cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
La Trobe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lə ˈtɹəʊb/
ipa: /lə ˈtɹoʊb/
Forms: form: Latrobe
Etymology: French surname from the Midi-Pyrénées region. Derived from Occitan la troba ('one finds it'). May have indicated a profession such as a troubadour (Occitan trobador).
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A place named for persons with the surname.
glosses: A university in Melbourne, Victoria named after Charles La Trobe, the first lieutenant-governor of Victoria, Australia.
glosses: An electoral division in Victoria, Australia.
epiphallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiphalli
Etymology: From epi- + phallus.
Senses: examples: text: Hadrotettix and Heliastus lack pale streaks but possess trilobed epiphalli, which led me to look for other characteristics shared with the Hippiscus group.
ref: 1981, Daniel Otte, The North American Grasshoppers: Acrididae: Oedipodinae, page 92:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: In some orthopterans, a plate adjacent to the genital complex.
examples: text: Male genitalia strongly asymmetrical, partially concealed by sternum 9, comprised by basisclerite, paired epiphalli (left with titillator), and hypophallus; hook process (=L3 sclerite after MCKITTRICK 1964) missing (KLASS 1997).
ref: 2006, A.P. Rasnitsyn, History of Insects, page 274:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: In some dictyopterans, a pair of valves adjacent to the phallus.
examples: text: In mature Arion the atrium is divided into upper and lower atria, with the oviduct, spermatheca duct and epiphallus opening into the upper atrium.
ref: 2012, A. South, Terrestrial Slugs: Biology, ecology and control, page 110:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: In some gastropods, an enlargement of the vas deferens that continues beyond the apex of the penis.
epiphalli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiphallus
fucky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fuckier
form: more fucky
form: fuckiest
form: most fucky
Etymology: From fuck + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Never again in her career will she look so sexually perfect as in 1953 making Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, no, never—if we are to examine a verb through its adverb—will she appear so fucky again.
ref: 1973, Norman Mailer, Marilyn, Taschen, published 2022, page 128:
glosses: Sexually attractive.
examples: text: Firewater: Before us, [all food items in the market] knew the awful truth [that humans consume food]. […] So we, the non-perishables, created [a story and a song about how humans care for food instead of eating it]. They would go out those doors happy, instead of shitting themselves. […] In time, everyone accepted this false truth. But over the years, things started to get a little fucky. The aisles started changing my verses to support their own views.
ref: 2016, Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan, Sausage Party (movie)
glosses: messed up, awful, horrible
Related terms: fucky-fucky
outparcel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outparcels
Senses: examples: text: We met the developers to discuss the prospect of opening a fast-food joint on the mall's southeastern outparcel.
text: A building on an outparcel may impair visibility of the tenant's premises.
ref: 2011, Mark A. Senn, Commercial Real Estate Leases: Preparation, Negotiation, and Forms, 5th edition, New York City: Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4‑14:
glosses: A plot of land in a commercial shopping center development reserved for the later construction of smaller buildings, often restaurants.
Synonyms: outlot
Konami Code
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Konami Code
form: Konami code
Etymology: The code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto. It was first used in the 1986 NES port of the arcade game Gradius, published by Konami.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The cheat code "↑↑↓↓←→←→BA", usable in multiple video games.
wikipedia: Gradius
Joconde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Joconde
Etymology: Borrowed from French La/la Joconde, itself a calque of Italian la Gioconda using Middle French joconde, feminine of jocond, from Latin iūcundus. Doublet of Gioconda.
Senses: examples: text: […] and it ought to be placed by the side of the Joconde of Leonardo da Vinci.
ref: 1807, The Philosophical Magazine, volume 27, page 252:
text: […] but this is the Joconde of Vinci, the most finished portrait in the world.
ref: 1838, John Sanderson, The American in Paris, volume 2, London, page 87:
text: […] the Joconde of Leonardo da Vinci; […]
ref: 1865, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, page 604:
glosses: The Mona Lisa.
Related terms: Giocondan
joconde
Joconde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jocondes
Etymology: Borrowed from French La/la Joconde, itself a calque of Italian la Gioconda using Middle French joconde, feminine of jocond, from Latin iūcundus. Doublet of Gioconda.
Senses: examples: text: […] in Paris he was the Joconde of the salon-piano, under Charles the Tenth.
ref: 1899, Wilhelm von Lenz, The Great Piano Virtuosos of Our Time:
glosses: A Mona Lisa.
Konami code
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Konami Code.
wikipedia: Konami
mapo doufu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mapo
form: mapo tofu
Etymology: From Mandarin 麻婆豆腐 (mápó dòufu).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese dish from Sichuan province consisting of tofu set in a spicy chili- and bean-based sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, and often cooked with douchi (fermented black beans) and minced meat, usually pork or beef.
mapo tofu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mapo doufu.
mapo dofu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mapo doufu.
Nepman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛpmən/
Forms: form: Nepmen
form: NEP man
form: NEPmen
form: nepman
Etymology: From NEP + man, after Russian нэ́пман (nɛ́pman).
Senses: examples: text: Filipp Filippovich rolled up his eyes. ‘And what makes you a working man?’
‘Well, I'm obviously not a Nepman am I?’
ref: 2007, Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Dog's Heart, Penguin, page 67:
glosses: Someone engaged in private enterprise under Lenin's New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union; by extension, any successful entrepreneur.
CD38
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD38s
Etymology: from cluster of differentiation
Senses: glosses: glycoprotein found on the surface of many immune cells (white blood cells), including CD4+, CD8+, B lymphocytes and natural killer cells, functioning in cell adhesion, signal transduction and calcium signaling
Synonyms: cyclic ADP ribose hydrolase
CD19
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD19s
Etymology: from Cluster of Differentiation number 19
Senses: glosses: protein found on the surface of most B-cells, associating with the B-cell receptor complex
Synonyms: B-lymphocyte antigen CD19
Cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From cookie, the snack food.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, I went into the house and before I could get passed the bedroom, he called me. I hated him for calling me. He would say, “Come here, Cookie,” and for some reason, I was stupid and scared and I listened to this man.
ref: 2003, Katherine 'Cookie' Jones, I Know A Way Out, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Fry: Robot Devil? I get your hands? Zam!
Robot Devil: Oh, what an appallingly ironic outcome.
Bender: It's not ironic, it's just coincidental. Now fork over those lady-fingers, Cookie!
ref: 2003, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", season 4, episode 18 of Futurama [Robot Devil's roulette with names of robots stops at his own name, "Robot Devil". As a result, he has to give his own hands to Fry.]
glosses: An endearing or condescending nickname.
Related terms: english: affectionate nickname for a cook
translation: affectionate nickname for a cook
word: cookie
pneumatode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatodes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma) (breath) and ὁδός (hodós) (pathway)
Senses: topics: biology
botany
histology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of cells with spiral secondary wall thickenings, present in a velamen; acts as an airway for gas exchange for respiration or photosynthesis
examples: text: The roots of palms are characterised by pneumatodes on both underground and aerial roots. These have been supposed to ventilate the underground roots, but direct physiological evidence for this is lacking.
ref: 2015, R. H. V. Corley, P. B. H. Tinker, The Oil Palm, Wiley, →ISBN, page 144:
topics: biology
botany
histology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of cells presumed to be specialised as an airway for ventilation of particular tissues.
MYD88
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Myeloid differentiation primary response gene
Senses: glosses: a murine and human gene coding a protein important in immunity
TdT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TdTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferases
form: TdT
Senses: glosses: a specialized DNA polymerase enabling junctional diversity, expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma cells.
Synonyms: alt: DNTT
word: DNA nucleotidylexotransferase
word: terminal transferase
petroclival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petro- + clival.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the petrous part of the temporal bone and the clivus
Derived terms: sphenopetroclival
Related terms: petrobasilar
womanfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womanfriends
Etymology: From woman + friend.
Senses: examples: text: In my favorite story, "Womb With A View," by Michele Roberts, Jo and Maggie, two womanfriends […] walk "arm-in-arm down the street" (two "straight" women showing affection in public, as British and European same-sex friends feel free to do.)
ref: 1981 February 14, Collectively Written Feminist Stories, “Myma Greenfield”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 11:
glosses: Synonym of girlfriend.
synonyms: word: girlfriend
Simchat Torah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Simchas Torah
form: Simchas Toyre
form: Simches Toyre
Senses: glosses: a Jewish holiday that marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of Torah readings, the celebrations of which include singing and dancing with the Torah scrolls
Bruttium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin Bruttium.
Senses: glosses: A former district of southern Italy in the time of the Roman Empire.
biselectrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bis-electrophilic
Etymology: From bis- + electrophilic.
Senses: examples: text: A variety of biselectrophilic molecules were used to cross-link two properly aligned cysteines, with the aim of stabilizing the helical conformation.
ref: 2015 June 26, Marta Pelay-Gimeno et al., “Structure-Based Design of Inhibitors of Protein–Protein Interactions: Mimicking Peptide Binding Epitopes”, in Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English), volume 54, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two electrophilic groups
raw_tags: of a molecule
carbocyclization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: carbocyclizations
Senses: examples: text: Further studies on the tandem carbocyclization mechanism are ongoing in our laboratory and will be reported in due course.
ref: 2015 July 22, Javier Mazuela, Debasis Banerjee, Jan-E. Bäckvall, “Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Tandem Oxidative Acetoxylation/ortho C–H Activation/Carbocyclization of Arylallenes”, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 137, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclization reaction in which a heteroatom is replaced by one of carbon
carbocyclizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The oxidant also plays a crucial role for the selective Pd-catalyzed carbocyclizations.
ref: 2015 July 22, Javier Mazuela, Debasis Banerjee, Jan-E. Bäckvall, “Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Tandem Oxidative Acetoxylation/ortho C–H Activation/Carbocyclization of Arylallenes”, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 137, →DOI:
glosses: plural of carbocyclization
cervicoapical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cervico- + apical.
Senses: examples: text: Root radicals were usually nonseparated throughout the cervicoapical extension.
ref: 2015 August 13, Roshan Peiris et al., “Variations in the Root Form and Root Canal Morphology of Permanent Mandibular First Molars in a Sri Lankan Population”, in Anatomy Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the apex of the neck of a structure
chemohormonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + hormonal.
Senses: examples: text: The upfront combination chemohormonal therapy produced a statistically and clinically significant improvement in overall survival compared with ADT alone (52.7 versus 42.3 months with p value 0.0006, Hazard ratio 0.63 (0.48, 0.82)) [ 8 ].
ref: 2015 August 13, Ali Raufi, Jennifer Dotson, Mohamad Khasawneh, “Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome after Treatment of Metastatic Prostate Cancer with Taxotere: A Case Report and Literature Review”, in Case Reports in Urology, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to chemotherapy in which hormones are also used
chlorokojic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chloro- + kojic.
Senses: examples: text: The omission of an aqueous recrystallization step leads to near-quantitative yields of the hydrolytically unstable chlorokojic acid (1) without sacrificing purity.
ref: 2015 August 13, J. Aerts et al., “Synthesis and Validation of a Hydroxypyrone-Based, Potent, and Specific Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 Inhibitor with Anti-Inflammatory Activity In Vitro and In Vivo”, in Mediators of Inflammation, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to chlorokojic acid or its derivatives
chlorokojic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chloro derivative of kojic acid 2-(chloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-4H-pyran-4-one
CD22
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD22s
Etymology: from cluster of differentiation-22
Senses: glosses: a molecule found on the surface of mature B cells and to a lesser extent on some immature B cells, helping to prevent the overactivation of the immune system and the development of autoimmune diseases
CD7
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD7s
Senses: glosses: a transmembrane immunoglobulin superfamily protein, found on thymocytes and mature T cells, playing an essential role in T-cell interactions and also in T-cell/B-cell interaction during early lymphoid development
IGHV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IGHVs
Senses: glosses: immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region gene, mutations of which in B-cell neoplasms like chronic lymphocytic leukemia are associated with better responses to some treatments and with prolonged survival
support position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: support positions
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a position in which a gymnast is holding their body above the rings (or high bar, parallel bars...) usually with straight arms.
slatternness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slattern + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The two extremes of tasteless extravagance and of slatternness are to be carefully avoided.
ref: 1831, “Mirror of the Graces”, in The Journal of Health, volume 2, page 78:
glosses: The condition of being a slattern; slatternliness.
simcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmxə/
/ˈsɪmhə/
Forms: form: simchas
form: simchot
form: simchah
form: simche
form: simha
form: simhah
form: simkha
Etymology: From Yiddish שׂמחה (simkhe), from Hebrew שִׂמְחָה (simkhá, literally “happiness”).
Senses: examples: text: Each and every one of these blessings is a reason to be full of simcha.
ref: 2001, Moshe Goldberger, 100 Brachos: Counting Your Blessings 100 Times a Day, The Judaica Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:
text: The return to a meaningful and vibrant Judaism, he felt, must contain an ingredient too long denied it. This ingredient was simcha (joy), and it became the cornerstone of the Hasidic movement.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 223:
glosses: joy
examples: ref: 1994, Helping Hands Information Services, It's Your Affair: The Guide to Making a Simcha:
text: After the wedding, I received a letter from the bride and her family with profuse thanks for enabling them and the Jewish community of Sheboygan to witness and participate in a "wonderful, traditional simcha"
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 41:
text: In 1956, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, forbade any Bat Mitzvah celebration in a synagogue even at night, but allowed a simḥah at home; it's not a Seudat Mitzvah, just a birthday party.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 48:
glosses: a celebration
Related terms: Simchat Torah
paraimmunoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraimmunoblasts
Etymology: From para- + immunoblast.
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized B cell, with a roundish nucleus with open chromatine pattern and a conspicuous, usually centrally located nucleolus; often found in the proliferative centers of chronic lymphocytic leukemiae.
word-stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word-stocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wordstock.
dendrographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æfɪk
Forms: form: more dendrographic
form: most dendrographic
Etymology: From dendro- + -graphic.
Senses: examples: text: If the default format ‘R-project’ is selected, the dendrographic visualization of results is done automatically on the result page.
ref: 2015 September 3, K.S. Egorova, A.N. Kondakova, Ph.V. Toukach, “Carbohydrate Structure Database: tools for statistical analysis of bacterial, plant and fungal glycomes”, in Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to dendrography
wage packet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wage packets
Senses: glosses: An envelope or similar package in which a salary is given to a worker
examples: text: It has been one of the eternal questions of the Premier League era, echoing down the years as kits have got tighter and wage packets heavier.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off”, in The Guardian, London:
text: Rail workers deserve a pay rise. They have seen their wage packets frozen in recent years and now face (like the rest of us) inflation at its highest level for decades.
ref: 2022 June 15, Philip Haigh, “Strikes: a little more conversation... a little less action”, in RAIL, number 959, page 50:
glosses: The salary of an employee
level out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: levels out
form: leveling out
form: levelling out
form: leveled out
form: leveled out
form: levelled out
form: levelled out
Senses: examples: text: Will the seemingly insatiable demand for the product ever level out?
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: To become even.
examples: text: Mohr took some of them with him to make a road for the lorry, from the highroad to the grave, they levelled out the ground, cut off branches from the bush and heaped them on the path, for the ground was slippery.
ref: 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, London: Putnam, Part 5, Chapter 3:
glosses: To cause (something) to be even.
fibroatrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibro- + atrophic.
Senses: examples: text: The RT-induced fibroatrophic process, initiated by chronic inflammation and potentiated by tumour necrosis factor-α has been proposed as the biologic explanation for ORN [ 10 ].
ref: 2015 August 5, Luke Nicholls, Peter Gorayski, Jennifer Harvey, “Osteoradionecrosis of the Ribs following Breast Radiotherapy”, in Case Reports in Oncology, volume 8, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Involving fibrosis and atrophy
Related terms: fibroatrophy
fibroatrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fibro- + atrophy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: fibrotic atrophy
Related terms: fibroatrophic
received wisdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Received wisdom, in the US and the UK, remains that in a fracturing, splintering media landscape top-notch live sport remains one of the only types of content for which viewers will make an “appointment to view”.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: Synonym of conventional wisdom.
synonyms: word: conventional wisdom
Related terms: idée reçue
head-scratching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdskɹatʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɛdskɹætʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: more head-scratching
form: most head-scratching
form: head scratching
Etymology: head + scratching, from the fact that many people scratch the side of their head when confused.
Senses: examples: text: He became for a short time delirious, in consequence of attempting to comprehend the works of Mr. Nebulous, in which the English language is exhibited casting of summersets, with many prancings to and fro, before earnest-gazing, head-scratching readers, in murkiest obscuration, marvel stricken, with maddest humour and grinning contortions, heels-over-head, wondrous!
ref: 1849 June, Michael South, “The Peace Campaigns of Ensign Faunce. [Part III. Chapter XIV.]”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XXXIX, number CCXXXIV, London: John W[illiam] Parker, West Strand, →OCLC, page 679, column 1:
text: Yogi Berra is best known as a Hall of Fame catcher with the 1950s Yankees and for spouting head-scratching malapropisms such as "Ninety per cent of the game is half mental," but he also was a solid baseball man with good managerial instincts.
ref: 2009, Frederick C. Klein, For the Love of the Mets: An A-to-Z Primer for Mets Fans of All Ages, Chicago, Ill.: Triumph Books, →OCLC:
text: For someone who professed such deep respect for numbers, Plato certainly used some head-scratching ones in his Atlantis story. The dates don't match up even remotely with ancient history.
ref: 2015, Mark Adams, “Amateur Hour”, in Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Confusing, perplexing, puzzling.
Synonyms: bemusing
bewildering
head-scratching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdskɹatʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɛdskɹætʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: head-scratchings
form: head scratching
Etymology: head + scratching, from the fact that many people scratch the side of their head when confused.
Senses: examples: text: […] Milly got out of her basket to reconsider the matter. It took some deliberation and head scratching to decide the best method; […]
ref: 1869 April, Carl Bernard, “Milly’s Bossy”, in Ballou’s Monthly Magazine, volume XXIX, number 4 (number 172 overall), Boston, Mass.: Office American Union, Flag of Our Union, and Novelette, No. 63 Congress Street, →OCLC, pages 394–395:
text: You remember what a lot of head-scratching the kings had to go through in order to raise money. When there was no extensive and well-developed system of taxation, they were never sure of getting enough cash where they needed it when they needed it.
ref: 1936, Leo Huberman, “‘Gold, Greatness, and Glory’”, in Man’s Worldly Goods: The Story of the Wealth of Nations, New York, N.Y.: Monthly Review Press, →OCLC, page 134:
text: [O]ne morning I just started writing about how Judy met JFK in the winter of '60, and it seemed to go pretty well – better, anyway, than the false starts and head scratchings that were all I had to show thus far.
ref: 2010, Frederick [W.] Turner, The Go-between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 293:
text: It is possible to spend a long time looking at this inscription. An informal survey of scholars at the University of Chicago, all versed in Hebrew, suggests that the inscription is at once enticing and frustrating, not quite nonsensical enough for immediate dismissal, nor sufficiently cogent actually to yield a reading. Instead, "mystère admirable," it invites hours of fruitless headscratching. The beholder, in this situation, winds up in much the same situation as the Pharisees in the picture: pointing, puzzling, and conversing.
ref: 2011, Richard [T.] Neer, “Poussin’s Useless Treasures”, in Herbert L[eon] Kessler, David Nirenberg, editors, Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 347:
text: And yet, arresting figures suggesting a decline in early season ratings have prompted an outbreak of soul‑searching at those broadcasters and head‑scratching among analysts.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2017:
glosses: Confusion.
Synonyms: bemusement
bewilderment
Related terms: beard-stroking
chin-stroking
share capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The part of a company's capital that is financed by shareholders through the issue of shares.
Synonyms: word: capital stock
hydrostratigraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrostratigraphy
cock slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock slaves
form: cockslave
Etymology: Compound of cock + slave. Used in gay culture to denote a subservient male.
Senses: glosses: A subservient sexual partner to a man.
knife-coloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knife-coloured
form: most knife-coloured
Senses: examples: text: Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood. Moon running over the house fronts like a spotlight. When it fell on the willows, they trembled like girls caught in dark corners […]
ref: 1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96:
text: There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade.
iron sulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron sulphides
form: iron sulfide
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of chemical compounds consisting of iron and sulphur.
iron sulphides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron sulphide
iron sulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron sulfides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of iron sulphide.
iron sulfides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron sulfide
saveworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saveworthy
form: most saveworthy
form: save-worthy
Etymology: From save + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, despite the massive humanitarian efforts of many Americans, New Orleans has not been deemed saveworthy by all.
ref: 2013, Nickie D. Phillips, Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime:
text: Our friendship with Jesus Christ is the redeeming quality that takes our personality from unsavory to save-worthy.
ref: 2015, Trisha Priebe, A Sherlock Holmes Devotional:
text: Also, the tasting sheet has your email and phone number in the upper left hand corner, making it larger and perhaps more saveworthy than a dinky business card.
ref: 2016, Hillary Zio, The Unfiltered Guide to Working in Wine:
glosses: Worthy to be saved; worthy of being saved
Related terms: salvageable
save-worthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more save-worthy
form: most save-worthy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saveworthy.
fluid-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluid + bound.
Senses: examples: text: So we decided, in the sexiest and most entertaining way possible, to create a “fluid-bound contract.”
ref: 2015, Elisabeth Sheff, Tikva Wolf, Stories From the Polycule: Real Life in Polyamorous Families:
glosses: Synonym of fluid-bonded.
synonyms: word: fluid-bonded
beneath the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She saw what was beneath the surface and realized he was not such a bad guy.
glosses: Beyond what is obvious.
Synonyms: below the surface
Derived terms: scratch beneath the surface
below the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of beneath the surface.
synonyms: word: beneath the surface
Derived terms: scratch below the surface
scratch below the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scratches below the surface
form: scratching below the surface
form: scratched below the surface
form: scratched below the surface
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scratch beneath the surface.
synonyms: word: scratch beneath the surface
scratches below the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scratch below the surface
scratching below the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scratch below the surface
scratched below the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scratch below the surface
Le Touquet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France. Official name: Le Touquet-Paris-Plage.
scratch beneath the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scratches beneath the surface
form: scratching beneath the surface
form: scratched beneath the surface
form: scratched beneath the surface
Senses: glosses: To look or see beyond what is obvious.
Related terms: scratch the surface
scratches beneath the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scratch beneath the surface
scratching beneath the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scratch beneath the surface
scratched beneath the surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scratch beneath the surface
Hauts-de-France
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of France, created in 2016 by the merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy.
heartworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartworthy
form: most heartworthy
form: heart-worthy
Etymology: From heart + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: For this faring is base but necessary for my strategies, I fully admit it! But depravities deprive the heartless, not the heartworthy.
ref: 2011, David L. Birdsall, Harbingers of Redoubts:
text: And the word of God that should have been done, the word was deemed no longer to the king a thing at all heartworthy; even honour dishonoured; nay, and certainly not regarded as reverent.
ref: 2015, Ravens Station Steward, Ravens Station Steward:
text: [...] the kids thought he might foster, because being someone else's rock, even if only in a temporary way, would always be heart-worthy for them both; the kids who might make their house a forever home, because sometimes the most surprising people of all just stuck; [...]
ref: 2015, Amy Jo Cousins, Real World:
glosses: Worthy of heart
supercup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercups
Etymology: From super + cup.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of super cup.
supercups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercup
tick-trefoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tick-trefoils
Etymology: From tick + trefoil (“three-leaved”). Tick refers to the plant's loments – pods that break apart into segments that each contain one seed – which have small hooked hairs that allow the segments to stick to clothes, hair, or fur, similar to the way a tick clings on with its legs.
Senses: glosses: One of several species in the genus Desmodium in the legume family
mankindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mankind + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The crux of the matter is this: Does being alive exclusively, entirely, account for what we are, or is our "mankindness" somewhat the cause of this?
ref: 1987, George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Aliens:
text: I leave some of my mankindness behind me for a while and become part tree, a creature of the snow.
ref: 1997, Alan Ryan, The Reader's Companion to Alaska:
text: Following the line of the Atharva Veda, and in the spirit of the deeply rooted sense of attachment of inner spirit and human awakening Rabindranath Tagore has composed a book of lyric that preserved the essence of the Indian view of mankindness and perfection of dharma and the vision of divineness that acquired universal appeal and finally as token of its recognition Nobel Prize of literature was honoured to him.
ref: 2009, Rana P. B. Singh, with Oskar Spate, David Sopher, Uprooting Geographic Thoughts in India:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of mankind; humanity; humanness
clown-car primary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaʊn kɑɹ ˌpɹaɪməɹi/
Forms: form: clown-car primaries
Etymology: From clown car + primary.
Senses: examples: text: Two Months into Republicans' Clown Car Primary, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds Voters Turning against the GOP - Again [title]
ref: 2012 March 5, Jon Ponder, “Two Months into Republicans' Clown Car Primary, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds Voters Turning against the GOP - Again”, in Pensito Review, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2012:
text: The Republicans held a clown-car primary in 2012 with a dozen debates where their credo of hewing to the party line (more conservative than thou) prevented any candidate from emerging looking presidential.
ref: 2015, Michael Page, This Is Your Government On Drugs, Xlibris Corporation, page 282:
text: They can shake their heads over the seething anger in the Republican electorate, but this nasty and never-ending "clown car primary" is a problem of their own creation.
ref: 2016, Joshua Holland, “Big GOP Donors Are to Blame for Their Party's Clown-Car Primary”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2016:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A primary election with a large number of serious candidates, usually more than four, making it possible that the winner will have been chosen by only a small portion of the electorate.
say-sos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of say-so
etiolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etiolins
Etymology: From German Etiolin; etiolate + -in.
Senses: examples: text: The formation of a yellow pigment in small grains in the cells of plant structures grown in the dark has long been recognised. The pigment was known to be soluble in alcohol and was called "etiolin" by Pringsheim (1874) because it occurred in etiolated structures.
ref: 1924, Katherine Hope Coward, “The lipochromes of etiolated wheat seedlings”, in Biochemical Journal, volume 18.5, page 1123:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow pigment in plants grown without sufficient light; a precursor of chlorophyll.
Related terms: protochlorophyllide
tippiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tippy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was low tide, so there was a long, sickening ladder with slimy rungs to climb down to get to the canoe. The man’s big laugh and the tippiness of the canoe were even more frightening than the ladder.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:
text: […] the government’s recently released rollover test results for the 2004 model year show that SUVs vary widely in their tippiness, giving buyers more incentive to shop around.
ref: 2004 August 30, Daren Fonda, “The Shrinking SUV”, in Time:
text: […] a bag of personal belongings carried on the back of a wheelchair will increase its ‘tippiness’.
ref: 2008, Lisa Harvey, chapter 4, in Management of Spinal Cord Injuries: A Guide for Physiotherapists, Butterworth-Heinemann, page 85:
glosses: The quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.
μCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of μC
ghosthunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghosthunts
Etymology: From ghost + hunt.
Senses: examples: text: They rent the haunted room to guests brave enough to spend a night within its walls, and often host ghosthunts where people are invited to spend an evening searching for the spirit.
ref: 2010, Tom Robertson, Murray Scougall, Ghosthunter: Adventures in the Afterlife:
glosses: The act of looking for ghosts.
ghosthunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghosthunt
womanfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womanfriend
stretch goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretch goals
Senses: synonyms: stretch target
glosses: An additional goal to be pursued after all original goals are met.
stretch goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stretch goal
glycoprofile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoprofiles
Etymology: From glyco- + profile.
Senses: examples: text: Another factor diminishing this bias is the fragment presence threshold, which determines how populated a fragment should be within a taxon to be included in its glycoprofile and to produce a positive mark in the occurrence code.
ref: 2015 September 3, K.S. Egorova, A.N. Kondakova, Ph.V. Toukach, “Carbohydrate Structure Database: tools for statistical analysis of bacterial, plant and fungal glycomes”, in Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A representation of the glycome of an organism
glycoprofiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Occurrence bit-code generation report ③ is accompanied by the ‘Show’ link, which displays a table with taxa and their binary glycoprofiles (occurrence codes), together with a separate list of the fragments used.
ref: 2015 September 3, K.S. Egorova, A.N. Kondakova, Ph.V. Toukach, “Carbohydrate Structure Database: tools for statistical analysis of bacterial, plant and fungal glycomes”, in Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: plural of glycoprofile
gynecophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynecophiles
Etymology: From gyneco- + -phile; ultimately from Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, female”) and φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).
Senses: glosses: Someone sexually attracted to women.
examples: text: Equivalent terms for lesbian relationships given by Hirschfeld were korophile, parthenophile, gynecophile, and graophile.
ref: 2015, Wayne Dynes, Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Volume II, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1333:
glosses: A lesbian; a homosexual woman.
examples: text: According to the age of the attracting person homosexuals are divisible into ephebophiles (lovers of youths, 14-21), androphiles (grown men up to the period of old age),[…] The corresponding divisions in women are parthenophiles (lovers of young women, virgins), gynecophiles (lovers of adult women), grasphiles (lovers of old women), and korophiles (lovers of undeveloped girls).
ref: 1914, L. Pierce Clark, “A critical digest of some of the newer work upon homosexuality in man and woman”, in State Hospital Bulletin, volume VII, New York State Hospital Commission, page 352:
glosses: A lesbian (homosexual woman) attracted to other adult women (as contrast to young women or old women)
gynecophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyneco- + -phile; ultimately from Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, female”) and φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).
Senses: glosses: Marked by or involving sexual attraction to women.
Related terms: gynecophilia
gynecophilic
gynophilic
grandparented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Also raised were the potential challenges long-standing practitioners might face in collecting documentation of their training for the grandparented registration process: Asking for transcripts or study reports may [create] great difficulties for those old practitioners, for these schools, or professors may not exist anymore [sic]. [CM] A small number of respondents opposed the grandparented registration process outright, arguing that all registrants should be required to [W]rite an exam in order to have a legal license!…no Grandfather law. [CM] However, Chinese medicine practitioners’ most pronounced concern around grandparented registration pertained to the issue of language.
ref: 2015 September 7, Nadine Ijaz et al., “Supportive but “worried”: perceptions of naturopaths, homeopaths and Chinese medicine practitioners through a regulatory transition in Ontario, Canada”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: That satisfies older, but not current, rules or regulations
grandparented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grandparent
grand-parented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grand-parent
grand-parents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grand-parent
grand-parenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grand-parent
hematogone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈmætəɡəʊn/
Forms: form: hematogones
Senses: glosses: A form of lymphocyte, in normal bone marrow, that resembles a leukemic lymphoblast
hematogones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The majority of phenotypic progenitor (blast region) cells were shown to be lymphoid (8.8% hematogones) and not myeloid.
ref: 2015 August 17, Kathleen Overholt et al., “Promyelocytic Leukemia with No Retinoic Acid Receptor Alpha Abnormality but with RUNX1T1 Insertion to Chromosome 7q: A Classification and Management Dilemma”, in Case Reports in Hematology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: plural of hematogone
hemosputum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemo- + sputum.
Senses: examples: text: When considered in combination with the use of antiangiogenic therapy, this diagnostic tool is easy to apply and has broad utility among medical oncologists to avoid the risk of hemosputum in the great vessels [ 5 ].
ref: 2015 July 30, Hidetaka Uramoto et al., “Easy Diagnosis of Aortic Invasion in Patients with Lung Cancer Using Cine Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in Case Reports in Oncology, volume 8, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of blood in the sputum.
Synonyms: hemoptysis
hydroxyphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyphosphates
Senses: examples: text: Two pooled analyses by the vaccine manufacturer did not find a difference in miscarriage risk for pregnancies conceived in a risk window of −30 to 45 days from bivalent HPV vaccination. 26 27 Similarly, a lack of association was observed in placebo controlled trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of the bivalent HPV vaccine. 28 29 Nevertheless, a subgroup analysis in black women in the Females United to Unilaterally Reduce Endo/Ectocervical Disease (FUTURE) I/II trials showed an increased risk of miscarriage compared with unvaccinated pregnancies for the quadrivalent HPV vaccine that has a different adjuvant (amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate). 30 However, no results were reported for restricting the endpoint by different periods of gestation as in our study, which did not confirm the overall increased miscarriage risk in FUTURE I/II using longer follow-up and a larger number of pregnancies.
ref: 2015 September 7, Orestis A Panagiotou et al., “Effect of bivalent human papillomavirus vaccination on pregnancy outcomes: long term observational follow-up in the Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial”, in BMJ : British Medical Journal, volume 351, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three anions formed by replacing one, two or three oxygen atoms of a phosphate ion by a hydroxyl group; any salt containing such an anion
hydroxyphosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxyphosphate
hyperstabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperstabilizes
form: hyperstabilizing
form: hyperstabilized
form: hyperstabilized
Etymology: From hyper- + stabilize.
Senses: glosses: To stabilize to a greater than normal extent
hyperstabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: They interfere with the normal function of microtubule growth, by hyperstabilizing their structure resulting in inhibition of DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis [ 14 ].
ref: 2015 August 13, Ali Raufi, Jennifer Dotson, Mohamad Khasawneh, “Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome after Treatment of Metastatic Prostate Cancer with Taxotere: A Case Report and Literature Review”, in Case Reports in Urology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperstabilize
hyperstabilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperstabilize
hyperstabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperstabilize
hyperstabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: stabilized to a greater than normal extent
korophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόρος (kóros, “boy, youth”) and φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).
Senses: examples: text: In the age-differentiated type, as seen in ancient Greek and in Islamic pederasty, Spartan korophilia, pedophilia, [...] the older partner has something, namely adulthood and the knowledge that goes with it, that the younger is seeking to acquire.
ref: 1990, Wayne Dynes, Warren Johansson, William A Percy, Stephen Donaldson, Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, New York: Garland, →ISBN, Appendix:
text: Gerontophilia is the sexual attraction to the elderly, whereas Korophilia is the love of young men or boys.
ref: 2011, Jan Resnick, “Far-out Philias and Phobias”, in Psychotherapy in Australia, volume 17, page 65:
glosses: Sexual attraction to boys or young men.
Related terms: korophile
korephilia
hysterocolposigmoidectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysterocolposigmoidectomies
Senses: examples: text: Associated procedures employed to achieve complete cytoreduction included reverse hysterocolposigmoidectomy, modified posterior exenteration or total exenteration; however, they referred especially to colic resection during primary cytoreductive surgery [ 9 - 11 ].
ref: 2015, N Bacalbașa, I Bălescu, “Total pelvic exenteration for pelvic recurrence after advanced epithelial ovarian cancer – A case report and literature review”, in Journal of Medicine and Life, volume 8:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of the uterus, vagina and sigmoid colon
hysterocolposigmoidectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysterocolposigmoidectomy