cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Pythonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈθɒ.nɪk/
ipa: /pɪ-/
ipa: /paɪˈθɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /pɪ-/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more Pythonic
form: most Pythonic
form: pythonic
Etymology: From Python + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to, or resembling, the Python in Ancient Greek mythology, a serpent which lived at Delphi (regarded as the centre of the Earth) until it was killed by Apollo.
synonyms: word: ample
word: big
word: bodacious
word: broad
word: commodious
word: considerable
word: expansive
word: good-sized
word: full
word: generous
word: giant
word: grand
word: great
word: hefty
word: hench
word: immense
word: jumbo
word: larger than life
word: largifical
word: leviathan
word: long
word: massive
word: mega-
word: overlarge
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: prodigious
word: roomy
word: rotund
word: sizeable
word: spacious
word: stonking
word: tall
word: vast
word: voluminous
word: wide
word: astronomic
word: behemothic
word: big fat
word: boxcar
word: Brobdingnagian
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: cyclopean
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: elephantine
word: elephantic
word: enormous
word: gargantuan
word: giantesque
word: gigantesque
word: gigantic
word: ginormous
word: great big
word: honkin'
word: huge
word: hulking
word: humongous
word: hunormous
word: immane
word: mahoosive
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: monumental
word: mountainous
word: pantagruelian
word: pyramidal
word: Pythonic
word: stupendous
word: super-
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: whopping
word: yuge
glosses: Enormous; also, monstrous.
examples: text: The Pythonic style isn't regimented or enforced by the compiler. It has emerged over time through experience using the language and working with others.
ref: 2015 February 12, Brett Slatkin, Effective Python, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Pythonic code—when you first hear of it, you might think it is a programming paradigm, similar to object-oriented or functional programming. While some of it could be considered as such, it is actually more of a design philosophy.
ref: 2016 August 31, Fabrizio Romano, Dusty Phillips, Rick van Hattem, Python: Journey from Novice to Expert, Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 850:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: Pythonesque
antonyms: unpythonic
glosses: Using the idioms of the Python programming language.
security services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of security service
Lispish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lispish
form: most Lispish
form: LISPish
Etymology: From Lisp + -ish.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Characteristic or reminiscent of the Lisp programming language.
Dorito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔˈritoʊ/
Forms: form: Doritos
Etymology: Marketing coinage, likely from Spanish dorar (“to gild”), dorado (“golden”), with an ending matching other brands of Frito-Lay Inc. (Cheetos, Fritos, Tostitos), from Spanish frito (“fried”), also possibly as a clipping of Spanish doradito (“little golden [thing]”), diminutive of dorado (“golden”).
Senses: examples: text: [Timmy] offered her his bag of Doritos.
ref: 1991, Ellen Emerson White, “The Boy Next Door”, in Thirteen: Thirteen Tales of Horror, page 302:
text: I looked out the kitchen window at my garden, my trenches, my dirt, and then my gaze turned downward toward my Dorito-stained hand.
ref: 2010, Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, page 12:
text: Stuffing the last Dorito chip into her mouth, she brushed the salt from her hands.
ref: 2013, Pamela Yaye, Games of the Heart:
text: 2025 June 27, Hank Green, “You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9euKCrTyMEc, vlogbrothers
We thought that if you gave people information about how many calories were in Doritos, it would make them healthier. […] I don't think the solution is to deeply understand the chemical and caloric content of a Dorito.
glosses: A tortilla chip of the Doritos brand.
wikipedia: Frito-Lay Inc.
Derived terms: Dorito body
Groveland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From grove + land.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of U.S. cities.
glosses: Any of a number of U.S. cities.
A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
bad hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad hops
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that bounces in front of an infielder in an unexpected way, often as a result of imperfections in the field or the spin on the ball.
bad hops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad hop
Doritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔˈɹitoʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Dorito
Pringles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pringle
bamf
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Used as a teleportation sound effect in X-Men comics. Presumably imitative; compare bam, poof, etc.
Senses: glosses: Signalling a user's disappearance from a discussion, chat room, etc.
Synonyms: poof
short eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short eyes
Etymology: Probably from have eyes for (“have a romantic interest in”) + short (“not tall”).
Senses: examples: text: Kauffmann pointed out that when the prisoners forget their racial and personal differences and, with the connivance of a white guard, kill the white man they all hate because he is a "short eyes" (prison slang for a child molester)
ref: 1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 23, page 76:
text: Set in the day room of a house of detention, the play's chain of violent events is set in motion by the introduction of a young white child molester, a “short eyes,” into their group.
ref: 2019, Helen Epstein, Joe Papp: An American Life:
glosses: A child molester.
ecohorror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + horror.
