cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
iatropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iatropic
form: most iatropic
Etymology: From iatro- + -tropic.
Senses: examples: text: If not, was it casually discovered by the patient or by a physician in the course of an examination? If the latter, inquire carefully as to secondary iatropic factors.
ref: 1987, Hiram C. Polk, H. Harlan Stone, Bernard Gardner, Basic Surgery, page 409:
text: This latter effect is analogous to the problem of iatropic illness in medicine, in which treatment for one condition inadvertently induces another illness or problem.
ref: 1996, ASME Technical Papers, page 345:
text: Antihypertensive agents also are considered to contribute to dialysis hypotension through vasodilation, negative iatropic effects on the heart, or both.
ref: 2005 January, Atsushi Takeda, Takayuki Toda, Takuma Fujii, Shinsuke Shinohara, Sei Sasaki, Noriaki Matsui, “Discordance of influence of hypertension on mortality and cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis patients”, in American Journal of Kidney Diseases, volume 45, number 1:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing a patient to need medical attention, especially when caused by a medical treatment.
examples: text: Further, study of reference sources will give insight into iatropic problems, (i.e., Different professionals see the same situation from different viewpoints and may therefore draw different conclusions.)
ref: 1980, Proceedings of International Computer Symposium 1980:
text: One wonders on the other hand if this is not an iatropic problem in that the original theory of plate tectonics is not in some way askew and that the unbending is really not necessary to explain because that is the way it ought to be in any case.
ref: 1981, Applied Mechanics Reviews - Volume 34, page 1365:
text: Second, the very act of maintenance, even when performed correctly often induces problems in previously functioning machinery (so-called iatropic maintenance problems) .
ref: 2002, D.L. Hall, “Intelligent monitoring of complex systems”, in Advances in Intelligent Systems for Defence:
glosses: Pertaining to professional attention or opinions that cause the need for further professional attention or opinions.
squaffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squaffle
nonhemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhemoglobins
Etymology: From non- + hemoglobin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that is not a hemoglobin.
nonhemoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhemoglobin
photodisruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + disruptive.
Senses: glosses: That causes photodisruption
photodisruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpʃən
Forms: form: photodisruptions
Etymology: From photo- + disruption.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The use of short bursts of laser light to disrupt tissue
Derived terms: microphotodisruption
Related terms: photodisrupt
photodisruptive
photohyperpolarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + hyperpolarization.
Senses: glosses: hyperpolarization by means of light
photoimmune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photoimmunotherapeutic.
photolithoautotrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photo- + lithoautotrophically.
Senses: glosses: In a photolithoautotrophic manner
photoorganoheterotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + organoheterotrophic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photoorganoheterotrophs
photoorganoheterotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoorganoheterotrophs
Etymology: From photo- + organoheterotroph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organoheterotroph that also obtains energy from light
Related terms: photoorganoheterotrophic
photoorganoheterotrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photo- + organoheterotrophically.
Senses: glosses: In a photoorganoheterotrophic manner
phthiocerols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phthiocerol
piecewisely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From piecewise + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a piecewise manner
piperlongumine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cyclic amide 1-[(2E)-3-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)prop-2-enoyl]-5,6-dihydropyridin-2(1H)-one present in the pepper Piper longum
pliosauroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pliosauroids
Senses: glosses: Any pliosaur of the suborder Pliosauroidea
pliosauroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pliosauroid
regionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary. Doublet of regionarius.
Senses: examples: text: Not surprisingly, the regionary magistrates do not appear very often in the historians: not every aedile turned out like Vespasian.
ref: 2013, Paul Erdkamp, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, page 175:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
regionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regionaries
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary. Doublet of regionarius.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”).
synonyms: word: regionarius
extra: type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic
glosses: A catalogue of monuments and buildings in ancient Rome, produced from a survey.
podoconiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podoconioses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An endemic form of nonfilarial elephantiasis
polarotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polaro- + -tactic.
Senses: glosses: That is attracted to polarized light, typically reflected from a surface
posthypostomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + hypostomal.
Senses: glosses: posterior to a hypostome
nZVI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nZVIs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of nano zero-valent iron.
postperceptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + perceptual.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Following perception (of a stimulus)
postranscriptionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posttranscriptionally.
prenucleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + nucleolar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a prenucleolus
glosses: Prior to the formation of a nucleolus
pre-queuosine1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preQ₁
form: prequeuosine
form: pre queuosine
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a modified nucleoside that is an intermediate in the production of queuosine from GTP (guanosine triphosphate).
preQ1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pre-queuosine1.
Hano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi Haano (“Tewa person”).
Senses: synonyms: Tegua
Tewa Village
holonyms: First Mesa
glosses: A Hopi-Tewa village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
presumptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From presumptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being presumptive.
pretrochanteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pertrochanteric.
proaggregatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + aggregatory.
Senses: glosses: That promotes aggregation
prostectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Alternative form of prostatectomy.
direct-to-DVD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a motion picture, originally released in DVD format without being released to cinemas or broadcast on television.
Related terms: direct-to-video
made-for-TV
proteoglucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteoglucans
Senses: glosses: Any proteoglycan in which the sugar moiety is glucose
proteoglucans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteoglucan
protopectinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protopectinases
Etymology: From proto- + pectinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protease that breaks down protopectin
protopectinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protopectinase
protospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protosphere
pseudoallelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + allelic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to pseudoalleles or to pseudoallelism
pseudopilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopilins
Etymology: From pseudo- + pilin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of pilin that lacks disulfide bonds between its folds
pseudopilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudopilin
pseudozygosphene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudozygosphenes
Etymology: From pseudo- + zygosphene.
Senses: glosses: A rudimentary zygosphene present in early reptiles
pseudozygosphenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudozygosphene
pyroglutamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with pyroglutamate or other derivative of pyroglutamic acid
Related terms: pyroglutamate
pyroglutamylation
quasistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + stable.
Senses: glosses: Temporarily stable
Related terms: metastable
radiocautery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + cautery.
Senses: glosses: cautery by means of radiofrequency radiation
radiocurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + curable.
Senses: glosses: curable by means of radiotherapy
Related terms: radiocurability
radiocurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocurabilities
Etymology: From radio- + curability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being radiocurable
radioefflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + efflux.
Senses: glosses: efflux of material from cells as a result of radiotherapy or other radiation
radiouptake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + uptake.
Senses: glosses: The uptake of radiolabelled material by tissue
rearterialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From re- + arterialized.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rearterialize
rearterialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + arterialized.
Senses: glosses: arterialized again, especially after dearterialization
reheparinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + heparinized.
Senses: glosses: heparinized again
reinterpolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinterpolate
reinterpolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: interpolated again
retropancreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + pancreatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the pancreas
ribosomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ribosomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of ribosomes
scleromorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sclero- + -morphic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sclerophyllous.
synonyms: word: sclerophyllous
secretomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of secretomes
Related terms: secretomic
secretomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to secretomes or to secretomics
sensoriperceptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sensory + i + perceptual.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to sensory perception.
snub-nosed monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snub-nosed monkeys
Senses: glosses: Any Old World monkey of the genus Rhinopithecus.
snub-nosed monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snub-nosed monkey
septrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The antibiotic sulfamethoxazole
serodiscordancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sero- + discordancy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of serodiscordance.
seroprevalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of seroprevalence.
seroprevelance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of seroprevalence.
sintomatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of symptomatology.
sociomap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociomaps
Etymology: From socio- + map.
Senses: glosses: A graphic representation of a social network
sociomaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociomap
sociometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sociometry (especially as an academic study)
Related terms: sociometric
somnogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being somnogenic
spantagoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of spatangoid.
spermatogonangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatogonangia
Senses: glosses: The structure that carries the spermatogonia
spermatogonangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatogonangium
spinodendritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spino- + dendritic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dendritic spines
dendritic spine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendritic spines
Senses: synonyms: gemmule
glosses: A small membranous protrusion from the dendrite of a neuron that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse.
Related terms: spinodendritic
dendritic spines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendritic spine
sporotrichoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sporotrich- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Suggestive of sporotrichosis.
Resembling sporotrichosis (but found to be due to other causes), as may be true of any nodular lymphangitis.
glosses: Suggestive of sporotrichosis.
Relating to sporotrichosis; sporotrichotic.
staminodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of staminodes
stellates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stellate
stellate cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellate cells
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any cell that has radiating dendritic processes
stellate cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stellate cell
stereodiagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereodiagrams
Etymology: From stereo- + diagram.
Senses: glosses: A stereoscopic diagram
stereodiagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereodiagram
subcatchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcatchments
Etymology: From sub- + catchment.
Senses: glosses: Any distinct part of a catchment
subcatchments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcatchment
subthermocline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sub-thermocline
Etymology: From sub- + thermocline.
Senses: glosses: subthermoclinal
superaquaporin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superaquaporins
Etymology: From super- + aquaporin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aquaporin that lacks a cytoplasmic N-terminal region
superaquaporins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superaquaporin
supraoptimally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supra- + optimally.
Senses: glosses: In a supraoptimal manner
supraselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + selective.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of superselective.
synonyms: word: superselective
chat-tyrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chat-tyrants
Senses: glosses: Any of the tyrant flycatchers in the South American genera Ochthoeca and Silvicultrix
Chagos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Chagos Archipelago.
Derived terms: Chagossian
bing sutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bing sutts
Etymology: From Cantonese 冰室 (bing1 sat1, literally “ice room”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Cantonese shop selling cold drinks and sometimes light meals, found mainly in Hong Kong.
bing sutts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bing sutt
antiblistering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + blistering.
Senses: glosses: Preventing blistering.
taphocoenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taphocoenoses
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An assemblage of dead organisms
taphocoenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taphocoenosis
thermoalkaliphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoalkaliphiles
Etymology: From thermo- + alkaliphile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that lives in a hot, alkaline environment
Related terms: thermoalkalophilic
thermoalkaliphiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermoalkaliphile
thermoalkalophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + alkalophilic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an thermoalkaliphile
thermochron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermochrons
Senses: glosses: A device that records temperature (in thermochronology and thermochronometry)
scholasticate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scholasticates
Etymology: From neo-Latin scholasticātus
Senses: glosses: A college for Roman Catholic scholastics planning to enter a religious order or seminary; The studies carried out there; The period of time in which such studies are carried out
thermosalinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermosalinometers
Etymology: From thermo- + salinometer.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the temperature and salinity of water
thermotactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermotactic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to thermotaxis
tonotopicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being tonotopic
transphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of transsphenoidal.
trophicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being trophic
tubuloglandular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ændjʊlə(ɹ)
-ændʒʊlə(ɹ)
-ænʒʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From tubulo- + glandular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to tubules and glands
undervascularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + vascularized.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently vascularized
unfusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fusable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be fused
unicapitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + capitate.
Senses: glosses: Singly capitate
uniclonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + clonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a single clone; derived from a single cell line
unparameterised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + parameterised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unparameterized.
uterotubal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From utero- + tubal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or connecting, the uterus and the Fallopian tubes.
vasoconstrict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vasoconstricts
form: vasoconstricting
form: vasoconstricted
form: vasoconstricted
Etymology: From vaso- + constrict.
Senses: glosses: To undergo, or cause to undergo, vasoconstriction.
vasomodulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vaso- + modulatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing vasomodulation
venocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From veno- + centric.
Senses: glosses: Centred on veins
versipelostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chaperone statin that is a metabolite of Streptomyces versipellis
vibriophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibriophages
Etymology: Vibrio + -phage
Senses: glosses: A bacteriophage that infects bacteria of the genus Vibrio
vibriophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibriophage
videoplanimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From video- + planimetry.
Senses: glosses: planimetry using video images
wavespeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wavespeeds
form: wave speed
Etymology: From wave + speed.
Senses: glosses: The speed/velocity of a wave.
wavespeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavespeed
wolbachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Wolbachia + -al
Senses: glosses: Relating to bacteria of the genus Wolbachia
CWDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CWD
vasoconstricts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vasoconstrict
Reiger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reigers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Reiger or a reduced form of Dutch de Reiger.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Reigers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reiger
'choo
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: ‘’Choo lookin’ at?’ said Stan.
ref: 1999, J. K. Rowling, chapter 3, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury:
glosses: what you
woss
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: ‘Woss that on your ’ead?’ said Stan abruptly.
ref: 1999, J. K. Rowling, chapter 3, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury:
text: 'Woss he want now?' I says.
ref: 2005, Charlie Williams, Fags and Lager, page 71:
text: "Woss your poison, Jazz?"
"Can I have a glass of chilled white wine?"
ref: 2011, Kate Rigby, Tales By Kindlelight:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what's.
Related terms: wassis
Drac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
Opened the lid and shook his fist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"
It's now the Mash
It's now the Monster Mash.
ref: 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
text: […] Roger Corman's 1993 attempted Bram Stoker's Dracula rip-off, Dracula Rising (New Horizons), which is to Coppola's vampire epic what Drac's reflection is to the count himself.
ref: 2000, Joe Kane, The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Still, the Count graciously agrees to […] do a brief roll call of his manifold Dracula tattoos. "That's a Drac, that's a Drac, that's a Drac, that's a demon, and that's for me," he says of the tattoo on his right arm that reads donna. The full-length Dracula on his back, alas, is but one third complete.
ref: 2004, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer and Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, →ISBN:
text: It was Irish actor, playwright and director Deane (1880-1958) who, upon adapting Stoker’s novel for the stage, envisioned ol’ Drac as a tuxedo-and-cape-wearing high-society maven that was, later, perfected by Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi.
ref: 2017 October 29, Eric Feber, “Continue the scares past Halloween with TCC's production of "Dracula"”, in The Virginian-Pilot:
glosses: Nickname for the fictional vampire Dracula.
Synonyms: Dracula
Count Dracula
logizomechanophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logo- + mechano- + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: cyberphobia
computerphobia
technofear
glosses: Fear of computers.
nephophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nepho- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Another "ia" was evolving here, she felt, to send Mrs. Goodchild scuttling delightedly: nephophobia, a terror of clouds.
ref: 2004, Peter Rushforth, Pinkerton's Sister, →ISBN, page 410:
text: Lions, Tigers and Clouds….Oh My...Is it possible, you wonder, that I have Nephophobia?
ref: 2011 July, Mark McCourt, “Curing Nephophobia”, in SECURITY, page 10:
text: Natural environment phobias include weather-related conditions such as fear of thunderstorms (astrophobia), clouds (nephophobia), hurricanes (lilapsophobia), snow (chionophobia), cold (cryophobia), wind (ancraophobia), and rain (ombrophobia), among others.
ref: 2014 August, Jill S. M. Coleman, Kaylee D. Newby, Karen D. Multon, Cynthia L. Taylor, “Weathering the Storm: Revisiting Severe-Weather Phobia”, in BAMS, page 1179:
glosses: The fear of clouds.
Related terms: nephophile
nephophilia
nephophobe
yoursen
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: yersen
Etymology: From your + sen.
Senses: examples: If yo doan't want to goa, suit yorsen
glosses: Yourself.
proprietarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: proprietarians
Etymology: From proprietary + -an (or + -ian).
Senses: examples: text: The quakers and proprietarians together have little weight. New Jersey shows a noble ardor. Is there any thing in the air or soil of New York unfriendly to the spirit of liberty?
ref: 1854, John Adams, Charles Francis Adams, Works: with a life of the author, page 411:
text: When Richard Peters reported to Penn on 2 October that the proprietarians had lost the election, he did not mention Franklin's supposed betrayal of Allen, Hamilton, and Chew.
ref: 2008, J. A. Leo Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 536:
text: Although the proprietarians lost seats, the 1742 election opened a season of political détente between the warring factions. The governor finally got his lazaretto, and legislators even compromised on compensating Thomas Graeme, ...
ref: 2012, Simon Finger, The Contagious City: the politics of public health in early Philadelphia, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: A proponent of proprietarianism, that is, of proprietary colonies and proprietary government in colonial America.
examples: text: The poor have been classified as the proletarians and the rich as the proprietarians on the Chinese mainland. In the Communist view all proletarians are good men and all proprietarians are bad men.
ref: 1974, Free China Review:
text: This is because in the capitalist nations, most people are wealthy and are proprietarians; therefore, their social culture and social logic are established on the basis of the wealthy.
ref: 2017, Xu Xue Chun, Century Sentence: A Diary Written to God Accusing Against All of the World, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who owns property (a proprietor) or believes in proprietarianism, that is, that property is an absolute right.
proprietarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: proprietarians
Etymology: From propriety + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: The conversazioni are of all sorts, from the conversazioni of the rigid proprietarians, where people sit down to a kind of hopeless whist, at a soldo the point, and say nothing, to the conversazioni of the demimonde where they say any thing.
ref: 1883, William Dean Howells, Venetian Life, Leipzig: B. Tauschnitz, page 331:
text: We could do just about as we very well pleased, so long as we did not hurt ourselves or others, and so long as we understood right from wrong. Indeed, we were disciplined by proprietarians.
ref: 1977, Eva Malott, Ada McPhilliamy, Dick Pence, Digging our roots, page 158:
glosses: A stickler for proprieties.
Related terms: propertarian
proprietarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proprietarian
metoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metoo
thassit
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: that's it
isepipteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isepiptesis
necklacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necklacers
Etymology: From necklace + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out execution by necklacing.
necklacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necklacer
Square-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A reference to the popular phrase "back to square one".
Senses: glosses: A puzzle similar to a Rubik's Cube that can change shape due to the way it is cut.
sambista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambistas
Etymology: From Portuguese sambista.
Senses: glosses: A samba musician.
sambistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sambista
black whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black whales
Senses: glosses: Any whale of three species:
a sperm whale (Physeter catodon, syn. Physeter macrocephalus (family Physeteridae))
glosses: Any whale of three species:
a right whale or northern right whale (family Balaenidae)
North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
glosses: Any whale of three species:
a right whale or northern right whale (family Balaenidae)
North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)
glosses: Any cetacean blackfish.
oaxaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Poblano Chile: fried poblano pepper, quinoa, butternut squash, oaxaca cheese, seared greens, garlic tomato broth, crema
ref: 2014, Where to Eat Guide Central Napa - Spring Issue 2014:
text: I most enjoyed the rajas, highlighted by perfectly smoky poblano slices with melty oaxaca cheese and a dash of sea salt.
ref: 2019 January 17, Timothy Malcolm, “Our Latest Obsession: The Costras at La Vibra”, in Houstonia Magazine:
text: Items on the menu include shrimp taco with pineapple slaw and chipotle sauce, a barbecue pulled pork taco with corn, avocado, cilantro and a barbecue sour cream drizzle, a carne asada beef taco with oaxaca cheese, queso fresco, guacamole and ranchero sauce, a lime pastor taco with grilled pineapple,cilantro and ranchero sauce and for dessert, Margaritaville’s signature key lime pie.
ref: 2019 October 22, Ryan Loughlin, “Tacos and tequila in paradise”, in Atlantic City Weekly:
text: Next, to balance sweet with savory, order the Dirty Tots with bacon, pickled jalapenos, oaxaca cheese sauce and sharp cheddar.
ref: 2019 October 23, Megan Ziots, “Dallas' Best Brunch Spots by Neighborhood — a Guide to the Week's Most Important Meal”, in Paper City Magazine:
text: They have brought in a wide variety of spices including many organic options, and a dairy case with cheeses including halloumi, queso fresco, mexicano, and oaxaca.
ref: 2019 November 12, Eva Fisher, “KNosh News – November 2019”, in kawartha NOW:
glosses: Alternative form of Oaxaca (the cheese)
Durexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Durex
in reverse
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The Satanic message can be unmasked by playing the song in reverse.
glosses: Of a motion, sequence, etc.: backwards; reversed.
examples: text: When the officer approached the car, the driver put it in reverse and drove away.
glosses: Of a motor car: in reverse gear.
motarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more motarded
form: most motarded
Etymology: Blend of motard + retarded
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Like a motard; obnoxiously overenthusiastic.
colonelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colonel
coloneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colonel
colonelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colonel
coloneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colonel
androidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From android + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being an android; robotic behaviour.
lessoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lessoners
Etymology: From lesson + -er.
Senses: glosses: A teacher.
glosses: A student.
lessoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lessoner
unraceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unraceable
form: most unraceable
Etymology: From un- + raceable.
Senses: examples: text: If it wasn't for Alec the Black would be unraceable. Now he gets mad only when Alec leaves without him.
ref: 2011, Walter Farley, The Black Stallion Mystery:
glosses: Not raceable; unsuitable for racing.
eve-tease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eve-teases
form: eve-teasing
form: eve-teased
form: eve-teased
Senses: glosses: To subject (a person) to Eve-teasing.
eve-teases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eve-tease
eve-teased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eve-tease
roadside Romeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadside Romeos
Etymology: Named after the famous lover in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Senses: examples: text: Ismail Bhai speaks Bambaiya. In particular, his speech is heavily laced with bhai-giri, the street style of taporis—wannabe thugs, wastrels, roadside Romeos, smart alecks, and of course, the quintessential fast-talking and endearing Bombay hustleer of Hindi cinema. While Bhai is bro, the suffix giri is a mode of operation, code, style or trend.
ref: 2022 July 30, Gautam Pemmaraju, “Bol Bachchan: Speaking Together And Sticking Together In Mumbai”, in Outlook:
glosses: A young man who harasses women in the street, subjecting them to Eve-teasing.
roadside Romeos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadside Romeo
biofungicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofungicides
Etymology: From bio- + fungicide.
Senses: glosses: Any naturally-occurring (rather than synthetic) fungicide.
biofungicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to biofungicides.
biofungicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofungicide
marqueeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marquee
marqueed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marquee
palaeonutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleonutrition.
torulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From torula + -in.
Senses: glosses: An antineuritic basic compound isolated from yeast.
Derived terms: catatorulin
pub-sub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pub/sub
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of publish–subscribe pattern.
propagand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propagands
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of propaganda.
propagand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: propagands
form: propaganding
form: propaganded
form: propaganded
Etymology: Back-formation from propaganda.
Senses: glosses: To promote through propaganda.
glosses: To influence (a person) by propaganda.
propagands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propagand
propagands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of propagand
Halligan tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Halligan tools
form: halligan tool
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Halligan bar.
synonyms: word: Halligan bar
Halligan tools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Halligan tool
Halligan bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Halligan bars
form: halligan bar
Etymology: Named after its designer, New York City firefighter Hugh Halligan, in 1948.
Senses: synonyms: Halligan tool
Halligan
halligan
halligan tool
hooligan tool
glosses: A firefighter's multipurpose tool for breaking down doors, etc., having a claw (or fork), a blade, and a tapered pick.
Halligan bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Halligan bar
disponents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disponent
icastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰκαστικός (eikastikós).
Senses: glosses: imitative or figurative; making a likeness
Related terms: icasm
icasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icasms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἴκασμα (eíkasma, “likeness”), from εἰκάζω (eikázō).
Senses: glosses: imitative or figurative expression
Related terms: icastic
icasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icasm
Littlewood's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The law was framed by Cambridge University Professor John Edensor Littlewood, and published in a 1986 collection of his work.
Senses: glosses: The observation that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million approximately once per month.
chat-tyrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chat-tyrant
mudnesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudnester
fenodyree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenodyrees
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A little hairy sprite in the folklore of the Isle of Man.
fenodyrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenodyree
objectism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From object + -ism, coined by the poet Charles Olson.
Senses: glosses: An approach to poetry in which the poet is regarded as just one object among the other objects in existence, rather than a subject through which they are mediated.
wikipedia: Charles Olson
Related terms: objectist
eventism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From event + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A monistic ontology of physics founded on events.
Coordinate terms: pointism
pointism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From point + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A monistic ontology of physics founded on points.
Coordinate terms: eventism
eventives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eventive
cunninghamia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunninghamias
Senses: glosses: A china fir (Cunninghamia spp.), tall, ornamental evergreens in the cypress family, of east Asia.
autoconsumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Etymology: From auto- + consumption.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
economics
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: The consumption by oneself of the goods that one has produced.
intercorrelational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intercorrelation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to intercorrelation.
woolenette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woolenet.
woollenette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woolenet.
woollenet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woollenets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woolenet.
woollenets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woollenet
prenatals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prenatal
postterm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + term.
Senses: synonyms: postmature
glosses: Beyond the usual period of gestation.
freespool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freespools
form: freespooling
form: freespooled
form: freespooled
Etymology: From free + spool.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To release the fishing line freely from its spool, not under tension.
freespooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freespool
freespools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of freespool
freespooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freespool
Little-Master cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Little-Master cups
Senses: hyponyms: band cup
glosses: A kind of Attic black-figure cup, produced in the sixth century BC, bearing fine small-format decoration.
Little-Master cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Little-Master cup
fluff-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fluff-dries
form: fluff-drying
form: fluff-dried
form: fluff-dried
Senses: glosses: To tumble-dry without heat, resulting in a softer texture.
limbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From limby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being limby.
roundwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundwood
xeromesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xeromesic
form: most xeromesic
Etymology: From xero- + mesic.
Senses: examples: a xeromesic soil
glosses: Between xeric and mesic; moderately dry.
methylmercuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From methyl- + mercuric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That contains a methyl group and a mercury atom.
Ixmiquilpan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ixmiquilpan, from a Nahuan language, equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Itzmiquilpan, from itzmīquilitl (“purslane”) + -pan (locative suffix), calqued from Mezquital Otomi Nts’u̱tk’ani, from tsꞌu̱tkꞌǎni (“purslane”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Hidalgo, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
chinning bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinning bars
Senses: examples: text: He had lost one of the oars. The other was pulled tight against him like a chinning bar.
ref: 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part 4, Chapter 20, p. 545:
text: Robert did his exercises, standing in the yard where she could see him. Indian clubs—a chinning bar and shadow boxing.
ref: 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, published 1978, Prologue, p. 18:
glosses: A bar used for doing chin-ups or pull-ups (exercises in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar)
Synonyms: sense: bar for chin-ups
word: chin-up bar
sense: bar for chin-ups
word: chinup bar
what of
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: What about; used to ask someone to consider something or someone that they have apparently not considered.
Derived terms: what of it
what of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: What of the thin and rotten ice he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying to drive him.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “The Toil of Trace and Trail”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 152:
synonyms: what with
glosses: Because of, due to.
grantback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grantbacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grant-back.
grantbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grantback
Wuqing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹchǐngʹ
Forms: form: Wu-ch'ing
form: Wuching
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武清 (Wǔqīng).
Senses: examples: text: One property project named Sunrise Apartments in Wuqing, close to the Beijing-Tianjin border, saw prices jump 45 per cent in the last month.
ref: 2018 June 15, Frank Tang, “Welcome to the Chinese city of Tianjin: where our housing glut can build you a better future”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2018, China:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
abacillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + bacillary.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of abacterial.
synonyms: word: abacterial
Gaocun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gouʹtso͝onʹ
Forms: form: Kao-ts’un
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高村 (Gāocūn).
Senses: examples: text: In 1991-1992, the Archaeology Section, Tianjin Municipal Museum of History, carried out survey and trial excavation at the Lancheng site to the south of Lancheng village in Gaocun township, Wuqing county, Tianjin, which resulted in the revelation of an ash-pit, an ash-trench and two wells.
ref: 2001, 考古杂志, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 807:
text: The first simultaneous vertical distribution measurements using aircraft and tethered balloon were conducted in Gaocun (a rural site between Beijing and Tianjin) on June 17th.
ref: 2021 June 15, Zhao Ruojie et al., “Aircraft-based observation of gaseous pollutants in the lower troposphere over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region”, in Science of The Total Environment, volume 773, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A town in Wuqing district, Tianjin, China, formerly a township.
glosses: A village in Gaocun, Wuqing district, Tianjin, China.
abraxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of paclitaxel combined with an albumin
acetotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aceto- + -trophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That can metabolise acetate, typically yielding methane and carbon dioxide
Related terms: acetotrophy
agnostoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agnostoid
airna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airnas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aiRNA.
aiRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aiRNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: asymmetric interfering RNA
aiRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aiRNA
alleatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aleatory.
isepiptesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isepipteses
Senses: examples: text: His chief object was to trace what he termed the isepipteses (ισος = æqulis, επιπτῃς = advolatus) or the lines of simultaneous arrival, and in the case of 7 species these are laid down on the maps which accompany his treatise.
ref: 1896, Alfred Newton, A Dictionary of Birds, page 559:
text: In the past, arrival times of returning migrants plotted on maps, so-called isochronuous lines (isepipteses, isochrones, isophenes) were shown to match more or less specific isotherms (Schüz et al., 1971).
ref: 1996, Peter Berthold, Control of Bird Migration, page 191:
glosses: Alternative form of isopiptesis.