cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
steeplehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steeplehouses
Etymology: Compound of steeple + house.
Senses: examples: text: In this Yeare (1659) Mary Akehurst, the Wife of Ralph Akehurst, of the Cliff, Neare Lewis, Beeing moved to goe to St Michals' Steeplehouse (soe called), where an Independent priest was speaking, she, for Asking him a question, was by people Haled out, and then sent for her aforesaid Husband, who after shee came home, Did so hunch and Pincht her, that she Could not Lift her armes to her head.
ref: 1864, “The Sufferings of the Quakers in Lewes”, in Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Volume 16, page 76:
text: When we came into the town to bait, the bells rang. I asked what they rang for, and they said for me to preach in the steeplehouse. After some time I felt drawings that way; and as I walked to the steeplehouse, I saw the people were gathered together in the yard. The priest would have had me go into the steeplehouse (this man afterwards became a Friend), but I said, 'nay, it was no matter.'
ref: 1865, The “Friend” in His Family, page 230:
text: When the people went to the steeplehouse, I took my Bible under my arm, and went to Justice Corbet's house to let him see I was going.
ref: 1897, Samuel Harris Fox, Edwin Tregelles, The Hat Crusade - Volume 3, page 166:
text: And so as we travelled along the country I espied a steeplehouse and I asked them what steeplehouse it was, and they said Dunbar, and it struck at my life that I should have a meeting the next day in the steeplehouse yard.
ref: 1952, George Fox, Journal, page 330:
glosses: A church (building).
steeplehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steeplehouse
funky fresh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funky fresh
form: most funky fresh
Senses: glosses: modern and stylish
mallee hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallee hens
Senses: glosses: The female of the mallee fowl.
mallee hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallee hen
psychostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + static.
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychostatics.
psychostatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Etymology: From psycho- + statics.
Senses: glosses: The theory of the conditions of the phenomena of mind.
psychokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychokinetic
psychokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: psychokinesis
SDNY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of S.D.N.Y..
S. D. N. Y.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of S.D.N.Y..
psychoneurology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + neurology.
Senses: glosses: neuropsychology
psychoneurologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neuropsychologically.
synonyms: word: neuropsychologically
psychoneurologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychoneurologists
Senses: glosses: neuropsychologist
psychoneurologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychoneurologist
U.S. Attorney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U.S. Attorneys
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Attorney.
United States Attorney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: United States Attorneys
Etymology: From United States + attorney.
Senses: glosses: A title for some attorneys for the federal government of the United States of America. The head of the government attorneys' office and prosecutor's office for a court district in the U.S. federal district court system, which represents the government's position.
Synonyms: USA
U.S.A.
U. S. A.
US Attorney U.S. Attorney
U. S. Attorney
lie-abed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lie-abeds
Senses: glosses: A person who remains in bed until late in the day.
lie-abeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lie-abed
U. S. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I’ve broken my fast with the grave and gay, / With hoi polloi and with the élite; / I’ve been all over the U. S. A. / From Dorchester Crossing to Kearney Street.
ref: 1911, Franklin P[ierce] Adams, “Ballade of the Breakfast Table”, in Toboganning on Parnassus, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of USA.
jointing rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jointing rules
Senses: glosses: A long, straight-edged rule used by bricklayers for keeping their work even.
jointing rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jointing rule
Expectation Week
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The period between Ascension Day and Whitsunday, during which the apostles continued praying in expectation of Christ.
expectationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From expectational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of expectation.
captain's walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of widow's walk.
synonyms: word: widow's walk
goodman's croft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A strip of ground, or corner of a field, once left untilled to avert the malice of the devil from the crop.
index digit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: index digits
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: In other animals that digit corresponding to the human index finger.
index digits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of index digit
devall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devalls
form: devalling
form: devalled
form: devalled
Senses: glosses: To cease.
devall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devalls
Senses: glosses: A stop.
