cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mepivacaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɛˈpɪv.ə.keɪn/
Etymology: From me(thyl) + pi(pecoloxylidide) + -vacaine (“alteration of Novocaine”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A local anesthetic derived from piperidine and similar in structure and action to lidocaine, usually given by injection as the hydrochloride; (1-methyl-2-piperidyl)formo-2′,6′-xylidide, C₁₅H₂₂N₂O.
Derived terms: dexivacaine
mepivacaine hydrochloride
serviceably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more serviceably
form: most serviceably
Etymology: From serviceable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a serviceable manner.
unperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/
ipa: /ʌnˈpɜː(ɹ)fɛkt/
ipa: /ʌnpə(ɹ)ˈfɛkt/
Forms: form: more unperfect
form: most unperfect
Etymology: From un- + perfect.
Senses: examples: text: As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put besides his part
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 23”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: 'But this,' said Musidorus, 'shows you more unperfect, to be cruel to him that submits himself unto you. But since you are unperfect,' said he, smiling, 'it is reason you be governed by us wise and perfect men.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: imperfect
unperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/
ipa: /ʌnˈpɜː(ɹ)fɛkt/
ipa: /ʌnpə(ɹ)ˈfɛkt/
Forms: form: unperfects
form: unperfecting
form: unperfected
form: unperfected
Etymology: From un- + perfect.
Senses: glosses: To mar or destroy the perfection of.
jizya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jizyas
form: jeziah
form: jezya
form: jezyah
form: jizyah
form: zajiya
Etymology: From Arabic جِزْيَة (jizya), from Middle Persian 𐭢𐭦𐭩𐭲 (gzyt /⁠gazīd⁠/), 𐭢𐭦𐭩𐭲𐭪𐭩 (gzytky /⁠gazīdag⁠/, “poll-tax”).
Senses: examples: text: Ending jizya lifted a real burden on the poor, and promised, at least symbolically, a greater equality between the followers of different faiths.
ref: 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 122:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: kharaj
glosses: A per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non-Muslim citizens, who meet certain criteria.
jizyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jizyahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jizya.
URLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of URL
depressurise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depressurises
form: depressurising
form: depressurised
form: depressurised
Etymology: From de- + pressurise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of depressurize.
Derived terms: depressurisation
dramatisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dramatisation
presbyteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presbytery
Oryol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orel
form: Orël
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Орёл (Orjól, literally “eagle”).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia.
rockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rockish
form: most rockish
Etymology: From rock (“stone”) + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: God did strike them with Egyptian and Babylonish rods, but there were no tears, no relentings, no returnings, but grew harder and harder, even to a rockish hardiness.
ref: 1837, William Greenhill, James Sherman, An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel:
glosses: Like a rock; stony; (figuratively) hard; callous
Synonyms: rocky
rockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rockish
form: most rockish
Etymology: From rock (“rock music”) + -ish.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: That has the characteristics of rock music.
Synonyms: rocklike
rockesque
Related terms: poppish
folk-rockish
frappucino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frappucinos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frappuccino.
innovatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more innovatively
form: most innovatively
Etymology: From innovative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an innovative manner.
outgoings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outgoing
powerlifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerlifters
Etymology: From power + lifter.
Senses: glosses: One who performs powerlifting.
Hyponyms: english: the disability sport powerlifting
translation: the disability sport powerlifting
word: parapowerlifter
Related terms: lift
lifting
parapowerlifter
parapowerlifting
powerlift
powerlifting
powerlifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerlifter
scattald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scattalds
Senses: glosses: Common land used for pasture and digging turf.
Orel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oryol: an oblast of Russia.
glosses: Alternative form of Oryol: a city, the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia.
uninspected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninspected
form: most uninspected
Etymology: From un- + inspected.
Senses: glosses: Not inspected.
runnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running
verifiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more verifiably
form: most verifiably
Etymology: From verifiable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: traceably, provably, confirmably
text: Obviously, an absolute guarantee of optimality is not possible through this type of heuristic search, but the eventual stability achieved leads to an ultrametric that is usually very good (although not verifiably optimal). Throughout this discussion it is assumed that the subsets of objects for which separate optimal ultrametrics are generated, or the number of object classes to be used in obtaining an optimal ultrametric beginning from that point, are all of a size that could be handled optimally (i.e., some number in the lower teen’s).
ref: 1997, Lawrence Hubert, Phipps Arabie, Jacqueline Meulman, “Hierarchical clustering and the construction of (optimal) ultrametrics using Lₚ-norms”, in Yadolah Dodge, editor, L₁-Statistical Procedures and Related Topics (Institute of Mathematical Statistics: Lecture Notes—Monograph Series; volume 31), Hayward, Calif.: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, →ISBN, section VII (Classification), page 464:
antonyms: unverifiably#Adverb
untraceably#Adverb
unprovably#Adverb
unconfirmably#Adverb
glosses: In a verifiable manner.
aminoterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of amino-terminal.
amino-terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the amino acid, at one end of a polypeptide or protein, that has a free amino group
amyloidogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amyloido- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The production of amyloid
alloform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloforms
Etymology: From allo- + form.
Senses: examples: text: These alloforms show a similar amino acid composition but differ in the associated carbohydrate components.
ref: 1980, V Larraga with F Mollinedo and E Muńoz, “Immunological behavior of two alloforms of ATPase from Micrococcus lysodeikticus”, in Current Microbiology:
glosses: A distinct form of something treated as a single kind or species.
Related terms: allomorph
allotrope
isoform
isomorph
isotope
xenomorph
alloforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloform
annepressin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌænəˈpɹɛsɪn/
Etymology: Blend of annelid + vasopressin?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A homologous form of oxytocin/vasopressin found in segmented worms
Synonyms: annetocin
annetocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænəˌtəʊsɪn/
ipa: /ˈænəˌtoʊsɪn/
Etymology: Blend of annelid + oxytocin?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A homologous form of oxytocin/vasopressin found in segmented worms.
Synonyms: annepressin
aristae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪsti/
Senses: glosses: plural of arista
bafilomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bafilomycins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of toxic macrolide antibiotics derived from Streptomyces griseus
baroclinicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baroclinic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being baroclinic; barocliny
Synonyms: baroclinity
bibliometrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliometrist
bibliometrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɪbliˈɒmətɹɪst/
Forms: form: bibliometrists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of bibliometrics
biophysically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biophysical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Expressed biophysically, ultraviolet radiation of wave lengths larger than about 2,900 Aengstrom units attacks atomic and molecular vibrations; and wave lengths shorte: than 2,900, attack electronic vibrations (photo-electric effects).
ref: 1922, The Journal of Radiology 1922-08: Volume 3, Issue 8, Elsevier Limited, page 481:
text: With this newer and biophysically established concept of the qualities of the ultra-violet regions, it is at once apparent that the empirically introduced standard of systemic and focal lamps for the air-cooled and water-cooled types has made for profound confusion and possibly injudicious application in the clinic. More properly, the lamps are biologic and bactericidal, and each one should be used systematically or focally, depending upon the pristine pathology of the lesion treated.
ref: 1923, August John Pacini, Outline of Ultra-Violet Therapy, Poole Brothers, page 96:
text: For example, adverse weather during advanced incubation and early hatchling stages (May in NNYNE) has been demonstrated to lower peregrine reproductive success by hampering the foraging success of adult birds, and/or biophysically stressing vulnerable young chicks (Ratcliffe 1984; 1988; 1993).
ref: 1999, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, The Canadian Field-Naturalist, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, page 475:
text: biophysically based computational models
text: a biophysically plausible modification
glosses: With regard to biophysics.
bioremediating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + remediating.
Senses: glosses: That cause bioremediation
biorientation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biorientations
Etymology: From bi- + orientation.
Senses: glosses: The orientation of chromosomes to opposite poles of the bipolar spindle before cell division.
bioriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + oriented.
Senses: glosses: oriented by biorientation
calyceal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the calyx
chordotonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing the stretch receptors in arthropods that detect the position of body segments or appendages
chordotonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chordotonals
Senses: glosses: Such a receptor
chromaffin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromium and affinity.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having an affinity for (and thus being stained brownish yellow) by chromium salts.
Derived terms: enterochromaffin
nonchromaffin
chromaffinoma
sympathochromaffin
chronotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronotypes
Etymology: From chrono- + type.
Senses: examples: text: We require more supple work schedules that better adapt to all chronotypes, and not just one in its extreme.
ref: 2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 22:
glosses: The natural disposition of a person to be more alert or lethargic at different times in the day (especially either in the morning or the evening), depending on a variety of factors associated with circadian rhythms.
Related terms: chronotypic
chronotypology
chronotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chronotypes
form: chronotyping
form: chronotyped
form: chronotyped
Etymology: From chrono- + type.
Senses: glosses: To analyse the chronotype of a person
coimmunoprecipitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coimmunoprecipitation
pot boilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot boiler
hypobaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypobaric
form: most hypobaric
Etymology: From hypo- + baric.
Senses: examples: text: Mountain climbers need additional oxygen because of the hypobaric conditions.
glosses: Of, relating to, or using less than normal air pressure.
Derived terms: hypobarically
meck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mecks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make (“halfpenny”).
hand trunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand trunks
Senses: glosses: A relatively small piece of hard-sided luggage with hinges and latches.
Hypernyms: luggage
hand trunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand trunk
habendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habendums
Etymology: From Latin, neuter singular gerundive of habeo (“have", "own", "possess”): "that which must or should be possessed".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The part of a deed that formally defines the extent of ownership or tenancy granted.
habendums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habendum
ask round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asks round
form: asking round
form: asked round
form: asked round
form: ask around
Senses: examples: text: I don't know the answer to that, but maybe someone else does; I'll ask round.
glosses: To enquire of several people.
examples: text: I think I'll ask John and Betty round for supper on Friday.
glosses: To invite someone to one's house.
Related terms: ask around
auction off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: auctions off
form: auctioning off
form: auctioned off
form: auctioned off
Senses: examples: text: I took your advice and auctioned off that old painting. You'll never believe I got over 2,000 pounds for it!
text: I took your advice and auctioned it off.
glosses: To sell something at auction.
stylion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylia
Etymology: From styl(oid) + -ion.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The styloid process of the radius bone
ophthamology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ophthalmology.
opthamology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ophthalmology.
categoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more categoric
form: most categoric
Etymology: From Late Latin catēgoricus. By surface analysis, category + -ic.
Senses: glosses: categorical
Derived terms: categoricity
subscapularis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin subscapularis.
Senses: examples: text: A strain is a catch-all term for a tear, and Posada’s is located in the subscapularis muscle.
ref: 2008 April 15, Tyler Kepner, “Chamberlain Leaves Yanks to Join His Ill Father”, in New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A certain large, triangular muscle near the shoulder that plays a key role in rotating the arm
Related terms: subscapular
euthanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euthanizations
form: euthanisation
Etymology: From euthanize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: A judge has ordered the euthanization of two dogs that nearly ripped off a man’s ear in a June 10 attack in Dix Hills.
ref: 2007 June 20, The Associated Press, “Central Islip: Two Violent Rottweilers Will Be Euthanized”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of euthanizing
Hypernyms: killing
execution
thinking man's crumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thinking man's crumpets
Etymology: Coined 1960s by Frank Muir to describe Joan Bakewell, following the latter’s appearances in high-brow television discussion programmes such as BBC2's Late Night Line-Up.
From crumpet (“sexually desirable woman (UK slang)”).
Senses: examples: Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet".
glosses: An intelligent and good-looking woman, particularly one who has a high profile in the broadcast media.
wikipedia: Frank Muir
Joan Bakewell
Late Night Line-Up
The Daily Telegraph
Synonyms: beautiful woman
Related terms: crumpet
bit of crumpet
piece of crumpet
beotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beotches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of biatch.
hendiadyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hendiadys
apophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apophasis
coloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + loaded.
Senses: glosses: loaded with two or more different things
congophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more congophilic
form: most congophilic
Etymology: From Congo + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing tissue that is readily stained by Congo red.
Synonyms: congophilous
Derived terms: congophilic angiopathy
costimulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costimulators
form: co-stimulator
Etymology: From co- + stimulator.
Senses: glosses: Either of two agents needed to produce co-stimulation.
exocytotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exocytosis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to exocytosis
Derived terms: nonexocytotic
postexocytotic
exome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksoʊm/
Forms: form: exomes
Etymology: From exon + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: Because of her significant testing, Avery had had DNA sequencing of her “exome,” the part of her genome that makes proteins in the body, said Dr. Michael Wangler, a researcher at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital.
ref: 2017 December 18, Ashley Strickland, “Mystery condition gives way to bright future for 10-year-old”, in CNN:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complete exon content of an organism or individual; the subset of the genome that excludes introns.
Hypernyms: genome
Derived terms: exomewide
exomic
fibrillogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fibril + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The development of the fibrils in connective tissue
Related terms: fibrillogenetic
bail out on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bails out on
form: bailing out on
form: bailed out on
form: bailed out on
Senses: examples: text: But he's just kind of jumped ship. He's bailed out on Basingstoke as a town without even warning us.
ref: 2004 December 11, Faisal al Yafai, Owen Bowcott and Michael White, “Meet the DUP's new MP ... for Basingstoke”, in The Guardian, page Politics:
glosses: To abandon, or stop supporting someone or something.
Synonyms: leave in the lurch
walk out on
fibrillogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌfɪbɹɪləʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
Forms: form: more fibrillogenic
form: most fibrillogenic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fibrillogenesis
fingerpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerpads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of finger pad.
finger pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger pads
Senses: synonyms: palp
pulp
pad
glosses: The fleshy underside of a human fingertip.
fingerpads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerpad
pingable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ping + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Not only were the hop counts believable, but all the source IPs appeared to be alive and pingable...
ref: 2002, Stephen Northcutt, Judy Novak, Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst's Handbook:
text: If the point-to-point addresses are not in the iBGP, the customer point-to-point link will not be pingable, which could be an unacceptable situation...
ref: 2002, Barry Raveendran Greene, Philip Smith, Cisco ISP Essentials:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be pinged; responsive to pings.
raw_tags: of a computer
fluorochemicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorochemical
fluorochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorochemicals
Etymology: From fluoro- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Any chemical compound (especially an organic compound) containing fluorine
geochronologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geochronologists
Etymology: From geo- + chronologist.
Senses: glosses: A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
haematopoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haematopoetic
form: most haematopoetic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of haematopoietic.
headlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more headlike
form: most headlike
form: head-like
Etymology: From head + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a head or a skull.
Synonyms: cephaloid
helicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helicity
heliophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + physics.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The physics of the Sun and its interactions with objects within the heliosphere
hesperadin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound that inhibits chromosome alignment and segregation.
uncomprehensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomprehensible
form: most uncomprehensible
Etymology: From un- + comprehensible.
Senses: glosses: Incomprehensible.
histidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histidine
inequivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inequivalent
form: most inequivalent
Etymology: From in- + equivalent.
Senses: glosses: Not equivalent
Derived terms: inequivalently
Related terms: inequivalence
iniopterygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iniopterygian
iniopterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iniopterygians
Etymology: Iniopterygia + -an
Senses: glosses: Any member of the order †Iniopterygiformes (syn. †Iniopterygia) of extinct fishes.
interglacials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interglacial
interneoglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + neoglacial.
Senses: glosses: Occurring between neoglacial periods.
neoglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + glacial.
Senses: glosses: Describing any of several relatively recent periods (during the Holocene) of increased glaciation
Derived terms: interneoglacial
Related terms: neoglaciation
interpeak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + peak.
Senses: glosses: Between peaks
interridge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + ridge.
Senses: glosses: Between ridges.
intertrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + trial.
Senses: glosses: Between trials
interstadials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interstadial
intraburst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + burst.
Senses: glosses: Within a burst
intraluminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + luminal or intra- + lumen + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within a lumen.
Synonyms: endoluminal
Derived terms: intraluminally
intraluminaly
intravesicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + vesicular.
Senses: glosses: Within a vesicle.
kyr
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: synonyms: mul:ka
glosses: Symbol for kiloyear(s).
Related terms: word: kya
english: kiloyears ago
translation: kiloyears ago
word: KYA
Bentham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English *beonot (“bent grass”) + hām (“homestead, village”).
Senses: glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English derived from any of several places.
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English derived from any of several places.
Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and social reformer.
glosses: A village in Badgeworth civil parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9116).
glosses: A civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district, that includes High Bentham and Low Bentham.
Derived terms: Benthamism
Benthamite
High Bentham
Low Bentham
bang about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangs about
form: banging about
form: banged about
form: banged about
Senses: glosses: To make a lot of percussive noise while moving around.
Synonyms: bang around
bang around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangs around
form: banging around
form: banged around
form: banged around
Senses: examples: text: She banged around with those tools all night.
glosses: To make a lot of percussive noise while moving around.
examples: text: After meeting up with Simon, the two of us banged around the neighborhood.
text: This issue has been banging around in the popular imagination for a while.
glosses: To spend time in a place; to linger.
examples: text: He's been banging her around since they got married.
glosses: To beat up, often over time or repeatedly.
Synonyms: bang about
beanball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beanballs
Etymology: From bean + ball, from the slang bean (“head”).
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch deliberately thrown at the head of the batter.
Synonyms: beaner
Related terms: beamer
bean ball
chin music
beanballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beanball
freebander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freebanders
Etymology: From free + band + -er.
Senses: synonyms: outbander
glosses: A person who engages in freebanding.
freebanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free + band + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: outbanding
glosses: Illegal radio transmission outside of the permissible frequency range.
Derived terms: freebander
amoebalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amoebalike
form: most amoebalike
Etymology: From amoeba + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of an amoeba.
anticolonialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticolonialists
Etymology: From anti- + colonialist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opponent of colonialism.
anticolonialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticolonialist
northbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northbridges
Etymology: From north + bridge.
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A microchip connected directly to the CPU (unlike the southbridge) and thus responsible for tasks that require the highest performance.
northbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northbridge
southbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southbridges
Etymology: From south + bridge.
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A secondary microchip connected to the CPU only through the northbridge.
southbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southbridge
balconied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From balcony + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: This building, like many others of its era nearby, also has a balconied room on a top floor where traditional Chinese family associations would meet.
ref: 2008 May 31, Edward Rothstein, “Seattle Asian Museum Moves Around the Corner and Into Its Identity”, in New York Times:
text: Located in a former sign factory and set up as a modern spin on a balconied dinner theater, the Box was conceptualized by a third partner, the downtown fixture Serge Becker, and designed by Cordell Lochin in low-life archaeological style.
ref: 2007 February 4, Guy Trebay, “New York Is King for a Week”, in New York Times:
text: “It’s going to be kind of like Seagate,” said Rufus Earle, proprietor of Leatherworks by Rufus, a cowboy shop on the ground floor of a balconied flat-faced house on 78th Street that looks like it blew in from a Western movie set.
ref: 2008 March 29, Andy Newman, “Eight Undeveloped Acres and Secret Videotapes Figure in Official’s Trial”, in New York Times:
glosses: That has a balcony attached.
Derived terms: multibalconied
unbalconied
ballfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballfield
ballfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballfields
form: ball field
Etymology: From ball + field.
Senses: glosses: Baseball playing field.
dyscrasied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dyscrasy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 1594, Dean Sutcliffe of Exeter, An Answere unto a certaine calumnious letter, “To the Reader”, page viii; quoted in:
text: A discourse in the opinion of wise men very preiudiciall both to her Maiesties authoritie and Lawes, and also to the peace of Gods church, and propagation of the Gospell, and certes very offensiue for diffaming of diuers honest men and loyall Subiects, and that before the Princes presence, which was not therein respected; and, to cease to speake much of a discourse so little worth, very vnsufficient and euilfeatured, beeing stuffed with many weake and false allegations, and much frivolous and idle talke as it were of a dyscrasied braine.
ref: 1906, Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims, book ii: The Protestantism of our Fathers, Chap. V — “More Battles of the Books”, §: Details of new eccles. govt. (2004 republication; Kessinger Publishing; →ISBN, 9781417946785), page 153
text: […] a discrasyed body […]
ref: 1669, Everard Maynwaring, Vita sana et longa, the preservation of health and prolongation of life, page 40:
text: These bodies are constant in malarial fevers of serious import. When this dyscrasied condition of the blood has existed for any considerable length of time, the result most generally is a chill, by which the vital action is lowered, and the action of the heart increased, but correspondingly diminshed in force.
ref: 1883, Edwin Samuel Gaillard (editor), William S. McChesney, editors, Gaillard’s Medical Journal, volume 36, page 247:
glosses: Exhibiting dyscrasy.
banklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more banklike
form: most banklike
Etymology: From bank + -like.
Senses: examples: text: By yesterday’s opening, the building on 21st Street in Long Island City, Queens — once home to a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet — seemed distinctly banklike.
ref: 2007 April 26, Ellen Barry, “New Bank Courts in Queens Neighborhood Where Many Have Long Trusted Only in Cash”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a bank building.
examples: text: The new products, like the prepaid debit card, will be offered through third-party partners, allowing Wal-Mart to sell banklike services without a government license.
ref: 2007 June 21, Michael Barbaro, “At Wal-Mart, a Back Door Into Banking”, in New York Times:
text: These banklike hedge funds had about $12 billion in assets to lend as of the end of last year, up from $900 million three years ago, according to HedgeFund.net.
ref: 2008 June 13, Louise Story, “As Banks Shun Loans, Hedge Funds Move In”, in New York Times:
topics: banking
business
glosses: Resembling an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
autarkically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more autarkically
form: most autarkically
Etymology: From autarkic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an autarkic way.
bayman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baymen
Etymology: From bay + -man.
Senses: glosses: One of the earliest European settlers of the eventual colony of British Honduras, modern-day Belize.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A sickbay nurse.
glosses: A rural Newfoundlander, as opposed to a townie (city dweller).
baymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayman
foul territory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foul territories
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area outside the playing field beyond the first base and third base lines, including the grandstand.
Related terms: foul ball
in the stands
biostatistician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biostatisticians
Etymology: From bio- + statistician.
Senses: examples: text: Richard J. Chappell, a University of Wisconsin biostatistician and a committee member, voted against the drug’s efficacy.
ref: 2007 March 30, Andrew Pollack, “Panel Endorses New Anti-Tumor Treatment”, in New York Times:
text: Andrew Vickers is a biostatistician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
ref: 2008 January 22, Andrew Vickers, “Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It”, in New York Times:
text: Dr. Kennedy is survived by his wife, the former Kathryn Davis, a biostatistician who contributed to his reviews of coronary therapies.
ref: 2008 June 20, Jeremy Pearce, “J. Ward Kennedy Is Dead at 74; Studied Heart Pumping”, in New York Times:
glosses: Person making or doing research on biostatistics.
biostatisticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biostatistician
breathiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From breathy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The smooth, even surfaces of Mr. Glass’s music expose his weaknesses as a pianist, but the faults added a kind of human breathiness to the piano’s embellished tread (reminiscent of Satie’s “Gymnopédies”) in the concluding piece, “The Orchard.” Ms. Sutter and her borrowed cello sang a little raucously over it, like Carly Simon at the end of the night.
ref: 2007 February 15, Anne Midgette, “A New Work for Cello, Played Upon a Veteran”, in New York Times:
text: If you dared, and if you had had any luck doing Princess Leia (Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope), you might even hazard Jessica Lange ’s tearful vanilla-rose breathiness: I really love you, Dorothy, but I can’t love you.
ref: 2008 March 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Speak, ‘Tootsie’”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being breathy.
examples: text: Here standard acoustic instruments are played in ways that suggest electronic sound: violins whir and buzz, woodwinds produce a toneless breathiness and a gentle tapping evokes a heartbeat.
ref: 2008 May 9, Allan Kozinn, “From Energetic Players, a Mix of Modernism”, in New York Times:
glosses: The result or product of being breathy.
scumbucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scumbuckets
form: scum bucket
form: scum-bucket
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of scum + bucket
Senses: examples: text: Why would you waste any time defending a scumbucket like him?
glosses: A sleazy, disreputable or despicable person; a lowlife.
Related terms: scumbag
scuzzbucket
scuzzball
sleazebag
sleazeball
pleid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleids
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the family Pleidae, the pygmy backswimmers
detainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detainers
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman detener, from Old French detenir. By surface analysis, detain + -er (action noun suffix). First attested in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: On Monday, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a similar detainer on Melvin Jovel, 18, who on Sunday was the sixth person to be arrested in the case.
ref: 2007 August 21, Kareem Fahim, “Presidential Candidate Blames Killings on Newark Sanctuary Policy”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2019:
text: Through January, immigration authorities placed detainers on an additional 1,468 people — giving federal agents the right to hold suspects who are released from jail. […] Scott Weber, the field office director for the enforcement office in Newark, said that in roughly a third of the cases, his agency would file a detainer or immigration charges; another third involved individuals who could be deported after their court cases; and the rest might be United States citizens or legal residents.
ref: 2008 March 23, Kareem Fahim, “Immigration Referrals by Police Draw Scrutiny”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2018:
text: Officer Torres’s lawyer, Paul S. Missan, said on Saturday that he had been told by a prison official in Pennsylvania that a detainer was lodged against his client, meaning he was likely to face federal charges.
ref: 2008 April 13, Christine Hauser, “U.S. Officials Are Expected to Charge Police Officer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018:
topics: law
glosses: The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will. A type of custody.
Derived terms: unlawful detainer
detainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detainers
Etymology: From detain + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] he chatted gaily with his fair detainer, showing no inclination to escape from the bondage in which she sought to retain him.
ref: 1840, Ellen Pickering, Who shall be heir?, volume 1, page 146:
glosses: One who detains.
detainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detainer
batter's box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batters' boxes
form: batter's boxes
form: batters box
form: batters' box
form: batter box
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One of two areas beside home plate in which a batter is required to stand during an at bat.
Related terms: at bat
baseball bat
bat
batter
postgraduation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + graduation.
Senses: examples: text: Often the goal is to create a nest egg to cover college or postgraduation expenses, like the down payment on a house, seed money for a start-up company or a subsidy for a low-paying first job.
ref: 2008 March 18, Deborah L. Jacobs, “Protecting Children From Their Money”, in New York Times:
text: He canceled his postgraduation plan to teach English in Japan to remain near her.
ref: 2008 June 15, Joyce Cohen, “Satisfying a Suburban Mind-Set”, in New York Times:
text: As a recent Harvard graduate about to start a job at a top consulting firm in Boston, I have to say that the notion that one’s career is determined by one’s immediate postgraduation employment is ridiculous.
ref: 2008 June 29, “What Do Graduates Owe the World?”, in New York Times:
text: Starting with his job interview at Underwood Samson, a small firm that appraises businesses around the world, and a postgraduation trip to Greece with friends from Princeton, Changez maintains an outsider’s double perspective.
ref: 2007 April 22, Karen Olsson, “I Pledge Allegiance”, in New York Times:
glosses: After graduation; the time after graduation.
raw_tags: followed by noun
vocalese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vocaleses
Etymology: From vocal + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Jazz singing genre where the lyrics are written to melodies that were originally parts of an all-instrumental composition or improvisation.
postmillennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postmillennial
form: most postmillennial
form: post-millennial
Etymology: From post- + millennial.
Senses: examples: text: And just as for postmillennial Christians, man, led by God's prophets and saints, will establish a Kingdom of God on Earth (for premillennials, Jesus will have many human assistants in setting up such a kingdom), so, for Marx and other schools of communists, mankind, led by a vanguard of secular saints, will establish a secularized Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
ref: 1990, Murray N. Rothbard, Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 123–179:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.
examples: text: […]“Sweet Nothing” is a quintessential example of both postmillennial EDM-pop music and neoliberal ideology because it shows how the two are intertwined.
ref: 2015, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy, Zero Books, →ISBN:
text: In 2001, the US author Marc Prensky invented the term “digital native” to describe the post-millennial generation who would grow up in an online world.
ref: 2016 June 18, Rosie Ifould, “‘I worried people would forget about me’: can teenagers survive without social media?”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: premillennial
glosses: Pertaining to the period following the year 1000 or (now more usually) following the year 2000.
examples: text: “I want to get into the heads of people younger than me, to be postmillennial,” she says. “I look at different Instagram influencers, at the music and the music scene, to try to understand it all.”
ref: 2020 February 7, Melanie Gerlis, quoting Avery Singer, “Avery Singer: the artist breathing fresh life into painting”, in Financial Times:
glosses: Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.
Derived terms: postmillennialism
postmillennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmillennials
form: post-millennial
Etymology: From post- + millennial.
Senses: examples: text: The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?
ref: 2015 December 2, “The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A member of the generation following the millennials; a Gen-Zer.
at bat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In the batter's box.
at bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: at bats
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A final resolution to a batter's turn at the plate which does not result in a walk, a hit by pitch, a sacrifice hit or sacrifice fly, or catcher interference
Related terms: plate appearance
postmillennialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From postmillennial + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An interpretation of the Book of Revelation where Christ's second coming will be after the "Millennium", a Golden Age or era of prosperity and dominance of Christianity.
Related terms: amillennialism
premillennialism
postmillennialist
extra base hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extra base hits
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A double, triple, or home run.
hosebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosebags
Etymology: From hose + bag.
Senses: glosses: An undesirable, boorish, unintelligent, or objectionable person; a hoser.
glosses: A trashy, dirty, skanky or sexually loose woman.
Related terms: dirtbag
scumbag
sleazebag
douchebag
dingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinger
moondust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moon + dust.
Senses: glosses: The fine regolith found on the surface of the Moon.
noun adjuncts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noun adjunct
attributive nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attributive noun
shedhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shedhands
Etymology: From shed + hand.
Senses: examples: text: 1950, Graziers' Association of New South Wales, The Graziers′ Annual, page 187,
Thus if an employee is engaged as a woolpresser and shedhand he must for the whole of his work be paid at the woolpressers′ weekly rate, since that is higher than the shedhands′ weekly rate.
text: 1980 September 11, Paul Hudson, Technology brings home the wool harvest, New Scientist, page 768,
The sheep still have to be mustered and penned in a shed; the shearer still grabs sheep from the pen and shears them; the shedhands remove the fleece and pieces.
text: The Board can be kept much cleaner if two shedhands work together.
ref: 1996, John Fowler, Australian Woolclassing, page 23:
text: Shearers took the best cook and accommodation, refusing to share either with the shedhand.
ref: 1999, David Palmer, Ross Shanahan, Martin Shanahan, Australian Labour History Reconsidered, page 26:
glosses: A worker in a sheep-shearing shed.
sheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shieling.
sheepwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepwalks
Etymology: From sheep + walk.
Senses: glosses: Land given to pasturing of sheep, smaller than a sheep-run.
sheep-run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep-runs
Senses: glosses: A tract of land for pasturing of sheep.
Related terms: sheepwalk
sheep louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep lice
Senses: glosses: A kind of parasitic insect, of genus Bovicola, that infests sheep.
shelty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sheltie.
sheltie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelties
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sheltie.
sheepwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepwalk
shepherd dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherd dogs
Senses: glosses: A sheepdog; (loosely) any herding dog.
Derived terms: Central Asian shepherd dog
shepherd dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shepherd dog
shepherd's knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherd's knots
Senses: glosses: The tormentil.
pint glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pint glass
fire hoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire hose