cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
foliophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Senses: glosses: The eating of leaves.
rhizophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhizo- (“root”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Senses: examples: The possibility of rhizophagous behavior has been associated with analysis of earthworm gizzard or gut contents for ingested root fragments. Proving active rhizophagy with this method is difficult.... (1999-P. Lavelle, Earthworm Management in Tropical Agroecosystems, CABI, P. 116)
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The eating of roots.
examples: We suggest that this ability of roots to incorporate microbes be termed rhizophagy to reﬂect the apparent active uptake mechanism. (2013-C. Paungfoo-Lonhienne et al. (original author), Mol. Microbial Ecology of the Rhizosphere, John Wiley, doi:10.1002/9781118297674.ch115)
Rhizophagy may be considered to be a cyclic process that involves symbiotic bacteria—perhaps more appropriately denominated ‘rhizophagy cycle’ or ‘rhizophagy symbiosis'. (2017-S.K. Verma et al., Indigenous endophytic seed bacteria promote seedling development and defend against fungal disease in browntop millet (Urochloa ramosa), J. Appl. Microbiol., doi:10.1111/jam.13673)
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The degradation of symbiotic microbes within root cells; 'rhizophagy symbiosis', or 'rhizophagy cycle', is a cyclic process whereby plants obtain nutrients from symbiotic bacteria that alternate between a root intracellular endophytic phase and a free-living soil phase. Bacteria acquire soil nutrients in the free-living soil phase; nutrients are extracted from bacteria oxidatively in the intracellular endophytic phase.
ophiophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ophio- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The eating of snakes.
Related terms: ophiophage
ophiophagous
saprophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sapro- (“putrid, rotten matter”) + -phagy (“to feed on, consume”).
Senses: glosses: The eating of non-living organic material.
Related terms: saprophagan
saprophage
saprophagous
lepidophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lepido- (“scaly”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Senses: glosses: The feeding on scales (of other fish).
Related terms: lepidophage
lepidophagous
blop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒp/
enpr: bläp
ipa: /blɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: blops
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: At the top of each is a piece of broken glass embedded in a blop of concrete.
ref: 2005, Timothy Kandler Beal, Roadside religion: in search of the sacred, the strange, and the substance of faith, →ISBN, page 183:
text: He poured a cup of the thick institutional brew, stirred in a packet of chemical sweetener and a blop of Irish creme- flavored nondairy additive...
ref: 2007, Mark Haskell Smith, Moist: A Novel, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Synonym of blob (“a vague amorphous mass”).
synonyms: word: blob
extra: a vague amorphous mass
blop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒp/
enpr: bläp
ipa: /blɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: blops
form: blopping
form: blopped
form: blopped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plop (land loosely).
synonyms: word: plop
extra: land loosely
glosses: Synonym of blep (chiefly said of a dog).
synonyms: word: blep
extra: chiefly said of a dog
matrimonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matrimony
name drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: name drops
form: name dropping
form: name dropped
form: name dropped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of name-drop.
dugite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd(j)uːɡʌɪt/
Forms: form: dugites
Etymology: From Nyunga.
Senses: examples: text: A small dugite crawled across the lawn from the golf links.
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 150:
text: Dugites and bobtails rustled out there, and in the evenings, bronzed by the sun as it dunked into the sea, whole mobs of kangaroos lined the ridge […].
ref: 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 19:
glosses: Pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.
dugites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dugite
bacteriophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bacterio- (“bacteria”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Senses: glosses: The feeding on bacteria.
Related terms: bacteriophage
bacteriophagous
bumster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmstə/
Forms: form: bumsters
Etymology: Uncertain, apparently from bum + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Today the sight of muffin tops over jeans or a sneaky flash of bottom cleavage might not seem too shocking [...], but when McQueen first sent out his models in bumsters, it was a radical departure and attracted many column inches of comment and debate.
ref: 2010 February 12, Rajini Vaidyanatham, BBC News Magazine:
text: And he would have relished the juxtaposition of the wedding dress with the infamous bumster trousers that are, as of this week, on show in the Metropolitan Museum.
ref: 2011 May 4, Jane Martinson, The Guardian:
glosses: A pair of very low-cut trousers which reveal part of the buttocks.
examples: text: Believe us when we say, the one thing that is most likely to spoil your holiday in The Gambia is constantly getting hassled by bumsters.
