cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
as if by magic
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: In a very surprising or seemingly impossible way.
tofu scramble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tofu scrambles
Senses: glosses: A tofu dish resembling scrambled egg but suitable for vegans.
tofu scrambles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tofu scramble
Abishag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abishags
Etymology: From Hebrew אבישג (“Avishag”, literally “Father of error” or “the Father wanders”), from אבי (avi, “father of; my father”) and שגג (shagag, “to go astray; to err; to sin”).
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: The illegitimate child of an unmarried woman and a married man.
Hypernyms: bastard
love-child
Abishags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abishag
cow-clicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow-clickers
Etymology: Coined by Ian Bogost in response to FarmVille winning an award for "Best New Social/Online Game" at the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards. The win caused Bogost, a critic of the freemium model used by Zynga, to be struck with the thought: "Games like FarmVille are cow clickers. You click on a cow, and that's all you do." He subsequently developed Cow Clicker, an intentionally simplistic parody game, which itself became a surprise viral hit.
Senses: examples: text: The plan was to offer a much deeper experience than what Farmville and rest of the cow-clickers ever could.
ref: 2015, Juho Kuorikoski, Finnish Video Games: A History and Catalog, page 235:
topics: video-games
glosses: A video game that requires the player to perform repetitive tasks at certain intervals.
wikipedia: Cow Clicker
FarmVille
Game Developers Choice Awards
Ian Bogost
Zynga
Related terms: clicker game
cow-clickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow-clicker
anthranoyllycoctonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthranoyl + lycoctonine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene alkaloid found in the Delphinium genus.
delpyrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene alkaloid found in the Delphinium genus.
delsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene alkaloid found in the Delphinium genus.
demissine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene alkaloid found in the Delphinium genus.
methyllycoctonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl- + lycoctonine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene alkaloid found in the Delphinium genus.
oreodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene alkaloid found in the plant Delphinium oreophilum.
oreoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oreophilum + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene alkaloid found in the plant Delphinium oreophilum.
garnetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garnetters
Etymology: From garnett + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who garnetts.
garnetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garnetter
new jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The rise of rap and new jack and the proliferation of other urban music labels meant the glory days of PIR were effectively over.
ref: 2006, Billboard, volume 118, number 25, page 48:
glosses: Synonym of new jack swing.
synonyms: word: new jack swing
mikos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miko
Møller scattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Danish physicist Christian Møller (1904–1980).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: electron-electron scattering in quantum field theory
wikipedia: Christian Møller
skarnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From skarn + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to skarn.
moveset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuvˌsɛt/
Forms: form: movesets
Etymology: From move + set.
Senses: examples: text: Keep in mind that this version is 65% complete, so changes to the movesets and timing are bound to happen until its release in the arcades next April.
ref: 2008, GameAxis Unwired, number 62, page 18:
text: Considering the fact that, by definition, you essentially have three movesets per character, the Mascot is easily the best Dressphere in the game due to not only the number of abilities usable, but also the versatility […]
ref: 2015, GamerGuides.com, Final Fantasy X-2 HD - Strategy Guide:
topics: video-games
glosses: The set of moves that a character can perform.
movesets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moveset
pick-purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick-purses
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer
ref: c. 1599–1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 3, scene 4:
glosses: Alternative form of pickpurse.
pick-purses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pick-purse
Militine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Legio XII Fulminata ("Thunderbolt Twelfth Legion") of the Imperial Roman army.
mini-putt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: miniature golf
miller's grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the powdery white appearance of the leaves, as if covered in flour.
Senses: glosses: A hardy grape variety, cultivated in Burgundy for making wine.
kersantite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kersantites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lamprophyre mineral containing biotite and plagioclase.
vogesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vogesites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lamprophyre mineral containing hornblende and orthoclase.
muriti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muritis
Senses: glosses: The moriche palm.
miritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miriti
muritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muriti
minhagim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minhag
minhags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minhag
misozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misozoic
form: most misozoic
Etymology: From miso- + zoic.
Senses: examples: text: The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.
ref: 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:
text: The Duke urges him to prepare for death and to desire it because of life's worthlessness. His image of life is hyperbolically misozoic because he is practicing — and getting off on — homiletics: […]
ref: 1997, Harry Berger, Peter Erickson, Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare:
glosses: life-hating
philozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philozoic
form: most philozoic
Etymology: From philo- + zoic.
Senses: glosses: Fond of animals.
glosses: Loving one's fellow man; philanthropic.
monobath
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + bath.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Such that the development process involves immersion in only one chemical bath.
monomineral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + mineral.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a single kind of mineral.
Montanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Montanian
form: most Montanian
Etymology: From Montana + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Montanan.
Montanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montanians
Etymology: From Montana + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Montanan.
Montanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Montanian
monotoneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monotone + -ity?
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being monotone.
moonstomp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonstomps
Etymology: From moon + stomp.
Senses: examples: text: Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.
ref: 2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271:
glosses: A ska dance with stamping motions.
moonstomps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonstomp
moonphase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonphases
Etymology: From moon + phase.
Senses: examples: text: Crafted in 18-karat white gold, this Jules Audemars Equation of Time offers hours and minutes, as well as date, days, months, leap years and moonphases. The watch also offers sunrise and sunset times, and equation of time.
ref: 2005, Caroline Childers, Grand Complications: High Quality Watchmaking, page 317:
glosses: Synonym of lunar phase.
synonyms: word: lunar phase
moonphases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonphase
equation of time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equations of time
Senses: examples: text: Crafted in 18-karat white gold, this Jules Audemars Equation of Time offers hours and minutes, as well as date, days, months, leap years and moonphases. The watch also offers sunrise and sunset times, and equation of time.
ref: 2005, Caroline Childers, Grand Complications: High Quality Watchmaking, page 317:
glosses: The discrepancy between two kinds of solar time: the apparent solar time, which directly tracks the motion of the Sun, and mean solar time, which tracks a theoretical "mean" Sun with noons that are twenty-four hours apart.
moon pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnpuːl/
ipa: /ˈmunˌpul/
Forms: form: moon pools
form: moonpool
form: moon-pool
Etymology: From moon + pool, from the fact that, on some nights, moonlight can be seen reflected by the surface of the sea through the opening, making it resemble a swimming pool.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: chiefly oil industry
glosses: An opening in the base of the hull of a vessel (especially a marine drilling platform), which is used for lowering equipment into the sea below.
wikipedia: Douglas Rutherford
Solina Dam
Hyponyms: wet porch
moon pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon pool
monocropped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + cropped.
Senses: glosses: Of land: used for monocropping.
agrohorticultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agro- + horticultural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to agrohorticulture.
agrihorticulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agrohorticulture.
agrihorticultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agri- + horticultural.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agrohorticultural.
drunken shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Chinese dish of freshwater shrimp, often eaten alive and immersed in alcohol.
morning goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊdz
Senses: glosses: Baked goods prepared fresh each morning by a bakery.
Morbiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morbier
Pochhammer symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pochhammer symbols
Etymology: Introduced by Leo August Pochhammer.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The notation (x)ₙ, where n is a non-negative integer, which depending on the context represents either the rising factorial or the falling factorial.
wikipedia: Leo August Pochhammer
Pochhammer symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pochhammer symbol
monofactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + factorial.
Senses: glosses: Involving or controlled by a single factor.
Related terms: multifactorial
monoplacophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnə(ʊ)pləˈkɒfəɹən/
Forms: form: monoplacophorans
Etymology: From translingual Monoplacophora + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The crabbed limpet-like shellfish is a monoplacophoran.
ref: 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 49:
text: Unique among mollusks, monoplacophorans turned out to have multiple repeating sets of shell-attachment muscles, kidneys, and gills.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Monoplacophorans are an extremely ancient type of mollusc, the oldest known from the fossil record.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 229:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the superclass Monoplacophora, comprising molluscs with cap-like shells.
monoplacophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoplacophoran
polyphyletism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being polyphyletic.
monophyletism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: The property of being monophyletic; monophyly.
Berdichev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berdychiv
form: Berditchev
form: Berdytchiv
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Берди́чев (Berdíčev).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.
Berdychiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Берди́чів (Berdýčiv).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Berdichev.
species dysphoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The experience of dysphoria associated with the feeling that one's body is of the wrong species.
Related terms: otherkin
pneumotaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Analysed as pneumo- + -taxic, and the latter is from τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”)
Senses: examples: text: The inspiratory-off switch (IOS) system consists of discharges arising from firstly, the pulmonary stretch receptors through the Breuer-Hering reflex and secondly the pneumotaxic pattern generator.
ref: 2013, Robert Fitzgerald, The Regulation of Respiration During Sleep and Anesthesia, →ISBN, page 6:
text: The inhibitory neurons that switch off the inspiratory ramp arise from the pneumotaxic center and pulmonary stretch receptors, which are discussed in the next section.
ref: 2013, Will Beachey, Respiratory Care Anatomy and Physiology, →ISBN:
text: Traditionally, the pontine pneumotaxic mechanism has been thought to contribute a tonic descending input that lowers the IOS threshold in medullary respiratory central pattern generator (rCPG) circuits, but otherwise does not constitute part of the rCPG.
ref: 2014, Chi-Sang Poon, Gang Song, “Bidirectional Plasticity of Pontine Pneumotaxic Postinspiratory Drive: Implication for a Pontomedullary Respiratory Central Pattern Generator”, in The Central Nervous System Control of Respiration, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: Pertaining to the regulation of respiratory rate.
foams up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foam up
foaming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foam up
foamed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foam up
foams at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foam at the mouth
foaming at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foam at the mouth
foamed at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foam at the mouth
post-truth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊst ˈtɹuːθ/
Forms: form: posttruth
Etymology: From post- + truth.
Senses: examples: text: He is, he claims, post-God, post-reality, post-truth, post-meaning, post- history, post-world, post-Western […]
ref: 1989, The Month, page 281:
text: Victims or exiles should not repeat any longer what everybody already knows in the new 'post-truth' world order – that they are among numerous contemporary victims of war crimes and military violence […]
ref: 1995, Collegium Antropologicum, volume 19, page 20:
text: Clearly quite a lot of journalism is post-truth . . . More important, perhaps, is journalism's post-truth tendency . . . to make no propositions for which there is a possible 'true/false' response.
ref: 2001, John Beynon, Masculinities And Culture, →ISBN:
text: In the post-truth world, the people are saturated by a plurality of discourses that are struggling for the consent of the audience, the difference being that the explosion of messages that characterises modernity is no longer stamped with the 'authority' of their authors.
ref: 2001, Roy Ascott, Reframing consciousness: art, mind and technology, page 293:
text: In Christianity Today, columnist Charles Colson bemoaned our “post-truth society,” which produces liars such as Tawana Brawley, David Brock, and Stephen Ambrose.
ref: 2003, Craig Detweiler, Barry Taylor, A Matrix of Meanings (Engaging Culture): Finding God in Pop Culture, →ISBN, page 2003:
text: Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a universe of shared facts and common messages.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
media
politics
glosses: Beyond or superseding the importance of truth; pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected; (usually derogatory) not caring about factual accuracy.
Derived terms: post-truthism
post-truth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊst ˈtɹuːθ/
Forms: form: posttruth
Etymology: From post- + truth.
Senses: examples: text: Post-truth has also been abetted by the evolution of the media.
ref: 2016 September 10, “Art of the Lie”, in The Economist:
glosses: The fact or state of being post-truth; a time period or situation in which facts have become less important than emotional persuasion.
Related terms: dystopia
epistemic crisis
psyop
froths at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of froth at the mouth
frothing at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of froth at the mouth
frothed at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of froth at the mouth
posttruth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, in what follows, we entertain several tenuous interpretations of the film, ones that display prominent aspects of postcolonial theory and perhaps even address some sort of posttruth in their microscopic readings but ones that, through excess essentially, mock such applications of postcolonial theory, as they question the warping power of theory in general.
ref: 2001 August, Nathaniel Kohn, Y.S. Lee, “Faces/Off: Challenges to Postcolonial Theory Along the Hong Kong-Hollywood Axis”, in Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, volume 1, number 3:
text: Across multiple societies, we see a shift from regimes of truth (ROT) to “regimes of posttruth”(ROPT) characterized by proliferating “truth markets.”
ref: 2015 June, Jayson Harsin, “Regimes of Posttruth, Postpolitics, and Attention Economies”, in Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 8, number 2:
glosses: Alternative form of post-truth.
posttruth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Hartley uses the term 'posttruth society' to characterize a binary-oriented journalism in which 'reason and truth are not the guiding principles' but rather 'adversarial visions' that pit 'we' groups against 'they' groups (1992: 217).
ref: 2013, Steven Maras, Objectivity in Journalism, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of post-truth.
airline ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airline tickets
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Synonym of air ticket.
synonyms: word: air ticket
flight ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight tickets
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Synonym of air ticket.
synonyms: word: air ticket
plane ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plane tickets
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Synonym of air ticket.
synonyms: word: air ticket
archaeomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeomancy
Etymology: From archaeo- + -mancy, from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”) and μαντεία (manteía, “prophecy”).
Senses: examples: text: Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy
ref: 2004 May 24, Peter N. Peregrine, “Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy”, in Cross-Cultural Research, volume 38, number 2, title, page 133:
text: He thinks that in ancient Camanac if skills like yours were common they'd have had names for them– archaeomancy, chronomancy, kineomancy. That sort of thing.
ref: 2014, C. L. Holland, Conversations with Dragons, page 8:
glosses: Divination using sacred relics.
brontomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bronto- + -mancy, from Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) and μαντεία (manteía, “prophecy”).
Senses: glosses: Divination by thunder.
iwantone
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: I want one
potators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potator
fresh starts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fresh start
clean slates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean slate
penile bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penile bones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baculum.
synonyms: word: baculum
forholds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forhold
forholding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forhold
forheld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forhold
Patschke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of German origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
frowny face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frowny faces
Senses: examples: text: First off, smiley faces are the ONLY kind of emoticon allowed in business correspondence. No shocked faces. No winks. And no frowny faces. A frowny face is somehow inherently sarcastic, and is never a good way to convey actual sadness or sympathy.
ref: 2011 December 28, Ramona Emerson, “Emoticons At Work: Unprofessional Or Necessary Evil?”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2021:
text: Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.
ref: 2016 March 24, Darryl Sterdan, “ZAYN’s ‘Mind of Mine’ and Gwen Stefani’s ‘This is What the Truth Feels Like’ top this week’s new music”, in The Toronto Star, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2018:
synonyms: frowny
frownie
glosses: A simplified representation or emoticon representing a frowning face.
translingualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translingualisms
Etymology: From translingual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Essentially, translingualism questions the idea that only one type of English is acceptable in academic writing.
ref: 2019, Paula Rawlins and Emma Catherine Perry, “Teaching Translingual: Lesson plans and suggested writing assignments for exploring code meshing and linguistic difference”, in University of Georgia, page 2:
text: The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm.
ref: 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language.
examples: text: This third approach can be illustrated by one of the most frequently-observed of Okara's translingualisms, the transposition into English of Ijo word-order.
ref: 1990, Research in African Literatures, volume 21, number 3, page 84:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A specific phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language, such as a term or symbol used in more than one language.
translingualisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translingualism
Pennycook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a historic town called Penicuik.
Senses: examples: text: Alastair Pennycook and Gerda de Klerk show in their papers that promotion of MT in education can be and has been used as a mechanism to maintain the status quo to the detriment of marginalized groups wishing to enhance their sociopolitical status.
ref: 1974, International Journal of the Sociology of Language:
glosses: A surname.
translanguaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translanguagings
Etymology: From trans- + languaging.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm.
ref: 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The dynamic process whereby multilingual language users mediate complex social and cognitive activities through strategic employment of multiple semiotic resources to act, to know, and to be.
translanguaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From trans- + languaging.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of translanguage
translanguagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translanguaging
translanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: translanguages
form: translanguaging
form: translanguaged
form: translanguaged
Etymology: From trans- + language.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, the discussion that ensues about the reading material often takes place in Spanish with children encouraged to translanguage as they try out their ideas with new language practices.
ref: 2013, Christian Abello-Contesse, Paul M. Chandler, María Dolores López-Jiménez, Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century, →ISBN:
text: Whereas before she would often translanguage herself in whole-group lessons, now she calls on students with different language backgrounds to translanguage for clarification or meaning, but does not do it herself.
ref: 2015, Jasone Cenoz, Durk Gorter, Multilingual Education, →ISBN, page 220:
text: To translanguage is to speak naturally and freely, without regard for the restrictions established by the boundaries of named languages, without heed for the constraints that give dual names and borders and limits to the bilingual's unitary competence.
ref: 2016, Ofelia García, Tatyana Kleyn, Translanguaging with Multilingual Students, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To make use of multiple languages in a single discourse.
Derived terms: translanguaging
translanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of translanguage
translanguaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of translanguage
what the fudge
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -ʌdʒ
Senses: examples: text: What the fudge do you need from me, Francis?
glosses: Euphemistic form of what the fuck.
asposta
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of supposed to.
esophagojejunostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophagojejunostomies
Etymology: From esophago- + jejunostomy.
Senses: examples: text: RESULTS: Laparoscopic total gastrectomy and esophagojejunostomy were successfully performed in all 84 patients, without conversion to laparotomy.
ref: 2015 August 7, Hao Wang et al., “Esophagojejunostomy after laparoscopic total gastrectomy by OrVilTM or hemi-double stapling technique”, in World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG, volume 21, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The construction of a direct passage between the esophagus and the jejunum
esophagojejunostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esophagojejunostomy
exochorion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛksəʊˈkɔːɹiən/
Forms: form: exochorions
form: exochoria
Etymology: From exo- + chorion.
Senses: examples: text: It is interesting that the egg of S. souvorowiana has a sponge-like exochorion
ref: 2015 May 1, Yan Wang, Ji Ma, Xinfang Mao, “Development of a Nondestructive Method for Sexing Live Adult Sternoplax souvorowiana (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)”, in Journal of Insect Science, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: The outer layer of the chorion of an insect egg
Derived terms: exochorionic
immunotargeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + targeting.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, cancer/testis antigens suggest the promise of highly specific immunotargeting of human cancers.
ref: 2015 August 7, Emeaga Maheswaran et al., “Lack of ADAM2, CALR3 and SAGE1 Cancer/Testis Antigen Expression in Lung and Breast Cancer”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: immunological targeting
isogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isogens
Etymology: From isogenous.
Senses: examples: text: In the TNF-α assay, the chronic isogen AES-1M elicited a significantly greater response compared to AES-1M.
ref: 2015 August 7, Christopher J. Harmer et al., “Homogentisate 1-2-Dioxygenase Downregulation in the Chronic Persistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Australian Epidemic Strain-1 in the CF Lung”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of organisms that share the same origin.
isogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In fact, our results show the death rate was reduced in AES-1M assays compared to AES-1R, despite a lack of pyomelanin in both isogens.
ref: 2015 August 7, Christopher J. Harmer et al., “Homogentisate 1-2-Dioxygenase Downregulation in the Chronic Persistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Australian Epidemic Strain-1 in the CF Lung”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: plural of isogen
isopropylphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopropylphosphates
Etymology: From isopropyl + phosphate.
Senses: examples: text: The L-arabinose derivatives 14 and 18 substituted at position 2 with a phosphate or an isopropylphosphate, respectively, were prepared from the same starting phosphinylated L-arabinose 3 following a similar sequence.
ref: 2015 August 5, Abbas El Sahili et al., “A Pyranose-2-Phosphate Motif Is Responsible for Both Antibiotic Import and Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens”, in PLoS Pathogens, volume 11, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any isopropyl phosphate (ester of a phosphoric acid)
isopropylthiogalactoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isopropyl + thiogalactoside.
Senses: examples: text: The utility of an isopropylthiogalactoside (IPTG) inducible system in mycobacteria has been reported for protein overexpression and anti-sense gene expression from a replicating multi-copy plasmid.
ref: 2015 August 6, Sudha Ravishankar et al., “An IPTG Inducible Conditional Expression System for Mycobacteria”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: Any isopropyl thiogalactoside
laminaripentaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Agrocinopine A (yellow), cellobiose (light blue) and laminaripentaose (green) are represented as sticks. (PDF) Click here for additional data file.
ref: 2015 August 5, Abbas El Sahili et al., “A Pyranose-2-Phosphate Motif Is Responsible for Both Antibiotic Import and Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens”, in PLoS Pathogens, volume 11, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligosaccharide related to laminarin
laterocaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From latero- + caudal.
Senses: examples: text: The eighth tergite of female has two white regions lacking pigmentation at its laterocaudal angles (arrows); however, the eighth tergite of male is covered with dark pigment all over.
ref: 2015 May 1, Yan Wang, Ji Ma, Xinfang Mao, “Development of a Nondestructive Method for Sexing Live Adult Sternoplax souvorowiana (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)”, in Journal of Insect Science, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: lateral and caudal
Derived terms: laterocaudally
visual field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual fields
Senses: glosses: A field of vision; a field of view.
visual fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visual field
visual aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual aids
Senses: glosses: An item such as a prop, slide, or picture that appeals primarily to vision and is used to enhance the understanding of information presented orally or in writing.
wickerworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wickerworkers
Etymology: From wickerwork + -er or wicker + worker.
Senses: examples: text: They turned and found the wicker-worker hard at their heels, followed by long trails of withy.
ref: 2012, Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7:
text: Another increasing concern with both ideological and pragmatic elements related to the situation of wickerworkers.
ref: 2013, Joong-Seop Kim, The Korean Paekjong Under Japanese Rule:
glosses: Someone who makes things with wicker.
Related terms: wickerwork
wickerworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wickerworker
artist's impression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artists' impressions
Senses: topics: architecture
art
arts
glosses: A sketch or drawing of someone or something, produced when it is not possible to take a photograph.
Mortonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /mɔɹˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Morton + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This cranium is now in the Mortonian collection.
ref: 1863, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, page 220:
glosses: Of or relating to Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), American physician and natural scientist.
glosses: Of or relating to John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), English playwright who specialised in one-act farces.
uncuriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncurious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncurious.
uncuriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncuriously
form: most uncuriously
Etymology: From uncurious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncurious manner.
uncuriosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + curiosity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncurious.
vrykolaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vrykolakas
Etymology: From vrykolakas, the final s having been misinterpreted as the English plural marker -s.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vrykolakas.
synonyms: word: vrykolakas
vorvolaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vorvolakas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vrykolakas.
synonyms: word: vrykolakas
vorvolakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vorvolaka
ekimmu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of edimmu.
edimmu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ekimmu
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Sumerian religion, a class of utukku or spirits, envisioned as the ghosts of those who did not receive a proper burial.
utukku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Sumerian religion, a class of spirits who had escaped the underworld, either by their own power or by being summoned forth by a priest.
Hyponyms: edimmu
jiangshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiˌɑŋˈʃiː/
/d͡ʒiˌæŋˈʃiː/
Forms: form: jiangshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 殭屍／僵尸 (jiāngshī).
Senses: synonyms: hopping vampire
zompire
glosses: A reanimated corpse in Chinese legend, which moves around by hopping with its arms outstretched, and kills living creatures to absorb their life force.
chocnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Genericized trademark from Choc Nut, which is a blend of chocolate + peanut, or alternatively of chocolate + coconut, since supposedly the original recipe used chocolate and coconut.
Senses: examples: text: She talked about how it was to achieve fame, how it was to work her body to the bones, how it was to crave for bagoong and chocnut in fits of homesickness, how the whole thing had not changed her at all, she was still the same old Lea.
ref: 1993, Teodoro C. Benigno, Here's the score - Volume 2, page 269:
text: Go into that shop and buy me three of those chocnut lollies.
ref: 2015, Alex Wheatle, Liccle Bit, →ISBN:
text: “Chocnut,” said Robyn, then she paused. “Peas Mummy? Peas chocnut?”
ref: 2017, Makala Thomas, Kenco: The Return Of Her King, →ISBN, page 264:
glosses: A confectionery, usually sold in small bars, made with cocoa powder, peanuts and sugar.
wikipedia: Choc Nut
ḳinot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ḳinah
fudgey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fudgier
form: fudgiest
Senses: examples: text: It is the amount of flour added that determines whether a brownie will be cakey or fudgey.
ref: 2007, Ann Amernick, Margie Litman, The Art of the Dessert, page 291:
glosses: Alternative form of fudgy.
ḳinah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ḳinot
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnah.
vermarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green variety of quartz.
Synonyms: prasiolite
Related terms: aquamarine
prasiolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prasiolites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of vermarine.
synonyms: word: vermarine
kinnah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinnot
form: kinnoth
form: qinah
form: ḳinah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew קִינָה (kiná).
Senses: examples: text: Add a Kinah or Kinot in the Yizkor service in memory of those who were murdered.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “How Should We Observe Simḥat Torah This Coming Year?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 143:
glosses: Any of the dirges or elegies traditionally recited by Jews on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history, including the Crusades and the Holocaust.
commsat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commsats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comsat.
commsats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commsat
kinnot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinnah
kinnoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinnah
devil to pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ellipsis of the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hell to pay.
synonyms: word: hell to pay
devil to pay
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the devil to pay
Etymology: Ellipsis of the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready.
Related terms: word: between the devil and the deep blue sea
english: the seam between garboard strake and the keel; a seam on wooden boats
translation: the seam between garboard strake and the keel; a seam on wooden boats
word: devil seam
qinah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qinot
form: qinoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnah.
qinot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qinah
filastereans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filasterean
fillocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fillock
qinoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qinah
for my sins
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'm organizing the office Christmas party this year, for my sins.
glosses: Jokingly suggesting that some ostensibly undesirable task or situation has been assigned as a punishment.
kimbab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kimbabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kimbap.
Brunswick stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brunswick stews
Etymology: Uncertain. Brunswick County in Virginia, Brunswick in Georgia, and Braunschweig in Germany have been suggested as possible origins.
Senses: glosses: A traditional stew, popular in the American South, usually tomato-based and containing beans, corn, okra and other vegetables, and one or more types of meat.
Brunswick stews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brunswick stew
mushbooh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Arabic مَشْبُوه (mašbūh)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of food: neither obviously haram nor obviously halal, thus doubtful or suspect in terms of whether Muslims are allowed to consume it.
bay-beh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of baby.
Related terms: puh-lease
starkwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starkwaters
Senses: glosses: starling; cutwater (structure protecting a bridge)
starkwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starkwater
lingular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lingula + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: The interlobar nodes are positioned behind lingular segmental veins from an anterior mediastinal view, and behind the lingular segmental arteries from an interlobar fissure view.
ref: 2015 August 6, Hiroaki Kuroda et al., “Lymph Node Metastases and Prognosis in Left Upper Division Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers: The Impact of Interlobar Lymph Node Metastasis”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a lingula
lymphocystis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lympho- + cystis.
Senses: examples: text: N/A: Below the threshold, so no virus detected; POS: positive; NEG: Negative. (PDF) Click here for additional data file. a SDDV: scale drop disease virus; ISKNV: infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus; OSGIV: orange-spotted grouper iridovirus; RBIV: rock bream iridovirus; TRBIV: turbot reddish body virus; RSIV: red sea bream iridovirus; LCDV-1: lymphocystis disease virus 1; LCDV-C: lymphocystis disease virus China; SGIV: Singapore grouper iridovirus; GIV: grouper iridovirus; FV3: Frog virus 3; STIV: soft-shelled turtle iridovirus; TFV: tiger frog virus; ATV: Ambystoma tigrinum virus; EHNV: epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus; IIV-6: invertebrate iridovirus type 6;IIV-3: invertebrate iridescent virus 3. b Gene name according to Eaton et al.
ref: 2015 August 7, Ad de Groof et al., “A Novel Virus Causes Scale Drop Disease in Lates calcarifer”, in PLoS Pathogens, volume 11, →DOI:
glosses: A viral disease of fish
Derived terms: Lymphocystivirus
methoxyfluorane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, xylazine hydrochloride, medetomidine (dexmedetomidine), tiletamine/zolazepam, thiamylal, halothane, isofluorane, and methoxyfluorane can be safely used.
ref: 2015 August 11, Patrick Hensel et al., “Canine atopic dermatitis: detailed guidelines for diagnosis and allergen identification”, in BMC Veterinary Research, volume 11, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of methoxyflurane.
midneurogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + neurogenesis.
Senses: examples: text: An increase in nonvertical cleavage plane orientation of mouse aRG has been observed both upon knock-down of Spag5 and when Spag5 mRNA and protein levels in Pax6 mutant mice at midneurogenesis are elevated [ 47 ], suggesting that either too low or too high Spag5 levels perturb the normal, horizontal spindle orientation that is required for aRG vertical cleavage plane orientation.
ref: 2015 August 7, Fong Kuan Wong et al., “Sustained Pax6 Expression Generates Primate-like Basal Radial Glia in Developing Mouse Neocortex”, in PLoS Biology, volume 13, →DOI:
glosses: The middle stage of neurogenesis
monocomponents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, in the SHINE study, improvements in the percentage of nights with no awakenings were reported with indacaterol/glycopyrronium 110/50 μg compared with placebo and glycopyrronium, as well as significant increases in the percentage of days with no daytime symptoms compared with placebo and the percentage of days patients were able to perform their usual activities compared with placebo and both monocomponents [ 15 ].
ref: 2015 August 2, Eric D. Bateman et al., “Aclidinium bromide and formoterol fumarate as a fixed-dose combination in COPD: pooled analysis of symptoms and exacerbations from two six-month, multicentre, randomised studies (ACLIFORM and AUGMENT)”, in Respiratory Research, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: plural of monocomponent
sour diesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular cannabis hybrid with a pungent aroma reminiscent of diesel.
ninjaflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ninjaflex
form: NinjaFlex
Senses: examples: text: There is a green cylindrical piece of TPE (printed in ninjaflex) to ensure a secure and consistent placement of the cuvette.
ref: 2015 August 5, B. T. Wittbrodt et al., “Open-Source Photometric System for Enzymatic Nitrate Quantification”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: A thermoplastic polyurethane filament used in 3D printing
oxygraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygraphs
Etymology: From oxy- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of differentiation, cells were treated with BSO for 24 h, collected and resuspended with complete culture medium in the oxygraph chamber.
ref: 2015 August 11, Daniele Lettieri Barbato et al., “Glutathione Decrement Drives Thermogenic Program In Adipose Cells”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: A form of respirometer.
phosphinylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The L-arabinose derivatives 14 and 18 substituted at position 2 with a phosphate or an isopropylphosphate, respectively, were prepared from the same starting phosphinylated L-arabinose 3 following a similar sequence.
ref: 2015 August 5, Abbas El Sahili et al., “A Pyranose-2-Phosphate Motif Is Responsible for Both Antibiotic Import and Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens”, in PLoS Pathogens, volume 11, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by addition of a phosphinyl group