cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paralogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralogist
pathogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pathogenous
form: most pathogenous
Senses: glosses: pathogenic; causing disease
Derived terms: nonpathogenous
phytopathogenous
perifemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + femoral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the femur.
permitee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permitees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of permittee.
permitees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permitee
stoney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stoney
form: most stoney
Etymology: From stone + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A stoney Mass, grey, with a Cast of purple; having in it Spar purple and grey, Specks of a black Mineral, and some small Sparks of Lead-Ore.
ref: 1729, John Woodward, An attempt towards a natural history of the fossils of England, page 164:
glosses: Obsolete form of stony.
Derived terms: Stoney Stanton
philanthropize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: philanthropizes
form: philanthropizing
form: philanthropized
form: philanthropized
form: philanthropise
Senses: glosses: To give charitably to (a person or group).
philanthropized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of philanthropize
philanthropizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of philanthropize
philanthropizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of philanthropize
frankenstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frankensteins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Frankenstein.
qualifier: fitness
glosses: A stretch in which one walks forward with their arms extended while kicking their legs forward to touch their hands.
frankenstein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frankensteins
form: frankensteining
form: frankensteined
form: frankensteined
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Frankenstein.
qualifier: fitness
glosses: To perform the frankenstein stretch.
frankensteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frankenstein
frankensteins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frankenstein
frankensteining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frankenstein
frankensteined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frankenstein
comfort eating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The consumption of food for pleasure, self-reassurance, and in some cases to relieve stress, grief or pain, rather than for nutrition or to satisfy hunger.
Derived terms: comfort-eat
Related terms: word: comfort food
word: Kummerspeck
isotoxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: That has symmetries which act transitively on its edges.
raw_tags: of a polytope or tiling
Synonyms: sense: having symmetries that act transitively on its edges
word: edge-symmetric
Related terms: isogonal
videophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From video + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: A dislike of television.
Montevidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Montevidean
form: most Montevidean
Etymology: From Montevideo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the city of Montevideo.
Montevidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montevideans
Etymology: From Montevideo + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Montevideo.
Montevideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Montevidean
unsilted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + silted.
Senses: glosses: Not silted.
macrolichens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrolichen
Parisianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Parisian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Parisian.
soft touches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft touch
includeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: include + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of include
includest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: include + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of include
Watch Nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Watch Night
antiplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiplasmas
Etymology: From anti- + plasma.
Senses: examples: text: For identification of the pathogen, a slide agglutination test with the corresponding antiplasma was used.
ref: 2015 October 9, “European Sea Bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax ) Immune Status and Disease Resistance Are Impaired by Arginine Dietary Supplementation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An antibody to plasma cell antigens.
botryticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botryticides
Senses: glosses: A fungicide that acts against botrytis fungi.
Related terms: botryticidal
botryticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On one hand the application of botryticides in the integrated treatment lowered the infestation with Botrytis, but might on the other hand be partially responsible for the decline in amino acid content in berries during maturation.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Growth, Yield and Fruit Quality of Grapevines under Organic and Biodynamic Management”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of botryticide
cocontraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocontractions
Etymology: From co- + contraction.
Senses: examples: text: For example, it is possible that children with dystonia tend to favor the cocontraction strategy while healthy children tend to reduce overall muscular drive.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Perceived Cost and Intrinsic Motor Variability Modulate the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The simultaneous contraction of two muscles
eosinopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eosin + -o- + -poiesis.
Senses: examples: text: There is no evidence in the literature that correlates P2Y12R and modulation of adhesion molecule expression or eosinopoiesis.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Purinergic P2Y12 Receptor Activation in Eosinophils and the Schistosomal Host Response”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The production of eosinophils
genogrinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genogrinders
Etymology: From geno- + grinder.
Senses: examples: text: Using a technique adapted from plant virology, the samples were freeze dried, homogenized in a genogrinder and thereafter, RNA was extracted according to the manufacturer’s manual […]
ref: 2015 October 9, “Four Categories of Viral Infection Describe the Health Status of Honey Bee Colonies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A type of homogenizer used in the preparation of tissue samples
glomerulogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glomerulo- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: Expression of MAP1B during glomerulogenesis in newborn rat kidney.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Microtubule Associated Protein 1b (MAP1B) Is a Marker of the Microtubular Cytoskeleton in Podocytes but Is Not Essential for the Function of the Kidney Filtration Barrier in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of glomeruli
cocontractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocontraction
heminotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heminota
Etymology: From hemi- + notum.
Senses: examples: text: To highlight the phenotype, lacking macrochaetae are encircled on the left heminotum.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Generation of New Hairless Alleles by Genomic Engineering at the Hairless Locus in Drosophila melanogaster”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Either half of the back of an insect
immunoenzymometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + enzymometric.
Senses: examples: text: Serum GH and IGF-I levels were measured by an immunoenzymometric assay using the ST AIA-PACK hGH kit (TOSOH Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) and an immunoradiometric assay using “Daiichi” IGF-I IRMA kit (FUJIFILM RI Pharma Co.,Tokyo, Japan), respectively.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Accelerated Telomere Shortening in Acromegaly; IGF-I Induces Telomere Shortening and Cellular Senescence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing the enzymometric analysis of antigens or antibodies
Daily Heil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Daily Heil
Etymology: Referring to the Nazi slogan "heil Hitler". Originated from the newspaper's support of fascism in the early 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: They even made the mistaken assumption, mainly from the title, that the song had some kind of lesbian message. As Heike put it: 'You can't expect the subliterate cockwombles on the Daily Heil showbiz and gossip desks to have read Orwell.'
ref: 2015, Chris Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking:
glosses: The Daily Mail newspaper.
Synonyms: Daily Fail
Daily Fail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Daily Fail
Senses: glosses: The Daily Mail newspaper.
Synonyms: Daily Heil
enzymometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enzymo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to enzymometry
Derived terms: immunoenzymometric
cockwomble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockwombles
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of cock + Womble
Senses: examples: text: Cockwomble An American lad was annoying the tits off me once so I called him the first thing that came to mind, which was 'cockwomble'. The insult was effective because he did stop winding me up but only to ask me what a cockwomble actually was. I then had to give a detailed explanation about what wombles were and admit that I hadn't really thought that insult through.
ref: 2007 October 4, gypsy turnips, “Home » Question of the Week » Insults”, in b3ta.com, archived from the original on 10 Oct:
text: They even made the mistaken assumption, mainly from the title, that the song had some kind of lesbian message. As Heike put it: 'You can't expect the subliterate cockwombles on the Daily Heil showbiz and gossip desks to have read Orwell.'
ref: 2015, Chris Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking:
text: Though the clinic alleges that they are devoted to "service to the community", this little cockwomble allowed his bruised arrogance to bother a woman infinitely superior to him just because she was smarter and better than he.
ref: 2019, Jennifer S. Chesler, David C. McLean, The Philosophy of Extremism, volume III, page 40:
glosses: A foolish or obnoxious person.
cockwombles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockwomble
enzymometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enzymo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the rate of enzymatic reactions
Related terms: enzymometric
intercodon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + codon.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Between codons
intercodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercodons
Etymology: From inter- + codon.
Senses: examples: text: Both have (i) slippery sequences (SS) of the form X XXY YYZ (U UUU UUA for HIV-1 and G GGA AAC for PEG10), (ii) different intercodons [26 ] (GGG and UCC respectively), (iii) distinct secondary structures (SStr) (extended stem-loop for HIV-1 and pseudoknot for PEG10), and (iv) the SStr start is within the intercodon in HIV-1, whereas it is two nucleotides downstream of the intercodon in PEG10. […] The different slippery sequences, intercodons, and downstream secondary structures facilitated a frameshift efficiency that was ~2.5-fold higher for PEG10 than for HIV-1 (Fig 1 ).
ref: 2015 October 9, “HIV-1 and Human PEG10 Frameshift Elements Are Functionally Distinct and Distinguished by Novel Small Molecule Modulators”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The sequence of nucleic acid between specific codons
intercodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercodon
mallines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallin
melanomacrophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanomacrophages
Etymology: From melano- + macrophage.
Senses: glosses: An aggregate of macrophages, containing melanin, found in some fish
Related terms: melanomacrophagic
melanomacrophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In teleosts, spleen is an important haematopoietic organ where melanomacrophages phagocytise and detain blood-borne antigens for a long period of time [43 ].
ref: 2015 October 9, “European Sea Bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax ) Immune Status and Disease Resistance Are Impaired by Arginine Dietary Supplementation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of melanomacrophage
microchaeta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microchaetae
Etymology: From micro- + chaeta.
Senses: glosses: A small bristle found on the bodies of some flies or other insects
microchaetae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Note in addition the loss of many microchaetae on the notum of hemizygous H cwt /H attP flies.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Generation of New Hairless Alleles by Genomic Engineering at the Hairless Locus in Drosophila melanogaster”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microchaeta
micropulverizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: micropulverizers
Etymology: From micro- + pulverizer.
Senses: examples: text: Main ingredients were ground (below 250 μm) in a micropulverizer hammer mill (SH1; Hosokawa Micron, B.V., Doetinchem, The Netherlands).
ref: 2015 October 9, “European Sea Bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax ) Immune Status and Disease Resistance Are Impaired by Arginine Dietary Supplementation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A device used to grind / pulverize small samples of material
Related terms: micropulverize
micropulverized
myofusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + fusion.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, we hypothesize that Capn6 could be a myofusion marker which may participate in promoting in vitro differentiation of skeletal myoblasts through an unknown physiological mechanism.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Induced Modifications of the Gene Expression Kinetics of Differentiating Skeletal Muscle Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The fusion of myoblasts
nutricline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutriclines
Etymology: From nutrient and cline.
Senses: examples: text: We suggest that during the onset of the YD and at least until 12.6 ka BP, the MMF experienced lateral advection of nutrient and oxygen rich LIW that was accompanied by a shoaling of the nutricline.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Microfossils, a Key to Unravel Cold-Water Carbonate Mound Evolution through Time: Evidence from the Eastern Alboran Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A zone within which nutrient levels decline rapidly with depth of water
spectrophotometricly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spectrophotometric + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Enzyme activities were measured spectrophotometricly in triplicate and expressed as changes of absorbance per minute per mg protein.
ref: 2015 October 9, “Mitochondrial ROS Induces Cardiac Inflammation via a Pathway through mtDNA Damage in a Pneumonia-Related Sepsis Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: By means of a spectrophotometer
subinertial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + inertial.
Senses: examples: text: A study in the Abrolhos Bank showed that tidal currents are weaker than subinertial currents, being more important in the cross-shelf direction than along-shelf [43 ].
ref: 2015 October 9, “Connectivity of Marine Protected Areas and Its Relation with Total Kinetic Energy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Describing small currents that are independent of the movement of large bodies of water
unfloxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + floxed.
Senses: examples: text: With the 3’H PCR no amplificate is expected; as control unfloxed H gwt w+ was included (arrowhead).
ref: 2015 October 9, “Generation of New Hairless Alleles by Genomic Engineering at the Hairless Locus in Drosophila melanogaster”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: Not floxed
viscerosomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viscero- + somatic.
Senses: examples: text: By contrast, the viscerosomatic index (VSI) was significantly lower in individuals fed Arg2 compared to fish fed Arg1 at day 15, whereas an increase in VSI was observed in animals fed Arg2 from day 15 to 29.
ref: 2015 October 9, “European Sea Bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax ) Immune Status and Disease Resistance Are Impaired by Arginine Dietary Supplementation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the viscera and the body as a whole
table-turning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table-turnings
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
synonyms: table-tipping
glosses: The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits.
examples: text: Fantasies of table-turning and revenge seem to be commonplace in history; but war gives extra space for their enactment, and widespread weaponry also makes them more likely to be lethal […]
ref: 2005, David Keen, Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone, page 62:
glosses: The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge.
table-tipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Synonym of table-turning (“spiritualist practice”).
synonyms: word: table-turning
extra: spiritualist practice
doodlebugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dowsing in search of petroleum
acculturize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acculturizes
form: acculturizing
form: acculturized
form: acculturized
Senses: glosses: Synonym of acculturate.
synonyms: word: acculturate
acculturizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acculturize
acculturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acculturize
acculturized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acculturize
battle-royale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of battle royal.
samechs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samech
chet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heth.
chet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛ.t/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛ.t/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: chets
Senses: examples: text: Ramz or chets that I'm using (ching-ching)
See me on the glide best not move, clueless
ref: 2020 January 19, Sinsquad lr x Mloose, “Dont Ride Back”, 2:19–2:22:
glosses: Clipping of chete (“knife”).
cheth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heth.
yud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yuds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yodh.
jodhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of jodhpurs.
jodhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jodh
reish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of resh.
reishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reish
Frogmore stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frogmore stews
Etymology: Coined in 1960 by seafood businessman Richard Gay, after Frogmore, South Carolina
Senses: synonyms: Beaufort boil
Lowcountry stew
qualifier: South Carolina
glosses: A seafood boil, usually containing shrimp, corn on the cob and sausage.
wikipedia: Frogmore, South Carolina
Geech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Westendorff was the first white person I'd met with a true Charleston accent. The dialect had high and low forms, with the latter known as Geech or Geechee.
ref: 1998, Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, 1st Vintage Departures edition, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of Geechee.
Geech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Geeches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Geechee.
gender card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender cards
Senses: glosses: The invocation of a person's gender in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.
Related terms: race card
play the gender card
toilet-train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toilet-trains
form: toilet-training
form: toilet-trained
form: toilet-trained
Senses: glosses: To train (a child) to use the toilet.
synonyms: housebreak
glosses: To train (a domestic animal) to defecate and urinate in certain designated places.
Related terms: toilet training
go hard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes hard
form: going hard
form: went hard
form: gone hard
Senses: examples: text: If the battle cry of our government’s response to the global financial crisis was “go early, go hard, go households”, this government’s approach to the current crisis seems to be “go late, go half-measures, and go ... well ... go to Hillsong”.
ref: 2020 March 16, Kevin Rudd, “The government's coronavirus crisis approach is 'go late, go half-measures, and go to Hillsong'”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: go strong
glosses: To strive to one's utmost; to give one's all in an endeavour, at sport, etc.
examples: text: Did you hear this band's new album? Yeah, it went hard af!
raw_tags: Internet meme
text: This pic goes hard. Feel free to screenshot.
synonyms: word: slap
word: slay
word: bang
word: devour
word: eat
word: eat and leave no crumbs
word: excel
word: go hard
word: kick
word: kick ass
word: rock
word: rule
word: shine
word: slap
word: slay
antonyms: go soft
glosses: To be excellent.
glosses: To have sex vigorously.
examples: text: I wanted to eat some bread but it had gone hard.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, hard.
Derived terms: go hard or go home
go hard with someone
go harder
go hard in the paint
go the hardest
Related terms: go ham
mindly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mindly
form: most mindly
Etymology: From Middle English myndly, myendly (“mindful; mental”), equivalent to mind + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My body has a mindly quality—and a mind or consciousness of its own and an ability to calculate.
ref: 2013, Harold Brodkey, The Runaway Soul:
text: I view in the eyes of all older persons I've seen gathered... of questions with no answers to find ... or of how to escape a mindly body that has been battered ... or of ways of mending the mind.
ref: 2015, D. Russell Walker, Down Life's Trail:
glosses: Of or relating to the mind; mental
note payable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notes payable
Senses: glosses: Synonym of promissory note.
synonyms: word: promissory note
Related terms: accounts payable
accounts receivable
notes payable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of note payable
crankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cranker
dark thirty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oh dark thirty.
synonyms: word: oh dark thirty
hoot owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoot owls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barred owl.
synonyms: word: barred owl
examples: text: When you hear the hoot owls hollowing
Sign of rain, baby, sign of rain
ref: b. 1955, traditional, “Swannanoa Town”, in North Carolina Ballads, performed by Artus Moser:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hoot, owl. (any owl that hoots)
Derived terms: hoot owl shift
hoot owl trail
hoot owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoot owl
house of assembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houses of assembly
form: House of Assembly
Senses: examples: text: A Governor, with two houses of legislature, generally called the Senate and the House of Representatives, exists in each State. In the State of New York the Lower House is called the Assembly. . . . The House of Assembly does consist of 128 members.
ref: 1862, Anthony Trollope, North America, ch. 15: Constitution of the State of New York
text: Magon Farcinelle, farrier, farmer and member of the provincial legislature . . . had never made a speech in the House of Assembly, and it was hard to tell why he was elected, save because everybody liked him.
ref: 1896, Gilbert Parker, chapter 1, in The Pomp of the Lavilettes:
text: President P. W. Botha . . . tried to appease critics of South Africa's whites-only legislature, the House of Assembly, by creating a mixed-race chamber, the House of Representatives, and another smaller forum for ethnic Asians, the House of Delegates.
ref: 1988 October 4, Christopher S. Wren, “Residential Apartheid Arouses Anger”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Dec 2015:
text: The comments followed a decision last week by a Foreign Office minister, Chris Bryant, to instruct the governor of the Turks & Caicos, Gordon Wetherell, to bring into force an order suspending the islands' government and its House of Assembly for up to two years.
ref: 2009 August 16, Jamie Doward, “Islanders split as Whitehall takes over Turks and Caicos”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 21 Dec 2015:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Especially in current or former countries of the Commonwealth of Nations and in former British colonies, the official meeting place of elected legislators (usually the lower house of a bicameral legislature) where laws are debated and enacted.
House of Assembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Houses of Assembly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of house of assembly.
Greats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪts/
Senses: examples: text: Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.
glosses: A course of academic study devoted to reading works of classical literature, also known as Literae Humaniores.
Literae Humaniores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of literae humaniores.
Laennec's cirrhosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌleɪ.nɛks səˈɹoʊ.səs/
Etymology: Named after the French physician René Laennec.
Senses: glosses: A disease of the liver in which the normal lobular architecture is lost, with fibrosis and later nodular regeneration.
bendy-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bendy-boys
Etymology: From bendy (“see genderbender”) + boy.
Senses: examples: text: […] an equally complicated schedule caters for pretty well all-comers who are meticulously sub-categorised by the marketing department. For example one of Heaven's club nights welcome^([sic]) “gays, strays, straights, bendy boys and girlie girls” to a plethora of “bubblegum pop, disco, trash and house”.
ref: 2010, Graham Vickers, Rock Music Landmarks of London:
text: And then it hit me that I was tricked, and he was saying, “'Course I knew you, bendy-boy. Good luck! Kick their asses and maybe the slut'll let you hold her hand.”
ref: 2010, M. T. Anderson, Burger Wuss, page 42:
text: "Are you saying he might be a bendy-boy?" I asked, and Gloria's mam said, "I'm not saying anything of the sort, William" […]
ref: 2015, John Boyne, Beneath the Earth, page 185:
glosses: A homosexual man.
Related terms: bender
bendy-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bendy-boy
litteræ humaniores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of literae humaniores.
osmoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of osmote
osmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of osmote
osmoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of osmote
vallidom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sae, if you hae made up your mind to hae his love, and sup sorrow wi' it, heed but ane word I say keep the staff in your ain hand, dinna let him hae power o'er the vallidom o' a thimble.
ref: 1887, Amelia E. Barr, A Border Shepherdess: A Romance of Eskdale, page 92:
glosses: worth; value
nongaze
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gaze.
Senses: glosses: Not involving or relating to a gaze.
nondirectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondirective
middleperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middlepersons
form: middlepeople
Etymology: From middle + -person.
Senses: glosses: An intermediate dealer of any gender; a middleman or middlewoman.
middlepeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middleperson
middlepersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middleperson
ramshorn snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramshorn snails
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Planorbidae, a family of freshwater pulmonate molluscs whose shells are shaped like a ram's horn.
ramshorn snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramshorn snail
whadya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whaddaya.
whadja
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: whatdja
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what do you.
examples: text: “I was waiting for you out front, but Graham said you weren’t going to school today. Whadja do to your leg?” / “A dog bit it. A German shepherd,” added Glen, in amplification.
ref: 1972, Eleanor Spence, “Resolutions”, in The Nothing Place, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1973, →ISBN, page 225:
text: “[…] Whadja do to your arm?” / “It’s how I got that gratitude you mentioned. I’ll be fine,” he said quickly, not wanting to get into a tangent about his health.
ref: 1998, Keith R[obert] A[ndreassi] DeCandido, José R. Nieto, “Thursday, 3:05 p.m.”, in Spider-Man: Venom’s Wrath, New York, N.Y.: Byron Press Multimedia Company; Berkley Boulevard Books, →ISBN, page 227:
text: “So whadja do to him that was so bad he had to keep rubbing it in?” […] “I guess the easiest way to explain it is this—I bet someone I could win his heart, and when he found out, he thought I didn’t really love him, and that all I really wanted to do was win the bet.”
ref: 2014, Dakota Cassidy, chapter 16, in Talk Dirty to Me (Plum Orchard; 1), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin MIRA, →ISBN, page 278:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what did you.
Related terms: whaddya
whatcha
stanceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stance + -less.
Senses: examples: text: However, comparative register research shows that the old stereotypes about the stanceless nature of academic writing are to some extent accurate.
ref: 2012, Ken Hyland, Carmen Sancho Guinda, Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres, page 24:
glosses: Without any particular stance; neutral.
dialogicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialogicalities
Etymology: From dialogical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dialogical.
dialogicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialogicality
reflexivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reflexivizes
form: reflexivizing
form: reflexivized
form: reflexivized
Etymology: From reflexive + -ize.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To make reflexive.
reflexivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflexivizations
Etymology: From reflexive + -ization.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process of reflexivizing.
reflexivizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflexivization
reflexivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflexivize
reflexivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflexivize
reflexivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflexivize
reflexivizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reflexivize + -able.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being made reflexive.
delegitimizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delegitimizers
Etymology: From delegitimize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who delegitimizes.
delegitimizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delegitimizer
Yogachara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yogacara
Senses: synonyms: Vijnanavada
glosses: An influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology that emphasizes phenomenology and ontology through the interior lens of meditative and yogic practices.
Yogacara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yogachara.
schismogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌskɪzəmoʊˈd͡ʒɛnəsəs/
/ˌskɪzəməˈd͡ʒɛnəsəs/
Etymology: Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, schism + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: In other instances, schismogenesis results in the breakup of the original community, but with one or both factions surviving.
ref: 2002, Susan Love Brown, editor, Intentional Community: An Anthropological Perspective, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 142:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The formation of schisms or divisions.
Related terms: schismogenetic
schismogenic
diarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Transcription was one of four tasks proposed in the MGB challenge, with the aim of advancing the state of the art of automatic speech recognition, speaker diarisation and automatic alignment of subtitles for broadcast media.
ref: 2015, Oscar Saz, Mortaza Doulaty, Salil Deena, Rosanna Milner, Raymond W.M. Ng, Madina Hasan, Yulan Liu, Thomas Hain, “The 2015 Sheffield System for Transcription of Multi-Genre Broadcast Media”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of diarization.
diarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diarize + -ation or diary + -ization, since it creates a record of speaker changes over time.
Senses: examples: text: This work focus on a speaker clustering methods that are used in speaker diarization systems. The purpose of speaker clustering is to associate together segments that belong to the same speakers.
ref: 2009, Vaclav Matousek, Pavel Mautner, Text, Speech and Dialogue: 12th International Conference, TSD 2009, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 13-17, 2009. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: In voice recognition, the process of partitioning an input audio stream into homogeneous segments according to the speaker identity, so as to identify different speakers' turns in a conversation.
gonalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonality
autogamously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autogamous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Self-compatible plants that cannot autogamously self-pollinate highly rely on pollinators for reproduction, such nectar robbing behaviours may affect plant reproduction.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Impact of Striped-Squirrel Nectar-Robbing Behaviour on Gender Fitness in Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In an autogamous manner.
betanodavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betanodaviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any necrotic virus of the genus Betanodavirus
Related terms: betanodaviral
betanodaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betanodavirus
cleithrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleithra
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλεῖθρον (kleîthron).
Senses: examples: text: The secondary arch consists of four pieces of bone, the posttemporal, supracleithrum, cleithrum and postcleithrum.[…]The cleithrum is the largest piece and the other elements are attached to it.
ref: 1993, J. J. Videler, Fish Swimming, Springer, page 66:
text: The main components of which are, from dorsal to ventral, the post-temporal, supracleithrum, cleithrum and the postcleithra.[…]The cleithra of either side of the body are connected with the pharyngeal jaw apparatus and with the urohyal by the bilateral pharyngocleithralis musculature and the median sternohyoideus muscle.
ref: 2000, Melanie L. J. Stiassny, “Chapter 6: The Skeletal System”, in Gary Kent Ostrander, editor, The Laboratory Fish, Academic Press, page 116:
text: In Ichthyostega (Figs 5.2, 5.11), Acanthostega (Fig. 5.20), and also in Hynerpeton (Fig. 5.28C, D) and Ventastega, the cleithrum was relatively reduced, though it was still a substantial dorsally extensive blade.
ref: 2012, Jennifer A. Clack, Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods, 2nd edition, Indiana University Press, page 212:
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A large bone in fishes, which extends upward from the base of the pectoral fin and anchors to the cranium above the gills, forming the posterior edge of the gill chamber.
Derived terms: anocleithrum
cleithral
extracleithrum
postcleithrum
supracleithrum
deparaffinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deparaffinize
deparaffinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deparaffinize
echinocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinocyte
intrabreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + breed.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, we found evidence for intrabreed stratification that is associated with demographic and selective causes such as formation of strains, colour morphs within the same breed, or country/breeder of origin.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Levels and Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in Domestic Rabbits”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a single breed.
nonhomogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + homogenized.
Senses: examples: text: For equal volume loading measurements, nonhomogenized samples were used.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Isolation of Exosomes from Blood Plasma: Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison of Ultracentrifugation and Size Exclusion Chromatography Methods”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not homogenized.
resensitise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resensitises
form: resensitising
form: resensitised
form: resensitised
Etymology: From re- + sensitise.
Senses: examples: text: Our data suggest that inhibition of NEDDylation may be a useful strategy to resensitise tumour cells in patients that have acquired carboplatin resistance.
ref: 2015 December 22, “Chemogenomic Study of Carboplatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae : Inhibition of the NEDDylation Process Overcomes Cellular Resistance Mediated by HuR and Cullin Proteins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of resensitize.
resensitises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resensitise
resensitising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resensitise
resensitised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resensitise
subaphyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + aphyric.
Senses: glosses: Almost or imperfectly aphyric.
xerotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xerotolerant
form: most xerotolerant
Etymology: From xero- + tolerant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Capable of thriving in a dry environment.
xerotolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xero- + tolerance.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Ability to thrive in a dry environment.
Related terms: xenotolerance
interplume
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + plume.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Between plumes.
uncompletable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + completable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be completed.
cherry Bakewell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry Bakewells
form: cherry bakewell
Senses: examples: text: Even that well known Derbyshire delicacy, Bakewell pudding, was only available as a packaged Cherry Bakewell, probably made in some huge factory on an industrial estate in Merseyside.
ref: 2008 August 12, John Dunstan, “Introduction”, in Old Derbyshire Desserts: Traditional Cakes, Puddings and Biscuits of Derbyshire, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 6:
text: There was rock to brace his feet against, and he powered up the rope, fuelled by joy, hope and a small piece of cherry Bakewell.
ref: 2014, Tom Holt, chapter 35, in The Outsorcerer’s Apprentice, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 323:
glosses: Ellipsis of cherry Bakewell tart.
cherry Bakewells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry Bakewell
Attleean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Attleean
form: most Attleean
Etymology: From Attlee + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Clement Attlee (1883–1967), British politician and Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951.
anthropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthrop- + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Such a representation would present a real difficulty, if we were obliged to understand all this in its strict literal import, implying, as it would, very unworthy conceptions of God on the part of the writer. The difficulty vanishes, however, when it is perceived that this is only and instance of a prevailing anthropism which characterises the whole narrative.
ref: 1866, John Quarry, Genesis and Its Authorship: Two Disserations, page 108:
text: I have seen the question asked "why should mind have a body?" the answer may well run "to mediate between it and other mind". It might be objected that such a view is undiluted 'anthropism.' To that we might reply, anthropism seems the present aim of the planet though presumably not its enduring aim.
ref: 1979, John Carew Eccles, The Human Mystery: The GIFFORD Lectures., →ISBN, page 2:
text: Homeric, and to an extent Hesiodic, myth amounts to "perfected anthropism," depicting the divine-made-human
ref: 1992, David Kolb, New Perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Religion, →ISBN, page 67:
text: In transitioning from anywhere to everywhere, we must reinvent the means of reading the world as containing both an autograph—though we do not presume to attach it either to a divinity or to an anthropism—and an hermeneutic.
ref: 2014, G. V. Loewen, Place Meant: Hermeneutic Landscapes of the Spatial Self, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: The belief that human beings have a spiritual nature beyond the physical body characterized by in-dwelling Divinity.
examples: text: Such a representation would present a real difficulty, if we were obliged to understand all this in its strict literal import, implying, as it would, very unworthy conceptions of God on the part of the writer. The difficulty vanishes, however, when it is perceived that this is only and instance of a prevailing anthropism which characterises the whole narrative.
ref: 1866, John Quarry, Genesis and Its Authorship: Two Disserations, page 108:
text: Philosophy is absolutely opposed to theology, anthropism to theism ; but this must not be taken to imply that theism is utterly false, or that anthropism is atheistic, for all that is meant is that the anthropistic outlook and point of departure has come into its own in modern philosophy.
ref: 1919, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia:
text: Actually we are guilty of anthropism, not anthropomorphism, a guilt shared with an increasing number of scientists, for the universe and our place in the universe are guilty of anthropism as well.
ref: 2009, Benjamin Wiker, Jonathan Witt, A Meaningful World, →ISBN:
glosses: The belief that human beings are fundamentally different from everything else in nature and that the world was made for them.
xeromammographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From xeromammographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of xeromammography.
tracee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracees
Etymology: From trace + -ee.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or a process that is being traced.
tracees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracee
schismogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schismogenic
form: most schismogenic
Etymology: From schism + -o- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Causing schism or division.
Related terms: schismogenesis
schismogenetic
antislime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + slime.
Senses: examples: an antislime coating
glosses: Preventing the formation of slime.
genitally mutilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of genitally mutilate
genitally mutilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of genitally mutilate
genitally mutilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of genitally mutilate
polypaint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + paint; name of a feature in the ZBrush digital sculpting software.
Senses: examples: text: Using polypaint with HD allows you to completely overcome the texture resolution limitations in previous versions of ZBrush.
ref: 2011, Scott Spencer, ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting:
text: The reason I do not create a texture from polypaint is simply because I want to show what you can generate without going through the texturing process.
ref: 2012, Paul Gaboury, ZBrush Professional Tips and Techniques, page 268:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feature allowing the user to "paint" color directly onto the polygons of a three-dimensional model without first creating a texture map.
wikipedia: ZBrush
paintover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paintovers
Etymology: Deverbal from paint over
Senses: glosses: An instance of painting over the top of something, such as an existing artwork or a graffiti tag.
Related terms: drawover
paintovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paintover
angelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪnd͡ʒəlɪst/
Forms: form: angelists
Etymology: From angel + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of angelism
angelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angelist
E-language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-language
Etymology: Introduced by Noam Chomsky.
Senses: examples: text: The emergence of “Greenglish” – Greek written with English letters – as an unofficial e-language since the arrival of the internet has also sparked alarm.
ref: 2021 January 31, Helena Smith, “The Greeks had a word for it … until now, as language is deluged by English terms”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of external language: language as transmitted and shared in the world or community rather than as perceived and understood in the individual.
wikipedia: Noam Chomsky
Coordinate terms: I-language