cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dispersive model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispersive models
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A model of DNA replication in which two new DNA molecules are produced containing regions of either both original, or both new, strands.
backupable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From back up + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being backed up.
Derived terms: backupability
reading frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reading frames
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of three possible sequences of codons in which an RNA sequence could be translated.
template strand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: template strands
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The noncoding strand of a DNA molecule that is used as a template for RNA synthesis
Synonyms: noncoding strand
primary transcript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary transcripts
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The RNA molecule that is produced by transcription of DNA, before splicing or polyadenylation.
hookling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now — as I sit here writing I see half a dozen carriages under the shade of the trees — coachmen on their boxes, talking, laughing &c — some hookling, they call it. They have a bone hook some thing like a crochet needle — and they hook them selves woollen gloves — Some are reading Hymn books, or pretending. The small footmen are playing marbles under the trees.
ref: 1840–1860, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Civil War journal (revised version) quoted by Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld in her Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography, chapter four: “1840–1860”, page 44
glosses: A process, similar to knitting or crocheting, for fashioning garments.
minimal medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimal media
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The simplest tissue culture medium (containing the minimum of nutrients) that would support the proliferation of cells
Juris Doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Juris Doctor
gummi bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gummi bear
sexpionage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sex + espionage
Senses: glosses: espionage using sex or sexual allure
Related terms: honeypot
honey trap
BCers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BCer
BCer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BCers
Etymology: From BC + -er.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of British Columbian.
Related terms: BC
BCer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From BC + -er.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of British Columbian.
Related terms: BC
Markland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse, coined by Leif Ericson, circa 1000 AD, compound of mark + land.
Senses: glosses: The name given by the Icelandic Norseman Leifur Eiríksson to the portion of North America in modern-day Labrador, Canada when he arrived there circa 1000 AD.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
Coordinate terms: Vinland
Helluland
Greenland
Iceland
Derived terms: Marklandic
Helluland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Helluland, coined by norse explorer Leif Erikson c. 1000 CE from hella (“flat stone”) + land (“land”).
Senses: glosses: The name given by the Icelandic Norseman Leifur Eiríksson to the portion of North America in modern-day Baffin Island, Canada when he arrived there circa 1000 CE.
Coordinate terms: Markland
Vinland
Greenland
Iceland
transcurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹanzˈkʌɹənt/
Forms: form: more transcurrent
form: most transcurrent
Etymology: From (present participle of) Latin transcurrere.
Senses: glosses: Passing transversely.
examples: text: Some of these faults may have been the site at which huge blocks slid past one another – transcurrent movement – rather than moving ‘up and down’.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 183:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a fault caused by horizontal displacement.
open houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open house
open day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open days
Senses: examples: text: Two months later, it was reassigned to Toton, and was named RAIL Magazine at Cardiff Canton open day on April 10 2000.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
glosses: A casual event where an institution is open for visiting and inspection by anyone interested.
Synonyms: open house
Related terms: open morning
open days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open day
DNA ligase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNA ligases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several enzymes that repair single-stranded discontinuities in double-stranded DNA
second guesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of second guess
second guessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of second guess
second guessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of second guess
OCRs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of OCR
OCRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OCR
OCRing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of OCR
OCRed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of OCR
scopes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scope out
scoping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scope out
scoped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scope out
kernal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: colonel
kernel
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of KERNAL.
kernal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: colonel
kernel
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of kernel.
pecunial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pecunial
form: most pecunial
Senses: examples: text: A thing which causes more pecunial dearth than all the foppish compliments are worth…
ref: 2003, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Ronald L. Ecker, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Books, page 157:
glosses: pecuniary
revendicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revendicates
form: revendicating
form: revendicated
form: revendicated
Etymology: Compare French revendiquer. Doublet of revenge.
Senses: glosses: To reclaim
glosses: to demand the restoration of.
Related terms: revendication
revendicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revendicate
revendicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revendicate
revendicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revendicate
deminiaturize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪnɪtʃəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: deminiaturizes
form: deminiaturizing
form: deminiaturized
form: deminiaturized
Etymology: From de- + miniaturize.