ref: 2006, Craig Emms, Linda Barnett, The Gambia, 2nd edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 93:
text: In The Gambia, [...] hundreds of young, middle-aged, and elderly female tourists [...] flood the beaches and resorts of Senegambia, Fajara, Kotu, and Kololi each year in search of sexual liaisons with local young men known as bumsters.
ref: 2007, Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan, Transcultural Bodies, Rutgers, published 2007, page 302:
text: there is concern in this traditional Muslim society about some of its social manifestations such as sex tourism and beach hustling by bumsters.
ref: 2009, Brian Boniface, Chris Cooper, Worldwide Destinations, Butterworth-Heinemann, published 2009, page 447:
glosses: In The Gambia, a young man who solicits money or favours from tourists, sometimes in exchange for sex.
hoverbarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoverbarges
Etymology: From hover + barge.
Senses: glosses: A barge that uses hovercraft technology, suitable for transporting goods over swampy surfaces.
hoverbarges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoverbarge
hovertrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hovertrains
Etymology: From hover + train.
Senses: examples: text: America's first hovertrain passenger service will be built in Washington next year for $20 million.
ref: 1971 February 28, The Sunday Australian, Sydney, page 9, column 1:
glosses: A train that uses hovercraft technology to take advantage of lower friction to deliver high speeds; an aerotrain.
hovertrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hovertrain
cytoclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cytoclastic
form: most cytoclastic
Etymology: From cyto- + clastic.
Senses: glosses: Tending to destroy cells
glosses: Relating to cytoclasis
Derived terms: leukocytoclastic
leukocytoclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leukocytoclastic
form: most leukocytoclastic
Etymology: From leuco- (“white blood cell”) + cytoclastic (“tending to destroy cells”).
Senses: glosses: Tending to destroy white blood cells
Derived terms: leukocytoclastic vasculitis
Related terms: leukocytoclasia
eyebrow pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyebrow pencil
periegeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periegesis
panela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish panela.
Senses: glosses: An unrefined sugar product typical of Latin America, which is basically a solid piece of sucrose and fructose obtained from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane.
glosses: A white, fresh, and smooth Mexican cheese of pasteurized cow's milk similar to Indian paneer.
immiserizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immiserize
immiserizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immiserizing
form: most immiserizing
Senses: glosses: immiserating
workgang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workgangs
form: work gang
Etymology: From work + gang.
Senses: glosses: A group of individuals assigned to, or engaged in, a common task.
Hyponyms: chain gang
workgroup
global positioning systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of global positioning system
workgangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workgang
free variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free variable
clobenpropit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A histamine H₃ antagonist that has neuroprotective effects via stimulation of GABA release in the brain. Chemical symbol: C₁₄H₁₇ClN₄S.
funnel plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnel plots
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A scatterplot of effect size against a measure of study size or variability, used primarily as a visual aid to detecting and displaying bias or systematic heterogeneity.
Related terms: meta-analysis
publication bias
file-drawer problem
funnel plots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnel plot
standard deviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard deviation
standard error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard errors
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of how likely a mean of means is to be wrong. It is the standard deviation of the sample sizes in each to the sample means.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of stderr.
standard errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard error
grivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grivations
Etymology: Contraction of grid (magnetic) variation.
Senses: glosses: The angle, at any point on the surface of the Earth, between grid north and magnetic north.
isogriv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪsoʊɡɹɪv/
Forms: form: isogrivs
Etymology: From iso- + clipping of grivation.
Senses: glosses: A line on a map or chart which joins points of equal grivation, that is, equal angle between grid north and magnetic north.
isograv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isogravs
Etymology: From iso- + clipping of gravity.
Senses: examples: text: They've plotted what they call isogravs, lines of equal-g, and riding parallel to them seems to do funny things.
ref: 1954, Astounding Science-fiction, volume 52, numbers 4-53, page 99:
text: The favorable microgravity conditions 389 resulting from this are charted in figure 7, which shows the isograv envelopes of constant gravity gradient acceleration experienced aboard the station.
ref: 1988, Frank Pohlemann, “A concept for a future autonomous European space station”, in Acta Astronautica, volume 18:
text: Figure 5 shows the isogravs on a solar inertial station. You get constant gravity just like you do on the LVLH station as you come out of the orbit plane.
ref: 1990, Charles R. Baugher, Measurement and Characterization of the Acceleration Environment on Board the Space Station, page 24-5:
text: Already isogravs showed the system's primary, an F9 star without a name of its own, unless you consider catalog numbers.
ref: 2001, John Dalmas, Soldiers:
glosses: An isoline on a map joining points of equal gravitational potential.
examples: text: Based on values obtained by Eqns (1a) and (1c), we computed for VI, QI and VI\QI-ratio one coefficient of variation (CV) accounting for total heterogeneity (CV total) and one accounting for variation within isogravitational planes (CV isograv).
ref: 1997 March, M.N. Melsom, J. Kramer-Johansen, T. Flatebø, C. Müller, G. Nicolaysen, “Distribution of pulmonary ventilation and perfusion measured simultaneously in awake goats”, in Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, volume 159, number 3:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of isogravity.
examples: text: The magnetic anomaly rasters (bouguerbougure, isograv and magnetic) were obtained from the USGS as was the thermal maturity point data.
ref: 2014 February 19, Jeffrey S. Evans, Joseph M. Kiesecker, “Shale gas, wind and water: Assessing the potential cumulative impacts of energy development on ecosystem services within the Marcellus play”, in PLoS One:
text: Isostatic residual anomaly, isograv: Isostatic residual anomaly data removes the long-wavelength part of the gravity field to correct for topographic load and provide for surface gravity mapping.
ref: 2017 March, Lara M Juliusson, Kevin E Doherty, “Oil and gas development exposure and conservation scenarios for Greater sage-grouse”, in Applied Geography, volume 80:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of isostatic residual (gravity) anomaly.
splenomegalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splenomegaly.
splenorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spleno- + renal.
Senses: examples: text: splenorenal ligament
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the spleen and kidneys.
Synonyms: lienorenal
stenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stenosis + -otic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a stenosis
Derived terms: antirestenotic
bronchostenotic
craniostenotic
fibrostenotic
homeostenotic
intrastenotic
karyostenotic
nonstenotic
poststenotic
prestenotic
restenotic
transstenotic
unstenotic
needlefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needlefish
ophio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: ophi-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to snakes
Derived terms: ophiomania
ophiophage
Related terms: ophid-
ophidio-
nominals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nominal
ophid-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to snakes
Derived terms: Ophidia
ophidian
ophidiaphobia
ophidism
Related terms: ophio-
calf bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calf bone
adversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvɝ.sɪ.ti/
ipa: /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/
Forms: form: adversities
Etymology: From Old French adversité, from Latin adversitātem, the accusative singular of adversitās, from adversus, the perfect passive participle of advertō (“I turn toward”).
Senses: examples: text: The doctor loved the squire, loved him as his oldest friend; but he loved him ten times better as being in adversity than he could ever have done had things gone well at Greshansbury in his time.
ref: 1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, Read Books, published 2008, →ISBN, Chapter III, page 55:
text: God approves all adversity. Not all adversity that the Christian encounters is due to sins in the Christian's life. Not all adversity is the fault of the Christian.
ref: 2007, Earl Crouch, “When Adversity Strikes”, in Do You Know?, PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 60:
text: These are the people who will overcome the adversity, chaos, and destruction of combat and defeat the enemy in war.
ref: 1998, Karel Montor et al., “Directing and Coordinating Operations”, in Karel Montor, editor, Naval Leadership: Voices of Experience, 2nd edition, Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, Efficient and Professional Conduct, page 278:
synonyms: word: mischance
word: misluck
word: adverseness
word: adversity
word: bad luck
word: hard luck
word: ill luck
word: mischance
word: misfortune
word: mishap
word: misluck
word: tough luck
word: unfortunateness
word: unluck
word: unluckiness
glosses: The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
examples: text: Having “secret notice,” the writer of “True Remembrances” declares of the above complains, he retired into Munster, intending to proceed to England, to justify himself; but was detained there for want of money by the breaking out of rebellion. This adversity befell him in the autumn of 1598.
ref: 1859 September, “The Great Earl of Cork”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, volume LIV, Alex Thom & Sons, page 326:
text: Every family is struck by adversity at one time or another. No matter how mature the patients are, regardless of the care an advantages they give their children, despite a desirable interactive love between family members, adversity will attack any family
ref: 1977, Genevieve Burton, “Family Adversity and the Nurse”, in Interpersonal Relations: A Guide for Nurses, 4th edition, Routledge, published 1979, →ISBN, page 101:
text: Make sure that your child’s adversity is really an adversity. Not having parents who can buy a new car upon your son’s sixteenth birthday is not an adversity. Being the only girl on the block who doesn’t own a designed handbag is not an adversity
ref: 2006, Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, “Getting Your Kid off the Waiting List and into the School of His or Her Dreams”, in What Colleges Don't Tell You (and Other Parents Don't Want You to Know: 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kid Into the Top Schools, Plume, published 2007, →ISBN, page 272:
synonyms: nakba
antonyms: fortuity
glosses: An event that is adverse; calamity.
Related terms: adverse
adversely
retard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɑː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
ipa: /ˈɹiːtɑː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: retards
form: retarding
form: retarded
form: retarded
Etymology: From Middle English retarden, from Anglo-Norman or Latin, from Anglo-Norman retarder, from Latin retardāre (“to retard”), from re- + tardus (“slow”).
Senses: examples: text: retard the march of an army
text: retard the motion of a ship
synonyms: impede
hinder
hold up
glosses: To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing.
examples: text: to retard the attacks of old age
text: to retard a rupture between nations
glosses: To put off; to postpone.
glosses: To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
examples: text: 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, retard, retard...
ref: 2019, Airbus A350 - Landing (Retard) (YouTube), cockpit voice (actor):
text: This application of hydraulics led Sir George Dowty to develop the wagon retarder system, which comprised small hydraulic rams mounted inside the rail. These rams could simply retard a wagon, or both retard and 'boost' or speed up a wagon by hydraulic pressure.
ref: 2021 June 2, Michael Rhodes, “Tinsley reborn...”, in RAIL, number 932, pages 35–36:
glosses: To decelerate; to slow down.
examples: text: Some years it [The River Nile] hath also retarded, and come far later than usually it was expected
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To stay back.
Synonyms: sense: keep delaying; continue to hinder
word: decelerate
word: hinder
word: slow
word: slow down
sense: postpone
word: postpone
word: put off
sense: decelerate
word: decelerate
sense: decelerate
word: slow
sense: decelerate
word: slow down
sense: decelerate
word: slow up
sense: stay back
word: hang back
word: stay back
Derived terms: growth-retarding
retarded
law of excluded middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: law of the excluded middle
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: LEM
glosses: A logical principle which states all statements must be either true or false, i.e. in symbols: P∨¬P.
Related terms: paracomplete
tertium non datur
law of the excluded middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of law of excluded middle.
dysphagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- (“difficulty”) + -phagy (“to feed”).
Senses: glosses: Difficulty in swallowing.
Synonyms: dysphagia
androphagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From andro- (“human”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Senses: glosses: Cannibalism.
autocoprophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + coprophagy.
Senses: glosses: The feeding on its own excrement.
endophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- (“internal, inside”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Senses: glosses: Cannibalism, within a group.
Related terms: endophage
endophagic
endophagous
exophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- (“outside, external”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Senses: glosses: Cannibalism, of those outside a social group.
placentophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From placento- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: Consumption of one's own placenta immediately after childbirth.
glosses: The consumption of a placenta, of any species, as part of a meal.
Related terms: placentophagic
placentophagous
rhypophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) and the suffix -φαγία (-phagía), combining form of φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”)
See also suffix -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The feeding on filth
theophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theo- + -phagy (“to feed on, to eat”); compare theophage.
Senses: glosses: The eating or consumption of a god, typically in a sacramental context.
zoophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöphagy
Etymology: From zoo- (“relating to animals”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Senses: glosses: The feeding on animals.
allotriophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλλότρῐος (allótrĭos, “foreign, strange”) + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: Having food cravings that are different from the expected or the norm.
Synonyms: pica
parorexia
poltophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πόλτος (póltos, “porridge”) and the suffix -φαγία (-phagía), combining form of φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”). See also suffix -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The chewing of food long enough to reduce it to the consistency of porridge.
Coordinate terms: psomophagy
psomophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψωμός (psōmós, “morsel”) + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of not chewing food before swallowing it.
Coordinate terms: poltophagy
myrmeco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μύρμηκος (múrmēkos, “ant’s”), genitive of μύρμηξ (múrmēx, “ant”). Doublet of the obsolete term mire.
Senses: glosses: ant
Derived terms: myrmecofauna
myrmecological
pudeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudeur
Sharisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of Bengali origin.
glosses: Describes a form of curry made with mustard seeds.
terlipressin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An analogue of vasopressin used as a vasoactive drug in the management of hypotension
thiazidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thiazide + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a thiazide
striature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striatures
Etymology: From Latin striatura.
