cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fibriscess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibriscesses
Senses: examples: text: The two shallower fibriscesses may represent lysis due to the spread of the infection that entered the phalanx at its presumed puncture wound, the deep fibriscess on the palmar surface.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Record-Breaking Pain: The Largest Number and Variety of Forelimb Bone Maladies in a Theropod Dinosaur”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A fibrous abscess.
Derived terms: fibriscessed
stomach ulcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomach ulcer
fibriscesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On its left side the animal has a fractured scapula and radius and large fibriscesses in the ulna and the proximal thumb phalanx.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Record-Breaking Pain: The Largest Number and Variety of Forelimb Bone Maladies in a Theropod Dinosaur”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of fibriscess
fibriscessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fibriscessed
form: most fibriscessed
Etymology: From fibriscess + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The specimen’s original and otherwise-thorough description [12 ] mentions only one of the pathological features reported here, the fibriscessed left thumb phalanx.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Record-Breaking Pain: The Largest Number and Variety of Forelimb Bone Maladies in a Theropod Dinosaur”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having fibriscesses
back passages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back passage
heterotetrametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + tetrametric.
Senses: examples: text: In general, the KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 subunits form a heterotetrametric potassium channel, i.e., K v 7.2/K v 7.3.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Retigabine, a K v 7.2/K v 7.3-Channel Opener, Attenuates Drug-Induced Seizures in Knock-In Mice Harboring Kcnq2 Mutations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to heterotetramers
smart meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smart meter
gas meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas meter
hypertorsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + torsion.
Senses: examples: text: The humerus exhibits no apparent evidence of any injury or other physical insult that could have caused the hypertorsion.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Record-Breaking Pain: The Largest Number and Variety of Forelimb Bone Maladies in a Theropod Dinosaur”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive torsion.
peat bogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peat bog
macronematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + nematous.
Senses: examples: text: Conidiophores on trichomes, micronematous, formed along the hyphae, sometimes macronematous terminally at the apex of trichomes, mononematous, cylindrical, 5–62.5 × 5.0–7.5 μm, 0–5 septate, occasionally branched, brown, smooth.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having larger than normal conidiogenous cells
micronematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + nematous.
Senses: examples: text: Conidiophores on trichomes, micronematous, formed along the hyphae, sometimes macronematous terminally at the apex of trichomes, mononematous, cylindrical, 5–62.5 × 5.0–7.5 μm, 0–5 septate, occasionally branched, brown, smooth.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having smaller than normal conidiogenous cells
daily breaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daily breader
monoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -blastic.
Senses: examples: text: Conidiogenous cells holoblastic, monoblastic, cylindrical to narrowly ampulliform, straight to slightly curved, 7.5–37.5 × 2.5–5 μm, reddish brown to pale brown.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a monoblast
taxi fares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxi fare
overconfluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + confluent.
Senses: examples: text: Sdc1-overexpressing HMF gained an enhanced spindle-shaped morphology when cultured in an overconfluent state under conditions permissive for ECM production, which was partially reversed by siRNA-mediated silencing of β3 integrin expression.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Syndecan-1-Induced ECM Fiber Alignment Requires Integrin αvβ3 and Syndecan-1 Ectodomain and Heparan Sulfate Chains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessively confluent
Related terms: overconfluence
side roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side road
postmutational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + mutational.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, RP-0124 and RP-1650 families shared a common haplotype defined by the two flanking markers D15S1050 (289bp allele) and D15S204 (127bp allele) whereas the other two families, one from the same city (RP-0576) and RP1996 showed the same proximal marker (D15S1050 289bp) but differed in the distal one (D15S204 119bp allele) indicating that at least two independent mutational events or alternatively a postmutational recombination event, might have occurred (Fig 3 ).
ref: 2016 February 25, “Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa, p.Gly56Arg Mutation in NR2E3 : Phenotype in a Large Cohort of 24 Cases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following mutation
proconvulsant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + convulsant.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, an insult is applied to the brain either via direct stimulation (e.g. kindling [1 ]), focal application of a toxin (e.g. tetanus [2 ]) or systemic administration of a proconvulsant agent (e.g. kainic acid [3 ], pilocarpine [4 ], or pentylenetetrazole [5 ].
ref: 2016 February 25, “A Low Mortality, High Morbidity Reduced Intensity Status Epilepticus (RISE) Model of Epilepsy and Epileptogenesis in the Rat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That produces convulsion
proconvulsant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proconvulsants
Etymology: From pro- + convulsant.
Senses: glosses: A proconvulsant agent
proconvulsants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to these sparse spontaneous seizures, seizures can be more readily induced by proconvulsants, such as pentylenetetrazol, in both Kcnq2 Y284C/+ and Kcnq2 A306T/+ mice compared to their wild-type (WT) littermates [14 ].
ref: 2016 February 25, “Retigabine, a K v 7.2/K v 7.3-Channel Opener, Attenuates Drug-Induced Seizures in Knock-In Mice Harboring Kcnq2 Mutations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of proconvulsant
iron roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron road
proconvulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + convulsive.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, a high sensitivity to proconvulsive treatments has been observed in BFNE-mutation knock-in mice that were independently generated by another group.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Retigabine, a K v 7.2/K v 7.3-Channel Opener, Attenuates Drug-Induced Seizures in Knock-In Mice Harboring Kcnq2 Mutations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That produces convulsions
pseudoparaphyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ascomata apothecioid, hypophyllous, superficial, solitary, discoid, non-ostiolate, 445–550×75–105 μm high, pseudoparenchymatous basal stroma 12.5–20 thick, walls of brown textura angularis, powdery, ill-differentiated, dark grey centrally with raised pale gray margins, pseudoparaphyses filiform, up to 2 μm wide, septate, unbranched, hyaline, but branching above the asci, becoming inflated and pigmented at apices to form an epithecium.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pseudoparaphysis
wind generators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind generator
pseudoparenchymatose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + parenchymatose.
Senses: examples: text: Ascomata pseudothecia hyophyllous, superficial, solitary, discoid, 175–225 μm diam., 100–117.5 μm high, non-ostiolate, black, margin raised, outer wall of textura globulosa gray becoming hyaline, inner wall pseudoparenchymatose, 6-cell thick, 12.5–20 μm, dark brown.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having pseudoparenchymata
pseudoparenchymatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + parenchymatous.
Senses: examples: text: Ascomata apothecioid, hypophyllous, superficial, solitary, discoid, non-ostiolate, 445–550×75–105 μm high, pseudoparenchymatous basal stroma 12.5–20 thick, walls of brown textura angularis, powdery, ill-differentiated, dark grey centrally with raised pale gray margins, pseudoparaphyses filiform, up to 2 μm wide, septate, unbranched, hyaline, but branching above the asci, becoming inflated and pigmented at apices to form an epithecium.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to pseudoparenchymata
health centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of health centre
semidenticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + denticulate.
Senses: examples: text: Conidiogenous loci grouped at conidiogenous cell apex, semidenticulate, slightly pigmented.
ref: 2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Partially denticulate
desalination plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desalination plant
gets the sack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get the sack
getting the sack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get the sack
got the sack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get the sack
afterbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterbrain
pre-announces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pre-announce
martial artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martial artist
pre-announcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pre-announce
pre-announced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pre-announce
damasquining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damasquin
damasquined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of damasquin
damaskining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damaskin
damaskined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of damaskin
three-ring circuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-ring circus
shorts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of short out
shorting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of short out
shorted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of short out
derned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dern
dearning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dearn
dearned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dearn
dearnful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dearnful
form: most dearnful
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dernful.
decarb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decarbs
form: decarbing
form: decarbed
form: decarbed
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: To decarboxylate.
decarbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decarb
decarbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decarb
decarbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decarb
puts to sea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put to sea
putting to sea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put to sea
kicks in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick in
kicking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick in
kicked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick in
de-energises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-energise
de-energising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-energise
de-energised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively, they clear when the line is unoccupied to the next signal and when an approaching train occupies a short, normally de-energised, track circuit on the approach side of any of the signals. These normally de-energised track circuits are labelled with a Greek letter to emphasise their difference from the normal track circuits, and are short enough to ensure an adequate restriction of speed being imposed on the train.
