cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hassallidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hassallidin
hemicentins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemicentin
heptenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated aliphatic ketone that has seven carbon atoms and one double bond
heptenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptenone
hetereogeneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of heterogeneity.
heteroagglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroagglomerates
Etymology: From hetero- + agglomerate.
Senses: glosses: An agglomerate of two or more different materials
heteroagglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heteroagglomerates
form: heteroagglomerating
form: heteroagglomerated
form: heteroagglomerated
Etymology: From hetero- + agglomerate.
Senses: glosses: To form an heteroagglomeration
heteroagglomeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroagglomerations
Etymology: From hetero- + agglomeration.
Senses: glosses: An agglomeration of two or more different materials
Related terms: heteroagglomerate
heterooligonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterooligonucleotides
form: hetero-oligonucleotide
Etymology: From hetero- + oligonucleotide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligonucleotide composed f two or more different nucleotides
heterooligonucleotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterooligonucleotide
histoenzymology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histo-enzymology
Etymology: From histo- + enzymology.
Senses: glosses: The application of histological techniques to enzymology
Related terms: histoenzymological
hydrochar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrochars
Senses: glosses: A solid that is the result of hydrothermal carbonization of biomass
hydrochars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrochar
hydrodechlorination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The reductive dechlorination of organochlorine compounds (by the replacement of chlorine atoms by hydrogen)
hyperabsorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + absorptive.
Senses: glosses: Very absorptive
hypercatecholemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + catechol + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of excessive amounts of catechol and/or catecholamines in the blood
hyperfilterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperfilterers
Etymology: From hyper- + filterer.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A person who has a higher than normal GFR
Related terms: normofilterer
normofilterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normofilterers
Etymology: From normo- + filterer.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A person who has a GFR in the normal range
Related terms: hyperfilterer
hyperfilterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperfilterer
normofilterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normofilterer
unmess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmesses
form: unmessing
form: unmessed
form: unmessed
Etymology: From un- + mess.
Senses: examples: text: He handed the mess over to that young man to unmess.
ref: 1956, Stephen G. Hust, "This is my own, my native land.", page 73:
glosses: To tidy up (a mess).
examples: text: Take out a pen and make a list, because the causes of Carol's problems with our board are also the emergencies you're going to unmess.
ref: 2010, Pickard, But I Wouldn't Want to Die There:
glosses: To resolve (a problematic situation).
unmesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmess
unmessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmess
unmessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmess
shimmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shim + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be supported by a shim.
RGBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of red, green, blue, intensity: a kind of cathode-ray-tube monitor interface.
RGBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Rio Grande Bible Institute.
terpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terpens
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of terpene.
terpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terp
raphis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raphides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raphide.
raphidiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more raphidiferous
form: most raphidiferous
Etymology: From raphide + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing raphides.
last day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: yesterday
Coordinate terms: last night
periglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From peri- + glottic.
Senses: glosses: Around the glottis.
periglottal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + glottal.
Senses: glosses: Around the glottis.
periglottis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The epidermis of the tongue.
enchamber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enchambers
form: enchambering
form: enchambered
form: enchambered
form: inchamber
Etymology: From en- + chamber.
Senses: glosses: To enclose in a chamber.
enchambered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enchamber
enchambers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enchamber
enchambering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enchamber
shoulder-barge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder-barges
Senses: examples: text: Milner made sure, with a shoulder-barge to send Messi into touch, that the Argentinian knew of his presence in this rematch.
ref: 2019 May 1, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: The act of running into someone so that they are shoved by one's shoulder.
shoulder-barge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoulder-barges
form: shoulder-barging
form: shoulder-barged
form: shoulder-barged
Senses: examples: text: The dismounted soldiers - mostly the rare Roman regular cavalry, with a number of auxiliary Gauls alongside - were shoulder-barging the door, which was shaking and cracking with each thump.
ref: 2014 January 2, S.J.A. Turney, Marius' Mules VI: Caesar's Vow, Victrix Books, →ISBN:
text: The gate screeched in protest as she shoulder-barged it open and shoved it closed again.
