cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
three-dimensionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-dimensionalities
Senses: examples: text: [T]here are several fascinating mixed-media pieces that give subtle three-dimensionality to predominately flat surfaces.
ref: 2000 October 15, Fred B. Adelson, “Art Review: Perkins Shows Its Reach Is Regional In Exhibition”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Nov 2015:
glosses: The state or characteristic of occupying, or of appearing to occupy, three dimensions of space.
examples: text: Gleeson, a brilliant performer, shows us the face of evil but with the mitigating circumstances of humanity. But his three-dimensionality is jarring; at odds with the wooden movie around him.
ref: 2005 April 1, Desson Thomson, “'In My Country': Unjustifiable”, in Washington Post, retrieved 20 Nov 2015:
text: Dr. Williams . . . commended his "search for some way of talking about human value, human depth and three-dimensionality, that doesn't depend on God."
ref: 2009 May 28, Stephen Adams, “Philip Pullman helps understanding of theology, says Archbishop of Canterbury”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 20 Nov 2015:
text: In 1968, she costarred with Clint Eastwood in the feature film Coogan's Bluff, bringing three-dimensionality to the otherwise cliched role of a hippie.
ref: 2010, Hal Erickson, “Tisha Sterling”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Nov 2015:
glosses: Complexity and depth of character.
raw_tags: of a person or fictional character
Synonyms: tridimensionality
Related terms: three-dimensional
toss out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses out
form: tossing out
form: tossed out
form: tossed out
Senses: examples: text: My grandmother said being organized led to success, so I set out to turn our fridge into a liquid dieter's paradise. First was detoxing the kitchen. I tossed out everything that would lead to temptation, like the leftover candy from Halloween, as well as everything that was expired and rotten.
ref: 2015, Dawn Lerman, My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes:
synonyms: word: toss
word: throw out
word: junk
word: 86
word: bin
word: can
word: cast aside
word: cast off
word: cast away
word: chuck
word: chuck away
word: chuck out
word: discard
word: dispose of
word: ditch
word: dump
word: get rid of
word: jettison
word: pitch
word: scrap
word: shift
word: throw aside
word: throw away
word: throw out
word: toss
word: trash
glosses: To throw away; to get rid of; to dispose of (something, especially food that has gone bad).
glosses: To remove or eject from a group; to kick out.
examples: text: The judge tossed out her testimony when it came to light that she was getting paid as a contractor by the defendant.
antonyms: allow#Verb
;
adduce#Verb
glosses: To reject or refuse to consider as evidence.
duke out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dukes out
form: duking out
form: duked out
form: duked out
Etymology: From duke it out.
Senses: examples: text: Both perfect homes are destroyed—and yet the two men remain effectively passive, locked in hang-ups while assorted protégés and allies do all the duking out and legwork.
ref: 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages.
ref: April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: To fight, especially with fists; to knock out (someone).
flatten out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flattens out
form: flattening out
form: flattened out
form: flattened out
Senses: glosses: To make flat (something rough, folded or bumpy).
glosses: To become more even.
raw_tags: of a hierarchy or inequal distribution
glosses: To win a fight, usually by punching someone until they are knocked over.
screw around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹuː əˈɹaʊnd/
Forms: form: screws around
form: screwing around
form: screwed around
form: screwed around
Senses: examples: text: Who do you have to screw around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit?
ref: 2003, Richard Curtis, Love Actually, spoken by Prime Minister (Hugh Grant):
glosses: To make out or engage in sexual activity, usually without actually having sex.
glosses: To waste time; to dawdle; to play or idle.
glosses: To have sex with multiple partners; to sleep around.
glosses: To harass and annoy someone.
raw_tags: used with "with"
arc up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːk ap/
Forms: form: arcs up
form: arcing up
form: arced up
form: arced up
Etymology: Thought to be from electrical arcs created when starting/booting/arcing up an electrical device.
Senses: examples: text: Tiger went, ‘Ooo! He's arcing up here, Annabelle.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 316:
glosses: To become upset or angry.
arcs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arc up
arcing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arc up
arced up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arc up
African daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African daisies
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of African plants belonging to several genera in the family Asteraceae which are grown for their showy flowers, especially:
Arctotis (syn. Venidium)
glosses: Any of a number of African plants belonging to several genera in the family Asteraceae which are grown for their showy flowers, especially:
Dimorphotheca
glosses: Any of a number of African plants belonging to several genera in the family Asteraceae which are grown for their showy flowers, especially:
Gazania
glosses: Any of a number of African plants belonging to several genera in the family Asteraceae which are grown for their showy flowers, especially:
Gerbera
glosses: Any of a number of African plants belonging to several genera in the family Asteraceae which are grown for their showy flowers, especially:
Lonas
glosses: Any of a number of African plants belonging to several genera in the family Asteraceae which are grown for their showy flowers, especially:
Osteospermum (African daisy bush)
Related terms: freeway daisy
African daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African daisy
freeway daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeway daisies
Etymology: From freeway + daisy. Often planted along freeways in California.
Senses: glosses: A plant often used as a flowering ground cover in mild climates, Osteospermum fruticosum
glosses: Any of various other, similar species with similar uses.
Related terms: African daisy
freeway daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeway daisy
IPV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of inactivated polio vaccine.
examples: text: The most prevalent form of VAWG (as already stated) is IPV, not rape in public by a non-partner (which most firewood rapes are classed as) or conflict rape.
ref: 2021, Tamsin Bradley, Janet Gruber, Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls:
glosses: Initialism of intimate partner violence.
alogisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alogism
fwoom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fwuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
rhymes: -ʊm
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Squirrel Girl: Well let's go to the friggin' moon.
FWOOM
ref: 2015, Ryan North, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, number 2, page 21:
text: Fwoom! Oliver fired himself down the hall like a human rocket.
ref: 2015, Mark H. Kruger, Overtaken, page 358:
glosses: The sound of a rocket (or similar) taking off.
siguiriya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siguiriyas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish siguiriya.
Senses: glosses: A deep, expressive form of flamenco music.
glosses: A piece of music in this style.
siguiriyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siguiriya
greasy pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greasy poles
Senses: glosses: A sporting event that involves staying on, climbing up, walking over or otherwise traversing a pole that has been made slippery.
examples: text: He advertised about the town, in long posters of a pink colour, that games of all sorts would take place here; and set to work a little battalion of men under his own eye. They erected greasy-poles for climbing, with smoked hams and local cheeses at the top.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 16, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: The mud was unspeakable. The paths through the beet-fields were simply a succession of lumps, as slippery as a greasy pole, with huge pools everywhere.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
glosses: The slippery pole used in the event.
examples: text: I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
ref: 1869, Benjamin Disraeli, quoted in Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 238
text: Merkel sacrificed her “Thatcherite” agenda to get to the top of the greasy pole. One should be careful, however, with explanations that reduce Merkel to a mere tactician.
ref: 2009, Franz Bosbach, John R. Davis, Andreas Fahrmeir, Industrieentwicklung / Promotion of Industry: An Anglo-German Dialogue: Ein deutsch-britischer Dialog, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 97:
text: They have strong opinions, which they moderate while climbing up the greasy pole of politics or advancement at work.
ref: 2013, Sasha Fenton, Unexplained Zodiac: The Inside Story of Your Sign, Charlesbridge, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: The work and scheming that leads to the position of prime minister or other leadership position.
Synonyms: grease pole
greased pole
puntillero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puntilleros
Etymology: From Spanish puntillero.
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A bullfighter who finally kills the bull with a blow of a knife.
puntilleros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puntillero
third partier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third partiers
Etymology: From third party + -er.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member or supporter of a third party.
productors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of productor
moleculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molecular
cloathes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of clothes.
cloathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of clothes.
helixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From helix + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of helix
helixing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helix + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And just as Russell Branding fobbed us off with the idea of “pillowcasing” (packing your massive hair into a beanie), and David Beckham sold us “haggising” (like pillowcasing, just with shorter hair), we have Harry Styles to thank for “helixing”, the new beanie standard.
ref: 2015 November 18, Morwenna Ferrier, “Hipster hats: the art of 'helixing'”, in The Guardian:
text: ‘I told you no more helixing!’ … Jonas and Eva in season one of Skam. .
ref: 2016 December 13, Lanre Bakare, “Skam: the Norwegian hit that could take US TV into uncharted territory”, in The Guardian:
text: If the old slouchy beanie look was for guys who wanted to appear laid-back, the new tightly rolled beanie — helixing, as some have called it — is for the guy who’s more self-aware about his scumbag tendencies, as one viral tweet articulates:
ref: 2018 September 21, Rebecca Jennings, “Fedoras are for jerks: a history of awful dudes in awful hats”, in Vox:
glosses: The practice of wearing a beanie towards the back of one's crown, so as to expose the helix (outer rim) of one's ears.
Related terms: helixer
choripetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χωρίς (khōrís, “separately”) + petalous.
Senses: examples: text: In dicotyledons that do not form a calyx, like the buttercups, the corollas are always choripetalous.
ref: 1986, Ernst Michael Kranich, Planetary Influences Upon Plants:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having separate, unconnected petals; polypetalous.
Related terms: chorisepalous
differentiational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From differentiation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, we report that while there is an upregulation of UCP1 transcript and protein, it not enough to induce functional changes in the 3T3-L1 despite differentiational priming and differing AR agonist dosage.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Isoproterenol Increases Uncoupling, Glycolysis, and Markers of Beiging in Mature 3T3-L1 Adipocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Associated with, or leading to differentiation
erythrophagocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + phagocytosis.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, consistent with its known function in regulating RBC phagocytosis, Hu5F9-G4 caused a transient anemia, likely due to erythrophagocytosis, but was otherwise well-tolerated.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Pre-Clinical Development of a Humanized Anti-CD47 Antibody with Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Potential”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The phagocytosis of erythrocytes
Related terms: erythrophagocytic
histolene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In brief, 4 μm sections of paraffin-embedded human liver tissue mounted on silane-coated glass slides were de-paraffinized in histolene and dehydrated in graded ethanol.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Effect of Immunosuppressive Agents on Hepatocyte Apoptosis Post-Liver Transplantation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monoterpene hydrocarbon "p-mentha-1,8-diene" used as a cytological clearing agent
hydroperoxyflavin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroperoxyflavins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of metabolites formally generated by the addition of the elements of hydrogen peroxide to a flavin
intrapapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + papillary.
Senses: examples: text: It was called BMO-fovea distance since Bruch´s membrane opening included the intrapapillary optic nerve head region plus gamma zone.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Optic Disc - Fovea Distance, Axial Length and Parapapillary Zones. The Beijing Eye Study 2011”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a papilla
palirrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Complications such as palirrhea and diarrhea occurring after operation may further aggravate dystrophy.
ref: 2015 September 22, “A Novel Inflammation-Based Prognostic Score, the C-Reactive Protein/Albumin Ratio Predicts the Prognosis of Patients with Operable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A recurring discharge
paraptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of para- + apoptosis
Senses: examples: text: Cytoplasmic vacuolisation is a prominent feature of paraptosis, which includes cytoplasmic vacuolisation, mitochondrial swelling and endoplasmic reticulum stress and annexin V binding to membranes.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Aberrant Apoptotic Response of Colorectal Cancer Cells to Novel Nucleoside Analogues”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A particular form of programmed cell death, defined by cytoplasmic vacuolation, independent of caspase activation and inhibition, and lack of apoptotic morphology.
programmed cell death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programmed cell deaths
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The regulated death of a cell, mediated by an intracellular program.
Related terms: apoptosis
paraptosis
pneumotonometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pneumo- + tonometry.
Senses: examples: text: Intraocular pressure was determined by pneumotonometry.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Optic Disc - Fovea Distance, Axial Length and Parapapillary Zones. The Beijing Eye Study 2011”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A noninvasive method of estimating the intraocular pressure of the eye by exposing the cornea to a sudden puff of air
spermatocrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatocrits
Etymology: From spermato- + Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “judge, umpire”). Modelled after hematocrit.
Senses: examples: text: By using highest male-specific spermatocrit as a reference value, we equalized number of sperm cells across the 48 fertilizations.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Male Investments in High Quality Sperm Improve Fertilization Success, but May Have Negative Impact on Offspring Fitness in Whitefish”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An indicator of spermatozoa density based on the proportion of solid packed material in semen after centrifugation.
subconsomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + consomic.
Senses: examples: text: To narrow down the region that contains the genetic loci involved in the aggression-eliciting effects on Chr 15, we established a panel of subconsomic strains of MSM Chr 15.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Mapping of Genetic Factors That Elicit Intermale Aggressive Behavior on Mouse Chromosome 15: Intruder Effects and the Complex Genetic Basis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: congenic and without chromosome substitution
raw_tags: of strains
subconsomic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subconsomics
Etymology: From sub- + consomic.
Senses: glosses: Such a strain of organisms
isopalmitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopalmitates
Etymology: From iso- + palmitate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of isopalmitic acid
Derived terms: tetraisopalmitate
isopalmitic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + palmitic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any isomer of palmitic acid, but especially "15-methyl pentadecanoic acid"
Related terms: isopalmitate
tetraisopalmitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + isopalmitate.
Senses: examples: text: The effects of US-mediated different-size (1.4, 2.1, and 3.5 μm) MBs (as a contrast agent) and ascorbyl tetraisopalmitate (VC-IP) on enhancing skin transdermal delivery were demonstrated both in vitro and in vivo.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Effects of Microbubble Size on Ultrasound-Induced Transdermal Delivery of High-Molecular-Weight Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing four isopalmitate groups
thoracotomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thoracotomises
form: thoracotomising
form: thoracotomised
form: thoracotomised
Etymology: From thoracotomy + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Another method of dissociating the dual influence of central drive and lung inflation is to thoracotomise an otherwise intact anaesthetised animal and to ventilate its lungs with a pump.
ref: 1976, AW Duggan, JG Hall, PM Headley, “Morphine, enkephalin and the substantia gelatinosa”, in Nature:
text: Four pigs were thoracotomised and the oesophagus was isolated from adjacent organs
ref: 1999, JA Petersen, BU Duch, H Gregersen, “Luminal cross-sectional area and wall distensibility in the isolated porcine oesophagus”, in International Journal of Surgical Investigation, volume 1, number 1:
text: After 15 weeks of developing obesity, animals were anaesthetised by ketamine injection (50 mg/kg) and xylazine (0.5 mg/kg), decapitated, and thoracotomised, and the fat pads of adipose tissue were dissected and weighed.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Cardiac Dysfunction Induced by Obesity Is Not Related to β -Adrenergic System Impairment at the Receptor-Signalling Pathway”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To perform, or to undergo thoracotomy
thoracotomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thoracotomise
thoracotomised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has undergone thoracotomy
unwarted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + warted.
Senses: examples: text: He described it as a hypogeous ascomycete characterized by brownish ascoma with hairy unwarted peridium, homogeneously white gleba, and globose to subglobose stipitate asci containing smooth ovoid spores.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Contrasted Genetic Diversity, Relevance of Climate and Host Plants, and Comments on the Taxonomic Problems of the Genus Picoa (Pyronemataceae, Pezizales)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having no warts
entelechially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈtɛləˌki.əli/
Etymology: From entelechial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One imitates entelechially, thereby attaining a universal, insofar as the individual is shown living up to the potentialities of its genus. […] And so, in sum, were the poem (for instance) to imitate a sailor universally, entelechially, it would have him represent to the full the potentialities of sailor as such: speaking nautical terms (even perhaps to the extent of applying nautical analogies to non-nautical matters), scrupulous in the performing of his duties at sea (yet revealing exactly the most relevant temptations to the dereliction of such duties), looking perhaps with a carnival eye upon his times in port, etc.
ref: 1952 August, Kenneth Burke, “A 'Dramatistic' View of 'Imitation'”, in Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature, volume 12, number 4, Urbana, Ill.: Department of English, University of Illinois, →OCLC, page 236:
text: In some fundamental way, it seems that the principles of logology and ecology (that is, the entelechies of each) are at odds with each other, for logology, logologic, and logocentricity, if unchecked by large eco-ethical concerns, and allowed to drive entelechially toward the perfection and completion of themselves in the symbolic realm, seem destined to destroy, or perhaps just deny, ecology, ecologic, and the natural world.
ref: 1994, William H[owe] Rueckert, Encounters with Kenneth Burke, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 174:
text: In a pragmatic approach, the telos does not guarantee its results entelechially. The telos itself is the product of semiosis and can be made concrete only when it is used to guide actions.
ref: 1997, James A. Mackin, Jr., Community Over Chaos: An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics, Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 120:
text: [I]f future possibilities exist for the discipline of rhetoric, it must be conceded that, entelechially speaking, even the present state of the discipline of rhetoric existed entelechially prior to the naming of the discipline.
ref: 1998, Stan A. Lindsay, Implicit Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke's Extension of Aristotle's Concept of Entelechy, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 145:
text: To behave reasonably is to exemplify the highest human ideals and discipline, for in doing so, one is entelechially exalting his fullest potential. But this is not achieved through the inhuman slavery to logic which defines automatons and whose absence distinguish man. No, it is done by the proper obedience to the manifold nature and constituent elements we possess and which define us.
ref: 2013, Michael David Levenstein, The End of Knowledge: A Discourse on the Unification of Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, pages 20–21:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In an entelechial manner.
Related terms: entelechial
entelechy
sulfurases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfurase
game out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: games out
form: gaming out
form: gamed out
form: gamed out
Senses: glosses: To play games to such an excessive degree that one is unwilling to play more.
examples: text: In a gathering Cold War atmosphere, American officials are gaming out responses should Russia resort to battlefield nuclear weapons.
ref: 2022 October 1, David E. Sanger, Anton Troianovski, Julian E. Barnes, “In Washington, Putin’s Nuclear Threats Stir Growing Alarm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To run through scenarios to determine what will happen given certain decisions; to play out possibilities; to examine several ideas to come up with their likeliest end results.
entelech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entelechs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of entelechy.
hang with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs with
form: hanging with
form: hung with
form: hung with
Senses: examples: text: He always hangs with those guys after school.
synonyms: hang out with
roll with
glosses: To spend time with; to hang out with; to socialize with.
examples: text: He must be a heavy drinker to be able to hang with them.
glosses: To be able to keep up with.
examples: text: I can't hang with that kind of work every day.
glosses: To endure.
harp on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: harps on
form: harping on
form: harped on
form: harped on
Senses: glosses: To nag about; to complain incessantly or persistently request; to continue to bring up as a point of contention.
Synonyms: belabour
achloropsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + chlor- + -opsia.
Senses: examples: text: His achloropsia meant he could not distinguish light and dark shades of green.
glosses: Inability to distinguish the colour green.
Synonyms: deuteranopia
improve on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: improves on
form: improving on
form: improved on
form: improved on
form: improve upon
Senses: glosses: To fix, make better or increase the quality of (something) in comparison to previous attempts; to contribute to an ongoing effort to improve (something).
improve upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: improves upon
form: improving upon
form: improved upon
form: improved upon
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of improve on.
alpenstocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpenstockers
Etymology: Borrowed from German alpenstöcker.
Senses: examples: text: I started to give Lucky a digest of the Perugia affair, but we were interrupted by a group of German alpenstockers who clumped into the chamber under the guide of a female ramrod.
ref: 1959, Lawrence Levine, The great Alphonse: a novel, page 247:
text: Careful to step over the bergschrund and not fall down in and get extruded out the foot of the ice centuries hence, as an old glaciology prof used to tell it and cackle, true to some dear dead alpenstocker pipesmoker in the years before the lab took your best years.
ref: 1982, Clark Coolidge, Mine: The One that Enters the Stories, →ISBN, page 50:
text: We attempted to reach Professor LaFave upon receipt of this article, only to learn that LaFave, a confirmed alpenstocker, had earlier departed for Europe to undertake the grueling ascent of the forbidding south face of the Matterhorn.
ref: 1995 January, “Mapp Revisited: Shakespeare, J., and Other Fourth Amendment Poets”, in Stanford Law Review, volume 47, number 2:
glosses: A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.
alpenstockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpenstocker
African horse sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A potentially fatal infection of horses and other equids caused by a virus in the genus Orbivirus, transmitted mostly by a biting midge, Culicoides imicola, and originally from Sub-Saharan Africa.
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1.
African lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African lynxes
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized wild cat with lynx-like black ear-tufts and found in Africa as well as southwest and central Asia and western India, the caracal (Caracal caracal).
Synonyms: caracal
desert lynx
Persian lynx
African lynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African lynx
metallo-beta-lactamase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallo-beta-lactamases
form: metallo-β-lactamase
Etymology: From metallo- + beta-lactamase.
Senses: glosses: An organometallic form of beta-lactamase.
Hypernyms: beta-lactamase
Derived terms: alt: NDM-1
word: New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1
metallo-β-lactamase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallo-β-lactamases
Etymology: From metallo- + β-lactamase.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metallo-beta-lactamase.
β-lactamase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: β-lactamases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beta-lactamase.
Derived terms: metallo-β-lactamase
β-lactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: β-lactams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beta-lactam.
luck of the devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Extraordinarily good fortune; recurring luck.
Synonyms: luck of the Irish
Lady Luck
Related terms: lucky devil
man in the mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men in the mirror
Senses: examples: text: I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways […]
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
ref: 1988, Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett, “Man in the Mirror”, in Bad, performed by Michael Jackson:
glosses: Oneself, one's reflection, usually used in the context of introspection and self-reflection on the solution to a problem.
Coordinate terms: woman in the mirror
Related terms: look at oneself in the mirror
soul-searching
narcoeconomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From narco- + economy.
Senses: glosses: The sector of the economy relating to the illegal drug trade.
Aleppo gall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aleppo galls
Senses: glosses: The gall produced by the leaves of the Aleppo oak, Quercus infectoria, in response to the larvae of a species of gall wasp, Cynips quercusfolii, and which has been harvested for thousands of years as a concentrated source of tannins for use in high-quality inks, in medicine, etc.
Related terms: gallnut
Aleppo galls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aleppo gall
Aleppo oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aleppo oaks
Senses: glosses: A small oak native to Greece and Asia Minor, Quercus infectoria, best known for the galls on its leaves that are harvested as a source of tannins.
Related terms: Aleppo gall
Aleppo oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aleppo oak
allamanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aləˈmandə/
Forms: form: allamandas
Etymology: From the genus name Allamanda, named after Swiss-Dutch natural historian Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand.
Senses: examples: text: Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomæa, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘The Outlying Pickets of the New World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 114:
text: Sweetman snaps off an allamanda bloom and examines it so minutely he might be seeking his salvation in the flower's golden centre.
ref: 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 109:
text: Then one day she received an allamanda seedling from an old neighbor.
ref: 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 111:
glosses: Any plant in the genus Allamanda, especially those grown in mild climates and indoors for their colorful flowers, such as Allamanda cathartica.
wikipedia: Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand
allamandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allamanda
make out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes out of
form: making out of
form: made out of
form: made out of
Senses: examples: text: I'll make a quilt out of your mother's old shirts.
glosses: To construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance).
make of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes of
form: making of
form: made of
form: made of
Senses: examples: text: What do you make of the new guy?
glosses: To form an opinion about (someone or something); to appraise (a person, idea or situation).
examples: text: To make of carrots alone, put in about two pounds sliced carrots in stewpan with three tablespoons butter and place where they will stew gently an hour without browning.
ref: 1887, “Carrot Soup”, in Estelle W[oods] Wilcox, compiler, The Buckeye Cook Book. […], subscription edition, Minneapolis, Minn.: Buckeye Publishing Co. […], →OCLC, “Soups” section, page 831:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, of.
Natal plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Natal plum
mean to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: means to
form: meaning to
form: meant to
form: meant to
Senses: examples: text: I've been meaning to visit him for a while, but work has been busy.
glosses: To intend to.
Derived terms: mean to say
muddy up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muddies up
form: muddying up
form: muddied up
form: muddied up
Senses: glosses: To make muddy; to make clear water into muddy water.
raw_tags: of a body of water
glosses: To confuse (an issue or situation); to obscure or obfuscate (an issue or situation).
roughlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of roughly: more roughly
roughliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of roughly: most roughly
alligator fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligator fishes
form: alligator fish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alligatorfish.
glosses: The alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula
Beatle-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Beatle-esque
form: most Beatle-esque
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Beatlesque.
chew the meat and spit out the bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chews the meat and spits out the bones
form: chewing the meat and spitting out the bones
form: chewed the meat and spat out the bones
form: chewed the meat and spat out the bones
form: chewed the meat and spit out the bones
form: chewed the meat and spit out the bones
Senses: examples: text: Do not swallow every story that is told. There may be a grain of truth somewhere in all the myths, but chew the meat and spit out the bones.
ref: 2002, A. Frank Goepel, A Realm Without Rules, page 116:
glosses: To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.
Related terms: separate the wheat from the chaff
paw at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paws at
form: pawing at
form: pawed at
form: pawed at
Senses: glosses: To come on to (someone) in a rude way, with excessive and unwelcome touching; to handle (someone or something) rudely or clumsily.
glosses: To repeatedly hit (someone or something) with a paw.
beat to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats to
form: beating to
form: beat to
form: beaten to
Etymology: Shortening of beat to the punch.
Senses: examples: text: Zumbetel wanted to beat Yalpatel to launching the planet's first pocket-sized satellite phone.
text: I wanted to gather up all the pinecones, but you beat me to it!
glosses: To arrive (somewhere) more quickly (than someone else); to succeed (at something) more quickly (than someone else).
pinch off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinches off
form: pinching off
form: pinched off
form: pinched off
Senses: examples: text: Jackie Allen was my friend Phil’s girlfriend, and I pinched her off him, slowly, patiently, over a period of months.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: To separate (something) from something else, using a pinching motion.
pitch on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pitches on
form: pitching on
form: pitched on
form: pitched on
Senses: glosses: To throw (something) onto (something).
glosses: To give a pitch (a presentation to convince someone on an idea) to (someone).
inform on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: informs on
form: informing on
form: informed on
form: informed on
Senses: examples: text: In 1983, one of his friends informed on him for reading a forbidden book, and he lost his teaching job.
ref: 2013 May 24, Emily Parker, “Bulgakov's Ghost”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
glosses: To tell on someone; to act as an informant against.
Synonyms: finger
grass up
snitch
blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French morbleu (“gadzooks, zounds”, interjection) (archaic), from mort bleu (“blue death”), a minced oath of mort Dieu (“death of God”).
Senses: examples: text: Here men would murder for five dollars, here men would seek divorce because their wives sighed at the handsomeness of the film star P. Ramlee, here the very night-roaming dogs screamed blue murder if another dog bit their little toe.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 517:
text: [I]t was her [Princess Charlotte of Prussia's] increasingly violent tantrums that caused her parents the greatest concern. Shortly before the child's second birthday we read, 'Ditta has such outbreaks of rage & stubbornness that she screams blue murder.'
ref: 1998, John C[harles] G[erald] Röhl, translated by Jeremy Gaines and Rebecca Wallach, Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859–1888, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 107:
text: I pull her [a car] back into third, boot her up to sixty and the outreach bungalows go to blur. The gearbox screams blue murder, but we're getting there, and the newspaper kid stops, turns on his BMX. He fades to a speck in the mirror until we are once again on our own, […]
ref: 2001, Gareth Creer, “Tripping to the Seaside, Double-quick”, in Big Sky, London: Doubleday, →ISBN:
text: And I was going to shout at him. I was going to scream blue murder. I was going to tell him just what I thought of that.
ref: 2001, Isabel Wolff, Out of the Blue, London: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-00-651341-4; republished Don Mills, Ont.: Mira Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7783-1366-3, page 144
text: The first time he was offered a bottle, my boy screamed blue murder; the second time, he screamed blue murder; the third time, my husband fed him and he screamed blue murder; the fourth time, he drank it without a whimper.
ref: 2010, Erica Wells, Lorraine Regel, The Survival Guide for Rookie Moms: Things You Need to Know that No One ever Tells You, Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: [H]e didn't turn the light on in the garage and crept through in the dark as quietly as he could until, that is, he stepped on a piece of wood with half a dozen nails hammered through it! He let out the most enormous yell and came hopping into the kitchen screaming blue murder about leaving such dangerous things lying around. As soon as he realised what was going on, the youngest boy also started screaming blue murder about his dad wrecking his model of a boat.
ref: 2011, Jeff Smith, Polly: Memories of an East End Girl, Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, →ISBN:
qualifier: usually in phrases such as 'scream/howl/yell/shriek blue murder'
glosses: A loud protest or angry outburst.
Synonyms: bloody murder
loses sight of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lose sight of
losing sight of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lose sight of
lost sight of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose sight of
goes so far as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go so far as
going so far as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go so far as
went so far as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go so far as
gets onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get onto
getting onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get onto
got onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get onto
bolson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolsons
Etymology: From Spanish bolso (“a large pouch”).
Senses: examples: text: In three separate bolsons in West Texas, electrical-resistivity soundings and seismic-refraction profiles have been used . . . to estimate the alluvium thickness and ground-water quality.
ref: 1974, U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Research Professional Paper 900, p. 120 (Google preview)
text: The image of a colossal purse is helpful in envisioning a bolson in the landscape: an extensive, saucer-shaped basin, closed at the bottom and surrounded on all sides by mountain slopes.
ref: 2011, Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney, editors, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, →ISBN, page 43:
text: The water in the Mesilla Bolson, which is recharged by the river above it, is part of a major lawsuit between Texas and New Mexico. . . . A settlement could impose new restrictions on wells tapping the bolson in both states.
ref: 2015 November 2, David Crowder, “El Paso’s low water rates to rise”, in El Paso Inc., retrieved 21 Nov 2015:
glosses: A relatively flat and arid valley that is surrounded by mountains and that drains into a central basin.
put past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts past
form: putting past
form: put past
form: put past
Senses: examples: text: He put the ball past the goalkeeper.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, past.
examples: text: Would he go so far as to call the police? I wouldn't put it past him.
text: I wouldn't put even that past him. In fact, I'd put nothing past him.
glosses: To consider (something) to be not possible for (someone) (to do); (see also put it past).
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: You'll never put that wheeze past our eagle-eyed boss.
glosses: To conceal or disguise (something) so that it is undetected by (someone) (see also put one past).
put one past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one past
form: putting one past
form: put one past
form: put one past
Etymology: From put past with placeholder one.
Senses: examples: text: He tried to put one past the band director by giving her a jalapeño-flavored lollipop.
glosses: To deceive, trick, or fool (someone), especially by concealing something.
let past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets past
form: letting past
form: let past
form: let past
Senses: examples: text: This guy is right up on my tail, so I will slow down to let him past.
glosses: To allow someone to pass or get past one.
raw_tags: of a car or driver
push past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes past
form: pushing past
form: pushed past
form: pushed past
Senses: glosses: To rudely force one's way in front of another.
glosses: To force a conversation or situation to continue after an awkward interruption.
file past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: files past
form: filing past
form: filed past
form: filed past
Senses: glosses: To move by (someone or something) in a line or procession and with a serious, often spiritual or deeply emotional purpose.
ISI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Abbreviation of intersymbol interference.
topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: INR
glosses: Initialism of international sensitivity index.
examples: text: Since ISI had been embraced by military juntas and urban interest-groups as an alternative to the oligarchic export-economy, government planners discriminated against exports by imposing heavy duties and pouring resources into manufacturing industry in preference to agriculture.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 336:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of import substitution industrialization.
ISI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Inter-Services Intelligence.
glosses: Initialism of Islamic State in Iraq.
Islamic State in Iraq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the group's former Arabic-language name, الدَّوْلَة الْإِسْلَامِيَّة فِي الْعِرَاق (ad-dawla l-ʔislāmiyya fī l-ʕirāq, literally “the Islamic State in Iraq”).
Senses: qualifier: former name
glosses: ISIL/ISIS/Islamic State
Synonyms: word: ISI
Derived terms: word: ISI
AQAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Related terms: al-Qaeda
ipos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Shasta ip'-haws (“Perideridia spp tubers”).
Senses: synonyms: epos
glosses: The tuber of any one of several edible species of Perideridia spp.