cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ascolocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ascolocular
form: most ascolocular
Etymology: From ascus + locule + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: The designation loculoascomycetes was first proposed for all fungi which have ascolocular development.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing ascocarps having asci arranged in pre-formed locules, or cavities within a stoma.
airtrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air trapping
Etymology: From air + trapping.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal retention of air in the lungs.
akamushi disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: scrub typhus when transmitted by Trombicula akamushi
akanthion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acanthion.
akinesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + kinesthesia.
Senses: glosses: The inability to perceive motion or position
akiyami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 秋 (“autumn”) and 病み (“illness”).
Senses: glosses: A mild Japanese fever caused by an autumnal form of Leptospira interrogans.
aklavinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anthracycline quinone ester methyl (1R,2R,4S)-2-ethyl-2,4,5,7-tetrahydroxy-6,11-dioxo-3,4-dihydro-1H-tetracene-1-carboxylate
act chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acts chicken
form: acting chicken
form: acted chicken
form: acted chicken
Senses: examples: text: Don't act chicken when the Principal walks through the door.
glosses: To behave timidly, reluctantly, or afraid, especially when confronted with something new or unfamiliar
Barce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹkə/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹs/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹsə/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹseɪ/
Etymology: From Italian and Latin Barce, from Ancient Greek Βάρκη (Bárkē), from the local tribe of the Barraci.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Barca, former name of Marj: a city in Libya.
gulfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gulf
gulfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gulf
orbatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbatides
Senses: examples: text: The first macrocyclic orbitide, cyclolinopeptide A, was isolated in 1959 from flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum) oil
ref: 2017, Jonathan R. Chekan, Paola Estrada, Patrick S. Covello, and Satish K. Nair, Characterization of the macrocyclase involved in the biosynthesis of RiPP cyclic peptides in plants, PNAS, page 6551
glosses: A group of bioactive cyclic ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides of natural plant sources
alalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to alalia
alaninaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alaninaemias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of alanine in the blood
Related terms: phenylalaninemia
phenylalaninemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylalaninemias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of phenylalanine in the blood
Derived terms: hyperphenylalaninemia
hypophenylalaninemia
Related terms: alaninemia
alaninemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alaninaemia.
alanopine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The imino acid 2-(1-carboxyethylamino)propanoic acid
alantol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inulol.
synonyms: word: inulol
albiduria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The passing of pale or white urine
Synonyms: albinuria
albinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of albiduria.
synonyms: word: albiduria
Kaaps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans Kaaps.
Senses: glosses: The form of the Afrikaans language spoken by Cape Coloured people.
bust on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts on
form: busting on
form: busted on
form: busted on
form: bust on
form: bust on
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Moffatt explained different signals that students use to express friendship, like "busting" on one another. To "bust on" someone is "to deflate their pretensions by means of aggressive verbal mockery." Mr. Moffatt explained that students only "bust on" their friends.
ref: 1989 April 9, “Campus Life: Rutgers Anthropologist Examines Sex Life On the Raritan”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Feb 2018:
text: Three days after Nets Coach John Calipari called a reporter a "Mexican idiot," the team publicly apologized today. . . . "The way I understand it, what Cal was trying to do was bust on Garcia," Fenech said. "Once he saw Garcia's reaction, he realized he didn't think he was kidding."
ref: 1997 March 24, Selena Roberts, “Ethnic Insult From Calipari Results in Apology by Nets”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Feb 2018:
text: His wife bought him his first Utilikilt four years ago, but it took him six months to get up the courage to wear it outside. He finally decided to debut it at a local beer festival. "A lot of guys were busting on me," he recalled. But others wanted their picture taken with him, asking where they could get their own kilts.
ref: 2007 August 19, Nick Miroff, “Kilt Shop Reveals A Loyal Clientele Itching to Be Free”, in Washington Post, retrieved 16 Feb 2018:
text: Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda and Mary Steenburgen took time out from shooting the 2018 movie Book Club on Monday to take in the eclipse, goofy glasses and all. While Bergen was rocking Instagram, however, Fonda actually posted less-than-perfect pics on Twitter that busted on the former "Murphy Brown" star. "Watching eclipse on set of BOOK CLUB," the Grace and Frankie star wrote. "Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and I are rapt. Candice Bergen could care less#SolarEclipse2017."
ref: 2017 August 22, Christie D'Zurilla, “Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda and Mary Steenburgen get shady during the eclipse”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 16 Feb 2018:
glosses: To make a joke concerning; to ridicule or make fun of.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To hit or attack (someone); to insult (someone); to snitch on (someone).
Related terms: bust someone's chops
dope man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dope men
form: dopeman
Senses: examples: text: She said she needed to go to the dope man's house to pick it up.
text: It was once said by a man who couldn't quit / "Dopeman, please can I have another hit?"
ref: 1987, “Dope Man”, in N.W.A. and the Posse, performed by N.W.A:
glosses: Synonym of drug dealer.
synonyms: word: drug dealer
dope men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dope man
dope house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dope houses
Etymology: From dope + house.
Senses: topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A dwelling where drugs are either used or sold.
Related terms: dope set
trap house
dope houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dope house
exogalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + galactic.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Synonym of extragalactic (originating from outside the Milky Way galaxy)
synonyms: word: extragalactic
extra: originating from outside the Milky Way galaxy
Moorish idol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moorish idols
Etymology: From a supposed reverence Muslims somewhere around the Indo-Pacific (often colloquially called "Moors" by the Europeans) had for the fish.
Senses: synonyms: toby
glosses: A fish of the species Zanclus cornutus, a colorful marina tropical fish often kept in aquaria.
Moorish idols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moorish idol
Drakon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.
ref: 1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica), page 86:
text: Whatever the extent of the lost code of Drakon, the creation of any fixed public laws signals a symbolic change and the emergence of an important new mentality.
ref: 1990, Philip Brook Manville, “Laws, Boundaries, and Centralization”, in The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1992 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 79:
text: The Athenians claimed that their earliest constitution was the work of the lawgiver Drakon in 620 BC.
ref: 2006, Peter Liddel, “Democracy Established”, in John Stevenson, editor, The Rise and Fall of the Classical World: 2500 BC–600 AD (The History of Europe), London: Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, section 10 (Ancient Greece), “The Archaic and Classical Periods: 750–336 BC” subsection, page 32, column 3:
text: It remains unclear what (if any) other matters were addressed in the laws of Drakon, although in later Athenian legend, he was believed to have prescribed death for a wide range of offenses.
ref: 2015, Josiah Ober, “Citizens and Specialization before 550 bce”, in The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 2016 (3rd printing), →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Alternative form of Draco (“Athenian lawgiver”).
Derived terms: Drakonian
fiddle yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddle yards
Senses: examples: text: Such a halt would enhance any model railway, perhaps leading to a fiddle yard on the right.
ref: 1999, Alan Postlethwaite, Odd corners of the Southern: from the days of steam, page 27:
text: I know of a few modelers who take this concept to the ultimate by providing a dedicated cassette for each individual item of equipment; however, this requires more dedication than I'm inclined to! It also makes for a lot of high-precision work in the fiddle yard.
ref: 2009, Iain Rice, Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads, →ISBN, page 20:
text: A scenic fiddle yard might seem like a contradiction in terms, since a model railway layout is generally split quite clearly into a scenic portion and a nonscenic fiddle yard. One of the arguments for hiding the fiddle yard is that it does not look as nice as the rest of the layout. The idea behind making a fiddle yard more scenic in appearance is to try to help to blend it with the rest of the layout, possibly even to make the layout seem bigger.
ref: 2014, Richard Bardsley, Designing and Building Fiddle Yards, →ISBN:
glosses: A section of a model railway layout that is reserved for storing and working on trains, often hidden from view.
fiddle yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiddle yard
downstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downstrike
downstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downstrike
downstriking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downstrike
downstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downstrike
downstricken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of downstrike
heartical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartical
form: most heartical
Etymology: From heart + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The groundations of Rastafari and the Niyabinghi drums are manifestations for heartical, eartical and churchical expressions at celebrations, signifying a direct link and source of contact with the creator and the power of the Holy Trinity.