sigmoid function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigmoid functions
Senses: examples: text: 1995, Jun Han, Claudio Moraga, The Influence of the Sigmoid Function Parameters on the Speed of Backpropagation Learning, José Mira, Francisco Sandoval (editors), From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation: International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 930, page 195,
[The] [s]igmoid function is the most commonly known function used in feed forward neural networks because of its nonlinearity and the computational simplicity of its derivative.
text: The first significant new insight from gamma spatial analysis emerged on re-examination of the sigmoid function representing bilateral saturation.
ref: 2012, Walter Freeman, Neurodynamics: An Exploration in Mesoscopic Brain Dynamics, Springer, page 241:
text: 2016, Roumen Anguelov, Svetoslav Markov, Hausdorff Continuous Interval Functions and Applications, Marco Nehmeier, Jürgen Wolff von Gudenberg, Warwick Tucker (editors), Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Validated Numerics: 16th International Symposium, SCAN 2014, Springer, LNCS 9553, page 10,
Sigmoid functions find multiple applications to neural networks and cell growth population models [14,20]. A sigmoid function on R with a range [a,b] is defined as a monotone function s(t): R →[a,b] such that lim _(t→-∞)s(t)=a, and lim _(t→∞)s(t)=b.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of various real functions whose graph resembles an elongated letter "S"; specifically, the logistic function y=(eˣ)/(eˣ+1)=1/(1+e⁻ˣ).
Synonyms: sense: "S"-shaped function
word: sigmoid
Related terms: logit
sigma function
sigmoid functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigmoid function
siao
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sjaʊ˦˨/
Forms: form: more siao
form: most siao
Etymology: From Hokkien 痟 (siáu, “mad; crazy”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Then why am I labelled mad, siow, crazy, mental, psycho, cuck-… and not you?
ref: 1993, Haresh Sharma, Off Centre, Ethos Books, →ISBN, Prologue, page 2, lines 18–20:
text: Siao, man, he said. That’s another thing I’m never telling Sherry.
ref: 2021, Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier, Epigram Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Mad; crazy
Synonyms: gila
Related terms: english: unrelated etymologically
translation: unrelated etymologically
word: hao siao
word: kee siao
tetrapropylammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrapropylammoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The quaternary ammonium cation (CH₃CH₂CH₂)₄N⁺
thermostabiliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermostabilisers
Etymology: From thermo- + stabiliser.
Senses: glosses: Something that provides thermostabilization, especially an insulated container
thermostabilisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermostabiliser
thiouridylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiouridylases
Etymology: From thio- + uridylase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a derivative of thiouridine
thiouridylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiouridylase
uridylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uridylase
thyrostimulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein hormone that stimulates thyroid activity
tibiofibula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tibiofibulas
form: tibiofibulae
form: tibio-fibula
Etymology: From tibio- + fibula.
Senses: glosses: A bone, in some reptiles and amphibians, that is formed by fusion of the tibia and fibula
tibiofibulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tibiofibula
tibiofibulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tibiofibula
toleragenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tolerogenic.
tracheomediastinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tracheo- + mediastinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the trachea and the mediastinum
tracheoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracheoscopes
Etymology: From tracheo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A form of bronchoscope used in tracheoscopy
tracheoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheoscope
transchelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transchelates
form: transchelating
form: transchelated
form: transchelated
Etymology: From trans- + chelate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To undergo transchelation
transchelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transchelate
transcriptomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to a transcriptome
transpapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + papillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between papillae
Related terms: interpapillary
tricornuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tricornute.
tricotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tricotomizes
form: tricotomizing
form: tricotomized
form: tricotomized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trichotomize.
tricotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tricotomize
trimethylsilylchloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trimethylsilyl chloride.
trimethyltin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethyltins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organotin radical (CH₃)₃Sn-
tubuliferan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubuliferans
Senses: glosses: Any of the suborder Tubulifera of thrips.
tubuliferans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubuliferan
tubullovillous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tubulovillous.
ultracomplexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + complexity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being ultracomplex
ultracongruent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + congruent.
Senses: glosses: Very similar in form (to something else)
unascribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ascribed.
Senses: glosses: Not ascribed.
underproducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underproducers
Etymology: From under- + producer.
Senses: glosses: Something that, or someone who underproduces
underproducers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underproducer
undirectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of unidirectionally.
unpermethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + permethylated.
Senses: glosses: Not permethylated
glosses: Misspelling of undermethylated.
unvariate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of univariate.
ureterostenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ureterostenoses
Etymology: From uretero- + stenosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: stenosis of the ureter
vasoinvasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasoinvasions
Etymology: From vaso- + invasion.
Senses: glosses: The spread of blood vessels, typically into a tumour
vectorology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of epidemiological vectors
arms and legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of an arm and a leg
velocitometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of velocimetry (“typically, of blood”).
synonyms: word: velocimetry
extra: typically, of blood
whitecapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitecappers
Etymology: From white + cap + -er, after the white hoods worn by some.
Senses: examples: text: Deputy United States Marshal H. B. Holman returned here on the Kansas City Southern Railroad, to which place he was called by a message from the manager of a large fruit-growing company, asking protection from whitecappers.
ref: 1905 April 12, “Mexican Laborers Warned to Leave: Whitecappers Posted Warnings on Doors of Cabins Occupied by the Mexicans Near Horatio”, in Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, via Newspapers.com, page 1:
text: To the gratification of many local whites, an all-white jury acquitted Brown of the charge of murder and ruled that the shooting of the whitecapper had been a justifiable homicide.
ref: 1993, William Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Synonym of whitecap (“type of vigilante”).
synonyms: word: whitecap
extra: type of vigilante
verdinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process, or the result of being converted to a green form by contact with seawater.
vesicorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vesico- + renal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the urinary bladder and the kidneys
vespertilionoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vespertilionoids
Senses: glosses: Any bat of the superfamily Vespertilionoidea
Hypernyms: yangochiropteran
vespertilioniform
Hyponyms: cistugid
miniopterid
bent-winged bat
long winged bat
molossid
natalid
funnel-eared bat
vespertilionid
vesper bat
vespertilionoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vespertilionoid
virotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virotypes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pathotype.
synonyms: word: pathotype
virotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virotype
wetscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetscapes
Etymology: From wet + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A wetland landscape
wetscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wetscape
wintergrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wintergrasses
Senses: glosses: The annual bluegrass Poa annua
xenopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenopsins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An octapeptide present in the frog Xenopus laevis
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A group of opsins, which are confined to molluscs, rotifers, brachiopods, and cnidarians
xylazil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of xylazine.
synonyms: word: xylazine
xylooligomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylooligomers
Etymology: From xylo- + oligomer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomer related to lignin.
xylooligomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylooligomer
Alpherat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of Alpheratz.
sappadu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sappadus
Etymology: From Tamil.
Senses: glosses: A Tamil meal, typically including rice, served on a banana leaf
gympie-gympie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɪmpi ˈɡɪmpi/
Forms: form: gympie-gympies
Etymology: Borrowed from Gabi gimpi gimpi.
Senses: glosses: An Australian plant Dendrocnide moroides or Laportea moroides that has toxic, stinging leaves
gympie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gympies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gympie-gympie.
gymnote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnotes
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Gymnotus of knifefishes.
gymnotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnote
hydro pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydro poles
Etymology: From hydroelectric, because utility poles in Canada commonly belong to hydroelectric companies.
Senses: glosses: A utility pole.
Nob Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening of nabob (“wealthy person”).
Senses: examples: text: The first houses reached the windy upper slopes of Nob Hill in 1853, thirty million years after runoff from a faraway island met with the continent to form a land mass that includes today's Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, […]
ref: 2010, Katherine Powell Cohen, San Francisco's Nob Hill, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
Derived terms: Snob Hill
the whole bang shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the whole bang lot
form: the bang shoot
Etymology: Uncertain. Apparently late nineteenth or early 20th century. Unsupported contradictory suggestions suggest derivation from shebang or vice versa. However, "shebang" may be older.
Senses: examples: text: “My good fellow,” grumbled Dr. Brown, he turned at the top of the bungalow steps to deliver this ultimatum, “he hates the whole bang lot of us." ...
page 234 ... “I noticed that he hated you.” Brown admitted, “but that is nothing new. He hates, as I have remarked before, the whole bang shoot of us.”
ref: 1913, Margaret Peterson, The Lure Of The Little Drum, page 92:
text: Anyway," he added, with the touch of the true optimist, "it's lucky I watched her, or she'd have carried off the whole bang shoot in less than thirty minutes."
ref: 1921, Harry Mortimer Batten, Many Trails, page 163:
text: "...he said something about Hughes not caring a rush for any man's life, least of all his own! Said Hughes was sublimely indifferent to the whole bang shoot. I am beginning to understand what he meant."
ref: 1942, John Vernon Hewes, The High Courts of Heaven: A Story of the R.A.F., page 132:
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: The whole lot, everything involved, every one, the entire process.
release hallucination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: release hallucinations
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A complex visual hallucination occurring in a person with partial or severe blindness.
release hallucinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of release hallucination
in bad shape
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: In poor condition; sick, ailing
Illinoian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪləˈnɔɪən/
Etymology: From Illinois + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Illinoisan.
examples: the Illinoian glaciation
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Illinoian stage.
Illinoian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪləˈnɔɪən/
Forms: form: Illinoians
Etymology: From Illinois + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Illinoisan.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stage of the last Ice Age in North America, lasting from around 190,000 to 130,000 years ago.
acantocephalan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acanthocephalan.
acetazolomide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acetazolamide.
afroinsectiphilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afroinsectiphilians
Senses: glosses: Any insectivorous mammal of the clade Afroinsectiphilia.
afroinsectiphilians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afroinsectiphilian
allellopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of allelopathic.
anatomopathologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anatomopathological.
anemopyretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anemo- + pyretic.
Senses: glosses: Caused by warm wind; describing conditions according to traditional Chinese medicine.
anemofrigid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anemo- + frigid.
Senses: glosses: Caused by cold wind; describing forms of arthralgia etc. in traditional Chinese medicine.
angioobliterative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + obliterative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing angioobliteration
angioobliteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angio- + obliteration.
Senses: glosses: The obliteration of blood vessels, typically by pulmonary arterial hypertension
Related terms: angioobliterative
run to ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs to ground
form: running to ground
form: ran to ground
form: run to ground
Senses: glosses: Synonym of run to earth.
synonyms: word: run to earth
anthophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antho- + -phagy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: feeding on flowers
Related terms: anthophagous
anticarcinogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + carcinogenesis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anticarcinogenic.
synonyms: word: anticarcinogenic
anticarcinogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + carcinogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The action of an anticarcinogen
antimycoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From anti- + mycoplasmic.
Senses: glosses: That counters the effects of mycoplasma
antitrypanosome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + trypanosome.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antitrypanosomal.
apoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From apo- + -plasmic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to apoplasm
arteriopuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arteriopunctures
Etymology: From arterio- + puncture.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The puncture of an artery, typically in order to administer an injection
arterovenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arteriovenous.
atherosuppressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From athero- + suppressive.
Senses: glosses: That suppresses atherosclerosis
for all someone cares
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He can gamble away his last penny for all I care.
text: My mother could have left me standing out in the cold for all my father cared.
glosses: expresses that someone does not care at all about some hypothetical situation becoming reality
Synonyms: as far as someone is concerned
for all of someone
autoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + active.
Senses: glosses: spontaneously active (without any external stimulus)
autolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to autoliths
oxomanganese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxide of manganese, "MnO", that forms green crystals
Synonyms: Manganese(II) oxide
manganese oxide
manganese monoxide
manganous oxide
manganosite
azapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azapeptides
Etymology: From aza- + peptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any peptide in which one or more of the amino residues is replaced by a semicarbazide
Related terms: azopeptide
azapeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azapeptide
azotification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azotifications
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: reaction with nitrogen
Related terms: azote
Soviet republic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soviet republics
Etymology: Partial calque of Russian сове́тская респу́блика (sovétskaja respúblika, literally “Sovietic republic”).
Senses: synonyms: Soviet Socialist Republic
SSR
glosses: A republic within the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Related terms: people's republic
Soviet republics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soviet republic
Pasch of the Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Good Friday, the Friday before Easter.
synonyms: word: Good Friday
extra: the Friday before Easter
poor rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poor rates
Senses: glosses: A rate or tax for the support of the poor.
poor rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poor rate
blood spavin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of horses consisting of the swelling of a vein on the inside of the hock, from a checking of the blood.
ribble-rabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribble-rabbles
Senses: glosses: silly or indecent talk
ribble-rabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribble-rabble
plant one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plants one's feet
form: planting one's feet
form: planted one's feet
form: planted one's feet
Senses: glosses: To insist on something firmly or with stubbornness.
Related terms: dig in one's heels
stinty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stinty
form: most stinty
Etymology: From stint + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The paper dragged a stinty existence for two years and perished through lack of funds.
ref: F. G. Benedict, A study of prolonged fasting (page 23)
glosses: stinted; constrained
tabellary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: tabular
Related terms: tabella
retired list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retired lists
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A list of officers who are relieved from active service but receive a certain amount of pay.
Related terms: retirees
pensioners
retired lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retired list
free-tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more free-tongued
form: most free-tongued
Senses: glosses: free-spoken
liturge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liturges
Senses: glosses: A leader in public worship.
Related terms: liturgical
liturgy
liturges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liturge
uncommunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommunal
form: most uncommunal
Etymology: From un- + communal.
Senses: glosses: Not communal.
unliturgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unliturgical
form: most unliturgical
Etymology: From un- + liturgical.
Senses: glosses: Not liturgical.
uncommunist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommunist
form: most uncommunist
Etymology: From un- + communist.
Senses: glosses: Not communist.
have way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has way
form: having way
form: had way
form: had way
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of a vessel: to be under way; to be moving or making progress.
waygone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From way + gone.
Senses: glosses: exhausted from travel
D lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D locks
Senses: glosses: A lock shaped like an elongated letter D, used to secure an unattended bicycle to railings etc.
D locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D lock
Jenny Haniver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jenny Hanivers
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a corruption of the French Génie d'Anvers ("Genie of Antwerp") or Jeune d'Anvers ("Young girl from Antwerp"), Antwerp possibly being the point of origin for the craft.
Senses: glosses: The carcass of a ray or skate, modified and dried to produce a mummified specimen that can be fraudulently exhibited as a demon, dragon, or other fictional creature.
Jenny Hanivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jenny Haniver
MoCo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the two initial syllables, attested as early as 2001.
Senses: examples: text: I'm hoping to answer you and our Silver Spring questioner, who was looking for something this weekend in MoCo.
ref: 2001 May 24, The Going Out Gurus, “Got Plans?”, in With the Entertainment Guide Staff, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company:
glosses: Montgomery County, Maryland.
off one's guard
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Not on one's guard; inattentive to possible hazards and thus vulnerable.
uncommunistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommunistic
form: most uncommunistic
Etymology: From un- + communistic.
Senses: glosses: Not communistic.
unvigilant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvigilant
form: most unvigilant
Etymology: From un- + vigilant.
Senses: glosses: Not vigilant.
on one's behaviour
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: upon one's behaviour
Senses: glosses: Placed in a situation where one's best behaviour is necessary or advisable.
Rp
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Rp, abbreviated from rupiah.
Senses: glosses: rupiah
artpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From art + paper.
Senses: examples: text: Further, in the prior artpaper pulp heaters, the circulation or travel of the pulp through the vat or tub not entirely satisfactory.
ref: 1930, WN Sherwood, Paper-pulp beater (US Patent 1,780,845):
text: Of the stretched films according to this invention, the transparent stretched film is useful as a wrapping film; The translucent stretched film is useful, as tracing paper, a poster for an electric sign, a wrapping film, a film for print lamination, or the like; and the opaque stretched film is useful, as artpaper, photographic paper, wrapping paper, paper for an envelope, makeup paper, paper for a note, paper for a map, and so forth.
ref: 1984, Yozo Ohba, Takashi Toyoda, Masaaki Yamanaka, Fukashi Hashimoto, Tetsuji Kakizaki, Stretched film (U.S. Patent US4483965A):
text: (1) large sheets of the selected plastics are mounted on to suitable artboard or substantial artpaper, the top or receiving surface of the latter being glazed and the reverse surface matt.
ref: 1984, GHW Kenney, Price ticket and like displays (US Patent 4,446,640):
text: Place the cardboard shape created on a piece of artpaper and trace its outline with a pencil.
ref: 2009, Joash Moo, Frank Lee, Art in Life Lower Secondary, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Heavy-stock paper that is commonly used in books that show reproductions of artwork.
babykisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babykissers
Senses: examples: text: Goose, meet a friend of mine, name of Kurt Faber. Babykisser from Brokenhoe. Running for mayor.
ref: 1956, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Morning Red: A Romance, page 395:
text: A potentially great statesman is not likely to be by natural inclination an enthusiastic, grinning, and indefatigable handshaker, babykisser and small-talkie walkie; yet, no one who is not an enthusiastic, grinning, and indefatigable handshaker, babykisser and small-talkie walkie can become a great statesman, if it is up to the man in the street, the man on the road, the man on the dirt road, and the man in the blind alley — the electorate, in short.
ref: 1960, James Boyer May, Trace - Issues 35-43, page 27:
text: A perennial babykisser, a tireless parader, and a would-be close personal friend of every San Francisco voter, Rolph proved a tonic because no one doubted his personal integrity or emotional sincerity.
ref: 1974, California Historical Quarterly - Volume 53, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of baby-kisser.
babykissers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babykisser
baby-kisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-kissers
form: babykisser
form: baby kisser
Senses: examples: text: Charming and funny as he was in small groups, he was no glad-hander, backslapper, or baby-kisser.
ref: 2008, Andrew Cohen, Saul John Ralston, Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson, →ISBN:
text: He was more comfortable behind the scenes, he admitted, writing articles, drafting speeches for others. “I don't really have what it takes to be a hand-shaker or a baby-kisser,” he said.
ref: 2013, Tracy Daugherty, The Boy Orator: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: Unlike Charlie—hat-tipper, baby-kisser, favorite brother in a family of brothers—Drew was a loner by nature.
ref: 2017, Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing: An evocative tale of love, loss and understanding, →ISBN:
glosses: One who kisses babies, especially a male politician who does so to ingratiate himself with female voters.
baby-kissers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby-kisser
short-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-witted
form: most short-witted
Senses: glosses: Having little wit, judgment, or intellect.
short-dated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-dated
form: most short-dated
Senses: examples: a short-dated bill
glosses: Having little time to run from its date; soon due.
baby kisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby kissers
Senses: examples: text: Not Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, however, who claims to eschew such theatrics. "I've never been a bagel eater or steel cap wearer or baby kisser," Barry avers.
ref: 1988, Dick Hyman, Washington Wind and Wisdom, →ISBN, page 93:
text: I must get it from my dad. Can't be from Mom, the world-class go-getter, hand shaker, and baby kisser.”
ref: 2008, Ellen Hopkins, Identical, →ISBN, page 31:
text: “Please, let us through,” she said again and separated an aggressive baby kisser from Buthayna and Aaden.
ref: 2016, Nicolai Andreyevich, Fatima's Baby, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of baby-kisser.
baby kissers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby kisser
hand-shaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-shakers
Senses: examples: text: Why, a hand-shake, if it's done in the right way, will send a current of warm cheer rippling through the entire day of both parties, both of the hand-shaker and the hand-shaken.
ref: 1894, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook - Volume 49, page 706:
text: In general, the American is a great and indiscriminate hand-shaker.
ref: 1996, Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma, Volume 2: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, →ISBN:
text: When confronted with a death-grip hand-shaker, the cop had told Harrow, just extend your forefinger.
ref: 2010, Max Allan Collins, You Can't Stop Me, →ISBN:
text: He was more comfortable behind the scenes, he admitted, writing articles, drafting speeches for others. “I don't really have what it takes to be a hand-shaker or a baby-kisser,” he said.
ref: 2013, Tracy Daugherty, The Boy Orator: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of handshaker.
hand-shakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-shaker
hand shaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand shakers
Senses: examples: text: I must get it from my dad. Can't be from Mom, the world-class go-getter, hand shaker, and baby kisser.”
ref: 2008, Ellen Hopkins, Identical, →ISBN, page 31:
text: An Alumnus gave me my first job sellin' cars supposedly but I was just a showpiece, a hand shaker.
ref: 2008, Don Bill, Powers Trace, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Ray was a hand shaker in world full of quick-to-kiss men.
ref: 2009, David Henry Sterry; R. J. Martin, Jr., Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, →ISBN:
text: Otherwise, it communicates the casual hand shaker's seniority and superiority over the other in terms of status and power.
ref: 2015, Rebecca Y. Kim, The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of handshaker.
examples: text: A large hand shaker the size of a 1 gallon rectangular can, capacity about 5 pounds (fig. 126), has been satisfactory and durable.
ref: 1949, United States. Public Health Service, Rat-borne Disease Prevention and Control, page 270:
text: The supplement was in the form of a sachet containing a chocolate flavored ready to mix drink and each subject was provided a hand shaker for mixing the drink.
ref: 2008, Loren Ward, Whey Protein, →ISBN, page 47:
text: I can then take what I need out of my mobile cooker and put the amounts into my hand shaker and add some ice cubes and then shake my hand shaker very well.
ref: 2013, Juliana Baldec, Juicer Recipes Fruit & Vegetable Juicer & Smoothie Blender Recipes, →ISBN:
glosses: A shaker that is operated by hand.
hand shakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand shaker
phen-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pheno-.
catfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The nice thing about a white computer is that it shows, by the dark catfur left on top, that your cats cared enough to spend some time there when the machine was not in use.
ref: 1987, Peter B. Broida, A Guide to Merit Systems Protection Board Law & Practice, 1979-1987:
text: What if a late winter storm hit and I needed my catfur earmuffs?
ref: 2006, Geronimo Stilton, Wedding Crasher, →ISBN, page 8:
text: "Wait," she said, "that cushion has catfur on it. It's not clean."
ref: 2008, Jane Bennett, Porcupine: Short Stories, →ISBN, page 66:
text: A consignment of catfur mittens had been lost in transit to the colony on Tejat III.
ref: 2011, E.C. Tubb, Stellar Assignment, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of cat fur.
cat fur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catfur
form: cat-fur
Senses: examples: text: Cat fur isn't what causes allergies, so finding a cat with little or no fur won't help much.
ref: 2006, Marty Becker, D.V.M., Marty Becker, Gina Spadafori, Why Do Cats Always Land on Their Feet?:, →ISBN:
text: Which was past the bathroom, over rugs and fish bones and cat fur, to the last room on the left.
ref: 2012, Matt Haig, To Be A Cat, →ISBN, page 225:
text: Maybe it was because a breeze had picked up, blowing Dulcie's hair into her face as she listened to his excuses and ruffling against her skin like cat fur brushing by.
ref: 2012, Clea Simon, Grey Expectations, →ISBN:
glosses: Fur from a cat.
cat-fur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It should be able to make out the many thousands of cat-fur bugs which live in such heaps.
ref: 1992, Phee Line, Kate Taylor, How to train your cat, →ISBN, page 55:
text: They spat and clawed and fought until they dimmed away and finally disappeared in a flying fog of cat-fur.
ref: 1994, Mark Twain, Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches, →ISBN:
text: The statue sitting on the throne wore the Warlock's cat-fur coat, but it also showed Guismond as a warrior King.
ref: 2013, Cornelia Funke, Fearless, →ISBN:
text: Lyra could see nothing: her face was buried in Pantalaimon's cat-fur.
ref: 2015, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, →ISBN:
text: Dafydd rides alongside, smothered in his travelling cloak with a baggy cat-fur hat on his head.
ref: 2015, Toby Clements, Winter Pilgrims, →ISBN, page 329:
glosses: Alternative form of cat fur.
blister fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blister flies
Senses: glosses: The blister beetle, or Spanish fly.
blister flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blister fly
gawk-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: left-handed
hyperphasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: excessive speech
detrench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detrenches
form: detrenching
form: detrenched
form: detrenched
Etymology: From Middle English.
Senses: examples: text: That I as well may furnish good mens needs / With bleſſings, as detrench th'abuſed ſtore / Of thankles caytiffes; crowne true vertues deeds / With honour, and on vice my vengeance poure.
ref: 1653, William Basse, “Urania, the Woman in the Moone: In Four Cantoes, or Quarters”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Pastorals and Other Workes of William Basse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], published 1870, →OCLC, canto 1 (New Moone), stanza 12, page 81:
text: But these proceeding against him did not give plenary satisfaction to all, most cryed aloud for a Reformation in the Hierarchy it self, many would detrench from them their secular power, and votes in Parliament, name some were male-content unlesse the hole order were eradicated; and this was now vehemently pressed by the City Petition, now under consideration of the Committee: a mighty debate there was about this time in the House of Commons upon this Subject, and no arguments omitted which might officiate to either end; among the rest Espiscopacy had not a faster friend, nor the City Petition a stouter Antagonist, then the Lird Digby, who spake for the one and against the other no man to better purpose, and summarily thus.
ref: 1655, Edward Dod, Henry Seile, The Reign of King Charles:
text: In which instant he beheld sidelong how the cruel murtherer smote with his spear that delicate lady, and detrenched and cut the two master-veins of her neck, so as she fell dying in her blood.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 362, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cut off or slice; to sever.
examples: text: They found themselves caught up in a mesh of arguments about entrenching, re-entrenching and detrenching, with all the relevant permutations and combinations.
ref: 1955, The Forum, page 2:
text: Worthwhile amendments to some detrenched clauses affecting the Judiciary in the Republican Constitution are being studied carefully, and Bills will be laid before Parliament during the current session.
ref: 1980, Sierra Leone:
text: How do interests coalesce, how do they achieve or fail to achieve entrenchment, how are they detrenched when their day is done?
ref: 1985, The Journal of Developing Areas, volume 20, page 106:
glosses: To render something that was entrenched less thoroughly established.
detrench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detrenches
form: detrenching
form: detrenched
form: detrenched
Etymology: From de- + trench.
Senses: examples: text: In some cases these cables still become damaged and this results in lengths of cable having to be detrenched.
ref: 1979, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Electronics Division, International Conference on Submarine Telecommunications Systems:
text: Ultimately, the system would have the capability to carry out the complete intervention process, from detrenching a pipeline to final inspection and corrosion protection.
ref: 1994, Oceanic Engineering Society, Oceans '94: Oceans Engineering for Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Preservation, →ISBN:
text: If a buried cable is damaged it will be necessary to detrench it before repair can be undertaken.
ref: 2015, Jose Chesnoy, Undersea Fiber Communication Systems, →ISBN, page 642:
glosses: To dig out and remove from a trench.
examples: text: Verey lights, no longer needed by the detrenched army, soared with them, descending in wavy pools of radiance.
ref: 1936, Henry Williamson, The Flax of Dream: A Novel in Four Books, page 748:
text: There was particularly heavy fighting in the Smolensk direction, where our units detrenched the enemy from their positions with a succession of counterattacks.
ref: 1942, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, page 69:
text: keep the defense on the move and force them to detrench, defending stack at a time, to ensure a quick success for the TOP-UP infantry attack.
ref: 2004, Computer Gaming World - Volumes 138-143:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To force (an army) out of trenches, or to be so forced out.
detrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detrench
detrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detrench
detrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detrench
roboticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roboticize
roboticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roboticizes
form: roboticizing
form: roboticized
form: roboticized
form: roboticise
Etymology: From robotic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to convert into a robotic alternative
Derived terms: roboticization
roboticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roboticize
roboticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roboticize
MADs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MAD
nanobrewery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobreweries
Etymology: From nano- + brewery.
Senses: glosses: A very small brewery, smaller than a microbrewery and often run by only one person.
nanobreweries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanobrewery