cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
inferosuperior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infero- + superior.
Senses: examples: text: Each column was compressed in the inferosuperior direction between two plates at the speed of 1%/min on Instron 3366 10 kN Dual Column Testing Systems (Instron, High Massachusetts, USA).
ref: 2015 December 29, “Correlation between Parameters of Calcaneal Quantitative Ultrasound and Hip Structural Analysis in Osteoporotic Fracture Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: from below to above
intratypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + typic.
Senses: examples: text: When the 1D/VP1 lineages were from two EV types, the recombination was intertypic; otherwise, the recombination was intratypic.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Enterovirus Migration Patterns between France and Tunisia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the same type
Related terms: intertypic
inulosucrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inulosucrases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that catalyzes the transfer of a fructose moiety from sucrose to inulin
inulosucrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Strict, sucrose dependent polysaccharide formation is indicative of sucrase-type enzymes (i.e. dextran-, levan-, and inulosucrases) secretion (Fig 2A ).
ref: 2015 December 29, “Diverse Exopolysaccharide Producing Bacteria Isolated from Milled Sugarcane: Implications for Cane Spoilage and Sucrose Yield”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of inulosucrase
ixazomib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ikˈsæzəʊmɪb/
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, antitumor activity in xenograft tumors is model-dependent, with some solid tumors showing no response to ixazomib.
ref: 2015 December 29, “KRAS Genotype Correlates with Proteasome Inhibitor Ixazomib Activity in Preclinical In Vivo Models of Colon and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Potential Role of Tumor Metabolism”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A proteasome inhibitor that is used in cancer therapy
retack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retacks
form: retacking
form: retacked
form: retacked
Etymology: From re- + tack.
Senses: glosses: To tack again.
retrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retracks
form: retracking
form: retracked
form: retracked
Etymology: From re- + track.
Senses: glosses: To track again.
examples: text: These retracking functions cover a much wider range of possible waveform shapes than the Brown model. A few studies concluded that the ICE1 retracker performs with sufficient accuracy over inland waters […]
ref: 2015, Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Laura Sánchez, International Symposium on Earth and Environmental Sciences for Future Generations: Proceedings of the IAG General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22-July 2, 2015, page 352:
glosses: To correct the range and elevation measurements in altimetry data by certain mathematical operations on the waveform.
Derived terms: retracker
reportion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reportions
form: reportioning
form: reportioned
form: reportioned
Etymology: From re- + portion.
Senses: glosses: To reapportion.
retracks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrack
retracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrack
retacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retack
reportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reportion
retacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retack
retacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retack
retracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrack
reportioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reportion
fembitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fembitch
hidromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hydromancy.
homotransplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homotransplantations
Etymology: From homo- + transplantation.
Senses: glosses: The making of an allograft, or homotransplant.
homotransplantations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homotransplantation
unstaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪnɪŋ
Etymology: From un- + staining.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonstaining.
synonyms: word: nonstaining
untaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + taunted.
Senses: glosses: Not taunted.
unleathered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + leathered.
Senses: glosses: Not leathered.
untautened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tautened.
Senses: glosses: Not tautened.
untaut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + taut.
Senses: glosses: Not taut; relaxed.
dita bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Bark of the tropical blackboard tree (Alstonia scholaris).
Derived terms: ditaine
echitamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ditaine
ditaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dita + -ine.
Senses: glosses: An organic compound found in Alstonia scholaris (dita bark tree).
Synonyms: echitamine
Edogawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 江戸川 (えどがわ, Edogawa).
Senses: glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Katsushika special ward, Chiba Prefecture, Kōtō, and Sumida special wards.
man of the match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men of the match
Senses: examples: text: Hodgson then removed man of the match Wayne Rooney, who had earlier seen a shot pushed superbly on to the post by Akinfeev, and replaced him with Jack Wilshere to preserve England's advantage.
ref: 2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The best player in a match.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player chosen as having made the most outstanding achievement during a match, and awarded a small prize.
Related terms: player of the match
most valuable player
MVP
men of the match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man of the match
Shinjuku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 新(しん)宿(じゅく) (Shinjuku).
Senses: examples: text: The neighborhood we lived in wasn’t like the image most people have of Tokyo, all slick and modern like Shinjuku or Shibuya, with skyscrapers made of concrete and glass.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 139:
glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by the (clockwise from north) Toshima, Bunkyō, Chiyoda, Minato, Shibuya, and Nakano special wards; it is also the location of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office.
ghost goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost goal
degree of polymerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degrees of polymerization
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The number of monomeric units in a macromolecule or polymer or oligomer molecule.
degrees of polymerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degree of polymerization
mucoadhesiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mucoadhesive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, as a species with some proclivity for motility, but not having any strong mucoadhesiveness, L.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Human Gut-Commensalic Lactobacillus ruminis ATCC 25644 Displays Sortase-Assembled Surface Piliation: Phenotypic Characterization of Its Fimbrial Operon through In Silico Predictive Analysis and Recombinant Expression in Lactococcus lactis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being mucoadhesive
nanoprism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoprisms
Etymology: From nano- + prism.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale prism
nanoprisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the samples reported here, the most abundant are circular AgNp of 110–190 nm diameter, triangular nanoprisms with a perpendicular bisector of 200–240 nm, and snipped nanoprisms (oblate unequal hexagons) of 250–400 nm.
ref: 2015 December 29, “In Situ Analysis of a Silver Nanoparticle-Precipitating Shewanella Biofilm by Surface Enhanced Confocal Raman Microscopy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of nanoprism
Bohemond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊəmənd/
Forms: form: Bohemund
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage.
Bohemund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bohemond.
parauterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + uterine.
Senses: examples: text: However, no significant relationships were found between B3GNT3 protein expression and patient age, histological differentiation grade, squamous cell carcinoma antigen, histological type, chemotherapy, radiation, myometrium invasion, properties of the surgical margin and infiltration of parauterine organ in the patients with cervical cancer.
ref: 2015 December 29, “B3GNT3 Expression Is a Novel Marker Correlated with Pelvic Lymph Node Metastasis and Poor Clinical Outcome in Early-Stage Cervical Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Situated beyond the uterus
Related terms: periuterine
pathohistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patho- + histology.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of 14 days, mice were sacrificed for further organ specific pathohistology, biochemistry and microbiome analyses.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Selective Spectrum Antibiotic Modulation of the Gut Microbiome in Obesity and Diabetes Rodent Models”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of histopathology.
synonyms: word: histopathology
Derived terms: pathohistological
pathohistologist
peneroplid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peneroplids
Senses: glosses: Any foraminifera of the family Peneroplidae.
peneroplids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Amphisteginids and peneroplids were among the few taxa found in the bay environments, probably due to their preferences for phytal substrates and tolerance to moderate levels of eutrophication.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Spatial Patterns in the Distribution, Diversity and Abundance of Benthic Foraminifera around Moorea (Society Archipelago, French Polynesia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of peneroplid
phosphodonor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphodonors
Etymology: From phospho- + donor.
Senses: examples: text: Their K 1/2 values scaled inversely with the aggregate lengths of their connecting segment between Tsr1 and Tsr2: the longest linker (546~551/L-6) produced the most sensitive response (K 1/2 = 55 μM); the shortest (517~551/L-4) failed to respond to serine, but evinced high kinase activity upon potassium cyanide challenge, which depletes cellular ATP, the phosphodonor for the CheA autophosphorylation reaction (see Methods ).
ref: 2015 December 29, “Chemotactic Signaling by Single-Chain Chemoreceptors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that donates a phosphoryl group
Related terms: phosphoreceiver
plumodenticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plumo- + denticulate.
Senses: examples: text: Telson bilobulated, distal margin with 7 plumodenticulate setae in each lobe.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Morphology of First Zoeal Stage of Four Genera of Alvinocaridid Shrimps from Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps: Implications for Ecology, Larval Biology and Phylogeny”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plumose and denticulate
preodontoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preodontoblasts
Etymology: From pre- + odontoblast.
Senses: examples: text: These effects included induction of mineralization accompanied by the presence of bone matrix proteins such as bone sialoprotein (BSP, also known as integrin-binding sialoprotein; Ibsp), suggesting a signaling role of amelogenin gene products in preodontoblast maturation [10 ].
ref: 2015 December 29, “Controlled Osteogenic Differentiation of Mouse Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Tetracycline-Controlled Transcriptional Activation of Amelogenin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The precursor of an odontoblast
preodontoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + odontoblast.
Senses: glosses: Prior to the formation of an odontoblast
preweaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + weaned.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, a randomized field trial was completed in a commercial farm with preweaned calves.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Oral Administration of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Decreased the Incidence of Severe Diarrhea and Related Mortality Rate and Increased Weight Gain in Preweaned Dairy Heifers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: weaned in advance
prezoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prezoeae
form: prezoaea
Etymology: From pre- + zoea.
Senses: examples: text: The absence of a cover layer over the appendices and telson confirms that larvae analyzed here are at first zoeal stage instead of a prezoea stage [50 ,51 ] that could occur just after hatching.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Morphology of First Zoeal Stage of Four Genera of Alvinocaridid Shrimps from Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps: Implications for Ecology, Larval Biology and Phylogeny”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The precursor stage of a zoea
proatherosclerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + atherosclerotic.
Senses: examples: text: Generated by ACE, angiotensin II (Ang II) is a powerful vasoconstrictor and a potential proatherosclerotic endogenous compound[17 ].
ref: 2015 December 29, “Interactions among Candidate Genes Selected by Meta-Analyses Resulting in Higher Risk of Ischemic Stroke in a Chinese Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That leads to atherosclerosis
quinqueloculinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinqueloculinids
Senses: glosses: Any foraminifera of the genus Quinqueloculina
quinqueloculinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At Opunohu Bay, quinqueloculinids reach values of 35%.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Spatial Patterns in the Distribution, Diversity and Abundance of Benthic Foraminifera around Moorea (Society Archipelago, French Polynesia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of quinqueloculinid
repartner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repartners
form: repartnering
form: repartnered
form: repartnered
form: re-partner
Etymology: From re- + partner.
Senses: examples: text: Other papers have also suggested that parental divorce in later life results in less contact between fathers and their children, decreasing even further when a father re-partners. By contrast, when a mother re-partners, it does not seem to change the mother-child contact.
ref: 2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC:
glosses: To establish a relationship with a new partner.
repartnered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For some additional loss also occurred when parents repartnered and these relationships subsequently broke up after many years, or a new parental partner died.
ref: 2015 December 29, “When Parents Separate and One Parent ‘Comes Out’ as Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual: Sons and Daughters Engage with the Tension that Occurs When Their Family Unit Changes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of repartner
repartnering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repartner
repartnering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repartnerings
Senses: examples: text: For very young children parental repartnering was less of an accommodation, as they had no or limited memories of their parents as single.
ref: 2015 December 29, “When Parents Separate and One Parent ‘Comes Out’ as Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual: Sons and Daughters Engage with the Tension that Occurs When Their Family Unit Changes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The establishing of a relationship with a new partner
semapimod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: CNI-1493, also known as semapimod, is a small molecule anti-inflammatory agent that has been shown to inhibit production of macrophage-derived inflammatory mediators without significantly affecting other cell lineages [35 –37 ].
ref: 2015 December 29, “The Macrophage Inhibitor CNI-1493 Blocks Metastasis in a Mouse Model of Ewing Sarcoma through Inhibition of Extravasation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A particular antiviral and antimalarial drug.
trichromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Autofluorescence was observed mostly in epidermis cell walls, trichromes and vascular bundles, while it was very low in parenchymatic cells (Fig 4, control panels).
ref: 2015 December 29, “Specific Changes of Exocarp and Mesocarp Occurring during Softening Differently Affect Firmness in Melting (MF) and Non Melting Flesh (NMF) Fruits”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of trichrome
undecaheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undeca- + heme.
