cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
running rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running rails
Senses: examples: text: In order to reduce noise to a minimum, the running rails have been welded into 315 ft. lengths.
ref: 1940 December, “Notes and News: Waterloo & City Tube Modernisation”, in Railway Magazine, page 668:
text: The system voltage is 630 volts d.c. and the supply to the trains is by top-contact third rail with running rail return.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 659:
text: When AC traction was being introduced this was recognised as a threat to track circuits. Harmonics of the switching frequency would appear in the traction return currents in the running rails and, potentially, this would cause wrong-side track circuit failures.
ref: 2019 October, Roger Ford, “Power failure highlights specification confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 27:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: One of the two rails of a railway track with which the wheels of a train make contact.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A fence which marks the inside edge of a racecourse track.
deobstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + obstruction.
Senses: examples: text: […] in case, that they who had thus diverted and obstructed these Water-courses, were not able to repair them again; then to distrain all such to give assistance therein, as by such reducing them to their former Chanels, and deobstruction of those stops, should receive benefit and safeguard.
ref: 1662, William Dugdale, chapter 22, in The History of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fenns and Marshes, London, pages 116–117:
text: 1861, James Yearsley, On Throat Deafness and the Pathological Connexions of the Throat, Nose, and Ear, London: John Churchill, 9th edition, Cases, p. 81,
The proper treatment of such a case was immediately apparent; namely, the deobstruction of the nasal and Eustachian passages.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: unblocking
glosses: The act of deobstructing (clearing a passage, etc. of obstructions).
sixtel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixtels
Etymology: Blend of sixth + barrel
Senses: topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
glosses: A keg that is one sixth of a barrel (5 1⁄6 gallons).
deobstructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deobstructive
form: most deobstructive
Etymology: From de- + obstructive.
Senses: examples: text: In the weaker and finest bodies Manna may be sufficient, […] or my Deobstructive powder, which I have observed hath done singularly well.
ref: 1672, Edmund Borlase, Latham Spaw in Lancashire with Some Remarkable Cases and Cures Effected by It, London: Robert Clavel, page 27:
text: 1860, uncredited translator, The Epigrams of Martial, London: Henry G. Bohn, Epigram 47, p. 153,
There coleworts might you see of noblest shoot;
There might admire each lettuce, leek, and root;
But, above all, the deobstructive beet;
text: […] to regulate the bowel, by diet and mechanical methods (including, if necessary, deobstructive surgery);
ref: 1916 September, William Ewart, “Deseases of the Thorax and its Viscera”, in Progressive Medicine, volume 3, page 94:
glosses: Having the effect of deobstructing (clearing a passage, etc. of obstructions).
deobstructive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deobstructives
Etymology: From de- + obstructive.
Senses: examples: text: […] by setting up currents through the kidneys […] it [turpentine] has acted as a renal deobstructive.
ref: 1885, Samuel M. Bemiss, “Malarial Fevers”, in William Pepper, editor, A System of Practical Medicine, Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, Volume 1, Chapter , p. 613:
glosses: Something that has the effect of deobstructing.
Honchar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Honchars
form: Gonchar
Etymology: From Ukrainian гончар (hončar).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Гончар (Hončar), equivalent to Potter.
Gonchar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gonchars
form: Honchar
Etymology: From Russian гончар (gončar) or Ukrainian гончар (hončar, “potter”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Гончар (Hončar).
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Гончар (Gončar).
Hanchar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hanchars
form: Ganchar
Etymology: From Belarusian ганчар (hančar).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Ганчар (Hančar).
galactologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of galactogogue.
galactogogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactogogues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of galactagogue.
gastrosoluble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + soluble.
Senses: examples: text: Gastrosoluble films are copolymers of methacrylic esters with dimethylaminoethylmethacrylate.
ref: 1978, Robert J. Kostelnik, Polymeric Delivery Systems, page 112:
glosses: Soluble within the stomach contents (typically of a pharmaceutical coating).
Coordinate terms: enterosoluble
gazometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gasometric.
genocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gonocyte.
geoblock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geoblocks
form: geoblocking
form: geoblocked
form: geoblocked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geo-block.
geoblocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geoblock
geoblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geoblock
glottocode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glottocodes
Etymology: From glotto- + code.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The native language code of the Glottolog database.
heliobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + biology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The (study of the) effect of solar activity on life (both animal and plant)
heliogeophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helio- + geophysical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the effects of solar activity on geophysics
hemiclonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hemi- + clonally.
Senses: glosses: In a hemiclonal manner
hemihysterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemihysterectomies
Etymology: From hemi- + hysterectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of one of a didelphic uterus
hemimetamorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + metamorphosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Incomplete or partial metamorphosis
Related terms: holometamorphosis
heneicosadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heneicosadienes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has 21 carbon atoms and two double bonds, but especially 3,6-heneicosadiene
heptadecanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptadecanols
Etymology: From heptadeca- + -n- + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic alcohol that has 17 carbon atoms, but especially n-heptadecanol
heptadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptadienes
Etymology: From hepta- + diene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has seven carbon atoms and two double bonds
holometamorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From holo- + metamorphosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Complete metamorphosis
Related terms: hemimetamorphosis
holometamorphic
hoplocercine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoplocercines
Senses: glosses: Any lizard of the genus Hoplocercus (sometimes of the family Hoplocercidae)
hoplocercines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoplocercine
hyperferritenemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hyperferritinemia.
hypocrealean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocrealeans
Senses: glosses: Any fungus of the order Hypocreales
hypoplastral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + plastral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a hypoplastron
hyporetinolemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + retinolemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A less than normal amount of retinol in the blood, typically as a result of vitamin A deficiency
persistent organic pollutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persistent organic pollutants
Senses: examples: text: One commonly used POP (persistent organic pollutant), organochlorine, may be responsible for contaminating the world's seafood supply, since pesticides can run off the land into streams, lakes, and reservoirs.
ref: 2009, Edward Group, Complete Colon Cleanse: The At-Home Detox Program to Restore Good Health, Boost Vitality, and Ensure Longevity, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 91:
synonyms: POP
coordinate_terms: PBT
TOMP
glosses: An organic compound, predominantly synthetic, that is resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes, and that is often associated with health risks.
Related terms: bioaccumulation
imipridone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imipridones
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of heterocyclic amides that are anticancer agents
immunoagglutination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + agglutination.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: agglutination as part of an immunological assay
running rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running rail
immunodebilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + debilitated.
Senses: glosses: Having a debilitated immune system
immunoeducation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + education.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: "education" of an immune system to recognise harmless allergens and avoid an immune reaction
immunomediate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunomediates
form: immunomediating
form: immunomediated
form: immunomediated
Etymology: From immuno- + mediate.
Senses: glosses: To mediate within an immune system
Related terms: immunomediator
immunomediated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immunomediate
immunoosseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + osseous.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to bone and the immune system
immunosequencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + sequencing.
Senses: glosses: The identification of B-cells and T-cells in a biological sample
intermyocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + myocellular.
Senses: glosses: Between muscle cells
perfluorooctanesulfonamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perfluorooctane + sulfonamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: PFOSA
glosses: A synthetic organofluorine compound and persistent organic pollutant.
signal bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signal bridges
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A structure built over railroad tracks on which signals are mounted.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An open platform by the navigating bridge of a warship for the use of signalmen.
Synonyms: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: signal gantry
space disco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: spacesynth music
Ganchar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ganchars
form: Hanchar
Etymology: Alternative transliteration of Belarusian ганчар (hančar).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Ганчар (Hančar).
Maroz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian мароз (maróz, “frost”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Мароз (Maróz).
signal bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signal bridge
interregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to interregulation
intradomestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + domestic.
Senses: glosses: Within a household.
intraregionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intra- + regionally.
Senses: glosses: In an intraregional manner
intrasubtypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + subtypic.
Senses: glosses: Within a subtype
intraurethrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intra- + urethrally.
Senses: glosses: In an intraurethral manner
isoabsorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + absorptive.
Senses: glosses: Equally absorptive
Related terms: isoabsorption
Moresnet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmɔɹəsˈnɛt/
Senses: synonyms: Neutral Moresnet
glosses: A small European state, in present-day Belgium, that existed from 1816 to 1930.
kentrogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kentrogons
Senses: examples: text: The smaller, firmly attached and lowprofiled kentrogons can only be removed using the chelipeds at the tip of the grooming limbs.
ref: 2005, Klaus Rohde, Marine Parasitology:
glosses: A parasitic larval form of a Sacculina barnacle.
Related terms: kentrogonid
kentrogonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kentrogonids
Senses: glosses: Any parasitic barnacle of the order Kentrogonida
kentrogonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kentrogonid
silvery-white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: silvery-whiter
form: silvery-whitest
Etymology: From silver + -y and white.
Senses: examples: text: Then they saw a silvery-white orb hanging in the air in front of Lupin, who said, “Riddikulus!” almost lazily.
ref: 1999, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:
glosses: Resembling silver in color, with a whiter hue than silver.
Related terms: silvery
white
burglariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From burglarious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I say that I should not have been so sorry if the breeze had set the other way; if honest Will Wareham had tapped your belly, Tom, instead of being forced to put up with your burglariousness upon his'n.
ref: 1837, The Gambler's Dream. [A Novel.], page 184:
text: The success of these corrupt influences, as also their inexpressible meanness, depends upon their plausible and innumerable disguises under palatable names. They are not the open burglariousness of the footpad, but something far lower.
ref: 1872, The Connecticut School Journal, page 85:
text: —but in the hope that time and better treatment will reclaim the present burglariousness and larcenous tendencies which have followed from this General Gaol delivery.
ref: 2015, Richard Lansdown, Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page xxi:
glosses: the state or quality of being burglarious.
radarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radar + -like.
Senses: examples: text: a.m., McClure once again picked up the radarlike signal on his ALA-6, which showed that the signal-source was at a bearing of approximately 160 degrees— behind the RB-47 and in the general direction of Dallas.
ref: 1975, Philip J. Klass, UFOs explained, Random House Inc, page 194:
text: The radarlike antennae of male mosquitoes, for example, are sensitive to the buzzing sound made by female mosquitoes (as are many a sleepless human in the summertime), while the radarlike antennae of male luna moths are sensitive to the pheromones (or sexual scents) released by female luna moths.
ref: 1993, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page xiii:
text: Mitchell (1975) reported on a series of tests to determine the thresholds for interference of cardiac pacemakers from radarlike pulses. The study indicated that field intensities of radarlike pulses above some threshold can disrupt normal pacemaker function.
ref: 2013, James C. Lin, Sol M. Michaelson, Biological Effects and Health Implications of Radiofrequency Radiation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 479:
glosses: Resembling radar.
verbalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From verbalistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: We all accept that ideal verbalistically, but what proportion of the school children of this country have even the simple minimum service of an annual health and dental examination?
ref: 1940, American Association of University Women, AAUW Journal, page 214:
text: Had Boyarin left matters at this level, one might think that, for all the concern with culture as providing tools for our understanding, the commitment to intertextuality in literary studies would engender a hermetic, verbalistically regimented manner of reading.
ref: 2012, Eugene B. Borowitz, Talmud's Theological Language-Game, The: A Philosophical Discourse Analysis, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Disrespect for the vapidly complicated, verbalistically derived truths has always been present in intellectual history, but you are not likely to see it in your local scientific reporter or college teacher:
ref: 2018, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Random House, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: in a verbalistic manner.
VCB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VCBs
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A vacuum circuit breaker.
VCBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VCB
over-optimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more over-optimistic
form: most over-optimistic
Etymology: From over- + optimistic.
Senses: examples: text: As we know, what sank National Express East Coast and Virgin Trains East Coast were over-optimistic forecasts of revenue growth.
ref: 2019 October, Roger Ford, “WCP award - victory for DfT reactionaries”, in Modern Railways, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of overoptimistic.
Montpellier maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montpellier maples
form: Montpelier maple
Senses: glosses: A low tree or shrub (Acer monspessulanum) native to France, Spain, and Italy
Montpelier maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montpelier maples
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Montpellier maple (Acer monspessulanum)
Radhanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Radhanites
form: Radanite
Etymology: From Radhan (“region in southern central Mesopotamia (now Iraq)”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Here he fell in with the servant of a Radhanite, one of the Jewish merchants who travelled, carrying others' goods and letters and money and a certain amount of political intrigue when it suited them.
ref: 1981, Claire Rayner, The running years, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Inside the Radhanite's tent, Niccolò sat with the Captain Commander and the Viscount.
ref: 2012, Joaquin Rafael Roces, The Se7en Passions of Gabrielle Émilie, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 46:
text: At the end of the summer, Simon the Radhanite paid another surprise visit to Fernshanz.
ref: 2013, George Steger, Sebastian’s Way: The Pathfinder, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 249:
glosses: One of a group of early medieval Jewish merchants forming a vast trade network across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and eastwards to China.
Radhanite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Radanite
Etymology: From Radhan (“region in southern central Mesopotamia (now Iraq)”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: In consequence, the Jewish merchant of the late eleventh or twelfth century possessed more restricted horizons than his Radhanite predecessor
ref: 1966, Michael Moïssey Postan, H. J. Habakkuk, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe: Trade and industry in the Middle Ages, page 418:
text: Even after the near monopoly of Radhanite trade had come to an end, Jewish merchants continued to indulge and prosper in local and international commerce.
ref: 2009, Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones, Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 252:
text: The slave traders of various Radhanite origins of the High Middle Ages were Jewish merchants who were covering long itineraries in North Africa, Central Asia, China, Europe, India, and the Middle East.
ref: 2018, R. M. Dipanda, Black Race, Who Are You?: Great Black Race Chronoholocaust Cataclysm, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to the Radhanites.
daddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ædɪʃ
Forms: form: more daddish
form: most daddish
Etymology: From dad + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: 'Then get it now please,' said Dad, and then he sat down in the armchair and opened his newspaper in front of his face in a daddish sort of way. looked under the table.
ref: 2012, Kjartan Poskitt, Agatha Parrot and the Mushroom Boy:
text: Butthere was one thing I'd always wanted to do, and that was to take a lad to the football. Silly really, but there it is. It seems such a daddish thing to do.
ref: 2012, Ian Marchant, Something of the Night:
text: He's carving a roast chicken, and he looks daddish in a wholesome coffee-commercial way but still vital.
ref: 2015, Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You:
glosses: Like a dad; paternal.
Derived terms: daddishly
daddishness
daddishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From daddish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Tempted as I was to believe that interindividual and cultural differences in "caddishness" and "daddishness" simply reflect a genetic difference as straightforward as that seen in voles, the chapters on behavioral genetics disabused me of that notion
ref: 2004 February, BM Cooke, “More Is Not Necessarily Better: Making Babies in the Modern World”, in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 41, number 1, page 114:
text: It was good to see his thick grey hair, his warm blue eyes (so like her own), his quietly amused expression and his general, all-round daddishness.
ref: 2004, Bernadette Strachan, The Reluctant Landlady:
text: But I think that was the very reason he recoiled: your insistence, your crowding, your wanting, your cajoling, chummy Daddishness.
ref: 2010, Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin, page 280:
glosses: The quality of being daddish.
daddishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more daddishly
form: most daddishly
Etymology: From daddish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'I don't believe I've met this young man,' he said, daddishly.
ref: 2007, Mardi McConnochie, Melissa, Queen of Evil, page 157:
text: You can usually tell an undercover cop by their woefully inadequate attempts to do party behaviour', i.e. standing in the corner with a Corona bopping daddishly to the Wu-Tang Clan, and randomly sticking both hands in the air and shouting, 'Woo, yeah, great pardeee!'
ref: 2012, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Fresh Meat: The Essential Guide for New Undergraduatesthe Future Unemployed:
text: You scanned the party daddishly, as if everyone in the room bore some responsibility.
ref: 2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN:
glosses: In a daddish manner.
recup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recups
form: recupping
form: recupped
form: recupped
Etymology: From re- + cup.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing that le garçon had by this time recupped the party three times at my expense I was now twenty-four shilling out[.]
ref: 1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, page 15:
glosses: To cup again; to supply with cups an additional time.
momish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more momish
form: most momish
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Bellop presents a rather different case, however. This character does not conform to the common pattern of representations of momish women discussed so far: she is not intimidating or overtly domineering.
ref: 2009, Heather Addison, Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly, Elaine Roth, Motherhood Misconceived: Representing the Maternal in U.S. Films:
text: “You're not what I expected,” he said. “I pictured someone, I don't know, more momish.”
ref: 2012, Sheri Whitefeather, Warrior's Baby:
text: "What about these?" suggested my mom, holding up a pair of scalloped white shorts that were almost cute, but still a little too momish for me.
ref: 2014, Coco Simon, Alexis the Icing on the Cupcake:
glosses: Alternative form of mommish.
momishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From momish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhat mischievously I might suggest that their ire will be in direct ratio to the amount of momishness that is in them.
ref: 1946, Edward Adam Strecker, Their Mothers' Sons:
text: She laid one cool hand on my forehead, and the sheer momishness made me have to swallow a few times before I could even speak.
ref: 2010, Lynda Sandoval, Father Knows Best:
text: As she hummed, the hour of lead-time they had on Dirk slipped by with her momishness.
ref: 2015, Robin Parrish, K.C. Neal, Aaron Patterson, The 'Naturals: Season One -- Episodes 13-16:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mommishness.
recupped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recup
recupping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recup
recups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recup
lachnid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lachnids
Senses: glosses: Any aphid of the former family Lachnidae.
lachnids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lachnid
lactofuchsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lactofuchsin.
lanthibiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lantibiotic.
leishmaniotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leishmaniosis + -otic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to leishmaniosis
leptochoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptochoroids
Etymology: From lepto- + choroid.
Senses: glosses: An unusually thin choroid
leptocurtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of leptokurtic.
leukotoxigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leuko- + toxigenic.
Senses: glosses: toxicogenic to leukocytes
lipidogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The biogenesis of lipids
lipoglycoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipoglycoprotein
lyopreservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lyo- + preservation.
Senses: glosses: preservation by means of lyophilization
Related terms: lyopreserve
lyoprocessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lyo- + processing.
Senses: glosses: processing by means of lyophilization
circuit party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circuit parties
Senses: glosses: A large dance event closely associated with LGBT culture, often extending through the night into the following day, usually with a number of affiliated events in the days leading up to and following the main event.
Related terms: circuit queen
circuit parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circuit party
blanc mange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanc manges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blancmange.
lysogalactolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysogalactolipids
Etymology: From lyso- + galactolipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The lysolipid form of a galactolipid
lysogalactolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lysogalactolipid
blindhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *blyndehode, blyndehede. By surface analysis, blind + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: […] to reach the blind in their isolation and inform them of the possibilities of their blindhood in order that they may avail themselves of the advantages already provided and of the enlightening experience of other blind persons.
ref: 1911, Paul Monroe, A Cyclopedia of Education, volume 1, page 401:
text: In the initial phase of my blindhood, comments like these would anger me.
ref: 2011, Belo Miguel Cipriani, Blind: A Memoir, page 167:
glosses: The condition or state of being blind.
blindhood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blindhoods
form: blindhooding
form: blindhooded
form: blindhooded
Etymology: From blind + hood.
Senses: examples: text: “Get him up here,” Avall commanded. “Put all the Ninth Facers under double guard—and blindhood them—then lead the way.”
ref: 2009, Tom Deitz, Warautumn, page ?:
glosses: To render someone blind by covering their head with a hood.
Related terms: blindfold
blindhooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blindhood
TOMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TOMPs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Initialism of toxic organic micropollutant.
Michelsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Michelsens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Michelsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Eroom's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Moore's law spelled backwards, coined in a 2012 paper.
Senses: examples: text: Eroom's Law, in turn, observes that in the pharmaceutical sector the decline in innovation is itself constant: the yield of FDA-approved drugs per billion dollars spent has halved every nine years between 1950 and 2010.
ref: 2014, Jeremy A. Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 271:
text: With a touch of wry humour, the authors dubbed this phenomenon Eroom's law, the reverse spelling of Moore's Law – the famous law of computing that expresses the doubling of processing power per dollar every two years […]
ref: 2018, Mark Stevenson, We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World, Abrams, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, despite improvements in technology.
kebbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keb
kebbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keb
get in there
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: get in there !
Senses: glosses: Exclamation of encouragement or approval.
daloxate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cefcanel daloxate is a new prodrug cephalosporin […]
ref: 1991, Excerpta medica. Section 4, Microbiology, volume 68, page 21:
text: However, the results of a recent collaboration with Bayer AG (Wuppertal, Germany) to investigate the absorption of faropenem daloxate (FD) have recently been published.
ref: 2004, Rajesh Krishna, Applications of Pharmacokinetic Principles in Drug Development, page 190:
glosses: Synonym of medoxomil.
synonyms: word: medoxomil
mommish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mommish
form: most mommish
form: momish
form: mom-ish
Etymology: From mom + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The littlest things get her all mommish.
ref: 2005, Susan Volland, Cooking for Mr. Right, page 97:
text: Taking her clubbing... well, that wouldn't be very mommish.
ref: 2006, Holly Jacobs, Confessions of a Party Crasher, page 258:
text: She had also opened up her own dresser drawers and closet to find some “basics” for Tink— things in neutral colors like black and white that didn't look mommish,
ref: 2016, Karen Romano Young, Hundred Percent:
glosses: Characteristic of a mom; mommyish.
Derived terms: mommishly
mommishness
louping ill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: louping-ill
form: louping
Etymology: From Scots loup (“to leap”), since affected sheep would spring into the air.
Senses: glosses: An enzootic and often fatal viral disease of sheep and other domestic animals, spread by ticks. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
louping-ill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of louping ill.
mommishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momishness
Etymology: From mommish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I remember that when I was first stepping into mommishness, and I had my one wee baby, my friend Carol would tell me that the biggest change in her life since becoming a mom was her lack of a thought life.
ref: 2013, Rachel Devenish Ford, Trees Tall as Mountains:
glosses: The quality of being momish.
mommishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mommishly
form: most mommishly
Etymology: From mommish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mostly. “Just don't go sneaking into my desk anymore,” she added mommishly before walking away.
ref: 2011, Karla Oceanak, Dumbstruck, page 134:
text: Harris lightly steals the show at the end, when her all-forgiving mompride has her dancing exceptionally mommishly to Rodrick’s heavy-metal band.
ref: 2011 March 25, Kyle Smith, “Sweet, sick tween”, in New York Post:
text: As a side note, I know this is the most mommishly mommy thing ever, but I HATE glass-topped tables.
ref: 2013, Rachel Devenish Ford, A Home as Wide as the Earth:
glosses: In a mommish manner.
Icelandicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪsˈlændɪˌsaɪz/
Forms: form: Icelandicizes
form: Icelandicizing
form: Icelandicized
form: Icelandicized
form: Icelandicise
Etymology: From Icelandic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In a few instances, both a foreign and an Icelandicised form may be encountered[.]
ref: 2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32:
text: The latter consists of the foreign word in Icelandicised form (spelling and pronunciation) which is given the weak past participle ending -aður so that it can be inflected.
ref: 2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 290f.:
glosses: To make (more) Icelandic.
Derived terms: Icelandicization
Grazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grazers
Etymology: From Graz + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Graz.
base sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base sequences
Senses: examples: text: Specifically, the sequence of amino acids in a particular protein molecule is determined by the base sequence of the segment of DNA that encodes that protein.
ref: 1992, N. V. Bhagavan, Medical Biochemistry, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 571:
text: This complementarity means that if you know the base sequence of one strand of DNA, you can deduce the base sequence of the other.
ref: 2008, Marketa J. Zvelebil, Jeremy O. Baum, Understanding Bioinformatics, Garland Science, →ISBN, page 7:
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: The sequence of nucleotide bases in a DNA molecule.
Crispr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crisprs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of CRISPR.
kly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klys
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of kilolightyear.
massacreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of massacree
massacreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of massacree
be on the lookout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: be on the lookouts
form: be-on-the-lookout
form: Be On the Lookout
form: Be on the Lookout
form: Be On The Lookout
form: Be On the Look Out
Senses: examples: text: Hoadley issued a "be on the lookout" ("BOLO"), describing the person as a tall, thin, black male, wearing light colored clothing and traveling on foot.
ref: 1988, Arrest Law Bulletin, page 106:
text: Examples of the types of information disseminated at roll call include known warrants, “be on the lookouts” or BOLOs, runaways, and administrative requests and communications.
ref: 2014, Kären M. Hess, Christine Hess Orthmann, Henry Lim Cho, Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, page 131:
text: The wanted announcement and the be on the lookout for Salerno Bondi, (BOLO) was aired on radio and television, and all points bulletins were put out for police on patrol to be on the lookout for Salerno.
ref: 2015, Noel T. Skippings, Birds of Terror:
text: I put out a “be on the lookout” for a lady in a blue dress.
ref: 2017, Dr. Jeffrey C. Fox, The Ultimate Guide to Being a Great Police Officer:
glosses: BOLO.
be on the lookout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is on the lookout
form: being on the lookout
form: was on the lookout
form: been on the lookout
form: be-on-the-lookout
form: Be On the Lookout
form: Be on the Lookout
form: Be On The Lookout
form: Be On the Look Out
Senses: examples: text: The wanted announcement and the be on the lookout for Salerno Bondi, (BOLO) was aired on radio and television, and all points bulletins were put out for police on patrol to be on the lookout for Salerno.
ref: 2015, Noel T. Skippings, Birds of Terror:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, on the lookout.
teenageness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tēn′āj-nĭs
ipa: /ˈtiːn.eɪ̯d͡ʒ.nɪs/
ipa: /ˈtin.eɪ̯d͡ʒ.nɪs/
ipa: /ˈtiːn.æɪ̯d͡ʒ.nɪs/
ipa: /ˈtiːn.æɪ̯d͡ʒ.nəs/
ipa: /ˈtin.ed͡ʒ.nɪs/
ipa: /ˈʈiːn.eːd͡ʒ.nɪs/
Etymology: From teenage + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Your teen experience is so central to what Zen Buddhists call “this great matter of birth and death,” that to be fully awake to your teenageness is to be a genuinely spiritual person.
ref: 2002, Franz Metcalf, Buddha in Your Backpack: Everyday Buddhism for Teens, page xii:
text: I almost feel sorry for them but then I realize that their response to her teenageness is helping shape her for the future.
ref: 2015, James Colson, Kassie Saga: Teenage Diplomat, →ISBN:
text: Mr. Avalon must have been near fifty now, but still some kind of feckless teenageness clung to him, in his lank, shining hair, his unbuttoned black shirts, the school-boyish way he'd kick back at his teaching desk, sneakers crossed on the tabletop.
ref: 2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 321:
text: I wish I hadn't resisted the magnetic pull of teenageness into that roiling heart of communal feeling.
ref: 2019, Sam George-Allen, Witches, page 14:
glosses: The quality of being or being like a teenager.
nonconfronter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconfronters
Etymology: From non- + confront + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Confrontation fails to take place because "I don't want to hurt Joe," although in fact the nonconfronter may be concerned about being hurt himself.
ref: 1983, Wendell L. French, Cecil Bell, Robert A. Zawacki, Organization Development: Theory, Practice, and Research, page 54:
text: He didn't have Paul's age or wisdom or in-your-face personality; Timothy was a nonconfronter in a situation that cried out for confrontation.
ref: 2011, Steve Farrar, Standing Tall: How a Man Can Protect His Family, page 168:
text: As a nonconfronter and interior learner, I had to change my strategy and ask myself: How, as a teacher, am I supposed to perform the art of giving constructive criticism?
ref: 2012, Linda M. Montano, Letters from Linda M. Montano, page 265:
glosses: One who avoids confrontation.
nonconfronters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconfronter
all as one
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: as a group; together
all as one
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Lying belly down, staying in one place, begin to experience gentle side-to-side rolling, with your head, torso and lower body moving all as one.
ref: 2004, Roger S. Gottlieb, This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, →ISBN, page 555:
text: They act on command with precision and power, flawlessly executing, aware of the thud of their boots on the ground as they march and the crack of their rifles against their palms as they execute the manual of arms: It is the sublime thunder of eighty sets of boots and eighty rifles moving all as one.
ref: 2010, Edgar D. Johnson III, What About Us?: Standards-Based Education and the Dilemma of Student Subjectivity, →ISBN, page 79:
text: The bridge to allow access to such a gift is the lens of unity consciousness or seeing “all as one.”
ref: 2011, Hope Ives Mauran, Be the Second Coming, →ISBN:
glosses: In a synchronized manner.
horse collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse collars
Senses: coordinate_terms: hame
glosses: A part of a horse's harness that is used to distribute the load around its neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough.
examples: text: Starting all that again,
should her horse collar sprout the fresh
flowers of her grovelling desire. When
she said, “I want a baby Henry,” it
sounded like some grim confession. “I've
got cancer.” “I had it with your best
friend” “I want a baby, Henry.”[…]
ref: 1975, Jeff Nuttall, You are Cordially Invited to the House Party:
text: She lay on the bed and pulled her miniskirt down to reveal her horse collar. 'Well, pull it off,' said Audball. 'I'll have to take my boots off,' she warned. Never had Audball smelled anything so putrid, rank, foul and rotten as when she pulled off her boots. But his equipment was in a lift-off mode and if he aborted, he would suffer with the blue balls, so he put on two rubbers and held his nose.
ref: 2002 June 7, James A. Abrahamson, Confessions of a Diplomatic Pouch Clerk, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 326:
glosses: The vagina.
horse collar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: horse collars
form: horse collaring
form: horse collared
form: horse collared
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of horsecollar.
horse collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse collar
horse-collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse-collars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of horsecollar.
horse-collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse-collar
fellwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellworts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of felwort.
lusted after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lust after
blue button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue buttons
form: blue-button
Senses: glosses: A colony of hydrozoan polyps of the species Porpita porpita
examples: text: Unauthorized clerks or Blue Buttons can make enquiries in the House and ask for prices but may not enter into any contract, while Red Buttons are clerks entitled to work in the Settling or checking Room.
ref: 1954, Margaret Shelly Rix, Stock Market Economics, page 17:
text: Then a blue button dashed to the box to pick up the call.
ref: 1987, The Director, volume 41, number 3, page 118:
text: When the market closed at 3.30 pm, the entire jobbing community exited the Stock Exchange, walking in procession back to their offices, followed by a file of blue buttons struggling to carry cumbersome dealing books.
ref: 1998, John Littlewood, The Stock Market: 50 Years of Capitalism at Work, page 333:
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: red button
glosses: An unauthorized clerk in the stock exchange.
macroarea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroareas
Etymology: From macro- + area.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of macroregion.
synonyms: word: macroregion
macrocarcinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrocarcinomas
form: macrocarcinomata
Etymology: From macro- + carcinoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A single, relatively large carcinoma
Related terms: microcarcinoma
macroeconometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + econometric.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Relating to measurement of the macroeconomy
macrogyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrogynes
Etymology: From macro- + gyne.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large queen (in a hive of insects) or the larger of two such insects
macrogynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrogyne
macroinvertivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + invertivorous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to macroinvertivory or to a macroinvertivore
macroinvertivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + invertivory.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a macroinvertivore
Related terms: macroinvertivorous
macroligand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroligands
Etymology: From macro- + ligand.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A macrocyclic ligand
macroligands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroligand
macroniche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroniches
Etymology: From macro- + niche.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively large niche
macroniches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroniche
Ayam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 'Ayam
Etymology: Borrowed from Gulf Arabic عَيَم (ʕayam, “Kuwaiti citizens of Iranian descent”), plural of عيمي (ʕīmi), from Classical Arabic عَجَم (ʕajam, “non-Arabs, especially Persians”). Doublet of Ajam and aljamiado.
Senses: examples: text: Ayam are people who migrated to Kuwait from Iran a long time ago and took some of their traditions from Persians and Iranians in addition to Islam. The majority of Ayam are Shiite Muslims. At first their language was Farsi when they migrated ...
ref: 2012, Najebah Marafi, The Intertwined Conflict: The Difference Between Culture and Religion, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Ethnic music is a category that comprises Kuwaitis of non-Arab origin, such as Iranians known as ‘ayam, and African people known as khawāl (black) or ‘abīd (slaves). Iranian Kuwaitis’ music features the bagpipe (habbān) and is generally performed during weddings. African Kuwaitis have two types of music, ṭanbūraand leiwa. Traditionally, these were both used to conjure spirits or to appease them.
ref: 2016, ALSALHI, AHMAD ALI. "ṢAUT IN BAHRAIN AND KUWAIT: History and Creativity in Concept and Practice." (p. 27)
synonyms: Iranian-Kuwaitis
Ajam
glosses: Kuwaiti citizens of Iranian origin.
foreign agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign agents
Senses: glosses: Someone who actively carries out the interests of a foreign country while located in another host country.
tonic immobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: TI
thanatosis
playing dead
glosses: A behaviour in which an animal appears to be temporarily paralysed and unresponsive to external stimuli, for example in response to the threat of a predator.
buffer rodeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffer rodeos
Senses: glosses: A game in which a person sits or stands on a machine for buffing floors and tries to stay on top of it for as long as possible while it is activated.
buffer rodeos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffer rodeo
birdcliff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdcliffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bird cliff.
birdcliffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdcliff