cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
intervenability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intervene + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Brill also considered three models of intervenability: at the patient, microsystem (patient-practice), and macrosystem (practice-system) levels.
ref: 2007, David Schwartz, Predictive Modeling in Disease Management, page 20:
glosses: The quality of being intervenable.
re-entrustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-entrustments
Etymology: From re- + entrustment.
Senses: examples: text: Where the re-entrustment is not consented to, the agent shall bear liability for the acts of the third person, unless the agent needs to re-entrust such matters for the protection of the interests of principal due to an emergency.
ref: 1999, Xianggang Zhongguo, China Patents & Trademarks, page 102:
glosses: A repeated act of entrustment, whether continuing entrustment in the entrusted party, or passing entrustment on to a new party.
reentrustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reentrustment; alternative form of re-entrustments
reentrustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reentrustments
Etymology: From re- + entrustment.
Senses: examples: text: A reentrustment ritual, similar to the entrustment ritual described in Chapter l, can help both the parents and the first child at this difficult time.
ref: 2010, Lois Ruskai Melina, Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent, page 316:
glosses: Alternative spelling of re-entrustment.
re-entrustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-entrustment
stirabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stirabout
re-entrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːɪnˈtɹʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: re-entrusts
form: re-entrusting
form: re-entrusted
form: re-entrusted
Etymology: From re- + entrust.
Senses: examples: text: The futures brokerage commission shall make no profit-earning pledges for their clients on the shared benefits or risks, conduct futures trading in the personal name when authorized by the companies, enterprises, or other economic organizations, and re-entrust the entrusted business or accept the re-entrusted business.
ref: 2007, Salih N. Neftci, Michelle Yuan Ménager-Xu, China's Financial Markets: An Insider's Guide to how the Markets Work, page 29:
glosses: To again pass trust to the care of something on to another.
re-entrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-entrust
tarr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarrs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
re-entrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-entrust
re-entrusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-entrust
intervenably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intervenably
form: most intervenably
Etymology: From intervenable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that enables intervention.
intervenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intervenable
form: most intervenable
Etymology: From intervene + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be intervened in; vulnerable to intervention.
Derived terms: intervenably
reentrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reentrusts
form: reentrusting
form: reentrusted
form: reentrusted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-entrust.
reentrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reentrust
reentrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reentrust
reentrusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reentrust
dolesomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dolesome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dolesome.
dolesomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dolesomely
form: most dolesomely
Etymology: From dolesome + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dolesome manner.
sulfur tufts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfur tuft
celibatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛləbəˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛləbəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: celibatarians
Etymology: From celibate + -arian.
Senses: glosses: One who remains celibate.
celibatarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celibatarian
cellarous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cellarous
form: most cellarous
Etymology: From cellar + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: some underground way which emitted a cellarous smell
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
text: But, a little side-door, which I had never observed before, stood open, and disclosed certain cellarous steps.
ref: 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:
text: But it'll be marvellous up there, after the dim fusty muffle of this cellarous bazaar[…]
ref: 1999, Brian Louis Pearce, The Goldhawk Variations, page 139:
text: […] he cautiously raised his eyes and peered into the cellarous darkness.
ref: 2011, Eve Ottenberg, The Widow's Opera, page 320:
glosses: Like or belonging to a cellar.
celoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celom
Celtiberi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Celtiberian people.
chlorobenzyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorobenzyl
antineoplaston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antineoplastons
Etymology: From anti- + neoplastic + -on, coined by Stanislaw Burzynski.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of peptides and other compounds used in a controversial unproven therapy against cancer.
wikipedia: Stanislaw Burzynski
antineoplastons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antineoplaston
sulphur tufts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphur tuft
bdellion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bdellium.
bardoxolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + [Term?] + -olone (“steroid or steroid-like drug”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A triterpenoid whose methyl ester has been used to suppress oxidative stress and inflammation.
gray triggerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray triggerfish
Senses: glosses: A triggerfish of the western Atlantic, found from Nova Scotia to Argentina.
cryoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cryoprotective
form: most cryoprotective
Etymology: From cryo- + protective.
Senses: glosses: That provides cryoprotection
aphakics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphakic
diaphonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diaphanization.
diaphanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaphonization
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A technique in which a biological specimen is treated to make the skin and tissue diaphanous (i.e. transparent) whilst retaining body shape and staining the skeleton; tissue clearing
diaphanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: diaphonized
Senses: glosses: Treated using diaphanization
diaphonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diaphanized.
immunoregulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoregulators
Etymology: From immuno- + regulator.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A substance responsible for immunoregulation
immunoregulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoregulator
interferonopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interferonopathies
Etymology: From interferon + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder associated with an upregulation of interferon.
interferonopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interferonopathy
kallistatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A serin protein, found in human plasma, that contains binding sites for heparin
jumarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jumar
jumarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jumar
outburned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outburn
outburning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outburn
outburns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outburn
netblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netblocks
Etymology: From net + block.
Senses: glosses: A block of IP addresses.
netblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netblock
tawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈtɔɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɔ.jɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː.jə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tawyers
Etymology: From taw + -yer.
Senses: examples: text: If the skins were bought from the butcher or fellmonger by a tawyer or whittawyer, rather than a tanner, the process used was different.
ref: 2018 July 30, Lynn Huggins-Cooper, Leatherwork and Tanning, Pen and Sword, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of tawer.
microgranuloma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgranulomas
form: microgranulomata
Etymology: From micro- + granuloma.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic granuloma
Related terms: microgranulomatous
microgranulomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgranuloma
rexinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rexinoids
Senses: glosses: Any synthetic agent that binds specifically to a retinoid "X" receptor
rexinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rexinoid
neurophilosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurophilosophers
Etymology: From neuro- + philosopher.
Senses: glosses: One who studies neurophilosophy.
neurophilosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurophilosopher
neurophilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + philosophical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neurophilosophy.
neurophilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + philosophy.
Senses: glosses: The interdisciplinary study of neuroscience and philosophy that explores the relevance of neuroscientific studies to the arguments traditionally categorized as philosophy of mind.
luskishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From luskish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But, when he saw his foe before in vew, / He shooke off luskishnesse […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Laziness; sloth.
FAETUPAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The US Navy loves acronyms, and sometimes creates lip-curlers like FAETUPAC – Fleet Airborne Electronics Training Unit Pacific, our host for the day.
ref: 1962, unknown author, Flight International, volume 82, IPC Transport Press Limited, page 523:
text: As the testing continued throughout 1947 and 1948, the operational use of TBM-3Ws was accomplished through the Fleet Aviation Electronic Training Units (Atlantic-FAETULANT and Pacific-FAETUPAC).
ref: 2002, Edwin Leigh Armistead, AWACS and Hawkeyes: The Complete History of Airborne Early Warning Aircraft, MBI Publishing Company, chapter 1 “The Development of Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Aircraft”, page 13
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Fleet Airborne Electronics Training Unit (Pacific) Squadron.
fertility rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fertility rate
death rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death rate
fantastika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian фантастика (fantastika).
Senses: examples: text: As literary figures in late 20th-century fantastika, the characters in Banks' first three novels have plenty of Dark Twins grinning at them from tomorrow—and from right now, and from yesterday, and from other places that may or may not exist […]
ref: 2015, Simone Caroti, The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction, page 37:
glosses: speculative fiction
guids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guid; Alternative form of GUIDs.
bromoperoxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromoperoxidase
hypobromites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypobromite
smoothhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoothhound
smoothhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoothhounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smooth hound.
Pammie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æmi
Etymology: From Pam + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Pamela.
Baslers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Basler
deathhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deathhawks
Etymology: Blend of death + mohawk
Senses: glosses: A mohawk hairstyle with voluminous teased or backcombed hair, common in the deathrock subculture.
deathhawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathhawk
pulpitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pulpit + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pulpit.
horseproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horse + -proof.
Senses: examples: a horseproof fence or gate
glosses: Resistant to horses; preventing a horse from escaping.
semimarine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + marine.
Senses: examples: a semimarine climate
glosses: Somewhat or partly marine.
ays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ay
moortops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moortop
tuneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: tune + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tune
attuneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: attune + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attune
counterdiscourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdiscourses
Etymology: From counter- + discourse.
Senses: examples: text: Counterdiscourses such as postcolonial and resistance literatures struggle with their hybrid nature. They generally find it necessary to appropriate the language and techniques of the center which they oppose.
ref: 1999, Greg Carey, Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: A way of thinking that opposes an institutionalized discourse.
counterdiscourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdiscourse
grippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grippie
blogring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogrings
Etymology: From blog + ring.
Senses: glosses: A kind of webring connecting blogs.
blogrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blogring
ringspun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ring + spun.
Senses: glosses: Manufactured by ring spinning.
awaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: awakers
Etymology: From awake + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who awakes.
awakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awaker
ring spinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of spinning fibres to make a yarn. The roving is first attenuated by using drawing rollers, then spun and wound around a rotating spindle contained within an independently rotating ring flyer.
Related terms: ringspun
Kinois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Kinshasan
Kinois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kinois
Senses: glosses: Kinshasan
Buddhistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Buddhistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: as a Buddhist, in a manner of a Buddhist
sight to behold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sights to behold
Senses: examples: text: 10 December 2010, Mike Selvey in The Guardian Online, The Ashes 2010: The right approach and Steven Finn can be a Typhoonhttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/dec/10/the-ashes-2010-steven-finn-england?INTCMP=SRCH
A bowler in full stride off a long run-up is a sight to behold, but shorter may prove better for the tall England seamer
text: For Ann and her officers were indeed a sight to behold. Her Majesty's clothing, once so rich and gorgeous, was now worn and torn into shreds by her long crawl through the tunnel, which, by the way, had led her directly into the Metal Forest.
ref: 1914, L. Frank Baum, chapter 21, in Tik-Tok of Oz:
glosses: Something amazing or spectacular, or when sarcastic, something ugly or revolting
network printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network printers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A printer that receives its print jobs through a print server, as opposed to processing print jobs directly.
print server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: print servers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A server that processes print jobs and sends them to one or more printers.
catabatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of katabatic.
sericate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sericated
Senses: glosses: silky; covered with silky down
Related terms: Serica
ærugo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of aerugo.
bluenoser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluenosers
Etymology: See bluenose.
Senses: glosses: A person from Nova Scotia, Canada.
bluenosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluenoser
deramp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deramps
form: deramping
form: deramped
form: deramped
Etymology: From de- + ramp.
Senses: glosses: To remove (goods or containers) from a railroad flatcar using special equipment.
examples: a phase deramping function
glosses: To use a deramp process in order to clean up an electronic signal.
deramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deramps
Etymology: From de- + ramp.
Senses: examples: text: In the deramp process, the principle of continuous radar with a linearly frequency-modulated wave is applied to a pulsed radar.
ref: 2001, Philippe Lacomme, Air and Spaceborne Radar Systems: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 223:
text: Deramp processing entails mixing (i.e., multiplying) the return signal with two sinusoidal carriers of frequency fc and then low-pass-filtering the two resulting signals.
ref: 2003, Ronald G. Driggers, Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering, →ISBN:
text: The trick with full deramp processing is to mix the echo with a replica of the transmitted chirp signal rather than with a fixed frequency tone (figure 4).
ref: 2012, Robin A. Vaughan, Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A process for cleaning up electronic signals such as radar, in which a received signal is mixed with a reference signal in order to highlight differences in frequencies.
deramped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deramp
deramping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deramp
deramps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deramp
imzadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈzɑːdi/
rhymes: -ɑːdi
Forms: form: imzadis
Etymology: From the American science-fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which it is a term of endearment used by the Betazoid race, said to mean "beloved."
Senses: examples: text: I have a 2 year old son, and my major interests include science fiction TV (Star Trek, X-Files), music, books and movies. […] I am looking for my imzadi, and hope to meet her someday.
ref: 1994 August 30, djsst22 [username], “GWF ISO SF”, in pgh.singles (Usenet):
text: So I'll probably run about the neighborhood with my imzadi (what I've decided to call my 'best-friend-person' now. It's a Star Trek term, Betazoid stuff.) […]
ref: 1999 October 28, Lisa: DreaManiChicKuriousStarfire [username], “Re: Halloween: What are your plans?”, in alt.drugs.psychedelics (Usenet):
text: I push beyond my body
I push beyond this world of mine
Drunk without wine
myself my imzadi
ref: 2001, Cari Lynn, “To Touch The Face of God”, in Journey Without a Map, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 20:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A person with whom one shares a profound spiritual bond; a soulmate.
wikipedia: Betazoid
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Related terms: english: similar concept from Homestuck
translation: similar concept from Homestuck
word: moirail
eonothem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eonothems
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
stratigraphy
glosses: The totality of rock strata laid down in the stratigraphic record during a certain eon of the continuous geologic timescale.
eonothems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eonothem
PSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
glosses: Abbreviation of Point St. Charles (Pointe Saint-Charles)
glosses: Initialism of Public Service of Canada.
PSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSCs
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of primary sclerosing cholangitis.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polar stratospheric cloud.
PSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initials of Mandarin PSC: 普通話水平測試／普通话水平测试 (pǔtōnghuà shuǐpíng cèshì).
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Putonghua Proficiency Test, standardized test of Standard Mandarin Chinese proficiency for native speakers.
Stenny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛni
Senses: glosses: Stenhousemuir
perigalacticons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perigalacticon
WPBSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.
Bo'ness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /boʊˈnɛs/
Senses: glosses: Shortened from Borrowstounness, a coastal town in Falkirk council area, in the Central Lowlands of Scotland (OS grid ref NS9981).
Related terms: Bowness
sibyllic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sibyllic
form: most sibyllic
form: sibylic
Etymology: From sibyl + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a sibyl (pagan female oracle or prophetess).
Galfridian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Galfridian
form: most Galfridian
Etymology: From his Latin name, Galfridus Monemutensis, + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The clerical opponents of the Reformation systematically invoked Galfridian prophecy to justify their resistance.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 380:
glosses: Of or relating to Geoffrey of Monmouth (c.1100–c.1155), cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.
artbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artbooks
Etymology: From art + book.
Senses: glosses: A book about art, particularly concept art for an animated media production.
glosses: A book containing art.
artbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artbook
upcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upcharges
Etymology: From up- + charge.
Senses: glosses: A surcharge for something additional, especially an upgrade (optional amenity).
upcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upcharges
form: upcharging
form: upcharged
form: upcharged
Etymology: From up- + charge.
Senses: glosses: To charge extra or to overcharge (charge someone a surcharge, or charge too much).
examples: text: Threaten to upcharge, threaten consecutive sentencing.
ref: 2018, William R. Kelly, Confronting Underground Justice: Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: To overcharge (charge someone with an inflated number or degree of legal charges).
Related terms: word: upgrade
upcharges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upcharge
upcharges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upcharge
vitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vitiously
form: most vitiously
Etymology: From vitious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of viciously.
pretiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pretiously
form: most pretiously
Etymology: From pretious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of preciously.
malitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malitious
form: most malitious
Etymology: From Latin malitiōsus.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of malicious.
Derived terms: malitiously
malitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more malitiously
form: most malitiously
Etymology: From malitious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maliciously.
leap down someone's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaps down someone's throat
form: leaping down someone's throat
form: leaped down someone's throat
form: leaped down someone's throat
form: leapt down someone's throat
form: leapt down someone's throat
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jump down someone's throat.
climb down someone's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: climbs down someone's throat
form: climbing down someone's throat
form: climbed down someone's throat
form: climbed down someone's throat
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jump down someone's throat.
poopless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poop + -less; in the sense of "frightened", a euphemism for shitless.
Senses: glosses: Without poop (feces).
examples: text: That thunderclap was so loud it scared me poopless!
glosses: frightened.
oppositional defiant disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oppositional defiant disorders
Senses: glosses: A childhood disorder characterized by an ongoing pattern of anger-guided disobedience, hostility, and defiant behavior toward authority figures.
Synonyms: ODD
ODD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ODDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of oppositional defiant disorder.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of optical disc drive.
MARTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I used some of my summer stipend to buy a MARTA pass, so I could have unlimited access to the 66 Lynhurst.
ref: 2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 155:
glosses: Acronym of Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
petnapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petnappers
Senses: glosses: One who steals or abducts a pet (domestic animal).
petnappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petnapper
frequentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of frequentative.
programmed obsolescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: planned obsolescence implemented through deliberate limitations in software or hardware
guitarwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From guitar + work.
Senses: examples: text: This song has great guitarwork, especially in the solo at the end.
glosses: The technically accomplished playing of a guitar.
Lusophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌluːsəˈfɪlɪə/
Etymology: From Luso- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: Love or admiration for Portuguese things.
Derived terms: Lusophile
lusophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lusophilia.
skux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skuxes
form: skuxx
Etymology: Unknown, but has been dubiously claimed to derive from Samoan sitati (sometimes colloquially pronounced as sikaki), which in turn is from English study.
Senses: glosses: stud, player, womaniser
Christmas graduate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas graduates
Senses: glosses: A freshman who drops out of college at the end of the first semester.
darken a church door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: darkens a church door
form: darkening a church door
form: darkened a church door
form: darkened a church door
Senses: glosses: To go to church to attend a service.
different strokes for different folks
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: 1950s US origin, popularized by Muhammad Ali (1966) and later the song "Everyday People" by Sly Stone (1968).
Senses: examples: text: There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one / That won't accept the red one, that won't accept the white one / Different strokes for different folks
ref: 1968, “Everyday People”, in Stand!, performed by Sly and the Family Stone:
glosses: Different people like different things; there's no accounting for taste.
wikipedia: Everyday People
Muhammad Ali
Related terms: horses for courses
dirt file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirt files
Senses: glosses: A compilation of negative gossip or facts about someone.
discretion is the better part of valor
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of discretion is the better part of valour.
do you mind
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Do you mind if I turn on the radio?
text: Do you mind coming into the office for a moment?
text: I'd like to borrow a plate. Do you mind?
glosses: Used to politely ask someone for a favor.
examples: text: Do you mind? I'm trying to work here!
glosses: A rhetorical question used to inform someone that they are being intrusive or annoying.
don't knock it till you've tried it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: don't knock it until you've tried it
Senses: examples: text: Brenda snagged an extra peeler from the drawer and sat at the table with Jill. “I don't know why anyone would want to live in New York City.” “Don't knock it till you've tried it, Brenda,” Carly said, adding a dash of salt to the Waldorf salad.
ref: 2014, Jamie Denton, Breaking the Rules, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: That's right: peanut butter. I'm not going to get enthusiastic like some off-Broadway choreographer expostulating on sexual preferences—“don't knock it till you've tried it!”—but don't knock it till you've tried it. The Smokey Bar! calls it the PBJ for reasons that have nothing to do with jelly.
ref: 2020, Jason Peters, The Culinary Plagiarist: (Mis)Adventures of a Lusty, Thieving, God-Fearing Gourmand, Wipf and Stock, →ISBN:
glosses: One should not criticise or dismiss something before one has experienced it.
Related terms: sour grapes
drawing card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawing cards
Senses: examples: text: In a dramatic display of strength, the Boston/Boise Committee held its first major fundraising event last Weekend at the Arlington Street Church. With author Gore Vidal, as the evening's drawing card, more than $4,000 was raised on behalf of […]
ref: 1978 April 15, “Boston/Boise Raises $4,000 at Benefit with Gore Vidal”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Synonym of drawcard (“something that attracts patronage to a place or an event”).
synonyms: word: drawcard
extra: something that attracts patronage to a place or an event
drugstore cowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drugstore cowboys
Etymology: First use appears c. 1922 in the San Antonio Evening News. The second sense derives from soda fountains and ice cream counters as a once popular meeting spot in drugstores.
Senses: examples: text: When we first came to California and we started putting on Westerns, there were no riders in Hollywood; they were all drugstore cowboys.
ref: 1974, Film Heritage:
text: The Soviet Union, he [Marlin Fitzwater] insisted, was engaged “in a very strange pattern of public-relations gambits”; he compared Mikhail Gorbachev to a “drugstore cowboy,” an old-fashioned term for a pretentious impostor.
ref: [1989 May 29, “Who's a ‘Drugstore Cowboy’?”, in Newsweek, page 29:
text: I was raised on Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and as a kid I dreamed of doing the things real cowboys do—not drugstore cowboys or rodeo cowboys, but the real sweat-and-dirt variety—like roping and riding, herding cattle, and breaking horses.
ref: 1990, Kenny Rogers, “Introduction”, in Cowboy Tales: Western Classics from American Masters, Viking Studio Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: dude
glosses: Someone who dresses and acts like a cowboy but has none of the skills.
examples: text: When any of these jazz-age drugstore cowboys starts trying to fool around with his sister, he won't mince his words. He'll say, "See here, now, what do you mean, trying to ruin my sister?"
ref: 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 21, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
text: I saw Duel in the Sun late one Friday afternoon, came out blinking at the drugstore cowboys standing in front of the fly-spattered windows of the cafe across the street […]
ref: 1984, Carolyn Osborn, The Fields of Memory, Bryan, Texas: Shearer Publishing, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: A young man who loafs around town, especially a lady's man who hangs out in public places in an attempt to pick up girls.
Related terms: plastic shaman
milk-bar cowboy
dying seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The very final part of something timed, especially a sports game.
even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then
form: even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
Senses: glosses: A usually unreliable person can be right sometimes, even if it is just by chance.
Synonyms: a stopped clock is right twice a day
even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
Related terms: every dog has its day
not worth writing home about
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The powdered eggs, instant potatoes and dried bacon were not worth writing home about, but it was edible and satisfied the immediate hunger.
ref: 2013, Linda Arena, Darius: The Planet of Creation, page 51:
glosses: Being nothing to write home about; unremarkable and mediocre.
TV series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TV series
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of television series.
Synonyms: word: teleseries
word: drama
crude birth rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crude birth rates
Senses: topics: demographics
demography
glosses: Number of childbirths in a society per 1,000 people per year
crude death rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crude death rates
Senses: topics: demographics
demography
glosses: Number of deaths in a society per 1,000 people per year
natural increase rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural increase rates
Senses: topics: demographics
demography
glosses: The difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate of a population
demographic transition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demographic transitions
Senses: examples: text: Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."
ref: 2011 February 18, James Fallows, “How to Solve China's Gender Imbalance? The 'Babe Tax'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2011:
topics: demographics
demography
glosses: The process that represents the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.
transwomyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transwomyn
form: trans womyn
Etymology: From transwoman, with woman respelled womyn (see that entry).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transwomyn.
glosses: Alternative spelling of trans womyn.
steatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From steato- + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Inflammation of a fatty tissue.
Hypernyms: steatosis
Hyponyms: hepatosteatitis
steatohepatitis
microinequity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinequities
Etymology: From micro- + inequity.
Senses: examples: text: Specifically, store personnel displayed microinequities—they smiled less, they spoke fewer words, and they were more rude and less friendly with heavy (versus nonheavy) individuals.
ref: 2013, C. Nathan DeWall, The Oxford Handbook of Social Exclusion, page 58:
glosses: A small gesture or other minor treatment that discriminates against an individual.
microinequities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microinequity
round heart disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cardiomyopathy in birds, characterized by unusual roundness of the heart.
tauopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tauopathy
Kemet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian kmt (“Egypt”):
km-m-t:O49
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ancient Egypt.
synonyms: word: Ancient Egypt
Derived terms: Kemetic
Kemetism
Kemite
tauopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to tauopathy.
argyrophilic grain disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of dementia marked by the presence of abundant argyrophilic grains and coiled bodies on microscopic examination of brain tissue.
axillofemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axillo- + femoral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the axillary and femoral arteries
Besnier-Boeck disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease.
Senses: glosses: sarcoidosis
Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Ernest Besnier, Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck, and Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann.
Senses: glosses: sarcoidosis
wikipedia: Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck
Ernest Besnier
Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann
black urine disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: alkaptonuria
Blount's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for Walter Putnam Blount.
Senses: glosses: A growth disorder of the tibia (shin bone) that causes the lower leg to angle inward, resembling a bowleg.
Synonyms: tibia vara
tibia vara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Blount's disease.
Bang's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Danish veterinarian Bernhard Bang, who isolated the related bacillus in 1897.
Senses: glosses: brucellosis
wikipedia: Bernhard Bang
Basedow's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Karl Adolph von Basedow, who reported its symptoms in 1840.
Senses: glosses: Graves' disease
Buerger's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Described in 1908 by Leo Buerger.
Senses: glosses: thromboangiitis obliterans
wikipedia: Leo Buerger
blue-ear pig disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An economically important disease in pigs caused by the Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, in genus Arterivirus.
Canavan-Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Canavan disease
Canavan disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Myrtelle Canavan, American physician and medical researcher.
Senses: glosses: A degenerative disorder that causes progressive damage to nerve cells in the brain.
wikipedia: Myrtelle Canavan
Synonyms: Canavan-Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease
Hypernyms: leukodystrophy
Curschmann-Steinert disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of myotonic dystrophy (type 1).
disease mongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: overmedicalization, pathologization
hypernyms: medicalization
glosses: The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments.
Related terms: overdiagnosis
underdiagnosis
desert rheumatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: coccidioidomycosis
San Joaquin Valley fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the San Joaquin Valley in California, where the disease occurs
Senses: glosses: coccidioidomycosis
wikipedia: San Joaquin Valley
Synonyms: San Joaquin fever
Hypernyms: fever
osteoarthritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteoarthritic
postarthritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + arthritic.
Senses: examples: postarthritic deformity
glosses: After arthritis.
weedkilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weed + killing.
Senses: glosses: The destruction of weeds (unwanted plants).
Related terms: weedkiller
Quie syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after P. Quie.
Senses: glosses: Chronic granulomatous disease
uremic frost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uraemic frost
Etymology: From the frosty white appearance.
Senses: glosses: Crystals of urea that are excreted onto the skin in cases of uremia.
CKD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CKDs
Senses: hypernyms: KD
kidney disease
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disease#Noun
disorder#Noun
malady#Noun
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condition#Noun
coordinate_terms: AKI
acute kidney injury
AKF
acute kidney failure
ARF
acute renal failure
glosses: Initialism of chronic kidney disease.
topics: business
manufacturing
hypernyms: KD
knockdown#Noun
glosses: Initialism of complete knockdown.
Dupuytren's contracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, the surgeon who described a corrective operation for the affliction in the Lancet in 1831.
Senses: synonyms: Dupuytren's disease
morbus Dupuytren
palmar fibromatosis
Viking disease
hypernyms: fibromatosis
glosses: A fixed flexion contracture of the hand where the fingers bend towards the palm and cannot be fully extended (straightened). It is an inherited proliferative connective tissue disorder which involves the palmar fascia of the hand.
wikipedia: Guillaume Dupuytren
English disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the English disease
Etymology: A calque of phrases from various languages, including the French maladie anglaise, Polish angielska choroba, German englische Krankheit, and the Russian англи́йская боле́знь (anglíjskaja boléznʹ).
Senses: glosses: Football (soccer) hooliganism.
glosses: Depression (especially suicidal).
glosses: Hypochondria.
glosses: Sweating sickness.
glosses: Gout.
glosses: Rickets.
glosses: Syphilis.
glosses: Bronchitis.
glosses: Tuberculosis.
glosses: Laziness; low motivation.
glosses: Poor industrial relations and the resulting economic weakness.
glosses: Masochism, especially a fondness for flagellation.
glosses: Gambling.
glosses: Haemophilia.
glosses: Homosexuality.
extramammary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + mammary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside the mammary gland.
Derived terms: extramammary Paget's disease
intramammary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + mammary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the mammary gland.
Derived terms: intramammarily
French disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it was spread by returning French troops in mediaeval times.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Inquisition trials dealing with the French disease are few in number, the cases provide competing opinions about the cause of illness, thereby providing some insights into how the categories of natural and supernatural[…]
ref: 2010 November 30, L. McGough, Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay, Springer, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Syphilis.
slapped cheek syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Erythrovirus infection characterized by redness of the cheeks.
Synonyms: erythema infectiosum
Related terms: fifth disease
Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hallervorden-Spatz disease
Hallervorden-Spatz disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally named after Julius Hallervorden and Hugo Spatz but renamed to pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration after Hallervorden and Spatz's Nazi party ties were discovered and the eponymous distinction was revoked.
Senses: glosses: Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
wug word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wug words
Etymology: From wug, a made-up word used in the so-called wug test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children. Coined in the 1950s by Dr. Jean Berko Gleason.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pseudoword.
synonyms: word: pseudoword
wikipedia: wug test
Ollier disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after French surgeon Louis Léopold Ollier.
Senses: glosses: A rare disorder in which intraosseous benign cartilaginous tumors (enchondroma) develop close to growth plate cartilage.
wikipedia: Louis Léopold Ollier
Kennedy's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described by William R. Kennedy in 1968.
Senses: glosses: Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
Ledderhose's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dr. Georg Ledderhose, a German surgeon who described the condition for the first time in 1894.
Senses: glosses: plantar fibromatosis
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: epiphysitis of the tibial tubercle; an irritation of the patellar ligament at the tibial tuberosity, characterized by painful lumps just below the knee; most often seen in young adolescents
Osgood-Schlatter syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Osgood-Schlatter disease
epiphysitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epiphysis + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the epiphysis
diaphysitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diaphysis + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the diaphysis
Little's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dr William John Little, whose first recorded encounter with cerebral palsy is reported to have been among children who displayed signs of spastic diplegia.
Senses: glosses: spastic diplegia
Mondor's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Henri Mondor (1885-1962), a surgeon in Paris, France who first described the disease in 1939.
Senses: glosses: A rare condition involving thrombophlebitis of the superficial veins of the breast and anterior chest wall.
Monge's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described in 1925 by Carlos Monge.
Senses: glosses: chronic mountain sickness