Senses: glosses: To increase in size something that has previously been miniaturized.
inferobranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infero- + branchiate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.
raw_tags: said of some mollusks
Lupercalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lupercalian
form: most Lupercalian
Etymology: From Lupercal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Lupercal or the Lupercalia.
scholarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scholarlike
form: most scholarlike
Etymology: From scholar + -like.
Senses: glosses: scholarly
scholarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scholarlike
form: most scholarlike
Etymology: From scholar + -like.
Senses: examples: a. 1627, Francis Bacon, letter to the Earl of Essex
[…] I can spell and scholarlike put together the parts of her majesty's proceedings
glosses: in a scholarly fashion
recrementitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recrementitial
form: most recrementitial
Etymology: Compare French récrémentitiel.
Senses: examples: text: recrementitial fluids
ref: 1843, Robley Dunglinson, General Therapeutics and Materia Medica:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the nature of a recrement.
circumscriptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more circumscriptly
form: most circumscriptly
Etymology: From circumscript + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a circumscript manner.
sirenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sirenical
form: most sirenical
Etymology: From siren + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: [H]ere's a couple of Syrenicall raſcals ſhall inchaunt yee: What ſhall they ſinge my good Lorde?
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv:
synonyms: sirenic
glosses: Like, or appropriate to, a siren, i.e. deceptive;fascinating.
sinapine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinapines
form: sinapin
Etymology: Latin sinapi, sinapis (“mustard”), Ancient Greek: compare French sinapine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: sinapoylcholine
glosses: An alkaloidal amine found in seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, syns. Rhamphospermum nigrum, Sinapis erysimoides, Sinapis tetraedra, etc.), considered a choline ester of sinapic acid.
sinapines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinapine
tagtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagtails
Etymology: From tag + tail.
Senses: glosses: A worm with a conspicuously-coloured yellow tail, used as bait, probably a species of lugworm.
glosses: An unwanted hanger-on.
tagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagtail
Bojanus organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bojanus organs
Etymology: From the name of the discoverer, Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: organ of Bojanus
glosses: A glandular organ of bivalve mollusks, serving in part as a kidney.
wikipedia: Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus
Bojanus organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bojanus organ
photoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From photo- + -scopic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the photoscope or its uses.
Derived terms: photoscopically
frostbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frostbirds
Etymology: From frost + bird.
Senses: glosses: The golden plover.
frostbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frostbird
sea pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pigs
form: sea-pig
form: seapig
Etymology: From sea + pig.
Senses: glosses: Any deep-sea sea cucumber in the genus Scotoplanes.
glosses: A porpoise or dolphin.
glosses: A dugong.
sea pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea pig
rejuvinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rejuvenate.
prescinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prescind
carriage returns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carriage return
stratimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: measurement of the strata of the Earth's crust
lakering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English lakeringe, lakeryng, lakring, perhaps from *lakeren, frequentative variant of laken, leiken (“to play, sport”), or equivalent to laker + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Playing; sport; jesting.
ethopoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethopoetic
form: most ethopoetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἠθοποιητικός (ēthopoiētikós), from ἦθος (êthos) + ποιέω (poiéō).
Senses: examples: text: a flourish of mimick and ethopoetick gestures
ref: 1652, Thomas Urquhart, The Jewel:
glosses: Expressing character.
plurifoliolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plurifoliolate
form: most plurifoliolate
Etymology: From pluri- + foliolate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having multiple leaflets.
defensibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From defensible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: defensibleness of Legal Rights
ref: 1695, John Kettlewell, Christianity, a Doctrine of the Cross, Or, Passive Obedience:
glosses: Capability of being defended; defensibility.
startlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more startlish
form: most startlish
Etymology: From startle + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He stirred up in a kind of a startlish way; but when he see it was only me he took a good gap and stretch, and then he says: “Hello, what's up? Don't cry, bub. What's the trouble?”
