cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
adjectival pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjectival pronouns
Senses: examples: text: This section will present the declensions of the demonstrative, interrogative/relative, and possessive categories. These pronouns can be termed adjectival on the basis of the fact that they substitute for adjectives. However, most adjectival pronouns have a declension that differs from that of adjectives in an essential property: […]
ref: 2002, Ronald F. Feldstein, Steven L. Franks, Polish, Lincom Europa, page 68:
text: Meus and tuus are called adjectival pronouns […]
ref: 2014, N. M. Gwynne, Gwynne's Latin: The Ultimate Introduction to Latin Including the Latin in Everyday English, Random House (ebook without page numbers; the italic words were originally bold)
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pronoun that accompanies a noun, such as our in English.
Synonyms: word: pronoun
word: pronoun adjective
Related terms: determiner
English cholera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various stomach ailments accompanied by diarrhea.
Cthulhuesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cthulhuesque
form: most Cthulhuesque
Etymology: From Cthulhu + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of Cthulhu; monstrous and terrifying.
at play
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: There are children at play in the street.
glosses: Playing, in the process of playing.
examples: text: Another opposition force at play is the Move Forward party – hugely popular among young Thais for its radical reform agenda.
ref: 2023 May 14, Heather Chen, Kocha Olarn, “Polls close in Thailand as opposition takes on kingdom’s conservative cliques”, in CNN:
synonyms: at work
glosses: In action.
unimmersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + immersed.
Senses: glosses: Not immersed.
Blackwoodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blackwoodian
form: most Blackwoodian
Etymology: From Blackwood + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), English writer of ghost stories and weird fiction.
e-list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-lists
Etymology: From e- + list.
Senses: glosses: An electronic mailing list, allowing a group of subscribers to receive the same electronic mail messages (and sometimes to post messages to the group).
e-lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-list
rootworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootworkers
Etymology: From root + worker.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of rootwork, or hoodoo.
rootworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootworker
dhoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhoops
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi धूप (dhūp), from Sanskrit धूप (dhūpa), from धूप् (dhūp, “to fumigate, perfume”, root) + Proto-Indo-European *-os.
Senses: glosses: A form of extruded Indian incense, lacking a core bamboo stick.
dhoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dhoop
cabalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cabal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The study of the Jewish Kabbalah.
glosses: The activities of a cabal; secret plotting.
Lurianic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lurianic
form: most Lurianic
Etymology: From Luria + -n- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish rabbi and mystic, considered to be the father of contemporary Kabbalah.
Lurianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lurian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Lurianic beliefs and practices
kanzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A voodoo initiation ceremony.
gift giver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gift givers
Senses: examples: text: It is difficult to say exactly how many people are intentionally spreading HIV, but in any given week, in the San Francisco Bay Area personals section of Craigslist, it is not unusual to find at least a couple of personal ads by bug chasers or gift givers.
ref: 2016 November 30, Joseph Channing, “An Undercover Look Inside the World of HIV Bug Chasers and Gift Givers”, in SF Weekly:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A sexual partner who transmits HIV to a bug-chaser.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gift, giver.
gift givers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gift giver
self-perpetuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-perpetuations
Etymology: From self- + perpetuation.
Senses: examples: text: One assumption that virtually all organizational theories and theorists seem to share is that every organization will devote itself to its own self-perpetuation. Experience suggests this assumption is generally well founded.
ref: 1994, Thomas Jeavons, When the Bottom Line is Faithfulness, page 65:
glosses: An act or state of something causing itself to continue to exist.
Related terms: word: self-perpetuating
catacosmesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin form of the Ancient Greek κατακόσμησις (katakósmēsis, “arrangement”).
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in "proper order", particularly
A descending order from best, greatest, etc. to worst, lowest, etc.
glosses: A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in "proper order", particularly
A chronological order from first to last.
glosses: A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in "proper order", particularly
An ascending order from worst, lowest, etc. to best, greatest, etc; a climax.
qualifier: imprecise
Synonyms: sense: descending series
word: anticlimax
sense: temporal series
word: chronological order
sense: temporal series
word: arrangement
sense: ascending series
word: climax
duck-billed cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck-billed cats
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:duck-billed cat.
qualifier: chiefly Mississippi
glosses: A paddlefish (Polyodontidae spp.).
duck-billed cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duck-billed cat
blige
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Thought by some to be a shortening of "I'm obliged".
Senses: qualifier: Bristol
glosses: blimey
Synonyms: wow
polytropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -tropism.
Senses: glosses: A form of polymorphism in which adjacent sheets of a crystal are inclined to one another.
examples: text: Murray et al. propose that the degree or breadth of attention allocation in humans is “normally distributed” and (largely) “genetically determined” (Murray et al., 2005, p. 140), with some people possessing a greater tendency toward multiply focused attention (polytropism), and others a tendency toward more narrowly focused attention (monotropism).
ref: 2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory”, in Frontiers in Psychology, number 12, →DOI, page 616664:
text: A surplus of free time, physical isolation, and the threat of a deadline may spur monotropic behavior, even in those who consider themselves oriented toward polytropism.
ref: 2023 March 30, Emily Stones, “Cross-Neurotype Communication Competence”, in The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, →DOI, →ISBN:
antonyms: monotropism
glosses: Attention focus on a variety of things during one timespan.
polytelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of freibergite.
synonyms: word: freibergite
polyuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polyuria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to polyuria
polyhandicaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhandicap
polyposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyposis
polysomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polysomy
double-bazinga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-bazingas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double bazinga.
double bazinga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double bazingas
form: double-bazinga
Etymology: From The Big Bang Theory, an American TV sitcom.
Senses: glosses: A sarcastic response to sarcasm, double sarcasm
tidal locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tidal lock
ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme involved in the first major step of carbon fixation.
Derived terms: Ribulose-1
5-bisphosphate carboxylase
oxygenase
RuBisCO
detention cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detention cells
Senses: glosses: A holding cell.
detention cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detention cell
heliportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heli- + portable.
Senses: examples: text: Heliportable operations use smaller drilling equipment specifically designed for easy separation into component parts and reassembly on-site.
ref: 1996, United States Forest Service, International Association of Geophysical Contractors, Geophysical operations, page 9:
glosses: Capable of being conducted using helicopters for transport.
Ignatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, a 16th century Spanish knight who founded the Jesuits.
Ignatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ignatians
Senses: synonyms: Ignatianist
glosses: A Jesuit.
mispunctuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispunctuations
Etymology: From mis- + punctuation.
Senses: glosses: Incorrect or missing punctuation.
Related terms: mispunctuate
nonticket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ticket.
Senses: examples: text: A recent analysis of 63 airlines by the airline consulting firm IdeaWorksCompany and sponsored by the travel-technology service CarTrawler found that these airlines earned $38.1 billion in ancillary revenue, or revenue from nonticket sources, last year.
ref: 2015 July 27, Martha C. White, “More Fees Propel Airlines’ Profits, and Embitter Travelers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or relating to tickets.
nonstatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstatins
Etymology: From non- + statin.
Senses: examples: text: It is 25 to 55 percent, not 15 to 20 percent, which is the amount for nonstatin cholesterol drugs.
ref: 2015 July 27, Gina Kolata, “Praluent Looks Cheap to Those With Extreme Cholesterol”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any drug that is not a statin.
nonstatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstatin
subprioresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subprioress
photosynthesiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosynthesisers
Etymology: From photosynthesise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photosynthesizer.
photosynthesisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photosynthesiser
strategyproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strategy + -proof.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of an asymmetric game where players have private information: such that there is no incentive for any of the players to hide or lie about their private information from the other players.
petrophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petro- + physical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to petrophysics.
Derived terms: petrophysically
contrapuntos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrapunto
cigarette paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigarette papers
Senses: glosses: A small sheet of paper with a gummed edge used for rolling cigarettes; rolling paper.
cigarette papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigarette paper
chifferobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chifferobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chifforobe.
chifferobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chifferobe
antidomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidomains
Etymology: From anti- + domain.
Senses: examples: text: It is shown that antidomain semirings are more expressive than test semirings and that Kleene algebras with domain are more expressive than Kleene algebras with tests.
ref: 2015, Georg Struth, “On the Expressive Power of Kleene Algebra with Domain”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The boolean complement of the domain.
antidomains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidomain
cardinalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cardinalises
form: cardinalising
form: cardinalised
form: cardinalised
Senses: examples: text: The proposed GLMB/LMB-based algorithms are compared with an extended target version of the cardinalised probability hypothesis density (CPHD) filter, and simulation results show that the (G)LMB has improved estimation and tracking performance..
ref: 2015, Michael Beard, Stephan Reuter, Karl Granström, Ba-Tuong Vo, Ba-Ngu Vo, Alexander Scheel, “Multiple Extended Target Tracking with Labelled Random Finite Sets”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of cardinalize.
cardinalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cardinalise
cardinalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cardinalise
cardinalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cardinalise
cyclotomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cyclotomic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: An important piece of information in the theory of the arithmetic Galois action on the geometric fundamental groups of schemes is that divisorial inertia is acted on cyclotomically.
ref: 2015, Filippo Callegaro, Giovanni Gaiffi, Pierre Lochak, “Garside elements, inertia and Galois action on braid groups”, in arXiv:
glosses: In a cyclotomic manner.
isochoricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isochoric + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The result is also shown to hold in combination with the additional constraint of preserving the enclosed volume, or isochoricity.
ref: 2015, Gustavo C. Buscaglia, “Continuous and discrete inf-sup conditions for surface incompressibility of a deformable continuum”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality or state of being isochoric.
towback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towbacks
Etymology: From tow + back.
Senses: glosses: A current that tends to pull things backward.
towbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towback
envy-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From envy + -free.
Senses: glosses: Such that every partner deems that his or her allocated share is at least as good as any other share.
raw_tags: of a division of a resource among several partners
estimability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estimabilities
Senses: examples: text: Necessary and sufficient conditions for estimability and regulability are derived for time variant and time invariant systems, in discrete and continuous time.
ref: 1987, Baram, Y. and T. Kailath, Estimability and Regulability of Linear Systems, NASA Technical Memorandum 89427
glosses: Capability of being estimated.
estimabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estimability
blow it out one's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows it out one's ear
form: blowing it out one's ear
form: blew it out one's ear
form: blown it out one's ear
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blow it out one's ass.
synonyms: word: blow it out one's ass
multidegree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multidegrees
Etymology: From multi- + degree.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper, we define multiprojective witness sets which will encode the multidegree information of an irreducible multiprojective variety.
ref: 2015, Jonathan D. Hauenstein, Jose Israel Rodriguez, “Numerical irreducible decomposition of multiprojective varieties”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The tuple (properly though a multiset) of the degrees of defining hypersurfaces for a complete intersection.
multidegrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multidegree
superoscillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superoscillations
Etymology: From super- + oscillation.
Senses: examples: text: We conclude that, either superoscillations really can beat the bandlimit and achieve superresolution (`kinematic superresolution') or the superoscillating high frequency is absorbed and we gain dynamical access to the physics of high frequency processes with low frequency signals (`dynamical superresolution')..
ref: 2015, Achim Kempf, Angus Prain, “Driving Quantum Systems with Superoscillations”, in arXiv:
glosses: The phenomenon by which a globally band-limited signal can contain local segments that oscillate faster than its fastest Fourier components.
superoscillations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superoscillation
biodeposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodeposits
Etymology: From bio- + deposit.
Senses: examples: text: Simultaneously, foraging animals bioturbate sediments, produce organic rich biodeposits and faeces, and excrete inorganic nutrients […]
ref: 2015 July 28, “Detecting Subtle Shifts in Ecosystem Functioning in a Dynamic Estuarine Environment”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A deposit of biological origin.
biodeposit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biodeposits
form: biodepositing
form: biodeposited
form: biodeposited
Etymology: From bio- + deposit.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo biodeposition
biodeposits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biodeposit
biopharmacological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + pharmacological.
Senses: examples: text: For some experiments, DCs were incubated with biopharmacological inhibitors to various molecules.
ref: 2015 July 28, “Pneumococal Surface Protein A (PspA) Regulates Programmed Death Ligand 1 Expression on Dendritic Cells in a Toll-Like Receptor 2 and Calcium Dependent Manner”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to biopharmacology
boscalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular fungicide and insecticide.
collagenopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collagenopathy
dimoxystrobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular strobilurin fungicide.
oryzastrobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin oryza (“rice”) and strobilurin.
Senses: glosses: A particular strobilurin fungicide.
fluoxastrobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular strobilurin fungicide.
kresoxim-methyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular strobilurin fungicide.
the Lord helps those who help themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of God helps those who help themselves.
the Lord helps those that help themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of God helps those who help themselves.
heaven helps those that help themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heaven helps those who help themselves.
icodextrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of note, icodextrin was not available in our country for any patient during the study period.
ref: 2015 July 28, “Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Is Associated with Better Survival Rates Compared to Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A colloid osmotic agent derived from maltodextrin.
God helps them who help themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of God helps those who help themselves.
mepanipyrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular fungicide.
keratocan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that is important to the transparency of the cornea.
neurorehabilitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + rehabilitative.
Senses: examples: text: In upper limb rehabilitation, robot-mediated therapy has the potential to facilitate a high number of repetitions leading to neurorehabilitative effects.
ref: 2015 July 28, “Investigation of Fatigability during Repetitive Robot-Mediated Arm Training in People with Multiple Sclerosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to neurorehabilitation.
peridural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From peri- + dural.
Senses: examples: text: In this study, we performed histopathologic assessment of postirradiation changes in the spinal dura mater and peridural tissue in mice.
ref: 2015 July 28, “Effects of Radiation on Spinal Dura Mater and Surrounding Tissue in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the dura mater.
pneumolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumolysins
Etymology: From pneumo- + lyse + -in.
Senses: glosses: A putative virulence factor of the gram-positive bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae. It has a range of biological activity, including the ability to lyse and interfere with the function of cells and soluble molecules of the immune system.
Derived terms: pneumolysoid
prevaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + vaccine.
Senses: examples: text: In the European countries and United States of America it is estimated that RV is responsible for 30%-50% of hospitalizations due to acute gastroenteritis among infants and young children in the prevaccine era.
ref: 2015 July 28, “Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in a Neonatal Unit of a Greek Tertiary Hospital: Clinical Characteristics and Genotypes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Before a vaccine, or before the use of vaccines generally.
proquinazid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular fungicide.
ribosomopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribosomopathy
tolylfluanid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular fungicide.
echocardiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From echocardiographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of echocardiography.
ornithogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ornitho- + -genic.
Senses: examples: an ornithogenic soil
glosses: Formed by birds.
artemisinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artemisinin
cataractogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cataract + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: The oxidative damage during cataractogenesis can be alleviated by cellular defense mechanisms, including catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione S transferases (GSTs) in the eye.
ref: 2015 July 26, Wen Sun et al., “Is there association between Glutathione S Transferases polymorphisms and cataract risk: a meta-analysis?”, in BMC Ophthalmology, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: The formation of a cataract.
choreatiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choreatiform
form: most choreatiform
Senses: examples: text: Symptoms and signs include cognitive and memory dysfunction, confusion, psychiatric disturbances, focal and generalized epileptic seizures, stroke-like episodes, myoclonus, ataxia, tremor, and choreatiform movements.
ref: 2015 July 26, David Carl et al., “Steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis following ipilimumab therapy: a case report”, in BMC Research Notes, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: Resembling chorea.
colpocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colpo- (“cavity”) + -cephaly (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: Compared to individuals with hypoplasia or dysplasia of the corpus callosum, individuals with CAG showed a significantly greater frequency of isolated corpus callosum abnormalities (without associated central nervous system defects), hippocampal anomalies, Probst bundles, and colpocephaly.
ref: 2015 July 25, Jason Bennett Neal, Christopher G. Filippi, Richard Mayeux, “Morphometric variability of neuroimaging features in Children with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum”, in BMC Neurology, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: A cephalic disorder involving the disproportionate enlargement of the occipital horns of the lateral cerebroventricles.
mesors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesor
mesor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesors
Etymology: Initialism of midline estimating statistic of rhythm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mean value based on the distribution of values across the cycles of the circadian rhythm, computed using a cosine function.
ureteroscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ureteroscopy
cytobands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytoband
cruorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruorin
extracytoplasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + cytoplasmatic.
Senses: examples: text: During the transport, the fused mCherry fluorochrome is probably not functional and became first correctly folded and visible in the extracytoplasmatic space (cicrumplasm).
ref: 2015 July 25, Ernst Jonscher et al., “Two COWP-like cysteine rich proteins from Eimeria nieschulzi (coccidia, apicomplexa) are expressed during sporulation and involved in the sporocyst wall formation”, in Parasites & Vectors, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: Outside the cytoplasm.
Derived terms: extracytoplasmatically
furanoflavonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furanoflavonoids
Etymology: From furan + -o- + flavonoid.
Senses: glosses: A flavonoid possessing a furan group.
furanoflavonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furanoflavonoid
karanjin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From karanja + -in.
Senses: glosses: A furanoflavonol obtained from the seeds of the karanja tree, and used as a pesticide and insecticide.
hypoglycaemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoglycaemic
hypomineralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypomineralisations
Etymology: From hypo- + mineralisation.
Senses: examples: text: The frequent occurrence of enamel defects (hypoplasia and hypomineralisation) in this CL(P) material can also act as retention sites for plaque and may contribute to the elevated counts of salivary lactobacilli.
ref: 2015 July 25, Anna Lena Sundell et al., “Comparing caries risk profiles between 5- and 10- year-old children with cleft lip and/or palate and non-cleft controls”, in BMC Oral Health, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of hypomineralization.
Darke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Darkes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Darke County
Darke Peak
Related terms: Dark
Darker
piezosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From piezo- + surgery.
Senses: glosses: The use of piezoelectric vibrations in the surgical cutting of bone tissue.
piezosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From piezo- + surgical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to piezosurgery.
scruin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An actin crosslinking protein.
malaligned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malaligned
form: most malaligned
Etymology: From mal- + aligned.
Senses: examples: text: Orthodontics is always the first choice treatment for aesthetic and functional rehabilitation of malaligned teeth but in some exceptionally rare cases, the unwillingness of the patient for orthodontic correction poses a tough challenge to the dentist.
ref: 2013 July 26, Kunwarjeet Singh et al., “Unconventional prosthodontics for the aesthetic rehabilitation of discoloured rotated maxillary central incisor”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI:
glosses: Badly aligned; misaligned.
mastitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In summary, a very high rate of iMLS (95 %, 38/40) phenotype of ER-R S. aureus and MLS resistance phenotype (67 %, 65/97) of CoNS isolates from milk of mastitic cows was found in this study in comparison with previous studies, presumably due to extensive use of MLS antibiotics in dairy cows in our region.
ref: 2015 July 25, Longping Li et al., “Macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin resistance phenotypes and genotypes of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococcal isolates from bovine mastitis”, in BMC Veterinary Research, volume 11, →DOI:
glosses: Having or relating to mastitis.
nonpyogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pyogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not pyogenic.
postextraction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + extraction.
Senses: glosses: After extraction (of e.g. a tooth).
reapproximation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reapproximations
Etymology: From re- + approximation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process of reapproximating.
streptogramins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streptogramin
Silesianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Silesian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Silesian.
thymectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For chimerism analysis of CD3+ cells from the thymectomized patient, cells were sorted using EazySep T cell Enrichment Kit (StemCell Technologies, Vancouver, BC, Canada) according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
ref: 2015 July 26, Hiroshi Takahashi et al., “CD4+ T cells in aged or thymectomized recipients of allogeneic stem cell transplantations”, in Biological Research, volume 48, →DOI:
glosses: Having undergone thymectomy.
transversional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transversion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to transversion.
unindicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + indicated.
Senses: glosses: Not indicated.
unsporulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sporulated.
Senses: glosses: Not sporulated.
interfraction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + fraction.
Senses: examples: text: We used CBCT scans to assess motion, which only accounts for interfraction motion, and the effect of intrafraction motion has not been considered, although this is likely to occur during PP-IMRT.
ref: 2015 July 26, Linda J. Bell et al., “Determining optimal planning target volume and image guidance policy for post-prostatectomy intensity modulated radiotherapy”, in Radiation Oncology (London, England), volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: Between fractions.
exsiccotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exsiccotic
form: most exsiccotic
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, exsiccosis.
flow blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The name is derived from the blue glaze that blurred or "flowed" during the firing process.
Senses: examples: text: Later she served the curried meal on an English blue and white flow-blue platter.
ref: 2017, Lila Lee, The Lotus Blossom:
glosses: A style of white earthenware, sometimes porcelain, that originated in the Regency era among the Staffordshire potters of England.
Arnold's cat map
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Vladimir Arnold, who demonstrated its effects in the 1960s using an image of a cat.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A chaotic map from the torus into itself.
Florentine flogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A two-handed style of flagellation involving the rhythmic use of a pair of matching floggers, one in each hand.
value premium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: value premiums
Senses: topics: business
finance
qualifier: investing
glosses: The greater risk-adjusted return of value stocks over growth stocks.
incestualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incestualists
Etymology: From incestual + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Andrew Sullivan attacks the first premise by arguing that PIB and homosexuality are importantly different, because there are “constitutional” homosexuals, but not constitutional polygamists, “incestualists,” or “bestialists.”
ref: 2005, J Corvino, Homosexuality and the PIB Argument:
text: 2005, Uncle Davey, Re: To those who CONTINUE to attack Dr Gastrich Group: talk.origins
OK, Aaron, what about a parade of necrophiliac incestualists next to your front door every other weekend? Gonna tolerate that?
glosses: One who engages in incest.
Synonyms: incestual
inbreeder
incester
incestophile
gear oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gear oils
Senses: glosses: A high-viscosity lubricant intended for use on transmissions, transfer cases, and differentials in automobiles etc.
framepack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framepacks
Etymology: From frame + pack.
Senses: glosses: A type of large backpack that usually lacks a bag, but instead is intended to serve as a support for carrying items that can be attached to it by means of cords.
framepacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of framepack
East Van
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of East Vancouver (the districts of the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, which lie in the east of the city, next to the city of Burnaby)
synonyms: word: East Vancouver
extra: the districts of the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, which lie in the east of the city, next to the city of Burnaby
Related terms: Van
North Van
South Van
West Van
North Van
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of North Vancouver (a city in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada, north of Vancouver, east of West Vancouver, on the north shore of the Fraser River delta)
synonyms: word: North Vancouver
extra: a city in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada, north of Vancouver, east of West Vancouver, on the north shore of the Fraser River delta
Related terms: Van
East Van
South Van
West Van
coenoecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenoecia
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A polypary; a chitinous investment or covering of a coenosarc in hydroid hydrozoans.
bitch seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitch seats
Etymology: In biker culture, women traditionally ride on the back of a motorcycle.
Senses: glosses: The position of sitting on the rear of a motorcycle, behind the person driving; pillion.
glosses: The middle seat in a car, especially the one in the front next to the driver.
bless oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blesses oneself
form: blessing oneself
form: blessed oneself
form: blessed oneself
Senses: examples: text: They had an ornate ritual ; they professed to believe in the Real Presence ; genuflected and blessed themselves on entering church ; reserved what they called the Blessed Sacrament in a side chapel, and made visits and paid reverence to it.
ref: 1892, Donahoe's Magazine, page 1:
text: The shepherd blessed himself. And then he blessed himself again for good measure. He placed a hand on either side of the pillar and then threw it into the air.
ref: 2011, Joe Hayes, The Coyote Under the Table, Cinco Puntos Press, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Grace's bracelets rattled loudly as she furiously blessed herself several times. ‘Mother Mary, forgive us, this is truly the end of days.’
ref: 2022, C. K. McDonnell, This Charming Man: (The Stranger Times 2), Random House, →ISBN:
text: She blessed herself quickly, threw back the covers, and grabbed her skating clothes. She was in the bathroom splashing water on her face when her mother tapped on the door.
ref: 2023, Susan MacLellan, Figure It Out with Eva, Word Alive Press, →ISBN:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: cross oneself
glosses: To make the sign of the cross.
examples: text: Who can tell how widely you might bless others, while you were laboring to bless yourselves?
ref: 1849, Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, Journal, page 414:
text: Bless yourself today with the gift of forgiveness. Take advantage of the gift of today's new mercy that God offers you.
ref: 2014, Dr. Gwendolyn Pettway, DCC, FRESH BEGINNINGS: The Breakthrough Devotional for Emotional Healing, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bless, oneself.
screenwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of screenwash
screenwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of screenwash
screenwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screenwash
Tomlinsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tomlinson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: He is as Lucifer would be were that proud spirit banished to a society of soulless, Tomlinsonian ghosts.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 10, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to a figure with the surname Tomlinson, especially the eponymous protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tomlinson".
Tully monster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tully monsters
form: Tully Monster
Etymology: Named after amateur collector Francis Tully, who found the first of these fossils in 1955.
Senses: glosses: A soft-bodied bilaterian animal, notable for its dubious taxonomic status, †Tullimonstrum gregarium, which lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago. This animal has an odd appearance, having a mostly cigar-shaped body, with a triangular tail fin, two long stalked eyes, and a proboscis tipped with a mouth-like appendage.
Tully monsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tully monster
Tully Monster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tully Monsters
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Tully monster.
Tully Monsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tully Monster
woolly rhino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly rhinos
Senses: examples: text: Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:
glosses: Alternative form of woolly rhinoceros.
woolly rhinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolly rhino
aphercotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Aphercotropism.— “Turning away from an obstruction” is a peculiarity discovered by Darwin. His experiment was as follows:— after allowing a radicle to be well developed in peas, beans, &c, the seed is suspended in the air. A tiny piece of card is attached to one side of the tip by a little gum; the tip will now move away from the vertical position, on the opposite side to the card. The tip may make one or more complete circles in a vertical plane; and it has been known to pass through the first loop so as to tie itself into a knot.
ref: 1899, The Selborne Magazine, volume 10, Selborne Society, page 14:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement or growth of an organism away from an obstruction.
sabre-toothed cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabre-toothed cat
saber-toothed cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saber-toothed cats
Senses: glosses: US spelling of sabre-toothed cat
saber-toothed cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saber-toothed cat
monoacylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monoacylates
form: monoacylating
form: monoacylated
form: monoacylated
Etymology: From mono- + acylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To introduce a single acyl group into a molecule
Derived terms: monoacylation
monoacylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoacylates
Etymology: From mono- + acylate.
Senses: glosses: A monoacylated product
monoacylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monoacylate
monoacylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monoacylate
monoacylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monoacylate
monoacylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoacylate
false saber-toothed cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false saber-toothed cats
Senses: glosses: US spelling of false sabre-toothed cat
false saber-toothed cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false saber-toothed cat
false sabre-toothed cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false sabre-toothed cats
form: false saber-toothed cat
Senses: glosses: A nimravid.
glosses: A barbourofelid.
false sabre-toothed cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false sabre-toothed cat
midtarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From mid- + tarsal.
Senses: examples: a demonstration of how to examine the midtarsal joint area
glosses: Of or relating to the state of being jointed between the two rows of tarsal bones in a foot.
short-faced bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-faced bears
Senses: examples: text: The biggest of the Alaskan short-faced bears weighed over a ton, three times the weight of the biggest modern-day predator on land, the Siberian tiger, and four times that of an adult male grizzly bear.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 12:
glosses: A subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.
short-faced bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-faced bear
saiga antelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saiga antelopes
Senses: glosses: Any of species Saiga tatarica of antelopes found in the steppes of Central Asia.
saiga antelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saiga antelope
Shasta ground sloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shasta ground sloths
Senses: glosses: Any member of species †Nothrotheriops shastensis of extinct ground sloths, from Pleistocene North America.
Shasta ground sloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shasta ground sloth
Harlan's ground sloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harlan's ground sloths
Etymology: In honor of American paleontologist Dr. Richard Harlan, who first discovered and described the lower jaw in 1835.
Senses: glosses: Any of an extinct species, †Paramylodon harlani of ground sloths, from Pleistocene North America.
Columbian mammoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Columbian mammoths
Senses: glosses: Any of the species Mammuthus columbi of extinct mammoths, from Pleistocene North America.
Columbian mammoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Columbian mammoth
rain lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain lamps
form: oil rain lamp
Senses: examples: text: Mother looked at the ladder, at the twin lofted beds, at the desk, at the closet, at the throw pillows, at the cheap decorations, at the artwork, at the Christmas lighting, at a rain lamp that I'd acquired a few weeks earlier. It was turned on, illuminated, beads of oil dripping down around a reasonable copy of Athena Parthenos.
ref: 2017, Jarett Kobek, The Future Won't Be Long:
qualifier: lighting
glosses: A type of lamp, popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that moves droplets of water or oil along filaments to create the illusion of falling rain.
steppe mammoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steppe mammoths
Senses: glosses: An extinct species of mammoth (†Mammuthus trogontherii or †Mammuthus armeniacus), from Pleistocene Eurasia.
steppe mammoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steppe mammoth
vocal fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the resemblance of the noise to the sound of hot fat sputtering in a skillet.
Senses: examples: text: Some individuals have overlooked the fact that at such low pitch their voices fade to inaudibility at the ends of sentences, or scrape down to vocal fry.
ref: 1975, Hilda B. Fisher, Improving voice and articulation, page 158:
text: It is perhaps easiest to see the superimposition of vocal fry, so we will begin with this behavior.
ref: 2004, Lloyd M. Hulit, Straight Talk on Stuttering, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Pop singers, such as Britney Spears, slip vocal fry into their music as a way to reach low notes and add style.
ref: 2011 December 9, Marissa Fessenden, “'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into U.S. Speech”, in Science:
text: Vocal fry is safe as long as you do not do it too loudly or for too long.
ref: 2014, Matthew Edwards, So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll: A Guide for Professionals, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Vocal fry or creaky voice refers to a voice quality characterized by irregular glottal opening and low pitch. It occurs in diverse languages and is prevalent in American English, where it is used not only to mark phrase finality, but also sociolinguistic factors and affect.
ref: 2022, Bronya Roni Chernyak, Talia Ben Simon, Yael Segal, Jeremy Steffman, Eleanor Chodroff, “DeepFry: Identifying Vocal Fry Using Deep Neural Networks”, in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, →DOI, pages 3578–3582:
text: Yes, you can detect a bit of Johansson’s clear, low tone and a hint of vocal fry, though at times that just sounds like some grainy digitalization.
ref: 2024 May 20, Alissa Wilkinson, “What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: creaky voice
glottal fry
popcorning
glosses: A low creaky vocal vibration caused by rapid vibration of the vocal chords, common in some languages such as Finnish. In English, often associated with older Received Pronunciation and more recent North American speech patterns.
glottal fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Vocal fry.
moriche palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moriche palms
Senses: glosses: A palm tree of species Mauritia flexuosa, native to tropical South America.
Synonyms: buriti
miriti
muriti