cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
asperenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The enone (4E,6E,8E,10E,12E)-8-methyl-13-phenyltrideca-4,6,8,10,12-pentaen-3-one present in Aspergillus niger or its close relatives.
autofragmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + fragmentation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: fragmentation with no physical external cause
autoresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoresistances
Etymology: From auto- + resistance.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: resistance to a poison produced by the body itself (typically, one used as a defence)
auxosporulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auxosporulation
benzotriazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzotriazines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic heterocycle in which a benzene ring is fused to one of a triazine
biarsenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The embodiments of the present invention that include electrophoretic separation of biarsenically labeled proteins may also be practiced using capillary electrophoresis (CE) or capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE).
ref: 2011 October 18, Compositions, methods and kits for biarsenical fluorophore labeling, US Patent 8039264 (PDF version):
glosses: In a biarsenical manner.
Nuannuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nwänʹnwänʹ
Forms: form: Nuan Nuan
Etymology: From the Mandarin 暖暖 (Nuǎnnuǎn).
Senses: examples: text: PLACE OF PRODUCTION.[…]
Kelung, Nuannuan and Sikkow, (district of Tamsui).
ref: 1873, “Catalogue of the Tamsui Collection of Samples and Specimens Sent to the Vienna Exhibition”, in Port Catalogues of the Chinese Customs' Collection at the Austro-Hungarian Universal Exhibition, Vienna, 1873, Shanghai: Imperial Maritime Customs Press, →OCLC, page 353:
text: No decision has yet been reached on the question of opening a new Government mine at Nuan-nuan, which offers a better field, than Pa-tou for coal workings.
ref: [1896, J. D. Clark, Formosa, Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, →OCLC, page 62:
text: From Houtung to Tsitu, about 24 km in length, we have only discovered 7 pothole localities along the main stream and 2 along the tributaries. The distribution of potholes seems rather sparse, but near Juifang and Nuannuan we have found many well developed potholes.[…]
Along steeper valley sides (slopes) the distribution usually is irregular, but near Nuannuan, on the north bank of Chilungho, we have found some lines of potholes, quite regularly distributed (see pl. 2).[…]
Potholes are well developed on rocky channels, particularly at the upper part of Chilungho, near Nuannuan; at the upper part of Chingmeichi, near Shuangchikou; and at Shihtingchi above Shihting (see pl. 3).
ref: 1957 November, Tschang Hsi-lin, “Potholes in the River Beds of North Taiwan”, in Erdkunde, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 297, columns 1, 2:
text: Larva has been found breeding in rock holes on stream beds at Neishuangchi, A2; in rock holes near the water-fall at Wulai, E32; and in rock holes on stream bed at Nuannuan, B7.
ref: 1962, Pacific Insects, volume 4, Entomology Department, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 623:
text: 4. Keelung LRRT endpoint
The new light rail line will run from Nangang to TRA's Badu Station, in Keelung's Nuannuan District.
ref: 2020 October 14, Keoni Everington, “Taipei-Keelung LRT line upgraded, THSR to be extended to Yilan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2020:
text: Nuannuan Sports Park is located on the opposite side of Dongding Road and Nuangdong^([sic – meaning Nuandong]) Nursery Garden. There is a suspension viewing bridge between Dongding Road and Nuangdong^([sic – meaning Nuandong]) Nursery Garden. It is a new public sports park in Nuannuan district.
ref: n.d., “Nuannuan Sports Park”, in Department of Tourism and City Marketing, Keelung City Government, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2021, Attractions:
text: A sergeant in the Third Precinct’s criminal investigation division, surnamed Cheng (鄭), had invited seven other officers to the gathering at a restaurant in Keelung’s Nuannuan District (暖暖) on the evening of Friday last week, the bureau said in a statement.
ref: 2023 January 20, “Police reprimanded for attending mob boss birthday party”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2023, Taiwan News, page 2:
glosses: A district of Keelung, Taiwan.
brominase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brominases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses a bromination reaction
brominases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brominase
burpenorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of buprenorphine.
calendaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calendar + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calendrical.
cardiomicrovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + microvascular.
Senses: glosses: cardiac and microvascular
cavitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavitrons
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An ultrasonic device used for the descaling of teeth
cavitrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavitron
cefotaximes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cefotaxime
chemorobotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + robotic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any robotic application to chemistry
chromokinesins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromokinesin
citruline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of citrulline.
clofentezine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The pesticide 3,6-bis(2-chlorophenyl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine
coelacanthiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelacanthiforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Coelacanthiformes, most of which are now extinct
coelacanthiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelacanthiform
coenomegaspore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenomegaspores
Etymology: From coeno- + megaspore.
Senses: glosses: A megaspore that has four nuclei formed by meiosis
copunctual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + punctual.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a common set of points
Related terms: copunctal
cryptocystal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryptocyst + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cryptocysts
ctenosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any iguana of the genus Ctenosaura
ctenosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctenosaur
curliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having curli
curliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of curli
cytocompatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cytocompatibility.
dikaryotisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dikaryotization.
Derived terms: dedikaryotisation
dedikaryotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + dikaryotization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The conversion of a dikaryon into a pair of homokaryons
dedikaryotisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + dikaryotisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dedikaryotization.
deglutamylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deglutamylases
Etymology: From de- + glutamylase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses a deglutamylation
dependoparvovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependoparvoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any parvovirus of the genus Dependoparvovirus.
desmopressine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of desmopressin.
disporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having two spores
dorsomedioposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dorso- + medioposterior.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dorsal and medioposterior
windshield phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windscreen phenomenon
Senses: topics: automotive
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: The anecdotal observed decrease in the number of insects splattering across windshields during road trips across the years.
Related terms: colony collapse disorder
windscreen phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of windshield phenomenon.
RTSed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of RTS
RTSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RTS
ectoteloblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectoteloblasts
Etymology: From ecto- + teloblast.
Senses: glosses: ectodermal teloblast
ectoteloblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectoteloblast
electrocardiographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocardiographer
electromicrobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + microbiological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electromicrobiology
etoxazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Diagnostic doses of six acaricides (fenothiocarb, endosulfan, chlorfenapyr, tebufenpyrad, cyenopyrafen and cyflumetofen) resulted in a 68.0~71.8% mortality rate (on average) in the test mite populations, whereas the remaining six acaricides (monocrotophos, omethoate, bifenthrin, abamectin, etoxazole and bifenazate) caused slightly reduced mortality rates (on average 36.5~59.3%).
ref: 2015 November 7, “Phenotypic- and Genotypic-Resistance Detection for Adaptive Resistance Management in Tetranychus urticae Koch”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An acaricide used to control spider mites.
euphorb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphorbs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euphorbia.
euphorbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphorb
cost-efficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more cost-efficient
form: most cost-efficient
Senses: glosses: efficient with respect to cost; producing a large effect relative to cost
Related terms: cost efficiency
sprucen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sprucens
form: sprucening
form: sprucened
form: sprucened
Etymology: From spruce + -en.
Senses: glosses: To arrange neatly; tidy up.
glosses: To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
Derived terms: sprucen up
sprucened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sprucen
sprucening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprucen
sprucens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sprucen
sprucen up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sprucens up
form: sprucening up
form: sprucened up
form: sprucened up
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spruce up.
synonyms: word: spruce up
fraternalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to fraternalism
galaninlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From galanin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Similar to, or having a similar effect as galanin
gametologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gametologue + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to gametologues
gastrocolonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + colonic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the stomach and the colon
Derived terms: gastrocolonic response
genodeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genodemes
Etymology: From geno- + deme.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A population of genetically identical organisms
genodemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genodeme
glutamylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glutamylases
Etymology: From glutamyl + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses a glutamylation
Derived terms: deglutamylase
gynandric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynandrous.
Grassmann algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grassmann algebras
Etymology: Named after Hermann Grassmann (1809–1877), a German polymath.
Senses: examples: If a Grassmann algebra’s first grade consists of vectors of dimension n, then the algebra has n grades and 2ⁿ dimensions.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A direct sum with an exterior product of multivector spaces which are all based on a same underlying finite-dimensional vector space. The associative algebra of sums and exterior products of scalars, vectors, blades, multivectors, and hybrid (i.e., non-homogeneous) sums of multivectors of different grades.
wikipedia: Hermann Grassmann
Synonyms: exterior algebra
Hypernyms: associative algebra
graded algebra
pop on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops on
form: popping on
form: popped on
form: popped on
Senses: examples: text: Pop that light on, will you?
glosses: To turn on.
pops on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pop on
popped on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pop on
popping on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pop on
treads the boards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tread the boards
treading the boards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tread the boards
trod the boards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tread the boards
Pooteresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pooteresque
form: most Pooteresque
Senses: examples: text: But there was also a Pooteresque world of clerks and shopkeepers who lived in the primly respectable townships south of the capital, and whose existence might easily be forgotten were it not for the evidence of church records and the admission books of Orange lodges.
ref: 2002, D.George Boyce, Alan O'Day, Defenders of the Union, →ISBN:
text: If this is simply the grounds for their distance and confusion from the realm of the city then they might simply be 'Pooteresque', but Kate's encounter with Mujid, an Iraqi student she has inherited from her feminist networking, brings home to her the social shift in the culture of the city that has evolved and challenges the limits of her liberalism.
ref: 2007, Philip Tew, The Contemporary British Novel, →ISBN, page 95:
text: In his next, rather Pooteresque letter, Fred has taken to telling Oscar where he will be in the hope that he will turn up:
ref: 2009, Neil McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of Pooterish.
synonyms: word: Pooterish
lyar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyars
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of liar.
lyars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyar
Heathcliffian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heathcliffian
form: most Heathcliffian
Etymology: From the character in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights.
Senses: examples: text: Hindley occupies a place at the Heathcliffian end of the spectrum and, like Heathcliff, is both aggressive and competitive, although insecurely so.
ref: 1993, Harold Bloom, Heathcliff, page 54:
text: I guess you could call him handsome in a dark, Heathcliffian way.
ref: 2000, John Bishop Ballem, John Ballem, Manchineel, →ISBN, page 152:
text: The Grand Tour introduced the young bloods of England — whose acquaintance I made in large numbers — to crumbling architecture and Gothic ruins and, as a result, on their return they transformed their country estates into “a cross between the House of Usher and Wuthering Heights, a Heathcliffian blend of artificial mountains, lonely moors and decayed ruins.
ref: 2014, Suzanne Ruthven, Charnel House Blues: The Vampyre's Tale, →ISBN:
text: Perry himself was not entirely without Heathcliffian qualities — the absence of levity, the ruthless disregard for a girl's comfort, the way he had of scrutinizing you as if you were a puzzle to be solved.
ref: 2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Having characteristics similar to the character Heathcliff, especially dark, brooding, intense, tortured, possessive, aggressive, and/or uncivilized.
wikipedia: Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
irrepublican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrepublican
form: most irrepublican
Senses: glosses: unrepublican
Buckleyesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Buckleyesque
form: most Buckleyesque
Etymology: From William F. Buckley + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Kilpatrick expresses some alarm at the fact that the Buckleyesque vocabulary shows signs of being contagious, citing the "celebrification" of the Columbia Journalism Review, and, worse yet, a piece on Patty Hearst composed by George Will (a columnist and conservative in his own right) to the effect that "Patty's arrest provided a coda to a decade of political infantilism, the exegesis of which could be comprehended as a manifestation of bourgeois Weltanschauung.
ref: 1978, Mario Pei, Weasel words: the art of saying what you don't mean, page 95:
text: In deliciously Buckleyesque prose, former National Review (now known as NR) board member Neal B. Freeman reports in a memorable article, "NR Goes to War," published in the June 2006 issue of the American Spectator, his astonishment at his NR colleagues' abdication of independent judgment as they turned support for going to war against Saddam into a litmus test for patriotism.
ref: 2007, Juliana Geran Pilon, Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice, →ISBN, page 81:
text: They spoke in “Buckleyesque syllogisms,” misused big words, and highlighted their points with “a Buckleyesque protrusion of the tongue.”
ref: 2014, Grace Elizabeth Hale, A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: In the manner of conservative American intellectual William F. Buckley.
wikipedia: William F. Buckley
intertrigonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intertrigonous
form: most intertrigonous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intertriginous.
yellow streaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow streak
OADMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OADM
pyrophosphorylysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrophosphorylyses
Senses: examples: text: The enzyme preparations were assay for ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase activity in the pyrophosphorylysis direction and were diluted to 0.5 units per ml with 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, containing O. l mg/ml of bovine plasma pyrophosphorylase.
ref: 1986, Patrick Sai-Cheong Leung, Cloning of the Salmonella Typhimurium LT2 Glycogen Biosynthetic Genes:
text: Increased pyrophosphorylysis means that newly incorporated nucleotides, including potentially chain-terminating nucleotide analogues, are excised at a higher rate.
ref: 2002, Advances in Virus Research - Volume 58, page 170:
text: Although the DKAs and dihydroxypyrimidines can compete with nucleosides for binding to the active site, these compounds inhibit the pyrophosphorylysis (excision) of strand-terminating nucleosides once they are incorporated into the nascent HCV RNA.
ref: 2017, Douglas L. Mayers, Jack D. Sobel, Marc Ouellette, Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, →ISBN:
glosses: The cleavage of a nucleoside from a nucleotide by breaking the bond to the phosphate group by a reaction with pyrophosphorylase.
pyrophosphorylyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrophosphorylysis
pyrophosphorylytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This reaction is coupled to the pyrophosphorylytic cleavage of ATP.
ref: 1981, The Enzymes: Nucleic acids - Volume 14, Part 1, →ISBN, page 35:
text: There seems to be no general way, as yet, by which one can predict whether a reaction will proceed by a 'phosphorylytic or a pyrophosphorylytic split.
ref: 2012, Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, →ISBN:
text: Thus, many group-transfer reactions, e.g., phosphorylytic, pyrophosphorylytic, and hydrolytic reactions, are useful in the scavenging of transferable groups from foods in the fabrication of essential metabolites suitable for polymer biosynthesis.
ref: 2013, F. M. Burnet, W. M. Stanley, General Virology: Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to pyrophosphorylysis.
mis-histories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mis-history
nut cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The exertion of maximum effort, for example, due to an approaching deadline or a looming competitive situation.
Related terms: nut-cutting time
leaf litter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaflitter
Senses: glosses: Dead plant material, such as fallen leaves, bark, and twigs, that has fallen to the ground and may be used by animals as habitat or for nest-building, eventually decomposing and releasing nutrients into the soil.
haemogregarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemogregarians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemogregarine.
homoadenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + adenine.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A homopyrimidine pairing in which the base is adenine
hydrogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydrogeographic.
hydromodulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromoduli
form: hydromodule
Etymology: From hydro- + modulus.
Senses: glosses: A measure of the water consumption of unit area of arable land
hydrophenanthrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophenanthrenes
Senses: glosses: A hydrogenated form of phenanthrene
Related terms: dihydrophenanthrene
hydrosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + surgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A form of surgery in which small jets of water are employed to debride damaged tissue
hypercapneic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypercapnic.
hyperglutamylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From hyper- + glutamylation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive glutamylation
hyperstomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hyperstomatous.
synonyms: word: hyperstomatous
hyperstreamline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperstreamlines
Etymology: From hyper- + streamline.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A system of streamlines defined by the three principal eigenvectors of a symmetric second-order tensor
hyperstreamlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperstreamline
pleurocarpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pleurocarpous.
synonyms: word: pleurocarpous
lambdoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambdoid
write blocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: write blockers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware device that allows a computer to read a peripheral such as a hard disk without making any changes to its contents, useful in cyberforensics etc.
write blockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of write blocker
pinikpikan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Igorot chicken or duck dish with singed feathers.
battlestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: battlestations
Senses: examples: text: With this latest addition, I now have a fully operational battlestation!
ref: 2000 February 26, Richard Chandler, “Fully operational battlestation”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of battle station.
saltwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltwater
battle station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle stations
form: battlestation
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The position taken by a member of a military force when preparing for battle.
examples: text: In gaming and DevOps, you have to share your battle station […] You also have to share all of your tools and work on the same problems at the same time with people either in the same room or all over the world.
ref: 2016 October 19, Maggie Gourlay, “5 Ways Testing Games Trained Me for Testing DevOps Applications”, in VictorOps, retrieved 12 Jan 2021:
text: The Acer Predator XB271HU is the other highly-sought-after 1440p gaming monitor by enthusiasts for its unique quality and performance. […] The Predator scheme is widely preferred due to its appearance, since the black and red matches a lot of gaming-grade peripherals making it easy to streamline the look of your battle station.
ref: 2017 January 6, Paolo Reva, “Best 144Hz Monitors 2016 / 2017 - Buyer's Guide”, in MonitorNerds, retrieved 12 Jan 2021:
text: Upgrade your battle station & join the ASTRO Family at PAX South! Shop in our booth and save 20% on all of our products! We’ll have headsets, bags, apparel, accessories and more!
ref: 2017 January 20, ASTRO Siege, “PAX South 2017 – ASTRO Gaming Blog”, in ASTRO Gaming Blog, retrieved 12 Jan 2021:
text: Pre-installed with a high-end GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, the device can easily transform any Thunderbolt 3-enabled laptop into a powerful gaming battle station.
ref: 2017 June 21, Winston Chim, “GIGABYTE Releases AORUS GTX 1070 Gaming Box”, in FunkyKit, retrieved 12 Jan 2021:
topics: video-games
glosses: The setup that one uses to play video games on a computer.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A space station equipped primarily for combat.
ichnoactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ichno- + activity.
Senses: glosses: ichnological activity
igorinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: igorinids
Senses: glosses: Any foraminifer of the extinct genus †Igorina
igorinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of igorinid
illiophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of iliophagous.
infraocclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infraocclusions
Etymology: From infra- + occlusion.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An irregular occlusion caused by ankylosis of one or more teeth
interactance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interactances
Senses: glosses: A measure of the interaction of infra-red radiation with bodily tissue that is used to estimate the fat content of such tissue
interquintile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + quintile.
Senses: glosses: Between (adjacent) quintiles
intragenerationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intra- + generationally.
Senses: glosses: In an intragenerational manner
ADRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADRTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of advance decision to refuse treatment.
ADRTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ADRT
ipomovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ipomoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus, of the genus Ipomovirus, that infect sweet potatoes (of the genus Ipomoea)
ipomoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ipomovirus
isoproteic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + proteic.
Senses: glosses: Having the same amount of protein
raw_tags: of diets
glosses: Relating to isoproteins
ketobenzothiazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketobenzothiazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ketone in which a benzothiazole is linked to the carbonyl group; some are serine protease inhibitors
decaphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decaphosphates
Etymology: From deca- + phosphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance containing ten phosphate groups [(PO₄)₁₀] or [P₁₀O₄₀].
examples: text: the believed they had obtained in a crystalline form the compounds which we now know as ... decaphosphate, Na₁₂P₁₀O₃₁
ref: 1962, Erich Thilo, “Condensed Phosphates and Arsenates”, in Advances in Inorganic Chemistry and Radiochemistry, Volume 4, page 4:
text: Examples of the polyphosphates are sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate and sodium decaphosphate
ref: 1973, State of Washington Water Research Center, Analysis of Engineering Alternatives for Environmental Protection from Thermal Discharges, Volume 1, page 69:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyphosphate or oligophosphate containing a condensed chain of ten phosphate groups
Derived terms: cyclo-decaphosphate
cyclo-decaphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclo-decaphosphates
Senses: examples: text: Cyclo-decaphosphate, Ba2Zn3P10O30. , was prepared by mixing BaCO3, ZnCO3, and H3PO4
ref: 2005, HIROYUKI NARIAI, SHOUHEI MARUISHI, RIDESIII MAKI, “CONVENIENT SYNTHESES AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF VARIOUS CYCLO-DECAPHOSPHATES”, in Phosphorus Research Bulletin, volume 19, →DOI, page 194:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of cyclodecaphosphate.
devitoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Alfred (Fred) DeVito who lived from 1937–2004, a California micromounter and mineral collector. + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic mineral containing barium, iron, phosphate, carbonate and silicate.
chevkinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevkinites
Etymology: Named after Konstantin Vladimirovich Chevkin, who lived from 1803 to 1875. Named by Gustav Rose in 1839.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic sorosilicate mineral containing rare earths, magnesium, iron and titanium.
chalcostibite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”) + Ancient Greek στίβι (stíbi, “antimony”) + ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black orthorhombic mineral composed of copper antimony disulfide
chabournéite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Chabournéou Glacier + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black triclinic mineral composed of thallium, lead, antimony, arsenic and sulfur Tl₄Pb₂(Sb,As)₂₀S₃₄.
dodecamercury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dodeca- + mercury.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Twelve atoms of mercury in a chemical compound: Hg₁₂.
dodecarhenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dodeca- + rhenium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Twelve atoms of rhenium in a chemical compound. Re₁₂
dodecabismuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dodeca- + bismuth.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Twelve atoms of bismuth in a chemical compound. Bi₁₂
dodecachloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dodeca- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing twelve chloride ions or chlorine atoms. Cl₁₂
dodecacarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dodeca- + carbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing twelve carbonate ions. (CO₃)₁₂.
dodecahydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dodeca- + hydroxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing twelve hydroxide ions. (OH)₁₂
heptabismuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + bismuth.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Seven atoms of bismuth in a chemical compound. Bi₇
heptamanganese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + manganese.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Seven atoms of manganese in a chemical compound. Mg₇
heptaluminium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + aluminium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Seven atoms of aluminium in a chemical compound. Al₇
heptairon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + iron.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Seven atoms of iron in a chemical compound. Fe₇
heptazinc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + zinc.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Seven atoms of zinc in a chemical compound. Zn₇
heptatitanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + titanium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Seven atoms of titanium in a chemical compound. Ti₇
heptaplatinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + platinum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Seven atoms of platinum in a chemical compound. Pt₇
heptasulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptasulfates
Etymology: From hepta- + sulfate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing seven sulfate ions. (SO₄)₇
hexavanadate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexavanadates
Etymology: From hexa- + vanadate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing six vanadate ions. (VO₄)₆
hexasilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexasilicates
Etymology: From hexa- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing six silicate ions. (SiO₄)₆
cyclodecaphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclodecaphosphates
form: cyclo-decaphosphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ring of ten phosphate groups or ions
lactodehydrogenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lacto- + dehydrogenase.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lactate dehydrogenase.
synonyms: word: lactate dehydrogenase
lactate dehydrogenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: LDH
glosses: A dehydrogenase that converts lactate into pyruvate.
Langmuirian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Langmuir + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), American chemist, physicist, and engineer.
overpronounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpronounces
form: overpronouncing
form: overpronounced
form: overpronounced
Etymology: From over- + pronounce.
Senses: glosses: To give an exaggerated pronunciation to.
lapinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lapinizes
form: lapinizing
form: lapinized
form: lapinized
Etymology: From French lapiniser, apparently attested in French since c. 1910.
Senses: glosses: To attenuate a virus, such that it can be used to make a vaccine, by passage through rabbits.
Related terms: avianize
lapinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lapinize
overpronouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpronounce
Largactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Largactil.
Largactil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Brand name for chlorpromazine
Derived terms: Largactil shuffle
leakance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leakances
Senses: glosses: A measure of leakage, typically as a result if imperfect insulation
leakances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leakance
lexomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Computerised lexical analysis
estouffade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estouffades
Etymology: From French estouffade. Doublet of stifado.
Senses: glosses: A Southern French stew of meat added to a base of onion, garlic, tomato, etc., fried in oil and cooked very slowly in a closed container
estouffades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estouffade
macrophenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrophenotypes
Etymology: From macro- + phenotype.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large phenotype
microphenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microphenotypes
Etymology: From micro- + phenotype.
Senses: glosses: A relatively small phenotype
macrophenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrophenotype
microphenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microphenotype
magnetostimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + stimulation.
Senses: glosses: magnetic stimulation
maricultured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Produced by means of mariculture
mecopteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mecopteroids
Senses: glosses: Any scorpionfly of the superorder Mecopterida.
mecopteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mecopteroid
megagametophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + gametophytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to megagametophytes
megathrombocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megathrombocytes
Etymology: From mega- + thrombocyte.
Senses: glosses: A very large thrombocyte
megathrombocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megathrombocyte
mesoteloblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoteloblasts
Etymology: From meso- + teloblast.
Senses: glosses: A mesodermal teloblast
mesoteloblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoteloblast
metasynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metasyntheses
Etymology: From meta- + synthesis.
Senses: glosses: The combination of the results of several previous qualitative research studies.
Related terms: meta-analysis
metamethod
metaresearch
metascience
metatheory
micellarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: micellarizes
form: micellarizing
form: micellarized
form: micellarized
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo micellarization
microconsolidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microconsolidations
Etymology: From micro- + consolidation.
Senses: glosses: consolidation (typically of parcels for delivery) on a small scale
microprinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microprinters
Etymology: From micro- + printer.
Senses: glosses: A printer capable of producing microprint
microprinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microprinter
microrecording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microrecordings
Etymology: From micro- + recording.
Senses: glosses: recording by means of microphotography
microrecordings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microrecording
madow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdoʊ/
ipa: [məˈdəʊ̯]
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Somali madow (“black”).
Senses: examples: text: I swear that he owes me dough from the time that I gave him madow, is he silly?
ref: 2019 April 24, “Mobbin’”, Richi of MaliStrip (lyrics):
text: In the T with both like Panda-Po
Bro whip work in the Pyrex
Press the madow or whip this snow
ref: 2021 January 24, “Corn” (track 9, 0:44–0:49 from the start), in 2smokeyy (lyrics), Camden Town Exclusive:
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Heroine.
daylight standard time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In an area that uses daylight saving time, the clock time that is used in the autumn and winter months.
booza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boozas
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بُوظَة (būẓa), in turn from Ottoman Turkish بوزه (boza).
Senses: glosses: Syrian and Lebanese ice cream
morphokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to changes in form as time passes
Related terms: morphokinetics
multialternative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + alternative.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple alternatives
conflow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfloʊ/
ipa: /kənˈfləʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: conflows
form: conflowing
form: conflowed
form: conflowed
Etymology: From con- + flow. Calque of Latin cōnfluō, apparently coined by Philemon Holland in his translations of Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus.
Senses: examples: text: The morrow next ensuing he departed from thence by the very edge of the river bankes, where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither on every side, marching in warlike sort with his forces armed and weaponed; and there he tooke up his station, and abode under tents: where the potentates and princes of the Saracenes humbly upon their knees presenting unto him a crowne of gold, honoured him as the Lord of the world, and of their nations; who were gladly received, as men meet for warlike brigandize and robberie.
ref: 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, trans. Philemon Holland, The Roman historie containing such acts and occurrents as passed under Constantius, Iulianus, Iovianus, Valentinianus, and Valens, emperours, book 23, chapter 2, page 221
text: Crossed, soon after leaving camp, two small streams, then came to the Lukoke river, which, conflowing with the Meruzi, forms the northern Malagarazi.
ref: 1878, Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent: Or, The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa, and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, volume 2, page 532:
text: First and second substantials, the finites which constitute the two radiant belts below the Spiritual Sun, are framed immediately from the primitives of that Sun, by means of their own conflowing and conglobation.
ref: 1907, Lillian G. Beekman, Outlines of Swedenborg’s Cosmology, pages 53–54:
text: You weave so deftly out of Nature, that all one needs is to have leant over your terrace with wits alert, to perceive whence you mould that fairy-world whose every strand of life so beautifully conflows.
ref: 1911, Richard Wagner, “Letter 62a”, in William Ashton Ellis, transl., Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, page 111:
text: He paces the islet, from where the river divides to where it reunifies, contemplating the “joyous eddies” created by the two arms conflowing.
ref: 2007, C. J. Ackerly, S. E. Gontarski, The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader’s Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought:
glosses: to flow together into one stream, to converge
wikipedia: Ammianus Marcellinus
Philemon Holland
Suetonius
conflows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conflow
conflowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conflow
conflowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conflow
Sinsing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐnʹshǐngʹ
Forms: form: Hsinhsing
form: Hsin-hsing
form: Xinxing
Etymology: The Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新興 (Sinsing).
Senses: examples: text: Sinsing Night Market on Nanhua Road has more clothes stalls and some food at the southern end.
ref: 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 351:
text: Central Kaohsiung, including Cianjin, Yancheng, and Sinsing Districts, has very high thermal load and low dynamic potential. This suggests that these areas have intense anthropogenic heat release but limited air ventilation. These areas require specific planning action, such as increasing greenery coverage and reducing anthropogenic heat release.
ref: 2015, Chao Ren, “Urban climatic map studies in Taiwan: Kaohsiung”, in Edward Ng, Chao Ren, editors, The Urban Climatic Map for Sustainable Urban Planning, Earthscan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:
text: Accumulated rain in the last 24 hours in Fongshan, Lingya, Sanmin and Sinsing districts topped 300mm, records showed.
ref: 2018, Wang Shu-fen, Chang Che-fong, Yeh Su-ping, Frances Huang, “Kaohsiung hit by heavy rain; schools, businesses closed Tuesday”, in Focus Taiwan:
text: Located in the Sinsing District of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the luminous “Dome of Light” in the Formosa Boulevard was designed by Italian artist Narcissus Quagliata. Comprising 4,500 glass panels and measuring 98 feet in diameter, this dome is currently the largest glasswork in the world.
ref: 2019 April 23, Kelly Richman-Abdou, “6 of the Most Beautiful Metro Stations Around the World”, in My Modern Met, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2019:
text: Currently, no plans for panel installation in Sinsing District, where the urban heat island effect can be better alleviated through greening facility construction, have been made.
ref: 2021, Chien-Chiao Chao et al., “Application of a High-Density Temperature Measurement System for the Management of the Kaohsiung House Project”, in Sustainability, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
wikipedia: Formosa Boulevard metro station
unstressability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hence by saying that the first part of the schwa is empty T claims to explain its unstressability.
ref: 1984, Harry van der Hulst, Syllable structure and stress in Dutch, page 114:
text: An explanation for the general ability of French clitics to receive stress might be that French, unlike the other Romance languages, only has phrasal stress, and that the alleged unstressability of clitics only holds for lexical stress.
ref: 2012, Sascha Gaglia, Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages, page 120:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The quality of being unstressable.
Sun King
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sun King
Etymology: Calque of French Roi-Soleil.
Senses: qualifier: sobriquet
glosses: Louis XIV, king of France between 1643 and 1715