cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cytopathicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cytopathic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: As expected, monolayers showed rapid cell rounding and cytopathicity in cells infected with MNV (Fig 3, 20 X insert in MNV infection).
ref: 2015 December 15, “Infection of Murine Macrophages by Salmonella enterica Serovar Heidelberg Blocks Murine Norovirus Infectivity and Virus-induced Apoptosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of undergoing cytopathic change (cell disease)
heterosex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterosexes
Etymology: From hetero- + sex. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: These [gay] characters will not accept the past solutions of heterosexual society. They will not commit suicide, nor will they seek salvation in heterosex.
ref: 1980 April 12, David Roggensack, “The Thing of Shapes to Come”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Heterosexual sex.
heterosex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heterosexes
form: heterosexing
form: heterosexed
form: heterosexed
Etymology: From hetero- + sex. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the heterosexing of public space means that while heterosexual couples can hold hands or kiss goodbye in the street, the same behaviour from same-sex couples is likely to attract attention and sometimes verbal or physical sanctions against them.
ref: 2013, Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin, Introducing Human Geographies, page 651:
text: Although each society defines its own norms, most of them assign a higher status to men over women, to heterosexual persons over non-heterosexual ones, and to heterosexed bodies over non-heterosexed ones.
ref: 2014, MariaCaterina La Barbera, Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To make heterosexual.
exoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From exo- + plasmic.
Senses: examples: text: Mβ is a water-soluble cyclic heptasaccharide that binds cholesterol and can extract cholesterol from the exoplasmic leaflet of the plasma membrane by harboring cholesterol in a hydrophobic cavity [35 ,38 ,39 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Ethanol Inhibits High-Affinity Immunoglobulin E Receptor (FcεRI) Signaling in Mast Cells by Suppressing the Function of FcεRI-Cholesterol Signalosome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That faces away from the cytoplasm.
flaviolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The preparation of flaviolin was conducted according to protocol of Gross et al.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Diversity of ABBA Prenyltransferases in Marine Streptomyces sp. CNQ-509: Promiscuous Enzymes for the Biosynthesis of Mixed Terpenoid Compounds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The naphthoquinone derivative 4,5,7-trihydroxynaphthalene-1,2-dione
fluviolacustrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluvio- + lacustrine.
Senses: examples: text: Neogene sediments in the basin consist mainly of a series of fluviolacustrine mudstone, siltstone, sandstone and conglomerate with about 800 m maximum thickness.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Into Tibet: An Early Pliocene Dispersal of Fossil Zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the Hinterland of Tibetan Plateau”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Produced by rivers and lakes (especially alternately)
glutathionated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Members of the ABC subfamily are responsible for vacuolar delivery of glutathionated and glucuronated compounds and deposit some large anions into the vacuole [34 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Global Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Distinct Aluminum-Tolerance Pathways in the Al-Accumulating Species Hydrangea macrophylla and Marker Identification”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Reacted with glutathione
glycoepitope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoepitopes
Etymology: From glyco- + epitope.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A carbohydrate epitope
glycoepitopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: SPARQL and Cypher queries for these glycoepitopes are provided in the S1 File .
ref: 2015 December 15, “Property Graph vs RDF Triple Store: A Comparison on Glycan Substructure Search”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of glycoepitope
granulocytopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granulocytopoieses
Senses: examples: text: Marsupials are born with a haematopoietic liver rich in erythroblasts and to a lesser extent some granulocytopoiesis occurring [22, 31, 33, 34, 35 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Immunological Insights into the Life and Times of the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger ( Thylacinus cynocephalus )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of granulopoiesis.
synonyms: word: granulopoiesis
Derived terms: dysgranulocytopoiesis
gravitoinertial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gravito- + inertial.
Senses: examples: text: The separate and combined influences of otolith and nonotolith sensory inputs upon perception of the oculogravic illusion were investigated by manipulating the visual and gravitoinertial force environments.
ref: 1967, Ashton Graybiel, The Effect of Water Immersion on Perception of the Oculogravic Illusion in Normal and Labyrinthine-defective Subjects:
text: It has been shown that imposed accelerations above 0.2 Hz are usually perceived as translation of self through space, whereas imposed accelerations below that value are usually perceived as a change in direction of the gravitoinertial acceleration vector, i.e., tilt of self with respect to the assumed gravity vertical [38 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Relationship between Spectral Characteristics of Spontaneous Postural Sway and Motion Sickness Susceptibility”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to the inertial effects of gravity.
haemosporidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemosporidians
form: haemosporidia
Senses: examples: text: A plausible explanation is that infection with some haemosporidian species is known to have no or only a slightly negative effect on the fitness of their bird host (e.g. Haemoproteus parabelopolskyi in blackcaps [47 ] and some Plasmodium genetic lineages in great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) [48 ]).
ref: 2015 December 15, “Spatial Isolation and Temporal Variation in Fitness and Condition Facilitate Divergence in a Migratory Divide”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any parasitic protozoa of the order Haemosporida
hemoparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemoparasites
Etymology: From hemo- + parasite.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, we added each gastrointestinal parasite predictor to the best-fitting hemoparasite and extrinsic variables model (see above) and observed whether the model fit was improved.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Co-Infection and Wild Animal Health: Effects of Trypanosomatids and Gastrointestinal Parasites on Coatis of the Brazilian Pantanal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any parasite that lives in the blood of its host
Derived terms: hemoparasitism
Related terms: hemoparasitic
hemoparasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We created model sets including all possible additive combinations of independent predictors of hemoparasites and extrinsic variables (32 models in total); furthermore, interaction terms were included in additional models whenever investigation of predictor vs. response variable plots revealed possible interactions between these variables.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Co-Infection and Wild Animal Health: Effects of Trypanosomatids and Gastrointestinal Parasites on Coatis of the Brazilian Pantanal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of hemoparasite
hypotensin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The hypotensin TsHpt-I from the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus and the Bj-BPP-5a from the B.
ref: 2015 December 15, “A Novel Vasoactive Proline-Rich Oligopeptide from the Skin Secretion of the Frog Brachycephalus ephippium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A hypotensive peptide found in the venom of some snakes and scorpions
immunotolerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunotolerable
form: most immunotolerable
form: immune tolerable
Etymology: From immuno- + tolerable.
Senses: examples: text: Many studies have shown that immune cells are involved in HBV infection and that immunosuppressive or immunotolerable responses may differ among HBV genotypes [11 –14 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “The Hepatitis B Virus Genotype Affects the Persistence of Viral Replication in Immunodeficient NOG Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Able to tolerate a certain antibody
marinophenazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marinophenazines
Senses: examples: text: Contrary to our expectations, none of these molecules was accepted by the enzyme, providing no support for the hypothesis that CnqP1 is responsible for the prenylation reaction in marinophenazine biosynthesis.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Diversity of ABBA Prenyltransferases in Marine Streptomyces sp. CNQ-509: Promiscuous Enzymes for the Biosynthesis of Mixed Terpenoid Compounds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a certain class of cytotoxic prenylated phenazine derivatives
metalloproteolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metallo- + proteolytic.
Senses: examples: text: For example we recently described a metalloproteolytic loss of platelet glycoprotein VI, an adhesive receptor for collagen, upon exposure to transient, elevated shear stress [18 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Methods to Determine the Lagrangian Shear Experienced by Platelets during Thrombus Growth”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: proteolytic to metalloproteins
mitotracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitotrackers
form: MitoTracker
Etymology: Blend of mitochondria + tracker
Senses: examples: text: TMRE was used in our study for mitochondrial staining instead of commonly used mitotracker dyes since we were interested in visualizing only the active mitochondria in the cells.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Collagen Promotes Higher Adhesion, Survival and Proliferation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of commercial fluorescent dyes used to stain mitochondria in living cells
monocytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monocyte + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: It has been shown that treatment of monocytoid cells with various cytokines can trigger secretion [7 ], and it has also been shown that the secretion mechanism is distinct from the classical ER/Golgi route [8 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Vesicular Location and Transport of S100A8 and S100A9 Proteins in Monocytoid Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to monocytes
monoprenylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + prenylated.
Senses: examples: text: In all assays, LC-MS analysis showed a peak at m/z 405 [M-H] -, indicating the formation of a monoprenylated genistein derivative.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Diversity of ABBA Prenyltransferases in Marine Streptomyces sp. CNQ-509: Promiscuous Enzymes for the Biosynthesis of Mixed Terpenoid Compounds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by the addition of a single isoprenoid group
neuropeptidergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + peptidergic.
Senses: examples: text: Due to their broad functional scope, such as neuroendocrine and neuro-modulatory effects on locomotion, reproduction, feeding and behavior, there has been a long-standing interest in using the neuropeptidergic system and FLP-signaling pathways as alternative target for the development of novel methods to control animal- and plant-parasitic nematodes [44 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “The Pratylenchus penetrans Transcriptome as a Source for the Development of Alternative Control Strategies: Mining for Putative Genes Involved in Parasitism and Evaluation of in planta RNAi”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: peptidergic with regard to neuropeptides
parodontopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parodontopathies
Etymology: From para- + odontopathy.
Senses: examples: text: The following phrases or keywords were used: (virus OR herpesvir* OR EBV OR CMV OR HCMV OR HHV OR HSV OR Epstein-Barr virus OR cytomegalovirus OR herpes simplex virus OR Human herpesvirus) AND (chronic periodontitis OR periodontal disease OR paradontosis OR parodontopathy OR periodontal).
ref: 2015 December 15, “Association between Herpesviruses and Chronic Periodontitis: A Meta-Analysis Based on Case-Control Studies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: disease of the gums and other supportive tissue of the teeth
Korean wave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Korean wave
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Korean Wave.
pathomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathomorphologies
Etymology: From patho- + morphology.
Senses: examples: text: Foveal photoreceptor pathomorphology was highly preserved in the IVR(+) group; detection rates of the appearance of foveal degeneration were 75.0% in the IVR(-) group and 45.2% in the IVR(+) group (P = 0.016).
ref: 2015 December 15, “Foveal Damage Due to Subfoveal Hemorrhage Associated with Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The morphology of a pathological condition.
Derived terms: neuropathomorphology
Related terms: histopathomorphology
pathomorphological
pathomorphologist
pentastome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentastomes
Senses: examples: text: Here, we measured CO 2 production (a surrogate for metabolism) in Mediterranean geckos (Hemidactylus turcicus) infected with a lung parasite, the pentastome Raillietiella indica, under two physiological conditions: rested and recently active.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Physiological Status Drives Metabolic Rate in Mediterranean Geckos Infected with Pentastomes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any tongue worm of the subclass Pentastomida
pentastomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In rested geckos, there was a negative, but non-significant association between the number of pentastomes (i.e., infection intensity) and CO 2 production.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Physiological Status Drives Metabolic Rate in Mediterranean Geckos Infected with Pentastomes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pentastome
pericratonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + cratonic.
Senses: examples: text: The pericratonic Yukon Tanana terrane was a Devonian arc built upon Laurentian (North American) basement [10 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “1.8 Billion Years of Detrital Zircon Recycling Calibrates a Refractory Part of Earth’s Sedimentary Cycle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Surrounding a craton.
periimplant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + implant.
Senses: examples: text: This chronic inflammation is characterized by a gingival inflammation and associated periimplant bone destruction [20 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Antibacterial Peptide-Based Gel for Prevention of Medical Implanted-Device Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Surrounding an implant
periopathogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periopathogens
Etymology: From perio- + pathogen.
Senses: glosses: Any periopathogenic pathogen
periopathogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although, IL1-ß,and IL-8 have been found to be elevated in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of patients suffering from ventilator associated pneumonias [12 ], it appears that in contrast to MMPs the levels of these cytokines in the bronchial fluid are not consistently altered in the case of smoking or colonisation/infection with periopathogens.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Elevated Matrix Metalloproteinase Levels in Bronchi Infected with Periodontopathogenic Bacteria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of periopathogen
pluronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After addition of NaIO 4 the catechol groups strongly interact with the thiol groups to form covalent bonds leading to a covalent network between alginate and pluronics.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Antibacterial Peptide-Based Gel for Prevention of Medical Implanted-Device Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pluronic
polyprotodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyprotodonts
Senses: glosses: Any marsupial of the order †Polyprotodontia.
polyprotodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The lack of a second cervical thymus in the pouch young thylacine is similar to the findings in all other polyprotodont marsupials studied to date [21 ] and further supports the findings of Johnstone [20 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Immunological Insights into the Life and Times of the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Belonging to the Polyprotodontia order.
postcommissural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + commissural.
Senses: examples: text: For VOI analysis, the striatum was divided into three functional subdivisions as described previously [43 ]: the limbic striatum consisted of the ventral striatum; the associative striatum consisted of the precommissural dorsal putamen, precommissural dorsal caudate, and postcommissural caudate; and the sensorimotor striatum consisted of the postcommissural putamen [44 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Striatal Dopamine D 2 /D 3 Receptor Availability Is Associated with Executive Function in Healthy Controls but Not Methamphetamine Users”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: posterior to a commissure
Related terms: precommissural
precommissural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + commissural.
Senses: examples: text: For VOI analysis, the striatum was divided into three functional subdivisions as described previously [43 ]: the limbic striatum consisted of the ventral striatum; the associative striatum consisted of the precommissural dorsal putamen, precommissural dorsal caudate, and postcommissural caudate; and the sensorimotor striatum consisted of the postcommissural putamen [44 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Striatal Dopamine D 2 /D 3 Receptor Availability Is Associated with Executive Function in Healthy Controls but Not Methamphetamine Users”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: anterior to a commissure
Related terms: postcommissural
predifferentiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + differentiated.
Senses: examples: text: Resting, slow proliferating and/or predifferentiated cells such as proto-myofibroblasts producing TGF-β1 [51 ], may be less sensitive to DBD/ROS exposure and preferably remain so after treatment.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Non-Thermal Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) Effects on Proliferation and Differentiation of Human Fibroblasts Are Primary Mediated by Hydrogen Peroxide”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: differentiated in advance of some other process
preretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From pre- + retinal.
Senses: examples: text: Based on the diagnostic criteria a total of 90 individuals with a mean age of 54 years were characterized as NPDR. The PDR patients (n = 70, mean age = 56 years) with mild-moderate form of the disease having new vessels on disc (NVD) or new vessels elsewhere (NVE), and high-risk form having new vessels on disc (NVD) about one third disc area, or any NVD with vitreous or preretinal hemorrhage or NVE greater than half disc area with vitreous or preretinal hemorrhage were sampled.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Role of ACE and PAI-1 Polymorphisms in the Development and Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: anterior to the retina
provirome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proviromes
Etymology: From pro- + virome.
Senses: examples: text: This study clearly demonstrates the novel information that may be obtained from the fecal virome and provirome of ancient organisms through the use of a shotgun sequencing analysis as opposed to selective gene-screening methods.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Retroviral DNA Sequences as a Means for Determining Ancient Diets”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The genomes of all the proviruses that inhabit a particular organism or environment
rhodaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhodamine + -ated.
Senses: examples: text: Time-lapse video microscopy showed arrest of fungal growth upon penetration of the rhodaminated peptide into a fungal filament.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Antibacterial Peptide-Based Gel for Prevention of Medical Implanted-Device Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Treated with rhodamine.
schizothoracine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizothoracines
Senses: examples: text: Studies of fossil schizothoracine fishes from the Kunlun Pass Basin indicated that the East Kunlun Mountain had not yet become a prominent biological barrier in the early Pliocene [57 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “Into Tibet: An Early Pliocene Dispersal of Fossil Zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the Hinterland of Tibetan Plateau”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any cyprinid fish of the genus Schizothorax (snow carps, snowtrouts, and marinkas).
supersequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nucleotide sequences of 71 TA systems from each genome were concatenated in ‘supersequence’ (supergene), and the resulting 173 long supersequences were aligned with each other using Clustal W ver. 2.1.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Mycobacterium tuberculosis Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems: Genetic Polymorphisms and Functional Properties and the Possibility of Their Use for Genotyping”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of supersequence
transgastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + gastric.
Senses: examples: text: The velocity time integral of LVOT was determined by pulsed Doppler imaging in the deep transgastric view [23 ].
ref: 2015 December 15, “A Randomized Blinded Study of the Left Ventricular Myocardial Performance Index Comparing Epinephrine to Levosimendan following Cardiopulmonary Bypass”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Through or across the stomach
tumoritropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tumor + -tropic.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, we develop simulations of vascularized tumor growth to deliver spherical NPs and to track their tumoritropic distribution, accumulation and drug release.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Computational Modeling of Tumor Response to Drug Release from Vasculature-Bound Nanoparticles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Associated with, or attracted towards a tumor
visuovestibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From visuo- + vestibular.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, these results may suggest that participants who had a lower MS severity score used more visuovestibular postural regulation.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Relationship between Spectral Characteristics of Spontaneous Postural Sway and Motion Sickness Susceptibility”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to vision and the vestibular system
gamewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From game + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Right now the microcomputers have the ability to do a lot of things gamewise. The main problem is the number of people who have the machines. Only five percent of our customers have them now […]
ref: 1977, The Michigan Technic, volumes 96-100, page 74:
glosses: In terms of games.
out of one's skin
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I jumped out of my skin when the doorbell rang.
text: I thought I was alone in the house, so his sudden appearance frightened me out of my skin.
glosses: Conveying the idea that somebody is terrified.
examples: text: Shannon Campbell played out of her skin to claim the award for best on ground.
glosses: Very well (particularly, better than expected).
hotlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hotly: more hotly
hotliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hotly: most hotly
manboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manboy
homosexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homosex
heterosexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterosex
tenderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendering
kushari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koshary
form: koshari
form: kosheri
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic كُشَرِي.
Senses: glosses: An Egyptian dish of rice, macaroni and lentils topped with a tomato-vinegar sauce and garnishes.
kosheri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kushari.
koshari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kushari.
koshary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kushari.
food cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food carts
Senses: glosses: A wheeled mobile kitchen used to prepare and serve street food.
Coordinate terms: food truck
Related terms: pushcart
food carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food cart
obia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obeah.
New Orleanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Orleanian
heart check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart checks
Senses: examples: text: I knew about heart checks from Rossetti – one of the few members of my security team who'd been to prison.
ref: 2014, Shaun Attwood, Hard Time: Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest Jail:
glosses: A physical attack on a newly-arrived prisoner to determine whether they're willing to fight.
halal snack pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halal snack packs
Senses: examples: text: The halal snack pack has long been a staple of Australian takeaway shops, if a little overshadowed by the kebab.
ref: 2016, Michael Safi, Elle Hunt, Josh Wall, The halal snack pack: a fast track to a heart attack? Or worse?, The Guardian:
text: Ufuk Bozoglu, owner of Oz Turks Jnr in Sydney’s Redfern and star of Kebab Kings, made the halal snack pack (or HSP) that inspired Luke Eagles and his mates to create the group.
ref: 2016, Rachel Bartholomeusz, Unpacking the halal snack pack, SBS:
text: A year ago, few would have heard of a halal snack pack, but now the new kebab shop favourite has been named one of the words of the year by Macquarie Dictionary.
ref: 2017, Josh Butler, "'Halal Snack Pack' Is Macquarie Dictionary's Runner-Up Word Of The Year”, Huffington Post
synonyms: Aussie box
HSP
snack box
meat box
mixed plate
hyponyms: AB
glosses: A fast food dish consisting of halal-certified doner kebab meat, chips, cheese and a variety of sauces (usually chilli, garlic and barbecue).
Related terms: munchy box
heart checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart check
catch a square
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches a square
form: catching a square
form: caught a square
form: caught a square
Senses: glosses: To prepare to fight; to square up.
Gettier problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gettier problems
Etymology: Attributed to American philosopher Edmund Gettier.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The epistemological problem that a description of knowledge as “justified true belief” is not adequate: there are counterexamples where a person has justified true belief of something and yet does not know it to be true.
wikipedia: Edmund Gettier
Related terms: Gettier case
Gettiered
Gettierian
Gettier intuition
Gettiered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Gettier + -ed.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of a belief: falling short of actual knowledge in the way illustrated by the Gettier problem.
Gettier case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gettier cases
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A case where a person has a justified true belief of something but does not know it to be true, i.e. one that illustrates the Gettier problem.
Gettier cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gettier case
Gettier intuition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gettier intuitions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The intuitive judgment that the individual in a Gettier case does not know the thing of which he/she has a justified true belief.
Gettier intuitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gettier intuition
munchy box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munchy boxes
Senses: examples: text: In fact, I never found the food world's unholy grail on offer anywhere in the land. Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.
ref: 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Alternative spelling of munchie box.
munchy boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of munchy box
Glasgow salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glasgow salads
Etymology: From the Scottish predilection for fast food.
Senses: examples: text: Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.
ref: 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: A serving of chips/fries.
halal snack packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halal snack pack
disconfirmatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dis- + confirmatory.
Senses: examples: text: Logical thought requires the ability to test causal hypotheses in a systematic way, recognising which causal possibilities must be ruled out as well as which can be maintained in the light of the available causal evidence. This requires an appreciation of disconfirmatory as well as confirmatory evidence, and of what is causally relevant in a given situation.
ref: 1998, Usha Goswami, Cognition in Children, Psychology Press, page 118:
glosses: Serving to disconfirm something.
Glasgow salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glasgow salad
Gibbonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪˈbəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɡɪˈboʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Gibbonian
form: most Gibbonian
Etymology: From Gibbon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), English historian.
Related terms: Gibbonesque
hendecameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hendecameters
Etymology: From hendeca- + meter.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A line of verse containing eleven metrical feet.
hendecameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hendecameter
REF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: REFs
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of row echelon form.
REF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Research Excellence Framework: a system for assessing the quality of research in higher-education institutions.
unfailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + failed.
Senses: examples: text: ■ 51: Identify in two distinctly different microclimates, the following slopes: an over-steep, unfailed slope in plastic clay; a failed slope in plastic clay; an unfailed slope in low plasticity clay; a plastic clay embankment; and a granular embankment. [...].
ref: 2021 April 7, “Lord Mair: earthworks recommendations”, in RAIL, number 928, page 11:
glosses: Not failed, or that has not failed.
noncivilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + civilian.
Senses: glosses: Not civilian.
noncivilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncivilians
Etymology: From non- + civilian.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a civilian.
noncivilians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncivilian
gobbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobbins
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Waste material in old mine workings.
Synonyms: goaf
gob
gobbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobbin
social realism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The consistent look and the working-class milieu of Ms. Arnold’s films align them with the three British directors most associated with social realism: Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Alan Clarke, who died in 1990.
ref: 2010 January 14, Graham Fuller, “Social Realism in a Poetic Lens”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An art and film movement that critically portrays the everyday lives of the working class and the poor.
Related terms: socialist realism
car crashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car crash
spring chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring chicken
chulha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chulhas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chula.
chulhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chulha
kachodi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kachodis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kachori.
katchuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katchuris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kachori.
kachodis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kachodi
katchuris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katchuri
car wreck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car wrecks
Senses: examples: text: He wandered away from his study group toward the computer lab where he saw that his friend Gary Partoyan—a former squid but not a total car wreck of an individual—had been cast off as well.
ref: 2003, Owen West, Four Days to Veracruz: A Novel, →ISBN, page 120:
text: For me, each performance was a car wreck. At the end of each one I had no clear memory of what had happened.
ref: 2008, Sid Brown, A Buddhist in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Her life was a total car wreck with no one there to help her fix it.
ref: 2013, Kate Hoffmann, The Mighty Quinns: Logan, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of car crash.
synonyms: word: car crash
car wrecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car wreck
coralyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular DNA-binding antitumor antibiotic.
unvestibuled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + vestibuled.
Senses: examples: an unvestibuled train carriage
glosses: Not furnished with a vestibule.
unnoxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnoxious
form: most unnoxious
Etymology: From un- + noxious.
Senses: glosses: Not noxious.
mistbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistbelts
Senses: examples: text: It seems to me that its place in South Africa is along the subtropical coast, or in the mistbelts where frost is usually absent.
ref: 1927, Thomas Robertson Sim, Treeplanting in South Africa:
text: The species grows mainly as epiphyte in shady wet forests, but also lithophytic on wet rocks, preferably in the mistbelt of escarpment forests, rarely chasmophytic in humus pockets on rocks (God's Window, eastern Transvaal).
ref: 1983, W. B. G. Jacobsen, The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa, page 134:
text: The region is bounded roughly as follows: in the west by the Umtamvuna River; in the south and east by the 900 m a.s.l. contour line - below this the climate is too warm and dry for mistbelt grassland; and in the north by high ground above about 1 300 m a.s.l. where the clamate becomes too cold for mistbelt grassland.
ref: 1998, Keith N. Barnes, The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa, page 184:
text: Similarly, high rainfall mistbelt areas have much cloud cover in summer that lowers photoassimilation.
ref: 2013, Bruce A. Schaffer, B. Nigel Wolstenholme, Antony William Whiley, The Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of mist belt.
mistbelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistbelt
mist belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mist belts
form: mistbelt
form: mist-belt
Senses: examples: text: In the mountains that run parallel to the SW shores of the Red Sea from S.E. Egypt to the “Horn” of Africa, Cape Gardafui (i.e. over a distance of some 2,650 km), there is a more or less continuous mist belt between 600 and 1,800 m elevation, depending on local conditions.
ref: 2008, Henry N. Houérou, Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Here the transition from the desert vegetation of the plains to the lush vegetation of the mist belts is abrupt.
ref: 2011, Sharon E. Nicholson, Dryland Climatology, →ISBN, page 207:
text: This mist belt extends all the way to Cape Gaddafui, further south, in Somalia, this mist belt is the exclusive habitat of Frankincense trees (Boswellia carteri and B. freeri).
ref: 2012, Henry N. Le Houerou, The Grazing Land Ecosystems of the African Sahel, →ISBN, page 7:
text: We have only sometimes mist but there is no mist belt as on the Canary Islands.
ref: 2012, Frank Klötzli, Gian-Reto Walther, Conference on Recent Shifts in Vegetation Boundaries of Deciduous Forests, Especially Due to General Global Warming, →ISBN:
glosses: A region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.
mist belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mist belt
mist-belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mist-belts
Senses: examples: text: The mist-belt is clearly visible from a few miles outside Swakopmund, and once in the town itself, the temperature drops from desert-dry high-80's or more to damp and clinging mid-50's.
ref: 2002, John M. Allen, Growing Up White in Apartheid South Africa, →ISBN, page 90:
text: The blue swallow, which breeds in the grasslands mist-belt along the southem African eastem escarpment, is one of the world's most vulnerable avifaunal species, largely because much of its habitat has been given over to commercial forestry.
ref: 2004, Philip Harrison, Ecotravel, →ISBN:
text: One could keep a fire alight more easily at a level above the mist-belt; one could, if necessary, survive, and bed down on bracken from these lower woodlands.
ref: 2015, Muriel Spark, Robinson, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of mist belt.
mist-belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mist-belt
doweress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doweresses
Etymology: From dower + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A widow who holds a dower; a dowager.
multitwist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multitwists
Etymology: From multi- + twist.
Senses: examples: text: Yarns highlighted include wools, stretch yarns, metallics, textures, multicolored, and multitwists.
ref: 1998, Textile Technology Digest - Volume 55, Issues 7-12, page 34:
text: Twist both the 1" bubbles in the multitwist into bear ears.
ref: 2010, Jeremy Telford, Balloonology, →ISBN, page 122:
text: The multitwists of her black hair curtained like rivers down her frontal.
ref: 2016, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor, →ISBN:
glosses: Multiple twists that occur together.
examples: text: A Leininger-Reid subgroup cannot be convex cocompact, because it contains a multitwist.
ref: 2007, Athanase Papadopoulos, Handbook of Teichmüller Theory - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 407:
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: An automorphism that induces a set of Dehn twists around a surface.
multitwist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + twist.
Senses: examples: text: For multitwist cords, the symbol for direction of twist of the single yarns is given first, with each subsequent direction following in order.
ref: 1951, National Park Service Archeological Research Series, page 116:
text: In most recoilless rifle weapon systems, uniform rifling twist is used since it meets the desired requirements and is less expensive to manufacture than a rifle tube with multitwist rifling.
ref: 1976, Nuri Y. Olcer, Sam Lévin, Recoilless rifle weapon systems, page 10-28:
text: There's not a dull moment in this . . . shocking tale of evil family ties by a psychologically perceptive writer who knows how to build up to a searing, multitwist ending the way a tornado gathers momentum.
ref: 1983, Craig Jones, Fatal attraction, →ISBN, page 286:
glosses: Characterized by multiple twists.
multitwists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multitwist
doweresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doweress
peat bog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peat bogs
form: peatbog
Senses: glosses: A bog in which the soil is formed from peat.
Synonyms: petary
wirewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wirewaters
form: wire water
Etymology: From wire + water.
Senses: examples: text: Collecting the wirewaters (water that washes the forming wire) into a separate line for delivery to the treatment plant or to the whitewater tank as needed for makeup water.
ref: 1976, Frederick R. Bliss, Papermill wastewater treatment by microstraining, page 42:
text: Wherever possible, stocks tested were slush pulps (hardwood, softwood, recycled fibre and broke) before and after blending (ex concentrators, blend chest and machine chest), after chemical addition (filler, size, retention aid), thin stock(s) and wirewater(s).
ref: 1994, Journal of the Technical Association of the Australian and New Zealand Pulp and Paper Industry, volume 47:
text: On a multi-ply board machine, either on a multifourdrinier machine or on a multiple former machine, the wire waters are collected separately and the water circuits are usually separated.
ref: 2000, Papermaking: Stock preparation and wet end, page 137:
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
papermaking
glosses: The water used to wash the forming mesh conveyor belt (known as a wire).
wirewaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wirewater
monotextured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑn.əˈtɛk.st͡ʃɚd/
ipa: /ˌmɑn.əˈtɛk.ʃt͡ʃɚd/
Etymology: From mono- + textured.
Senses: glosses: Having a single uniform texture.
monotextural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + textural.
Senses: glosses: Having a single uniform texture.
antidentite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæntaɪ̯ˈdɛntaɪ̯t/
/ˌæntiː-/
Forms: form: antidentites
form: anti-dentite
Etymology: Alteration of antidentist, from anti- + dentist, to rhyme with anti-Semite. Coined in an episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld, in which Jerry Seinfeld is annoyed with his dentist, Tim Whatley, who has apparently converted to Judaism only because he wants to be able to tell Jewish jokes. Kramer calls Jerry an “antidentite” in response to Jerry taking offense to Whatley's Jewish jokes.
Senses: glosses: someone who has a negative or prejudiced opinion about dentists
e-consultancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-consultancies
Etymology: From e- + consultancy.
Senses: glosses: A company providing e-business services.
e-consultancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-consultancy
worklooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workloom
meadowscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadowscapes
Etymology: From meadow + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape of meadows.
meadowscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadowscape
desertscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desertscapes
Etymology: From desert + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A desert landscape.
desertscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desertscape
lawnscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawnscapes
Etymology: From lawn + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape composed of lawns.
lawnscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawnscape
hillscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillscapes
Etymology: From hill + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A hilly landscape.
hillscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillscape
forestscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestscapes
Etymology: From forest + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A forest landscape.
forestscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestscape
lakescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lakescapes
Etymology: From lake + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape dominated by a lake or lakes.
lakescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lakescape
dunescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunescapes
Etymology: From dune + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape dominated by dunes.
dunescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunescape
valleyscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valleyscapes
Etymology: From valley + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape dominated by a valley or valleys.
valleyscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valleyscape
woodscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodscapes
Etymology: From wood + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A wooded landscape.
naturescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturescapes
Etymology: From nature + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A natural landscape.
woodscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodscape
naturescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naturescape
marshscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshscapes
Etymology: From marsh + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A marshy landscape.
marshscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshscape
ideascape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideascapes
Etymology: From idea + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A figurative landscape of ideas.
ideascapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideascape