cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
neglect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈɡlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: neglects
form: neglecting
form: neglected
form: neglected
Etymology: From Middle English neclect, from Latin neglēctus, perfect passive participle of neglegō (“make light of, disregard, not to pick up”), a variant of neclegō, itself from nec (“not”) + legō (“pick up, select”). Recorded since a. 1460, as noun since 1588.
Senses: examples: text: to neglect duty or business;  to neglect to pay debts
text: I hope
 My absence doth neglect no great designs.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: This, my long sufferance and my day of grace,
 Those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
glosses: To fail to care for or attend to something.
examples: text: to neglect strangers
glosses: To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
examples: text: A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
ref: 1972 December 29, Richard Schickel, “Masterpieces underrated and overlooked”, in Life, volume 73, number 25, page 22:
glosses: To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
examples: text: We can neglect this term, as it approaches zero in the limit anyway.
text: This problem says to neglect air resistance.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
Synonyms: sense: fail to care for
word: let slide
sense: to omit to notice
word: disregard
word: take no notice of
word: ignore
sense: failure due to carelessness
word: fail
sense: failure due to carelessness
word: forget
Derived terms: benign neglect
neglectability
neglectable
neglectably
neglectee
neglecter
neglectful
neglectfully
neglectfulness
neglection
neglective
overneglect
pseudoneglect
reneglect
Related terms: negligee
negligent
negligence
neglect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈɡlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: neglects
Etymology: From Middle English neclect, from Latin neglēctus, perfect passive participle of neglegō (“make light of, disregard, not to pick up”), a variant of neclegō, itself from nec (“not”) + legō (“pick up, select”). Recorded since a. 1460, as noun since 1588.
Senses: glosses: The act of neglecting.
glosses: The state of being neglected.
examples: text: Fifteen participants argued that the neglect of discourse on relationships had major implications for the ability of adolescents to acquire courtship skills and maintain relationships. This neglect means that the students acquire knowledge and skills through the media and by observing and imitating others in their immediate environment.
ref: 2025 May 14, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, Gal Hodara Hassan, ““The System Sweeps it Under the Rug”: Educational Staff’s Perspectives on Romantic Relationships Among Autistic Adolescents”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
glosses: Habitual lack of care.
Synonyms: carelessness
negligence
Derived terms: child neglect
hemineglect
hemispatial neglect
neglectproof
Arnhem Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaːnəm lænd/
Etymology: Named after the ship of Captain Willem van Colster; the ship was named after the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands.
Senses: glosses: An historical region of 97,000 sq. km in the north-eastern corner of the Northern Territory, Australia, controlled by the Northern Land Council, inhabited by local Aboriginals.
undignified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undignified
form: most undignified
Etymology: From un- + dignified.
Senses: glosses: lacking in or damaging to dignity
undignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + dignified.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undignify
highlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪlaɪt/
ipa: /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/
homophone: hilite
rhymes: -aɪlaɪt
rhymes: -aɪˌlaɪt
Forms: form: highlights
form: hilite
Etymology: From high + light.
Senses: examples: text: The image blurred into the highlight, like something familiar seen beneath disturbed though clear water; he looked at the familiar image with a kind of quiet horror and despair, at a face suddenly older in sin than he would ever be, a face more blurred than sweet, at eyes more secret than soft.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 114:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
antonyms: lowlight
qualifier: painting
glosses: An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
examples: text: Meeting my future wife was the highlight of my trip to Spain.
text: We'll be broadcasting the news highlights every half an hour.
glosses: An especially significant or interesting detail or event or period of time.
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
hyponyms: lowlight
glosses: A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.
fluorescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflʊəˈɹɛsənt/
ipa: /flɔˈɹɛsənt/
homophone: florescent
homophone: in some pronunciations
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more fluorescent
form: most fluorescent
Etymology: From fluoresce + -ent.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to fluorescence.
examples: text: The fluorescent plants shimmered in the darkness.
glosses: Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
examples: text: The quality of fluorescent lighting technology has improved dramatically in recent years.
text: The shed, a steel-framed structure with a single-span roof devoid of intermediate support, is exceptionally well-lit by continuous glazing on the roof and along much of the sides, while there is fluorescent roof lighting for night work.
ref: 1960 July 24, “New Eastern Region diesel depot at Finsbury Park”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 422–423:
text: Rather than burning out as incandescent bulbs do, L.E.D.’s light output dims over tens of thousands of hours. L.E.D.’s are also more resistant to vibration than incandescents or screw-in fluorescent bulbs, and do not flicker or hum.
ref: 2007 March 1, Matthew L. Wald, “Room to Improve”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2017:
text: Then they backed the membrane with a gel matrix containing a perfluorocarbon (PFC) propellant and fluorescent "nanobullets" about a micron wide, and hit it with ultrasound.
ref: 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:
glosses: Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury.
examples: text: Her shirt was fluorescent orange.
glosses: Vivid, as if fluorescing; neon.
Derived terms: autofluorescent
biofluorescent
chemifluorescent
cytofluorescent
epifluorescent
fluorescent lamp
fluorescently
fluorescent tag
fluorescent tube
fluoro
green fluorescent protein
histofluorescent
hyperfluorescent
hypofluorescent
immunofluorescent
magnetofluorescent
multifluorescent
nanofluorescent
neurofluorescent
nonfluorescent
polyfluorescent
profluorescent
pseudofluorescent
stereofluorescent
superfluorescent
unfluorescent
vacuum fluorescent display
Related terms: fluorophore
iridescent
luminescent
fluorescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflʊəˈɹɛsənt/
ipa: /flɔˈɹɛsənt/
homophone: florescent
homophone: in some pronunciations
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: fluorescents
Etymology: From fluoresce + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: The fluorescents hummed day and night.
text: Compact fluorescents are typically rated at 7,500 to 10,000 hours, and incandescents at about 1,500 hours.
ref: 2007 March 1, Matthew L. Wald, “Room to Improve”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2017:
glosses: A fluorescent light.
Related terms: incandescent
XPCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Although most components available from XPCOM are written in C++, the XPConnect/XPCOM pairing can also accommodate other languages.
ref: 2002, David Boswell, Creating Applications with Mozilla, →ISBN, page 241:
text: XPCOM is entirely internal to the Mozilla Platform. XPConnect is the glue that turns XPCOM-compliant objects and their interfaces into JavaScript host objects.
ref: 2004, Nigel McFarlane, Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, →ISBN, page 176:
text: XPCOM enables component software development, a paradigm that is heavily leveraged in the Mozilla product line. DLLs that implement the required external functions and classes defined for this purpose by XPCOM can be registered as components with a Mozilla-based project, and applications can then uses XPCOM to query these components for classes and interfaces, and then make calls against the interfaces to obtain the services provided by the component.
ref: 2007, Syd Logan, Cross-Platform Development in C++, →ISBN:
text: These XPCOM interfaces are the starting point for all XUL elements.
ref: 2007, Kenneth C. Feldt, Programming Firefox: Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Cross-Platform Component Object Model.
crank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: cranker
form: crankest
Etymology: From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).
Senses: glosses: Hard; difficult.
glosses: Strange; weird; odd.
glosses: Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
synonyms: infirm
glosses: Sick; unwell.
examples: text: This ship is so crank and walty
I fear our grave she will be!
ref: 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Phantom Ship:
text: The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.
ref: 1833, Edgar Allan Poe, MS. Found in a Bottle:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
raw_tags: of a ship
examples: text: He who was a little before bedred[…]was now cranke and lustie.
ref: 1548, Nicolas Udall, The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente:
text: If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
ref: 1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp:
glosses: Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
crank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: cranks
Etymology: From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).
Senses: glosses: An ailment, ache.
examples: text: Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
glosses: An ill-tempered or nasty person.
glosses: A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
examples: text: Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A fit of temper or passion.
examples: text: John is a crank because he talks to himself.
text: Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.
ref: 1882 January 14, Pall Mall Gazette:
text: The raw meat cranks are in dead earnest. They think that raw food is the manna of heaven.
ref: 1901 July 19, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 318:
text: But do you know what isn't in the school books? That old Rossum was mad. Seriously, Miss Glory, you must keep this to yourself. The old crank wanted to actually make people.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
synonyms: word: kook
word: odd duck
word: weirdo
word: crackpot
word: bizarro
word: coot
word: crackpot
word: crank
raw_tags: in US
word: eccentric
word: freak
word: glaik
word: hard case
word: kook
word: live one
word: nutbag
word: nutbar
word: nutcase
word: nutter
word: oddball
word: oddity
word: odd bod
word: odd duck
word: odd fish
word: queerdo
word: queer fish
word: rum
word: strange bird
word: strange fish
word: strangeling
word: wack
word: wacko
word: weirdie
word: weirdling
word: weirdo
word: wild man
word: wingnut
glosses: A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
raw_tags: in US
examples: text: That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.
glosses: An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A baseball fan.
examples: text: Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: A sick person; an invalid.
Derived terms: crankish
crankism
crank letter
crankness
cranksome
Blarney Stone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Blarney Stone
Senses: glosses: A stone set into the upper wall of Blarney Castle in Ireland, which if kissed is supposed to bestow the gift of the gab or blarney.
fetlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetlocks
form: fetterlock
form: fewterlock
Etymology: From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, equivalent to foot + lock (“tuft of hair”). Cognate with Middle Low German fitlok, fitlock (“fetlock”), Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).
Senses: examples: text: It was the better part of a mile wide, but save for some fathoms in the middle, where the Sker current ran, it was no deeper even at flood than a horse's fetlocks.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
synonyms: ankle
glosses: A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
glosses: The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.
Derived terms: fetlocked
succession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/
Forms: form: successions
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Old French succession, from Latin successiō (noun).
Senses: examples: text: In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
An act of following in sequence.
examples: text: Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure
ref: 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
text: England gave away six penalties in the first 15 minutes and were lucky to still have 15 men on the pitch, but Kvirikashvili missed two very makeable penalties in quick succession as Georgia were unable to take advantage of significant territorial advantage.
ref: 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A sequence of things in order.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A passing of royal powers.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A race or series of descendants.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
Rotation, as of crops.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
A right to take possession.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
examples: text: long descent of Kings , whose names only for many successions without other memory stand thus register'd
ref: 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
glosses: An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Synonyms: sense: an act of following in sequence
word: posteriority
sense: a sequence of things in order
word: sequence
Derived terms: agreement as to succession
apostolic succession
in quick succession
in short succession
in succession
line of succession
order of succession
rule of succession
successional
successionary
succession duty
turn in succession
war of succession
Related terms: successive
craps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: crap
Etymology: From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.
Senses: examples: text: “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:
text: Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below
ref: 1994, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:
topics: dice
gambling
games
glosses: A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.
Derived terms: bank craps
bastard craps
crapless craps
craps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæps/
rhymes: -æps
Etymology: Plural of crap.
Senses: glosses: plural of crap
glosses: (preceded by the) diarrhea
craps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæps/
rhymes: -æps
Etymology: Verb form of crap.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crap
baptism by fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baptisms by fire
form: baptism of fire
Etymology: From the Bible, Matthew 3:11, John the Baptist said... "and He shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire."
Senses: examples: text: The new folks really get put through a baptism by fire, to start doing a stressful job with so little training.
glosses: A rite of passage through the survival or success of a crisis or ordeal.
Related terms: hazing
initiation
trial by fire
trial by ordeal
film noir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film noirs
form: films noirs
Etymology: Borrowed from French film noir (“dark film”, literally “black film”), attributed to French film critic Nino Frank (1946).
Senses: examples: text: During this period his own films were being studied alongside classic film noir together with European arthouse cinema and the works of directors from around the world.
ref: 2017, Ian Brookes, Film Noir: A Critical Introduction, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A film genre characterized by low-key lighting, a bleak urban setting, and corrupt, cynical or desperate characters.
glosses: An individual film in this genre.
Derived terms: neo-noir
Nordic noir
Scandinavian noir
Scandi noir
fibroblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.brəˌblɑːst/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.brəʊˌblɑːst/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.brəˌblæst/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.broʊˌblæst/
Forms: form: fibroblasts
Etymology: From fibro- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: A cell found in connective tissue that produces fibers, such as collagen.
Derived terms: adipofibroblast
cardiofibroblast
fibroblastic
fibroblastoid
fibroblastoma
lipofibroblast
myofibroblast
nonfibroblast
profibroblast
crematory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cremate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the act of cremating bodies.
crematory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crematories
Etymology: From cremate + -ory.
Senses: synonyms: crematorium
glosses: The establishment or furnace that cremates bodies.
Related terms: cremate
cremator
crematorium
Zairean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zʌɪˈɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /zɑˈɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Zaireans
form: Zairian
Etymology: From Zaire + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Zairean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zʌɪˈɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /zɑˈɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Zairian
Etymology: From Zaire + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Zaire.
Coordinate terms: Congolese
Zairian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zairians
Etymology: From Zaire + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zairean.
osteocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteocytes
Etymology: From osteo- (“bone”) + -cyte (“cell”).
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mature bone cell involved with the maintenance of bone.
Derived terms: osteocytic
osteocytogenesis
preosteocyte
zeppelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeppelins
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Zeppelin.
endomysium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endomysia
Senses: glosses: a layer of connective tissue which surrounds individual muscle fibers
perimysium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perimysiums
form: perimysia
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A layer of connective tissue which surrounds several muscle fibers into bundles
epimysium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimysia
Senses: glosses: a layer of connective tissue which surrounds individual muscles
Derived terms: epimysial
sidetrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌtɹæk/
Forms: form: sidetracks
form: side-track
form: side track
Etymology: From side + track.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
glosses: Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
examples: text: Stay focused on the story; you keep getting lost in all of these little sidetracks.
text: "However, I am down a side-track. What I wanted to say to you is that you must not take Bolsover's little spirit circus too seriously."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
Synonyms: sense: small railroad track for unloading, passing
word: railroad siding
sense: small railroad track for unloading, passing
word: siding
sense: small railroad track for unloading, passing
word: lay-by
sidetrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌtɹæk/
Forms: form: sidetracks
form: sidetracking
form: sidetracked
form: sidetracked
form: side-track
form: side track
Etymology: From side + track.
Senses: examples: text: It was just after 5 p.m.; would the non-stop "Capitals Limited" come up next? It was due in at 5.30 and other trains are often side-tracked in its favour.
ref: 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
text: Two westbound freights were in the vicinity and the operator was kept busy passing them radio messages with the latest information on the late running of the streamliners, to allow the enginemen to keep moving until the last possible minute before they had to sidetrack their trains to let the fast trains overtake.
ref: 1961 July, J.Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 423:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
examples: text: Sorry I'm late. I got sidetracked helping my friend move some furniture.
text: The politician sidetracked the reporter with a story about duck hunting instead of a direct response to the question that was asked.
text: I hope you can sidetrack the teacher with questions so we don't have to take the exam.
glosses: To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
examples: text: The project was sidetracked in favor of a more popular program.
text: He has sidetracked this debate for far too long.
glosses: To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
examples: text: Just to sidetrack a little bit from the subject I will explain my reasoning.
text: To sidetrack for a moment, let me commend this team for their outstanding efforts.
glosses: To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
Synonyms: sense: deviate from the topic at hand
word: digress
perve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of perv.
perve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perves
form: perving
form: perved
form: perved
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of perv.
resize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resizes
form: resizing
form: resized
form: resized
Etymology: From re- + size.
Senses: glosses: To alter the size of something.
glosses: To change in size.
Hypernyms: size
resize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resizes
Etymology: From re- + size.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An operation that changes the size of something.
resize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resizes
form: resizing
form: resized
form: resized
Etymology: From re- + size.
Senses: examples: text: If the chemicals are too strong, or the sheets remain too long in the bath, or are not thoroughly cleansed from the bleach before they are re-sized, the certain seeds of decay are planted in the paper, and [...] in the course of a few years the enemy will appear, the fibre will decay, and the existence of the books will terminate in a state of white tinder.
ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 93:
glosses: To size (apply glue or other primer to a surface) again.
easily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.zɪ.li/
ipa: /ˈiːz.li/
ipa: /ˈi.zə.li/
Forms: form: easilier
form: more easily
form: easiliest
form: most easily
Etymology: From Middle English esiliche, equivalent to easy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd, / And of his armes despoyled easily […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
glosses: Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
examples: text: Individuals without a family network are easily controlled.
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis[…]interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: For instance, if the girl character is getting rescued by a boy, we can tell our girls the story could easily have been changed so the girl is doing the rescuing.
ref: 2014 January 31, Kelly Wallace, “Pink, princess-y and sexy too soon”, in CNN:
synonyms: readily
handily
glosses: Without difficulty.
examples: text: This is easily the best meal I have eaten.
glosses: Absolutely, without question.
examples: text: not easily offended
text: I get distracted very easily.
glosses: More quickly or likely than is usual or expected.
pinkeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinkeyes
form: pink-eye
form: pink eye
Etymology: From pink + eye.
Senses: glosses: A highly contagious form of conjunctivitis.
tv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiviː/
ipa: /tivi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: tvs
Senses: examples: text: The fantasy trilogy hasn’t disappeared; it has gained momentum and in some instances become a dodecalogy, and the material of modern fantasy has spread from print to subway graffiti, role-playing games, film, tv, and online culture.
ref: 2015, E[dward] L. Risden, “Introduction. The ‘Author of the Century’ in His Century: Extending the Intellectual Landscape”, in Tolkien’s Intellectual Landscape, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Besides, I’m not a tv presenter, but a writer, in case you haven’t noticed.
ref: 2023, Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Hamish Hamilton, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of TV.
ultimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭlʹtĭmō
ipa: /ˈʌltɪməʊ/
Forms: form: vltimo
Etymology: First attested in 1582; from Latin ultimō (elliptically for ultimō diē or ultimō mēnse), masculine ablative singular form of ultimus (“last”); cognate with Dutch ultimo, the German ultimo, the Swedish ultimo, etc.
Senses: glosses: On the last day (of a specified month).
Coordinate terms: english: of this month
translation: of this month
word: instant
english: of next month
translation: of next month
word: proximo
ultimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭlʹtĭmō
ipa: /ˈʌltɪməʊ/
Forms: form: Ultimo
form: ult.
form: ulto
Etymology: First attested in 1582; from Latin ultimō (elliptically for ultimō diē or ultimō mēnse), masculine ablative singular form of ultimus (“last”); cognate with Dutch ultimo, the German ultimo, the Swedish ultimo, etc.
Senses: examples: text: I receivd your favour of the 18th Ultimo in due time & beg pardon for not having answerd it before.
ref: 1771 November 20, Alexander Hamilton, “From Alexander Hamilton to Fraser, Grant and Baillie, 20 November 1771”, in Harold C. Syrett, editor, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, volumes 1, 1768–1778, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1962, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: Of last month.
ultimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭlʹtĭmō
ipa: /ˈʌltɪməʊ/
Etymology: First attested in 1622; from either the Italian ultimo, or the Portuguese último, or the Spanish ultimo; compare ultime.
Senses: glosses: = The ultimum; the final, ultimate point of a sequence.
frequently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt.li/
Forms: form: more frequently
form: most frequently
Etymology: From frequent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This question arises frequently.
text: He was enrolled but frequently didn't attend class.
text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
text: The NFA has been a flashpoint for advocates, who say that silencers are not frequently used in crime and believe that the silencers and other weapons regulated under the law, including machine guns and short-barreled rifles and shotguns, are protected by the Second Amendment.
ref: 2025 March 26, Hannah Rabinowitz, “DOJ considers abandoning the defense of federal restrictions on gun silencers”, in CNN:
glosses: At frequent intervals.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For infinitely many terms of the sequence.
raw_tags: of a sequence
Synonyms: often
oftenly
oftentimes
Related terms: eventually
frequency
cartilage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.tɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːt.lɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.təl.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹt.lɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: cartilages
Etymology: Borrowed from French cartilage, from Latin cartilāgō. Partially displaced native gristle, from Old English gristel.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: gristle
glosses: A usually translucent and somewhat elastic, dense, nonvascular connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos, being replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A particular structure made of cartilage.
Derived terms: articular cartilage
arytenoid cartilage
biocartilage
cartilage-hair hypoplasia
cartilagelike
cartilaginoid
cartilaginous
cartilogenesis
costal cartilage
cricoid cartilage
fibrocartilage
greater alar cartilage
hyaline cartilage
mucocartilage
neocartilage
pericartilage
thyroid cartilage
dietary fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dietary fibre.
azo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ.zə(ʊ)/
ipa: /æz.oʊ/
ipa: /æz.ə/
Forms: form: az-
Etymology: From azote (“nitrogen”)
Senses: examples: text: azine
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing nitrogen especially as the divalent group N=N.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing aluminum-doped zinc oxide.
Derived terms: azo
Related terms: aza-
cephalo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛ.fə.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈsɛ.fə.lə/
Forms: form: cephal-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ).
Senses: examples: Meronym: encephalo-
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the head; sometimes, particularly, the brain.
Derived terms: cephalad
cephalexin
cephalic
cephalic index
cephalin
cephalofoil
cephalon
cephalopod
cephalosporin
cephalothin
Related terms: word: anencephaly
word: encephalic
english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: encephalo-
word: encephalon
word: -cephalic
deoxy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From de- + oxy-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Formally derived from another compound by the replacement of a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom
Synonyms: desoxy-
Derived terms: deoxycholate
deoxyephedrine
deoxynivalenol
deoxynucleic
deoxyribonuclease
deoxyribonucleic
'sarvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From (thi)s + arvo (“afternoon”).
Senses: glosses: Contraction of this arvo (“this afternoon”).
dichloro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: dichlor-
Etymology: From di- + chloro-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing two chlorine atoms
Derived terms: beta-chlorovinyldichloroarsine
chlorovinyldichloroarsine
dichloracetic acid
dichlorhydrin
dichlorodifluoromethane
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
dichloromercury
dichlorvos
sarvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Contraction of this arvo (“this afternoon”).
dinitro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From di- + nitro.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing two nitro groups (-NO₂)
histo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: hist-
form: histio-
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἱστός (histós, “web, tissue”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: tissue
benzo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛn.zə(ʊ)/
ipa: /bɛn.zoʊ/
ipa: /bɛn.zə/
Forms: form: benz-
Etymology: From benzoin.
Senses: examples: text: benzodiazepine, benzoyl
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Related to benzene or benzoic acid.
Derived terms: benzoazurine
benzobis
benzocoumaran
benzodiazole
benzoflavine
benzofuroquinoxaline
benzofuryl
benzoglycolic
benzoglyoxaline
benzohydrol
benzoiodohydrin
benzomorpholine
benzonitrol
benzoperoxide
benzophenanthrazine
benzophenanthroline
benzophenazine
benzophenol
benzophenothiazine
benzophloroglucinol
benzophosphinic
benzophthalazine
benzopyranyl
benzopyrazolone
benzopyrylium
benzoquinoxaline
benzosulphimide
benzotetrazine
benzotetrazole
benzothiodiazole
benzothiofuran
benzotoluide
benzotrifuran
arterio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of arteri-.
cyto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: cyt-
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “container, receptacle”).
Senses: examples: text: cyto- + pathology → cytopathology
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: cell.
Derived terms: cytobiosis
cytopharmacology
cytotoxicology
Related terms: -cyte
arthro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: arthr-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: articulation = joint (as for example in arthroplasty).
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: articulation = speech (as for example in dysarthrophonia).
aceto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: acet-
Etymology: From Latin acētum (“vinegar”), because acetic acid is a constituent of vinegar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing a methyl group bonded to a carbonyl group (CH₃CO-); e.g., acetophenone
Coordinate terms: formo-
propio-
butyro-
Related terms: acetyl
acquiescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more acquiescent
form: most acquiescent
Etymology: From Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle.
Senses: examples: text: This view is reflected in the novelist's stock portrait of the white-man-in-exile's dusky mistress; an acquiescent shadow, who comes to life only if thrown aside, when, sinister and vindictive, she is ready with the wasting poison.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
glosses: willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
examples: text: an acquiescent policy
glosses: resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit
Synonyms: sense: conceding to a sin or crime
word: complicit
word: assenting
word: agreeable
word: acquiescent
word: pleased
word: consenting
word: obliging
word: prepared
word: ultroneous
word: willing
Derived terms: acquiescently
inacquiescent
nonacquiescent
unacquiescent
Related terms: word: quiescent
word: inclined
word: obey
word: optional
organelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔɹ.ɡənˈɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: organelles
Etymology: From organ + -elle.
Senses: examples: text: Like organelles within a single cell, whole new specializations began to develop.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:
text: The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
ref: 1991, Lynn Margulis, René Fester, Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).
Synonyms: word: organella
word: organelle
Hyponyms: word: nucleus
word: mitochondrion
word: vacuole
word: leucoplast
word: chloroplast
word: Golgi apparatus
word: basal body
word: cytostome
word: lysosome
word: centrosome
word: melanosome
word: bacteriome
word: mitosome
word: peroxisome
word: ribosome
word: endoplasmic reticulum
Derived terms: interorganelle
intraorganelle
microrganelle
multiorganelle
organellar
organellogenesis
organellometry
organellomics
suborganelle
monocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocytes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Monozyt.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of leukocyte (white blood cell) that differentiates into a macrophage.
Hypernyms: agranulocyte
leukocyte
Related terms: leukomonocyte
lymphomonocyte
monocytemia
monocytic
monocytically
monocytogenous
monocytoid
monocytopenia
monocytopoiesis
monocytosis
monocytotropic
myelomonocyte
premonocyte
promonocyte
putting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝ot'ĭng
ipa: /ˈpʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰʊtɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ʊtɪŋ
homophone: pudding
Etymology: From put + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put
putting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝ot'ĭng
ipa: /ˈpʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰʊtɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ʊtɪŋ
homophone: pudding
Forms: form: puttings
Etymology: From put + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: ...and then if there be a putting in fear alſo, the clergy is ouſted in all the caſes mentiond in this ſtatute.
ref: 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ, page 353:
glosses: Instigation or incitement; enticement.
glosses: The action or result of the verb put.
Related terms: off-putting
shot putting
up-putting
putting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝ot'ĭng
ipa: /ˈpʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰʊtɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ʊtɪŋ
homophone: pudding
enpr: pŭt'ĭng
ipa: /ˈpʌtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰʌtɪŋ]
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
enpr: po͝ot'ĭng
ipa: /ˈpʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰʊtɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ʊtɪŋ
homophone: pudding
Etymology: From putt + -ing.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: present participle and gerund of putt
putting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝ot'ĭng
ipa: /ˈpʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰʊtɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ʊtɪŋ
homophone: pudding
enpr: pŭt'ĭng
ipa: /ˈpʌtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰʌtɪŋ]
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
enpr: po͝ot'ĭng
ipa: /ˈpʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰʊtɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ʊtɪŋ
homophone: pudding
Forms: form: puttings
Etymology: From putt + -ing.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The action of the verb to putt.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variety of golf in which balls are tapped into holes over short distances using a putter.
Derived terms: putting green
Related terms: crazy golf
lymphocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphocytes
Etymology: From lympho- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.
Synonyms: word: lymphocyte
Hypernyms: word: leucocyte = leukocyte = white blood cell = WBC > agranulocyte
word: white blood cell
word: blood cell
Hyponyms: word: B lymphocyte
word: B cell
word: T lymphocyte
word: T cell
word: cytotoxic T cell
word: killer T cell
word: plasma cell
word: plasmacyte
word: thymocyte
Derived terms: antilymphocyte
autolymphocyte
lymphocytic
lymphocytogenous
lymphocytoid
lymphocytolysis
lymphocytoma
lymphocytopenia
lymphocytopoiesis
lymphocytosis
lymphocytotoxin
lymphocytotropic
lymphokine
prolymphocyte
antibody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntibɒdi/
ipa: /ˈæntəbɑdi/
ipa: /ˈæntibɑdi/
Forms: form: antibodies
Etymology: From anti- + body, a calque of German Antikörper.
Senses: examples: text: It’s estimated only 0.1% of antibodies circulating in the bloodstream enter the brain – this also includes the therapeutic antibodies currently used in clinical trials. An approach my team is taking is to use ultrasound to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier, which increases the uptake of Alzheimer’s drugs or antibody fragments.
ref: 2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A protein produced by B-lymphocytes that binds to a specific antigen.
Synonyms: immunoglobulin
Derived terms: abzyme
agonistic monoclonal antibody
alloantibody
antiantibody
anti-antibody
antibody-mediated rejection
antibodyome
anti-nuclear antibody
autoantibody
cold antibody
coproantibody
donor-specific antibody
heteroantibody
isoantibody
microantibody
miniantibody
monoantibody
monoclonal antibody
nanoantibody
nanobody
nonantibody
peptibody
phosphoantibody
plantibody
polyantibody
polyclonal antibody
warm antibody
xenoantibody
antigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigens
Etymology: From French antigène, from anti- + gène.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A substance that induces an immune response, usually foreign.
Derived terms: aeroantigen
alloantigen
antigenemia
antigenized
antigen-presenting cell
Australia antigen
autoantigen
broad antigen
chimeric antigen receptor
coproantigen
Duffy antigen
ectoantigen
exoantigen
glycoantigen
Goodpasture's antigen
group-specific antigen
histocompatibility antigen
human leukocyte antigen
immunoantigen
isoantigen
multiantigen
neoantigen
neuroantigen
nonantigen
pathoantigen
phosphoantigen
photoantigen
prostate-specific antigen
rapid antigen test
self-antigen
split antigen
superantigen
xenoantigen
Related terms: antigenic
antigenicity
antigenity