ref: 1952 September, Norman Crump, “Camden Town Signalbox, London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 585:
glosses: simple past and past participle of de-energise
falls due
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall due
falling due
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall due
fell due
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall due
fallen due
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall due
retips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retip
retipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retip
retipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retip
board meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of board meeting
self-seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-seed
self-seeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-seed
self-seeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The crash occurred in a steep-sided cutting lined with self-seeded deciduous trees that were shedding their leaves, following unusually heavy rain and high winds in the 12 hours beforehand.
ref: 2023 November 1, Paul Clifton, “RAIB recommends actions to tackle leaves on the line”, in RAIL, number 995, page 10:
glosses: simple past and past participle of self-seed
decategorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decategorise
decategorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decategorise
decategorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decategorise
Norwegianises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Norwegianise
Norwegianising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Norwegianise
Norwegianised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Norwegianise
drowns out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drown out
drowning out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drown out
drowned out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drown out
Olympic village
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Olympic villages
Senses: glosses: An area where participating athletes, as well as officials and trainers, are accommodated during the Olympic Games.
Derived terms: Olympic village effect
Olympic villages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Olympic village
kogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese お焦げ (“burnt food residue on a cooking-pot”), + -ation. Coined at Canon Inc..
Senses: glosses: Gradual and inevitable degradation of the print head of a heat-based inkjet printer from residual ink and/or impure water.
wikipedia: Canon Inc.
weighs in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weigh in
weighing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weigh in
weighed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weigh in
ponophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πόνος (pónos, “fatigue”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime, since your editor suffers slightly from ponophobia (fear of work), you can help by sending in your questions and answers, thus keeping "The Exchange" from the dread complaint of kenophobia (fear of emptiness)!
ref: 1975 Spring, Nancy E. Gwinn, “The Exchange: What's Your Phobia?”, in RQ, volume 14, number 3:
text: Those who are handicapped by ponophobia—a morbid fear of work—should go into some other line of work besides medicine. I have known some physicians who were afflicted with what I like to call acute intermittent ponophobia.
ref: 1981, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society - Volume 44, Journal Publication, page 18
text: Suddenly, you get a disconcerting attack of ponophobia, the dread of overworking or of pain.
ref: 2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books - Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group - Vancouver/Toronto/Berkeley, page 215
glosses: A fear of overwork.
Synonyms: ergophobia
ergasiophobia
zygoneure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪɡənjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: zygoneures
Senses: examples: text: The cells of the nerve roots (cellules radiculaires, von Gehuchten), could be called rhizoneures, the columnar cells (cellules des cordons), aromeures; commissural cells (cellules des voies courtes) would be zygoneures; long-path cells like those of the pyramidal tract (cellules des voies longues) would be maerodromic neures, from Gr. μακρς, δρόμος, long course.
ref: 1895, Science, volume 2, page 778:
text: Zygoneures lie mostly within the cerebro spinal axis, some cells of the sympathetic system offering an exception.
ref: 1896, New York Medical Journal, volume 63, page 374:
text: The absence of a zygoneure, which is characteristic for the majority of Rissoidea, can be considered a consequence of decreased body measurements and results in a centralization of the nervous system.
ref: 1976, The Soviet Journal of Marine Biology, page 164:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A neuron that connects to other nerve cells.
half-expects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of half-expect
zygoneures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygoneure
half-expecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of half-expect
synchronized swimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synchronized swimmer
half-expected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of half-expect
re-experiences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-experience
re-experiencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-experience
re-experienced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-experience
test flights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test flight
defence mechanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defence mechanism
yakare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yakares
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yacare.
sulphur candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphur candle
sulphur springs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphur spring
war artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war artists
Senses: glosses: A person who, usually as an occupation, depicts scenes from conflicts.
counter-offers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-offer
war artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war artist
recycling bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recycling bin
back streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back street
silken tofu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silken tofus
Senses: glosses: A soft, moist form of tofu that has not been drained or pressed.
silken tofus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silken tofu
unturf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unturfs
form: unturfing
form: unturfed
form: unturfed
Etymology: From un- + turf.
Senses: glosses: To strip the turf from.
unturfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unturf
unturfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unturf
unturfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unturf + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unturf
unturfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + turfed.
Senses: glosses: Not having a covering of turf.
ocean currents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocean current
updrag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: updrags
form: updragging
form: updragged
form: updragged
Etymology: From up- + drag.
Senses: examples: text: What please her, part she with their root updrags;
Part with her crooked brazen sickle mows.
ref: 1807, Ovid, translated by J.J. Howard, Metamorphoses:
glosses: To drag up.
updrags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of updrag
updragging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of updrag
updragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of updrag
countries of origin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of country of origin
turn signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn signal
upgird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upgirds
form: upgirding
form: upgirded
form: upgirded
form: upgirt
form: upgirt
Etymology: From up- + gird.
Senses: glosses: To support or hold up.
Related terms: gird up one's loins
upgirds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upgird
upgirding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upgird
upgirded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upgird
upgirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upgird
uralitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uralitize
uralitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uralitize
uralitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uralitize
upwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upwraps
Etymology: From up- + wrap.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An anticline.
upwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upwrap
uredosoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the uredosorus.
soral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to the sorus.
Chinese box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese boxes
Senses: examples: text: It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.
ref: 2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:
glosses: One of a set of Chinese boxes.
lindsayoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lindsayoids
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of lindsaeoid.
zimbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zimbi
Senses: examples: text: In the kingdom of Congo there is said to be another kind of shell current, called zimbi. Two thousand of these zimbi form a maconti or macinte; and one of the writers on Central Africa some years ago stated that two Flemish knives were deemed worth a maconti; a copper basin, two pounds in weight and twelve inches in diameter, three maconti; a fusee, ten macontis, &c.
ref: 1844 April 27, Knight's Penny Magazine, volume 13, page 159:
text: It is true that the inhabitants of Congo do also make use of shells, by them called zimbi, or zinibi; but these are carried to them only by the Portuguese, who are in a manner masters of this great kingdom.
ref: 1850, John Macgregor, Commercial statistics: A digest of the productive resources, commercial legislation, customs tariffs, of all nations. Including all British commercial treaties with foreign states:
glosses: A cowrie shell, once used as a form of currency in parts of Africa.
fancy rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancy rats
Etymology: See fancy (“a sport or hobby”).
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coordinate_terms: fancy mouse
glosses: A domesticated brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), common as a pet.
fancy rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fancy rat
water-butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-butts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water butt.
rain bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain bombs
Senses: glosses: A wet microburst or macroburst; a downdraft produced by a thunderstorm.
robe decollete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French robe décolletée.
Senses: glosses: A low-cut dress for women.
queer duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queer ducks
Senses: examples: text: When he had gone the captain said, "He's a queer duck, isn't he?" Mary was stacking dishes. She paused and looked at Tara. "Is he?"
ref: 1952, Janice Holt Giles, Tara's Healing:
glosses: A strange person, an odd duck, especially if possibly gay.
Synonyms: strange bird
toreador pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Women's tight-fitting pants that go down to the calves.
superprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superprotective
form: most superprotective
Etymology: From super- + protective.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of overprotective.
synonyms: word: overprotective
percine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin perca (“perch”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Got two fine Malapterursus and a Percine form from the natives.
ref: 1885, William Alexander Forbes, “The Last Journal of W.A. Forbes”, in The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes, R.H. Porter, page 468:
glosses: Resembling a perch (the fish).
percine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percines
Etymology: From Latin perca (“perch”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The Percines, or typical perches, are recognizable by the elongated form of the body, and the numerous spines of the first or spinous dorsal fin
ref: 1867, United States Dept. of Agriculture, “Economical American Freshwater Fishes”, in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1866, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 405:
glosses: A fish in the genus Perca.
examples: text: An other type of diprotamine contains arginine and histidine: the percine [from the perch, Perca flavescens] belongs to this group.
ref: 2012, Christoph Scholtissek with B.M. Richards, R. Vendrely, C. Vendrely, and D.P. Bloch, Chemistry and Cytochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Nuclear Proteins, Springer, →ISBN, page 16:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protamine found in the sperm of yellow perch Perca flavescens
bioregenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + regenerative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bioregeneration.
quickliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Yet, in the very centre of the crowd,
To keep the secret of a poignant scorn,
Howe'er to airy Demons suitable,
Of all unsocial courses, is least fit
For the gross spirit of mankind, — the one
That soonest fails to please, and quickliest turns
Into vexation.
ref: 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:
text: Go, go, pass within, as you quickliest can.
ref: 1868, Augusta Webster (transl.), The Medea of Euripides, page 13, line 105
glosses: superlative form of quickly: most quickly
David-and-Goliath
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the Biblical story of David.
Senses: examples: text: The “Axanar” case has sparked considerable controversy within the “Star Trek” fan community, with some championing the film as a David-and-Goliath battle for creative freedom and others sharply criticizing the film’s creators for overstepping their bounds and threatening the entire world of fan films.
ref: 2016, Josh Rottenberg, “CBS and Paramount Pictures announce new guidelines on 'Star Trek' fan films”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Being or involving an unequal conflict between two parties, one of which is much stronger or more powerful than the other.
deidolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deidolizes
form: deidolizing
form: deidolized
form: deidolized
Etymology: From de- + idolize.
Senses: examples: text: Scandal rags rip that reinforcement and deliriously deconstruct and deidolize the idols who ignore you.
ref: 1999, James Ellroy, Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.:
glosses: Alternative form of de-idolize.
when you mess with the bull, you get the horns
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: If you provoke someone dangerous, you can expect an aggressive reaction.
Synonyms: if you mess with the bull, you get the horns
mess with the bull, get the horns
Related terms: poke the bear
if you mess with the bull, you get the horns
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of when you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
synonyms: word: when you mess with the bull
word: you get the horns
mess with the bull, get the horns
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of when you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
synonyms: word: when you mess with the bull
word: you get the horns
W5
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: 5W
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of W⁵ (WWWWW)
W5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: W5s
form: 5W
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: Initialism of who, what, where, when, why (, how) (“the facts of the matter”).
Arafat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic عَرَفَات (ʕarafāt).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Arabic surname عَرَفَات (ʕarafāt).
kadogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kadogos
form: kadogo
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili kadogo.
Senses: examples: text: In brief, the kadogos and the Angolans had different sets of grievances, yet they both converged on the same target.
ref: 2009, René Lemarchand, The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa, Philadelphia, page 239:
text: In the early months of 1998, Kabila's army was a loose pastiche of kadogo, Katangan Tigers, and new recruits.
ref: 2011, Jason K Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, PublicAffairs, published 2012, page 183:
text: With their retreat route cut off, the FAC kadogo began defecting in droves, many fleeing across the border into Zambia.
ref: 2013, Tom Cooper, Great Lakes Conflagration, Helion & Company, page 55:
glosses: A child soldier. Usually refers to the eastern Congolese rebel armies that used numerous child soldiers.
kadogos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kadogo
retranslocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retranslocation
bran pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bran pies
Senses: examples: text: On festive occasions away from home we softened under the influence of Christmas trees, bran pies, and conjurors.
ref: 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 35 (1968 edition):
glosses: Synonym of bran tub (“tub filled with bran in which small gifts are buried as a lucky dip”).
synonyms: word: bran tub
extra: tub filled with bran in which small gifts are buried as a lucky dip
bran pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bran pie
bran tubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bran tub
gangstah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gangstah
form: most gangstah
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gangsta.
gangstah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangstahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gangsta.
gangstahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangstah
witherband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witherbands
Etymology: From wither(s) + band.
Senses: examples: text: Bsides these two great bands, the fore-box has a small one called the wither-band, and a crescent to keep up the wither arch.
ref: 1766, Thomas Wallis, The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary:
glosses: A piece of iron fixed in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.
witherbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witherband
obtuse-angled triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obtuse-angled triangle
must-learn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: must-learns
Etymology: From must + learn.
Senses: glosses: Something that one is strongly recommended to learn.
must-learns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of must-learn
deidolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deidolize
deidolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deidolize
deidolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deidolize
okole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: okoles
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻōkole.
Senses: examples: text: To relieve the pain, I was given daily shots of morphine and since I didn't have an okole any more, I had to take all the shots in my arms.
ref: 2002, Louis Baldovi, A Foxhole View: Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans:
text: She said he had too cute an okole to park it in a wheel chair where no wahine would ever get to see it again.
ref: 2011, Joseph Flynn, Nailed:
text: Two pillows behind her back propped her up while another beneath her shielded her okole from the sprung springs of the old couch. Positioned thus, Lehua suckled her newborn son.
ref: 2012, Michael Herr, The Old Queen and the Maui Maiden, page 13:
glosses: anus; butt
okoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of okole
DHZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dihydrozeatin.
benzyladenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzyladenines
Etymology: From benzyl + adenine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 6-benzylaminopurine, a synthetic cytokinin.
benzyladenines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzyladenine
isopentenyladenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular cytokinin.
isopentenyladenosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular cytokinin.
neuralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neuralizes
form: neuralizing
form: neuralized
form: neuralized
Etymology: From neural + -ize.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To differentiate cells to form neurons.
Related terms: neuralization
neuralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neuralize
peanut butter and jellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peanut butter and jelly
nidgeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The visiting of neighbours' houses to summon the midwife and other women to a birth.
XBL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of XML binding language: an XML-based markup language used to define the behaviour and appearance of XUL widgets and XML elements.
cigaretting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cigarette
cigaretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cigarette + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A cigaretted boy and two men with pipes had looked him over, an hour back.
ref: 1898, The Cornell Magazine, page 268:
text: In time they will join—it’s their anxious ambition—a bevy similar to that now waiting at the stage entrance of the “Alhambra” with their cigaretted “boys.”
ref: 1909, The Lady’s Realm, page 21:
text: One by one Gilmer Meriwether, the boyish camera man; “Reddy” Prince, the loquacious head of the animal farm; the chattering girls and the cigaretted boys; the camels; even the tiger, whom age had pushed into the movies—all resolved themselves into beings unsubstantial as sea wraiths—and were gone.
ref: 1916, The Railway Conductor, volume XXXIII, page 629:
text: Mrs. Delafield had traveled up to town several times in this emergency, and had even accompanied Rhoda to the studio, where a young lady with bare legs and feet was dancing, with more concentration than spontaneity, before a cigaretted audience.
ref: 1919 November, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, “Christmas Roses”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume CXXIV, number 5, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Company; Concord, N.H.: The Rumford Press, section I, page 677, column 1:
text: Until one afternoon, feeling utterly despondent, and sitting in the window seat of a swank café, in a thoroughfare just off the main square, listlessly watching the people going by – same faces, same umbrellas – it was raining and sleeting – and satiated with enough coffee till I felt like Brazil, and turning listlessly about every now and then to look at the cigaretted women with their cool lip-sticked mouths, boredly listening to their boring male escorts, or boredly inhaling and boredly expelling, smoke, I mean, or jingling their gold bracelets with charms attached on their thin sun-tanned wrists, with elbows on table and cig-holders at eye-level […]
ref: 1999, Izaak Mansk, “Ariadne”, in Emil Brut, Calgary, Alta.: Bayeux Arts, Inc., →ISBN, section II, pages 198–199:
text: They crane their cigaretted hands to their mouths in unison and share the same eerie glow of suffocated defeat.
ref: 2008, Ibi Kaslik, The Angel Riots, Penguin Canada, →ISBN, page 229:
text: Natsu gave her an inquisitive look, tapping his temple with a cigaretted hand […]
ref: 2014, Asher Lee, Tsuki no Kage: Shadow of the Moon, Sakura Yume Books, →ISBN, page 204:
text: There's no sign of Caroline in the kitchen so I follow the music through into the sitting room, which is where I find her, tapping a cigaretted hand to the beat, curled up on the sofa with Sadie.
ref: 2020, Matson Taylor, The Miseducation of Evie Epworth, Scribner, published 2021, →ISBN:
glosses: Holding or equipped with cigarette(s).
cigaretted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cigarette + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cigarette
scratch-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratch-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from scratch off
Senses: glosses: A scratch card.
scratch-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scratch-off
Benghazian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Benghazian
form: most Benghazian
Etymology: From Benghazi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Benghazi in Libya.
Benghazian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Benghazians
Etymology: From Benghazi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Benghazi in Libya.
Benghazians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Benghazian
wheelbench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelbenches
Etymology: From wheel + bench.
Senses: examples: text: This object we accomplish by the use of the mechanism illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of the wheelbench and the tank.
ref: 1889, WX Kupp, Machine for cooling wagon-tires - US Patent 397,942:
text: The wheelbench was tied to the "necking stick," or yoke of the oxen.
ref: 1992, Ann Fears Crawford, Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Women in Texas, page 16:
text: Perhaps there was some man thousands ago in the desert at night the dogs coyotes hyennas ate walking around in a nimbus now he developed an instinct for light bulbs i call him satan after the wagon wheelbench ....
ref: 2010 September 16, J.D. Campbell, “Morph”, in alt.yoga (Usenet):
glosses: The seat for the driver that sits above the wheels in a wagon that is drawn by draft animals such as horses or oxen.
examples: text: Wheelchairs are used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness (physiological or physical), injury, or disability. People with both sitting and walking disability often need to use a wheelbench.
ref: 2009 March, Meng-Hui Hsu, Hsueh-Yu Chen, Jen-Yu Liu, Chien-Liang Chen, “Dual-purpose wheelchair mechanism designs”, in Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Sicentists:
text: For purposes of this chapter, a mobility device is a manual wheelchair, power wheelchair, power-operated vehicle (scooter), or wheelbench (a device, similar in function to a wheelchair, that is used by a person in a recumbent position).
ref: 2016, LAWriter Ohio Laws and Rules:
text: People who have difficulty sitting and walking often make use of a wheelbench.
ref: 2018, Attoy K. Denobriga, Weatherproof wheelchair cover (US Patent App. 15/253,888):
glosses: A manually propelled, wheeled mobility device in which the user lies down. The user pushes the wheels with the hands in a similar way to propelling a wheelchair or, alternatively, a second person pulls or pushes it by the handles.
wheelbenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelbench
yakares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yakare
pyranocoumarins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyranocoumarin
nordentatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pyranocoumarin with chemical formula C₁₉H₂₀O₄.
Montenegran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Montenegran
form: most Montenegran
Etymology: From Montenegro + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Montenegrin.
synonyms: word: Montenegrin
Montenegran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montenegrans
Etymology: From Montenegro + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Montenegrin.
synonyms: word: Montenegrin
Montenegrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Montenegran
monorhinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From mono- + rhinic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a single nostril.
rhinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhin- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the nose; nasal.
Derived terms: monorhinic
monopsonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monopsony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to monopsony.
sworn virgins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sworn virgin
sworn virgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sworn virgins
Senses: examples: text: Anila, who prefers to be called Rrok (a male name) […] displays a significant number of the attributes of the more traditional sworn virgins: male attire, short hair, assertive male gestures and a self-confident stride, but his reason for assuming the role is not traditional. […] He explains that it not only gives him freedom to wander around the village; [...]
ref: 2012, Andreas Hemming, Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Pandelejmoni, Albania: Family, Society and Culture in the 20th Century, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: A person, assigned female at birth, who adopts a traditional masculine third-gender or transmasculine role in the Balkans, wearing masculine clothing and performing masculine tasks, and traditionally swearing a vow of chastity.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sworn, virgin.
Related terms: two-spirit
transgender
non-binary
genderqueer
Mons Mensae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latin; see etymology at Mensa.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The constellation Mensa.
monograptid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monograptids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Monograptidae
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any graptolite of the family Monograptidae.
monograptids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monograptid