing containing cotton wool, invented by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee in Birmingham, England, in 1880.
Senses: glosses: cotton wool
wikipedia: Gamgee Tissue
sallenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sellanders
form: sellenders
Etymology: From French solandres.
Senses: examples: 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
there is occasionally a surfy eruption, called mallenders in the fore-leg, and sallenders in the hindleg
glosses: An eruption on the hind leg of a horse.
Related terms: malanders
mallenders
spinulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinulous
form: most spinulous
Etymology: From spinule + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Covered with small spines.
trochilos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochiloses
Senses: synonyms: trochil
glosses: The crocodile bird
trochiloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochilos
pitpat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pitapat.
Derived terms: apitpat
pitapatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pitapat
pitapatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pitapat
resthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resthouses
Etymology: From rest + house. Attested in Old English resthūs.
Senses: glosses: A house where travellers can stay; a guesthouse.
resthouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resthouse
cibols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cibol
chibbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chibbals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cibol.
chibbals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chibbal
Socinianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Socinian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The tenets or doctrines of the Socinians.
palmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palma Christi + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triglyceride of palmitic acid
aknow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aknows
form: aknowing
form: aknew
form: aknown
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of acknow.
déjeûners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of déjeûner
minaudières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minaudière
Quonset hut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quonset huts
Etymology: Named after Quonset Point, the place they were manufactured; the placename derives from an Algonquian language.
Senses: glosses: A lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel, having a semicircular cross section.
Synonyms: Quonset
Related terms: word: Iris hut
word: Nissen hut
word: Romney hut
webscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Web + scale.
Senses: glosses: Involving large amounts of data, on the scale of the World Wide Web.
Belmonte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Laak, Davao de Oro, Philippines.
pre-viewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + viewed.
Senses: examples: text: Linda Harris of Reston, Va., found a way to cut what it costs to buy videos. "Purchase pre-viewed movies from a video store," she recommends. Harris said she saves as much as half the cost of a new video. For example, she bought a pre-viewed movie, Dinosaur, for $6.99. The original cost $19.99.
ref: 2001 July 30, Michelle Singletary, “A Penny Saved Is... Well, It's A Penny Saved”, in South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
topics: DVD
media
glosses: Previously viewed; used.
raw_tags: of a VHS cassette
Braga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bragas
Etymology: From Portuguese Braga, Old Galician-Portuguese Braga, from Latin Bracara Augusta, named after a Celtic tribe, the Bracari, whose name is thought to be from Proto-Celtic *Bracara.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
glosses: A placename
A city in Braga district, Minho, Norte, Portugal.
glosses: A placename
A district of Minho, Norte, Portugal.
glosses: A placename
A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Bragança
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəˈɡanzə/
ipa: /bɹəˈɡɑnzə/
rhymes: -ænzə
rhymes: -ɑːnzə
Forms: form: Braganza
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Bragança, from Latin Brigantia, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī, *brigantī, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts (“high”), from the root *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise”) + *-onts (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of Brigantia.
Senses: glosses: A district in northeastern Portugal.
glosses: A city and municipality of Bragança district, Portugal.
swim briefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swim brief
form: swimming briefs
Senses: examples: text: For racing, swim briefs for men and swimsuits for women often feature bicycle padding. Serious triathletes jump right onto their bikes after the swim, not taking time to change to cycling shorts. Unless you're tough, buy a padded suit. They tend not to fit or stay as snug as cycling shorts, so as crazy as it sounds you may want to do a practice ride in your padded swimsuit prior to race day, to make sure you're comfortable enough.
ref: 2001, Wes Hobson, Clark Campbell, Mike Vickers, Michael F. Vickers, Swim, Bike, Run, page 90:
glosses: Synonym of swimming briefs.
synonyms: word: swimming briefs
Synonyms: word: banana hammock
word: bikini
word: budgie smugglers
word: cock jocks
word: competition briefs
word: dick pointers
word: dick togs
word: nut huggers
word: posing briefs
word: sluggos
word: racer bathers
word: racing briefs
word: Speedo
word: speedo
word: Speedos
word: speedos
word: swim briefs
word: swimming briefs
word: thong
Hypernyms: word: swimsuit
word: clothing
Related terms: word: :Category:en:Swimwear
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class II § 225. Clothing -- the closest included
assapan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assapans
Etymology: From Eastern Algonquian, probably Powhatan, first recorded as assapanick in 1612.
