cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Leibniz's law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The identity of indiscernibles.
by steam
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The Nineteenth Century innovated navigation by steam.
glosses: Via a steam-powered boat or ship.
examples: text: This line once took passengers by steam to the frontier.
text: A nostalgic journey by steam makes even a business trip an excursion.
glosses: Via a steam train.
Related terms: by air
by rail
by sail
pathologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pathologise
pathologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pathologise
pathologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pathologise
synostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synostoses
Etymology: From syn- + Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The fusion of adjacent bones by the growth of a bony material
examples: text: Conditions such as those are known collectively as single suture synostosis.
ref: 2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, in The Observer:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The abnormal development of a joint.
Hypernyms: dysostosis
Hyponyms: craniosynostosis
radio-ulnar synostosis
syndactyly
steam-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The early steam-powered ships also took advantage of sails.
glosses: Using steam power.
dysostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysostoses
Etymology: From dys- + Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the development of bone.
Hyponyms: synostosis
Coordinate terms: osteochondrodysplasia
Derived terms: acrodysostosis
Jansen metaphyseal dysostosis
Nager acrofacial dysostosis
Related terms: dysostotic
steam train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam trains
Senses: examples: text: The early Underground trains were essentially ordinary steam trains that just happened to be running below the streets in the middle of London.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33:
text: "But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers?
"I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that.
ref: 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train pulled by a steam locomotive.
Dragon Li
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a large shorthair breed originating from China.
compère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compères
Etymology: Borrowed from French compère.
Senses: examples: text: It was Moscow’s best known compère, George Bengalsky.
ref: 1967, Michael Glenny, chapter 12, in The Master and Margarita, translation of Мастер и Маргарита by Mikhail Bulgakov, published 1938, →ISBN, page 142:
text: The fact that compères routinely wait no more and no less than eight seconds before interrupting means that they decide at just that point that an audience has been clapping long enough, [...]
ref: 1984, Max Atkinson, Our Masters' Voices, page 27:
text: Suddenly compères were sipping coffee in the middle of their shows, …
ref: 2004-2005, Paul Ginsborg, Silvio Berlusconi, page 48
glosses: Alternative form of compere.
compère
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compères
form: compèring
form: compèred
form: compèred
Etymology: Borrowed from French compère.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of compere.
substitutivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From substitutive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: One of the fundamental principles governing identity is that of substitutivity—or, as it might well be called, that of indiscernibility of identicals. It provides that, given a true statement of identity, one of its two terms may be substituted for the other in any true statement and the result will be true.
ref: 1943, Willard V. Quine, “Notes on Existence and Necessity”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 40, number 5, page 113:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A logical relationship in which two terms can be mutually substituted without affecting the truth value of any propositions in which the terms occur, thereby establishing that the terms are identical.
Derived terms: principle of substitutivity
indios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indio
eburnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛb.ɚˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌiː.bɚˈneɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: eburnations
Etymology: From Latin ebur (“ivory”).
Senses: glosses: A degenerative process of bone, occurring at sites of articular cartilage erosion and commonly found in patients with osteoarthritis. Subchondral bone responds to increased friction by generating reactive, ivory-like dense bone at the site of erosion.
armados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armado
queridas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of querida
sitios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sitio + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of sitio
monos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mono
largos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of largo
sexuales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexuale
cuerdas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuerda
subheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subhead
guacho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guaco
Senses: glosses: A tropical American composite climbing plant.
glosses: A medicinal substance found in the leaves of this plant.
guacho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gaucho.
pin-striped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pinstriped.
covetingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more covetingly
form: most covetingly
Etymology: From coveting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a coveting way
Synonyms: covetously
adherens junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adherens junctions
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A protein complex that occurs at cell-cell junctions in epithelial tissues
Related terms: fascia adherens
estranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estrangers
Etymology: From estrange + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who estranges.
Synonyms: alienator
alcian blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcian blues
Etymology: Thought to derive from halcyon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of basic copper-containing phthalocyanine dyes that are used to stain mucopolysaccharides.
microörganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microörganisms
Senses: glosses: an alternative spelling of microorganism with a diaresis to indicate that the two O's are separately pronounced
microörganisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microörganism
antitumour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + tumour.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative spelling of antitumor.
arabinonucleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of arabinose + nucleic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to arabinonucleic acids or their derivatives
arabinonucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinonucleic acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of arabinosides of nucleic acids
arterioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arteriole
ascomycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascomycete
protectrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protectrix
ascovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a several bacilliform virions of the genus Ascovirus.
split-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split-shots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of split shot.
bacilliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bacilliform
form: most bacilliform
Etymology: From bacillus + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped
Derived terms: badnavirus
bacilliform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacilliforms
Etymology: From bacillus + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Such a bacillus
split shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split shot
cutup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutups
form: cut-up
Etymology: Deverbal from cut up.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: class clown; good-time Charlie; prankster
text: 'I think I should mention, Candy,' said Mrs. Chasen, 'that Harold does has his eccentric moments.' 'Oh, yes!' said Candy, finally comprehending. 'That's all right. I've got a brother who's a real cut-up too.'
ref: 1971, Collin Higgins, Harold and Maude, page 47:
text: Jeff (Daniel Eric Gold), who has whittled his academic pursuits to one course at his local community college, is the Philosopher; his best friend, Tim (Peter Scanavino), a Navy veteran, is the Combustible Alcoholic, and Buff (Mr. Culkin), a stoner skateboarder, is the Cut-Up.
ref: 2006 September 29, Ben Brantley, “Bogosian’s Youthful Rage and Alienation, Retrofitted for BlackBerries”, in New York Times:
text: Although Dek can be a cutup, his explanation for his obsessive search for the truth — “It was about respect” — reveals the bedrock of decency that makes him a seriously good guy.
ref: 2009 January 25, Marilyn Stasio, “A Need for Noir”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.
examples: text: Jeff Lawton's Truck Stop (1969), which read like a William Burroughs cut-up novel and was printed in a skewed, rotated, and oddly spaced type.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 118:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.
Related terms: cut it up
cutups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutup
nudie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuːdi/
rhymes: -uːdi
Forms: form: nudies
Etymology: From nude + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Over the following decades, the magazine published nude photos of its Playboy Bunnies along with shots of stars Pamela Anderson, Kate Moss, Madonna and Cindy Crawford. But Hefner envisioned Playboy as more than a nudie magazine.
ref: 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:
text: Playboy had recently become an object of mainstream popularity, a nudie magazine with literary content that smart men and women could peruse without embarrassment.
ref: 2009 January 25, Ken Johnson, “The Image Is Erotic. But Is It Art?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Entertainment involving naked people, especially women.
examples: text: I'm worried the baby won't be a nudist ... we're nudies 'cos we're wearing our birthday suits […] what if the baby's born wearing clothes?
ref: 2004 January 26, Stephen Crowley, “Birthday Suits”, in Loxie & Zoot:
glosses: A nudist.
nudie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuːdi/
rhymes: -uːdi
Etymology: From nude + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nudy.
Related terms: nudie-cutie
nudie run
Nudie suit
nudies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nudie
faldas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falda
muggen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muggen
form: most muggen
Etymology: From mug + -en (“made of, consisting of”).
Senses: examples: a muggen teapot
glosses: Made of earthenware in contradistinction to china, metal, wood, etc.
cuartos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuarto
milagros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milagro
escudos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escudo
by committee
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Through the collaborative efforts of multiple contributors, as a team or committee assigned to accomplish a goal; especially as known for protracted proceedings, a lack of responsiveness, or undesired results.
examples: text: A camel is a horse designed by committee.
text: Writing workshops result in poetry by committee.
glosses: With any of the results cynically attributed to committee projects, e.g. unnecessary complexity, inconsistency, logical flaws, lack of a unifying vision, banality, lack of style or character, etc.
what it is
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Possibly a combination of what up with how goes it and similar phrases. First use appears c. 1972. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Franklin breaks her embrace, begins running water into the sink to wash dishes...What it is, baby. What it is.
ref: 1972, Odie Hawkins, Odie Hawkins:
text: "What it is?" David greeted me.
ref: 1997, April Sinclair, Ain't Gonna be the Same Fool Twice, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 181:
text: A boy broke out of the crowd shouting, "Hey! Hey! What it is, brothers, what it is?"
ref: 2001, Chris Fuhrman, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 162:
text: "What it is, my niggaz?" Hollywood gave True a pound then jerked him in for a hug.
ref: 2007, K'wan, Still Hood, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 87:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A casual greeting.
Synonyms: what it be
what it do
what up
biculturalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biculturalisms
Etymology: From bicultural + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I was schooled in a northwest suburb, where […
ref: 1988 February 12, J. Higgs-Peres, “Three Teachers Slurring”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or quality of being bicultural.
Coordinate terms: 1
monoculturalism
3
triculturalism
several
many
multiculturalism
polyculturalism
aethereal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aethereal
form: most aethereal
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ethereal.
aliquoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aliquot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Divided into, or distributed in, aliquots.
Derived terms: prealiquoted
aliquoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From aliquot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aliquot
allophycocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allophycocyanins
Etymology: From allo- + phycocyanin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of accessory pigments to chlorophyll
allophycocyanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allophycocyanines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of allophycocyanin.
aminoacylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aminoacylated
form: most aminoacylated
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That has been reacted with an amino acid (especially of a tRNA molecule)
Derived terms: nonaminoacylated
Related terms: aminoacylation
amphotericin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.fəˈtɛɹ.ɪs.ɪn/
Forms: form: amphotericins
Etymology: From amphoteric + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of amphoteric antibiotic and antifungal agents derived from Streptomyces bacteria.
Hyponyms: amphotericin A
amphotericin B
identicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identical
Derived terms: indiscernibility of identicals
andesitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more andesitic
form: most andesitic
Etymology: From andesite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or composed of andesite
Derived terms: trachyandesitic
anorthosites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anorthosite
arthrodires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthrodire
bacterioferritins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacterioferritin
biomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomorph
biomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomorphs
Etymology: From bio- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: Any non-representational form based on the shape or appearance of a living organism
Derived terms: biomorphic
biomorphism
non-representational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonrepresentational.
atelocollagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + telocollagen.
Senses: glosses: A water-soluble form of collagen, used in cosmetics and for culturing cells, formed by removal of telopeptides
autofluorescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more autofluorescent
form: most autofluorescent
Etymology: From auto- + fluorescent.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
Derived terms: hyperautofluorescent
hypoautofluorescent
autopalatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autopalatines
Etymology: From auto- + palatine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A paired bone in the roof of the mouth of fish
Related terms: dermopalatine
autostainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autostainers
Etymology: From auto- + stainer.
Senses: glosses: Any of several laboratory devices intended to automate immunohistochemistry staining.
backcrossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backcross
bacterioferritin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacterioferritins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomeric protein, similar to ferritin, found in various bacteria
basicranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəl
Forms: form: more basicranial
form: most basicranial
Etymology: From basi- + cranial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the basicranium
Derived terms: neurobasicranial
basicranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniəm
Forms: form: basicrania
Etymology: From basi- + cranium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The inferior region of the skull
basipterygoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪɡɔɪd
Etymology: From basi- + pterygoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the base of the sphenoid bone
basipterygoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪɡɔɪd
Forms: form: basipterygoids
Etymology: From basi- + pterygoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The basipterygoid process
Derived terms: interbasipterygoid
basisphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basi- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the base of the sphenoid bone, especially to a centre of ossification there in the embryo
basisphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basisphenoids
Etymology: From basi- + sphenoid.
Senses: glosses: The basisphenoid bone
Derived terms: parabasisphenoid
beamsplitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beamsplitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
behaviourally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more behaviourally
form: most behaviourally
Etymology: From behavioural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With respect to behaviour
Related terms: behavioural
biglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biglycans
Etymology: From bi- + glycan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycan which is found in a variety of extracellular matrix tissues, including bone, cartilage and tendon
binarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binarities
Etymology: From binary + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The binarity of even an obvious pair of opposites like male:female rests on a restricted domain that excludes hermaphrodites, beings with no sex organs (for whatever reason) and so on. While binarity is undoubtedly an essential feature of oppositeness, it is not, on its own, sufficient. There are many situations where a domain is construed with only two members, but oppositeness seems to be absent.
ref: 2004, William Croft, D. Alan Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 165:
antonyms: non-binarity
glosses: The representation of something as a pair (or set) of binary oppositions.
Related terms: binariness
binarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.
ref: 2015 August 24, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127:
glosses: Represented in binary, or in a two-level system.
binarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of binarize
mystery shoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystery shopper
drynesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dryness
elaboratenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaborateness
emptinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emptiness
Holinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Holiness
coureurs de bois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coureur de bois
peritus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periti
Etymology: From Latin perītus (“skillful”).
Senses: examples: text: Among the leading periti at Vatican II, there was an almost universal belief that this theological diet was inadequate for dealing with the problems of the late-twentieth century.
ref: 2013 February 12, Tracey Rowland, “Pope Benedict XVI: God's Rottweiler or the Church's German shepherd?”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A Roman Catholic theologian attending an ecumenical council to give advice.
rolf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolfs
form: rolfing
form: rolfed
form: rolfed
form: Rolf
Etymology: From Ida Pauline Rolf.
Senses: glosses: To apply the Rolfing massage technique to.
Rolfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rolfings
Etymology: From Rolf + -ing.
From Ida Pauline Rolf, the creator of Rolfing.
Senses: topics: pseudoscience
glosses: A form of deep tissue massage.
Synonyms: structural integration
rolfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rolf
mokele-mbembe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mokele-mbembes
form: mokele mbembe
form: Mokele-mbembe
form: Mokele-Mbembe
form: mokèlé-mbèmbé
form: Mokèlé-mbèmbé
Etymology: From Lingala mokɛle-mbɛmbe, possibly meaning "one who stops the flow of rivers", or "rainbow".
Senses: examples: text: The mokele mbembes' favorite hangout was a big lake frequented by the local fishermen […]
ref: 1995, Tom Logsdon, Understanding the Navstar:
text: Local pygmies, who have given the creature its name, have allegedly encountered the mokele-mbembe, which they say is the size of an elephant […]
ref: 2003, Robert Todd Carroll, The Skeptic's Dictionary:
text: The swamps are intersected by many rivers, and the whole region is lush and largely inaccessible, providing any number of Mokele-Mbembes adequate food […]
ref: 2005, Rich Gray, Click or Treat: The Best of Halloween and Horror on the Internet:
glosses: A large water-dwelling cryptid described in legends of the Congo River basin.
mokele-mbembes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mokele-mbembe
pataka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pataka
form: patakas
Etymology: From Maori pātaka.
Senses: examples: text: The brown grass that Barry cut for us / With the new sickle, is lying in heaps / Between the house and the door of the pataka / Where we stuck our mattresses.
ref: 1972, James K. Baxter, ‘Autumn Testament’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 281
glosses: A Maori storehouse for food, typically raised above the ground.
pataka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patakas
form: phataka
form: patakha
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पटाका (paṭākā), पटाखा (paṭākhā).
Senses: glosses: A firecracker; a small paper packet of coloured potash and pieces of kankar, exploding when thrown against a hard surface.
whipworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipworms
Etymology: From whip + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Trichuris of roundworms that infect certain mammals
examples: text: Dr. Elliott said that in Argentina, researchers found that patients with multiple sclerosis who were infected with the human whipworm had milder cases and fewer flare-ups of their disease over a period of four and a half years.
ref: 2009 January 27, Jane E. Brody, “Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Trichuris of roundworms that infect certain mammals
Trichuris trichiura, a roundworm, causing trichuriasis when it infects a human large intestine.
glosses: Trichuriasis, infection by members of the genus Trichuris.
Hypernyms: sense: Trichuris
word: roundworm
sense: Trichuris
word: nematode
Hyponyms: sense: Trichuris
taxonomic: Trichuris vulpis
word: canine whipworm
sense: Trichuris
taxonomic: Trichuris serrata
word: cat whipworm
sense: Trichuris
taxonomic: Trichuris vulpis
word: dog whipworm
sense: Trichuris
taxonomic: Trichuris muris
word: mouse whipworm
sense: Trichuris
taxonomic: Trichuris suis
word: pig whipworm
cohomologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohomology
conjugacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjugacies
Senses: examples: text: Because the gamma distribution is the conjugate prior for the precision parameter (#92;tau#61;1#47;#92;sigma²) of a univariate normal distribution, the Wishart distribution (as its multivariate generalization) extends conjugacy to the multivariate normal distribution.
ref: 2012 May 25, Steven W. Nydick, The Wishart and Inverse Wishart Distributions:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition or state of being conjugate.
Derived terms: conjugacy class
nonconjugacy
bapineuzumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + neu(ral) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: examples: text: In 2012, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson halted development of the antibody drug bapineuzumab, after it failed in late-stage trials to treat patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s.
ref: 2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A humanized monoclonal antibody that acts on the nervous system and has potential therapeutic value for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and possibly glaucoma.
defamiliarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːfəˈmɪljəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: defamiliarizes
form: defamiliarizing
form: defamiliarized
form: defamiliarized
Etymology: From de- + familiarize.
Senses: examples: text: From its speculated future position, the film [Carnage] thus defamiliarizes and invites us to recognize the absurdities of meat and dairy consumption.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 227:
glosses: To make unfamiliar; to divest of familiarity.
Derived terms: defamiliarizer
defamiliarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defamiliarises
form: defamiliarising
form: defamiliarised
form: defamiliarised
Etymology: From de- + familiarise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
bulbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bulb + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: When she began to have trouble breathing, a sign of severe bulbar polio, she was taken by ambulance to another hospital.
ref: 2009 January 27, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio”, in New York Times:
glosses: Relating to, or having the form of a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.
Synonyms: bulbal
medullary
oblongatal
Derived terms: bulbar conjunctiva
cervicobulbar
corticobulbar
epibulbar
extrabulbar
interbulbar
intrabulbar
nonbulbar
parabulbar
peribulbar
pontobulbar
postbulbar
propriobulbar
pseudobulbar
pseudobulbar affect
retrobulbar
spinobulbar
suprabulbar
tectobulbar
transbulbar
tubulobulbar
ventriculobulbar
defamiliarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defamiliarizations
Etymology: From de- + familiarization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of defamiliarisation.
defamiliarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defamiliarization
defamiliarisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defamiliarisation
wellwisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellwishers
Senses: examples: text: Nor did he ſeem to have made an unreaſonable reply to them both, and it vvas eaſy for a ſpeech to be received favorably amongſt vvellvviſhers.
ref: 1761, Titus Livius [i.e., Livy], chapter L, in [anonymous], transl., Titus Livius’s Roman History from the Building of the City. […], volume VII, Edinburgh: […] A[lexander] Donaldson and J[ohn] Reid, for Alexander Donaldson, →OCLC, book XXXIII, page 235:
text: [G]ive me the hopes of my dear girl's approaching felicity, equal to the deſires of / Her ſincereſt VVellvviſher, / LAVINIA RAWLINS.
ref: 1770, “Letter XIV. Miss Lavinia Rawlins, to Mrs. Gertrude Coningsby.”, in The History of Lavinia Rawlins. […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] [F]or the editor; and sold by F. Noble, […]; and J. Noble, […], page 111:
text: "You see before you," she said, with choking utterance, "one who, fallen and degraded as she is, would still venture to hope that she has a friend, at least a wellwisher, in Mr Thornton. If I am mistaken in this, alas! I am friendless."
ref: 1827, [Thomas Hamilton], chapter III, in The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton. […], volume II, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: Alternative spelling of well-wisher.
Related terms: wellwishing
well-wishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well-wisher
wellwishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellwisher
defamiliarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defamiliarise
defamiliarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defamiliarise
defamiliarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defamiliarise
defamiliarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defamiliarize
defamiliarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defamiliarize
defamiliarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defamiliarize
hamachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamachi
Etymology: From Japanese ハマチ (hamachi).
Senses: examples: text: Over an elaborate lunch — kimchi and other pickled vegetables, East and West Coast oysters, pork and shitake mushroom buns, noodle soups and hamachi with beet purée — he and Mr. McCarthy discussed their attempts to sidestep the clichés of postpunk stardom while still making a record people could dance, and debauch themselves, to.
ref: 2009 January 27, Melena Ryzik, “A Band Moves Away From the Style It Helped Make Mainstream”, in New York Times:
glosses: Japanese amberjack, Pacific yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata).
Japanese amberjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese amberjacks
form: Japanese amberjack
Senses: glosses: Pacific yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata)
decodable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈkəʊdəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more decodable
form: most decodable
Etymology: From decode + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Decodable books are sold in packs, with more letter combinations appearing in each successive book.
glosses: Able to be read using a certain set of reading knowledge.
topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a code, having a non-singular extension; being a lossless encoding.
glosses: capable of being decoded
Derived terms: word: nondecodable
word: undecodable
topics: information-theory
mathematics
computing
engineering
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: uniquely decodable
topics: information-theory
mathematics
computing
engineering
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: UD
dismayingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dismayingly
form: most dismayingly
Etymology: From dismaying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that causes dismay.
Synonyms: distressingly
disturbingly
perturbingly
scorekeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From score + keeping.
Senses: glosses: The keeping of score.
Related terms: recordkeeping
record-keeping
timekeeping
time-keeping
incurables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incurable
megamerger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamergers
Etymology: From mega- + merger.
Senses: glosses: A particularly large economic merger.
megamergers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamerger
melodramatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodramatists
Senses: glosses: A writer of melodramas.
glosses: An actor in melodramas.
glosses: A melodramatic person.
melodramatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodramatist
whipworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipworm
Jesus phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesus phones
Etymology: Humorously from its perceived desirability and goodness.
Senses: examples: text: The blogosphere had already christened the iPhone, an allegedly revolutionary handset made by Apple, the "Jesus phone" weeks before it went on sale.
ref: 2007 July 5, “Marketing the iPhone: Where would Jesus queue?”, in The Economist:
text: […] the Jesus Phone, or, as it's more commonly known to PC users, the iPhone.
ref: 2007, Maximum PC:
text: "Jesus Phone" is an extremely common nickname for the iPhone. Last time we Googled, there were well over 73000 uses of the phrase […]
ref: 2008 November, Mac Life, volume 2, number 11:
text: When the iPhone launched in June 2007, lines snaked around Apple Stores around the world. Diehards vying to be the first to own the Jesus phone waited outside for hours, even days.
ref: 2017, Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, Kindle edition, Transworld, page 372:
glosses: The iPhone.
ribavirin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹaɪ.bəˈvaɪ.ɹɪn/
Forms: form: ribavirins
Etymology: From rib(oside) + -a- + -vir- (“antiviral”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Due to the paucity of approved treatments, it should come as no surprise that thousands of PWAs/PWARCs have found it necessary to try some of the more widely available alternative treatments. These include DNCB (a compound applied topically that has been used for Kaposi's sarcoma), ribavirin (an anti-viral treatment) and isoprinosene (an immune enhancer).
ref: 1988 August 13, Miranda Kolbe, “A PWA Movement of Guerrilla Clinics”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 5, page 8:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic analog of guanosine with chemical formula C₈H₁₂N₄O₅ that inhibits viral nucleic acid synthesis and is used as a broad-spectrum antiviral drug especially in the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infection and chronic hepatitis C.
Derived terms: ribavirin monophosphate
RMP
ribavirin diphosphate
RDP
ribavirin triphosphate
RTP
ultraclean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraclean
form: most ultraclean
Etymology: From ultra- + clean.
Senses: examples: text: "Children raised in an ultraclean environment," he added, "are not being exposed to organisms that help them develop appropriate immune regulatory circuits."
ref: 2009 January 27, Jane E Brody, “Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You”, in New York Times:
glosses: Exceptionally clean.
unprogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + programmed.
Senses: glosses: Not programmed.
examples: text: Newcomers into an unprogrammed meeting often conclude that there is no minister, but such is not the case, for in one way or another all Friends are ministers.
ref: 1988, George T. Peck, What is Quakerism, A Primer:
glosses: Having religious services that take the form of silent group meditation.
unprogrammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprogrammable
form: most unprogrammable
Etymology: From un- + programmable.
Senses: examples: text: What the egghead offers is a set of techniques for programming certain kinds of previously unprogrammable jobs...
ref: 1959, American College of Hospital Administrators, Hospital Administration:
text: Moreover, even if we admit that human thought is unprogrammable, Freud and James would still owe us an explanation...
ref: 2006, André Kukla, Joel Walmsley, Mind: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction to the Major Theories:
glosses: That cannot be programmed.
trichuriasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəsɪs
Forms: form: trichuriases
Etymology: Trichuris + -iasis
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A parasitic disease caused by infection of the large intestine by a whipworm
Related terms: trichuriosis
trichuriases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichuriasis
unredressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + redressed.
Senses: examples: text: A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
ref: 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
glosses: Not redressed.
Jesus phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesus phone
mothership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherships
Etymology: From mother + ship.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mother ship.
Related terms: mothercraft
mothership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English modership, equivalent to mother + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: How did Solomon decide a question of mothership?
ref: 1916, Charles Augustus Shook, The Gist of the Bible: A Complete Handbook for Class and Home Study, page 222:
text: but with her mothership she puts on a lion's heart
ref: 1884, Francis de Sales, chapter XIV, in Henry Benedict McKay, transl., Treatise on the Love of God, page 101:
text: At present only the pride of mothership was apparent
ref: 1913, Susie Colyer Nethersole, Wilsam, page 357:
synonyms: motherhood
glosses: The state of being a mother.
mother ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother ship
motherships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mothership
pointillistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pointillistically
form: most pointillistically
Etymology: From pointillistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a pointillistic fashion.
supportively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more supportively
form: most supportively
Etymology: From supportive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a supportive way.
whispery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whispery
form: most whispery
Etymology: From whisper + -y.
Senses: glosses: Producing or resembling a whisper.
cubists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubist
dehumanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehumanisations
Etymology: From dehumanise + -ation or de- + humanisation.