ref: 2021 August 10, Eden Darry, Quiet Village, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: To run into someone so that they are shoved by one's shoulder.
goshenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Goshen + -ite, named after the town of Goshen, Massachusetts where it was first discovered.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless variety of beryl.
wikipedia: Goshen, Massachusetts
ramsayite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Wilhelm Ramsay (1865-1928), + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of lorenzenite.
synonyms: word: lorenzenite
eliminees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eliminee
violane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violan
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variant of diopside rich in manganese and violet to light blue in color.
homogenizates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homogenizate
wangiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ワン切(ぎ)り (wangiri).
Senses: glosses: A type of phone call scam in which the caller dials a random number and immediately hangs up in the hopes that the recipient will call back.
grasswrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: grass + wrack
Senses: glosses: The eelgrass growing abundantly on the sea-coast.
osculance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Malcolm Guthrie in 1967 in Comparative Bantu.
Senses: qualifier: Bantu linguistics
glosses: The state of being osculant.
scissars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Carry with you a stirrup-leather, an awl, twelve horse nails, and a horse’s fore shoes, pick, and a hammer, for fear of an accident; and some ends, and packthread, a bottlescrew, knife and penknife, needles, pins, thread, silk, worsted, &c. Some plasters and scissars.
ref: a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “Duty of the Other Servant, Where There Are Two”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XVI, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 177:
text: Last night after tea, when you and mama went out of the room, they were whispering and talking together as fast as could be, and he seemed to be begging something of her, and presently he took up her scissars and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; […]
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 139–140:
glosses: Archaic form of scissors.
glomerular capsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glomerular capsules
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The Bowman's capsule.
glomerular capsules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glomerular capsule
juxtacapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxta- + capillary.
Senses: examples: text: juxtacapillary compartment
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Adjacent to a capillary.
Derived terms: juxtacapillary receptor
juxtacapillary receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juxtacapillary receptors
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A sensory nerve ending located within the alveolar wall near the pulmonary capillaries, innervated by fibers of the vagus nerve.
Synonyms: J receptor
J receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: J receptors
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A juxtacapillary receptor.
corticopapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + papillary.
Senses: examples: text: corticopapillary osmotic gradient
topics: anatomy
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the renal medulla and papilla.
tetractinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + actinal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having four rays.
undowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dowelled.
Senses: glosses: Not dowelled.
undoweled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + doweled.
Senses: glosses: Not doweled.
interactinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + actinal.
Senses: glosses: Between rays.
linehauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linehaul
line hauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line haul
vine-fretter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vine-fretters
Senses: glosses: An aphid that infests vines.
vine-fretters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vine-fretter
sweeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sweet
Mahanipata Jataka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali mahānipāta jātaka.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The ten great birth stories (or jatakas) of the Buddha.
wikipedia: Mahanipata Jataka
armhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armhooks
Etymology: From arm + hook.
Senses: examples: text: In Ancistrotheutis the attachment ring persists, and the hook sac surrounding the tentacle hook is closed except during function contrary to the condition in the armhooks where the hook always projects from the sac.
ref: 1977, Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk forening:
text: The bivalve Posidonia permica frequently occurs in large concentrations on slabs of the shale in which there are also concentrations of cephaloped prehensile armhooks representing no doubt distorted natural assemblages from single individuals.
ref: 1988, Rapport: - Issues 140-142, page 101:
text: Furthermore the armhooks of the Belemnoidea show a micro-texture and a mode of growth similar to the horny inner rings of the suckers of the Decabrachia.
ref: 1989, Norbert Schmidt-Kittler, Rainer Willmann, Phylogeny and the Classification of Fossil and Recent Organisms:
glosses: A hook-like projection on the arm of a cephalopod, such as on the armhook squid (Gonatus fabricii).
examples: text: When the partners meet they form armhook with each other, turn around once, let go, and continue the march till they again meet, when they march up into straight flank formation and halt at the end of the stanza.
ref: 1908, Jakob Bolin, Swedish Song-plays:
text: With a clap the first and second men take right armhook with own ladies, then left with each other, right with own ladies, then left with each other, and retire to the same places as at the finish of part A ;
ref: 1915, Elizabeth Burchenal, Folk-dances of Denmark: containing seventy-three dances, page 66:
qualifier: folk dancing
glosses: A movement in which two people hook arms at the elbow and turn around each other.
examples: text: By the arrangement of these armhooks, it is possible for nurses to open doors while both hands are occupied.
ref: 1919, Architecture and Building - Volume 51:
text: The pushcarts and automobiles may be single painted cardboards inserted on wooden runners. The automobiles may be moved across the stage by a player behind the cardboard. A cloth armhook will hold it steady.
ref: 1938, Lockie Parker, Story Parade - Volume 3, page 17:
glosses: A hook for maneuvering something using the arm.
armhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armhook
buffont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌf.ənt/
Forms: form: buffonts
form: buffon
form: buffant
Etymology: From French bouffant; doublet of bouffant, which see for more.
Senses: examples: text: A [...] white ribbon was tied round her scraggy neck, while a buffont attempted to cover her bosom as flat as a deal board, [...]
ref: 1782, The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, page 91:
text: [...] : a disproportion arising from the fact of the body being contrived for the admission of a buffont, a piece of dress composed of gauze, or fine linen, which was worn over the neck and breast, strutting out like the front of a pouting pigeon.
ref: 1857, The Journal of the British Archaeological Association, page 326:
text: Even to his unpracticed eye, the stitching showed the results of a patient hand. A loudly expelled breath drew his attention to Belle Latchett. Her impressive bosom rose inside a plum-colored brocade dress. A buffont of white gauze trembled ...
ref: 1992, Stella Cameron, Only by Your Touch, Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 64–65:
glosses: An item of neckwear (a neckerchief), usually of linen, gauze, or lace, worn around the neck and puffed out over the bosom, popular from the 1750s to 1790s.
examples: text: Perhaps the most famous American woman to wear a bouffant hairstyle was First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
ref: 2006, Victoria Sherrow, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 69:
text: See Figure 5-5 for an example of a bouffant cap on a face cradle.
ref: 2006, Ralph Stephens, Therapeutic Chair Massage, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of bouffant.
buffant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffants
Senses: examples: text: Bodice and train of rich white glace silk, tastefully trimmed with buffants of tulle and bouquets of variegated venustus; [...]
ref: 1854, The Court Journal: Gazette of the Fashionable World, Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts, page 198:
text: Skirts took a moderate size and even court hoops were but panniers hung on either side of the hips. Short jackets with close half-sleeves were worn with the neck and breast covered with a cambric buffant [...]
ref: 1922, Hugh Chisholm, Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, page 243:
glosses: Synonym of buffont.
synonyms: word: buffont
buffons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffon
buffants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffant
buffonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffont
riot boosting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "‘Riot boosting’ is an unusual and new term. You might be asking yourself what that means, and I think protesters will too," said Vera Eidelman, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who has tracked the bills. "I think it poses a unique threat to speech and appears to be targeted at protests. It uses words like 'encouraging' and 'advising' that are very broad and refer to a category of protected speech."
ref: 2019 March 28, Nicholas Kusnetz, “More States Crack Down on Pipeline Protesters, Including Supporters Who Aren’t Even on the Scene”, in Inside Climate News, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2020:
text: The law allows state, and local governments to seek civil damages from activists or groups engaging in "riot boosting", a term which the state defines as someone who "does not personally participate in any riot but directs, advises, encourages, or solicits other persons participating in the riot to acts of force of violence."
ref: 2019, Larry J. Schweiger, The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics, page 109:
text: A judge found parts of last year’s “riot boosting” laws to be unconstitutional, in part because they were aimed at demonstrations against the Keystone XL pipeline.
ref: 2020 February 19, Stephen Groves, “House passes ‘riot boosting’ bill amid protests”, in AP News:
text: South Dakota has adopted a law that holds a person liable for civil damages if he or she engages in “riot boosting,” defined to include a person who “advises” or “encourages” another to engage in violence, even if the individual did not even participate in the […]
ref: 2020, Ashutosh Bhagwat, Our Democratic First Amendment, page 152:
text: A third banner said “Kristi Noem, we are not a riot” and “We defeated it once, we’ll defeat it again” — a reference to the current “riot boosting” law that was created after a federal judge said parts of the old law were unconstitutional.
ref: 2020 August 19, Arielle Zionts, “Group protests Philip KXL pipeline work camp opening in September”, in Rapid City Journal:
topics: law
glosses: Protest activities that encourage rioting.
Related terms: riot booster
babykin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babykins
Etymology: From baby + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing so sweet, or so quaintly complete As a dear little babykin's queer little feet, With their ten tiny toes like the buds of a rose And their heels soft as velvet.
ref: 1922, Florence Ashley Beeler, “Perfection”, in The Kindergarten-primary Magazine, volumes 35-36, page 112:
text: Italia was two years and two months old, And Tony was a babykin two months old.
ref: 1934, Dramas - Volumes 17-18, page 210:
text: But the babykin wouldn't stop screaming, and if you've ever heard Fried sing, you'll know why.
ref: 2002, David Grossman, See Under: LOVE, →ISBN:
glosses: young baby.
clickbaits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clickbait
clickbaits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clickbait
clickbaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clickbait
clickbaited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clickbait
clickbaited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clickbaited
form: most clickbaited
Senses: examples: text: Who has not sat down to read an email, only to end up on a long flight of ad-laden clickbaited fancy, and emerge, shaking his or her head, wondering where the hours went?
ref: 2019, Luke Fernandez, Susan J. Matt, Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid, →ISBN:
glosses: Full of clickbait.
all heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "[F]ar from wanting feeling, Charlotte Henley is all heart. To use your own language," she added, turning her eyes towards him archly, "it is for her heart that I most love her."
ref: 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, Tales for Fifteen or, Imagination and Heart:
text: Joseph Michael Valachi looks a bit like a Damon Runyon gangster—the tough guy who really is all heart.
ref: 1969 January 17, "Books: His Life and Crimes" (review of The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas), Time (retrieved 2 May 2019)
text: Greyhounds in general are all heart, kind and gentle souls that love to please and be with their owners.
ref: 2007 October 7, Andrea Guttman "Opinions: Want a Great Dog? Adopt a Greyhound, New York Times (retrieved 2 May 2019)
text: [I]f you were sad, he would put his arms around you and go out and buy a present even if he didn’t have any money that month. He was all heart.
ref: 2014 June 5, Elizabeth Grice "Mark Shand: 'It was like watching a lion fall', Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 2 May 2019)
glosses: Motivated by positive emotions, especially as productive of exceptionally generous or kind behavior.
Related terms: with all one's heart
positive-definite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: positive definite
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Said of a real, square matrix: that the product of it with a column vector on its right side and the transpose of that column vector on its left side is greater or equal to zero, only equaling zero if the vector itself is zero.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Said of a quadratic form: that the application of it to a tuple is greater or equal to zero, only equaling zero if the tuple itself is zero.
C. I. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of CIA (“Central Intelligence Agency”).
KCIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
Synonyms: sense: Korean Central Intelligence Agency
word: CIA
hyperflexibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + flexibility or hyperflexible + -ity or hyper- + flex + -ibility.
Senses: examples: text: The so-called Danlos or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome consists of three symptoms: (1) pronounced fragility of the skin and its blood vessels, with breaking, splitting and the formation of hematomas and pseudotumors subsequent to the slightest trauma (dermatorrhexis-fragilitas cutis), (2) a more or less pronounced hyperlaxity and hyperelasticity of the skin (dermatochalasis-laxitas cutis) and (3) more or less pronounced hyperlaxity or hyperflexibility of the joints (arthrochalasis-laxitas articularis).
ref: 1936 June 24, F Ronchese, “Dermatorrhexis with dermatochalasis and arthrochalasis (the so-called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)”, in American Journal of Diseases of Children, volume 51, number 6, page 1403:
glosses: The condition of being hyperflexible.
Related terms: hypermobility
hyperhomocysteinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + homocysteinuria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of a large amount of homocysteine in the urine
hyperphonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperphonations
Etymology: From hyper- + phonation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive phonation, typically in the crying of a baby.
hypersecretor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersecretors
Etymology: From hyper- + secretor.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A hypersecretory person
hypersecretors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersecretor
hypertrimethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + trimethylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Excessive trimethylation
hypotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypotoxic
form: most hypotoxic
Etymology: From hypo- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Less than usually toxic
Related terms: hypotoxicity
hypotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hypotoxic
Second Korean War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Second Korean War
Senses: glosses: A period of intense conflict between the two Koreas in the 1960s, that included the attempted assassination of the South Korean president and the capture of the U.S.S. Pueblo by North Korea.
Hypernyms: english: when taking the Korean War as the entire period from the start of hostilities in the 1950s onwards
translation: when taking the Korean War as the entire period from the start of hostilities in the 1950s onwards
word: Korean War
Related terms: english: the period of hostilities in the 1950s
translation: the period of hostilities in the 1950s
word: First Korean War
word: Korean War
No Gun Ri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nogeun-ri
form: Nogun-ri
form: Nogeun Ri
form: Nogun Ri
form: Nogeun Village
form: No Gun Village
form: Nogun Village
Etymology: From Korean 노근리(老斤里) (Nogeulli).
Senses: examples: text: The letter -- dated the day of the Army's mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 -- is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in Korea, and the first evidence that that policy was known to upper ranks of the U.S. government.
ref: 2006 May 30, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, “Letter on Korean War Massacre Reveals Plan to Shoot Refugees Historian Discovers U.S. Envoy's Writings Relating to No Gun Ri”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2017:
text: Over the years Mr. Chung — who died on Aug. 1 at 91 at his home in Daejeon, South Korea — amassed evidence that American troops had systematically killed more than 100, and possibly as many as 400, civilian refugees early in the Korean War near a railroad bridge outside the South Korean village of No Gun Ri.
ref: 2014 August 22, Douglas Martin, “Chung Eun-yong,Who Helped Expose U.S. Killings of Koreans, Dies at 91”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2014, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A village in Hwanggan, Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
glosses: Ellipsis of No Gun Ri massacre (“a war crime that occurred near the village”).
riot booster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riot boosters
Senses: examples: text: The legislation would also establish a fund — with the acronym “PEACE” — to address extraordinary expenses for the state and its counties from the pipeline, including protests, with the funds collected from “riot-boosters.”
ref: 2019 March 6, Elena Saavedra Buckley, “South Dakota pushes bills to prosecute ‘riot-boosting’ ahead of pipeline construction”, in High Country News:
text: Several of the bills also allow prosecutors to go after people or organizations as "conspirators" or "riot boosters" for merely supporting or coordinating with others who violate the law. […] Someone can qualify as a "riot booster" even if they reside out of state and act indirectly "through any employee, agent or subsidiary." Anyone found liable would be responsible for three times the ordinary penalty.
ref: 2019 March 28, Nicholas Kusnetz, “More States Crack Down on Pipeline Protesters, Including Supporters Who Aren’t Even on the Scene”, in Inside Climate News, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2020:
text: (see title)
ref: 2020 February 21, “Editorial: Gov. Noem's crackdown on 'riot boosters' comes at a cost”, in Sioux Falls Argus Leader:
text: Legislators’s doggedness is appalling: In South Dakota, a bill was rushed through the legislature and signed quickly into law last year, establishing a civil action to sue “riot boosters,” defined as anyone who “directs, advises, encourages, or solicits” others toward “acts of force or violence.”
ref: 2020 June 1, Nora Benavidez, “First Amendment Rights—If You Agree With the President”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: One who engages in riot boosting.
Related terms: riot boosting
riot boosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riot booster
Betteridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname
immunocytopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + cytopathological.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: immunocytological and pathological
immunomodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + modular.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to immunomodulation
Related terms: immunomodulatory
inclinometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the Earth's magnetic field by means of an inclinometer
interpartner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + partner.
Senses: glosses: Between partners
intracanicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of intracanalicular.
iridosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridosomes
Etymology: From irido- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cytoplasmic organelle of iridophore cells
iridosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iridosome
kilocount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilocounts
Etymology: From kilo- + count.
Senses: glosses: One thousand counts (of ionising radiation, typically per minute)
kilocounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilocount
laxaphycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laxaphycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antifungal cyclic peptides present in the blue-green alga Anabaena laxa
laxaphycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laxaphycin
lipsmack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipsmacks
Senses: glosses: A smack (noise) of the lips.
Related terms: lip-smacking
lip-smackingly
smack one's lips
lipsmacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipsmack
lixivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lixiviation.
lophialetid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lophialetids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct odd-toed ungulate of the family †Lophialetidae
lophialetids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lophialetid
luminoimmunoassay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luminoimmunoassays
Etymology: From lumino- + immunoassay.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: chemiluminescent or electroluminescent immunoassay
luminoimmunoassays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luminoimmunoassay
lymphadenectomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lymphadenectomises
form: lymphadenectomising
form: lymphadenectomised
form: lymphadenectomised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lymphadenectomize.
lymphadenectomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lymphadenectomise
lymphogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a lymphogenic manner
itsa
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it'sa.
magnetochron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetochrons
Senses: glosses: One of a series of chronologically-spaced magnetozones
magnetochrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetochron
mastacembeloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastacembeloids
Senses: glosses: Any spiny eel / swamp eel of the suborder Mastacembeloidei
mastacembeloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastacembeloid
mealbeetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mealbeetles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mealworm beetle.
synonyms: word: mealworm beetle
mealbeetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mealbeetle
megatherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatherms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: macrotherm
glosses: A plant (or other organism) that needs a constant warm environment
Related terms: megathermic
megathermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to megatherms
Related terms: megathermal
mesioventrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mesioventral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mesioventral manner
glosses: Alternative form of medioventrally.
glosses: Alternative form of mesoventrally.
naophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This statute was discovered in the Karnak Cachete. It ws^([sic – meaning was]) originally dedicated in the temple of Amun by Khaernwaset, one of many statues placed in temples by owners who hoped to gain the benefit of the offerings and prayers addressed to the gods. A naophorous statue (one representing the owner holding a shrine, or naos) was particularly useful in this regard, as the god in the naos would received prayers and perhaps offerings right in front of the statue's owner.
ref: 2025, Zahi Hawass, “The Family of Ramses II”, in Ramses The Great, Laboratoriorosso, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: carrying a naos
detrempe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detrempes
Etymology: From French détrempe.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A batter similar to that used in tempura or in puff pastry
Coordinate terms: beurrage
puff pastry
pate feuilletee
beurrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beurrages
Etymology: From French beurrage.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A dough made of mostly butter, used in French cuisine
Coordinate terms: detrempe
puff pastry
pate feuilletee
pate feuilletee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pates feuilletees
form: pâte feuilletée
Etymology: Borrowed from French pâte feuilletée.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of puff pastry.
synonyms: word: puff pastry
mesodermless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesoderm + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a mesoderm
mesofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From meso- + facial.
Senses: glosses: Having an average shaped face, neither too long nor too wide
mesoglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoglycans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mucopolysaccharide complex used as a dietary supplement
metaboloepigenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metabolo- + epigenetics.
Senses: glosses: The study of the relationship between metabolism and epigenetics
Related terms: metaboloepigenetic
metaboloepigenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metabolo- + epigenetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metaboloepigenetics
microaberration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microaberrations
Etymology: From micro- + aberration.
Senses: glosses: A very small aberration
microaberrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microaberration
Nalaikh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Налайх (Nalajx).
Senses: examples: text: The family had lived year-round in a planned part of the city with municipal heating until last year, when both children suffered severe cases of pneumonia and were hospitalized. This winter, the family decamped to Nalaikh, 24 miles outside the city, where the air is cleaner despite the area’s being the primary source of Ulan Bator’s coal.
ref: 2018 March 15, Bryan Denton, “Burning Coal for Survival in the World’s Coldest Capital”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2018, World:
glosses: A district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
keen as a bean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: 2018 Alasdair Duncan, Here’s How To Improve Your Pitiful Uber Rating From Someone Who Did It Pedestrian, 17 September 2018. Accessed 4 May 2019.
On my afternoon trip home, I struck a driver who seemed keen as a bean to get me to mash that five star rating – his Mitsubishi Outlander was stocked with mints and bottled water and he offered them all to me and even asked if I wanted to make any extra stops on the way home.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very keen; enthusiastic; eager.
prefixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefixers
Etymology: From prefix + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which adds a prefix.
Derived terms: autoprefixer
prefixers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefixer
autoprefixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoprefixers
Etymology: From auto- + prefixer.
Senses: glosses: A software tool that adds vendor-specific prefixes to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) code, for maximum compatibility across browsers.
autoprefixers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoprefixer
begettal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begettals
Senses: glosses: Act of begetting; conception of a child.
begettals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of begettal
fat as a house
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She was fat — fat as a house. My daddy told her not to eat one more thing, and she still got fat.
ref: 2009, Lynne Mitchell, To Touch the Whale, page 74:
text: 2011 Danny Baker winning cancer fight Daily Express, 11 May 2011. Accessed 4 May 2019.
Danny, who has three children, Bonnie, 27, Sonny, 24 and Mancie, 12 with wife Wendy, says the weight loss is no silver lining: “In a couple of years I hope to be bulging at the seams again, fat as a house.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very fat; plump; overweight.
tactuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactualities
Etymology: From tactual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: 1858, William Robinson Pirie, An Inquiry into the Constitution, Powers, and Processes of the Human Mind, Aberdeen: A. Brown, Chapter 7, p. 398,
[…] we are just as conscious of a cause of vision as of a cause of tactual feeling, and it is not improbable that we have even a sense of tactuality, if we may so speak, in the secondary sensations.
text: Each heard with the same ear what the other heard. For every sniffing of the one nose there were two identical smells, and there were two tactualities for every touch.
ref: 1949, Oets Kolk Bouwsma, “Descartes’ Evil Genius”, in Alexander Sesonske, Noel Fleming, editors, Meta-Meditations: Studies in Descartes, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, published 1965, page 32:
text: […] what [Sigmund Freud] calls infant sexuality appears to be, as Lawrence Frank has observed, largely tactuality.
ref: 1971, Ashley Montagu, chapter 5, in Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin, New York: Columbia University Press, page 170:
glosses: The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.
Synonyms: tactility
tactualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactuality
the nail that sticks out gets hammered down
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 出る釘は打たれる (deru kugi wa utareru)
Senses: glosses: Those who are too different or conspicuous get criticized or sanctioned by others.
Related terms: crab mentality
keep one's head down
Law of Jante
tall poppy syndrome
tall trees catch much wind
corraler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corralers
Etymology: From corral + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I stand accused of being a veritable turkey and, something worse, a corraler of other turkeys.
ref: 1979, Charles E. Brooks, The Living River: A Fisherman's Intimate Profile of the Madison River Watershed, Its History, Ecology, Lore, and Angling Opportunities:
glosses: One who corrals something.
corralers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corraler
stamp act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stamp acts
Senses: glosses: Any legislation that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents.
stamp acts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stamp act
Anuradhapura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Anuradhapura, a city in Sri Lanka
pixie ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixie rings
form: pixy ring
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fairy ring.
synonyms: word: fairy ring
pixy ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixy rings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pixie ring.
pixie rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pixie ring
pixy rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pixy ring
Ratnapura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sinhalese රත්නපුර (ratnapura), ultimately decomposed into Sanskrit रत्न (ratna, “gems”) + Sanskrit पुर (pura, “city”).
Senses: glosses: Ratnapura, a city in Sri Lanka
Kandy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese [Term?], ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Something will always fall on your head,’ you say.
‘I’ve worked on construction sites in Kandy,’ she says. ‘You don’t need to tell me that.’
ref: 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 372:
glosses: A city in Sri Lanka.
pixie-stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixie-stools
form: pixy-stool
Senses: glosses: A toadstool or mushroom.
pixy-stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixy-stools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pixie-stool.
pixy-stools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pixy-stool
pixie-stools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pixie-stool
naks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nak
Polonnaruwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sinhalese පොළොන්නරුව (poḷonnaruwa).
Senses: glosses: Polonnaruwa, a city in Sri Lanka
unauditable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unauditable
form: most unauditable
Etymology: From un- + auditable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be audited.
Sigiriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sinhalese සීගිරිය (sīgiriya).
Senses: glosses: An ancient city in Sri Lanka.
bowre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowres
Senses: examples: text: Repeated, she to him as oft engagd :
To be return'd by Noon amid the Bowre
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: A stately Pallace built of squared bricke, / ... / Full of faire windows, and delightful bowres
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:
glosses: Obsolete form of bower.
bowres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowre
dead level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead levels
Senses: examples: Proceedings: Nineteenth Annual Convention of Rotary International
The Creator must have had man's welfare in mind when he gave him hills to climb; dead levels are monotonous and yet they have their part in the eternal scheme of things […]
glosses: A stretch of completely flat land.
glosses: Sameness.
dead levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead level
pass in one's checks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes in one's checks
form: passing in one's checks
form: passed in one's checks
form: passed in one's checks
Etymology: See check (“a gaming token”).
Senses: synonyms: hand in one's checks
glosses: To die.
Dambulla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dambulla, a city in Sri Lanka
Katunayake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Katunayake, a city in Sri Lanka
cross someone's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses someone's mind
form: crossing someone's mind
form: crossed someone's mind
form: crossed someone's mind
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes it crossed my mind that I hadn't had one of those strange spiritual experiences since my time at Vons. I wondered if perhaps they had stopped for good.
ref: 2014, Noah Jacobson, The Pop up Kid: Secret Memoirs of the Intentionally Abused, page 300:
glosses: To come into someone's thoughts suddenly and fleetingly.
Trincomalee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sri Lanka.
Derived terms: Trincomalee wood
bedset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedsets
Etymology: From bed + set.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Two or more beds that have similar composition and structure, with very distinct strata above and below the bedding planes.
examples: text: However, 1977 product data are included in total for bedspreads and bedsets.
ref: 1982, 1982 Census of Manufactures, page 28:
text: Sheets and Pillow Cases (part of a bedset)
ref: 1998, Customs Bulletin and Decisions:
glosses: A collection of bedding items, such as sheets and pillow cases, sold together.
Batticaloa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Batticaloa, ultimately from Tamil மட்டக்களப்பு (maṭṭakkaḷappu).
Senses: glosses: A city in Sri Lanka.
Vavuniya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil வவுனியா (vavuṉiyā).
Senses: glosses: Vavuniya, a city in Sri Lanka
firing party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firing parties
Senses: glosses: Synonym of firing squad.
synonyms: word: firing squad
firing parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firing party
Kalmunai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil கல்முனை (kalmuṉai).
Senses: glosses: Kalmunai, a city in Sri Lanka
conscience round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conscience rounds
Senses: glosses: A blank round of ammunition issued to one or more members of a firing squad without telling them, so that each person in the squad knows there is a chance that they themselves did not fire the lethal shot.
conscience rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conscience round
Negombo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil நீர்கொழும்பு (nīrkoḻumpu), borrowed via Portuguese Negombo.
Senses: glosses: Negombo, a city in Sri Lanka
Moratuwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sinhalese මොරටුව (moraṭuwa).
Senses: glosses: Negombo, suburb of Colombo and a city in Sri Lanka