cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lamblia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamblias
Etymology: From New Latin, Lambl + -ia, named after Austrian physician Vilém Dušan Lambl (1824–1895).
Senses: glosses: Giardia lamblia, an intestinal parasite that causes giardiasis.
laparatomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of laparotomy.
Derived terms: relaparotomy
leucomalacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leukomalacia.
leukomalacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukomalacias
Etymology: From leuko- + malacia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Softening of the white matter of the brain.
leucopheresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucophereses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: leukapheresis
macroalbuminuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + albuminuria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A greater than normal amount of albumin excreted in the urine
Derived terms: macroalbuminuric
Related terms: albuminuria
microalbuminuria
macrocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macrocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to macrocytes.
Derived terms: nonmacrocytic
maxilloorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Etymology: From maxillo- + orbital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the jaw and the orbits of the eyes
megatrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatrials
Etymology: From mega- + trial.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A very large trial (of a pharmaceutical etc), sometimes made up of several normal trials.
examples: text: The convictions that resulted from the Hells Angels megatrials in 2004 have shown just how valuable this legislation is.
ref: 2009, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, numbers 43-53, page 2682:
glosses: A major or large-scale legal trial.
mendelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mendelian.
metaregression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaregressions
form: meta-regression
Etymology: From meta- + regression.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A form of subgroup analysis that is used to investigate heterogeneity across multiple trials
methamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meth- + -amine.
Senses: glosses: Hexamine.
Derived terms: trometamol
tromethamine
methasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methasones
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of closely-related corticosteroids used as an anti-inflammatory
Synonyms: metasone
Hypernyms: corticoid
corticosteroid
hormone
steroid
Derived terms: betamethasone
β-methasone
dexamethasone
paramethasone
meticillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛt.ɪˈsɪl.ɪn/
rhymes: -ɪlɪn
Forms: form: methicillin
form: methycillin
Etymology: From methy(l) + -cillin (“6-aminopenicillanic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A semisynthetic form of penicillin C₁₇H₂₀N₂O₆S used especially in the form of its sodium salt against staphylococci which produce penicillinase.
microdata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + data.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, labor groups are more likely to win elections for union representation in small workplaces. In a study released this week by the Century Foundation, we analyzed microdata on every union election in the country from April 2007 to December 2018, more than 22,000 in total.
ref: 2019 February 9, Mark Zuckerman, “Unions Need to Think Small to Get Big”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 19 Oct 2022:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Data stored in a microformat.
examples: text: Unlike microformats, microdata uses its own attributes and doesn't risk colliding with style sheet rules […]
ref: 2013, Matthew MacDonald, HTML5: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: A WHATWG standard for embedding metadata in HTML documents; data encoded in such a way.
missocialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mis-socialisation
Etymology: From mis- + socialisation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Inadequate or disadvantageous socialisation; especially of a child
molgramostim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular immunostimulator
multimethod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-method
Etymology: From multi- + method.
Senses: glosses: Employing multiple methods.
multimethod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimethods
form: multi-method
Etymology: From multi- + method.
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A method that uses multiple dispatch, allowing various implementations to be called depending on the types of the arguments.
multisource
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-source
form: multisourced
Etymology: From multi- + source.
Senses: glosses: Employing multiple sources
myeloneuropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪələʊnjʊˌɹɒpəθi/
Forms: form: myeloneuropathies
Etymology: From myelo- + neuropathy.
Senses: examples: text: Diagnosis […] Myeloneuropathy, chronic, traumatic, probably due to injury of L-4, clinically complete motor wise below L-3 and sensory wise below L-3.
ref: 1966, Bulletin of Prosthetics Research, Washington, D.C.: Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration, →OCLC, page 157:
text: A myeloneuropathy is caused by inactivation of vitamin B₁₂ by nitrous oxide. Patients with borderline vitamin B₁₂ deficiency who undergo anesthesia using nitrous oxide can also have a myeloneuropathy develop but more often megaloblastic anemia develops, whereas the chronic exposure of recreational users is more likely to cause myeloneuropathy without anemia.
ref: 2003, Friedrich von Rosen with John C. M. Brust, “Acute Intoxications”, in Thomas Brandt, Louis R. Caplan, Johannes Dichgans, H. Christoph Diener, Christopher Kennard, editors, Neurological Disorders: Course and Treatment, 2nd edition, Amsterdam: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 802:
text: Copper deficiency has been associated with a clinical syndrome, myeloneuropathy. Radiographic changes resembling B₁₂ deficiency in the cervical spinal cord have been described. We present a case of copper deficiency myeloneuropathy, with cervical MR imaging findings resembling B₁₂ deficiency, which partially reversed following copper supplementation.
ref: 2006 November, B. P. Goodman with B. W. Chong, A. C. Patel, G. P. Fletcher, and B. E. Smith, “Copper Deficiency Myeloneuropathy Resembling B₁₂ Deficiency: Partial Resolution of MR Imaging Findings with Copper Supplementation”, in American Journal of Neuroradiology, volume 27, abstract, page 2112:
text: The term tropical myeloneuropathies refers to several syndromes encountered in equatorial countries around the world. The syndromes are manifestations of lesions in the spinal cord and peripheral nerves, separately or together. These disorders have been long-standing public health problems. Some have been traced to specific causes, including infection with HTLV-I, or the chronic ingestion of cassava beans or lathyrogenic agents. Other exogenous toxins may play a role. In the past and perhaps still today, similar syndromes have been ascribed to nutritional deprivation.
ref: 2010, Lewis P. Rowland with Paul H. Gordon, “Hereditary and Acquired Spastic Paraplegia”, in Lewis P. Rowland, Timothy A. Pedley, editors, Merritt's Neurology, 12th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 382:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A disease with the features of myelopathy (spinal cord disease) and neuropathy (peripheral nerve disease), which is sometimes caused by a deficiency of copper or vitamin B₁₂.
myometrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + metrial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the myometrium
Derived terms: intramyometrial
myometrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪəʊˈmiːtɹiəm/
Forms: form: myometria
Etymology: From myo- + Late Latin metrium (“womb”), from Ancient Greek μήτριον (mḗtrion, “of a mother”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus.
Abkhasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abkhazia: a geographic region and de-facto independent but largely unrecognized country in the Caucasus on the border of Europe and Asia; considered part of Georgia's territory by the vast majority of the international community
boat lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat lifts
form: boatlift
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another, while keeping them afloat.
boat lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boat lift
barge poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barge pole
flash lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaʃ lɒk/
Forms: form: flash locks
Senses: qualifier: waterways
glosses: A simple single-gate lock on a river or canal.
Hypernyms: lock
flash locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaʃ lɒks/
homophone: lox
Senses: glosses: plural of flash lock
contemporality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹælɪtɪ/
Forms: form: contemporalities
Etymology: contemporal + -ity or con- + temporality
Senses: examples: text: They exist and are contemporaneous. Contemporality does not mean, however, that they occupy the same geo-physical moment of time on the globe.
ref: 1964: Iqbal Academy (Lahore, Pakistan), Iqbal review, volume 5, page 78
text: When accepted, it was interpreted not as causation but as contemporality. But contemporality of events is equivalent to companionship: two events which occur in the same time period without influencing or controlling one another can metaphorically be called temporal companions. In cases in which contemporality was difficult to imagine, the informants rejected the combination.
ref: 1988, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, editor, Topics in cognitive linguistics, J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 583, →ISBN:
glosses: The quality of being contemporary; contemporaneousness.
Bouvier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bouviers
Etymology: (surname): From French Bouvier.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bouvier des Flandres (“type of dog”).
synonyms: word: bouvier des Flandres
extra: type of dog
Bouvier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bouviers
Etymology: (surname): From French Bouvier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, equivalent to English Coward or Cowherd.
Coordinate terms: word: Coward
word: Cowherd
word: Vachon
contemporalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] rather than attempt to juggle contemporalities, the reader is offered the following bare-bones sketch of Island history for the purpose of general background.
ref: 1967, David Silverman, Pitcairn Island, page 77 (World Pub. Co.)
text: We know by now that there can never be a ‘timely ghost’, and that if we are to investigate the cultural forms and meanings of the contemporary, then we must watch for the moments in which contemporalities intersect and diverge, in which one time transects another.
ref: 1999, Roger Luckhurst, Peter Marks, Literature and the Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present, Longman, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:
text: I think that the kinds of contemporalities that we are dealing with at present are not going to depend on notions of mediation, because notions of mediation essentially try to regulate certain kinds of flows and to reorganize them.
Arbitrage is the handling of the contemporalities, that’s all it is.
ref: 2000, Ian Cook (editor), Simon Naylor (editor), et alii, Cultural Turns / Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography, page 22 (Prentice Hall; →ISBN, 9780582368873)
text: Hyperion jokingly switches between primitive tribes, medieval monks and Knights Templar, the cyberpunk near future and far-flung interstellar travel. The core mystery of the book, the Time Tombs of Hyperion, have their own temporality, moving backwards through time, transecting the pilgrims’ present. But even amidst this chaos of contemporalities, Simmons also uses these conventions to restate the uneven development of late twentieth-century Earth.
ref: 2005, Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction, Polity, →ISBN, page 226, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of contemporality
Venetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɛtɪk/
Etymology: From Latin veneticus, from Venetia (“land of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto”) + -icus (“-ic: forming adjectives”), from Venetī + -ia, of uncertain origin. Equivalent to Veneti + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to the Veneti, an ancient people of northeastern Italy.
glosses: Of or related to the Veneti, an ancient people of northern Brittany.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or related to Venetic, the language of the Adriatic Veneti.
glosses: Of or related to the Veneto, the mainland opposite Venice.
Synonyms: sense: ancient peoples or Veneto
word: Venetian
Venetic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɛtɪk/
Etymology: From Latin veneticus, from Venetia (“land of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto”) + -icus (“-ic: forming adjectives”), from Venetī + -ia, of uncertain origin. Equivalent to Veneti + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An extinct Indo-European language once spoken by the Veneti people who lived between the Po River delta in northeastern Italy and the southern Alps in Slovenia in antiquity.
Related terms: word: Venetian
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/xve
word: xve
heterogene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […]our catholicity must be ordered and rational, not heterogene and miscellaneous.
ref: 1926 January, T. S. Eliot, “The Idea of a Literary Review”, in The Criterion, volume 4, Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., page 4:
glosses: heterogenous
urban blight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urban blights
Senses: examples: text: Walking around SoHo's glamorous bistros and boutiques it is difficult to imagine that a few decades ago the area was urban blight that the city wanted to knock down and build a freeway through.
ref: 2006 August 20, Paul Harris, “Invasion of high-fliers ends Bowery's low life”, in The Observer:
text: Even then, Baltimore had a reputation for intractable urban blight, but I cherished the city for its unexpected gems, […]
ref: 2009 November 24, Simon Dumenco, “Oriole Kooky”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: Urban decay consisting of the deterioration of part of a town or city due to ageing, neglect, and lack of financial support for maintenance.
Related terms: urban planning
urban renewal
urban studies
gentrification
urban blights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urban blight
vibrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibrances
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vibrancy.
synonyms: word: vibrancy
2ry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 2ry
form: most 2ry
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of secondary.
reconversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconversions
Etymology: From re- + conversion. See also convert.
Senses: hypernyms: conversion
;
reversion
;
change
coordinate_terms: conversion
deconversion
glosses: The action of converting something again.
glosses: The action or renovating or converting a property.
reconversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconversion
Asur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small Austroasiatic ethnic group living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Asur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Asuri (“the language of these people”).
synonyms: word: Asuri
extra: the language of these people
blesbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blesbucks
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans blesbok.
Senses: glosses: A type of damalisk (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi), an African antelope closely related to the hartebeest.
Synonyms: sense: antelope
word: Damaliscus dorcas phillipsi
blesbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blesbuck
yurtas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yurta
palilalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpælɪˈleɪliə/
rhymes: -eɪliə
Forms: form: palilalias
Etymology: From pali- + -lalia.
Senses: topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A complex tic comprising the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words, which may sound like stuttering.
Related terms: echolalia
palilalias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palilalia
myoclonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmaɪoʊˈkloʊnəs/
/maɪˈɒklənəs/
Forms: form: myocloni
form: myoclonuses
Etymology: From myo- + clonus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or group of muscles.
Hyponyms: hiccup
hypnic jerk
Derived terms: myoclonal
myoclonia
myoclonic
paramyoclonus
photomyoclonus
stress test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stress tests
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A test of cardiac function after a standardized amount of exertion.
glosses: Any test of function in response to stress.
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A test of an organization's ability to meet its financial obligations in adverse financial circumstances.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A DDoS
stress tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stress test
bzzt
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: bzzzt
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The buzzer on Matthew's desk rang violently at this point, bzzt-bzzt...
ref: 1921, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook:
text: You sing him a new song, bzzt — a connection is made. You tickle his toes, bzzt — there goes another.
ref: 2000, Linda P Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn, Baby minds: brain-building games your baby will love:
text: Pressing an imaginary button, Crichton said, "Bzzt! Wrong answer."
ref: 2001, Keith R A DeCandido, Rockne S O'Bannon, Farscape: House of Cards:
glosses: The sound of a game show buzzer or of electricity. Often used as a reaction to a wrong answer.
bzzzt
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: The sound of the arrows was bzzzt, bzzzt, like the buzzing of flies. I know of no more maddening noise than the singing of arrows past the ear.
ref: 2002, Mika Waltari, Naomi Walford, The Egyptian:
text: So every time he walked near the defendant, he hummed out a soft little bzzzt, like the sound of an electric charge going through wires.
ref: 2005, James W McElhaney, McElhaney's trial notebook:
text: With a sinking heart, she reached over to the bedside table to check the time — ten am! How could that be? She'd set the alarm for seven! Bzzzt. Bzzzt.
ref: 2006, Robyn Goss, And So Say All of Us:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bzzt.
dominolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dominolike
form: most dominolike
Etymology: From domino + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Any failure in the cableway system would have a dominolike effect on the entire project, upsetting the pouring timetable, snarling rail traffic […]
ref: 1990, Joseph E Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure:
text: He also feared that Vietnam's fall would lead to dominolike communist successes in Southeast Asia.
ref: 1991, Eric Foner, John Arthur Garraty, The Reader's companion to American history:
text: This same event was repeated in a dominolike sequence as motorists on both sides of the road hastened to undo their automatic reaction […]
ref: 2008, Sandi Ault, Wild Indigo:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a domino (game piece), especially in having the propensity to tumble in a chain reaction.
drypoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drypoint
heartstopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartstopping
form: most heartstopping
form: heart-stopping
Etymology: From heart + stopping.
Senses: glosses: Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
Synonyms: breathtaking
Derived terms: heartstoppingly
heart-stopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart-stopping
form: most heart-stopping
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heartstopping.
Derived terms: heart-stoppingly
heart-stoppingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heart-stoppingly
form: most heart-stoppingly
Etymology: From heart-stopping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a heart-stopping way.
heartstoppingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heartstoppingly
form: most heartstoppingly
Etymology: From heartstopping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a heartstopping way.
gut-wrenchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gut-wrenchingly
form: most gut-wrenchingly
Etymology: From gut-wrenching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gut-wrenching way.
gutwrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gutwrenching
form: most gutwrenching
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
antidesertification
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + desertification.
Senses: examples: text: At the conference, Gregoire de Kalbermatten, deputy secretary general of the antidesertification group at the United Nations, said, “We need to learn from the resilience of Israel in developing dry lands.”
ref: 2007 January 2, Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise”, in New York Times:
qualifier: environmental science
glosses: Serving to counter desertification.
sleeplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sleeplike
form: most sleeplike
Etymology: From sleep + -like.
Senses: examples: text: One well-known and well-studied sleeplike state is called nyctinasty, or night movement.
ref: 2007 January 2, C. Claiborne Ray, “Sleeping Vines”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sleep.
supership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superships
Etymology: From super- + ship.
Senses: examples: text: The slump in American shipping is especially surprising when you consider that it was American entrepreneurs who, in the mid-20th century, revolutionized oceanic transport by creating both the standard-size steel shipping container and the supership capable of transporting 50 times as much cargo as a World War II-era merchant ship could.
ref: 2007 January 2, John Curtis Perry, Scott Borgerson, Rockford Weitz, “The Deep Blue Highway”, in New York Times:
glosses: An especially large ship.
superships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supership
aligot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æ.li.ɡoʊ/
/ɑ.li.ɡoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French aligot.
Senses: examples: text: Now, Marie de Livinhac, a company in the Auvergne region, is making a dehydrated aligot mix that requires only crème fraîche, water and five minutes’ time.
ref: 2007 January 3, Florence Fabricant, “From Banker to Baker in TriBeCa”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dish traditionally made in the south of Auvergne from melted Tomme cheese blended into mashed potatoes, often with garlic.
waterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterable
form: most waterable
Etymology: From water + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be watered; fit to be watered
crackback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackbacks
Etymology: From crack + back.
Senses: examples: text: Mike Pereira, the league’s director of officiating, said Wade did not commit an illegal crackback block because he was blocking upfield and not back toward the ball.
ref: 2007 January 3, The Associated Press, “Saban Needs More Time to Mull Alabama Offer”, in New York Times:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A block in which the blocker, positioned wide, blocks back towards where the ball was snapped.
cabergoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + ergoline.
Senses: examples: text: The drugs are pergolide, sold as Permax, and cabergoline, sold as Dostinex.
ref: 2007 January 4, Denise Grady, “Studies Find Harm in 2 Parkinson’s Drugs”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A potent dopamine receptor agonist, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Hypernyms: ergoline
lysergamide
hyperprolactinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperprolactinemias
form: hyperprolactinaemia
Senses: examples: text: Dostinex is used for Parkinson’s in other countries but is approved in this country only for a hormonal disorder, hyperprolactinemia.
ref: 2007 January 4, Denise Grady, “Studies Find Harm in 2 Parkinson’s Drugs”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of having abnormally high levels of prolactin in the blood.
hyperprolactinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperprolactinaemias
Etymology: From hyper- + prolactin + -aemia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyperprolactinemia.
haylift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haylifts
Etymology: From hay + lift, influenced by airlift.
Senses: examples: text: Colorado also began a haylift in hopes of saving thousands of cattle immobilized by drifts as high as 10 feet.
ref: 2007 January 3, The Associated Press, “Copters Drop Food for People and Cattle Trapped by Snow”, in New York Times:
glosses: An airlift in which hay is dropped for stranded cattle.
haylifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haylift
sarbacane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarbacanes
form: sarbacand
Etymology: From French sarbacane.
Senses: glosses: A blowgun.
lechy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lechy
form: most lechy
Etymology: From lech + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The brilliantly senile Arthur, along with Doug’s lechy, creepy friend Spence (the pro stand-up Patton Oswalt), present a fair challenge to his frankness and naïveté.
ref: 2007 January 3, Virginia Heffernan, “Hey! Never Underestimate the Average Joe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a lech; lecherous, tawdrily lustful.
pergolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.ɡəl.ʌɪd/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.ɡəˌlaɪd/
Etymology: From p(ropyl) + -erg- (“ergot alkaloid derivative”) + -golide (“ergoline derivative”).
Senses: examples: text: The drugs are pergolide, sold as Permax, and cabergoline, sold as Dostinex.
ref: 2007 January 4, Denise Grady, “Studies Find Harm in 2 Parkinson’s Drugs”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An ergot derivative which is a dopamine agonist used chiefly in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Hypernyms: ergoline
megachain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megachains
Etymology: From mega- + chain.
Senses: examples: text: Independent bookstores, of course, have been under siege for nearly two decades by the megachains and the Web retailers, and have been steadily dropping away, one by one.
ref: 2007 January 3, Julie Bosman, “A Princeton Maverick Succumbs to a Cultural Shift”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large and successful chain (group of stores or businesses).
Hypernyms: chain
megachains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megachain
horseplays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of horseplay
horseplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of horseplay
horseplayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of horseplay
nonvote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonvotes
Etymology: From non- + vote.
Senses: examples: text: Lloyd Carr, the Michigan coach, called Tressel’s nonvote “real slick.”
ref: 2007 January 3, Jeré Longman, “The Two Sides of Jim Tressel”, in New York Times:
glosses: A deliberate act of not voting; an abstention.
nonvotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonvote
bangda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bangdas
Senses: examples: text: Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.
ref: 2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fish of the species Rastrelliger kanagurta.
Synonyms: Indian mackerel
slobbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slobbily
form: most slobbily
Etymology: From slobby + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a slobby way.
especialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From especial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being especial.
Synonyms: specialness
shopaholism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shopaholic, by analogy with alcoholism, from alcohol.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, she’s trim, organized and snippy, with the makeup, the Manhattan job and the shopaholism, but she’s also the one in the couple who can’t really grow up because she lives with her dad.
ref: 2007 January 3, Virginia Heffernan, “Hey! Never Underestimate the Average Joe”, in New York Times:
glosses: An addiction to shopping; the condition of a shopaholic.
hardstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hard + style.
Senses: examples: text: hi jack. you just missed the best hardcore/gabba party: "thunderdome - a decade", here in amsterdam. 2 huge rooms filled with 15.000 people (the party had sold out weeks in advance), one room for oldstyle (92-97), one for the newer hardcore/hardstyle (97-02).
ref: 2002, mik, “gabber/terror/hardcore”, in uk.music.rave (Usenet):
text: Boiler Room hosted hard dance specials with young crews from across Europe, while American EDM’s absorption of Dutch hardstyle – a fusion of techno and hardcore – has reached truly terrifying levels through the likes of Guatemalan DJ Carnage.
ref: 2020 January 10, Joe Muggs, “Gift of the gabber: the return of dance music’s gloriously tasteless subgenre”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of electronic dance music that combines elements of trance, techno, and hardcore, with origins in the Netherlands and Belgium.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In contrast to sports style, a specifically intensive workout exercise, such as a swing squat.
unhistoried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhistoried
form: most unhistoried
Etymology: From un- + historied.
Senses: glosses: Not historied; lacking history.
Synonyms: historyless
unstoried
unstoried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstoried
form: most unstoried
Etymology: From un- + storied.
Senses: glosses: Not storied; lacking history.
Synonyms: historyless
unhistoried
anthropometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropometry
anthropometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthropometry + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to anthropometry.
Derived terms: anthropometrically
anthropometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anthropometrical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, anthropometry.
safe harbors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safe harbor
headquartering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of headquarter
aphilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + philosophical.
Senses: glosses: Not philosophical; without philosophy.
bartop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bartops
Etymology: From bar + top.
Senses: examples: text: And as effortlessly as a drunken gunslinger sweeps a bartop full of shot glasses onto the saloon floor, the wind upended all the potted plants on the porch.
ref: 2007 January 4, Michelle Slatalla, “Accessorizing at the Buena Vista Scrabble Club”, in New York Times:
glosses: The top surface of a bar (counter for serving drinks).
bartops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bartop
directnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directness
indirectnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indirectness
bowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowing
citizenries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citizenry
clattery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clattery
form: most clattery
Etymology: From clatter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There was a small piano in this room, a clattery, wheezy, asthmatic thing, certainly the very worst miscarriage in the way of a piano that the world has seen.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 32, in A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 341:
text: She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans.
ref: 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 1, Chapter 19, pp. 157-158:
text: All his words were poor clattery English like a stutterrer at the front of the class.
ref: 1982, Don DeLillo, chapter 14, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 337:
text: The truck’s clattery, loose-valved idle.
ref: 2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 6, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 99:
glosses: Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.
citizenships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citizenship
passportless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From passport + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Passportless travel is almost impossible in most parts of the world.
text: They were "persons without identity," and "passportless wanderers."
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: Without a passport.
Derived terms: passportlessness
clutterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clutter + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without clutter.
Synonyms: clear
clutter-free
tidy
uncluttered
Derived terms: clutterlessness
home taught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of home teach
fusser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fussers
Etymology: From fuss + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who fusses; a fussy person.
Synonyms: pedant
fussers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fusser
hyperprolactinaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperprolactinaemia
hyperprolactinemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperprolactinemia
home teaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of home teach
fussinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fussiness
unfussiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfussy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unfussy; lack of fussiness.
life-style
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life-styles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lifestyle.
levodopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌliː.və(ʊ)ˈdəʊ.pə/
ipa: /ˌlɛv.əˈdoʊ.pə/
Forms: form: levodopamine
Etymology: From levo- + dopa.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ʟ-dopa.
Derived terms: etilevodopa
Related terms: dextrodopa
liegeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːd͡ʒmən/
Forms: form: liegemen
Etymology: From Middle English lege man; equivalent to liege + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Three belied you, three betrayed you! One you betrayed was three times true! Lord Voryn Dagoth, Dagoth Ur, steadfast liegeman, faithful friend, bids you come and climb Red Mountain!
ref: 2002 May 1, Bethesda Softworks, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, →OCLC, Microsoft Windows, scene: Ashlander Informant:
glosses: A male vassal (subject of a sovereign or lord).
liegemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liegeman
liegewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liegewomen
Etymology: From liege + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female liege (subject of a sovereign or lord).
liegewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liegewoman
lonicera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loniceras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Just as important, the things I had never gotten around to doing — cleaning up the brush pile, pruning the overgrown forsythia, pulling the wild grape out of the Gold Flame lonicera — were enhancing that habitat.
ref: 2007 January 4, Anne Raver, “A Crop of Azure, Scarlet and Gold”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
Related terms: lonicerin
loniceras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lonicera
nonrefugee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrefugees
Etymology: From non- + refugee.
Senses: examples: text: But Mr. Mutua denied news reports and accusations from United Nations officials that Kenyan border guards had deported 600 Somalis seeking asylum, saying that the closing applied only to cross-border trade and nonrefugee traffic, to prevent the Islamists from slipping into the country.
ref: 2007 January 4, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Kenya Closes Border but Denies Turning Back Refugees”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who is not a refugee.
nonrefugees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrefugee
pomposities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomposity
semiprivacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + privacy.
Senses: examples: text: A large central glass staircase is edged with mirrored circles; an open dressing room offers semiprivacy for the serious fetishists — sorry, I mean fashionistas.
ref: 2007 January 4, Alex Kuczynski, “A Store to Make Your Feet Say Olé”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partial privacy.
slowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsloʊɪʃ/
Forms: form: more slowish
form: most slowish
Etymology: From slow + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Better yet, a new disk icon appears on your PC (labeled X), that represents your files on the Web. You can open and use its contents as though it’s an ordinary, if slowish, hard drive.
ref: 2007 January 4, David Pogue, “Fewer Excuses for Not Doing a PC Backup”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat slow.
vacuities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuity
glosses: plural of vacuitie
antistatus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + status.
Senses: examples: text: These people who affect the antistatus symbols, the fetishes of the studied unkempt look and the torn jeans...
ref: 1970, Adolph Baker, Modern physics and antiphysics:
text: His own fiscal conservatism, he says, is evident in the antistatus cars in the driveway.
ref: 2007 January 5, Robin Finn, “A Downstate Deal Maker as Driven as His Boss”, in New York Times:
glosses: Against status (position or standing).
befurred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English befurred, equivalent to befur + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Others who cross the gender gap include Robert Mapplethorpe, dressed as a cool, befurred floozie in “Self-Portrait” (1980); and Lyle Ashton Harris, who in “Billie #21” (2002) sees himself as his idol Billie Holiday with fur wrap and pearl necklace, mouth wide open in mid-song.
ref: 2007 January 5, Grace Glueck, “Self-Portraits That Obscure the Self”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing fur.
befurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English befurred, equivalent to befur + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befur
denigrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denigration
femalehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From female + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Gender inequality was a serious matter for the feminist performer Hannah Wilke (1940-1993), who in a photograph of her face from her “S.O.S. Scarification Object Series” (1974) sardonically calls attention to her femalehood by wearing her hair in curlers and plastering her face with small, vulva-shaped patches of chewing gum.
ref: 2007 January 5, Grace Glueck, “Self-Portraits That Obscure the Self”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or period of being female.
Synonyms: femaleness
girlhood
womanhood
képi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: képis
Senses: examples: text: My craning round long enough only to see that the unknown wore képis, brought another volley, harmless, but that it made my unruly made my unruly mount so fidgety that the saddle twisted round, and I came to the ground.
ref: 1872, J[ames] L[umsden] Seton, Notes on the Operations of the North German Troops in Lorraine and Picardy; Taken While Accompanying Principally the 40th, or Hohenzollern Fusilier Regiment, London: W. Mitchell and Co., […], page 218:
text: Both companies were provided with helmets instead of the second company wearing képis as is usually the case.
ref: 1886 April, The Carthusian, volume IV, number 123, page 173, column 2:
text: Madame here says we might get our heads cracked if we wore képis. They’re not the fashion here.
ref: 1903, John Oxenham, Flowers of the Dust, page 331:
text: The second, at which all the men at the execution are soldiers, wearing képis, has been cut in pieces, nearly all of which have been collected and put together.
ref: 1910, Théodore Duret, translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch, Manet and the French Impressionists, page 225:
text: I guessed him Northern from his képi, but this was not conclusive, for many Southron regiments wore képis also.
ref: 1955, Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee, William Heinemann Ltd, page 181:
text: In Memphis he supposed there’d be more blacks, and here the cops wore képis so you were in France, but in the long run it was all McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and the smell would be just the same.
ref: 1975, Nicolas Freeling, What are the Bugles Blowing For?, Heinemann, →ISBN, page 6:
text: They wore képis, the flat, round-topped, stiff-brimmed hat of the French soldier.
ref: 1981, Peter Abrahams, The Fury of Rachel Monette, London: Frederick Muller Limited, →ISBN, page 305:
text: The soldiers wore képis with bright gold braid; their uniforms were blue.
ref: 1994, Hubert C. Johnson, Breakthrough!: Tactics, Technology, and the Search for Victory on the Western Front in World War I, Presidio, →ISBN, page 41:
text: It has a distinctly French air. Policemen, for example wear képis.
ref: 1996, Caribbean (Frommer’s), →ISBN, page 480:
text: They wore képis with long couvre-nuque sun-curtains, abandoned by Legion infantry since the First World War; […]
ref: 2010, Martin Windrow, Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France’s Colonial Conquests 1870–1935, Orion Books, →ISBN:
text: Through the windows passengers glimpsed the blue uniforms of French gendarmes, policemen wearing képis at a rakish angle, even a squad of soldiers in khaki on their way to relieve their comrades.
ref: 2014, Michel Déon, translated by Julian Evans, The Foundling’s War, Gallic Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kepi.
winier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of winy: more winy
winiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of winy: most winy
whinily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whinily
form: most whinily
Etymology: From whiny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a whiny way.
whininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whiny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being whiny.
shieldlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shieldlike
form: most shieldlike
Etymology: From shield + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In some works the motif is doubled and angled, decreasing the shieldlike frontality and opening up new optical and spatial possibilities. 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212) 570-3676, whitney.org; closes on Sunday.
ref: 2007 January 5, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shield.
Hyponyms: peltate
reliclike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reliclike
form: most reliclike
Etymology: From relic + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It is a staggering work, leathery and reliclike, with most of Pop Art embedded in its fragile surfaces.
ref: 2007 January 5, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a relic.
spillproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spillproof
form: most spillproof
Etymology: From spill + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: The New Amsterdam, home to “Mary Poppins,” serves all drinks — even Champagne — in spillproof keepsake plastic cups that muffle the sound of clinking ice, Some Nederlander theaters have begun using similar items, though at these you have to pay for the privilege of taking beverages back to your seat.
ref: 2007 January 5, Cara Joy David, “Noises Off: Playgoers Sip, Munch and Crunch”, in New York Times:
synonyms: nonspill
nonspilling
glosses: Resistant to being spilled.
subtrend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtrends
Etymology: From sub- + trend.
Senses: examples: text: This year, there is a small but substantial subtrend. Instead of urging senior executives to take on lofty objectives -- like devising new strategies or creating a new corporate culture -- these books tell managers to concentrate on smaller or more specific tasks.
ref: 2005 June 11, Paul B. Brown, “Sweating the Details of Management”, in The New York Times:
text: Related subtrends such as balletcore, Barbiecore and regency-core have drawn criticism for hypersexualising innocence and encouraging women to dress for the male gaze.
ref: 2024 March 21, Emma Russell, “Fit to be tied: why are bows absolutely everywhere in 2024?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A trend that is part of a larger trend.
subtrends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtrend