cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
meshness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mesh + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Values of ’meshness’ and ’organic’ (see Analysis section) of the ERPG of are approximately 0.29 and 0.52 when compared to 0.49 and 0.04 for the GRID, suggesting the ERPG is more ‘natural’ than the GRID. Furthermore, values of ‘meshness’ and ‘organic’ for the London and Beijing (see Table 1 ) are compared with those for the ERPG and GRID, showing that meshness values for London and Beijing are lower than for the idealised networks.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Resilience of Self-Organised and Top-Down Planned Cities—A Case Study on London and Beijing Street Networks”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of a network resembling a mesh
metanaupliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + naupliar.
Senses: examples: text: Based on a re-study of Thysanoessa raschii (Euphausiacea) using preserved material collected in Greenland, we readdress this important controversy in crustacean evolution, and, in the process, redescribe the naupliar and metanaupliar development of T.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Naupliar and Metanaupliar Development of Thysanoessa raschii (Malacostraca, Euphausiacea) from Godthåbsfjord, Greenland, with a Reinstatement of the Ancestral Status of the Free-Living Nauplius in Malacostracan Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a metanauplius
microassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microassemblies
Etymology: From micro- + assembly.
Senses: examples: text: The applied rapid MEMS process flow along with a straightforward step of microassembly allows researchers to tailor three-dimensional probe geometries to various electrophysiological measurements.
ref: 2015 December 19, “A Multimodal, SU-8 - Platinum - Polyimide Microelectrode Array for Chronic In Vivo Neurophysiology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: microscopic assembly
minigrinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minigrinders
Etymology: From mini- + grinder.
Senses: examples: text: One of us (AD) re-prepared areas of interest by removing the coating, matrix, and plaster overlaying intact bone, using needles, airscribes and a minigrinder.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A small grinder.
multioscillatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + oscillatory.
Senses: examples: text: Although the molecular mechanisms responsible for avian circadian rhythmicity and seasonal migration are still largely unknown [4 ,36 ], evidence strongly suggests locomotor activity and song/call are controlled by a multioscillatory, central clock system coordinating the interplay between major photoreceptor tissues (retina and pineal), encephalic photoreceptors, and pacemakers (retina, pineal, and suprachiasmatic nuclei) [25 ,34 ,37 ].
ref: 2015 December 19, “Interactions between a Candidate Gene for Migration ( ADCYAP1 ), Morphology and Sex Predict Spring Arrival in Blackcap Populations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: oscillatory at multiple frequencies
postcervical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪkəl
-aɪkəl
Etymology: From post- + cervical.
Senses: examples: text: Again, although we were unable to sample the entire axial column, the application of this rule and our observations that no postcervical centra were pneumatic suggest that the entire set of postcervical centra were apneumatic in Archaeornithomimus.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
coordinate_terms: extracervical
transcervical
;
intracervical
;
cervical
glosses: Beyond the cervix.
prediapause
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + diapause.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, it is on September 11 th, 17 days after the CPP, that 50% of the eggs are in a prediapause stage in the field.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Seasonal Synchronization of Diapause Phases in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to diapause
protopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protopods
Etymology: From proto- + pod.
Senses: examples: text: The protopod and the endopod are of about the same length, while the exopod is slightly longer.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Naupliar and Metanaupliar Development of Thysanoessa raschii (Malacostraca, Euphausiacea) from Godthåbsfjord, Greenland, with a Reinstatement of the Ancestral Status of the Free-Living Nauplius in Malacostracan Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of protopodite.
synonyms: word: protopodite
reacylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reacylates
form: reacylating
form: reacylated
form: reacylated
Etymology: From re- + acylate.
Senses: examples: text: It was known that yeast has the ability to incorporate exogenously supplemented lysoPAF and reacylate this ether lipid within the cells [33 ].
ref: 2015 December 19, “Molecular Characterization of Two Lysophospholipid:acyl-CoA Acyltransferases Belonging to the MBOAT Family in Nicotiana benthamiana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To acylate again, or after deacylation
Related terms: reacylation
reacylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reacylations
Etymology: From re- + acylation.
Senses: examples: text: PC remodeling takes place through deacylation and reacylation processes that is defined as the Lands cycle [12 ].
ref: 2015 December 19, “Molecular Characterization of Two Lysophospholipid:acyl-CoA Acyltransferases Belonging to the MBOAT Family in Nicotiana benthamiana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A second or subsequent acylation
Related terms: reacylate
rhamnopyranoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnopyranosides
Etymology: From rhamno- + pyranoside.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any pyranoside derived from rhamnose.
rhamnopyranosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When the cells reached 60% confluence, they were treated with Cisplatin, HCPT and emodin rhamnopyranosides derivatives in various concentrations, and incubated in a humidity-controlled 5%CO 2 incubator at 37°C for 72 hours.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Antitumor Effects and Mechanism of Novel Emodin Rhamnoside Derivatives against Human Cancer Cells In Vitro”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of rhamnopyranoside
keep one's hands to oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's hands to oneself
form: keeping one's hands to oneself
form: kept one's hands to oneself
form: kept one's hands to oneself
Senses: glosses: To refrain from using one's hands; especially to refrain from groping someone.
spinoprezygapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spino- + prezygapophyseal.
Senses: examples: text: More anteriorly, there is a potential foramen in the spinoprezygapophyseal fossa into the right chamber although its origin could be taphonomic (Fig 2B ).
ref: 2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: spinal and prezygapophyseal
subdiapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + diapophyseal.
Senses: examples: text: However, Kobayashi and Barsbold ([25 ]: Fig 10B,G ) figured the apparent presence of a large subdiapophyseal foramen on the right side of the neural arch of proximal caudal vertebrae, and of dorsoventrally oriented laminae defining deep fossae on the right dorsolateral surface of a proximal caudal neural arch.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beneath the diapophysis
subgenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + genal.
Senses: examples: text: These characters were: shape of posterior margin of pronotum (produced or extended medially vs. oval or broadly); width of subgenal suture and ventral distance between antennal scrobes (narrow vs. wide); relationship between interocular space and width of rostrum at base (one-third or less vs. not less than one-third); shape of dorsal tip of rostrum (grooved or nearly truncate vs. oval distally).
ref: 2015 December 19, “Rhynchophorus palmarum in Disguise: Undescribed Polymorphism in the “Black” Palm Weevil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beneath the cheeks
top fuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top fuels
Senses: glosses: A nitromethane-based motor fuel, used especially in dragsters of the Top Fuel type.
Related terms: Top Fuel
blazerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blazer + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a blazer.
homodontism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homodont + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Now that all mammals are led back to a distant diphyodont stem, it is also true that the further we go back both in palingenesis and embryogenesis, the more widespread heterodontism is—all modern homodontism proving to be secondary.
ref: 1894, “Address by Henry Fairfield Osborn”, in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, volume 42, page 197:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a dentition of identical teeth.
heterodontism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heterodont + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Now that all mammals are led back to a distant diphyodont stem, it is also true that the further we go back both in palingenesis and embryogenesis, the more widespread heterodontism is—all modern homodontism proving to be secondary.
ref: 1894, “Address by Henry Fairfield Osborn”, in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, volume 42, page 197:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a dentition of differing teeth.
unmoderate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmoderate
form: most unmoderate
Etymology: From un- + moderate.
Senses: glosses: Not moderate.
knowst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of know
coffeeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffeehead
Ilkeston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪlkəstən/
Senses: glosses: A town in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4641).
multigallon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gallon.
Senses: examples: a multigallon blood donor
glosses: Of more than one gallon.
Chongqing chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A spicy Chinese dish of chicken and dried red chili peppers.
unsuccinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuccinct
form: most unsuccinct
Etymology: From un- + succinct.
Senses: glosses: Not succinct.
unsuccinctly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsuccinctly
form: most unsuccinctly
Etymology: From unsuccinct + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not succinct.
smokey bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokey bears
Senses: examples: text: To protect themselves from the lurking police cruisers ("smokey bears"), truckers ("18-wheelers") purchased CB units in large numbers.
ref: 1977, M. Wayne DeLozier, Consumer behavior dynamics: a casebook, page 251:
text: Just a mention of the man's name conjures up visions of 18 wheelers, diesel smoke belching from stacks, smokey bears, CB radio and its almost unintelligible jargon and the endless ribbon of interstate highways that seemingly go on forever.
ref: 1982, The Road Way, page 46:
text: Well, we gotta get to Big Bear Mountain before those smokey bears close off the entrance to the mountains.
ref: 2014, Jeffrey Otersen, Little Truckers, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of Smokey Bear (“highway patrolman”).
smokey bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smokey bear
Smokey Bear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Smokey
form: Smokey the Bear
form: smokey bear
form: smokey
Etymology: From an ad campaign first introduced in 1944 by Foote, Cone and Belding in cooperation with the Forest Service and the Ad Council. The name was inspired by “Smokey” Joe Martin, a New York City Fire Department hero who suffered burns and blindness during a bold 1922 rescue. (Later, in 1950, an actual burned black bear cub was named Smokey and took on this symbolic role.)
Senses: examples: text: 1994 marks the 50th anniversary of Smokey Bear, the world renowned symbol of forest fire prevention.
ref: 1995, United States Forest Service Washington Office, Forest Service video library catalog, page 14:
text: Bambi was released in 1942, and two years later the Smokey Bear campaign to reduce forest fires began.
ref: 2009, Jon Nelson, Quetico: Near to Nature's Heart, →ISBN, page 209:
text: Smokey Bear is a perfect example of how an advertising campaign can impact the public's perception of fire.
ref: 2009, John Robert Weir, Conducting Prescribed Fires: A Comprehensive Manual, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: A fictional bear dressed as a ranger who acts as a symbol of forest fire prevention, with the slogan "Only you can prevent forest fires."
Smokey Bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Smokey Bear
campaign hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campaign hat
bear bait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear baits
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, bait.
examples: text: To them, it's good fun to respond to any request for Smokey reports with clean and green, then watch speeding adults become bear bait.
ref: 1976, Evan Herbert, The Best Book on CB, →ISBN, page 33:
text: “Let her be the bear bait in that bright red Mustang Cobra,” Jim said with a grin.
ref: 2005, Lee Sweetapple, VETTE HEAD'S NOT DEAD, →ISBN, page 77:
text: "Ya haah, there goes our bear bait!" Ricky shouted as he stepped on the throttle to move past 75. "Bear bait?" "Yeah, she'll drive point for us, in case there's any smokies — any patrol — ahead."
ref: 2006, Jerry W. Engler, Just Folks: Earthy Tales of the Prairie Heartland - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: A car or truck that is speeding and is likely to attract the attention of the highway patrol.
examples: text: We have, at present, no gaines resembling those of the ancients ; except now and then a bull or a bear bait, and this would be a valuable additon to the list of our refined amusements. “
ref: 1812, The Literary Panorama - Volume 11, page 295:
text: There was also a game representing a bear bait.
ref: 1886, Cheshire Notes and Queries - Volume 6, page 260:
text: Bear baits were especially popular with the Royals during Christmas holidays and Whitsuntide, the bears and dogs being brought to the Court wherever it might be in the country.
ref: 1994, Michael Billett, A History of English Country Sports, page 26:
text: Plague was another reason why the authorities were concerned about gatherings such as bear baits. Many bear baits seem to have taken place at alehouses, and attracted large numbers of people.
ref: 1995, Transactions of Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society:
glosses: Alternative form of bearbait.
machloket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɑxˈloʊkɛt/
Forms: form: machlokot
form: machlokes
Etymology: From Hebrew מחלוקת / מַחְלֹקֶת.
Senses: examples: text: The answer to every question is “there is a machloket about it.”
glosses: a halachic dispute, disagreement
nail it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nails it
form: nailing it
form: nailed it
form: nailed it
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nail, it.
examples: text: One girl decided to recreate the look for her prom and totally nailed it.
ref: 2008 March 15, “Teen recreates iconic Kylie Jenner look for prom – and totally nails it.”, in Hello Magazine:
text: Needless to say, he nails it. His Deadpool strikes the perfect balance between acerbic smartass and comic doofus.
ref: 2016 February 12, Raymond Maspons, “Film review: 'Deadpool' kicks ass, takes name”, in The Stanford Daily:
text: If that's what writer Edwards had in mind however, she nails it.
ref: 2016 June 7, ““One More Time”, a Walken Surprise”, in Aced Magazine:
glosses: Synonym of hit the nail on the head.
synonyms: word: hit the nail on the head
nails it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nail it
nailing it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nail it
nailed it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nail it
chlorophyll a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The universal chlorophyll (C₅₅H₇₂MgN₄O₅) essential to the dominant oxygenic photosynthesis I process, present in all eukaryotes, cyanobacteria, chromists, and prochlorophytes that photosynthesize, and that contributes to the observed green color of these organisms.
Coordinate terms: sense: most essential chlorophyll
word: chlorophyll b
raw_tags: in shade-adapted plants and green alga
sense: most essential chlorophyll
english: brown alga, diatom
translation: brown alga, diatom
word: chlorophyll
sense: most essential chlorophyll
word: chlorophyll c1
sense: most essential chlorophyll
word: chlorophyll c2
sense: most essential chlorophyll
english: cyanobacteria, red alga
translation: cyanobacteria, red alga
word: chlorophyll d
sense: most essential chlorophyll
alt: stromatolite
word: chlorophyll
trisegmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + segmented.
Senses: synonyms: trisected
coordinate_terms: bisegmented
bisected
;
quadrisected
glosses: Divided into three segments.
Related terms: bisection
bisegment
bisegmentation
quadrisection
trisect
trisectionectomy
trisegmentation
trisegmentectomy
Smokey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Smokeys
Etymology: Short for Smokey Bear.
Senses: examples: text: The plush bear on the near left was produced by Three Bears Inc. around 1985 and is typical of the plush Smokeys produced in the United States.
ref: 1995, Sue Pearson, Dottie Ayers, Teddy bears: a guide to their history, collecting, and care, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Ideal released several more plush Smokeys, but the company's most ingenious move was to include application cards allowing kids to become a "Junior Forest Ranger."
ref: 1998, Dana Cain, Film and TV Animal Star Collectibles, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of Smokey Bear.
Smokey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smokeys
Etymology: Short for Smokey Bear.
Senses: examples: text: Unless Smokeys were engaged in an active pursuit, they had to stick to highways and pass off suspicious vehicles to local units.
ref: 1997, Tony Chiu, Positive Match, →ISBN, page 384:
text: Mack trucks would replace quarter horses, Smokeys would replace federal marshals, and truckstops would replace saloons as the loci of spontaneous brawls.
ref: 2008, Shane Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Sky-eye had been concentrating on S.O.B. flying over them into space and would have missed the forty odd Smokeys heading south towards the crest from the north and forty three Smokeys heading north from the south towards them but the explosion blew it round and it was very close and level with the road as Smokey after Smokey shot into the air over the crest, crashed head on into a neighbouring county's car and both fell back to earth as scrap.
ref: 2014, Jim Ore, Crime is Everywhere, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: Alternative form of Smokey Bear.
Highway patrolman.
examples: text: She was with the engineers but she wanted to be a drill instructor, and she asked me one day, she said, 'How come you all don't wear the Smokeys?
ref: 2007, Larry Smith, The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Smokey Bear.
A campaign hat.
Smokeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smokies
Senses: glosses: plural of Smokey
Smokeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Smokies
Senses: examples: text: The Smokeys have a high density of bears, and the situation between bears and people there illustrates that it is possible to have a visible black bear population without the animals relying on handouts.
ref: 1985, Richard P. Smith, The book of the black bear, page 60:
text: Some years after moving to the "flatlands", I took my family on a vacation to the Smokeys.
ref: 1991, The Professional Geologist - Volume 28, page 214:
text: Keats had his coastline, the people of the Carolinas and Tennessee have their Smokeys.
ref: 2004, James A. Bryant, Curley, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: The Smokey Mountains
chlorophyll b
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chlorophyll (C₅₅H₇₀MgN₄O₆) used in the photosynthesis II oxygenic photosynthesis process in plants which absorbs a different range of light and is therefore useful for plants adapted to shade.
Moulis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A French cheese from the commune of Moulis in Ariège.
Trousseau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuːsəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɹuˌsoʊ/
rhymes: -uːsəʊ
Etymology: From French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”), possibly from the fact that the grapes in each bunch appear tightly packed together.
Senses: glosses: A variety of red wine grape of the species Vitis vinifera originating in eastern France which is often used in port wine; Bastardo.
Synonyms: Bastardo
Related terms: Paris-Trousseau syndrome
leptochlorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptochlorites
Etymology: From lepto- + chlorite.
Senses: examples: text: Analysis I is incomplete, but analysis II may be readily recalculated into leptochlorite made up of mixtures of the following moleculas in the proportion indicated […]
ref: 1914, Victor Ziegler, The Minerals of the Black Hills (South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin No. 10), page 181:
text: […] contemporaneous with gold are gilbertite, leptochlorite, tourmaline, iron sulphides, feldspar, (rare) carbonates, and quartz; post gold minerals are quartz, zinc and lead sulphides, and many others of geophases K and L.
ref: 2012, Robert W. Boyle, Gold: History and Genesis of Deposits, page 108:
text: The reduced, bivalent iron partly migrates and partly becomes fixed in the form of leptochlorites or siderite.
ref: 1967 [1965], A. I. Perelman, translated by N. N. Kohanowski, Geochemistry of Epigenesis, translation of original in Russian, page 199:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chlorite that contains mostly ferric iron rather than ferrous iron. Leptochlorites are typically richer in trivalent ions relative to silicon and divalent ions.
leptochlorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptochlorite
geophase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geophases
Etymology: Coined by Alexander Fersman, geo- + phase
Senses: examples: text: […] contemporaneous with gold are gilbertite, leptochlorite, tourmaline, iron sulphides, feldspar, (rare) carbonates, and quartz; post gold minerals are quartz, zinc and lead sulphides, and many others of geophases K and L.
ref: 2012, Robert W. Boyle, Gold: History and Genesis of Deposits, page 108:
text: In the opinion of A.E. Fersman, amazonite freely crystallizes from melt in the relatively late geophases of the pegmatite process, but the beginning of its formation belongs to the earlier and high-temperature geophase—the rise of graphic granite.
ref: 2015, Mikhail Ostrooumov, Amazonite: Mineralogy, Crystal Chemistry, and Typomorphism, page 179:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A point in the sequence of geochemical changes that occur as minerals are formed from cooling magma.
wikipedia: Alexander Fersman
soup-and-fish suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soup-and-fish suits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soup and fish (“men's formal white tie dress”).
onya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: good on you
soup-and-fish suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soup-and-fish suit
Wade-Dahl-Till valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wade-Dahl-Till valves
Etymology: Developed in 1962 by hydraulic engineer Stanley Wade, author Roald Dahl, and neurosurgeon Kenneth Till.
Senses: glosses: A kind of cerebral shunt using two metal discs, each in a restrictive housing at the end of a tube, opened and closed by the pressure of fluid.
Synonyms: Wade-Dahl-Till shunt
castor oil plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castor oil plant
mafe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An African meat stew thickened with ground peanuts.
laughingthrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughingthrush
dataplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dataplane
rotarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rotary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, if you want to act strongly with the fingers at one side of the hand, you must be careful to release the fore-arm rotarily in their direction, or even to exert it rotarily to help them.
ref: 1928, T. Matthay, The first principles of pianoforte playing:
text: We call such graphs "rotarily transitive graphs", and we show that, even though there is no finite rotarily transitive graph with at least 2 vertices, there is an infinite locally finite connected rotarily transitive graph.
ref: 2016, Sébastien Martineau, “On rotarily transitive graphs”, in arXiv:
glosses: In a rotary fashion.
nondownloadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + downloadable.
Senses: glosses: Not downloadable.
geophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geophase
nonrotary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rotary.
Senses: glosses: Not rotary.
interfusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From interfuse + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Yet realism and poetry are interfusable, if the poet has a poetic purpose and the spiritual light without which the mot juste will not come on moth-wings to him; […]
ref: 1913, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume 116, page 657:
text: For it was close on the heel of the suppressed insurrections, an aftertime very critical to naval authority, demanding from every English sea-commander two qualities not readily interfusable—prudence and rigour.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Capable of being interfused or blended together.
deltoidal icositetrahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltoidal icositetrahedra
form: deltoidal icositetrahedrons
Senses: examples: text: These correspond to the foregoing U- and F-vertices of the deltoidal icositetrahedron whose three-edged vertices are "completely truncated"; that is to say, the truncating planes pass through the three end points of the edges radiating from the truncated vertex.
ref: 1958, The Mathematical Gazette, volume 42, page 20:
text: The mineral displays a well-developed habit of deltoidal icositetrahedra with dull faces.
ref: 1994, Proceedings of the Ninth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, page 593:
text: At the Olympus Mons Casino on Mar's they have craps games where the die are rhombic dodecahedron (12 sided), or tetrakis hexahedron (24 sides) or deltoidal icositetrahedron (24 sides). That's for your benefit, Gabby said to me.
ref: 2012, Ivan Pasztor, Of All The Things I've Lost, page 69:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A convex polyhedron that has 24 congruent kite-shaped faces and 48 edges and is a Catalan solid, being the dual polyhedron of the rhombicuboctahedron.
Synonyms: topics: crystallography
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
sense: polyhedron with 24 faces
word: trapezohedron
deltoidal icositetrahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltoidal icositetrahedron
phonetic spelling alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonetic spelling alphabets
Senses: glosses: A group of words that are used to identify the letters of an alphabet.
Fomba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sleep a wink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sleeps a wink
form: sleeping a wink
form: slept a wink
form: slept a wink
Etymology: From Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" Act III Scene IV.
Senses: examples: text: I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
ref: 1968, “I'm So Tired”, in John Lennon (lyrics), The Beatles, performed by the Beatles:
glosses: To sleep at all.
raw_tags: in the negative
Anya-Nya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aˈnjɑːnjə/
Forms: form: Anyanya
form: Anya Nya
Etymology: Probably from Ma'di ɨ̄nyānyā (“poison”).
Senses: examples: text: He signed the Addis Ababa peace pact of 1972 with the Anya-Nya rebels and granted autonomy to Sudan's three southern provinces.
ref: 2009 June 5, Lawrence Joffe, The Guardian:
glosses: A south Sudanese guerrilla movement active during the First Sudanese Civil War.
dickkopf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪkˌkɒpf/
ipa: /ˈdɪkˌkɑ(p)f/
ipa: /-ˌkɔ(p)f/
Forms: form: dickkopfs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dickkopf (“stubborn person”, literally “thick head”), from the fact that Dickkopf-related protein 1 (DKK1), one of the dickkopf proteins, was found to be required for head formation in embryos. The word was coined by Andrei Glinka, Wei Wu, Hajo Delius, A. Paula Monaghan, Claudia Blumenstock, and Christof Niehrs in a 1998 article published in Nature: see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: Here we describe dickkopf-1 (dkk-1), which encodes Dkk-1, a secreted inducer of Spemann's organizer in Xenopus and a member of a new protein family.
ref: [1998 January 22, Andrei Glinka et al., “Dickkopf-1 is a Member of a New Family of Secreted Proteins and Functions in Head Induction”, in Nature, volume 391, number 6665, London: Nature Research, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract, page 357:
text: Some of the factors tested included: angiopoietin like protein 7 (ANGLPT7), epidermal growth factor (EGF), fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), transforming growth factor beta 2 (TGF β 2), platelet derived growth factor b (PDGFB), and dickkopf related protein 2 (DKK2).
ref: 2015 December 22, Kathryn L. McCabe et al., “Efficient Generation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Corneal Endothelial Cells by Directed Differentiation”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 12, San Francisco, Calif.: PLOS, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, article number e0145266:
text: Oncogenic mutations in the human genome disable of the 'β-catenin-destroyer complex' and delete the dickkopfs.
ref: 2016, Joseph G. Sinkovics, “Eukaryotic Single Cells and the First Cell Communities Then and Now”, in RNA/DNA and Cancer, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 81:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of glycoproteins that are involved in the development of the embryo.
wikipedia: British Journal of Pharmacology
British Pharmacological Society
DKK1
Wiley-Blackwell
flexistylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is a self-compatible, hermaphroditic, clonal, flexistylous perennial herb, usually 1–3 m tall.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Impact of Striped-Squirrel Nectar-Robbing Behaviour on Gender Fitness in Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Related to, or exhibiting flexistyly
flexistyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flexi- + -styly.
Senses: examples: text: A number of genera including Alpinia and Amomum (Zingiberaceae), exhibit interesting flexistyly polymorphisms which enhance fruit production by avoiding geitonogamy and promoting xenogamy.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Impact of Striped-Squirrel Nectar-Robbing Behaviour on Gender Fitness in Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of polymorphism in which the style and stigma of hermaphroditic flowers move over time.
Related terms: flexistylous
immunoisolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunoisolates
form: immunoisolating
form: immunoisolated
form: immunoisolated
Etymology: From immuno- + isolate.
Senses: glosses: To protect from an immune reaction by means of immunoisolation
immunoisolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: MHC I was immunoisolated using mAb HC10.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Cyclophilin C Participates in the US2-Mediated Degradation of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of immunoisolate
immunoisolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoisolations
Etymology: From immuno- + isolation.
Senses: examples: text: Supernatant fractions were treated with 10 μg w6/32, 10 μg HC10, and 10 μg HCA2 to isolate MHC class I and with 20 μl anti-calnexin antiserum as a radiolabeling and immunoisolation recovery control.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Cyclophilin C Participates in the US2-Mediated Degradation of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: protection from an immune reaction by physical isolation (typically encapsulation)
immunoisolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the US2-3xHA immunoisolations, only peptides with a significance score greater than 20 (p-value less than 0.01) were considered for subsequent analysis.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Cyclophilin C Participates in the US2-Mediated Degradation of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of immunoisolation
microdoleritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + doleritic.
Senses: examples: text: Porphyritic and microdoleritic lavas occur in very low proportion in the Garba IVE-F assemblages (Tables 1 and 2 ).
ref: 2015 December 22, “The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or composed of microdolerite
microdolerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdolerites
Etymology: From micro- + dolerite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of dolerite that has very small grains
Related terms: microdoleritic
multicatalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + catalytic.
Senses: examples: text: A potential mechanism for toxicity of long polyQ proteins is through inhibition of the proteasome, a multicatalytic protein complex that plays an essential role in intracellular protein degradation.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Reduced Levels of Proteasome Products in a Mouse Striatal Cell Model of Huntington’s Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That has multiple catalytic functions
multimethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + methylation.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, PTMs such as lipoylation, glycosylation, phosphorylation and SUMOylation can have a high impact on host immune modulation during Ehrlichia muris [57 ], Ehrlichia chaffeensis [58 ] and Anaplasma phagocytophilum [59 ] infections and, multimethylation can lead to different levels of virulence in R.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Comparative Proteomic Profiling of Ehrlichia ruminantium Pathogenic Strain and Its High-Passaged Attenuated Strain Reveals Virulence and Attenuation-Associated Proteins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: methylation at multiple sites
nodavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nodaviruses
Senses: examples: text: However, in the brain, nodavirus modify the expression pattern of cyp19a2, the neural aromatase, which was down-regulated at day 1 and up-regulated at day 7 post infection (Fig 7D ).
ref: 2015 December 22, “Nodavirus Colonizes and Replicates in the Testis of Gilthead Seabream and European Sea Bass Modulating Its Immune and Reproductive Functions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any virus of the family Nodaviridae.
oligosaccharyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + saccharyl.
Senses: examples: text: Surprisingly, a cluster of oligosaccharyl transferase (OST) complex and TRiC chaperone complex proteins were observed in the STRING analysis.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Cyclophilin C Participates in the US2-Mediated Degradation of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to an oligosaccharide
Derived terms: oligosaccharyltransferase
supercontraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercontractions
Etymology: From super- + contraction.
Senses: examples: text: The demonstration that in an in vivo fascia replacement model supercontraction can be overcome by suturing the silk mesh into a defect before releasing it from the frame, encourages the in vivo use of spider silk without the presence of a supporting scaffold.
ref: 2015 December 22, “In Vitro Evaluation of Spider Silk Meshes as a Potential Biomaterial for Bladder Reconstruction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The contraction (by up to 50%) of spider dragline silk in high humidity
glosses: The contraction of textile fibres when treated with heat etc.
thermoretractable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermoretractable
form: most thermoretractable
Etymology: From thermo- + retractable.
Senses: examples: text: GPS-dataloggers were covered with a protective thermoretractable case.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Why Do Kestrels Soar?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That contracts when heated
umbrella grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrella grasses
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of grasses and sedges:
Chloris truncata, a grass, early chloris (Australia), Australian finger grass, star grass, windmill grass.
glosses: Any of several species of grasses and sedges:
Digitaria divaricatissima, a grass, spreading umbrella grass, spider-panic.
glosses: Any of several species of grasses and sedges:
Many species of the grass genus Enteropogon, such as Enteropogon acicularis.
glosses: Any of several species of grasses and sedges:
Cyperus alternifolius, a sedge.
glosses: Any of several species of grasses and sedges:
Several species of the sedge genus Fuirena.
vessel sink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vessel sinks
Senses: glosses: A type of bathroom sink that sits above the vanity; a sort of washbasin without plumbing.
sticker grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticker grasses
Senses: glosses: Certain bur-producing plants
Various species of genus Cenchrus
glosses: Certain bur-producing plants
Various species of genus Soliva
glosses: Certain bur-producing plants
Tribulus terrestris
porcupine grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porcupine grasses
Senses: glosses: Any of several grasses with barbed leaves or seeds:
Miscanthus sinensis (Chinese silver grass, zebra grass)
glosses: Any of several grasses with barbed leaves or seeds:
Stipa spartea (now Hesperostipa spartea)
glosses: Any of several grasses with barbed leaves or seeds:
Triodia species
armed response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armed responses
Senses: examples: text: Advice in international crises where the UK contemplates an armed response comes from the foreign office legal adviser - a senior civil service lawyer - the attorney general and the solicitor general.
ref: 2001 October 9, The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A response to a political issue that involves military action or the use of weapons.
examples: text: Officers have installed a panic alarm in his home that triggers an armed response.
ref: 2013 April 1, Daily Telegraph:
glosses: A response made by an armed police officer, team etc. to a particular emergency situation.
Dad and Dave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dads and Daves
Etymology: From dad + and + Dave, after the names of the central characters in a series of short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd (1868–1935).
Senses: examples: text: In vain I looked for the types I sought—old slop clothes, wheat growing out of their ears, real old Dads and Daves.
ref: 1936 October 10, The Mirror, Western Australia:
text: The earlier lure for the pioneering of land has gone, and I think so far as Australians and Britishers are concerned there are not very many people aspiring to be "Dads" and "Daves".
ref: 1948, Parliamentary Debates, Western Australia parliament, page 100:
glosses: Remote rural farmers resembling the characters in Steele Rudd's "Dad and Dave" stories, especially seen as unsophisticated.
wikipedia: Steele Rudd
lintstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lintstocks
Senses: examples: text: 1892, Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty, translator not credited, London: William Heinemann, 1912, Chapter X, p. 214, https://archive.org/details/underyokeromance00vazorich
The gunner, with his lintstock in hand, was preparing to set to work.
text: Guns and carriages, together with the long rammers and shorter lintstocks lodged in loops overhead—all these, as customary, were painted black […]
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Alternative form of linstock.
lintstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lintstock
vessel sinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vessel sink
halo cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halo car
Menger sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Menger sponges
Etymology: First described by Karl Menger in 1926.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A fractal curve, a three-dimensional generalization of the Cantor set and Sierpinski carpet, formed by repeated subdivision of a cube, and having infinite surface area and zero volume.
Menger sponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Menger sponge
Sierpinski triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sierpinski triangle
Sierpinski gaskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sierpinski gasket
option buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of option button
swene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsweɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: sweyn
Etymology: Unknown. Appears, at about the same time, in both the Chester Plays and the Auchinleck manuscript.
Senses: examples: Make nah swene, ye feckin' getǃ
glosses: A noise.
babacoote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babacootes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babakoto.
babacootes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babacoote
whoremistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoremistresses
Etymology: From whore + mistress.
Senses: glosses: A woman who runs a brothel, or hires out prostitutes; a madam.
whoremistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whoremistress
sympathy strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathy strikes
Senses: glosses: Industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.
sympathy strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathy strike
purple bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Proteobacteria that produce their own food using photosynthesis, with colors including purple, red, brown, and orange.
Hyponyms: sense: purple sulfur bacteria (order Chromatiales), purple non-sulfur bacteria (orders Rhodospirillales and Rhizobiales and families Rhodobacteraceae, Rhodocyclaceae, and Comamonadaceae)
word: photosynthesizing proteobacteria
broyges
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔɪɡəs/
Forms: form: more broyges
form: most broyges
form: broiges
form: broigus
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish ברוגז (broyges), from Hebrew ברוגז \ בְּרֹגֶז (literally “in anger, with anger”).
Senses: examples: text: 'My sister Rachel is almost impossible to deal with,' replies Becky. 'When she's broyges, she stays broyges, no matter what.
ref: 2009, David Minkoff, Oy Vey: More!: The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 135:
text: 'I want to spend as little time as possible alone with my mother,' he told me. 'She's going to be a bit broyges with me, and a bit upset.'
ref: 2010, Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer, →ISBN, page 155:
text: ...shtetl, where there are three different prayer rooms and each one has a different minhag, and each one is broyges with all the others, and even if Khmelnitzky in person came riding in with his Cossacks, they would all go on arguing, instead of pulling together and defending themselves.
ref: 2015, Charles Lewinsky, Melnitz, →ISBN:
text: This whole scheem gets me broyges. When I hear these mavens and lutfmenschen kvetching about our national language, what chutzpah!
ref: 2016, Frederick Luis Aldama, The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture, →ISBN:
glosses: Angry or resentful.
broyges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔɪɡəs/
Forms: form: broiges
form: broigus
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish ברוגז (broyges), from Hebrew ברוגז \ בְּרֹגֶז (literally “in anger, with anger”).
Senses: examples: text: Such amity is no small thing. The narrowing world of Yiddish theater has been bedeviled with one “broyges” — a cherished term for a falling out — after another
ref: 2010, Joseph Berger, “How to Say Theater in Yiddish? Two Ways”, in The New York Times:
text: […] is unaware that Eli is in broyges with Peggy.
ref: 2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 287:
text: Many stories were told about the Levinson-Mikhoels broyges (rivalry).
ref: 2016, Paul Goldberg, The Yid: A Novel, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: A falling out or feud.
swingingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swinging + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: These and other writers also consciously strive for jazz's full-bodied swingingness, its danciness, its range of allusion, its trickbag of quicksilver improvisational impulses.
ref: 1998, Robert G. O'Meally, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, page 536:
glosses: The quality of being swinging.
dancily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dancily
form: most dancily
Etymology: From dancy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dancy manner.
green non-sulfur bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any bacteria of the class Chloroflexi that photosynthesize, but do not produce oxygen.
Coordinate terms: english: Chlorobiaceae
translation: Chlorobiaceae
word: green sulfur bacteria
green sulfur bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Chlorobiaceae of obligately anaerobic photoautotrophic bacteria.
Coordinate terms: green non-sulfur bacteria
rainmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainmeters
Etymology: From rain + meter.
Senses: glosses: A pluviometer.
rainmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainmeter