cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flavagline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavaglines
Senses: examples: text: Not only are flavaglines specifically toxic to cancer cells, but they also promote the survival of neurons, T lymphocytes, and cardiomyocytes under conditions of adverse effects of chemotherapeutic agents: cisplatin, etoposide, and doxorubicin respectively [4 –6 ].
ref: 2015 November 5, “FL3, a Synthetic Flavagline and Ligand of Prohibitins, Protects Cardiomyocytes via STAT3 from Doxorubicin Toxicity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of natural products found in plants of the genus Aglaia, and characterized by a cyclopenta[b]benzofuran skeleton.
Hyponyms: rocaglamide
flavaglines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavagline
rocaglamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular flavagline.
flavorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavorizers
Etymology: From flavorize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, plant and animal based food flavorizers are often incorporated into rodenticides to enhance palatability to omnivorous rodents.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Patterns of Natural and Human-Caused Mortality Factors of a Rare Forest Carnivore, the Fisher ( Pekania pennanti ) in California”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A flavoring agent for use in food etc.
flavorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavorizer
metabolisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabolisations
Senses: examples: text: For PhrCACET1, this behavior can be explained by a number of mechanisms, including metabolisation in serum or brain tissue, leading to metabolites with different BBB transport properties as PhrCACET1 has the lowest in vitro human plasma stability of the three peptides.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Quorum Sensing Peptides Selectively Penetrate the Blood-Brain Barrier”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of metabolization.
metabolisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metabolisation
metallophosphoesterases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallophosphoesterase
preban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ban.
Senses: glosses: Before the enacting of a ban.
mistaggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistagging
microisolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + isolation.
Senses: examples: text: The animals were 5-week-old, 23–27 g, murine pathogen free, Swiss albino male mice of the strain Udea:ICR(CD-2) bred in our high-tech microisolation animal facility.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Demonstration of Therapeutic Equivalence of Fluconazole Generic Products in the Neutropenic Mouse Model of Disseminated Candidiasis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The use of a microisolator.
microsoftware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + software.
Senses: examples: text: Although the current microsoftware market has evolved into a two-tiered system (using distributors to reach retail stores), there are five roles in the distribution chain […]
ref: 1984, Small Systems World, volume 12, page 12:
text: These data were analyzed with Excel microsoftware and plotted.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Genome-Wide Analysis of Microsatellite Markers Based on Sequenced Database in Chinese Spring Wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: software for a microcomputer
neurodisease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurodiseases
Etymology: From neuro- + disease.
Senses: examples: text: Head-movement or biological (certain vascular- or neurodiseases or cardiac output) or anatomical (lesions, variations in Circle of Willis or vascular system) causes can also influence data analysis.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Characteristics of Misclassified CT Perfusion Ischemic Core in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: neural disease
neurodiseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurodisease
circles of Willis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circle of Willis
overnourishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + nourishment.
Senses: examples: text: It is of large interest to include the dynamics that determine overnourishment into future assessments.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Global food demand scenarios for the 21st century”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive nourishment.
Related terms: word: overnourish
word: overnourished
pentaploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentaploid
PERMANOVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Acronym of permutational multivariate analysis of variance.
Related terms: ANOVA
ANCOVA
promelanogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more promelanogenic
form: most promelanogenic
Etymology: From pro- + melanogenic.
Senses: examples: text: We first investigated the possible involvement of promelanogenic growth factors released by mesenchymal cells in the hyperpigmentation of SL lesions.
ref: 2010 November, D. Kovacs, “Role of fibroblast‐derived growth factors in regulating hyperpigmentation of solar lentigo”, in British Journal of Dermatology, volume 163, number 5, page 1020:
text: Furthermore, the promelanogenic effect of DMPB was evident in an in vivo guinea pig model (Fig 6).
ref: 2015 November 5, “(E)-4-(3,4-Dimethoxyphenyl)but-3-en-1-ol Enhances Melanogenesis through Increasing Upstream Stimulating Factor-1-Mediated Tyrosinase Expression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Promoting the production of melanin.
simvastatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simvastatin
skewedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skewed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: However, among the Bidayuh indigenous population of Sarawak (East Malaysia), NPC incidence rates are the highest when compared to other cancers and this is an example of a regional hotspot that adds to the skewedness of this disease.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Identification of Four-Jointed Box 1 (FJX1)-Specific Peptides for Immunotherapy of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being skewed.
suberanilohydroxamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: vorinostat
valvulogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From valvulo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Generation and development of the valves of the heart
Related terms: valvulogenic
chemsex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chem + sex.
Senses: examples: text: But of course, not all chemsex enthusiasts will look worse for wear – just as not all alcoholics will be found on a park bench.
ref: 2015 November 5, Zoe Cormier, “Chemsex: how dangerous is it?”, in The Guardian:
text: I have redonned my jeans, but the atmosphere at the next place will not require me to wear anything more than my underwear at most. We are going to a chemsex party.
ref: 2017, James Wharton, Something for the Weekend, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: party and play
glosses: Sexual intercourse under the influence of recreational drugs.
Derived terms: chemsexer
consultatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consultatively
form: most consultatively
Etymology: From consultative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With their documentary backgrounds, co-directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler continue in the rich vein of dramas made by Australian film-makers who’ve returned from remote communities with striking “not-in-the-brochure” work, made consultatively and with an ear for local voices (including Paul Cox’s Molokai: The Story of Father Damien and Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country).
ref: 2015 November 5, Luke Buckmaster, “Tanna review – volcanic South Pacific love story shot entirely in Vanuatu”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a consultative manner.
factionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of factionalise
factionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of factionalise
factionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of factionalise
wifeswapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wife swapping
Etymology: From wife + swapping.
Senses: glosses: The activity of swinging, where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.
detachables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detachable
unassertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unassertible
form: most unassertible
Etymology: From un- + assertible.
Senses: examples: text: Nureyev, it seems, is good for Fonteyn who, being the least vain and least umbrageous of ballerinas, evidently relishes his exotic, far from submissive partnership; and there must be something in Fonteyn’s gentle, unassertible authority which is equally good for Nureyev.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Fonteyn and Nureyev sparkle in Le Corsaire at Covent Garden: archive, 5 Nov 1962”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of unassertable.
Marigold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the flower. The rubber gloves are generally bright yellow in colour.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Marigold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marigolds
Etymology: From the flower. The rubber gloves are generally bright yellow in colour.
Senses: qualifier: genericised brand name
glosses: A rubber glove, especially one for use in household cleaning.
raw_tags: with capital
Anglo-Arabian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglo-Arabians
form: Anglo-Arab
Etymology: From Anglo- + Arabian.
Senses: glosses: A crossbred, thoroughbred horse that is at least one eighth Arabian.
pants party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pants parties
Senses: glosses: A party where the only clothing worn is pants (either trousers or underpants) (i.e. a shirtless gathering).
glosses: A clothing-optional party, where the intent is to engage in sexual activity.
clothing-optional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clothing optional
Senses: examples: text: If you are new to the world of hot springs, you may be surprised at how many of them have a clothing-optional standard. Clothing-optional is a euphemism of sorts; in simple terms it means you may bathe nude.
ref: 1999, Carl Wambach, Touring Colorado Hot Springs - Page 7:
glosses: Alternative form of clothing optional.
pants parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pants party
papakh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papakhs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of papakha.
anilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aniline + -ism.
Senses: glosses: aniline poisoning
Synonyms: anilinism
strawberry generation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɔːbɛɹi ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 草莓族 (cǎoméizú), so called as people of the generation bruise easily like strawberries.
Senses: examples: text: I can spend all day giving retorts and arguing my case, but I thought this was a good chance to speak up for the much maligned “strawberry generation” and wanted to make a much more different point to a much bigger problem.
ref: 2012 June 21, Shawn Tan, “In defence of Gen Y & the strawberry generation – Why do Singaporeans hate each other so much?”, in The Temasek Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2015:
text: Singapore’s young workers have been called the strawberry generation: easily bruised by work and life.
ref: [2013 August 6, Goh Chin Lian, Andrea Ong, “The Singapore worker: 20s go-getters, 30s & 40s in lower gear”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2015:
text: Like our peers in Taiwan, we are dubbed the "strawberry generation" for bruising easily under pressure.
ref: [2015 August 9, Janice Heng, “The Pioneers' improbable heirs”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2015:
glosses: The generation born in the 1980s, characterised as effete and unable to cope with hard work and the pressures of modern life.
makin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of makkin.
one-third
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one third
Senses: examples: text: Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:
text: There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:
glosses: One of three equals parts (1/3, ⅓, 0.333…).
Related terms: fraction
one-half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one half
Senses: examples: text: As the series is extended to ever higher numbers, the fraction fluctuates among values a little greater than or equal to one-half, but the general trend moves closer and closer to exactly one-half.
ref: 1988 August 30, Malcolm W. Browne, “Intellectual Duel: Brash Challenge, Swift Response”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One of two equal parts (1/2, ½, 0.5).
glosses: One-half lengthwise pad paper or one-half crosswise pad paper.
one-quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: one quarter
Senses: synonyms: one-fourth
glosses: One quarter (1/4, ¼, 0.25).
Related terms: fraction
one-fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one fifth
Senses: glosses: One of five equal parts (1/5, ⅕, 0.2).
one-sixth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one sixth
Senses: examples: text: “We are, each of us, one-sixth. A fraction of the whole,” says Hilbert. “0.16666666…”
ref: 2022, Iain Reid, We Spread, Scribner, page 67:
glosses: One of six equal parts (1/6, ⅙, 0.1666…).
one-eighth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one eighth
Senses: examples: text: Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam ancestor.
ref: 2023 May 16, Maud Newton, “Blending Native History and Myth Into Heartfelt Memoir”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2023:
glosses: The fraction that represents the real number 0.125; ⅛.
Related terms: fraction
three-eighths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three eighths
Senses: glosses: Three of eight equal parts (⅜, 0.375).
Related terms: fraction
five-eighths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five eighths
Senses: glosses: Five of eighth equal parts (5/8, ⅝, 0.625).
glosses: plural of five-eighth
Related terms: fraction
seven-eighths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven eighths
Senses: glosses: Seven of eight equal parts (7/8, ⅞, 0.875).
Related terms: fraction
five-sixths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five sixths
Senses: examples: five-sixths of the population
glosses: Five of six equal parts (5/6, ⅚, 0.8333…).
Related terms: fraction
one-fourth
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: one fourth
Senses: examples: text: California state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson told The Wall Street Journal last month when the legislation passed that “one-fourth of California’s publicly traded companies still do not have a single woman on their board, despite numerous independent studies that show companies with women on their board are more profitable and productive.”
ref: 2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business:
synonyms: one-quarter
glosses: One of four equal parts (1/4, ¼, 0.25).
one-fourth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one fourth
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of one-fourth pad paper (“a one-fourth of standard size sheet of pad paper typically used by students for school quizzes”).
two-thirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two thirds
Senses: examples: text: two-thirds majority
text: two-thirds of the population
text: [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
ref: 1960 December 24, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:
text: Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:
text: [B]ut easily two-thirds of the work we carried out in this exercise was the de-bogging of other vehicles around the original one.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 123:
text: Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
ref: 2023 February 23, Parija Kavilanz, “Americans have a collective $21 billion in unspent gift cards”, in CNN:
synonyms: 2/3rds
glosses: Two of three equal parts (2/3, ⅔, 0.666...).
Related terms: fraction
two-fifths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two fifths
Senses: examples: text: It provides for the sale of four-fifths of certain land, while the mortgagor owned only two-fifths, and the decree was so drawn as to lead to an inference that the intention was that a two-fifths interest belonging to the plaintiff should be sold in connection with the mortgagor's interest.
ref: 1888, The Northwestern Reporter, volume 35, page 507:
text: If only an emulsion be required, a solution of rubber in benzine or other hydrocarbon, to which a small portion of alcohol has been added, is mixed by vigorous agitation with a two-fifths saturated solution of borax previously heated to about 120° to 140° Fahr., and the agitation must be continued—preferably by mechanical means, but not of too violent a character—until the mixture has cooled down to the temperature of the air, or nearly so.
ref: 1890 March 27, The American Stationer, volume 27, page 743:
text: A business buyer that bought a government property in 1960, for instance, would have paid about three-fifths (60.1 percent) of the price of the property, receiving about a two-fifths (39.9 percent) inflation windfall, instead of 33.6 and 66.4 percent, respectively, as was the case when purchased in 1953.
ref: 2007, Young-Iob Chung, South Korea in the fast lane: economic development and capital formation, page 99:
text: The company has calculated that, in some states, this reduction could impact more than two-fifths of its ABA therapy provider groups in network and up to 19% of its patients in therapy.
ref: 2024 December 14, Annie Waldman, “UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism”, in CNN:
glosses: Two of five equal parts (2/5, ⅖, 0.4).
Related terms: fraction
four-fifths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Four of five equal parts (4/5, ⅘, 0.8).
Related terms: fraction
Tauist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tauist
form: most Tauist
Senses: examples: text: a Tauist or Buddhist written prayer, having a list of names written on it
ref: 1899, Carstairs Douglas, Chinese-English dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy, Presbyterian Church of England, page 452:
glosses: Dated spelling of Taoist.
Tauist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tauists
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of Taoist.
terminalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of terminalize
terminalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of terminalize
Grano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Grano, Italian Grano.
Senses: glosses: A city and hamlet in North Dakota.
glosses: A surname.
rustle someone's jimmies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rustles someone's jimmies
form: rustling someone's jimmies
form: rustled someone's jimmies
form: rustled someone's jimmies
Etymology: First attested in 2009 (see Citations:rustle someone's jimmies).
Senses: examples: text: It really rustles my jimmies when my roommate blasts his stereo all day.
text: […] have a nice talk with your roommate about how it really rustles your jimmies when they slam the door after their 3 a.m. bathroom trip every night.
ref: 2012, Brenton Woodward, "How to live with a total stranger", Arizona Summer Wildcat (University of Arizona), 25 July 2012 - 31 July 2012, page 30
text: What really rustles my jimmies is when others attempt to force their beliefs on others.
ref: 2012 August 30, Shelby Chiasson, “Editor expresses distastes at religious intolerance”, in The Johnsonian, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, page 6:
text: The briny pickle juice really rustles my jimmies.
ref: 2019, "The Best Advice Column", The Irvington (Irvington High School, Fremont, CA), 1 February 2019, page 18
glosses: To bother someone; to make someone feel upset.
examples: text: It's not that my wide feet are so irresistibly sexy that no man could keep his hands off them — trust me, they're not — but there's just something about feet that really rustles his jimmies.
ref: 2014 March 5, Hamarita Jones, “Fetishes, kinks, and paraphilias, oh my!”, in The Cascade, University of the Fraser Valley, page 13:
text: Should I try find love with someone who really rustles my jimmies?
ref: 2014, "True love Tracey", letter to "Letters To The Ductus Doctor", Ductus (University of Newcastle), Edition 2 (2014), page 37
text: And what, I'm sure you're asking, rustles the jimmies of a highly discerning [turtle] bachelor such as myself? I'm looking for a delectable woman who is interested in long, painfully slow walks on the beach, being dazzled by my utterly stunning shell, and mercilessly abandoning any children of our union to be devoured by birds while they desperately try to scramble from land to the water immediately after hatching.
ref: 2017 February, The Moot Times, University of Calgary, page 3:
glosses: To interest or excite sexually or romantically.
Synonyms: rustle someone's jim-jams
ruffle some feathers
activate someone's almonds
unnavigably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unnavigable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "We may briefly comment that the Greeks of Plato's time cannot have had much familiarity with the Atlantic Ocean beyond the strait if they thought it was unnavigably blocked with mud."
ref: 2001, Paul Jordan, The Atlantis Syndrome:
glosses: in an unnavigable manner
Forman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation, a spelling variant of Foreman.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Sargent County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States.
Milnor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in North Dakota.
crinkle-patterned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "He ducked the ball and it hit the crinkle-patterned glass, which cracked all over."
ref: 2013, Kevin James, Diary of A Village Boy: The Memoirs of an Ordinary Man and the Times He ...:
glosses: having a pattern like crinkled paper
Goodrich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʊdɹɪt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: Godrich
form: Godridge
form: Gooderick
form: Gooderidge
form: Goodrick
form: Goodricke
form: Goodridge
form: Goodwright
form: Gutridge
Etymology: From Old English Godrīc (“good or godly ruler”).
Senses: glosses: A characteristical surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Goodrich and Welsh Bicknor Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5719).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adams County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Atlas Township, Genesee County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Sheridan County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hickman County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Polk County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
near-mint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "The pricing column in this edition represents the estimated value for near-mint condition copies of the records listed."
ref: 2007, Jerry Osborne, Presleyana VI - the Elvis Presley Record, CD, and Memorabilia Price Guide:
glosses: close to mint; near mint
raw_tags: of a condition of something
examples: text: "This leaves an item which is a defect-free collectible, acceptable anywhere at the near-mint price."
ref: 2011, Stuart W. Wells III, Universe of Star Wars Collectibles: Identification and Price Guide, 2nd Edition:
glosses: of, or related to something that is in the near mint condition
Amidon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Slope County, North Dakota, with a population of only 20 in 2010.
work like a dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works like a dog
form: working like a dog
form: worked like a dog
form: worked like a dog
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To work very hard.
murderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From murder + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I read a murderless mystery book.
glosses: that has no murders
have someone's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has someone's head
form: having someone's head
form: had someone's head
form: had someone's head
Senses: examples: text: The boss will have his head for losing the biggest customer over a mistake.
synonyms: have someone's guts for garters
have someone's hide
tan someone's hide
glosses: To punish someone severely, as by sacking (firing), imprisonment, or similarly harsh penalties.
examples: text: The tyrant would have their heads for their temerity.
qualifier: literal
glosses: To kill somebody, especially with violence and especially by decapitation.
Related terms: word: heads will roll
word: off with someone's head
english: nearly antonymous
translation: nearly antonymous
word: have someone's back
pereq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹɛk/
Forms: form: peraqim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew פֶּרֶק (péreq).
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of a masekhet; loosely, a chapter or section thereof.
raw_tags: in the Mishna
peraqim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəɹɑːˈkiːm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew פְּרָקִים (pərāqīm).
Senses: glosses: plural of pereq
Sadowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sadowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Sadowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
blogshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogshops
Etymology: From blog + shop.
Senses: examples: text: We have previously suggested that the Blogshop phenomenon emerged through the symbiotic relationship of technology adaptation and design with specific geographic conditions.
ref: 2010, Hannakaisa Isomäki, Samuli Pekkola, Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development, →ISBN, page 245:
text: Finally, another form of reproducing stereotypes and dominating feminine identities is blogshops, online sites in which young women model and sell apparel via social media that have exploded in many countries.
ref: 2013, Kerric Harvey, Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, →ISBN, page 570:
text: The blogshop model, 18, makes up for her petite 1.65m frame with her sharp features and megawatt smile.
ref: 2012 December 12, Chow Hui Min, “Journey of a Blogshop Model”, in Temasek Polytechnic Campus newspaper: Stop Press, retrieved 31 Oct 2015:
glosses: A blog that functions as a retail portal.
Cleese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cleeses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cheeses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: english: a surname derived from Cheese
translation: a surname derived from Cheese
word: Cleese
Singaporean core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in the Singapore-government White Paper population policy in January 2013.
Senses: examples: text: In his New Year’s Day Message 2013, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted the need to maintain a strong Singaporean core in the country’s population policy.
ref: 2013 December 1, Faizal Bin Yahya, National University of Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies Developing a Singaporean Core in our Workforce:
text: EP applications for selected firms with a “weaker Singaporean core of PMEs relative to others in their industry” will be scrutinised more closely.
ref: 2015 July 8, Adrian Tan, The Middle Ground: Keeping the Singapore core of PMEs employed:
text: In an interview published by Time magazine on Thursday, Mr Lee said the country must have a solid Singaporean core.
ref: 2015 July 23, Channel News Asia:
text: "And that is a very tricky balancing act to do, because you must not have so many people coming in from the outside that your own local, Singaporean core is eroded."
ref: 2015 September 18, Calvin Yang, The Straits Times (Singapore) Indranee: Building economy while keeping Singaporean core a “tricky balancing act”:
glosses: Singaporeans having birthright citizenship because they are descended from settlers in Singapore prior to independence in 1965.
Idle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Idles
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1737).
glosses: A river, the River Idle in Nottinghamshire, England, which flows into the River Trent.
par values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of par value
plug-and-pray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plug and pray.
impastoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impasto
impastoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impasto
jurisdictionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jurisdiction + -less.
Senses: examples: text: This proposition is fatal to this appeal, and renders this court jurisdictionless and powerless to proceed to review the cause.
ref: 1916, {unattributed}, The Pacific Reporter - Volume 157 - Page 328
glosses: Lacking jurisdiction.
nostra sponte
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Taken directly from the Latin
Senses: topics: law
glosses: on its own initiative
suo motu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin suo motu.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of sua sponte.
synonyms: word: sua sponte
catseye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catseyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cat's eye.
stabbee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stabbees
Etymology: From stab + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: "There was no doubt who the stabber and the stabbee were."
ref: 2009, Tom Basinski, Cross-Country Evil: The Shocking True Story of an Eighteen-Year Manhunt for ...:
glosses: one who is stabbed
stabbees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stabbee
down times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down time
Hideko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Nagata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nagatas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 永田 (Nagata) or Japanese 長田 (Nagata).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
flexibilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexibilisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flexibilization.
Tarnowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tarnowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Tarnowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
counter-times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-time
stereotype taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereotype tax
Czartoryski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Czartoryskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Czartoryski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Poniatowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Poniatowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Poniatowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Yukiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ゆきこ (Yukiko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Setsuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese せつこ (Setsuko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Streeter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A minor city in Stutsman County, North Dakota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia.
undonnish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undonnish
form: most undonnish
Etymology: From un- + donnish.
Senses: glosses: Not donnish.
annuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annualities
Etymology: From annual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being annual.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The restriction that a budget must be spent by the end of a financial year and cannot be carried over.
Bisbee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Cochise County, Arizona.
glosses: A small city in Towner County, North Dakota.
Gorgan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gurgan
Etymology: From Iranian Persian گرگان (gorgân), from Classical Persian گرگان (gurgān); see it for more. Related to Hyrcania.
Senses: glosses: Hyrcania.
glosses: An old city in the region of Hyrcania destroyed in the Mongol invasion; Jurjan.
glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Gorgan County's Central District and the capital of Golestan Province; formerly called Astrabad.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
Synonyms: Astrabad
Astarabad
Asterabad
Related terms: Jurjan
Hyrcania
reverse dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse dictionaries
Senses: glosses: A dictionary in which entries are sorted alphabetically by their last letter, then second-to-last, and so on: Nausicaa would precede Hecuba, which would precede orca; influenza would precede cab, and so on.
synonyms: inverted dictionary
glosses: A dictionary that lists words under the concepts they describe.
Related terms: english: separately for various languages
translation: separately for various languages
word: Reverse dictionaries in other Wiktionary editions:Catalan – German – Latin – Polish – Russian
reverse dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse dictionary
Czarniecki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Czarnieckis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Czarniecki.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Egeland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city and village in North Dakota.
rubbing alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubbing alcohols
Senses: glosses: Synonym of surgical spirit.
synonyms: word: surgical spirit
glosses: Synonym of isopropanol.
synonyms: word: isopropanol
Cando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Towner County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Cando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Candos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cando. This surname is mostly found in Ecuador.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
give someone his head on a platter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone his head on a platter
form: giving someone his head on a platter
form: gave someone his head on a platter
form: given someone his head on a platter
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hand someone his head.
give someone his head on a plate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone his head on a plate
form: giving someone his head on a plate
form: gave someone his head on a plate
form: given someone his head on a plate
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hand someone his head.
with hat in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hat in hand.
builds down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of build down
building down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of build down
built down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of build down
build down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: builds down
form: building down
form: built down
form: built down
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of higher value (e.g. 4♦ over 5♣).
innerup'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of interrupt.
ice cold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ice cold
form: most ice cold
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ice-cold.
ice cold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice colds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ice-cold.
cuntful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuntfuls
form: cuntsful
Etymology: From cunt + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Lowering his trousers to see the rest of his attributes, I weighed on the palm of my hand his heavy bag of love’s elixir, estimating in my mind how many cuntfuls its spacious chambers could afford me.
ref: 1986, anonymous author, A Lady of Quality, Headline, published 1989, →ISBN, page 212:
text: The bustle of our countrywomen around us, so ordinary and so oblivious, merely brightened our horror, and my first action was to take Mina to the station restaurant, where I urged two cuntsful of menstrual wine down her.
ref: 2006, Wendy Swanscombe, Fresh Flesh, Nexus, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: The amount (of something) that can fit in a vagina.
Mssrs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Messrs..
Sens.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sen. (senators)
play with house money
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays with house money
form: playing with house money
form: played with house money
form: played with house money
Etymology: Referring to a casino, where gambling one's winnings from the casino ("the house") may feel less risky than gambling the money that one brought from outside.
Senses: antonyms: have skin in the game
glosses: To be in a situation where little or no personal risk can be incurred.
glosses: To act as though little or no risk can be incurred.
Related terms: bet the farm
starvate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starvates
form: starvating
form: starvated
form: starvated
Etymology: Back-formation from starvation.
Senses: examples: text: The starvated individuals lose body weight; their body weight reduced to less than half the initiat weight.
ref: 1951, Mie Kenritsu Daigaku, Suisan Gakubu, Report of the Faculty of Fisheries, Prefectural University of Mie:
text: In addition, they cancel a negative correlation between the changes in the blood sugar level and the food intake which was previously established on the basis of determinations, performed in starvated rabbits, in the morning and in the evening.
ref: 1964, Acta Biologiae Experimentalis - Volumes 24-26, page 236:
text: For our experiments we chose starvated and well fed animals /with very low and very high glycogen concentrations in their livers/ and compared the concentration of the initial and final metabolites of anaerobic glycolysis.
ref: 1973, Scientific papers of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague: Food:
text: Feed intake of pullets alternatively starvated was the same as in full fed group.
ref: 1976, European Poultry Conference - Volume 1, page 84:
text: On the other hand, in sham-operated or starvated groups, fetal body weight gain was not suppressed.
ref: 1985, Masakuni Suzuki, Nobuaki Furuhashi, Perinatal care and gestosis, →ISBN:
text: This is most probably explained by the rapid growth of calves, their susceptibility to starvate over the course of winter and their nutritional dependence on the winter forage dug available from beneath the snow by their mothers.
ref: 1992, Eero Tikkanen, Martti Varmola, Tuija Katermaa, Symposium on the State of the Environment and Environmental Monitoring in Northern Fennoscandia and the Kola Peninsula, →ISBN:
text: Compared to wild type Grb7, this isoform does not respond to EGF and is not dephosphorylated in serum-starvated quiescent conditions presumably due to its inability to bind to EGF receptors or PHPTP2 (314).
ref: 2003, Tang-Long Shen, Focal adhesion kinase and Grb7 in integrin signaling in cell migration:
text: Secondly, the model is currently designed for a fully-hydrated membrane under fuel-starvated conditions.
ref: 2010, Z. Ogumi, Battery/Energy Technology (General) - 216th ECS Meeting, →ISBN:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Synonym of starve.
synonyms: word: starve
cowardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English cowardnesse; equivalent to coward + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Bycauſe they beleue, yf annye man be fearefull and faynte harted of nature, he wyll not onelye doo no manfull and hardye act hym ſelfe, but alſo by occaſyon of cowardenes to hys fellowes.
ref: 1551, Thomas More, “The Second Boke of the Communycacion of Raphael Hythlodaye, Concernynge the Best State of a Commen Wealthe: Cõteynyng the Discription of Utopia, with a Large Declaration of the Godly Gouernement, and of All the Good Lawes and Orders of the Same Ilande. Of Warfare.”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC, signature P.iiij., recto:
glosses: Synonym of cowardice.
synonyms: word: cowardice
untrustedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untrusted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of not being trusted.
castor oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castor oil
molecular formulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molecular formula
chemical equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical equation
hit piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hit pieces
form: hit-piece
Senses: examples: text: And respectable media institutions do have their standards, but there is something insidious—and very human—at work in the preparation of a hit piece: the media's desire to believe in the evil of their targets.
ref: 2013, Eric Dezenhall, John Weber, Damage Control […] , Easton Studio Press, →ISBN, page 126:
text: “This isn't a profile, my dear sister-in-law, it's a hit piece.” “A hit piece?” Buck unfolded his copy of the Spectator and began looking for Anne's byline. “It's on page three,” Pearce told him helpfully.
ref: 2014, Karen Young, Belle Pointe, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: She seemed so exacting and the magazine itself so impossibly glamorous to my college-kid sensibility, and did I really want to do a hit piece on an actor? […] And so the plan was set in motion: I would meet the actor Judd Nelson, find him appalling, and write about how awful hanging out with him had been.
ref: 2019, Bret Easton Ellis, White, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
topics: journalism
media
synonyms: slam piece
hatchet job
coordinate_terms: puff piece
glosses: A published article or post aiming to sway public opinion, especially by presenting false or biased information in a way that appears objective and truthful.
hit pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hit piece
hit-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hit-pieces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hit piece.
hit-pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hit-piece
zebra spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebra spiders
Senses: glosses: A species of jumping spider with contrasting black and white markings, found across the northern hemisphere, Salticus scenicus.
state capitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state capitalisms
form: state-capitalism
Senses: hypernyms: capitalism
glosses: The form of capitalism where for-profit commercial activities are undertaken by the state; either via corporatized government agencies, or via ownership or control of nominally private organizations.
Related terms: word: state capitalist
word: state-capitalist
word: Marxism-Leninism
word: Stalinism
word: communism
word: socialism
word: state socialism
proto-neutron star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-neutron stars
form: protoneutron star
Etymology: From proto- + neutron star.
Senses: qualifier: stars
glosses: The degenerate core of a massive star, prior to its emergence after a supernova as a neutron star.
Synonyms: word: PNS
Derived terms: word: PNS
proto-neutron stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proto-neutron star
CCSN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCSNe
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of core collapse supernova.
Related terms: alt: supernova
word: SN
CCSNe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CCSN (core collapse supernovae)
Fe/H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Fe/H (metallicity)
Hypernyms: M/H
ZAMS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of zero-age main sequence.
YSG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YSGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of yellow supergiant.
Related terms: sense: yellow supergiant
alt: red supergiant
word: RSG
sense: yellow supergiant
english: blue supergiant
translation: blue supergiant
word: BSG
RSGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RSG
YSGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YSG
BSG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: RSG
YSG
glosses: Abbreviation of blue supergiant.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of basigin.
glosses: Initialism of brewer's spent grain.
BSG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Baraminology Study Group.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Initialism of Battlestar Galactica, an American science fiction media franchise.
BSGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BSG
Four Seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A solitaire card game, having five spaces for cards (the reserve) in the layout of a cross.
glosses: A style of pizza (pizza quattro stagioni) prepared in four sections, each having ingredients representing one season of the year.