Senses: examples: text: Such preferential orientation may be deduced, for example, from recent X-ray diffraction data of undecaheme cytochrome crystalized in the presence of soluble Fe(III) chelates [23 ,26 ].
ref: 2015 December 29, “In Situ Analysis of a Silver Nanoparticle-Precipitating Shewanella Biofilm by Surface Enhanced Confocal Raman Microscopy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Eleven heme groups in a molecule
unsatisfiabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, these techniques do not scale well with the number of unsatisfiabilities and/or classes.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Ontology Alignment Repair through Modularization and Confidence-Based Heuristics”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of unsatisfiability
CPEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CPE
reformee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reformees
Etymology: From reform + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of many attempts at avoiding and selecting information about practical problems, information about serious problems or the failure of the reform sometimes reaches reformers and reformees.
ref: 2016, Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management:
glosses: One who is the subject of a reform.
reformees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reformee
undevastating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undevastating
form: most undevastating
Etymology: From un- + devastating.
Senses: glosses: Not devastating.
next big thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: next big things
form: Next Big Thing
Senses: examples: text: The media spends most of its time telling us about the next big thing, while overlooking the power and the size of niche markets.
ref: 2006, John Bradley Jackson, First, Best, Or Different: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know about Niche Marketing, →ISBN:
text: As soon as we think we're satisfied, the next version of the next big thing comes along and suddenly, we're supposed to be starving again—even though we've barely touched what we have.
ref: 2011, David Shapiro, Choosing the Right Thing to Do, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Bioabsorbable coronary stents--are these the next big thing in coronary angioplasty?
ref: 2012, Issues in Patents and Intellectual Property, →ISBN:
text: Even without media hype, there have been and always will be next big things.
ref: 2015, Richard Faulk, The Next Big Thing: A History of the Boom-or-Bust Moments That Shaped the Modern World, →ISBN:
text: One politician present called the US land grab “inevitable”, adding: “AI is the next big thing, and no one is going to roll over and play dead and say, ‘You take over.’ China's not going to let that happen and certainly the US won't”.
ref: 2023 November 4, Madhumita Murgia, Anna Gross, Cristina Criddle, “Summit exposes tensions over AI development despite emollient Chinese tone”, in FT Weekend, page 12:
glosses: The most recent fad or trend.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see next, big, thing.
Related terms: last big thing
next big things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of next big thing
untooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tooled.
Senses: glosses: Not tooled.
moussy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmusi/
Forms: form: more moussy
form: most moussy
Etymology: From mousse + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of mousse, especially in texture.
handiman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handimen
Etymology: From handy + -man.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of handyman.
handimen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handiman
mustarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mustard + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: mustardy
glosses: Flavoured or topped with mustard.
mayonnaised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mayonnaise + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Flavoured or topped with mayonnaise.
mayoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mayo + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Flavoured or topped with mayonnaise.
handiwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handiwomen
Etymology: From handy + -woman.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of handywoman.
handiwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handiwoman
last big thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last big things
form: Last Big Thing
Etymology: Back-formation from next big thing.
Senses: examples: text: My nightstand, desktop, TiVo menu and mental to-do list are still full of last big things I never got around to— The Hulk, Friendster, hot yoga (or, for that matter, cold yoga)— and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff.
ref: 2003, Time - Volume 162, page v:
text: My colleagues and I are searching for the next big thing in the field. The last big thing came about 15 years ago and we're currently in a “been there, done that” mode.
ref: 2005, Eric Dolin, The Ph. D Survival Guide, →ISBN, page 19:
text: We always, it seems, are provided with a glut of material on the next big thing and not enough on how to make the last big thing actually work.
ref: 2009, Alec Sharp, Patrick McDermott, Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Applications Development, →ISBN, page 4:
text: And, besides, appearances to the contrary, the fashion business was not really in the habit of changing bandwagons when the cutting-edgers started looking for the next big thing. They were usually still responding to the last big thing.
ref: 2011, Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: A recent fad or trend that has lost its popularity.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see last, big, thing.
last big things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of last big thing
Last Big Thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Last Big Things
Senses: examples: text: Now, nobody knows what IT is exactly, but as dot-com companies, purveyors of the Last Big Thing, bite the dust, we're ready to grasp at anything — even if we don't know what it is.
ref: 2001 April, John R. Quain, “What Is IT?”, in Popular Science, volume 258, number 4, page 74:
text: You might call Web services the Last Big Thing. The surprise is that today, in the midst of an IT downturn that has become a way of life, Web services really is changing everything.
ref: 2003 September 15, Eric Knorr, “A Bargain So Far”, in CIO, volume 16, number 23, page 118:
text: The world of nightlife is arguably one of the most forward-thinking businesses there is; impresarios and denizens alike are moving constantly, like sharks, on the unending quest for the Next Big Thing, and the Next Next Big Thing, and the So Much The Next Big Thing That Only Fifteen People In Glasgow Know About It Thing, leaving the rest of us behind at the Last Big Thing, as redundant and forgotten as rejected bits of forlorn knitwear on the last day of a Barneys warehouse sale.
ref: 2007, 2033: Future of Misbehavior, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of last big thing.
Last Big Things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Last Big Thing
Next Big Thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Next Big Things
Senses: examples: text: Who is the only Lodestar vice president whose reputation hasn't been compromised by the failure of one of these Next Big Things?
ref: 2000, John Guaspari, The Value Effect, →ISBN:
text: I don't think there's going to be one Next Big Thing. Java's arrival was a Next Big Thing, and though it's unlikely to be the Last Next Big Thing, the rapid rise of Java was a special event, a coincidence of timing that could only happen by riding in the wake of the first introduction of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
ref: 2008, Alexander Kolesnikov, Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications : a Step-by-step Guide to Java Web Development with the Developer-Friendly Apache Tapestry Framework, →ISBN:
text: With raves from scientists, food writers, and journalists alike, the Mediterranean Diet swept into magazines, cookbooks, and kitchens around the world, instantly nutrition's Next Big Thing.
ref: 2014, Nina Teicholz, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of next big thing.
Next Big Things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Next Big Thing
perturbedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perturbedly
form: most perturbedly
Etymology: From perturbed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [T]o those who are much alive to the effects of music, airs and tunes often come back, in the commonest pursuits of life, to vex, as it were, and haunt them. The music, once admitted to the soul, becomes also a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air.
ref: 1842, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in Zanoni. […], volume I, London: Saunders & Otley, […], →OCLC, book the first (The Musician), page 16:
text: But Claggart's was no vulgar form of the passion. Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David. Claggart's envy struck deeper.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, pages 256–257:
text: If only life were always so simple, I thought, as he tugged off his singlet and his Lordship, looking perturbedly about, came back into view at the end of the alley of lockers.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
glosses: In a perturbed manner.
flatpicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flatpick
flatpicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flatpick
woodcrafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodcrafters
Etymology: From wood + crafter.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in woodcraft.
woodcrafters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodcrafter
woodcrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of woodcraft
woodcrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of woodcraft
lovemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovemate
taclobos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taclobo
taklobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taklobos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taclobo.
taklobos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taklobo
macho dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macho dancer
sake and soke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of soc and sac.
bread-and-butter letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread-and-butter letter
bread-and-butter notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread-and-butter note
Senses: glosses: plural of bread-and-butter note
bread-and-butter pickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread-and-butter pickle
divorce from bed and board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divorces from bed and board
Senses: glosses: A situation where spouses live apart without having legally dissolved their marriage; this may be either a long-term arrangement or a first step towards actual divorce.
Synonyms: legal separation
marital separation
separation from bed and board
divorces from bed and board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divorce from bed and board
sonfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonfuckers
Etymology: From son + fucker, by analogy with motherfucker.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in incest with their son.
sonfuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonfucker
decolonially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more decolonially
form: most decolonially
Etymology: From decolonial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a decolonial manner.
Hébertist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hébertists
Etymology: Borrowed from French hébertiste, named after the populist journalist Jacques Hébert.
Senses: glosses: A member of a radical revolutionary political group that came to power during the Reign of Terror and played a significant role in the French Revolution.
wikipedia: Jacques Hébert
Related terms: Hébertism
Hébertists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hébertist
Hébertism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French hébertisme, named after the populist journalist Jacques Hébert (1757–1794).
Senses: glosses: The beliefs and policies of the Hébertists: advocating the dechristianization of France and extreme Terror.
wikipedia: Jacques Hébert
Robespierrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Robespierrist
bukayo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Filipino dessert made from sweetened coconut strips.
ampaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʔɐmˈpaʊ̯/
Forms: form: ampaws
form: ampaw
form: ampao
Etymology: From Tagalog ampaw. Compare Spanish hampáo, Cebuano ampaw, Ilocano ampaw, Bikol Central ampaw, Aklanon ampaw, Maranao ampaw.
Senses: glosses: A Filipino sweet puffed rice cake.
crime doesn't pay
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaɪm ˈdʌzˌənt peɪ/
Senses: glosses: If you commit a crime you will most likely be punished for it.
Related terms: if you can't do the time, don't do the crime
ill-gotten gains never prosper
cheats never prosper
tjoekie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tjoekies
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans tjoekie.
Senses: examples: text: Yoh! I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.
ref: 2025 March 26, Khanyisile Ngcobo, “'Yoh! You're in the OED' – South Africa makes its linguistic mark”, in BBC:
glosses: A prison.
super greenhouse gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super greenhouse gases
Senses: topics: climate
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any greenhouse gas with a greenhouse effect that is several orders of magnitude stronger than that of carbon dioxide.
Hypernyms: greenhouse gas
Hyponyms: chlorofluorocarbon
hydrofluorocarbon
Related terms: supergreenhouse effect
BUMP
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bump.
Frick and Frack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the name of a Swiss-American ice skating comedy duo.
Senses: examples: text: Sparks suddenly had seen the light and Frick and Frack had their eyewitness identification.
ref: 1988, Denny McLain, Mike Nahrstedt, Strikeout: the story of Denny McLain, page 185:
text: Or at least your pals Frick and Frack over at the IRS should have it.
ref: 2002, James E. Wollrab, Malfeasance, page 154:
text: I know it's been difficult, particularly with Frick and Frack here leaving for college.
ref: 2011, Callie Mcfarlane, A Clear Destiny, page 17:
glosses: Names given to a pair of companions, usually male, who are very similar in appearance.
pie-eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie-eater
inhibitingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inhibitingly
form: most inhibitingly
Etymology: From inhibiting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the script often feels as inhibitingly self-conscious as Ellis does as a host, suggesting a class writing assignment dutifully carried out by a precocious pupil who would rather be working on something else.
ref: 2016 June 10, Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to inhibit.
hitouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitout
lunchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunching
flatpacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flat + packed.
Senses: glosses: Of furniture: supplied in flatpack form for self-assembly.
Hartian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hartian
form: most Hartian
Etymology: From Hart + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907–1992), British legal philosopher.
glosses: Of or relating to David Bentley Hart (b. 1965), American writer, philosopher, religious studies scholar, critic, and theologian.
Kelsenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kelsenian
form: most Kelsenian
Etymology: From Kelsen + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), Austrian legal and political philosopher.
powerdrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerdrills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of power drill.
powerdrills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerdrill
power drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power drills
form: powerdrill
Senses: glosses: A hand-held drill powered by electric motor.
power drills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power drill
introitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more introitive
form: most introitive
Etymology: From introit + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: the accumulative power and the dissipative, the introitive and the extroitive,
ref: a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Footnotes to a Philosophical Text:
glosses: Tending inward.
flat-picked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flat-pick
flat-picks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flat-pick
flat-picking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flat-pick
alkatrienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Among these compounds, alkadienes and alkatrienes are less common [8 ].
ref: 2015 December 30, “Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Orchid Bees Males: Interspecific and Chemotaxonomy Variation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of alkatriene
antibioresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the genomes of five of these ten strains were fully sequenced, revealing interesting genetic determinants potentially linked to the phenotypes observed and allowing potential utilization of strains devoid of antibioresistance determinants.
ref: 2015 December 30, “Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Bovine Mammary Microbiota: Potential Allies against Bovine Mastitis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: resistance to the effects of an antibiotic
antihepatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hepatic.
Senses: examples: text: The compound is a major candidate in clinical studies as an antihepatic fibrosis drug [6 ].
ref: 2015 December 30, “Effectiveness of Losartan-Loaded Hyaluronic Acid (HA) Micelles for the Reduction of Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis in C3H/HeN Mice Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That counters any disease of the liver
bioreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioreactive
form: most bioreactive
Etymology: From bio- + reactive.
Senses: examples: text: During 15-day biodegradation experiments, DOM from the two pasture streams was altered to a greater extent than DOM from the forest streams, with formulas with H/C and O/C ranges similar to protein (H/C = 1.5–2.2, O/C = 0.3–0.67), lipid (H/C = 1.5–2.0, O/C = 0–0.3), and unsaturated hydrocarbon (H/C = 0.7–1.5, O/C = 0–0.1) being the most bioreactive groups.
ref: 2015 December 30, “Use of ESI-FTICR-MS to Characterize Dissolved Organic Matter in Headwater Streams Draining Forest-Dominated and Pasture-Dominated Watersheds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: biologically or biochemically reactive
biorefractory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biorefractory
form: most biorefractory
Etymology: From bio- + refractory.
Senses: examples: text: Overall, DOM from the pasture streams had lower proportions of biorefractory formulas but higher proportions of bioreactive formulas than DOM from the forest streams (Table 2 ).
ref: 2015 December 30, “Use of ESI-FTICR-MS to Characterize Dissolved Organic Matter in Headwater Streams Draining Forest-Dominated and Pasture-Dominated Watersheds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: biologically or biochemically refractory
corpse-to-be
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpses-to-be
Etymology: From corpse + -to-be.
Senses: glosses: A person or other living creature that is expected to die soon.
corpses-to-be
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpse-to-be
podand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podands
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any open-chain equivalent of a crown ether, i.e. a compound having one or more -O-CH₂-CH₂-O- group
Derived terms: dipodand
dipodand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipodands
Etymology: From di- + podand.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any open-chain equivalent of a crown ether that has a -O-CH₂-CH₂-O-CH₂-CH₂-O- group
dipodands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, one of the siloxane dipodands was found to form a crystalline and poorly soluble nitrate salt (1.316 g/L, water), although it was miscible with a wide range of solvents as a hydrochloride.
ref: 2015 December 30, “Disiloxanes and Functionalized Silica Gels: One Route, Two Complementary Outcomes—Guanidinium and Pyridinium Ion-Exchangers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of dipodand
reheatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reheating
chainsawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of chainsaw
erythrokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + kinetics.
Senses: examples: text: Translation of potential therapies in the diverse hemoglobinopathy population is likely affected by underlying molecular mutations, genetic modifier traits[42 –50 ], and by physiologic factors such as erythrokinetics and endogenous erythropoeitin levels[6 ].
ref: 2015 December 30, “Novel Inducers of Fetal Globin Identified through High Throughput Screening (HTS) Are Active In Vivo in Anemic Baboons and Transgenic Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The kinetics of the life span of erythrocytes
yawnily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yawnily
form: most yawnily
Etymology: From yawny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a yawny manner.
yawnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yawnable
form: most yawnable
Etymology: From yawn + -able.
Senses: glosses: Boring; tedious.
hypermentalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + mentalizing.
Senses: examples: text: Extreme scores on these two subscales reflect two impairments in reflective functioning that are common in many mental disorders, i.e., hypermentalizing and hypomentalizing respectively.
ref: 2015 December 30, “The French Version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validity Data for Adolescents and Adults and Its Association with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive mentalizing
hypomentalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + mentalizing.
Senses: examples: text: Extreme scores on these two subscales reflect two impairments in reflective functioning that are common in many mental disorders, i.e., hypermentalizing and hypomentalizing respectively.
ref: 2015 December 30, “The French Version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validity Data for Adolescents and Adults and Its Association with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: mentalizing to a lesser degree than normal
hypospleny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.
English hypo-
Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn)der.
English spleno-
Latin -ia
Old French -ieder.
Middle English -ie
Middle English -y
English -y
English hypospleny
From hypo- + spleno- + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The hypospleny after infection with wt MHV-68 became apparent at approximately 5 months after infection, reached significance at 6 months post infection, and was even further pronounced at later time points (Fig 2C ).
ref: 2015 December 30, “Prevention of Tumor Formation by Latent Gammaherpesvirus Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of hyposplenism.
synonyms: word: hyposplenism
immunodomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + domination.
Senses: examples: text: The immunodominance between different T cell epitopes is a normal immunological phenomenon (or called immunodomination) caused by immunodominant T cells suppressing responses to less-dominant epitopes through MHC-peptide complex competition and other mechanisms [31 –33 ].
ref: 2015 December 30, “The Immunodominance Change and Protection of CD4 + T-Cell Responses Elicited by an Envelope Protein Domain III-Based Tetravalent Dengue Vaccine in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of immunodominance.
synonyms: word: immunodominance
interflavan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + flavan.
Senses: examples: text: Proanthocyanidins (PACs) in cranberry are predominantly found in oligomeric forms (up to 13 monomeric units) with at least one A-type double interflavan linkage [epicatechin-(4β→8, 2β→O→7)-epicatechin] between the lower or lowest two units of the oligomer.
ref: 2015 December 30, “Cranberry Flavonoids Modulate Cariogenic Properties of Mixed-Species Biofilm through Exopolysaccharides-Matrix Disruption”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Between flavan groups.
intergenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Intergenotypes tend to include the most frequent genotypes coexisting in a human population [13 ], and the putative intergenotypes observed in our study comprise the most common genotypes in the Spanish population [4 ].
ref: 2015 December 30, “Complex Genotype Mixtures Analyzed by Deep Sequencing in Two Different Regions of Hepatitis B Virus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of intergenotype
macronodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macronodules
Etymology: From macro- + nodule.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large nodule.
Derived terms: macronodular
macronodules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The liver histology results indicated a decrease in bridging fibrosis and the clearance of macronodules in the losartan-HA micelle group.
ref: 2015 December 30, “Effectiveness of Losartan-Loaded Hyaluronic Acid (HA) Micelles for the Reduction of Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis in C3H/HeN Mice Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of macronodule
metabisulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The reaction was terminated by cooling in an ice-water bath, followed by the addition of 25 μL of 2% sodium metabisulfide.
ref: 2015 December 30, “Dry Priming of Maize Seeds Reduces Aluminum Stress”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of metabisulfite.
miniflap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniflaps
Etymology: From mini- + flap.
Senses: examples: text: SIE was performed immediately after flapless tooth extraction or at flapless or miniflap implant sites.
ref: 2015 December 30, “Support Immersion Endoscopy in Post-Extraction Alveolar Bone Chambers: A New Window for Microscopic Bone Imaging In Vivo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A small flap
miniflaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniflap
LGBTQ2
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or sometimes questioning), two-spirited.
Synonyms: LGBTQ2+
LGBTQ2S
LGBTQ2-S
LGBTQ2S+
unangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + angled.
Senses: glosses: Not angled.
drum-head court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drum-head courts
Senses: examples: text: Now each proceeding that follows a mortal sentence pronounced at sea by a drum-head court is characterised by promptitude not perceptibly merging into hurry, tho' bordering that.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: We speak of drumfire, drumhead courts; we drum up, drum out, drum into.
ref: 1961, Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Tin Drum, New York: Vintage, published 1990, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of drumhead court-martial.
Latinx
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈtiːn.ɛks/
ipa: /ləˈtin.ɛks/
ipa: /læ-/
ipa: /lɑː-/
rhymes: -ɪnɛks
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Etymology: The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o. Reinforced by United States Spanish latinx.
Senses: examples: text: (which see for more)
text: "Black and/or Latinx transgender people often find ourselves the target of increased police hostility,..."
ref: 2015, Eric A. Stanley, Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, →ISBN:
text: There is also the fact that, from an early age, people of color— especially young black people and to some extent Hispanic and Latinx/Latino/Latina people—are automatically sexualized to a higher degree by white observers [...]
ref: 2015, Julie Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, →ISBN:
text: […] anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, […]
ref: 2016, Charles J. Sykes., Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education, →ISBN, page 188:
text: Police found no weapon on 93% of the people stopped, and it is unclear what was found on the remaining 7%. Actually, among people that the police frisked, black and Latinx people were less likely than white people to have a weapon on them.
ref: 2019 November 18, Derecka Purnell, “Bloomberg's weak apology for stop-and-frisk is too little, too late”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Latine
Latin@
glosses: Of Latin American descent or origin.