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Easily startled; skittish.
tetartohedrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetartohedrisms
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tetartohedry (the property of being tetartohedral).
tetartohedrisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetartohedrism
subhornblendic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hornblendic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing hornblende in a scattered state.
alnage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːlnɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: alnages
form: ulnage
Etymology: From Middle English aulnage, from Old French alnage, aulnage (modern French aunage), from alne (“ell”), of Germanic origin: compare Old High German elina, Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 (aleina, “cubit”). See ell.
Senses: examples: text: Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
 Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
 Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.
ref: 1896, Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Clerks:
glosses: Measurement (of cloth) by the ell, specifically, official inspection and measurement of woollen cloth, and attestation of its value by the affixing of a lead seal, as was once required by British law.
glosses: A duty paid for such measurement.
Derived terms: alnager
alnages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alnage
squillitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /skwɪˈlɪtɪk/
Senses: examples: text: Squillitick vineger
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: 1775, D. Midwinter, Dictionaire Oeconomique, Or, The Family Dictionary, Three Crowns in St. Paul's Chruch-Yard, Page Label: STE
...it's good for all Distempers proceeding from a cold Cause, and used with some Squillitick Vinegar for the Falling Sickness.
glosses: Of or pertaining to squills.
genomic equivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The concept that all cells in an organism contain identical genes.
exercisible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exercisible
form: most exercisible
Etymology: From exercise + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: The authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.
glosses: rare spelling of exercisable
audita querela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audita querelas
Etymology: Latin audita querela (“the complaint having been heard”).
Senses: examples: text: if an Infant bind himself in a Statute Merchant or Staple, he shall have an Audita Querela during his Nonage, to avoid that Statute, and afterwards he shall have an Audita Querela after his full age, to avoid that Statute upon that MAtter in Fact
ref: 1730, Anthony Fitzherbert, The New Natura Brevium:
topics: law
glosses: A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment.
audita querelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audita querela
phosphorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phosphor + -ical, or directly from Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros, “bringing light”) + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: If a relish for the broad mirth of fun characterize the lower class of english, the french of every denomination are equally delighted with a phosophorical, sentimental gilding.
ref: 1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution:
glosses: Producing light; luminous, glittering.
planoconical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planoconical
form: most planoconical
Etymology: From plano- + conical.
Senses: examples: text: Acutely Conical ; and also , in part , level between both ends or Planoconical.
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
glosses: Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other.
sea moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea mosses
Senses: glosses: Any marine organism resembling moss
Any such branched marine bryozoan
glosses: Any marine organism resembling moss
Certain red algae, such as:
Chondrus crispus (Irish moss, carrageen moss)
glosses: Any marine organism resembling moss
Certain red algae, such as:
Endocladia muricata (turfweed, nailbrush seaweed)
glosses: Any marine organism resembling moss
Certain red algae, such as:
Kappaphycus alvarezii (elkhorn sea moss)
glosses: Any marine organism resembling moss
Certain red algae, such as:
Palmaria palmata (dulse)
glosses: Any marine organism resembling moss
Certain green algae, such as
glosses: Any marine organism resembling moss
Certain green algae, such as
Bryopsis africana, a green alga
sea mosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea moss
cruset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crusets
Etymology: Compare French creuset. See cruse, crucible.
Senses: glosses: A goldsmith's crucible.
crusets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruset
dissolvableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dissolvable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dissolvable.
circumscriber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumscribers
Etymology: From circumscribe + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, circumscribes.
circumscribers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumscriber
sesquibasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sesqui- + basic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing, or acting as, a base that reacts with acids in a proportion of one and a half to one.
firebote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firebotes
Etymology: From fire + bote.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In Medieval England, an allowance of fuel.
firebotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firebote
cravatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cravat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: a personage not at all like the pompous, white-cravatted, typical big-medicine man of civilization, armed with gold-headed cane
ref: 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle: Chapter 5:
glosses: Wearing a cravat.
Derived terms: uncravatted
cravatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cravat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cravat.
batable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batable
form: most batable
Etymology: Abbreviated form of debatable.
Senses: examples: text: The border land between England and Scotland, being formerly a subject of contention, was called "batable ground".
glosses: disputable; disputed
charbocle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charbocles
form: charboncle
Senses: examples: text: The horse is entirely covered by a flowing checkered trapper, with a charbocle like that of the earl's crest, fixed between the ears.
ref: 1914, Surrey Archaeological Collections, page 125:
text: The device of the charbocle is thought to emanate from an ornamental or more probably a constructional part of a shield and is most often associated with the kings of Navarre or the counts and dukes of Cleves, and as a difference with the family of Mandeville. The centre of the charbocle was sometimes known as the heart and the possibility that the heart depicted at the centre of the Basset charbocle may be a pun cannot be ignored.
ref: 2002, Laurence Keen, Eileen Scarff, Windsor, page 133:
text: The armorial decoration of the inside of the shield, in the form of a charbocle on a ground powdered with fleurs-de-lis, was recognised by Gough as referring to Joan of Navarre, the second wife of Henry IV.
ref: 2003, Jenny Stratford, The Lancastrian Court: Proceedings of the 2001 Harlaxton Symposium, page 132:
text: The oval medallion consists of a crowned shield with two rampant lions as supporters. The crowned lion on the left represents Berg whereas the lion on the right symbolizes Jülich. The triparted shield consists of a charbocle (Cleve) , a fess checky (Mark), and three chevrons (Ravensburg).
ref: 2004, Jamestown Rediscovery, 1994-2004, page 4:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Carbuncle.
charbocles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charbocle
paludinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See paludine.
Senses: glosses: Inhabiting or relating to swamps or marshy ponds.
sagenitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sagenitic
form: most sagenitic
Etymology: From sagenite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resembling sagenite; applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile.
imbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbows
form: imbowing
form: imbowed
form: imbowed
Etymology: From im- + bow.
Senses: examples: text: imbowed windows
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of embow.
imbowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbow
imbowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbow
imbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbow
prosaicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosaicisms
Etymology: From prosaic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Through this species of prosaicism, Cowper, with scarcely one of the higher poetical elements, came very near making his age fancy him the equal of Pope […]
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia:
glosses: The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style.
prosaicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosaicism
propheticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prophetical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson
An odd sort of propheticality in this Numps and old Noll!
text: Lower-tension religious bodies tend to prioritize the four traditional marks over the correlative qualities of diversity, charisma, contextualization, and propheticality (which are downplayed or ignored) and tend to interpret the traditional qualities as marks of the church as institution.
ref: 2003, John G. Stackhouse Jr., Evangelical Ecclesiology: Reality Or Illusion?, page 92:
text: The notion of Marechera's propheticality stems from the critical position he adopted towards the post-independence regime.
ref: 2013, Anna-Leena Toivanen, “Vindicating Dambudzo Marechera: Features of Cultic Remembering”, in Nordic Journal of African Studies, volume 22, number 4:
text: While propheticality viewed in conjunction with radicality — as a 'notional hybrid' denoting an excendent dialogue — will shape the dialogue to gain a moral practice.
ref: 2016, Anna Maria Andersen Nawrot, The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture, page 61:
glosses: The quality of being prophetic.
effervescive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more effervescive
form: most effervescive
Etymology: From effervesce + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: an effervescive force
ref: 1859, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Human Mind as Given in Consciousness:
glosses: effervescent.
bravingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bravingly
form: most bravingly
Etymology: From braving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: defiantly.
panicled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From panicle + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Furnished with, or arranged in, panicles; paniculate.
Derived terms: subpanicled
anthracyclin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthracyclins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthracycline.
anthracyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthracylines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthracycline.
aracytine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A pyrimidine nucleoside analog that is used mainly in the treatment of leukemia
carboxyethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical -CH₂-CH₂-COOH derived from propanoic acid
cytofluorometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytofluorometers
Etymology: From cyto- + fluorometer.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device used in cytofluorometry
cytofluorometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytofluorimetry
Etymology: From cyto- + fluorometry.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique used to separate cells (or chromosomes) via fluorescent markers
Derived terms: immunocytofluorometry
Related terms: cytofluorimetric
cytofluorometric
daunorubicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daunorubicin.
homopropargyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + propargyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical HC≡C-CH₂-CH₂- derived from butyne
Derived terms: homopropargylglycine
homopropargylglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homopropargyl + glycine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid HC≡C-CH₂-CH₂-CH(NH₂)-COOH; it is used in research into protein synthesis
slash fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slash fictions
Etymology: From slash + fiction, from the use of the slash symbol (/) to separate the names or initials of the characters or persons involved.
Senses: examples: text: But Buffy has also generated enormous amounts of slash fiction. The cult television text and the rise of the Internet have both had an important aspect on the development of slash fiction.
ref: 2005, Milly Williamson, The lure of the vampire: gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy, Wallflower Press, page 169:
text: They analyze slash fiction (stories about romantic and sexual relationships between two male characters, some of which involve graphic descriptions of sex), and argue that the similarities between romance novels and slash fiction prove gender differences exist.
ref: 2009, Mark Bould, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Routledge, page 208:
text: Over the years, slash writers have started dismissing as homophobic this trope of men having sex with men without identifying as homosexual or bisexual; nevertheless, much slash fiction retains the trope's underlying sentiment of true love and devotion transcending all external rules.
ref: 2009, Robin Anne Reid, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 282:
glosses: A genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex (typically men).
glosses: A work in the genre of slash fiction
Synonyms: slash
slashfic
Hyponyms: sense: female/female slash
word: altfic
sense: female/female slash
word: femslash
sense: female/female slash
word: f
sense: female/female slash
word: f slash
sense: male/male slash
word: boyslash
sense: male/male slash
word: m
sense: male/male slash
word: m slash
Coordinate terms: shipfic
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: boyslash
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: f
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: f slash
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: femslash
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: femslasher
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: m
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: m slash
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: pre-slash
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: slash
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: slashable
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: slashdom
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: slasher
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: slashfic
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: slashy
sense: terms derived from slash fiction
word: slashzine
Related terms: slash
slasher
slashfic
slashfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slashfics
Etymology: From slash + fic.
Senses: examples: text: I must alert you all to a critical oversight in today's slashfic. Amid all the gleeful anal romping and glute-grinding cock-milking, where, o where, is the santorum?
ref: 2003 September 13, Hypatia Kosh, “A critical oversight in slashfic today!”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <bjubpg+bba2@eGroups.com>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A work in the genre of slash fiction.
glosses: Clipping of slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction.
Coordinate terms: shipfic
Related terms: slash
slasher
slash fiction
postsphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: postsphenoidal
Etymology: From post- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
postsphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postsphenoids
form: postsphenoidal
Etymology: From post- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: alisphenoid
presphenoid
glosses: The posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
Derived terms: basipostsphenoid
selenographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenographists
Etymology: From selenography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies selenography; a selenographer.
selenographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selenographist
pyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Forms: form: more pyoid
form: most pyoid
Etymology: From pyo- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: pyoid globule
text: pyoid material
text: pyoid spherules
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling or relating to pus.
crampoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crampoons
Etymology: From French crampon.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe)
glosses: A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.
crampoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crampoon
intelligencing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intelligence + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: that sad intelligencing tyrant
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
text: Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: Giving information; talebearing.
blobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blobbers
Senses: examples: text: There swimmeth also in the Sea, a round slymie substance, called a Blobber, reputed noysome to the fish.
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Dated form of blubber.
blobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blobbers
Etymology: blob + -er.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An RPG in which the player controls an indistinct party.
blobbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blobber
cynanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kynanthropy
Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) and ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man; human”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A delusion in which a person believes he or she is transformed into a dog.
topics: anthropology
arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A shape-shifting ability between human and canine forms.
Related terms: cynanthrope
cynanthropic
galeanthropy
lycanthropy
paleograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleographs
Etymology: From paleo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An ancient manuscript.
paleographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleograph
slashfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slashfic
preataxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ataxic.
Senses: examples: text: preataxic stage
text: preataxic subjects
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Before the onset of ataxia.
inventorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From inventory + -al.
Senses: examples: text: inventorial cost
text: inventorial analysis
text: inventorial value
glosses: Of or pertaining to an inventory.
Related terms: inventorially
selachoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selachoid
form: most selachoid
Etymology: From translingual Selachii + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling the Selachii (sharks).
syndactyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syndactyles
Etymology: From syn- + -dactyle, variant of -dactyl.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any bird with syndactylous feet.
syndactyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syndactyle
septiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septiform
form: most septiform
Etymology: From septum + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a septum.
septiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septiform
form: most septiform
Etymology: From septi- + -form.
Senses: examples: text: septiform
text: septiform
text: septiform
glosses: Having seven parts; sevenfold.
fan palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fan palms
Senses: glosses: Any of several different kinds of palms (Arecaceae) in various genera with leaves that are palmately lobed (rather than pinnately compound).
glosses: Any of many plants that have similar palmate leaves. (See Derived terms below.)
glosses: Any of many plants that have similar palmate leaves. (See Derived terms below.)
A traveller's palm (Ravenala madagascariensis)
Hyponyms: sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Bismarckia
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Borassus
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Coccothrinax
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Copernicia
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Hyphaene
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Licuala
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Pritchardia
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Rhapidophyllum
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Rhapis
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Sabal
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Thrinax
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Trachycarpus
sense: certain palms in Arecaceae
word: Trithrinax
Derived terms: taxonomic: Livistona australis
word: Australian fan palm
taxonomic: Washingtonia filifera
word: California fan palm
taxonomic: Livistona spp.
word: Chinese fan palm and others
taxonomic: Washingtonia filifera
word: desert fan palm
taxonomic: Chamaerops humilis
word: dwarf fan palm
taxonomic: Chamaerops humilis
word: European fan palm
taxonomic: Borassus flabellifer
word: great fan palm
taxonomic: Latania spp.
word: Indian Ocean fan palm
word: Laysan fan palm
word: Martius' fan palm
word: Mediterranean fan palm
taxonomic: Washingtonia robusta
word: Mexican fan palm
taxonomic: Rhapis excelsa
word: miniature fan palm
taxonomic: Pritchardia remota
word: Nihoa fan palm
taxonomic: Hyphaene petersiana
word: real fan palm
fan palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan palm
planch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planches
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French planche (“a board, plank”). See plank. Doublet of phalanx, phalange, plancha, planche, and plank.
Senses: examples: text: They went ouer planches, where they were cut off from the way.
ref: 1583, T. Stocker, Tragicall historie of the troubles and civile warres of the lowe Countries:
glosses: A plank.
planch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: planches
form: planching
form: planched
form: planched
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French planche (“a board, plank”). See plank. Doublet of phalanx, phalange, plancha, planche, and plank.
Senses: examples: text: To that vineyard is a planched gate.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To make or cover with planks or boards.
planched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of planch
catholicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From catholic + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: universality
catholicity
glosses: The quality of being catholic
ectostoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectostosis
ectostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectostoses
Etymology: From ecto- + ostosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.
Hypernyms: ostosis
Coordinate terms: endostosis
Related terms: exostosis
hyperostosis
osteosis
emptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emption + -al.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:emptional.
glosses: Capable of being purchased.
half-ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-rays
Etymology: From half- + ray.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A ray, or half-line.
half-rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-ray
preaccusation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + accusation.
Senses: glosses: previous or prior accusation
firring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firrings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of furring.
firrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firring
cleading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleadings
Etymology: From Scots cleding, cleiding, from earlier cleething, claithing, cleithing (“clothing”), from Middle English clething (“clothing”). See cloth, clothing.
