cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
re-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-ups
form: re-upping
form: re-upped
form: re-upped
form: reup
Senses: glosses: To renegotiate a contract.
glosses: To refill one's drug stash.
examples: text: Gave me a cryptic, mostly frustrated-seeming look. Went upstairs with her bestie. To re-up, probably.
ref: 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: To take another dose.
raw_tags: of a drug
re-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-ups
form: reup
Senses: glosses: A resupply of a batch of drugs to be sold on the street.
coalfired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coal-fired
Etymology: From coal + fired.
Senses: examples: text: a coalfired electric power station
glosses: Fired or ignited with coal.
Related terms: coaler
coal-smoke
subformulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subformula
superformula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superformulas
form: superformulae
Etymology: From super- + formula.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A generalization of the superellipse that can be used to describe many complex shapes and curves found in nature.
superformulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superformula
superformulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superformula
-clast
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλαστός (klastós, “broken”), verbal adjective of κλάω (kláō, “to break”).
Senses: glosses: something that breaks or destroys.
Derived terms: -clastic
phenoclast
Related terms: iconoclast
shodden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of shoe
washen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English wasshen, waschen, ywasshe (past participle of wasshen (“to wash”)), from Old English wasċen, ġewasċen (“washed”, past participle of wasċan (“to wash”)), equivalent to wash + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian waasken (“washed, washen”), West Frisian wosken (“washed, washen”), Dutch gewassen (“washed, washen”), German Low German wusken (“washed, washen”), German gewaschen (“washed, washen”). More at wash.
Senses: examples: text: I've had my chance of common life, city and town, and the company of ladies with broidery and camisole and washen faces
ref: 1898, John Splendid, The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn:
text: a. 1653, Hugh Binning, a sermon
Are ye made clean and washen from the guilt of your sins?
text: Her spirit was the spirit of love, forgiving as she hoped to be forgiven,—her sins, which, had it not been said of man, "not one is perfect," we should have looked upon as of no deeper stains than are of the newly washen lambs, gambolling in fresh pastures of innocence.
ref: 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
glosses: alternative past participle of wash.
washen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more washen
form: most washen
Etymology: From Middle English wasshen, waschen, ywasshe (past participle of wasshen (“to wash”)), from Old English wasċen, ġewasċen (“washed”, past participle of wasċan (“to wash”)), equivalent to wash + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian waasken (“washed, washen”), West Frisian wosken (“washed, washen”), Dutch gewassen (“washed, washen”), German Low German wusken (“washed, washen”), German gewaschen (“washed, washen”). More at wash.
Senses: examples: text: He becomes washen by washing away evil and wrong states.
ref: 1926, Sir Robert Chalmers, “Further dialogues of the Buddha”, in Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica, volume 1, numbers 44-45:
text: Morag put on a second petticoat of exactly the same material and shape, except that its colour was a dull red. Now she would be ready in a minute, thought Kirsty. Morag put on a third petticoat, of a more washen red than the second, but this one would not fix without its safety-pin.
ref: 1975, Neil Miller Gunn, Morning tide:
glosses: clean
oh-dark-thirty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oh dark thirty.
indocility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indocilities
Etymology: From indocile + -ity, from Latin indocilitas.
Senses: glosses: the quality or condition of being indocile
shoegear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuːˌɡɪə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From shoe + gear.
Senses: examples: text: Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
text: In the third case, the need to provide retractable shoegear on the power bogies to pick up current from the third rail, and the equipment to use low-voltage supply, has complicated the design of the Eurostar trains.
ref: 1995, Colin J. Kirkland, “Locomotives”, in Engineering the Channel Tunnel, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Here shoegear and stepboards are refitted prior to a commissioning run conducted by the manufacturer which includes high speed and emergency brake tests.
ref: 2003, P. Hinde, J. Thompson, “Commissioning”, in International Conference on New Trains: 4-5 June 2003 at Le Meridien, York, UK, volume 2003 IMechE conference transactions, published 2004, →ISBN, The train operator's view of new train introduction, page 51:
text: The trains run on two additional rails and pick up current by means of shoegear making sliding contact with the conductor rails.
ref: 2006, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee, quoting DJ Hartland, Reducing carbon emissions from transport: Oral and written evidence, →ISBN, London Underground Power Supplies. Electric Current Flow in Conductor Rails. Savings in Energy with Low Loss Rail, page 286:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: train equipment, usually mounted on bogies, used to transfer electric current from the third rail.
Hyponyms: shoe
pickup shoe
shoebeam
stratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strata + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the order of strata, or to their deposition
glosses: Composed of strata; stratified
Coordinate terms: topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: cumulic
topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: melanic
Related terms: stratigraphic
teehee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tee hee.
teehee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teehees
form: teeheeing
form: teeheed
form: teeheed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tee hee.
Verethragna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀 (vər^əθraγna), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Wr̥tragʰnás. Doublet of Vahagn and Bahrām.
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The hypostasis of “victory”; a highly complex figure in Zoroastrianism.
wikipedia: Verethragna
steinbock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steinbocks
Etymology: From German Steinbock.
Senses: glosses: A type of ibex (Capra ibex).
steinbocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steinbock
réseaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of réseau
Drava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɑːvə/
Forms: form: Drave
Etymology: From historical Dravus, itself of unknown origin—either Celtic or Old European.
Senses: glosses: A tributary of the Danube, in southern Central Europe.
glosses: A statistical region of Slovenia.
Derived terms: dravite
Drave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Drava.
leucism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukism
Etymology: From leuco- + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal condition in which there is partial loss of pigmentation resulting in white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales or cuticle, but not the eyes (caused by a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin).
Derived terms: leucistic
Related terms: albinism
melanism
cotransformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotransformations
Etymology: From co- + transformation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The simultaneous transformation of two marker genes
cryptococcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryptococcus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: People with AIDS tend to die after years of suffering, often screaming from the agony of cryptococcal meningitis or choking on thrush fungus.
ref: 2009 September 27, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “If AIDS Went the Way of Smallpox”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to cryptococcus fungi or cryptococcosis.
Derived terms: anticryptococcal
cryptococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptococci
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any soil fungus of the genus Cryptococcus, some of which are pathogenic
Derived terms: cryptococcal
cryptococcemia
cryptococcosis
dansylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: modified by addition of one or more dansyl groups
deproteination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + proteination.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The elimination of protein from a biological structure
dimethyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethyltransferases
Etymology: From di- + methyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of two methyl groups
electricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electricidal
form: most electricidal
Etymology: From electr- + -i- + -cidal.
Senses: glosses: Describing the killing of bacteria by means of an electric current
electroloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + loading.
Senses: glosses: The injection of a drug etc. into a cell by electroporation.
Related terms: electroloaded
endotoxemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endotoxemic
form: most endotoxemic
Etymology: From endotoxemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or causing endotoxemia
Derived terms: nonendotoxemic
enterobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entero- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to enterobacteria
can do with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: can do with
form: could do with
Senses: examples: text: His hair was thinning and slicked back, and he could have done with a good shave.
ref: 1996 March, D. William Shunn, “Celestial Mechanics.”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 90, number 3, page 109:
text: A garden can do with a little mystery, which serpentine paths provide.
ref: 1999 July, Jim McCausland, “Paths of discovery”, in Sunset, volume 203, number 1, page 57:
text: In fact, while balking at the cruel burden he had imposed on me, I thought that his mind could do with some improvement
ref: 2000 Spring, Jervis Anderson, “England in Jamaica.”, in American Scholar, volume 69, number 2, page 15:
text: Journalism today could do with a little more attention to principle, a little more concern about ethics.
ref: 2000 May 17, John Huges, “How do we find what's true?”, in Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To need; to want; to be in a position to benefit from.
raw_tags: with could
Related terms: could do with
could do without
can do without
could have done with
could have done without
heterogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterogamies
Etymology: From hetero- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: anisogamy
antonyms: homogamy
glosses: The state of conjugating gametes that are different in size, structure and function.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: word: exogamy
word: extramarriage
word: heterogamy
word: intermarriage
word: mixed marriage
word: outmarriage
antonyms: word: homogamy
word: endogamy
word: homogamy
word: inmarriage
word: intramarriage
glosses: Marriage or similar union between people of different sexes, or social strata, such as races.
Derived terms: heterogamic
aldosteronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldosteronisms
Etymology: From aldosterone + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition, marked by excessive secretion of aldosterone, that gives rise to cardiac difficulties
Synonyms: hyperaldosteronism
Derived terms: pseudoaldosteronism
Related terms: aldosteronic
I am English
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is from England.
Milošević
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Milosevic.
cricondentherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricondentherms
Etymology: Blend of critical + condensation + therm (meaning temperature).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The maximum temperature at which two phases can coexist.
Related terms: cricondenbar
immanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immanities
Etymology: From Latin immānitās.
Senses: glosses: Great size; enormousness, hugeness.
examples: text: ‘Barbarous immanity’ (Melancthon terms it) ‘and folly to be deplored, so to contemn the percepts of health[…]’
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 1, member 4, subsection 2:
text: [H]ad you ſtaid, you would have taken but little comfort in your life, in regard that ever ſince ther have bin the fearfulleſt diſtractions here that ever happen'd upon any part of the earth, a Beluin kind of immanity never rag'd ſo among men, inſomuch that the whole Countrey might have taken its appellation from the ſmalleſt part thereof, and be call'd the Iſle of Dogs; for all humanity, common honeſty, and that Manſuetude with other Moral Civilities which ſhould diſtinguiſh the rational Creature from other Animals, have been loſt here a good while; […]
ref: 1647 May 15 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XV. To Sir K. D. at Paris.”, in [Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ.] A Third Volume of Familiar Letters of a Fresher Date. […], 3rd edition, volume III, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section, page 25:
glosses: Outrageous cruelty or savagery; enormity.
immanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immanity
rammy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹami/
Forms: form: more rammy
form: most rammy
Etymology: From ram + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton which is in Turkey and Asia Minor […]
ref: , II.ii.1.1
glosses: Of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank.
glosses: Frisky, lecherous.
rammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹami/
Forms: form: rammies
Senses: glosses: A disorderly argument or disturbance; a fracas.
pearmain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛːmeɪn/
ipa: /ˈpəːmaɪn/
ipa: /pəˈmeɪn/
Forms: form: pearmains
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman parmain, peremain et al., Middle French parmain, permain (“type of pear or apple”), of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A type of pear.
examples: text: Sweet fruits are best, as sweet cherries, plums, sweet apples, pearmains, and pippins, which Laurentius extols as having a peculiar property against this disease […].
ref: , II.ii.1.1
text: 1826 June 30, Thomas Greene Fessenden (editor), The New England Farmer, Volume 4 [July 1825—July 1826], page 385,
If it were not so, why, for instance, has not the pearmain — a better apple than the Baldwin or any other Massachusetts winter apple now known to me — been propagated as extensively, and brought in plenty to our markets?
text: Apples: Drap d'or, Barcelona pearmain;[…].
ref: 1833, John Claudius Loudon, editor, Art. VII: London Horticutural Society and Garden: Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, volume IX, page 727:
glosses: Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin.
pearmains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearmain
pistick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pisticks
Etymology: Alteration of pistachio.
Senses: examples: text: Trallianus discommends figs, Salvianus olives and capers, which others especially like of, and so of pistick nuts.
ref: , II.ii.1.1
glosses: A pistachio nut.
pisticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistick
sallets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sallet
proconsulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proconsulates
Etymology: From Latin prōcōnsulātus.
Senses: glosses: The office of a proconsul.
examples: proconsulate of Syria
glosses: The district under proconsul’s government.
proconsulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proconsulate
fixator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixators
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any muscle that fixes, or limits the movement, of a bone or joint
fixators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fixator
fusariosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusarioses
Etymology: Fusarium + -osis
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Infection with fungi of the genus Fusarium.
fusidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˈsɪdɪk/
Etymology: From the generic name Fusidium (from the Latin fūsus, “spindle”) + the English -ic, so named because fusidic acid was originally isolated from a strain of the fungus Fusidium coccineum.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fusidic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: fusidate
fusidic acid
galvanotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any movement or alignment of an organism with respect to an electric field
gatifloxacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡæt.ɪˈflɑk.səs.ɪn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -floxacin (“nalidixic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular fluoroquinolone antibiotic.
hemodiafiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemodiafiltrations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A combination of hemofiltration and dialysis
hemofiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemofiltrations
Etymology: From hemo- + filtration.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of renal replacement therapy similar to hemodialysis
Related terms: hemofiltrate
homospermine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homospermines
Etymology: From homo- (“extra methylene group”) + spermine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An analogue of spermine having an extra methylene group between the middle two nitrogen atoms; and derivative of this compound
hydroxychavicol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydroxy + chavicol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular phenolic antimutagen isolated from betel leaves.
hydroxyitraconazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydroxy + itraconazole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxy derivative of itraconazole that has antifungal activity
garden hose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden hoses
form: gardenhose
form: garden-hose
Senses: examples: text: Mayor Scott also made himself useful, and, with a number of others, so manipulated a garden hose that the flames were prevented from spreading to the electric light buildings, which were only a few feet distant.
ref: 1890 July 13, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, “The Grand Opera House”, in The Deseret weekly, volume 41, page 82:
text: I'm not sure what that reason was either, but he needed about 500 feet of garden hose. I said, "Okay, I'll trade you the garden hose for two pallets of sandbags. And I need them trucked over there to Qua Viet."
ref: 2005, Richard Burks Verrone, Laura M. Calkins, Voices from Vietnam, David & Charles, page 172:
synonyms: hosepipe
hypernyms: hose
coordinate_terms: fire hose
radiator hose#Noun
glosses: A type of hose used for light residential applications such as watering lawns or gardens, or washing and rinsing passenger vehicles, etc.
glosses: A length of hose as above, usually with a male connector on one end and a female connector on the other end, which can carry water from a hose bib (a water faucet or spigot usually located on an exterior wall of a house or other building) for use on a garden or lawn.
hyperoxygenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperoxygenations
Etymology: From hyper- + oxygenation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The administration of a higher than usual concentration of oxygen, or the condition of having such a concentration of oxygen.
hyperproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperproductions
Etymology: From hyper- + production.
Senses: glosses: Excessive production.
immunobiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immunobiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to immunobiology.
immunobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to immunobiology
Derived terms: clinicoimmunobiological
immunobiologically
immunobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunobiologicals
Etymology: From immuno- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
immunostimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunostimulating
form: most immunostimulating
Etymology: From immuno- + stimulating.
Senses: glosses: That stimulates the immune system
Related terms: immunostimulation
immunosuppressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunosuppressed
form: most immunosuppressed
Etymology: From immuno- + suppressed.
Senses: glosses: Affected by immunosuppression
Derived terms: nonimmunosuppressed
overimmunosuppressed
imputative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From impute + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Of, related, or pertaining to imputation.
Derived terms: imputatively
imputativeness
Related terms: impute
imputatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From imputative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imputative fashion or manner.
dishwasher proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dishwasher proof
form: most dishwasher proof
Etymology: From dishwasher + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: This Tupperware is dishwasher proof.
glosses: Able to be cleaned in a dishwasher without damage.
hit the skids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the skids
form: hitting the skids
form: hit the skids
form: hit the skids
Senses: examples: text: After all, if these measures could've succeeded, they would've been implemented five years ago when the world economy hadn't yet hit the skids.
ref: 2010, Ganesh Rathnam, Mises Daily, “A Greek Tragedy in the Making”, in Mises Institute:
text: A metaverse backlash, already fully rooted, began to bloom. Microsoft’s military contract hit the skids, Disney laid off its entire metaverse team, and even Zuckerberg’s own employees seem not to have much time for the technology.
ref: 2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To fail; to decline.
Related terms: on the skids
skid row
crack whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crack whore
integrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of integron
integron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integrons
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A system of gene capture and dissemination
Derived terms: superintegron
interactional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interactional
form: most interactional
Etymology: From interaction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The interactional function of pragmatic markers can be associated with social functions of language, such as the interlocutors' mutual recognition of the conversational relationship and the expression of solidarity and politeness.
ref: 2001, Gisle Andersen, Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation, page 69:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or featuring interaction.
Derived terms: interactionalism
interactionalist
interactionally
noninteractional
Related terms: interactive
intraindividual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: intra-individual
Etymology: From intra- + individual.
Senses: glosses: Occurring within an individual
Derived terms: intraindividually
Related terms: interindividual
kasugamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: kasugaensis + -mycin
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An aminoglycoside antibiotic, originally isolated from Streptomyces kasugaensis
liposomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From liposome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to liposomes
Derived terms: extraliposomal
immunoliposomal
intraliposomal
liposomalization
liposomally
multiliposomal
nanoliposomal
nonliposomal
proteoliposomal
maltolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltolates
Etymology: From maltol + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion derived from maltol; any salt containing this anion.
methioninol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methionine + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alcohol (S)-2-amino-4-methylmercapto-1-butanol related to methionine
methylatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more methylatable
form: most methylatable
Etymology: From methylate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be methylated
Derived terms: nonmethylatable
unmethylatable
microcalorimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + calorimetric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microcalorimetry
glosses: Measured using a microcalorimeter
Derived terms: microcalorimetrically
microcalorimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcalorimeters
Etymology: From micro- + calorimeter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A calorimeter designed to measure very small quantities of heat
Related terms: microcalorimetry
miniplasmid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniplasmids
Etymology: From mini- + plasmid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A plasmid that has been reduced in size
moxalactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: latamoxef
latamoxef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A particular oxacephem antibiotic
oxacephem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxacephems
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of cephem in which an oxygen atom has been substituted for sulfur; the basis for a group of antibiotics
moxifloxacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From m(eth)oxy + -floxacin (“nalidixic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular fluoroquinolone antibiotic.
mucate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucates
Etymology: From mucic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of mucic acid.
mucopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucopeptides
Etymology: From muco- + peptide?
Senses: glosses: peptidoglycan
multiantibiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-antibiotic
Etymology: From multi- + antibiotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple antibiotics
permafrosted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: permafrosted soil
glosses: Permanently frozen.
Synonyms: permafrozen
Related terms: permafrost
permalloys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permalloy
indepthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indepthly
form: most indepthly
Etymology: From in depth + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He looks at me, fully, indepthly! He's never done it before, but he does it now. He smells the gin on my breath, and he knows me; he knows I understand.
ref: 1994, Steve Bosak, South Side Stories:
text: It has the ability to concentrate indepthly on many subjects […]
ref: 2002, Frances M. Klug, Stories from Heaven:
text: In the fourth section, SOR Architecture is analyzed indepthly, showing its modules and explaining how it enhances the existing OSGi Service Registry […]
ref: 2008, Roger Lee, Computer and Information Science:
glosses: In depth.
facileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * from facile + -ness
Senses: examples: text: But hipster critics also saw a facileness in the way he attracted legal trouble and then made it part of his act.
ref: 2004 December 3, Ben Schwartz, “The Comedy Behind the Tragedy”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: superficiality, glibness
facilitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facilitative
form: most facilitative
Etymology: From facilitate + -ive. Compare Latin facilitātīvus.
Senses: examples: text: As regards the influence of the metals, it can be deduced from the table that iron is 240 times more collective of charge and facilitative to explosion than the most collective non-metallic substance, — 533,000 times more so than sea water, — 7,500,000 times more so than spring water, rain, snow, hail, ice, human beings, animals, vegetation, wood, clouds, fog, earth, sand, shingle, rock, stone, brick, earthenware, straw, cotton, linen, paper, hemp, wool, silk, leather, and bone, — and 340,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more so than air, asphalte, and glass ; and we gain from these figures some idea of the enormous power possessed by metals relatively to non-metallic substances for influencing lightning discharges.
ref: 1882, Arthur Parnell, The Action of Lightning and the Means of Defending Life and Property from Its Effects, Crosby Lockwood and Company, page 174:
text: However, in contrast to the facilitative actions in subcortical structures, high levels of catecholamine release in prefrontal cortex result in cognitive dysfunction.
ref: 1998 June 12, Amy F. T. Arnsten, “NEUROSCIENCE: Enhanced: The Biology of Being Frazzled”, in Science, volume 280, number 5370, →DOI, pages 1711–1712:
text: This is also facilitative in the development of students’ independent learning skills, promoting a culture of asking and answering questions among the students.
ref: 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1088:
glosses: Having the effect of making easy; assisting, easing or facilitating.
Derived terms: facilitatively
nonfacilitative
bridger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridgers
Etymology: From Middle English briggere, equivalent to bridge + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And he wasn't an ordinary bridger, Tuck remembers, he was said to be one of the best bridge-masters on Pomperoy.
ref: 2008, Julie Bertagna, Zenith, page 191:
glosses: One who builds bridges
examples: text: In either arrangement, the teacher reserves personal judgment and acts more as a bridger of student ideas or as an encourager of reluctant participants (vocal participation, though, should always be the student's prerogative).
ref: 2002, James R. Delisle, Barefoot Irreverence, page 178:
glosses: One who bridges, or connects two previously separate things.
glosses: One who plays bridge (card game)
Related terms: Fort Bridger
broderie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broderies
Etymology: From French broderie.
Senses: glosses: An embroidery pattern.
Related terms: broderie anglaise
broderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broderie
buller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbʊlɚ/
Forms: form: bullers
form: bullering
form: bullered
form: bullered
Etymology: From Scots buller (“to boil, seethe”). Of obscure origin. Probably related to Old Norse bulla (“to boil”) and Old French bullir (“to boil”), Latin bullio (“I boil”), all from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“swelling”).
Senses: examples: text: The still liquid element startled uprears, It bubbled and bullered and roared in his ears, Like thunder that gallows on high.
ref: 1821, James Hogg, Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland:
text: If this wer a good argument, to prove a man's sins wer not pardoned, because he still finds corruption bullering up in him, then none in the world should have their sin pardoned!
ref: 1842, Robert Wodrow, Analecta: Or Materials for a History of Remarkable Providences Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians:
text: The end of an assay in the Edinburgh mint was described exactly so in 1639: 'in this haill tyme it was always bullering and as it were seithing bot so soone as it settled and rested from so doeing (al the quhich tyme there did appeir some cleir twinkling sparkles into it)' the assayer 'tooke it forthe bot not in ane instant bot softely by retireing and advancing.
ref: 2011, John Craig, The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: To boil or seethe.
buller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbʊlɚ/
Forms: form: bullers
Etymology: From Scots buller (“to boil, seethe”). Of obscure origin. Probably related to Old Norse bulla (“to boil”) and Old French bullir (“to boil”), Latin bullio (“I boil”), all from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“swelling”).
Senses: glosses: The bubbling or seething of a torrent.
buller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbʊlɚ/
Forms: form: bullers
form: bullering
form: bullered
form: bullered
Etymology: From Scots buller, bullir (“to bellow, roar”), likely of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to roar”). Compare Danish buldre (“to rumble”), Swedish bullra (“to make a noise, roar, rumble”).
Senses: examples: text: "Sae we let go the rape,” said David, “ and he went adown the water screeching and bullering like a Bull of Bashan, as he's ca'd in Scripture.”
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian:
text: It never shrinked nor feared, but would dowk under the water, snorting and bullering, terrible to the hearers and beholders.
ref: 1828, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland and England:
text: On the other side there lay a lighted suburb, which we thridded for a while, then turned into a dark lane, and presently found ourselves wading in the night among deep sand where we could hear a bullering of the sea.
ref: 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, page 331:
glosses: To make a lot of noise.
examples: text: It was not that he bullered and swore like so many of his farmer neighbours. Their men knew what to expect from them, and they swore back, knowing that the next day they could speak to them as if nothing had happened. But Will Murray was different. His word was law.
ref: 1989, Fred Urquhart, Graeme Roberts, Full Score: Short Stories, page 69:
text: The door of the vet's banged open and the receptionist bullered out.
ref: 1996, Colophon Press, Madam X. - Issue 1, page 23:
text: But it's Christmas the morn's morn — It bullered, throbbed like a U-boat, black.
ref: 2005, John Aberdein, Amande's Bed, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: To force one's way; to be pushy.
buller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbʊlɚ/
Forms: form: bullers
Etymology: From bull + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Male cattle ('riders') in intensive housing are prone to mount herdmates willing to stand to be mounted ('bullers'). The buller-steer syndrome has been estimated to cost $70 per head, which can represent significant losses in large feedlots (Blackshaw et al., 1997). Incidence of bullers in a feedlot was about 2% (409 bullers in 20,428 mixed breed steers, Irwin et al., 1979).
ref: 1997, Jack L. Albright, Clive Wendell Arave, The Behaviour of Cattle, page 253:
text: The annual incidence of buller steers within the feedlot industry is reported to fall between 2 and 4 percent, but the incidence per pen can be quite variable ranging from 0.0 percent to 11.2 percent per pen (Taylor et al., 1997).
ref: 2008, G. John Benson, Bernard E. Rollin, The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions, →ISBN, page 200:
text: Buller steers are often injured from persistent mounting by pen mates, or debilitated to the point that they must be removed from the group and housed separately. The added labor and pens required to manage buller steers cuts into profit margins. Losses are even greater when buller steers become debilitated.
ref: 2008, Edward O. Price, Principles and Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior, →ISBN:
glosses: A steer that allows itself to be mounted by bulls when in the crowded conditions of a feedlot.
examples: text: My mother always mentioned these teachings when she saw a buller man or heard about someone thought to be a buller.
ref: 2004, Rhoda Reddock, Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities, →ISBN:
text: This process of articulating my own story and asking other bullers to make public their stories is an attempt to assert and broaden the reality of Black male same-sex existence, which too many people for far too long have tried to erase.
ref: 2004, Wesley Eddison Aylesworth Crichlow, Buller Men and Batty Bwoys: Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black Communities, →ISBN:
text: “Well, day say yuh must be ah buller man,” the pastor said flatly.
ref: 2012, G. Modele Dale Clarke, Up in Mahaica: Stories From the Market People, →ISBN:
glosses: A homosexual man.
waitpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waitperson
waitpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waitperson
Mansonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mansonites
Etymology: From Manson + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The glib interpretations offered — the Mansonites were all people with grudges against society: he had, like Hitler, an incomplete personality […]
ref: 1977, Alexander Walker, Double takes: notes and afterthoughts on the movies, 1956-76:
glosses: A follower of Charles Manson (1934-2017), American leader of a cult-like criminal group in the 1960s.
examples: text: Today's wet-behind-the-ears Mansonites are fueled by the spirit of betrayal, the sense that somewhere along the line the Woodstock generation copped out.
ref: 1994 September, SPIN, volume 10, number 6:
text: When they first started, they wanted to trick all the goths, mansonites, ebmers, darkwavers etc etc into coming to their shows, therefore chose the name to confuse them, so they could unleash their "RAWK" assault of insanely high falsetto vocals, kickass guitar solos and mind bogglingly catchy songs about girls, love and sex.
ref: 2004, DJ Brian UK, “The Darkness”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool (Usenet):
text: By the end, she has become a Mansonite Goth.
ref: 2006, Bhesham R. Sharma, The death of art:
text: For most Mansonites, Goth is only a phase, and their fashion and outlook on life change alongside Marilyn Manson's.
ref: 2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture:
glosses: A fan of controversial American rock musician Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner, born 1969).
Mansonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mansonite
manslots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manslot
postcommunist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + communist.
Senses: examples: text: This book differs in focus, argument, and method from other available studies on postcommunist Russia.
ref: 2005, Michael Steven Fish, Democracy derailed in Russia: the failure of open politics:
glosses: After communism.
postcommunist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcommunists
Etymology: From post- + communist.
Senses: glosses: A person who holds power in postcommunism
Related terms: postcommunism
postcommunistic
post-Soviet
postcommunists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcommunist
cyberart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberarts
Etymology: From cyber- + art.
Senses: examples: text: Collective creation as well as audience participation go hand in hand with a third characteristic of cyberart: continuous creation.
ref: 2001, Pierre Lévy, Cyberculture:
text: As fertile and formally expansive as cyberart was for Hershman, it may be that its anonymity, its mere virtuality, was a distraction...
ref: 2005, Meredith Tromble, The art and films of Lynn Hershman Leeson:
glosses: Art produced with the help of computers, often with an interactive or multimedia aspect.
Synonyms: digital art
Hyponyms: cyberpoetry
Related terms: cyberartist
cyberanarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberanarchists
Etymology: From cyber- + anarchist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of cyberanarchism.
cyberanarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberanarchist
cyberaddict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberaddicts
Etymology: From cyber- + addict.
Senses: glosses: One who is addicted to computers or to the Internet.
Related terms: cyberaddiction
cyberaddicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberaddict
cybernews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + news.
Senses: examples: text: Cybernews creates some dilemmas for print journalism. Its benefits lie in the fact that it allows print formats to compete with broadcast media...
ref: 1998, Richard Davis, Diana Marie Owen, New media and American politics:
text: Cybernews comes in a sophisticated bundle of news, services and e-commerce.
ref: 2002, Vir Bala Aggarwal, Media and society: challenges and opportunities:
glosses: News published on the Internet, as opposed to traditional print and television media.
postcapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-capitalist
Etymology: From post- + capitalist.
Senses: examples: text: Put it like this and it is not hard to see the possibility of a “post-capitalist” era – although the inability to see a path to it is what blights all modern social movements.
ref: 2014 November 2, Paul Mason, “What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism”, in The Guardian:
text: As the world confronts more evidence of the effects of climate change – from floods in Pakistan to heatwaves in Britain – rampant inflation and the energy crisis, [Kohei] Saito’s vision of a more sustainable, post-capitalist world will appear in an academic text to be published next year by Cambridge University Press, with an English translation of his bestseller to follow.
ref: 2022 September 9, Justin McCurry, “‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan”, in The Guardian:
glosses: After capitalism.
Related terms: postcapitalism
postcapitalistic
postcapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcapitalists
form: post-capitalist
Etymology: From post- + capitalist.
Senses: examples: text: You can spin out various possible futures for the island: In one version, disaster capitalists and bitcoin entrepreneurs arrive in their yachts and private jets, turning Puerto Rico into a crypto St. Barts; in another, post-capitalists build a paradise powered by solar microgrids, community gardens and the rebirth of local fisheries; […]
ref: 2018 September 12, Jeff Goodell, “The Perfect Storm: How Climate Change and Wall Street Almost Killed Puerto Rico”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: A proponent of postcapitalism.
globalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more globalizable
form: most globalizable
Etymology: From globalize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: At its simplest, the most globalizable business models are those that seek to impose the company's logic on the marketplace...
ref: 2003, George S. Yip, Total global strategy two:
text: It may be useful to define the characteristics of infections that are globalizable — meaning those that can spread widely in today's world.
ref: 2003, Lincoln C. Chen, Jennifer Leaning, Vasant Narasimhan, Global health challenges for human security:
glosses: Capable of being globalized.
Related terms: globalizability
globalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globalizers
Etymology: From globalize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Chile, identified as an "aggressive globalizer," has surely embraced liberalization.
ref: 2004, Daniel Fireside, John Miller, Amy Offner, Real World Macro:
text: The answer is clear for the main globalizer, the US government: an open, integrated global economy works to the advantage of American firms...
ref: 2009, Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society:
glosses: One who, or that which, globalizes.
globalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globalizer
Americanizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americanizers
Etymology: From Americanize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, Americanizes.
Americanizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americanizer
noncolumnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + columnar.
Senses: glosses: Not columnar.
columnless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From column + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The films with columnless structure...
ref: 1989, L. E. McCandlish, Multicomponent ultrafine microstructures:
text: The longest (known as building A) is a columnless hairpin hall, with its usual porch at the entrance, or so it would seem.
ref: 1998, Joseph Rykwert, The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture:
glosses: Lacking columns.
flowerbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flower box.
flowerboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerbox
flowerfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerflies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flower-fly.
flowerflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerfly
heavenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heavenlike
form: most heavenlike
Etymology: From heaven + -like.
Senses: examples: text: People with noble and serene thoughts are found in higher subdivisions that have heavenlike conditions but are not actual heavens.
ref: 2004, Ravindra Kumar, Jytte Larsen, The Kundalini book of living and dying: gateways to a higher consciousness:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a heaven; heavenly.
multialgorithmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multialgorithmic
form: most multialgorithmic
Etymology: From multi- + algorithmic.
Senses: examples: text: Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites...
ref: 2010, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one algorithm.
Related terms: multialgorithm
mupirocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular antibiotic applied topically