Senses: glosses: A horror genre dealing with things that go wrong in the natural environment.
Coordinate terms: body horror
technohorror
MUDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MUD
toading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toad
toaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toad
qui-hi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कोई है (koī hai, “is anyone there?”).
Senses: examples: text: That he had seen service in India was, indeed, probable by his referring to lunch as tiffin, and calling to his parlourmaid with the ejaculation of “Qui-hi.”
ref: 1922, Edward Frederic Benson, Miss Mapp, Chapter 1:
glosses: An Anglo-Indian call for a servant.
qui-hi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qui-his
form: Qui-hi
form: Qui-Hi
form: Qui-hye
form: Qui-Hye
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कोई है (koī hai, “is anyone there?”).
Senses: examples: text: […] would find themselves at Galle regarded as interlopers by the Bengal "qui-his," as they are called, or high and mighty Anglo-Indians.
ref: 1879, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, page 107:
text: The slang distinctive name for gentlemen belonging to the Bombay service; the correlative of the Mulls of Madras and the Qui-His of Bengal.
ref: 1968, Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger, Asian Review, page 134:
glosses: An Anglo-Indian in Bengal.
artist's conception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artist's conceptions
form: artists' conceptions
Senses: examples: text: Artist's conception of hot gases flowing off the atmosphere of the first transiting planet, the hot Jupiter orbiting the star HD 209458.
ref: 2010, Alan Boss, The Crowded Universe: The Race to Find Life Beyond Earth, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: An illustration showing the extrapolated appearance of something for which the actual appearance is not known or cannot be seen.
examples: text: The artist's conception and plan permit the artist to judge the correctness of various aspects of the work that gives the artist the ability to resolve problems that occur during its execution.
ref: 2008, M. Scott Norton, Human Resources Administration for Educational Leaders, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see artist, conception.
artist's conceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artist's conception
Kimberley death adder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kimberley death adders
Senses: examples: text: It looks like a pile of leaves, but the Kimberley death adder can deliver a bite which could result in paralysis and death.
ref: 2015 September 16, Kirstie McCrum, “New deadly snake species discovered is 'in the world's venomous top 10'”, in The Mirror:
text: Australia is famous for its enormous variety of toxic or venomous creatures, and now scientists have added a new snake to its roster: Acanthophis cryptamydros, or the Kimberley death adder (named after the region of Australia it comes from).
ref: 2015 October 1, Danny Lewis, “Yet Another Highly-Venomous Snake Discovered in Australia”, in Smithsonian:
text: The Kimberley death adder is roughly 24 inches (60 cm) long and has a diamond-shaped head.
ref: 2016 January 28, Sergio Prostak, “Top 20 New Species Discovered in 2015”, in Science News:
text: Fig. 5.11. Range of the Kimberley death adder, Acanthophis cryptamydros
ref: 2017, Peter Mirtschin, Arne Rasmussen, Scott Weinstein, Australia's Dangerous Snakes: Identification, Biology and Envenoming, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Any of species Acanthophis cryptamydros of Australian snake.
adulty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adulty
form: adultier
form: most adulty
form: adultiest
Etymology: From adult + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And because I knew I was supposed to talk to him like he was an adult, I filtered everything I said and made sure it sounded adulty before it left my mouth.
ref: 2013, Kristen Tracy, Bessica Lefter Bites Back, page 101:
text: Part of me wanted to help Misa, but a bigger, uglier part of me was jealous that she had graduated on to adultier problems than surviving herself, at least on the surface.
ref: 2024, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, “‘Ocean Avenue’ —Yellowcard (3:18)”, in Never Been Better: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an adult.
achaenocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achaenocarps
form: achenocarp
Etymology: From Latin achenium, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χαίνω (khaínō, “to gape”), + Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”).
Senses: glosses: Any dry indehiscent fruit.
achaenocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achaenocarp
cochleare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cochleares
Etymology: See cochlear.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A spoon.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A spoonful.
acropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acropathies
Etymology: From acro- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Kahane himself, however, finally gives as his own opinion that it should be ranked among the acropathies, which he defines as those affections which are localized in the peripheral parts of the limbs and as the ultimate basis of which are assumed lesions of a vasomotor nature.
ref: 1908, Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences:
text: Patients with Graves' disease infrequently have acropathy consisting of digital "drumstick" clubbing of fingers or toes and subperiosteal newborn formation.
ref: 1992, Samuel L. Moschella, Harry J. Hurley, Dermatology - Volume 2, page 1591:
text: Of patients with pretibial myxedema, only 7% develop acropathy.
ref: 2001, Thomas T. Provost, John A. Flynn, Cutaneous Medicine, →ISBN:
glosses: Any disease specific to the extremities.
acropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acropathy
geysery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡiːzəɹi/
ipa: /ˈɡaɪzəɹi/
Forms: form: more geysery
form: most geysery
Etymology: From geyser + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I was a little disappointed to have lost the light, for I'd pictured the springs as bubbling, roiling, geysery things, clear-pure and alive.
ref: 2009, Steve Hockensmith, The Crack in the Lens, page 144:
text: Bears groaned and shuffled about backstage, a moose looked at me with complete skepticism, and on a visit to Old Faithful — the venerable geyser that obligingly blows its top every 94 minutes or so — I saw a little girl with her mother, picking her way through the geysery, thin-crust landscape and singing, like some kind of gnome from the future, the chorus of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.”
ref: 2015 September 22, James Parker, “Why Read Books Considered Obscene?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Like a geyser.
put the pedal to the medal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the pedal to the medal
form: putting the pedal to the medal
form: put the pedal to the medal
form: put the pedal to the medal
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of put the pedal to the metal.
Fraga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The 1134 Battle of Fraga was the site of the death of Alfonso I.
glosses: A small town by the river Cinca in Bajo Cinca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain, whose inhabitants speak Fragatí, a distinct local dialect of Catalan.
glosses: A surname of Iberian origin.
dick about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dicks about
form: dicking about
form: dicked about
form: dicked about
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dick around.
synonyms: word: dick around
to heck in a handbasket
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of to hell in a handbasket.
uncorrectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncorrectly
form: most uncorrectly
Etymology: From uncorrect + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of incorrectly.
synonyms: word: incorrectly
be in luck
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: You're in luck: this is the last one.
glosses: To be lucky in getting something that one wants.
athleisurewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of athletics + leisurewear, equivalent to athleisure + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: The style in “athleisurewear”—those sportsy/outdoorsy-looking slacks, shorts, shirts, and jackets—was the soft, cool feel of all-cotton.
ref: 1986 May, Jim Chase, Backpacker, page 46:
text: Marketers may call this comfy stuff "athleisurewear," but the boyfriend who spots you on Saturday morning at Whole Foods will be glad to simply call you an ex.
ref: 2005, Shelly Branch, Sue Callaway, What Would Jackie Do?, page 60:
text: When you think about it, the Missoni stretch knit was athleisurewear before athleisurewear was invented.
ref: 2015 September 28, Vanessa Friedman, “Armani and Missoni: In the Shadow of the Supermoon”, in New York Times:
text: Three decades of that privileged factory work have given him and his family the perks of a stable, middle-class life: travel abroad, adventure motorcycle trips, a closet full of athleisurewear, a room-by-room renovation of his childhood home where he and his accountant wife now live.
ref: 2025 January 27, Lenora Chu, “How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Casual sports clothing.
Beira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and port in Sofala Province, Mozambique.
Related terms: Beira Alta
closefitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more closefitting
form: most closefitting
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of close-fitting.
some people have all the luck
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Suggests that someone is enjoying more success than they deserve.
slave camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave camps
Senses: glosses: A place where slaves are forced to work
Related terms: work camp
labor camp
huaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huacas
Senses: glosses: An Incan relic.
huacas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huaca
live beyond one's means
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives beyond one's means
form: living beyond one's means
form: lived beyond one's means
form: lived beyond one's means
Senses: examples: text: When young people first leave home, they often get into financial trouble living beyond their means. It is then that they start to learn some of the harsh realities of life.
antonyms: live within one's means
cut one's coat according to one's cloth
glosses: Have a lifestyle where one's spending regularly exceeds one's income.
Related terms: champagne taste on a beer budget
begin with the chucky
emergency cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency cords
Senses: glosses: A system for advising the driver of a public transport vehicle that there is an emergency on board, and that the vehicle should stop as quickly as possible. It may be a cord, chain, bell push, or other activating device.
Synonyms: communication cord
emergency cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emergency cord
coxsackies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coxsackie
dealcoholize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dealcoholizes
form: dealcoholizing
form: dealcoholized
form: dealcoholized
Etymology: From de- + alcoholize.
Senses: examples: text: Selected wines were acidified with 0.1% TFA, dealcoholized using rotoevaporation that did not exceed 40°C, and then mixed with preconditioned amberlite XAD-7 resin to remove impurities.
ref: 2015 September 29, “Berry Phenolic Compounds Increase Expression of Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-1α (HNF-1α) in Caco-2 and Normal Colon Cells Due to High Affinities with Transcription and Dimerization Domains of HNF-1α”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: But a slew of entrepreneurs think nonalcoholic wine is poised for an explosion, thanks to improvements in technology for “de-alcoholizing” wine and a growing interest in drinks that taste and feel grown up but aren’t boozy.
ref: 2023 March 24, Laura Reiley, “Could nonalcoholic wine be the toast of the town?”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: To remove the alcohol from.
dealcoholized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dealcoholize
dealcoholizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dealcoholize
dealcoholizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dealcoholize
hypersecretory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersecretory
form: most hypersecretory
Etymology: From hyper- + secretory.
Senses: examples: text: Mucins are produced in low levels in health but they are over produced in a number of hypersecretory disorders in which they can directly contribute to the pathogenesis and prognosis of disease.
ref: 2015 September 29, “Excess Secretion of Gel-Forming Mucins and Associated Innate Defense Proteins with Defective Mucin Un-Packaging Underpin Gallbladder Mucocele Formation in Dogs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Involving excessive secretion
Related terms: hypersecretor
lecideine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lecideine
form: most lecideine
Etymology: From Lecidea + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: As currently circumscribed, Lecidella is comprised of crustose lichens characterized by black lecideine apothecia […]
ref: 2015 September 29, “A Molecular Phylogeny of the Lichen Genus Lecidella Focusing on Species from Mainland China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Similar to members of the lichen genus Lecidea.
robustification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robust + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper, we consider the robustification of Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) test for multiple comparison tests.
ref: 2015 September 29, “A Hybrid One-Way ANOVA Approach for the Robust and Efficient Estimation of Differential Gene Expression with Multiple Patterns”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A form of optimization whereby a system is made less sensitive to the effects of random variability, or noise.
cuspform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuspforms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cusp form.
cuspforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuspform
cusp form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cusp forms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kind of modular form with a zero constant coefficient in the Fourier series expansion.
cusp forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cusp form
disutilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disutility
multideterminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + determinant.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, an alternative decomposition of the short-range ensemble exchange-correlation energy is proposed in order to correct for ghost-interaction errors in multideterminant range-separated ensemble density-functional theory calculations.
ref: 2015, Bruno Senjean, Erik D. Hedegård, Md. Mehboob Alam, Stefan Knecht, Emmanuel Fromager, “Combining linear interpolation with extrapolation methods in range-separated ensemble density-functional theory”, in arXiv:
glosses: Involving more than one determinant.
nonsqueezing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + squeezing.
Senses: examples: text: Relying on Gromov's nonsqueezing theorem for finite dimensional Hamiltonian systems, the argument is to approximate the solutions to the original infinite dimensional Hamiltonian system by a frequency truncated finite dimensional system, and then the nonsqueezing property is transferred to the infinite dimensional system.
ref: 2015, Sunghyun Hong, Soonsik Kwon, “Nonsqueezing property of the coupled KdV type system without Miura transform”, in arXiv:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to the theorem in symplectic geometry stating that one cannot embed a sphere into a cylinder via a symplectic map unless the radius of the sphere is less than or equal to the radius of the cylinder.
parallelohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallelohedrons
form: parallelohedra
Etymology: parallel + -o- + -hedron
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron that can tessellate three-dimensional spaces with face-to-face contacts via translations.
Derived terms: heptaparallelohedron
parallelohedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelohedron
clausmarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clausmarins
Etymology: Blend of Clausena + coumarin
Senses: examples: text: Here, we investigated the likely mechanism of clausmarin A action in yeast and Jurkat T-cells.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Clausmarin A, Potential Immunosuppressant Revealed by Yeast-Based Assay and Interleukin-2 Production Assay in Jurkat T Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of terpenoid coumarins found in citrus plants of the genus Clausena
parallelohedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We give a combinatorial proof of this theorem and prove several additional statements on three-codimensional faces of parallelohedral tiling.
ref: 2015, Alexander Magazinov, “On Delaunay's classification theorem on faces of parallelohedra of codimension three”, in Modelirovanie i analiz informatsionnykh sistem, volume 20:
glosses: Relating to a parallelohedron.
serializability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From serialize + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The key insight that enables Weaver to combine strict serializability with horizontal scalability and high performance is a novel request ordering mechanism called refinable timestamps.
ref: 2015, Ayush Dubey, Greg D. Hill, Robert Escriva, Emin Gün Sirer, “Weaver: A High-Performance, Transactional Graph Store Based on Refinable Timestamps”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being serializable.
dysbalanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dysbalanced
form: most dysbalanced
Etymology: From dys- + balanced.
Senses: examples: text: A potential explanation is that the favorable prognostic impact of PD-L1 upregulation in these conditions may indicate the presence of a mixed immune cell infiltrate containing cytotoxic and regulatory T cells and reflect a partially dysbalanced local cellular immune response, which still contributes to antitumor immune control.
ref: 2015 August 28, “PD-1 and PD-L1 Expression in NSCLC Indicate a Favorable Prognosis in Defined Subgroups”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Wrongly balanced
externalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From externalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being externalized.
supercontractivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + contractivity.
Senses: examples: text: As a consequence, we obtain for a large subclass of confining potentials that, on the one hand, supercontractivity and ultracontractivity, on the other hand, hypercontractivity and asymptotic ultracontractivity of the transformed semigroup are equivalent properties.
ref: 2015, Kamil Kaleta, Mateusz Kwaśnicki, József Lőrinczi, “Contractivity and ground state domination properties for non-local Schrödinger operators”, in arXiv:
glosses: The property of being supercontractive.
ultracontractivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + contractivity.
Senses: examples: text: As a consequence, we obtain for a large subclass of confining potentials that, on the one hand, supercontractivity and ultracontractivity, on the other hand, hypercontractivity and asymptotic ultracontractivity of the transformed semigroup are equivalent properties.
ref: 2015, Kamil Kaleta, Mateusz Kwaśnicki, József Lőrinczi, “Contractivity and ground state domination properties for non-local Schrödinger operators”, in arXiv:
glosses: The property of being ultracontractive.
fractionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fraction + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In the general population, self-reported autistic traits are often associated with social cognitive performance in males but not in females, suggesting a more fractionable neurocognitive structure in females, potentially indicative of a “female protective effect” [17 ].
ref: 2015 August 28, “The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test: Complete Absence of Typical Sex Difference in ~400 Men and Women with Autism”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Able to be fractioned
genomospecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genomospecies
Etymology: From genome + -o- + species.
Senses: examples: text: This operon is present in only a limited number of strains belonging to genomospecies 1, and it has been acquired once during evolution by horizontal transfer.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Bioinformatics Analysis of the Complete Genome Sequence of the Mango Tree Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae UMAF0158 Reveals Traits Relevant to Virulence and Epiphytic Lifestyle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A species characterised by its DNA alone
Mikkeli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Mikkeli.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Southern Savonia, in eastern Finland.
homoarginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoarginines
Etymology: From homo- + arginine.
Senses: examples: text: Arginine and homoarginine were detected at λex = 337 nm, λem = 520 nm, and λem = 454 nm was used for (ADMA) and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA).
ref: 2015 August 28, “Elevated Levels of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine (ADMA) in the Pericardial Fluid of Cardiac Patients Correlate with Cardiac Hypertrophy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid (2S)-2-amino-6-(diaminomethylideneamino)hexanoic acid
pathoadaptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patho- + adaptive.
Senses: examples: text: Cadaverine and acetylspermidine were not detected since they are absent in Shigella due to the pathoadaptive silencing of the cad and speG genes [19 ].
ref: 2015 August 28, “Multifactor Regulation of the MdtJI Polyamine Transporter in Shigella”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having or relating to an adaptive pathogenicity
pathogroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathogroups
Etymology: From patho- + group.
Senses: examples: text: Strains within a single pathogroup can originate from different genetical backgrounds [10 –13 ].
ref: 2015 August 28, “Comparative Genomics and Characterization of Hybrid Shigatoxigenic and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC/ETEC) Strains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A group of similar, or related pathogens
pathogroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These two pathogroups are defined based on the pathogroup-associated virulence genes: stx encoding Shiga toxin (Stx) for STEC and elt encoding heat-labile and/or est encoding heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) for ETEC. The study investigated the genomics of STEC/ETEC hybrid strains to determine their phylogenetic position among E.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Comparative Genomics and Characterization of Hybrid Shigatoxigenic and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC/ETEC) Strains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pathogroup
polyaminoacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyaminoacids
Etymology: From poly- + aminoacid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polypeptide having a single amino acid subunit
polyaminoacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Experiments in vitro revealed even more amyloid-forming proteins and peptides, including proteins with no link to in vivo amyloids, such as polyaminoacids (e.g., polylysine, polythreonine and polyglutamic acid) [3 ], and short oligopeptides [4 –6 ].
ref: 2015 August 28, “pH-Driven Polymorphism of Insulin Amyloid-Like Fibrils”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of polyaminoacid
polythreonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polythreonines
Etymology: From poly- + threonine.
Senses: examples: text: Experiments in vitro revealed even more amyloid-forming proteins and peptides, including proteins with no link to in vivo amyloids, such as polyaminoacids (e.g., polylysine, polythreonine and polyglutamic acid) [3 ], and short oligopeptides [4 –6 ].
ref: 2015 August 28, “pH-Driven Polymorphism of Insulin Amyloid-Like Fibrils”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyaminoacid composed of threonine subunits
proacrosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + acrosomal.
Senses: examples: text: Acrosome biogenesis covers the transport and fusion of Golgi-derived proacrosomal vesicles to form an acrosome sac which is tightly bound to the nuclear envelope.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Expression of Flotilin-2 and Acrosome Biogenesis Are Regulated by MiR-124 during Spermatogenesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That develops into an acrosomal granule, vesicle etc
Related terms: proacrosome
retinorecipient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retino- + recipient.
Senses: examples: text: Every other coronal section from the beginning to the end of the SC (approximately 30 sections) was used for the SC retinorecipient area reconstruction, using Matlab (The MathWorks Inc., Natick, MA, USA).
ref: 2015 August 28, “Enriched Environment Protects the Optic Nerve from Early Diabetes-Induced Damage in Adult Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That receive impulses from the retina
revortexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + vortexed.
Senses: examples: text: CHCl 3 (1 ml) and H 2 O (0.5 ml) were then added and the samples were revortexed.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Type I Interferons Function as Autocrine and Paracrine Factors to Induce Autotaxin in Response to TLR Activation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: vortexed again
syringolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syringolins
Senses: examples: text: UMAF0158 has a gene cluster resembling that of the production of syringolin A (PSYRMG_24250–24275), a toxin that has been shown to counteract stomatal innate immunity in beans and Arabidopsis [84 ].
ref: 2015 August 28, “Bioinformatics Analysis of the Complete Genome Sequence of the Mango Tree Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae UMAF0158 Reveals Traits Relevant to Virulence and Epiphytic Lifestyle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a family of macrolactam amino acids secreted by Pseudomonas syringae.
macrolactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrolactams
Etymology: From macro- + lactam.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A macrocyclic lactam
Related terms: macrolactamization
macrolactams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrolactam
syringopeptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syringopeptins
Senses: examples: text: UMAF0158 and B728a contain orthologs of genes participating in the synthesis of syringopeptin and syringomycin.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Bioinformatics Analysis of the Complete Genome Sequence of the Mango Tree Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae UMAF0158 Reveals Traits Relevant to Virulence and Epiphytic Lifestyle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a group of antimicrobial cyclic lipodepsipeptides produced by Pseudomonas syringae.
lipodepsipeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipodepsipeptides
Etymology: From lipo- + depsipeptide.
Senses: glosses: A depsipeptide lipid
thermodependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + dependency.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, taking account of the thermodependency of the expression of virF [10 ] in Shigella, we looked at the expression of mdtJI at different temperatures (30°C vs 37°C) in the same genetic background.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Multifactor Regulation of the MdtJI Polyamine Transporter in Shigella”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: thermal dependency
vestibuloacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vestibulo- + acoustic.
Senses: examples: text: They lack sensory organs/neurons derived from the olfactory placode (olfactory epithelium, vomeronasal organ and gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons) and the otic placode (cochlea, vestibule and vestibuloacoustic ganglion), and show reduced neural differentiation in the distal portion of the epibranchial ganglia derived from the epibranchial placodes [5 –10 ].
ref: 2015 August 28, “Activation of Six1 Expression in Vertebrate Sensory Neurons”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: vestibular and acoustic
viremogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viremogenic
form: most viremogenic
Etymology: From viremo- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: All virus strains isolated during Culex pipiens-borne epidemics in the eastern United States were highly viremogenic [viremia in 80% of birds with a mean duration of ⩾1.6 days in adults or ⩾2.7 days in nestlings and a mean peak titer of ⩾103.0 plaque-forming units (PFU)/ml in adults and 104.0 PFU/ml in nestlings].
ref: 1980 November 1, G. Stephen Bowen, “Geographic Variation among St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Strains in the Viremic Responses of Avian Hosts”, in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, volume 29, number 6, →ISSN, page 1411:
text: Once CA analyses were carried out, correlations between source of isolation (birds, mammals, mosquitoes), viremogenic capacity in birds (High and Low) and virulence in mice (High and Low) were tested.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Exploring Genomic, Geographic and Virulence Interactions among Epidemic and Non-Epidemic St. Louis Encephalitis Virus (Flavivirus) Strains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Causing viremia.
Porvoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Finnish Porvoo.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Uusimaa, in southern Finland, east of Helsinki.
Lahtis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lahti
Raahe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Finnish Raahe.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of North Ostrobothnia, Finland.
penelopize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: penelopizes
form: penelopizing
form: penelopized
form: penelopized
form: penelopise
form: Penelopise
form: Penelopize
Etymology: From Penelope + -ize, from the account in Homer's Odyssey of Penelope, who stalled her many suitors while she wove a shroud which she unraveled nightly to prolong the process.
Senses: examples: text: Diplomacy was still drawing out its lengthened thread — still weaving its long and dilatory web — still Penelopizing — when the same McLeod, the boaster in Canada of his active share in this triple crime of midnight murder, arson, and robbery, crosses over to the American side and repeats, in the hearing of Americans, and on the spot which had been the scene of his exploit, the audacious boast of his participation in it.
ref: 1841, Thomas Hart Benton, "Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, on the Case of McLeod," p. 3 (Google preview)
text: However, there is nothing for it but to penelopize, pull to pieces, and stitch away again.
ref: 1879, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., chapter 9, in Memoir of John Lothrop Motley:
text: Yiota would not allow me to begin to discuss Yiannaras's Commentary with her until I had finished reading it. I was tempted to penelopize, to go back to the beginning and start again in order to postpone the moment of discussion.
ref: 2003, Roger Green, Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: To create a delay by undoing what has previously been done, sometimes possibly with the intention of redoing it and repeating this cycle.
wikipedia: Homer
Penelope
Synonyms: delay
procrastinate
stall
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penelopise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: penelopises
form: penelopising
form: penelopised
form: penelopised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penelopize.
Penelopise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Penelopises
form: Penelopising
form: Penelopised
form: Penelopised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penelopize.
Penelopize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Penelopizes
form: Penelopizing
form: Penelopized
form: Penelopized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penelopize.
monthly friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monthly friends
Senses: examples: text: Experiencing the visit of my monthly friend at work, I trudged out into the kiln today, across the car park to the little shop in search of some tampons.
ref: 2011, Becky Wicks, Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex and Secrecy, Skyhorse Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 26:
text: "Office sex; I've never done it, but Kat tells me it's amazing. We'll have to try it once my monthly friend leaves."
ref: 2014, Kelly Collins, Brownie Points, IndieWrites, Inc., →ISBN:
text: “That's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get pregnant!”
“I'm not! If it happens, I'll be glad. If not...”
“You're disappointed every time your monthly friend comes to visit. Will anyone else be glad if you got pregnant?”
ref: 2014, Holly Kerr, Coming Home, Etopia Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The menstrual period.
monthly visitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monthly visitors
Senses: examples: text: 'The first thing was,' she lowered her voice, 'my, you know – monthly visitor – didn't appear. I didn't think much about it because I've never kept track of that very well. […]
ref: 2005, Annie Murray, Miss Purdy's Class, Pan Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: I bought a home pregnancy test yesterday and I'm praying that stress is the cause for the lack of my monthly visitor as I watch the stick that I just peed on.
ref: 2006, Tawanna Johnson, US Girls, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 178:
text: Once my “monthly visitor” arrived, the sports I'd always played were out of the question. My symptoms were so severe and I couldn't risk being on a team that depended on me.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Esposito, Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease – What Doctors Don't Tell You and How You Can Learn to Live Again, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: The menstrual period.
allergome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allergomes
Etymology: From allergen + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: Using this strategy, we significantly expanded our knowledge of the short ragweed pollen allergome, as well as our understanding of the diversity of IgE sensitization among patients.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Identification of Novel Short Ragweed Pollen Allergens Using Combined Transcriptomic and Immunoproteomic Approaches”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The complete set of allergens associated with a particular organism
biomodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomodulations
Etymology: From bio- + modulation.
Senses: examples: text: This adjustable biomodulation of substrates can, on one hand, lead to the transmission of signals participating in the cell cycle and cell proliferation control, but on the other hand, their role in the regulation of apoptosis (indirectly or through a direct effect on its substrates, including caspases or Bcl-2 protein family members, such as Bcl-2, Bcl-xL, Bid, Bax) is postulated [11 ,16 ,21 –23 ].
ref: 2015 August 29, “Increased μ-Calpain Activity in Blasts of Common B-Precursor Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Correlates with Their Lower Susceptibility to Apoptosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: biological or biochemical modulation
Derived terms: photobiomodulation
Related terms: biomodulator
biomodulatory
cytomatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytomatrices
Etymology: From cyto- + matrix.
Senses: examples: text: Presynaptic proteins that promote vesicle release aggregate at active zones, forming the cytomatrix at the active zone (CAZ).
ref: 2015 August 29, “Mutational Analysis of Rab3 Function for Controlling Active Zone Protein Composition at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A matrix of cells
deisotope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deisotopes
form: deisotoping
form: deisotoped
form: deisotoped
Etymology: From de- + isotope.
Senses: glosses: To remove complications due to the presence of isotopes in a mass spectrum
deisotoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deisotope
deisotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Data were searched with and without the MS2 processor node which deisotopes the MS2 spectra to the +1 charge state prior to searching.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Proteins with Intrinsically Disordered Domains Are Preferentially Recruited to Polyglutamine Aggregates”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deisotope
diospyros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diospyroses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, in order to further verify the stable and useful of SCoT markers in diospyros germplasms, SSR markers were also used in current research to analyze the genetic diversity and relationship in the same diospyros germplasms.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Investigation and Analysis of Genetic Diversity of Diospyros Germplasms Using SCoT Molecular Markers in Guangxi”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any tree of the genus Diospyros.
dynorphinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dynorphin + -ergic.
Senses: examples: text: Enkephalinergic neurons of the indirect pathway express predominantly A2A-D2 heteromeric receptor complexes, while dynorphinergic neurons of the direct pathway express predominantly A1-D1 heteromers.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Association of ADORA1 rs2228079 and ADORA2A rs5751876 Polymorphisms with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome in the Polish Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Produced or activated by dynorphins
dyssynchronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + synchronous.
Senses: examples: text: The model predicted that patients with dyssynchronous electrical activation but effective length-dependent tension regulation at the cellular scale are less likely to respond to CRT treatment than patients with attenuated or no length dependent of tension.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Implementation of Contraction to Electrophysiological Ventricular Myocyte Models, and Their Quantitative Characterization via Post-Extrasystolic Potentiation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not synchronous; badly synchronized
estroprogestative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The subjects had no associated acute or chronic disease, had not been previously exposed to endogenous or exogenous glucocorticoid compounds other than HC and were not presently receiving either contraceptive estroprogestative or anti-epileptic compounds.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Usefulness of Time-Point Serum Cortisol and ACTH Measurements for the Adjustment of Glucocorticoid Replacement in Adrenal Insufficiency”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Containing both estrogen and progesterone
oestroprogestative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of estroprogestative.
glycoxidatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From glycoxidative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Since reports suggest a link between AGE-RAGE axis and carcinogenesis, glycoxidation of histone H1 and its immunogenicity paves ways for understanding role of glycoxidatively damaged nuclear proteins in cancer.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Dicarbonyl Induced Structural Perturbations Make Histone H1 Highly Immunogenic and Generate an Auto-Immune Response in Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: By means of glycoxidation
glycoxidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to glycoxidation
Derived terms: glycoxidatively
glycoxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoxidations
form: glycooxidation
form: glyco-oxidation
Etymology: From glyco- + oxidation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxidation of sugars, glycoproteins or glycolipids
hirudinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hirudinizes
form: hirudinizing
form: hirudinized
form: hirudinized
Etymology: From hirudin + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In the hirudin experiments to be detailed, equal parts of the same extract were employed in hirudinized and control animals.
ref: 1910, Robert T. Frank, “Has Ovotherapy An Experimental Basis?”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 6, page 318:
text: The hirudinized blood of a control was divided evenly into four small test tubes.
ref: 1927, E.H. Rubin, Norman N. Smith, “Relation of Hemoglobin, Cell Count and Cell Volume to the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Reaction”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 39, page 309:
text: Suitable precautions are necessary to prevent coagulation in the splenic artery and this may be accomplished either by hirudinizing the animal or, what has proved more satisfactory[…]
ref: 1927 May 25, Myron M. Weaver, “Distribution of Pancreatic Secretin”, in American Journal of Physiology, volume 82, page 110:
text: A 600μL blood sample acquired in hirudinized tubes (Sarstedt) was obtained to perform ADP and TRAP tests in each patient.
ref: 2015 August 29, “High Platelet Reactivity in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Prasugrel and Clopidogrel”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To inject hirudin into blood to prevent coagulation.
Related terms: hirudinization