cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
catch a wave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches a wave
form: catching a wave
form: caught a wave
form: caught a wave
Senses: examples: text: Like surfers trying to catch a wave, balloonists try to ride jet streams.
ref: 1999 March 29, Nadya Labi, “Around the World in a Balloon in 20 Days”, in Time, retrieved 04 Apr 2020:
text: As anyone who has ever caught a wave on her own knows, surfing is a profound confidence booster.
ref: 2015 May 10, Ondine Cohane, “A Small Child, a Big Board, on Oahu’s North Shore”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Apr 2020:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: To mount one's surfboard at a distance from shore, turn it toward land, and control it for a successful, satisfying ride on inrushing water.
examples: text: The size of his fortune, he said, revealed only that "we caught a wave. We were lucky. We had more luck than we deserved."
ref: 1997 January 23, David Cay Johnston, “A Man Who Repaid His Debts”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Apr 2020:
text: He did have one brief spell in the second set when he seemed to catch a wave, pounding his backhand and winning 11 of 14 points.
ref: 2015 November 8, Simon Briggs, “Andy Murray brushed aside by increasingly dominant Novak Djokovic in Paris Masters final”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 04 Apr 2020:
glosses: To derive benefit from a fortunate opportunity; to experience a sudden increase in energy or luck.
Related terms: ride the wave
peaky blinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peaky blinder
Peaky Blinder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Peaky Blinders
Senses: examples: text: In our suburban retreats, less disturbed by Peaky pranks, though now and again hedges, fences, and flower beds testify to a visit, we are too apt to think it is no concern of ours, or to assert that, as regards Peaky Blinders at any rate, " I am not my brother's keeper".
ref: 1899, The Central Literary Magazine - Volume 14, page 72:
text: In other cities similar gangs were known by different names. In Birmingham they were called “Peaky Blinders' or 'Sloggers', while in Manchester and Salford they were known and feared as 'Scuttlers' and later as 'Ikes' or 'Ikey Lads'.
ref: 1989, David M. Downes, Crime and the City: Essays in Memory of John Barron Mays, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of peaky blinder (“gang member”).
Baybayin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /baɪˈbaɪ.(j)ɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog Baybayin.
Senses: synonyms: word: alibata
glosses: A writing system used in the Philippines.
sinofied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.noʊ.faɪd/
/ˈsaɪ.nə.faɪd/
Etymology: * sinofy + -ed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sinofy
sinofied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.noʊ.faɪd/
/ˈsaɪ.nə.faɪd/
Forms: form: more sinofied
form: most sinofied
Etymology: * sinofy + -ed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sinicized.
synonyms: word: sinicized
petrofictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrofiction
sinofy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.noʊ.faɪ/
/ˈsaɪ.nə.faɪ/
Forms: form: sinofies
form: sinofying
form: sinofied
form: sinofied
form: Sinify
form: sinify
form: Sinofy
Etymology: From sino- + -fy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sinicize.
synonyms: word: sinicize
petroculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrocultures
Etymology: From petro- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: From a vantage point twenty years hence, as the study of petroculture and petrofiction develops, the question remains pressing: why is it that this mineral, utterly pervasive in the everyday lives of people in developed economies, remains mostly "offshore" in social and cultural consciousness, surfacing now and again in the wake of foreign wars, gas price hikes, or Gulf-of-Mexico-type disasters?
ref: 2012 March-April, Graeme Macdonald, “Oil and world literature”, in American Book Review, volume 33, number 3:
text: This essay addresses the sight of petroculture, which is to say it examines how the global oil industry is represented, and how this, in turn, conditions vision.
ref: 2017, Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson, Imre Szeman, Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, page 222:
text: For scholars such as Macdonald, among others discussed in this chapter, contemporary culture is a petroculture, where fossil fuels have shaped the character and form of the modern (Buell 2012; LeMenager 2012; Wilson and Pendakis 2012; Barrett and Worden 2014; Szeman and Boyer 2017).
ref: 2017, Derek Gladwin, Ecological Exile: Spatial Injustice and Environmental Humanities:
text: Music is not simply a passive observer of the plastic age. It is an active contributor to petrocapitalism, an agent of petroculture.
ref: 2019, Kyle Devine, Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, page 100:
glosses: A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.
petroculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of petro- + agriculture
Senses: examples: text: Res: Inorganic and organic compounds of vanadium; diazo compounds; chemical and microbiological tests for vitamins; feeding and agronomie value of fermentation products: insect repellents; marketing amino acids; physiology of egg production; industrial wastes; petroculture crops: nutritional value of ethanol; oxidation-reduction potential in the rumen.
ref: 1977, American men & women of science: Consultants 1977, page 657:
text: Petroculture is like agriculture, except that plants are grown to be processed into fuels, plastics, building materials and other replacements for nonrenewable resources.
ref: 1979, The Cattleman - Volume 66, page 90:
glosses: The cultivation of crops that can be processed into products that currently require the use of petrochemicals.
petrocultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petroculture
petrocultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of petroculture; the study of how culture is dependent on oil and petrochemicals.
acetozolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acetazolamide.
adipokinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of adipokines
aeolosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeolosaurians
Senses: glosses: Any extinct titanosaur of the clade †Aeolosaurini
Related terms: aeolosaurid
aeolosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeolosaurids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct titanosaur of the genus †Aeolosaurus
Related terms: aeolosaurian
agnathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agnathia.
alginated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by addition of, or reaction with an alginate
alterocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From altero- + centric.
Senses: glosses: centred on other people
aminopterine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aminopterin.
amphibamiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphibamiforms
Senses: glosses: Any amphibamid of the clade Amphibamiformes
amplificational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amplification + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing amplification (typically of nucleic acid)
anchiornithid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchiornithids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct birdlike creature of the family †Anchiornithidae
anchiornithids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchiornithid
ancylostomid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancylostomids
Senses: glosses: Any hookworm of the family Ancylostomidae
ancylostomids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancylostomid
anguimorphid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anguimorphids
Senses: glosses: Any anguid of the suborder Anguimorpha.
anguimorphids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anguimorphid
anhydrosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhydrosaccharides
Etymology: From anhydro- + saccharide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of anhydrosugar.
synonyms: word: anhydrosugar
anhydrosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhydrosaccharide
outasite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outasite
form: most outasite
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of outasight.
antebrachiocarpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + brachio- + carpal.
Senses: glosses: anterior to the brachial plexus and carpal tunnel
anthocyanescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of red pigments (such as anthocyanin) as a symptom of disease
antidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of drugs (such as avidins) that bind tightly to biotin
antidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidin
antienzymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antienzymatic
form: most antienzymatic
Etymology: From anti- + enzymatic.
Senses: glosses: That inhibits the action of an enzyme
fix-it
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fix-its
Senses: examples: text: I've written fix-it fic myself: unhappy with the sad ending in the final season of BBC's Merlin, I rewrote the entire fifth season; […]
ref: 2017, Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 88:
text: A furious raft of "fix it" fics appeared after the play was released, re-writing scenes and revisiting the end of the play in order to give Albus and Scorpius the ending many fans believed was most fitting and deserved—the one the text had endeavored to build towards and then swerved to avoid at the last moment.
ref: 2018, Emily E. Roach, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child, in Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse (eds. Amanda Firestone & Leisa A. Clark), page 135
text: Gabriel, also known as the Trickster, is a skilled illusionist, the possibility that he faked his own death offers ample opportunity for fan "fix-its." (The online fan fiction archive Archive of Our Own, or AO3, at the time of writing features 271 Supernatural stories tagged with "Gabriel Lives.")
ref: 2019, Jessica George, “'The Monster at the End of This Book': Authorship and Monstrosity”, in Cristina Artenie, Ashley Szanter, editors, Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st Century Film and Television, page 212:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic which undoes or changes an element of canon viewed as unfavourable, e.g. a death, break-up, or betrayal.
Hyponyms: EWE
antimyotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + myotoxic.
Senses: glosses: That counters the action of a myotoxin
antiobsessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + obsessive.
Senses: glosses: That counters the effects of obsession
antiseborrhoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of antiseborrheic.
apicodistally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an apicodistal manner or direction
apoatropine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + atropine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alkaloid (8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-yl) 2-phenylprop-2-enoate
apohyoscine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + hyoscine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of aposcopolamine.
synonyms: word: aposcopolamine
aposcopolamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + scopolamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid present in several nightshades
argininamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid amide of arginine
articulometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From articulo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the articulations of the vocal tract
Related terms: articulometric
articulometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From articulo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to articulometry
artiodactylid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artiodactylids
Senses: glosses: Any of the order Artiodactyla of ungulates.
artiodactylids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artiodactylid
atezolizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An monoclonal antibody used in immunotherapy.
autopomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of autapomorphy.
leads someone up the garden path
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lead someone up the garden path
leading someone up the garden path
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lead someone up the garden path
led someone up the garden path
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lead someone up the garden path
petrocapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From petro- + capitalism.
Senses: examples: text: For the purpose of better understanding the ensuing discussion in this chapter, petrocapitalism is said to operate successfully through an intertwined oil complex “that is territorially constituted through oil concessions”.
ref: 2013, Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres, Sophal Ear -, The Hungry Dragon, page 27:
text: While geography of extractive petrocapitalism is focused on specific points in space – what Gavin Bridge (2010, 1) calls the geographies of “the hole” – consumptive petrocapitalism is dispersed and virtually includes the entirety of capitalism itself.
ref: 2017, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, International Encyclopedia of Geography:
text: Music is not simply a passive observer of the plastic age. It is an active contributor to petrocapitalism, an agent of petroculture.
ref: 2019, Kyle Devine, Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, page 100:
glosses: Those aspects of capitalism that involve the petrochemical industry.
R/H
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism from the names Ron and Hermione.
Senses: examples: text: Note that Sugarquill's philosophy is basically that Ron and Hermione belong together (although not all the stories are R/H), so if you happen to be a Harry/Hermione 'shipper' it won't quite fit your requirements.
ref: 2002 February 22, Pen, “Re: FanFics you liked”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: Jedi Boadicea is an R/H person, but that aspect doesn't take centre stage in her stories; she keeps in mind that the characters are still school-kids, so what little romance there is is^([sic]) always age-appropriate.
ref: 2002 November 13, Lisa Hicks, “Re: atmosphere or clue?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: My only criteria is I'm an R/H shipper so any story that doesn't have that pairing doesn't interest me.
ref: 2005 April 20, mis...@mi.com, “Fanfiction Recommendatios”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.
Synonyms: R/Hr
Romione
R/Hr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism from the names Ron and Hermione.
Senses: examples: text: For what it's worth, the vast majority of the fandom picks up on R/Hr over H/Hr.
ref: 2003 September 30, Tim Behrendsen, “Re: My input on Ha/Hr”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: So many H/G and R/Hr shippers were high-fiving each other last Saturday, it was quite fun.
ref: 2005 July 21, Frank Secada, “Viking Ginny? (spoilers)”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: And what would Lavender have done to deserve this, aside from be an obstacle to R/Hr 'shippers?
ref: 2005 September 17, Louis Epstein, “Re: HBP Chapter 22 re-read”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.
Synonyms: R/H
Romione
H/H
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism from the names Harry and Hermione.
Senses: examples: text: My daughter was finishing GOF & she was like, "Look! Here is the foreshadowing of the H/H relationship!"
ref: 2001 December 28, CrimsonRiver, “From GOF, a H/H relationship set up”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: Also I DON'T think like some H/H shippers that kiss on the cheek was a 'sign'.
ref: 2002 September 7, Tom, “Re: Poll: Ron with Hermione or Harry with Hermione?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: IMO H/H have been built as being compatible over the series while R/Hr are shown as volatile.
ref: 2003 March 24, Meliss9900, “Re: Re: Hermione”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.
Synonyms: H/Hr
Harmony
Snily
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Snape + Lily.
Senses: examples: text: A classic example is Jily (James/Lily) vs. Snily (Snape/Lily), which even had its own debate at LeakyCon.
ref: 2013 October, “Why Victoria (@timelinenargles) Keeps Calm And Ships Jily”, in Fandoms Assemble, page 18:
text: "If Snily had been a thing, there would have been no Harry Potter."
ref: 2014, Alice Oseman, Solitaire, unnumbered page:
text: The acronym OTP (One True Pairing) is used by many fans to emphasize their favourite ships ('I ship Snarry, but Snily is my OTP').
ref: 2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, page 279:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Severus Snape and Lily Potter of the Harry Potter series.
Jily
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of James + Lily.
Senses: examples: text: A classic example is Jily (James/Lily) vs. Snily (Snape/Lily), which even had its own debate at LeakyCon.
ref: 2013 October, “Why Victoria (@timelinenargles) Keeps Calm And Ships Jily”, in Fandoms Assemble, page 18:
text: For example, Rattlesnakeroot writes "I, for one, am glad to see "Lames" or "Jily" fall from grace and crash to pieces like the plaster saints they are. I'm so sick of the romantic picture of them that keeps permeating the various sites. *gag*" [11].
ref: 2014, Zoe Alderton, “'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, page 224:
text: Be prepared for some adorable Jily fluff towards the end haha.
ref: 2017, Meg, "Fanfic Recommendation", HPReadathon, October 2017, page 9
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters James Potter and Lily Potter of the Harry Potter series.
petromodernity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From petro- + modernity.
Senses: examples: text: While Oil, its extraction, and the global petroculture and its role in transforming the planet's climate undoubtedly play a crucial role in the Antropocene imaginary — to the extent that petrofiction has been construed not just as a genre but as a periodizing gesture of "petromodernity" — it would hamper both the imagination and the root of petrofiction to restrict the range of this term to the encounter with fossil fuels within a carbon imaginary.
ref: 2015, Adrian Daub, Elisabeth Krimmer, Goethe Yearbook 22, page 96:
text: After all, they embody petromodernity in almost every way, from their masculinist stereotyping to their fossil-fueled metabolism. Trucks would seem to be a survival of petromodernity rather than a signal of its end.
ref: 2019, Cymene Howe, Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene:
text: But I like the honesty of literary critic Stephanie LeMenager, who concludes that we love oil petromodernity – and the world it brings us – theater, movies, books, plastics, air conditioning, central heat, air travel.
ref: 2019, Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, Miriam Jacobson, The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation:
glosses: Those aspects of modern times that are dependent on and shaped by the availability of oil.
acafandom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acafandoms
form: aca-fandom
Etymology: Blend of academic + fandom.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than scholars being free to choose to act as differential interpretive communities with divergent norms and discursive practices (Brooker 2011), meaning that the identities cannot be united without losing sight of these contexts (or, indeed, losing sight of the precise micro-context within which such a union may seem more possible, e.g. TV Studies or fan studies where acafandom has arguably been normalised for a generation of researchers).
ref: 2012, Matt Hills, “'Proper Distance' In The Ethical Positioning Of Scholar-Fandoms: Between Academics' And Fans' Moral Economies?”, in Katherine Larsen, editor, Fan Culture: Theory/Practice, pages 16–17:
text: The feminist aca-fandom of Ginger Snaps needs to be seen in the context of an overall change in horror fandom demographics (where college-educated women now make up a near-majority faction).
ref: 2013, Ernest Mathijs, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps, page 100:
text: I wish what Jenkins asserts was entirely true, but in reality, I have lost count of the number of Harry Potter studies colleagues who have been challenged, marginalized, or outright threatened because of their publication and scholarship in this area. "Serious" scholars do not engage in acafandom.
ref: 2018, Christopher E. Bell, “Introduction”, in Christopher E. Bell, editor, Inside the World of Harry Potter: Critical Essays on the Books and Films, page 3:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The community or sphere of acafans.
Gosford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒsfəd/
Etymology: From Old English gōs (“goose”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A major suburb of the Central Coast, a region of New South Wales, Australia, formerly part of the City of Gosford.
glosses: A hamlet in Gosford and Water Eaton parish, near Kidlington, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5013).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
glosses: A river in Quebec, Canada.
Derived terms: Gosford Green
backbarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backbarriers
Senses: glosses: An island at the back of a lagoon
backsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backsheets
Etymology: back + sheet
Senses: glosses: The bottom layer of a solar cell.
antonyms: topsheet
coordinate_terms: topsheet
ADL
absorbent core
glosses: The outermost layer of a diaper or menstrual pad, made from breathable waterproof materials to prevent leakage.
backsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backsheet
bacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] between the plasmolemma and the baculoid layer a filamentous layer develops which is parallel to the surface of the pollen and consists of homogeneous matter. It is similar in density and structure to the bacular matter.
ref: 1986, Miklós Kedves, Introduction to the Palynology of Pre-quaternary Deposits:
glosses: Relating to a baculum.
Derived terms: probacular
basiethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛθmɔɪd
Etymology: From basi- + ethmoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: basal and ethmoid
betonicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A betaine derived from hydroxyproline
bikesharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The public sharing of bicycles
Related terms: bikeshare
biocementation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + cementation.
Senses: glosses: cementation by the deposition of calcium carbonate by microbes
biofoam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofoams
Etymology: From bio- + foam.
Senses: glosses: A biochemical foam
biofoams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofoam
quork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quorks
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: examples: text: Ten minutes later a raven lands on my blind, and I hear the heavy wingbeats of others, a soft quork here, a knocking there.
ref: 1989, Bernd Heinrich, Ravens in Winter, page 219:
text: A flock of ravens rose from inside the walls when they climbed through the broken gate, and the caged ravens in their wagons called out to them with quorks and raucous shrieks.
ref: 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, unnumbered page:
text: The sounds are the muffled gurgling of runoff under frozen brooks, and the sharp quork-quork-quork of ravens overhead.
ref: 2000, William Scheller, Snow Sports, page 170:
synonyms: gronk
glosses: The cry of a raven.
quork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quorks
form: quorking
form: quorked
form: quorked
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: examples: text: They quork a few times during their apparent morning inspecting for intruders and return down the valley to the pond.
ref: 1989, Bernd Heinrich, Ravens in Winter, page 259:
text: He could hear the ravens quork'''ing and complaining in the rookery above.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 549:
text: A raven quorks from high above the Hills Pond as we stroll Alder Brook Road.
ref: 2011, John M. Marzluff, Colleen Marzluff, Dog Days, Raven Nights, page 241:
synonyms: gronk
glosses: To make a quorking sound.
biohydrogenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biohydrogenate
biovariability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biovariabilities
Etymology: From bio- + variability.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: biological variability
Reff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reffs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Reff (“wooden frame”), a metonymic occupational surname for a carrier or peddler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
sinoatrial node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinoatrial nodes
form: SA node
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: sinus node
pacemaker
glosses: A group of cells located in the wall of the right atrium of the heart that originates the impulses stimulating the heartbeat.
wikipedia: sinoatrial node
Derived terms: sinoatrial nodal
Related terms: atrioventricular node
sinoatrial nodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinoatrial node
bistrategic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + strategic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to two strategies
quanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quant
quanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quant
bistratosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + stratosity.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being bistratose
unsmocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + smocked.
Senses: glosses: Not smocked.
Tecwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
convincings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convincing
boxwalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxwalkers
form: box walker
form: box-walker
Etymology: From box + walker.