Senses: examples: text: aluminium cleading
glosses: A cover to prevent heat radiation from a boiler, cylinder, etc. of a steam engine.
glosses: The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
cleadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleading
praisably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more praisably
form: most praisably
Etymology: From praisable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You responded to the problem praisably fast!
synonyms: praiseworthily
glosses: In a praisable manner.
sleying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sley
sleyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sley
subopercular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + opercular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated below the operculum.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the suboperculum.
subopercular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suboperculars
Etymology: From sub- + opercular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: subopercular bone
glosses: The suboperculum.
suboperculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subopercular
bendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bendlier
form: more bendly
form: bendliest
form: most bendly
Etymology: From Middle English bendli, equivalent to bend + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Having a diagonal stripe; bendy.
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a bend.
bendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: bendlier
form: more bendly
form: bendliest
form: most bendly
Etymology: From Middle English bendli, equivalent to bend + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Bendwise; by bends.
Scotticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotticisms
Etymology: From Latin Scotticus + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But Scott's veneration for the past reached its highest and most shrewd and intelligent form in his Scotticism.
ref: 1859, David Masson, British Novelists and their Styles:
synonyms: Scottishism
glosses: A phrase or idiom peculiar to Scotland or Scottish people.
Scotticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotticism
noursle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: noursles
form: noursling
form: noursled
form: noursled
Senses: examples: text: She noursled him till years he raught.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nursle.
noursled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of noursle
noursles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of noursle
noursling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noursle
polariscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polariscope + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: polariscopic observations
glosses: polarimetric
Derived terms: polariscopically
inquietation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inquietations
Etymology: From Middle English inquietacion, inquietacioun, inquietacyon, inquietation, from Middle French inquietation and its etymon, Latin inquiētātiō.
Senses: examples: text: Howe many semely personagis, by outrage in riotte, gamynge, and excesse of apparaile, be induced to thefte and robry, and some tyme to murdre, to the inquietation of good men, and finally to their owne destruction?
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “That a gouernour ought to be mercifull and the diuersitie of mercye and vayne pitie”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 146:
glosses: disturbance
argillites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argillite
pluripresence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluri- + presence.
Senses: examples: text: [Augustus] Toplady. "Does not the invocation of ſaints ſuppoſe omnipreſence in the ſaints?" [Samuel] Johnson. [I]t ſuppoſes only pluripreſence; and when ſpirits are diveſted of matter, it ſeems probable that they ſhould ſee with more extent than when in an embodied ſtate.["]
ref: 1791, James Boswell, “[1773]”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 419:
synonyms: multipresence
glosses: Presence in more than one place.
Related terms: omnipresence
thumbkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbkins
Etymology: From thumb + -kin.
Senses: glosses: An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
examples: text: Thumbkin is the pusher.
Pointer shows us where to go.
Tall-man wears the thimble,
And helps us all to sew.
ref: 1895, Margaret Naomi MacArthur, Kindergarten Review, Finger Play, page 75:
glosses: The thumb.
thumbkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbkin
phlogistian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlogistians
Etymology: From phlogist(on) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: It [air] was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston, […]
ref: 1810, George Wilson, “General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries”, in The Life of the Honᵇˡᵉ Henry Cavendish, page 39:
text: Bryan Higgins was a "phlogistian", while William, correctly as it turned out, didn't believe in the concept.
ref: 2007, Charles Mollan, “William Higgins (1763-1825)”, in It's Part of What We Are (Science and Irish Culture; 3), volume 1, Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: A believer in the existence of phlogiston.
phlogistian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phlogist(on) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In Davy's time it was still necessary in considering any novel fact to keep the phlogistian hypothesis in view, and to demonstrate its inability to explain the new discoveries.
ref: 1894 July 13, “Notices of Books”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, volume 70, number 1807:
glosses: Of or pertaining to phlogiston or phlogiston theory.
Synonyms: phlogistic
phlogistians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlogistian