cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fantastication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantastications
Etymology: From fantasticate + -ion or fantastic + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Fantastication, sorcery, and magic gradually disappear from later texts.
ref: 2013, Jan C. Zadoks, Crop Protection in Medieval Agriculture: Studies in pre-modern organic agriculture:
glosses: The process of making fantastical.
fantastications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantastication
cheralite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheralites
Senses: examples: text: The rotation pattern in the small interplanar region was somewhat diffuse in the cheralites and Travancore monazites, but not in the Yediyoor specimens, indicating the existence of partial disorder in the former.
ref: 1960, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India:
text: Even at the thin-section scale, the cheralite mole fraction may vary over a range of more than 50%, expressing that only part of the monazites is actually in equilibrium with the host-granite REE composition.
ref: 1995, Michael Brown, Philip M. Piccoli, The Origin of Granites and Related Rocks:
text: Small-sized cheralite is disseminated in cavities of lateritic soil particles (e.g., of sericitized orthoclase) of the Morro do Ferro deposit, Minas Gerais, southeaster Brazil.
ref: 2013, Reiner Ditz, Wolfgang Töpper, Bärbel Sarbas, Th Thorium: Natural Occurrence. Minerals (Excluding Silicates), →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of yellowish-brown to green minerals that are mixed phosphates of (primarily) calcium and thorium, associated with uraniferous deposits.
cheralites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheralite
bit of fluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bits of fluff
Senses: examples: text: As Sammy settled down for the night, he said, “That bit of fluff who owns the farm's a looker.”
ref: 1999, John Jakes, American Dreams, →ISBN:
text: The victims were a French businessman called Chapotin and his bit of fluff, a girl by the name of Melody Logue, who happened to be the niece of Lord somebody or other.
ref: 2015, Campbell Armstrong, Mambo, →ISBN:
text: My trip to Portugal was canceled, and I can't get into the Bulgarian factory for a couple of days -- evidently some government team is crawling all over the site right now -- and as I have a few days to kill, I though I'd spend them with my favorite brother and his mysterious American bit of fluff.”
ref: 2015, Katie Macalister, The Importance of Being Alice, →ISBN:
text: He never treated me like I was his bit of fluff
ref: 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 260:
synonyms: bit of skirt
bit of stuff
glosses: An attractive woman, especially a companion or sexual partner to whom one is not seriously committed.
examples: text: “When we finished lunch,” said Rob, “Kim changed into that little bit of fluff, the same bit of fluff you bought the other day.
ref: 2012, D. S. Carroll, The Pagan in the Pulpit: A Seductive Novel of Religion and Redemption, →ISBN:
text: A nice bit of fluff to cover the truth, though.
ref: 2014, Mark Alder, Son of the Morning, →ISBN:
text: This well-crafted bit of fluff, penned by Dave Barbour and Peggy herself, with a Latin theme, also demonstrates Peggy's impeccable ability to vocalize fast-paced lyrics.
ref: 2014, Colin Bratkovich, Just Remember This, →ISBN, page 483:
glosses: Something attractive or amusing but insubstantial.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bit, fluff.
bits of fluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit of fluff
wire-brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire-brushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wire brush.
wire-brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wire-brushes
form: wire-brushing
form: wire-brushed
form: wire-brushed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wire brush.
wirebrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wirebrushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wire brush.
wirebrush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wirebrushes
form: wirebrushing
form: wirebrushed
form: wirebrushed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wire brush.
wirebrushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wirebrush
wire brushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wire brush
chaoborine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌkeɪəʊˈbɔːɹaɪn/
Senses: glosses: Belonging or pertaining to the genus Chaoborus or the family Chaoboridae.
Related terms: chaoborid
muratina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Cf. Kikuyu mũratina.
Senses: glosses: The sausage tree (Kigelia africana)
glosses: A Kenyan alcoholic drink made from the dried fruit of the sausage tree.
teraglins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teraglin
horse and carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horses and carriages
Senses: glosses: A light, simple, two-person carriage of the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn usually by one or sometimes by two horses.
Synonyms: horse and buggy
horse and buggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horses and buggies
Senses: glosses: A horse and carriage.
horses and carriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse and carriage
horses and buggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse and buggy
spatial wave functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spatial wave function
macroscelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroscelids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macroscelidean.
microperimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microperimeters
Etymology: From micro- + perimeter.
Senses: glosses: A zone of the retina analysed in microperimetry
microperimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microperimeter
microperimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + perimetric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microperimetry
nephrologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nephrological.
nonrecollective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recollective.
Senses: glosses: Not related to direct recollection
peribroncheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peribronchial.
pheochromoctyoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pheochromocytoma.
phosphatonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphatonins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that control phosphate homeostasis
phosphatonins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphatonin
phosphoanhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoanhydrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anhydride of a phosphoric acid or, especially, of a polyphosphoric acid
Related terms: phosphoanhydridic
phosphonoglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphonoglycerols
Senses: glosses: Synonym of glycerophosphoric acid.
synonyms: word: glycerophosphoric acid
life/dinner principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My colleague John Krebs and I have dubbed this the ‘life/dinner principle’. Because of the life/dinner principle, animals might at times behave in ways that are not in their own best interests, manipulated by some other animal.
ref: 2006, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 30th anniversary edition, page 250:
glosses: Alternative form of life-dinner principle.
photospectrometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photospectrometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of photospectrometry
phototrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phototrophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of phototrophy
polyglutamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyglutamine
preclarified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + clarified.
Senses: glosses: clarified before some other process
retinochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinochrome
pragmatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pragmatises
form: pragmatising
form: pragmatised
form: pragmatised
Senses: examples: text: He does not, as was formerly the fashion, pragmatise mythology, i.e. simply drop the supernatural elements, and take the residuum as history; nor, on the other hand, reject it altogether, as utterly useless for historical purposes; but having endeavoured to catch the traditional belief, the impregnating idea which is at work under the ever-changing forms of fable, he uses it with cautious, sagacity as a clue for tracing the course of primeval settlements, and recovering the lost thread of ethnological affinities.
ref: 1856, Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot, The National Review - Volume 2, page 163:
text: Warfare is said to engage in detailed study of the enemy and his system of operation to identify the chinks in his armour, and then to formulate a strategem to defeat him. Thus it is attempting to pragmatise spiritual warfare.
ref: 2007, Russell Sharrock, Spiritual Warfare: A Struggle for Truth, →ISBN, page 309:
text: In vain are they trying now to pragmatise it; In vain because, in so doing, the flame dies away.
ref: 2010, S.S. Bhatti, Songs of the Soul, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: Alternative form of pragmatize.
To make real.
examples: text: A Movement like ours, so apt to pragmatise, developed its policy in a practical way.
ref: 1950, Trades Union Congress, Report of Proceedings at the Annual Trades Union Congress:
text: This uncomfortable state of affairs exists because many models that are, at best, heuristic work quite well, and in science and technology we frequently pragmatise: If it works it must be right.
ref: 1970 October, Edward A. Fletcher, “Fluorocarbon Combustion, Fluorine Supported Combustion Kinetics?”, in The Mechanisms of Pyrolysis, Oxidation, And Buring of Organic Materials, Proceedings of the 4th Materials Research Symposium:
text: We do not mean to universalise or dogmatise that men and women are equal in all occupations and all situations and do not exclude the need to pragmatise where the requirements of particular employment, the sensitivities of sex or the peculiarity of societal sectors or the handicaps of either sex may compel selectivity.
ref: 1987, Rama Mehta, Socio-legal status of women in India, page 66:
glosses: Alternative form of pragmatize.
To focus on the material or practical.
pragmatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pragmatise
pragmatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pragmatise
pragmatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pragmatise
retrotranslocated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + translocated.
Senses: glosses: moved by retrotranslocation
retrotranslocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From retro- + translocated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrotranslocate
sclerocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerocytes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell which, in some invertebrates, secrete calcareous or siliceous spicules to form the mineralised body wall
sclerocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerocyte
shir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shirs
form: shirring
form: shirred
form: shirred
Senses: topics: business
cooking
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Alternative form of shirr.
shir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shirr.
sulphination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: reaction with a sulphinate
glosses: Misspelling of sulphonation.
sulphonated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sulphonate
surfactometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surfactometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument that measures surface tension, especially on the surface of bubbles
Related terms: surfactometry
surfactometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surfactometer
t-DNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t-DNAs
form: tdna
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: transfer DNA
transfer DNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfer DNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: t-DNA
glosses: DNA transferred from a bacterium to a host.
tdna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tdnas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of t-DNA.
tdnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tdna
transtympanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transtympanic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Across or through the tympanum
tumorolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tumorolytic
form: most tumorolytic
Etymology: From tumor + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: That brings about tumor lysis
uninformativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uninformative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being uninformative
unmannosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mannosylated.
Senses: glosses: Not glycosylated with a mannose moiety
obsessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsessees
Etymology: From obsess + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Obsession gets old fast, especially to the obsessee.
ref: 2004, Jenny McPhee, No Ordinary Matter: A Novel:
glosses: One who is the object of someone's obsession.
obsessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obsessee
pompon flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompon flowers
Senses: examples: text: Pompon flower type with a row of ray floret and tubular disc florets was dominant over both chrysanthemum and fluffy types, while chrysanthemum type was dominant over fluffy type.
ref: 2008, V L Sheela, Flowers for Trade, page 116:
glosses: A flower of any of various cultivated plants with dense, globular masses of flower petals.
examples: text: Pompon flowers are annual flowering plants that are more commonly known as chrysanthemums. The flowers are called pompons because their fullness makes them resemble the pompons that cheerleaders use.
ref: 2017 September 21, Elizabeth Balarini, “About Pompon Flowers”, in Garden Guides.com:
glosses: A flower of any of various cultivated plants with dense, globular masses of flower petals.
Any of various flowering plants in the genus Chrysanthemum, chrysanthemums.
examples: text: Dahlias are one of my favourite summer flowers. These magnificent plants come in a wide variety of flower forms, sizes and colours[…] The pompon flower is two inches in diameter and is produced on plants three to four feet in height.
ref: 2017 May 3, Brian Minter, “In the Garden: It’s just about time to begin planting dahlias”, in Tri-City News:
glosses: A flower of any of various cultivated plants with dense, globular masses of flower petals.
Any of various flowering plants in the genus Dahlia, family Asteraceae; dahlias.
pompon flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pompon flower
Ferdowsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Firdausi
form: Ferdousi
form: Firdawsi
Etymology: From Iranian Persian فردوسی (ferdowsi), from Classical Persian فردوسی (firdawsī).
Senses: glosses: Persian poet, author of the Shahnameh
ammodytoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammodytoxins
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of phospholipases, present in the venom of Vipera ammodytes, that are presynaptic neurotoxins
Related terms: ammodytid
ammodytin
antedependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: Having an antedependence
anteriorward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anterior + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the anterior
anteriorward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anterior + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the anterior
anteroventrolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antero- + ventrolateral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior and ventrolateral
antifibronectin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + fibronectin.
Senses: glosses: That has an immune reaction to fibronectin
axotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ubiquitin ligase associated with gene expression
upfitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upfitters
Senses: glosses: A person or organisation that upfits or upgrades something.
biocompany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocompanies
Etymology: From bio- + company.
Senses: glosses: A biotechnology company
until further notice
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Merseyrail said the cuts would be "until further notice".
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
glosses: Indefinitely, until a further notification is given to the contrary.
Related terms: until proven otherwise
biomodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomodels
Etymology: From bio- + model.
Senses: topics: biology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mathematical model of a biological system (typically an ecosystem)
Related terms: biomodelling
upfitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upfitter
biotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotomes
Etymology: From bio- + -tome.
Senses: glosses: A specialised form of knife or scalpel
bargadar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargadars
Senses: glosses: A sharecropper.
carbozole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of carbazole.
chemonaive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + naive.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Who have had little or no experience with chemotherapy
chondrophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrophores
Senses: glosses: Any hydrozoan of the former order Chondrophora (now included in order Anthoathecata).
chondrophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondrophore
conulariid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conulariids
Senses: glosses: Any fossil cnidarian of the clade Conulariida
conulariids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conulariid
strike price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strike prices
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The price, fixed at the date of the initial transaction, at which an option can be exercised (the price at which an asset may be bought for a call option; the price at which an asset may be sold for a put option).
Synonyms: exercise price
strike prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strike price
thorny worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorny worms
Senses: glosses: Glycera americana, a large slender species found in mud at low tide. Sometimes grows to 600 mm.
PJA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PJAs
Senses: topics: media
publishing
scholarly
sciences
glosses: published journal article, also known as publisher's version, version of record or VoR: the version of a paper as printed or digitally published in a journal by its publisher
freshwater hydra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freshwater hydras
Senses: glosses: A solitary polyp, of species Hydra vulgaris, similar to a sea anemone consisting of a hollow cylinder about 10 mm long with a mouth surrounded by tentacles, usually found attached to the under surfaces of water plants in ponds and streams.
Synonyms: freshwater polyp
AFAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AFA
AIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AIA
mason worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mason worms
Senses: glosses: Thelepus setosus (synonym: Thelepus spectabilis), a worm that builds a protective tube or case in the tidal zone to which fragments of shell and sand are attached.
synonyms: trumpet worm
ice cream cone worm
glosses: A related worm, Pectinaria gouldii
glosses: Alternative form of sand mason worm.
spiny tubeworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiny tubeworms
Senses: glosses: An annelid worm that forms coral-like masses up tp 900 mm in diameter, found in isolated tubes cemented to rocks and in colonies.
setworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setworks
Senses: glosses: The mechanism in a sawmill that positions the log for the next cut.
setworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setwork
axlebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axleboxes
form: axle-box
form: axle box
Etymology: Compound of axle + box.
Senses: glosses: A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.
examples: text: The bogies, which have been specially designed to enable the vehicles to travel at express speeds have single bolster suspension and roller bearing axleboxes.
ref: 1961 October, “Car carriage by rail - at home and abroad: 1. New B.R. "covered wagons"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 594:
glosses: The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.
axleboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axlebox
evenizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evenizers
Senses: examples: text: A father resents an ingrate son, forgetting that he too in his young days was an ingrate to a father now dead. Fate is not an unfair evenizer.
ref: 1923, R. M. Washburn, chapter 4, in Smith’s Barn: “A Child’s History” of the West Side, Worcester, 1880-1923, Worcester, Massachussets, page 39:
text: It was fortunate that I never saw her in the company of powhitefolks. For since they tend to think of their whiteness as an evenizer, I’m certain that I would have had to hear her spoken to commonly as Bertha […]
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 15, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 79:
glosses: Something that makes things even.
milline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millines
Senses: glosses: A unit of advertising space or circulation equal to one agate line in a million copies of a publication
agate line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agate lines
Senses: glosses: A unit of advertising space that is one column wide and one agate (one fourteenth of an inch) deep.
Jeff Davis County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jefferson Davis.
Senses: glosses: A county of Georgia, United States. County seat: Hazlehurst.
glosses: A county of Texas, United States. County seat: Fort Davis.
Related terms: Davis County
Jeff Davis
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis County
Jefferson Davis Parish
pseudograin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudograins
Etymology: From pseudo- + grain.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pseudocereal.
synonyms: word: pseudocereal
giant Pacific octopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant Pacific octopuses
form: giant Pacific octopusses
form: giant Pacific octopi
form: giant Pacific octopii
form: giant Pacific octopodes
form: giant Pacific octopus
Senses: examples: text: They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans twenty feet from arm tip to arm tip.
ref: 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 47:
text: Giant Pacific octopuses are semelparous, meaning they reproduce only once.
ref: 2018 April 29, Killian Fox, The Observer:
glosses: A large species of octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini.
giant Pacific octopuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant Pacific octopus
degelatinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + gelatinized.
Senses: glosses: From which the gelatine has been removed
Fort Davis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A residential neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
degredation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degredations
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of degradation.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lowering of a surface by erosion or weathering.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The decomposition of a macromolecule in stages, to produce a range of intermediate products.
deoxyribothymidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxyribothymidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nucleoside formed from deoxyribose and thymidine
Mary River turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mary River turtles
Senses: examples: text: Conservationists trying to save the Mary river turtle have had to resort to selling turtle chocolates and soliciting donations from the United Arab Emirates to try to help save the endangered reptile from extinction.
ref: 2018 April 19, Lisa Cox, The Guardian:
glosses: A species of turtle, Elusor macrurus, endemic to the Mary River in southeastern Queensland.
deoxyribozymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyribozyme
diarginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + arginine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two arginine moieties in a molecule
Derived terms: diarginine malate
downexpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downexpressions
Etymology: From down- + expression.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: upexpression
glosses: The lower than normal expression of a protein.
eigenvectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eigen- + vectorial.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to an eigenvector
Jefferson Davis Parish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jefferson Davis.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states.. Parish seat: Jennings.
wikipedia: Jefferson Davis
Related terms: Jeff Davis County
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis County
Jefferson Parish
endoflagellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoflagella
Etymology: From endo- + flagellum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of flagella, wound around spirochetes, that form an axial filament
Related terms: endoflagellar
endoflagella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoflagellum
endoflagellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + flagellar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to endoflagella
endostatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endostatin
epidermoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epidermoblasts
Etymology: From epidermo- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An epidermal progenitor cell formed from neuroectoderm
progenitor cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progenitor cells
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of stem cell that is specialised to differentiate into a single type of cell
epidermoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epidermoblast
progenitor cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of progenitor cell
epitracheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪkiəl
Etymology: From epi- + tracheal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the trachea
exophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + -phily.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being exophilic
expressability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of expressibility.
cell cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cell cycles
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The life cycle of eukaryotic cells from a quiescent beginning, growth, duplication of DNA followed by mitosis and division.
cero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin cēra.
Senses: glosses: wax
extravasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of extravasation.
extravation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of extravasation.
gametocytemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gametocytemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gametocytaemia.
haptotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hapto- + -tactic.
Senses: glosses: Related to haptotaxis
heterophyletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + phyletic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two or more different lines of descent
heterophyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + -phyly.
Senses: examples: text: Heterophyly (where a plant has quite different leaves in the juvenile stage compared to the mature state) is just one of many traits manifesting apparently widespread parallel evolution in the plant kingdom […]
ref: 2000, James Patrick Brock, The Evolution of Adaptive Systems: The General Theory of Evolution, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 438:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The tendency of different types of individuals to form relationships.
histocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of histiocytic.
immunoabsorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + absorptive.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to immunoabsorption
inomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ionomycin.
isodicentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + dicentric.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Equally dicentric.
Derived terms: isodicentricism
black carps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black carp
kinetoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a kinetoplast
Derived terms: akinetoplastic
dyskinetoplastic
lipofectamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lipofectamine.
lymphangiomyelomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lymphangiomyomatosis.
macrochaetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrochaete
megavertebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megavertebrates
Etymology: From mega- + vertebrate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively large vertebrate
LaRue County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John LaRue.
Senses: glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Hodgenville.
wikipedia: John LaRue
mesenchymalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesenchymalization.
mesenchymalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation and development of mesenchyme
mesenteronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesenteron + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or situated in the mesenteron (midgut)
molluscivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being a molluscivore
megavertebrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megavertebrate
mtrna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mtrnas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mtRNA.
mtrnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mtrna
Hodgenville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hodgen + -ville, after Robert Hodgen.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of LaRue County, Kentucky, United States.
tricks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trick out
CVVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CVV
decks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deck out
hangs onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang onto
gloms on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glom on
cracks onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crack onto
latches onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of latch onto
stumbles upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stumble upon
steals away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steal away
stores away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of store away
ends in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of end in
introflexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of introflexion
stumbles on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stumble on
keys into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of key into
kneels down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kneel down
talks over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of talk over
talks around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of talk around
inshures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inshure
holds up as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold up as
passes as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass as
marks as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mark as
LaRue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A village in Marion County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: LaRue County
aims at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aim at
arrives at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arrive at
frowns upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frown upon
frowns on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frown on
grabs at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grab at
hollas at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of holla at
paws at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paw at
nips at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nip at
taps in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tap in
incomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incomplex
picks at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pick at
toys with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toy with
faultfinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of faultfind
pinches at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pinch at
raps at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rap at
tells of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tell of
kid leathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kid leather
runs at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run at
works at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work at
DLNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DLN
West Feliciana Parish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formed from the original Feliciana Parish in 1824, which was apparently named after Marie Félicité de Gálvez.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states.. Parish seat: St. Francisville.
wikipedia: Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Related terms: East Feliciana Parish
St. Francisville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From St. (“Saint”) Francis + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A small city in Lawrence County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A town, the parish seat of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Missouri, United States.
Hopcroft's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by Hopcroft in 1971.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for merging the non-distinguishable states of a deterministic finite-state automaton, based on partitioning the states into groups by their behaviour.
skip list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skip lists
Senses: examples: text: Skip list follows a linked list alike structure. However, the worst case time complexity for a search operation in linked list in O(n) as the list is linearly traversed while searching whereas for a skip list it is O(#92;logn).
ref: 2021, Neeraj Kumar, Arzoo Miglani, Probabilistic Data Structures for Blockchain-Based Internet of Things Applications, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 187:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A probabilistic data structure that allows fast search within an ordered sequence of elements by maintaining a linked hierarchy of subsequences, with each successive subsequence skipping over fewer elements than the previous one.
skip lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skip list
Spotsylvania County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Alexander Spotswood.
Senses: glosses: One of 95 counties in Virginia, United States. County seat: Spotsylvania Courthouse.
wikipedia: Alexander Spotswood
Spotsylvania Courthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States.
Spotsylvania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspɒt.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /-.njə/
ipa: /ˌspɑt.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /-.njə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From Alexander Spotswood (British colonial Lieutenant Governor of Virginia). From Spotswood (“from Spots(wood)”) + sylvan (“pertaining to woods, forest”, from (Spots)wood) + -ia.
Senses: glosses: a battle in the American Civil War; see Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
glosses: a commuter rail station in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Related terms: Spotsylvania County
Spotsylvania Courthouse
Pennsylvania
Pittsylvania
Sylvania
Transylvania
she-mullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of she-mullet
planetary gear trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetary gear train
Mothers Superior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mother Superiors
Senses: glosses: plural of Mother Superior
out for the count
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of down for the count.
neurule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurules
Etymology: Blend of neuro- + rule
Senses: glosses: A kind of hybrid symbolic rule used in neurocomputing.
neurules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurule
Never Trumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Never Trumpers
form: never Trumper
form: Never-Trumper
form: never-Trumper
Etymology: From Never Trump + -er, after one of the names applied to the Stop Trump movement.
Senses: examples: text: Trump has slammed Vindman as a “Never Trumper” who he was unfamiliar with. Voting records show Vindman was previously registered as a Democrat. “Supposedly, according to the Corrupt Media, the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness. Was he on the same call that I was?” Trump tweeted. “Can’t be possible! Please ask him to read the Transcript of the call.”
ref: 2019 November 18, Aamer Madhani, quoting Donald Trump, “NSC aide Vindman ready to speak out publicly on Trump”, in AP News:
text: And even if the worst predictions haven’t come to pass, you still won’t feel reassured while someone you fundamentally distrust is making life-and-death decisions on behalf of the country every day; there’s no World War III now, but in the words of the prominent Never Trumper and Atlantic contributor Eliot Cohen, “that’s a pretty low bar.”
ref: 2020 March 10, Kathy Gilsinan, “Confessions of an Ex–Never Trumper”, in The Atlantic:
text: That he is a great man of history whose role is to chastise the liberal intelligentsia and the Never Trumpers and all these groups that failed to govern America, but it doesn’t mean that at the end of the day, he’s actually saving America. Sometimes it’s just a chastisement.
ref: 2025 May 1, Ross Douthat, “The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A conservative, especially a Republican, who opposes Donald Trump.
wikipedia: en:Never Trump movement
Related terms: Trump
Trumper
Allendale County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably named after the county seat, which was established first and named after P.H. Allen, the first postmaster.
Senses: glosses: One of 46 counties in South Carolina, United States. County seat: Allendale.
minimometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimometer
nepenthebiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nepenthebionts
Etymology: From Nepenthes + -biont.
Senses: examples: text: Nepenthebiont animals are characteristic of the pitchers and their aquatic stages are not known to occur in other habitats.
ref: 1983, John Howard Frank, Phytotelmata: Terrestrial Plants as Hosts for Aquatic Insect Communities:
text: Nepenthebiont species normally live only in pithers^([sic]) and these account for 66% of the pitcher fauna found in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
ref: 1984, Anthony J. Whitten, The Ecology of Sumatra, page 349:
text: Meanwhile, communities of specialised pitcher-dwellers (so-called nepenthebionts) set up in the water volume to take advantage of the food provided by the decaying mass of insect remains at the bottom.
ref: 2008, Menno Schilthuizen, The Loom of Life: Unravelling Ecosystems, page 9:
glosses: Any animal that lives in, and is dependent on, the pitcher of a Nepenthes pitcher plant.
nonpharmacologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + pharmacologically.
Senses: glosses: Without regard to pharmacology
oligoelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoelements
form: oligo-element
Etymology: From oligo- + element.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trace element.
synonyms: word: trace element
oligoelements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligoelement
oligophrenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligophrenins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins that modulate cytoskeletal changes
orthokeratotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to orthokeratosis
Derived terms: hyperorthokeratotic
paucimicrobial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pauci- + microbial.
Senses: glosses: Containing few microbes
Synonyms: paucibacterial
paucibacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pauci- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Containing few bacteria
Synonyms: paucimicrobial
perhydrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perhydrols
Senses: glosses: A stabilised solution of hydrogen peroxide
picotiter plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picotiter plates
Senses: glosses: A miniaturised form of a microtiter plate
Allendale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Alternative form: Allandale
glosses: A town in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England, the largest village is named Allendale Town.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Solano County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Wabash County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Vigo County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Ottawa County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Worth County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough of Bergen County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Allendale County, South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Allendale County
Allendale Town
Related terms: Allandale
Bamberg County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Francis Marion Bamberg.
Senses: glosses: One of 46 counties in South Carolina, United States. County seat: Bamberg.
co-operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-operators
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cooperator.
co-operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-operator
non-target
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-targets
Etymology: From non- + target.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nontarget.
non-targets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-target