cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
modern-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Modern-day Greek is a lot different from ancient Greek, or koine.
text: Of course, modern-day theories debunk that idea.
text: And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 13:
text: The Yongping garrison was located between Siming prefecture and Môn Châu, or modern-day Na Cham. The Qianlong garrison was located at modern-day Shangsi county in southern Guangxi.
ref: 2007, James Anderson, “Notes”, in The Rebel Den of Nùng Trí Cao: Loyalty and Identity Along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier, University of Washington Press; NUS Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 213:
glosses: Current; of the present.
examples: text: That couple led police on a wild goose chase like a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde!
text: Lambert had been on the pitch only three minutes when he rose, in the style of a modern-day Nat Lofthouse, to score with the arching, powerful header that completely changed the emphasis on a night when Roy Hodgson's team had, at times, exhausted the patience of their home crowd.
ref: 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Used to designate a present-day version of someone or something in history.
Modjadji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔˈdʒɑːdʒi/
ipa: /məˈdʒɑːdʒi/
Forms: form: Modjadjis
Etymology: The personal name of the first queen of the Lobedu, a Northern Sotho woman of the early 19th century, adopted as a hereditary name; perhaps from Northern Sotho (Lobedu) mo- (“singular prefix”) + tšatši (“day, sun”).
Senses: glosses: The Rain Queen, or hereditary queen of the Lobedu people of the Limpopo province of South Africa, held to have various special powers including the ability to make it rain.
Derived terms: Modjadji cycad
Modjadji palm
postpartisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postpartisan
form: most postpartisan
form: post-partisan
Etymology: From post- + partisan.
Senses: examples: text: Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi[…].
ref: 1995 September 18, Michael Handy, “Ich Bin Ein Magazine Editor”, in Time, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2010:
text: If nurtured and used creatively, they can be the lever by which Obama transforms the landscape of government and creates a broad postpartisan coalition.
ref: 2009 February 6, David Brooks, “The Gang System”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides
Derived terms: postpartisanship
unhittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hittable.
Senses: examples: text: Carmona flashed an unhittable pitch as he struck out Ramirez with a 96-mile-an-hour fastball that dived under Ramirez’s hands.
ref: 2007 October 21, Jack Curry, “Unlikely Star Helps Red Sox Force Deciding Game”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to hit
yardwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yard + work.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Romney endured tough questioning from reporters in Des Moines yesterday about revelations last week that a yardwork company he employed was found for a second time to be using illegal immigrants.
ref: 2007 December 8, Sarah Wheaton, “Huckabee Immigration Plan Emphasizes Security”, in New York Times:
glosses: Work done in maintaining a lawn, and related landscaping activities
Related terms: housework
fieldwork
anxiety disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anxiety disorders
Senses: examples: text: Is the caffeine connection widely unrecognized? Surveys document that 70 percent of patients with panic disorder visited physicians ten or more times before they experienced relief of their symptoms. The fact is that few physicians conduct a careful evaluation of caffeine intake, even though the medical literature is conclusive on the benefits of caffeine reduction in virtually all anxiety disorders.
ref: 1998, Stephen Cherniske, M.S., Caffeine blues : wake up to the hidden dangers of America's #1 drug, Warner Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, Ch. 4, page 108:
text: "Elliot, Clinton asserts that he has no desire to end your relationship. Your fears are therefore unfounded. We are directing you to seek professional help for your anxiety disorder."
ref: 2022, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4915: Finger Guns:
glosses: A disorder characterised by excessive anxiety.
ultrarich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultra-rich
form: ultra rich
Etymology: From ultra- + rich.
Senses: examples: text: On the North Shore, the ultrarich who moved out from Manhattan early in the century actually improved environmental conditions by reforesting the bare farmlands they bought for their estates.
ref: 1996, Roger D. Stone, Nicolas De Maria, Fair tide: sailing toward Long Island's future, →ISBN, page 5:
text: It looked to be another perfect day in the playland of the ultrarich.
ref: 2003, Vince Flynn, Executive Power, →ISBN, page 17:
text: The number of U.S. millionaires (excluding home equity) jumped from 2 million in 2002 to 2.27 million in 2003, while the number of “ultrarich" worth over $30 million in the United States and Canada grew to 30,000 in 2003 (Frank, 2004).
ref: 2004, Environmental Change and Security Project Report - Issue 10, page 84:
glosses: The wealthiest class of people.
anxiety disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anxiety disorder
toylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toylike
form: most toylike
Etymology: From toy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The simple geometric forms of the "baby buildings" would probably look toylike.
ref: 1988 June 10, Ed Zotti, “One for the Books”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling a toy or toys
ultraluxury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + luxury.
Senses: examples: text: Post-tsunami, the glitz factor has soared, with new ultraluxury resorts and a more upscale vibe in town.
ref: 2009 February 26, Shyama Patel, “One Piece or Two?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Providing an extremely high degree of luxury, well beyond what "luxury" would normally imply
tarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tarlike
form: most tarlike
Etymology: From tar + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The threat is the buildup of sludge — gooey tarlike deposits — that reduces or shuts off oil circulation […].
ref: 2007 February 4, Christopher Jensen, “Engine Sludge: When Good Oil Goes Bad”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling tar
panic disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panic disorders
Senses: glosses: An anxiety disorder involving severe recurring panic attacks.
silents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silent
spalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spalike
form: most spalike
Etymology: From spa + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The only place to sleep is in the master bedroom suite, with its spalike bathroom of Port Orford cedar.
ref: 2007 April 1, Fred A. Bernstein, “Sand Box”, in New York Times:
text: Lower-cost B.B.L.s have created a market for similarly priced postoperative care. These are not the relaxing, spalike havens like the ones that serve wealthier clientele.
ref: 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Resembling a spa.
ranchland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchlands
Etymology: From ranch + land.
Senses: examples: text: One hectare (about 2.5 acres) of forest cleared and converted to ranchland or crops produces a piece of land worth, on average, $200 to $500.
ref: 2007 June 16, William Powers, Glenn Hurowitz, “Home on the Rainforest”, in New York Times:
glosses: Land used for ranching, or raising livestock
Synonyms: rangeland
endocervicitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + cervicitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix
oxytocia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An unusually rapid childbirth.
Related terms: oxytocic
oxytocin
talaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talari
backstages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backstage
baby bumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby bump
prems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prem
chloroalkyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloroalkyl
haloalkyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloalkyls
Etymology: From halo- + alkyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkyl radical having one or more hydrogen atoms replaced by a halogen atom.
haloalkyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haloalkyl
tolling agreements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolling agreement
chronozones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronozone
landed costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landed cost
quadtree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadtrees
Etymology: From quad- + tree, coined by Raphael Finkel and J. L. Bentley in 1974.
Senses: examples: text: H.265 employs a more flexible quadtree structure that refines motion search.
ref: 2015, Benny Bing, Next-Generation Video Coding and Streaming, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: A treelike data structure each of whose nodes has up to four children, most often used to partition a two-dimensional space by recursively subdividing it.
wikipedia: Jon Bentley (computer scientist)
Raphael Finkel
Related terms: binary tree
octree
quadtrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadtree
octree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octrees
Etymology: From oct- + tree.
Senses: glosses: A treelike data structure each of whose nodes has up to eight children, most often used to partition a three-dimensional space by recursively subdividing it.
Related terms: binary tree
quadtree
octrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octree
chessic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chess + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The chessic tribes, peculiar in their gait, / Vary their modes of motion; some march straight, / Direct and forward, some oblique...
ref: 1825, Charles Dibdin, The Chessiad:
text: As we've already announced, your opponent is in the last stages of chessic caries.
ref: 1964, Chess Review:
text: To diagnose your opponent's weaknesses — an over-adventurous style, a dislike for assuming the defensive, overconfidence in certain types of positions, impatience in the endgame, rigidity in choice of openings — requires a psychological as well as chessic analysis.
ref: 1972, Readings in Psychology Today
glosses: Pertaining to chess.
Synonyms: scacchic
Derived terms: chessically
tabiyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabiya
white van man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white van men
Etymology: White is a standard colour for vans.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, the unregulated 'white van man' with low overheads has found a niche that no large company can possibly compete with.
ref: 2024 July 24, “Comment: Can Labour allow rail mail to fail?”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 3:
glosses: A stereotypical tradesman or handyman who drives a white van, especially one who drives carelessly.
white van men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white van man
folk devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk devils
Senses: examples: text: It may be true, as Fred Robinson, a senior researcher at Newcastle University said, "Many people view Mrs. Thatcher as a kind of folk devil.
ref: 1987 July 9, Steve Lohr, “Newcastle Journal: Half of England where jobs are as rare as Tories”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Feb 2009:
text: "Every time things become problematic we start careering towards social causes and pick on a folk devil to attribute all evil."
ref: 1996 December 18, Robert Verkaik, “‘Crash’ tackling”, in The Independent (UK), retrieved 08 Jun 2014:
text: There is always a tendency, in the mainstream as much as the fringes, to blame real or imagined social problems on a folk devil.
ref: 2013 October 20, Jesse Walker, “Conspiracies: Five things they don’t want you to know”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 08 Jun 2014:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic.
Synonyms: scapegoat
Hypernyms: pariah
outcast
folk devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folk devil
muzhik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzhiks
form: muzhiki
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mujik.
moujik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moujiks
form: moujiki
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mujik.
muzhiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muzhik
muzjik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzjiks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mujik.
moujiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moujik
muzjiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muzjik
Tutte matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tutte matrix
Tutte matrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tutte matrix
procuresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procuress
whorishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whorish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ‘You just miserable with the whorishness!’ shrieked Rhita. ‘My husband still have interest in me!’
ref: 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 183:
glosses: The state or condition of being whorish.
Synonyms: strumpetry
sleazemonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleazemongers
Etymology: From sleaze + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who maliciously spreads disgraceful information about someone; gossip, blabbermouth.
examples: text: Ernest cannot see himself telling Honoroff that his wife does pictures for that sex-obsessed sleazemonger.
ref: 1988, “Prince Charming”, in Complications, page 208:
text: Not even the sleazemongers at Fox will pay big money to televise a dull & diminished NBA product.
ref: a 2004, Hunter S. Thompson, "Mad Cow Disease Comes to the NBA", Hey Rube, page 49
text: The P.R. king and tabloid sleazemonger?
ref: 2011, Isabel Wolff, Rescuing Rose, page 273:
glosses: A peddler of sleaze.
sleazemongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleazemonger
jubblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jubbly
jubbly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒʌb.li/
ipa: /ˈdʒʌb(ə)li/
Forms: form: jubblies
Etymology: Unknown. Originally Australian. Attested since the 1990s. Compare jugs.
Senses: examples: text: Bare breasts, vulnerable breasts – on display everywhere ... the decorative sex, to-be-looked-at-sex, the bearers of “boobs”, “jubblies”, “titties”, the to-be-ridiculed-sex.
ref: 1994, Brigid McConville, Mixed Messages: Our Breasts in our Lives:
glosses: female breast
Related terms: lovely jubbly
police states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police state
memory leaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memory leak
wonky holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wonky hole
multiword
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multi-word.
multilexemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + lexemic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Consisting of multiple lexemes.
fuzz testing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: A testing methodology in which random data (“fuzz”) is supplied as input to a program.
Hypernyms: testing
fuzz test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuzz tests
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any test that uses the fuzz testing methodology.
fuzz tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuzz test
appendicitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendicitis
appendicitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendicitis
preindustrially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preindustrial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Before industrialization.
postindustrially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postindustrial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a postindustrial context; following industrialization.
acetyllysine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetyllysines
Etymology: From acetyl + lysine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric acetyl derivatives of lysine; they are formed in protein as part of epigenetics
adhesivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhesivities
Etymology: From adhesive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being adhesive
glosses: A measure of adhesiveness
Derived terms: mucoadhesivity
lifestyler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: līfʹstīl'ər
Forms: form: lifestylers
Etymology: From lifestyle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The most intense (and intensely in love) lifestylers make unconditional lifetime commitments (with no possibility of separation or divorce).
ref: 2000, Gloria G Brame, Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide to Kinky Sex:
text: Gay lifestylers live openly in gay-specific ghettos […]
ref: 2003, Wayne Brekhus, Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs:
text: But it was really when the book was turned into a lavish blockbuster in 1992 that the vampire lifestylers came into their own.
ref: 2008, Arlene Russo, Vampire Nation:
glosses: One who lives an alternative lifestyle all the time, not just occasionally.
Related terms: lifestylist
lifestylers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifestyler
afferents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afferent
Hollywoodesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hollywoodesque
form: most Hollywoodesque
Etymology: From Hollywood + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling some aspect of Hollywood.
ameloblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ameloblasts
Etymology: From amelo- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: An epithelial cell that forms the enamel of the developing tooth
Derived terms: ameloblastic
ameloblastin
ameloblastoma
preameloblast
annectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annectant
form: most annectant
Senses: examples: text: Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: joining, connecting
Related terms: annex
minstrelsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minstrelsy
partituras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partitura
Hollywoodish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hollywoodish
form: most Hollywoodish
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling some aspect of Hollywood; Hollywoodesque.
antiarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiarchs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of extinct placoderms of the order Antiarchi
antiarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiarch
filmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filmable
form: most filmable
Etymology: From film + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For the TLC undertaking, he employs only underachievers, cronies who have been hired for their ability to make the work site madcap and, therefore, filmable.
ref: 2005 March 11, Ned Martel, “The Unlikely Progress of a Barely Motivated Underachiever”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being filmed; suitable for filming.
antidot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidots
Etymology: From anti- + dot.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A small, circular region of opposite charge or magnetization, especially one that is part of a semiconductor device
antidot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidots
Senses: examples: text: The Cantharides have some part in them, which by a contrarietie of nature serveth as an antidot or counterpoison against their poison[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 5, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of antidote.
Hollywoodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hollywoodian
form: most Hollywoodian
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The novel's less accessible aspects were ignored by the Hollywoodian money machine.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Hollywood.
Related terms: Hollywoodesque
Hollywoodish
Hollywoodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hollywoodians
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Hollywooder
Hollywoodite
glosses: Someone who works in the film industry in Hollywood.
examples: text: “Is it any wonder that so little first-rate art has ever come out of Southern California?” he said to Harry. “Of all the smugness! The contempt for austerity! Hollywoodians will tell you that their town is the most cosmopolitan in America. But what do they mean by cosmopolitan? […]”
ref: 1932, Myron Brinig, This Man is My Brother, New York, NY: Farrar & Rinehart, page 147:
text: Remember that massive half-built Target that's been taunting Hollywoodians? Two years after a judge ordered the ginormous project to come to a screeching halt, the mass retailer finally (and expectedly) has the green light to hammer away again, the LA Times reports.
ref: 2016 May 5, Danielle Directo-Meston, “Hollywood's Three-Story Target Will Finally Emerge From Construction Limbo”, in Racked:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Hollywood, Los Angeles.
antievolutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antievolutionists
form: anti-evolutionist
Etymology: From anti- + evolutionist.
Senses: glosses: A person who believes, or argues, that evolution does not take place.
anyonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anyonic
form: most anyonic
Etymology: From anyon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to anyons
money machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money machines
Senses: glosses: A very profitable scheme or institution.
glosses: One that disregards aesthetic or spiritual concerns in favour of making money.
examples: text: One minute later, it shows she made the withdrawal at the ANZ money machine for the same amount.
ref: 2019, Deena Coster, “Woman left out of pocket for two weeks after ATM failed to deliver”, in Stuff:
glosses: Synonym of automated teller machine.
synonyms: word: automated teller machine
Related terms: golden goose
cash cow
money machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money machine
rm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of right margin.
glosses: Initialism of returned missionary.
glosses: Abbreviation of room.
rm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of remove.
archlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more archlike
form: most archlike
form: arch-like
Etymology: From arch + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of an arch
arthrodiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrodirans
Etymology: From Arthrodira + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of extinct fish of the order Arthrodira.
filtered out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of filter out
filtering out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of filter out
filters out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of filter out
aspiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aspiny
form: most aspiny
Etymology: From a- + spiny.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Lacking spines (“sharp protrusions”)
arthrodirans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthrodiran
antievolutionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antievolutionist
antidots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidot
ameloblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ameloblast
acetyllysines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetyllysine
adhesivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adhesivity
thanatomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thanatomimetic
form: most thanatomimetic
Etymology: From thanato- + mimetic.
Senses: glosses: Being, or pertaining to, thanatomimesis.
atherinomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atherinomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of rainbowfish and silversides of the order Atherinomorpha.
thanatomimesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thanato- + mimesis.
Senses: glosses: The mimicry of death.
Synonyms: playing dead
autosampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autosamplers
Etymology: From auto- + sampler.
Senses: glosses: Any of various devices that automate a sampling process.
Derived terms: microautosampler
Related terms: autosample
autosampling
atherinomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atherinomorph
autosamplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autosampler
avirulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avirulent
form: most avirulent
Etymology: From a- + virulent.
Senses: examples: text: An isolate from raw fish, serotype 0:6, unable to invade HeLa cells and negative for heat-stable enterotoxin, was clinically avirulent in this model and caused no lesions by histological examination.
ref: 2012, Gerald T. Keusch, “Invasive Bacterial Diarrheas”, in Lincoln Chen, editor, Diarrhea and Malnutrition, page 54:
glosses: Not virulent.
Related terms: avirulence
avirulency
axosomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axo- + somatic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the synapse between an axon and the body of another cell.
Related terms: axoaxonic
axodendritic
sturgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A comparable structure is unknown in early osteichthyan pelvic girdles, although juvenile sturgeons do show a series of pelvic basals in similar topological position to the basipterygium linking the last radial with the metapterygium 21 .
ref: 2009 February 26, John A. Long et al., “Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1124–1127:
glosses: plural of sturgeon
valeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of valet
valeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of valet
basals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basal
somata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As a consequence, the peak values of the distribution of inputs were sometimes centred on the somata, although somata are mostly devoid of excitatory synapses (Figs 2 and 3 ).
ref: 2009 January 18, Leopoldo Petreanu et al., “The subcellular organization of neocortical excitatory connections”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1142–1145:
glosses: plural of soma
octapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octapeptides
Etymology: From octa- + peptide.
Senses: examples: text: a, COS-7 cells were transfected with expression plasmids directing the expression of each of the indicated PrP deletion mutants (green, octapeptide repeats; red, globular domain; SS, signal sequence).
ref: 2009 February 26, Juha Laurén et al., “Cellular prion protein mediates impairment of synaptic plasticity by amyloid-β oligomers”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1128–1132:
glosses: An oligopeptide having eight amino acids.
Derived terms: cyclooctapeptide
octapeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octapeptide
basipterygium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basipterygia
Etymology: From basi- + pterygium.
Senses: glosses: A cartilage at the base of the fins of some fish that develops into the metapterygium upon maturity.
Derived terms: basipterygial
anticaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-caking
Etymology: From anti- + caking.
Senses: examples: text: An anticaking agent was added to the flour.
glosses: Preventing caking.
basipterygia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basipterygium
buxomly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌksəmli/
Forms: form: more buxomly
form: most buxomly
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English buxomly; equivalent to buxom + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a buxom way.
basipterygial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basipterygium + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a basipterygium
venular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From venule + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: Arteriolar and venular patterning in retinas of mice selectively expressing VEGF isoforms .
ref: 2009 February 26, Akiko Mammoto et al., “A mechanosensitive transcriptional mechanism that controls angiogenesis”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1103–1108:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to venules.
chesticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of chest + testicles.
Senses: glosses: plural of chesticle
beamlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beamlike
form: most beamlike
form: beam-like
Etymology: From beam + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a beam
multidenominational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multidenominational
form: most multidenominational
Etymology: From multi- + denominational.
Senses: examples: text: The chapel has been multidenominational Christian for decades, though rabbis have occasionally presided over Jewish services from its wooden altar.
ref: 2007 August 25, Katie Zezima, “A Summer Island Rallies Around Its Aging Chapel”, in New York Times:
glosses: having multiple denominations
ziptop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zip + top.
Senses: examples: text: The blueberries were placed in a ziptop bag for freezing.
glosses: Fastened by a zipper at the top.
Synonyms: english: specific brand
translation: specific brand
word: Ziploc
bedforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedform
rescore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescores
form: rescoring
form: rescored
form: rescored
Etymology: From re- + score.
Senses: examples: text: The tests have to be rescored because of glaring mistakes made during grading.
text: The board discovered the problems after a couple of students paid to have their tests rescored by hand.
ref: 2007 August 25, Karen W. Arenson, “Companies Agree to Pay to Settle SAT Error Suit”, in New York Times:
glosses: To score again; to assign new marks to.
glosses: To arrange (music) again.
rescore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescores
Etymology: From re- + score.
Senses: examples: text: Our team lost five points after the rescore.
glosses: An instance of rescoring.
rescores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescore
rescores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescore
rescoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescore
rescoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescorings
Senses: glosses: The act of scoring again or anew; the changing of a score.
rescored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescore
unpeppered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + peppered.
Senses: glosses: Not peppered.
unzealous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + zealous.
Senses: synonyms: word: languid
word: spiritless
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: Not zealous.
Derived terms: unzealously
bedform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedforms
Etymology: From bed + form.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of a series of hollows and ripples formed in the bed of a river by the flow of water
Hyponyms: cyclic-step bedform
unwrung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wrung.
Senses: glosses: That has not been wrung.
unlyrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlyrical
form: most unlyrical
Etymology: From un- + lyrical.
Senses: glosses: Not lyrical.
ungauged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ungaged
Etymology: From un- + gauged.
Senses: glosses: That has not been gauged.
unlopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lopped.
Senses: glosses: That has not been lopped.
unzoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + zoned.
Senses: glosses: That has not been zoned; lacking a zone or zones.
unzoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unzone
demiglace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demiglaces
form: demi-glace
form: demiglaze
Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-glace.
Senses: examples: text: Calling her husband “the man who would make her Julia Child,” Shapiro deftly distills the mentorship, intelligence, humor and devotion Paul brought to the big, happy, unfocused California girl that was Julia McWilliams and skillfully reduces the sauce of Julia’s cooking ethic into a rich demiglace: “Use all your senses, all the time.
ref: 2007 August 26, Dorothy Kalins, “Dropping the Chicken”, in New York Times:
glosses: A rich brown sauce in French cuisine, typically made from veal stock and espagnole sauce, used by itself or as a base for other sauces.
unlaundered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + laundered.
Senses: examples: text: Life for ordinary barons in Outremer Jerusalem was probably better than for kings in Europe, where even potentates wore unlaundered wool and lived in bare-stone draughty keeps with rough furniture.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 269:
glosses: That has not been laundered.
Synonyms: unwashed
demi-glace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demi-glaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of demiglace.
unurged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + urged.
Senses: glosses: Not urged; without urging or persuasion.
undynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dynamic.
Senses: examples: text: Terry Gourvish, the lead author if the authorised commercial history of BR, described the new BTC structure thus: "The conclusion must be that the combination of a few undynamic railwaymen, underpaid full-timers (Commission and General Staff) and poorly-paid part-time businessmen was not a very potent managerial cocktail."
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, page 38:
glosses: Not dynamic.
buccolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
ipa: /ˌbʌkoʊˈlɪŋɡwəl/
Etymology: From bucco- + lingual.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cheek and the tongue.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to buccal (inner cheek) and lingual (tongue) surfaces, as:
In a location on the buccal and lingual aspect (of a tooth or its socket).
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to buccal (inner cheek) and lingual (tongue) surfaces, as:
In a direction with buccal and lingual vectors.
Derived terms: axiobuccolingual
buccolingually
Related terms: buccoapical
buccocervical
buccogingival
buccolabial
buccopalatal
unenquiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enquiring.
Senses: glosses: Not enquiring; incurious.
marshily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more marshily
form: most marshily
Etymology: From marshy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a marshy way.
Synonyms: swampily
unfaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + faked.
Senses: synonyms: authentic
genuine
undissembled
unsimulated
glosses: Not faked.
unemulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + emulated.
Senses: glosses: That has not been emulated; peerless.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That is not emulated or is omitted from an emulation.
unnurtured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nurtured.
Senses: examples: text: Dark are their brows, and wild they rove
Unnurtur'd o'er their native earth,
Yet deep their rugged bosoms love
Their land of birth.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Remonstrance of the Creek Indians, page 76:
glosses: That has not been nurtured.
unossified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ossified.
Senses: glosses: Not ossified.
uneclipsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + eclipsed.
Senses: glosses: Not eclipsed.
swampily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swampily
form: most swampily
Etymology: From swampy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a swampy way.
Synonyms: marshily
schmaltzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of schmaltzy: more schmaltzy
schmaltziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of schmaltzy: most schmaltzy
labdanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labdanums
Etymology: From Latin lādanum, from Ancient Greek λήδανον (lḗdanon, “gum”), from λήδον (lḗdon, “rockrose”), from a Semitic language; compare Akkadian 𒆷𒁷𒉡 (ladinnu).
Senses: examples: text: Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.
ref: 1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii:
text: Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
text: (A chypre perfume is usually built with oak moss, patchouli and labdanum, an absolute of a dark, thick-smelling Mediterranean bush.)
ref: 2007 August 26, Chandler Burr, “Back in Print”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sticky brown resin obtained from species of rockrose, used mainly in perfume.
Derived terms: labdane
buccolingually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From buccolingual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a buccolingual way; with regard to the cheek and tongue.
unbronzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bronzed.
Senses: glosses: Not bronzed.
Synonyms: untanned
pillared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pillar + -ed (“having”) (forming adjective from noun).
Senses: examples: text: We entered a majestic pillared hall.
text: By midday, however, we reached the great flat top of that mighty wall of rock, and grand enough the view was from it, with the plain of Kôr, in the centre of which we could clearly make out the pillared ruins of the Temple of Truth to the one side, and the boundless and melancholy marsh on the other.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Having pillars.
Derived terms: unpillared
pillared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pillar + -ed (“forming past and past participle of verb”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pillar (verb)
infosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infospheres
Etymology: From info + -sphere.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The sphere of digital information.
Synonyms: cyberspace
cybersphere
Hyponyms: blogosphere
infospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infosphere
asciibetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ASCIIbetically.
infinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of infinite.
bashlyks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bashlyk
antiobscenity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + obscenity.
Senses: examples: text: Some said that the antiobscenity laws were an infringement of free speech.
topics: law
glosses: Serving to counter obscenity.
apocryphalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apocryphal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being apocryphal.
ettins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ettin
hobbitlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hobbitlike
form: most hobbitlike
Etymology: From hobbit + -like.
Senses: synonyms: hobbitish
hobbity
glosses: Resembling or befitting a hobbit.
hodag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodags
Senses: glosses: A fictional animal in Wisconsin folklore, having a head like an ox, the bulging eyes of a frog, huge claws, a row of spikes down its back, and a dinosauric body and tail.
hodags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hodag
zero-coupon note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-coupon notes
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A promissory note that pays at maturity the value of the note with no separate interest payments, the effective interest arising from the discounted purchase price.
Synonyms: sense: promissory note without coupon
word: discount note
word: zero coupon bond
Related terms: commercial paper
pizza-ghetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizzaghetti
Etymology: Blend of pizza + spaghetti
Senses: glosses: A dish consisting of a slice of pizza and a serving of spaghetti.
glosses: A spaghetti dish with the typical toppings and sauce of a pizza.
qrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qr
creditless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From credit + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without financial credit.
Derived terms: creditlessness
pizzaghetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pizza-ghetti.
bean balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean ball
BLEVE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BLEVEs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion.
quartzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quartzier
form: quartziest
Etymology: From quartz + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or containing quartz.
quartzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of quartzy: more quartzy
quartziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of quartzy: most quartzy
FAE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FAEs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of fuel-air explosive (“thermobaric weapon”).
glosses: Initialism of fuel-air explosion.
glosses: Initialism of field applications engineer.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of fundamental attribution error.
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: FAS
glosses: Initialism of fetal alcohol effects.
Coordinate terms: sense: fuel-air explosion
word: BLEVE
sense: fuel-air explosion
word: dust explosion
petits fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petit four
plus fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plus-fours
Senses: examples: text: And he looked quite smart in his brown plus fours. A few years ago he would not have dared to wear plus fours. They had belonged exclusively to the wealthier folk. Now everybody wore them. He was pleased with his pair. Quite cheap they had been too.
ref: 2009, Alan Gould, Every Creature of God Is Good, Lulu.com:
text: Other Americans went to the opposite extreme. They donned plus-fours, carried canes, and affected British accents. What were natural habits for the British became artificial mannerisms for their American emulators.
ref: 2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Wide knickerbocker breeches, so called because originally they were designed with four inches of excess material so as to hang in a fold below the fastening beneath the knee; traditionally associated with sports, especially golf.
blackmailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blackmail + -able.
Senses: glosses: Who can be blackmailed.
Derived terms: unblackmailable
ideologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ideologises
form: ideologising
form: ideologised
form: ideologised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ideologize.
Derived terms: ideologiser
ideologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ideologise
ideologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ideologise
ideologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ideologise
improvisationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Forms: form: more improvisationally
form: most improvisationally
Etymology: From improvisational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an improvisational way.
Related terms: extemporaneously
provisionally