cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overappreciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overappreciated
form: most overappreciated
Etymology: From over- + appreciated.
Senses: examples: text: Nixon, watching Reagan seemingly leave political life, “suddenly recognized what no one else seemed to: that this blankly genial, overappreciated son of a bitch, two years older than himself, was heading not for a pasture but a short stretch of wilderness, on the other side of which lay something vast.”
ref: 2015 September 23, Janet Maslin, “Review: ‘Finale’ by Thomas Mallon Moves Past ‘Watergate’ and Into the Reagan Era”, in New York Times:
text: As a rule, rulers' wives symbolize only the overappreciated women in any society — and I'd be the last person to blame them.
ref: 1991, George Jonas, Politically Incorrect, page 307:
glosses: Excessively appreciated.
freeport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeports
Senses: examples: text: Freeports, which can be airports and maritime ports, are a special kind of port where normal tax and customs regulations do not apply. [...] Businesses operating inside the designated areas in and around the port can manufacture goods using these imports and add value, before exporting again without ever facing full tariffs or procedures. Should the goods move out of the freeport into another part of the country, then they must go through the full import process - including paying any tariffs.
ref: 2021 March 24, “Network News: What is a freeport?”, in RAIL, number 927, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of free port.
freeports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeport
free port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free ports
form: freeport
Senses: glosses: A port or other area with relaxed jurisdiction of customs, tax rule or related national regulations.
free ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free port
kintsugi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɪntˈsuːɡi/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 金継ぎ (kintsugi, literally “golden repair, golden joinery”).
Senses: examples: text: In rehearsals here the director, Oliver Butler, has brought up kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken objects with powdered gold or other colors to accentuate the cracks.
ref: 2015 September 16, Patrick Healy, “For Christopher Shinn, Confronting Death Brings a New Play to Life”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: kintsukuroi
glosses: The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold or similar material, highlighting the cracks instead of disguising them.
jjamppong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 짬뽕 (jjamppong). Doublet of champon.
Senses: glosses: A spicy Korean soup with noodles and seafood.
concelebrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concelebrant
microcube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcubes
Etymology: From micro- + cube.
Senses: examples: text: The point of cutting duck ham into microcubes is that you taste some with every bite of foie gras smashed on toasted brioche.
ref: 2015 September 22, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Gabriel Kreuther in Midtown”, in New York Times:
glosses: A tiny cube.
microcubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcube
micromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Micromania at home: What have microcomputers got that other instructional technologies haven't?
ref: 1982, Current, volumes 1-2, page 58:
text: Micromania, the uncontrolled spread of personal computers in corporations, can be treated […]
ref: 1984, Computer Decisions, volume 16, page 70:
glosses: Excessive enthusiasm for microcomputers.
Related terms: micromaniac
micromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromanias
Etymology: From micro- + -mania.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A delusion that a body part has become small.
examples: text: Actually, when the I-God is universalized, as it is in my book, the whole God concept becomes one of humbleness, weakness, and inferiority, a micromania rather than a megalomania.
ref: Jacob L. Moreno, Zerka T. Moreno, Psychodrama (volume 3, page 25)
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: megalomania
glosses: An extreme tendency to belittle oneself or trivialize one's achievements.
Related terms: micromaniac
unspicy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspicy
form: most unspicy
Etymology: From un- + spicy.
Senses: examples: text: A sweet, charred whole tomato was overcome by its seasonings, especially garlic and black pepper, and by the cup of dark gazpacho that tasted like an unspicy virgin Mary and didn’t add any clarity.
ref: 2015 September 22, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Gabriel Kreuther in Midtown”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not spicy.
parolelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parolelike
form: most parolelike
Etymology: From parole + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It is of considerable interest that parole boards as discretionary decision makers are more susceptible to attack than is parolelike supervision.
ref: 1980, Frederick Hussey, David Duffee, Probation, parole, and community field services, page 99:
text: Although a six-agency task force decided in 2009 that Mr. Shalabi was too dangerous to release, a parolelike panel called the Periodic Review Board, consisting of representatives from the same six agencies, decided in June that he could now be safely repatriated to Saudi Arabia.
ref: 2015 September 22, Charlie Savage, “Saudi Held at Guantánamo Is Repatriated, Reducing Number of Detainees to 114”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of parole.
knifework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knife + work.
Senses: glosses: Artistic or ornamental work done with a knife.
glosses: Combat with a knife.
adzework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adze + work.
Senses: glosses: cutting work done with an adze
cheermaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheermasters
Etymology: From cheer + master.
Senses: examples: text: Heo Ji-wook, the stadium announcer for the slumping LG Twins, said he had seen fans take out their frustrations on Choi Dong-hoon, the team’s first-year cheermaster, aiming sarcastic jeers at him when he asked them to sing.
ref: 2015 September 17, Andrew Keh, “Where the Dugout Is a Stage and Baseball Is a Reason to Sing”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who leads a group, such as scouts or sports fans, in cheering.
cheermasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheermaster
stateman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statemen
Senses: glosses: Synonym of statesman.
synonyms: word: statesman
statemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stateman
chatgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatgroups
Etymology: From chat + group.
Senses: examples: text: electronic discourse The kind of language used in computer-mediated communication, especially as found in dialogue situations such as email, chatgroups, or texting exchanges.
ref: 2008, David Crystal, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, page iii:
glosses: An online community allowing users to take part in text-based conversations.
Related terms: talkgroup
chatgroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatgroup
netlinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of net + linguistics.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyberlinguistics.
synonyms: word: cyberlinguistics
cyberlinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + linguistics.
Senses: glosses: The study of language use on computer systems such as the Internet.
Related terms: cyberlinguistic
BIXen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Humorous modern use of -en from Middle English; compare VAXen.
Senses: examples: text: The same thoughts go for BIXen. That used to be quite possibly the best place in the world to hang out.
ref: 2014, Bruce Hoult, “Re: Mill CPU public talk 6:00 to 8:30PM September 22 at NNUG, Oslo, Norway”, in comp.arch (Usenet):
text: Some BIXen, as we call ourselves, wonder where we will go. We are the virtual dispossessed, cybernetic nomads on the cusp of searching for a niche for ourselves.
ref: 2000, Kevin J. Cheek, “[PLAQUE]: BIX - Byte Information Exchange [LONG]”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Users of the Byte Information Exchange (BIX) system, which ran from the mid-1980s until 2001.
independista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: independistas
Senses: examples: text: The FBI's COINTELPRO was directly responsible for murdering Black Panther Party leaders and other Black activists. FBI terrorism has also been used against the American Indian Movement and Puerto Rican indepenistas ^([sic]).
ref: 1991 August 17, Roanne Hindin, “FBI: Not A Fashion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 5, page 4:
text: Since the 1930s, a core of "independistas" had agitated for independence for the island, which became a U.S. possession following the Spanish-American War.
ref: 2003, Hal Marcovitz, Guardians of Safety: Law Enforcement at Ground Zero, Chelsea House Publishers, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: A member of the Puerto Rican independence movement.
tweople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tweeple.
skelper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skelpers
Etymology: From skelp + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something large for its kind; a whopper.
glosses: A kind of hammer used in metalworking.
skelpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skelper
hyperarticulacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + articulacy.
Senses: examples: text: Banville men speak with hyperarticulacy.
ref: 2015 September 25, Craig Taylor, “John Banville’s ‘The Blue Guitar’”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being hyperarticulate.
hyperanimated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperanimated
form: most hyperanimated
Etymology: From hyper- + animated.
Senses: examples: text: Driving through the hyperanimated ghetto of Toontown, Bob Hoskins, the human star of “Roger Rabbit,” seems trapped in a nightmare — which he may actually have been, playing scenes opposite a nonexistent rabbit.
ref: 2015 September 24, J. Hoberman, “Robert Zemeckis, Master of Illusion, Returns”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly animated.
rebirthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebirth
goalkicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goal + kicking.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The goalkicker's task of kicking for penalties and conversions.
interwire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + wire.
Senses: examples: text: We introduce explicit many-body interwire interactions that preserve time reversal symmetry and give energy gaps to all low energy degrees of freedom.
ref: 2015, Sharmistha Sahoo, Zhao Zhang, Jeffrey C. Y. Teo, “Coupled wire model of symmetric Majorana surfaces of topological superconductors”, in arXiv:
glosses: Between wires.
quadraticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quadratic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Under suitable assumptions (most notably the quadraticity of Cheeger's energy relative to the metric measure structure) both approaches are shown to be equivalent to the strong CD*(K,N) condition of Bacher-Sturm.
ref: 2015, Luigi Ambrosio, Andrea Mondino, Giuseppe Savaré, “Nonlinear diffusion equations and curvature conditions in metric measure spaces”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being quadratic.
subadiabaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + adiabaticity.
Senses: examples: text: Support for this scenario is found in the distinct global dynamo behaviors observed in an otherwise identical EULAG-MHD simulations, using a different degree of subadiabaticity in the stable fluid layers underlying the convection zone.
ref: 2015, N. Lawson, A. Strugarek, P. Charbonneau, “Evidence of active MHD instability in EULAG-MHD simulations of solar convection”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being subadiabatic.
smecticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smectic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: This state could capture a number of important experimental features in the pseudogap, for example, the predominant d-wave CDW with spatial dependent charge smecticity, the unusual ARPES quasiparticle spectrum, and the time reversal symmetry breaking order in polarized neutron diffraction and polar Kerr rotation.
ref: 2015, Cheung Chan, “Interplay of pair density waves and random field disorders in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being smectic.
rectenna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛkˈtɛn.ə/
rhymes: -ɛnə
Forms: form: rectennas
form: rectennae
Etymology: Blend of rectifying + antenna
Senses: examples: text: This leads to highly efficient photon-to-electron conversion, orders of magnitude larger than conventional rectennas.
ref: 2015, Pai-Yen Chen, Mehdi Hajizadegan, Maryam Sakhdari, Andrea Alù, “Giant Photoresponsivity of Mid-Infrared Hyperbolic Metamaterials in the Quantum Regime”, in arXiv:
glosses: A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity.
rectennas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectenna
rectennae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectenna
quasimodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + modular.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being the holomorphic part of an almost holomorphic modular form.
ultrastrict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrastrict
form: most ultrastrict
Etymology: From ultra- + strict.
Senses: glosses: Very strict.
unheartening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheartening
form: most unheartening
Etymology: From un- + heartening.
Senses: glosses: Not heartening.
unheartened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheartened
form: most unheartened
Etymology: From un- + heartened.
Senses: glosses: Not heartened.
hypercyclicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + cyclic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hypercyclic.
epiaquert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiaquerts
Etymology: From epi- + aquert.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A particular type of aquert that exhibits episaturation.
epoxyketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epoxyketones
Etymology: From epoxy- + ketone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ketone that also contains an epoxy group
supercyclicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supercyclic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being supercyclic.
nanostrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanostrips
Etymology: From nano- + strip.
Senses: examples: text: An extended phase diagram describing the regions of stability of all known types of DWs in permalloy nanostrips is provided.
ref: 12417 (2015), V. D. Nguyen, O. Fruchart, S. Pizzini, J. Vogel, J.-C. Toussaint, N. Rougemaille, “Third type of domain wall in soft magnetic nanostrips”, in Scientific Reports, volume 12417:
glosses: A nanosized strip of material.
nanostrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanostrip
recomputability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + computability.
Senses: examples: text: However, all data associated with the production of a mesh must be provided in order to contribute to the overall recomputability of the subsequent simulation.
ref: 2015, Christian T. Jacobs, Alexandros Avdis, Simon L. Mouradian, Matthew D. Piggott, “Integrating Research Data Management into Geographical Information Systems”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being recomputable.
esophagogastroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophagogastroscopies
Etymology: From esophago- + gastro- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: endoscopy of the esophagus and stomach
dualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dualization
eigenangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenangle
eigenbundles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenbundle
eigenchannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenchannel
eigenmaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenmap
eigenrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenray
eigensamples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigensample
supercyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Having a subspace of hypercyclic vectors
Derived terms: supercyclicity
microcalorimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcalorimeter
crossbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbreaks
Etymology: From cross- + break.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A statistical analysis of a data set by two or more variables at once.
esophagogastrostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophagogastrostomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The creation of a channel between the esophagus and the stomach
reexplore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reexplores
form: reexploring
form: reexplored
form: reexplored
Etymology: From re- + explore.
Senses: glosses: To explore again.
Related terms: reexploration
reexplored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reexplore
reexplores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reexplore
reexploring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexplore
subexponentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + exponentiality.
Senses: examples: text: We compare this definition with the two existing notions of multivariate subexponentiality, and compute the asymptotic behaviour of the ruin probability in the context of an insurance portfolio, when multivariate subexponentiality holds.
ref: 2015, Gennady Samorodnitsky, Julian Sun, “Multivariate Subexponential Distributions and Their Applications”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being subexponential.
crossbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbreak
exotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotypes
Etymology: From exo- + type.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A type (of object) that is defined programmatically at runtime based on external data.
glucanosyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucanosyltransferases
Etymology: From glucanosyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that transfers glucanosyl groups
glucanosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from a glucan.
Derived terms: glucanosyltransferase
polylactosamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polylactosamine
prophagocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prophagocytic
form: most prophagocytic
Etymology: From pro- + phagocytic.
Senses: examples: text: As previously reported, RBCs gradually lose CD47 expression as they age, lose sialic acids from glycoproteins and glycolipids, and reorganize membrane phospholipids in a manner that presumably accumulates prophagocytic signals, leading to their elimination by phagocytosis.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Pre-Clinical Development of a Humanized Anti-CD47 Antibody with Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Potential”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Promoting phagocytic activity.
restrictedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From restricted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, range restrictedness, i.e. the alternative estimation of endemism examined in this study, was not found to be significantly related to plant vulnerability.
ref: 2015 September 22, “Lessons from Red Data Books: Plant Vulnerability Increases with Floral Complexity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being restricted.
hemipelvis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemipelves
Etymology: From hemi- + pelvis.
Senses: glosses: Either (left or right) half of a pelvis
Related terms: hemipelvic
permeabilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: permeabilises
form: permeabilising
form: permeabilised
form: permeabilised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of permeabilize.
Derived terms: unpermeabilised
permeabilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of permeabilise
averagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of averaging
heteronanocrystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteronanocrystals
Etymology: From hetero- + nanocrystal.
Senses: glosses: A nanocrystal composed of two or more elements or other materials
honeyword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeywords
Etymology: From honey + word.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper we have proposed a new honeyword generation approach, identified as Paired Distance Protocol (PDP) which overcomes almost all the drawbacks of previously proposed honeyword generation approaches.
ref: 2015, Nilesh Chakraborty, Samrat Mondal, “A New Storage Optimized Honeyword Generation Approach for Enhancing Security and Usability”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An incorrect password published as part of a honeypot, so that any user attempting to log in with the password may be assumed to be an attacker.
honeywords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeyword
Hadamard regularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hadamard regularizations
Etymology: Introduced by the mathematician Hadamard in 1923.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method of regularizing divergent integrals by dropping some divergent terms and keeping the finite part.
Hadamard regularizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hadamard regularization
Holyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holynesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Holiness.
hypersingular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + singular.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of an integral equation: containing Hadamard finite part integrals with f(t) unknown.
hyperwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + writing.
Senses: glosses: The writing of hypertext.
Related terms: hyperwriter
overring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overrings
Etymology: From over- + ring.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An overring B of an integral domain A is a subring of the field of fractions K of A that contains A, i.e. A#92;subseteqB#92;subseteqK.
glosses: A ring diacritic positioned above a character, as in Å.
glosses: An instance of registering too large an amount on a cash register, either accidentally or fraudulently.
overring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrings
form: overringing
form: overrang
form: overrung
Etymology: From over- + ring.
Senses: glosses: To register too large an amount on a cash register, either accidentally or fraudulently.
overrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overring
overrings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overring
Weyl group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weyl groups
Etymology: Named after Hermann Weyl.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subgroup of the isometry group of a root system, generated by reflections through the hyperplanes orthogonal to the roots.
wikipedia: Hermann Weyl
Weyl groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weyl group
protocooperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proto- + cooperation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The situation where two species interact with each other beneficially, without having a specific need to do so.
Christmas block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas blocks
Senses: glosses: Yule log (large log traditionally burned on Christmas Eve)
Christmas blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas block
pseudolikelihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudolikelihoods
Etymology: From pseudo- + likelihood.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: An approximation to the joint probability distribution of a collection of random variables.
pseudolikelihoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudolikelihood
sublocalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublocalization
pinhead oatmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Whole oat groats chopped into pieces.
lumplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lumplike
form: most lumplike
Etymology: From lump + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The results show several distinct models that support the presence of bell-shaped, lumplike structures which may live in a compact space.
ref: 2015, D. Bazeia, M.A. Marques, R. Menezes, “Compact Lumps”, in arXiv:
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling a lump; lumpish.
Appalachian English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the English language native to the Appalachian region of the United States, often derided for its grammatical inconsistencies and perceived lack of education of its speakers.
nonprecessing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + precessing.
Senses: examples: text: Generalizing previous studies of nonprecessing binaries to include critical symmetry-breaking precession effects required to understand plausible astrophysical sources, our ansatz can be applied to address how well gravitational wave measurements can address a wide range of astrophysical and fundamental questions.
ref: 2015, R. O'Shaughnessy, P. Nepal, A. Lundgren, “A semianalytic Fisher matrix for precessing binaries with a single significant spin”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not precessing.
programable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From program + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A decade later, and with the arrival of the first programable computers, computations of galactic dynamics were performed, which were later transferred into a N-body simulation movie.
ref: 2015, Per Olof Lindblad, “The computer BESK and an early attempt to simulate galactic dynamics”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of programmable.
uniformizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniformizers
Etymology: From uniformize + -er.
Senses: qualifier: commutative algebra
glosses: A uniformizing parameter.
thermophotovoltaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + photovoltaics or thermophotovoltaic + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, we discuss the potential use of our metasurface absorber design in solar thermophotovoltaics by exploiting refractory plasmonic materials.
ref: 2015, A. K. Azad, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, M. Sykora, N. R. Weisse-Bernstein, T. S. Luk, A. J. Taylor, D. A. R. Dalvit, H.-T. Chen, “Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber”, in arXiv:
glosses: The study of thermophotovoltaic materials.
uniformizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uniformizer
eigenoperators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenoperator
Jumada I
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jumada al-Awwal
form: Jumada al-Ula
form: Jumada First
form: First Jumada
Etymology: From Arabic جُمَادَى الْأُولَى (jumādā l-ʔūlā, “Jumada the First”).
Senses: examples: text: After that, on the 1st of First Jumada, we arrived at the city of al-Iskandariyah, may God protect her!
ref: 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 8
text: According to Ibn Ḥumayd—Salamah—Ibn Isḥāq: After the Messenger of God had returned to Medina from Dhāt al-Riqā‘, he remained there for the rest of Jumādā al-Ūla, Jumādā al-Ākhirah, and Rajab (late October 62 5 to early January 626).
ref: 1987, MV McDonald, History of al-Tabari Vol. 7, page 165:
text: During the night and following day of 11 Jumadda I, there was an earthquake in Zabid and its districts; tremors continued day and night and the people were alarmed.
ref: 1994, N. N. Ambraseys, C. P. Melville, R. D. Adams, The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea, page 52:
text: A pigeon-post was delivered to Damascus on Wednesday, Jumādā I 8 (February 11, 1299) with the information of al-Malik al-Nasir's investiture at the Cairo Citadel.
ref: 1998, Li Guo, Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography, page 119:
glosses: The fifth month of the Islamic calendar.
hyperconvex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + convex.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, we deduce a local to global theorem for injective (or hyperconvex) metric spaces, saying that under certain conditions a complete, simply-connected, locally injective metric space is injective.
ref: 2015, Benjamin Miesch, “The Cartan-Hadamard Theorem for Metric Spaces with Local Bicombings”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a metric space: injective.
nontensorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tensorial.
Senses: examples: text: A recent suggestion that vector potentials in electrodynamics (ED) are nontensorial objects under 4D frame rotations is found to be both unnecessary and confusing.
ref: 2015, C. W. Wong, “Vector potentials in gauge theories in flat spacetime”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not tensorial.
wheredja
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Wheredja run off to last night?
glosses: where did you
examples: text: Wheredja wanna go next?
glosses: where do you
plerion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plerions
Etymology: Coined by Weiler & Panagia (1978), from Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs, “full”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A nebula powered by the pulsar wind of a pulsar.
plerions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plerion
supertile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertiles
Etymology: From super- + tile.
Senses: examples: text: But the only landscape that would ever move would be water — if you can call it landscape. No other land really moves except in geologic time. In order for moving landscape to work, you'll need supertiles, and lots of them.
ref: 1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-Time Strategy Game Programming Using Direct 6.0, page 478:
text: Alternatively, you can make "supertiles" that have more than 1 hex/rectangle each to get grouping. 4-6 areas per supertile is probably O.K. Not all areas on supertile need to be the same, but theer^([sic]) should not be more than two different terrains on a supertile.
ref: 2001, Torben Ægidius Mogensen, “Board building - Hex tiles - the only way to go?”, in rec.games.design (Usenet):
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: metatile
glosses: A group of connected tiles that can be placed, like a single tile, in a generated landscape.
supertiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertile
unobstructedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unobstructed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Freedom from obstruction.
obstructedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obstructed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being obstructed.
huwentoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huwentoxins
Etymology: From huwena and toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of neurotoxic peptides found in the venom of the Chinese bird spider Cyriopagopus schmidti (formerly known as Haplopelma huwena).
huwentoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huwentoxin
buparlisib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular anticancer drug.
chebulagic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A benzopyran tannin and antioxidant with potential medical uses.
cytotechnician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytotechnicians
Etymology: From cyto- + technician.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cytotechnologist.
synonyms: word: cytotechnologist
cytotechnicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytotechnician
push-upping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push-up
push-upped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push-up
undersedation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + sedation.
Senses: examples: text: Hypertension due to severe pain or undersedation was defined as more than a 20% increase of mean blood pressure (MBP) from baseline, and hypotension was defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP) 100 bpm, respectively.
ref: 2015 September 25, “Conventional versus Analgesia-Oriented Combination Sedation on Recovery Profiles and Satisfaction after ERCP: A Randomized Trial”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: inadequate sedation
pictilisib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Trametinib and pictilisib (GDC-0941) were obtained from Selleck Chemical.
ref: 2015 September 25, “Evaluation of In Vitro Activity of the Class I PI3K Inhibitor Buparlisib (BKM120) in Pediatric Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An investigational PI3K inhibitor.
eigenelements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenelement
shut-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shuts-up
form: shutting-up
form: shut-up
form: shut-up
Senses: examples: 3 Shades of Gray: Cerberus Versus Pandora. Kristie Lynn Higgins.
I want them to shut-up and lisen to me.
2015. OK2BG. Jack Dunsmooor.
... and then Mike volley back with an F-bomb and a fortified attitude, "'... and just shut-up', and then I returned fire with, 'no, you shut-up!', to which he replied, 'you shut-up' so belligerently that he lost his finger-hold and nearly fell off the wall he was balanced upon.
2014. Bahram's Shorts. Barry Ghabaei.
... and I can take a hint when people don't want me to talk. So I shut-up.
glosses: Misspelling of shut up.
shut-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shut-up
form: most shut-up
Senses: examples: 1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166.
Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.
glosses: Alternative spelling of shut up.
shuts-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shut-up
shutting-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shut-up
arched harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arched harps
Senses: glosses: A type of harp where the string carrier and resonator are physically united, with strings at right angles to the sound table, no pillar and a neck that curves away from the resonator.
Synonyms: arch harp
bow harp
arched harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arched harp
arch harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch harps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arched harp.
synonyms: word: arched harp
arch harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arch harp
bow harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow harps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arched harp.
synonyms: word: arched harp
bow harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow harp
arterially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From arterial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Transmural wedges (4 x 3 x 2 cm) from the right ventricular wall were dissected, canulated and perfused arterially with cardioplegic solution.
ref: 2015 September 17, “Molecular Cloning and Functional Expression of the Equine K + Channel K V 11.1 (Ether à Go-Go-Related/KCNH2 Gene) and the Regulatory Subunit KCNE2 from Equine Myocardium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In terms of or by means of the arteries.
Derived terms: periarterially
Larsen syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Discovered in 1950 by Larsen and associates.
Senses: glosses: A congenital disorder characterised by dislocation of the knees, hips and elbows, flattened facial appearance, prominent forehead, and depressed nasal bridge.
biocrystallization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + crystallization.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of the fact that biocrystallization mechanisms themselves are still largely unknown, it is now recognized that they differ from classical crystal nucleation and growth.
ref: 2015 September 17, “Limpet Shells from the Aterian Level 8 of El Harhoura 2 Cave (Témara, Morocco): Preservation State of Crossed-Foliated Layers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The formation of crystals from organic macromolecules by living organisms.
dichotomisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dichotomisation
intradisciplinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + disciplinary.
Senses: examples: text: They are also deterred from such activities because transdisciplinary pursuits tend to be intrinsically more time-consuming than their intradisciplinary counterparts.
ref: 2015 September 17, “Author Credit for Transdisciplinary Collaboration”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a single academic discipline.
microdensitometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + densitometric.
Senses: examples: text: We demonstrated that microdensitometric method measures the column of blood in the retinal arterioles.
ref: 2015 September 17, “Are Retinal Vessels Calibers Influenced by Blood Pressure Measured at the Time of Retinography Acquisition?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to microdensitometry or to microdensitometers
mycoinsecticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoinsecticides
Etymology: From myco- + insecticide.
Senses: glosses: Any insecticide containing live fungi.
mycoacaricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoacaricides
Etymology: From myco- + acaricide.
Senses: glosses: Any acaricide containing live fungi.
mycoinsecticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycoinsecticide
mycoacaricides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycoacaricide
flirtish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flirtish
form: most flirtish
Etymology: From flirt + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "I am unasy in my mind, about two things, my poor, ould, ancient gran'fader, and your little, innocent, flirtish ways."
ref: 1830, William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Amos Bronson Alcott, American Journal of Education, volume 1:
text: […] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.
ref: 1839, Michael Ryan, Prostitution in London, page 83:
glosses: of the nature of, or characterizing a flirt
Derived terms: flirtishly
flirtishness
Related terms: flirty
picocyanobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pico- + cyanobacterial.
Senses: examples: text: Although the reasons and mechanisms for uptake are not yet described, it is possible that the observed decreased Si concentration is the result of picocyanobacterial uptake of Si when nitrogen is available.
ref: 2015 September 17, “Changes in Microbial Plankton Assemblages Induced by Mesoscale Oceanographic Features in the Northern Gulf of Mexico”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to picocyanobacteria.
whiting event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiting events
Senses: glosses: The formation of a cloud of calcium carbonate precipitate in a body of water during the summer, as a result of change in water temperature or increased photosynthetic activity by certain microscopic marine organisms.
whiting events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiting event
retinography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinographies
Etymology: From retino- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: imaging of the retina, whether as a diagnostic aid or for identification purposes
Related terms: retinographer
retinogram
retinographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinography
submicrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + micrometric.
Senses: examples: text: Even though no obvious staining was observed in our case, contact with the vapor was still found to perform very faint etching at a submicrometric scale.
ref: 2015 September 17, “Limpet Shells from the Aterian Level 8 of El Harhoura 2 Cave (Témara, Morocco): Preservation State of Crossed-Foliated Layers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a scale less than a micrometer.
ultrasocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrasocial
form: most ultrasocial
Etymology: From ultra- + social.
Senses: examples: text: The cross-culturally common properties of other-initiated repair make it one of the most vivid demonstrations of the ultrasocial nature of humans.
ref: 2015 September 17, “Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Very highly social.
ambulatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ambulatory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In Spain, a collection of severe, hospitalized patients was compared to a series of controls (defined as confirmed but mild influenza cases that were treated ambulatorily), and a number of sociodemographic and health risk factors were identified.
ref: 2015 September 18, “No Major Host Genetic Risk Factor Contributed to A(H1N1)2009 Influenza Severity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: By or in terms of walking.
indoctrinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indoctrinatory
form: most indoctrinatory
Etymology: From indoctrinate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Serving to indoctrinate.
endophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endophage
exophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exophage
hyaladherins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyaladherin
hyaladherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyaladherins
Senses: glosses: Any hyaluronan-binding protein.
intrahelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + helical.
Senses: examples: text: In the present study, however, the nonrepeat regions was chosen for investigation because the central repeat region is overly diverse due to insertions/deletions during meiotic sexual recombination or intrahelical strand slippage during mitosis and sequence alignment of the repeat region is difficult and uncertain.
ref: 2015 September 18, “Genetic Diversity and Natural Selection of the Plasmodium knowlesi Circumsporozoite Protein Nonrepeat Regions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a helix.
tubulovesicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubulovesicle
nanospikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanospike
micromovements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromovement
postmaster general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmaster generals
form: postmasters general
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Postmaster General.
micromovement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromovements
Etymology: From micro- + movement.
Senses: examples: text: Belkoff et al. reported that pain reduction was attributable to the immobility and inhibition of micromovements of the fractured fragment and the cytotoxic effect of PMMA, which relieves pain by damaging the terminal nerve.
ref: 2015 September 18, “Results of Vertebral Augmentation Treatment for Patients of Painful Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: A Meta-Analysis of Eight Randomized Controlled Trials”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A microscopic movement.
metaremark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaremarks
Etymology: From meta- + remark.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, reflection entails making metaremarks, mirroring, creative leaps, and thinking about the thought process itself, as well as reflecting on pro/con arguments, the assessment framework, and its application.
ref: 2015 September 18, “Doing Philosophy Effectively: Student Learning in Classroom Teaching”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A remark about remarks.
metaremarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaremark
sedentarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sedentary + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: sedentariness (usually synonymous)
text: A brief assessment tool has been recently designed to identify patients with high levels of sedentarism and low daily PA (Rapid Assessment Disuse Index-RADI).
ref: 2015 September 18, “Screening Physical Activity in Family Practice: Validity of the Spanish Version of a Brief Physical Activity Questionnaire”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The habit of being sedentary.
tracheostomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tracheostomises
form: tracheostomising
form: tracheostomised
form: tracheostomised
Senses: examples: text: Seventh, this study was conducted when our knowledge of the best practice for the weaning method in tracheostomised patients with prolonged MV had remained undetermined.
ref: 2015 September 18, “Effect of Tracheostomy on Weaning Parameters in Difficult-to-Wean Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A Prospective Observational Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of tracheostomize.
tracheostomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tracheostomise
tracheostomises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tracheostomise
tracheostomising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tracheostomise
suppressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suppressively
form: most suppressively
Etymology: From suppressive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The three sensory modalities of taste, flavor, and somatosensation are mediated by nerve signals to the brain, in regions of overlap and specificity, and can act synergistically or suppressively when compounds interact structurally, chemically, or cognitively.
ref: 2015 September 18, “Identifying Breeding Priorities for Blueberry Flavor Using Biochemical, Sensory, and Genotype by Environment Analyses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a suppressive manner.
serospecificity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serospecificities
Etymology: From sero- + specificity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being serospecific.
serospecificities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serospecificity