cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonstate actor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstate actors
form: non-state actor
form: non state actor
Senses: examples: text: Nobody's particularly optimistic that the Afghan civil war that began almost a decade ago is going to end any time soon. […] [T]his is a new type of war against a non-state actor, in which the definitions, strategies and yardsticks of all previous conflicts no longer apply.
ref: 2001 October 31, Tony Karon, “Halloween Word for the Pundits: Quagmire”, in Time, retrieved 24 May 2018:
text: “It wasn't until after Sept. 11 that most of us realized that for the first time in human history,” Mr. Blacker said, “a nonstate actor, a group of religious extremists at the very bottom of the international system, had the capability to inflict devastating damage on the very pinnacle of the international system.”
ref: 2004 April 5, Douglas Jehl, David E. Sanger, “New to the Job, Rice Focused On More Traditional Threats”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2018:
text: The threats represented by violent nonstate actors are as old as the earliest states. Bandits, raiders, and pirates have plagued civilized peoples around the globe for millennia.
ref: 2013 Winter, Robert J. Bunker, "Defeating Violent Nonstate Actors," Strategic Studies Institute—U.S. Army War College (retrieved 24 May 2018)
text: [T]he Global Terrorism Database (GTD) […] defines terrorism as “the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation.”
ref: 2017 March 13, Charlotte England, “News media do under-report some terror attacks”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 24 May 2018:
glosses: An organization or other group whose behavior significantly affects political, economic, or strategic interactions between countries or major events within a country, but that is not itself a recognized country or a representative of a recognized country.
intransigentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intransigentists
Etymology: From intransigent + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who refuses to compromise on their position.
glosses: A person who refuses to compromise on their position.
A member of a revolutionary party in Spain about 1873, or of a socialist party in France.
intransigentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intransigentist
non-state actor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-state actors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonstate actor.
non state actor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non state actors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonstate actor.
FCUK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of fcuk.
Q-Q plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Q-Q plots
Etymology: Short for quantile-quantile plot.
Senses: glosses: A probability plot, which is a graphical method for comparing two probability distributions by plotting their quantiles against each other.
Poulantzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Poulantzian
form: most Poulantzian
Etymology: Poulantzas + -ian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Nicos Poulantzas (Greek: Νίκος Πουλαντζάς; 1936–1979), Greek-French Marxist political sociologist.
Poulantzian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poulantzians
Etymology: Poulantzas + -ian
Senses: glosses: A proponent of the ideas of Nicos Poulantzas.
Poulantzians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poulantzian
derivationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derivationists
Etymology: From derivation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of derivationism.
derivationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derivationist
Q-Q plots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Q-Q plot
post-Marxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + Marxism.
Senses: glosses: A trend in philosophy and social theory based on Marxism, but countering derivationism and essentialism; for example, it does not see the state as an instrument that "functions" unambiguously and autonomously on behalf of the interests of a given class.
Related terms: post-Marxist
post-Marxist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more post-Marxist
form: most post-Marxist
Etymology: From post- + Marxist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to post-Marxism.
post-Marxist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-Marxists
Etymology: From post- + Marxist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of post-Marxism.
post-Marxists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-Marxist
Laclauan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Laclauan
form: most Laclauan
Etymology: From Laclau + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ernesto Laclau (1935–2014), Argentine political theorist.
inquisitorialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inquisitorial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A system of criminal procedure resembling the Roman Inquisition.
do the job
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the job
form: doing the job
form: did the job
form: done the job
Senses: examples: text: And I don't think the union needs to exaggerate - inflation will do the job for it.
ref: 2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Comment: More strikes and poor morale”, in RAIL, number 965, page 3:
glosses: Synonym of do the trick.
synonyms: word: do the trick
Related terms: do one's job
get the job done
inclinationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inclination + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The idea that people can innately identify what is good; opposed to derivationism.
derivationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From derivation + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The idea that people can only identify what is good by deriving it from human nature; opposed to inclinationism.
maquetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maquette
maquetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maquette
pracs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prac
misrepresentings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrepresenting
umberella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umberellas
Etymology: Formed by epenthesis.
Senses: examples: text: When days and years proclaim you’re old —
 A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,
Then for support you can lay hold
 O’ the upright of your umberella.
ref: 1893, David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15:
text: Come, let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks / Or umberellas in their mitts / Puttin' on the ritz.
ref: 1946, Fred Astaire, Puttin' On the Ritz (song, based on 1927 version by Irving Berlin)
glosses: umbrella
umberellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umberella
sansculottist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sansculottists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sans-culottist.
sansculottists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sansculottist
sans-culottist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sans-culottists
form: sansculottist
Senses: glosses: A proponent of sans-culottism; a person of extreme republican principles.
sans-culottists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sans-culottist
sans-culottish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sans-culottish
form: most sans-culottish
Etymology: From sans-culotte + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the sans-culottes.
anthropopathically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anthropopathically
form: most anthropopathically
Etymology: From anthropopathic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anthropopathic manner.
triformous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: triform; having three forms
passion killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passion killer
disinteressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disinteressed
form: most disinteressed
Senses: glosses: disinterested
Dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: Dubs
Etymology: Clipping of Dubliner
Senses: examples: text: There is a distinction between Dubliners on the one hand and "rednecks" on the other. […] The Dubs historically went to Liverpool and Birmingham, so they don't have the connections.
ref: 1993, Mary P. Corcoran, Irish Illegals: Transients Between Two Societies, page 138:
text: I did the Pat Kenny show one night and talked about coming from the bottom up, and I got numerous letters, saying to hear somebody with a Dub accent running the brewery was unbelievable.
ref: 1994, Patrick O'Dea, A Class of Our Own: Conversations About Class in Ireland, page 51:
text: Eric released her, grinning. You're a Dub anyway, he said.
ref: 2018, Sally Rooney, “Three Months Later (March 2014)”, in Normal People:
glosses: A Dubliner.
Dub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of University of Dublin, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Related terms: U of Dub
Dubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dub
Maranello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Maranello.
Senses: glosses: A small town in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; home to the Ferrari car company
return-oriented programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A computer security exploit technique by which the attacker gains control of the call stack to hijack program control flow and then executes prepared instruction sequences ("gadgets") that are already present in the machine's memory.
Synonyms: ROP
code cave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code caves
Senses: examples: text: Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking.
ref: 2016, Nick Cano, Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games:
text: In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]
ref: 2016, Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill, Learning Linux Binary Analysis (page 97)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A sequence of null bytes in a process's memory, offering the capacity for the injection of custom instructions by a hacker.
code caves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of code cave
welcomee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welcomees
Etymology: From welcome + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: It is difficult to find anything in common except that the welcomers and the welcomees both belong to the masculine sex.
ref: 1907, American Society of Municipal Engineers, Proceedings of the Annual Convention, volume 14, page 218:
text: Welcoming people from all over the world, Honolulu has the glad heart behind the "glad hand," so to speak, when the welcomees give cause therefor, whether they come to teach, or to learn; to rest, or to work; to earn, or to spend.
ref: 1922, Paradise of the Pacific, volume 35:
glosses: The recipient of a welcome.
welcomees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welcomee
honnouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of honnour
honnoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of honnour
Honoluluan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Honoluluan
form: most Honoluluan
Etymology: From Honolulu + -an.
Senses: examples: text: My Honoluluan days were fast drawing to a close, and of course the nearer the time for departure approached, the more intensely did I enjoy the pleasures of these last days.
ref: 1876, John Whetham Boddam-Whetham, Pearls of the Pacific, page 128:
glosses: Of or relating to Honolulu.
Honoluluan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Honoluluans
Etymology: From Honolulu + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Honolulu.
Honoluluans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Honoluluan
kiss cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiss cams
Etymology: Compound of kiss + cam.
Senses: examples: text: During the concert Chris Martin appeared to reference the kiss-cam couple and to anticipate the fallout. “Holy shit,” he told the crowd. “I hope we didn’t do something bad.”
ref: 2025 July 18, Rory Carroll, “Are they ‘having an affair’ or just shy? The couple caught on Coldplay’s kiss cam”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A camera that photographs couples kissing during a sports event and displays the image on a giant screen.
maduropeptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex of a protein and a chromophore present in the actinobacterium Actinomadura madurae
mediastinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mediastinal.
synonyms: word: mediastinal
megaviscera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megavisceras
Etymology: From mega- + viscera.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: enlargement of the viscera, typically leading to an obstruction
Related terms: megavisceral
mesocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + cyclic.
Senses: glosses: relating to a mesocycle
micropolyhedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropolyhedra
Etymology: From micro- + polyhedron.
Senses: glosses: A very small polyhedron
micropolyhedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropolyhedron
microstress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microstresses
Etymology: From micro- + stress.
Senses: glosses: stress in the microstructure of a material, typically in its crystal lattice
Related terms: microstressor
minireplicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minireplicons
Etymology: From mini- + replicon.
Senses: examples: text: In summary, the reverse-genetics system and minireplicon reporter assay described in this study should be of value in identifying viral determinants of cross-species transmission and pathogenicity of novel influenza D viruses.
ref: 2019, Yu J, Liu R, “Development and Characterization of a Reverse-Genetics System for Influenza D Virus”, in Journal of virology, volume 93, number 21, American Society for Microbiology, →DOI, →PMID:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small replicon
mispolarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispolarizes
form: mispolarizing
form: mispolarized
form: mispolarized
Etymology: From mis- + polarize.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo mispolarization
mofloxacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moxifloxacin.
monocolony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocolonies
Etymology: From mono- + colony.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A monoclonal colony
Related terms: monocolonial
monocolonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocolony
morphopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + pathological.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Related to morphology and pathology or to morphopathology
naphthyridin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of naphthyridine.
synonyms: word: naphthyridine
neoselachian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoselachians
Senses: glosses: Any shark, skate or ray of the clade Neoselachii
neurohistological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + histological.
Senses: topics: biology
histology
medicine
natural-sciences
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Relating to neurohistology
nonimprover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonimprovers
Etymology: From non- + improver.
Senses: glosses: Someone who, or something that does not improve
nonimprovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonimprover
nonmyrmecochorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + myrmecochorous.
Senses: glosses: Not myrmecochorous
nonparenchymatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parenchymatous.
Senses: glosses: Not parenchymatous
nonsuppressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsuppressors
Etymology: From non- + suppressor.
Senses: glosses: That which does not suppress
nonsuppressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsuppressor
oligocapture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + capture.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The capture of reasonably large DNA fragments for sequencing
oligodendropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligodendropathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease that affects oligodendrocytes
oligodendropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligodendropathy
oligomicroarray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligomicroarrays
Etymology: From oligo- + microarray.
Senses: glosses: An oligonucleotide microarray
ornithocheiroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithocheiroids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Ornithocheiroidea
Senses: glosses: Any pterosaur of the clade Ornithocheiroidea
Hypernyms: eupterodactyloid
Hyponyms: azhdarchoid
pteranodontoid
tapejaroid
ornithocheiroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithocheiroid
oximate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oximates
form: oximating
form: oximated
form: oximated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause, or to undergo oximation
oximated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Converted to an oxime
oximated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oximate
paleoflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleofloras
Etymology: From paleo- + flora.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeoflora.
Related terms: paleofloral
palpatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to be palpated
Synonyms: palpable
pathogenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pathogenic.
pathogenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pathogenicity.
perinecrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + necrotic.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a necrosis
peripharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
-ɪndʒəl
Etymology: From peri- + pharyngeal.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the pharynx
pharmacoendocrinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + endocrinological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the (study of the) effects of pharmaceuticals on the endocrine system
phenoxetol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phenoxyethanol.
synonyms: word: phenoxyethanol
phosphodehydrogenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphodehydrogenases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any dehydrogenase that acts on a phosphate (such as glucose-6-phosphate)
photoderivative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoderivatives
Etymology: From photo- + derivative.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a compound produced by a photochemical reaction
pneumatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pneumatize
pneumatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That produces pneumatization
polyradiculoneuritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyradiculoneurites
Senses: glosses: inflammation of nerves and nerve roots
precociality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The condition of being precocial.
pregnacalciferol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnacalciferols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of hydroxycholecalciferol.
synonyms: word: hydroxycholecalciferol
pregnacalciferols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pregnacalciferol
premorbidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + morbidly.
Senses: glosses: In a premorbid manner
prohepcidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + hepcidin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A propeptide that is a precursor of hepcidin
Derived terms: preprohepcidin
Long March
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 長征 (chángzhēng).
Senses: examples: text: The encirclement and the economic blockade proved so effective that the Red Army and Government were forced to adopt the bold strategy of retreat - to escape annihilation by retreating westward, then southward, the northward, and then northeastward, finally reaching their destination in northern Shensi. This retreat has been called "the Long March," which lasted for a whole year and covered about 6,000 miles.
ref: 1965 [1950 October], Shih Hu, “China in World Politics: International Communism: Stalin's Grand Strategy”, in The Kuomintang Debacle of 1949: Conquest of Collapse?, D. C. Heath and Company, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55, column 1:
glosses: A military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army.
Columbine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləmˌbaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑləmˌbaɪn/
Etymology: From columbine.
Senses: examples: text: In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.
ref: 2012 April 3, Laura Smith-Spark, “Are mass killings on the increase? Criminologist says no”, in CNN:
glosses: A census-designated place in Arapahoe County and Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
examples: text: The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.
ref: 1845, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, page 213:
glosses: The sweetheart of Harlequin in old pantomimes.
Derived terms: Columbiner
Columbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləmˌbaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑləmˌbaɪn/
Forms: form: Columbines
Etymology: From the school shooting that occurred at Columbine High School in 1999.
Senses: examples: text: Research indicates that many children are afraid of “a Columbine” occurring in their school, or are concerned about other forms of school violence (Aronson, 2000; Garbarino & deLara, 2002; Gaughan et al., 2001; National Association of Attorneys General, 2000).
ref: 2005, Nancy E. Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer, Robin Fretwell Wilson, Handbook of Children, Culture, and Violence, page 333:
text: Granted, I'm not exactly grabbing an ax and going to town or pulling a “Columbine” but the idea of engaging in such activities has crossed my twisted little mind and plagued my black little heart in dreams only.
ref: 2011, C.M. Dabbah, The House of Shades, page v:
text: I remember the second song that played was “Run to the Hills.” I thought my head was going to explode, thinking we were ten minutes away from a Columbine.
ref: 2012, John Patton O'Dell, The Blue Wore Through: Collected Works of John Patton O'dell:
text: You've got people in your schools right now plotting a Columbine.
ref: 2013, Annette Fuentes, Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse:
text: The suburbs are supposedly where nothing happens, like Auden said about what poetry doesn't do; an overinhabited faux terrain dozing in inertia, occasionally disrupted by “a Columbine” or “an Oklahoma City” or a hurricane to remind us what's really real.
ref: 2014, Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book:
glosses: An incident in which someone shoots multiple people at a school.
pseudodiploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodiploid
pseudonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pseudogenization.
pylogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of phylogenetic.
pyrazinamidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrazinamidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that converts the prodrug pyrazinamide to the active form pyrazinoic acid
pyrazinoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylic acid pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid derived from pyrazine
Related terms: pyrazinoate
radiogenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + genomic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to radiogenomics
radiogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + genomics.
Senses: glosses: The study of the effects of radiation on genetic variation
Related terms: radiogenome
radiogenomic
radiophenotype
press junket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press junkets
Senses: examples: text: Ryan Gosling was on hand at a recent press junket for Blade Runner 2049.
text: At a press junket, journalists, entertainment reporters, and movie critics are flown out to a special location for a day or weekend to get interviews with the stars and filmmakers.
ref: 2017, Lorene M. Wales, The Complete Guide to Film and Digital Production: The People and The Process, third edition, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, pages 333–334:
synonyms: junket
glosses: A promotional event for a film to which media representatives are invited.
recombinogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recombinogenicities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being recombinogenic
retinogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinograms
Etymology: From retino- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: An image of the retina obtained by retinography
retrotransposase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrotransposases
Etymology: From retro- + transposase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses retrotransposition
retrotransposases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrotransposase
contakion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contakia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kontakion.
septanucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septanucleotides
Etymology: From septa- + nucleotide.
Senses: examples: text: Further, the septanucleotides were not labeled by α-³²ᵖ-CTP while the unique 5' terminal oligonucleotide was not labeled by α-³²ᵖ-UTP.
ref: 1973, Sewell P. Champe, Phage, page 389:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A codon containing seven nucleotides.
spheromastigote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheromastigotes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any cell that contains a spherosome
spheromastigotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spheromastigote
sporulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to sporulation
stereoacuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereoacuities
Etymology: From stereo- + acuity.
Senses: glosses: stereoscopic acuity
sternocostapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternocostapophyses
Senses: glosses: sternocostal apophysis
sternocostapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternocostapophysis
sublanceolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + lanceolate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Almost lanceolate
raw_tags: of a leaf
supramammillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + mammillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above a nipple
suprapyramidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + pyramidal.
Senses: glosses: Above (something shaped like) a pyramid
Derived terms: suprapyramidal blade
syncarpal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncarpals
Senses: glosses: A structure of fused carpal bones
syncarpals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syncarpal
thermocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermocycles
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: thermodynamic cycle
Related terms: thermocyclic
thermoinducibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a thermoinducible manner
transposants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transposant
trypanostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That halts the development of trypanosomal infection
raw_tags: of a drug
unregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: Not regulatory
varicone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varicones
Senses: glosses: A varicose growth cone
varicones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varicone
growth cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growth cones
Senses: glosses: An extension of a developing or regenerating neurite that is seeking its synaptic target
xenotransplanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of xenotransplant
xenotransplanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenotransplantings
Senses: glosses: xenotransplantation
igqirha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amagqirha
Etymology: From Xhosa igqirha.
Senses: glosses: A Xhosa witch doctor.
escape room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape rooms
Senses: synonyms: mystery room
glosses: A room containing various puzzles and riddles that players must solve in order to escape.
escape rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escape room
LPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lycopsid photosynthetic pathway
olde worlde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Down this street is a lovely olde worlde bookshop.
glosses: Having an old-fashioned or archaic feel.
glosses: Pretending to be archaic; affectedly or pretentiously old-fashioned.
olde-worlde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of olde worlde.
stare into space
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stares into space
form: staring into space
form: stared into space
form: stared into space
Senses: examples: text: I don't think he heard a word I said. He just sat there, staring into space.
glosses: To stare in an absent-minded or unfocused way.
spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spoils the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
form: spoiling the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
form: spoiled the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
form: spoiled the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
form: spoilt the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
form: spoilt the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
Senses: glosses: To have something important fail for want of a small amount of money or effort.
bilio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bili-.
rathood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rat + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly there fell a great silence, a black darkness, an infinite tranquillity, and Jerome Searing, perfectly conscious of his rathood, and well assured of the trap that he was in, remembering all and nowise alarmed, again opened his eyes to reconnoitre, to note the strength of his enemy, to plan his defense.
ref: 1891, Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians:
text: If we let them deal thus with our Capo—why, then there is neither honesty, rathood nor good fellowship in us.
ref: 2004, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly, →ISBN:
text: Again the woman comes up short—a Renaissance witch, it seems, could not even aspire to mimetic rathood, but instead had to content herself with a curtailed or foreshortened version of that condition.
ref: 2008, Marjorie Garber, William R Kenan Jr, Profiling Shakespeare, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: The quality or state of being a rat.
underattention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + attention.
Senses: examples: text: Underattention may derive from a lack of urgency on the leader's part, a sense that it is not crucial that the group come to grips with the feelings involved.
ref: 1967, Richard Dewey Mann, Graham S. Gibbard, John Jacob Hartman, Interpersonal Styles and Group Development:
text: Respondents do not pay enough attention to the ranges given, the differences between one end and the other of each dimension. Keeney (1992, p. 147) calls underattention to range “the most common critical mistake.”
ref: 2006, Jonathan Baron, Thinking and Deciding, →ISBN, page 334:
text: The solution to the problem of underattention is obvious: corporations need to develop and report to the board metrics that accurately report on their ability to perform and on the condition of their talent.
ref: 2010, Edward E. Lawler, III, Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage, →ISBN:
glosses: Insufficient attention.
underattend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underattends
form: underattending
form: underattended
form: underattended
form: under-attend
Etymology: From under- + attend.
Senses: examples: text: A few use more drugs than we wish to know; most are wonderful parents but some underattend to their children well beyond neglect.
ref: 1998, Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth, Being Reflexive in Critical Educational and Social Research, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Although temporal and spatial thinking are never really alternative to each other, I've consistently tried in Touching Feeling to push back against an occupational tendency to underattend to the rich dimension of space.
ref: 2015, David A. Gerstner, Julien Nahmias, Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction, page 40:
glosses: To pay too little attention to.
underattends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underattend
underattending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underattend
under-attend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: under-attends
form: under-attending
form: under-attended
form: under-attended
Senses: examples: text: Yet, the weight of evidence is that consumers will under-attend to these considerations, perpetuating a positive assessment bias.
ref: 2007, Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport, Experimental Business Research, →ISBN:
text: They under-attend to culture and do not account for its pervasive force in their change strategies.
ref: 2010, Linda Ackerman Anderson, Dean Anderson, The Change Leader's Roadmap, →ISBN:
text: According to the punctuated equilibrium theory, both political actors and institutions have a tendency to over-attend to some information or policy issues and under-attend to others.
ref: 2013, Raymond J. La Raja, New Directions in American Politics, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of underattend.
under-attends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of under-attend
under-attending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of under-attend
under-attended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more under-attended
form: most under-attended
Senses: examples: text: Most kids from Brixton were sent to Kingsdale School in the relatively posh area of Sydenham, as the residents there tended to send their children to private – and public – schools, leaving local schools relatively under-attended.
ref: 2010, Nigel Cawthorne, The World's Most Evil Gangsters, →ISBN:
text: The following spring Leadbelly, in his only European appearance, played several under-attended but warmly received concertsin the samecity; a young Alexis Korner made the pilgimage from London and it spurred him into becoming a busy blues pilgim in Britain.
ref: 2014, Michael Spörke, Big Mama Thornton: The Life and Music, →ISBN:
text: Surely, this was a lovely event on the whole. Perhaps a tad under-attended, maybe a wee bit unstructured.
ref: 2015, Michele Fitzpatrick, The Women's Center, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of underattended.
Attended by too few people.
examples: text: But the king shouldn't complain about long hours and tiresome work as chief supervisor, it is those of Israel who are actually so exhausted that their farms are being left under-attended.
ref: 2005, William H. Bicksler, Commentary on Ecclesiastes, →ISBN, page 23:
text: It may be insufficient to provide health care and employment to the family caregiver if employment outside the house means that children are under-attended.
ref: 2011, Linda L. Emanuel, S. Lawrence Librach, Palliative Care, →ISBN:
text: The diasporic involvement got its expression, space and relevance within the context of unattended or under-attended tasks by the principal developmental actors such as the state, market, and constitutional bodies of village governance.
ref: 2015, Md Mizanur Rahman, Tan Tai Yong, International Migration and Development in South Asia, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of underattended.
Given too little attention.
under-attended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of under-attend
rankee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rankees
Etymology: From rank + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The C.D.S. is a product of the uneasy relationship between the U.S. News college rankers and their overburdened rankees. Schools don’t have the capacity to spend months responding to different data requests from the magazine, Peterson’s, the College Board and others like them.
ref: 2022 September 24, Ron Lieber, “The Discount Data That Some Colleges Won’t Publish”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Someone or something that is ranked.
rankees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rankee
tacklees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tacklee
tacklee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tacklees
Etymology: From tackle + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Thus are formed the opposition schools, the modern which says that such a tacklee may pass from the ground, and the ancient which says he must bring that ball into play with the foot.
ref: 1920, Country Life, page 560:
text: In a nutshell, when a tackle is made in rugby the requirements are that the tackler releases the tacklee and that the tacklee releases the ball so the players who are on their feet can use it.
ref: 2009, Mathew Brown, Patrick Guthrie, Greg Growden, Rugby For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 14:
text: A player may act as the tacklee.
ref: 2015, Ellaine Gelman, Ian David Milligan, Dave Beal, Mini and Youth Rugby: The Complete Guide for Coaches and Parents, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: a person who is tackled.
ideolect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideolects
Etymology: By confusing the prefix idio- with the unrelated but homophone ideo-.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of idiolect.
Derived terms: ideolectic
unpave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpaves
form: unpaving
form: unpaved
form: unpaved
Etymology: From un- + pave.
Senses: examples: text: Women were occupied with their children in unpaving the streets, and carrying the great stones into the houses in order to shower down upon and crush the military. Enthusiasm was at its highest pitch. The military were routed and dispersed ...
ref: 1830, William Hone, Full Annals of the Revolution in France, 1830, page 55:
glosses: To remove the paving (especially in the form of paving stones, etc) from (a street); to cause to no longer be paved.
Synonyms: english: especially if the paving is asphalt or the like
translation: especially if the paving is asphalt or the like
word: depave
unpaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpave
unpaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpave
broker than the Ten Commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A pun on the sense of broke 'without money' and broken, with potential reference both to Moses' destruction ('breaking') of the tablets on Mount Sinai (Exodus 32:19) and sinners' violation ('breaking') of the Ten Commandments in daily life.
Senses: examples: text: I needed money—Dad would have said I was broker than the Ten Commandments—so I went to get my old job back...
ref: 2018, Tara Westover, Educated:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely impoverished.
wikipedia: Moses
Mount Sinai
Ten Commandments
Synonyms: impoverished
aleurain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protease, found in barley, related to cathepsin
allantoically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From allantoic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of the allantois
amplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amplification.
amyocarditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + myocarditic.
Senses: glosses: That does not involve myocarditis
apolysed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by apolysis
apomine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of apomorphine.
synonyms: word: apomorphine
rebarrel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebarrels
form: rebarreling
form: rebarrelling
form: rebarreled
form: rebarreled
form: rebarrelled
form: rebarrelled
Etymology: From re- + barrel.
Senses: examples: text: She plans to rebarrel the rifle, as it is not shooting straight.
glosses: To replace the barrel of (a gun).
rebarreled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebarrelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebarrel
sea centipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea centipedes
Senses: glosses: Any of various polychaete worms
contakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contakion
pearl mullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl mullets
Senses: examples: text: Pearl mullets are the only species able to survive in the salty, alkaline waters of the lake but swim upstream to lay eggs in freshwater rivers.
ref: 2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian:
glosses: A species of cyprinid fish, Alburnus tarichi, found in Lake Van of the Armenian Highland in Turkey.
Synonyms: tarek
Van fish
pearl mullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearl mullet
common carder bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common carder bees
Senses: examples: text: This common carder bee was spotted in Southville, Bristol by Neil James Brain as part of the 2016 count.
ref: 2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian:
glosses: A species of bumblebee, Bombus pascuorum, long recognised as an example of the carder bees.
Hermann's tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hermann's tortoises
Etymology: Named after the French naturalist Johann Hermann.
Senses: examples: text: A girl strokes a Hermann’s tortoise in a flat in Paris.
ref: 2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian:
glosses: A species of tortoise, Testudo hermanni, found throughout southern Europe.
autoparasitoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoparasitoids
Etymology: From auto- + parasitoid.
Senses: glosses: a parasitoid that practices autoparasitism
autoparasitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + parasitism.
Senses: glosses: A form of parasitism in which a parasite infects another individual of the same species
Related terms: autoparasitic
bacillariophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacillariophyceans
Senses: glosses: Any diatom of the class Bacillariophyceae
bactopeptone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bactopeptones
Senses: glosses: A peptone used as a bacterial culture medium
biochemotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biochemotherapies
Etymology: From bio- + chemotherapy.
Senses: glosses: chemotherapy combined with administration of a biochemical material such as an interleukin
bioluminiscent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bioluminescent.
brassicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That affects plants of the family Brassicaceae
Derived terms: brassicolous downy mildew
Ashlie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 20th-century spelling variant of Ashley.
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
Ashly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 20th-century spelling variant of Ashley.
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
bumetamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bumetanide.
calsyntenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calsyntenins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of cadherins that can bind calcium
cancerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancerisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cancerization.
carmustin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carmustine.
catecholestrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catecholestrogens
form: catechol estrogen
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several estrogen metabolites that contain a catechol group
catecholestrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catecholestrogen
cervidized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That contain genetic material from cervids
chemoradioimmunotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoradioimmunotherapies
Senses: glosses: A combination of chemotherapy and radioimmunotherapy
choleralike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choleralike
form: most choleralike
Etymology: From cholera + -like.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having symptoms similar to those of cholera
chromerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromerids
Senses: glosses: Any unicellular photosynthetic organism of the phylum Chromerida
chromophorylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by the addition of a chromophore
Related terms: chromophorylation
cilastazol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cilostazol.