cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shit or get off the can
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shit or get off the pot.
Cartesian natural transformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartesian natural transformations
Etymology: So called because its naturality squares are Cartesian squares.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A natural transformation whose naturality squares are pullbacks.
Synonyms: equifibered natural transformation
Jerries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jerry
Jerries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jerry
twist morphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twist morphisms
Etymology: See braid theory.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An isomorphism between a pair of products which have the same components but in swapped order, which isomorphism commutes with the two associated product diagrams.
wikipedia: braid theory
Cousin John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuz john
form: cuzjohn
form: Cuz-John
Etymology: From John (“outhouse; lavatory; chamber pot; toilet”). Possibly derived from a "euphemistic phrase of excuse" (e.g., "visiting my cousin John" or "going to cousin John's house"), similar to modern use of "powdering one's nose", but this is unattested.
Senses: examples: text: 20. No freshman shall mingo against the College wall or go into the fellows' cuzjohn.
ref: 1735, Richard Waldron, "A Freshman Guide", in 1953, William Bentinck-Smith, The Harvard Book, p. 162
text: 18. No Freshman shall call or throw any thing across the College yard, nor go into the Fellow's Cuz-John.*
ref: 1741, “The Customs of Harvard College”, in A Collection of College Words and Customs, John Bartlett, published 1851, page 319:
text: American males often used British terms such as Cousin John or Jake to refer to a privy or a chamber pot.
ref: 2001, “Public Privies to Private Baths”, in The Guide to United States Popular Culture, page 645:
glosses: A place or device for urination and defecation: an outhouse or chamber pot.
Synonyms: word: john
word: jakes
word: outhouse and Thesaurus:chamber pot
halfsib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfsibs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-sib.
Fertile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and township in Iowa.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
chrome-plated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chromium-plated.
synonyms: word: chromium-plated
iminopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iminopeptides
Etymology: From imino + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dehydrogenated peptide in which the -CO-NH-CHR-CO₂- groups are replaced by -CO-N=CR-CO₂-
Diagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and town in Iowa.
injectisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: injectisomes
form: injectosome
Etymology: From inject + -i- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A needle-like projection of protein, in some bacteria, used as a sensory probe.
Dear Abby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An advice column written under the pen name Abigail Van Buren.
examples: text: I am not Dr. Phil, Dear Abby, or a qualified relationship counselor.
ref: 2014, Frederick Hertz, Emily Doskow, Making It Legal, Nolo, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: The columnist.
examples: text: Baby, you know it. Even Dear Abby’d say the same.
ref: 1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Beauty School Dropout”, in Grease:
text: Well I wrote to Ann Landers and Dear Abby too / And sought their advice as to what I should do
ref: 1976, “Me and the Elephant”, performed by Gene Cotton:
text: We got Ann Landers and her sister Dear Abby.
ref: 1994 December 3, Adam Sandler, “The Chanukah Song”, Saturday Night Live, National Broadcasting Company
text: Better known by the pen name Abigail Van Buren — and instantly recognizable by the words that were practically her nickname, “Dear Abby” — she fit thoughtful advice into succinct newspaper columns for more than 40 years.
ref: 2013 January 19, “Dear Abby …”, in Telegram & Gazette, Worcester, Mass., →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
glosses: The columnist.
Pauline Phillips (1918–2013), the initial columnist (until 2002) and sister of fellow columnist Eppie Lederer (who wrote under the pen name Ann Landers).
advice column
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advice columns
Senses: synonyms: agony column
glosses: A newspaper feature in which questions (typically from anonymous readers who seek advice) are answered by an advice columnist (or agony aunt).
Derived terms: advice columnist
juxtaparanode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juxtaparanodes
Etymology: From juxta- + paranode.
Senses: glosses: The part of an axon between a paranode and an internode.
ketolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketolases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that cleaves carbohydratea at the ketone (carbonyl) position
Derived terms: phosphoketolase
lactoglyceride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactoglycerides
Etymology: From lacto- + glyceride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glyceride (glycerol ester) of lactic acid
lamphole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampholes
Etymology: From lamp + hole.
Senses: glosses: A vertical shaft down which a lamp may be lowered to inspect a sewer
lifeguardsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifeguardsmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Life Guardsman.
Life Guardsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Life Guardsmen
form: lifeguardsman
form: life-guardsman
Etymology: From Life Guards + -man.
Senses: examples: text: ‘So, Sir, you may quarter two life-guardsmen upon him […].’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 299:
glosses: A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards.
Life Guards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Life Guards
Senses: glosses: A regiment of the British army (part of the Household Cavalry).
macrolactonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrolactonizations
Etymology: From macrolactone + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of a macrolactone.
macrolichen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrolichens
Etymology: From macro- + lichen.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any lichen that has a large thallus, often resulting in a bushy appearance.
Coordinate terms: sense: bushy lichen
word: microlichen
Related terms: english: tuft form
translation: tuft form
word: fruticose ()
word: foliose
word: filamentous
english: wispy
translation: wispy
word: byssoid ()
macroparameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroparameters
Etymology: From macro- + parameter.
Senses: glosses: Any relatively large parameter
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any parameter of a macro (normally written as macro parameter)
drain flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drain fly
march flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of march fly
metallophosphoesterase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallophosphoesterases
Etymology: From metallo- + phosphoesterase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phosphoesterase that is a metalloenzyme
warble flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warble fly
phosphoesterase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoesterases
Etymology: From phospho- + esterase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a phosphate enzyme.
Derived terms: metallophosphoesterase
microparameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microparameters
Etymology: From micro- + parameter.
Senses: glosses: Any relatively small parameter
minicluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniclusters
Etymology: From mini- + cluster.
Senses: glosses: A small cluster
monogenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogenoids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Monogenoidea
Senses: glosses: Any flatworm of the former class Monogenoidea (now subclass or class Monogenea)
monostand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monostands
Etymology: From mono- + stand.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of plants (typically grasses) of the same species growing together in the same place in the absence of other species
multimapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimappings
Etymology: From multi- + mapping.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A multiple (n to n) mapping
monthly visitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monthly visitor
menstrual periods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menstrual period
myotilinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myotilinopathies
Etymology: From myotilin + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease associated with the protein myotilin
nanohydrogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanohydrogels
Etymology: From nano- + hydrogel.
Senses: glosses: Any hydrogel in which the dispersed phase is a nanoparticle
nanomolecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanomolecules
Etymology: From nano- + molecule.
Senses: glosses: Any nanoparticle composed of a single molecule (typically a biomolecule)
nanoplatform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoplatforms
Etymology: From nano- + platform.
Senses: glosses: Any platform composed of, or utilising nanoparticles
necrobump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necrobumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of necro-bump.
necrobump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: necrobumps
form: necrobumping
form: necrobumped
form: necrobumped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of necro-bump.
nilsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nilsequences
Etymology: From nil + sequence.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A sequence of zero elements
oncotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncotypes
Etymology: From onco- + type.
Senses: glosses: Any specific type of cancer, characterised by a specific test
organoselenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organoselenides
Etymology: From organo- + selenide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic selenide (R-Se-H or R-Se-R)
overspeculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overspeculations
Etymology: From over- + speculation.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Excessive or very risky speculation.
Related terms: overspeculate
forebearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forebear
foreborne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of forebear
DBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: languages
glosses: Initialism of Database Interface, a module of the Perl 5 language.
herb Paris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The capital P may be from confusion with Paris, the French city.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herb paris.
herb-paris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herb paris.
DBD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DBDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: languages
glosses: Initialism of Database Driver (“the database driver of Perl DBI”).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of donation after brain death (of organ donation).
Related terms: sense: donation
word: DCD
phosphosphingolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphosphingolipids
Etymology: From phospho- + sphingolipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any sphingolipid, such as sphingomyelin, that contains a phosphoryl grop
photolesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photolesions
Etymology: From photo- + lesion.
Senses: glosses: A lesion formed by exposure to light
photothermoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photothermoplastics
Etymology: From photo- + thermoplastic.
Senses: glosses: A composite material composed of a thermoplastic photoresist.
phragmospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phragmospores
Etymology: From phragmo- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant spore that has multiple transverse septa
Related terms: phragmosporous
phytocomponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytocomponents
Etymology: From phyto- + component.
Senses: glosses: Any component derived from a plant
plereme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleremes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A unit of content that is the minimal meaningful unit
Related terms: plerematic
pleremic
polyazo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + azo.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing multiple azo groups
polyazo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyazos
Etymology: From poly- + azo.
Senses: glosses: A polyazo dye
polyenyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyenynes
Etymology: From poly- + enyne.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer formed from enyne components
polylactosamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polylactosamines
Etymology: From poly- + lactosamine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide having lactosamine components
portsill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portsills
form: port-sill
Etymology: From port + sill.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A horizontal wooden member that forms the sill of a gunport.
premotoneuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premotoneurons
Etymology: From pre- + motoneuron.
Senses: glosses: A structure that develops into a motor neuron
Related terms: premotoneuronal
popodum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popodums
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of poppadom.
preoligodendrocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preoligodendrocytes
Etymology: From pre- + oligodendrocyte.
Senses: glosses: The structure that develops into an oligodendrocyte
presequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presequences
Etymology: From pre- + sequence.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The opening part of a conversation.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sequence of amino acids in a preprotein; the sequence of amino acids at the N-terminal end of a protein
presequence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presequences
form: presequencing
form: presequenced
form: presequenced
Etymology: From pre- + sequence.
Senses: glosses: To sequence in advance of another operation
polymorphonucleocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymorphonucleocytes
Etymology: From poly- + morpho- + nucleo- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: A type of granulocyte that has polymorphic nuclei
matrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matricians
Etymology: By analogy with patrician
Senses: examples: text: In the present state of society we need not go far to find many a man who would give all the waltzes and polkas that a matrician genius ever invented, and throw all the new-fangled flourishes upon piano and guitar into the bargain, for healthful breakfasts [...]
ref: 1854, The Model Housekeeper, The Friend, page 358:
text: Instead, Bettina traces her lineage through "Foremother," whose oil portrait watches over the homestead; she is described as a "matrician" who "in life as in the portrait, . . . approved of nothing"
ref: 1992, Barbara Jean Monroe, Mother wit: American women's literary humor:
text: In essence, Wisdom's home serves as a multivalent symbol that illuminates her indispensable value as well as her noble status; it identifies Wisdom's fundamental role in the establishment of a household and depicts her as a wealthy matrician
ref: 2011, Christopher B. Ansberry, Be Wise, My Son, and Make My Heart Glad: An Exploration of the Courtly Nature of the Book of Proverbs, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A female patrician; an upper class matriarch
examples: text: The society consists of a number of matricians which, as each is exogamous, are linked together by ties of kinship and marriage. This sort of society is very common throughout the islands off the mainland.
ref: 1967, New Guinea and Australia, the Pacific and South-east Asia:
text: However, the household was controlled by its senior women; because of the residence pattern, the men were unrelated outsiders who belonged to different matricians.
ref: 1981, Roger M. Keesing, Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective, Holt McDougal:
text: In order of rank, the matricians were the pig, dog, snake, and iguana clans.
ref: 1982, Ron E. Roberts, Douglas E. Brintnall, Reinventing inequality: an inquiry into society and stratification, Schenkman Books:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group or clan claiming matrilineal descent from a (usually legendary) female ancestor
matrician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matrician
form: most matrician
Etymology: By analogy with patrician
Senses: examples: text: Forfend that her stern shade ever resent a comparison with such frail creatures ! She carries the historic ' prowde countenance of the Geraldines ' of her day. Aristocratic, matrician, and placid, though deeply traced with sorrow
ref: 1853, The Quarterly Review, page 353:
text: Her father is a successful businessman and her rather forceful mother a philosophy don; and Florence's life in a matrician and intellectual North Oxford household - you feel sure it's in one of those substantial brick crescents next to the Parks - is vivid in its intricate particularity.
ref: 2007, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, London Magazine:
text: Quinn could only smile at the old dame's manner. Just as Connie had told him, she was immediately reigning over everything with matrician authority.
ref: 2012, Meagan McKinney, The Lawman Meets His Bride, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: Upper class and matriarchal
matrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matricians
Etymology: From matrix + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: It is quite apparent why a matrician missed this generalization, because his creed is to build from low-order matrices high-order arrays.
ref: 1940, Electrical Engineering:
text: The study of the pencil is helpful not only to matricians for a more efficient calculation of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors, but also to control theorists for the analysis and design of their control systems.
ref: 2007, Ky M. Vu, The ARIMA and VARIMA Time Series: Their Modelings, Analyses and Applications, AuLac Technologies Inc., →ISBN, page 462:
glosses: A mathematician who studies matrices
matrician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From matrix + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: For the j-circle method a convenient and comprehensive book is that by Kuske where the interested reader will find all the detail but it is not presented with a matrician calculus.
ref: 1979, G. S. Holister, Developments in Stress Analysis--1, Elsevier Science & Technology:
text: A matrician method (method of nodal displacement) allows to obtain directly the stiffness matrix and the center of motion.
ref: 1983, Brian Rooks, Developments in Robotics, 1983, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to matrices
proliposome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proliposomes
Etymology: From pro- + liposome.
Senses: glosses: A material that may be transformed into a liposome by the addition of an aqueous phase
prolymphoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolymphoblasts
Etymology: From pro- + lymphoblast.
Senses: glosses: A structure that develops into a lymphoblast
prosodeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosodemes
Etymology: From prosody + -eme.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phoneme that extends over more than one segment of sound
protosyncellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosyncelli
Etymology: From proto- + syncellus.
Senses: glosses: The deputy of an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic bishop.
quadtone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadtones
Etymology: From quad- + tone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval of four whole tones.
examples: text: In Photoshop’s Duotone mode you can create monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones—grayscale images to which you add one, two, three, or four colors.
ref: 1995, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, “Converting from One Mode to Another”, in Fundamental Photoshop, 2nd edition, Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 380:
text: When using tritones or quadtones (in which three colours are blended together) all the secondary colours are mixed together.
ref: 2003, Duncan Evans, “Duotones and Tritones”, in A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Portrait Photography, AVA Publishing SA, →ISBN, page 115:
text: The two colours need not be black and grey; computer duotones can be created from a greyscale original in any two colours; tritones use three inks and quadtones four.
ref: 2010, David Präkel, “Duotone”, in The Visual Dictionary of Photography, AVA Publishing SA, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: A picture printed in four shades.
radiomitigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiomitigators
Etymology: From radio- + mitigator.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that mitigates the harmful effects of radiation
Related terms: radioprotector
scolecospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolecospores
Senses: glosses: A slender, threadlike fungal spore
secosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secosterols
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of sterols found in certain soft corals
sialyloligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialyloligosaccharides
Etymology: From sialyl + oligosaccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligosaccharide related to sialic acid
ODBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Open Database Connectivity.
similariton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: similaritons
Etymology: From similar + -on.
Senses: glosses: One of a series of self-similar pulses of laser light.
slitlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slitlets
Etymology: From slit + -let.
Senses: examples: text: However, one needs also equally accurate mapping of the on-sky astrophysical coordinates of the objects to the laser driller coordinates to get all slitlets at the corrected positions, […]
ref: 2017, Roland Bacon, Optical 3D-Spectroscopy for Astronomy, page 69:
glosses: A small slit.
soyasaponin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soyasaponins
Etymology: From soya + saponin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of triterpene glycoside saponins found in soybeans.
spalacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spalacines
Senses: glosses: Any molerat of the subfamily Spalacinae
spherolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheroliths
Etymology: From sphero- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A small kidney stone, typically in a neonate
spoligopattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoligopatterns
Etymology: From spoligo- + pattern.
Senses: glosses: A pattern of spoligotypes.
staurospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staurospores
Etymology: From stauro- + spore.
Senses: glosses: A septate fungal spore in the form of a pinwheel.
sympathin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathins
Etymology: From sympathetic + -in.
Senses: glosses: Any substance (such as adrenaline) released from sympathetic nerve endings.
telomeropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telomeropathies
Etymology: From telomere + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Any disease associated with (shortened) telomeres
tocochromanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocochromanols
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of compounds, such as tocopherol and tocotrienol, related to vitamin E
transmitarray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmitarrays
Etymology: From transmit + array.
Senses: glosses: A dielectric sheet, containing a pattern of perforations, used as a microwave lens.
Related terms: reflectarray
triacyclglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacyclglycerols
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of triacylglycerol.
tubulovesicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubulovesicles
Etymology: From tubulo- + vesicle.
Senses: glosses: A tubular vesicle associated with parietal cells.
uroplakin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uroplakins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a particular family of transmembrane proteins
vulvoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulvoplasties
Etymology: From vulvo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical procedure to construct, repair, or remodel a vulva.
Hyponyms: minimal depth vaginoplasty
vaginoplasty without vaginal cavity
Related terms: vaginoplasty
electoralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electoral + -ism. First used in the transitional sense by Terry Karl, professor of political science at Stanford University.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A state of partial transition from authoritarian rule toward democratic rule, in which the regime conducts the electoral aspects of democratic governance in a relatively free and fair manner.
examples: text: “In December, 1906, […] the great obstacle between the Confederation General du Travail and the Socialist party, the only organized forces of the working-class, was the electoralism which dominated the party. Today, in 1912, the great obstacle is the anti-parliamentarism which rages within the C. G. T.”
ref: 1912 July, William E. Bohn, “La Guerre Sociale not Anti-Political”, in Charles H. Kerr, editor, The International Socialist Review, volume XIII, number 1, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, page 82, quoting Gustave Hervé, translated from French:
text: Indeed, in 1986 the movement had already suffered a split with the southern traditionalists who opposed the twin policy of electoralism and violence. Ruair O Brdaigh became the leader of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fin […]
ref: 2000 Fall, Michael Von Tangen Page, M. L. R. Smith, “War by Other Means: The Problem of Political Control in Irish Republican Strategy”, in Armed Forces & Society, volume 27, number 1, Transaction Publishers:
text: Yet in the events at Llanelli can be seen aspects of the Great Unrest which went beyond the limits of electoralism, pointing the way towards an insurrectionary challenge both to state power and to the inertia of the reformist leadership in the trade unions and the Labour Party.
ref: 2011 June 28, Tim Evans, “The Great Unrest and a Welsh town”, in International Socialism, number 131:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The strategy of electing politicians into a representative government in order to create political change.
Related terms: electoralist
BTO flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: / biː tiː əʊ flæt/
ipa: / biː tiː əʊ flæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: BTO flats
Etymology: Initialism from build-to-order.
Senses: glosses: A build-to-order apartment under a scheme of the Singapore government, built according to demand determined by the number of applicants and their down-payment.
nailbomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailbombers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nail bomber.
nailbombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nailbomber
nail bomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail bombers
form: nailbomber
Senses: glosses: One who detonates a nail bomb.
nail bombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail bomber
pirry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pirries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pirrie.
booze artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booze artists
Senses: glosses: One who drinks habitually; a drunkard.
Synonyms: drunkard
grog artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grog artists
Senses: glosses: One who drinks habitually; a drunkard.
Synonyms: booze artist
drunkard
breedership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From breeder + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: […] it will be far from a real breeding flock, and its productions will never bear the stamp of uniformity, which is one of the distinguishing marks of breedership.
ref: 1943, Perry Van Ewing, The Golden Hoof: A Practical Sheep Book, page 228:
text: […] no one who engages in heterosexual practices can epistemically rule out the chance of becoming a parent. If this is accepted without protest, then universal breedership justifies the extension of parental obligations to all.
ref: 2009, Frida Simonstein, Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender, page 144:
glosses: The role or status of being a breeder.
groovies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groovy
booze artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booze artist
grog artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grog artist
paktorlogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paktology
form: paktohlogy
Etymology: From paktor + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Paktology: the name of the dating game, from “pak tor” (Cantonese) to “go steady, smooch and whatever turns you on”. https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=cM3hBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT24&lpg=PT24&dq=paktology&source=bl&ots=HerE0jTxM&sig=PsE1zlaXjnwNKkw1cO1jSHp610E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi16YK8jvTLAhULUY4KHcTZAOg4ChDoAQgjMAM#v=onepage&q=paktology&f=false
ref: 2010, Sylvia Toh Paik Choo, The Complete Eh, Goondu!:
text: 2012, June 14, Jia Yiing Ho, Paktology Lesson 1: Communication, blog entry
I welcome you to be my Paktology coursemate via email http://jiayiing87.blogspot.sg/2012/06/paktology-lesson-1-communication.html
text: 2015, February 13, Unnamed, First Vday together? Then stay away from These 5 Movie types, online
Years of research in the scientific field of 'paktohlogy' have shown that horror movies are the best to watch on a date. http://www.hitz.fm/Features/Trendings/Trending-on-hitz/First-Vday-Together-Then-Stay-Away-from-These-5-Mo
text: 2016, May 9, Gwee Li Sui, SinGweesh on Wednesday: Horrigible, online
So “paktorlogy” is the science of courtship – simple, right? https://web.archive.org/web/20160410201423/http://themiddleground.sg/2016/03/09/singweesh-22-horrigible/
glosses: the study of dating, courtship.
non-Englishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non-English + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to these positions, Aliens and Englishness is concerned with an important body of sixteenth-century drama that works out Englishness by dealing not with exotic or ancient others but with European aliens of the present and relatively recent past; not by resistance and antithesis alone but by absorption and similitude; not with 'elsewhere' as a location of non-Englishness but with the here and often the now of England […]
ref: 2009, Lloyd Edward Kermode, Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama:
glosses: The state or condition of not being English.
layaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of layan
layaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of layan
revelatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more revelatorily
form: most revelatorily
Etymology: From revelatory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But however exactly the relationship is to be defined, it would be the sublimest oddity were God to be involved revelatorily in the Hebrew era and then in the Christian, and for this reality not to be reflected in both Testaments.
ref: 2013, Professor Robert P Gordon, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Versions: Selected Essays of Robert P. Gordon:
glosses: In a revelatory manner.
nonsuppressibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + suppressibility.
Senses: glosses: The property of not being suppressible.
Beacon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Western Australia.
glosses: A city and town in Iowa, United States.
glosses: A city in New York, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in Devon, England.
glosses: A surname.
counter-economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The term was first used by Samuel Edward Konkin III and J. Neil Schulman who are libertarian theorists, and was coined as part of their agorism doctrine. It is short for "counter-establishment economics"; equivalent to counter- + economics.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The study or practice of all peaceful human action which is forbidden by the State.
countereconomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + economics.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counter-economics.
clauselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clauselike
form: most clauselike
Etymology: From clause + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a clause.
lymphoplasmocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphoplasmocyte
psych verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psych verbs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb indicating a change of a psychological state, such as shock, encourage, or agitate.
psych verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psych verb
pseudoclefting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + clefting.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The insertion of is what or a similar word sequence so as to form a pseudocleft sentence, as when changing "she bought an apple" to "an apple is what she bought".
Related terms: pseudocleft
Larsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑːˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /lɑɹˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Larsonian
form: most Larsonian
Etymology: From Larson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the work of the linguist Richard K. Larson.
Larsonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Larsonesque
form: most Larsonesque
Etymology: From Larson + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Suggestive of the works of Gary Larson (born 1950), American cartoonist known for the surrealistic comic The Far Side.
matricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matrician
manks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mank
manked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mank
manking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mank
ideocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideocrats
Senses: glosses: A proponent of ideocracy.
ideocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideocrat
monster hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monster hands
Senses: examples: text: Pocket aces is a monster hand in no-limit hold-'em poker.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A powerful hand (group of cards of a player), one that will rarely be beaten.
monster hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monster hand
crossholding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossholdings
form: cross holding
form: cross-holding
Etymology: From cross- + holding.
Senses: examples: text: As long as the crossholding of shares that supports the owners' dominance continues, it is difficult to make effective the various systems introduced for structural reform.
ref: 2003, MERI's Monthly Circular: Survey of Economic Conditions in Japan, Issues 877-912:
glosses: A situation in which a publicly-traded corporation owns stock in another publicly-traded company.
crossholdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossholding
cross holding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross holdings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossholding.
cross-holding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-holdings
Etymology: From cross- + holding.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossholding.
cross holdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross holding
cross-holdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-holding
double counting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double countings
Senses: glosses: An error in accounting, probability studies, etc. whereby some object or transaction is counted more than once.
glosses: A method in combinatorics that proves two expressions to be equal by demonstrating that they are different ways of counting the same set.
double counting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double count
double countings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double counting
fuckball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckballs
Etymology: From fuck + ball.
Senses: glosses: Term of abuse
sloshball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slosh + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Those frolicking in Vancouver's recreational areas shouldn't be surprised to end up in the middle of a rather messy sloshball game or ultimate Frisbee tournament; Vancouverites tend to leave their big-city attitudes at home.
ref: 1995, Pacific Northwest & Alaska: on the loose, Fodor's, page 325:
text: Put a pub crawl together with your BFFs, do sake bombs while you wail your heart out at a karaoke bar, play some sloshball with your friends in the park.
ref: 2013, Melissa Bolton-Klinger, Jayan Kalathil, Generation Change:
text: Occasionally you would get a perfect summer day where you could enjoy a sloshball game (beer at each base) until nine in the evening, when it got too dark to catch fly balls.
ref: 2015, Jason Blum, The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City:
glosses: A drinking game resembling softball or kickball but with players having to drink beer from a keg when passing a base.
fuckballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckball
fucklords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fucklord
cocompounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocompound
subcompounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcompound
counterworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterworld
laxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lax + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The Jesuits were sometimes accused of moral laxism.
glosses: laxity (in interpreting or enforcing a rule)
squeeze one out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squeezes one out
form: squeezing one out
form: squeezed one out
form: squeezed one out
Senses: glosses: To break wind.
glosses: To defecate.
pudding pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudding pie
no-bake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-bakes
Senses: examples: text: Mom made her favorite oatmeal no-bakes and Rice Krispies treats. The good thing about being sick was she could eat anything she wanted.
ref: 2003, Kristen Heitzmann, The Still of Night, page 84:
glosses: A kind of cake or cookie that does not require baking.
no-bakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no-bake
lifeloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifelogger
lifelogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifelog
lifelogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lifelog
hebephrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hebephrenes
Senses: examples: text: [He] rescues the other cameo-role mental patient, whom he believes to be Rhoda and who has been furious in his denials that he is female, much less fictional [...] from assault by a bit-part hebephrene.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, page 31:
glosses: One suffering from hebephrenia.
glosses: Alternative form of hebephrenia.
hipocrisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hipocrisies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hypocrisy.
glosses: Misspelling of hypocrisy.
marketisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marketisation
hebephrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hebephrene
acquihiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acquihire
acquihired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acquihire
acquihires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquihire
acquihires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acquihire
nonalternating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + alternating.
Senses: glosses: Not alternating.
blootering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blooter
chamber lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamber lamps
Senses: examples: text: A chamber lamp burned in the fire place: by this light, as he leaned against the feet of the bed, he perceived his uncle slept.
ref: 1828, Thomas Skinner Surr, George Barnwell: A Novel - Volume 1, page 168:
text: The waiter had also left upon the hearth a porcelain tower-shaped construction, through the loopholes of which struggled a feeble light — in other words a French chamber lamp.
ref: 1840, The Philadelphia Visitor - Volume 6, page 270:
text: Olive oil lamps are commercially available today. I have two. One is called an olive oil chamber lamp and is from Lehman's in Ohio. It is a very practical jarlike lamp with a handle, which makes it easy to move from room to room.
ref: 2011, Carol Firenze, The Passionate Olive: 101 Things to Do with Olive Oil, →ISBN, page 42:
text: When I wished to expedite their drying, I sometimes laid them on a small metal plate, heated over a chamber lamp, or larger plates heated by the fire, and at other times I submitted them to the heat of an oven.
ref: 2014, Thomas Hancock, Personal Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Caoutchouc or India-Rubber Manufactue in England, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: An oil lamp designed for indoor use.
examples: text: Position the battery toggle switch (10) figure 4-5 to BATTERY. If the fog chamber lamp illuminates, the indicator is operational.
ref: 1984, DS and GS Maintenance Manual, page 4-16:
text: When the battery is inserted into the MH26/26a charger properly (it's impossible to insert it incorrectly), the battery chamber lamp (labeled L and R) above each chamber will flash slowly while the battery is being replenished.
ref: 2014, David Busch, David Busch's Compact Field Guide for the Nikon D4/D4s, →ISBN:
text: In a classic example (e.g., Skinner 1938; Herrick et al. 1959), a rat's lever presses produce food when a chamber lamp is turned on, while presses in the absence of the light produce nothing.
ref: 2015, Florence D. DiGennaro Reed, Derek D. Reed, Autism Service Delivery, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: An indicator light associated with a chamber.
chamber lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamber lamp
dirty protest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty protests
Senses: glosses: A form of protest where a prisoner refuses to use the toilet and instead defecates and urinates within his or her cell.
dirty protests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirty protest
sartor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sartors
Etymology: From Latin sartor.
Senses: glosses: A tailor.
Related terms: sartorial
Mancha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Manchas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Mancha; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
UTAH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of uniform theta-role assignment hypothesis.
thematic roles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thematic role
kedani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kedani
Etymology: From Japanese 毛蜱 (kedani, “[hairy] mite”).
Senses: examples: text: The recent studies on the kedani disease of Japan are extremely interesting as examples of proteus infection through the wounds inflicted by an insect, a specific mite (kedani) closely allied to the harvest-mite (Leptus autumnalis).
ref: 1901, Ludvig Hektoen, David Riesman, An American Text-book of Pathology, page 243:
text: Tanaka (175) was the first to distinguish three kinds of akamushi in 1919, naming them "kedani" and "nezumidani" "a" and "b" on the basis of certain morphological differences. Of their habits he says : "The first kind, or kedani, bites both man and field voles;
ref: 1926, Rinya Kawamura, Nathan Chandler Foot, Shiro Tashiro, Studies on tsutsugamushi disease (Japanese blood fever), page 200:
text: The kedani mite (Trombicula akamushi) is the vector of Japanese river fever or tsutsugamushi disease in the northern part of Japan, in Formosa, the Yangtze valley of China, Siam, French Indo-China and Malaya.
ref: 2013, James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, India and the Far East: A Geography of Disease and Sanitation, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: A mite of species (Trombicula akamushi), found in Japan.
examples: text: The recent studies on the kedani disease of Japan are extremely interesting as examples of proteus infection through the wounds inflicted by an insect, a specific mite (kedani) closely allied to the harvest-mite (Leptus autumnalis).
ref: 1901, Ludvig Hektoen, David Riesman, An American Text-book of Pathology, page 243:
text: These facts, together with the occurrence of a rash, show that the disease possesses many of the features which characterize kedani or tsutsugamushi fever of Japan.
ref: 1915, The Philippine Journal of Science - Volume 10, Part 2, page 345:
text: Formerly this disease was called Japanese river fever, kedani disease, or scrub typhus fever. Tsutsugamushi fever is endemic over a wide area of South-East Asia and the south eastern part of the Pacific Ocean;
ref: 1960, Pavel Feliksovich Zdrodovskiĭ, Elena Mikhaǐlovna Golinevich, The rickettsial diseases, page 354:
glosses: A disease for which this mite is the vector; tsutsugamushi.