cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
binaristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From binaristic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: This is why Deleuze and Guattari say it is time to "make the multiple" (A Thousand Plateaus), to learn to "see" pluralistically rather than binaristically.
ref: 2000, Debra Diane Davis, Breaking Up (at) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 171:
text: […] Levi-Straussian tradition, as binaristically ordered through the opposition of clean and unclean or of raw and cooked. […] (linguistically or alimentarily) binaristically ordered as trying to explore the relationship between food and language ...
ref: 2004, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Kitchen Culture: Literature, Eating and the Body Politic in the Nineteenth-century United States:
text: […] a tagline that instantly positions Mugabe as the incarnation of evil against the “good men”, binaristically encoded in the poster as “the White Africans” of the title.
ref: 2015, Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy, Stuart Murray, What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: In a way marked by binarism; in a binaristic manner.
chicken of the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the mid-20th-century advertising jingle of StarKist brand canned tuna. Since used popularly at large for any tuna.
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Tuna.
wikipedia: en:StarKist
Derived terms: chickpea of the sea
Related terms: cockroach of the sea
gypsified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gypsify
gypsifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gypsify
gypsifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gypsify
underlyingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underlying + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being underlying.
binormative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈnɔː.mə.tɪv/
ipa: /baɪˈnɔɹ.mə.tɪv/
Etymology: From bi- + normative.
Senses: examples: text: By doing so, it is pushing bisexuals to comply with bi assimilationist ideology and binormative behavior. For example, in a thread on an American bi mailing list concerning the campaign's press release, I noted that I, as a bi activist, did not feel […]
ref: 2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 309:
text: Walker represents a character who calls into question the typical modes of identifying human beings: the distinctions between individuals and groups, unity of self and fragmentation of the self, univocality and polyvocality, […] consistency and relativity, White/Black and gay/straight. Most important for our extended discussion of binormative representations, Walker's novel serves as an example of how a virtual oversignification of a single body (one character) effects a short circuit in the machinery of monosexual epistemologies[…]
ref: 2013, Dawn Atkins, Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or exhibiting binormativity.
examples: text: page 262: Such an analysis characterizes a binormative analysis, for states are either normative or non-normative. For the moment, it is easier to discuss the notion of prohibition rather than our target notion of obligation.
page 271: This is where a polynormative analysis is better than a binormative analysis, for violations can be fine-grained and support subtle implications.
ref: 2004, Alessio Lomuscio, Donald Nute, Deontic Logic in Computer Science: 7th International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, DEON 2004, Madeira, Portugal, May 26-28, 2004. Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to, adhering to or enforcing two norms.
Related terms: word: transnormative
english: see there for more
translation: see there for more
word: homonormativity
binormativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From binormative + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: That this, achieving 'identity' through labelling and definition […] risks simply reserving existing hierarchies and re-inscribing the very power relations it seeks to undermine (Bower, 1999). Not surprisingly, 'heteronormativity' (Wilton, 1996) may be transposed into another version of normativity, in this case 'binormativity'. The third difficulty arises because accessing alternative discourses depends on changes in real conditions ...
ref: 2007, Victoria Clarke, Elizabeth Peel, Out in Psychology: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 236:
text: There exists a similar phenomenon of binormativity where by constructing a deviant bisexual other, the bisexual community is capable of upholding the dominant cultural code as well as its lesbian interpretation.
ref: 2010, K Caldwell, We exist: Intersectional in/visibility in bisexuality & disability:
text: Not only heteronormativity, but also homo/binormativity are beginning to be feared, as they are perceived as limiting with respect to the 'rainbow' of sexual differences which exalts unstable and changeable indeterminateness […]
ref: 2012, Laura Palazzani, Gender in Philosophy and Law, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Binormativity refers to the normalisation of a certain standard of bisexuality against which all other forms of bisexuality are measured.
ref: 2015, V Del Castillo, Regulating Bisexuality: Binormativity and Assimilation to the Homonormative Order in American Scripted Television Series:
text: If we do manage to escape the heteronormative crab bucket, we're in a precarious place — scuttling around on the beach on our own — so it's highly tempting to join another crab bucket, with its own sets of rules and ideologies. Hence homonormativity, and, indeed, binormativity, polynormavity, kinknormativity ... There's a certain irony in people looking over at the mainstream bucket, laughing at the crabs being pulled back in, not realizing that they're doing exactly the same thing.
ref: 2016, Meg-John Barker, Queer: A Graphic History, Icon Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The adoption of limiting (especially heterosexist-like) values, beliefs and norms into the bisexual community.
examples: text: In the course of the analysis, we introduce polynormativity, which contrasts with the binormativity of standard DAL or alethic logic plus a violation proposition […] Such an analysis characterizes a binormative analysis, for states are either normative or non-normative […]
ref: 2004, A. Z. Wyner, “Maintaining obligations on stative expressions in a deontic action logic”, in International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science:
glosses: The state or quality of being binormative, that is, of pertaining to, adhering to, or enforcing two norms.
Related terms: binormative
list in homonormativity
oversignification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversignifications
Etymology: From over- + signification.
Senses: examples: text: If contingency defines a realist ideal, then oversignification threatens that ideal. Yet in a context where meaning, whether national, cultural, or so on, is not a given, but the object of desire, oversignification offers a certain attraction.
ref: 2012, Ulka Anjaria, Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Second a story about how the synergy of media in any particular case differs from that of another and what the political effects are of this difference in candidate excess or oversignification. To understand the aestheticization of politics today, ...
ref: 2012, Daniel Herwitz, Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Likewise, although Disney had no such antigay record, it seems equally plausible that its reputation as the “traditional family values” company led to a similar process of oversignification in the lesbian and gay community.
ref: 2004, Nicole Christine Raeburn, Changing Corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Oversignification refers instead to the properties of language itself as performed in the work. Oversignification allows Javier to break from the model of lyric as privacy overheard (on which Hejinian is very precise) to stress the multiplicity […]
ref: 2017, Nicholas Nace, Charles Altieri, The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: The process or result of oversignifying; (attachment of) excessive significance (to something).
oversignifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oversignification
demigirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demigirl
demiboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demiboy
Rohit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi रोहित (rohit), Bengali রোহিত (rōhito), etc.
Senses: examples: text: And ‘Rohit’ meant red, both blood and saffron, and the first light of dawn.
ref: 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 401:
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
Luke-Acts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The composite work of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.
stand-to-pees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stand-to-pee
nonevaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonevaluations
Etymology: From non- + evaluation.
Senses: glosses: Absence of evaluation; failure to evaluate something.
nonevaluations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonevaluation
tripartisanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tripartisan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: tripartisanship
politicocommercial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politicocommercial
form: most politicocommercial
Etymology: From politico- + commercial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to both politics and commerce.
LABAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LABA
SABA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SABAs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of short-acting beta-adrenoceptor agonist, a drug class used in the treatment of respiratory diseases.
Related terms: LABA
LTRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LTRAs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of leukotriene receptor antagonist.
Hyponyms: montelukast
pranlukast
zafirlukast
beta-lactamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: β-lactamic
Etymology: From beta-lactam + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to beta-lactams.
lukast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lukasts
Etymology: Back-formation from -lukast (suffix), from -ast.
Senses: examples: text: Leukotriene pathway inhibitors, such as zileuton or the lukasts (cysteinyl leukotriene receptor antagonists), block the development of both systemic symptoms and bronchial obstruction.
ref: 1999, William J. Calhoun, “Asthma”, in Gerald S. Davis, editor, Medical Management of Pulmonary Diseases, New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 448:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of several antagonists of the cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 1, used in the treatment of respiratory diseases such as asthma, which has a name ending in -lukast.
Hypernyms: antileukotriene
Hyponyms: montelukast
pranlukast
zafirlukast
lukasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lukast
infarctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infarct + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to infarction
infrapyloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + pyloric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the pylorus
interserovar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + serovar.
Senses: glosses: Between serovars
intraglandularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an intraglandular manner
intraparticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + particulate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intraparticle.
impressioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impressioner
intratidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: Within a tide (between one high tide and the next)
Derived terms: intratidally
intratidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intratidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within a tide.
isoleptospermone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + leptospermone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sesquiterpenoid ketone 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-6-(2-methylbutanoyl)cyclohexane-1,3,5-trione
pippin file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pippin files
Senses: glosses: A kind of file (rasping tool) for work with keys such as impressioning.
pippin files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pippin file
leptospermone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sesquiterpenoid ketone 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-6-(3-methylbutanoyl)cyclohexane-1,3,5-trione
Derived terms: isoleptospermone
isopycnically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an isopycnic manner
isopycnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + pycnotic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isopyknotic.
isopyknotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + pyknotic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting isopyknosis
isopyknosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopycnosis
Senses: glosses: The condition of a chromosome that is evenly coiled and stains uniformly
Related terms: isopyknotic
isoquercetrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of isoquercitrin.
Onsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur ئونسۇ (onsu), from ئون (on, “ten”) + سۇ (su, “river”), literally ten rivers.
Senses: examples: text: Qirmish Ata Mazar is located in a mountain valley 61 km west of Onsu county town, in Aqsu prefecture.
ref: 2007, Ildikó Bellér-Hann, editor, Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia, Ashgate, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:
text: The Wensu (Onsu) county government in Aqsu district reported taking steps to monitor returnees from pilgrimages in order to “place them in the ‘line of vision’ of the government and Party committee” and “understand” the activities they participated in while abroad.
ref: 2009 October 10, “Human Rights”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2009, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, page 130:
text: In December 1994, Abudumijit Muhammatkelim organized a terrorist group with himself as the head, which plotted acts of violence and terror with purchased and homemade weapons and ammunition. He directed his followers to commit a robbery on February 10, 1996, in Onsu County of Xinjiang, which involved the gun killing of two policemen and a herdsman.
ref: 2010, J. Todd Reed, Diana Raschke, The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat, Praeger, →OCLC, page 149:
text: Units of the 5th Division of the 2nd Army also marched in from Yanqi, and, on 29 December 1949, arrived in Onsu (Wensu) County in Aksu Prefecture.
ref: 2014, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:
text: On Aug. 20, our hosts sent us to the city of Aksu to visit the Onsu County Vocational Skills Training Center. Here we were supposed to meet the “extremists and terrorists” whom China was “deradicalizing.”
ref: 2019, Olsi Jazexhi, “What can the Muslim world do to save the Uighurs and Islam in China?”, in Daily Sabah:
glosses: A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Wensu
word: Wen-su
word: Wensuh
Related terms: Zhetysu
Aksu
Kizilsu
strophalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strophaloi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στρόφαλος (stróphalos).
Senses: glosses: A wheel or spinner that is an emblem of the Greek goddess Hecate.
strophaloi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strophalos
Hekate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hecate.
Hekatean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hekatean
form: most Hekatean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hecatean.
Hecatean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hecatean
form: most Hecatean
form: Hekatean
Etymology: From Hecate + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hecate.
lufaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lufaxins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein in the saliva of sand flies
lufaxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lufaxin
macroesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + esthetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to macroesthetics
microesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + esthetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microesthetics
macroesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + esthetics.
Senses: glosses: The esthetics of relatively large-scale features
Related terms: macroesthetic
blank cartridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blank cartridge
microesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + esthetics.
Senses: glosses: The esthetics of relatively small-scale features
Related terms: microesthetic
melanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanists
Senses: glosses: A person with melanism.
melanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanist
mesangiosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesangiosperms
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the clade Mesangiospermae
mesangiosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesangiosperm
metapodal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapodals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metapodial.
methacrylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid amide of methacrylic acid
GOA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: G.O.A.
form: G. O. A.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of gone on arrival (“where the intended target was not present at the location that was sought when an agent arrived”).
G.O.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of GOA.
G. O. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of GOA.
Adderalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Adderall + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Wow! Thank you very much, Darkman. And I thought I was slick for posing as my Dad to get into Medscape, LOL. Your idea about the automatic info-dropping is excellent. Might be a leetle distracting for an Adderalled guy, but I'll try it.
ref: 2006 May 9, Snell, “Re: Significant others”, in alt.support.depression.manic.moderated (Usenet):
text: I felt alone in a room of future app programmers, bloggers all with bangs agog, the eyes overpainted, pupils Adderalled out and so bored through by digital marvels that no mere human in khakis could ever hope to elicit a glint of recognition there.
ref: 2018, Dan Harkins, Freeburg, Bloomington, IN: Balboa Press, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: Under the influence of the drug Adderall.
Percocet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜɹkəˌsɛt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kəsɛt
Forms: form: Percocets
Senses: examples: text: Listen. You give 'em a Percocet, two Vicodin and a couple of beers, and the panties drop. It's very nice.
ref: 1999, W. Peter Iliff, Varsity Blues, spoken by Charlie Tweeder (Scott Caan):
text: They ingest Ambien, Seroquel, LSD, Adderall, Oxycodone, cocaine, Flexeril, Percocet, psilocybin mushrooms and codeine.
ref: 2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: Perc
percy
hillbilly heroin
glosses: A brand name for an analgesic combination drug containing oxycodone and paracetamol, often used for recreational purposes.
Percocets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Percocet
Vicodins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vicodin
Perc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːk/
ipa: /pɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: perk
Forms: form: Percs
Etymology: Clipping of Percocet.
Senses: examples: text: The Perc was starting to kick in, but not the way I wanted it to. It wasn't taking away the pain as much as making my head fuzzy, the way it did when I took too much.
ref: 2009, Diane Chamberlain, Secrets She Left Behind, Toronto: Mira Books, →ISBN, page 80:
coordinate_terms: tranq
glosses: Clipping of Percocet, especially when it is used as a recreational drug.
Derived terms: perked out
Percs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Perc
IBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IBCs
Senses: qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of intermediate bulk container.
IBCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IBC
RSAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RSA
Rowley rag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the names of Rowley Regis, Rowley Hills + rag.
Senses: examples: text: Rowley-Rag appeared to be the same thing as basalt and toadstone resembled some species of lava.
ref: 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 162:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hard basaltic rock found in the Rowley Hills, near Birmingham, formerly used in paving and construction.
wikipedia: Rowley Hills
Rowley Regis
tetrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrels
Etymology: From tetr- + -el, short for element.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An element from the carbon group (or group 14) of the periodic table, which includes silicon, germanium, tin, and lead.
Synonyms: carbon group
crystallogen
Coordinate terms: pentel
triel
tetrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrel
unpalleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + palleted.
Senses: qualifier: logistics
glosses: Not loaded onto a pallet.
Sapphires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sapphire
triel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triels
Etymology: From tri- and -el from element.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An element from group 13 of the periodic table which includes boron, aluminium, gallium, indium, and thallium.
Synonyms: boron group
icosagen
Coordinate terms: pentel
tetrel
triels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triel
otolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otolin
ADDIE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Acronym of analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation, an instructional design framework that many instructional designers and training developers use to develop courses.
Addies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Addie
glosses: plural of Addy
glosses: plural of Addi
microaspersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microaspersions
Etymology: From micro- + aspersion, using an obsolete sense of aspersion that resembles current terms in other languages, e.g. Spanish aspersión.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A sprinkling of fine droplets.
microcontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + controlled.
Senses: glosses: Controlled by a microcontroller.
microparasol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microparasols
Etymology: From micro- + parasol.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A perinuclear complex of microtubules that protects the nucleus of a cell from damage by ultraviolet light
microparasols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microparasol
microratchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microratchets
Etymology: From micro- + ratchet.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microscopic ratchet, typically formed from nanohairs
microratchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microratchet
nanohair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanohairs
Etymology: From nano- + hair.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale hair
spaceforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaceforces
form: space force
form: space-force
Etymology: From space + force. Coined in analogy to airforce.
Senses: examples: text: "Wouldn't fit through the window," Lex apologized. "Anyway, a starship's a big responsibility — you're planning to join the spaceforce, aren't you?"
ref: 1978, Jonathan Fast, Mortal Gods, →ISBN:
text: The MSP may eventually become part of a new spaceforce that coordinates the broad range of defensive and offensive space assets. In addition, a new emphasis is being placed upon NASA and the U.S. Air Force to coordinate activity on such a space plane/RLV development.
ref: 2003, A Charania, “Operational Capabilities and Legal Implications of a Military Space Plane”, in Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, volume 45, University of California, School of Law, Part 2002:
text: Now, the Federation needed some sort of body to enforce its regulations, but the alphas were unable to agree on how to organize this, so Earth, who had the largest and most advanced spaceforce, offered to establish the Federal Fleet
ref: 2015, Rachel Searles, The Stolen Moon, →ISBN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: space flight
glosses: A military unit involved with outer space and spaceflight.