Senses: examples: text: Other Taguans and Assapans belong to the genus Sciuropterus, or winged squirrels. Like most of the active rodents, the Flying Squirrels are very capable of domestication, and will soon learn to prefer the society of human beings […].
ref: 1875, John George Wood, Trespassers: showing how the inhabitants of earth, air, and water are enabled to trespass on domains not their own, page 299:
text: A very keen observation, prolonged for some time, is necessary to follow an Assapan at all, to distinguish and understand the purport of its different movements, […]
ref: 1896, Brehm's Life of animals, translated from the third German edition by Pechuel-Loesche, Haacke and Schmidtlein, page 312
text: Assapans are fond of living in colonies, and where they have not been disturbed come together in great numbers for what can be no other purpose than play.
ref: 1909, Wallace Rice, Animals: a popular natural history of wild beasts, page 66
synonyms: assapanick
glosses: A southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), found in the southern and eastern United States.
assapans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assapan
racing briefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A quick flip-turn jackknifed his narrow hips out of the water for a second as he began another lap, exposing the most miniscule^([sic]) pair of black racing briefs that she'd ever seen outside a magazine swimwear layout.
ref: 1989, Candace Schuler, Sophisticated Lady, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: A briefs-style male swimsuit such as those worn in competitive swimming and diving.
asimina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asiminas
Etymology: From an Algonquian word *assimin or *rassimin (the second element of which is -min, "berry, fruit"), via Cajun French assiminier.
Senses: examples: text: […] but it still contains an excellent collection, some fine specimens of magnolias, asiminas, crataegusus, […] and other foreign trees and shrubs, and is conducted with the greatest liberality.
ref: 1838, John Claudius Loudon, Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, volume 1, page 79:
text: Of the asiminas, or so-called pawpaws, — which are also anonaceous plants, — there are several species in the United States.
ref: 1911, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Sketch of the evolution of our native fruits, page 443:
glosses: The pawpaw (Asimina triloba), a fruit-bearing plant.
asiminas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asimina
know where one stands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows where one stands
form: knowing where one stands
form: knew where one stood
form: known where one stood
Senses: examples: text: I know where I stand as far as he's concerned: I'm the enemy.
glosses: To be aware of one's position.
Mannheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Mannheim, from Old High German Mannenheim.
Senses: glosses: An independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Derived terms: Mannheim furnace
Mannheim gold
Mannheim process
slam-door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At the time of the termination of the franchise, CSE was also part-way through a programme of introducing new trains to replace 622 of its oldest trains including its 558 slam-door vehicles.
ref: 2005, Great Britain, The South Eastern Passenger Rail Franchise, National Audit Office:
text: And as for slam-door trains, you can bet there will be some teenagers growing up soon who just stand there with the door closed and have no idea why the train has moved off without letting them out...
ref: 2009, Benedict le Vay, Britain from the Rails: A Window Gazer's Guide, page 258:
text: First Great Western trains are often characterized by this curious air of panic. It's a combination of the company's attempts to repair its dreadful reputation for punctuality, and the 1970s slam-door carriages.
ref: 2010, Matthew Engel, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain:
text: For long-suffering suburban passengers, 1970 represented a milestone as the beginning of the demise of the slam-door multiple unit.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 68:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Applied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window to the handle on the outside.
Christianophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Christiano- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The need to take greater account than in the past of two developments in measures to combat racism and discrimination: the increasing intertwining of race, ethnicity, culture and religion, and the rise of anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and Islamophobia[…]
ref: 2009, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter, Heaven Forbid, page 56:
glosses: The fear or hatred of Christians or Christianity.
Synonyms: anti-Christianity
Christophobia
Related terms: word: Christianophobe
word: Christophobe
english: hating Christians
translation: hating Christians
word: miso-Christian
Christophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Christo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Christianophobia.
synonyms: word: Christianophobia
banana shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana shots
Senses: examples: text: He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
ref: 2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, →ISBN, page 53:
text: [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.
ref: 2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, →ISBN, page 247:
text: No one squealed, even though all saw Andrew unleash his poor imitation of a Brazilian Banana shot forty-five degrees away from its intended target.
ref: 2009, Wilson Orhiunu, Love Letters, →ISBN, page 85:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot with a ball sent on a curved banana-shaped trajectory.
Related terms: banana kick
banana ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana balls
Senses: examples: text: When trying to bend the ball around defenders, a defensive wall, or the goalie's outstretched hands, the banana ball is used.
ref: 1987, Kurt Aschermann, Coaching Kids to Play Soccer, →ISBN, page 53:
text: Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
ref: 2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155:
text: As we've seen, Imran was among the first to master the art, and in particular the extravagantly curving 'banana ball' that was to bring him a rich harvest of wickets in 1981 and beyond.
ref: 2009, Christopher Sandford, Imran Khan: The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician, →ISBN, page 138:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hyponyms: word: slice
topics: golf
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A banana shot.
LE LL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Low Energy Link Layer.
Related terms: BLE
BLE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Using BLE, a merchant or other provider can define more targeted "micro-locations" to trigger an alert, in some cases requiring that you be in the presence of an iBeacon in order to validate a Passbook entry.
ref: 2013 June 19, Daniel Eran Dilger, “Inside iOS 7: iBeacons enhance apps' location awareness via Bluetooth LE”, in Apple Insider:
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of Bluetooth Low Energy.
Hypernyms: Bluetooth
overnutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)njuːˈtɹɪʃən/
Etymology: From over- + nutrition.
Senses: antonyms: undernutrition
hypernyms: malnutrition
glosses: A form of malnutrition in which nutrients are oversupplied relative to the amounts required for normal growth, development, and metabolism.
Related terms: overnutritional
schwerpunkt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shvârʹ-po͝ongkt
ipa: /ˈʃvɛɹpʊŋkt/
ipa: /ˈʃvɛəpʊŋkt/
Forms: form: schwerpunkts
Etymology: From German Schwerpunkt (“center of gravity, focal point, focus”), from schwer (“heavy”) + Punkt (“point”).
Senses: examples: text: Should it be the schwerpunkt of Labor's attack or will it be an unproductive dilution of forces?
ref: 2006 June 12, Terry Sweetman, “Kim Finds a Sore Point”, in The Courier-Mail, Brisbane:
text: In the only arty shot, the Dalai Lama, seen in silhouette, sits at the schwerpunkt of a Mondrian-like composition."
ref: 2004 June 25, Meir Ronnen, “Happy Families?”, in The Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem:
text: The schwerpunkt must be an application for which Shen is ideally suited; one where its unique strengths will make it difficult to mount any effective opposition to our advance and which we can develop quickly.
ref: 2012 April 23, Mark Tarver, “finding the schwerpunkt”, in Google, retrieved 25 Sep 2012:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: main point, main target; point upon which the most effort is concentrated (e.g. during an attack)
aggregometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggregometers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device used to measure the adhesive aggregation of platelets.
Related terms: aggregometric
aggregometry
coccidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccidians
Etymology: From Coccidia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any protozoan of the subclass Coccidia
colorectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorecta
Etymology: From colo- + rectum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The distal part of the colon together with the rectum
Related terms: colorectal
denaturating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denature
denaturating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: denaturation
endobronchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + bronchial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi
exoneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exonemes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dense, granular organelle that mediates the exit of parasites from an infected erythrocyte
extracolonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + colonic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside of the colon
gigaseal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigaseals
Etymology: From giga- + seal.
Senses: glosses: A seal between a cell and a micropipette that has an electrical resistance in the order of a gigaohm
guanylylcyclase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guanylylcyclases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the cyclization of guanosine triphosphate
Synonyms: guanylate cyclase
guanylyl cyclase
guanyl cyclase
hemorheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemo- + rheological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to hemorheology
hyperpermeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpermeabilities
Etymology: From hyper- + permeability.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Higher than normal permeability of the gut or a blood vessel
intraerythrocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + erythrocytic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Within an erythrocyte
invasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invasins
Etymology: From invasion + -in?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins associated with the penetration of bacteria into mammalian cells
metachronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, meta- + chron- + -ous.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Occurring at a different time to that of a specified event
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having parts formed at different times
Synonyms: asynchronous
Derived terms: metachronously
methylator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylators
Etymology: From methylate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person, company of device that methylates (originally, one that produced methylated spirits).
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Anything that causes methylation.
Derived terms: hypermethylator
nitrosating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nitrosate
nonessentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonessentialities
Etymology: From non- + essentiality or nonessential + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonessential
glosses: Something that is nonessential
nonquantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-quantal
Etymology: From non- + quantal.
Senses: glosses: Not quantal
pelletted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pelleted.
pentaplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + -plex.
Senses: glosses: Having five parts or functions
Synonyms: quintuple
quintuplex
rhoptry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhoptries
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club”) or a cognate of it, reflecting the bulbous shape of the organelle.
Senses: glosses: A specialized secretory organelle in some protozoans
rhoptries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhoptry
forebusy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forebusies
form: forebusying
form: forebusied
form: forebusied
Etymology: From Old English forebiseġian, forebisġian, equivalent to fore- + busy.
Senses: examples: text: Springs up to know all life, the secrets learn / Of science and time's truths arcane; projects / Evil would fulfil, that thus forebusied, soul, / All virtue of self-ascription to its Lord Might lose.
ref: 1877, Philip James Bailey, Festus:
text: Or who might be forebusied, and onbeloaded with work?
ref: 2011, David Cowley, How We'd Talk If The English Had Won in 1066:
glosses: To busy beforehand; preoccupy.
substrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substrains
Etymology: From sub- + strain.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A subset of a strain, especially one derived from a single cell
thionins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thionin
zoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoites
Senses: glosses: sporozoite
exanimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exanimate
counternarcotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + narcotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to counternarcotics, the enforcement of laws against the use or distribution of narcotics.
cercopithecin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cercopithecins
Senses: glosses: Any monkey of the cercopithecine tribe Cercopithecini
cercopithecins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cercopithecin
gazettement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazettements
Etymology: From gazette + -ment.
Senses: glosses: publication in an official gazette
insectivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being an insectivore.
examples: text: Some primates engage in insectivory.
glosses: The activity of eating insects.
ombrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ombrophiles
Etymology: From ombro- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that flourishes in a rainy environment.
Related terms: ombrophilous
ombrophily
prosthion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρόσθιος (prósthios, “foremost”), from πρόσθεν (prósthen). Compare -ion (suffix for craniometric features).
Senses: examples: text: In order to determine the distance of the zygomaxillare and the first molar from the basion (or prosthion), isosceles triangles were constructed from the measurements, which on one hand had the basion for the apex, the distance connecting both molar middle points as the base and the basion-first molar distance as the legs (Fig. 4. A), and on the other hand they had the distance between both zygomaxillaria as the base and the basion-zygomaxillaria as the base and the basion-zygomaxillary distance as the legs (Fig. 4. B).
ref: 1930, J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos - Volume 72, Part 1, page 646:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The most anterior point of the upper alveolar process
respirometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From respire + -o- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: A form of calorimetry that is used to measure the metabolic rate.
synapomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From synapomorphy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to synapomorphy
respirometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From respirometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to respirometry.
methy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methies
Etymology: From Woods Cree mathay (“burbot”); compare Cree miyay.
Senses: examples: text: The occow, or river perch, termed also horn-fish, piccarel, or doré, is common, but is not so much esteemed as the attihhawmeg. It attains the length of twenty inches in these lakes. The methy is another common fish; it is the gadus lota, or burbot, of Europe.
ref: 1824, John Franklin, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, volume 1, page 144:
text: In addition to the sturgeon, the fishery occasionally yields the white-fish, pike, various kinds of trout, the methy, and several sucking-carp.
ref: 1836, Richard King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, volume 1, page 53:
text: Our Loche or Methy is not a fashionable fish, […]
ref: 1873, Anual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, for the year ending the 30th June, 1872, page 191:
glosses: The burbot.
PAVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The police used a PAVA spray on the suspect.
glosses: Abbreviation of pelargonic acid vanillylamide.
shopfitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopfitters
Etymology: From shop + fitter.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out shopfitting.
shopfitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopfitter
shopfitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shop + fitting.
Senses: glosses: The furnishing of retail premises, both interior and exterior.
Related terms: shopfitter
arteriovenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arterio- + venal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the arteries and veins.
visinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From -in?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein found in the retinal cone cell.
fistbump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fistbumps
Etymology: From fist + bump.
Senses: examples: text: They parted with a fistbump and Hector turned for home.
ref: 2011, John Brewer, Multiplayer:
text: She turned around and watched Collin and Rory do a double fistbump and slap each other's back.
ref: 2012, Mari Manning, Holding Out For a Hero:
text: And what about the column inches generated by the congratulatory fistbump after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008?
ref: 2012, Joanne Griffith, Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America:
glosses: Alternative form of fist bump.
fistbump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fistbumps
form: fistbumping
form: fistbumped
form: fistbumped
Etymology: From fist + bump.
Senses: examples: text: “Let's order a pizza.” He and Markie fistbumped hello.
ref: 2012, Gary Paulsen, Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Greed, page 8:
text: A huge, crazyloud group of guys—mostly giant, burly football players and their friends—had gathered in the cafeteria, laughing, fistbumping, and highfiving as they surrounded a guy named Jarrett.
ref: 2012, Seventeen, Seventeen's Inspiring True Teen Stories:
glosses: To bump fists in greeting or celebration.
Baudelaireian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Baudelaireian
form: most Baudelaireian
Etymology: From Baudelaire + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Baudelairean.
sand dab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand dabs
form: sanddab
Senses: examples: text: I commanded him. “Stand up.” He looked down, his mouth disobedient and wide and flat and ugly as a sand dab’s, and would not.
ref: 2013, Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees, New York: Doubleday, Part 6, p. 336:
glosses: Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.
unpivot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpivots
form: unpivoting
form: unpivoted
form: unpivoted
Etymology: From un- + pivot.
Senses: examples: text: Unpivoting a cross tab reconstructs a table in a relational format from a cross-tab data source.
ref: 2005, Rick Dobson, Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications, page 243:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert columns into rows, so as to undo a pivot operation.
unpivoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpivot
unpivots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpivot
unpivoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpivot
unpivoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not pivoted.
ambass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ambasses
form: ambassing
form: ambassed
form: ambassed
Etymology: Irregular back-formation from ambassador.
Senses: examples: text: How fruitless attempts to involve us in war With HIM to AMBASS and with HER to ADOR.
ref: 1913, John Kendrick Bangs, "To Marse Tom and Meh Lady", The Bookman, Volume XXXVIII, page 114:
text: The home of an American Ambassador should express America not the country to which he is sent to Ambass.
ref: 1917, John Kendrick Bangs, Half hours with the Idiot, Little, Brown, and Company, page 4:
text: Politics, graft, war, sport and scandal are aired in turn, but the "ambassador" fails to ambass — the "worker" fails to work — the "messenger" makes a mess of it.
ref: 1914,, Association men, Volume 39, YMCA of the USA, page 361
text: ... cut off from their governments and obliged to rely on their own wisdom, knowledge and experience, when they had, in a word, to ambass. Nowadays they pick up the phone and the State Department, for better or worse, tells then what to do.
ref: 1961, Ilka Chase, The Carthaginian rose, Doubleday, page 51:
text: I have always maintained there was something wrong with Ambassadors, as none of them seemed to ambass properly.
ref: 1995, Will Rogers, Will Rogers speaks, →ISBN, page 21:
text: "Therefore," said Kirk, […] "Shipping her back in box is not one of the options, […] this will require the skills of an Ambassador. So you're going to have to […] Ambass."
ref: 2001, Peter David, The Rift (2001) (Star Trek: The Original Series Book 57), Simon & Schuster, page 161
glosses: To engage in the professional work of an ambassador.
antirecovery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirecovery
form: most antirecovery
Etymology: From anti- + recovery.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or opposing recovery.
Related terms: anti-cure
acroparaesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acroparaesthesias
Etymology: From acro- + paraesthesia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acroparesthesia.
acroparaesthesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acroparaesthesia
acroparesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acroparesthesias
form: acroparaesthesia
Etymology: From acro- + paresthesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: severe pain in the extremities
acroparesthesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acroparesthesia
hyperkalemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperkalemia
metofluthrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pyrethroid used as an insect repellent.
cyphenothrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic pyrethroid insecticide.
tefluthrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A toxic pyrethroid.
silafluofen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pyrethroid insecticide.
Peircian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Peircian
form: most Peircian
Etymology: From Peirce + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The application of these Peircian and Silversteinian paradoxes to law builds upon the views of Kevelson and other analysts of Anglo-American jurisprudence […]
ref: 2008, Justin B. Richland, Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court:
glosses: Alternative form of Peircean.
Timothy syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Katherine W. Timothy, who was among the first to identify a case.
Senses: glosses: A rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by physical malformations and neurological and developmental defects.
Apert syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Eugène Apert, French physician.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: A form of acrocephalosyndactyly.
Carpenter syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Described by G. Carpenter in 1909.
Senses: glosses: A very rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder characterized by craniofacial malformations, obesity, and syndactyly.
Edwards syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after John H. Edwards, who first described the syndrome in 1960.
Senses: synonyms: trisomy 18
glosses: A genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 18th chromosome, and characterised by organ defects and developmental delays.
embryopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryopathy
acrocallosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acro- + callosal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterized by agenesis of the corpus callosum.
colovesicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colo- + vesicular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the colon and vesicles.
cosmophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cosmo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The cosmophobia is only a symptom. It is not we who fly into outer space; it is outer space that should come down to the earth.
ref: 1971, Rumanian review: Volume 25:
text: As well as having an exploratory function, these flights were calculated to relieve cosmophobia.
ref: 2012, Brian Aldiss, The Dark Light Years:
glosses: The fear or dread of outer space.
Derived terms: cosmophobic
crapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapitalists
Etymology: Blend of crap + capitalist.
Senses: glosses: A corrupt or inauthentic capitalist; a proponent of crapitalism.
crapitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapitalist
balkanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balkanization
cyberbalkanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + Balkanization.
Senses: examples: text: They found that degree of cyberbalkanization indeed relates to and temporally precedes opinion polarization as reflected in polls.
ref: 2018, Francis L. F. Lee, Joseph M. Chan, Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Balkanization of the Internet.
Related terms: splinternet
unclarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unclarity
divergers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diverger
convergingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more convergingly
form: most convergingly
Etymology: From converging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to converge, or come together.
convergers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of converger
embrithopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embrithopods
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Embrithopoda, an extinct order of mammals resembling the rhinoceros.
embrithopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embrithopod
gadzookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadzookeries
Etymology: From gadzooks + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: By anagramming letters and altering the order of words, he produces two quatrains, which we content merely to quote as examples of gadzookery.
ref: 1957, William F. Friedman, Elizabeth S. Friedman, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, Reprint edition, Cambridge Univ Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Her spare prose and dialogue give a period flavour without the dread excesses of gadzookery.
ref: 2002, David Langford, The Complete Critical Assembly, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 137:
text: The cladding is often gadzookery but the story motifs […]
ref: 2004, Peter Hunt, International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 421:
text: […] inspiring a whole genre of pseudo-Elizabethan fiction, sometimes described as "tushery" or "gadzookery."
ref: 2009, Helen Hackett, Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths, Princeton Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 60:
text: […] a middle course, avoiding both Gadzookery and modern colloquialism […]
ref: 2012, Dr. Catherine Butler, Hallie O'Donovan, quoting Geoffrey Trease, Reading History in Children's Books, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: The use of archaism, tushery.
Related terms: tushery
Bayesian network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.zjən ˈnɛt.wɜːk/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.zjən ˈnɛt.wɝk/
Forms: form: Bayesian networks
Etymology: Named after Thomas Bayes (1701–1761), English mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A directed acyclic graph whose vertices represent random variables and whose directed edges represent conditional dependencies. Each random variable can fall into any of at least two mutually disjoint states, and has a probability function which takes as inputs the states of its parent nodes and returns as output the probability of being in a certain state for a given combination of the states of its parent nodes. A node without parent nodes just has an unconditioned probability of being in some given state.
wikipedia: Thomas Bayes
Hypernyms: graphical model
probabilistic graphical model
conditional probability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditional probabilities
Senses: glosses: The probability that an event will take place given the restrictive assumption that another event has taken place, or that a combination of other events has taken place. (Mathematically, the definition would be that the conditional probability of B given A is equal to the joint probability of A and B divided by the probability of A.)
Related terms: joint probability
Termez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛə(ɹ)mɛz/
Forms: form: Termiz
form: Tirmez
form: Tirmiz
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Терме́з m (Terméz).
* The modern name of the city came through the Sogdian Language Tarmiδ dating back to an ancient Iranian language tara-maiθa, which means "a place of transition" (tara-crossing, crossing; maiθa-place). In ancient times there was an important crossing on the Amu Darya river.
* Some link the name of the city to Greek thermos "hot", tracing its name back to Alexander the Great.
* Others suggest that it came from Sanskrit taramato, meaning "on the river bank"
Senses: glosses: A small historical city in modern-day Uzbekistan's extreme south.
wikipedia: Sultan Saodat
druidical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more druidical
form: most druidical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Druidical.
root and branch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: root-and-branch
Etymology: From the Bible. Used as a title for the Root and Branch petition presented to the Long Parliament on December 11, 1640.
Senses: examples: text: When, in 1872, Sir Charles Dilke once more returned to the charge in the House of Commons, introducing a motion for a full enquiry into the Queen's expenditure with a view to a root and branch reform of the Civil List, […]
ref: 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
text: We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over. Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster.
ref: 2022 October 27, Damian Carrington, quoting Inger Andersen, “Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’”, in The Guardian:
text: Keir Starmer has indicated the Metropolitan police might need to change its name as part of a much-needed “root and branch” review in the wake of the David Carrick case.
ref: 2023 January 19, Aletha Adu, quoting Keir Starmer, “Keir Starmer suggests Met explore changing name in ‘root and branch’ review”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
synonyms: word: abject
word: frightful
word: absolute
word: arrant
word: categoric
word: categorical
word: complete
word: consummate
word: downright
word: full
word: full-blown
word: full-bore
word: full-on
word: mere
word: outright
word: out-and-out
word: perfect
word: proper
word: pure
word: rank
word: regular
word: right
word: root and branch
word: sheer
word: straight-out
word: thorough
word: thoroughgoing
word: total
word: unadulterated
word: unalloyed
word: unattenuated
word: uncompromising
word: unconditional
word: unfettered
word: unmitigated
word: unqualified
word: unreserved
word: unrestricted
word: utter
word: wholesale
glosses: Total, thorough, sweeping, complete, radical, drastic.