cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
albicore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albicores
Etymology: From French albicore (compare Spanish albacora, Portuguese albacor, albacora, albecora), from Arabic اَلْبَكُورَة (al-bakūra). See albacore.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of albacore.
albicores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albicore
subconfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnfluəns
-uːəns
Etymology: From sub- + confluence.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being subconfluent.
spondyloarthropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondyloarthropathy
spondylitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondylitis
spondyloarthropathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to spondyloarthropathy.
autoptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autoptical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: it would autoptically ſilence that dispute out of which side Eve was framed
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: with one's own eyes
glosses: From one's own observation.
subendothelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subendothelium
porcelainize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: porcelainizes
form: porcelainizing
form: porcelainized
form: porcelainized
form: porcelanize
form: porcelainise
Etymology: From porcelain + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: porcelainized clay shales
glosses: To bake like porcelain.
examples: text: They may, however, be used as shewn in the drawing, but such walls must be built entirely of the best description of fire bricks or lumps and fire-clay, and should not be connected above with any portion of the work, as they are sure to fuse or porcelainize more or less .
ref: 1839, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 267:
text: Screw a spout into her mouth and porcelainize her for a men's room in Kabool!
ref: 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 667:
text: When Patience discovers the plot to porcelainize the flesh of America's fee-males (obsessed, of course, with beauty only under the savage dominion of — ptui! —male lookism), they kill her!
ref: 2007, Alan Farrell, High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans, page 49:
glosses: To make or become glassy or porcelain-like.
examples: text: In recent months a technique has been worked out to porcelainize the steel blanks .
ref: 1953, Investor - Volume 4, page 26:
text: Permanently porcelainize your laundry trays, new or old, at 1⁄2 the cost of new trays. Just brush revolutionary EV-R-SHIELD Glascote inside your tubs.
ref: 1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93:
text: Porcelainize mended surfaces.
ref: 1973, Laurence Adams Malone, How to Mend Your Treasures, page 121:
glosses: To apply a glassy or porcelain-like coating or finish to.
porcelainized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of porcelainize
porcelainizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of porcelainize
porcelainizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of porcelainize
membranoproliferative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From membrano- + proliferative.
Senses: glosses: Causing proliferation or thickening of a membrane.
subplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + plasma.
Senses: glosses: Beneath the plasma membrane
lobulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobulations
Etymology: From lobule + -ation.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of lobules (in a place where there are normally none)
Derived terms: multilobulation
lobulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobulation
ponderance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ponderances
Etymology: From Latin ponderans, present participle of ponderare (“to weigh”). Compare Old French ponderant (“of weight”).
Senses: examples: text: If, said he, the air is the cause of this phenomenon, it is because it has ponderance and fluidity
ref: 1796, George Gregory, The Economy of Nature […] :
glosses: Weight; gravity.
Derived terms: equiponderance
ponderance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ponderances
Etymology: From ponder + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Ponderances.com
Subject: Thoughts for pondering and for having a chuckle or two.com
Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
ref: 2000, Joan E. Miller, Yada, Yada, Yada.Com.Org.Edu.Gov.Email: What I Learned on the Www/Internet--Total Nonsense, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 132:
text: […] many other parts of life can come to fruition with a really good, concentrated, yet leisurely (enjoyment is key), pondering. […]
My Current Top 5 Ponderances
(In no particular order and these can change at any time)
1) Okay, this one is kind of common for us single gals: […]
ref: 2007, Alexandra Koslow, Slacker Girl, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Merely pondering and then making plans with your ponderance is the key. The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said: "A goal without a plan is just a wish."
ref: 2021, Jordan Ring, Catalyze Your Destiny!: Discover Who You Are, Reveal Your Purpose, and Launch Into Action, Jordan Ring:
text: […] sense of truth into the existentialist pondering the meaning of the statement. […] To reach a blissful state of knowing, an examined life of discipline and ritualistic ponderance about one's self must be lived, […]
ref: 2021, Jorge Sosa, Universal Synesthesia: A Deep Dive into Conceptual Depths Where Mind and Matter Become Indistinguishable., AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: The act or an instance of pondering; that which one ponders.
sulphurator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphurators
Etymology: From sulphurate + -or.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur, especially for purposes of fumigation or bleaching.
sulphurators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphurator
synoviocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synoviocytes
Etymology: From synovio- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of fibroblast cell that occurs in the synovial membrane
synoviocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synoviocyte
levogyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: laevogyrate
Etymology: From levo- + gyrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Turning or twisting the plane of polarization towards the left, as in levulose, levotartaric acid, etc.
spiritousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spiritous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being spiritous.
laevogyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laevo- + gyrate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of levogyrate.
thrombocythemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɹɒmbəʊsaɪˈθiːmɪə/
Forms: form: thrombocythemias
form: thrombocythaemia
Etymology: From thrombocyte + -(h)emia.
Senses: glosses: thrombocytosis
Derived terms: essential thrombocythemia
thrombocythemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombocythemia
thrombocythaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombocythaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thrombocythemia.
thrombocythaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombocythaemia
tofacitinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Tofacitinib was the first jakinib to be approved for the treatment of a rheumatic disease, specifically for patients with RA with an incomplete response to a conventional synthetic DMARD (csDMARD), either as tofacitinib monotherapy or in combination with a csDMARD (7-11). Subsequently, tofacitinib has been approved for PsA (12, 13) and ulcerative colitis (UC) (14).
ref: 2021 December, Christine Liu, Jacqueline Kieltyka, Roy Fleischmann, Massimo Gadina, John J. O’Shea, “A Decade of JAK Inhibitors: What Have We Learned and What May Be the Future?”, in Arthritis & Rheumatology, volume 73, number 12, →DOI, page 2168:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: tasocitinib
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ulcerative colitis.
trangenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of transgenic.
tricyclon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cyclotides found in the plant Viola tricolor
trifluoromethoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + fluoro- + methoxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical CF₃O- derived from methoxy
Coordinate terms: trifluoromethylthio
trifluoromethylseleno
uniporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniporters
Etymology: From uni- + porter.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An integral membrane protein that transports a single molecule
vesnarinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -rinone (“amrinone derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular cardiotonic agent.
uniporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uniporter
phrentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phrentic
form: most phrentic
form: phrenetic
Senses: examples: text: Fantastic images, a various train,
Burst from the glowing prison of the brain;
And while the raptur'd Bard records their birth,
His phrentic eye glances from heaven to earth.
ref: a. 1810, Joseph Blacket, Remains:
glosses: Obsolete form of frenetic.
pyramidological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyramidological
form: most pyramidological
Etymology: From pyramidology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pyramidology.
nolition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nəʊˈlɪʃən/
/nəˈlɪʃən/
Forms: form: nolitions
Etymology: Latin nōlō (“not to will, to be unwilling”), patterned after volition from Latin volō.
Senses: examples: text: [S]o long as the prayer is fervent, so long the man hath a nolition, and a direct enmity against the lust; he consents not all that while; but when the month is gone, and the prayer is removed, or becomes less active, then the temptation returns, and forages, and prevails, and seizes upon all our unguarded strengths.
ref: 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: Sermon V. [The Return of Prayers; or, The Conditions of a Prevailing Prayer.] Part II.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 76:
antonyms: volition
glosses: unwillingness.
nolitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nolition
Dellacruscan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dellacruscan
form: most Dellacruscan
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence, Italy.
Dellacruscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dellacruscans
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of English writers seen as affected, most of whom lived in Florence, circa 1785.
exuscitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exuscitates
form: exuscitating
form: exuscitated
form: exuscitated
Senses: examples: text: the spirit lurking in the salt, and exuscitated partly, by the excited spirit of the plant
ref: 1631, Robert Fludd, Doctor Fludd's Answer unto M. Foster:
glosses: Obsolete form of exsuscitate.
exuscitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exuscitate
exuscitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exuscitate
exuscitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exuscitate
KKKer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KKKers
Etymology: From KKK + -er.
Senses: synonyms: Klanner
hyponyms: Klansman
Klanswoman
glosses: A member of the Ku Klux Klan.
KKKers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KKKer
yonders
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: I see a horse on yonders plain Whose body's been but lately slain.
ref: 1940, The University of Missouri Studies - Volume 15, Issue 1, page 120:
text: Had me a cat, the cat pleased me, I fed my cat in yonders tree, cat went fiddle-i-fee.
ref: 1954, Ralph Steele Boggs, El folklore en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, page 91:
text: As I went over yonders hill As ever rose free merly and time And there I met a young lady whose name was Elian Who used to be the true lover of mine.
ref: 1975, New York Folklore - Volumes 1-4, page 185:
glosses: Alternative form of yonder.
yonders
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yonders
form: most yonders
Senses: examples: text: Oh my good Lord, yonders foule Murthers done.
ref: 1630, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice:
text: “No,” said Mrs Moss, “but he's only in the potato-field yonders."
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss:
text: He pinted one man to rule yonders, and another man to rule yonders.
ref: 1887, The Cosmopolitan - Volume 2, page 304:
glosses: Alternative form of yonder.
yonders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I wasn't interested in Westport. I never had been, except as a milestone. The yonders were still out there.
ref: 1988, Dan Parkinson, The Westering, →ISBN, page 288:
text: A HOLLER AND A HALF AND a few yonders from Sally Scull's ol' stompin' grounds around Egypt you'll find the little community of La Grange, population 3,951.
ref: 2000, J. Lee Butts, Texas Bad Girls: Hussie, Harlots, and Horse Thieves, →ISBN, page 20:
text: At the end of this part of the depiction of Troilus's agony, he finally moves his gaze from the yonders of the past to the yonders of the present: "Lo, yonder is myn owene lady free, / Or ellis yonder, ther tho tentes be" (669-70).
ref: 2000, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Chaucerian Tragedy, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: plural of yonder
zoarcid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoarcids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish of the family Zoarcidae; an eelpout.
zoarcids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoarcid
ruc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rucs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roc.
aarthi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aarthis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aarti.
minionette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minionettes
Etymology: From minion + -ette (“forming diminutives”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of mignonette.
topics: media
printing
publishing
typography
glosses: A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.
Synonyms: sense: type size
word: emerald
minionette
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minionette
form: most minionette
Etymology: From minion + -ette (“forming diminutives”).
Senses: examples: May 18, 1749, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu, Esq.
His minionette face.
glosses: Small; delicate.
minionettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minionette
torvid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torvid
form: most torvid
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin torvidus.
Senses: examples: text: […] but yesterday his breath / Aw’d Rome, and his least torved frown was death.
ref: a. 1632, John Webster, Appius and Virginia; republished as William Hazlitt, editor, The Dramatic Works of John Webster, volume 3, 1857, page 219:
text: That wary labourers, in passing by, / May not suspect his master's idle life, / Lest, urg’d by smiling truth or torvid jealousy, / They carry information to the little Nimrod of the borough town
ref: 1803, George Ardley, “Autumn Leaves; a descriptive Poem”, in The Universal Magazine, volume 1, number 5, published May 1804, page 514:
text: With torvid brow Saturnia gazed upon / Ixion, and the toiling Sisyphon, / And asked why he alone selected was / To bear such punishment […]
ref: 1896, Ovid, translated by John Benson Rose, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, page 110, lines 420–3:
glosses: Fierce, stern.
spleenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spleenish
form: most spleenish
Etymology: From spleen + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: But here yourselves you must engage
Somewhat to cool your spleenish rage,
ref: 1831, Joseph Ritson, Fairy Tales, Now First Collected (poem), Tale 8:
glosses: Affected with spleen; fretful.
Synonyms: spleeny
Related terms: spleenishly
spleenishness
neststraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nest + straw.
Senses: glosses: Any of the plants in the genus Stylocline.
insatisfaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insatisfactions
Etymology: From in- + satisfaction.
Senses: examples: text: their insatisfaction herein begat that remarkable invention in the funeral pyres of some princes
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:
glosses: dissatisfaction
examples: text: It is a profound contemplation in nature , to consider of the emptiness ( as we may call it ) or insatisfaction of several bodies
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: insufficiency; emptiness
insatisfactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insatisfaction
postabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + abdominal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the postabdomen.
symplesiomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symplesiomorphies
Senses: coordinate_terms: synapomorphy
glosses: An ancestral trait shared by two or more taxa.
Related terms: symplesiomorphic
symplesiomorphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symplesiomorphy
postabdomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postabdomens
form: postabdomina
Etymology: From post- + abdomen.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax.
examples: text: The postabdomens of both sexes of Cinderella lampra Steyskal and of the unique female of C. aczeli, n. sp. (Mendoza, Argentina) are described.
ref: 1969, George C. Steyskal, “The Postabdomen of Cinderella, with a New Species from Argentina (Diptera: Heleomyzidae)”, in Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, volume 42, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 80–83:
text: No special preparation in glycerine of male and female postabdomina were made because the features of diagnostic importance are well visible in dry condition, but as a result not all characters of the postabdomina can be described.
ref: 2011, Hans-Peter Tschorsnig, “A new species of Istocheta Rondani (Diptera: Tachinidae) from the Mercantour National Park, France”, in Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A (Neue Serie), volume 4, pages 335–340:
text: The anthomyiid oviscapt (postabdomen) is as regards the ground plan undoubtedly slender, well set off from and hardly shorter than the preabdomen, and has slender cerci with projecting, cylindrical apices.
ref: 2013, Verner Michelsen, “Proposal of Karliella gen. n. for the Afrotropical ‘Pegomya’ sexpunctata Karl, 1935 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), a possible kleptoparasite of dung-breeding beetles”, in African Invertebrates, volume 54, number 2, →DOI, pages 335–347:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The terminal segments of the abdomen of an insect, modified for reproduction.
Synonyms: sense: part of a crustacean
word: abdomen
sense: terminal segments of an insect
word: terminalia
sense: terminal segments of an insect
word: hypopygium
postabdomens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postabdomen
ilicic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ilex, ilicis (“holm oak”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid derived from the holly (Ilex) and allied plants.
tinygram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinygrams
Etymology: Blend of tiny + datagram
Senses: examples: text: Too many tinygrams can congest a network connection.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A very small packet of data.
tinygrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinygram
silly window syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A problem in data transmission, where a server, unable to process all incoming data, repeatedly asks the clients to reduce the size of the packets they are sending — to the point where all packets become extremely small ("tinygrams") and transmission becomes inefficient.
eurygnathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eurygnathous
form: most eurygnathous
Etymology: From eury- + -gnathous.
Senses: glosses: Having a broad jaw
hemignathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + -gnathous.
Senses: glosses: Having one mandible much shorter than the other
isognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + -gnathous.
Senses: glosses: Having similar molar teeth in both jaws
Derived terms: anisognathous
megagnathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megagnathous
form: most megagnathous
Etymology: From mega- + -gnathous.
Senses: glosses: Having a large jaw
odontognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From odonto- + -gnathous.
Senses: glosses: Having toothlike ridges on the jaw
oxygnathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɒkˈsɪɡnəθəs/
Forms: form: more oxygnathous
form: most oxygnathous
Etymology: From oxy- + -gnathous.
Senses: glosses: Having a smooth jaw
endosmoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endosmosis
cordaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordaite
Collatz conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Lothar Collatz, who first proposed it in 1937.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The conjecture that the process of taking a number n and, if n is even, dividing it by 2, or if n is odd, multiplying it by 3 and adding 1, then repeating this process, will eventually yield 1.
wikipedia: Lothar Collatz
morning tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning tents
Senses: glosses: An involuntary erection present when waking up.
Synonyms: morning glory
morning wood
haceck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hacecks
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:haceck.
glosses: Rare spelling of háček.
hacecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haceck
flagitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagitations
Etymology: Latin flagitatio.
Senses: examples: text: By French industry and flagitation, the Swedish Army was generally kept-up to about 20,000[.]
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia:
glosses: begging; passionate asking
Related terms: flagitate
precipitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more precipitious
form: most precipitious
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin praecipitiōsus.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precipitous.
Related terms: precipitiously
tipsified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tipsify
tipsifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tipsify
tipsify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tipsifies
form: tipsifying
form: tipsified
form: tipsified
Etymology: From tipsy + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: ... as for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt's, on the day Amelia went away, she was in such a passion of tears that they were obliged to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with sal volatile
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To make tipsy.
tipsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tipsify
dactylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dactyl + -ar.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
examples: text: dactylar base of a crustacean
text: dactylar finger of a shrimp
text: dactylar tubercle on a crab
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or the claw of an insect or crustacean.
AIDS baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AIDS babies
Senses: glosses: A baby born with an HIV infection.
Related terms: crack baby
AIDS babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AIDS baby
Canadian raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canadian raisings
Senses: topics: dialectology
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon in some dialects of English, especially Canadian English, in which /aɪ/ is realized as [ʌɪ] and/or /aʊ/ is realized as [ʌʊ] or [ɛʊ] before underlying unvoiced consonants.
topics: dialectology
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A similar but more restricted phenomenon, found in most dialects of American English, that applies only to /aɪ/, which is realized as [ʌɪ] in certain contexts, especially before underlying unvoiced consonants but with significant speaker-to-speaker variation.
actinorhizal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From actino- + rhizal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing actinobacteria
actinorhizal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinorhizals
Etymology: From actino- + rhizal.
Senses: glosses: Such a plant
adenosyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenosyltransferases
Etymology: From adenosyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an adenosyl group, for example from ATP to an amino acid
occupational diseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occupational disease
apaumé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of appaumé.
flosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒʃ/
ipa: /flɔʃ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of floss (“fibres of corncob, bean plants, etc.”).
flosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒʃ/
ipa: /flɔʃ/
Forms: form: floshes
Etymology: Compare German Flösse (“trough in which tin ore is washed”).
Senses: glosses: A hopper-shaped box in which ore is placed to be stamped.
flosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒʃ/
ipa: /flɔʃ/
Forms: form: floshes
Etymology: Middle English flosche; see flush (“marsh, pool”) and flash (“(marshy) pool”) for more.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:flosh.
glosses: A flush or flash (marsh or pool of water).
floshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flosh
mangonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangonisms
Senses: glosses: The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage.
Raffaelesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Raffaelesque
form: most Raffaelesque
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Raphaelesque.
misdemean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdemeans
form: misdemeaning
form: misdemeaned
form: misdemeaned
Etymology: From mis- + demean.
Senses: examples: text: he misdemeaned himself
text: [Y]ou that beſt ſhould teach vs, / Haue miſdemean'd your ſelfe, and not a little: / Tovvard the King firſt, then his Lavves, in filling / The vvhole Realme, by your teaching & your Chaplaines / (for ſo vve are inform'd) vvith nevv opinions, / Diuers and dangerous; vvhich are Hereſies; / And not reform'd, may proue pernicious.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 220, column 1:
glosses: With a reflexive pronoun: to cause (oneself) to behave badly.
glosses: To misbehave.
Related terms: misdemeanor
misdemeanant
misdemeanist
misdemeanorize
misdemeaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdemean
misdemeaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdemean
misdemeans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdemean
obstancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obstancy
obstancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obstancies
Etymology: From Latin obstantia, from obstans, present participle of obstare. See obstacle.
Senses: examples: text: It doth indeed but irrita reddere sponsalia, annul the contract; after marriage it is of no obstancy.
ref: 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman:
glosses: Opposition, impediment, or obstruction.
permeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more permeably
form: most permeably
Etymology: From permeable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a permeable manner.
stereoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + -plasm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm.
Related terms: hygroplasm
whetile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whetiles
form: whitile
Senses: synonyms: yaffle
glosses: The European green woodpecker
whetiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whetile
pharmaceutist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmaceutists
Senses: glosses: One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmacist.
pharmaceutists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmaceutist
assentatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assentatory
form: most assentatory
Senses: examples: text: aſſentatory oaths are in caſes of trial by twelve or twenty four appearing as witneſſes, […]
ref: 1726, John Howie, The Works of John Selden, Efq, volume 3, page 1534:
text: […] and the civil magistrates not only call you before them to aver the truth therein, but also giving you a good example, cometh before you out of tenderness to their civil trust and duty, to maintain the privileges of parliament; to give a testimony assentatory to their civil rights and privileges; […]
ref: 1821, John Howie, Biographia Scoticana, Etc, page 526:
text: Selden [says] 'All oaths are either promissory or assentatory (assertatory?); the first being that which binds to a future performance of trust; the second that which is taken for the discovery of a past or present truth.
ref: 1892, John Selden, The table talk of John Selden ed. w. an introd. a. notes by Samuel Harvey Reynolds, M. A., late fellow ... of Brasenose Coll, page 122:
text: Tacitus and Pliny were without doubt fine orators, even if the former explores the idea of oratory's decline in his Dialogue on Orators and our only example of oratory to survive intact, the latter's Panegyric on Trajan (A.D. 98)[,] strikes moderns as turgid and assentatory.
ref: 1982, Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, Dominic Rathbone, The Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 918:
glosses: Assenting, sometimes especially to an excessive (flattering, obsequious) extent.
Derived terms: assentatorily
Related terms: assentator
orbitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orbit + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: As the angle is extremely small, the orbitary interception will be long, and the two members will continue to pull round each other for some distance in the same orbit.
ref: 1905, William Appleby, The Physical Constitution of the Sun, page 329:
glosses: Pertaining to an orbit; orbital.
examples: text: the orbitary feathers of a bird
glosses: Situated around the orbit.
Derived terms: suborbitary
coldwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cold + work, contrasted with the heated conditions of the original creation of the object.
Senses: examples: text: Is there a coldwork studio on campus?
glosses: The elimination of flaws and rough or sharp areas on the surface of blown or cast glass objects; usually achieved by some combination of grinding and polishing.
coldwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coldworks
form: coldworking
form: coldworked
form: coldworked
Etymology: From cold + work, contrasted with the heated conditions of the original creation of the object.
Senses: examples: text: I need to coldwork those new pieces.
glosses: To eliminate flaws and rough or sharp areas on blown or cast glass objects by some combination of grinding and polishing.
scarrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarring
coldworked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coldwork
coldworking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coldwork
pedimanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedimane + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as in the opossums and monkeys.
alogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin alogia, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: The error therefore and Alogie in this opinion, is worſe then in the laſt[…]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Bever”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 113:
glosses: unreasonableness, absurdity
leucitoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucitoids
Etymology: From leucite + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron, the form of the mineral leucite.
leucitoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucitoid
must-buy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mʌst baɪ/
Forms: form: must-buys
Etymology: From must + buy.
Senses: glosses: A product that one is strongly recommended to buy.
sev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛv/
rhymes: -ɛv
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati સેવ (sev).
Senses: glosses: An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste.
sev
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛv/
rhymes: -ɛv
Etymology: Clipping of seven to be one syllable.
Senses: examples: One-two-three-four-five-six-sev-one.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the seventh beat or pulse of a measure, spoken.
lavra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlævɹə/
Forms: form: lavras
form: lavrae
Senses: examples: text: 2000, Edward G. Mathews, Jr., Lavra, entry in William M. Johnston (editor), Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L, page 747,
He left this and, together with a fellow monk, Theoctistus, founded a number of other monasteries and lavras, including the lavra on the cliff in Wadi Mukallik and another in the area of Mishor Adummim.
text: The other 46 signatories of the Tragos can be assumed to have been hegoumenoi of lavras — no doubt perfectly well-run holy houses in their way, but they lacked the architectural grandeur of the Great Lavra, and they lacked its staying power too.
ref: 2002, Graham Speake, Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise, page 43:
text: Also important were the lavras (colonies of hermits) established in Palestine between the fourth and early sixth centuries, notably those founded by St Euthymius (+473) and his disciple St Sabas (+532).
ref: 2011, Norman Tanner, New Short History of the Catholic Church, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of laura.
eraser pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eraser pen
long balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long ball
place kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place kick
pulse oximeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulse oximeter
adipsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptidase that is secreted by adipocytes into the bloodstream and is involved in the suppression of infection
aminoethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amino + ethane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: ethylamine
aminohexyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminohexyls
Etymology: From amino + hexyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino derivative of a hexyl radical.
anhepatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + hepatic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Lacking a liver (especially at a stage during a transplant operation)
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That is not due to hepatocyte failure
raw_tags: of jaundice
Derived terms: preanhepatic
antiphenoloxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + phenoloxidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That disrupts phenoloxidase activity
aplysia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplysias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any sea slug of the genus Aplysia.
aprotinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aprotinin.
axonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From axonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of an axon.
Derived terms: intraaxonally
retroaxonally
transaxonally
biantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + antennary.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of two antennae
biantennary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biantennaries
Etymology: From bi- + antennary.
Senses: glosses: Such a glycan or glycopeptide
Derived terms: asialobiantennary
sialobiantennary
biatrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + atrial.
Senses: glosses: Having, or involving two atria, especially both atria of the heart
bimestrially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bimestrial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Every two months
biosurfactant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosurfactants
Etymology: From bio- + surfactant.
Senses: glosses: Any surfactant of biological origin
caldecrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The peptidase chymotrypsin-C
carboxydipeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxydipeptidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the terminal amino acid of a dipeptide from the end that contains a free carboxyl group
Related terms: carboxypeptidase
dipeptidase
carboxyprothrombin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carboxy + prothrombin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of prothrombin that has undergone posttranslational carboxylation.
Derived terms: des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin
chemotaxonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + taxonomic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chemotaxonomy
Derived terms: chemotaxonomically
chemotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chemotoxic
form: most chemotoxic
Etymology: From chemo- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chemotoxicity or to a chemotoxin
chemotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemotoxicities
Etymology: From chemo- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: toxicity due to chemical effects, especially to the effects of chemotherapy or a chemotoxin
Related terms: chemotoxic
chrysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The flavone 5,7-dihydroxy-2-phenyl-4H-chromen-4-one, isolated from the passionflower (Passiflora caerulea), sometimes used as an aromatase inhibitor supplement by bodybuilders and athletes
chymotryptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaɪ.məʊˈtɹɪp.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌkaɪ.moʊˈtɹɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chymotrypsin
Derived terms: semichymotryptic
cucurbitacins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cucurbitacin
cytocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cytocidal
form: most cytocidal
Etymology: From cyto- + -cidal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That causes the death of cells
Derived terms: noncytocidal
Related terms: cytocide
cytocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytocides
Etymology: From cyto- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Any cytocidal agent
cytofluorimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + fluorimetric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cytofluorometry
Derived terms: cytofluorimetrically
fluorimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fluorometric.
Derived terms: cytofluorimetric
fluorimetrically
immunofluorimetric
microfluorimetric
depolymerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /diːˈpɒlɪməɹeɪz/
Forms: form: depolymerases
Etymology: From de- + polymerase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes a depolymerization reaction
dideoxythymidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dideoxythymidines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The nucleoside consisting of a combination of dideoxyribose and thymine
diethylaminoethylcellulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diethylaminoethyl cellulose
Senses: glosses: A positively charged resin used in ion exchange chromatography
nalmefene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nal- (“opioid receptor antagonist/agonist”) + [Term?] + -ene.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An opiate derivative used mainly to manage alcoholism.
digluconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɡluːkəneɪt/
Etymology: From di- + gluconate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has two gluconate ions or groups
Derived terms: chlorhexidine digluconate
camphretic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From camphor + -etic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid derived from camphor.
Related terms: camphoric acid
pranker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prankers
Etymology: From prank + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a pranker or a dancer
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
synonyms: prinker
glosses: One who dresses in a flashy manner.
glosses: A prankster.
prankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pranker
toothshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothshells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tooth shell.
toothshells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothshell
fract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹækt/
rhymes: -ækt
homophone: frakked
Forms: form: fracts
form: fracting
form: fracted
form: fracted
Etymology: From Latin frāctus, past participle of frangere (“to break”).
Senses: examples: text: Hoſt[ess]. As euer you come of women, come in quickly to ſir Iohn: A poore heart, hee is ſo ſhak’d of a burning quotidian Tertian, that it is moſt lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to him. / Nym. The King hath run bad humors on the Knight, that’s the euen of it. / Piſt[ol]. Nym, thou haſt ſpoke the right, his heart is fracted and corroborate.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 74, column 1:
glosses: To break; to violate.
Derived terms: fractable
fracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fract
dihydrostreptose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dihydro + streptose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxymethyl derivative of streptose, 5-deoxy-3-c-(hydroxymethyl)pentose, that forms a biochemically important complex with dTDP.
dimethoxyflavone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethoxyflavones
Etymology: From di- + methoxy + flavone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any dimethoxy derivative of flavone, but especially 5,7-dimethoxyflavone which is biologically active
instinction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English instinccion, instyncyon, from Middle French instincion and its etymon Medieval Latin īnstīnctiō.
Senses: examples: text: And therfore Tulli in his Tusculane questyons supposeth that a poete can nat abundantly expresse verses sufficient and complete, or that his eloquence may flowe without labour wordes wel sounyng and plentuouse, without celestiall instinction, whiche is also by Plato ratified.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “The seconde and thirde decay of lernyng amonge gentilmen”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 1st book, page 57:
glosses: Instinct; incitement; inspiration.
mitriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mitriform
form: most mitriform
Etymology: From mitre + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The crisped leaves, with the different nature of the peristome and mitriform calyptra, multifid at the base, are, however, certain marks of distinction.
ref: 1844, Sir James Edward Smith, The English Flora, volume 1, page 29:
glosses: Having the form of a miter, or peaked cap.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Conical, and somewhat dilated at the base.
Synonyms: sense: form of a mitre
word: mitral
sense: form of a mitre
word: mitrate
Related terms: mitrate
mitre
mitred