Synonyms: spatial force
Hypernyms: aerospace force
armed forces
military
Hyponyms: word: SpaceForce
word: Spaceforce
word: Space-Force
word: Space Force
word: USSF
Coordinate terms: aerospace army
aerospace force
aerospace navy
air army
air force
air navy
Related terms: sense: military spaceforce
word: space armed forces
sense: military spaceforce
word: space army
sense: military spaceforce
word: space battalion
sense: military spaceforce
word: space branch
sense: military spaceforce
word: space brigade
sense: military spaceforce
word: space command
sense: military spaceforce
word: space company
sense: military spaceforce
word: space corps
sense: military spaceforce
word: space division
sense: military spaceforce
word: space fleet
sense: military spaceforce
word: space flight
sense: military spaceforce
word: space flotilla
sense: military spaceforce
word: space navy
sense: military spaceforce
word: space platoon
sense: military spaceforce
word: space regiment
sense: military spaceforce
word: space squad
sense: military spaceforce
word: space squadron
sense: military spaceforce
word: space task force
sense: military spaceforce
word: space team
sense: military spaceforce
word: space unit
sense: military spaceforce
word: space wing
space force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space forces
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Alternative form of spaceforce.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see space, force.
microspatulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microspatula
microstent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microstents
Etymology: From micro- + stent.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A very small stent, typically used in operations on the eye
microstratigraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microstratigraphic.
midcorrelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midcorrelations
Etymology: From mid- + correlation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A correlation between the medians of two populations
millipolarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of millipolarization.
mitophylogenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mito- + phylogenomic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to mitophylogenomics
mitophylogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mito- + phylogenomics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: mitochondrial phylogenomics
Related terms: mitophylogenomic
mitraciliatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetracyclic alkaloid methyl (E)-2-[(2S,12bR)-3-ethyl-8-methoxy-1,2,3,4,6,7,12,12b-octahydroindolo[2,3-a]quinolizin-2-yl]-3-methoxyprop-2-enoate present in kratoms
mitragynaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of mitragynine.
monadicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monadic + -ity.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of being monadic
Derived terms: pseudomonadicity
monocentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being monocentric
mudcrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudcracks
Etymology: From mud + crack.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crack formed in the surface of mud sediment as it dries and contracts
mudcracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudcrack
peg-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From PEG, the initialism of polyethylene glycol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of PEGylated molecules.
multicontextual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + contextual.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple contexts
multilamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multilaminations
Etymology: From multi- + lamination.
Senses: glosses: multilayer lamination
neogrifolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neogrifolins
Etymology: From neo- + grifolin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The phenol 5-methyl-4-[(2E,6E)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,6,10-trienyl]benzene-1,3-diol present in a polypore of genus Albatrellus
grifolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The phenol 5-methyl-2-[(2E,6E)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,6,10-trienyl]benzene-1,3-diol present in some mushrooms
Derived terms: neogrifolin
neolocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + locality.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being neolocal
neosoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neosoils
Etymology: From neo- + soil.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A newly-formed soil
neosoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neosoil
neuritin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A neurotrophic protein that promotes neurite growth
neurodysregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + dysregulation.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: neural dysregulation
nextborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕkstʹ-bôrn'
ipa: /ˈnɛkstˌbɔː(ɹ)n/
other: [ˈnɛkstˌbɔːn]
other: [ˈnɛkstˌbɔɚ̯n]
rhymes: -ɛkstbɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: nextborns
Etymology: From next + born, probably modeled on firstborn.
Senses: glosses: The child born after the previous one.
nextborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nextborn
noncadaveric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cadaveric.
Senses: glosses: Not cadaveric
nonfulminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fulminant.
Senses: glosses: Not fulminant
megapolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megapolitical
form: most megapolitical
Etymology: From mega- + political.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to megapolitics.
megapolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + politics.
Senses: glosses: Very large-scale politics.
nonhemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hemic.
Senses: glosses: Not hemic
nonliquefied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + liquefied.
Senses: glosses: Not liquefied
normodentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + dentine.
Senses: glosses: The primary, most mineralised dentine of a tooth
notaular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a notaulus
oligoanalgesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + analgesia.
Senses: glosses: An insufficient level of analgesia
oligodendromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligodendroma
omaveloxolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From o(leanane) + [Term?] + [Term?] (“steroid or steroid-like drug”) + -olone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic oleanane.
onychiurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onychiurids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Onychiuridae.
Senses: glosses: Any springtail of the family Onychiuridae
onychiurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onychiurid
organoautotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organo- + autotrophic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to organoautotrophy
organoautotrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From organo- + autotrophically.
Senses: glosses: In an organoautotrophic manner
orthorubulavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthorubulaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Orthorubulavirus.
orthorubulaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthorubulavirus
osteobiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + biographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteobiography
purse string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purse strings
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Cavendish, however, was a lady who liked to make her own plans, and expected other people to fall in with them, and in this case she certainly had the whip hand, namely: the purse strings.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 6:
text: "However, this does not mean the government should be involved in operational decisions, take responsibility for the punctuality of specific services, promote ministers' pet infrastructure projects, or clutch the purse strings so tightly that the railway's financial relationship with government forces it to operate on a short-term hand-to-mouth basis."
ref: 2020 April 22, Philip Haigh, “Labour's blueprint for the future of Britain's railways”, in Rail, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of pursestring.
Derived terms: hold the purse strings
loosen the purse strings
tighten the purse strings
purse strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purse string
pectoral angina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Angina pectoris.
parotideomasseteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪk
Etymology: From parotideo- + masseteric.
Senses: examples: text: parotideomasseteric fascia
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the parotid gland and the masseter.
field of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fields of honour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of field of honor.
Benstead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
absential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: In form apparently from rare Latin absentiālis; as if from absence + -ial with the ending changed as in other pairs like essence, essential.
Senses: examples: text: P denotes absential particular qualification, i.e. the particular qualification relation between an absence and its locus.
ref: 2012, C. Goekoop, The Logic of Invariable Concomitance in the Tattvacintāmaṇi: Gaṅgeśa’s Anumitinirūpaṇa and Vyāptivāda with Introduction Translation and Commentary, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 24:
text: In presenting an absential conception of liberation as strictly limited to the cessation of experience, the Mīmāmsakas face a problem.
ref: 2013, Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 133:
text: In both expectation and memory we find hope and mourning, traces of the absential in what is no longer and in what is yet to come. Where traditional ontology thinks of being as self~identical presence, Derrida thinks of it as a spectral ghost ...
ref: 2013, Charles Bambach, Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 267:
glosses: Of or pertaining to absence or to that which is absent.
Derived terms: absentiality
Brassington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brassingtons
form: Brasington
Etymology: From an unattested Old English personal name *Brandsige + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2354).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
tumour necrosis factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumour necrosis factors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tumor necrosis factor.
tumour necrosis factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumour necrosis factor
pre-slash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + slash (“slash fiction”).
Senses: examples: text: The piece of work was a short pre-slash story around Hulkling and Wiccan from The Young Avengers, it was posted under the alias Confidenceiskey on 18 October, 2007.
ref: 2008, Gemma Corin, "From 'Ambiguously Gay Duos' To Homosexual Superheroes: The Implications For Media Fandom Practices", thesis submitted to the University of Waikato, page 53
text: The first, a lengthy Kirk/Spock pre-slash story “The Immovable Object,” appeared in the zine The Other Side of Paradise, no. 2.
ref: 2012, Catherine Coker, “The Angry! Textual! Poacher! Is Angry!: Fan Works As Political Statements”, in Katherine Larsen, editor, Fan Culture: Theory/Practice, page 95:
text: Some pre-slash fan fiction does not develop into slash at all; other stories make it clear that slash may be a possible development in the future but they do not elaborate on it; yet other stories, or better series of stories, include pre-slash chapters or pre-slash stories (which function as one-shot stories and work on their own), but the following stories in the series are already slash.
ref: 2014, Lucie Cupalová, "Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 38
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A subgenre of slash fiction in which a homosexual relationship between two characters has not yet developed or is only implied.
pachyvessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachyvessels
Senses: glosses: A pachychoroid blood vessel
pachyvessels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachyvessel
paleodermatoglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + dermatoglyphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleodermatoglyphics
paleodermatoglyphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + dermatoglyphics.
Senses: glosses: Ancient dermatoglyphics
Related terms: paleodermatoglyphic
Swinnerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A heterographic variant of Swynnerton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Edwinstowe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6266).
impersonhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lack of personhood.
glosses: Attribute other than personhood; Usually the ousia (substance, essence).
Madrean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Spanish madre + -an.
Named for the Sierra Madre Occidental
Senses: examples: text: He defined the Madrean archipelago as those island mountains with a pine-oak woodland.
ref: 1995, Peter Warshall, “The Madrean Sky Island Archipelago: A Planetary Overview”, in Rocky Mountain Forest, Range Experiment Station, General Technical Report RM, page 6:
topics: biogeography
biology
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the Sierra Madre Occidental
Bickershaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD6202).
pull-to-publish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pulled-to-publish.
Trumpians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trumpian
supercategorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supercategorizes
form: supercategorizing
form: supercategorized
form: supercategorized
Senses: glosses: To place in a supercategory.
supercategorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + categorization.
Senses: glosses: The placing of something in a supercategory.
supercategorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supercategorize
supercategorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supercategorize
supercategorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of supercategorize
allgood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: God is absolute power, in that He totally annihilates inability, nor can power and will in Him be restrained, since He is almighty, and allgood.
ref: 1862, Rev. John Williams, Barddas; or, a Collection of Original Documents illustrative of Theology, Wisdom, and Usages of the Bardo-Druidic System, page 207:
text: No, he replied, it is not satisfactory, and though he will bear it if it is of necessity, he cannot regard it as the creation of a God "allgood, allwise, allpotent."
ref: 1889, The Browning Society's Papers - Part 11, page 318:
text: Almighty God! That shinest with the sun, That slumb'rest not when day grows into night! Thou Source of all, of tranquil peace and joy! Thou king of glory and majestic light ! Thou allgood Father!
ref: 1903, The Jewish Quarterly Review - Volume 15, page 69:
glosses: Alternative form of all-good.
allgood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Good King Henry.
synonyms: word: Good King Henry
all-good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The point of this chapter is that there may be something within certain individuals that predisposes them to be attracted to and to accept a religion built around a patriarchal theology and characterized by an apocalyptic view of the world and the splitting of humanity into all-good and all-bad camps, leading to prejudice and crusades against outsiders.
ref: 2008, James Jones, Blood That Cries Out From the Earth:
text: If all we knew was that God is all-good, but we did not know that rape is bad, then we would not know whether or not God could command rape.
ref: 2009, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Morality Without God?:
text: If God is all-good and all-powerful, why does evil exist, and why do disasters happen? If God is all-good, then God cannot desire bad things to happen or evil to exist.
ref: 2009, Steven L McKenzie, How to Read the Bible:
glosses: Purely good; having no evil.
Canutian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Canutian
form: most Canutian
Etymology: From Canute + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Canutish.
synonyms: word: Canutish
Canutism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Canute + -ism, referring to the legend of King Canute and the waves.
Senses: glosses: Futile efforts to stop the unstoppable.
wikipedia: King Canute and the waves
pancake sorting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The mathematical problem of sorting a disordered stack of pancakes in order of size when a spatula can be inserted at any point in the stack and used to flip all pancakes above it.
pancake number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancake numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In pancake sorting, the minimum number of flips required for a given number of pancakes.
pancake numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancake number
allopathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allopathetic
form: most allopathetic
Etymology: From allopathy + -etic.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs B., the mother of a family, had been subject to epilepsy for seven years, and notwithstanding every variety of treatment, allopathetic and homœpathetic, she had an attack at least once a month.
ref: 1843, James Braid, Neurypnology, page 246:
text: The allopathetic doctor, he allowed stimulants; and the homypathetic man, he advised cocoa and weak tea; and the water-doctor would hear of nothing but water, which naturally she is averse to, having scarcely tasted it in all her life.
ref: 1883, Emma Jane Worboise, “Clare’s Welcome”, in The Abbey Mill, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder & Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 386:
text: The use of drugs in the modern practice of medicine is allopathetic in nature. The use of purely natural agents in an allopathic manner is now sometimes referred to as "alternative allopathy."
ref: 1979, Charles Jennings, Mark Tager, Whole Person Health Care and Directory of Northwest Practitioners, page 308:
text: “Summing up the case from an allopathetic standpoint," one medical journal noted at the time, "the man is ignorantly or willfully blind who fails to see that President Garfield's case has been the most grossly mismanaged case in modern history, and his surgeons are guilty of a deliberate attempt to throw the burden of a glaring incompetence upon Providence, rather than leave it where it justly belongs."
ref: 2004, Mark Perry, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America, page 187:
text: With regard to the true natural healing practices of Hippocrates versus the practices of allopathetic medicine, it is truly ironic that Allopathic medicine claims Hippocrates of Cos as the 'father of medicine' when the practices of the allopathic school of medicine go totally counter to many of his most prized paradigms.
ref: 2016, Dr. Louis Gordon, The ‘Mystical’ TCM Triple Energizer:
glosses: Involving or based on allopathy; allopathic.
sunrise problem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the sunrise problem
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The difficulty of using statistical probability to evaluate the plausibility of a statement such as "the sun will rise tomorrow" based only on prior observations.
Wallis product
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Wallis product
Etymology: Published in 1656 by John Wallis.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An infinite product that approximates half of pi