cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
monomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -morphous.
Senses: glosses: monomorphic
multicystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + cystic.
Senses: glosses: polycystic
nonhyperdiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hyperdiploid.
Senses: glosses: Not hyperdiploid
nonleukemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + leukemic.
Senses: glosses: Not leukemic
nonpapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + papillary.
Senses: glosses: Not papillary
oncovin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name, presumably from onco- (“tumor”) and vincristine.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: vincristine
paraproteinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraproteinemias
Etymology: From paraprotein + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of (abnormally large amounts of) paraproteins in the blood.
paratracheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪkiəl
Etymology: From para- + tracheal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Adjacent to the trachea
Derived terms: paratracheal lymph node
plasmablastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plasmablast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to plasmablasts
plasmacytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plasmacyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to plasmacytes.
plasmacytoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasmacytomas
Etymology: From plasmacyte + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A malignant tumour of plasmacytes
sarcomatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarcoma + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a sarcoma
tubulocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tubulocyst + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to tubulocysts.
tubulocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubulocysts
Etymology: From tubulo- + cyst.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A cyst formed by the blockage of a tubule.
panda bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panda bear
cross peen hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross peen hammers
Senses: glosses: a hammer with a blade-like peen at right angles to the haft, used by carpenters.
Synonyms: cross pein hammer
Warrington hammer
Warrington hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Warrington hammers
Senses: glosses: a hammer with a blade-like peen at right angles to the haft, used by carpenters.
Synonyms: cross peen hammer
teach someone a lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teaches someone a lesson
form: teaching someone a lesson
form: taught someone a lesson
form: taught someone a lesson
Senses: glosses: To punish someone for a serious transgression they have committed so that they do not commit it again.
Synonyms: fix someone's wagon
Related terms: show someone who's boss
straight peen hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight peen hammers
Senses: glosses: a hammer with a blade-like peen parallel to the haft, used by carpenters.
Coordinate terms: cross peen hammer
Kodiak bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kodiak bear
milk tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk teas
Senses: glosses: A beverage containing a combination of milk and tea.
glosses: Bubble tea.
Derived terms: Milk Tea Alliance
pearl tapioca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Small edible balls made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.
Synonyms: tapioca pearl
Kharput
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Harput
Etymology: Perhaps ultimately from Armenian Խարբերդ (Xarberd); see it for more.
Senses: glosses: An ancient town and citadel near present-day Elazığ.
Synonyms: Kharberd
putty in someone's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putty in someone's fingers
form: putty in the hands of someone
Etymology: A metaphor likening the easy malleability of putty to the easy manipulability of the person. First use appears c. 1867.
Senses: examples: text: Why, Marseny, here, he wan't no more than so much putty in her hands.
ref: 1894 May 27, Harold Frederic, “Marsena”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Jul 2010, page 19:
text: So long as she behaves in a way to keep his love and respect he's putty in her hands.
ref: 1941 December 11, “Caroline Chatfield Says”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 27 Jul 2010, page 17:
text: [H]e clocks on at 8.30 pm with the opening guitar notes of his most famous song, ‘Purple Rain’. Everyone is instantly putty in his hands.
ref: 2007 August 5, Kitty Empire, “Nothing compares 2 Prince”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 27 Jul 2010:
glosses: One who is readily manipulated or controlled by another person; a puppet.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: pushover
wimp
wuss
Related terms: eat out of someone's hand
wrap around one's little finger
putty in the hands of someone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of putty in someone's hands.
Elazığ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elazig
form: Elâzığ
Senses: glosses: A province in eastern Turkey.
glosses: A district of Elazığ Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital city of Elazığ district and Elazığ Province, Turkey.
Related terms: Kharput
Elazig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Elazığ.
putty in someone's fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of putty in someone's hands.
forwarding address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forwarding addresses
Senses: glosses: An address to which mail should be relayed if sent to the wrong address. Chiefly used when a person has moved but some mail continues to arrive at the old address.
forwarding addresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forwarding address
conjugality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjugalities
Etymology: From conjugal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: He moved a step to her side and bent down to kiss her forehead. The automatic conjugality of the daily kiss might have a good effect. That was what he though, if he thought at all.
ref: 1894, Francis Marion Crawford, Casa Braccio, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Part II, Chapter 26, p. 79:
text: The conjugality of the court and jail is confessed by putting the two under the same roof, or by joining them together.
ref: 1906, George E. Macdonald, “Unbidden Thoughts”, in Liberty, volume 15, number 6, page 40:
glosses: The condition of being conjugal.
examples: text: And if it be true both in divinity and law, that consent alone, though copulation never follow, makes a marriage; how can they dissolve it for the want of that which made it not, and not dissolve it for that not continuing which made it and should preserve it in love and reason, and difference it from a brute conjugality?
ref: 1645, John Milton, “Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the four chief places in Scripture which treat of Marriage, or Nullities in Marriage”, in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: In Two Books: Also the Judgement of Martin Bucer; Tetrachordon; and an Abridgement of Colasterion, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, published 1820, page 260:
text: She and Mr. van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking-over.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book I, Chapter 7:
text: […] the most entertaining was the quarrel that followed Mrs. McLash’s sneering because the bride and groom occupied the same bed on the night before their marriage […] [Tim] tried to defend the couple by saying that all engaged couples enjoyed conjugality even though they might not be honest enough to show that they did in public.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 223:
glosses: The conjugal state; marriage; sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: connubiality
marriage
conjugational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conjugation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to conjugation
Derived terms: conjugationally
conjunctionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From conjunctional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conjunctional manner; with regard to conjunction
conjunctly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From conjunct + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conjunct manner; jointly
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: LeZotte also gives readers a sense of M.V.S.L. (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language), used by the islanders through the mid-1900s but never fully documented, by combining "home signs" she used as a child with variations of American Sign Language.
ref: 2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022:
glosses: A sign language, now extinct, which developed on Martha's Vineyard (an island in Massachusetts).
conjurator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjurators
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: conjuror
glosses: A person who swears an oath along with others
conjuress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjuresses
Etymology: From conjure + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female conjurer
conjury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjuries
Senses: examples: text: There is no better place to learn the arts of conjury. Speak with Madelle, and she will explain the benefits of joining the guild.
ref: 2014, Final Fantasy XIV:
glosses: conjuration
small of the back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The plan was not feasible, for making a ninety-degree turn would have been impossible without nickel-alloy swivels inserted in the small of every man's back, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf was not sanguine at all about obtaining that many nickel-alloy swivels from Quartermaster or enlisting the co-operation of the surgeons at the hospital.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “McWatt”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 70:
text: He remembered the smell of her skin in the overheated darkness of a coffin near the port, her fingers locked across the small of his back.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 9:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: low back
lower back
lumbar
glosses: The relatively narrow, lumbar region of the back.
platane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platanes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of platan.
logolepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logo- + -lepsy.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to the magic of teleconferencing, often the format for a given show is call-in, and the phones and airwaves crackle with logolepsy.
ref: 2003, Richard Lederer, A Man of My Words:
text: A case of logolepsy is easily distinguished from the perfectly sane mood which demands and imperiosly seizes the pregnant sign, and makes it the exponent of a hidden power.
ref: 1900, Maurice Thompson, My winter garden: a nature-lover under southern skies:
glosses: A fascination or obsession with words.
Related terms: logolept
stenchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntʃi
Forms: form: stenchier
form: stenchiest
Etymology: From Middle English stenchi (“malodorous”), equivalent to stench + -y. More at stench, -y.
Senses: examples: text: Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement.
ref: 2003, Suzann Ledbetter, A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves:
glosses: Having a stench or foul odour, malodorous.
Related terms: stench
stinky
keratose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keratose
form: most keratose
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or marked by keratosis; horny.
keratose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tough, horny animal substance found in the skeletons of sponges and other invertebrates.
nooks and crannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nook and cranny
Related terms: nooks or crannies
crook and nanny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crooks and nannies
Etymology: Spoonerism of nook and cranny, by association with the more common words crook and nanny.
Senses: examples: text: There's a building in St. Louis called the MEPS Building where doctors probe every crook and nanny of your body to see if you're physically fit enough to join the military.
ref: 2008, Wes Goff, City and the Sea: Memories of being a Young Sailor, page 44:
text: Wouldn't grow straight if you put a splint on 'er. She liked the loopholes in things. The chinks, the crooks and nannies... liked to find healthy little plantlets to choke!
ref: 2003, Kit St. Germain, Thirteenth Fairy, page 246:
text: There was sand in every crook and nanny, from truck to keel. As the emerging seamen ran out of expletives so the Kalahari may have run out of sand.
ref: 2009, Ted Macey, Merry Swan, Jack the Lad RN, page 17:
qualifier: often preceded by every
glosses: A very small place.
examples: text: For the currency of the lives of most us, the fashion in the business of the state has been to expand farther and farther into every nook and cranny, seeking the welfare of every crook and nanny.
ref: 1995, Gordon Gibson, Thirty million musketeers: one Canada for all Canadians:
text: We can also start a story with the name of someone who has star quality, a person whose name is widely known—in almost every nook and cranny, by almost every crook and nanny.
ref: 1997, Mervin Block, Writing broadcast news: shorter, sharper, stronger, page 10:
text: The criminals could never predict if a Big Polis would be feeling his collar at any time. The beat Polis knew every nook and cranny on his beat, (he knew every crook and nanny too). No one, but no one, would dare to call a Big Polis, "the filth", or similar name in those days.
ref: 2003 October 6, Robert Peffers, “The American Spirit”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):
synonyms: average Joe
qualifier: often preceded by every
glosses: Average person or people.
crooks and nannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crook and nanny
nooks or crannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nook or cranny
Related terms: nooks and crannies
rake in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rakes in
form: raking in
form: raked in
form: raked in
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: rake up
glosses: To collect something such as leaves into a pile, often with a rake.
examples: text: The company barely lifted a finger, and yet it still raked in more than two million euros in consulting fees.
text: A letter demanding payment costs her £75. A knock on the door from a company representative: another £235. Taking her car: an extra £110. Then there’s a daily storage charge, so that she pays £24 for every day she can’t drive. These were fees set by the government, using the industry’s sums. The result is that the firms chasing some of the poorest people in the country can rake in handsome profit margins.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
hypernyms: take in
;
earn
glosses: To receive or to collect a large quantity of (something, especially money).
Related terms: rake it in
antimuonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + muonium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antimatter form of muonium
overstabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overstability
percolatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more percolatively
form: most percolatively
Etymology: From percolative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a percolative manner; by percolation
radiotelescopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiotelescope
radiotelescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiotelescopes
Etymology: From radio- + telescope.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of radio telescope.
rescatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescatter
rescatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescatters
form: rescattering
form: rescattered
form: rescattered
Etymology: From re- + scatter.
Senses: glosses: To scatter again
dayflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dayflowers
Etymology: From day + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Commelina, whose flowers last only a day
Synonyms: widow's tears
Derived terms: taxonomic: Commelina communis
word: Asiatic dayflower
word: Benghal dayflower Commelina benghalensis
taxonomic: Commelina dianthifolia
word: birdbill dayflower
taxonomic: Commelina caroliniana
word: Carolina dayflower
taxonomic: Commelina diffusa
word: climbing dayflower
taxonomic: Commelina erecta
word: slender dayflower
taxonomic: Commelina diffusa
word: spreading dayflower
word: Virginia dayflower (Commelina virginica
taxonomic: Commelina erecta
word: white mouth dayflower
nailbiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nailbiter
fortifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fortifiable
form: most fortifiable
Etymology: From fortify + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be fortified
Derived terms: unfortifiable
intercolumniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercolumniations
Etymology: From inter- + columniation.
Senses: glosses: The spaces between adjacent columns (of a colonnade).
examples: text: [W]hen vvee ſpeake of the Intercolumniation or diſtance, vvhich is due to each Order, vve meane in a Dorique, Ionicall, Corinthian Porch, or Cloiſter, or the like of one Contignation, and not in Storied buildings.
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part, pages 39–40:
text: How intercolumniation is regulated in the Doric Order has been already explained at page 20: in that, the distances between the columns is governed entirely by the triglyphs of the frieze, so that there can be no medium between monotriglyphic and ditriglyphic intercolumniation, accordingly as there is either one or two triglyphs over each intercolumn.
ref: 1852, William Henry Leeds, Rudimentary Architecture. The orders and their æsthetic principles:
glosses: The system of such spacing.
Related terms: areostyle
diastyle
eustyle
pycnostyle
systyle
columniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: columniations
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An arrangement or grouping of columns
Derived terms: intercolumniation
supercolumniation
linenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linenfolds
Etymology: From linen + fold.
Senses: glosses: A form of decorative carving in wood panelling that imitates folded linen.
pargeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pargetings
form: pargetting
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A form of decorative plasterwork used on exterior walls of buildings.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: parging
rehoboam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehoboams
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Rehoboam.
significator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪɡˈnɪfɪˌkeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: significators
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, signifies.
examples: text: In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. ― Sir W. Scott
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A planet that is supposed to rule something.
examples: text: In fact, I have fallen out of the habit of separating a significator from the deck because most layouts have positions to indicate the role that a person is acting out, or that otherwise reflect his status and state of mind.
ref: 2001, Janina Renée, Tarot for a New Generation, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A card representing a querent, question, or situation.
Synonyms: topics: cartomancy
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: signifier
transferrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transferrers
Etymology: From transfer + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or thing that transfers
unattainableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unattainable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unattainable.
unprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + printed.
Senses: glosses: Not (yet) printed.
unprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unprint
antigenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigenomes
Etymology: From anti- + genome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complementary strand of RNA from which the genome of a virus is constructed
Derived terms: antigenomic
axonogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From axon + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation of new axons.
desialylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desialylated
form: most desialylated
Etymology: From de- + sialylated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: From which sialyl groups have been removed
Related terms: desialylation
dimyristyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + myristyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two myristyl groups in a molecule
myristyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myristyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical CH₃(CH₂)₁₃- derived from myristyl alcohol
Derived terms: dimyristyl
myristylate
myristylation
distearyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + stearyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two stearyl groups in a molecule
stearyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stearyls
Etymology: From stearic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical CH₃(CH₂)₁₇- derived from stearyl alcohol
Derived terms: cetostearyl
cetylstearyl
guanidinylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guanidinylated
form: most guanidinylated
Etymology: From guanidinyl + -ated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reacted with guanidine
Related terms: guanidinylation
immunoediting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + editing.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The modification of the immunogenicity of a cancer (following immunosurveillance)
immunorecognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + recognition.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: the recognition of epitopes by antibodies
Related terms: immunorecognize
intraneuritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + neuritic.
Senses: glosses: Within a nerve
intermediate frequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediate frequencies
form: IF
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A frequency to which a carrier frequency is shifted as an intermediate step in transmission or reception; generally associated with superheterodyne receivers.
lipophosphoglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipophosphoglycans
Etymology: From lipo- + phosphoglycan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of phosphatidylinositol derivatives of glycan that coats the surfaces of many parasitic protozoa.
monophosphorylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophosphorylations
Etymology: From mono- + phosphorylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phosphorylation reaction in which a single phosphoryl group is added
panicogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panic + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The generation of a false sense of panic in an otherwise healthy person
Related terms: panicogenic
photoconvertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoconvertible
form: most photoconvertible
Etymology: From photo- + convertible.
Senses: glosses: That may be converted (from one form to another) by the action of light
polycytidylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + cytidylic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to polycytidylic acid
Related terms: polyinosinic
polyinosinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From poly- + inosinic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to polyinosinic acid
Related terms: polycytidylic
polyribocytidylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + ribocytidylic.
Senses: glosses: polycytidylic
Related terms: polyriboinosinic
polyriboinosinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From poly- + riboinosinic.
Senses: glosses: polyinosinic
Related terms: polyribocytidylic
postadministration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + administration.
Senses: glosses: Following administration of a drug
reaccumulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From re- + accumulated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reaccumulate
reaccumulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + accumulated.
Senses: glosses: Produced by reaccumulation
reaccumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaccumulates
form: reaccumulating
form: reaccumulated
form: reaccumulated
Etymology: From re- + accumulate.
Senses: glosses: To accumulate again
Related terms: reaccumulation
reaccumulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaccumulations
Etymology: From re- + accumulation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent accumulation
Related terms: reaccumulate
faw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: fough
homophone: faugh
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: "It's a complicated thing, though, isn't it." "Faw!" Churchill said.
ref: 1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 36:
text: “If you'd carry a camera around your neck and walk fifty feet ahead of me, nobody would know we were together.”
“Faw,” he said. “And tush.”
ref: 2013, John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence:
glosses: Alternative form of faugh.
faw
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: fough
homophone: faugh
Etymology: Phonetic rendering of for.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin′ at me faw?”
ref: 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days, Gutenberg eBook #10234:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of for, chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.
faw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: fough
homophone: faugh
Forms: form: faws
Etymology: From the surname Faa.
Senses: glosses: A gypsy.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: fee-faw-fum
transections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transection
power word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power words
Senses: glosses: A word that often evokes an emotional response, positive or negative, in the target audience, leading to a desired outcome.
power words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power word
lectotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lectotypes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λέκτος (léktos, “chosen”),from λέγειν (légein, “to choose”) + τύπος (túpos, “blow, impression”).
Senses: examples: text: Where the original diagnosis is without illustrations or is accompanied by figues based on two or more specimens, the first subsequent author is at liberty to select from these cotypes a type for the old species, adhering, as far as can be ascertained to the intention of the original author. Such a type speciment is to be designated as a lectotype...
ref: 1905, George P. Merrill, Bulletin of the United States National Museum, Vol. 53, page 12:
text: The lectotype and paratype, which are before me, are both iron-stained, predominantly internal composite molds of left valves in a fine-grained, white quartzite matrix.
ref: 1968, Arcie Lee McAlester, “Type Species of Paleozoic Nuculoid Bivalve Genera”, in Memoir, Geological Society of America, 105, page 19:
text: Lectotype designation is justified under article 74.1.1 of the ICZN (1999) in order to fix the status of this specimen as the sole name-bearing type of this species.
ref: 2000, Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, page 27:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A biological specimen or illustration later selected to serve as definitive type example of a species or subspecies when the original author of the name did not designate a holotype.
Derived terms: lectotypic
lectotypification
lectotypify
isolectotype
paralectotype
Related terms: hapantotype
virtuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virtual
salivator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salivators
Etymology: From salivate + -or.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An agent which causes salivation.
examples: text: The people who took part fell into two groups, high salivators and low salivators.
ref: 1981, Samuel Anthony Barnett, Modern Ethology: The Science of Animal Behavior, page 152:
glosses: One who salivates.
salivators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salivator
odd duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odd ducks
Senses: examples: text: This lad Kelley is an odd duck in many ways. . . . Unlike most college youngsters, he has no hobbies.
ref: 1936 December 11, Bill Lush, “Kelley Reveals Technique of Successful Pass Play”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 28 Jul 2010, page 27:
text: If you are a married woman over 45 and are thinking of taking a plunge into the job market bear in mind that you won't be an odd duck in the employment pool.
ref: 1971 June 18, “The Job Market: A New Start—Mature Women Who Work”, in The Dispatch, North Carolina, retrieved 28 Jul 2010, page 6:
text: Is [Peter] O'Toole—skinny, tottering, eccentric in everything from costume to line-readings—wonderful in this role? Indeed he is. Always more of an odd duck than a leading man, age (he's 74) has given him license to play his essential weirdness.
ref: 2006 Dec. 21, "Sentiment—Not Sentimentality" (film review of Venus), Time (retrieved 28 July 2010)
glosses: An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.
Synonyms: odd fish
strange bird
weirdo
strange person
procedure division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procedure divisions
Senses: examples: text: The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data.
ref: 1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science:
text: The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution.
ref: 1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information:
text: In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs.
ref: 2003, Robert C. Seacord et al., Modernizing legacy systems:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute
data division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data divisions
Senses: examples: text: The data division is that portion of the program set aside to identify explicitly all the format characteristics of data received by the program, created within the program, and produced as output.
ref: 1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science:
text: It is best to define the variables within the data division before writing the procedure division.
ref: 1997, Peter Groves, Sourcebook on intellectual property law:
text: We use the data division to control the definition of these fields.
ref: 2002, Earl H. Parsons, Structured Programming with COBOL Examples:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The part of a COBOL program in which the format and layout of external files and databases, and internally-used variables and constants are defined
identification division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identification divisions
Senses: examples: text: Identification Division This division is the smallest and simplest division of a COBOL program. As the name indicates, it supplies identifying data about the program. It has no effect on the execution of the program but is required as a means of identifying the program to the computer's operating system.
ref: 1988, Allen Kent, James G. Williams, Encyclopedia of microcomputers:
text: The identification division gives the name of the program, its author, the date the program was written and other information that other users may find helpful in understanding or maintaining the program.
ref: 1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information:
text: The identification division is used to establish the identification of the program and its author.
ref: 2006, Prakash Dhara, Computer in Biological Sciences:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The (sometimes optional) part of a COBOL program that identifies the name of the program (and optionally of its programmer)
environment division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: environment divisions
Senses: examples: text: The developers of Cobol made explicit recognition of this problem by providing an environment division for programs, into which as many as possible of the machine- dependent aspects of a process are collected.
ref: 1964, Franz Alt, Advances in computers:
text: The environment division comprises two sections: the configuration section which holds information about the way in which a specific machine implements COBOL, and the input-output section, which describes external devices that will be accessed during execution of the program.
ref: 1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information:
text: The environment division is the link between the COBOL program and the computer and input-output devices the program uses.
ref: 2006, Knute Axelson, Mary Bellino, Dave Harper, Coding: The Handbook for Information Technology:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain other specifications.
snoze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I sneezed a sneeze into the air; / It fell to earth I know not where. / But hard and cold were the looks of those / In whose vicinity I snoze.
ref: 1957, S. Lee Crump, Boys' Life - Aug 1957 - Page 62:
text: The temperature was below freezing. Maybe that's why I snoze and coughed so much. I have snozen all day.
ref: 1988, Vera Crouch Erickson, Ampersandia: this and that and other things:
glosses: alternative past of sneeze.
snozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Likely by analogy with freeze and frozen, but compare Old English fnoren, past participle of fnēosan.
Senses: examples: text: The temperature was below freezing. Maybe that's why I snoze and coughed so much. I have snozen all day.
ref: 1988, Vera Crouch Erickson, Ampersandia: this and that and other things:
text: Similarly of sneezes. Why has all the world agreed to laugh at the victims of sternutation. That it has is undeniable. Think of the epitaph — "SNOZEN TO DEATH."
ref: 1884, The Cambridge review, page 330:
glosses: alternative past participle of sneeze.
soutpiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soutpiel
misassociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misassociates
form: misassociating
form: misassociated
form: misassociated
Etymology: From mis- + associate.
Senses: examples: text: We tend to misassociate certain ideas with the East.
glosses: To have or create an incorrect or bad association.
Related terms: misassociation
misassociated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misassociate
misassociates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misassociate
misassociating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misassociate
semi-algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-algorithms
Etymology: From semi- + algorithm.
Senses: glosses: A step-by-step procedure, like an algorithm, but which is not guaranteed to halt on all inputs.
whole package
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole packages
Senses: examples: text: What MacIntyre therefore rejects is the whole package, namely a growth economy managed by the state, with occasional corrections with welfare, and so on.
ref: 2003, Ronald Beiner, Liberalism, nationalism, citizenship: essays on the problem of political community, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: All the elements constituting a whole or occurring as a unit.
raw_tags: with the
examples: text: For us, they are the whole package—fantastic foliage, precocious bloom, and beautiful flowers. In short, elegant simplicity.
ref: 2006, C. Colston Burrell, Judith Knott Tyler, Hellebores: a comprehensive guide, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Something or someone that possesses a full set of relevant characteristics, usually desirable ones.
raw_tags: with the
Related terms: real deal
total package
semi-algorithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-algorithm
unactivatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unactivatable
form: most unactivatable
Etymology: From un- + activatable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being activated.
strange bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strange birds
Senses: examples: text: Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.
ref: 1987 June 14, Karen Stabiner, “Putting her Heart through the Hoop”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Jul 2010:
text: I never saw him, but Jackie Langley told me Kerouac was a strange bird, stayed drunk, talked crazy, brooded.
ref: 1992, Kaye Gibbons, “My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves”, in Janet Sternburg, editor, The Writer on Her Work, volume 2, →ISBN, page 56:
text: "You're a strange bird, Meehan," Leroy told him. "When you find out whose house you're in, call me back."
ref: 2003, Donald E. Westlake, Put a Lid on It, →ISBN, page 57:
text: In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them.
ref: 2004, Tony K. Stewart, Fabulous Females and Peerless Pīrs: Tales of mad adventure in old Bengal, Oxford, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.
Synonyms: misfit
oddball
odd duck
odd one out
queer fish
odd bird
queer duck
strange person
Related terms: rare bird
mycophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycophiles
Etymology: From myco- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Mycophobe or closet mycophile? It isn't always easy to tell the difference.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 233:
synonyms: fungiphile
;
fungophile
glosses: A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
Related terms: mycophilia
mycophilic
Harput
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkish Harput.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kharput.
outvie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outvies
form: outvying
form: outvied
form: outvied
Etymology: From out- + vie.
Senses: glosses: To outdo a competitor or rival.
blousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He had also bought heavy rubber bands for blousing his trousers. To improve the blousing, he bought sets of light-weight chains, which were worn inside the trousers just where they were bloused
ref: 2010, Tom Arthur, Destiny! in the Land of Morning Calm: A Korean War Novel:
glosses: present participle and gerund of blouse
sideway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideways
Etymology: From Middle English side-way, side-wei, equivalent to side + way.
Senses: glosses: A footpath near a road.
glosses: A byway.
sideway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sideway
form: most sideway
Etymology: From Middle English side-way, side-wei, equivalent to side + way.
Senses: glosses: sidelong
sideway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sideway
form: most sideway
Etymology: From Middle English side-way, side-wei, equivalent to side + way.
Senses: glosses: sideways
heald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hield.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: Heddle.
heald
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: healds
form: healding
form: healded
form: healded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hield.
receptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receptibilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being receptible; receptiveness
refrangible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈfɹænd͡ʒɪbəl/
rhymes: -ændʒɪbəl
Forms: form: more refrangible
form: most refrangible
Etymology: From Latin refrangibilis, from refrangō, refringō (“refract”).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. [Isaac] Nevvton has demonſtrated from plain and convincing Experiments, that the Light of the Sun conſiſts of Rays differently refrangible and reflexible, and that thoſe Rays are differently reflexible, that are differently refrangible.
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Physical Laws, and the Uniform Appearances of Nature. Law III.”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXXIX, page 81:
synonyms: refractable
glosses: That may be refracted.
Derived terms: refrangibility
refrangibleness
Hiragana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hiragana.
data entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of inputting data into a computer, such as by typing out handwriting, capturing data from scanned documents, taking responses from telephone interviews, etc.
facient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facients
Etymology: From Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“do, make”).
Senses: examples: text: The Fact is here confess'd : But is Sin in the Fact , or in the Mind of the Facient
ref: 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:
glosses: One who does something; a doer; an agent.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
glosses: A multiplier.
cover one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covers one's feet
form: covering one's feet
form: covered one's feet
form: covered one's feet
Senses: examples: When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covers his feet in his summer chamber. (Judges 3:24)
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. (1 Samuel 24:3)
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: To lower one’s garment, especially to urinate or defecate.
do someone dirty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does someone dirty
form: doing someone dirty
form: did someone dirty
form: done someone dirty
form: do someone dirt
Senses: examples: text: Johnse lived with her, but didn't marry her. Later he married her cousin. "He did her dirty," says Willis Hatfield of his brother's affair with Roseann.
ref: 1966, George Hanna, "Death of 'Devil Anse' Hatfield Was 45 Years Ago," Tri-City Herald (Washington State, USA), 5 Jan., p. 36 (retrieved 28 July 2010)
text: Mira, who thought the Colts did him dirty by not activating him as they promised, did not call back.
ref: 1971 April 10, Al Levine, “Dolphins sign Mira and (surprise) Del Gaizo”, in Miami News, retrieved 28 Jul 2010, page 1B:
text: She was cheating on him—doing him dirty.
ref: 2005 February 2, Rashaun Hall, “Mario Shoots Heartbreaking New Video”, in mtv.com, retrieved 28 Jul 2010:
text: The writers did Samara dirty in this game. First, they retconned her comments on how many Ardat Yakshi there are in the universe (Ardat Yakshi are diseased Asari who are basically vampires who need to be sheltered away from others). Then, they made Samara break her Justicar code — something she’s followed literally for centuries — by attempting to kill herself so that her daughter Falere can live.
ref: 2021 June 4, Jhaan Elker, “Every ‘Mass Effect’ squadmate, ranked from a storytelling perspective”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2021, Launcher News:
glosses: To deliberately treat someone in an unfair or harmful manner.
Synonyms: do the dirty on
Related terms: dirty business
do someone dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does someone dirt
form: doing someone dirt
form: did someone dirt
form: done someone dirt
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of do someone dirty.
Tai Dam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Tai-Kadai (Kradai) language spoken by 700,000 people in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and China written in its own unique script, closely related to Lao and northern Thai.
Synonyms: Black Tai
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tai Dam terms
subterrene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subterrene
form: most subterrene
Etymology: From Latin subterrēnus. By surface analysis, sub- + terrene.
Senses: examples: text: Then he saw a sort of grey phosphorescence about, and guessed they were coming even to that inner world of subterrene horror of which dim legends tell, and which is litten only by the pale death-fire wherewith reeks the ghoulish air and the primal mists of the pits at earth’s core.
ref: 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath:
glosses: underground, subterranean