Senses: glosses: A stria, or stripe.
ritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rito
winge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: winges
form: wingeing
form: winging
form: winged
form: winged
Senses: examples: text: Mostly, they were wingeing about the lousy cook and the same thing served too often
ref: 1992, Sky Phillips, Secret mission to Melbourne, November, 1941, page 45:
text: His wife will winge her bloody head off, but Nev will come good.
ref: 1993, Michael Fisher, The Nightmare Man, page 169:
text: "I'm miserable," Sam proclaimed, plodding behind with his shoelace flapping. "Nobody ever gives me butter-pies when I need them." / "Shut up," said Jonathan. "Stop wingeing."
ref: 2002, Diana Wynne Jones, A Tale of Time City, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of whinge.
winge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: winges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whinge.
antimonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of antimony.
lanthanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanthaniums
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō, “to escape notice”), because it had gone long undetected in mineral ores; + -ium (“a chemical element”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lanthanum.
Derived terms: lanthanide
tantalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Tantalus + -ium
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tantalum
synonyms: word: tantalum
N-facilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of N-facility
penny-pinchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny-pinching
acephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪˈsɛfələs/
Forms: form: acephali
Etymology: From Latin acephalus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fetus affected by acephaly.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of acephaly.
Derived terms: acardiacus acephalus
Related terms: acephali
acephalous
oxygen masks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxygen mask
Raimondo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Raimondo.
Senses: examples: text: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo proudly held up the progress of American industry on semiconductor manufacturing Sunday, declaring the U.S. has “outinnovated” China as the two nations fight to advance their domestic technology manufacturing.
ref: 2024 April 21, Nick Robertson, “Gina Raimondo says ‘we’ve outinnovated China’ amid chips war”, in The Hill:
glosses: A surname from Italian.
unhired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From un- + hired.
Senses: glosses: Not hired.
unrecruited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recruited.
Senses: glosses: Not recruited.
stormlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stormlike
form: most stormlike
Etymology: From storm + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a storm.
Related terms: stormy
Abdenago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Abednego.
Abaco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæb.əˌkoʊ/
/ˈæ.bæ.koʊ/
Etymology: From an earlier form Habacoa (found on Juan de la Cosa's map of 1500). In the 1500s they were also called Iucayonique, probably after the Lucayans who inhabited them.
Senses: glosses: The Abaco Islands, an island and cays group in the north of the Bahamas.
wikipedia: Juan de la Cosa
Eve baiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Despite the Biblical version, different recollections of the Adam and Eve story (including paintings) show Adam tempting Eve.
Senses: glosses: The harassment of women, especially foreign, or dressed as such, by groups of men.
jitterily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jitterily
form: most jitterily
Etymology: From jittery + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a jittery way; anxiously, edgily.
opps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opp
opps
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of oops.
iambics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iambic
dTTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of deoxythymidine triphosphate.
dUTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of deoxyuridine triphosphate.
saprophytism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saprophyte + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being saprophytic
illest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ill: most ill
ventromedially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ventromedially
form: most ventromedially
Etymology: From ventromedial + -ly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In a ventromedial direction
friezed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Containing a frieze, or friezes
Derived terms: overfriezed
friezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frieze
friezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frieze
friezing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friezings
Senses: examples: text: All the mouldings and friezings are curiously embellished with the figures of flowers, battle-axes, and other ornaments.
ref: 1838, Landscape Annual, page 287:
glosses: A frieze.
ciguatera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciguateras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish ciguatera.
Senses: examples: text: While you've probably never heard of ciguatera toxin, it's the most common form of fish poisoning and creates a health problem for any population that routinely consumes tropical reef species.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A foodborne poisoning in humans caused by eating marine species whose flesh is contaminated with ciguatoxin.
Derived terms: ciguateratoxin
ciguateric
Related terms: ciguatoxic
ciguatoxin
nonmathematicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmathematician
projectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more projectively
form: most projectively
Etymology: From projective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a projective way.
nontheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontheists
Etymology: From non- + theist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a theist; an atheist.
Synonyms: atheist
Related terms: nontheism
nontheistic
nontheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontheist
verbforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbform
supergraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supergraphs
Etymology: From super- + graph.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The parent graph that includes a subgraph.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A Feynman diagram that calculates scattering amplitudes in a supersymmetric theory using the advantages of the superspace formalism.
supergraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supergraph
nullipara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nulliparas
form: nulliparae
Senses: examples: text: The active phase of labour lasts on average 8 hours for the nullipara and 6 hours for the multipara.
ref: 2005, Martha Finn, Women's Health: A Core Curriculum, page 147:
glosses: A woman who has never carried a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks (one who has never given birth). It includes women who have experienced spontaneous miscarriages and induced abortions before the mid-point of pregnancy, but not women who have experienced pregnancy loss after 20 weeks.
Synonyms: word: nulliparous woman
english: para + 0
translation: para + 0
word: para 0
Related terms: nulliparity
nulliparous
nuliparous
multipara
tweeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tweel
meal ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meal tickets
Senses: examples: text: Volunteers are provided with a meal ticket for every four hours of service.
glosses: A ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.
examples: text: I don't enjoy this job, but it is my meal ticket.
glosses: Someone or something that provides income or livelihood, especially as an exploited source.
Synonyms: bread ticket
Related terms: food stamps
free lunch
meal voucher
pay the bills
scruffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scruffles
Senses: glosses: A scuffle; a physical fight or struggle.
scruffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scruffles
form: scruffling
form: scruffled
form: scruffled
Senses: glosses: To scuffle; to wrestle.
scruffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scruffle
scruffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scruffle
scruffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scruffle
scruffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scruffle
mealie land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mealie lands
Senses: glosses: A maize field.
mealless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meal + -less.
Senses: examples: text: One afternoon Laura damaged some furniture, and Mr. Sherman prescribed as her punishment a mealless evening.
ref: 1994, Gerald Handel, Gail G. Whitchurch, The psychosocial interior of the family, page 617:
glosses: Without a meal.
mealman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mealmen
Etymology: From meal + -man.
Senses: glosses: Someone who deals in meal (ground-up grain).
mealmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mealman
maltsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltster
mealtide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mealtides
form: meal-tide
form: meal tide
Etymology: From Middle English meeletide, equivalent to meal + -tide (“time, period, hour”). Compare Dutch maaltijd, German Mahlzeit, Icelandic máltíð.
Senses: examples: text: Bleeding at heart is he Who has to ask For food at every mealtide.
ref: 1903, Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz, The ward of King Canute:
text: At Sandwich, ‘mine host Gyllam De La Towr’ was paid 6s 8d ‘for our mealtides from Sunday till Friday’.
ref: 2002, Alison Hanham, The Celys and Their World:
text: She hid her thoughts and led Arinbjorn onward. It was close to mealtide at the hall when she let him go.
ref: 2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings:
glosses: The tide or time when one receives his part, portion, or measure of food; the hour for a meal; mealtime.
alkalied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kəl.aɪd/
enpr: ălˈkəlīd
ipa: /ˈæl.kə.laɪd/
Forms: form: more alkalied
form: most alkalied
Etymology: From alkali + -ed.
Senses: glosses: of horses or cattle in the western USA, having the health or strength detrimentally affected by drinking alkali-contaminated water.
WSM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Weston-super-Mare.
peas and rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Jamaican dish of rice and any of several varieties of peas or beans
Synonyms: rice and peas
peas and rice
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: He said, “Lord, Jesus Christ, peas and rice. That is what Bill is always wantin’—money! money! money!” He give me the money and put me back on the black hoss and sent me home.
ref: c. 1937, Ebenezer Brown, quoting Tom McDowell (ante 1865), as reported in an interview transcript, quoted in Andrew Waters (editor), Prayin’ to Be Set Free, John F. Blair (publisher, 2002), page 99
text: Aunt Polly nodded. “[…] Jesus Christ, peas and rice! They don't tell their heads from their foots. The big hat, he run like Old Scratch after him.”
ref: 2005, Sandra Dallas, New Mercies, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 225:
text: I hear him say, “We have to fight for our life, boys, more desperately than at Shiloh and Vicksburg. What is called for here is loyalty, courage, and grim determination.” ¶ “Well, peas and rice,” Little Bit says. “It’s just getting good. What is it now?”
ref: 2007, Margaret McMullan, When I Crossed No-Bob, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2009, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Jesus Christ!
Related terms: cheese and rice
podhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podheads
Etymology: From pod + head.
Senses: examples: text: Many Podheads got very excited when gadget-guru Web sites — like Slashdot.org and iPoding.com — reported that Apple had buried a super-secret debugger program in the iPod software […]
ref: 2004, J D Biersdorfer, David Pogue, iPod and iTunes: the missing manual:
glosses: One who is obsessed with his or her iPod.
job op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job ops
Senses: glosses: job opportunity.
clyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪstə/
ipa: /ˈklɪstɚ/
Forms: form: clysters
Etymology: From Middle French clystere, or its Latin source, in turn from Ancient Greek κλυστήρ (klustḗr).
Senses: examples: text: Cnelius a physician being sent for, found his costiveness alone to be the cause, and thereupon gave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered.
ref: , vol.I, New York 2001, p.233-4
glosses: A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.
guar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guars
Etymology: From Hindi ग्वार (gvār), from Sanskrit गोपाली (gopālī, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from गोपालकर्कटी (gopālakarkaṭī, “cowherder's cucumber”), from गोपाल (gopāla, “cowherd”) + कर्कटी (karkaṭī, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).
Senses: glosses: An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.
Synonyms: sense: cluster bean, guar bean
word: Cyanopsis tetragonoloba
Related terms: guaran
guar gum
clysters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clyster
luminol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈljuːmɪnɒl/
enpr: lo͞o'm(ĭ)nŏl
ipa: /ˈluːmɪnɒl/
Forms: form: luminols
Etymology: First use appears in 1934 in a paper by E. Huntress, L. Stanley, and A. Parker. The verbal form first appears c. 1997, although the exact date of its first appearance is uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: The board was fully supportive, Mr. McDevitt said, even when Mr. Wheeler needed to buy a gallon of cow’s blood and a supply of luminol, a blood-detection chemical.
ref: 2006 September 23, Jill P. Capuzzo, “Teaching Inspector Clouseau to Be Sherlock Holmes”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound 5-amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione, which exhibits blue chemiluminescence when mixed with an appropriate oxidizing agent.
Derived terms: isoluminol
luminol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈljuːmɪnɒl/
enpr: lo͞o'm(ĭ)nŏl
ipa: /ˈluːmɪnɒl/
Forms: form: luminols
form: luminoling
form: luminolling
form: luminoled
form: luminoled
form: luminolled
form: luminolled
Etymology: First use appears in 1934 in a paper by E. Huntress, L. Stanley, and A. Parker. The verbal form first appears c. 1997, although the exact date of its first appearance is uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Luminoling of material can establish unequivocally that no blood is present.
ref: 1997, United States. Court of Military Appeals, West Publishing Company (contributors), West's Military Justice Reporter, volume 46, page 860:
text: For two nights Patterson, Frosch, and Nabors Luminoled the house, checking and re-checking the evidence they found.
ref: 1997, Patricia Springer, Flesh and Blood, page 105:
text: Perhaps the auto warrant had gone through and the vehicle was being raked and combed and vacuumed and luminoled in some forensic garage.
ref: 2000, Jonathan Kellerman, Dr. Death, An Alex Delaware Novel, page 314:
text: The crime scene unit was all over the apartment, photographing, luminoling, vacuuming, plucking with tweezers.
ref: 2004, John Lutz, Darker Than Night, page 13:
text: Lester brings the hard-shelled golf bag in and Grissom luminols the interior of the case. The whole case fluouresces briefly then immediately fades, indicating the insides were bleached.
ref: 2004, Mike Flaherty, Corinne Marrinan, Anthony E. Zuiker, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Companion, page 201:
text: "You may not find it," McClure said. He answered Walt's puzzled expression by explaining," We luminoled her." He picked up a tube light from a workstation. "Get the lights," he said.
ref: 2007, Ridley Pearson, Killer Weekend, page 201:
text: He sighs. "The cops luminoled everyone at the hospital right after they got there. They all came out clean as a whistle."
ref: 2021, Antoinette van Heugten, Saving Max:
text: The Dassey garage was never luminoled or checked for forensic evidence of any type; blood found between the Dassey garage and residence was never tested.
ref: 2023, John Ferak, Wrecking Crew: Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery:
text: The State Police come in later and find this stuff, but you know where they don't find any blood is in Omar Evans's office. They luminoled that whole place, and nothing.
ref: 2024, Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You, A Novel, page 183:
topics: criminology
government
human-sciences
law
law-enforcement
sciences
glosses: To test or subject a sample or an individual to a luminol agent in order to locate traces of blood.
fuggedaboudit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: foggetaboutit
form: fuggedaboutit
form: fuhgeddaboudit
form: fuhgetaboutit
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of forget about it.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, someone might have concluded "fuggedaboudit," the cake mix won't sell.
ref: 2002, Bonnie Goebert, Herma M. Rosenthal, Beyond Listening: Learning the Secret Language of Focus Groups, page 4:
glosses: Do not worry about it; it does not matter; it is beyond your control.
examples: text: And Sunday . . . fuggedaboudit. You may as well have gone to school on Sunday.
ref: 2003, Al Roker, Marialisa Calta, Mark Thomas, Al Roker's Hassle-Free Holiday Cookbook, page 238:
text: And as for buying in pricey Manhattan itself — well, unless you're Donald Trump himself, fuggedaboudit.
ref: 2005, June Fletcher, House poor: pumped-up prices, rising rates, and mortgages on steroids, page 15:
text: Men don't want to seem chauvinistic, women don't want to be dependent, and if you're gay, fuggedaboudit.
ref: 2007, Addie Johnson, The Little Book of Big Excuses: More Strategies and Techniques for Faking It, page 69:
glosses: There is no hope of it being so, the idea is preposterous; do not waste my time with such notions
Synonyms: sense: There is no hope of it being so
word: Don't even think it
word: you gotta be kidding
word: fat chance
fuggedaboutit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Running together of the words in the phrase "forget about it".
Senses: examples: text: But the baker from Queens who gets up at four o'clock in the morning to open his shop early. . . . fuggedaboutit!
ref: 2000, Larry Elder, The Ten Things You Can't Say in America, page 275:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fuggedaboudit.
hemrods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of haemorrhoids.
micromelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromelias
Etymology: From micro- + Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition in which a limb is abnormally shortened.
Related terms: nanomelia
micromelias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromelia
oldnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oldness
phonograph record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonograph records
Senses: synonyms: record
gramophone record
vinyl
glosses: A disc, usually made of a polymer, used to record sound for playback on a phonograph.
Related terms: gramophone
record player
turntable
co-wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.waɪf/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.waɪf/
Forms: form: co-wives
Etymology: From co- + wife.
Senses: examples: text: If a co-wife had sought the lives of those three of thine.
ref: 1892, Kipling & Balestier, Naulahka, page 247:
text: In fact, [Ayesha] was more jealous of Khadija, the dead wife, than she was of any of her living co-wives.
ref: 1990, Syed A. A. Razwy, Khadija-tul-Kubra (the Wife of the Prophet Muhammed) May Allah be Pleased with Her: A Short Story of Her Life), page 165:
text: If the senior wife decides to make life unbearable for her co-wife and their husband, she is likely to succeed in forcing the newcomer to leave.
ref: 2000, Marjorie Shostak, Nisa, the life and words of a ǃKung woman, page 152:
text: In other words, polygamous societies differ markedly with regards to allowing kin, especially sisters, to become co-wives. Sororal polygamy is practised in some societies because it is believed to foster greater cohesiveness among co-wives sharing values and norms, whereas it is specifically forbidden in other polygamous societies.
ref: 2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis, page 32:
coordinate_terms: co-husband
glosses: In a polygamous marriage, another wife of a woman’s husband.
Synonyms: co-bride
fellow-wife
wife-in-law
Related terms: sister-wife
co-in-law
chamber-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jacchinus […] instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies.
ref: , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.235
glosses: Sex; fornication.
glosses: The work of a chambermaid.
phonograph records
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonograph record
anophelicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anopheles + -cide.
Senses: glosses: That which kills mosquitos.
Synonyms: culicide
mosquiticide
mosquitocide
squizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squizz
squizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squizz
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squiz
épicier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: épiciers
Etymology: From French épicier. Doublet of spicer.
Senses: examples: text: A Parisian épicier may be always known by his physical exterior, by his dress, his phraseology, his gait, or a certain ostentatiousness of manner, which the prying eye of the caricaturist will not fail to mark and make the most of.
ref: 1844, The Monthly Review, page 25:
glosses: A French grocer.
épiciers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of épicier
Gary Stu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gary Stus
Etymology: Male names that resemble Mary Sue.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A male Mary Sue.
Synonyms: Marty Stu
Marty Stu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marty Stus
Etymology: Male names that resemble Mary Sue.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A male Mary Sue.
Synonyms: Gary Stu