Senses: examples: text: Jada's case happened within the wider context of a world that objectifies women, and hypersexualises black women, in particular, to the point of dehumanisation.
ref: 2014 July 17, Laura Bates, “#JadaPose: the online ridiculing of a teen victim is part of a sickening trend”, in The Guardian:
text: When your priority is free speech and ours is our lives, you don’t understand we can’t afford to pay for your privilege with our dehumanisations, the first step to opening us up for any evil.
ref: 2019 August 16, Nyadol Nyuon, “It's easy to argue for free speech when it's not you or your children in the firing line”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of dehumanization.
dehumanisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehumanisation
loinclothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loincloth + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: By the way, the birds you most often hear in old Tarzan movies are Australian kookaburras and Indian peacocks, which seems rather incongruous considering the loin-clothed one is supposedly barrelling around the African jungle.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 29:
glosses: Dressed in a loincloth.
iridial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: irideal
Senses: glosses: Relating to the iris of the eye.
sleazebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleazebag
talkshows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talkshow
bodybag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodybags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of body bag.
body bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body bag
bodybags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodybag
disorientingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disorientingly
form: most disorientingly
Etymology: From disorienting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disorienting manner.
postfeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postfeminist
form: most postfeminist
Etymology: From post- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation.
ref: 2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory:
glosses: Pertaining to postfeminism.
postfeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postfeminists
Etymology: From post- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: But to call a group of researchers postfeminist without exploring what exactly that means belittles both feminists and postfeminists alike.
ref: 2009 February 8, “What Do Women Want?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who belongs to the postfeminism movement.
purpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of purple
purpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of purple
metronomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more metronomically
form: most metronomically
Etymology: From metronomic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: After many rearrangings — his eyes all the while swiveling metronomically between the package on the stranger's lap and the stranger's absent gaze — he at last settled, brow knit with dissatisfaction, on an order that would temporarily suffice […]
ref: 2013, Ben Ehrenreich, Ether, page 49:
glosses: In a metronomic fashion.
ponies up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pony up
ponying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pony up
Tony crony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tony cronies
Etymology: From Tony + crony, chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: ...including such folk as Peter Mandelson, a Labour spin doctor-turned-minister, and Lord Alli, an ennobled Asian Tony-crony with a television company.
ref: 1998, The Economist:
text: Falconer is basically a good egg but his reputation as a "Tony crony" and his involvement with the Millennium Dome do him no favours.
ref: 2001, Royal Town Planning Institute, Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment:
text: She said the Tony crony thing was a real problem.
ref: 2007, Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years:
glosses: An ingratiating political associate of the former British prime minister Tony Blair.
Synonyms: Blairite
Tony cronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tony crony
eldritchly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eldritchly
form: most eldritchly
Etymology: From eldritch + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...with a cortege of dead kings about them, and the blown breath of skeletons thrilling eldritchly in the silver flutes.
ref: 1981, Clark Ashton Smith, The City of the Singing Flame:
text: The white eyeballs and white teeth of the horse, the panting flanks, the rigid legs all stood out eldritchly.
ref: 1985, Arthur Crew Inman, Daniel Aaron, The Inman Diary:
text: With his co-editor Robert Shea, he became involved with the eldritchly comic Discordian Society, and together they eventually co-created The Illuminates.
ref: 1986, Larry McCaffery, Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-bibliographical Guide:
glosses: In an eldritch way.
Synonyms: eerily
uncannily
popcorn ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popcorn ceilings
Senses: examples: text: Eesh, she hated this apartment. Hated the ugly popcorn ceilings and the awkward floor plan. Why had she stayed?
ref: 2014, Cheri Allan, Stacking the Deck:
text: Despite the drab backdrop of his performances—a dimly lit bathroom with a popcorn ceiling—his grooves were both riveting and infectious, earning him plaudits from several TikTok stalwarts.
ref: 2021 May 7, Barrett Swanson, “The Anxiety of Influencers”, in Harper's Magazine:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: acoustic ceiling
stipple ceiling
glosses: A ceiling having a type of waterbased spray-on treatment characterized by a rough, lumpy texture.
littly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more littly
form: most littly
Etymology: From little + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Of our millions of worlds they knew of only one, or half-a-one, say, so that their God was not greatly great, but littly great...
ref: 1966, Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors:
glosses: In a little or minor way.