Senses: glosses: A horse that repetitively walks around its stable
boxwalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boxwalker
brevipolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brevipolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of cytotoxic pyranone esters present in Hyptis brevipes
brevipolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brevipolide
Ashbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashbournes
Etymology: From Old English æsċ (“ash-tree”) + burna (“stream”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1846).
glosses: A placename:
A town in County Meath, Ireland.
glosses: A placename:
A small town in the Alexandrina Council, South Australia, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A small town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
skarcrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skarcrows
Senses: examples: text: No eye hath ſeene ſuch skarcrovves. Ile not march vvith them through Couentry vvith them, thats flat: […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of scarecrow.
skarcrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skarcrow
halloings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halloing
holloings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holloing
calcimicrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcimicrobes
Senses: glosses: A calcareous colonial microfossil from the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian period
calcimicrobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcimicrobe
campesteryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campesteryls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from campesterol
calcimicrobial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to calcimicrobes.
cardioimpedance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardioimpedances
Etymology: From cardio- + impedance.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: cardiac impedance
cardiorenovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + renovascular.
Senses: glosses: cardiac and renovascular
carvacryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from carvacrol
Book of Life
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Book of Life
Etymology: From Middle English bok of lyfe, boke of lyfe. Compare Old English līflīċ bōc (“Book of Life”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: Book of the Living
glosses: The book in which God is said to record the name of every person who is destined for heaven or the world to come.
chemotherapeuticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemotherapeutical
choanodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From choanoderm + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a choanoderm
chromatodermatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatodermatoses
Etymology: From chromato- + dermatosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the skin that is accompanied by pigmentation
cladocarpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clado- + -carpic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cladocarpous.
synonyms: word: cladocarpous
cladocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clado- + -carpous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having fruit at the end of branches
epsilometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epsilometer
coccidiostatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccidiostatic
colophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colophones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colophon.
colophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colophone
condylocanine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From condylo- + canine.
Senses: glosses: condylar and canine
corneoconjunctival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
-ʌŋktɪvəl
Etymology: From corneo- + conjunctival.
Senses: glosses: corneal and conjunctival
cremnobate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cremnobates
Senses: glosses: Any freshwater snail of the genus Cremnobates (now named Cremnoconchus)
cremnobates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cremnobate
cribroethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛθmɔɪd
Etymology: From cribro- + ethmoid.
Senses: glosses: cribrose and ethmoid
cryoblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoblocks
Etymology: From cryo- + block.
Senses: glosses: An insulated aluminium block in which frozen samples may be transported without the danger of thawing
cryoblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoblock
cryohomogenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryohomogenizes
form: cryohomogenizing
form: cryohomogenized
form: cryohomogenized
Etymology: From cryo- + homogenize.
Senses: glosses: To homogenize at low temperature
cryohomogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryohomogenize
cryohomogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: homogenized at low temperature
cycloartinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cycloartenol.
cytofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From cyto- + facial.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of endofacial.
synonyms: word: endofacial
cytokinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of cytokines
cytopositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + positive.
Senses: glosses: That tests positive for the presence of a viral infection within a cell
methyl hydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of methanol.
synonyms: word: methanol
ethyl hydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ethanol.
synonyms: word: ethanol
ethyl hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ethanol.
synonyms: word: ethanol
methyl hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of methanol.
synonyms: word: methanol
methylol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl- + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of methanol.
synonyms: word: methanol
Derived terms: clomocycline
methylol urea
ethylol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethyl + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ethanol.
synonyms: word: ethanol
leave much to be desired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves much to be desired
form: leaving much to be desired
form: left much to be desired
form: left much to be desired
Senses: examples: text: Southgate's side kept their nerve and discipline in the unsettling, intimidating surroundings of Budapest, with the behaviour of Hungary's fans leaving much to be desired, to turn up the heat and punish their opponents ruthlessly once they had gone ahead.
ref: 2021 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Hungary 0-4 England”, in BBC:
glosses: Synonym of leave a lot to be desired.
synonyms: word: leave a lot to be desired
monohydroxymethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monohydroxy methane
form: mono hydroxy methane
form: mono-hydroxy methane
form: mono-hydroxy-methane
Etymology: From mono- + hydroxy- + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of methanol.
synonyms: word: methanol
monohydroxyethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monohydroxy ethane
form: mono hydroxy ethane
form: mono-hydroxy ethane
form: mono-hydroxy-ethane
Etymology: From mono- + hydroxy- + ethane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ethanol.
synonyms: word: ethanol
manic pixie dreamgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manic pixie dreamgirls
Senses: examples: text: Your love for her is getting embarrassing. [...] She's gorgeous, she has buckets of charisma she couldn't hide if she tried, and she makes all the boys fall in love with her. That sounds like Manic Pixie Dreamgirl territory, my friend—which, news flash again, is a cliché.
ref: 2017 October, James Patterson, Emily Raymond, chapter 30, in Expelled, New York, N.Y.: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN; republished as The Injustice, New York, N.Y.: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2018, →ISBN:
text: A precursor to the “manic pixie dreamgirl” trope of today, the femme-enfant’s youth was to be mooned over, her naïveté aspired to, her pure countenance captured in poetry and paint.
ref: 2019 June, Pam Grossman, “The Dark Arts: Magic Makers and Craft Women”, in Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: Alternative form of manic pixie dream girl.
Mnuchin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈnuːʃɪn/
Forms: form: Mnuchins
form: Menuhin
form: Menukhin
form: Menukin
form: Minuhin
form: Minuchin
form: Minukhin
form: Minukin
form: Mnuhin
form: Mnukhin
form: Mnukin
Etymology: From Russian Менухин (Menuxin) and its various forms.
* (patronymic): From Russian Менахем (Menaxem, “Menachem”) + -ин (-in, “possessive”), from Hebrew מְנַחֵם (Menahem, “a Jewish male given name”)
* (matronymic): From Russian Менуха (Menuxa, “Menucha”) + -ин (-in, “possessive”), from Hebrew מנוחה (Menuha, “a Jewish female given name”)
Senses: examples: text: Mnuchin, asked about climate change in a CNBC interview after his comments about Thunberg, argued there were bigger issues that also needed to be addressed. When a host noted clean air rules as an example of something that might be more urgent, Mnuchin ignored the interjection.
ref: 2020 January 23, Philip Bump, “Mnuchin said Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate proposals. So we talked to an economist.”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2021:
glosses: A Jewish surname from Russian.
Glanister
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
OFWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OFW
fox-cub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox-cubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fox cub.
foxcub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxcubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fox cub.
existential risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: existential risks
Etymology: The "human extinction" sense was coined by philosopher and writer Nick Bostrom in 2002.
Senses: examples: text: In an industry that relies more than anything on the appearance of total control, total safety, these two crashes pose as close to an existential risk as you can get.
ref: 2019 April 18, Gregory Travis, “How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer”, in IEEE Spectrum:
text: I believe TSLA faces existential risk based on what is happening in the world today, and that this recent scare and economic recession will only catalyze further share price decline.
ref: 2020 March 30, “Tesla Faces Existential Risks”, in Seeking Alpha:
glosses: A risk which could destroy or permanently damage an entity; a risk to one's existence.
examples: text: The scenario of humanity going extinct in the next century is a disjunctive event. It could happen as a result of any of the existential risks we already know about—or some other cause which none of us foresaw.
ref: 2008, Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks”, in Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković, editors, Global Catastrophic Risks, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: But perhaps the strongest reason for judging the total existential risk within the next few centuries to be significant is the extreme magnitude of the values at stake.
ref: 2013 February, Nick Bostrom, “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority”, in Global Policy, volume 4, number 1, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2020:
text: The man often touted as the godfather of AI has quit Google, citing concerns over the flood of misinformation, the possibility for AI to upend the job market, and the “existential risk” posed by the creation of a true digital intelligence.
ref: 2023 May 2, Josh Taylor, Alex Hern, “‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: So why isn’t this all over the front pages? Why, when governments know we’re facing existential risk, do they fail to act?
ref: 2023 July 15, George Monbiot, “With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Altman’s dismissal by OpenAI’s board on Friday was the culmination of a power struggle between the company’s two ideological extremes—one group born from Silicon Valley techno-optimism, energized by rapid commercialization; the other steeped in fears that AI represents an existential risk to humanity and must be controlled with extreme caution.
ref: 2023 November 20, Karen Hao, Charlie Warzel, “Inside the Chaos at OpenAI”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A hypothetical future event which could cause human extinction or permanently and severely curtail humanity's potential.
existential risks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of existential risk
deglutarylating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + glutaryl + -ate + -ing.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That removes glutaryl groups
Related terms: deglutarylation
deglutarylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + glutarylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of glutaryl groups
Related terms: deglutarylating
sojorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sojourn.
sojorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sojourn.
dehydropeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehydropeptides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any peptide that contains one or more dehydroamino acids
dehydropeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydropeptide
dentatorubrothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dentatorubral and thalamic
deossifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deossify
deoxyanthocyanidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxyanthocyanidins
Etymology: From deoxy- + anthocyanidin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of an anthocyanidin in which a hydroxy group has been replaced by a hydrogen atom
Related terms: deoxyanthocyanin
deoxyanthocyanidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyanthocyanidin
dermatoneurological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dermato- + neurological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dermatoneurology
dermatoneurology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dermato- + neurology.
Senses: glosses: dermatological neurology
Related terms: dermatoneurological
nerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɜːk/
ipa: /ˈnɜɹk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: nerks
Etymology: Blend of nerd + jerk? Compare neek.
Senses: examples: text: Plants understand more than that. The celery in Barbara's sandwiches has a greater grasp of it than you, you nerk.
ref: 1980, Brian Thompson, Tishoo, a Play, page 21:
text: The real Socialists lost that election. They lose council elections too. They always lose elections, which, in view of the kind of nerks who often do get elected, is a shame.
ref: 1987, Punch, volume 293, numbers 7662-7669, page 30:
glosses: A stupid or objectionable person.
nerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerk
dexiotropal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dexiotropic.
cherry angioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry angiomas
Senses: synonyms: Campbell de Morgan spot
senile angioma
glosses: A benign tumor, observed as a cherry-red papule on the skin, that contains an abnormal proliferation of blood vessels.
cherry-red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cherry red.
cherry angiomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry angioma
senile angioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senile angiomas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cherry angioma.
synonyms: word: cherry angioma
senile angiomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senile angioma
Campbell de Morgan spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Campbell de Morgan spots
Etymology: First described by the 19th-century British surgeon Campbell de Morgan.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cherry angioma.
synonyms: word: cherry angioma
wikipedia: Campbell de Morgan
Campbell de Morgan spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Campbell de Morgan spot
Rodway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
deossify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deossifies
form: deossifying
form: deossified
form: deossified
Etymology: From de- + ossify.
Senses: glosses: To undergo deossification.
glosses: To cause the deossification of.
deossifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deossify
deossified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deossify
corona bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corona bonds
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A proposed bond to assist countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
corona bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corona bond
x-risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-risks
Senses: examples: text: Suppose also that you think AI is the most pressing x-risk, because (1) mitigating AI risk could mitigate all other existential risks, but not vice-versa, and because (2) AI is plausibly the first existential risk that will occur.
ref: 2012 November 13, Luke Muelhauser, “How can I reduce existential risk from AI?”, in LessWrong:
text: There are a number of potential candidates for most threatening X-risk. Personally I worry most about global pandemics, both because things like the Black Death and the Spanish flu have caused massive death before, and because globalization and the dawn of synthetic biology have made diseases both easier to spread and easier to tweak (intentionally or not) for maximum lethality. But I'm in the minority on that. The only X-risk basically anyone wanted to talk about at the conference was artificial intelligence.
ref: 2015 August 10, Dylan Matthews, “I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.”, in Vox:
glosses: Initialism of existential risk.