ref: 1982, Millard Faristzaddi, Itations of Jamaica and I Rastafari:
text: I know Roots and Culture straight to the max. Because I'm a heartical Ilabash. I'm gonna teach all the youngster.
ref: 1994, Manfred Kremser, Ay Bobo: Afro-Karibische Religionen, page 144:
text: Because the word is regarded as inherently life-affirming, it is held that there are no words which can offend the true and heartical Rasta.
ref: 2014, J.W. Pulis, Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity, →ISBN:
text: A heartical thank you to my friend and colleague Havenol “Liveon” M. Schrenk, for the support, assistance and inspiring collaborations.
ref: 2015, A Hollington, Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican:
glosses: Whole-hearted; heartfelt; having integrity.
examples: text: Rasta music is sometimes played for what the brethren term "heartical" reasons (strictly for pleasure).
ref: 1998, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, William David Spencer, Adrian Anthony McFarlane, Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, →ISBN, page 242:
text: The other type of music is called “heartical” and refers to songs which carry social commentary.
ref: 2003, Dick Hebdige, Cut `n' Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Churchical adopts the reggae beat to all hymns; heartical is the regular dance music. The latter form is used by the Twelve Tribes of Israel in their dance sessions.
ref: 2010, Leonard Barrett, The Rastafarians, →ISBN, page 267:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
antonyms: churchical
glosses: Pertaining to Rastafarian music that is secular in nature, intended for dancing or political commentary.
Robertsonian translocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Robertsonian translocations
Etymology: From Robertsonian + translocation.
Senses: glosses: A rare form of chromosomal rearrangement where the participating chromosomes break at their centromeres and the long arms fuse to form a single, large chromosome with a single centromere.
Robertsonian translocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Robertsonian translocation
lose one's bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses one's bottle
form: losing one's bottle
form: lost one's bottle
form: lost one's bottle
Senses: examples: text: “You'll never lose your bottle for football,” Kate promised him. “No matter how long you'll be out for. Keep the faith, Shaggy. Nothing is set in stone forever. The bloke who nicked the Sea Journey has to be caught.”
ref: 2005, Forest Jones, The Greatest English Detective Club #1, →ISBN, page 49:
text: On the Friday, I took her home and, after a quick snog, completely lost my bottle.
ref: 2010, Emily Herbert, Take That and Robbie Williams, →ISBN:
text: It was just before she went to Europe, I made her swear that she wouldn't tell you that she had seen me just in case I lost my bottle again and didn't come home.
ref: 2013, Val Creasey, Lost Lives, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: To lose courage and determination.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, bottle.
order of symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orders of symmetry
Senses: glosses: When being turned through a full revolution, the number of times a shape looks the same as in the initial orientation.
oildown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oildowns
form: oil-down
form: oil down
Senses: examples: text: Tomorrow night we go be cooking ah oildown right heah.
ref: 2011, Wendy Crawford-Daniel, Unveiling Island Passion, →ISBN, page 34:
text: A huge variety and interesting combinations of local foods, breadfruit salad and green papaya salad are outstanding while you can also be offered stir fry rabbit, green papaya in cheese sauce, cou-cou, tannia cakes with shrimps, oildown with coconut cream, many dishes you may never have tried before.
ref: 2014, Sarah Cameron, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines Footprint Focus Guide, →ISBN:
text: If you knew where to go there were rum shops away from the tourist areas where you could live like the locals, share a chicken oildown, a beer, a tot of rum and a splif of ganja.
ref: 2016, Elizabeth Harrison, A Slim Chance, →ISBN:
glosses: The national dish of Grenada, consisting of meat, breadfruit, and other vegetables slow-cooked in coconut milk until all the coconut milk is absorbed.
examples: text: A first lap track oildown shuffled the front-running pack and ended defending champ Don Courtney's chances to repeat.
ref: 1983, Walter A. Woron, Motor Trend - Volume 35, page 72:
text: NHRA’s recently revised oildown policy did not factor into either Top Fuel or Funny Car qualifying for the 46th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals.
ref: 2010 November 14, John Sturbin, “Drivers Blowing Gaskets Over New Oildown Rule”, in Racin' Today:
text: “We’ve seen a decrease in oildowns this year and we want to thank the teams for making that happen,” NHRA president Peter Clifford said. “Oildowns hurt our sport, and we realize no competitor wants to oil down the race track. We have a commitment from teams to address the oildown situation and improve it.”
ref: 2015 September 24, Louis Brewster, “NHRA cuts oildown penalty after Terry McMillen incident”, in Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:
qualifier: car racing
glosses: An oil spill sufficiently serious as to require the use of mechanical equipment to clean it up.
examples: text: Programs range from hour-long combinations of services (massage, exfoliation, wraps, facials and bliss-inducing oildowns with exotic names like Ayurvedic) to day-long agendas. Upon arrival at the spa, I'm led to an all-white room where ethereal New Age music is playing — an Enya song; luckily, no Kenny G. I alert the aesthclician, a serene Israeli woman named Anal, that I'm none too partial to oils, gels, goops and the like.
ref: 1997, San Diego Magazine - Volume 50, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of oil-down.
oildowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oildown
conisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conization.
oil-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil-downs
form: oildown
form: oil down
Senses: examples: text: Spear will be getting a nice soothing oil-down Saturday.
ref: 2017, “Sturgeon Spearing, Winnebago County Fishing Reports”, in Lake Link:
glosses: The application of oil to the body in order to soothe and/or prevent drying.
examples: text: Although you may be offered insipid tourist-oriented fare in larger hotels, local cooking - meaning anything from Indian curry to Creole oil-down, or Spanish-style pastelles - still reigns supreme.
ref: 2002, Nicky Agate, The Caribbean, →ISBN, page 726:
text: When finished and all ingredients are cooked but not mushy, serve in calabash bowls (or ceramic bowls) and eat with a spoon.The pepper can now be removed from the muslin cloth and mashed, and a little can be placed on the oil-down for those who can tolerate the pepper.
ref: 2011, Ken Albala, Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, →ISBN:
text: Popular with locals at the weekend, you will often see people enjoying picnics and oil-downs on the sand by the tables opposite the visitor centre.
ref: 2017, Paul Crask, Grenada: Carriacou and Petite Martinique, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: Alternative form of oildown.
Meat, breadfruit, and vegetables cooked in coconut milk.
examples: text: Taking the time to sharpen a dull pencil after a few strokes is as annoying as an oil-down after each round of drag racing.
ref: 2006, T Taylor, How to draw cars like a pro:
text: It was a little hotter and there were more oil-downs so that kept us pretty busy and we were very tired by the end of Saturday's activities.
ref: 2011, Ike Heckler Jr, Drag Racing 201: Racing in the New Economy, page 53:
text: "We offer race teams considerable input on how to avoid oil-downs,” said Graham Light, NHRA's senior vice president of racing operations.
ref: 2015 January 28, Anne Proffit, “NHRA alters oil-down rules”, in Motorsport:
text: So it came to pass that National Challenge 1974 was conducted at Gil Kohn's New York National Speedway and was an unconditional disaster, doomed by rain, high ticket prices, no traction, lengthy oil-downs, botched lane assignments, numerous pit fights, charges of slander, threatened officials, surly track personnel, and a general lack of communication, all of which prompted the spectacle of Garlits' public resignation from his presidency and leaving the facility in mid-event.
ref: 2016 -, Scotty Gosson -, Lost Drag Strips II: More Ghosts of Quarter-Miles Past, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of oildown.
Oil spill.
oil-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil-down
oil down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil downs
Senses: examples: text: The objectives of the study were to assess consumers' perceptions to a breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis Fosberg) meal of oil down, to determine its nutritive composition and daily nutrient reference values.
ref: 2005, Neela Badrie, Sophia Balfour, Kizza Ottle, Ivan Chang-Yen, “Nutrient Composition of a Commonly Consumed West Indian Meal of Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis Fosberg) Oil Down”, in Journal of Nutrition in Recipe & Menu Development, volume 3, numbers 3-4:
text: She had told me of her love for humankind, her humanitarian efforts, and I had opened myself to her and had shared my culture with her, had brought her callaloo and doubles and oil down and pigeon peas.
ref: 2013, Eric Jerome Dickey, The Education of Nia Simone Bijou, →ISBN:
text: Tricia didn't cook oil down too often, so when she did, he always ensured he got a hefty serving.
ref: 2014, Jasmine Christine, The Bishop's Wife, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of oildown.
Meat, breadfruit, and vegetables cooked in coconut milk.
examples: text: This time for me it was a very long day at the track and close to midnight. They had several oil downs that day and part of my prayer was - Thank you God for this day, sorry I have not talk to you more often.
ref: 2006, Joseph Yarini -, Come So Far from Havana!, page 137:
text: The car ran an Ed Donovan aluminum-block Hemi and I loved the engine in the rear — no oil downs, fires, or blower parts hitting you in the head.
ref: 2007, Dave McClelland, Tom Madigan, Fuel and Guts, →ISBN, page 199:
text: In session two which was run under the lights due to the oil downs and other incidents kinda threw a curve at some of the players.
ref: 2017 November 8, Brian Losness, Kay Burk, “California Hot Rod Reunion at Bakersfield, CA”, in Drag Racing Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of oildown.
Oil spill.
examples: text: At time Gentle One permitted me to oil her to keep her skin from drying out to much. Like her mother she tolerated my oil downs,
ref: 2013, Faye Iris Johnson-Lenden, Star Planet, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of oil-down.
oil downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil down
paraovarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From para- + ovarian.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In proximity to the ovary
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the paroophoron
epoöphoron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of epoophoron.
counter-terrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterterrorist.
counter-terrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-terrorists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterterrorist.
counter-terrorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-terrorist
counter-attacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-attackers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterattacker.
counter-attackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-attacker
anti-commies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-commie
anticommies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticommie
Australianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Australianly
form: most Australianly
Senses: glosses: In an Australian manner.
unilocularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality of being unilocular.
unheavily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unheavily
form: most unheavily
Etymology: From Middle English unhevely, unhevili, equivalent to un- + heavily.
Senses: synonyms: lightly
glosses: In an unheavy way.
aspheterist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aspheterist
form: most aspheterist
Senses: synonyms: communist
glosses: Of or pertaining to aspheterism.
aspheterist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspheterists
Senses: synonyms: communist
glosses: An advocate for aspheterism.
decentralisationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more decentralisationist
form: most decentralisationist
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of decentralizationist.
decentralisationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decentralisationists
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of decentralizationist.
oligoamenorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of oligoamenorrhea.
oligoamenorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoamenorrhoea
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having irregular infrequent menstrual periods.
Related terms: oligomenorrhea
hysteroscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In a hysteroscopic manner.
pericoital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring around the time of sexual intercourse.
pericoitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In a pericoital manner; around the time of sexual intercourse.
antimicrobicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimicrobicides
Etymology: Blend of antimicrobial + microbicide
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of antimicrobial biocide.
glosses: Misconstruction of microbicide.
albuminocytologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of albuminocytological.
albuminocytological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: albuminocytologic
Senses: glosses: Relating to proteins (especially albumins) and cells.
Derived terms: albuminocytological dissociation
aldactazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mixture of hydrochlorothiazide and spironolactone used as a diuretic
aldadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of canrenone.
synonyms: word: canrenone
twin tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin tips
form: twin-tip
form: twintip
Etymology: From twin + tip. From having forward bow tips on both ends.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A type of alpine/freestyle ski, with bow tips on both ends, allowing skiing backwards.
aldobiuronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to aldobiuronic acid or its derivatives
twin tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twin tip
aldobiuronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldobiuronic acids
Senses: glosses: The condensation product of an aldose and a uronic acid
aleukaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleukaemias
Etymology: From a- + leukaemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of leukaemia in which the abnormal white blood cells produced in the bone marrow do not appear in the blood
Derived terms: aleukaemic
aleukia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleukias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of leukopenia.
synonyms: word: leukopenia
aleukocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleukocytoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A greatly reduced number of leukocytes in the blood
aleuriospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleuriospores
Etymology: From Aleurisma (obsolete genus name) + spore.
Senses: glosses: A nondeciduous chlamydospore
Related terms: aleurioconidium
aleuronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein found in the endosperm of cereal grain; a flour composed of this protein, and very little starch, used to make food for diabetics
aleydigism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + Leydig + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: aplasia of, and absence of secretion by, Leydig cells
alfamovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alfamoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any mosaic virus of the genus Alfamovirus
algenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: plaster, made of sodium alginate, used to take impressions
simplificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From simplify + -c- + -atory, compare simplification.
Senses: examples: text: Abandoning an exaggeratedly simplificatory 'explanation' does not mean (quite the contrary) that one should invoke another, equally simplificatory one […]
ref: 1991, Pierre Karli, Animal and Human Aggression, page 16:
glosses: Serving to simplify.
labia major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Billie's own well-developed clitoris ‘pouts’ through her labia major in a manner which, in the real world, usually belongs only to the female orang-utan.
ref: 1981, Angela Carter, “The Sweet Sell of Romance”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 575:
text: Extending down from the mons pubis are two longitudinal folds of skin, narrowing to enclose the vulvar cleft, and meeting posteriorly in the perineum, that area of skin between the junction of the labia major and the anus.
ref: 2002, Ethel Sloane, Biology of Women, 4th edition, Delmar, page 31:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The labia majora.
agitatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agitate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: […] the agitatory spirits of this province came, and agitated him miserably, which I was sorry for, and in vain desired to prevent.
ref: 1877, anonymous translator, Arcana Coelestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or Word of the Lord Unfolded, Beginning with the Book of Genesis: Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels, Volume 5, page 605 (originally published in Latin as "Arcana Cœlestia" by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1749)
glosses: Serving to agitate.
petit maître
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petits maîtres
Etymology: From French petit-maître.
Senses: examples: text: The unfortunate petit maitre, driven to the extremity of his condescension, acknowledged it to be a masterly refinement […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: macaroni
word: popinjay
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A fop or dandy.
examples: text: Monstrous critical overkill of an even more up-market kind has transformed the Argentinian petit maître, Borges, into one of the Great Writers of our Time and his most recent collection, The Book of Sand […] shows signs that he is content humbly to acquiesce in this opinion.
ref: 1979, Angela Carter, “Latin Rhythms”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 563:
text: The point of this survey is to present Calder as a giant of modernism instead of a petit-maître of whimsical toys.
ref: 2015 November 15, Laura Cumming, The Guardian:
glosses: A lesser master of something, especially of some artistic skill; a minor talent.
horrorzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horrorzines
Etymology: Blend of horror + magazine.
Senses: examples: text: The woman's angle in the horrorzines seems influenced by the women's movement in rather a complex way.
ref: 1975, Angela Carter, “The Art of Horrorzines”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 551:
text: Fanzines get almost no attention in the sf field (with the exception of horrorzines, and that's only because Karl Edward Wagner reads them all and selects stories from them for his annual anthology of the year's best horror).
ref: 2001, Orson Scott Card, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, page 108:
glosses: A magazine that publishes horror stories.
horrorzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horrorzine
Europocentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Europocentric + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It is intended to crrect certain European assumptions about Europocentricity, assumptions that are immoral when held by Europeans themselves and tragic if held by those who are not.
ref: 1982, Angela Carter, “Treasures of Ancient Nigeria”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 519:
glosses: The fact or quality of being Europocentric.
middy blouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middy blouses
Senses: examples: text: Schoolgirls are a perennial bloom in Japanese erotology, because of their distinctive uniforms, middy blouses, pleated skirts and black stockings, clearly designed by Colette's first husband.
ref: 1971, Angela Carter, “Once More into the Mangle”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 300:
glosses: A blouse with a sailor collar, as worn by women and children.
middy blouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middy blouse
algesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From algo- (“pain”) + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nociception.
synonyms: word: nociception
algodystrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From algo- + dystrophy.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of complex regional pain syndrome.
synonyms: word: complex regional pain syndrome
alisphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alisphenoid.
alkalaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalemia
Etymology: From alkali + -aemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of blood having a higher than normal pH
alkalinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkaluria
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of the urine having a higher than normal pH
alkaluria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alkalinuria.
synonyms: word: alkalinuria
alkanesulfonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to an alkanesulfonic acid or its derivatives
alkanesulfonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkanesulfonic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkyl sulfonic acid
Malabaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Malabar + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Malabar.
tender porcelain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tender porcelains
Senses: glosses: A ware imitating hardpaste or natural porcelain.
tender porcelains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tender porcelain
alkaptonuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to alkaptonuria
alkide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any simple binary alkyl organometallic compound
alkyldihydroxyacetone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkyldihydroxyacetones
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkyl derivative of dihydroxyacetone, especially one that is part of the biosynthesis of plasmalogens
stone walling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stone wall
stone walled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stone wall
allanto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: allant-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form; more at allantoid § Etymology and allantois § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: sausage-shaped
glosses: Relating to allantois
allantoenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allanto- + enteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of allantoic.
synonyms: word: allantoic
allantogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allanto- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of the allantois
allantoinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of allantoin in the urine
allachesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allachaesthesia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλλαχόθι (allakhóthi, “elsewhere”) + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of allesthesia.
synonyms: word: allesthesia
allelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allelisms
Etymology: From allele + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The existence of two or more alleles of a gene
Derived terms: biallelism
multiple allelism
pseudoallelism
allelocatalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allelo- + catalysis.
Senses: glosses: The supposed mutual stimulation of the growth of similar bacteria
Related terms: allelocatalytic
allelocatalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allelo- + catalytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to allelocatalysis
allelomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allelomorphisms
Etymology: From allelo- + morphism.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A phenotype associated with a specific allele
allethrolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cyclic ketone 4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-prop-2-enylcyclopent-2-en-1-one; an analog of pyrethrolone
Barnardsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Barnard + -s- + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
Related terms: Bernardsville
Bernardsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bernards + -ville; named after Bernards Township.
Senses: glosses: A borough of Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
Related terms: Barnardsville
allocholesterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + cholesterol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The isomer of cholesterol (3S)-10,13-dimethyl-17-(6-methylheptan-2-yl)-2,3,6,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-ol
allochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular microscopic stain
Royal Pines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.
alloerotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alloeroticism.
synonyms: word: alloeroticism
spindleful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindlefuls
Etymology: From spindle + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a spindle.
spindlefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindleful
allogroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allogroups
Etymology: From allo- + group.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of allotypes.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of alloformations.
toyishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toyish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being toyish.
B final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B finals
form: final B
Etymology: From B + final. From being the secondary, lesser, final.
Senses: glosses: The final featuring those who failed to pass the semifinals onto the A final, to sort out the minor rankings.
Synonyms: small final
Coordinate terms: A final
consolation final
A final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A finals
form: final A
Etymology: From A + final. From being the primary, greater, final.
Senses: glosses: The final featuring those who successfully passed the semifinals, to determine the winner.
Synonyms: big final
Coordinate terms: B final
e-group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-groups
Etymology: From e- + group.
Senses: glosses: An online discussion group.
e-groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-group
S. I.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of S.I..
tow linen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The yearly allowance of clothing for the slaves on this plantation, consisted of two tow-linen shirts—such linen as the coarsest crash towels are made of
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
text: The tow linen was the fiber of choice for making soft yarns for such end uses as undergarments, and for the making of thread.
ref: 1995, Daryl M. Hafter, European Women and Preindustrial Craft, →ISBN, page 34:
text: A scutching machine pulls out the linen fibers, which are then hackled or carded and combed. Hackling separates the long line linen fibers from the shorter tow linen fibers.
ref: 2007, Karla J. Nielson, Interior Textiles: Fabrics, Application, and Historic Style, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Linen produced from tow (the shorter flax fibers produced by the retting process), spun on small table wheels, then plied and twisted a second time with additional strands.
cryo-freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaɪoʊˈfɹiːz/
Forms: form: cryo-freezes
form: cryo-freezing
form: cryo-froze
form: cryo-frozen
Etymology: From cryo- + freeze.
Senses: examples: text: Cirno: "I'll cryo-freeze you together with some English beef!"
ref: 2002, Team Shanghai Alice, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil:
text: This requires bulky machinery and other equipment that one person is unlikely to be able to maneuver. Furthermore, even if current technology could cryo-freeze an entire body, the process would take many hours. Dr. Stein made inquiries and found out that a specialist in the field of cryogenics had made a breakthrough just a few weeks before the murder that allowed him to safely freeze single organs, but not entire bodies.
ref: 2014, James Luce, The Star-Spangled Triangle, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 60:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To freeze something cryogenically.
cryo-freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaɪoʊˈfɹiːz/
Forms: form: cryo-freezes
form: cryo freeze
form: cryofreeze
Etymology: From cryo- + freeze.
Senses: examples: text: "Both the original injury and the cryo-freeze did him a lot of damage, some of it permanent. He was forced to take a medical discharge, which he — hm! — did not handle well. It's not my place to discuss those details.” “If he was injured badly enough to need cryo-freeze, he was dead!” she said, startled. “Technically, I suppose so. 'Alive' and 'dead' are not such neat categories as they used to be in the Time of Isolation.”
ref: 1999, Lois McMaster Bujold, Komarr, Baen Books, →ISBN:
text: "What are you going to do with her?" he asked. "Nothing, Dr. Sanders. You are." Sanders shook his head. "What do you mean?" - "We've got two new clients, Dr. Sanders, that need to be put into cryo-freeze..."
ref: 2011, Russell Davis, Touchless, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 154:
text: Oh I hate this, and she did it on purpose, I'm floating in mid grav feeling like I'm in cryo freeze like the old days. “Lasko you were never in cryo freeze, that has not been used since the star stream was discovered.” Good point, and it is kinda good for the back. “Just be careful of the...” Ow, the transition. “Sorry Lasko, but I told you to stay seated.” The tone in her voice tells me she kinda enjoyed that."
ref: 2017, J.W. Delorie, Esper Wars, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The state of being cryogenically frozen.
tolerantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolerantists
Etymology: From tolerant + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: They demand leave for a man to form his views in religion as he forms them in painting or in poetry or in architecture; to form them, that is,without let or hindrance from man or God according to the individual's taste and fancy and character and inclination; and whatever view the individual thinks fit to adopt, with that Almighty God must be satisfied. And thus the modern tolerantist makes broad his phylacteries and enlarges the borders of his garments and gives thanks that he is not wedded to a fixed creed, a believer in dogma, an infallibilitst, priest-ridden, narrow-minded, even as is the Catholic.
ref: 1895, James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast, The American Catholic Quarterly Review - Volume 20, page 268:
text: They were hardly likely to accept the ideas derived in part from non-Christian philosophes without, to say the least, some reservations, and saw in some tolerantist notions views which were transitory and fleetingly fashionable, and which could not be allowed to undermine fundamental Protestant truths.
ref: 1993, Colin Haydon, Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-century England, C. 1714-80, →ISBN:
text: Several months later, July 1562, the Bordeaux Parlement struck at the “tolerantists” by requiring that each member of Parlement make a formal profession of the Catholic faith.”
ref: 2009, William C. White, Steps, Faith to Reason, →ISBN, page 186:
text: However, like many other tolerantist Christians of the early eighteenth century, Peter did not extend his toleration to the Jesuits or Jews.
ref: 2016, Gary M. Hamburg, Russia's Path toward Enlightenment, →ISBN:
glosses: An advocate of religious tolerantism.
examples: text: Hence the concept of heterophobia lumps together various modes of the "racizing" treatment of groups of others: the gentle racialization of encompassing others in and through persuasive dialogue (dialogical anthropology), the terrorist racialization of the destruction of others (genocidal anthropemy), the clean racialization of separate development (tolerantist anthropoemia) — to use systematically the metaphorical distinction between anthropophagia and anthropemy, recently introduced by Claude Lévi-Strauss.
ref: 2001, Pierre-André Taguieff, The Force of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles, →ISBN, page 20:
text: It ends in a conception, which legitimizes the fact that every group possesses its culture, every culture its moral values, its traditions and its rules of behavior and the "tolerantist‟ reception to the culture of the Others.
ref: 2008 April, Yvon Pesqueux, “European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership: Cyrano de Bergerac”, in International Workshop on European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership:
text: Soon, as the 'tolerantists' wish, Finland will turn to be backward country, populated by all the others but the original Finns.
ref: 2015, Martti Lehto, Pekka Neittaanmäki, Cyber Security: Analytics, Technology and Automation, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: One who advocates racial or cultural toleration.